What do they do to deserve it? The world is getting crazier. People are acting more and more insane. The end of the world is tomorrow.
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He turns into Ben's true, but lends a bible prophecy. You are listening to the known Grand News Tour. Oh. You're listening to the New Grand News Talk today is October 13th, 2021.
This is episode 401. And today, the Great Fork. And the Star is your true, your best brother. Thank you, Mr.
Christ. Welcome to the podcast where we bring you the best news, which is the Gospel message of Jesus Christ while reporting the egregious what they well-rounded, biblically grounded, take on world events. And this is the last live show for like nine days or something. Sure.
Well, for the next three episodes. Yes. So the Gons with the Wind Week starts on Friday, but we have been doing some recordings for supplemental episodes to come out. But there you go.
Happens every October, apparently. Apparently this is becoming a tradition. Some of you may have noticed we did it like a Q&A call a call for questions out on Twitter. We did this was sort of a last minute thing, but we did put together a Q&A episode to give the chance for some people to ask questions that maybe we don't talk about on the show.
Since then we've had even more Q&A come in. So we will have one Q&A episode, but I don't know, perhaps there'll be another one, but there'll be some fun surprises for everybody over the next three episode days. That'll be this upcoming Friday, Monday and Wednesday, but we will be back next Friday with a regular live show. Oh, I'm sure there will be a lot of news to catch up on.
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Yes, we will be announcing the winner of the custom knife. Can we try episode 400 thing giveaway by producer Nigel will be doing that probably in this one of the breaks, probably the second break. I don't know. We'll see how things go.
Yes, thank you very much, producer Nigel for making that available. Very excited about that. And the way this will work will be similar to previous drawings where we will announce the person who got drawn, then they have a little while to respond. And if they don't respond, we'll just have to do it again.
Yeah. We'll cross that bridge and become there. All right. All right.
We named the epi-gones. The great fork because it seems like there is a split in the road. Yes. This is something that a lot of people have noticed.
We've been talking about it for a while too. And it's sort of the right left paradigm, but it's also the divide and conquer. It's two wings of the same bird. It's yeah.
And a producer and friend of the show Gary and he just reminded us of a couple things. No, not Gary the robot. This is a full here. Gary the robot.
Set in his presence and shared a meal and stuff. So he has a bunch of blood Gary. And he reminded us of just some of the things going on with other truthers out there and talking about this sort of great reset versus great awakening concept. And it's sort of a duality that's being played out there and people are choosing sides.
And that's part of the scyop, you know, is to pick a side. And I think obviously the harvesting or the culling of people of our kind of thinking is the great awakening side and the rest of the people will go with the great reset side, you know, the people that are going along with the world health organization and the government and all the mainstream narratives. So it's something to keep in mind because we've always talked about the narrow road, you know, and just keeping things balanced, keeping things grounded. That's part of why we do this is to try to be as objective and grounded as possible, especially to the word of God, so that we're not flying off the handle with certain things, which you both you and I have asked what I'm going to be doing with various topics.
And we probably will be today when we talk about two headed just speculating. I have the kind of like a kind of like how I disagree, but I'm too head of turtle is in the news. It's my transition. Okay.
Well, okay. So kind of like this is Boston. I have a total found on Cape Cod. There's a picture there, a little cute thing, but also yes, two turtles growing out of the same turtle shell there.
And of course, this is happens in nature, you know? Yeah. And the final column fuses when they're twins, you know, but they fully don't separate in the womb, then you know, they can have these situations. The point isn't that this exists because surely, you know, over time there's been two headed turtles.
The point is why is in the news? What's the point of it being in the news? If they're not signaling the great work. Oh, okay.
Keep it in a room. Yes, we're keeping a level headed here, folks. They're not conspiracy theories. They're just observations.
Okay. Well, all right. Well, you got the turtle in China. Yeah, it's a reptilians, of course.
The reptilians. The turtles with water symbolizes order and the creation of the universe. The Mohawk people tell the world of a world turtle who carries the earth on her back. So the Earth is splitting basil.
It's moving in two different directions. Yes. In African, in African diasporters, you'll rub in folk tales as a trickster and a troublemaker. So yeah, there's a misdirection happening.
And in Kung Fu Panda, the master is a turtle, but a two-headed turtle referencing two masters. See, I told you, I knew you would pick up on the masters. Yeah. And you've got Mike Bennett's book, Two Masters and Two Gospels.
So Mike Bennett is the lizard pope. Yeah, you called it. I'm following you, John. That makes sense.
It is interesting. There is a couple of mentions of turtles in the Old Testament. Leviticus and numbers, it's kind of a sacrifice. And in number six, starting verse eight, says, all the days of his separation, he's holding unto the Lord, verse nine.
And if any man died very suddenly by him and he had defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing on the seventh day. He shall shave it. Verse 10. And on the eighth day, he shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the priest shall offer one or a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and make an atonement for him for that he's sinned by the dead and shall halo his head the same day.
I don't know, man. With this idea of a false Christ type of figure appearing and cleansing all of us, right? The ascension we're all being reset or awakened, whatever it is, it just seems like there's a theme, a pattern. Wow.
But I'm probably just crazy. Yeah. Well, if anybody's new to the show and they were looking for some simple news analysis, we got to save everything else. Makes sense.
