Episode 394: Propaganda In America - Part 1

I know that you want to listen to your podcast, so I'll keep it short. Because if you think it's important to make a durore choices, can ASR maybe help? I think, how then? Well, for example, when you're doing something to do with the things you love to do with Schade. Will you know more about the instructions where a durore schade can be? Go to asr.nl slash durore choices. This does ASR for you and a durore family. ASR does it. So, then you can now listen to your podcast. The following presentation is in Delmarva Studios production. You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network. Here is your host, George Hobbs. Welcome back, truth seekers from around the world. It's time for another edition of the Fact Hunter podcast. As we record on this Thursday, February the 5th, 2026. I'm your host, as always, George Hobbs, coming to you from a frigid Dover, Delaware. We still haven't seen the grass in almost two weeks now. This weekend, in for some more tough weather, sub-zero temperatures, lots of wind. So if you are, you know, the area you live in is getting hit with this weather this weekend. Y'all be safe. Y'all be careful. Take care of one another. layer up and just be safe, okay? Lots of things going on. And I think more importantly, which is at the root of this podcast, a lot of distractions going on. And I got a few emails, right? Isn't it interesting that they released the Epstein files? What do you think they're really trying to distract us from? Well, one is I truly believe that there will be a confrontation with Iran in the next 14 to 30 days. Could be sooner, but that's my guess. I semi-follow a guy on YouTube, Monkey Works, W-E-R-X. He uses that aviarlabs.com, known as Skyglass. And you can see all the tracking of the Millet, well, not all, obviously, but a lot of the C-17s, C-5, and it's been very active going to and from UAE and Qatar. And again, this isn't fear-mongering, nothing to be afraid of, but it's just be aware. I think this is one of the things that they are trying to distract us from. So yeah, there are lots of things going on. I think anytime they put something mainstream like that, it's twofold. Sometimes, yeah, it's disclosure, but it's also to distract us from other things. The other real interesting thing is this snow we got is different than any we've had before. And I believe I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the podcast after, we had heavy chemtrails, heavy, heavy chemtrails the day before the snow. And this guy on Facebook, John Kness, I guess it is, K-A-N-E-S-S. And by the way, all disclosure, I saw this on Doug and Stacy's YouTube channel. They just moved from a 10-acre homestead to an 88-acre homestead. They haven't been on too much in the last few months, but now they're settling in. The audio doesn't really do it justice. I'll put the link in the show notes so you can watch it on your own. But he makes a couple of very interesting points here. So as the snow dries up, and I mean dries up, okay, supplements that got knocked over in the storm. See that? It's all dry. This was all covered yesterday. So see how very little water is coming out of it? That's because it's full of iodine-133 and thorium. These compounds together make snow that simply evaporates. Iodine-133 skips the liquid phase and turns straight into basically radon gas. That is how they are delivered. That is why the snow is different. And not running down the curbs, streets, ditches, rivers. rivers. That's why Lake Mead's drying up. Lake Powell, Hoover Dam, 7,000 feet in the Rockies here. One of the five fingers to the Colorado. I'm afraid there ain't going to be any water. It's all going to dry up. Those in Vegas need to take note. They're not warning you loud enough. So I thought that was very interesting. And of course, thorium is a naturally occurring radioactive metal that, according to this, is used in ceramics, gas lantern metals, mantles, pardon me, and is usable in fuel. But the other one, the iodine-133, it's also what they call a short-lived radioactive isotope of iodine and fission product of uranium and plutonium. And it's very interesting because anytime we get snow and then the sun comes out, there's water running everywhere down our, you know, from our gutters down to the ground through the rain spouts. And I noticed today, I said to Anika, I was like, where's all the water? There's no puddles. There's no mud. And again, this is where we live in, we're south, a little southwest of Dover, Delaware. If you look at a map and you see Mary Dell on the map, we're a couple miles due south directly of there. and it has just been very weird and it's been here for almost two weeks. The sun's been out most days. No, we haven't had too many days over 32 degrees, but we've had three in a row with sunlight and still there. But the thing is when it melts, there's no mud. There's no water coming down the rain spouts, but also, you know, everybody's sick. Well, you may say, George, it's wintertime. Yeah, but everybody I've talked to said it's a little different. So again, are they poisoning us from the sky? I don't know. But this just feels different. And as always, I'd like your thoughts on this, just as I did with Charlie Kirk. And I got a bunch of emails we're working our way through. We got an email today from Mr. Roeder, who was on the podcast last year, you know, talking about DNA. Every day as we, you know, piece this thing together, we get a new email from somebody. And it's extremely nefarious what's going on. And that has kind of led me to what we're going to be talking about today, psychological operations. And it's going to be a multi-episode podcast because you have to control the entire narrative before you can unleash propaganda on someone. And whether it's North Korean news or the Russian news or the American news, they are distributing propaganda. Much of it is fear to get you to trust in the government. 