On today's show, Glenn talks about the Super Bowl halftime performance by Lady Gaga, who you can trust and who you should trust when it comes to disinformation, and why the government is funding the Global Disinformation Index, a group that tracks the spread of fake news.
00:03:00.700Okay, so explain what you have uncovered and why it's important.
00:03:08.380We essentially unpacked in a multi-part series that we are still working on about how essentially these organizations,
00:03:17.880particularly we highlighted a group called the Global Disinformation Index.
00:03:21.960And these organizations are feeding secret blacklists to advertising companies with the intent of shutting down and defunding disfavored speech.
00:03:33.440In this case, certainly conservative media.
00:03:37.100And so we actually learned that the Washington Examiner, among other outlets, is on this blacklist and that this process is playing a very major role in how media outlets are gaining access to advertising dollars.
00:03:55.620The second part of our series, sort of the most important part of this, I think, is that the United States government has funded the disinformation tracking organization that is, as we said, openly taking steps to defund and deplatform disfavored speech, certainly raising First Amendment issues.
00:05:18.600Their blacklist separately is something that they provide to advertising companies like Microsoft-owned Xander in order for those advertising companies to have insight into the outlets that they should allegedly deplatform and defund.
00:05:36.340And what gives these people the expertise to make that determination?
00:05:48.340You know, that's obviously a question a lot of people's mind, certainly, Glenn.
00:05:52.380You know, these organizations are heavily staffed with an oversaw, they're oversaw by people, university professors, writers, and journalists.
00:06:03.600One individual on the board of the global disinformation indexes and Applebaum, a left-wing journalist who notably discredited the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:06:13.340Other individuals are involved with groups like the Pew Research Center, the Open Society Foundation, and NVIDIA, notably.
00:06:27.860And, I mean, this is something that Media Matters was doing.
00:06:33.200And, really, despite what is said in the papers quite unaffectively with me when I was on just radio and Fox, and they would target and target and target and target.
00:06:48.160But, now, you're looking really at Google and Amazon as the big advertisers, and they're targeting all of these agencies, if you will, that are really media platforms, correct?
00:07:11.320But, you know, a group like this, which obviously, you know, has certainly flown under the radar, has developed major influence, clearly, in the advertising space, based on the fact that Microsoft, we learned, was subscribing to this list.
00:07:28.500Microsoft, obviously, one of the largest corporations throughout the world.
00:07:36.480I'm just looking at the review of the Huffington Post.
00:07:40.180Their risk level is low, so feel free to advertise.
00:07:46.000The Huffington Post largely features fact-based, unbiased content free of sensational text or visuals.
00:07:55.160The domain also refrained for perpetuating divisive narratives via the negative targeting of groups or individuals, you know, unless you're conservative or Republican.
00:08:05.380The outlet scores for the operations pillar indicators are imperfect, but it is better than most.
00:08:17.220Yeah, and what I would like to flag, Glenn, is that the organizations, the news outlets that the Global Disinformation Index ranks as the 10 least riskiest, they all skew to the left, except the Wall Street Journal.
00:08:32.500But notably, they flagged Huffington Post, now HuffPost, and BuzzFeed News as allegedly the 10 riskiest outlets.
00:08:40.380As your listeners may remember, these are two media outlets that heavily peddled the Steele dossier that intended to link Donald Trump to Russia.
00:08:49.640They also peddled the false notion that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
00:08:54.820These are two very problematic, legitimate disinformation campaigns that seeped into the American consciousness.
00:09:02.520Well, and I don't think people understand.
00:09:04.300The Wall Street Journal is actually used to be, I don't know if it is anymore, it used to be more liberal in its news pages than the New York Times.
00:09:14.640But because of the editorial section being so conservative, it just kind of got this rap that it wasn't.
00:09:21.880But it's a very liberal newspaper when it comes to the news.
00:09:28.240Yeah, I mean, what we tried to highlight again is the fact that the 10 allegedly least risky outlets, that certainly is problematic given the stories that they've promoted in the past.
00:09:42.120Whereas, when you look at the outlets labeled the riskiest outlets, essentially like the Washington Examiner or the Blaze, these are outlets that actually were right on this material first.
00:09:54.100You know, the Washington Examiner verified the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:09:58.260And so did several other outlets long before legacy media actually took an honest attempt to take a look at that information.