All the stories make sense now because of this little setup for today. Uh huh. Yeah. You know who agrees with me that this moment is very important.
Show folks. Welcome. No, Jen Psaki. Yeah.
So, you know, fundamental change in our economy and he feels coming out of the pandemic is exactly the time to do that. And if we don't do it now, if we don't address the cost of childcare to go back to Josh's question earlier, if we don't address the climate crisis, if we don't ensure that universal pre-K is a reality now, we're not going to have the same opportunity to do it for some time. There you go. It's going to be a while before we get another opportunity like this.
Never let a, yeah. Yeah. Never let a good crisis go to waste. I also think it's interesting.
Um, you know, she comes out and says, Mr. Biden thinks, President Biden thinks that this is the moment. This is our one chance. Like, well, I mean, surely Mr.
Biden got this from Klaus Schwab. He's playing a music. He's up in a fixed opportunity. DC's.
I'll say we're going to do a new deal. Great. He said, yeah. Yeah.
Well, it is interesting. Again, going back to sort of the transparency, the tipping of the hands, the, uh, the sort of unmasking of how the elites are thinking about this moment that she basically just said we're going to use this crisis to forward and agenda. That's been that we've planned for very long and we won't get a chance for a very long time. Well, that's the thing is that at some point, there's some kind of people that have been called conspiracy theorists and a growing number of people through the last 20 years or so has seen the agenda.
They've read the documents. They know about it. They've watched documentaries and, you know, most people are aware of it at this point. So now the, I feel the elite.
You're like, we did it. We pulled off a pandemic. We do. Like it worked.
Everyone's shut down. You know, like the whole deal, I'm sure they're scrambling and saying like this, you know, lower levels, not the, not the, not the throne of Lucifer. He's probably just laughing at everybody. But, you know what I mean?
Like people in the lower ranks, they're all trying to position themselves and you look at world leaders all over the place, collectively all talking about climate change as the one thing, you know, they're all at war, space war, you know, territory, all this stuff, but they're all complicit to the whole agenda, 2030, UN clean energy, the change, you know, they're all complicit with that. So I don't know if I don't know if complicit is the right word. They're all on board and they all have a lot to gain. I'm sure compliant.
Yeah. But yeah, it is funny over especially over the past couple of years, the word conspiracy theorists being turned into equal to terrorist or white supremacist or something like that. And part of what would gain you that label of conspiracy theorists is saying they're going to use this pandemic to push forward some agendas of the elites. That's a very general, a very general description, right?
I'm not, I'm not getting into any specifics, but simply saying the governments of the world are using the pandemic to push forward larger globalized agendas. That will get you labeled as a conspiracy theorist. But Jen Psaki right here is saying President Biden is using the pandemic to push forward the global agenda. And she doesn't, well, she doesn't say it outright, but she is referring to agenda 2030, which is driven by climate change.
It's the reorganization of the economies, the global economies or the pancake economies, whatever the case may be. I mean, she's saying it without using the exact words, but this is the kind of crazy stuff that gets you kicked off of YouTube and Jen Psaki is saying, you know, national stock of me. Yeah. And to what you're saying, the great fork here, where part of that fork is the fork of people who hear Jen Psaki say that and agree and say, yes, this is our opportunity, this is our opportunity to change the world.
And then you have the other side. There's like, oh my gosh, yeah, my conspiracy theorist friend was right. Yeah, very fast. That's exactly what they've been talking about.
You're seeing a societal level, a very distinct line being drawn in the sand. You know, when it comes to people who really are all on board with this narrative and then you just think yourself like, wow, they really, I mean, they actually pulled it off to some degree like there's a large number of people who are just falling along with the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah.
But to be fair, you're right. You're right. You're 100% right. But you never expected them to not pull it off.
Yeah. It's just wild to be in this time. And now we're going to see all the now that the shake up has happened, we're going to see a lot of the musical chairs, you know, people trying to take the seat before the music stops again. So yeah, well, and you had the cycling of the old world order being cycled out.
Oh, of course, that's what I would put Francis Collins on that list. Francis Collins cycled out Bill Gates cycled out. BB Netanyahu cycled out. Well, basically, there's a number that's probably got some fingers on and it'll be interesting.
Bezos. Yeah. No, no, exactly. Great point.
Facebook being in the cross hairs. I think they have their hand in the world order. The same people are probably like, yeah, we knew it was going to get some heat, but we're going to live like it'll be a zombie that just keeps going. Sure.
Yeah. Yeah. That's not as straightforward of a comparison, but you know, that's part of the agenda is the cycling out of the old world order to create the new speaking of which cycling out the old world and with the new guns. It's time for the flipy update.
Do you want to drive the dog? I forgot about that. It is Wednesday, my dudes. Okay.
This is coming from the state news.com and this is coming from or the headline rather is MSU recycling center installs new robotics. Sorter adds more flexibility. Ooh, flexibility. The Michigan State University surplus store and recycling center installed a new robotics sorter last week, which allows the facility to categorize recyclables more efficiently in combat staffing shortages.
The sorter, which takes the form of a robotic arm, covering over the centers conveyor belt can sort up to 80 times items per second and upgrade from the 40 items a human sorter. Doubling the speed of humans. We got a new member of the family guns. Oh, and you know what?
