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good afternoon, and welcome. I'm Bill

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Martinez and we are live. My
good friend Adam Manjiski is going to be

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joining us in just a moment.
The founder of openebooks dot com and author

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of Operation Drained the Swamp says last
year, this year, twenty twenty three,

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quite the year of waste and fraud, brought to you by our overpriced

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government. In the last twelve months, we saw the reveal of third party

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royalties going to the National Institute's about
the militarization of our federal government, the

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San Francisco infamous poop map, update, Ivy League payments and endowments, and

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the return of this little piggy Porky's
update. Ear marks are back in Congress.

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Adam Manjiawski joins us. Now,
Adam, welcome to Michelle. Good

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to have you with us. Hey, good to be here, Bill,

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thanks for having me back. I
bet you most people that are listening to

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the program here today, they don't
understand and they don't realize that every single

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one of those issues that you just
outlined came from our auditors, and we

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broke it on your radio program across
the country. On every single one of

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those issues, our auditors at Open
the Books dot Com. They made a

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big impact this year. I'll tell
you it's been such a privilege to partner

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with you and open the books on
holding our government accountable. And again we're

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grateful for the auditors, the teamwork
of everybody at Opened the Books to hold

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the govern accountable, because this has
been your mission from day one back to

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the Senator Coburn days. Well,
you know, God rest his soul.

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Senator Coburn was the legendary US Senator
from Oklahoma. And you know it was

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Coburn and I locked arm in arm
fighting these battles in the same French together

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up until his passing. He was
our first and only honorary chairman of Opening

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the Books dot com. We miss
him every day. Well, I bet,

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but what a legacy and what an
inspiration what he ignited all these years

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ago. You know, common sense
accountability for you know our government institutions that

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have done everything they could to avoid
accountability. That is the status quo of

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the Beltway. But we must continue
to do so because that is our responsibility,

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as you know, as commanded in
our constitution under those three very powerful

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words, we the people right at
him. Yeah, and Coburn, Look,

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he operated by simple rule. It
only takes one candle to light a

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dark room. Killed. Coburn is
a small state US senator, you know,

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being in those rooms at the seat
of power in Congress on Capitol Hill,

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he took that charge very seriously.
And here's a great story. In

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the twenty twelve debt ceiling limit debate
when the government was going to be shut

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down and they had to pass a
funding resolution, and this historically has been

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the only spot where Republicans get any
games on spending, Coban was able to

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get an amendment attached to that bill. When Barack Obama was the president and

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the amendment simply charged the Government Accountability
Office with an annual duplication study and report

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to Congress on the duplicative federal services
within the agencies, and then it was

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up to Congress to cut the duplication. And every single year they've submitted that

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report, Congress has taken action,
and this year we got the update and

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it is maid seven hundred billion dollars
by carving out the waste and the duplicate

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the federal services. And that is
an ongoing legacy of doctor Tom Coburn exactly.

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Well. And the thing is,
and people you know that if you

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cannot appreciate how the Beltway works,
because it is such a meat grinder.

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The paradigm and the model of the
Beltway is so pervasive that it forces good

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people to compromise on some of their
principles. Tom Coburn was not one to

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compromise, which is a credit to
him and also those that kept re electing

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him into office, because the normal
mindset of those that go to the Beltway,

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I mean, they're told right off
the bat, your number one job

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isn't about your constituencies, it's about
getting re elected. Well, if that's

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the only thing you have to worry
about is getting re elected. Well,

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then you know, it makes it
easier to kind of kick the can,

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you know, down the road and
not deal with these problems that you should

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be dealing with, you know,
by mandate in the constitution. Right,

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yeah, and Coburn, you know, on two of these issues he wrote

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books. So not only was a
great US senator, but he left the

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legacy and the written word. So
you know, he outlined exactly how you

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run for Congress as an outsider,
but the system very quickly turns you into

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an insider. Except in the second
book he wrote was on the national debt,

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that the national debt is our greatest
security threat. And you know,

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his book was called the Debt Bomb. And look, you know, back

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when Reagan was the president in nineteen
eighty, the national debt was less than

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one trillion dollars. And since then
it has escalated just over the course of

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the past you know, forty three
years, it's escalated north it's pushing thirty

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four dollars from one trillion to thirty
four trillion in the last forty some years.

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I mean, this is this is
a clear and present danger to the

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ongoing concern of the United States and
Coburn. Coburn had it right a decade

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ago. Well, without a doubt. I mean, you just think of

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what the last three presidents have done, you know, to our debt.

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And I know there's lots of you
know, you can debate certain things and

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point counterpoint about how we got there. The reality is is we're here.

