Brakelights come on as vehicles head out of Los Angeles on the Interstate 10 freeway on May 27. Photo: AFP
Torrential rain in Central China’s Henan Province, typhoon In-fa on the East China Sea, deadly floods in Europe, heatwaves in North America, and severe sandstorms in Mongolia… The world has witnessed plenty of instances of extreme weather in 2021. Mother Nature has warned human kind time and again, in her own ways, that man and nature coexist in the same ecosystem, and that mankind must respect and protect nature, and follow its laws.
In September 2020, China took the initiative to pledge that it will strive to cut carbon dioxide emissions after 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, otherwise known as the “3060” target. Following China’s announcement, many other countries updated their emission reduction targets with a view to better tackle the climate issue.
However, those with ill intents still claim that China’s “3060” target is not ambitious enough, sensationalizing the notion that “China is the largest greenhouse gas emitter” in a bid to negate China’s emission reduction efforts.
It is the lavish lifestyle of Western countries that has mainly contributed to massive carbon emissions. Perhaps it’s time for the reckoning of their luxury emissions, which are the extra carbon emission generated from luxuries, distinguishable from essential needs.
According to a study by China International Capital Corp, in 2017, household carbon emissions accounted for 60-80 percent of the total emissions in wealthy developed countries. Meanwhile the figure in China is 40 percent, which is only half of the US.
In terms of electricity consumption, industrial production contributed to more than 70 percent of the total power consumption in China, while in the US the figure was less than 30 percent. Per capita, the electricity consumption of US households in 2019 was six times higher than that of Chinese households. According to an article published in 2020 on the Journal of Cleaner Production, a renowned journal on environmental science, per capita, the carbon footprint of the US is 18.1 tons, which is conspicuously higher than the global average of about 5 tons.
These numbers shed light on the high carbon lifestyle of developed countries, particularly the US, which values living in luxury over reducing their emissions for the greater good.
When torrential rain, wildfires hit Mother Earth as a result of climate change, Western countries still use the blame game on China rather than focusing on changing their domestic lavish lifestyles, which are a major contributor to the world’s massive carbon emissions. Graphic: Feng Qingyin/GT
Western countries produce most food waste
If food waste was a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, said a United Nations report in 2013.
Results of a 2017 UN research showed that European and North American countries, which accounted for less than 20 percent of the global population, were responsible for 60 percent of the global food waste.
Its no wonder that many wealthy Western countries like France, Germany, the UK and the US were among the world’s top 10 producers of food waste, according to statistics from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Trucks deliver trash at a transfer dtation in Washington DC, the US on July 10, 2018. Photo: AFP
The meat-heavy diet of the Westerners leaves a high carbon footprint. Livestock produce gases like methane, and meat consumption creates much more carbon emissions than eating vegetables or fruits.
As a 2020 study by the University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems shows, in Western countries like the US, meat is the largest contributor (56.6 percent) of carbon emissions of an average meal. In contrast, meat only accounts for 36.6 percent of the carbon footprint of an average Chinese meal, according to Beijing Review due to a tendency to consume rice as the staple food.
Clearly, the Western media’s narrative that the Chinese consumption of meat is the main culprit for climate change goes against evidence.
Americans enjoy luxurious housing standards
The US boasts its large territory and low population density. While Americans enjoy the abundance of land, they have also squandered vast amounts of resources.
According to the US Census Bureau, the average living space per person for new single-family US houses surpassed 98 square meters in 2015. Plus, many Americans are used to keeping their air conditioners on 24/7. The bigger their houses, the more air conditioning they need, hence more waste of energy. At the same time, high-carbon household appliances such as coffee machines, ovens, dish washers and dryers are must-haves for lots of American families.
According to the American Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, an ordinary dryer in a US household consumes 1,079 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. This alone is equivalent to the annual power consumption of an average Chinese family.
US’ transportation emissions are strikingly high
The US is a nation on wheels. Traditional models of vehicles like American muscle cars and pick-up trucks, which are famous for their powerful engines and high fuel consumption, are popular in the US. Meanwhile, Chinese roads are increasingly filled with electric vehicles.
Car ownership statistics show that in 2019, Americans have 0.8 vehicles per person, four times higher than that of Chinese. In 2016, 21 percent of American households owned three or more cars, while only 9 percent didn’t have access to a vehicle.
Moreover, the US public transit is troubled by obsolete facilities and few users. It may be surprising in the the US, the No. 1 developed country in the world, that the majority of regional public transit systems are underdeveloped. Issues like the lack of bus stops, long intervals between departure times and safety risks are common.
As a study by the Cato Institute underscores, the nationwide public transit ridership in the US has declined since 2014 and only 5 percent of American passengers now choose public transit to travel. Less than 3 percent of the US population in the 50 largest urban areas commute to work via public transit. Poor public services have pushed more Americans to drive themselves, which leaves a larger carbon footprint behind.
Western playbook all too familiar
Conversely, subways, buses, and other convenient means of public transit are the first choice in most parts of China. In addition, China has the world’s longest high-speed railway network. Powered by electricity, high-speed railway has a lower carbon footprint than most other means of transport, given its comparatively high transport capacity and low emissions per passenger or cargo unit. For example, as early as 2011, the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway service was only 3.64 kilowatt-hours in 100 kilometers per passenger. That is 12 times lower than a commercial passenger flight, eight times lower than a sedan, and three times lower than a mid-sized bus. Considering future advancements in technology, China’s high-speed railway system will see an even lower carbon emission.
Though Western countries live larger carbon footprint lives, they dictate the standards of the carbon footprint and can therefore still control the narrative. The West has played a dominant role in formulating the existing emissions calculation system. This system has yet to provide an effective calculation of luxury emissions, and indirectly allows for a grey area where anti-China powers make false allegations against China.
It’s easy to see that the lifestyle of the Chinese people is much more environmentally friendly than developed nations like the US.
A woman holds a dog in her arms as forest fires approach the village of Pefki on Evia island, Greece on August 8. Greece and Turkey have been battling devastating fires for nearly two weeks as the region suffered its worst heatwave in decades, which experts have linked to climate change. Photo: AFP
According to calculations from a UK-based environmental group in 2007, if everyone on Earth lived like the Americans, the Europeans or the Japanese, it would require 5.6 Earths, 3.9 Earths and 2.9 Earths. But if everyone lived like the Chinese, it would only take 0.9 Earths.