I forgot to give the spiel for those who are new to the show. Flippy is our colloquial name for the disembodied robot arms that are taking our jobs and slaving our children and flirting with our spouses. We use talking about Flippy as a way to explore all the new fun and exciting ways that robots are taking over the world and just how there's nothing we can do about it. So the new member of the family is a, I don't know if there's a sortie, is sortie a name?
Yeah. I don't know. It's not great. Not as good as Flippy.
The article goes on. The addition was made possible by a slew of state grants, government funded robotic arms guns. This is how it starts, which covered about $180,000 of the $250,000 associated with purchasing and installing the sorter, quarter million bucks. This might be the most expensive robotic arm on earth, not in space, but on earth.
Everything director David Smith said that he came across the technology at an operators conference four years ago. He was impressed at the time, but didn't jump to install it. That mindset changed two years later when the plant had a safety issue involving an employee sorter. He loses a hand or something.
Yeah. What happened? Yeah. It must have been.
They don't go into it, but it's interesting because they say four years ago, he learned about it at a conference, of course, two years later, that would have put us pretty much at the beginning of the pandemic. So I was the, as the sentence goes, that mindset changed two years later. I'm like, Oh, yeah, when the pandemic hit names, you know, they couldn't do it. So, you know, there was a safety issue involving an employee sorter.
Oh, no, a poor man got sucked into the recycling machine or something. Smith and his team decided to pursue installing the robotics. They referenced it again without certain issues. Twice in a sentence.
It must have been really bad. I know. It's so maniacal. No name or just a rush over there.
We would like to keep the other apps from also. No. Yeah. You know.
That's so funny is they leave the, they leave it to the imagination. Because it wasn't that bad. It really goes to the worst case scenario. Yeah.
And they're just say it like, Oh, he, he, you know, even if it was like his arm got caught in a machine or something, it's a little, a little gruesome, but like that's, that's just the beginning of where the imagination takes this. Anyway, but we thought had we had this robot here. That's less people sorting material. Smith said, but we don't have injuries, but we want to keep it that way.
Definitely the guys, you know, and cheese. The upgrade came with additional benefits outside of safety. The sorter saves the center money as it can sort more items than a human sorter without having to be paid a wage. Robots are also more reliable.
Smith said, well, burn human burn. But robots are highly reliable. Smith said they don't call in sick and those kinds of things. The sorter is not one single machine.
It's a system of machines working together. A vision system is positioned in front of the sorter arm itself. This is essentially a camera that is preinstalled with over 2 million images, which it utilizes to identify what each recyclable that comes with in its lens is. Smith said that it can also be trained to identify containers that hasn't seen before.
He is currently trying to the machine to recognize empty juice containers from dining halls. He wrote the difference between this technology and a lot of other technologies. He was getting to learn coins like the human brain does. It said company.
I think he's repeating with the salesman. That line about they don't call in sick and those kinds of things. We've heard that multiple times as. Yeah.
Those are all sales pitches for these robotic arms. So he's just sort of repeating the sales pitch after being scanned by the vision system recyclables are then sent to a large case containing. Oh my gosh, they send to the recyclables into a large case. He was sucking to the machine, probably lost a couple things and he was talking to a cage.
He got in, put into the cage. Oh no. This cage contains the robotic arm. On one end of the one, one end of the arm is a suction system, which utilizes to grab items and dump them into the respective bin.
The sorter comes at the perfect time for the recycling center, higher labor costs and a staffing shortage in the wake of COVID-19 have left holes in their usual method of human sorting. The robotic sorter acts in the place of two employees. That's it. I've been able to hire fewer students.
That's it. I know. And this is interesting that goes back to the point that I've made in the past, which is these robots are not necessarily putting in danger large amounts of specialized skilled workers. It's the first job.
It's the students. It's the first job. It's the young people learning responsibility and the value of a dollar. Well, replacing those jobs with robots not only causes issues for the human economy and the job market, but it's slowly chipping away at the amount of young people who are having these formative job experiences, learning what hard work is, learning the value of the dollar, learning what having a job is like.
It's a right of... We don't have a lot of rights of passage in the US, but having a crappy job as a young person is the main right of passage. And if you think millennials... Gen Zers, listen up.
Us millennials were the first ones to be called useless. And we were the first ones with phones, the first ones with... You say we're going to be very easily accessible in the game. Serious reset in the world.
You stand on the shoulders of lazy giants, Gen Zers. But even you, dear Gen Z, are... You someday will learn, only in a matter of less than a decade, the older Gen Zers are going to be feeling the pain of the millennials as whatever generation alpha comes up. And not only are they not going to have jobs, the concept of a young person getting a job is going to be so foreign to generation alpha, that's your children, guns, your children.
They're not going to have jobs until they're 30 or something like that. You're selling a grump. No, I think it's important to point out that the millennial generation is the last generation who remembers a time before the internet. We are the last generation because things definitely were different before the internet.
I mean, it's the bottom line. There. Yeah. Listen to this.
Yeah, this is a long time point. Listen to the start of the robot. I don't think it's a long time point. Let me continue the quote.
I've been able to hire fewer students. Smith said he continues with the quote. We're going to keep it that way with the robot. Hopefully we're taking the place of a couple people.
We're going to keep it that way. Get the young people out of here. Get the students out of here. This guy hates...
He's really set about it. He's... He's Gen Z's... He probably had to pay him a fingers cotton machines all the time.