2020, as we know, the largest wealth transfer, it was to, look, we're going to close down your store for the safety of others, right? It was interesting that COVID, it didn't find its way into Amazon or Walmart, but the mom and pop stores, that was too dangerous. And we allowed it to happen. Again, shame on us. You know, I like to go to Google every now and I don't like to, but I think it's important we remind ourself, go into Google and I put in, you know, small businesses close 2020, 2021. And the stories, the numbers are just unbelievable. It's important to remember that. And you guys know twice the year I do a podcast playing some of the silliness from that era. And we'll do that again. Before we jump into that podcast, I have three more notes I'd like to share with you all. Number one, again, thank you all for your emails. I'm working diligently to get back to you. number one for those who are fans of the other podcast you silly flat earthers the flat earth files returns uh in full this sunday night that is what is that february the 8th at 8 p.m eastern time i will be conducting an interview tomorrow night and that'll go live this sunday glad to be back doing that as well um and we will also over the coming weeks have interviews on this podcast as well. Some very interesting folks coming your way. Two more things. Number one, you guys know I'm an amateur radio guy, a ham radio guy. I have delved into something called DMR, and basically I bought a hotspot. I was able to configure it, connect it to a ham radio, and it's really cool. Now, is it for when the proverbial doo-doo hits the fan? No, it's not for that. But it is great to communicate. I was having a conversation with a guy in Trinidad in Tobago this morning, bragging about how it was 84 degrees down there and talking to a lot of like-minded people around the world. And yes, you do have to have a ham radio license to do DMR. You have to provide that license number to get a digital license. But it's really cool. It's crystal clear. And not having to go out and set up an antenna right on my 20 and 40 meters when it's 20 degrees outside is a bonus as well. So that's been a lot of fun. If you all, if any of my listeners out there are on DMR, let me know if you're on a talk group. Try that again. Talk group. If not, I'll try to put one together. Now, the other one is for everybody, right? I think this is going to be an interesting year. I always think about what's the best way we can all communicate with each other. You all know we have thefactunner.com. People use the chat room there. But I have been using something called Zello lately. So I created a room. If you don't know what Zello is, just go to YouTube, type in Zello, and there's like hundreds of two, three, four-minute videos on how to use it. And we can all chat in a room there. You can even talk to each other in a room there. You can talk one-on-one or in a group. So go to Zillow, and in the search box in the channels, just put The Fact Hunter and join. And we can chat anytime, right? Text messages are easier, but down the road, once we get it running, you all can lead it. Say, hey, I'm going to be on at 8, and I want to talk about 9-11, right? Jane can say, I'm going to be on at 6. We're going to do a—I'm going to pray for everybody. Very easy to use. It's very, very simple. So even if you're a little tech wary, don't worry about it. It's very easy to use. So that's it. Let's get into the main topic of conversation, and that is really how propaganda can be used. But before it is used, you've got to lay the foundation of how power is centralized. You can't use propaganda if there's a bunch of individual people governing themselves. propaganda doesn't work really well. Now, when propaganda relies on government sustenance, right, on benefits, employment, you're darn right. It's easy to work. And that's why, pardon me, the New Deal and the official socialization of this country is such, I don't hear any podcasts talk about that. YouTube channels talk about that. And obviously, I'm going beyond the scope of faith here as far as our country goes. And listen, I've been all around this world. We are truly blessed to be able to, for the most part, you know, practice our religion, for the most part, own property. For you guys who follow me on Substack, I wrote a very passionate article on property taxes, right? You can't have true freedoms if you don't outright own your property, right? And I always talk about the lesser evil is still evil. And Roger, I got that, But I'm just saying there's a lot worse places that we could be, right? Don't like to be a negative Nancy all the time. But a lot of people don't know. See, I'm not saying that we should not be proud of the Constitution. And, you know, we know a lot of the founders were Freemasons. And is it possible that the founding