The HBO documentary THE SWAMP (2020) follows three "maverick" Republican congressmen who seek to fulfil Donald Trump's promise to "drain the swamp," even if that means alienating their party leaders. But what you really need to know about this documentary is that the main one is Matt Gaetz, and he is a huge doofus. PLUS: thoughts on Canada Day, Alex Gibney's Agents of Chaos, and a look back at the media coverage of the War in Iraq.

Michael and Us

#248 - Enemy at the Gaetz

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue the discussion surrounding the 9/11 attacks and examine what’s been gained and  what’s been lost after 20 years of research, promotion, and legal actions

In our first half hour we are joined by the Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth president and CEO Roland Angle to discuss the results for their group, and talk about efforts to defray and disqualify the campaign for truth. In our second half hour, film maker and podcaster James Corbett  reflects on his views about the state of the movement and how it guides us to respond to crimes threatening a new generation of 'conspiracy theorists.'

From 9/11 truth to  COVID truth. Victories and Failures Twenty Years Later

This  week on the Global Research News Hour, on the 20th anniversary of the launching of the war on Afghanistan, we will probe the dynamics of the relationship between the US and Afghanistan, and the look ahead to what it will mean in the larger cold war with Russia and China..
Our first guest Retired Professor of Geography John Ryan will speak about his visit there in 1978, how the Islamic extremist threat  was actually manufactured by the US and how the recent withdrawal of US forces was a result of their 20 year occupation. Next we’ll hear from international economist Professor Rodrique Tremblay about the failure of the US mission and the consequences for the recent Democratic president who ended it. Finally, Professor Michel Chossudovsky comes on to the show explaining that the withdrawal of US soldiers is not the fundamental defeat it appears to be.

Defeat or Victory? The War on Afghanistan (2001-2021)

Robbie Martin joined Whitney for an important discussion about the 20th anniversary of the 2001 anthrax attacks. 

This is the audio only version of a video originally broadcast on 10/15/21. Video can be found at the following links:
https://rokfin.com/stream/9994/20-Years-After-Anthrax-with-Robbie-Martin
https://odysee.com/@UnlimitedHangout:a/20-Years-After-Anthrax-with-Robbie-Martin:7
https://superu.net/video/990fc720-d777-4071-9cf2-f7cfe6af1bdb/
https://vimeo.com/633536269

20 Years After Anthrax With Robbie Martin

Gregory Copley returns to discuss Africa and how the continent is largely rudderless, as it is no longer receptive to the West, and China has retreated as BRI has run out of cash. Coup season is back in Africa, as there is no downside for a putschist staging a coup nowadays (e.g. Guinea, Sudan). Conflicts center around territory, population, and resources (e.g. water). We also discuss the recent Algeria-Morocco conflict and the rumors of war as Algeria shut off a gas pipeline for the first time in 25 years. The same people who ran U.S. policy to break up Yugoslavia are doing it again in Ethiopia, using up what little is left of U.S. prestigious to create disaster. Mr. Copley gives an update on the US-China "New Total War" and why China cannot afford to go to war under any circumstances. Meanwhile, the U.S was given the Central Asian region on a plate and threw it away. He was recently in Uzbekistan talking to the highest levels of government, who are harboring great anger towards Washington. He believes re-unification of Taiwan with China is a "fiction" and that Taiwanese defensive capabilities are growing faster than Beijing's offensive capabilities. He discusses unrestricted or hybrid warfare, the "global mass psychosis" and wave of panic which began in 2020, and the rise of tyranny in the West. He cites former Czech President Václav Klaus, who told him personally, that we didn't get rid of the Soviet Union to create another one, which is what is happening in the EU, U.S., Canada, Australia, etc.

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Books
The New Total War in the 21st Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic https://strategicstudies.org/ISSA%20Store.htm#!/The-New-Total-War-of-the-21st-Century-PDF-ebook/p/206749218/category=0
Sovereignty in the 21st Century and the Crisis for Identity, Cultures, Nation-States, and Civilizations https://strategicstudies.org/ISSA%20Store.htm#!/Sovereignty-in-the-21st-Century/p/199304045/category=0

About Gregory Copley
Historian, industrialist, philosopher, author and strategic analyst Gregory R. Copley has for a half century worked at the highest levels with various governments around the world to help create a global strategic environment which would reduce conflict and promote economic well-being and international stability.

He is the author or co-author of 35 books, including, Art of Victory; UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Crisis; and Sovereignty in the 21st Century and the Crisis for Identity, Cultures, Nation-States, and Civilizations. He has also authored thousands of intelligence and policy reports.

He is the Editor-in-Chief and founder (in 1972) of the Defense & Foreign Affairs group of publications, the basis for the International Strategic Studies Association. He is currently President of the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), the global non-governmental organization (NGO) for senior professional officials involved worldwide in the formulation of national and international strategic policy. And he was the founder, in 1999, of the Global Information System (GIS), an on-line, encrypted-access core strategic intelligence database and system for use by governments worldwide. He is also Dean of the ISSA’s worldwide College of Fellows.