Causing... He's probably has to fill out a bunch of paper where he is over it. He is ready for the robots. Smith said that installing the new sorter was a bit of a gamble, but it has paid off with the flexibility and overall benefits it provides.
Quote, any time you introduce new technology, you're not 100% sure. Smith said, we're still going to learn it. This thing can sort any material. We can program it to sort it whatever we want.
A lot of flexibility. Unlike these stupid students that I have to deal with on a weekly basis. There you go. There's your Flippy update for the day.
I think there's an interesting tie in with Flippy coming into these recycling centers with the new climate change push that's been happening. The robots will save us. The government is very active in funding robots and factories and whatever government ties. I think we'll see a lot of that because the governments are the ones talking about the great reset and the build back better and the whole deal.
They got to kind of walk the walk too. That means replacing people with robots and factories and sorting machines and recycling centers. It's going to happen more. It's happening faster.
It's just going to continue. It's happening faster and faster. That's been the whole point of continuing with the Flippy update. It's been doing it for years.
It will be as a new scenario. It's a new episode where he's going to ban all motor gas type of stuff by 2024 and spend money. I think it's like 30 million to buy new equipment, new green equipment for the people who use that stuff. Lawn mowers.
It's not a good idea. It's not. It's just the extreme of something like this. Every level we'll see governments fund this type of thing in the next couple of years.
I have a clip and I have a clip and this is more of a visual. It's a real flesh and blood dog meaning an army of not even an army. Just a few of the spots walking dog robots and that's what there you go. It's a swagger.
A kill splash. You live in the future. You live in the dystopia. It is starting.
Yeah. For those who are just listening, it's a woman walking her dog and Boston Dynamics spot is walking by. And the real dog is a mixture between freaked out and very curious to meet these new friends. There's a woman is barely holding on.
I mean, this is this looks as it always a yeah. It's too. Right. Let's get into some new world order slash Build Back Better talk.
This is a business insider article and the headline is 3000 Amazon drivers could be owed a combined $191 million in compensation says a law from that one employee writes for Uber drivers. Yeah. So it is a lot of money. That's interesting because a lot of money is filed in the right claim on behalf of Amazon's fleet of delivery drivers and that 3000 drivers could each be owed an average of about $14,300 in compensation for each year they've delivered for the company as first reported by the BBC law firm, Le Day Lee Lee Day announced it had filed the claim on Wednesday.
Most Amazon drivers work for DSPs. That's a delivery service partners, meaning they are contracted workers rather than being direct employees of Amazon. The law firm argues drivers should be entitled to employee rights given the amount of control Amazon exerts over them. It said Amazon could owe its drivers as much as $191 million in total compensation.
Quote, the figure includes calculations of shortfalls of the national minimum wage. One of the issues that drivers encounter is that they have a lot of expenses and connection to their work. Le Day's solicitor Kate Robinson told insider Robinson said drivers rent vans are charged large amounts for minor vehicle damage and have spent lots of money on fuel, all of which effects take home pay. She said the $191 million calculation also took into account lack of holiday pay and employment contracts.
Robinson said the money drivers get the fuel. Yes, the money drive. I'm sorry. Robinson said the money drivers get for fuel quote is often not sufficient to cover actual fuel costs as drivers are expected to reattempt deliveries multiple times.
Amazon told insider that drivers receive money for fueling according to mileage calculations by the British Motor Association, the AA plus up to 10% as a buffer for unforeseen events, such as redelivers. The Amazon spokesperson told inside a quote, we're hugely proud of the drivers who work with our partners across the country getting our customers what they want, whenever they are quote, we are committed to ensuring these drivers are fairly compensated by the delivery companies they work with and are treated with respect. This is reflected by the positive feedback we hear from drivers every day. It goes on and on here.
I think the point here to the, you know, flippy update adjacent in this new world order build back better system. And it's just what it's better to just pay a $200 million for a fleet of drive, you know, self-driving cars that won't complain, won't complain about the gas, they won't sue. Yeah. Well, that's exactly the point.
Yeah. I mean, I think, I mean, Uber notoriously rips off their drivers. It's not a fun gig. It's a gig that allows for quick and fairly easy painless entry.
If you're really strapped and you need something to happen pretty quick for you financially. But as far as the long term thing, it's really proven to be a total rip off. And you know, the, the, the pandemic really showed this because Uber started clamping down even harder on their drivers during the pandemic. And number one, yeah, I hope that these drivers do gets what's owed to them.
But this is sort of another stepping stone in the inevitable autonomous driver takeover, you know, get your money while you can. Uber drivers, because it's, it's going out the door pretty soon. Yeah. And they can use a lot of this type of thinking.
The same kind of thinking is that boss from the recycling center and just to the drivers. Well, and for Uber and in particular, this is, it's these sorts of legal financial losses that compel investors to consent to executives making huge investments in risky technologies. And that's been the game plan for Uber all along. But yeah, I mean, again, it's, it's hard.
You can't, it's really hard to, you know, it's, it's a confusing situation. Because on one hand, you want these drivers to go what they want or get what they deserve, rather. And on the other hand, it's going to be used specifically to take away the jobs of these drivers and replace them with robots. But that's inevitable anyway.
