Category: Oregon

12-40 It’s Stupid Politicians | When Economics Meets Politics

12-40 It’s Stupid Politicians | When Economics Meets Politics

Show Summary: It’s the intersection of economics and politics this week. And what happens when economics meets politics…? Pretty much the same thing when you give a loaded gun to a toddle and tie yourself to a chair. Jonathan Williams from the American Legislative Exchange Council discusses what is so wrong with this economy. (It’s the politicians.) And don’t miss Joe Rae Perkins who is trying to get one of those stupid politicians out.

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Original Air Dates: October 1st & 2nd, 2022 | Guests: Jonathan Williams & Jo Rae Perkins 

This Week – When Economics meets Politics

Imagine people who have no understanding of economics (stupid politicians) making decisions about the economy based on the advice of their donors, bureaucrats with agendas, and paid lobbyists.

It’s like being tied to a chair, watching a toddler play with a loaded pistol.

This week, we welcome back Jonathan Williams, who is the Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Jonathan has a terrific article on the Daily Caller (), in which he neatly walks through what’s wrong with the economy right now and then provides some easy solutions. If only the current White House resident would listen. To someone other than his donors, bureaucrats with agendas, and paid lobbyists.

Go read Jonathan’s terrific article on The Daily Caller

Special bonus. Long-time I Spy Radio listeners may remember our previous shows about “market transformation.” In essence, “market transformation is a shortcut around a market. “Market transformation” allows favored, politically aligned companies to receive grants and other funding to bypass normal market barriers to entry, such as start-up costs and marketing. This is what we are seeing right now with our economy. You can see it especially with green energy. It’s not green and it’s barely energy. But it does make democrats and their political allies and ideology a lot of money.

Vote Out the Stupid

When economics meets politics, there’s just one solution. Vote the stupid out.

Because the problem with the intersection of economics and politics is that it puts the stupid people in charge. Stupid people, like Ron Wyden. Who has been in Washington DC since the 1990s. Ron is so stupid, he has an ad running right now that says no government should have control over a woman’s body. Really Ron? What about the vaccine mandates you were pushing  just months ago.

He also has an ad complaining about forest fires. Thanks for noticing, Ron, now that it’s election time. But it’s been your policies that causes them to burn. Do nothing. Blame Global Warming when all that dry kindling catches fire. Demand taxpayer dollars for Global Warming and green energy. (There’s that market transformation.) Still to nothing. Rinse and repeat.

Send some money Jo Rae’s way at perkins.vote. She needs help getting her ads on radio and TV. $50 would buy an ad play on many radio stations; in some markets as many as five airings

Jo Rae is up against the money that pours into democrat politicians who promise to do those market transformations. And those donors are terrified they will lose their golden goose if Ron goes the way of the dodo.

Let’s make stupid extinct.

Bonus: if elected, Jo Rae promises not to vote for Mitch McConnell.

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12-39 It’s the Elections, Stupid | The Front Lines of Freedom are in Oregon

12-39 It’s the Elections, Stupid | The Front Lines of Freedom are in Oregon

Show Summary: This week, we’re focusing on the front lines of freedom. And right now, our freedoms come down to the elections. We speak with a businessman running for Congress to get government out of the way, and a scientist who attended the Washington County trial in which the State and county are attempting to hide public records from the public. And you won’t believe what the judge did to the expert witness.

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Original Air Dates: September 24th & 25th, 2022 | Guest: Mike Erickson & Chuck Wiese 

This Week – It’s the Elections, Stupid

Bill Clinton famously had a sign on the Oval office wall, “It’s the economy, stupid.” It served as a daily reminder that the economy is what matters most to most people. Well, who is in charge of that economy comes down to elections.

In Oregon, the far-left policies keep us entrenched in high taxes, rising housing costs, and dubious curricula in public schools to cripple the next generation, and elections that don’t bring answers to the problems. It all feels hopeless. and many have left the state going to redder pastures to find the answers in states that make sense. Lower taxes, less big government, lower public debt, or maybe none at all if you’re in South Dakota. Meanwhile, Oregon’s lawmakers look to ruin our electric grid by pulling out dams, then force electric cars on its citizens whether we like it or not. Thus dies the free market.