of this country was really through British agents to say, hey, as long as you say you're free, but we get you guys back under the central government, we'll still be able to control you. And a lot of people don't know that there were a lot, and I mean a lot of important people, you know, post-1750s, 60s, 70s, and into the 80s who did not want a centralized government in this nation. And that's where I want to start today. And it was the ratification struggle over the Constitution between 1787 and 1888, right? And that unfolded as one of the earliest large-scale persuasion campaigns in the nation's history. So following independence, governance operated under the Articles of Confederation, right? That was ratified in 1781, which deliberately limited central authority after colonial experience under British Imperial administration Now during this time you had economic instability you had interstate trade disputes. Of course, we had debt crisis. And listen, we've had debt crisis, as all nations have. But the answer, right? I was listening to someone talk today, a silver dollar back in the day, one silver dollar, like a hundred years ago, would get you a dozen eggs, a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, a couple gallons of gas, right? But that silver dollar wasn't debt. it was actually worth something. We use these notes that are loans to the government. Fractional banking, fractional lending. We are in a debt-based country, and it's not going to end well for us. But it was always intentional, right? So the 1% of the 1%, your Rockefellers, your Rothschilds. Yes, your Trumps to a certain extent, right? The left and the right, they belong to the same corrupt bird. I saw a really cool meme today. It said, here's what your sky looked like under Biden. And it was full of chemtrails. And it said, here's what your sky looks like under Trump. And it was full of chemtrails. So, you know, truthers get out of that left, right mindset, because it is, number one, there's nothing more divisive. And number two, again, they only care about themselves, right? There's a big club at the top, and you're not in it, right? So with this economic instability, the trade disputes on and on, right, it culminated in the Constitutional Convention that was held in Philadelphia in the mid to late 1787. delegates including George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Governor Morris, and even Ben Franklin advocated expanded federal authority in taxation. And what was the whole point of the Revolutionary War? Taxes. My wife, let me tell you something. My wife is the most in the middle person. Never gets up, never gets down, always there, very up. I mean, she gets her paycheck. And then if you work overtime, forget about it. You're not working for yourself. You're working for Uncle Sam. And then when you get taxed and then you go pay taxes, right? You get your income tax, right? You get your paycheck that's been taxed by the state and FICA, Social Security. and then you go shopping in many states that has sales tax, you pay taxes there, you know the deal. I'm getting off topic, but everybody's getting tired of it. And now even to drive on roads in Delaware that our taxpayer money built, Route 1, on weekends, it's like six bucks to go through one toll booth. It's unbelievable. But again, these guys are advocating expanding federal authority and taxation, commerce regulation, and executive coordination. And the public acceptance of the new framework required persuasion. Okay? Hearts and minds, right? Why can't we get, you know, 1991, late 90, Poppy Bush is like, man, why aren't the Americans getting on board? I'm going to take out Iraq, get that oil, get the Kuwaitis on our side. Kuwaiti denari is one of the most valuable currencies in the world. I know what we'll do. We'll get this 15-year-old girl to say that the Iraqis have stormed into the hospitals, pulled babies out of incubators and throw the babies to the floor and steal all the incubators. None of that happened. It's all about persuasion and propaganda. And it has been in this country since its founding. Hamilton, Madison, John Jay, they produced 85 essays between October 1787 and May 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, later compiled as the Federalist Papers. Now, in Federalist No. 10, Madison argued that an extended republic could manage factionalism more effectively than localized governance. And what have I been saying for six years on this podcast? You can affect local government. You cannot affect a federal government. Federalist No. 51 emphasized structural checks and balances to mitigate power concentration. Hamilton in Federalist No. 23 stressed the necessity of centralized authority for national defense and survival. These essays were circulated in newspapers across New York and other states to influence ratification debates. And who owned most of the newspapers during that time? People like Ben Franklin, right? So they controlled the narrative. Opposition writings collectively known as the anti-federalist papers started to emerge through heroes like Patrick Henry, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, he wrote as the federal farmer, and Mercy Warren. Now, their arguments emphasized historical precedent demonstrating governmental expansion beyond its original limit. So I assume most of you know that Mason refused to sign the Constitution on