00:10:05.640You know, it's funny because I don't see, I don't see any, on the riskiest, on the riskiest domains or apps, I don't see a single liberal on here.
00:10:18.000And I see almost every single conservative.
00:10:33.780The State Department has granted $330,000 to the Global Disinformation Index through two specific entities.
00:10:43.140One, the Global Engagement Center, which is essentially a grant-making arm through the State Department,
00:10:48.980that actually came under fire in Twitter files reported by journalist Matt Taibbi,
00:10:54.800because that same organization was contacting Twitter and asking them to engage in content moderation related to the coronavirus and vaccines in particular in 2020.
00:11:10.560So that's one entity that has funded the Global Disinformation Index.
00:11:14.660The other State Department entity is the National Endowment for Democracy, which is a nonprofit group that was authorized through Congress that is funded almost entirely through congressional appropriations.
00:11:26.820And I would really flag that the board of the National Endowment for Democracy has oversight over who receives grants.
00:11:34.160And Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Republican, a staunch Trump advocate, in the line with former President Donald Trump, she sits on the board of that organization.
00:11:52.980So, you know, we've received word from a few members of Congress who have said, you know, this raises major issues and they would hope to investigate this.
00:12:04.380One is Representative Michael McCaul, who is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which oversees grants to the State Department.
00:12:12.240Another is Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, who has been a staunch advocate of the First Amendment and anti-censorship operations.
00:12:20.480But certainly, you know, certainly, you know, a lot of Americans are hoping that members of Congress can take adequate steps to investigate this situation in particular, because this really feeds into a lot that was revealed with the Twitter files between public and private partnerships.
00:12:40.080And I think that does raise a lot of concerns with American voters.
00:12:44.080Gabe, I thank you for exposing this and all the work you guys do at the Examiner.
00:12:48.680You're you're you're you're a really reputable site and you do a lot of great work.
00:15:00.740I'm going to I'm going to tell you the truth.
00:15:02.640My children would like to thank the NFL for them seeing her grab her crotch and smell her fingers and lick it in front of her in front of their mom and dad.
00:15:16.660They enjoyed that as much as we did, as much as we did.
00:15:26.600Now, let me go back to a couple of studies that I've that I find very interesting.
00:15:33.740You know, I just gave you the two studies from The Washington Post that that shows that liberals are more interested in the ends and they don't really care about the means where conservatives actually do care about freedom of speech.
00:15:50.420And, you know, the Constitution and Bill of Rights and stuff, which is weird.
00:15:55.560And it explains why liberals always say they don't really care.
00:16:15.220But but very few liberals believe in that they and that's the difference.
00:16:21.120Those are the people you're seeing peel away.
00:16:23.040Now, you're seeing people peel away from the left that are actual classical liberals.
00:16:30.600They are people that believe in the Bill of Rights and believe in America and and the process matters.
00:16:39.180Those are the people who are coming over and they're not becoming conservatives.
00:16:44.040They're just recognizing, wow, I'm not progressive like that.
00:16:48.920I actually love my country and would like to have it get better in the way to get it, you know, to be better is to, I don't know, live by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
00:17:03.260Now, I've got another shocking, shocking report.
00:17:08.500Apparently, a new study from the Survey Center on American Life found that Republican men and women are significantly happier in their marriage than their Democratic counterparts.
00:17:24.380According to the survey, Republican men report being most satisfied in their relationships and men.
00:17:33.300Can I just say, of course, because we got the little woman in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
00:18:37.440These are just those people that have been hypnotized by religion and politics that are just being abused.
00:18:43.160These women are in abusive relationships.
00:18:45.260Trust me, you ask any professor at any college, you ask anybody who studies women in women's studies, and they'll tell you that's the truth right there.
00:18:57.420Now, only 36 percent of Democrat married men and 29 percent of Democrat married women say they're satisfied with their marriage.
00:20:22.180Anyway, they said this leaks into the relationships for the Democrats, often causing some to purportedly flip traditional gender roles on their heads.
00:20:33.360On tick tock videos titled life as a stay at home husband or life of a trophy husband are an entire genre.
00:20:43.300Now, wouldn't you love to be called a trophy husband or a trophy wife?
