March 9, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Targeting Americans with Havana Syndrome
- Pentagon & Anthropic fight continues
- Jesse Jackson's memorial service and the aftermath
- Oil rain & "pain at the pump"
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty so
an unbelievable and terrifying story in sixty minutes last night.
Is they've been covering this for a decade, the whole
(00:31):
Havana syndrome brain attack thing that we've been trying to
figure out for a very very long time. Here's one
guy describing what the attack was like when it happened
to him.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Very first incident occurred in August of twenty twenty, and
what it felt like was that someone punched me in
the throat and my left ear was clanked and I
started to get sharp shooting pains going down my left arm.
The third attack towards ender September, I was sitting in
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our living room and instantaneously all of the muscles within
my spine immediately cramped, much like a Charlie horse, and
my spine felt like it was on fire, so very
hot and sharp. The fifth one was by far the worst,
and that was early December, and I woke up with
a full body convulsion, the worst pain.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I have ever felt it felt like a vice.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Gripping my brainstem was there.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, that's one of many descriptions of how this affects you,
and it's a permanent effect. This guy was being attacked
not only at work originally, but then at his home
there in the DC area, and his wife was getting
it too, I guess because she was close enough to
him or whatever in their apartment. And they're still on
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medication and doing all kinds of rehab and everything like that.
To try to live anything like an enjoyable life pretty awful.
So we're going to go through these stories. It's people
describing what it's like to get attacked with this ray,
Where this ray came from, what we know about it
at this point. Here's a guy, former CIA dude who
for whatever reason, the CIA, it seems like, tried to
(02:15):
cover this up or pretended it wasn't happening or whatever.
Here's a little him on sixty minutes last night.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
There's a part of this Scott that has to do
with moral injury, and that's the idea of betrayal. You know,
I worked for twenty six years for the CIA. I
think I was involved in every COVID action program in
the Middle East. I did some very interesting things for
the US government, always with the idea that they would
have my back if I got jammed up. I just
needed to get medical care when I came back, and
they wouldn't even do that. So this moral injury, this
(02:42):
sense of betrayal, is so acute with me. That's something
that I can never forgive them for.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So I don't know if one of these clips is
going to get into that or not. But at one
point one of the guests said, we have to pretend
it didn't happen, or it is an announcement of an
act of war, because it's probably the Russians. It's the
announcement that they committed an act of war against US,
and it puts US in a rough political position. By
the way, this has gone on during the Biden administration
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and the Trump administration, so you can't lay it at
the foot of either party, really both. I mean, this guy,
a bunch of other guys went to the Biden White
House and told Joe Biden about it just two months
before he left office. He met a bunch of the people.
So it's been around for a long time. Why the
CIA tried to put a combination of things they said.
And again, maybe one of these clips is going to
get into it, but one it would be saying, yeah,
(03:34):
Russia committed an act of war against us and we've
ignored it. Or two, the CIA being locked into this
can't possibly be true. I mean, we've done all the research.
There's no such thing as this ability. These microwaves can't
travel that far, they can't do this sort of damage.
It can't be carried in the piece of equipment, can't
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be small enough that it's portable. It's just not possible, right,
they believe. So it's a little bit of we're the
experts here and this can't be true.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You know, that seems crazy unless you've dealt with the
government before. I've got to admit I had assumed all along,
and we've been on this story for years now. I'd
assumed that it was like getting tazed, that it's horrible
while it's happening. Then you're rattled for a while, but
then you're fine. But no, these people are saying it
causes serious long term damage.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well yeah, And one of the interesting things is it
seems to be people describe it in quite different ways.
Always horrific, yeah, but quite different ways, let's go with
that next clip. Then this is the same CIA dude
explaining his situation.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Mark Polymeropolis rose to an executive level at the CIA,
about the equivalent of a three star general. He was
awarded a top decoration for service in twenty seventeen. He
says he was overwhelmed in a hotel room in Moscow.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I woke up in the middle of the night. It
was a no I didn't hear any sound, but I
woke up with incredible vertigo. The room was spinning. I
had a blinding headache. I had tonight this ringing in
my ears, and I felt like I was going to
be physically sick. It was a terrifying feeling where I
lost control, you know, something that seriously happened to me,
And I remember feeling, you know that this is so unusual.
(05:23):
I've been shot at in places like a rock in Afghanistan.
I'd been in physical danger, but this was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, So let's skip ahead to where they talk about.
So a little bit of sixty minutes last night was
a recap of something they had last year that we
played lots of clips of in which our government bought
one of these from some underground Russians, and so then
we get to study the dang thing and see what
it was like and everything like that. And they kind
(05:52):
of recapped that on sixty minutes last night. But here
is a guy explaining how the Russians had been building
this for a while. Microwave radiation just.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
What doctor David Relman's investigations predicted. He wouldn't talk about
classified information in our interview, but his research found that
Russian scientists had been perfecting the concept for decades and.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What the Russians spoke about was the importance of the
energy being pulsed in order to have biological effects on humans.
When you produce pulses like this, you can actually stimulate
electrically active tissue like brain tissue and the heart for
that matter, mimicking what the brain normally does. But now
you're driving it with your pulses from the outside.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
An ideal stealth weapon.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Ideal ideal because literally the person feels as if this
is in my head.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has
been tested in a US military lab for more than
a year. Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent
with those seen in humans.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Wow, So sixty minutes kind of went back and forth
between just describing the horror of this weapon and the
fact that it exists on planet Earth and then the
cover up. Frankly, I'm not as interested in the cover
up part. It's horrific if we're not taking care of
these people, like booting them out and not taking care
of calling them liars, are acting like they're crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Or whatever, especially a guy ranked as high as the
one Chat I mean is safe.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That is awful. But I'm just interested in the fact
that this weapon exists on the planet. The Russians apparently
have it. We're trying to perfect it ourselves. Here's another
portion of the show in which they describe people being
attacked with this raygun.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
As a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos
have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos
are classified, but they were described to us. In one,
a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI
agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families.
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A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone
at the table grabs their head as if in pain.
Our sources say. Another video comes from a stairwell in
the US Embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a
secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs
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suddenly collapse.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Wow yeah wow.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
So let there be no further discussion of whether this
is real or not.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh, it's clearly real.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Did they get into at all whether we use this
in Venezuela?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No, no, no, they're still testimony. Listen, chickens or whatever.
Well wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Trump himself was referring to the discombobulator ray and there
are all sorts of accounts from Venezuelan's saying something came
over me. I couldn't even get up.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, there are two different things. That is the discombobular
one of them. They're talking about our ability to jam
their weapons systems. They weren't able to fire back at
our planes or all that sort of stuff. Everything when inoperative,
all the electronics. There's that piece of equipment. That's what
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Trump was referring to. The brain scrambler. I don't believe
has been admitted to, even though people there are some
reports of Venezuelan and saying that happened to them similar accounts. Yeah, well,
if we have the weapon and we've used it, I
don't imagine it's probably a good idea to talk about it.