So I hope these drivers, yeah, you know, can use this money and this opportunity to leverage a future in the robot apocalypse. Yeah. And that's sort of the, you bring up an important point, which is the investors, you know, they, they, their objectives separate the actual humans doing the work from what the most efficient is, you know, the most financially. And this is sorry.
No, no, go ahead. Turn around. This is exactly what ESG, you know, encourages in reality, but ESG in ideology is being presented as a way to protect human rights, to protect the interest of humans. That's how it's being presented to the public, but it is exactly ESG that is going to get these drivers to lose their opportunities.
Right. Again, I hope they can just get into something else that's more fulfilling and they enjoy more. But it's part of the double edged sword that is ESG and just the global build back better, great reset ideology of robots will bring us, will finally bring humans happiness and fulfillment by taking away their jobs and putting them all on government stipends. Yep.
So long the same lines here. You want to take the next one here? Yeah. I've been handling a small emergency, but I think I got it all figured out.
Yes. This next one, this is a little spooky. This is coming from NBC New York dot com, the headline, non toxic gas to be deployed in 100 plus New York City locations, including transit in bio attack readiness tests, done, done, New York City's response plans for a chemical or biological attack will be put to the test in the coming weeks as part of a federal preparedness study. The MTA says the Department of Homeland Security working alongside a team of researchers and city agencies will deploy a non toxic gas this month about at about 120 locations across the city, including transit.
Most of the locations will be above ground, including some parks. A number of below ground subway stations will also be included, though details on which ones weren't known. The test will be conducted in five separate days between October 18th and 29th. Strap hangers and anyone in the vicinity of testing operations are advised that the gas is non toxic and poses no health risk to the public.
The study simulates quote, the aerosol release of a biological agent in a densely populated urban environment. Quote, the study will track movement of non toxic material and the results from these tests will be used to learn more about the relationship between airflow in street level and underground environments that MTA set commuters can expect to see teams of researchers working at locations scattered across the city, both above ground and below. The study is part of an ongoing testing under the federal urban threat dispersion program. New York City has been tested before back in 2016 and have other major cities, including Washington, D.C.
and Boston. Never a good sign, gons, when they do a lot of these testings. I mean, for those who pay attention, you know, you've got the event 201 right before the pandemic, you've got almost, I mean, a suspiciously high number of mass shootings happen like days after a mass shooting drill. Yeah, or you drill or some kind of simulation happening nearby.
Right, simulation a block away or something. So let me be clear. I am not we are not claiming to, I don't know be what for warning of a near chemical attack on New York City. We're not trying to be alarmist in that way.
On one hand, these are probably good things to understand what they're studying, but it's always makes the public a little uneasy, especially if they're paying attention to the frequency of how often something happens very soon after one of these studies. Yes. And some of the history involved with something like this back in 2015 in November, Business Insider published this article titled, The Army Tested Germ Warfare on NYC Subway by Smashing Lightbulbs, Full of Bacteria. And great.
Yeah. So I'm going to talk about the first two lines from the article on June 6, 1966, June 6, 1966, a group of US Army scientists made their way into the 7th and 8th Avenue lines of the New York City subway, some carried air sampling machines and boxes and on belts, others carried light bulbs. The light bulbs were packed with about 175 grams of Bacillus subtillis bacteria, then known as Bacillus globi-guy approximately 87 trillion organisms in each. The plan was to shatter them and then use the sampling machine to see how they spread through the subway tunnels and trains.
This test was one of at least 239 experiments conducted by the military in a 20-year quote, term warfare testing program that went on from 1949 to 1969. And then later it says here that, uh, let's see, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Quote, during peak hours, these bacteria were dropped. If you can get trillions of bacteria into a light bulb and throw it on the tracks as a train pulls into a station, they'll get pulled through the air as the train leaves.
The Army came to that very conclusion, which is documented in a report titled A Study of the Vulnerability of Subway Passengers in New York City to covert attacks with a biological agent. And the scary results, the reports, conclusion is chilling. Next results show that a large portion of the working population in downtown New York City would be exposed to disease if one or more pathogenic agents were disseminated covertly in several subway lines at a period of peak traffic, which is kind of like duh. But they also link to the actual documents from the 70s, which is kind of interesting to always see.
It's an unclassified document based on some FOIA requests, the US Army activity in the US biological warfare programs. And I will drop these links on the in the show notes for everybody if they want to dig into some of the actual documentation from the Army doing this type of thing. The question is why bring it up again or why do it again? And what's the what's the And I could to not be completely alarmist.
I can see why they would want to do it, you know, every five years or so. It is curious how they don't mention what the non toxic thing is. My assumption would be it would be some sort of, you know, coronavirus, I was thinking like radioactive isotope or something. Yeah.
To see how that is so they can track it with gaggart counters and stuff like that. But I don't know what it is. But yeah, pretty interesting. I mean, there's also the effect that it will inevitably have of just freaking people out.
I know that you know, the scientists and stuff who knows what kind of outfits they'll be wearing and I this is kind of equipment. They'll be toting around maybe a robot or two, get some spot dogs walking around with them. If I if I can peer into the dark mind of the elite based on their the enemy as their leader and and guide, I can picture all this mask mandating happening for the pandemic of the COVID-19 thing. I can picture the elite justifying it saying we're doing new people of favor.