A recent article by a German climate expert, Uta Steinwehr, also points out that the per capita carbon dioxide emissions of China is 7.1 tons, which ranks 48th in the world and is much lower than Western countries. Even though the US obsessively blames China, the American per capita emissions is 16 tons, which is twice China’s number and then some.
There is no denying that China’s carbon emissions have risen in recent years, but this increase came from a quickly developing manufacturing sector. This is an inevitable component of rapid economic development and a by-product of being the world’s factory.
At the same time, a higher quality of life for 1.4 billion people naturally means some increase in carbon emissions. As people in the West love to say, if everyone is equal before God, Chinese people are also entitled to a decent life.
With a first-mover advantage in the Industrial Revolution, leading Western powers achieved modernization within a short period of time. However, this achievement came at the expense of severe damages to the global environment and emissions that catalyzed climate change. Now, these countries suddenly have a conscience and lecture the developing world to produce less carbon emissions. In reality, this is an attempt to cling to their privileges by curbing the development of other countries.
The Western playbook is all too familiar: Act recklessly with no regard for the consequences, then apologize and make up for the mess. Surely, China will not follow this old trick because China knows that clean waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. More importantly, China has long championed fairness and justice in climate change, particularly the principle of shared but differentiated responsibilities. China has firmly stood for the development interests of developing countries.
Announcing the ambitious “3060” target means China, a developing country with 1.4 billion people, is determined to complete a mission in just three decades what would take developed nations 50 to 60 years. It speaks volumes about the conviction and responsibility of China.
As a verse from Chairman Mao Zedong’s poem goes, “In a peaceful world, young and old share alike warmth and cold.” To foster a community of life for man and nature, solidarity and cooperation are the only choice. At this critical juncture, if the West still makes climate action into a card in geopolitical games, a tool to attack other countries, or an excuse to raise trade barriers, then it’s time for a reckoning in history of not only this old blame game but also these new luxury emissions.
by David McLoone
Sixty-five percent of hospitalizations and deaths involving COVID-19 are among those who have had at least one dose of the experimental jabs. Elderly woman being vaccinated
Data from England’s public health policy department on the spread of coronavirus shows that 65 percent of hospitalizations and deaths involving COVID-19 are among those who have had at least one dose of the experimental jabs.
Public Health England (PHE) released a report on July 6 detailing the spread of the Delta variant of the virus, and includes hospitalizations and deaths where COVID-19 was a factor between February 1, 2021, and August 2, 2021.
The agency, which is scheduled to be amalgamated with the NHS Test and Trace program and become the U.K. Health Security Agency next month, outlined a total of 300,010 “confirmed and provisional Delta cases” of the virus in England. Of these “cases,” 151,054 were found among unvaccinated individuals, amounting to just over 50 percent, whereas 117,115 of those testing positive had received at least one dose of the anti-COVID jabs. A total of 31,841 individuals were marked as “unlinked,” as those “represent the number of sequences not present within the English surveillance system,” most likely originating from the administrations of the other British nations.
The vaccinated category is broken down into those who tested positive after having received one jab, both within 21 days of the shot and after the 21-day mark, and those who had received both shots.
For those who received one jab, 24,018 had tested positive for COVID within 21 days and 46,089 after 21 days. This accounts for 8 percent and 15.4 percent of the overall “case” figure, respectively.
Among the double jabbed, 47,008 tested positive, accounting for 15.7 percent of the 300,010 Delta infections. In all, 39.1 percent of Delta variant infections, which accounts for roughly 99 percent of all COVID infection in the U.K., and which were detected by testing, are attributable to those who had received at least one dose of experimental “vaccine” against the virus.
Though the unvaccinated category accounts for around half of overall Delta COVID infections in England, the rate of death in this group is actually lower than among those who received jabs against the virus, and hospitalization in the double jabbed outstripped that of unvaccinated individuals.
Among the unvaccinated, those who were admitted to a hospital numbered 2,960, which is 1.95 percent of infections in that group. Within the vaccinated group, aggregating all three subcategories shows a slight decrease in the rate of hospitalization, coming in at 1.8 percent.
However, taking the fully vaccinated group on its own, the PHE data show 1,355 of 47,008 identified infections were admitted to hospital, or 2.9 percent, meaning that the double jabbed face around a 49 percent greater chance of being hospitalized if they contract COVID-19 versus someone who has not been jabbed.
Those who contracted the virus within 21 days of their first shot demonstrated a 0.97 percent hospitalization rate, and those who tested positive after three weeks from their first shot demonstrated a 1.14 percent hospitalization rate.
Despite claims that the jabs provide upwards of 90 percent protection against illness with COVID-19, the PHE document lists deaths involving the virus in some 0.4 percent of vaccinated individuals died within 28 days of a positive COVID test. Of those hospitalized, the rate stands at 22.7 percent having died. This compares with the unvaccinated category, of which 0.17 percent died within 28 days of a positive COVID test overall, and of those hospitalized 8.5 percent had died.
When analyzed according to the subcategories of vaccination, again the double jabbed stand out as being at increased risk of death if they catch the virus. So-called “fully vaccinated” individuals registered 0.85 percent dead within 28 days of a positive COVID test and among those hospitalized, some 29.7 percent had died.
This pits the double jabbed at an overall increased risk of death from catching the virus as five times more likely than those who did not receive the jab. If the “fully vaccinated” are hospitalized after testing positive for COVID, they stand a statistical chance of dying that is 3.5 times greater than that of unvaccinated individuals.
The inventor of the mRNA technology currently being widely implemented in jabs against COVID-19, Dr. Robert Malone, has voiced deep concern over the possibility that the shots could be driving the mortality rate of the COVID-19 virus upwards.
A CDC report published July 30 indicated that viral loads between the vaccinated and unvaccinated are likely “similar,” though “microbiological studies are required to confirm these findings,” the report reads.
Malone, who is also a licensed physician, receiving his medical training at Northwestern University, Harvard University medical school, and UC Davis, told Steve Bannon in an interview on his War Room: Pandemic show that an increased viral load in the vaccinated “is precisely what one would see if antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) was happening.”
Malone briefly explained that ADE is a type of virus strengthening process that can arise from certain types of vaccine, and that would otherwise not happen if the vaccine had not been used as an intervention. (See further ADE explanation here)
“This is the vaccinologist’s worst nightmare,” Malone explained. “It happened with the respiratory syncytial virus and in the ‘60s and caused more child deaths in vaccine recipients than unvaccinated. It happened with Dengvaxia, the dengue vaccine,” the scientist added.