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We're thirty four trillion. Our interest
rate on our debt alone is approximating what

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we invest in our military, and
our military next year is jumping up and

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down saying we need more money.
We got supersonic missiles that are being developed

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in the East, in Russia and
China, and we've got to be able

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to combat that. And meanwhile,
we've got you know, Kim John Un,

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you know, is at his antics
again sending missiles in air, and

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it was reported here this week that
he's got a missile now that can hit

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any any place in the United States. Yeah, this is the clear and

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present danger, and it's the interest
on the national debt quite obviously now,

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crowding out core government services like national
defense. Exactly, Well, what are

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we going to do? And we
get to this point, and I don't

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get a little ahead of ourselves,
but just for a moment here. You

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know, we consider the state of
the union financially, what happens when we

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get to that point where we have
no choice where these we want to do

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every decisions go ahead. Yep.
We want to do everything we can to

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avoid that point. And it starts
with carving out and changing the culture in

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Washington, DC, carving out the
waste, fraud, corruption, and taxpayer

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abuse. And so look, you
know that's why we point out halo government

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grants or large scale government grants.
You know, the thirty three billion dollars

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that went to the elite and wealthy
institutions of the Ivy League plus Stanford in

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Northwestern just in the past five years, where they're now a more federal contractor

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than they are educator. They get
more on federal grants and contracts than what

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they collect an undergraduate student tuition.
And then they get other perks like the

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twelve billion dollars worth of gain on
their endowments and investments that they didn't have

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to pay capital gains tax on.
They've got a mini school one point four

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percent tax to pay on those gains, where others other Americans pay up to

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twenty three point four percent on those
capital gains tax rates. You know,

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Adam, it wouldn't be so bad
if what came out of these institutions was

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something that we could brag about.
But yeah, I think, right,

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go ahead. Yeah. I mean, Americans are looking at what these wealthy

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elite institutions have done to incubate discrimination, bigotry, and anti Semitism on their

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campus. They're wondering how much taxpayer
money that those institutions receive. You know,

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what do their endowments look like?
Bill? Incredibly, the Harvard Endowment,

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it's the largest in the world.
It's the largest in American higher education,

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of course, fifty billion dollars.
Wow. If Harvard were a wealthy

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individual in America, it would be
the sixteenth richest individual in the country,

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would be ranked number sixteen. So
what Harvard doesn't need tax payer money.

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They need to light the lord of
the American taxpayer. They need to start

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paying their own way exactly. And
they need to make sure they're educating and

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not indoctrinating our young people, the
future leaders of America, because you know,

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when you consider that we are a
democratic republic, I don't see them

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sending out future democratic you know,
republic representatives into the culture. Do you.

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Yeah, look, public funding,
taxpayer funding, and anti semitism,

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bigotry, discrimination, those two things
don't square. The earth needs to stop

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payment. Well, and the thing
is is the marketplace is already starting to

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make some adjustments at them. You
got you know, CEOs of major companies

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saying we're not going to hire these
people coming from these IVY League colleges.

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You know, someone said poison IVY
colleges because they see this as an an

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impedant upon their own corporate culture and
what they'll have to deal with down the

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road if they bring, as some
have called them, these neo Marxists into

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their organization. Yeah, well,
Congress, you know they need to simply

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do their job. They need to
start going line by line through the Ivy's

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checkbook. And I'm going to tell
you some of the things that they'll find

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in terms of federal funding. So
Cornell University except a one million dollar grant

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on a study where it hurts the
most to be stung by ab You've got

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Columbia University. They took six I
think it was it was six million dollars

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to create fake voicemails from forty years
in the future, which was twenty year

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twenty sixty five, after the world's
been decimated by climate change. You could

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have created this own future Coast game. You can google Future Coast. You

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can play this game. You play
it for about fifteen seconds. Is so

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boring. You could have made it
with your own iPhone with a voice memo

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app that comes installed on your phone. You don't need millions of dollars to

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create things like this. That's what
Congress would find if they would simply do

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their job exactly. Wow. You
know, I guess these institutions must be

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pretty smart if they can get that
kind of money out of our dumb representatives,

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right, yeah, yeah, there's
you know, this year we found

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two million dollar grants to preserve artifacts
from the minorities in northern Iraq. Like

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four million dollars went to one of
these wealthy schools. I went to Cornell

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actually in partnership with the National Incidence
of Health to hire more minoritized their word

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employees and the sciences. We could
save four million dollars if Cornell would not

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discriminate on their hiring practice practices,
and if they would hire based on merit.

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What a novel idea, right,
yeah, this is this is absolutely

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insane. We're talking with Adam Adam
Anjiesski, a founder of Ope in the

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Books dot com, author of Operation
during the Swamp. You know, Adam,

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Sometimes you hear these stories and some
of these people think, oh,

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Adam and Bill, they're just kidding. I mean, this is like almost

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a fodder for Babylon. B No, this is real. This is your

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money. This is why you're getting
pulverized with taxes, and why it's so

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frustrating for the everyday American who is
trying, you know, living to paycheck

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to paycheck. You got over fifty
percent of the country living that way,

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and when they hear of expenditures like
this, they just want they want to

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throw a brick at their television or
whatever, you know, because it's so

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frustrating that here they are, you
know, scrimping, saving, finding all

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kinds of ways to make their paycheck
endure for the entire month. And then

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you have these knuckleheads spending our money. And then as if that's not bad

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enough, and the next time you
hear from them, they say, hey,

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we need to tax you more.
Exactly and specific to these wealthy elite

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schools. I want to make sure
everybody listening to the program. Watching the

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program completely understands how much money these
people have. So these ten schools,

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the eight ivs plus Stanford in Northwestern
over the course of the past five years,

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their endowments, this was raised from
private and private donors. Their endowments

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increased by sixty five billion dollars sixty
five billion. And to your point,

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Bill, you know, we're all
out here, regular Americans. The genius

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of America is with the regular people. We're working hard, we're working to

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save our money, put our kids
through school. These schools are increasing tuition.

