Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 678 ｜ Great Reset Update： Farm Shutdowns & Power Rationing ｜ Guest： Justin Haskins

00:00:00.000 Europe is in shambles as the World Economic Forum's Great Reset Energy policies are crushing

00:00:06.680 the continent. Sweden, Germany, the UK are all suffering draconian measures by their governments

00:00:14.040 that include shutting down farms in the name of saving the environment. Here in the States,

00:00:20.700 California is bearing the brunt of this authoritarian nonsense. And all of this, 0.87

00:00:25.440 as the Biden administration, other world leaders and corporations are cracking down on dissent.

00:00:32.340 What does this all mean? Where is all of this going to take us? Justin Haskins, author and editorial

00:00:37.680 director of the Heartland Institute, also one of my all-time favorite guests, and if you have not

00:00:42.840 listened to our previous episodes, you will soon see why, is here to break it all down for us. Go

00:00:49.140 back, listen to our other conversations about the World Economic Forum, about ESG, about the Great

00:00:55.920 Reset. We will link it in the description of this episode. This interview is brought to you by our

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00:01:07.440 Justin, thank you so much for joining us again. As always, I've got a lot to talk about getting the

00:01:22.720 update on how the Great Reset is going. First thing I want to talk about in light of recent events,

00:01:28.520 the Queen's death. There has been some debate that I've seen online about whether she was involved with

00:01:35.300 the World Economic Forum and whether King Charles is just kind of a shill for the elites, friends with

00:01:41.880 Klaus Schwab. He's a big fan of the green agenda. And so what is your take on all of that? What do you

00:01:47.940 think the future of the UK is under this, I don't know if you call it leadership, but I guess King

00:01:54.360 Charles' leadership? Yeah. So there's no doubt about it whatsoever that King Charles is, as Prince

00:02:03.580 Charles, was a huge proponent of the Great Reset. He was heavily involved in the Great Reset movement

00:02:09.360 from the very beginning. In fact, he was one of the co-hosts of the event that kicked off the slogan,

00:02:15.040 the Great Reset, Word the World Economic Forum. He's been partnering with them and big financial

00:02:19.660 institutions around the world to try to promote the sort of ESG, social credit score, Great Reset

00:02:25.140 agenda for a very long time. So there's no doubt about that. As far as the Queen is concerned, 0.88

00:02:30.100 as far as I know, the Queen was not really involved in any of this stuff. And of course,

00:02:35.660 even with King Charles being king, as opposed to being prince, I'm not really sure that the

00:02:41.220 influence factor means a whole lot for the Great Reset movement. The King of England, this isn't 1632,

00:02:49.800 okay? So the King of England doesn't have a ton of power like they used to have. And so I don't know

00:02:56.080 that it means a whole lot for policy in England. The United Kingdom has been going full bore into

00:03:01.980 the Great Reset agenda, along with most other European countries for a while now anyway. And

00:03:07.920 so I don't think it's going to change anything, but it probably guarantees that it's going to keep

00:03:12.480 moving in that direction. And so that's not unimportant, but I wouldn't say this is some

00:03:17.080 sort of a landmark shift toward the Great Reset. That already happened in the United Kingdom.

00:03:21.320 Boris Johnson was a proponent of it as well. So I don't think there's a whole lot new there.

00:03:29.080 Right. And the King or the Queen, the monarch is supposed to be an apolitical figure. Of course,

00:03:35.520 the Queen maintained that through her 70-year reign. King Charles, depending on his respect for the

00:03:44.640 position and the apolitical nature of the position, will either maintain that or not. But as you

00:03:51.200 said, how much power does he really wield as the King, even if he did decide, OK, I'm going to try

00:03:58.100 to push this agenda as much as possible? That's just not really how the government of the UK is set

00:04:02.500 up for him to really kind of take the reins and push things forward. And as you said, things are

00:04:07.180 already moving in that direction. We've got a new leader, Liz Truss. She's also part of the Conservative 0.67

00:04:14.140 Party. I don't know if you know very much about her and kind of which direction she leans when it 0.99

00:04:19.280 comes to the green agenda in the World Economic Forum. Yeah, as far as far as I know, she's pretty

00:04:25.300 much in line with every politician in Europe, which is all moving toward the Great Reset. There's very

00:04:32.040 few people, especially in Western Europe, there's very few big leaders that are opposed to the Great

00:04:38.480 Reset that are actually in power. The vast majority of them support that agenda, especially in light of

00:04:43.860 everything that's going on with Ukraine and Russia, which is tied up in all of this. I don't think that

00:04:48.920 we're going to see a major policy shift because we have a new prime minister. Right. Now, let's talk about

00:04:55.460 what's going on in Europe right now. As you said, Europe is going full steam ahead into ESG and the green

00:05:01.960 agenda. And we're already seeing some of the consequences of that. There's an energy crisis in Europe. And this

00:05:07.500 is, according to NBC, Gazprom keeps pipeline to Germany switched off as G7 caps Russian oil prices.

00:05:16.200 I mean, we're seeing all kinds of stories coming out of Europe about how people just don't have

00:05:21.000 enough energy to be able to heat their homes. The government is cracking down on this kind of stuff,

00:05:25.380 rationing energy for the sake of some kind of climate agenda. And as you said, that is tied up

00:05:31.440 in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. So can you kind of help us break down what's going on

00:05:37.360 here? And is this an intended consequence? Yeah. So the energy crisis that's been going on in Europe

00:05:45.240 is a combination of many, many different factors. A lot of people look at the war that's going on

00:05:50.540 between Russia and Ukraine. And I would argue, really, the rest of Europe is also involved in

00:05:57.080 that war. They're on the economic side of it. But the sanctions that they leveled against Russia,

00:06:02.580 some of the banking and other financial actions they've taken against Russia are really a sort of

00:06:09.120 economic war that they're waging. It's really not a whole lot different than a blockade or something

00:06:13.760 like that, as you'd imagine in previous eras of warfare. So it may not be full-blown war between all

00:06:20.520 of Europe and Russia, but it kind of is a war that's going on, just a different kind. And so what's

00:06:27.220 happening here with Russia threatening to cut off energy to certain parts of Europe that are very

00:06:33.800 dependent on Russia, that's part of what's driving up the price of energy right now in Europe. The

00:06:39.780 price of energy has already been very, very high in Europe, in large part because of what's been

00:06:44.860 going on in the war and the way that Russia has been dealing with that. The reason Russia is 0.97

00:06:48.680 interested or is considering cutting off energy to certain countries in Europe is because there has

00:06:56.460 been talk in Europe of putting price controls in place, limiting what people can pay for Russian

00:07:03.980 energy, because there's this whole, there's an understanding that Russian energy is what is

00:07:09.960 funding the war in Ukraine from the Russian side. So European politicians that don't want to get in,

00:07:16.340 that don't want to be funding Russia's military machine are saying, well, we should, at the very

00:07:21.120 least, if we can't just cut them off entirely, we should at least lower what we're paying them.

00:07:25.480 And Russia's turning around saying, well, if you're going to do that, then we're just going to cut off

00:07:28.780 the energy entirely. And good luck. Let's see what happens to your economies when you can't

00:07:33.220 keep people's homes and you can't power your industries at all in countries like Germany.

00:07:38.840 So there's a lot of that what's going on, but that's just part of it. This whole thing really

00:07:44.320 comes from at least a decade, probably two decades of energy policy. This has been building for a very

00:07:50.940 long time. European countries have made some horrible mistakes with their energy policy,

00:07:56.820 becoming more and more dependent on unreliable energy sources like wind and solar. They've shut

00:08:02.560 down nuclear facilities in some of these countries. They've shut down coal. They've shut down natural gas.