September 17th, 1787, citing absence of explicit rights protection. Henry warned during the Virginia Ratifying Convention in June of 1788 that consolidation risked transforming Republican governance into distant authority removed from citizen oversight. Anti-federalist resistance contributed directly to adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 as a condition for ratification support. Okay. Anti-federalist resistance contributed directly to the adoption of the Bill of Rights, right? And again, does the federal government mind those 10, you know, the Bill of Rights? Of course not. Of course not, right? You can have a gun, but it can't be this, can't be that. Magazine can't only have so many rounds, can't do this, can't do that. And again, and there's two sides to the story. A, of course, those laws were not passed for deer hunting. They were specifically passed for you and I to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government. On the flip side, can we fight back against F-16s and F-14 tomcats? And no, of course not. But, you know, we saw what happened in Australia during COVID and we saw what happened in Canada during COVID. So you either have rights or you don't. And again, if you just tell people, yeah, you're free, you just can't do this, this, and this, then you're not really free. And I argued that with property taxes, you are not free. You can't have one without the other. It's very important. So, again, parallel intellectual developments occurred in Europe during the same time, and I always found this very interesting. May 1st, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Order of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, and that organization emerged from Enlightenment-era philosophical currents emphasizing rationalism, secular governance, secular governance, and critique of ecclesiastical and monarchical authority. Membership reported academia, bureaucrats, and professionals influenced by contemporary reformists through. Now, Bavarian elector Karl Theodor issued edicts between 1784 and 1785 suppressing secret societies. What we are told led to the organization's dissolution, right? We know that surviving correspondence and documents later circulated throughout Europe and widespread throughout the world. Again, they want to tell you these things don't exist, but they certainly do. But I will tell you that within North America, Freemasonry maintained a visible presence among political and civic leadership during the late 18th century, during this day. That's not just Freemasonry, but all the secret societies, right? Was it 2004, the election between John Kerry and George Bush? They were both Skull and Bones members. It was, you were voting for whatever. It's like, you know, there's two peanut butter sandwiches. Which one do you like better? They're two peanut butter sandwiches. One's Jiff, one's Skippy. By the way, Skippy wins every time. Actually, we make our own peanut butter. It's very simple to make. Get your own peanuts, put it in a blender. Takes about five minutes, but it's delicious. George Washington, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere. And if you're new to this podcast, go back. You know, the whole Boston Tea Party, that was organized and ran by Freemasons. John Hancock all held documented Masonic affiliations. Lodge networks functioned as a social and professional gathering space facilitating relationship building among colonial elites. While these associations were common and publicly acknowledged, their existence later fueled public debate regarding influence structures operating with governance circles, particularly in the early 19th century. So if you think that this hijacking of our government has just happened, you are way off. This government was carefully constructed from the beginning. Communication infrastructure of the ratification period relied on pamphlets, broadside tavern debates, newspaper publications, printers such as Isaiah Thomas, not the Pistons, Isaiah Thomas, and Benjamin Eads distributed political arguments widely. And here's the thing, right? The literacy rates in northern colonies enabled significant readership penetration. Public persuasion, therefore, occurred through written argument rather than broadcast media, what we do today, right? But the functional objective remained identical, shaping perception of legitimacy, necessity, and risk. scriptural discourse frequently informed political rhetoric of the period sermons delivered by clergy included Jonathan Mayhew and Samuel Langdon they framed governance through biblical covenant and moral accountability demonstrating overlap between theological interpretation and civic persuasion during the founding era These dynamics collectively illustrate that centralization debate was not merely structural negotiation, but a coordinated contrast of narrative influence involving publication campaigns, elite correspondence networks, institutional affiliations, and moral framing intended to guide public acceptance of government transparency. transformation. So with all this stuff going on, again, people are noticing that, wait a second, this isn't what we signed up for, right? We wanted to get out. That was the whole thing with the Revolutionary War. We wanted to get out of the thumb of heavy taxation and answering to other people and property rights. Well, I own my property. I paid off my