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In-depth and thought-provoking conversations with leaders, thinkers, artists, entrepreneurs and activists. Smart, original and interesting people…lovers of freedom and the American idea.

    It’s Time to Leave the WHO with Reggie Littlejohn and Meryl Nass

    It’s Time to Leave the WHO with Reggie Littlejohn and Meryl Nass

    At a meeting of the World Health Assembly at the end of May, less than three months from now, the World Health Organization (WHO) will be voting to amend its International Health Regulations agreement and to create a brand new Pandemic Agreement. 
    Until now the World Health Organization has been largely an advisory organization. If voted in, these changes would make its edicts compulsory.
    The proposed amendments replace the word “may” with “shall” over 100 times and the word “non-binding” has been deleted to make the recommendations of the WHO binding.
    The agreements authorize the Director-General to declare unilaterally a potential or actual “public health emergency of international concern” and the imposition and enforcement of sanctions on nations that don’t comply with WHO dictates.
    Some of the directives that the Director-General could issue to the 196 sovereign state members could include: quarantines, masks, mandatory testing, vaccination requirements, lockdowns, and border closures coupled with vaccine passports.
    This has the full support of the World Economic Forum, the European Union, the World Bank, Bill Gates, Big Pharma, the Chinese Communist Party and the Biden Administration.
    Their aim is to substitute “global governance” for the sovereignty of the U.S. and the 195 other state parties to the agreement, ultimately eroding most all of our personal medical freedoms.
     
    To explain the planned WHO power grab, and what we can do to prevent it, are two of the founders of the Sovereignty Coalition: 
    Dr. Meryl Nass, the founder of Door to Freedom, a physician and researcher who proved the world's largest anthrax epidemic was due to biological warfare. A leader in the fight for healthcare freedom, her license was suspended for prescribing COVID medications and “misinformation.”
    Reggie Littlejohn is the founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.  A graduate of Yale Law School and an experienced litigation attorney, she is an acclaimed international expert on China’s human rights offenses. 
     
    The proposed Pandemic Treaty establishes global surveillance requirements and commits governments to censor dissenting views “with the aim of countering and combating false, misleading misinformation or disinformation." 
    Struck from the IHR is the crucial guarantee of human rights as a foundation of public health: 
    “The implementation of these Regulations shall be with full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons…” has been replaced with “shall be based on the principles of equity, inclusivity, and coherence...”
    Worse, the agreements embraces a “One Health” approach which includes not only human health, but also the health of animals, agricultural plants and the environment.  The WHO essentially is claiming control over every aspect of existence on earth. The Director General could declare “climate change” as a “public health emergency of international concern.” 
     
    “The best thing is simply to get out of the WHO. Just say this is going in the wrong direction and we’re out. The WHO doesn't do anything for the United States,” advises Meryl. “How have we benefited from this organization?”
     
    This a huge issue that isn’t being covered in the so-called mainstream media. If you thought the nightmare of the last heavy handed response to the pandemic was over, think again. 
    Listen in and learn from two passionate and knowledgeable defenders of our healthcare freedoms. 

    • 51 min
    Ukraine: Has the US Lost Yet Another Proxy War? with Stephen Bryen

    Ukraine: Has the US Lost Yet Another Proxy War? with Stephen Bryen

    While Americans have become preoccupied with other things - the election, the border, the economy - events in Ukraine are spinning out of control. People have been talking hopefully about a ceasefire and a truce. Instead, with a couple of more blunders we could be heading for a World War III. 
    To learn where this might be headed next, I’m back talking in this episode with my go to guru on all things national security Stephen Bryen - Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy
    Some takeaways from our conversation: 
    The head of NATO Jen Soltenberg’s reckless statements and actions are escalating the situation in Ukraine and increasing the risk of a full-scale war. 
    The Biden Administration’s objective of regime change in Moscow has failed. Russia seems certain to prevail. At this point, they have few incentives to stop the fighting. 
    Ukraine has suffered massive casualties, perhaps up to 800,000  killed, and is on its third army. Ukraine President Zelensky is on the way out, we just don’t know how or when. 
    Sanctions against Russia haven’t worked. China has replaced the European Union as Russia’s top energy buyer and goods supplier, giving Russia both the cash and the manufactures it needs to sustain itself.
    Total trade between China and Russia has reached $240 billion in 2023, more than double what it was in 2018. Russia now has become China’s biggest supplier of crude oil, second for coal and third for natural gas.
    Stephen predicted that Victoria Nuland would be out as acting Deputy Secretary of State. She resigned this week. 
     


    The Biden administration aims to drag the war out as long as possible. Biden doesn't want Ukraine to collapse while he's running for president.
    Sending more money to Ukraine for ammunition and armaments doesn’t address its real issues: its lack of manpower and low morale.
    Finding a peaceful solution and stabilizing the situation in Ukraine should be our highest priority. Up to now, it hasn’t been.
    As always, Stephen provides a deep and informed take on events. Definitely worth a listen. 