I don't know where this falls under any terms of
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what's fair game or what's not. I think it's going
to end up going to have to end up being
in the classification of like chemical warfare, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Uh Yeah, yeah, it's so horrifying it is. I mean,
a bullet hitting you in the chest ain't a bargain either.
But yeah, this is extra horrifying for some reason.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, at least that guy would have to get, you know,
within a certain distance with a gun and have a
beat on you. With this thing. You can carry it
in a backpack. You can be hundreds of feet away.
It'll go through walls and cement and everything else. That
is just as horrifying as about anything could possibly be. Uh.
And so we got this you were you were talking
(10:29):
about we've gotten too smart for our own good, whether
it's this stuff or AI. We got this text. I
guess it's from a Tool song. I don't know the
group tool that. Well, silly monkeys give them thumbs, they
make a club to beat their brother down. That's from Tool,
I guess correct. The Russians have it, they perfected it.
We probably have it now, does China have it or
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they're gonna have it, or Rain is going to have it,
or just you know, random bad guys will have it,
and you can you discome populate the brain of the
person at the bank vault and go in and take money.
I just a horrifying, horrifying development.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Well, if we bought it from a Russian arms dealer,
maybe it was that Victor boot character or whatever before
he was in custody, although we had to trade him back.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right, we gave him back to get the get the
basketball player, didn't we? Oh? Lord?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Anyway, monsters like that are running around the world selling
whatever they can get their hands on, so yeah, God
knows what hands this will get into.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Just I found the story so disturbing. Again, I was
more disturbed by the presence of the weapon of its
existence on Earth than the cover up. The cover up
is bad too, and very complicated. Why are we covering
it up? Are there are there good reasons for covering
it up?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Well? Yeah, I could speculate. I think you hit on
some of the main ones. Yeah, so troubling. I just
thought just occurred to me. I was about to say
something that I say semi frequently, and I thought myself,
you know the h I gotta keep track.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I gotta have like a tote board.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
And the one hundredth time I say this, I'm going
to retire and never be seen again. And that is
good luck, y'all. I'll be in the woods if you
need me. The world ain't getting pertier.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
If Russia attacked our diplomats with this and ruined their brains,
why do you not treat it like an act of war?
Since it is an active war, why would you ignore it?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, maybe not ignore it, but keep it quiet because
you don't want a nuclear holocaust. So you might say,
once you had reasonable evidence that what happened to happen,
you would contact the Kremlin undercover and say, hey, we
know what you're doing. We will go aps. If you
do this again, we are on you. Don't do it again.
(12:52):
Try to limit the uh you know, the the uh
spreading of the hostilities.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Why hasn't Rush he used it in Ukraine? I haven't
earned reports out of Ukraine and people getting their brain scramble.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Because we told him don't do that, or we will
uh you know, I don't know, we'll unleash our disemboweler
Ray in Moscow and the streets will run with poop.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I don't know. I take that one. I can, I
can recover from that. But the scramble in your brain permanently,
that ain't any good. That's just awful. Oh my god,
any thoughts on that text line four one five two
nine five KFTC.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
President Trump said that he should be involved in choosing
Iran's next supreme leader. So congrats to new Supreme leader Anshola.
Jared Kushnaida's perfect.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So Jared Kushner and uh Whitkoff going to Israel tomorrow
to talk to BB in person and probably say, hey,
how about you don't blow up the oil refineries. I'm
guessing yeah, we're partners, but we're not in lockstep. Well,
Mark Calpern's predicting the big split between BB and Trump
(14:07):
coming this week. Oh really yeah, huh, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'd assume they could do men fences and figure out
a way to go forward together.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We'll see to me against Mark Calpern head to head.
You know how Trump can turn on the party is
you know, all of a sudden, you're the dumbest person
he's ever met. Or whatever.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Oh surely not bb net and Yahoo though, because he's
a super tough guy and Trump wants to be seen
with tough guys, and as a tough guy.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Trump's more popular than in Israel than beb is. Uh So,
speaking of the Pentagon and conflict, that sort of thing,
if I were to text Michael Boy that Jack's a
stupid piece of ass, and I actually texted you Jack,
(14:54):
and I said, oh, I'm sorry I texted that, that
would be fine. Right.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Well, I'm learning more about the conflict between the Pentagon
and Anthropic Old Dario Emodi. Uh So, we've been following
the whole Uh it's about laws and use, and the
Pentagon says we ought to be able to use AI
for any legal use, and Emody and Anthropic are saying, well, no,
you can't use it for mass surveillance or fully autonomous
(15:24):
killing machines. We won't have our technology used. And that's
that's a problem as a Pentagon supplier, and and it's
it's gotten out of hand. But what I had missed
was that somebody leaked a memo that Emodi sent the
Anthropic staff saying the administration is just targeting us. Because
I haven't given dic type dictator style praise to President Trump,
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and essentially because that's what he wants. And I get it.
I get what he's saying. But he also critici criticized
open ai. Who you may is great, right, who you
may remember agreed to Hey, we're good with the Pentagon,
blah blah blah. Allegedly, a Moti wrote that open ai
CEO Sam Altman was attempting to quote spin and gas
(16:10):
light by claiming to support anthropics position while hurrying to
sign its own pact. Quote it is working on some
Twitter morons, which doesn't matter, but my main worry is
how to make sure it doesn't work with open ai employees,
he wrote, due to selection effects, there's sort.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Of a gullible bunch.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So then this gets leaked and he says it was
a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for
the tone of the post. It does not reflect my
careful or considered views. I was also written six days
ago and is an out of date assessment of the
current situation.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
God, I've got a handful of texting the wrong people's
stories that still make me cringe. I need to stay
in the habit. Most of the time I do. I
always checking where it's going. But sometimes you get in
a conversation with two people and you're just responding back
and forth and you lose track. So dangerous, Oh so terrible,
I'd say, whoa so Jesse Jackson Junior not happy with
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the Democratic president's bad mouthing Trump at dad's funeral.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
They too armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
If I told you all earlier, when I was a kid,
I had a cleft palate or club foot. Note even
have laughed, but it's okay to laugh. Is stuttering. I'm
not being critical of you, but think about it. It's
the one place for people think you're stupid. Oh really,
I'm a lot smarter, most of me.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Why was Joe Biden talking about his stutter at Jesse
Jackson's memorial. I mean, I don't was there context for
that that made it make sense?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Don't know, don't care. Joe Biden rambling.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And think if he had run and be listen to
how old he sounds now, if he had run and
being re elected, he would just barely be a year
into this term.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
The topic that we're going to be addressing here over
the next several minutes. I we had decided to pass
on last week and let's just let it go because
there's way more to talk about than we can squeeze
into every show. But then Jesse Jackson was lying in state,
in South Carolina's home state, and the big giant gala
funeral was held or do you say gala over the weekend,
(18:22):
in which two.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ex presidents or three spoke? Well, you had Obama, Biden
and Hillary Clinton, who was right, yeah, very nearly the
president Bill Clinton spoke also you yeah, okay, yeah, I
couldn't remember if he had or not.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Anyway, so you got the president's speech of fine, we'll
give you a little sample of Barack Obama in which
he charmingly appropriates a special accent for his speech.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Every day you wake up to two things you just
didn't think we're possible. Each day, we're told by those
in ho office to fear.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Each other and to turn on each other, and that
some Americans count more than.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Others what and that some don't.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Even count at all.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't recall hearing that. Everywhere we see greed and
bigotry being celebrated, and bullying, holy irony and mockery masquerading
as strength. You were focusing on the words, which is
probably appropriate. I didn't hear the words. I only heard
the weird affectation. What was that? I've never heard him
sound like that before.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Eh, he's trying to sound extra extra southern, extra black.