In fact, Malone’s concerns can be seen in the case of Spain, which has aggressively upped its efforts to administer the COVID jabs to its roughly 47.5 million citizens. As things stand, around 70 percent of Spaniards have received their first dose of the “vaccine,” with 60.5 percent having received the full regimen, German news magazine FOCUS reported.
While the Constitutional Tribunal of Spain recently upheld a ruling that suspends mandatory vaccination against COVID-19, the country’s president, Pedro Sánchez, has been attempting to bring the jab to as many people as possible, delighting in the fact that the western European nation is “getting closer and closer to the goal of 70 percent of the population fully vaccinated.”
In spite of Spain’s rapid and widespread deployment of the shots, the country has seen one of the highest spikes in Europe recently regarding infection with the virus. At the end of June, there were roughly 125,000 “active infections,” but within one month that number had shot up to over 500,000.
As of August 9, there are 712,457 active infections, with 2,031 of those resulting in hospitalization, according to Worldometer. Reuters reported that over the same period of time the use of intensive care beds in Spanish hospitals dedicated to COVID patients also rose by about 0.4 percent.
The number of deaths of individuals testing positive for the virus did not increase by a similar proportion over the month of July. The daily rate of deaths remained somewhat stable throughout July but suddenly jumped between the last week of July and the first of August, when the rate almost doubled, going from 43 deaths per day to 75 per day during a seven-day moving average.
A number of San Francisco deputies will seek employment elsewhere or opt for early retirement if they are required to take the COVID-19 vaccine under a new imposed vaccine mandate, warned the city’s sheriff’s union on Friday.
San Francisco officials recently announced that all city employees will have to be vaccinated or face possible termination.
There are about 35,000 city employees. Religious exemptions or medical reasons may let some bypass the mandate, but those who refuse the shot and have no exemption will encounter consequences that could result in termination, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association published a statement on Facebook, saying they always supported safety measures against the virus but the issue at hand is that about 160 of their Sheriffs don’t want to take the vaccine due to their beliefs.
“The problem we are faced with now is the strict San Francisco Mandate which is vaccinate or be terminated. If deputy sheriffs are forced to vaccinate a percentage of them will retire early or seek employment elsewhere,” reads the statement.
The Sheriff’s Association notes that 160 of their 700 deputies are unwilling to take the vaccine, and that they can’t afford to lose them since they already have the lowest-ever staffing due to applicant testing restrictions imposed by the mayor.
“The majority of Deputy Sheriffs are vaccinated. Approximately 160 out 700 Deputy Sheriffs are not vaccinated [and] prefer to mask and test weekly instead of being vaccinated due to religious and other beliefs.
Currently, the staffing at the SFSO is at the lowest it has ever been due to the past 9-month applicant testing restriction placed on the Sheriff’s Office by the May.”
As reported earlier, numerous members of the U.S. military also said that they would quit if the armed forces mandated a COVID-19 vaccine, after a report claimed that Army headquarters told commanders to prepare for mandatory vaccinations in September.
According to a Pentagon report almost 75% of US troops refused taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Addressing the allegation of a cover-up, the spokesperson for the agency, John Kirby informed the news outlets about the reason for the lack of exact data.
In India, the Indian Air Force has been served a show cause notice by the Gujarat High Court for forcing to dismiss an officer after he refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine stating that he was using ayurvedic medicines suggested by the AYUSH ministry to increase his immunity against COVID-19.
The officer who challenged his termination in the Gujarat High Court has succeeded in getting a stay from the court.
French Vaccine Police have started patrolling the streets of Paris enforcing a Virus Pass and slapping fines as high as 9,000 Euros.
France took a big step on Monday requiring people to show a QR code proving they have a special virus pass before they can enjoy restaurants and cafés or travel by plane, train or bus across the country.
With the policy now in effect, a video from Reuters reporter Antony Paone captured Paris police going table to table in an outdoor seating area asking diners to produce a health pass.
The special pass is issued to people who are vaccinated against COVID-19, or have proof of a recent recovery from the virus or who have a recent negative test. The measure also applies to tourists visiting the country.
The first checks of Police started as a preventive measure at Paris in cafes and restaurants where the Pass Sanitaire is mandatory as of today. Penalty of 135 euros from next week, up to 9,000 euros in the event of a repeat offense.
The health pass — known officially as the EU Digital Certificate — shows whether a person has been vaccinated, received a recent negative test result, or recovered. Anyone over the age of 12 will also be required to show the pass to visit a movie theater, museum, theme park, or cultural center starting July 21.
Who actually benefits from Vaccine Passports?
The major beneficiary of these Vaccine Passports projects will be the multinational pharmaceutical industry and not the common man.
In addition to it, the ordinary people will have to share their medical records in order to prove themselves fit to travel internationally or even to watch a movie.
The estimated business these pharmaceutical giants are aiming is worth $1.5 trillion in 2021 alone.
Even India’s Health Minister recently opposed the idea of Vaccine Passports ahead of the G7 Summit. However, quietly the Indian government has issued guidelines to link your COVID-19 vaccine certificate to your passport.
Governors from Wyoming, South Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, Arizona, Idaho, and Texas have issued executive orders to prohibit Covid-19 Vaccine Passports, while North Dakota, South Carolina, Arkansas and Utah have passed bills into law to prohibit Vaccine Passport.
Vaccine Passports Plan
Most of us have heard about ‘Vaccine Passports’ only after the pandemic, when different governments started emphasizing the requirement of ‘Vaccine Passports’ for travelling to other countries or even for going to public places.
What these roadmap talk about is not just some document that would restrict your entry or movement to certain places. What they envision is an entire COVID eco-system, a future where each and every aspect of your life is monitored and regulated as per the whims and fancy of these Pharma Overlords.
The US, stuck in the ideological stereotype that ‘Communist states can’t innovate,’ has vastly underestimated China’s technological resolve and jumped head first into a contest that is a lot harder to win than Washington believed.
A new study by Harvard’s Growth Lab has found that “the technological level of China’s exports increased through the trade war with the US, according to a new ranking, which predicts the Chinese economy will grow faster than India’s over the next decade.”
It further states that the “complexity of China’s exports” has rapidly caught up with that of the US, from being half that of its rival 20 years ago to a near parity now. The study also suggests China is overcoming the impact of Washington’s tariffs and technology wars against it, an effort by the US which has been relentless, by increasing its high-tech exports to other regions.
