3-15-25 The Weekend Hour 3: Tidbits You May Have Missed This Week (or things the media wants you to ignore)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting life from Denver, Colorado. You're listening to the Weekend
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(00:21):
Brown USA. So this hour there's you know, you can
listen to me during the week Monday through Friday from
six am to ten am on six thirty KHLW in Denver,
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(00:42):
it's the situation with Michael Brown. But whenever I get
to the Saturday program, of course there's stuff that occurs,
you know, Friday after I go off air, and then
there's all they're all the things that I didn't get
to during the week, and this hour is kind of
a pulpri of those things that you may have missed

(01:03):
or which I would say, maybe you didn't miss it,
maybe they didn't tell you. And some of them are
pretty sad, and some of them are kind of sad
and funny, and some are just plain funny. But did
you know that a judge a United Nations judge. I know,
I didn't know the youn had judges, but United Nations

(01:26):
judge claimed diplomatic community after she was being accused of
taking part in modern slavery. Now she's since been convicted
by a British court. But this woman, Lydia mcgomby, she's
forty nine years old. As I said to you, n judge,

(01:48):
she's actually been convicted in a British court for offensive
tied to modern slavery. The Thames Valley Police arrested her
at her residence. She was charged under what they call
the Modern Slavery Act. You know, let me just pause
for a moment and remind everybody that, you know, whenever,

(02:10):
whenever black lives matter, or for that matter, anybody in Congress,
Maxine Waters or anybody else starts screaming about reparations, ask
them what they would like to do about modern day slavery. Yeah,
whether it's the cartels that put women in children, or

(02:32):
for that matter, men into either sex slaves or working slaves,
or whatever it might be. But modern day slavery does exist.
Are we going to pay reparations for those? How about
we just eliminate slavery. How about we do that and
recognize that in this country we thought a civil war
to eliminate slavery, even past the constitutional amendment. But anyway,

(02:58):
this woman gets arrested somewhere near London, the Thames Valley,
charged under the modern slavery. Now, while she was getting arrested,
she claimed diplomatic community, saying that she's not a criminal
and that she had immunity because of her position as
a judge in her home country of Uganda. That did

(03:22):
you catch all of that? She's somehow a judge for
the United Nations, which is headquartered in New York, but
I know has offices all over the world. But she
claims diplomatic community while in the United Kingdom, stating that
she's can't be arrested because of her position as a

(03:46):
judge as a position of her judge as a judge
in her home country of Uganda. So she claims to
be what's called a U N judge, But she's a
citizen of Uganda. That's somehow living or for some reason
living in the United Kingdom working for an organization that's

(04:08):
headquartered in the United States. The charges against McCombe include
conspiracy to breach British immigration laws. Oh so she violated
those two, facilitating travel with an objective of exploitation. Oh
sounds like the cartels, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness

(04:30):
the slave. She was found guilty of forcing a young
woman to work for her as a domestic servant in
the UK. Upon arrival in Britain, the victim was compelled
to serve as a maid provide childcare, and then she
had restrictions placed on her freedom to choose her work.

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She could not control her identification documents. In other words,
this dirtbag sees this woman's passport or ID papers, and
so she didn't have any choice but to comply with
mcgobby's demands. Can you, I mean, how's this different from slavery,

(05:13):
say in the eighteen hundreds, when we would just we
I've said, I'm sorry because we didn't do that. But
when slave traders, when blacks would just pluck other blacks
out of some crap hole African country, put them on
a slave ship and take them to the United Kingdom

(05:35):
or to the colonies and just sell them into slavery.
Here we are, and it's and today I'm broadcasting live
on Saturday March fifteen, twenty twenty five, and the exact
same thing happened here. She plucks a woman out of Uganda,
a craphole African country, transports her to I assume, against

(06:00):
her will or under false pretenses of some sort. Oh yeah,
come with me, and you know you can live with me,
and you know we'll find you a job. And all
of this, I mean, I either way gets her to
the United Kingdom, takes away her passport, forces her into labor.
She can't leave the house. She has to do all
this domestic work. She's a maid. By the way, the