00:08:08.300 These are all forms of energy that don't require the wind to blow and the sun to shine to operate

00:08:13.220 effectively. And you can put them anywhere. You can put these nuclear power plants anywhere you want

00:08:19.380 practically, and it will work and it will work whenever you need it to. As they've done this,

00:08:24.820 and they've become more and more dependent on unreliable energy sources like wind and solar,

00:08:29.100 which are more expensive too, by the way, when you don't subsidize them, they have simultaneously

00:08:34.200 started importing increasingly more Russian natural gas and other forms of energy. Because in Russia,

00:08:41.840 they are all in on energy production. And so they are more than happy to export their energy

00:08:48.200 into these other countries. And so as they've become more dependent as Western Europe and,

00:08:54.980 well, Eastern and Western Europe, they've become more dependent on Russia directly and indirectly for

00:08:59.020 energy. The prices of energy were staying somewhat stable and they would lower than what they would

00:09:06.340 have otherwise been had Europe just gone full-blown renewable energy. But now that there's this

00:09:11.540 conflict added into the mix, you have this economic war that's breaking out and you have an energy

00:09:17.840 crisis that's resulting from that. And of course, all of the energy policies are tied up with this

00:09:23.520 concept of the Great Reset and transforming society. A huge part of that Great Reset movement

00:09:29.640 is transforming society through an economic transformation of the energy sector and what

00:09:36.900 kinds of cars people can drive and all sorts of other environmental factors. So it's all tied into

00:09:42.560 one big thing. And right now, unfortunately, for the people of Europe, they are experiencing a great

00:09:49.280 deal of pain because of decades of mistakes made by politicians.

00:09:53.280 Mm-hmm. And unfortunately, it's not just Europe. We're seeing some of the same problems

00:09:58.100 in California. I mean, there are power outages, as there often are. This is not the first time we've

00:10:03.560 seen power outages and we've seen fires in California. And people might think that this is just

00:10:10.520 accidental. Oh, this is how things happen. It's just a natural catastrophe. But these are actually

00:10:16.480 the results in some cases of environmental policy, not just when it comes to how they're managing the

00:10:24.340 forest there and how they're not allowed to really manage the forest to try to mitigate the risk of

00:10:30.880 forest fires in order to save the creatures that live in the underbrush. I mean, it's just crazy. And

00:10:36.000 also, they're not able to use all of the water that's available also for these same kind of

00:10:41.060 environmental reasons to try to protect, for example, a tiny fish called the Delta smelt. But

00:10:46.580 then also, you're looking at the green policies that have helped create these power outages. And

00:10:53.360 yet, we have Gavin Newsom and we have the Biden administration saying that California is still

00:10:58.360 going to go all in on this, that they are going to maybe eventually ban the sale of cars that use

00:11:05.280 gasoline. Well, right now, we are seeing that electric vehicles cannot get the charging power

00:11:10.960 that they need to go in California. So my question, I guess, in all of that is, we're seeing the

00:11:18.600 consequences of this green energy agenda that is driven in part, at least if not in whole. And I

00:11:26.560 guess you could tell us that by the World Economic Forum. We're seeing the catastrophe. We're seeing the

00:11:30.380 pain and suffering that it is already causing. Tell me why they are doubling down on it rather than

00:11:36.960 saying, oh, okay, this is not actually making the world a better place. I mean, what's the end game?

00:11:44.740 Yeah. So there's really only two possible answers to that question of what is the end game?

00:11:51.300 The first is, if you believe that everyone who's involved in this movement

00:11:56.040 is altruistic, and they're trying their best, and they truly, truly care about the world,

00:12:03.380 then the answer is, well, they're concerned about climate change. And the only way to stop climate

00:12:10.360 change in the long run, according to their view of this issue, is to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions.

00:12:16.880 And the only way to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions is to rely more on wind and solar and

00:12:22.880 other things. Now, that's not true, because you could rely on nuclear, and they don't want to rely

00:12:26.840 on nuclear. Nuclear has virtually no CO2 emissions, but that's a totally different story.

00:12:31.420 Why don't they want to rely on nuclear?

00:12:33.880 Well, I think the answer to that is, it shows the true motivations behind this whole movement.

00:12:41.900 The reason why they don't want to rely on nuclear, I believe, is because you don't have a dramatic

00:12:47.760 transformation of society with nuclear. You don't have massive jobs programs with nuclear energy.

00:12:53.000 You don't need to destroy huge swaths of land and build infrastructure and do all this stuff with

00:12:58.600 nuclear energy. They're relatively small power plants. You can put them just about anywhere,

00:13:03.520 and they run all the time. And you don't need to constantly be replacing them like you do with

00:13:08.540 solar panels and wind farms. You don't need big jobs programs to pull it off. You don't need a lot

00:13:12.920 of employees to run a nuclear plant. It really has a very small footprint in many ways. And I think that

00:13:19.760 one of the main goals of the Green New Deal agenda, of the Great Reset, of all these things, 0.61

00:13:24.780 is to create this massive dependency on government through this transformation of the economy that's

00:13:33.860 occurring with the energy sector. So if you have to build huge numbers of solar panels and wind farms,

00:13:40.640 those are jobs programs. Those are massive jobs programs. They're infrastructure programs. It's going

00:13:46.600 to require all sorts of things that most people don't think about, like power lines, for example. I mean,

00:13:52.120 you can't just – to have a state run entirely on wind and solar would take massive amounts of land.

00:14:00.280 And because you have to have the facilities spaced out all over the place, you need to have

00:14:05.220 transmission lines all over. You can't just build a solar farm or a wind farm anywhere. So you have to

00:14:10.560 have far more transmission lines than we have today. Well, that's another huge aspect, another big

00:14:16.500 jobs program, another huge aspect of the economic package that they sell this as. So if you believe

00:14:22.000 that big government is a motivation for some of these decisions, well, then it makes a lot of sense

00:14:27.220 to go with these kinds of energy policies as opposed to nuclear, right? And so even if you believe that

00:14:34.100 climate change is going to destroy the world – and I don't think that these people, many of them

00:14:38.540 actually believe that because they don't live like it. But even if they do believe that, it makes sense

00:14:45.020 to go to nuclear. It doesn't make sense to go to wind and solar. So I think that that really shows

00:14:50.780 what's going on there. Yes. And which is why I think the optimistic, altruistic option that you kind

00:14:58.300 of explained there is so unlikely because we have nuclear in our back pocket and we're not using it.

00:15:04.700 And by the way, all of these things, electric cars, the solar panels, the wind turbines, all of those

00:15:11.820 are made using fossil fuels. I mean, all of those are made using the very energy that they say that

00:15:17.820 we have to get away from. I have to wonder if another motivation behind this as well – and I know you've

00:15:23.200 said previously that the WEF and China aren't necessarily like purposely and deliberately linked

00:15:29.820 together – but it does increase our reliance on China. We're getting a lot of our solar panels,

00:15:35.660 a lot of our wind turbines from China. China is greatly benefiting from the energy crisis in Europe

00:15:43.180 and in the United States and in our reliance on green energy – also Russia is as well. And so I do have

00:15:50.860 to wonder if some of it is that. Because as you mentioned, all those benefits of nuclear energy,

00:15:57.100 but it also helps us create self-reliance. And that seems to be the last thing the people at

00:16:02.140 the World Economic Forum want, especially for the United States. And so the stupid green energy 1.00

00:16:09.820 policies with the wind energy and the solar energy, that does increase our reliance on China. And if you 0.99

00:16:15.740 want to get super nefarious here – and I don't even know if it's that much of a reach because Bill Gates

00:16:22.460 and Warren Buffett have all talked about their fear of overpopulation and of sustaining too many

00:16:30.620 people on this earth, it actually seems like they would like depopulation. A great way to ensure that

00:16:37.020 millions of people die, whether it's the direct and intentional consequence or not, is to shift all of

00:16:45.500 our energy to wind and solar.