Growth Lab manager Tim Cheston is cited by Bloomberg as saying that “Chinese exports are now at the level of having nearly filled all known areas of global products.” Their primary goal now is to “move from taking know-how from across the world, into true innovation,” he adds.
The study comes amid growing pressure from American business leaders and groups to remove tariffs on China, claiming that these have been damaging, a claim which was swiftly dismissed by the White House.
The study’s findings nicely illustrate the predicament the US faces, and why, for that matter, it is so obsessed with blacklisting Chinese firms and attempting to block their rise in high-end technology. However, it is also a sharp indication that those efforts are not yielding results, and will not slow down China’s growth trajectory. What we are seeing now is a phenomenonwhereby China “moves up the global supply chain” through increasing technological prowess, not out of it, as some would hope.
While China is always known for manufacturing and exports, the term ‘Made in China’ has traditionally, albeit misleadingly, represented a cheap, low-end product of a poor quality. But that doesn’t quite capture the fact that not only is such discourse an orientalist stereotype, but undercuts and seemingly misses the transformation taking place in China’s own manufacturing and industrial capabilities over the past two decades.
The ‘what’ that China makes is changing, and this serves to undercut the industries which America traditionally dominates. This is why Washington has responded to the new geopolitical environment with a tidal wave of protectionism, and a new-found appetite for home-grown industrialism.
As a result, America’s technological war against China has been ferocious. The Biden and Trump administrations have forcibly weaponized the semiconductor supply chain to blacklist hundreds of Chinese technology firms in their bids to prevent these from accessing critical components the US feels it wields advantages in, while others have been slapped with investment bans to prevent US capital reaching them.
The most notable target of all these actions has been Huawei and, in the midst of it all, China has quickly recognized that itmust race to self-sufficiency in semiconductor supplies in order to counter America’s bottlenecks and continue its development. The ability to produce high-end technology is ultimately the key between an advanced economy and a developing one, because it is “top of the value chain” – herein is what America hopes to cut off.
I like to think of South Korea as a model of what China’s economy will ultimately emulate, should it succeed. You have your leading technological conglomerates – Samsung, Hyundai and LG. They all produce sought-after critical semiconductor and chip technology, which is used to produce a range of compelling electronic products which dominate Korea’s economy, including computers, home appliances and smartphones. This creates a circuit of consumption, innovation and high-end production that drives Korea’s economy forwards, allowing it to rapidly become a high-income economy.
As a clear example, China’s semiconductor industry is increasingly overcoming hurdles. China has recently mastered the production of42-, 28- and 14-nm chip nodes, the latter of which is still sufficient to power the vast majority of electronic devices. The first China-made lithography machine is expected to debut later this year, showing they are already on the ‘ladder’ towards catching up to established players, and breaking free from the Dutch manufacturer ASML. As a different example, one should note how China’s own space agency, founded only in 1993, is in the process of leapfrogging NASA by proposing a Moon Base with Russia by the 2030s, as well as a human mission to Mars.
To put it lightly, the US has, arguably, vastly underestimated China’s own technological resolve and jumped head-first into a contest that may be a lot harder than they believe. Finally, one should realise that Chinese civilization was one of the greatest early innovators in human history, establishing many things the west had yet to learn. Only a myriad of ideological and racist stereotypes is blocking the west from recognizing China’s rapid technological advance, and US policies to disrupt it are not yielding results. America might be best focusing on its own capabilities.
“95% of the severe patients are vaccinated”.
“85-90% of the hospitalizations are in Fully vaccinated people.”
“We are opening more and more COVID wards.”
“The effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out”
(Dr. Kobi Haviv, earlier today on Channel 13 @newsisrael13)
“In our last paper (#279) we examined the strategy that the Elite are using to depopulate parts of the earth, as set out in the Deagel forecast. In this paper we look more closely at the way vaccine technology is being used to advance this agenda. Under the Covid vaccine roll-out the ‘target’ countries in the Deagel forecast – those with a Christian ethos or having advanced technological capability – are being treated very differently from other countries, notably those in the Belt & Road axis. The latter are set to dominate the world very shortly.”
Editor’s note: When China holds a military exercise it takes place in China. When the Empire holds a military exercise it takes place across 17 time zones.
Maitreya Bhakal is an Indian commentator who writes about China, India, the US, and global issues. Follow him on Twitter @MaitreyaBhakal
A nation-state version of a psychopath, the US refuses to give up its addiction to bombing innocent people. In just over a month, it’s bombed Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan – and shows no signs of developing a conscience.
Kill anything that moves
March 15, 1968 was a normal day in America. The sun was shining. The birds were chirping. Race riots in Mississippi were entering their fifth day or so. And at the other end of the globe, in Vietnam, soldiers of the Americal Division’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, were being briefed by their commanding officer, Captain Ernest Medina, about the exploits of the next day, which would later be dubbed the “My Lai massacre” – where 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were systematically butchered in over four hours, not counting a lunch break the soldiers took in the middle of the carnage. The orders were clear and explicit: the soldiers were to kill every single human being, burn all houses, kill all animals, destroy all food supplies and poison all wells.
As the briefing progressed, one incident stuck in the mind of artillery forward observer James Flynn, which he would recall years later. A soldier, whose name has been lost to history, expressed some apprehension about the wide-ranging nature of the orders. “Are we supposed to kill women and children?” he asked naively.
“Kill everything that moves,” came the reply.
Kill everything that moves. This same phrase would be repeated almost verbatim two years later by none other than Henry Kissinger himself while relaying US leader Richard Nixon’s orders: “A massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves.”
My Lais and my truths
That the popular US media is allowed to discuss this event is not exactly praiseworthy, nor some sign of speaking truth to power, as they claim. The reason why the My Lai massacre was allowed to enter the popular US imagination was to hide America’s much larger war crimes. As Nick Turse points out in his award-winning book Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam: “Today, histories of the Vietnam War regularly discuss war crimes or civilian suffering only in the context of a single incident: the My Lai massacre… Even as that one event has become the subject of numerous books and articles, all the other atrocities perpetrated by US soldiers have essentially vanished from popular memory.”
The strategy worked. And it continues to work to this day. After all, what better way to distract attention from your larger crimes than focus attention on your smaller ones? As a bonus, this also allows you to portray yourself as an enabler and respecter of “free speech” and “open debate”.
Bomber barbarians
Yes – America loves killing anything that moves. Like the nation-state version of the psychopathic serial murderer, it loves bombing weak, poor, defenseless nations that cannot fight back – nations that have done no harm to it and pose no threat to it.
