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On today's episode of The John Doyle Show, John talks about choosing life, and why it's so important that we all choose to live a life worth living. He also talks about why choosing life is so important and why we should all be doing it.
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Hello there, ladies and gentlemen. I'm John Doyle. If you're listening to this right now,
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Doyle Show, hosted by me, John Doyle, does the opposite. This is a place for people who want the
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truth about America for Americans, maybe with a little style, a little playful intolerance of
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anyone who disagrees with me on literally anything. But frankly, a lot more courage than you'll get
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elsewhere these days. You're not going to fall asleep. You're not going to be lectured. You're
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going to be entertained and informed. Also, I'm going to lecture you and probably yell. But if
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you want a show that respects your intelligence, that makes you think, that makes you laugh,
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and that actually equips you to understand the world rather than just react to it, this is where
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you need to be. So after you're done listening to this podcast, don't just sit there pretending you
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have something better to do. I implore you to understand you don't. Nothing is more important
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than listening to my podcast on the internet. So go check out the John Doyle Show and we'll see you
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out there. Yesterday, our DOJ and FBI busted and is prosecuting a few people out of California,
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the Turtle Island Liberation Front. What is that? Well, if you listen to this show,
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you heard about it, I think, back in April for the first time. We've talked about it a couple of times.
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It's very, very, very dangerous. Ryan Morrow joins us because he's the guy who did all the research
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on it. And thank goodness the country is now waking up to this. But we talk about what it is
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and what it means, why you have to pay attention, because there's something much deeper and more
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sinister even than the attacks they had planned all across America, you know, on New Year's Eve.
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Also, The Christmas Truce. It is a true story from World War II about something that I know of that
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never happened in war before, an amazing story with the documentation. Also, a movie that we watch
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all the time at this time of the year. It actually was a giant failure and what the movie actually is
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trying to say to us. It's a wonderful life. All of this and more on today's podcast.
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I'm going to tell you a Christmas story that you may or may not have heard, but it is one of the,
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I think one of the most historically important moments in war to ever happen.
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I was lucky enough to be able to add to our collection just a few months ago, this.
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The Christmas Truce is something that happened in World War I in 1914.
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And this is a very, very rare letter from one of the people.
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It's seven or eight pages long from one of the people that were, was there.
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And this is an eyewitness account, not years after.
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This was written the day after it happened and sent to, uh, the guy's mom.
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And, uh, it tells the whole story kind of, kind of, there's another letter from, uh, I think
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his name was Otto Hahn and he's German and he was actually there as well.
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Not actually on the field, but he played a different role.
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I'll tell you about that here in a second, but let me just read this, this letter.
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Um, it says, dear mother, it was awfully good of you to send chocolate, which arrived safely
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I've just come out of the trenches again after spending Christmas day in them.
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If you imagine by any chance that we would have had a rotten Christmas, I can assure you,
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Now, remember the trenches are some of the worst places you can be.
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They're just slaughtering people and nobody is advancing.
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He said on Christmas Eve, it was chilly and we were shelling the German trenches, but then
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There was a little rifle fire until about 5 PM when it became dark.
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Then one of them pushed a Christmas tree on top of their trench.
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After that, we decided we would light candles and lights and put them on top of the trenches
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to cheer them up a bit and carry on some sort of, quote, I love this line,
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As things seemed to be going very well, we thought, maybe we can get out of the trench and go up on top.
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Dead bodies of your friends are right on top of this trench.
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And you think, they just pushed up a Christmas tree.
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So you know that the Highlanders, you know, they have matey conversations all the time.
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These are Scots that actually were the first to do it.
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So four of us got on top, and first we struck matches, which was received well by them on the other side.
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So then all of us got out, and we decided to hold a concert and dance out in the open.
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After this, a few men thought it would be swell to shake hands and exchange cigars, cigarettes, and gingerbread with them.
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I met a few halfway between the trenches, and they were jolly good sports as well.
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It seemed impossible that we were actually really enemies.