00:16:48.460 Yeah. So I think without – well, first of all, I would say without a doubt, if you actually look at

00:16:53.660 what many of these environmental groups are advocating for, if you look at what their views are on

00:16:59.820 population and growing populations and things like – this has been part of the environmental movement for

00:17:04.780 a very, very long time, going back decades and decades and decades. You can find stuff in the 1960s and

00:17:10.140 70s talking about how by the year 2000 or slightly thereafter, there would be far too many people on

00:17:16.860 the planet to feed and that we need to start putting measures into place to make sure that we don't have

00:17:21.500 too many people. Paul Ehrlich and people like that, who was a big biologist, environmentalist at Stanford,

00:17:28.940 very, very famous in the 1970s and 80s and that sort of time period, advocated for all sorts of

00:17:36.620 population control measures. And so it's really actually not that crazy. In fact, China, one of

00:17:41.980 the things that they claim that their population control measures have in place, one of the reasons,

00:17:47.420 one of the benefits of that, they say, is that it has all these environmental benefits to it and

00:17:52.300 it's good for the planet. And so there's no question that there's a strain of that going through.

00:17:57.660 Now, do I think that that's the primary motivation for people like Bill Gates and stuff? No,

00:18:03.100 I don't. I think that the evidence shows that the primary motivation for them, if you believe what

00:18:08.700 they say, is they're deathly afraid of climate change. And so they think that this is all tied

00:18:14.220 into that. I don't know that they actually believe that. As I said before, I think the real motivation

00:18:21.580 behind all of this is transforming the economy, transforming society and using these job programs

00:18:28.700 as a way to do that. And there really isn't going to be a bigger jobs program than one that requires

00:18:33.980 blowing up the entire energy system and replacing it with a completely new energy system. We've never

00:18:39.900 done anything like that in the history of the world, not intentionally. And so this would be the

00:18:44.940 first time in the history of human civilization where people have chosen deliberately to destroy a

00:18:51.980 massive part of their economy on purpose. So just so that they can rebuild it in a way that would be

00:18:57.980 less effective, less safe, and really not even environmentally friendly because to build windmills

00:19:04.860 and to build wind turbines and solar farms and things like that, you need to do tons of mining. You need

00:19:11.020 to consume huge amounts of land. Some estimates say you need a landmass the size of California to power

00:19:16.780 the United States that would just be full of solar panels and windmills and stuff like that.

00:19:22.780 And you also need to then recycle these things once they break down, because in many cases they only

00:19:28.220 last 15, 20, 25 years, something like that. So you got to constantly be replacing them. And you can't recycle

00:19:33.820 them like you can, you know, plastic bottles or something. A lot of times they just sit in landfills because

00:19:40.540 there is no way to do it. And solar panels themselves, they leak toxic chemicals into the ground.

00:19:45.580 This is all kinds of huge problems. It's such a gimmick.

00:19:49.500 Yeah, it is. It absolutely is. And all of the endangered species that die from it and everything

00:19:54.460 else. So there are environmental groups that actually are opposed to windmills and solar panels

00:19:59.420 because they kill endangered animals all the time, especially birds. So at least they're consistent.

00:20:05.740 They are. I mean, some of the more radical environmentalists, I actually kind of like them

00:20:10.540 in the sense that they are consistent. And they do understand that these things won't actually

00:20:15.900 work. And their answers are, I think, crazy. It's it's depopulation efforts. It's rewilding lands,

00:20:23.420 meaning moving humans out of most of areas in the United States and elsewhere into urban cities and

00:20:29.980 letting nature just consume cities and towns. It's crazy. But at least they say, well, that would actually

00:20:36.380 do what we want, as opposed to the people who say, well, we've been built windmills and solar panels,

00:20:41.500 we'll save the planet from global warming, which there's literally no chance that's going to happen

00:20:46.860 because even if CO2 emissions are the primary driver, China, India, countries like that are going

00:20:52.860 to dramatically, dramatically increase their CO2 emissions over the next half century. And so it

00:20:58.620 doesn't really even matter what we do unless they go along with it.

00:21:12.940 I think you're absolutely right. It's about growing the size of the government. Maybe for some people,

00:21:17.580 they do have the nefarious motivation of depopulation. A smaller population is easier to

00:21:23.740 control. A poor population is easier to control. A population that is reliant on the energy that is

00:21:31.820 controlled by the government, of course, is more easy to dictate. You probably saw this

00:21:37.900 story last week or a couple of weeks ago that a Colorado utility company locked the thermostats of

00:21:43.820 22,000 people in the state of Colorado. Think about how much worse that is going to be

00:21:50.700 like when we are relying on these green energy sources, so-called, that are completely controlled

00:21:58.300 by the government. I mean, this is a way that millions of people will die. Far more people die

00:22:04.460 every year because of the cold than they do because of the heat, despite all the clamoring on global

00:22:10.860 warming. So my question is, I mean, obviously, and this is something that Thomas Sowell said a long

00:22:16.860 time ago is that the left is never judged by the consequences or the conclusions of their policies,

00:22:21.900 only ever their intentions. And that seems to be true that if you, whether it's COVID or green energy,

00:22:28.780 like if you intend to save the world, then it doesn't matter how draconian or how terrible your

00:22:33.500 policies are, how many people you kill, at least Mao had the right idea to begin with. At least he,

00:22:40.060 you know, was a communist. And so I guess it's just wishful thinking to think that,

00:22:45.900 OK, if this continues to go really badly, if thousands of people do die in Europe because

00:22:50.220 of this energy crisis, they're going to wake up and they're going to do an about-face and they're

00:22:54.380 going to realize that we can't just rely on these sources of energy. I mean, what do you think the

00:22:59.260 likelihood is of that? Or at least that the people get so incensed and so worked up that they realize,

00:23:06.940 the people in charge realize, OK, this is not going well for us. We should probably change course.

00:23:13.180 Yeah. I mean, I go back and forth on this one because I think it all depends entirely on how

00:23:19.980 well people in the media who are not in favor of these policies are able to convey this message to

00:23:26.460 regular people so that they understand what's really going on. Because the sort of advantage that the

00:23:31.820 other side has is that if they control the messaging and they can convince people that the only two

00:23:37.980 options you have is either we make energy a lot more expensive, yes, and maybe it's more unreliable.