00:20:50.820I think now I hate to be considered, you know, consistent.
00:20:56.700I hate to say something that could hurt my own side.
00:21:00.280But I think trophy wives are just as bad as trophy husbands.
00:21:05.140Masculinity in Democratic homes is more likely to be toxic and stay at home mom is code for slave.
00:21:23.440That way we can point it out when a liberal says stay at home mothers.
00:21:27.740We know now that they're really meaning slaves.
00:21:32.500Unfortunately, for progressives, men and women's differing yet complementary skills and talents are not a construct, but rooted in human biology.
00:23:05.420That tower reunion is named after the town that was built right underneath that tower.
00:23:13.080It was a huge socialist experiment and it didn't work to say the least.
00:23:20.380Well, I mean, it did until they instead of killing the old people and the sick people, they just expelled them because society couldn't pay for it.
00:23:31.940And then when people wouldn't work to pull their fair share, which was a lot, they expelled them, too.
00:23:39.980That's what happens when it's a volunteer society.
00:23:56.520Anyway, back to the study, conservatives comparatively greater happiness goes beyond marriage.
00:24:05.980They say in a 2022 American family survey, they found that 37 percent of conservative men reported they're completely satisfied with their life versus 21 percent of liberal men.
00:24:20.720How can you, I'm surprised that 37 percent, only 37 percent, that's the high number, is happy with their life.
00:24:49.540I mean, maybe it's just me, but, you know, the one thing that Tanya and I have learned is, and we've known this for many, many years, the importance of our faith.
00:25:05.460But our family has been under attack from, I believe, dark forces, you know, in the last year.
00:25:14.660And it has been, I mean, we have had everything thrown at us.
00:25:20.340And Tanya and I have gotten to a place to where, especially with the kids, it's kind of like, oh, well, that's going to leave a mark.
00:25:48.880That's going to take a lot of therapy.
00:25:50.320But the good news is they'll be paying for it.
00:25:53.020So, we've kind of come to this place to where we're fine and we know that in the end, the family will be fine if we all just try to do the right thing.
00:26:05.200And if they don't do the right thing, well, they're going to learn one way or another.
00:27:48.020So we have some of those old-timey things here.
00:27:52.240So, Carol, tell me what's happening with China buying up the gold.
00:27:56.260Yeah, so central banks around the world, record year last year, 2022, 1,136 tons of gold.
00:28:03.300The interesting data point was China, for the first time since 2019, they announced that they had increased their purchases, their net holdings, of gold in November.
00:28:16.400And now there has been three consecutive months of them buying gold.
00:28:21.400And I really believe that this is meant as a signal that could be one of a couple of signals, but they all boil down to signals that relate to a new financial world order.
00:28:39.000I don't mean to put you on a spot, but could you explain how, this is so out of your wheelhouse and it's going to come out of left field, can you explain how electricity is made?
00:28:50.660I can't, I'm the daughter of an electrician and you're going to put me on the spot in terms of how electricity is made.
00:28:58.720But obviously we do know that it's powered by all different sorts of, you know, different sorts of fuels, including it particularly in the United States and other places around the world, fossil fuels.
00:29:10.560But what do the fossil, you burn the fossil fuels to move a turbine, right?
00:29:16.160And the turbine is moving and it's moving, you know, around, uh, copper wires and the copper wires that is actually inside a magnet.
00:29:28.160So without magnets, you cannot make electricity.
00:29:38.480I believe there's two, there's two, um, particles or whatever, uh, uh, minerals or whatever that make magnets.
00:29:50.600There's two different, uh, materials that make a magnet.
00:29:55.340I believe that like a hundred percent of one of those comes from Russia and a hundred percent of the other one comes from China.
00:30:05.780And I have read, but I want you to look into this.
00:30:10.780I just read this weekend that both of those, uh, countries just signed an agreement that they are working together now on the magnets and that this is going to be another, uh, source of like gold for them, that they will trade based on, on the magnets.
00:30:44.760But I, the only reason why I would bring this up is because when you look at what was being done to our electricity all over and you look how we are just, we're being torched all over the country.
00:30:58.740And all over the world, um, things to make electricity are going to become, uh, uh, much more, uh, valuable.
00:31:07.340And I'm, I don't even care if it's backing up their money.