(06:21):
judge is black too. This woman is black, So it's
black and black slavery. You know, modern slavery. Modern slavery
has become a real significant problem in this country and
in the United Kingdom. There's a report back in twenty
twenty two that claim that the number of people victimized

(06:42):
by modern slavery is the highest since records began, highest
since records began. That story is over at Breitbart. He
says United Kingdom sees highest spike and alleged victims of
modern slavery since records began. The number of alleged victims

(07:02):
of modern slavery in the United Kingdom reported to authorities
in the country has hit an all time high, according
to the documents they've discovered. According to the data published
four thousand, one hundred and seventy one potential victims of
modern slavery, slavery were reported to the Home Office that's
like our Department of Full Land Security in the second
quarter of twenty twenty two, ranging from dates of April

(07:25):
one to June thirty. That is the highest quarterly number
recorded by the government ministry since it began its national
referral mechanism for modern slavery in two thousand and nine.
And here's an example of it. Simply unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
So unfortunately, I'm going to have to now arrest you
on suspicion of keeping somebody in slavery and servitude from
the Modern Slavery actude after saying thing. But it may
on your defense if you don't mention one question something
which led you on in court. Is anything you do
say maybe used as evidence.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Sorry, I am a judge in my country. I even
have the immunity. I am not a criminal. You've got
community in this country. Yes, I have a diplomatic fassport.
You're a diplomat, yes, so we'll need to say that.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Then yes, and then we need to speak to the
embassy if you are If you are a diplomat here.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
As a student, I don't need it to help from
I did come with half, she asked me, because she
has worked at my home before.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
She asked me.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh see, fascinating. Somebody got to go to the United
Nations and ask who is this woman, what she's doing
here and how did this happen. My daughter just happens
to be in Alaska right now visiting some family, and

(08:49):
I brought this to her attention, and I just as
a joke. She'll be fine. But what will the environmentalists do?
Because scientists are now issuing warnings about potential volcanic eruptions
at two sites, including one near Anchorage, the largest city
in Alaska, Mount Spur, about eighty miles west of the city.

(09:11):
It started starting to exhibit heightened volcanic gas emissions and
in early aerial surveys have documented all this increased activity. Meanwhile,
Mount Adams in Washington State is under even closer scrutiny
because it's been experiencing a series of minor earthquakes towards
the end of last year. It's a twelve thousand foot volcano.

(09:34):
It poses a significant risk because of potential for landslides
and mudslide, particularly for all the residents that are in
south central Washington. So think about that. What will the
environmentalists do? Then it's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Hang tight,
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(10:16):
down all five days of the weekday program. Let's give
you the weekend program, so now you get all the
Michael Brown you need. This story that seems to be
getting glossed over really bugs me. This is one of
the tidbitsiness. I think that the cabal is by by
old Mission and Commission trying to mislead you about. They
keep pushing this that there's going to be a demonstrational

(10:38):
and national mall and it's being organized by something called
the fourteenth Now organization, and the cabal describes it as
a veterans march. Now, if I tell you a veterans march,
what do you think of, Well, I think of old
World War II vets and wheelchairs being pushed down the
national mall. I think of you know, Vietnam, Corey, you know, Iraq, Afghanistan,

(11:02):
all of the you know, Syria, of what a you know,
all the different places of them being you know, walking
down the mall. That is veterans. But it's not a
veterans march at all. The organizer fourteenth Now, that's not
a veterans group. But that doesn't keep the cabal and

(11:23):
that was like Newsweek and others. I'm telling you, Oh,
but it is it is? Now, Why would they tell
you that when it's clearly not. Well, fourteenth Now is
a political group. It was started by someone by the
name of Jessica Denson. She worked on the twenty sixteen
Trump campaign. She was a political staffer. I'd say she

(11:44):
was way down the totem pole. She had a very
minor role, but she was able to parlay that role
into a media darling for the left, and she started
fundraising for her fourteenth Group, fourteenth Now Group. Now she's
not a veteran. She's actually a failed Hollywood actress who