00:23:43.660 And yes, we have all these blackouts and that's all bad and we're going to try to fix it. And don't

00:23:47.740 worry, just we'll put the right people in charge and we'll sort it all out. Or we could all die from

00:23:53.900 climate change. Those are your choices. Then literally any alternative to everything dying,

00:24:00.140 which is what an existential threat means. And that's the language that you hear from Joe Biden

00:24:04.780 and Kamala Harris and all these people. Right. Yeah. It's an existential threat. Well,

00:24:09.500 if everyone's going to die and that's one option, then any other option is better. And so if that

00:24:16.860 becomes the narrative, right, then it almost doesn't matter how many people are suffering. We've got to

00:24:21.980 save the planet and that or we're all dead. So you have to get the message out to people that that is

00:24:29.580 not what's going on. And that even if you believe that it, the policies that they're putting into

00:24:34.780 place are not going to stop that catastrophe from happening anyway. And of course, they don't even

00:24:40.700 believe it because they're still building their mansions by the beach and they're still flying

00:24:44.620 around in private jets and they're still going to their elaborate conferences in Davos held by the

00:24:49.340 World Economic Forum. All of these things would not happen if everyone truly believed

00:24:54.540 that there was this asteroid sized problem headed for Earth and that we were all going to die from

00:24:59.820 it. No one would do that unless they were evil. Right. So I don't believe these people actually

00:25:06.060 think that this crisis is as big of a deal as they say it is. I think they believe that they have to

00:25:10.700 make it that big of a deal in order for people to go along with it. They might think that climate change

00:25:15.260 is going to cause problems. But do they think that it's going to wipe out humanity,

00:25:18.700 wipe out, have a mass extinction of the world? No, I don't believe that at all. And I think their actions

00:25:23.900 show that very clearly. And by the way, would they really care if it did? Would they? I mean,

00:25:29.100 if it was, if climate change was really an existential threat to at least millions or billions of

00:25:34.300 people, why would they care? Like, have they shown themselves to be altruistic people that, you know,

00:25:40.460 really care about the well-being and the longevity of others? No, they have pushed all kinds of

00:25:45.420 anti-natalist measures over the years in order to try to shrink the size of the population.

00:25:52.380 I want to know how what's going on in Sweden in particular and in other parts of Europe have to

00:25:59.180 do with all of this, if anything at all. So this is according to the BBC, why Dutch farmers are

00:26:04.300 protesting over emissions cuts. Dutch farmers have been protesting due to pressure from the government

00:26:09.500 to make radical changes to cut emissions. The Dutch government proposes that to cut nitrogen

00:26:13.900 emissions an estimated 11,200 farms will have to close and another 17,600 farmers will have to

00:26:21.100 significantly reduce their livestock. And apparently farms here are also under pressure,

00:26:28.780 under the same kind of premise. I don't know if we're seeing massive shutdowns and this big of

00:26:34.060 cut to emissions here in the United States, but it seems like farming worldwide seems to be under

00:26:39.820 significant pressure from the green agenda regime. So what's your take on that? And what in the world

00:26:48.460 is going to be the consequence of something like that? Right. Well, again, playing into this whole

00:26:53.900 notion that climate change is going to destroy everything and that we're all going to die from it.

00:26:59.660 Um, there is part of part of the, uh, sort of the, the, the green agenda movement is this anti methane

00:27:07.900 emissions, uh, crusade that's been going on both in the United States and in Europe, where they say that,

00:27:14.380 uh, methane emissions are significantly more harmful than, um, carbon dioxide emissions.

00:27:20.220 So as a greenhouse gas, it's more potent. So there may not be as much of it, but it has a greater effect

00:27:25.500 on global warming. This is what a lot of people believe who are part of this movement.

00:27:29.660 And cows produce that. 0.88

00:27:31.820 Right. And cows and other agriculture and just sort of the whole agricultural system produces methane

00:27:38.140 emissions. And so one of the things that, uh, governments around the world, especially in

00:27:42.780 Scandinavia and other places, uh, in Holland, what they've been trying to do is limit methane

00:27:48.700 emissions. And one of the best ways to do that is to crack down on farming. And of course, all of that

00:27:54.700 has is sort of closely tied together. The sort of far left wing environmentalists are closely tied

00:27:59.740 together with the animal rights groups. Some of the more extreme ones, which really don't want cows

00:28:05.500 to be utilized in these ways. Anyway, we don't, they don't think we should be eating them, but they

00:28:09.740 want us to be called become vegan and stop drinking cow milk, et cetera. And so it's all kind of tied

00:28:14.460 together into this one, uh, alliance of people who are saying, why do we even have cows on farms?

00:28:20.300 Let's, let's just get rid of all of that and let's just, just get eliminate cows from the 1.00

00:28:25.660 equation. And then we can dramatically reduce methane emissions. And if we dramatically reduce

00:28:29.580 methane emissions, well, then we can stop global warming. This again is the idea. Now this is,

00:28:35.260 of course is totally ridiculous, especially in these small countries, which really are

00:28:40.300 inconsequential when it comes to, uh, greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on climate change 0.79

00:28:46.060 and everything else. Um, it really doesn't matter what a country like in Scandinavia does and Holland,

00:28:51.900 these places are way too small for it to make any difference, but these countries have very rich

00:28:57.340 traditions of farming and agriculture has been going on for many millennia, right? Exactly. And so what

00:29:04.060 they're doing is destroying these farms, just destroying them outright. And there's now been protests that

00:29:10.380 have been breaking out, um, from farmers and people who are in these rural communities, um, that a lot of backlash

00:29:17.420 from this against their governments. But unfortunately, because most of the voting

00:29:21.660 populations in these countries are in urban centers that know absolutely nothing about farming and are

00:29:28.060 deeply concerned about climate change, they don't really care. They're going to destroy these people's

00:29:32.300 livelihoods and it's not going to matter. Well, in the United States, we have a movement of people that

00:29:37.260 want to do very similar things here. And, um, last it went when they had Glasgow and they had the, uh,

00:29:43.340 cop 26, a big gigantic international climate conference and in Scotland that occurred in, uh, last year,

00:29:49.900 about a year ago. Um, a little less than that, actually, they, uh, one of the big things that came out of

00:29:54.780 that was all of these European countries and the United States said, we're going to reduce our methane emissions.

00:30:00.380 And we're going to do it by X, Y, Z percent over a certain number of years. I don't have the numbers in

00:30:05.500 front of me, but it was a really dramatic cut in methane emissions. Well, the primary way you're

00:30:10.220 likely to do that is through agriculture. There are other things you can do, but agriculture would

00:30:14.780 be a big part of that. And so right around that time, and actually just before that, you started

00:30:19.580 seeing people in the democratic party, establishment politicians, um, people who are running for

00:30:24.940 presidents in previous elections, start to talk about how we need to do something about methane

00:30:29.900 emissions and all, maybe we shouldn't be eating as much meat as we're eating now. And I think we should

00:30:34.700 revise the food pyramid that officially gets put out as what Americans should be consuming so that

00:30:39.980 they consume less meat as if people are paying attention with bated breath of what the food

00:30:45.900 pyramid says, you know, but that's what, that's what these politicians wanted to do. So you can

00:30:50.620 start to see it shift here in the United States. Now we're not Europe and people here really like to eat 0.75

00:30:56.300 meat and drink milk. And so I have a hard time believing this is going to catch on here in the short term,

00:31:03.420 but over the long term, I, I would be shocked if it doesn't become a part of the democratic party's

00:31:09.340 platform within the next 10 years to reduce meat consumption in some way, or have a meat tax or

00:31:15.500 something like that in order to put pressure on agriculture so that there isn't as much methane

00:31:21.580 emissions again, all part of this green agenda, all part of reducing climate change.

00:31:25.580 Yeah. Well, I mean, there is basically a meat tax right now and that it is so expensive. It's gotten a

00:31:30.780 lot more expensive because of some of the things that you're talking about and obviously imported

00:31:35.100 meat because it is now more rare. The supply has gone down while the demand has stayed the same. And

00:31:40.540 so the price has gone up. And so, of course, that's not an actual tax imposed by the government,

00:31:47.020 but it is already becoming costlier. And it does seem like that is at least right now,

00:31:51.820 for now, it's on like, I would say it's on the on ramp on the Democrat agenda, because you hear

00:31:56.940 people like AOC, but I would say even more, I don't know, middle of the road Democrats kind

00:32:01.740 of talking about this, how we need to reduce our meat consumption at least a little bit.