Mike Erickson, Candidate for Oregon’s New CD 6

Speaking of that sign in the Oval office, we’ve gone from “It’s the economy, stupid,” to “It’s a stupid economy.” Here’s a hint to voters in Oregon’s new CD 6. If you want to fix the economy, don’t elect someone who has no business experience. Oregon, and the nation, needs elected officials who have practical business experience — not someone who has spent their entire life in government. (Hint number two: Biden has no practical business experience and look how that’s worked out.)

If you want to support Mike Erickson, find out what you can do at MikeEricksonforCongress.org. (Start by sharing that with your family and friends!)

Remember the strategy we mentioned months ago: If you live in a safe district (in Oregon, that’s CD 2) or in a hopeless district (CDs 1 and 3), put your time and money and energy to promote and support candidates in districts where they have a chance to flip a seat. That’s CDs 4 (Alek Skarlatos), 5 (Lorie DeRemer), and 6 — Mike Erickson.

Mike is running against Andrea Salinas, a far-left democrat who spent her entire adult life in and around government. On her website, she says she grew up in a hard-working family where nothing was handed to them but they made it through hard work. And, like Mike, she also had a cop for a father. So why is Mike fighting for police and she’s voting to defund the police? And how did she go from “working hard” and pulling oneself up through hard work to a career fighting for government handouts paid for by other people?

So Much for Open and Honest Elections

Here’s a funny thing.

In Oregon, the Secretary of State’s job is to audit other state agencies. But for some reason, she has declared that the elections division is off limits. Why is that? Instead, she has joined a lawsuit against a voter to declare a Washington County database should be shielded from public view and scrutiny.

Imagine trying that if the IRS wanted to audit your business. No, you can’t see the numbers. Trust us. Everything’s fine. You’d be saying that from jail. But the State is refusing to hand over a database, calling it proprietary information of a private company handling Washington County’s elections.

And why is a private company handling our elections to begin with?

We talk with Chuck Wiese — a scientist, analyst, and meteorologist, who has stepped up and joined the front lines of freedom — who was there at both days of the Sippel case trial. You won’t believe what the judge did to an actual, world renowned data scientist. Well, it’s Oregon. Maybe you will.

If the judge decides against the Sippel case, it will only continue to fuel the fire and doubts about the 2020 election. The only way to put out that fire is to open up the data to prove there wasn’t any manipulation. But hiding it and then expecting people to trust the government…?

Regardless of whether or not you think the 2020 election, when it comes to elections, any election, the Golden Rule should be “Open the books.” Hiding the results behind a wall of secrecy is, well, just stupid.

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Mike Erickson Segments 1–3

Chuck Wiese Segments 4–6

 

12-37 The Biggest Crime in Human History: Why a Grand Jury is Necessary

12-37 The Biggest Crime in Human History: Why a Grand Jury is Necessary

Show Summary: This week, it’s about holding government accountable — especially when they lied. And evidence of those lies are surfacing every week. We talk with state senator Dennis Linthicum about his team’s efforts to impanel a grand jury to investigate the data fraud committed by the CDC, FDA, NIH, and others on covid. We also speak to Kelly Mordecai, an expert on the Grand Jury system and how it can be used to bring a corrupt, runaway government under control again. And you can take action. See below!

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Original Air Dates: Sept. 10th & 11th, 2022 | Guests: Sen. Dennis Linthicum & Kelly Mordecai

This Week – Grand Jury Investigation

Nearly a year ago, we brought you the story of the covid grand jury, which two senators, Dennis Linthicum and Kim Thatcher, and Dr. Henry Ealy were trying to impanel. The goal was to hold Fauci and others responsible for using knowingly falsified evidence to grab power, misspend trillions, and trample our basic rights.

When it’s the biggest crime in human history, a grand jury is necessary. Because a corrupt government cannot and will not hold itself accountable. They’re the criminal.

That case is getting closer to resolution. But, naturally, there have been twists and turns (odd ones!) and hills yet to climb.

Join the fight! Demand a grand jury investigate the CDC for criminal fraud & willful misconduct. Visit Beyond the Con or text “CDC data” to 52886

The Dog Ate my Deposition

It’s a given. The last thing the government wants is to investigate its own abuse of power. Or its own malfeasance. Its misuse of $3.5 trillion in taxpayer funds—which included the theft of hundreds of billions.