00:31:10.780I want to know if it's true that they are the main source for all magnets.
00:31:15.480And if they just did an agreement between each other, uh, that they're working together on magnets.
00:31:22.900What, what I can tell you is that there are a whole slew of commodities, um, you know, that need to be, uh, dug up from the earth that we, you know, these green energy folks are relying on for electricity.
00:31:36.380And, you know, for these other components that they have that, you know, are not only, you know, heavily available in China and Russia, but also all of the countries where China has been investing through its Belt and Road initiatives.
00:31:50.020So it would not be surprising that, you know, this would be one of many of them.
00:31:54.940Um, but do we want to go back to, to the gold piece?
00:32:03.420Um, basically, you know, we, we really have to blame the government and the federal reserve.
00:32:09.860We have had the privilege of King dollar being the world reserve currency.
00:32:15.440And, you know, not to say that it doesn't have downsides.
00:32:18.380One of the downsides is that you have to manage the dollar for competing interests, the benefit of the people in the U S as well as global stability.
00:32:26.780Our fed and government have managed to do neither.
00:32:29.960We have eroded purchasing power here in the U S and we have not had global stability.
00:32:35.980So looking at China announcing, okay, we're signaling that we are increasing our reserves could very well be a signal to say, we're trying to, you know, enhance the death, the natural death of King dollar that the U S is putting forth.
00:32:53.520And they have been talking to all different kinds of countries, um, about, you know, settling in their currency, the Yuan, which given the fact that they're a communist country, people aren't really excited about, but if they can then say, well, we can swap that for gold, we're increasing our gold.
00:33:10.640That might give more stability to their currency.
00:33:14.720On the other hand, it could be a signal saying, we're getting ready to invade Taiwan.
00:33:21.240Because if you look at what happened with Russia, uh, before they invaded Ukraine, they were shedding U S treasury securities and they were stocking up on gold, which is exactly what China is doing right now.
00:33:33.140Um, and you know, so that, that could be a signal, but that relates back to a new world order as well, from a financial standpoint, because we have never had a changing of a financial guard without a war preceding it.
00:33:47.900So, you know, those two things are somewhat interconnected with, you know, the dollar and, you know, kind of the U S is global financial standing right in the middle of it.
00:33:59.100Are you following this balloon nonsense at all?
00:34:17.360So they shot one over, uh, the great lakes.
00:34:20.460They, I mean, they, they brought down three of these things and you know, the Pentagon is like, well, we're not ruling out that that might be an alien ship from outer space.
00:34:31.780And you're like, what, I mean, this is so ridiculous.
00:34:54.980So, you know, my, my interpretation of this may, may make no sense, but it does seem, you know, a test, you know, how strong is the U S going to react when we push them?
00:35:05.800When we look at this administration, you know, how far can we push the envelope without them pushing back?
00:35:12.520So that is the, that is the, the idea.
00:35:15.980And I, I mean, all of a sudden we're tough guys on balloons.
00:35:18.740I mean, don't blow one up for your kid's birthday party.
00:35:29.780And, you know, everything that is being done now is to fight, uh, a war, at least a financial war.
00:35:38.120And I just, uh, I don't see this going, you know, we had not great relationships with China under Donald Trump, but they were better than this.
00:35:48.340And, uh, this is, this is just not going well.
00:35:51.680And I, I'd rather not be on the, uh, receiving end of balloons for my party from Russia and China at the same time.
00:36:02.800Yeah, no, it's, it's not a good, um, scenario.
00:36:06.220And whether that war plays out, you know, purely on a financial basis where you get these different blocks that decide to do trade in a different way.
00:36:15.720You know, Saudi Arabia started signaling that they are open to settling oil, um, in currencies other than the dollar.
00:36:23.620We weaponize the dollar obviously against, um, uh, against Russia during the Ukraine.
00:36:30.260So, you know, it could be financial, you know, God forbid, it could end up having some more, you know, physical, actual war components.
00:36:37.860But all of these things, you know, speak to the deteriorating strength of the U.S., you know, in general and as a financial powerhouse.
00:36:46.440And I think that's the concern for your listeners in terms of protecting their assets, because, you know, the U.S. dollar is not what it used to be.
00:36:56.360Uh, Carol Roth, she is the author of a brand new book called You Will Own Nothing.