00:32:07.820 And then, of course, you've got the push, maybe not from mainstream Democrats, but from the World

00:32:12.540 Economic Forum, from the media towards eating bugs, how bugs are a great source of protein. So I guess

00:32:19.740 in their mind, if they're like, okay, we shut down all of this agriculture that's producing this

00:32:25.660 methane, people still have to eat, okay, bugs are a great source of protein. And I guess they

00:32:32.060 produce less methane to actually cook. And they say, oh, well, there are lots of people in the

00:32:36.860 world who eat bugs, which is true. I don't think it's morally wrong to eat bugs. I don't want to be

00:32:41.900 forced to eat bugs, though. I mean, how quickly do you think that we're going in that to where I mean,

00:32:47.420 because you're already starting to see some places, I mean, maybe it's rare, but like put crickets and

00:32:53.260 different kinds of insects into their meat. Or as a side, my friends went to Mexico,

00:33:02.140 and with their guacamole, crickets, crickets. So how quickly do you think we're going in that

00:33:08.540 direction? Yeah, it's funny. At the Heartland Institute where I work, we recently had, this

00:33:15.340 was a recent topic of conversation where we said, you know, we keep hearing this, and I've seen some

00:33:19.500 headlines. But you know, are there really a lot of people pushing for, you know, eating bugs? Is

00:33:25.660 that really a thing? And so we actually spent like an entire day just researching this one question.

00:33:31.740 And what we found is, yeah, it's actually shocking how many different environmental groups and how in

00:33:37.900 the World Economic Forum has like a dozen articles advocating for this. There's no doubt about it

00:33:43.420 whatsoever. There is a movement on the left that is suggesting and some of the I mean,

00:33:48.940 the World Economic Forum is not socialist there, they are, they're definitely not part of the AOC

00:33:53.980 wing of the part of the sort of what you would think of as the Democratic Party. It's it's an

00:33:58.060 international group. So it's not Democratic Party. But they're more establishment than anything else.

00:34:02.940 They're more of a Joe Biden type group or Hillary Clinton group. And they're advocating for this,

00:34:08.140 too. There's no doubt about it. Again, once you start going down the road of CO2 emissions and

00:34:14.860 methane emissions and just greenhouse gases in general are going to kill everybody and you and

00:34:20.540 you start going moving in that direction and you convince millions and millions of people,

00:34:25.100 tens of millions of people around the world, well-meaning people that this is a fact, this is true,

00:34:29.260 that that's the science and that anyone disagrees with it as a science denier, then you almost have to

00:34:34.540 keep going logically through all of these insane things like let's rewild cities and towns to reduce

00:34:42.060 CO2 emissions. Let's eat bugs to reduce CO2 emissions and methane emissions. Let's you have 0.99

00:34:47.500 to keep getting more and more extreme. Let's let's get rid of cars in certain places if we can and make

00:34:53.100 it let's electrify the entire grid, even though we have no way of doing that. It doesn't even make any

00:34:58.140 sense with the technology we have right now. It just doesn't matter. Again, if the choice is,

00:35:03.820 we're all going to die or you eat bugs, you everyone would choose to eat bugs. See,

00:35:09.740 so that's that's the genius of this either or situation that they've set up. It's just a matter

00:35:15.900 of whether you believe that's a real choice that you have to make or you reject the choice entirely.

00:35:21.500 Right. And obviously, people like us reject that that's even the situation fallacy. It's a false

00:35:27.500 choice. Yes. Yeah. Right. And I mean, they do that with a lot of things, actually, when you think

00:35:32.700 about COVID. So everyone has to lock down, we have to force you to get this shot or else everyone is

00:35:37.980 going to die when that really what that was a false dilemma that really those were not the two options

00:35:44.060 on the table. But you convinced a lot of people that way. And I think that's what caused our

00:35:48.620 divisions, because the people who believed in that false dilemma, either it's everyone's going to die,

00:35:53.260 or we have to be forced into our homes and forced to take five vaccines. So everyone that didn't do

00:36:00.140 the staying at home and taking the five vaccines as making the other choice, as wanting everyone to

00:36:05.900 die. And all we were trying to say the whole time was that's not really the decision that's on the

00:36:11.020 table. It's the same thing when it comes to the green agenda. And the ironic thing is that choosing

00:36:16.780 their choice actually will cause more people to die than the alternative.

00:36:23.420 Yeah. Yeah. What people need to understand is that in much of the world, I mean, we are incredibly

00:36:29.500 blessed to live in the United States of America, incredibly blessed. We have access to reliable

00:36:35.820 energy almost all the time. In most parts of the world, they don't have that. In fact, there are

00:36:43.340 there are literally billions of people in the world who don't have access to reliable energy.

00:36:48.860 They don't have access to it. There are billions. There are hundreds of millions, if not billions

00:36:54.380 of people who are still cooking their food over open fires, OK, because they don't have access to

00:36:59.900 electricity. So I would argue that there are already thousands of people, tens of thousands,

00:37:04.700 maybe even millions of people who have died as a result of these policies, because instead of trying

00:37:10.060 to develop those parts of the world with the most reliable, most affordable forms of energy,

00:37:15.660 like natural gas and coal and other things, they have people at the World Economic Forum,

00:37:21.180 the Biden administration, the Obama administration before that, and others have done everything they

00:37:25.820 can to try to discourage these people, other countries around the world, to coerce them even,

00:37:31.660 in some cases, to hold money over their heads if they don't do what they say, to prevent them from

00:37:37.420 building out the most affordable kinds of energy that they possibly can. And so there are hundreds

00:37:43.260 of millions of people, I would argue, at the very least tens of millions of people who have been in

00:37:48.140 extreme danger as a result of these policies. If they had just been pursuing the most affordable kind of

00:37:54.780 energy for the last two decades, then more people would be alive today than there are right now. And that

00:38:01.900 is purely the result of the fact that reliable energy equals a higher life expectancy, a better

00:38:09.180 quality of life for people, healthier populations. And this isn't even a question. So what is the most

00:38:14.300 affordable kind of energy? That should be the question that these people are concerned with. And

00:38:18.220 instead, you have all of these Western powers, you talk about colonialism and things like that,

00:38:23.180 the left loves to talk about that. You have all these Western powers coming in and saying, well,

00:38:26.940 if you want money from international organizations like the IMF and you want to work with the United

00:38:31.340 Nations, you want to work with the World Economic Forum and you want to work with the American

00:38:34.540 government, well, then you need to pursue green energy. You shouldn't be pursuing these other kinds

00:38:39.580 of bad energy. So it's there. I think people already are dying as a result of this. I really do.

00:38:54.940 The left, I mean, as much as they, a lot of the wokest left anyway, you know, they were saying,

00:39:03.020 oh, you know, they shouldn't, we shouldn't mourn the Queen's death because she is this

00:39:07.740 evil imperialist. And there's so much irony in that because leftists, especially in the United States,

00:39:13.580 I would say though, probably globally, places like the UN and the WEF, they are imperialists in the sense

00:39:19.980 that they will absolutely use every tool at their disposal to bend poor countries to their will. 0.84

00:39:28.060 I mean, there was this whole piece and this has been actually ongoing for, I don't know,

00:39:32.780 a year or more, how CNN has highlighted these African countries like Ghana and like Kenya that

00:39:39.420 are not willing to codify same sex marriage, so-called. And they're just up in arms about this.