We're going to have a massive biological bio attack, you know, at some point, and the people where masks will survive, you know, the people that mock the mask shall all die from the death. They want to do us any favors, but it is. It's not a favor in the eyes of the people, but it's to them. They're thinking they're justifying it as like we're doing your favorite people believe us.
Yeah, sure. But I mean, also it is interesting how, you know, it'll be used once once the constant push to wear masks. I mean, we're already coming to a point where it's like, okay, I mean, the pandemic has been what it has been and where, you know, people are kind of starting to come out of it. I mean, even Jen Psaki is talking about we're coming out of the pandemic.
So what's the deal with the masks? I mean, are we just wearing these forever for the rest of our lives, even though the pandemic is over or what? Well, it's testing for how vulnerable New York City is to a, you know, biological attack at any moment. You should probably just keep wearing your mask in case something like that happens.
So, you know, give some justification for continuous mask wearing even as the pandemic subsides. Yeah. And if they want to make an example, they can. Well, I'm saying they could really want to release.
I'm not sure they got all kinds of stuff in the toolbox. It's just a matter of time, purpose, all that stuff. Okay. So you got anything else you want to say on this one?
No, speaking of masks, we should talk a little bit about COVID-19. The Corona thing. COVID-19! COVID-19!
COVID-19! We're on the back. A pandemic special. All right.
So we're going to start with the clip here of Howard Catan or Khatan, CEO of the International Council of Nurses and he had something interesting to say about this whole thing. And it's right on theme. Health care professionals have said to me, if you think COVID is bad when it comes to climate change you ain't seen nothing yet. It's the grandmother of all health threats.
COVID and climate change are compounding each other and they're adding pressures on already weak health systems and stuff. And it's why business as usual is not an option. And it's why now we need to truly have health at the center of all our policies, energy, transport, agriculture, water and food. Do you know this, the droning music?
Yeah. That's Bloomberg. Like, I don't know what's one of their little clips. Yeah, I don't know what they're going for.
That like it's very emotional. It's like, I don't know, it's strange, you know, it's kind of like, because they must know that there is half the population who watches this and says, wow, okay. I mean, they're just like Gen Saki, like all these politicians, world leaders, they're sort of just admitting that there's rolling out this bigger thing, the COVID compounding now it's climate again. And you know, the whole narrative there, even calling climate change the grandma of health threats.
Yeah, that is kind of weird. I didn't know climate change was the grand ma of health threats. What's the grandpa of health threats? Joe Biden.
That makes sense. So just kind of interesting that he would say that, but also the Bloomberg part, just in a production comment, you know, you're supposed to match music with kind of the mood. So I don't know, are they are they somber about it? Are they like, like, oh, look what is happening to the world?
We are headed down a direction where our world leaders must take great risk. You know, they see people as heroes or like, what is this? Exactly. Yeah.
I mean, your guess is as good as mine. I think I think that sounds right. Yeah, they're just trying to put some emotion behind what the guy is saying. You know, they can't just, you know, report the news.
They need to produce an emotional piece to help sway the feelings, the emotions of whoever's partaking of that. And I think I think the grandma thing might be part of that as well. Because, you know, of course, the the idiom of saying, you know, this is the mother of all threats. This is the mother of all, you know, the the progenator of threats, but the grandmother of all threats is got kind of like a grandma.
Yeah. We need to pay attention to grandma. Right. We can't just ignore grandma.
I know that that's the weird thing about the whole the whole concept of comparing that having that emotional NLP, neuro-linguistic programming, the triggers of relating to grandma with anything related to climate change is very strange. But it must be must have been done with something in mind. Yeah. Okay.
So here we got another clip of, oh, this is the whole Southwest CEO situation. And we didn't report on the Southwest thing when it was breaking the broke last Friday, I think, and then Monday, when people were talking about it. But this is CNBC. And the headline is Southwest CEOs as he never wanted a COVID vaccine mandate, but Biden forced his hand, which is a lot of political talking back and forth about how that actually works.
But I have a video clip here and he was on with, what's the guy's name? Jim Kramer, I think Jim Kramer in some squawk box show on CNBC. And he was talking to him. I have it's kind of a long clip.
It will stop along the way because there's some things that I noticed here. So first he's talking about how Southwest, so this is interviewing the CEO of Southwest Airlines. And he's talking about how he provides incentives and stuff for the jab. And then it goes on from there.
We're offering the equivalent of two days pay for them to turn in their vaccination card. That compensates them obviously for the time that it takes and any after effects from the vaccine. So it's an encouragement and not any kind of a stick, if you will. Gary, all the same.
The cancer, this is not Jim Kramer, by the way. It's like his co-host and he's kind of lays in. The question's getting a little more heated as time goes on, but he just noticed that when the CEO starts answering the question, you can hear the, not the gas, almost like a mock come out of this co-host here who asked the question. Insulations are being used by some to argue that this was a huge vaccine protest in the words of Donald Trump Jr.
on Twitter in the past 24 hours. I mean, how much can you push back on that? You say it was not an issue, but to what degree did it contribute to this problem at all? Zero.
I mean, again, we look at all of our employee. Did you hear that? He said, kind of interesting. You don't really see that, but I heard it and I thought, wow, this guy must not believe we said, because the question was how much did the protests have to do with the shutting down and the CEO says zero.