mortgage. I'm debt-free. Okay, do this. Don't pay your property taxes for three years and tell me how that works out for you. Right? Tell me how if you only own $9,000 or $10,000, they can take everything and sell it for $300,000. You'd be surprised. You can go by state, foreclosure auctions, the tax, you know, the tax people auctions, the sheriffs, I guess that the sheriffs do that, right? By the county, right? and somebody was telling me last week, they showed me a chart, the inflation, you know, here's one chart of inflation for the last 50 years, and here's the chart for things like social security and the strength of the dollar, and it's not close. People are struggling. It's real. My wife and I, we went to the city, got all dressed up and went to the city, as us country folk do the other day to go to Sam's Club, stock up on our, you know, toilet paper and all that stuff that you do once a month up there in the city. But we were shocked. Still snow everywhere, so sub-30 degree temperatures. And it seems like every week there's more and more homeless people and it breaks your heart, right We cutting checks to Israel and all these other countries every week and we can take care of our own can take care of our streets We still to this day and again that snow happened almost two weeks ago schools are still two hours late because they can My sister development just got plowed like two days ago. It's like our infrastructure is not keeping up with the population growth, right? And that's what everybody's worried about, this intentional running into the ground. And one day it's, you know, that's what Build Back Better is, right? You have to destroy the old system and bring back the new, right? They destroyed two towers in New York City, and they've rebuilt one, right? But this anti-Masonic political emergence. It goes back to the disappearance of a gentleman named William Morgan in September of 1826 in Batavia, New York, and it triggered one of the earliest organized public backlashes against the perceived elite fraternal influence within American civil life. morgan who was interestingly enough a bricklayer masonry right who had resided in western new york announced plans to publish illustrations of masonry and what that was was a book claiming to reveal internal ceremonial proceedings of freemasonry how it worked after being arrested on a minor charge and transferred between jails, he simply vanished. Multiple investigations followed, several Masons were tried and convicted on lesser kidnapping-related charges, and public suspicion expanded beyond the specifics of the incident into broader concern regarding secrecy and institutional power. Political mobilization developed rapidly. By 1828, anti-Masonic sentiment escalated into an organized electoral action across parts of New York and Pennsylvania, and the anti-Masonic party formally emerged as the first third party to operate across multiple states in the United States. So if anybody ever tries to tell you you're a silly conspiracy theorist, you say, okay, hey, just go to Google and type in anti-Masonic party Wikipedia. They've been doing this for 200 years. People like you and I, obviously we're not going to the lengths they did. We haven't constructed the anti-Masonic party. Freemasonry in most communities are held in high regard today. One of our local representatives proudly puts on his, you know, bio, a member of, there's a lodge, seven or eight miles from us. Funny enough, it's normally the first parking lot plowed in the entire town. Can't make this stuff up. But it held the first national political nominating convention in Baltimore, and that would have been September of 1831. And they selected former Attorney General William Wirt as its presidential candidate for the 1832 election. Now, although Wirt himself had previously been a Mason, the campaign demonstrated the party's national organizational capacity. And again, what is the one thing that the Masons and those in the club, what are they very good about. They're very good about penetrating organizations that go against them. That's why yours truly is very, we get five, six, seven, eight emails every single day telling me how much money I could make if I signed up for them, money up front. Your podcast is only getting 20,000 downloads a week, you could be getting, and it is to control you. We don't, we're not worried about that. We're here to spread a message. We're trying to get people to put on those sunglasses. But, you know, we're trying to take it that step further, understanding that, you know, this is not, we're only on this realm for X amount of time, right? We're passing by. And that's the thing. A lot of truth seekers stop with secular ideology, like Freemasonry and 9-11 in Oklahoma City, and of course those things are important, right? We need to tell people the truth. But at the end of the day, you have to be saved as a follower in Christ. So when this mission's over, you're moving on to heaven. And that's what it's all about. That is, you know, when I was younger, going down all the rabbit holes, you understood that all of this is spiritual. It's good versus evil, right? We're not wrestling against the flesh here. This war that we are fighting is much bigger than that, right? They have persuaded us, Christians killing Christians and Christians killing Muslims and vice versa. Do you know how many saved Christians have killed