00:39:45.420 They are so disturbed by this. And I guarantee you, there have been moves. Well, I know that

00:39:51.180 there have been moves by the American government to try to pressure poor countries to conform to the

00:39:59.420 LGBTQ or the left wing social agenda in a variety of ways. And now you're saying they are also doing it

00:40:07.100 when it comes to green energy, which is a form of extortion. I mean, that's like the worst kind of

00:40:12.540 manipulative imperialism that you can think of. And leftists are not just when it comes to other

00:40:18.460 countries, but also here in the United States. I mean, they are not willing to allow any institution

00:40:23.100 to be neutral or Christian or right wing. I mean, they are going to invade and conquer just like the 1.00

00:40:30.460 very people have throughout history that they say that we cannot celebrate. So as they are saying we

00:40:36.300 can't celebrate Columbus Day, they are conquering institutions both here and abroad with their

00:40:41.740 ideology. Yeah. And I would argue that they are more effective at it in many ways than many of the

00:40:47.980 colonial powers that existed in the past. Because when you can print all the money you want and give

00:40:54.460 it to whomever you want, whenever you want, and you can hold that over their heads, it's really it's a

00:41:00.780 lot easier to convince people to do what you want or coerce people to do what you want than it is to

00:41:05.820 send an army and invade a population and then establish rule of law and establish all these 0.99

00:41:12.460 institutions and have uprisings and rebellions and kill people. And you have to go through this

00:41:17.260 process over and over and over again. It would be so much easier if you could just print all the

00:41:21.260 money you want, give it to them and say, do what we tell you and we'll give you more. And they say,

00:41:25.900 okay, that sounds pretty good to me, especially the really corrupt governments. And that's exactly

00:41:32.140 what's been going on all over the world. And they are imposing their will. In fact, that is one of

00:41:38.140 the main complaints that you'll see from Russia and from Vladimir Putin and from other intellectual

00:41:44.220 leaders in Russia. When we had a prior conversation about the Great Reset and its impact on what's going

00:41:50.700 on with Ukraine and the war with Russia and Ukraine, that was one of the things that I found in my

00:41:54.700 research was throughout that. It was Russia complaining that there is this movement,

00:42:01.100 the Great Reset movement, that is imposing its will all over the world ideologically,

00:42:08.220 saying you have to adopt our way of doing things or else we're not going to finance you. We're not

00:42:13.180 going to give you money. You're not going to be able to survive.

00:42:15.020 That's what ESG is, right? That's basically what ESG is, right?

00:42:18.060 That's right. Yep, that's exactly right.

00:42:21.340 Which is why, so it's all a pretext for authoritarianism. And no matter what you think,

00:42:27.580 whether you think that there are some people who are truly genuine and sincere and like their desire

00:42:33.020 to save the world, and they are convinced that these climate policies are the way to do that,

00:42:37.260 I am sure that those people exist even in power. But then, of course, for a lot of people,

00:42:43.420 it really is just about control, this radical transformation of society, which is only possible

00:42:50.380 from the top down, which is exactly why you say, by the way, because I know you probably get some

00:42:54.620 pushback on this and I do too when I have you on. That's why this is not true Marxism. It's not true

00:43:01.340 communism because at least what Marx wanted was not a top down system in which these like elitist

00:43:10.220 oligarchs are controlling everyone else. That's how socialism typically ends up. That's what communism 1.00

00:43:15.660 typically ends as. But Das Kapital was not about what the WEF is doing now, which is a top down approach.

00:43:27.020 That's what they're trying to accomplish. And one of the things that I go ahead, go ahead,

00:43:31.500 and then I'll kind of go ahead. I think that's a that's a brilliant point. And I think that's it.

00:43:36.620 That is exactly right. People need to understand that one of the fundamental problems with the right

00:43:42.620 with people, especially on the right, the limited government advocates, their understanding of the

00:43:46.940 Great Reset and of ESG and of all these things going on is that it's a form of socialism.

00:43:51.340 It is absolutely not socialism. And the easy test that you can apply to really any question related to

00:43:57.260 this to know or this or any other topic related to public policy to know whether it's a socialistic

00:44:03.340 policy or not, is is the goal of it to spread out property ownership, to collectivize property

00:44:11.020 ownership and management? Or is the goal something else? And in the case of what's going on with the

00:44:16.060 Great Reset with the World Economic Forum and with with the Biden administration, all these things,

00:44:20.300 the goal is not to spread out property ownership. The goal is actually to consolidate property ownership

00:44:25.500 in the hands of a relatively small group of people who believe all the same things that the

00:44:31.340 World Economic Forum believes. That's the goal. It's to centralize power and wealth. And so yes,

00:44:37.980 socialism and communism often ends up that way. But ideologically, the point is not to have

00:44:43.500 consolidation of ownership of anything. That's what they're trying to get rid of. They're extremists on

00:44:48.940 the other end of the spectrum. And so what these people want to do is not social, socialism. What they

00:44:54.220 want is it's a form of authoritarianism. It's tyranny. It's the centralization of control and

00:45:00.860 centralization of power and control and wealth. And really, that's something that has always existed

00:45:07.180 throughout human history. This is really no different than, you know, kings and queens a thousand years

00:45:12.140 ago or emperors and the Roman Empire a thousand years before that. Really, it's never changed. There's

00:45:18.140 always been a group of people in society that want to control everything else and want more and more

00:45:23.740 power and wealth and influence over the rest of the world. And this is just part of that longstanding

00:45:29.900 tradition. So could you say, though, because there was that infamous article that was published by WF

00:45:36.380 a few years ago, you know, in 2030, you'll own nothing and be happy. And so people see that and they think,

00:45:44.540 okay, well, they are in some ways confiscating private property or at least making it as difficult

00:45:50.460 as possible for anyone except for these major corporations like BlackRock to, for example,

00:45:56.140 own a home. And they're making it really hard for, you know, the nuclear family to just live on one 0.92

00:46:03.260 stable income. And so you all become these perpetual renters. Could you say that that mirrors a form of

00:46:11.900 Marxism that, yes, they don't want that for them at the top, but they want that kind of for everyone

00:46:17.740 else? They want the to seize private property or is it more like feudalism? Yeah, it's more in line

00:46:26.280 with feudalism. Yeah, it's it's not that they want to seize private property. What they want to do is

00:46:32.700 is and really that article was more of a prediction than it was anything else. And the prediction is

00:46:38.180 based. Yeah, more exactly. And the reason it was more, I mean, the prediction is based on the

00:46:43.860 policies that they're seeing and are putting into place. Right. But the reason that they were so

00:46:48.200 convinced that this is happening is, well, first of all, it is happening. We can see that the

00:46:52.540 consolidation of property ownership is occurring, but it's not that they want the government to seize

00:46:57.240 property ownership. It's that they they believe that large corporations, that big banks, financial

00:47:03.200 institutions, et cetera, are amassing more and more property and that that is that is the inevitable

00:47:09.160 result of the part. And they like that this is happening. They think this is a good for society,

00:47:13.660 but it's not about seizing people's property. It's about basically buying it from them. It's about

00:47:19.380 buying more and more property and land and developments and things like that, and then not

00:47:25.980 distributing it to others, which is what socialism and communism is. It's confiscating property from the

00:47:31.620 from some and giving it to everyone, distributing it equally. That's the idea. That's not what's

00:47:36.620 happening here. They want to they want to get access to the property. And then once they have

00:47:41.840 control over it, they don't want to distribute it. They want to keep it so that they can manage it and

00:47:46.440 control the property and the people living in the property and all for the betterment of society.

00:47:52.420 And so that's and of course, their pocketbooks. And that's that's what's really going on here.

