3-14-25 - 8am - No One Is Talking About Syria and Utah Fluoride

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael Michael, I just had a horrible experience. I put
my phone in the pocket and somehow it started this
podcast called the Kevin Newsom Show. I was like, what
did ka how get taken over?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
And finally I was.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Able to get back to the safety of the dumb assery,
away from the liberal madness.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, just to put it in perspective, you probably don't realize,
but you are actually better off than you could have
been because you could have stumbled onto the Michelle Obama podcast. Yes,
wonder how much she's getting to do that one. Let's

(00:46):
talk about theoria for a moment. If you want to
realize how serious the international situation is. The very fact
that the media is ignoring a lot of what's going
on in Syria ought to tell you that, because when

(01:07):
you think about the media, what do they do? Well,
if the cabal is pushing a story, you have to
ask yourself why are they pushing that story? What are
they trying to distract me from? And what is the
really big story that they don't talk about? And I

(01:30):
think Syria falls falls into that latter category. And don't
think that I'm pushing for US intervention here, It's just
it's a hot spot that if we don't manage it correctly,
could blow up, and this could be a trigger for

(01:51):
World War three. More than a thousand religious minorities in Syria. No,
I don't mean a thousand individuals. I mean there are
one thousand religious minorities in Syria. Do you talk about
a multicultural country. Do you talk about a I was

(02:11):
gonna say melting pot, but that's certainly not correct for Syria.
But you talk about a steu an absolute stew You
have one thousand religious minorities. Christians, Alowhites, the Jrus have
all been killed by government forces in recent days. Despite
the new ISIS affiliated leaders promises of religious tolerance, more

(02:34):
than thirteen hundred, thirteen hundred Syrians were killed in just
three days over a three day period, thirteen hundred. The
British based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that figure
is made up roughly of the following eight hundred and
thirty civilians, two hundred thirty one Syrian security forces, two

(02:58):
hundred and fifty Ala white militia members. Now in December,
the Sunni Muslim rebel group hts Heyat Tahar al Shaham
or something like that, it's led by this former Isis
al Kaeda terrace. Akman al Sharah toppled the long standing
Assad regime and but share doctor Asad ended up in

(03:22):
exile in Russia of all places. Now, I think it's
just be if you if you go down the path
of trying to understand or see or read listen to
whatever is going on. Let's let's establish a glossary. Let's
establish some definitions. You have Sunni Muslims. The Sunni Muslims

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worldwide are the most hard line sect of Islam, followed
by ISIS and al Qaeda. You have the Ala Whites.
Now they're part of the site branch of Islam, and
that's the group that Bashar al Assad belonged to. So
you got the Muslims all breaking into these little subcomponents.

(04:12):
You got the Drums now that interesting blends Islamic and
Greek philosophy with a bunch of other spiritual traditions, most
of which I don't frankly comprehend. And then you got
the Christians, and in Syria they're typically Greek Orthodox Christians.
So HTS the terrorist group. I'm just gonna refer to

(04:35):
them as HTS. It's hayat to hear al sham or
something to that effect. Here's what they say that the
newly minted rulers of Syria claim the violence erupted when
holdout members of the former Assad regime attacked them, so
in response, they began attacking the Alawite cities as the

(04:58):
Sunni leaders in that region began and calling for jihad
against the religious minorities. Now, according to almost all the
humanitarian groups that are trying to do whatever they try
are trying to do to you know, help refugees whatever.
In Syria. According to these groups, Christians, Allo whites and
others are literally being ethnically cleaned from the area. Entire

(05:21):
families being slaughtered. And you can gruesomely find online countless
videos of these brutal killings. And I do mean they're brutal,
you know, can I I am sort of footnote here
real quickly. That just reminded me I should need I
need to add this to my list of stories. Have

(05:42):
you heard the story about the murder chambers the h
If it was Auschwitz, we'd refer to them as the
ovens found in Jalisco in Mexico. Right. I forget which resort,
but right near the one of the resorts, like ninety
miles from one of these resorts, where much like the

(06:06):
concentration camps, Mexican officials have discovered, like you know, they've
stripped the Jews of their clothing, their jewelry, their shoes
and then send them into the chambers. Well, in this
place in Mexico they have found evidence of and it's
an aerial view of it shows that it's this isolated

(06:28):
building out in the middle of nowhere out on this
you know this the plains and different rooms inside and
then a major kill room children, women. I mean, who
knows the world is a really really evil place, and