Who knows, I don't know. It's bad switching with that.
It was ridiculous, That's what it was. Barack Obama. Although
I tell you what, the gulf between the political talent
of Joe Biden certainly at this point in Barack Obama's
like the gulf between me and Showe O Tani.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So we got even on the same We got to
do the headline because I think people listen to this
different that Jesse Jackson Junior very angry after his dad
memorial that these presidents came out and turned it into
a political take political shots at Trump thing. I exactly
where I was going. What the next clip? Right? But
you need to know that ahead of time to appreciate
what by what Obama just said?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
What are you up?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
They're talking about the past and what's going on now
in this country when you're there to memorialize Jesse Jackson.
I don't get it either. I would if I was
the son, I'd have been unhappy too. How about you
stick with what my dad accomplished and not take shots
at the current administration. What is that? Yeah? Wow, that's
it's an interesting take.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
And Jesse Junior, the convicted criminal, certainly has a right
to that opinion. Then criminal the idea that you get
to a civil rights leader's funeral and you don't go
into the whole pitch, that would seem weird to be honest,
Hum don't. I don't know where he's coming from, because
they all turn into that, and maybe they should. It's
about the message, not the corpse, per say. But anyway,
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here's Jesse's right. I'm sorry the dearly departed. That's probably
more delim I'm the funeral and say where's corpse? I
want to go check out the corpse?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
And I take your criticism, you know, in a manly fashion.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Anyway, here's Jesse Jackson Junior expressing his displeasure yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I listen, can you stop it? Miket Michael Hanson, executive producer.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Hanson pointed out that everybody's like standing in support of
what Jesse Jr. Is saying In Al Sharpton halfway through
starts to get a weird look on his face and
he sits down like I'm not done with this exactly,
So just.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Keep that visual in mind.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Yesterday I listened for several hours of three United States presidents.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Who do not know Jesse Jackson. Wow. He maintained a tense.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were
white or black, but the demands of our message, the
demands of speaking for the least of these, those who
were disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected, demanded not
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democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice
that at no point in time ever sold us out
as a people.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yesse, he hated Obama in short. Oh really, yeah, that's
what I've heard. Okay, I didn't know that. So you
got you heard what Obama said talking about you wake
up every single day and hear things you never thought
you'd ever hear. Biden claimed the Trump administration doesn't share
any of the values that we have, and god, Joe
Biden is just the worst? Yeah, or is he? Then?
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Kamala Harrison, because that it's a tough sentence to make work.
So they had comedy huh. She bragged that she predicted
a lot of what's happening right now. I told you
this was going to happen, So I let make sure
I don't get into any sort of territory where I
act like the Jackson family aren't scam artists who have
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been shaken corporations down around the country for decades. So
where this is going way? So is Jesse Junior only
unhappy because you had Democratic presidents come in and take
shots at the current Republican because he doesn't want their
organization to get pigeonholeds one of the other. Oh yeah,
I want to be able to shake down all of America.
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I don't want to be a Democratic thing or a
Republican thing. I want to be a both thing.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
I don't know that that's true, but I appreciate your shot.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I think that's what it is. So so here here's
the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Like I said, we're gonna I was gonna pass on
this because there's other more urgent stuff to talk about.
But watching the funeral and the lauding of the great
great man that Jesse Jackson is and the rest of it,
I'm like, no.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
All right, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I get the whole don't speak ill of the dead
for a little while thing. But seriously, if like a
I don't know, as Steve Jobs had invented the iPhone
then used it to scam old people for the rest
of his life, and you had a funeral where he said,
Steve Jobs, he invented this innovative product that everybody enjoyed
so much, and he was a real saint and enjoyed
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and I'm sorry, I'm trying to read while I.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Talk, and ignored.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
The rest of his life and what he did after
it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, if the
family wants to do that, okay, But if you have
US presidents in the media, including Fox News for instance,
just going along with oh he was a brave and
courageous civil rights leader. Yes he was. That's exactly what
he was. You're fools and liars. I don't appreciate it
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because and this was brilliantly put together by Rodreer and
the Free Press. Jesse was the architect of the modern
racist racial shakedown that we saw in Black Lives Matter
and the George Floyd thing. He invented that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So in.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
His chief organizational base was an operation he called Rainbow Push.
He had a couple of organizations that he put together,
Rainbow Coalition and Operation Push Anyway, which was based in Chicago.
I grew up there as acutely aware of this since
I was like a teenager and what they do and
how they did it, so anyway, But so in ninety seven,
Rainbow Push founded the Wall Street Project, a nonprofit initiative
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designed to promote inclusion of racial minorities and leading financial
firms and to fight economic apartheid in the elite financial
sectors blah blah blah. Jackson was a particularly important channel
for Wall Street elites to the Clinton White House. Jackson
started another nonprofit group, the Citizen Education Fund CEF, closely
aligned with Rainbow Bush. CEF generally handled Wall Street Project
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contributions anyway. So around this time, Jackson was separately involved
in a deal with Anheuser Busch, the giant brewery, which
he had targeted a couple of years earlier in a
high profile boycott campaign to shame it as racist. And
so he said, I'm gonna do this unless you sell
one of your incredibly lucrative Chicago distribution franchises to a
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group of investors led by his two sons, Yusuf and Jonathan,
so his whole We're gonna call you racist, Sandheuser Busch,
and all the black people in America are going to
stop drinking your products unless you sell a franchise to
my sons. The franchise brought in tens of millions of
dollars in annual revenue until Usuf Jackson sold in twenty
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thirteen for a mint, the Anheuser Busch deal classic Jesse operation.
His method was to accuse a business of racism, then
after bad press and further consultations, announced that the target
had agreed to Jackson's demands. With this usually came a
generous donation from that corporation to Rainbow Push. The real
money poured in when Jackson applied the strategy systematically to
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top investment banks and financial brokerages. Jackson's Wall Street Project
was in base by financial industry titans and named some names.