(12:06):
was accused by her supervisor during the twenty sixteen Trump
campaign of being the one that leaked Trump's tax returns.
So since then she's been holding these small protests in
DC demanding that Congress use the fourteenth Amendment to keep

(12:27):
Trump out of office. Now, as I have previously said
on a bazillion shows, Trump was never convicted of insurrection,
which is a prerequisite for the use of the fourteenth Amendment,
and the United States Supreme Court has ruled that Trump
is not disqualified under that constitutional provision. Colorado, right here,

(12:49):
my stupid home state, is one of those states that
pursued that vacuous legal strategy. But simply what's being built
is the Veterans March. Not at all, she's not. Her
only connection to veterans that now DC March has is
that she and her organization are asking veterans to join them.

(13:11):
So at best, what Dinson and fourteenth now are doing
is just another political grift. It's kind of a bizarre
attempt that's stolen valor. I well, let me tell you
what I think. Whenever you see veterans marching in Washington,

(13:33):
for me anyway, or I see veterans getting off a
plane at Reagan National or Dulles and they're going into
the nation's capital, it really stirs something in me because
I think, particularly if they're the older guys, which now
includes not just the Vietnam guys, but the Korean guys
and the and the Vietnam guys. But I often think

(13:56):
at some point they're going to go to the memorials.
They're gonna look at the memorials. They're gonna look for
their buddies' names. They're gonna, like my dad did one time,
walk through the Korean Memorial and kind of wander off
by himself and relive those memories. Or they're gonna go
to the World War Two memorial. They're gonna do all

(14:17):
of these things, and then maybe they're gonna go see
some congressmen. Maybe they're gonna take a tour of the
White House. But they've come to the place that is
the seat of government that sent them off to war,
and so it's usually a pretty emotional thing for them,
and it's certainly an emotional thing for me anyway when
I see them. Well, the now DC organizing website they

(14:45):
use stop photos everything from King's March in Washington for
jobs and Freedom. They're doing everything they can to try
to portray themselves as this being a veteran's march. She's
even a voked evoked, I should say not invoked, she's
evoke the image of Marine Corps General Smedley Butler and
his Bonus Army and that march on Washington, d C.

(15:07):
What is that? Well, back in nineteen thirty two, Butler
led nearly fifty thousand, including twenty thousand World War One veterans,
in a march on Washington to demand service certificates be
paid out early because the Great Depression at that time
had left so many veterans out of work. Then, when

(15:28):
Congress adjourned and didn't take action on those demands, the
Bonus Army occupied the National Mall for over a month
until they were dispersed in the cavalry charge led by
none other than General Douglas MacArthur. But and I don't
know what the answer is. Why would the media continue

(15:50):
to claim that this is some sort of veterans March
when we know in fact that it is not, because
that's what the media does. Speaking of the media, Newsmax,
which is going public I think this week or next week,
has agreed to pay forty million dollars to Smartmatic, the

(16:10):
voting machine company. They've settled. This stems from a lawsuit
back in twenty twenty about the twenty twenty presidential election.
The settlement was revealed for the first time in regulatory
filings by Newsmax, who is wanting to go public. They
filed it last year, and the settlement revolve or resolves

(16:31):
claims that were made by Smartmatic, which accused Newsmas of
falsely reporting that its voting machines have been used to
manipulate e lecture results in favor of Sleepy Joe. The
agreement was finalized back in September. Smart Mattic is getting
a cash payment and some options so they can buy

(16:53):
stock in Newsmax now. So far, Newsmax is paid out
about twenty million dollars and the remainders do before July
and in the filing, Newsmax expressly states to the SEC
and potential investors the expectation that fulfilling the financial terms
of the settlement will stop all further legal costs, including

(17:14):
any potential appeals. Now, last year, Newsmax did admit in
a public statement as part of their settlement agreement that
the court declared allegations about Smartmatic's involvement in altering election
outcome to be false. It's not the first defamation case
faced by smart maattic one American News, same thing, Fox