(06:54):
we need to recognize and be aware of that evil
and quit being so naive. And the same is true
about Syria. So let's go back to these brutal killings
in Syria. According to first hand accounts, the government forces
started shooting everything. One man is hiding, identified as Abu Ali,

(07:16):
told reporters four young people, all civilians. They just killed
them and passed on just you know, boom boom, boom boom,
or with automatic weapons, just bully and move on. Now,
let's do a little thirty thousand foot let's do the
DC speak for a minute. All this comes as al

(07:38):
Charraw signed a temporary constitutional declaration guaranteeing women's rights and
freedom of expression. Huh. Now again, staying zoomed out for
a moment, Trump predicted this back in twenty sixteen. He
was running against Hillary Clinton and he criticized this country

(08:02):
for arming rebel fighters. Here's what he said. The problem
is the other side. We have no idea who they are.
They're probably Isis, but yet we give them weapons, we
give them ammunition, we give them everything. But maybe it's
worse than a SOD. I look at Asad, and a
SOD to me looks better than the other side. Well,

(08:28):
put another little chink in the army here, of Trump
was right. But although Trump was right in twenty sixteen,
what do we do now? Well, here's the UN. UN
steps in and the UN calls for some sort of
action to protect the religious minorities. And of course we
stood up in the State Department condemned the rading Islamic

(08:50):
terrafs who were killing carrying out the killings. But what
is it about Syria? What are we gonna do? How
to think about Syria? It's a lot more complicated than
anybody wants to believe it's a beautiful country. It's been
destroyed by decades of exploitation by the Assad regime and

(09:13):
its allies Russia, the Iranians. The Iranian back has below.
Since the late twenty ten when there was an uprising
against Assad, about a half a million, five hundred thousand
Syrians have been murdered. The Assad regime was so important
to the Iranians that rather than simply sacrificing that the

(09:37):
liability that was Assad, son of longtime Syrian tyrant Hafez
alissade Is Dad, And instead of sacrificing that liability and
installing a different leader and then aiming for some sort
of reconciliation, Tehran backed the sod to the very end,
with hundreds of thousands dead, millions of refugees, and heavy

(09:57):
cost the regime and all of its proxies, and it
ended up being the craphole country that it is right now.
And as I said, Asad now is another protection of
Vladimir Putin all with his stolen billions. He's a member
of the minority, all the white sector, about ten percent
of Syria. And it's an off suit of the Sunni

(10:18):
of Sheism and in in particular Sunnis. The vast majority
of Syrians are Sunni built. The country has a lot
of Muslim Kurdish, the Jewis minorities I mentioned, as well
as this now shrinking Christian minority, and of course there's
a handful of Jews. How did a sad lose power?

(10:39):
HTS again an affiliate of al Qaeda known as the
Noose Roths Front headed by a man known as Amant
Alsharrah but once known as Abu Muhammad al Jilani. Does
that sound familiar? It should, and a bunch of others militias.
They all marched on Damascus all at once, and then

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in December of last year, just a few months ago,
toppled the Assad regime. So the question today is whether
or not HTS and all these shock troops, all these
murderous thugs have truly moderated their extremists's lawless views. Well,
obviously I don't think they have. And of course the
question is whether or not this particular group headed by

(11:24):
this Yahoo it is al Chara, is that the proper
leader in which to respond or to put our hopes
for some sort of future for Syria. Those are the
players on the ground and in short, the reality in
Syria is deeply complex and it's really hard to understand.

(11:47):
There are even Syria experts who insist that al Charra
is the real deal. There are other Syrian experts to
make the case that HTS is merely a stepping stone
in Orta one in Turkey his plan to widen his
Muslim brotherhood empire. Let me remind you Turkey is a
member of NATO. The Israelis, how do they look at Syria. Well,

(12:13):
they're trying to create a DMZ in the northern part.
They're trying to create a DMZ, trying to keep has belaw.
They're trying to avoid what's going on in Lebanon by
just wiping out the has Be law and creating some
sort of buffer zone between them and Israel. They've labeled
the Syrian government as as actually being al Taieda. So

(12:38):
what happened, what's happened? There can be little doubt. There
is no doubt it's proven about the ethnic massacres going on.
But then the question is the question has to be
asked where the killer Syrian army forces that are now

(12:58):
loyal to al Sharah or were they freelancing or is
there even a difference, or does it even make any difference?
Were there dozens of provocations by Assad retreads? Are they
still in there trying to stir up stuff? Who attacked
and murdered and now government forces, Well that could be
was a retaliation justified? No, not in any way at all.