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We also had time, so we took it and buried our dead.
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We buried them together, with short prayers spoken in both languages.
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Because tomorrow we will have to shoot at one another again.
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That's the letter that we have now at the American Journey Experience Vault that I just acquired.
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And we'll go into our clay pot project to save our history and to save what our civilization really was like.
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This is a moment here where Judeo-Christian values come to play a role.
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It's the healing power of Christmas and the message of Christmas that in the middle of this war, they stop and they're able to come out of the trenches.
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Here's what one German soldier wrote in another letter.
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What I still believe to be madness just several hours ago, I could now see with my own eyes.
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One Englishman was joined so soon by another, they came towards us until he was more than halfway toward our trenches.
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He's responding, he's talking about the guy of the letter I just read to you.
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By which point some of our people had already approached them.
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Between the trenches, the hated and the bitter opponents met around the Christmas tree and we sang Christmas carols.
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I will never forget this sight for as long as I live.
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One could see that the man, the human being, lives on, even if he knows nothing more in these days than killing.
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I wanted to share this with you today for a couple of reasons.
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One, it's one of my favorite stories of Christmas.
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There have been a couple of movies made about this moment.
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This is the original letter that told the story that the movie makers used.
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But I wanted to tell you this story because it feels really dark at times.
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It's in that darkness that the light really matters.
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And there's barbed wire and dead bodies in between them.
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That is what we built our whole civilization on.
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And you can say, yeah, but look at what happened in that war of, you know, World War I.
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Well, the guy who wrote the German letter, the most famous German letter, he's actually a guy who was there.
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He saw it deployed once, and he asked for a transfer.
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And he wrote to his wife and said, this is an abomination.
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He was one of the guys who got the Nobel Prize for splitting the atom, 1937, 38, I don't remember.
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But he's one of the guys that got the Nobel Prize.
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And he never joined the ranks of the Nazis and never went to build the atomic bomb.
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He warned, you can't do this, you can't do this, can't do this.
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He's really, he's, he's really neither, really.
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He's a man that understood too late that knowledge is never neutral.
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In my life, tomorrow is the last TV show I'll be doing.
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But it'll be the last and kind of a end of a, I don't know.
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And we also announced yesterday that Stu is going to be leaving the show shortly after the new year.
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I have been begging him, borrowing him, bribing him, threatening his family, doing everything I could to keep him with me for 27 years.
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And he has finally found something that he really wants to do.
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But I want you to know, while there is an ending to some of these things, there is a match strike in January.
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You know, when you read a letter like that, or you hear somebody tell a story like that, you realize something uncomfortable.
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And it's not about dates and memorizing the date and the name.
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And a letter like that is not data that you should remember.
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That letter is a heartbeat that has long gone, long been silenced.
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And I have been spending years collecting things like this.
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Letters and artifacts and moments that were never meant to survive.
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So announced in Los Angeles by the Department of Justice, four members of an anti-capitalist, anti-government group that calls for violence against the United States and its officials.
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The plan allegedly plotting an attack on two U.S. companies with improvised explosive devices this New Year's Eve.
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We don't know what those companies were, but it was not good.
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That's what the indigenous people call America.
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This is a far-left, pro-Palestinian, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group.
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When I say it was pro-Palestinian, I want you to understand this.
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This is part of what's called the Red-Green Alliance, and we'll explain that here in just a second.
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But they were preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year's Eve.
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They also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles.
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They faced federal charges of conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive advice.
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This was called Operation Midnight Sun, and they were going to plant backpacks and pipe bombs and complex IEDs to detonate simultaneously at multiple locations, targeting U.S. companies on New Year's Eve at midnight.
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It's considered, obviously, a terrorist attack.
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Their searches of their homes uncovered Turtle Island Liberation Front posters like Death to America and Death to ICE.
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You know, one of the funny things that I read was, this is from their Facebook post.
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A little-known extremist group has paraded around sick slogans like Death to America and insisted that the United States' mere existence is inherently violent.