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I mean, everybody's winning in higher
education except our students exactly. Yeah,

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Now, this is this is beyond
frustrating, Adam. And this is

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where the American people are finally going
to say enough's enough. And as I

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said, you've got corporate America now
is kicking back and going, look at

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if that's the doctrine you're going to
try to bring into my culture, don't

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bother, don't even bother to send
in your resume. Right. And here's

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here's an example that I want to
discuss with you. And it's outside you

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know. It's Texas Christian University and
they're they're a very good school. Historically

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Texas Christian University, and they're trying
to erase Christmas through their DEI Diversity Equity

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Inclusion program on campus. When my
daughter applied to that school a year and

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a half ago, she had to
answer a three hundred word diversity equity inclusion

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statement and as a part of the
answer to that, they provided a DEI

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toolbox, a toolkit to read.
Step three on how to take action once

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you come to TCU and you're accepted
is to take quote unquote a Christmas party

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and make it a holiday party within
your part of the university. Texas Christian

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University is trying to erase Christmas.
They're trying to bring students to campus that

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agree with this philosophy. It's absolutely
insane. Well, this whole DEI issue,

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it's interesting here recently, in the
last half of this year, Adam,

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you're seeing that corporate America is waking
up. It's a little bit easier

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for them to kind of change directions
and you know, get away from some

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of this DEI because, as I
always tell the kids, you know,

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experience defines preference, and when corporate
America has a bottom line to produce and

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a fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders.
And they see that the stock you know,

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their stocks are going down and their
value as perceived by the stockholders is

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diminishing. They go, whoa wait
a minute, we'd better you know,

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this is not helping us, you
know, because here, here's where this

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company was before DEI. Here's where
we are afterwards. And they're they're you

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know, they're I guess you know, at least investing some critical thought into

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the impact of DEI and moving away
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is DEI is a big lie.
You know. This whole idea of diversity,

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equity and inclusion is actually it's thee
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inclusion, it's exclusion because you are
selecting and excluding those that somehow, you

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know, the MOB is has deemed
irrelevant or injurious. Yeah, we picked

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up a big victory at opened the
books dot com in March of this year.

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So the Pentagon, the Department of
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public schools underneath the DODA, which
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This is a federal school system serving
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men and women. When they go
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schools that's where the children get educated. And for the first time ever,

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they had established a DEI office.
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through a leased stephonic, through congressional
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our investigation with Fox News, we
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first ever office canceled, and so
that was a big victory for our team

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that opened the books dot com.
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move a little bit faster, and
that that that was a great success to

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be able to cancel it. The
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you know, these institutions of higher
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barely had one right and they're so
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away easy. And uh you know, in some cases, you know,

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they're protected because of union jobs and
other you know, other connections. So

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it's going to be a little bit
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uh, you know, to kind
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here because you know, I mean, at the end of the day,

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you would think there would be some
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and people will be able to say, is this and the best interests of

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our students and the culture at large. I'm glad you brought that up,

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Bill, because we're going to do
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of twenty twenty four on that on
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schools. What they did is they
took this powerful office of DEI. They

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canceled it. The office was in
charge of curriculum, professional development of its

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educators, and the hiring of its
educators. Very powerful office. When they

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canceled it, what we found is
they have distributed all the tasks within the

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DNA of the school system itself.
So we've got a brand new report that's

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going to launch on this come first
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you know, think about this,
Adam. You know DEI, the Biden

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administration is the poster child organization for
DEI, isn't it. I mean,

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because you go right down the cabinet, you go throughout the administration, and

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it's about checking boxes. It's not
about merit, it's not about saying whoa

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you know, look at this person's
track record. No, they're they're a

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person of color. Oh checks a
box, they're you know, they have

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a certain you know, gender affiliation
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I mean, this is uh,
this is insane. And this is our

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government that is in operation right now, that has us on the border of

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a third World war and all kinds
of pernicious activity, whether from Russia.