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Gregory Copley: Coup Season In Africa, China Can't Go To War, West Becoming Soviet Union #235

John Klyczek discusses the roots of the modern-day technocratic system of education. Beginning with its Prussian origins in Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory for psychological research, the Order of Skull and Bones, John Dewey, and John B. Watson, these systems are geared toward a collectivist model of workforce training and stimulus response psychology. Later on, UNESCO through Julian Huxley seeks to integrate the idea of eugenics into the education system. Through the decades buzzwords like "life-long learning" appear, which in reality refers to continual institutional re-training to keep up with the evolution of the global economy. He believes we are already under world government. He discusses how the purpose of the vaccine mandate in education is to really create the pretext for a blockchain Digital ID which then expands to a Social Credit System. He explains how the shocking real purpose of the politically correct "woke" movement is to categorize everybody to make it easier for the AI machine learning to data mine us. Given the current environment, he sees homeschooling as the best option.

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About John Klyczek
John Klyczek has an MA in English and has taught college rhetoric and research argumentation for over eight years. His literary scholarship concentrates on the history of global eugenics and Aldous Huxley’s dystopic novel, Brave New World.

He is the author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education (TrineDay Books); and he is a contributor to Unlimited Hangout, New Politics, the Centre for Research on Globalization, OpEdNews, the Intrepid Report, the Dissident Voice, Blacklisted News, the Activist Post, Counter Markets, News With Views, The Saker, Rense News, Natural Blaze, DavidIcke.com, and Natural News. His work has also appeared on What Really Happened and the SGT Report.

In addition, Klyczek has been interviewed on several popular radio shows and podcasts reaching tens of thousands of listeners on international broadcasts, such as the Conspiracy Farm, hosted by UFC hall-of-famer Pat Miletich; the Opperman Report, hosted by private investigator Ed Opperman; the Richie Allen Show; and Gareth Icke's Big Mouth podcast on David Icke's Ickonic Alternative Media.

Klyczek is also the Director of Writing and Editing at Black Freighter Productions (BFP) Books. He holds a black belt in classical tae kwon do, and he is a certified kickboxing instructor under the international Muay Thai Boxing Association.

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John Klyczek: The Great Reset in Education & Our Trans-Eugenic Techno-Fascist Re-engineering #239

Moscow-based Riley Waggaman gives us his take on why Russia is going full COVID1984. He considers the COVID19 phenomenon to basically be: a positive PCR Test, huge data manipulation, and medical malpractice. The general mood toward coronavirus restrictions in Russia is that the people are so "over" it, but the government continues to aggressively shove these soul-raping measures down everyone's throat. The federal government wants to institute a national digital health pass for all aspects of life. A lot of the elements of the Russian government are totally on board with the WEF, 4IR, and transhumanism. He points out the example of Veronika Skvortsova who plays a key role in Russia's pandemic response and is on a Gates committee. All of the conflicts between the West and Russia are fights over oil pipelines and whose oligarch gets to pump oil and where. Is an allegedly sovereign Russia-China multipolar world a system that will support freedom of movement or basic human rights? No. Russians have been able to weaponize social media and force the Duma to delay QR Code and vaccine mandate legislation, but Riley thinks the legislation will eventually soon be passed. Covid is just one of many tricks in the bag and things have the potential to get really bad, he doesn't think it's going to work out well for a lot of us. He thinks the "Cyber Pandemic" is totally coming.

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Show Notes
Moscow 2030 https://2030.mos.ru/en
Cops hunt down Russians who politely asked Putin to stop nationwide QR-tagging https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russian-cops-begin-hunting-down-feral
In 2019, Russia studied how to create "a new type of society" using genome editing https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/in-2019-russia-studied-how-to-create
A Bill Gates disciple in the Russian government? https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/a-bill-gates-disciple-in-the-russian
What awaits Russia? https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/what-awaits-russia
Duma deputy: "Protect yourself and Russia from a coup d'état!" https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/duma-deputy-protect-yourself-and

Websites
Edward Slavsquat Substack https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/RileyWaggaman
Anti-Empire https://anti-empire.com

About Riley Waggaman
Edward Slavsquat is a moniker sometimes used by Riley Waggaman, an American writer and journalist based in Moscow. He contributes to Anti-Empire and Russian Faith, and previously worked for Press TV, RT and Russia Insider.

You can follow him on Twitter here. Email: riley (dot) waggaman (at) gmail.com

This humble internet destination will primarily chronicle what is happening inside COVID Russia.

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Riley Waggaman: Why is Russia Going Full COVID1984? #241

On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery have been convicted of murder in a major victory for the struggle against racism, but at the same time the Rittenhouse verdict reveals a grave danger. They also discuss the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID due to global vaccine apartheid, efforts to rig the U.S. electoral map, the historic victory of the left in the Honduran presidential election, and more.