(17:39):
News another one. Wow, it's never going to end. So
we came with Michael Brown. I'll be right back tonight.
Michael Brown joins me here.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
The former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
the Weekend with Michael Brown.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Hey, welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad
to have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in.
Be sure and follow me on X It's at Michael
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follow right now. So we have had a seemingly I'm
always a little hesitant, little reticent to talk about the
number of air traffic incidents primarily because anytime there's an

(18:27):
air traffic incident, it seems to get a lot of
media attention. And I understand why. For example, we had
a we had an American Airlines flight that departed yesterday
Friday for Colorado Springs, I mean from Colorado Springs to Dallas.
But on the way, not surely after takeoff from Colorada Springs,

(18:48):
the pilot declares an emergency. You can hear that. There's
all sorts of audio about it. He declares an emergency
may day and turns around and diverts back north to
Denver to land at Denver International Airport. And I assume
he went back to Denver because he knew that the
emergency facilities and obviously American Airlines might have equipment stuff there,

(19:11):
so it would be easier to get back there than
to land in Colorado Springs and then have a plane
where they got to move people to the plane, as
opposed to taking the plane where the people are. But
I digress. It's getting wall to wall coverage in Denver
because there was some sort of shaking going on, an
engine problem of some sort. They land safely taxi to

(19:34):
the gate, and as they pulled into the gate, and
come to a stop. The right engine blows up, I
mean literally blows up, boom, and of course JEDA spreads
out and starts to burn, and there's a fire and smoke,
and people start evacuating the plane. They start, you know,
going down the slides. Some are standing on the wing.

(19:57):
It's great visuals if you're in the news media, a
great vision. You had the plane, the jet crash in Philadelphia.
Obviously you had the Potomac River helicopter and the regional
jet crash. So all of these get a lot of
media attention. Bill. What bothers me about all of the
media attention is, without thinking or really analyzing it, people

(20:20):
jumped to, oh, it's because of DEI in the air
traffic control system and too many air traffic controllers are
diversity hires. I don't know whether that's true or not.
But here's what I do know. There have been so
many air traffic incidents lately near missus, things like what

(20:42):
happened in Denver, that fear of flying is actually pushing
down the ticket sale somewhat. But those that are investigating
why might want to follow up on a clue from
a decade ago. I want to entry produce you to
Shelton Snow. He's a real powerful figure in the National

(21:06):
Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees. You know that's the
that's the name of the of the union. I guess
it would be the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees. Well,
the Daily Mail. In a shocking audio clip, he can
be heard promising advance access to test answers. You'll hear

(21:32):
it in just a second. But he says at one point,
there's some valuable pieces of information that I have taken
a screenshot of and I'm going to send that to
you via email. I'm about ninety nine point ninety nine
percent sure that it is exactly how you need to
answer each question. This goes back eleven years. This insider

(21:56):
information was made available in twenty fourteen to African Americans, females,
and minority candidates, but whites were left out of the
loop in order to, in his words, minimize competition. Now,
if you're a if you're a dumbass that things that

(22:22):
race Trump's everything, including public safety, or if you are
a Democrat. But maybe I repeat myself. This message that
you're going to hear was recorded just weeks after the
Federal Aviation Administration announced the biggest hiring shakeup in its
history when Obama was president and they were pushing to quote,

(22:49):
widen the aperture for women and minorities. I give you,
mister Shelton, snow.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Busy time for me these past four days. I know
that each of you are eager, very eager to apply
for this job. Makeucy announcement, and trust after tonight you
will be able to do so. I am asking that
you give me another fifteen or sixteen hours, allow me
to go to work and come home provide you with

(23:21):
an email that will be extremely crucial in the opening
stages of this hiring process. There are some valuable pieces
of information that I have taken a screenshot of and
I'm going to send that to you via email. Trust
and believe it will be something that you will appreciate