The US regime wouldn’t dare touch North Korea, of course, because it possesses nuclear weapons and can fight back. America killed Muammar Gaddafi’s nuclear weapons program, and then killed the man himself as soon as they got the opportunity less than a decade later (he was sodomized and then murdered in the open by pro-US forces). Iraq was attacked not because it had WMDs – but because it didn’t. The US regime knew it couldn’t defend itself, and went in for the kill. Syria would have probably become another Iraq if not for Russia, who Syria explicitly invited in to counter the twin terrorist threats of Islamic State (IS/formerly ISIS) and the US (via its proxies).
Between 1965 and 1975, the “democratic” US and its allies carried out the largest aerial bombardment in human history, dropping more than 7.5 million tons of bombs in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, twice as many as those dropped on Europe and Asia during the Second World War. They turned Laos, one of the poorest, most defenseless nations on Earth, into the planet’s most bombed country. From 1965 to 1969, the US military dropped 70 tons of bombs for every square mile of North and South Vietnam – or 500 pounds for each man, woman and child. As America’s head of the Strategic Air Command General Curtis LeMay put it, America’s aim must be to “bomb the Vietnamese back to the Stone Age.”
During the “Korean War” (i.e. the US-led invasion of Korea), North Korea was bombed almost to oblivion without the batting of an eyelid. Around 85% of its buildings were destroyed. Literally only two modern buildings were left standing in Pyongyang after the US was done. They bombed and they bombed – they bombed so much that they had to halt for a while because there was nothing left to bomb. By the end of the campaign, US bombers couldn’t find targets and were often reduced to bombing footbridges or simply ditching their bombs into the sea. And when they got bored with that, they started bombing dams, causing widespread flooding. According to historian Charles K. Armstrong, the bombing of the dams and the resultant floods threatened several million North Koreans with absolute starvation; only emergency assistance from socialist countries prevented widespread famine.
The US has largely continued its destructive bombing campaigns even after the Cold War – socialism and the ‘Domino Theory’ had just been the excuse. It found other excuses.
In response [Editor: to the self-staged 9/11], it killed 1 million people and displaced 37 million, creating the largest refugee crisis in decades. No nation since World War II has had the power, or indeed, the desire, to cause such death and destruction. The “War on Terror” increased terrorism globally, and also created IS, the most dangerous non-state terrorist actor in the world.
In the last 20 years alone, the US and its allies have bombed West Asia (or to use the Eurocentric term, “Middle East”) and North Africa at the rate of 46 bombs per day. That’s not a typo – that’s almost two bombs every hour, every single day, for 20 years.
But US leaders aren’t perturbed – it isn’t white people they’re killing after all, they’re only killing the proverbial “other” who were coming to destroy “us” innocent people, and we are simply fighting the good fight. On the highly nationalistic US internet, images of US Marines saying goodbye to their kids at airports often go viral, as they fly away to slaughter children much like their own.
The more things change…
When Barack Obama became US leader, people were led to imagine that things would be different. They even gave him the Nobel Prize to cement his promised legacy even before it was created. He was painted as a peaceful president and a reluctant, cautious warrior, if at all. In truth, he was America’s drone-warrior in chief, pioneering the art of such warfare at scale – which allowed him to reduce boots on the ground. He calculated that by bringing US troops back, he could achieve popularity at home – no matter how many people he killed abroad. He was right.
Obama dropped more bombs than Bush did during his presidency. This included 26,171 bombs in 2016, his last full year in office. That’s about 72 bombs every single day – for one whole year. And these are just the publicly known bombings. Civilian deaths are rarely acknowledged by the US regime.
President Joe Biden, Obama’s former vice president, has sought to continue the bombings now that he is in charge. In late June, the US regime bombed Iraq and Syria. Again. This was one week after Congress had voted to repeal the 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq.
Ostensibly, the attacks were against “weapons storage facilities” used by “Iranian-backed militias” – shorthand for any group that opposes US occupation. Just like Nazi Germany justified killing resistance fighters opposing its occupation by calling them “partisans,” the US regime dismisses resistance fighters opposing its occupation as “militants” or “combatants,” often referring to them as “Iran-backed” as a bonus. None of these statements can be trusted or verified, of course; the US regime has a long history of publicly lying and misleading the world.
Continuing its addiction, the US regime also recently bombed Somalia, one of the world’s poorest countries. The Pentagon’s “initial assessment” found that no civilians were killed, which is a standard US claim for all its bombing raids in that impoverished country. Human rights groups – the same ones that the US cites and trusts wholeheartedly when criticizing its enemies like China and Russia – disagree. In 2017, the US regime relaxed bombing rules for Somalia, increasing the risk of civilian deaths.
According to the regime’s bombing guidelines, the Pentagon is allowed to bomb only Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq without White House approval. Thus, it is likely that Biden personally approved the Somalia airstrike. Ostensibly, it targeted the Al-Shabaab militant group, and was carried out in “coordination” with the Somalian government.
A few days later, the US regime launched multiple airstrikes in Afghanistan too, a nation it is apparently withdrawing from, after being thoroughly trounced and defeated in a 20-year-old war. This time, it was ostensibly to come to the “aid” of the Afghan government against the Taliban. Lest anybody think that a US “exit” from Afghanistan means an end to its bombings, a top US general clarified that the regime had no such intention.
More bombings can be expected in the future. The US regime will not develop morals because it has no incentive to do so – it faces little criticism from the international community for its bombings and killings, and faces even less criticism at home, even from the “anti-war” lobby.
However, one thing is beyond doubt: it will continue claiming that it is the moral leader and guardian of the world; that the most war-mongering nation on Earth is the paragon of peace and virtue; and that it deserves the divine right to lecture others and hold them “accountable” for their “human rights violations”. Old habits die hard – and lie harder.
This is a rush transcript from “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” August 2, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: Good evening and welcome to TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT. We’re coming to you this evening from Budapest, Hungary right over the Danube River. It’s a place we’re going to be telling you a lot about in the coming days.
If you care about western civilization and democracy and families and the ferocious assault on all three of those things by the leaders of our global institutions, you should know what is happening here right now. But more on that to come, a lot more.
First tonight though, we’re continuing to follow the bizarre and very fast changing guidance on COVID from the White House. Remember when they told you the last administration was incompetent? We’ve never seen anything like this. It’s beyond belief.