The Wall Street Project kicked off in nineteen ninety eight
by asking financial firms for a fifty thousand dollars contribution
to support its lobbying efforts, landing half a million dollars
in donations from Wall Street immediately, and.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I could see how if I was running a company,
I would have done that. Look, I hate this, it's ridiculous.
It's it's a shakedown. But we give them fifty thousand
dollars and we don't have to deal.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
With the whole mess. So let's get to a jack
and move on. It's like settling a nuisance lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Also that year, inexplicably, the federal housing lender Freddie Mack
contributed a million dollars to Rainbow Push, earmarking at least
some of it for the Wall Street Project purposes. Let's see,
here's some more good stuff. Uh key Jackson rolls leverages
Clinton administration connections and civil rights reputation on behalf of
corporations seeking federal approvals for mergers. For example, despite the
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opposition of lesser known civil rights organizations, Jackson back to
nineteen ninety eight merger of two banks, City Corp And Travelers.
Why would Jesse Jackson be in the middle of that,
after which City Corps sent a generous fifty thousand dollars
to the Citizen and Education Fund, and Travelers followed up
with one hundred thousand dollars gift on behalf of Rainbow Push. Inexplicably,
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Jackson came out against the promosed eighty one billion dollar
merger of telecommunications giants SBC and Ameritch, calling it anti democratic.
He had particular pull at the time with the FCC,
whose approval was necessary, so then Chairman Clinton appointee William
Kennard was the first black man that had the FCC
and was a close friend of Jackson's, once publicly calling
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Jackson his ear.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
A year later, the civil rights.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Leader was on the opposite side of the SBC Ameritech deal,
which sailed through FCC approval. Rainbow Push emerged five hundred
thousand dollars richer from donations from the two companies, having
changed his mind on the merger. Oh my, how interesting.
I got half a dozen more examples I remember. I
don't know if they cover this. I remember Toyota.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Aha.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
They at one point went to Toyota and said, look, I'm
going to say, you all are racists against black people
unless you make monstrous contributions to my foundations. And all
of a sudden they weren't the racists anymore. It's wonderful,
wonderfully cured them.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
One final note.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Nineteen eighty seven, Jackson joined a student protest at Stanford
University demanding an end to its mandatory Western Culture humanities course.
You need to end the humanities and studying the great
works of Western civilization. Hey, hey, ho ho, Western cultures
got to go. The protesters chanted, and they won with
Jesse Jackson's affectionate support. Again, I've got millions of dollars
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worth of examples, many more. Yeah, okay, maybe early on,
maybe early on, he was a sincere and energetic fighter
for civil rights. I'm sure it was God bless him
for that. During those years he became a scammer and
a blackmailer.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Pretty obviously, I thought, but not obvious enough for anybody
in the media to talk about it over the last
two weeks. End of screed. Whatever.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Yeah, I don't know if I heard it anywhere other
than here. Oh and I'm sorry I said this at
the outset, But the torch was passed to the Black
Lives Matter Scott Alicia Garza, Patrese Colors, Opal Tameti, founders
of Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, that's how they ranked in so much money. You
figured out pretty quickly that you knocked yourself against being
called racist by donating a certain amount of money thanks.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
To the George Floyd video and really no other reason,
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raised a staggering ninety
million dollars in donations from terrified corporations and foundations in
a single year, beggaring Jackson's lifetime honeypot.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Ninety million dollars.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Well and nay Man, as scammers go, they are all timers.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
They got some nice houses out of it though, cool college,
a lot of trips see American Dream. We got a
lot more on the way. Stay here, armstrong, he yeti.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
And over the weekend, the Israelis launched a series of
strikes against Iran's oil infrastructure on the outskirts of Tehran,
hitting four separate storage facilities. You could see black smoke
rising from the horizon in Tihran, people on the ground
even describing it as raining oil as these droplets that
were taking up into the air came back down from
the atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Americans already grappling with spiking prices at the pump. Gas
price is now.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Up almost fifty cents since the war in Iran began
with no end in sight.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, first of all, if you haven't seen those videos
out of Tehran, it looks like it's something from a movie.
You can't even hardly believe it's real, that orange sky
and flames and the oil coming down and everything like that.
Man oh man. The evening newscasts last night with their
pain at the pump, which a term they've been using
my whole life. I don't know why I have started
in the thirties, for all I know, pain at the
(32:21):
pipe and just always has been the dumbest journalism. Who
is that for?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
You?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Talk to one mo soccer mom, next re event? I
don't know. I got forty dollars with a gas and
hardly got anything. I can't believe what it costs to
fill my CARDIV Who was that for? That needs to
hear an individual describe their single situation like you haven't
grasped that on your own.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
I know who watches that and thinks, wow, that's a good.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Oh gas is higher, so yeah, it'll cost more to
fill up. You make a good point. Soccer mom or
an average d have less money other things, right, Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
It is the laziest, crappiest sort of cliche journalism.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Hey, people don't know what they like, but they like
what they know. Yeah, I play the hits, Give me
a weather forecast, give me pain at the pump line,
fifty cars long at Starbucks with people wanting to pay
nine dollars for a coffee drink. They shouldn't have complaining
about gas going them. I have never quite understood, though,
(33:32):
the fascination with gas prices over all other prices.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
But that's just the way people apparently are built. I
was looking to I mentioned this last week. I was
looking at a couple of things on Facebook Marketplace, which
I'd never really used that much in the past. Is
gonna get a different motorcycle? My son turned sixteen over
the weekend. I was gonna get something he's big enough
for us so we could go dirt bike riding and
that sort of stuff. I had five different deals fall
(33:56):
through on Facebook Marketplace with people just flaking just ft
it out, flaking out, yeah, just not responding and all
that sort of stuff. I was like, this is really
a drag. I don't know if it is there an
initial contact or yeah. I reach out and say hey,
I'm really interested in this, and then they get back
and say, oh cool, and then you know what kind
of time going to meet you? Two o'clock? Then they
(34:18):
just they aren't there or they don't get back to
you or whatever. And uh, I feel like that sort
of thing didn't used to happen to me really hardly
at all, with you know, going way back to classifieds
in the newspaper or even Craigslist. So I don't know
if we just have gotten flake ere as of.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
People I don't know, Well, yeah, I think so. I'm
reminded of a great piece of writing. I saw why
gen Z is unprepared for the workplace. And this is
not like a shaming boy. Young kids today are stupid type.
It's it's more like a doctor's diagnosis and advice for
companies on Okay, here's how you have to deal with this.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But it is.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
It is striking and troubling the extent to which interpersonal
interaction is a problem young people.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You think that's some of it. I've had a couple
of I've got the money in my pocket, I will
drive to you right now. What is going on here?
Just like no response? Wow?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Is it that they sell it? And I don't have
the courtesy to say, hey, it's sold.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
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Speaker 5 (35:23):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty so
an unbelievable and terrifying story in sixty minutes last night.