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of course let's not forget what all
the fire that's going and taking place in

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the Middle East. Well, when
you when you follow the money, you

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learn a lot of different things.
And so every year the White House has

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to disclose their payroll. And do
you know who made the most money this

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year on the White House payroll?
While it was their monkey pox Tsar who

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used to own a Satanic gym in
New York City, the monkey poks Czar,

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Yes, making more than the president. Even no, it doesn't make

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more than the president, but he
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the White House staff payroll. So
he was the number one most highly compensated

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did White House staffer last year?
How much was that could, I ask,

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number in my head in preparation for
the interview today, but it was probably

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around tenter and fifteen twenner and sixty
thousand. Wow. Well, this is

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what happens. You know, you're
spending other people's money, right, You

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spend a lot easier to spend our
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Yeah, without a doubt. You
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Also in March, you know,
great job was the third party royalties

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going to the National Institutes of Health. Tell our audience about that. This

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was quite revealing. I remember this. So we've been in a knockdown,

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drag out dogfight our federal lawsuit over
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open the books on the line by
line payments of third party royalties over at

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the National Institutes of Health. So
what is a third party royalty? Well,

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taxpayer aid government scientists and a taxpayer
paid government lab invents something and then

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to monetize it and distribute it,
they license it properly to the private sector,

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think pharmaceutical company for that purpose.
Then the pharmaceutical company pays royalties back

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to the agency, and then there's
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during the pandemic, many of us
bill we all thought and got the

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feeling that big government was very close
to big pharma. So at openbooks dot

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you know, over the course of
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we've learned that virtually every single healthcare
research institution entity of any significance is in

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the royalties database. There's now two
thousand, four hundred scientists at NIAGENT and

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other federal agencies receiving third party royalties
received hundreds of thousands of royalties over the

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course of the past decade. In
this database, from two thousand and nine

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through twenty twenty, we now know
that there was three hundred and twenty five

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thousand, I'm sorry, three hundred
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party royalties that were paid out.
So think about this. Well, INIH

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every single year doles out thirty billion
dollars worth of grants to over fifty thousand

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receiving entities. Now coming back through
the other door are hundreds of billions of

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dollars worth of third Yeah, hundreds
of millions of third party royalties enriching the

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agency and its scientists. So we
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And it's led to all kinds of
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close to being able to see most
of it. Finally, I bet they

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don't want you to see it at
and that's why they've been, you know,

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trying to hide the p here for
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is this is incredible. So fifty
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and the other fifty is distributed amongst
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you know, SA said formulas,
right, Well, there is a formula

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split on the payments, that's for
sure. So you know, when we

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first started this, they ignored our
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immediately sued them with our legal partner, Judicial Watch, and then over the

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course of the next ten months,
they doled out three thousand pages worth of

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line by line royalties, but they
heavily redacted them, so we could see

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the top line. We could quantify
with our forensic data scientists three hundred and

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twenty five million in royalties, but
we couldn't see We could see the scientists

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individual names on the payments, but
they blacked out the amount to the scientist,

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and they blacked out the payer I
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who was paying the royalty, and
they blacked out what they invented, the

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license number, patent number. So
the database was virtually worthless. In August

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of this year, we got them
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the license number. So now we're
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scientist and we're going to be in
front of a federal judge in the first

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quarter making our legal arguments and battling
NIH to be able to follow the money.

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What does that do in terms of, you know, setting up the

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rest of you know, government and
the employees to think that it's okay to

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scam the taxpayer to be able to
take advantage of this. So, whether

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we're talking insider trading, paid for
play, I mean, to me,

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this deposits a you know, kind
of what do I want to say it,

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you know, a bug in the
system, you know, to where

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it doesn't promote good guy governments,
uh and good governance or morality. I

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would think, Adam, I mean, this seems like a conflict of interest

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I'm sorry because in everyday America,
the way businesses work in America today is

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that if you're if you're an employee
of a company, and while you're working

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for that company and utilizing the company's
instruments. This this has already been decided

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in the Supreme Court. Uh that
whatever you generate you uh you know,

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that goes that that becomes owned by
the company, that that gives you a

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paycheck. You don't have any personal
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it used to be that government progressives
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I mean, you had the legendary
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say that transparency is the best of
disinfectants. And we agree with that.

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We want to be able to follow
the money at NIA, and they're basically

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acting like they have a lot to
hide. They're telling you and I sit

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down, shut up, will run
things. Yes, And we're not going

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to stand for it. And so
we filed that litigation and slowly we're opening

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everything up. Here's what we've already
found. We found that the nih is

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top vaccine maker in twenty eighteen,
started to receive royalties from Maderuna so he's

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on Moderna's payroll when he goes over
to Operation Warp Speed, and obviously that

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committee greenlits Maderna early on is a
COVID vaccine exactly. His payments weren't disclosed

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on that committee. That's a straight
up conflict of interest. That's the type

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of stuff we're talking about. Yeah, and here we are, I mean,

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and there's so much still to be
debated and understood about what happened with

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Operation Warp Speed. And of course
you know the other ensuing issues in terms

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of injury to people, and you
know, thisle this whole situation, Adam,

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And when you have this this much
conflict of interest, how are you

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going to ever get down to the
bottom of the matter and really understand were

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the vaccines? Was it positive?
Were they good? Were they bad?

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You know, somewhere in between.
It just seems like we have more questions

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than answers when it comes to the
vaccines. Yeah, it was so rushed.

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We're not going to know for five
years, ten years, twenty years

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the long term effects of all this
new technology on the very complicated human body

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and human immune system. So look, it's gonna be a rough period.

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But look, we you know at
openthbooks dot Com we keep digging and clining

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and digging and cling. So I'm
telling you where this is going to go.

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Bill, We just you know,
because because we've had this litigation going

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on third party royalties that end in
twenty twenty, it's been going on that

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long. Now we need the next
three years. So we filed that Freedom

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of Act request NIH again. They
ignored it. They ignored that one.