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Two Verdicts: Racist Violence & American Capitalism

Steve St. Angelo of the SRSrocco Report returns to continue our conversation on how the world is going off the Energy Cliff and how we are never going back to normal. We are seeing the peak and decline of this global hi-tech complex economy. He believes the elite are powerless to stop the falling Energy Return On Investment (EROI) and that a lot of their wealth is going to be wiped out, just as in past history (e.g. late Bronze Age). He sees us hitting the energy peak at 2025 and the likelihood of military conflicts as a consequence. Russia is looking to the Arctic and China is in serious trouble. We don't have enough energy to make the transition to the Green Economy and therefore things like the metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and EVs won't be possible at scale due to the lack of energy and an electric grid already at capacity. This would make maintaining a global digital technocracy difficult.

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Show Notes
A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization https://www.amazon.com/Forest-Journey-Role-Development-Civilization/dp/0393026671

Website
SRSrocco Report https://srsroccoreport.com
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/SRSroccoReport
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About Steve St. Angelo
Independent researcher Steve St. Angelo (SRSrocco) started to invest in precious metals in 2002. Later on in 2008, he began researching areas of the gold and silver market that, curiously, the majority of the precious metal analyst community have left unexplored. These areas include how energy and the falling EROI – Energy Returned On Invested – stand to impact the mining industry, precious metals, paper assets, and the overall economy.

Steve considers studying the impacts of EROI one of the most important aspects of his energy research. For the past several years, he has written scholarly articles in some of the top precious metals and financial websites.

You can find many of Steve’s articles on noteworthy sites, such as GoldSeek-SilverSeek, Market Oracle, Financial Sense, GoldSilver.com, SilverDoctors, TFMetals Report, Outsiderclub, SGTreport, BrotherJohnF, Hartgeld, Der-klare-blick, PeakProsperity, SilverStrategies, DollarCollapse, FurtureMoneyTrends, Sharpspixley, FinancialSurvivalNetwork, Pmbull, Deviantinvestor, PmBug, Wealthwire, and ZeroHedge.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Steve St. Angelo: There Won't Be Enough Energy for the Elite's Great Reset & Metaverse #243

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are returning to the question of the COVID crisis as we examine the situation through an original and under appreciated  lens. For the bulk of the hour we talk to Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, the CEO of the Institute for Pure and Appled Knowledge who has conducted peer reviewed analysis  related to the COVID vaccine and is here to relate that it is far more dangerous to human health than most of the media is willing to broadcast.

“We are in Deep trouble!” Following the Science behind the COVID Catastrophe

Jay Dyer discusses the dystopia we find ourselves in and what he calls the "business phase" of the Great Reset. The elite's overall plan of the last century is being rolled out through managed and staged crises. The initial phases of the global government technocracy arose out of the UN's plans for managing nukes. Elites such as Jacques Attali call it a "planetary empire" of computer dominance. He sees it possible that all nations are on board with the long-term Great Reset agenda, yet that there can exist near-term regional conflicts and wars that can break out. What we can expect next are more of the Cyber Polygon type scenarios. He examines some of the Enlightenment occult and revolutionary philosophies that underpin America and how it eventually became the global implementer of the New World Order. We also discuss whether Bitcoin is a globalist Trojan Horse or a genuine cypherpunk creation.

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Show Notes
Rockefeller Lockstep 2010 https://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Rockefeller%20Foundation.pdf
Human Augmentation – Dawn of a New Paradigm https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a-new-paradigm
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2
Lord Birkenhead's Cosmopolitan forecast https://www.scribd.com/document/36111515/Save-This-for-Your-Children-s-Children-Cosmopolitan-Magazine-Feb-1929

Websites
Jay's Analysis https://jaysanalysis.com
Rokfin https://rokfin.com/jaydyer
Twitter https://twitter.com/Jay_D007
Telegram https://t.me/jaydyer

About Jay Dyer
Jay Dyer is an author, comedian and TV presenter known for his deep analysis of Hollywood, geopolitics, and culture. His graduate work focused on psychological warfare and film and he is the author of two books, Esoteric Hollywood 1 & 2 and the co-creator and co-host of the television show Hollywood Decoded. He has been featured on numerous popular shows and podcasts and in debates with some of the world’s top debaters.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Jay Dyer: Elite's Plans of the Last Century Are Being Rolled Out #245

The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast conducts interviews with prominent international experts on a wide-range of topics.

Past guests have included diplomats, government officials, whistleblowers, soldiers, spies, economists, academics, scientists, wealthy investors, dissidents, journalists, and musicians.

The broadcast seeks to gain insight from guests who come from the left, right, and beyond. It should go without saying that the host does not always agree with beliefs espoused by podcast invitees, but maintains an open mind, and believes it important to respectfully listen to a multitude of voices and let listeners come to their own conclusions.

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