Is they've been covering this for a decade, the whole
(00:31):
Havana syndrome brain attack thing that we've been trying to
figure out for a very very long time. Here's one
guy describing what the attack was like when it happened
to him.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Very first incident occurred in August of twenty twenty, and
what it felt like was that someone punched me in
the throat and my left ear was clanked and I
started to get sharp shooting pains going down my left arm.
The third attack towards ender September, I was sitting in
(01:03):
our living room and instantaneously all of the muscles within
my spine immediately cramped, much like a Charlie horse, and
my spine felt like it was on fire, so very
hot and sharp. The fifth one was by far the worst,
and that was early December, and I woke up with
a full body convulsion, the worst pain.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I have ever felt it felt like a vice.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Gripping my brainstem was there.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, that's one of many descriptions of how this affects you,
and it's a permanent effect. This guy was being attacked
not only at work originally, but then at his home
there in the DC area, and his wife was getting
it too, I guess because she was close enough to
him or whatever in their apartment. And they're still on
(01:53):
medication and doing all kinds of rehab and everything like that.
To try to live anything like an enjoyable life pretty awful.
So we're going to go through these stories. It's people
describing what it's like to get attacked with this ray,
Where this ray came from, what we know about it
at this point. Here's a guy, former CIA dude who
for whatever reason, the CIA, it seems like, tried to
(02:15):
cover this up or pretended it wasn't happening or whatever.
Here's a little him on sixty minutes last night.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
There's a part of this Scott that has to do
with moral injury, and that's the idea of betrayal. You know,
I worked for twenty six years for the CIA. I
think I was involved in every COVID action program in
the Middle East. I did some very interesting things for
the US government, always with the idea that they would
have my back if I got jammed up. I just
needed to get medical care when I came back, and
they wouldn't even do that. So this moral injury, this
(02:42):
sense of betrayal, is so acute with me. That's something
that I can never forgive them for.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So I don't know if one of these clips is
going to get into that or not. But at one
point one of the guests said, we have to pretend
it didn't happen, or it is an announcement of an
act of war, because it's probably the Russians. It's the
announcement that they committed an act of war against US,
and it puts US in a rough political position. By
the way, this has gone on during the Biden administration
(03:11):
and the Trump administration, so you can't lay it at
the foot of either party, really both. I mean, this guy,
a bunch of other guys went to the Biden White
House and told Joe Biden about it just two months
before he left office. He met a bunch of the people.
So it's been around for a long time. Why the
CIA tried to put a combination of things they said.
And again, maybe one of these clips is going to
get into it, but one it would be saying, yeah,
(03:34):
Russia committed an act of war against us and we've
ignored it. Or two, the CIA being locked into this
can't possibly be true. I mean, we've done all the research.
There's no such thing as this ability. These microwaves can't
travel that far, they can't do this sort of damage.
It can't be carried in the piece of equipment, can't
(03:56):
be small enough that it's portable. It's just not possible, right,
they believe. So it's a little bit of we're the
experts here and this can't be true.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You know, that seems crazy unless you've dealt with the
government before. I've got to admit I had assumed all along,
and we've been on this story for years now. I'd
assumed that it was like getting tazed, that it's horrible
while it's happening. Then you're rattled for a while, but
then you're fine. But no, these people are saying it
causes serious long term damage.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well yeah, And one of the interesting things is it
seems to be people describe it in quite different ways.
Always horrific, yeah, but quite different ways, let's go with
that next clip. Then this is the same CIA dude
explaining his situation.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Mark Polymeropolis rose to an executive level at the CIA,
about the equivalent of a three star general. He was
awarded a top decoration for service in twenty seventeen. He
says he was overwhelmed in a hotel room in Moscow.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I woke up in the middle of the night. It
was a no I didn't hear any sound, but I
woke up with incredible vertigo. The room was spinning. I
had a blinding headache. I had tonight this ringing in
my ears, and I felt like I was going to
be physically sick. It was a terrifying feeling where I
lost control, you know, something that seriously happened to me,
And I remember feeling, you know that this is so unusual.
(05:23):
I've been shot at in places like a rock in Afghanistan.
I'd been in physical danger, but this was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, So let's skip ahead to where they talk about.
So a little bit of sixty minutes last night was
a recap of something they had last year that we
played lots of clips of in which our government bought
one of these from some underground Russians, and so then
we get to study the dang thing and see what
it was like and everything like that. And they kind
(05:52):
of recapped that on sixty minutes last night. But here
is a guy explaining how the Russians had been building
this for a while. Microwave radiation just.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
What doctor David Relman's investigations predicted. He wouldn't talk about
classified information in our interview, but his research found that
Russian scientists had been perfecting the concept for decades and.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What the Russians spoke about was the importance of the
energy being pulsed in order to have biological effects on humans.
When you produce pulses like this, you can actually stimulate
electrically active tissue like brain tissue and the heart for
that matter, mimicking what the brain normally does. But now
you're driving it with your pulses from the outside.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
An ideal stealth weapon.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Ideal ideal because literally the person feels as if this
is in my head.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has
been tested in a US military lab for more than
a year. Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent
with those seen in humans.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Wow, So sixty minutes kind of went back and forth
between just describing the horror of this weapon and the
fact that it exists on planet Earth and then the
cover up. Frankly, I'm not as interested in the cover
up part. It's horrific if we're not taking care of
these people, like booting them out and not taking care
of calling them liars, are acting like they're crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Or whatever, especially a guy ranked as high as the
one Chat I mean is safe.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That is awful. But I'm just interested in the fact
that this weapon exists on the planet. The Russians apparently
have it. We're trying to perfect it ourselves. Here's another
portion of the show in which they describe people being
attacked with this raygun.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
As a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos
have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos
are classified, but they were described to us. In one,
a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI
agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families.
(08:10):
A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone
at the table grabs their head as if in pain.
Our sources say. Another video comes from a stairwell in
the US Embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a
secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs
(08:32):
suddenly collapse.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Wow yeah wow.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
So let there be no further discussion of whether this
is real or not.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh, it's clearly real.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Did they get into at all whether we use this
in Venezuela?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No, no, no, they're still testimony. Listen, chickens or whatever.
Well wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Trump himself was referring to the discombobulator ray and there
are all sorts of accounts from Venezuelan's saying something came
over me. I couldn't even get up.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, there are two different things. That is the discombobular
one of them. They're talking about our ability to jam
their weapons systems. They weren't able to fire back at
our planes or all that sort of stuff. Everything when inoperative,
all the electronics. There's that piece of equipment. That's what
(09:25):
Trump was referring to. The brain scrambler. I don't believe
has been admitted to, even though people there are some
reports of Venezuelan and saying that happened to them similar accounts. Yeah, well,
if we have the weapon and we've used it, I
don't imagine it's probably a good idea to talk about it.