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When we say Death to America and call for an end to colonization, it doesn't mean the displacement or harm of non-Indigenous citizens.
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Wait, you were targeting ICE officials and you were going to blow things up.
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I do not think it means what you think it means, but maybe that's just me.
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Sorry, thought of Rob Reiner there for a second.
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I just, it's sad to lose Rob Reiner with, anyway.
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Ryan is with us now, researcher and joining us at the torch as somebody who's just really going to sharpen us on all of our warnings
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and all of our research into these radical groups.
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So, it was in April, I think you were on, and you said,
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Glenn, you have to pay attention, one of the groups you have to pay attention to is Turtle Island Liberation Front.
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And here it is, almost exactly what you said would happen is happening now.
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Right, so what had happened was, is that with my colleagues at the Capital Research Center,
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we had mapped out basically the entire anti-Israeli extremist movement, over 150 groups,
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But one of the things I saw in their ecosystem, and this just shows how we live in completely separate worlds,
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is that this term Turtle Island was commonplace.
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So, whether you're a communist or an Islamist or you're an anarchist or whatever,
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you would refer to the U.S. as the so-called United States or Turtle Island and say it's occupied
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and it needs to be liberated just like Palestine.
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And so, they would refuse to say Israel, they say Palestine.
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They refuse to say the United States and say Turtle Island.
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And it's because of this conception out there, that I'm not even sure is that accurate,
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that the Native American tribes referred to the U.S. and Canada and Mexico as Turtle Island
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because they believed that the continent was created on the back of a turtle.
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And then, and so the evil white settler capitalist came in and ruined everything.
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That's what it inherently was, and so it's equivalent to Palestine.
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And so, the conclusion of my study, and I debuted some of the findings with you,
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and in fact, I think you were the only media outlet that actually made a point of this and got this.
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With that, there's a certain level of diversity among these pro-terror extremists.
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It's a way that, of calling for violence and the destruction of the U.S.,
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just like they want to destroy Israel, but to do it in a way that goes over the heads of people,
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but people who understand the language know what it means.
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And it's frankly smart because of the sympathy and the way American students have been taught
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about the history of the Native American tribes.
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So, it taps into something where, if you think that there's a lot of sympathy for Palestinians,
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the people that American, the youth, don't know anything about.
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Now, imagine tapping into what they feel about what happened to the Native Americans.
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I will tell you, the left has been courting the Native Americans for a very long time
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because the right just hasn't, you know, paid attention to it at all.
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And so, the left saw an opportunity, and they are deeply in, especially in the Navajo,
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deeply, deeply in with the left, or the left is deeply in bed with the Navajo.
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And there is an opportunity to turn people very, very radical,
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And, you know, when you say this is an anti-Israel thing or pro-Palestinian,
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I want to make sure people understand, just as the Marxists were the ones who helped overthrow
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the Shah of Iran and bring the Ayatollah in, they were partners with the Islamists.
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The Islamists, and I think the Marxists too, they're not part of the same endgame.
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They don't have the same endgame in mind, other than, in that case,
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the destruction of the Shah of Iran and freeing its people and having a revolution.
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When Iran was overthrown in 1979, within two years,
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30,000 Marxists were either killed, jailed, or disappeared.
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And that this is the same kind of thing, this alliance with the indigenous people,
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with the Islamists, with Marxists, they're all going to sort that out later.
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They don't even bother talking about that scenario too much,
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because they just kind of feel like when you burn things to the ground,
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what's natural and good will rise from the ashes.
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And so the theme of Turtle Island is kind of the,
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that's why I called it the Turtle Island Intifada.
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It's kind of like what's bringing together all of these ideologies.
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But what we also talked about back in April, and actually before that too,
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was, well, what's the targeting strategy going to be?
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And what we concluded was that the campaign is going to broaden,
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because they were openly, I was seeing in their communication,
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they're saying, look, this Israel issue is going to go away.