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So with judicial watch breaking here right
in your program today last week and it's

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not been reported yet, we had
to sue NIH again for their third party

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loyalties. And this is what I
mean, Congress needs to get engaged.

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We're going to be filing a complaint
with the Inspector General of Health and Human

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Services, like why will not I
mean NIH will not release on a Freedom

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of Information Act request without a lawsuit
this very important information. And they,

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you know, the the IG,
the Inspector General at HHS, they have

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guns and badges, they've got subpoena
authority. They need to get to the

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bottom of this. Yeah, without
a doubt, I do want to address

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And there's so many other highlights throughout
the year, and one that stuck out

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in particular for me was the militarization
of our federal government, right, yeah,

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I mean HHS, Health and Human
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got five hundred special agents and they're
on to the teeth actually trained by the

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same contractors that train our US military
Special Forces operators. So, look,

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there are now more federal officers in
the rank and file federal agencies outside of

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the Department of Defense. There's two
hundred thousand of them. With the rest

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of Firearm Authority Bill. That number
exceeds the number of United States Marines at

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one hundred and eighty thousand exactly.
So since two thousand and six, there's

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been one hundred and three federal agencies
outside of the DoD that have purchased three

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point seven billion dollars in guns,
ammunition, and military style equipment. And

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here's a point that everyone needs to
understand. Seventy six of those agencies have

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been traditional paper pushing regulatory agencies.
They're not your traditional law enforcement agencies underneath

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the Department of Justice or the Department
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soup of agencies like Social Security Administration, who has officers that are armed.

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You've got, like I said,
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Protection Agency they've got two hundred special
agents, and you've got, of course,

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the Internal Revenue Service. So everybody
listening to the program, if you've

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heard that the IRS has armed up, the militarization of the IRS one hundred

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percent, full stop. All of
that research is off the desks at openthooks

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dot com. We're the subject matter
experts on this entire complex. Well,

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they were supposed to hire eighty five
thousand, and we've had a couple of

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budget modifications, so they've trimmed the
number down, but we're still talking tens

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of thousands of new agents with guns
and ammo. So it'd be three percent

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of the total number would be IRS
officer with the rest and Firearm Authority able

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to purchase guns, ammunition, and
military style equipment. So on eighty thousand

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and three percent, that's about two
thousand, four hundred. That would double

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the number of IRS special agents up
to about five thousand. When you're talking

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those kind of numbers, now you're
talking numbers equivalent, you know, are

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very close to a US Army brigade. And so, Bill, Bill,

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where in Congress did we ever have
this debate that the IRS should be have

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equivalent numbers to a US Army brigade. We're talking about an insane, insane

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audit control agency here. Now,
I do want to say we had we

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had legislative success this year in the
US House on the IRS Appropriations Bill.

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Finally they have to come clean with
an audit of their gunlocker. They're going

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to have to show the American people
exactly what they've purchased, because our data

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showed that during the pandemic years the
where the purchases of guns, ammunition,

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and military style equipment at the IRS
peaked. They did ten million dollars during

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those two years. And so,
uh, Stephanievice out of Oklahoma, she

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got this amendment attached to the I
R. S Appropriations Bill in the House.

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It still has to pass the Senate, but once it does, they'll

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have to come clean and show the
American people what's in their gunlocker. Wow.

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Yeah, I mean, this is
uh, this is incredible to think

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that here you're bringing government officials,
you know, with guns and AMMO.

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That there's no way they're going to
be able to train them all. And

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they've already had I don't know,
I think last count it was well over

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a dozen accidental firings, you know
where there was Unfortunately, there was an

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IRS special agent last fall on the
range, the training range that actually got

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killed. So that was that was
very sad. Look, we've had other

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success on the militarization of the federal
agencies on legislation just recently this fall in

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Congress, so an amendment passed to
strip the EPA Special Agent of arrest and

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firearm authority and prevent any purchase of
guns, ammunition, and military style equipment

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within the EPA's House appropriations this year. So if it passes the Senate,

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this is a huge development. The
two hundred special agents over at the EPA,

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they would be stripped of their authority. I mean, pretty soon you're

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going to have these guys run around
in tanks, right, tanks and RPGs.

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Go give me break. I mean, the IRS already has machine guns,

425
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long hail rifles, automatic shotguns,
buckshot and slugs to go in those

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shotguns. I mean, this is
what we are to No, oh,

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this is this is unbelievable, you
know, But anything else out of that

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category in terms of the militarization of
our federal government to report at him,

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Yeah, I mean it's just a
clear and present danger. You know,

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while progressives want to strip the private
sector of their weapons, the federal government

431
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is arming up. Well. Of
course, they keep getting the hight carjacked

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in DC, so they're probably gonna
have some sort of justification why everybody needs

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to carry a gun in Washington,
d C. Either that or we keep

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the or we revived the discussion of
moving our government out of Washington, d

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C. Yeah, those are good
points, that's for sure. I mean,

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we'll have to check We'll have to
check it out and see what's going