(23:41):
to the utmost. Keep in mind, we are trying to
maximize your opportunities, and I'm doing the very best that
I can with the time that I'm given.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Today.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
When I get off at eleven o'clock, the first thing
that I'm going to do is I'm going to finish
out that ear. I'm going to send it to each
of you, and as you progress through the stages, refer
to those images so that you wouldn't know which icons
you should select.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Now, I have a good mind to send it to
one of my HR representatives first and give them the
opportunity to sign.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Off on it before you absolutely click it.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
But in the sake of time, I'm going to send
it directly to you, because I'm in the.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Sake of time, and because I'm afraid that my HR
rep may actually say, wait a minute, this is cheating.
You can't do this. So in the sake of time,
I think I'll just send it to you directly.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Abound ninety nine point nine to nine percent. Sure, that's
exactly how you need to answer each question. In order
to get through the first phase. People have been getting
rejection notices, and those rejection notices have been coming after
about twenty four to thirty six hours after clicking submit,
and I want to avoid that. So what we're going

(25:03):
to do is we're going to take our time, and
we're going to make sure that everything that we click
on and you're going to even have to go back
to your resume and make some changes because one of
our members and I have caught something, and we want
to go back and we want to fine.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Tune those details.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
And I guarantee that will give us the very best
feeling that we could ever get in applying for this job. VRS,
those that are receiving those that have perceived tenative offer letters,
if we want you to apply for this job anyway.
The messages came back saying, do not give the agency

(25:41):
and opportunity to say they never gave you one, So
apply for it anyway. For everyone else stand by to
stand by. Later on this evening, when I get home,
I'm going to finish those emails, and then I'm going
to go back to planning for the black IstoE much program.
And then I'm going to process all new members in
the rowans, and then I'm going to send out my

(26:03):
emails to the managers of the FAA Regional Headquarters and
thanking them for my visit, and then I'm going to
get back to handling some important business for the VRS.
I think we may have an opportunity VRS to do
something that others probably would find impossible. I found that

(26:27):
answer talking to people in HR. So give me an
opportunity to do what I need to do. This evening,
and I guarantee after that you will be able to
apply for this job.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Thanks a lot, God bless.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Now there you have it, draw your conclusion as you will.
I don't know. It's eleven years old, so I don't
know whether you can still draw a causal link between
that the DEEI activity back in twenty fourteen in which

(27:05):
Obama was specifically trying to expand women and minorities into
the air traffic control system or not. But it certainly
makes you pause and think, doesn't it. And it certainly
makes you realize that when anybody tells you that there
is no DEI hiring going on when it comes to
air traffic controllers, that the ATC system is all about

(27:28):
merit is all about meritocracy and making sure that we
have the very best people. That absolutely throws cold water
right there on the fire, or throws gas on the fire,
whichever metaphor you want to use. It's freaking unbelievable. Now

(27:48):
I've been trying to ascertain whether not this guy still
works for the FAA. I've been trying to asertain whether
or not he's still an air traffic controller or not.
But immaterial, the damage is done. DEI may or may
not and clire Frankly, I think in many these cases
DEI has nothing to do with some of these traffic accidents,

(28:10):
but nonetheless it shows how insidious DEI is and the
extent to which some people will go to cheat the
system and use whatever racial identities they can, whatever verticals
of identity politics that democrats think that you ought to
be put into that they will use to get into

(28:31):
a position of authority, power, work, whatever you want to
describe it, based on absolutely artificial means as opposed to merit.
That has to come to an end. It's the Weekend
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(28:53):
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The United States Senate, the world's greatest deliberative body, has

(30:00):
overwhelmingly passed something called the Halt Fentanyl Act of a
Senate Resolution three three one that law permanently designates fentanyl
related substances as Schedule one drugs in the Controlled Substances Act.
A total of eighty four Senators back the legislation is

(30:21):
sponsored by Bill Cassidy, of Republican Senator from Louisiana who
also happens to be a doctor. But I'm scratching my head.
Sixteen Democrats inexplicably voted against the measure. Now, I don't
know the reason for their opposition is either blind partisanship
like anything that Republicans have to be for we have

(30:43):
to be against, or it's an example of their embrace
of soft on crime policies. The Democrats that opposed the
final passage of this act also Brooke from Maryland, Blunt
or I'm sorry Blunt, Rochester from Delaware, Booker, of course