I don't know where this falls under any terms of
(09:46):
what's fair game or what's not. I think it's going
to end up going to have to end up being
in the classification of like chemical warfare, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Uh Yeah, yeah, it's so horrifying it is. I mean,
a bullet hitting you in the chest ain't a bargain either.
But yeah, this is extra horrifying for some reason.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, at least that guy would have to get, you know,
within a certain distance with a gun and have a
beat on you. With this thing. You can carry it
in a backpack. You can be hundreds of feet away.
It'll go through walls and cement and everything else. That
is just as horrifying as about anything could possibly be. Uh.
And so we got this you were you were talking
(10:29):
about we've gotten too smart for our own good, whether
it's this stuff or AI. We got this text. I
guess it's from a Tool song. I don't know the
group tool that. Well, silly monkeys give them thumbs, they
make a club to beat their brother down. That's from Tool,
I guess correct. The Russians have it, they perfected it.
We probably have it now, does China have it or
(10:52):
they're gonna have it, or Rain is going to have it,
or just you know, random bad guys will have it,
and you can you discome populate the brain of the
person at the bank vault and go in and take money.
I just a horrifying, horrifying development.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Well, if we bought it from a Russian arms dealer,
maybe it was that Victor boot character or whatever before
he was in custody, although we had to trade him back.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right, we gave him back to get the get the
basketball player, didn't we? Oh? Lord?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Anyway, monsters like that are running around the world selling
whatever they can get their hands on, so yeah, God
knows what hands this will get into.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Just I found the story so disturbing. Again, I was
more disturbed by the presence of the weapon of its
existence on Earth than the cover up. The cover up
is bad too, and very complicated. Why are we covering
it up? Are there are there good reasons for covering
it up?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Well? Yeah, I could speculate. I think you hit on
some of the main ones. Yeah, so troubling. I just
thought just occurred to me. I was about to say
something that I say semi frequently, and I thought myself,
you know the h I gotta keep track.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I gotta have like a tote board.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
And the one hundredth time I say this, I'm going
to retire and never be seen again. And that is
good luck, y'all. I'll be in the woods if you
need me. The world ain't getting pertier.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
If Russia attacked our diplomats with this and ruined their brains,
why do you not treat it like an act of war?
Since it is an active war, why would you ignore it?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, maybe not ignore it, but keep it quiet because
you don't want a nuclear holocaust. So you might say,
once you had reasonable evidence that what happened to happen,
you would contact the Kremlin undercover and say, hey, we
know what you're doing. We will go aps. If you
do this again, we are on you. Don't do it again.
(12:52):
Try to limit the uh you know, the the uh
spreading of the hostilities.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Why hasn't Rush he used it in Ukraine? I haven't
earned reports out of Ukraine and people getting their brain scramble.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Because we told him don't do that, or we will
uh you know, I don't know, we'll unleash our disemboweler
Ray in Moscow and the streets will run with poop.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I don't know. I take that one. I can, I
can recover from that. But the scramble in your brain permanently,
that ain't any good. That's just awful. Oh my god,
any thoughts on that text line four one five two
nine five KFTC.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
President Trump said that he should be involved in choosing
Iran's next supreme leader. So congrats to new Supreme leader Anshola.
Jared Kushnaida's perfect.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So Jared Kushner and uh Whitkoff going to Israel tomorrow
to talk to BB in person and probably say, hey,
how about you don't blow up the oil refineries. I'm
guessing yeah, we're partners, but we're not in lockstep. Well,
Mark Calpern's predicting the big split between BB and Trump
(14:07):
coming this week. Oh really yeah, huh, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'd assume they could do men fences and figure out
a way to go forward together.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We'll see to me against Mark Calpern head to head.
You know how Trump can turn on the party is
you know, all of a sudden, you're the dumbest person
he's ever met. Or whatever.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Oh surely not bb net and Yahoo though, because he's
a super tough guy and Trump wants to be seen
with tough guys, and as a tough guy.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Trump's more popular than in Israel than beb is. Uh So,
speaking of the Pentagon and conflict, that sort of thing,
if I were to text Michael Boy that Jack's a
stupid piece of ass, and I actually texted you Jack,
(14:54):
and I said, oh, I'm sorry I texted that, that
would be fine. Right.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Well, I'm learning more about the conflict between the Pentagon
and Anthropic Old Dario Emodi. Uh So, we've been following
the whole Uh it's about laws and use, and the
Pentagon says we ought to be able to use AI
for any legal use, and Emody and Anthropic are saying, well, no,
you can't use it for mass surveillance or fully autonomous
(15:24):
killing machines. We won't have our technology used. And that's
that's a problem as a Pentagon supplier, and and it's
it's gotten out of hand. But what I had missed
was that somebody leaked a memo that Emodi sent the
Anthropic staff saying the administration is just targeting us. Because
I haven't given dic type dictator style praise to President Trump,
(15:48):
and essentially because that's what he wants. And I get it.
I get what he's saying. But he also critici criticized
open ai. Who you may is great, right, who you
may remember agreed to Hey, we're good with the Pentagon,
blah blah blah. Allegedly, a Moti wrote that open ai
CEO Sam Altman was attempting to quote spin and gas
(16:10):
light by claiming to support anthropics position while hurrying to
sign its own pact. Quote it is working on some
Twitter morons, which doesn't matter, but my main worry is
how to make sure it doesn't work with open ai employees,
he wrote, due to selection effects, there's sort.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Of a gullible bunch.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So then this gets leaked and he says it was
a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for
the tone of the post. It does not reflect my
careful or considered views. I was also written six days
ago and is an out of date assessment of the
current situation.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
God, I've got a handful of texting the wrong people's
stories that still make me cringe. I need to stay
in the habit. Most of the time I do. I
always checking where it's going. But sometimes you get in
a conversation with two people and you're just responding back
and forth and you lose track. So dangerous, Oh so terrible,
I'd say, whoa so Jesse Jackson Junior not happy with
(17:06):
the Democratic president's bad mouthing Trump at dad's funeral.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
They too armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
If I told you all earlier, when I was a kid,
I had a cleft palate or club foot. Note even
have laughed, but it's okay to laugh. Is stuttering. I'm
not being critical of you, but think about it. It's
the one place for people think you're stupid. Oh really,
I'm a lot smarter, most of me.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Why was Joe Biden talking about his stutter at Jesse
Jackson's memorial. I mean, I don't was there context for
that that made it make sense?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Don't know, don't care. Joe Biden rambling.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And think if he had run and be listen to
how old he sounds now, if he had run and
being re elected, he would just barely be a year
into this term.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
The topic that we're going to be addressing here over
the next several minutes. I we had decided to pass
on last week and let's just let it go because
there's way more to talk about than we can squeeze
into every show. But then Jesse Jackson was lying in state,
in South Carolina's home state, and the big giant gala
funeral was held or do you say gala over the weekend,
(18:22):
in which two.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ex presidents or three spoke? Well, you had Obama, Biden
and Hillary Clinton, who was right, yeah, very nearly the
president Bill Clinton spoke also you yeah, okay, yeah, I
couldn't remember if he had or not.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Anyway, so you got the president's speech of fine, we'll
give you a little sample of Barack Obama in which
he charmingly appropriates a special accent for his speech.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Every day you wake up to two things you just
didn't think we're possible. Each day, we're told by those
in ho office to fear.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Each other and to turn on each other, and that
some Americans count more than.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Others what and that some don't.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Even count at all.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't recall hearing that. Everywhere we see greed and
bigotry being celebrated, and bullying, holy irony and mockery masquerading
as strength. You were focusing on the words, which is
probably appropriate. I didn't hear the words. I only heard
the weird affectation. What was that? I've never heard him
sound like that before.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Eh, he's trying to sound extra extra southern, extra black.