saved Christians on the battlefield, right? I heard that in a sermon yesterday, and I almost had to pull over to the side of the road to fully comprehend the severity of that, right? We're in a church on Sunday, and then you're on a battlefield, and Christians are killing Christians. And people say, I'm not under any psychological warfare. Well, I would say that the matrix that they have constructed is a lot stronger than most people give it credit for. So again, the movement secured governorships, legislative seats. Of course, we're talking about the anti-Masonic party. sorry for going off to the side there, and congressional representation in several states during the early 1830s. People were tired of it. Again, this is only 40-ish years after. So, you know, Grandpa was telling stories about the Revolutionary War, and they very quickly, all those things started falling back into place, taxation and rules and more rules and more laws and this and that. And then they said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not going to get back into this consolidated power thing. Now, party literature and speeches that are still on record, you can see it emphasizes transparency in public office, something we don't have today. And questioned, and this is the big deal, and again, if you have someone in a secret society in your church, you need to pull them aside and have a conversation, okay? Whether oath-bound and fraternal affiliation compromised civic accountability, right? If you can walk into a courtroom and flash a hand gesture, and all of a sudden you're found not guilty and on your way out the door, that is not a fair and just society. Newspapers that were aligned with the movement, including publications in upstate New York, in Vermont, they circulated criticism of elite network consolidation and secret institutional loyalty. You had opposition voices, including established political parties and press outlets. They often characterized the movement as reactionary or conspiratorial, right? And over the following decade, many anti-Masonic members were absorbed into the emerging Whig Party coalition. So now by the late 1830s, the party ceased functioning as a distinct national force. And of course, subsequent historical narratives frequently reduced its significance to a transitional curiosity, despite measurable electoral impact. Now, parallel to these developments, Freemasonry maintained a continued presence among civic, and political leadership as it does to this day. And of course, it's not just Freemasonry. You could call it Luciferianism. You could call, you know, whatever particular secret society you're in. But I'm here to tell you can't be a good God-fearing Christian. You either are on, right, you can't say, you know, I'm a Christian, but I'm also in this society. That's not how it works. And there's biblical connotation that says so. as well. You can't—and I don't remember if I said this on my podcast or if I said it at a men's breakfast or on a conversation with a friend, but in the early church, and I'm talking 100 AD, 120 AD, right? First Thessalonians, most people argue, was the oldest book that was written in, again, depending on what history book you're reading, 51 to 55 AD, right, written by Paul. But the church was very young then, right, as you read in the book of Acts. But they took their faith very seriously. So if you were a Christian and you were in the Roman army, you could not, they would not let you swear an allegiance to the army. Most Christians in the army, they held logistics positions. But back then, remember, when you were a full-time soldier, you just weren't training and going to war. You were kind of like the police. You dealt with local authorities, right? Things got out of hand, theft, stuff like that. But the other thing is they also maintained roads and walkways and that kind of thing. It was National Guard, Department of Transportation, and the Army all in one fell swoop. So if you're a Christian, number one, you didn't, right? What do you do when, like a lot of veterans who listen to this podcast, right? You hold up your hand and you swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States, right? Early Christians didn't. They were forbidden to. They weren't allowed to kill. They logistics positions. Very strict. If you look at any of the books that focus on the early church, and they were very strict about it. It was very interesting. And here we are 2,000 years later, and how far we have fell. They didn't even go to plays and things. Anything that was secular, they stayed away from. Now we'll go to church, and we'll go to a slasher movie or something. It's really interesting to see how they have slowly, and again, the people who control this country, the people who control this narrative, they're generational, man. They one drop, right? We're going to fill up this bucket of evil, but they don't put it under a faucet. They just take the smallest drop, one drop at a time, one drop at a time. Well, that's okay. Well, that's okay. And then all of a sudden, holy cow, how did we get to here? Right? Lodge participation functioned as a networking mechanism, still does to this day, certainly within professional classes, right? Public awareness of this participation contributed to recurring cycles of suspicion and normalization throughout the 19th century political discourse. As the anti-Masonic