(13:20):
So here's the dilemma, just in terms of looking at
it analytically. Notwithstanding this strange nostalgia for Assad and that
is existing in certain Trump circles, the reality is that
the SAD always was the Iranian stooge in the Middle East,

(13:43):
and that gets to the real crux of the problem.
Iran is trying to recoup its access and territory inside
Syria and is paying and arming those who would restore
Iranian allies to power in Syria. Taran is simply defining
the reports of attacks on Christians and the all of whites,
and weirdly so is Israel how going to be possible?

(14:07):
In Israel and Aroun are on the same side. But
then on the other hand, if you exonerate al shar
in HTS, that's not an option. So there are all
these exaggerations everywhere, But there should be no doubt that
Syrian minorities have been targeted and that are brutally being
ethnically cleansed. If this is the new moderation in Syria,

(14:27):
then I don't know. We don't want anything to do
with that. And I think a lot of people, including
some within the Trump circle, would like to use the
killings in recent days, to rewrite by Shirosad's history. I
would like to use Assad's crimes to whitewash the new
governing authority hts you know, I find it and if

(14:50):
you just kind of a little footnote, Al Shara or
whatever name he goes by, was always dressed in traditional
Muslim guard. He always looked the part beard and everything

(15:11):
he put on a suit, he put on a suit
because he knew to play the international and for us,
the domestic media, he had to look the part of
a leader. He had to look the part, you know.
But Serisaun always walked around in a suit. He didn't
wear any sort of you know, religious guarb whatsoever. He

(15:32):
always wore a suit. And I just find it fascinating
at this point we're looking at a guy in a
suit who was actually al Qaida. The Altaia has morphed
into and understood that Hey, if we're going to really
take control of Syria and align ourselves with Tehran in
order to get or to fool the Americans, the Europeans

(15:55):
to fool, for that matter, even the Iranians, who they're
actually in cohoots with. We got to look the part.
I wish Syriah would just go away, but I know
that's that's stupid. I wish you go away from the headlines,
but that's not going to happen. It did while Asad
was doing his killing. While Asad was in charge, you

(16:19):
rarely heard about anything. Oh we heard about the you know,
using chemical weapons or German warfare or whatever he was
using to kill some of the courage. We of course
we heard about that, but otherwise there was nothing. But
somebody's gonna have to lead this country. So the challenge
is a little bit like the one posed by Gaza.
There are few decent candidates that I see anywhere or
read about anywhere, they could do that. That is why, maybe,

(16:45):
just maybe, and this is where we got to get
into some covert operations that the US government ought to
think about, Well, who should lead this nation? An absent
decent candidates are we then doomed to face the same
challenges and the threats they bring to Americans again and

(17:06):
again and again. Not calling for regime chain, but if
there was ever a time to work with Israeli and
prevent Altaieder from taking over again, no boots on the ground.
I'm talking about covert operations or whatever it takes to
put someone in there that might be halfway decent.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Michael, Of all the things that had been done to
try to appease Black Americans, the wrongs that they have
suffered over the years, the dumbest and most empty of
all happens to be capitalizing to be in black when
it's in print.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
How useless? Can you say that one more time?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Dragon, Michael, Of all the things that had been done
to appease Black Americans of the wrongs that they have
suffered over the years, the dumbest and most empty of
all happens to be capitalizing, to be in black when

(18:16):
it's in print.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
How useless? Well, it's all part of the progressive messaging.
It's all part of it. It's part and parcel, It
is inherent to the whole concept of identity politics. It
doesn't accomplish anything except what they wanted to accomplish, which

(18:40):
is further racial divide. And the racial divide is designed
to keep them in power, to keep their little constituent
groups all doing exactly the same thing that they want
them to do, which is march and lockstep with them.
The next story, I only tell you this story because

(19:06):
it just is speaking of keeping their groups in lockstep.
So the Vice President, Jed Vance and his family went
to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Now, just
a little background. You know that Trump took over as chairman,
and Trump named h I think maybe in Rick Grennell

(19:26):
or someone. Anyway he's named. He's named a new person
to take over and kind of revamped the Kennedy Center
and get it cleaned up. I mean, it's kind of
old and worn out, and it's just you know, it's
kind of got off the deep end. So anyway, a
bunch of dufices, a bunch of progressive Marxists, heckled the

(19:48):
Vice President and his family. He was attending a National
Symphony Orchestra concert. It was his first appearance at the
venue since Trump assumed control of it. So as Vans
and his wife Usha were settled into a box tier seat. So,
by the way, I've sat in those seats and it
was really very nice. A bunch of a bunch or