Who knows, I don't know. It's bad switching with that.
It was ridiculous, That's what it was. Barack Obama. Although
I tell you what, the gulf between the political talent
of Joe Biden certainly at this point in Barack Obama's
like the gulf between me and Showe O Tani.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So we got even on the same We got to
do the headline because I think people listen to this
different that Jesse Jackson Junior very angry after his dad
memorial that these presidents came out and turned it into
a political take political shots at Trump thing. I exactly
where I was going. What the next clip? Right? But
you need to know that ahead of time to appreciate
what by what Obama just said?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
What are you up?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
They're talking about the past and what's going on now
in this country when you're there to memorialize Jesse Jackson.
I don't get it either. I would if I was
the son, I'd have been unhappy too. How about you
stick with what my dad accomplished and not take shots
at the current administration. What is that? Yeah? Wow, that's
it's an interesting take.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
And Jesse Junior, the convicted criminal, certainly has a right
to that opinion. Then criminal the idea that you get
to a civil rights leader's funeral and you don't go
into the whole pitch, that would seem weird to be honest,
Hum don't. I don't know where he's coming from, because
they all turn into that, and maybe they should. It's
about the message, not the corpse, per say. But anyway,
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here's Jesse's right. I'm sorry the dearly departed. That's probably
more delim I'm the funeral and say where's corpse? I
want to go check out the corpse?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
And I take your criticism, you know, in a manly fashion.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Anyway, here's Jesse Jackson Junior expressing his displeasure yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I listen, can you stop it? Miket Michael Hanson, executive producer.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Hanson pointed out that everybody's like standing in support of
what Jesse Jr. Is saying In Al Sharpton halfway through
starts to get a weird look on his face and
he sits down like I'm not done with this exactly,
So just.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Keep that visual in mind.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Yesterday I listened for several hours of three United States presidents.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Who do not know Jesse Jackson. Wow. He maintained a tense.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were
white or black, but the demands of our message, the
demands of speaking for the least of these, those who
were disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected, demanded not
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democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice
that at no point in time ever sold us out
as a people.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yesse, he hated Obama in short. Oh really, yeah, that's
what I've heard. Okay, I didn't know that. So you
got you heard what Obama said talking about you wake
up every single day and hear things you never thought
you'd ever hear. Biden claimed the Trump administration doesn't share
any of the values that we have, and god, Joe
Biden is just the worst? Yeah, or is he? Then?
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Kamala Harrison, because that it's a tough sentence to make work.
So they had comedy huh. She bragged that she predicted
a lot of what's happening right now. I told you
this was going to happen, So I let make sure
I don't get into any sort of territory where I
act like the Jackson family aren't scam artists who have
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been shaken corporations down around the country for decades. So
where this is going way? So is Jesse Junior only
unhappy because you had Democratic presidents come in and take
shots at the current Republican because he doesn't want their
organization to get pigeonholeds one of the other. Oh yeah,
I want to be able to shake down all of America.
(23:49):
I don't want to be a Democratic thing or a
Republican thing. I want to be a both thing.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
I don't know that that's true, but I appreciate your shot.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I think that's what it is. So so here here's
the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Like I said, we're gonna I was gonna pass on
this because there's other more urgent stuff to talk about.
But watching the funeral and the lauding of the great
great man that Jesse Jackson is and the rest of it,
I'm like, no.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
All right, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I get the whole don't speak ill of the dead
for a little while thing. But seriously, if like a
I don't know, as Steve Jobs had invented the iPhone
then used it to scam old people for the rest
of his life, and you had a funeral where he said,
Steve Jobs, he invented this innovative product that everybody enjoyed
so much, and he was a real saint and enjoyed
(24:37):
and I'm sorry, I'm trying to read while I.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Talk, and ignored.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
The rest of his life and what he did after
it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, if the
family wants to do that, okay, But if you have
US presidents in the media, including Fox News for instance,
just going along with oh he was a brave and
courageous civil rights leader. Yes he was. That's exactly what
he was. You're fools and liars. I don't appreciate it
(25:06):
because and this was brilliantly put together by Rodreer and
the Free Press. Jesse was the architect of the modern
racist racial shakedown that we saw in Black Lives Matter
and the George Floyd thing. He invented that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So in.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
His chief organizational base was an operation he called Rainbow Push.
He had a couple of organizations that he put together,
Rainbow Coalition and Operation Push Anyway, which was based in Chicago.
I grew up there as acutely aware of this since
I was like a teenager and what they do and
how they did it, so anyway, But so in ninety seven,
Rainbow Push founded the Wall Street Project, a nonprofit initiative
(25:49):
designed to promote inclusion of racial minorities and leading financial
firms and to fight economic apartheid in the elite financial
sectors blah blah blah. Jackson was a particularly important channel
for Wall Street elites to the Clinton White House. Jackson
started another nonprofit group, the Citizen Education Fund CEF, closely
aligned with Rainbow Bush. CEF generally handled Wall Street Project
(26:11):
contributions anyway. So around this time, Jackson was separately involved
in a deal with Anheuser Busch, the giant brewery, which
he had targeted a couple of years earlier in a
high profile boycott campaign to shame it as racist. And
so he said, I'm gonna do this unless you sell
one of your incredibly lucrative Chicago distribution franchises to a
(26:35):
group of investors led by his two sons, Yusuf and Jonathan,
so his whole We're gonna call you racist, Sandheuser Busch,
and all the black people in America are going to
stop drinking your products unless you sell a franchise to
my sons. The franchise brought in tens of millions of
dollars in annual revenue until Usuf Jackson sold in twenty
(26:56):
thirteen for a mint, the Anheuser Busch deal classic Jesse operation.
His method was to accuse a business of racism, then
after bad press and further consultations, announced that the target
had agreed to Jackson's demands. With this usually came a
generous donation from that corporation to Rainbow Push. The real
money poured in when Jackson applied the strategy systematically to
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top investment banks and financial brokerages. Jackson's Wall Street Project
was in base by financial industry titans and named some names.