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00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:25.400
on. Let's talk about the San
Francisco poop map. The infomat the infamous

438
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:30.320
poop map update, tell us the
latest on this. So you know,

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00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.480
literally, our twenty nineteen map of
human waste in the public way in San

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00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:40.400
Francisco made the national stage. So
most people watching the program here today they

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will remember just a couple of weeks
ago, into Santas holds up the map

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of San Francisco. That was our
map. It opened the books dot com

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from twenty nineteen. We had taken
in twenty nineteen there was thirty one thousand

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cases of human waste on city streets. We downloa loaded that database from the

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city's three point one Department of Public
Works database. It came with latitude and

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00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:12.039
longitude coordinates, so we mapped it. We put it on our interactive map

447
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.440
and bill, yes, we did
use brown pins. The whole city was

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covered in brown. There was a
brown out in the Bay Area. The

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Santus holds that map up during his
debate red state Blue State debate with the

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California Governor Gavin Newsom, and analysts
said it was the key moment in the

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debate because a picture tells eight thousand
words exactly. We saw that. We

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immediately kicked into gear. We downloaded
the fresh data, we updated our map,

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and things are worse than ever in
San Francisco. There's not thirty one

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thousand cases this year. There's thirty
five thousand cases of human waste on city

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streets. So this is not just
San Francisco. The thirty five thousand is

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around the country probably probably most of
the highlights would be in the state of

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California, if I could imagine.
So our data and map is specific to

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San Francisco. So that's thirty five
thousand cases this year San Francisco this year

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00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:15.840
on the city streets reported to their
city three one one call line, so

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00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:17.920
it's their dada, not ours.
Bill. You can doubt us, but

461
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.280
if the City of San Francisco tells
you something, it's the truth. Well

462
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yeah, wow. And the thing
is is that is so amazing. You

463
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.559
know, this is why the people
in San Francisco didn't want President she to

464
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:36.119
leave, because she cleaned up the
streets. But the amazing thing, Adam,

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was that by the following week after
she left, the poop is back.

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Jeez, you know, it's disgusting
if you're the only ones working hard

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00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:52.480
as a public employee for the city
in San Francisco is a member of the

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poop patrol. Those guys make up
to one hundred and eighty five thousand a

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year. It's not enough. One
hundred eighty five thousand. I thought it

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was sixty thousand, eighty five thousand
for picking up poop. Yes, and

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00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:12.800
it's a job I wouldn't want even
at that rate. Wow. I mean,

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00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:15.039
now you're getting you're getting up there. You're getting paid as much as

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Nancy Pelosi. Yeah she I mean
to Speaker of the House. I think,

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00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.679
plus he was getting two twenty five. But yeah, you're right,

475
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:28.239
but you do have to, you
know, pick up the human waste on

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00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:31.400
city streets, look under you know, this is medieval stuff. This is

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a human health catastrophe. San Francisco
quite simply needs to get their act together,

478
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:42.800
right. Well, yeah, this
is this is amazing, and you

479
00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:46.599
know that this is taking place,
especially in a beautiful city like San Francisco.

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I mean, is that we have
this progressive thought and this activity that

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is just ruining our country. And
it seems to be consistent in blue states,

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whether we're talking California, I mean, go on down the line,

483
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:07.480
Baltimore, you know, New York. It's just a mess all over the

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00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:10.639
place here. And you think that, you know, at some point they're

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00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:15.719
going to get tired of losing people
because people are moving out. They finally

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00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:20.960
they've had it with it, and
they're moving into red states and hoping that

487
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.480
whatever it is that Red states don't
all of a sudden turn blue and they

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00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:29.039
bring you know, you know,
some of the problem that they ran away

489
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.800
from, you know, follows them
to their new state. Well, and

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00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:37.360
you know, and here's a gross
statistic that'll freak everybody out. So since

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00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:45.840
twenty eleven, we found two hundred
and seventy thousand cases of human poop on

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00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:52.599
city streets reported to the city two
hundred and seventy thousand times. Somebody made

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00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:58.440
a dial that's absolutely disgusting. Think
about your own think about your own city.

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If it happened once in my city
here in Hensdale, Illinois, people

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would freak out. It's happened two
hundred and seventy thousand times in San Francisco,

496
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:13.119
and it's getting worse. It's not
getting better. Yeah. Yeah,

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that's the sad component because the fact
of the matter is is that the citizens

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00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:21.599
are involved. The people you know
that would normally go down and you know,

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walk the sidewalks in areas of San
Francisco avoided. I know that in

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Los Angeles it had gotten so bad. You know, I said, wait

501
00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:34.840
a minute, you got human feces, You've got rats. That's that's a

502
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:38.480
prescription for a plague. Yeah,
really is. That's it's medieval stuff.

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I mean it is. It's the
recurgence of everything in a society that we

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00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:46.599
haven't seen in one hundred, one
hundred and fifty years, two hundred years

505
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:53.159
in this country. Unbelievable. Adam, let's talk about earmarks coming back to

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00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:58.400
Congress, right, It's just that's
the the drug of choice for Congress.