Zero. I mean, again, we look at all of our employee behaviors in terms of absenteeism, in terms of people volunteering to come in and pick up what's referred to as open time. And they're all very normal. The president of our pilot's union is going to be talking to the media, confirming all of that.
So I think people, again, that understand how airlines work. When you get behind, it just takes several days to catch up. And the fact that we're basically caught up yesterday and today supports the assertion that we're making here, but we were significantly set behind on Friday and it just takes several days to catch up. It's kind of a non-answer.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, I've read and listened to quite a number of analyses about the top of whatever this was. Yeah, whatever this was.
And, you know, I'm not intimately familiar on how like unions work and stuff, but there was an analysis that made sense to me. I mean, it was the only thing that sort of made the whole thing make sense was that, yeah, I mean, it was a pilot and air traffic control because air traffic control was a big part of this too. It wasn't just pilots, but that gets a little bit less play. Sort of strike or sick out or whatever to sort of protest the mandates.
But because it's all unionized, you can't quite call it a strike or a protest or stuff or anything like that because of just the tenuous and complicated legal structure and relationships between companies in the union. You know, for a union to come out and say, this is a strike. We are against the mandates. We are for them.
It's hard to brew for them. For them to take a stance on that, especially when unions can have sort of federal complications for going against a presidential mandate. You know, it's basically, it seems like it was a secret strike or a secret protest from pilots and air traffic control that they're just trying to deal with quietly behind the scenes without drawing too much attention to it. You know, it's interesting though, because it also, because it got politicized, you know, it mentions Donald Trump Jr.
picking up on it and calling it, you know, confirming that from within that it is an actual strike or a protest type of thing. It puts pressure on the traditionally understood legal infrastructure of unions and, you know, the workers and the their employers, the kind of legal stuff they got going on. And it could be all part of it too, where like the words need to be redefined now because part of the people are like, oh, it's a protest. These guys are stepping up and put the CEO has this out of like, nope, had nothing to do with the protest and get all these people riled up.
And what happens when people get riled up? Stuff changes. So, yeah. Well, it's also, I mean, an interesting aspect of it is that airline companies are very heavily subsidized by the federal government.
I mean, every airline relies on federal funding to just an enormous amount. They couldn't exist without the federal funding. So that makes it even more complicated with sort of gaining attention for anti, you know, vaccine federal mandates and stuff like that. Yeah.
This is a goes on here. This is Jim Kramer now, I believe who comes in and Jim, Jim, I haven't seen a good Jim Kramer clip in a while, or he just lays into him to Kelly here from Southwest. Pretty funny. I feel awful doing this, but I got to go back to June, two days, technical issues, 500 flights canceled.
I want to step back for a second. Your Southwest air. I frankly don't care that we're pops with Florida. Your Southwest air, you solve these two outages.
You have one. Again, you have one in June. Maybe South of my serena has to change its ways that can't be just shut down because of one Orlando. Maybe you shouldn't do that.
Maybe you need to go more hub and spoke. This is your plan. Your airline and everyone knows never, never, no cancellations, no problems. Back to the test, but labor, back to the test, but something's wrong.
It's Southwest air. I love that question. Just the question. That guy's so hard to understand and is so in our.
So grumpy. No, he leaves it with something's wrong with Southwest airline. That's how he leads into. He's calling BS.
Yeah, he's calling BS on this. Oh, he's so mad. I love it though. It's so good.
Okay. So everyone knows. Never. Never.
No cancellations. No problems. Back to the test, but something's wrong with Southwest air. Well, I think very fair criticism, Jim.
And so I was simply answering the question of what happened here over the weekend. You know, not whether we should have been better prepared or have done something differently. So we operate a linear route network. We don't have and spoke.
We're probably the largest airline in terms of seats offered in the state of Florida. Again, every single airport in the state of Florida was impacted by this. So it's, it's very unique. It's very unusual.
It wasn't anything that Southwest caused. If you go back to the June outage, that was, that was us. That was a technology outage. And those are, those are few and far between.
But it's been a rough summer and I'm not offering any excuses. Our customers didn't get their best from Southwest Airlines. It's not what we want. We definitely are, we definitely have some staffing challenges as well that we've talked about before.
So we have moderated our flight schedule and accelerated our hiring plans. So there were definitely steps underway to mitigate the issue. We were thinly staffed coming into the weekend and that certainly didn't help things as we were trying to recover. But quite well taken.
And you know, it's as usual, any company is a work in progress. And we've always got opportunities to improve. And you get no argument for me that this is not, not the kind of service that we want to offer from self. I can see why he's a CEO.
He does a good job of just kind of dodging it, it's like settle things down. Like, okay, not denying the problem, but not necessarily admitting some sort of incompetence. Right. And yeah, somebody in the chat was saying, I think it is important to point out that he did say that he wasn't really all for the mandates.
But he also said that I'd enforced my hand. And so that goes back to the money trail, you know, how everything works with airlines or not just the money trail, but the, the, you said subsidized, right? Yeah. Well, if they're funded, there's subsidization, they're funding.
They have to comply or as a CEO, he is fiduciarily obligated to comply because to not comply would cause problems for his shareholders. And that's his whole job is to protect the shareholders. So he literally had no choice then to quote unquote comply with the mandates. It's interesting because it's kind of the same relationship that advertisers have with content creators.