The Wall Street Project kicked off in nineteen ninety eight
by asking financial firms for a fifty thousand dollars contribution
to support its lobbying efforts, landing half a million dollars
in donations from Wall Street immediately, and.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I could see how if I was running a company,
I would have done that. Look, I hate this, it's ridiculous.
It's it's a shakedown. But we give them fifty thousand
dollars and we don't have to deal.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
With the whole mess. So let's get to a jack
and move on. It's like settling a nuisance lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Also that year, inexplicably, the federal housing lender Freddie Mack
contributed a million dollars to Rainbow Push, earmarking at least
some of it for the Wall Street Project purposes. Let's see,
here's some more good stuff. Uh key Jackson rolls leverages
Clinton administration connections and civil rights reputation on behalf of
corporations seeking federal approvals for mergers. For example, despite the
(28:18):
opposition of lesser known civil rights organizations, Jackson back to
nineteen ninety eight merger of two banks, City Corp And Travelers.
Why would Jesse Jackson be in the middle of that,
after which City Corps sent a generous fifty thousand dollars
to the Citizen and Education Fund, and Travelers followed up
with one hundred thousand dollars gift on behalf of Rainbow Push. Inexplicably,
(28:38):
Jackson came out against the promosed eighty one billion dollar
merger of telecommunications giants SBC and Ameritch, calling it anti democratic.
He had particular pull at the time with the FCC,
whose approval was necessary, so then Chairman Clinton appointee William
Kennard was the first black man that had the FCC
and was a close friend of Jackson's, once publicly calling
(28:59):
Jackson his ear.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
A year later, the civil rights.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Leader was on the opposite side of the SBC Ameritech deal,
which sailed through FCC approval. Rainbow Push emerged five hundred
thousand dollars richer from donations from the two companies, having
changed his mind on the merger. Oh my, how interesting.
I got half a dozen more examples I remember. I
don't know if they cover this. I remember Toyota.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Aha.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
They at one point went to Toyota and said, look, I'm
going to say, you all are racists against black people
unless you make monstrous contributions to my foundations. And all
of a sudden they weren't the racists anymore. It's wonderful,
wonderfully cured them.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
One final note.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Nineteen eighty seven, Jackson joined a student protest at Stanford
University demanding an end to its mandatory Western Culture humanities course.
You need to end the humanities and studying the great
works of Western civilization. Hey, hey, ho ho, Western cultures
got to go. The protesters chanted, and they won with
Jesse Jackson's affectionate support. Again, I've got millions of dollars
(30:06):
worth of examples, many more. Yeah, okay, maybe early on,
maybe early on, he was a sincere and energetic fighter
for civil rights. I'm sure it was God bless him
for that. During those years he became a scammer and
a blackmailer.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Pretty obviously, I thought, but not obvious enough for anybody
in the media to talk about it over the last
two weeks. End of screed. Whatever.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Yeah, I don't know if I heard it anywhere other
than here. Oh and I'm sorry I said this at
the outset, But the torch was passed to the Black
Lives Matter Scott Alicia Garza, Patrese Colors, Opal Tameti, founders
of Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, that's how they ranked in so much money. You
figured out pretty quickly that you knocked yourself against being
called racist by donating a certain amount of money thanks.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
To the George Floyd video and really no other reason,
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raised a staggering ninety
million dollars in donations from terrified corporations and foundations in
a single year, beggaring Jackson's lifetime honeypot.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Ninety million dollars.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Well and nay Man, as scammers go, they are all timers.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
They got some nice houses out of it though, cool college,
a lot of trips see American Dream. We got a
lot more on the way. Stay here, armstrong, he yeti.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
And over the weekend, the Israelis launched a series of
strikes against Iran's oil infrastructure on the outskirts of Tehran,
hitting four separate storage facilities. You could see black smoke
rising from the horizon in Tihran, people on the ground
even describing it as raining oil as these droplets that
were taking up into the air came back down from
the atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Americans already grappling with spiking prices at the pump. Gas
price is now.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Up almost fifty cents since the war in Iran began
with no end in sight.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, first of all, if you haven't seen those videos
out of Tehran, it looks like it's something from a movie.
You can't even hardly believe it's real, that orange sky
and flames and the oil coming down and everything like that.
Man oh man. The evening newscasts last night with their
pain at the pump, which a term they've been using
my whole life. I don't know why I have started
in the thirties, for all I know, pain at the
(32:21):
pipe and just always has been the dumbest journalism. Who
is that for?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
You?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Talk to one mo soccer mom, next re event? I
don't know. I got forty dollars with a gas and
hardly got anything. I can't believe what it costs to
fill my CARDIV Who was that for? That needs to
hear an individual describe their single situation like you haven't
grasped that on your own.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
I know who watches that and thinks, wow, that's a good.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Oh gas is higher, so yeah, it'll cost more to
fill up. You make a good point. Soccer mom or
an average d have less money other things, right, Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
It is the laziest, crappiest sort of cliche journalism.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Hey, people don't know what they like, but they like
what they know. Yeah, I play the hits, Give me
a weather forecast, give me pain at the pump line,
fifty cars long at Starbucks with people wanting to pay
nine dollars for a coffee drink. They shouldn't have complaining
about gas going them. I have never quite understood, though,
(33:32):
the fascination with gas prices over all other prices.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
But that's just the way people apparently are built. I
was looking to I mentioned this last week. I was
looking at a couple of things on Facebook Marketplace, which
I'd never really used that much in the past. Is
gonna get a different motorcycle? My son turned sixteen over
the weekend. I was gonna get something he's big enough
for us so we could go dirt bike riding and
that sort of stuff. I had five different deals fall
(33:56):
through on Facebook Marketplace with people just flaking just ft
it out, flaking out, yeah, just not responding and all
that sort of stuff. I was like, this is really
a drag. I don't know if it is there an
initial contact or yeah. I reach out and say hey,
I'm really interested in this, and then they get back
and say, oh cool, and then you know what kind
of time going to meet you? Two o'clock? Then they
(34:18):
just they aren't there or they don't get back to
you or whatever. And uh, I feel like that sort
of thing didn't used to happen to me really hardly
at all, with you know, going way back to classifieds
in the newspaper or even Craigslist. So I don't know
if we just have gotten flake ere as of.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
People I don't know, Well, yeah, I think so. I'm
reminded of a great piece of writing. I saw why
gen Z is unprepared for the workplace. And this is
not like a shaming boy. Young kids today are stupid type.
It's it's more like a doctor's diagnosis and advice for
companies on Okay, here's how you have to deal with this.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But it is.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
It is striking and troubling the extent to which interpersonal
interaction is a problem young people.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You think that's some of it. I've had a couple
of I've got the money in my pocket, I will
drive to you right now. What is going on here?
Just like no response? Wow?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Is it that they sell it? And I don't have
the courtesy to say, hey, it's sold.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
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