507
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:02.840
They just cannot help themselves. Yeah, and Republicans, unfortunately, have gone

508
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:08.480
hog wild for earmarks. So in
the spending bills debated this fall, the

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top sixty three ear markers in the
House were Republicans and the Senate eight out

510
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:20.559
of your top ten ear markers are
Republicans. You got. The number one

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00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:24.719
state in the country as a receiver
of the congressional earmarks is the state of

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Maine, one of the smallest states. And that's because one of the top

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00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:36.559
earmarkers in the Senate is Susan Collins, the Republican, you know, and

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00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:42.239
she gives like three point five million
dollars to the Irish Heritage Museum in Portland,

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00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:45.480
Maine. You know, she gives
millions of dollars for a new police

516
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:50.639
station in Caribou, Maine. I
looked it up. It's got fifteen sworn

517
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:53.760
police officers. But guess what.
It's the hometown where she grew up.

518
00:41:54.320 --> 00:42:00.960
Okay, well you know here it
is. Uh. You know, whether

519
00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:06.480
it's a Republican or Democrat or independent. Uh, it's all about buying votes,

520
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:09.079
isn't it. Well it is at
our expense. Yeah, you know,

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00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:14.199
we're picking up the tab and so
here here's some examples, you know,

522
00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:19.239
by on a bipartisan basis. So
you've got Congress literally going nuts.

523
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:25.719
You got your Democratic US senators from
Hawaii earmarking one million dollars for the Macadamia

524
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:34.679
Nut Initiative. You got the Democratic
congressman from from Ohio one million dollars into

525
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:38.119
the on a grant into the Rock
and Roll Museum in Cleveland. You've got

526
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:45.760
two million dollars going to the National
Great Blacks in Wax Museum. He earmarked

527
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:52.920
that in filme six months after the
museum esconced him with a wax figurine.

528
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:57.920
Of course, yeah, exactly.
Yah. You got five million dollars going

529
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:01.960
into the Universal Hip Hop Museum.
And New York City, you got thirty

530
00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:07.000
million dollars the retiring US Senator Patrick
Lahey last December, he marked thirty million

531
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:13.079
dollars in the Vermont Honors College.
They turned around and renamed the Honors College

532
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:19.039
after Patrick Leahey. He did it
again with the Burlington International Airport. Here

533
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.360
marked thirty four million into that airport. As soon as he retired. They

534
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:30.480
turned around last spring and they renamed
the airport after Patrick Lahey. This is

535
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.119
the thing that to me, is
so disgusting is they use our money,

536
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:39.559
as you know, to pay pay
for these things, and then they put

537
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:43.719
their name on the building. I
know. It's like wait a minute,

538
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:46.320
Okay, all right, So this
is the guy who stole the money from

539
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:51.679
the American people. And in case
you forget, his name's on the building.

540
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:54.599
And every dime was borrowed against the
national debt. We're going to be

541
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:59.159
paying it off for a couple of
generations, and it goes on a bipartisan

542
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:04.199
basis. Hiring last December, the
retiring US Senator from Alabama, Richard Shelby,

543
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:09.880
Right, Shelby earmarks fifty million dollars
into the University of Alabama. University

544
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:15.719
of Alabama hosts his Senate archive.
But Shelby doesn't ear market for a building

545
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:22.639
or a project. They stuff it
in their endowment. So we bow fifty

546
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:28.559
million against the national debt to give
it to the University of Alabama who stuffs

547
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:32.159
the cash into their endowment. Wait
to school where they pay their football coach

548
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:36.679
eleven million a year. Right,
and so then it becomes tax free,

549
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:40.599
right, yeah, grows tax free. Taxpayers never never get a clawback on

550
00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:47.440
that. You know, we're getting
work three ways to Sunday. In all

551
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:51.960
this, it's no wonder, Adam. I mean, do you guys,

552
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.360
oh, I mean if I was
around your eyes, you guys are going

553
00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:58.760
through all the I mean, you
know, even when you come on the

554
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:05.119
show, it's like my skin is
crawling just from you know, hearing these

555
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:09.400
stories about this kind of fraud and
abuse. Yeah, it's rife and every

556
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:13.800
level, right into your local units
and government where you live. And I've

557
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:19.360
come to the conclusion that we have
reverse subsidiarity in this country. It used

558
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:23.159
to be that the units of government
closest to the people practiced good government,

559
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:27.199
and it got worse by the time
you got to your state capital and finally

560
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.039
the federal government. Now I think
it's you know, we've been talking about

561
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:34.320
waste fraud, cryption abuse at the
federal level, but I think it's that

562
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:39.239
bad because your local units are your
most corrupt and nobody there is paying any

563
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:44.719
attention. Yeah, that was going
to be my next question. Are you

564
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:50.639
doing any drilling on local level or
just everything is still focused at a federal

565
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:54.840
level. Now, we do in
five key markets every single Friday, we

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00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:59.840
do an audito local units and government
in Austin Texas, Las Vegas, and

567
00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:05.440
Thevada, Nashville, Tennessee, Portland, Maine, of all places, Baltimore,

568
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:08.079
Maryland places like that. So here's
here's what we just found in Baltimore,