Investigate you with 87,000 new IRS agents for not keeping a receipt? Oh yeah. They are happy to look into that. Not so its own crimes.

Tune in this week to hear some of the oddest things as the government tries to weasel out from under citizen’s rightful watchful eye. Like a prosecutor suddenly declaring he was going to work for the defense. Who then suddenly got reassigned to the hinterlands. And the old second-grade excuse by the government: the dog ate my homework. Not quite. But also not kidding.

Grand Juries – What, Why, and How

The Hidden 4th Branch: A Corrupt Government's Worst Nightmare by Kelly MordecaiIn addition to talking with Sen. Linthicum, we talk with Kelly Mordecai, who wrote the book on grand juries: The Hidden 4th Branch: A Corrupt Government’s Worst Nightmare. As an engineer, he took a systemic look at grand juries as the most effective, remaining tool we have to hold government accountable. He helps us understand the process and walks us through the ups and downs of the case.

Think of it. Misspending $3.5 trillion of public monies, millions of businesses impacted or ruined, the trampling of so many of our rights, and millions of lives lost and tens of millions more impacted certainly qualifies as the biggest crime ever.

And this effort to impanel a grand jury is immensely important. With more and more coming out every day  about the vaccines’ adverse effects and the government admitting they were wrong, now is the time. Not jut to hold people accountable for the biggest crime in human history. But to make sure it can’t happen again.

Because if they get away with it. We know they’ll try again.

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The government lied about ivermectin
Ivermectin lies. (Click for full size)
  • Join the fight! Demand a grand jury investigate the CDC for criminal fraud & willful misconduct. Visit Beyond the Con or text “CDC data” to 52886
  • Kelly Mordecai’s book is The Hidden 4th Branch: A Corrupt Government’s Worst Nightmare.
  • Government admits they got it all wrong: “CDC Announces Overhaul After Botching Pandemic” (ZeroHedge, Aug 17, 2022)
  • Read the horrifying article from Steve Kirsch. “Exclusive: Proof that Israel found serious safety problems with the COVID vaccines then deliberately covered it up” (Substack, Steve Kirsch, September 2, 2022)
  • And read the Twitter thread from the journalist who exposed the Israeli Ministry of Health’s crimes: Yaffa Shir-Raz, Twitterr, Sept 1, 2022
    • This is the really damning part: “4/Nevertheless, the IMOH withheld the findings for 2 months, even from their own expert committee which decided 3 weeks later to clear the vaccine for infants.”
    • They knew the vaccines caused harm. Hid it. And then pushed it on kids!
  • They lied. How many millions died because the government refused early treatments to push their vaccines? “Ivermectin reduces covid death risk by 92%, peer-reviewed study finds” (The Blaze, Sept 3, 2022)
  • Get some background on the covid grand jury petition. Oregon Senators File Grand Jury Petition Alleging CDC, FDA Violated Federal Law by Inflating COVID Death Data (Children’s Defense Fund, Sept 17, 2021)
  • Feds reeling from new vax study, lawsuits on social media censorship and COVID stat manipulation (Just the News, September 7, 2022): New research estimates COVID vax causes at least 18 “serious adverse events” in young adults for every hospitalization prevented. NIH observational study finds “variety of neuropathic symptoms” post-vaccination.
  • They used Facebook to censor. And to spread their disinformation. “CDC Gave Facebook Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines, Emails Show” (Epoch Times, Sept 6, 2022)

The Truth is Coming Out about the Vaccines

  • Things morticians are finding in vaccinated bodies
    Morticians finding unexplained things in vaccinated bodies (click for full size)

    Dr Naomi Wolf’s findings – “Massacre: Nearly half of pregnant women in Pfizer trial miscarried” (Sign of the Times, Aug 16, 2022)

    • Half!
  • Steve Kirsch’s list of over 50 leading indicators that the momentum is moving in our favor—the narrative is unraveling quickly in the UK: “The ‘safe and effective’ narrative is falling apart” (Substack, Steve Kirsch, July 7, 2022)
  • “COVID Vaccine Injury Data: 143,233 Percent Increase in Cancer” (Epoch Times, August 30, 2022)
  • More truth: FOI reveals Pfizer and Medicine Regulators hid the dangers of Covid-19 Vaccination during Pregnancy because Study found it increases risk of Birth Defects & Infertility (The Expose, May 5, 2022)
  • More truth. “Science” no longer trustworthy: BMJ op-ed suggests all health research should be considered fraudulent until proven otherwise (Citizens News, August 23, 2022)
  • Still more truth. Attorney: Pfizer Vaccine Whistleblower False Claims Suit Payout could Reach $3.3 trillion “It would be enough to bankrupt Pfizer” (Health Impact News, August 28, 2022)