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, that's, that's exactly right. Yeah, as a, as a content creator, if you're, you are sort of, you become fiduciary, not, not legally, not technically in this one hold up in court, but you are something akin to fiduciarily responsible for your advertisers or else you get punished for it. Yeah.
Same thing with CEO and investors. Well, I got an interesting one here. I was actually going to bring this to last episode, but it didn't quite make it. But I think it's, it's an important thing to go over as we track the narratives about the filthy, unvaccinated animals and people who are affected by COVID in different ways.
This is coming from the San Francisco Chronicle.com and the headline is, here's what Bay Area Doctors say about how COVID affects the brain. Keep in mind, I think that's very, uh, apropos how they're specifically saying this is what Bay Area doctors say about COVID. Special group of doctors. Yes.
A certain breed. This is California doctor. They're saying, California doctors, but not just California doctors. This is Silicon Valley Bay Area, you know, center of the wheel, California doctors.
And reads like this, while driving recently, Cliff Morrison suddenly found himself lost in a forest. He pulled over, looked around and realized he was actually on a tree lined street half a mile from his home in the Oakland Hills heading to the post office. Morrison 70 did not have dementia. He had COVID-19.
Since his diagnosis in April, 2020, Morrison, a health care administrator has experienced a mysterious and mercifully brief loss of orientation four or five times, most recently around Labor Day and always near home. It no longer frightens the bajis is out of him. Now he's just curious. So are his doctors.
Quote, there are viruses that can cause cognitive issues and otherwise healthy people. And COVID is clearly one of them said Dr. Joanna Helmouth, a UCSF neurologist, a new study from Oxford University offers the worrisome suggestion that the coronavirus not only can shrink the brain, but also reduce quote gray matter thickness, damage tissue in areas associated with the sense of smell and cause more than 60 other long term changes to that essential organ. The study published August 18 has not yet been peer reviewed.
Oh, okay. That's a critical. Yes. Well, it's another example of the mainstream media picking and choosing which peer reviewed or which non peer reviewed scientific study is worth reporting on and which non peer reviewed study is conspiracy theory.
Yeah. Yeah, the used debunk if it's a nerd, if it's something against the narrative, they'll say, well, it's not even peer reviewed. But if it helps the narrative or, you know, it still speaks it. Yeah.
It's not peer reviewed, but don't worry. It's still important. Yeah. Like the more this picking and choosing from the mainstream.
But it's attracting attention because the researchers were able to compare hundreds of brain scans of the same people before and after COVID hit of the 785 participants, 401 tested positive for the coronavirus before the their second scan, giving researchers a unique opportunity to see how much how each brain may have changed as a result. 401 401 first episode 401. That's positive. Look at that.
Okay. Stricties. Yeah, we've actually mentioned the study before, but there's something in this article that is worth highlighting. Yeah.
Stretkingly, the changes occurred whether people had been hospitalized for COVID or had only had a mild case. Not sure why that's so striking, but okay. Quote, in the general population, it is normal to see some change in gray matter volume or thickness over time as people age. But the changes were larger than normal for those who had been infected with COVID-19.
Jessica Bernard, a cognitive neuroscientist at Texas A&M who was not involved with the study wrote in an essay reprinted last month in Scientific American. Want just to make a quick note, I would be very curious if this the actual study mentions anything about the spike protein, because we know the spike protein can cross the blood brain barrier. Right. And you know, of course, spike protein associated with the vaccine mechanism there.
I wonder if anybody's doing a study on whether the vaccine has a similar effect or not. Just curious. Bernard noted that the affected brain regions were quote, all linked to the olfactory bulb, which sends signals from the nose to the brain. It also connects to the temporal lobe home of the hippocampus, which is key to memory and cognition.
She and other scientists declined to draw conclusions from the preliminary study. But Bernard said other research has pointed to a link between a reduced sense of smell and Alzheimer's disease, making the new study that much more intriguing. Questions still outnumber answers. Researchers wonder if the damage is from the disease spreading elsewhere in the body or from the virus entering the brain, perhaps through the nose, from neuro inflammation caused by the infection or something else.
And can it be reversed? From 15% to 36% of COVID survivors report memory loss, cognitive deficits, or trouble concentrating, according to a Stanford University analysis of 13 studies published in May in the American Medical Association's JAMA Network Open Publication. Other viruses use an array of techniques to wreak havoc on the brain. Rabies and polio enter brain cells and attack from within, said UCSF neurologist Dr.
Samuel Pleasure. Shingles and herpes simplex are more devious, hibernating like a bear until severe stress wakes them up often years later. HIV uses yet another ruthless approach better understood as people lived longer with that disease, in which the virus enters the brain and lingers, torturing its victims slowly over time. Quote HIV gets in the brain and stays in, Helmouth said, but it's very hard to find COVID in the brain.
So what's going on? A 30 year old Connecticut man provides one clue. Oh, we've got a clue guns. His story, co-written by pleasure of UCSF was posted in August within days of getting a fever and a COVID diagnosis.
The man came to believe a religious rapture was imminent and thought he was speaking with dead relatives. He kicked down a door. He shoved his mother. He was hospitalized, but discharged after doctors found no reason for his sudden psychosis.
He was back in less than two weeks. His face, oh my gosh, sorry, my IVR thing sent me off into the mountains. He was back in less than two weeks. His face expressionless and his speech and thinking dulled.