569
00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:13.400
Maryland. Again, it was an
eight month battle to get them to

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00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:16.880
disclose the line by line vendor payments
in the city checkbook. We opened that

571
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.760
up and what we found is,
out of their top one hundred nonprofits receiving

572
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:27.920
city money, thirty two of them
weren't even in compliance, properly registered with

573
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:32.599
the Maryland Secretary of State underneath the
Charitable Solicitation Act. Wow, and how

574
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:39.440
much money are we talking there?
Sixty five million dollars flowed to those thirty

575
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:44.760
two entities. They were some of
the largest entities that had received American Rescue

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00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:49.159
Plan Act funds. Some of the
you know, the nonprofits that run the

577
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.679
museums, the nonprofits that run their
public markets, like some of the most

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00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:58.920
prominent nonprofits in town, weren't even
properly registered with the state. Unbelievable.

579
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:05.000
She got. Well, you know, like in Austin, Texas, they

580
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:07.000
had you know, the governor had
to call in the state police this year

581
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:15.400
to patrol the streets of Austin because
we found they have understaffed rank and file

582
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:21.119
police officers to the tune of three
hundred. So their budget documents call for

583
00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:25.719
one eight and nine sworn officers,
but they have active officers only around fifteen

584
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:30.039
hundred and so Governor Greg Abbott had
to pull officers off the border and send

585
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:35.360
them to the capital city in the
progressive hub of Austin, Texas. Exactly,

586
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:39.480
yeah, exactly in the progressive We
just learn and it's breaking news today

587
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:46.719
that Harris County, that's the county
of Austin, they are redirecting American Rescue

588
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:52.599
Act Plan funds, the COVID AID
funds to do to do a permanent income

589
00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:57.559
for low income residents with those funds. That's got nothing to do with COVID.

590
00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:00.719
We're almost four years out from the
start of that virus. Yeah,

591
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.840
when are we going to recapture some
of that money? I've heard billions of

592
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:07.039
dollars out there. They're just kind
of hanging in limbo, so to speak,

593
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:10.800
and there's been no reclaiming of that
money. And if you don't,

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00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.800
then you get this kind of activity
where these local governments think, Okay,

595
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:22.280
well I can redirect this this money
and how is that fiduciarily responsible. Well,

596
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:27.159
it's not. Yeah, and here's
the story on it. So in

597
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:30.400
the American Rescue Act Plan, every
Democrat voted for that bill, Every Republican

598
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:35.079
in Congress voted against it. Biden
signed it and tucked in. There was

599
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:42.119
three hundred and fifty billion dollars of
bailout for states and thirty six thousand localities

600
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:45.239
across the country. And it was
so much money they couldn't spend it all.

601
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:50.639
So last month, just a couple
of weeks ago, the Biden administration,

602
00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:54.920
very quietly, the Treasury Department loosened
the rules on the spending of that

603
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.360
money because it was a report of
that half the money wasn't spent, so

604
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.280
they loosened the role. So now
you get things like what we just talked

605
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:07.760
about in Austin reactor with a guaranteed
income program. This is going to be

606
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:12.119
the beginning of more of that,
no doubt. Go ahead and look,

607
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:17.679
that money is particularly pernicious because it
grows government at the local level. Once

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government expands, it is very hard
to then shrink it. Yeah, without

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a doubt. Well, Adaman Jaska, I can I thank you enough again,

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great job, great year, looking
forward, to an even greater twenty

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twenty four because the antics of these
bureaucrats, like we said, it's a

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drug of choice. I don't see
them slowing down, do you? No?

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I don't. I mean, the
size, scope and power of government

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at all levels is on steroids.
But I got to say, and Open

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the Books dot Com, We're going
to make it as painful as possible by

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shining a white hot spotlight for them
to continue to fleece the American tax payer.

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Well, God bless you for doing
it again. How can we the

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people come alongside and partner with Open
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to the fullest extent of the law. We're a public charity and we exist

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money this year for a charitable cause, we would love to partner with you.

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Well, Adam, again, I
cannot thank you and the team enough

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for the great job you did on
behalf of we the people in twenty twenty

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three, and look forward to the
updates for the upcoming year. Again,

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thank you very much. Havev a
merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, bill you

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got it. Adam Manjiewski from Open
the Books and author of Operation Drain the

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Swamp has been our guest and our
thanks to you for sharing a part of

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your day. And you know,
check this out. You know we say

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own your own knowledge, the things
that add them. Share, check it

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out, go to Open the Books, use your other resources as well to

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verify what's going on, because we've
got to hold our government accountable. As

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we realize with this thirty four trillion
dollars of debt and growing, it doesn't

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seem that our government is going to
be interested in slowing down. But you

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need to be aware because this is
your money. It's not only your money,

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it's our kids' money and our grandkids. And I think they're trying to

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go after our great grand grandkids again. There's just no stopping them. Okay.

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So again we thank you for sharing
a part of your day with us.

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May God bless you and keep you, May make us face shine upon

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you and be gracious unto you and
give you peace. Thank you so much.

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Merry Christmas. Take care, God
bless