movement declined, sectional economic divergence intensified between northern and southern states. Now, northern regions experienced this accelerating industrialization, infrastructure expansion. Remember, where were all the immigrants coming into? New York City. So they weren't coming into New York City and shooting down to Georgia. They were setting up camp in New York and that area, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston. And if you just look at the numbers, the amount of people involved, if I remember correctly, the Union, I'm talking total, had almost twice as many soldiers as the Confederacy. And they had more casualties than the South. The thing was, they had a stream of people coming in from this country, right? But let me digress here because I'm getting ahead of myself. again, you had the Erie Canal. That was a huge deal. That was completed in 1825. The railroad growth during the 1830s and 1840s was huge. Now, in the South, you had Southern economies that were remaining heavily agricultural, tobacco, huge, right? Virginia, the Carolinas, huge down there. Federal economic policy, right? Here's the thing. The policy was weighing heavily on the South, okay? So let's say Steve over here, there's a guy named Steve. He's just like, hey, he's talking about me. He owns 10 McDonald's. How dare you, Steve, by the way. And Larry over here on the right, he owns 10 Taco Bells. Well, you know, today they passed a measure on Mexican food. So it doesn't affect the one guy, but it affects the other. So all these tariffs, especially the Morrill Act, was unevenly, right? The North was not getting nearly as taxed as the South was, right? The export commodities like cotton and tobacco were getting taxed hugely. So again, you have this federal economic policy increasingly affected regions unevenly, particularly tariff legislation regulating imported manufactured goods. So again, tariff disputes appeared repeatedly in national debate. The tariff of abominations in 1828, that generated strong Southern opposition, right? Leading to the nullification crisis of, I think it was 1832 right That was involving South Carolina challenge to federal tariff authority and President Andrew Jackson response asserting federal supremacy And that's the way it always goes, right? That's what the anti-federalists knew what was going to happen. the federalists were going to err on the side that benefited them and their way forward to the one world government, the new world order. That's exactly what it was for. If you don't believe me, just pull out your dollar bill and look on the back, right? It's that simple. Later tariff revisions continue to reflect sectional tension. The Moral Tariff Act passed March 2nd, 1861. substantially raised import duties to protect domestic manufacturing interests. Passage occurred after several southern states had declared secession, yet tariff structure remained embedded within longstanding economic grievances articulated in regional political rhetoric. Now, again, simultaneously, as many people report, slavery was thankfully on its way out the door. But the activism intensified in public discourse. You had abolitionist publications, The Liberator, beginning in 1831. And the thing that was most interesting when you start to do this deep dive, you can go to the state of Illinois' website, Illinois.gov, and they still have all of Lincoln's speeches from either 1859 or 1859. I think it was 1860, where he was like, he had, then he's like, well, I have whatever about slavery, leave it to the states, right? And then 1863, I believe it was, he started to, and that's what politicians do, right? That's what they do. They will do whatever benefits them. Oh, and this makes me look good? Okay. All right. And again, you can go back. There's secession documents produced between December 1860 and February 1861 referenced varied motivations, including perceived threats to slavery, economic autonomy, on and on and on. But then you get to April 1861, the wartime communication all shifted towards mobilization priorities. Northern publications highlighted the preservation of union, right? uh confederacy they were we need to protect our our farmlands our homes and um the the tariffs and the taxes and obviously both sides perpetuated propaganda to a certain extent um but it was certainly one of the ugliest periods um of our time you know brothers fighting brothers cousins Christians fighting cousins, Christians fighting Christians, because, again, I still believe to this day, and I'm not, right, I'm not a liberal crybaby tree-hugging person, but, right, I still to this day, the United Kingdom is very much the financial powerhouse in the city of London, that one square mile. A DC is the military arm of the world. Vatican, the religious arm of this world. It's not a coincidence that all three of these areas have obelisks. If you're new to this channel, you should Google what is the height of a lot of numerology with the Washington Monument. May or may not include a couple of sixes in there, right? And, you know, I wrote an article the other day, God is not an American. What do you mean? Are you not a patriot? Listen, the Lord created all of us. It doesn't matter if you're from Pakistan or the United States or you're an Eskimo. He's created every single one of us. And we all come from Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. And, you