 

 

 

 

 

Our Many Healthcare Crises, Part 2 | The Root Cause of Many of Them

Our Many Healthcare Crises, Part 2 | The Root Cause of Many of Them

Show Summary: When Obamacare was passed (rammed through without a single Republican vote), it was supposed to fix health care and lower costs. All those savings, remember? What happened? But there are more problems and more spending than ever. This week, we continue our talk with healthcare-system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier, but zero in on the two root causes of many of, if not all of, our many healthcare crises.

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Original Air Dates: August 6th & 7th, 2022 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier

This Week – Our Many Healthcare Crises

We continue our deep dive into the problems plaguing our health care system—the many healthcare crises and the ever-growing expense. How is it that we are spending more than ever — by far! — on healthcare and yet it’s just one crisis after another? 

But this week, we zero in on the two main problems. And they should be no surprise, really, for anyone who has followed I Spy Radio’s many shows on healthcare or for anyone who has a lick of common sense. The two root causes are money and government. Particularly, government interference.

Healthcare crises in the UK: "My cousin had to deliver his child because the ambulance said they’d take 4 and a half hours to come for his wife. What is the UK coming to? He had to watch a YouTube tutorial on how to deliver a baby."
Healthcare crises in the UK. THIS is what they want to emulate?

We bring back our healthcare system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier. Lisa is currently an insurance agent and owns Health Source NW. But her background is in accounting, overseeing budgets and forecasting for major companies. So when she looks at the healthcare crises, she is viewing it not just from an insurance standpoint but from a systemic-analyst’s viewpoint.

Need healthcare and not sure where to turn? Give Lisa a call. Her website is www.HealthSourceNW.com.  She helps individuals and businesses throughout Oregon and SW Washington make sure they have the right coverage for when, God forbid, they really need it. Will your policy cover what you think it does? 

The Root Cause of So Many Healthcare Crises

This week, you’ll also hear an extended opener from I Spy Radio host, Mark Anderson, on the government’s interference — sabotage, really — of the normal free-market forces that would normally lower cost and improve care. Mark walks you through what a free market system would look like. Hint: we don’t have one now (remember Obama et al. when they were pushing Obamacare:  “the free market failed”?), not in health care. And he walks you through the government interfering with the free market, much of which can be traced back to a 1943 IRS ruling.

If you didn’t already think “they” are destroying things on purpose, you’ll believe it after this show. No one, no government, makes this many “mistakes” on purpose.

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What to do About Our Many Healthcare Crises | Part 1

What to do About Our Many Healthcare Crises | Part 1

Show Summary: We are dumping billions upon billions into our healthcare system. But there are more healthcare crises than ever. What’s going on? We talk with health care system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier to find out what’s happening and why there are so many crises. Next week, we’ll look at the root cause of so many of these problems and what can be done.

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Original Air Dates: July 30th & 31st, 2022 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier

This Week – Our Many Healthcare Crises

We are diving deep into the problems plaguing our health care system. The many healthcare crises and the ever-growing expense. How is it that we are spending more than ever — by far! — on healthcare and yet it’s just one crisis after another? 

Does anyone even remember that we were promised that Obamacare would fix all this? And cost less?

We bring back our healthcare system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier. Lisa is currently an insurance agent and owns Health Source NW. But her background is in accounting, overseeing budgets and forecasting for major companies. So when she looks at the healthcare crises, she is viewing it not just from an insurance standpoint but from a systemic analyst’s viewpoint.

And it’s not good.

We talk with Lisa about the many healthcare crises right now but focus on three in particular that are the most troubling. Including the mental health crisis, which, in many ways, is emblematic of the other system-wide problems.