It was just a week ago that Rochelle Walensky of the C.D.C. did her best to terrify all of us over the new Indian strain of COVID. Walensky described the so-called delta variant as quote, “one of the most infectious respiratory diseases we know of and that I have seen in my 20-year career.” An internal C.D.C. document summed it up in marshal terms, quote, “The war has changed,” wrote the C.D.C.
In response to those horrifying developments, the administration immediately re-implemented indoor mask mandates, even for people who’ve been fully vaccinated, and that was enough to get even the deeply and curious American news media asking questions. Wait a second, if the vaccines work, why the masks? So, they started digging and they didn’t have to dig much.
On Friday morning, “The Washington Post” ran this headline, quote: “Vaccinated people made up three-quarters of those infected in a massive Massachusetts COVID-19 outbreak, pivotal C.D.C. study finds.” End quote. “The New York Times” ran a similar piece, again, it was based on numbers from the C.D.C. and yet just minutes after those articles appeared, the White House panicked.
A senior member of its COVID-19 response team, a man who is not a doctor, but instead a career flak called Ben Wanaka jumped on social media to attack the media, and in fact attacked the administration’s own scientists.
Here was Wanaka’s message to “The New York Times” on Twitter over the weekend. He wrote it in all caps as if he was shouting quote, “Vaccinated people do not transmit the virus at the same rate as unvaccinated people and if you fail to include that context you’re doing it wrong.” He barked.
He went on to call “The Washington Post’s” coverage of it irresponsible, and he added this quote: “Let’s be clear, if 10 vaccinated people walk into a room full of COVID about nine of them would walk out of the room with no COVID. Nine of them.” But is that true? Ben Wanaka, the one who is not a doctor, but instead a flak did not provide a citation for that statistic.
In fact, judging by the C.D.C.’s own numbers, it appears to be wrong. In other words it is classic misinformation, possibly Russian in origin; and yet strangely, Ben Wanaka who knows much less about science than say Alex Jones was not banned from the internet. He just kept tweeting.
And then a few hours later, he got back up support from Rochelle Walensky herself. “The vaccine works,” Walensky shouted. In fact, it works so well, you may soon be forced to get it.
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BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS CHANNEL CHIEF POLITICAL ANCHOR: Now, are you for mandating a vaccine on a Federal level?
DR. ROCHELLE WALENSKY, DIRECTOR, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: You know, that is something that I think the administration is looking into. It is something that I think we are looking to see approval from the vaccine.
Overall, I think in general, I am all for more vaccination, but you know, I have nothing further to say on that except that we are looking into those policies and quite honestly, as people are doing that locally, those are individual local decisions as well.
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CARLSON: So, we’re looking into a Federal vaccine mandate, but then just minutes after she said that, Rochelle Walensky went on Twitter to take it back, quote: “To clarify, there will be no nationwide mandate. I was referring to mandates by private institutions and portions of the Federal government.” End quote.
But of course that’s not at all what she said. She said, we are looking into a Federal mandate nationwide.
Then on Sunday, the head of the N.I.H., the highly political Francis Collins explained that those, quote, “mandates” by private institutions might look like this.
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JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: Do you think as a public health measure, it would be good for more businesses to require vaccine credentials in order to have vaccinated customers?
DR. FRANCIS COLLINS, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: As a public health person who wants to see this pandemic end, yes, I think anything we can do to encourage reluctant folks to get vaccinated because they’ll want to be part of these public events, that’s a good thing. I’m delighted to see employers like Disney and Walmart coming out and asking their staff now to be vaccinated.
I’m glad to see the President has said all Federal employees. I oversee N.I.H. with 45,000 people I need to also get vaccinated or if they’re not, to get regular testing, which is inconvenient. All of those steps I think are in the right direction.
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CARLSON: Who is this old fool? The employers asking their employees to get vaccinated? They’re not asking, they’re requiring them as a condition of employment. They are forcing them. Oh, but that’s not a mandate. Just get vaccinated or you can’t live in the United States anymore. That’s the message from the head of the N.I.H. who still has not explained to what extent his agency funded the development of this virus in the first place. Okay.
But Francis Collins at the same time also wants you to know that even if you have been vaccinated, you can’t go back to your normal life. The vaccine is perfect, but you still have to wear a mask and can’t go outside. Large gatherings, for example, are out of the question. Why? Because the possibility a handful of people who aren’t vaccinated may be hurt, quote: “If there are a hundred people,” Collins said recently, “How are you really going to be sure about people’s vaccination status?”
On the other hand, why would you need to be sure if vaccination is a choice? Collins did not explain by the way how unvaccinated people could possibly pose a threat to vaccinated people because remember, the vaccines work so well we have to mandate them for public health reasons. But at the same time, people who have been vaccinated are threatened by those who don’t.
You following this? Does it make any sense to you at all? Do you need a medical degree to know it is complete nonsense? No, you don’t. Here’s one thing you should know, these restrictions do not apply to everyone.
Prominent Democrats have been exempted from them. Barack Obama for example, just announced that he is inviting 500 people to his 60th birthday party at his $12 million spread on Martha’s Vineyard, the house which despite climate change by the way is right on the ocean.
Pearl Jam will perform, Steven Spielberg has been invited. There will be 200 staff. Why 200? Because when you’re as oppressed as Michelle Obama is, you really can’t have too many servants, and she doesn’t. Two hundred is not too many.
So it turns out Martha’s Vineyard is exempt from the new COVID rules. Aspen will be, too, for sure. Parts of Washington, D.C. have already been given a pass. We know that because Mayor Muriel Bowser delayed the implementation of her masked mandate long enough to celebrate her own birthday party. Dave Chappelle came, dozens of others did, too.
And then after the mask mandate went into effect on Saturday, Muriel Bowser who is the mayor and can do whatever she wants, officiated a wedding at a high price hotel in a very pale neighborhood, not a diverse place.
Now, you’d think all of this, the lack of equity and diversity and the hypocrisy would bother CNN. They’re on the lookout for those things, but they weren’t. Muriel Bowser is part of the ruling class and their job is to defend her no matter what she does, so they did.
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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Here’s the thing, right, she wasn’t actually as far as we know violating the new rules, correct?
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: I think that that is fair to say. I mean, I look at the photo and I see, it seems like it could be during the toast, right? Everyone’s heads are pointed in a certain direction it seems like maybe they are listening to someone is what it appears to me.