(20:11):
some I'll let you judge for yourself, greeted him with
booze lasting around thirty seconds. Now, there's a video that
captured the scene, and it shows Vance taking the incident
in stride, just waving to all those that gathered. They
stayed for the whole concert, despite the event starting about
twenty minutes late because of the heightened security. Last month,

(20:34):
Trump removed Kennedy Center board members that were appointed during
the Biden administration, and Trump's moves as chairman had been assertive,
aligning with his criticism of the Kennedy Center as being
overly woke. And he appointed Usha Vance, the Vice President's wife,

(20:56):
to the Kennedy Sender's board, and that aligned with true
strategic placements, including figures like Susie Wiles and Laura Ingram
and others. So Trump is strategically taking control of these
DC institutions and molding them to reflect himself. So the

(21:18):
door is open to the Presidential suite and in walks
the vice president and his wife. Now, let me make

(22:05):
something clear, I don't mind the Vice president being booed,
but having been in the Kennedy Center, I don't know,
maybe three or four times in my lifetime. It's it's
no different than going to any other orchestral concert or

(22:26):
you know, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. So
the orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra is is on the stage,
ready to play, and the audience looks to be I
would guess it's ninety percent occupied, maybe slightly less, but
it's certainly not half full, and it's not completely sold out,

(22:47):
so around maybe ninety percent. But as you watch the video,
you realize, well, one, not everybody's booing. Two, the orchestra
is about to start because the vice president doesn't come
in until it's time to start. And there are other
patrons who have paid good money to be there, and

(23:12):
you can see some of them in the video kind
of looking around at you know, the people behind them,
Oh you're booing, and looking around, Oh you're booing. That's
the Democrats. That's exactly how they act. So I don't know,
I just thought it kind of fit in with the

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whole Black Lives Matter thing and the whole identity politics.
This is how Democrats act, totally how they act. So
the make America healthy again. We got Madam, we got Maha.
Associated obviously with Bobby Kennedy Junior and back by, the
President has also scored several major victories at both the

(23:53):
state and federal levels. Utah is set to become the
first state in the United States to prohibbit fluoride in
public drinking water. Now, you may disagree or agree with it,
but whichever side you're on, at least it shows Oh,

(24:13):
he's really going to implement some of the things that
he believes in. Now, I believe in everything he believes in,
and I'm kind of ambivalent. I'm kind of agnostic about
the whole fluoride thing. I understand both sides of the argument,
but set that aside. At the federal level, the National

(24:35):
Institutes of Health the NIH is halting research into vaccine
hesitancy so that the CDC can investigate potential connections between
vaccines and the development of autism and children. Now, I'm
not taking a stance whatsoever on whether vaccines, whether or

(24:56):
not there's a causal link or there's just a correlation
or whatever between vaccines or even the number of vaccines
that we give newborns or young children and autism. It
may be or it may not be. Wouldn't you like
to know? Wouldn't you just like to know? Because maybe

(25:17):
we find out that it's not the vaccines themselves that
are causing autism. Maybe it's the fact that we juice
up a newborn baby with I don't know, thirty six
or five hundred different vaccines, and maybe we ought to
change the protocol for administering vaccines to children. But whatever

(25:37):
it is, the point is, we don't know, and there
was absolutely no interest by the NIH or the CBC
to at least say, you know, we keep hearing this,
and we have stats over here that show that X
and one hundred thousand kids in the nineteen sixty seventies, eighties, nineties,
two thousands ended up being artistic. And today we've reached

(26:02):
the point where X number of every one hundred thousand children,
and it's exponentially increased, has autism. Don't you think about it?
Just look Oh no, we don't want to touch that at all.
The point being he's breaking down that revolving door, that
capture of the regulators by the pharmaceutical companies and just

(26:26):
saying let's look into it, let's do some real science
and just find out I think. I think that's a
marvelous improvement. I don't care which way it turns out.
If it turns out that vaccines are perfectly fine, and
even the protocols for the number and the timing is fine,

(26:47):
then you go, what Now we have science to back it,
and we can put the rest of the issue or
one if we find out that either some of the
vaccines or all of the vaccines, or the protocol for
the numbers and timing of the vaccine, oh yes, we
found a causal link between that and autism. Wouldn't you,
as someone who maybe wants to have children in the future,
wouldn't you want to know that. The very fact that