We’ll continue this deep dive next week and focus in on the root of all these crises. Which has changed everything—and not for the good.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Rising prescription drug prices (OregonLive, July 20, 2022)

Oregon agency sets virtual public hearings on 2023 health insurance preliminary rate decisions (KTVZ, July 23, 2022)

Healthcare and ambulance services deal with capacity crisis (KGW, July 22, 2022)

Profits of the pandemic: Moderna gives Boston’s property market a shot (Daily Mail, July 23, 2022)

WA hospitals facing ‘unsustainable’ financial losses, in danger of cutting services (Seattle Times, July 21, 2022)

Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit, And Your Insurance (The Federalist, July 25, 2022)

Difficulty Paying Bills Tops Pandemic High in US Census Survey (Yahoo News, July 25, 2022)

Covid Relief Spending by the Federal Government (via USASpending.gov, retrieved July 28, 2022)

Guest Post: Chuck Wiese Primer for Dr. Frank’s Executive Club Presentation

Guest Post: Chuck Wiese Primer for Dr. Frank’s Executive Club Presentation

The following primer for Dr. Frank’s Executive Club presentation is via Chuck Wiese, a scientist frequent I Spy Radio guest.

Dr. Frank’s Executive Club presentation can be viewed at this link on Rumble.com. (YouTube has already banned it and threatened the videographer if he tries to post it again.)

Dr. Frank’s Executive Club Presentation Primer

1. Frank’s data proves there is machine tabulator manipulation of the votes during an election.

2. The analysis follows the laws of nature and probability as determiners. If you roll a set of dice 100 times and get a set of numbers from rolling that you can exactly predict before rolling those dice, this tells you the dice are fake because, by probability, that is impossible. It is the same reasoning through probability that winning the lottery by getting exactly 6 numbers on any singular random participant is very difficult and takes millions of participants before you finally get a winner.

3. Frank’s data shows, that the election tabulator machines have pre-programmed numbers inserted in them that draw from census population data by age that are eligible to vote in any particular county that are paired with registered voters. Oregon’s dirty registration rolls that are not cleaned up are also used as a comparison to active registered voters. The difference between census, dirty rolls and total registered voters gives the machines a “pad” they can draw from to create phantom votes if desired for the vote tabulations. Keep in mind that the total registered voters are NOT the actual number of votes that are cast in any election because that number never reaches 100%. In any election, data shows participation is typically between 60-75% turnout in elections that interest the public and under 50% in many other elections.

4. NOW, what Doug Franks is able to show is that in Oregon, in very county in this state, by plotting the polynomial curve that the data exactly represents, he can predict with data from just one county, what the “computed” number of voles will be in every age group across the spectrum in all the other counties. It is typically found to be near 86% . When his does this, he gets a correlation coefficient of anywhere from 99.2 to 99.9% which means he can predict the outcome of all the votes cast by age in every county.

5. The point in all of this is that it is mathematically impossible without a direct manipulation algorithm of some sort that is in the vote tabulator machines. By probability and the laws of nature, if the votes cast by all eligible to vote that participated were a random event as they should be with no manipulations, you would not be able to come anywhere close to having this sort of accuracy or this sort of a correlation coefficient to the data. It proves there is massive fraud being done.

CONCLUSION: Whoever is doing this is taking away our First Amendment rights to free expression of voting for the candidates to run either our local governments or federal offices and pre-selecting the winners the establishment wants. This is the worst offense against our Constitution you could ever do in a free society.

Only remedy is to stop vote by mail which invites the same fraud which is actually paired with the machines to guide the tabulators in redistributing votes and was observed in all the swing states in the 2020 election.

Votes must be cast by showing up at your precinct, showing proof of your ID, then casting your ballot at the precinct in a voting booth and returning it immediately at the precinct to avoid any chain of custody issues.

Chuck Wiese

The EPA Ruling: How Now Green Cash Cow?

The EPA Ruling: How Now Green Cash Cow?

Show Summary: The West Virginia vs EPA ruling will have long-lasting impacts and could undo much of the fourth branch of government—the administrative state. We talk with meteorologist and actual scientist, Chuck Wiese on where all the global warming has gone this year and the momentous EPA ruling and its impact on the green energy movement. Which has failed so badly in other countries that places like the U.K. have reversed course. Or at least swerved a little. What could this all mean for the future of the Global Warmists and green energy pushers?