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CARLSON: Can you imagine? You’re a news network and you’re taking your air time to defend the hypocrisy of politicians because why? Are they paying you or do you feel a moral duty to do that? You’re more loyal to them than you are to your viewers, to the country.
So where does this lead? What does Civil Rights mean when they’re not enforced across the board? When your rights are given to you based on who you vote for, they’re not really Civil Rights, are they? They are privileges and that’s exactly what’s happening. In fact, it is happening around the world. Rights that we took for granted, that we believe we were born with in the English-speaking world have disappeared.
Australia is a former prison colony, increasingly, it is looking like it once was. The Australian military is now enforcing martial law. People are not allowed to leave their homes, that’s because of a COVID outbreak this summer that led to a grand total — get your pencils — of nine deaths. Nine people died of the virus and they are shutting down Australia and they’re using the military to do it.
Police helicopters are clearing people off the beach. Is there scientific justification for this? No, but they’re doing it anyway.
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TEXT: Will everyone congregating Gordon’s Bay move on.
The local police have been notified and will be attending shortly.
Anyone breaching the public health order will be issued a fine.
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CARLSON: The Anglo-sphere committing suicide collectively. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and Great Britain — what do they have in common? They speak the same language, they have the same culture and all of them are allowing COVID to defeat them.
In Australia, people not allowed on the beach and not allowed to ask why either. We know that because Sky News Australia, which has the same owners as this channel, has just been banned on YouTube in Australia. Why is that?
Well, Sky News Australia reported that outdoor mask mandates and universal lockdowns may not be necessary to defeat COVID or very effective in defeating COVID. They reported that the science is far from settled on those questions, and they are right. It is far from settled.
It is obvious to anyone who has watched the Biden administration berate its own scientists on social media this weekend. The science is not settled. Science rarely is settled, in fact, it’s a process of seeking the truth. It is not the same as a political directive, just because the person in power tells you something doesn’t mean, it is quote “science” just because CNN defends that person exempting himself from his own rules does not make that science.
But rather than admit this obvious truth, the truth that almost all Americans understand intuitively, the people running our government, including the public health establishment, which they employ panic.
How long until they’re kicking us off beaches and locking us in our homes? Will we be allowed to complain about it when they do?
Vivek Ramaswamy is the author of “Woke Inc.” He spent a long career in business and has taken a break from that because he thinks the country is in trouble, not least because of things like this. Vivek, thanks so much for joining us tonight. We appreciate it.
So, what should we make — what lesson should we draw when politicians exempt themselves from their own rules? When Barack Obama has his guests, 500 guests and 200 servants to his oceanfront home in Martha’s Vineyard at a time when the rest of us aren’t allowed to do that — what should we learn from that?
VIVEK RAMASWAMY, BIOTECH ENTREPRENEUR AND AUTHOR, “WOKE, INC.”: We should learn, Tucker, that the guiding principle is, “Do as I say, not as I do,” when it comes to government officials policy on COVID-19. It is funny, it reminds me a lot of a white-collar criminal in the 1980s, Leona Helmsley who famously said, “We don’t pay taxes, only little people pay taxes.”
Well today, only little people are the ones who are expected to abide by these COVID-19 restrictions. It is laughable if the consequences weren’t so serious and the government has given the public absolutely zero reason to trust anything they have to say, Tucker.
The government did not trust the public at the start of this pandemic and now, the public doesn’t trust the government in return and that’s a problem.
CARLSON: Well, it is a problem particularly in public health. I mean, you’ve been in public health. You ran a pharma company, a successful one developing new drug treatments for disease. If the public doesn’t believe physicians or public health authorities, like what kind of country do you have over time?
RAMASWAMY: That’s absolutely right, and now we see the censorship to top it off. I’ll tell you this, Tucker. I was a Harvard trained scientist. I started a biotech company. I care about the integrity of science and science is not what some government official says on a given day depending on what side of the bed he woke up on.
Science is a method. It is a method of pursuing truth that requires free speech, open debate, and skepticism. Yes, skepticism is part of science and instead, science — we’ve seen science transform into becoming this institution. I think of it as a church, what I call the church of scientism.
And ironically, the church of scientism has put science itself on the altar as a sacrificial lamb. What we really need is a revival of the open discourse that allows us to discover what of our ideas will be proven wrong in the future, and without open debate, without open dialogue, we can’t do that.
CARLSON: And isn’t that why — I mean, you would know, since you started a biotech company, but the United States has led the world in scientific innovation for a hundred years because it is the most open country.
RAMASWAMY: That’s right. I mean, we have to be humble about what we do know and what we don’t. History teaches us that most of our beliefs will either be proven false or modified in some way, but the only way we get there is not through censorship, it is not through government government- coordinated censorship with these so-called private companies, but through open discourse, and honesty, and humility, and skepticism. That is what science depends on.
And now, in the name of science, the worst kind of betrayal of science, Tucker, is in the name of science itself and that’s what we’re seeing.
CARLSON: That’s totally right. Humility is the root of wisdom and it is the root of science, and thank you for reminding us of that. Vivek Ramaswamy, great to see you tonight.
RAMASWAMY: Thanks, Tucker.
CARLSON: So, you often hear people say, yes, I’m required to wear a mask, but what’s the harm? It’s a small price to pay. But is it a small price? Is there an effect on people and the society that we live in?
Jeffrey Anderson maybe more than anyone in recent months has thought deeply about that question. He just wrote a brand new piece in the “Claremont Review of Books” called “The Masking of America,” which we strongly recommend. We probably should just read it on the air, but instead we’re going to have him join us right now.
Jeffrey Anderson was the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics at D.O.J. and he joins us. Jeffrey Anderson, thanks so much for coming on.
JEFFREY ANDERSON, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS AT D.O.J.: Hi, Tucker.
CARLSON: So, you hear that all the time, I heard it this afternoon from an old friend of mine. You know, it’s a small price to pay. I’m willing to do my part.
Why should we pause before we agree to this?
ANDERSON: I think it’s a huge price to pay, Tucker, for society as a whole. Masks are uncomfortable, they’re unhygienic. They profoundly compromise human interaction, human communication, human sociability, and human understanding.
There is a reason that we have not concealed the face in the West, it’s because we know that each individual human being is a unique individual and the way we can tell that is largely — the way we identify someone is largely by his or her face.
A country that forgets the importance of the face is probably also going to forget the importance of certain unalienable rights. When we walk around looking like faceless Storm Troopers, it doesn’t exactly inspire a lot of confidence that we are fit to be a free, self-governing citizens in a Republic.