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And they didn't want to say it was partially because Israel was kicking their butts so badly.
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But they said, this issue is going to not rally people anymore.
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And to whatever degree we can, broaden it out to be an anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist movement.
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And so you were able to tell, what was the next stage?
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It was going to be under the banner of Turtle Island.
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Specifically, ICE was the one that was most talked about.
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But also companies that they can connect, even by some leap, to the Zionist infrastructure.
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Because that way you're hitting all the themes.
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Anti-police, anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, Turtle Island, and pro-Palestine.
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It actually gave to fruition in a way that's much more vivid than I anticipated.
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So although this plot was foiled, make no mistake about it.
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It is a marker in time for this new era, this new offensive that has begun.
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How likely is this going to be, how likely is this to become the next BLM movement?
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This, you know, Turtle Island liberation, you know, from, you know, from sea to sea, Turtle Island will be free kind of crap.
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In fact, I think it's inevitable it's going to get a lot of support just by people talking about saying, well, what is this Turtle Island thing?
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Oh, well, there's this almost biblical narrative that follows this.
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Where it was like the Turtle Island was the Garden of Eden, the capitalist white colonists, white supremacists with their patriarchal came in and infected it like the snake.
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And then the Native Americans were essentially it's like a Jesus narrative at that point.
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And so now we need to restore the original Garden of Eden.
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So sometimes they use that language specifically.
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But that's kind of the emotional pull that comes in by tapping into that narrative.
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And by the way, one of the accounts that this specific terrorist group followed on social media was the Christian anarchists.
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Now, I know you've said in the past you've noted how some of the anarchist language went over even into the white supremacists.
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Like, no, if you watch this, how this goes, like that is the cycle.
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There is a, I guess you could say right wing, but it's more like anarcho-capitalist anarchists that sometimes identify as Christian.
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And so it goes, this propaganda goes from the terrorists overseas governments to Turtle Island folks over to the Christian anarchists.
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I mean, hats off to the FBI and Kash Patel for, you know, thwarting this and stopping this as they were in the desert beginning to assemble these bombs.
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Um, do you think the administration gets how deep this goes and is willing to do the things?
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I mean, Ryan, you and I both know the West is on the verge of being lost forever.
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If we don't wake up to this and we don't start calling, you know, calling evil by its name, we are, we're going to lose.
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Well, three business days after you and I released, um, my report that I wrote about the $80 million that went from Soros' network to the pro-terror groups,
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it was reported that the Trump administration had launched investigations specifically naming the report that we released on, on the Charlie Kirk show one week after he passed.
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I don't know if it's possible to fully get it if we don't.
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Remember that groups like the FBI and all of them, they can't just collect intelligence on everyone's free speech protected activity, but civilians can.
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And so that's what happened with the Soros report.
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Uh, no, because we and the citizens having given them everything that they need.
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First, um, we, we need to put together a team to map out the Turtle Island and Tefada and map this out so action can be taken.
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And the second thing is actually what I think you're doing with preserving history is very important here because the counter narrative is going to require us to use historical documents to tell the truth of everything that went on with the Native American tribes.
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The good, the bad, and the ugly, so that this type of simplistic hijacking of a biblical narrative for evil ends, uh, can't really happen for these anti-American ends.
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Even if the perpetrators of it don't realize it's a biblical narrative, that's, that's where it's coming from.
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It's a combination of the Garden of Eden story and, uh, the Jesus Christ story put together and framed for evil propaganda that even Satanists sometimes parrot.
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Um, I want to make sure that others, because you run a nonprofit, um, your research center, Capital Research Center is a nonprofit.
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If you are interested in helping what, what Ryan is doing in this way, I'm bringing him on the air a lot beginning next year and working closely with him.
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Um, because what he is finding, the research that he's doing is unlike anybody else's.
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If you happen to want to make a donation to a charity, uh, or to a, um, you know, a 501c3.
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Uh, well, I partner with Capital Research Center, um, who are excellent to donate to.