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Original Air Dates: July 9th & 10th, 2022 | Guest: Chuck Wiese

This Week – The EPA Ruling

Lost in the shrieking and wailing over the loss of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling will have a long-lasting impact on the administrative branch’s power grab.

For decades, there has been a fourth branch of government, which has become the real rulers of America. Congress has done nothing to rein it in, other than to complain about it. The EPA ruling makes it clear: agencies cannot grab power that Congress did not give it.

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The dirty truth about the Fourth Branch is that Congress is okay with it. Why? Because if some agency makes the rules, then Congress (and individual congressmen and senators) can’t be blamed. Because they didn’t do it. Gosh. It was those sneaky bureaucrats.

Let’s face it. The average member of Congress and the Senate are far, far more concerned about getting reelected. And the Fourth Branch, the administrative state, doing the dirty work gives them political cover. Legislators can go in, ask a few talking-point questions they hope will make the news, and then go off for drinks and parties.

Well, the EPA ruling puts the wheels of reform in motion. If Congress chooses to retake its power.

Want to learn more about the origins of the administrative state and how we got here? Check out this previous show with Jonathan Emord: Restore the Constitution: Eliminate the Administrative State.

We know. Depending on Congress to do the right thing seems pretty hopeless. But there is good news.

Why the EPA Ruling Matters

The Fatal Policy Flaw - Terrific video on what Global Warmists aren't telling you
Check out this terrific video on what Global Warmists aren’t telling you

The good news is the EPA ruling means we don’t need Congress. Because they’re lazy and they can get to their parties a whole lot faster if they don’t have to do anything. Or read bills. Just let the bureaucrats handle the important stuff.

Well, with the EPA ruling, it means we don’t need Congress to rein in the administrative state. Remember, to get this ruling, congress didn’t do anything. It wasn’t congress challenging the administrative state, it was West Virginia. They’d sued over coal power plants the EPA wanted to kill using power it had seized under the Clean Air Act. Congress had nothing to do with this win.

So the good news is, we the people don’t need Congress. If the administrative state steps out of line and tries to grab power, individuals can stop them in their tracks.

Chuck Wiese on the EPA Ruling

This week, meteorologist and actual scientist, Chuck Wiese, is back on the show to dissect the ruling and talk about the long-term impacts this is likely to have. Not just on the EPA but the power grab by all these other agencies. Like the CDC, FDA, and more.

We also talk about Global Warming, which is more religion than science and which has become the gateway drug for Leftist indoctrination in our schools.

And speaking of “global warming” — where is it? We’ve had a cold and wet spring and summer. Aren’t we supposed to be under water by now with all that global warming? What happened. Tune in to hear what’s happening.

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Not Directly Mentioned but Informative

  • Great video: The Carbon Offset Problem (Wendover Productions, June 3, 2022)
  • Summary of the Clean Air Act (via the EPA)
  • The Pendleton Act of 1883 (via University of Houston, N.D.)*This is the origins of what we now see as “civil service.” In short, the Pendleton Act attempted to free public servants from politics. Up until then, many civil servant positions were political payoffs—cushy, well-paid jobs for friends, family, and donors. The “spoils system.”
  • Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV? (CFact.org, June 7, 2022)
    • Some food for thought about the lack of transparency about “Clean Energy Exploitations”
    • All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery.
    • To say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid as 80 percent of the electricity generated to charge the batteries is from coal, natural gas, and nuclear.
  • Top 10 Global Warming Lies That May Shock You (Forbes, Feb 9, 2015)
  • Excellent article on how Trump nearly ended the administrative state. And perhaps this is why they worked so feverishly to get rid of him. “The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F” (Brownstone Institute, June 27, 2022)
  • Expert: Green Agenda Causing US Power Grid to Be ‘Incredibly Vulnerable (The Epoch Times, July 4, 2022)
  • Oregon Education Association joins Oregon climate change fight (Biz Journal, June 20, 2022)

 

 

When Government Gets it Wrong, It Turns Abusive

When Government Gets it Wrong, It Turns Abusive

Show Summary: This week, it’s all about abusive Big Government. Getting around it through ballot initiatives—the fight to get Real School Choice on the ballot in spite of Big Government that doesn’t want to give up its power. Plus the incredibly ugly and un-American targeting of political opposition for destruction. The new documentary, The Truth about January 6th by one of those political prisoners just came out—the silencing of Free Speech that would make the most zealous communist proud.