know, we all have, to a certain extent, the same blood. So, you know, going forward as Christians, you know, and when I hear pastors say, pray for Ukraine, but they don't pray for Russia or pray for Israel and you're not praying for Palestine. That is the propaganda that I have effectively chose to run through going forward on this podcast, right? Because again, most of the problems in this world lie within the city of Washington, D.C., okay? We just got to get people out of that mindset. Well, at least he's better than Kamala, the lesser evil is still evil, right? Nothing redeeming about slavery at all, but we have had slaves in this world. If you Google, I keep saying Google, sorry, if you've researched, I don't want to push everybody to Google, but still to this day, if I remember the numbers correctly, in Asia specifically, and to some extent the Middle least, there's like 14 million slaves today. It hasn't ended. There's children being trafficked today, right? We have to be on our guard and we have to have a moral compass. If we see something that's wrong, we should have the courage to say, hey, that's not right. That's not how we should be living, right? My sub stack, the real Holocaust, is about the millions of babies who have been aborted since Roe versus Wade in the early 70s. Oh, that got overturned in 2022. 20 states still allow it. And the two of the states are New York and California, huge populations, right? But today was about laying the framework for ensuring that all the powers were in place. So once we got past the printing presses, right, we started to get into radio, into news, into television down the road, right? Motion pictures, right? When we're younger, we had no idea that movies played a part of the psychological operations that they use against us. Now, almost every movie has something to do with what's going on, right? And that's what we have to be attentive on. Our next episode, we're going to get into the Creel Committee, Edward Bernays, mass psychological integration, public engineering, and the turn of the century, which saw some really interesting things that I haven't even covered before. But we're going to stop here today. I'm trying to save my voice. I've got a 90-minute interview tomorrow and a very busy weekend. But I'd encourage you, again, if you have Zillow, download it. It's free. and look for the fact hunter and jump in. And, you know, you can drop some texts in there and y'all can run with it. And like-minded people can have conversations. You can talk to each other through it. And we'll see how that works out, how that experiment works out. And again, if you're in the way of this weather this weekend, I'm praying for you. Pray for my friend's daughter. She's very young, in her early 20s. She had a heart, open heart surgery this morning. I would just ask that you keep her in your prayers for me. And I'm really honored and privileged to be doing this for this period of time. I love having a podcast, getting up the next day, reading the emails, even the people who disagree with me. It's fine, man. We're, you know, millions of people, different backgrounds, different upbringings. But, you know, I just pray that you all are in Christ. We're just—this isn't our permanent residence. We're just passing through here. When you understand that, you put your faith in Christ, you don't stress over things, right? You're aware of them, right? Yeah, there's a very good chance that we could be dropping bombs. This would be the end game. Another, right? And what's interesting, and I may have mentioned this before, I follow people on YouTube, both Americans and Brits and Australians who travel and live in Iran. Same in China. Now, China is very more tech, and there is a lot of that social. But again, you're told how this person good, this person bad. And I just pray that you guys really take some time and research before you form an opinion when the next thing happens. And it's going to happen soon. I do think the B system will be in place in our lifetime. And we're going to have to make some really tough decisions. I mean, most people are saying, well, it's not tough. We're not going to do it. Right. We say that. But again, the COVID jab, that was a heck of a test. People, well, it was COVID. That wasn't the jab. Okay. There's a reason why they did that. They wanted to see how far that they could push us. And we need to do better. We can't allow them to say, you know, that guy who lives next to you, who owns that, you know, sub shop on the corner or whatever, you know, he's got to close it. But my buddy down the street here who is, you know, co-owner of Walmart or, you know what I'm saying, this whole rules for thee and not for me. everybody remembers the mask situation. And then there was all these hidden cameras. Look, Nancy Pelosi is getting a haircut. The haircut place is supposed to be closed. And even a lot of that nonsense was just more divide and conquer, right? That's why stop watching TV, NEWS, the news, North, East, West and South. It's meant to scatter us, send us running different ways, argue, right? That guy, I shot that guy. Well, he deserved it. He did not. Yeah. Start looking at these things from a Christian perspective with a moral compass, not as a Democrat or a Republican. So I'll end it there. Hey, God bless you all. Be safe this weekend. 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