00:47:57.100 So, again, the primary difference between these two things are are we spreading out property

00:48:02.980 ownership to everyone equally? That's socialism and communism. That's Marxism. That's what that's

00:48:07.900 that's what the end goal is for that total equal, completely equal property ownership according to

00:48:13.000 people's needs. Or are we trying to consolidate property ownership in the hands of a relatively small

00:48:18.820 group of people? That's what the Great Reset is all about. And it's not through violence.

00:48:23.580 It's just purely through by its money. It's the power of money. And they're able to do that

00:48:29.180 because all of these governments are printing trillions and trillions of dollars. And they're

00:48:33.740 giving it to these financial institutions and corporations who are then able to use that to

00:48:39.180 consolidate their wealth and power, which is why the stock market has continued to go up over time,

00:48:43.840 even as we've had a global pandemic. It's why BlackRock and people like that now have 10 trillion

00:48:49.260 dollars under assets under management when you could go back five, 10 years ago and they had

00:48:54.300 like a trillion dollars. It's because of all the money printing that's going on. They're using that

00:48:59.660 power economically to control and manipulate society and to consolidate wealth and power by buying things,

00:49:07.180 basically.

00:49:18.860 So as those in power are grabbing even more power through the energy crisis, we are also seeing,

00:49:27.740 I think, more outright examples of authoritarianism, usually by the very people that say that they are

00:49:36.060 very pro-democracy. Obviously, we saw that in Canada with Trudeau seizing the bank accounts of

00:49:42.540 people who are protesting against them. I mean, Canada has been a terribly tyrannical place for

00:49:48.860 the unvaccinated and really just Canadians in general under the pretense of helping, you know,

00:49:54.380 saving everyone from COVID. But we're also seeing a very troubling crackdown on speech, especially in

00:50:00.940 Europe. I've seen several videos circulating online. There was one in a guy, a citizen journalist in

00:50:07.660 South Wales. There was another one, I believe, in Britain. The Washington Post reported on a Twitter

00:50:14.540 user in Germany who insulted a German politician. In all of these cases, they either got a phone call

00:50:21.820 from the police or in the case of this person who insulted a German politician. The police came to

00:50:27.420 his house and raided his house. In Hungary, critics silenced in social media arrests as the EU debates

00:50:34.620 Orban's powers. So this is something that is going on. People are being punished for free speech,

00:50:43.980 for their social media posts, not because they're threatening violence, but because they are offensive,

00:50:48.860 because they are going, you know, outside of what the mainstream progressive, you know, regime says

00:50:54.940 that we are allowed to say. So are, I mean, are these things linked? Why are we seeing this?

00:51:02.860 Yeah, well, I mean, I think that really from the beginning of the socialist progressive movements

00:51:10.140 in the 1800s or really 1700s, 1800s into the early 1900s, you've always, there's always been a strain of

00:51:17.260 this within those movements, wanting to silence dissenters in order to enhance their power and

00:51:23.580 ideas. This is, this is something that has always existed on the left. It's becoming easier and easier

00:51:28.460 to do that today because of technology. Technology is, is making authoritarianism really simple. You

00:51:34.940 don't actually have to, in the olden days, you had to have spies everywhere. You had to have informants,

00:51:40.060 you had to have people ratting out their neighbors. Now, all you need to do is have a Twitter account,

00:51:45.740 to just follow people on Twitter and see what they have to say. And in Europe, especially,

00:51:51.820 in many countries throughout the world, they don't have the same kind of free speech rights that we

00:51:55.980 have in the United States. They have some free speech rights, but there are limitations to them,

00:52:00.700 even in the United Kingdom, that we have enjoyed from the very beginning of the founding of this

00:52:06.060 country, and we take for granted. In those places, governments can crack down. There are rules

00:52:12.140 about spreading misinformation. There are fines that can be imposed on social media companies that

00:52:17.260 allow misinformation to be spread. There are all kinds of rules about saying incorrect things. Of

00:52:22.940 course, who gets to decide what's incorrect and what's misinformation, right? About politicians and

00:52:27.820 other things, there are celebrities. And celebrities can actually sue in a lot of these places, including

00:52:33.180 politicians for defamation and libel and that sort of thing, which you can't do in the United States.

00:52:38.940 So it's a totally different world in terms of speech in those countries from a government

00:52:42.860 perspective. In America, what they're trying to do is elites are trying to do this same sort of thing,

00:52:49.340 but because they can't do it through government, because we have the First Amendment getting in

00:52:53.740 the way of all of that, what they're trying to do is use ESG and big corporations and social media

00:52:59.100 companies to effectively do the same thing, except they use corporations to do the dirty work for

00:53:05.820 them. And so you saw the coordination going on when we talked about, you mentioned COVID earlier,

00:53:11.180 with the COVID vaccines and sort of quote unquote misinformation about COVID vaccines.

00:53:15.980 There was close coordination between the Biden administration and corporations working hand in

00:53:20.300 hand to silence people that they don't agree with. We also heard from Mark Zuckerberg recently,

00:53:25.180 I think he was on the Joe Rogan podcast, and he acknowledged that the FBI had basically said,

00:53:31.500 hey, don't allow misinformation to come out right before the election in reference to the Hunter

00:53:36.540 Biden story that had broke from the New York Post and was being shared by all sorts of media outlets.

00:53:42.460 And so Facebook silenced people and stopped them from spreading that post. Twitter silenced people

00:53:47.180 and didn't allow people to spread that post. That was an important news story published by a,

00:53:52.780 one of the oldest media institutions, continuously operating media institutions in America.

00:53:58.940 And it turns out that everyone now thinks that was probably 100% accurate. And now,

00:54:05.820 and right before an election, people weren't allowed to share it with each other.

00:54:09.260 All of this is tied in with ESG social credit scores, with the consolidation of wealth and power,

00:54:14.460 that's a part of the Great Reset. ESG actually encourages social media companies. ESG credit scores

00:54:21.740 encourage social media companies to eliminate misinformation from their platforms and dangerous

00:54:28.140 information from their platforms and other things like that. In fact, there is this incredible ESG

00:54:34.140 report, and I can't remember which agency put it out, but it's an ESG report from a financial institution

00:54:41.020 given to Facebook. And it actually gives Facebook a relatively low ESG score. And in the report,

00:54:48.300 it references this huge other report that talks about how Facebook hasn't done enough to silence

00:54:56.300 free speech on their platforms and to stop misinformation. And they specifically referenced

00:55:02.220 Donald Trump being allowed to continue to speak on Facebook. This was prior to the whole January 6th

00:55:07.580 thing. And then within like six months or a year of that happening, Facebook and Twitter and everyone

00:55:14.220 banned a president of the United States from speaking on their platforms. So it shows you the power of

00:55:20.300 what ESG is and the consolidation of wealth and power and coordination with all of these groups

00:55:27.020 working together. And obviously it's not neutral because they're not worried about actual terrorists

00:55:34.700 being on Twitter or Facebook. They're not worried about the child sex abuse material that unfortunately is

00:55:41.180 rampant on these platforms. Those things don't lower the ESG score apparently, but allowing people to

00:55:46.540 have different opinions about the vaccine or about the election or about politics, that is the real

00:55:52.380 danger. And if you don't censor that, I guess, as a corporation, then your ESG score goes down.

00:56:01.340 And so it's not neutral. There is an ideology, an agenda behind it.