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Original Air Dates: June 18th, 2022 | Guest: Marc Thielman & Scott McEwen

It’s not a Conspiracy: The Government Hates You

When’s the last time you felt you could fully trust government?

And knowing what we know now about government, the abuse of power for political reasons (and the accompanying financial reasons — using government to send billions to their political allies), we can  never fully trust government again until there is a serious come-to-Jesus reckoning.

This week, we talk about two abuses of government: getting around an abusive government that wants to prevent parents from getting a better education for their kids. And an abusive government that seeks to silence any and all dissent.

King George III would be proud.

Real School Choice Ballot Initiative: Round 2

Marc Thielman is leading the charge to get Real School Choice on the ballot in Oregon. Last time, the secretary of state used some mental hurdles to claim it was dealing with two constitutional issues and denied the initiative.

So they split it in two.

Before we talk about the initiatives, Marc looks back at the primary and his run for the republican nomination for Oregon’s governor—and the betrayal of a fellow candidate.

And then we look at the two initiatives, how they differ, and how they will impact kids and parents if they pass. And, of course, we look at how an abusive government will fight to keep control. Yes, that’s right. The government thinks it knows better how to raise your kids and what they need than you do.

Help Real School Choice get past the first hurdle! Sign the initiatives. Head to EducationFreedomforOregon.com

The Ultimate Example of Abusive Government: Political Prisoners

The prisoners taken into custody after the January 6th protests are living proof of what happens when people are presumed guilty and are locked away into oblivion.

We welcome back NY Times bestselling author and attorney, Scott McEwen, to talk about the incredible abuse. By our own government against fellow Americans.

We literally treated al Qaeda terrorists better than the democrats are treating American citizens. Solitary confinement. Months of it. Physically assaulted. And then denied medical treatment. Even denied medication. Denied access to religious leaders. And even denied access to their own lawyers.

The Documentary: The Truth about January 6th

Jake Lang went to the US Capitol Building January 6th to protest an election. Protest. The exact same thing the Left had done the entire summer and fall of 2020. The exact same thing the Left did the day Donald Trump was inaugurated.

Watch The Truth about January 6th documentary narrated by Jake Lang, one of the political prisoners

On January 6th, the day of the “insurrection” four U.S. citizens were killed. At the brutal hands of capitol police who beat defenseless Americans while they were on the ground.

Where’s the outrage?

There isn’t any. Because they disagreed politically with those who stole the election. And in communist countries (which is how the political Left sees themselves—communist revolutionaries), you’re not allowed to speak against the opposition.

Remember: These aren’t people who were there to overthrow the government. They were there to defend the Constitution. And what they saw as the abuse of government to steal an election. This wasn’t an “insurrection.” This was an attempt to stop the political theft of the country.

We talk with Scott about the legal side of things. But also the reality of dealing with an abusive government. And what needs to be done. By those on the inside.

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It’s the Government, Stupid | Troubling Economic Indicators Right Now

It’s the Government, Stupid | Troubling Economic Indicators Right Now

Show Summary: This week, it is all about the economy with Jonathan Williams from the American Legislative Exchange Council who is on to discuss some troubling economic indicators that the propaganda media won’t tell you about. Are we in the beginning stages of the transition to socialism…? Because this is what it would look like.

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Original Air Dates: June 11, 2022 | Guest: Jonathan Williams

This Week – It’s the Government, Stupid

“It’s the economy, stupid.” 

That was the sign Bill Clinton had in the Oval Office. It was a reminder that what really mattered to people was a strong, growing economy, With jobs and opportunities, lower prices and a chance to live the American dream.

Now, with Biden residing in the office, it’s more like “It’s the government stupid.” Because instead of focusing on growing the economy, it’s all about growing government. At all cost. 

But as with all government-run economies, we are quickly lurching toward a crash when the big government types will have a reckoning. Government-dominated economies never work.

You are living in the transition stages of a switch from capitalism to socialism. High food prices. High energy prices. Exploding inflation. High crime. And effort to remove guns from law-abiding citizens. This is what the entry to socialism looks like. And to see how it ends up, look at Venezuela.