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So that's kind of like a, like a research wing.
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And then also Ryan Morrow.com, which is my personal, uh, website.
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That's where my specific intelligence gathering group is also based.
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So I would say check out those two, um, because Capital Research Center is broader.
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But if you want to focus just on, on the Turtle Island counter-extremism stuff, then Ryan Morrow.com is where people can contact me, um, or make a donation so that we can.
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Let me tell you a story that you think you already know.
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It's about a movie that feels like it has been there our whole lives.
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It's like a tree in the town square or the hymn.
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You don't ever remember learning, but somehow you know it by heart.
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But this particular movie hasn't been around forever.
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It just seems like it was actually born out of failure.
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Uh, and it was born out of people who felt just like its lead character, George Bailey.
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It's a Wonderful Life has a fascinating story behind it, and it speaks volumes about us, our hopes, our fears, our desires.
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The movie was made by Frank Capra, and it was right after World War II.
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He had spent the war making film for the United States government, the War Department, about why the West is worth saving.
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And when he returned, his old style of doing things, the old machinery just didn't fit Hollywood anymore.
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And it's a Wonderful Life was supposed to be the movie that proved Frank Capra is still Frank Capra.
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Jimmy Stewart, this was his first movie that he made when he came back home from the war.
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And between Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart, oh my gosh, you've got a massive hit, right?
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Jimmy Stewart, the most beloved man in America, gave a really raw, shaken, almost too real performance for people at the time.
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He wasn't the cheerful hero that is coming out of war as a victory.
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This was a man that was cracking under the weight of responsibility, a man who did everything right, but he still felt like he was a failure.
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It was a story about what happened during the Depression and the crash of 29.
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And the first thing out of war, they don't want to watch a movie about how depressing life can be.
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Just a legal oversight that let the rights lapse.
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When he had bought a bunch of stations across the country and he tied them all together.
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And then cable came in and Superstation TBS became TBS.
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They needed some holiday programming and they needed it cheap.
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And when I say cheap, what Ted really meant was free.
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We need a bunch of free programming that we can run all Christmas.
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The vaults open up and lo and behold, they find it's a wonderful life.
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And I don't know about you, but I always thought it had been around forever.
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I mean, it didn't seem like it was a new relaunch.
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It wasn't like, hey, have you heard about this new movie?
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It just was there and on and we thought everybody knew about it.
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Our grandparents probably didn't even know about it because it was a massive failure.
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Black and white snow flickering in the living rooms as our kids are playing on the floor.
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And we as adults are in the kitchen, half listening and half watching.
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It found us this time because America had changed.
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We weren't fresh from despair and we weren't fresh from victory anymore.
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It wasn't so close to us that we didn't want to look at us.
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But we were also a group now that measured our lives in promotions and in square footage
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We were starting to become a little Mr. Potter-like and we didn't want to be Mr. Potter.
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And there on the screen is George Bailey standing on a bridge wondering,
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He's the best of us and that's why it still works.
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Think of all the happy endings that we have and everything else and all the stories that we tell ourselves.
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This movie doesn't tell you that life is going to turn out the way you planned.
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This one tells you something much, much harder.
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That the measure of your life is probably going to be invisible to you while you're living your life.
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Because Clarence ain't coming down in his 1800s clothing and having a hot toddy with you.
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So you probably won't know the real measure of your life.
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And the biggest victories in your life don't come with applause.
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And the sacrifice, it usually doesn't feel heroic at the moment.
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Why don't I ever get the adventure that I planned my whole life?
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The names, the faces, the small kindness, all stacked up one on top of each other.
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Until you realize, oh my gosh, all of those little acts,
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and they're all giving, you know, just a few dollars,
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Because deep down, we're not watching George Bailey.
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Deep down, we're checking our own books, our own ledger.
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or I had to serve, I had to do this for my kids,
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You'll never see the ripples while you're standing in the water.
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or you just curl up on the couch and watch it again,
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remember, you're not watching a Christmas movie.