00:56:05.340 Yeah, without a doubt. I remember several years ago, one of the first big before I was doing shows

00:56:13.420 like this with popular Blaze TV hosts, I was trying to promote this report that I had done. Nobody had

00:56:20.220 done anything on this at the time. It was a study that talked about rape videos, videos of women being 0.62

00:56:27.740 raped that were widely it's widely available on on Google and these other search engines. The the it's not

00:56:34.940 just that women are being raped in these videos, pornographic videos, but it's also that it literally is 0.87

00:56:40.140 describing them. It's advertising them as women being raped or something like that. And I did everything I 0.99

00:56:47.900 possibly could, everything I could. It went everywhere. I had articles published on Fox News. I did everything I could to

00:56:53.500 get people to stop this. And Google and Microsoft and all of these companies that I went to and asked

00:56:59.660 them about this and interviewed even some of them. They did nothing. They did nothing about it. Nothing.

00:57:06.220 But sharing a Hunter Biden story, talking about something that is completely true or very likely to

00:57:11.180 be true. Yeah. Yep. They won't touch it. They won't touch it. Why is it because they it's the same thing with

00:57:17.900 with global warming, with a bunch of other things. They say that they believe in these causes. They say they really

00:57:23.980 care about the little guy, but then they everything they do is the opposite of that. Yeah. The biggest hypocritical

00:57:30.780 aspect of the Great Reset movement is you mentioned China earlier. All of these people are doing business with China 0.52

00:57:36.940 and putting global warming aside. China's a human rights violator. So on the one hand, you have companies saying, wow, 0.88

00:57:44.380 you know, we got to make sure we have ESG in place so that we have the right ratio of one racial group

00:57:49.580 to another in our employee demographics. So, for example, we have the right whatever that means ratio

00:57:54.940 of Asian to Hispanic workers. If we have too many Asians flown around, that's bad for our ESG score. 1.00

00:58:00.300 That's a real thing. But then they'll do business with China where they're literally throwing people in 0.60

00:58:06.380 internment camps and they're killing people for simple drug possession and stuff like that and and

00:58:13.100 forcing people to have two kids or one kid instead of three or four that they might want,

00:58:18.700 having forced abortions and all kinds of really horrible things. The same people that say that

00:58:23.740 they have to have this ESG social credit system to save the planet and to and to make America more

00:58:28.860 equitable and to stop police brutality and to stop, you know, election fraud and all these things that

00:58:35.020 they claim are the same people doing business with some of the biggest human rights violators on the

00:58:39.820 planet today. They don't believe in any of this stuff, really. It's all about power grabbing.

00:58:44.700 And just to close this out, the Biden administration is really the perfect vessel for all of this. And

00:58:53.260 we look at the Biden administration and the Democrat Party and we say, wow, they failed so much.

00:58:58.060 Their policies have been so disastrous. They cause chaos and destruction and death wherever they go.

00:59:04.060 And yet they don't seem to be. The Biden administration really doesn't seem to be worried

00:59:09.500 about that at all because he is not really beholden to the American people. He is beholden

00:59:15.100 to a lot of the powerful elites and the organizations and the institutions that we're talking about that

00:59:20.940 want that radical transformation of society. They decided that the vessel for that was going to be good

00:59:26.380 little, moderate, empathetic Joe. And, you know, Joe doesn't seem to be worried about

00:59:34.460 worried about not winning elections at all, which is a little bit frightening when you think about it.

00:59:39.500 And when you think about, as we talked about the crackdown on speech, what his DOJ is doing right now

00:59:44.940 to Biden's political opponents that simply voiced opinions about the last election. And of course,

00:59:53.100 what this DOJ threatened to do towards parents that showed up at school board meetings concerned

00:59:58.460 that their child, for example, was reading pornography in school. So just just a reminder,

01:00:05.580 everyone, that this administration is advancing all of the things that we are talking about today, unfortunately.

01:00:15.020 Yeah, there's no doubt about it. It's well documented that that's what's going on.

01:00:20.460 And all you have to do is actually look. If you look into any of the issues that we've talked

01:00:25.660 about today or a whole bunch of other things, you'll see that the Biden administration is not

01:00:29.820 only taking is not only trying to advance the ball in that direction, they are doing it in radical,

01:00:35.900 radical ways that we've never seen before. I mean, this is truly one of this is probably the

01:00:40.780 most radical administration we've ever had. I mean, I think Barack Obama was a very radical guy,

01:00:46.380 but I think he was limited in what he could do because of the circumstances of his time.

01:00:51.020 I think Joe Biden has a lot more leeway to do almost anything he wants. And he is doing that.

01:00:56.940 And really, it's not so much him as it probably is his handlers and the other people in the

01:01:01.740 administration, most of whom came from the Obama era anyway. It's a lot of the same people.

01:01:06.780 Most of those people are also related to big financial institutions and used to work at BlackRock and

01:01:12.220 places like that. They're all tied in together. It's one big group working together in order to

01:01:16.940 accomplish this goal. But Biden is the perfect vessel for it because he's so old and he and

01:01:23.580 mentally, I'm not sure how there he really is. And so he and he has this moderate sort of aura

01:01:30.860 about him that he's built up over all these years, even though he's really not a moderate.

01:01:34.700 And so he is able to put these radical ideas into place. And that is exactly what has been going on.

01:01:40.140 And the facts show that very, very clearly. Yep. And as we've talked about before, it really is

01:01:45.580 all connected, whether it's gender ideology or the racial ideology that is causing division or the

01:01:53.100 breakdown of the nuclear family, the difficulty and being able to buy property and to be self-reliant to

01:02:00.460 the energy crisis that in large part is the result of deliberate choices of the people in charge.

01:02:07.900 It all comes together to make a people confused and chaotic and ultimately dependent. And that's

01:02:16.540 what they're looking for is a dependent populace in order to gain as much power as possible to achieve

01:02:22.860 this radical transformation of society with them at the top. As always, Justin,

01:02:28.620 thank you so much for breaking it all down for us today. Where can people find you?

01:02:31.900 At Justin T. Haskins on Facebook, Twitter, Parler, Getter, all of the social media platforms. And of

01:02:39.580 course, they can go to stoppingsocialism.com and they can go to the heartland.org. That's the official

01:02:44.620 website of the Heartland Institute. Awesome. Thank you so much, Justin.

01:02:48.540 Thanks so much, Allie. Take care.

01:02:52.540 All right. Hope you enjoyed that conversation. I know you did. Justin is awesome. No one breaks it down

01:02:57.900 like him. And just remember, I know every time we talk about the Great Reset and

01:03:03.180 the global catastrophe that is currently happening, God is completely and totally in control. He is

01:03:10.220 sovereign over all of it. There is no earthly power that is greater than him. And Job 42 says that

01:03:17.260 nothing can thwart his sovereign will. And in the end, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess

01:03:22.620 that Jesus Christ is Lord. If you want to know what to do, simply do the next right thing in faith

01:03:27.660 with excellence and for the glory of God. Do everything that you can to infuse light and truth

01:03:33.100 and goodness and righteousness into every sphere in which God has providentially placed you. I don't

01:03:39.180 know what the conclusion is of all of all this mess. I hope that we can turn things around, at least in our

01:03:44.780 country. But there is no guarantee, of course, of any kind of political success or prosperity in this

01:03:52.060 life. Our hope is in heaven. All we can do is be as courageous, be as obedient as possible in this

01:03:58.380 moment. Tomorrow, I am going to talk to an apologist and just a great thinker, Neil Shenvey. He recently

01:04:06.940 wrote a book about apologetics and how to defend your faith. I think he does that in a very compelling

01:04:13.420 and interesting way. You're going to love that conversation tomorrow. It'll kind of be a sigh of relief

01:04:18.940 after this heavy and complex conversation today. So tune in for that. I will see you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 14, 2022

Ep 678 ｜ Great Reset Update： Farm Shutdowns & Power Rationing ｜ Guest： Justin Haskins

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