Jonathan Williams: Troubling Economic Indicators

It’s always a pleasure to have our friend, Jonathan Williams, back on the show. Jonathan is  the Chief Economist and Executive Vice President for Policy at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

This week, we walk through the attempted coup of our economy, troubling economic indicators that warn of impending slowdown and potential stagflation. These aren’t some distant economic indicators. These are deeply worrying economic indicators here and now. Like in the housing market.

Be sure to check out the American Legislative Exchange Council and their yearly publication, Rich States, Poor States.

And we talk about some of ALEC’s other programs. Like their  Education Task Force. Which has helped other states enact school choice. Can Oregon get it on the ballot? And get a win? (We’ll have Marc Thielman on next week to discuss the latest ballot initiative for school choice.)

And we talk with him about Oregon’s Republican candidate for governor, Christine Drazan, and what she ought to be focusing on in her economic platform.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

  • Biden Administration Expected to Reinstate Price Controls, Bringing Back 1970s Gas Lines, Experts Warn (Epoch Times June 6, 2022)
  • Germans warned of further food price hikes: Soaring energy costs threaten the survival of farmers, the industry says (RT, June 8, 2022)
  • JP Morgan CEO Says There’s a “Hurricane” Coming for U.S. Economy, “You Better Brace Yourself” (Bloomberg News, via We Love Trump, June 2, 2022)
  • The First ‘Global Inflationary Depression’ Is Very Possible (Seeking Alpha, Mar 5, 2021)
  • Inflation Is Just Getting Started. (Peter Schiff, via YT, June 9, 2022)
    • May CPI est 8.3%
    • Oil over 122 per barrel
    • Atlanta Fed’s GDP Q2 estimate is 0.9%
  • Welcome to communism where you arrest your political opponents: “FBI Raids Home Of Michigan GOP Gubernatorial Candidate And Whitmer Challenger, Takes Him Into Custody” (Daily Wire, June 9, 2022)
Primary or a Planned Election? | The Algorithms Oregon Fears

Primary or a Planned Election? | The Algorithms Oregon Fears

Show Summary: For an election that Oregon swears was fair and honest, there are a lot of questions. And not just this election but previous ones as well. Don Power joins us again to pick up where we had to leave off last week.  This week, he describes what he personally saw happen in the elections quagmire that is Clackamas County. Then we interview Dr. Douglas Frank, who discovered the algorithms used to steal the 2020 election. Could this be why Oregon is fighting SO hard to keep a database from the public? Could it be that simple?

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Original Air Dates: June 4, 2022 | Guests: Don Powers & Dr. Douglas Frank 

This Week – Algorithms and Unvoting

This week, we are continuing to look at election integrity issues, an “over flow” from last week with Don Powers who covers this week what he ran out of time for last week: the continuing fiasco of Clackamas County elections and personally witnessing the “unvoting” of candidates by elections officials. 

Then we interview Dr Douglas Frank who discovered the algorithm they used to manipulate the election. As if that wasn’t important enough, we find out just why this is crucial to the lawsuit in Washington County that we discussed last week. This could blow everything wide open. And it would certainly explain why the County and State are fighting SO hard to keep that database out of the public’s hands.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

  • Be sure to watch this video with Dr. Frank and Mike Lindell — Trump Won New Scientific Proof (via Rumble, April 1, 2021)
    • Dr Frank discovered the algorithm that controls how many registrations and how many ballots you need, in every county, to control an election
  • Dr. Douglas G. Frank’s Election Analysis (via 2020 Election Fraud at a Glance, N.D.)
  • Election Fraud in Oregon (via 2020 Election Fraud at a Glance, N.D.)
    • Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard, Oregon scored 38%
    • Seth Keshel analysis found every county west of the mountains, with the exception of Benton County, fell into “Strong/Rampant Fraud category”
  • Oregon’s 2020 Election Director is fired for disclosing security concerns. https://www.tinyurl.com/yhscsm9f 
  • It’s a database. Excel vs SQL (via mooc.org)
  • Be sure to check out cleanvoterrolls.com 
  • Wall Street Journal: Dems Stole Congressional Seats From Red States With “Rigged” Census — Calls For Investigation (Gateway Pundit, May 21, 2022)
  • Who Rigged the Census? (WSJ, May 20, 2022)
  • 14 State Populations Were Miscounted in 2020 Census – Overcounting Heavily Favored Democrats (Gateway Pundit, May 21, 2022)