    • 37 min
    Episode 263: Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness with Carrie Sheffield

    Episode 263: Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness with Carrie Sheffield

    In this episode Bill follows up from his last conversation with Carrie Sheffield to talk about her extraordinary memoir, which is being published this week:
    Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness. 
    As you’ll learn, the book is much more than her riveting and heartwrenching personal story. It is a beacon, reminding us that even the direst circumstances need not dictate the outcome of our lives.
    Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S. president. 
    His obsessions led Carrie, her mother and seven siblings to live as vagabonds, remaining on the move across the country, subsisting in sheds, tents, and motorhomes, enduring a dysfunctional drifter existence, camping out in their motorhome in Walmart parking lots. 
    She eventually seized control of her life, transcended her troubled past, and overcame her toxic inner voice (and a near death experience)—thanks to the power of forgiveness, cultivated through her conversion to Christianity. 
    She left the Mormon church when she 22, then went through a period she calls secular agnostic hell, became a Christian at age 35, transforming her life.
    She evolved from a scared and abused girl to a Harvard-educated professional with a passion for empowering others to reject the cycles of poverty, depression, and self-hatred.
    “I see my life in some ways as a microcosm of what's happening with the West,” she shares.
    “The West is committing suicide, rejecting all of our foundational Western principles, because the West has not been perfect. No society has.”
    “Destructive and alienating ideas like CRT and DEI have us throwing the baby out with the bath water. This is what I did when I became a secular agnostic because I was so angry at a flawed Judeo-Christian interpretation that had been forced on me by a toxic family environment.”
    Carrie Sheffield is a compelling young woman. Listen in to learn about her journey and its lessons for us.

    • 55 min
    Are you on a CIA or FBI list? with J. Michael Waller

    Are you on a CIA or FBI list? with J. Michael Waller

    Once upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America's criminals at home and enemies abroad. Now, at our great loss, they've become captured by the ideology and agenda of cultural Marxism. Moreover, as Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Mike Benz revealed, the national security state has evolved into a main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States.
    The CIA and the FBI, along with the rest of the intelligence community, have become essential players in a growing surveillance state, attacking its perceived political enemies and spying on ordinary American citizens, even parents who push back against the radical teachings of cultural Marxism in America's public schools. 
    These are serious charges, but they've been thoroughly documented in a revealing new book by J. Michael Waller Big Intel - How The CIA and the FBI went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains. He knows the terrain well. As the Senior Analyst at the Center for Security Policy he concentrates on propaganda, political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion. 
    Brilliant, fully documented yet easy to read. Explains how Cultural Marxism has permeated the CIA and FBI, damaging our country's strongest defenders. Big Intel names names and pulls no punches. It also shows the moral rot within the intelligence community from top to bottom.
    “What if you combined the dark, anti-human politics of the academic left with the unfettered power and impenetrable secrecy of the national security state? You’d have pretty much what we have now…Mike Waller explains how we got there.” -Tucker Carlson 

    • 59 min
    Last Warning to the West with Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell

    Last Warning to the West with Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell

    Hungary is a small country with less than 10 million people, landlocked in the middle of Europe. Seemingly irrelevant, it is hated by the woke globalists and it's the focus of angry smear campaigns against it and its president, Viktor Orbán. Yet at the same time, it's praised as a global leader for freedom and as a model of conservative values.
    So there must be a lot going on with Hungary that we should understand. I see it as a microcosm for the political and economic conflict in the greater world.
    So to dig into this, I'm back with Shea Bradley-Farrell, PhD, who is president of Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research and Education and is an expert in foreign policy, national security, and international development, and has also spent a great deal of time thinking about, studying, and traveling to Hungary.
    Why is Hungary such a target of the left yet so appreciated by the right?
    Listen in and Find Out:

    • 45 min
    Episode 260: How do we know what we think we know is true? with Jim Agresti

    Episode 260: How do we know what we think we know is true? with Jim Agresti

    In this age of fake news, disinformation, shadow banning and government agencies like CISA aiming to manipulate what it calls our “cognitive infrastructure” it is hard to answer this question. 

    To explore how we can go about finding what’s true and what is not,  Jim Agresti, the founder of Just Facts, returns to help clarify our thinking. 
    Just Facts is an institute dedicated to publishing facts about public policies and teaching research skills using exacting Standards of Credibility to determine what constitutes a fact and what does not. The vision of Just Facts is to equip people with facts “to make truly informed decisions. This means facts that accurately and fully convey reality—not pseudo-facts, half-truths, or talking points.”
    “Do you have the information you need to make quality decisions in your life and in the voting booth? You can rarely get the full picture of what something is about from an 800-word news article or commentary. You have to dig much deeper,” explains Jim.
    In this episode we talk about Just Facts exacting Standards of Credibility that is uses to produce research that is accurate and truly informative. Here’s a summary:
    Comprehensiveness: It’s a simple thing to distort reality by selecting only facts that align with partisan views while ignoring others. Half the truth can amount to a total lie.
    Primary Sources means identifying credible primary sources instead of secondary ones that often reflect an “interpretation” of the facts instead of the actual facts. 
    Rigorous Documentation means documenting facts far more thoroughly than academic standards require, footnoting every fact with creditable sources, and citing quotations or data exactly. Harvard’s Claudine Gay should have consulted with Jim. 
    Raw Data presents data in its rawest comprehensible form to safeguard against data corrupted by errors, rhetorical mischaracterizations, or statistical manipulation. 
    Verification uses different sources, methodologies, and calculations to double-check verifiable facts. If they’d done this, NASA wouldn’t have lost a Mars Climate Orbiter because they mixed up metric and English units when coding the mission software.
    Clarity means using language that is precise and unambiguous in order to minimize the potential for misinterpretation. 
    Balance: In this age of raging partisanship, almost no one does comprehensive accuracy or tries to balance views. Instead, sound bites are laced with rhetoric and misinformation, and opposing views given short shrift. 
    Of course, not everyone is interested in a disinterested discussion rooted in a dispassionate comparison of facts. 
    Vladimir Lenin - and most all on the Left who have followed him - said that “moral and factual considerations are irrelevant when it comes to how to sway the public most effectively. Our morality is entirely subordinated to our interest of advancing communism.”
    So the question we have to ask is: even if we know what’s factual and true does it matter in today’s world of raw power politics? 
    Listen in to decide for yourself. 

    • 45 min

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