(31:05):
from New Jersey, Tammy Duckworth from Illinois, Ranho from Hawaii,
Ed Markey from Massachusetts, Merkley from Oregon, Murphy from Connecticut,
Padia from California, Sanders from Vermont, Adam shifty Shift from California,
Van Holland from Maryland, Warnock Crazy Guy from Georgia, Pocahontas

(31:25):
Warren from Massachusetts, Peter Welch from Vermont, and Ron Widen
from Oregon. That's the list of some of the most progressive,
soft on crime socialist Marxist in the entire United States Senate.
Now Senator Cassidy's bill now on his way to the

(31:47):
House of Representatives, and he'll probably pass with bipardon support there.
It upgrades punishment for so called fitnyl related substances and
aligns that to be parallel with the penalties apply to
FENTINL analogs, meaning the components now notably penalties for offenses

(32:07):
involving one hundred grams or more of fendal analogs carries
a minimum sentence of ten years in prison. The federal
mandatory minimum sentence is likely the reason why most of
the sixteen Democrats opposed the bill, although when you think
about some of those names, the influence of Chinese Communist

(32:28):
Party agents can't be fully discounted. Why would I even
allege that will Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical companies illicitly export
hundreds of kilograms of feedinal precursor chemicals to this country
every single month. In February, several executives with the Wuhan,

(32:49):
China based who buy Aox biotech company were indicted by
federal prosecutors for illegally importing fedal precursors into this country.
In October of last year, eight Chinese companies and their
employees were indicted for similar crimes in Florida. It is astonishing.
It shouldn't be, but it is astonishing to me that

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those sixteen Democrats would oppose this bill. Yesterday, I forget
what news outlet I was watching, but there was Pam
Bondi and some others talking about fentanyl and they had
a I think a kilogram or something. Whatever amount they
had was enough to kill ninety million Americans. Ninety million Americans.

(33:38):
Do you not understand what the Chinese Communist Party is doing.
They've got a part they've got a business relationship, they've
got a partnership, they've got a joint venture, if you will,
with the Mexican drug cartels. It basically says, we'll provide
you all the precursors you need to manufacture fentanyl. You
can go out into your lab somewhere in Mexico and

(33:59):
create eight fentanyl and then you just take it into
the US and just kill as many Americans as you
can make. Some of the pills where they're unsuspected, where
they look like, you know, a xanax, or they look
like a Clonaza pam, or they look like some of
the controlled substance that kids and teenagers or the you know,
housewives of Beverly Hills might go by because you know,
they just need to relax or whatever, and we can

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kill them. They're literally killing our people, and these sixteen
democrats will see none of it. Unbelievable to me. One
last story in this popoery that I think is interesting,
just to remind you of how good we have it.

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I've always wanted to go to Havana, Cuba before the
death of Raul Castro and they actually turn into a
capitalist country. I want to see the beautiful beaches, I
want to see the old cars. I want to see
Havana as it is now. But they've succumbed to communism.
So if you go, if you want to go with me,
we'll have to take our own electricity, as those who

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require government services may be required to do. This is
freaking hilarious. Cuban government offices in the city of Kubarian
were only receiving individuals who bring their own electricity in
the form of power generators amid Cuba's near endless blackout.
According to Madrid based outlet d'io de Cuba reporting this

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past week, Cuba's derelict power grid, which we're not far
behind if we don't wake up, has already forced Cubans
to live through daily, near endless blackouts in recent years,
completely collapsed several times towards the end of last year.
Now they're being propped up by Venezuela. But this goes

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well with the communist model of well let them meet ideology,
given that tens of millions of people have died of
starvation under communist regimes, you and I go to Cuba,
we might also want to bring a sack lunch. This
is such a great example of the perils of communism
that keeps getting shoved down our throats in this country.

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We don't even have to look over to Russia or
to China. We can just go to the Florida Keys
and look ninety miles to our south. Everybody, have a
great weekend. I'll see you next Saturday.