(27:10):
we're now able to ask the question and actually have
the government do what its research job is, I say, halloljah.
Go back to floride for just a minute. So Spincer Cox,
who's the Republican governor of Utah, plans to sign legislation
sponsored by a representative ending the floridation of public drinking

(27:32):
water in the state affecting May seven. They would make
Utah the first state in the country to explicitly ban
public water floridation. Now, Hawaii currently does not require the practice,
and Hawaii leaves floridation policy up to local governments. Only
two counties in Utah currently floridate water. Nearly half of

(27:54):
the Beehive States population resides in those two counties, so
the MAHA movement has actively campaigned against water fluoridation. They
label fluoride as an industrial byproduct product that's linked to
various health issues, and Kennedy himself has referenced studies and
the court ruling that suggests that fluoride poses an unreasonable

(28:14):
risk and has requested an evaluation by the EPA. Meanwhile,
the NIH has halted funding for research into vaccine hesitancy.
Around forty grants dedicated to studying why Americans decline vaccination
are being cut. So the CDC is also investigating potential

(28:35):
connections between vaccines and these increasing autism rates, noting that
there was a study that found one in thirty six
children diagnosed with autism, up from one in ten thousand
in nineteen seventy. So I would say overall, the MAHA movement,
just like all the other cabinet secretaries, are starting to

(28:59):
rattle the chain. And again, you don't have to take
one side of the other, aren't you? Just curious about
what the answer is to the question.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Michael, I was listening to Thursday's podcast and you were
talking about how mad it is that federal judges are
in effect making personnel decisions for President Trump. How about
the Sorrows funded Judge Howell, Who's a federal judge who
blocked President Trump from revoking the security clearance of Perkin
co Llp law firms.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
And they're the ones who helped develop the Russia hopes.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Things like this can have potential national security implications, don't
you think.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Oh, Judge Beryl Howe of the DC Circuit is one
of the most progressive liberal judges around. Judge Howe has
some of the January sixth cases, the General Flynn case.
I mean, Judge Beryl Howe should not be on the bench.

(30:00):
He judges purely from an ideological He adjudicates cases I
believe on a purely ideological basis. Education Secretary Linda McMahon
met with speaking of how the cabinet is just going

(30:21):
full bore. So she met the Education Secretary. She met
with these D transitioners at the Department of Ed yesterday.
Yesterday just happened to be D trans Awareness Day. I
was not aware of that. The discussion that she had
focused on the influence the schools and educators and these

(30:42):
administrators all have on young kids and how it affects
and sometimes actually affirmatively convinces them to engage in irreversible
gender transition procedures. She said to the group. She said
to the press, I should say to be more act
it after the meeting. No teacher should attempt to persuade

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or course a student to undergo a gender transition. No
parents should be lied to or prevented from knowing what
is going on with their child's mental or physical health.
That's just speaking the truth. That's as it should be.
You know, let me put it this way, if your child,

(31:31):
I'd have the same problems if it were my child
had gender dysphoria or is you know, at the age
of two or four. You know, there's a SoundBite I
was going to play, but now maybe I'll do it anyway.
Dylan mulvaney talking about how when she was two she
told her parents when she was two that God had
made a mistake. I don't believe that for a New

(31:51):
York minute that she ever said that, but that's what
she's out there on the airwaves, claiming, in fact, yes, short,
I wasn't gonna do it. I'll want you hear it.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Anyway, she found her place in the world again and
decided to take readers on an in depth journey through
three hundred and sixty five days of becoming a girl,
as she puts it, a girl that began her journey
in a conservative Catholic household. She said that you came
out at four, What did you.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Say to your mom?

Speaker 6 (32:23):
I came to her and I said, I think I've
God made a mistake. He put a girl into a
boy's body. And she said, God doesn't make mistakes, And
in many ways, I still believe that to be true.
I don't think I'm a mistake, and I'm still finding
a version of a higher power for my life now.

(32:44):
I think a lot of the times, queer and trans
people feel alienated because there were having religion and faith
used against us.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Do you buy it. I've been around a lot of
four year old my grandchildren. I thought it was two,
but four. There's no universe in which I can imagine
any of my grandchildren, so that's limited. But then I've
also been around other people who have children who were
the age of four, and I just don't buy it.

(33:14):
But even if they did, that's a decision between parents
and the child, and doctors shouldn't push it. A teacher
shouldn't push it. Administrators shouldn't lie or lot, you know,
keep that change from parents. That's a parental issue, solely

(33:35):
a prontal issue. Good for Linda McMahon.