CARLSON: Such a deep point. I just want to write out what you said and put it on my refrigerator.
The importance of the human face reminds us of the importance of the human individual. We’re not all the same, that’s why we don’t wear uniforms.
So, do you think their insistence that we cover our faces, that everyone look exactly alike reveals how they feel about us?
ANDERSON: I think it certainly suggests that to some degree, and our willingness to go along with it says something about how we view ourselves in relation to them. We’ve had way too much government by public health official in recent months or by executives who act like they are kings or emperors, rather than by representative legislatures, who are supposed to be the ones representing us on these questions.
CARLSON: So this — I mean, it does seem and I don’t want to overstate anything or make anyone more fearful or more paranoid, but it does seem like democracy to some extent, our understanding of our relationship to the state is at stake here.
ANDERSON: I think that’s right. I mean, this is — it is interesting to compare this experience with say 1918 and the Spanish flu and some of the other pandemics that have hit and American’s reaction to that.
If we compare COVID to the Spanish flu, an American under 40 years of age have more than a hundred times the chance of dying of the Spanish flu than of COVID-19. The Spanish flu was more than a hundred times as deadly than COVID for Americans under 40. You certainly don’t hear that.
There’s a culture of fear being inculcated and we simply — so far, we’ve been going along with it way too much and I think that the we need to actually look at the science, which suggests masks are really not that effective and they’re — and look at the full picture which shows that they are doing a great deal of harm.
CARLSON: I think that’s exactly right. Thank you for reminding us that. Terrific piece in the “Claremont Review of Books.” Jeffrey Anderson, I appreciate it.
ANDERSON: Thank you, Tucker.
CARLSON: Meanwhile, as our public health authorities try to terrify us about a resurgence of the delta variant, people were dying all over the country of the violence that they have allowed.
In the City of New Orleans for example, several people were shot on Bourbon Street where you’ve probably been in the French Quarter if you’ve been a tourist in that city. Now, another major American city is about to set an all-time record for violent crime, we’ll tell you where.
We’re coming to you as we said, live from Budapest, Hungary on assignment for our documentary series. We’ll tell you a lot more, coming up.
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CARLSON: So, we’re standing in front of the Hungarian Supreme Court Building which is directly across from the Parliament, and like a lot of buildings in the central square in Budapest, one of the better side of the Danube, there are bullet holes in the marble of the building, and they are all over.
Some have been patched, some haven’t been, and they’re either from the siege of Budapest, it was at the end of the Second World War, or they were from the 1956 Hungarian uprising, Soviet bullet holes, and they are a reminder of how many times this country has been dominated by foreign powers. They are kind of a living testament to the violence that has unfolded here, and again to the foreign domination of this country, and it really affects the way Hungarians feel about themselves and their government.
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CARLSON: Welcome back from Budapest, Hungary.
Well, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last Memorial Day has inadvertently perhaps led to the deaths of many thousands more American citizens. Violent crime continues to surge in American cities across the country, thanks to policies put in place since then.
Just over the past weekend, there were several shootings in the City of New Orleans. Five people were shot in the city’s French Quarter early Sunday. You can see the crowd fleeing gunfire on your screen. Keep in mind that’s Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. That’s where people go when they visit the city. Now, it’s too dangerous for people to go a lot of the time.
In New York City, the biggest in the country, 10 people were shot, three were killed following a gang shootout in front of a laundromat. Bill de Blasio was busy playing volleyball over the weekend, but at least, mayoral nominee, Eric Adams had something to say about that. Watch.
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ERIC ADAMS (D), MAYORAL CANDIDATE, NEW YORK CITY: We are losing the grip on public safety and we have to respond immediately and treat this like the crisis that it is.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Brooklyn Borough President and democratic mayoral candidate, Eric Adams in North Corona Queens condemning the suspected gang-related mass shooting on 37th Avenue that left 10 injured there Saturday night.
Adams’s comments coming just as another suspected gang member was arraigned for shooting an NYPD officer struggling to disarm him in the Bronx just after midnight, Saturday.
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CARLSON: Tragedy, every one of them, Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she joins us now.
Heather, thanks so much for coming on. It’s infuriating and grief-making to watch those videos because you know they didn’t have to happen, those shootings, they did happen because of bad policies and the people who made those policies will never be held to account for them and never be forced to apologize.
You’ve covered this from a social science point of view for decades. It must enrage you to watch it.
HEATHER MAC DONALD, FELLOW, MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: It certainly does, Tucker. We’re all living through a real-time experiment testing the left’s theories about crime and human nature. According to much of the media, the Democratic elite establishment, crime is just a racist fiction and the criminal justice system has been designed to oppress blacks, therefore we can dismantle law enforcement without negative effects and will liberate blacks from racist oppression.
Well, the results of this experiment have been in for a year, as you say since the George Floyd riots and what we’ve seen is the largest increase in homicide in this nation’s history. Dozens of black children mowed down fatally by drive-by shootings and senior citizens thrashed, beaten mercilessly by racist hate-filled thugs.
This crime wave is coming to a neighborhood near you via carjackings, flash mobs, and street robberies, and if we don’t completely rebut without apology the false narrative that policing is racist, civilization is going to continue to unwind right before our eyes.
CARLSON: I’m not sure most Americans understand that not all cities are like that. I’m standing in a city of 1.7 million people where nothing like that ever happens — ever happens in Budapest, Hungary. Probably a lot of problems with Budapest, but there’s nothing like that.
Do Americans, have they come to believe that we have to live like this? That it’s like mandatory for some reason?
MAC DONALD: Well, we’ve reverted to that absolutely. In the early 1990s, criminologists were saying for New York City that it was inevitably violent, that that is simply the American character. That was the norm and Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner William Bratton disproved it through effective law enforcement.
The root cause of American crime, Tucker, you bring about — you mentioned Hungarian families, is the breakdown of the family in the inner city. As long as that continues and young boys are raised without any sense of impulse control, deferred gratification, the police are the only thing that stands between the law-abiding residents of poor neighborhoods and utter complete annihilation.
So, this narrative far from helping blacks is hurting them and the solution to it ultimately is not law enforcement, it is social cohesion and a return to the understanding that children need mothers and fathers.
CARLSON: Yes. One of the things I love about talking to you is you actually care about what happens to the people we see on our screen being murdered on the sidewalk. No one in charge seems to care, so bless you for that.
Heather Mac Donald, thank you.
MAC DONALD: Thank you, Tucker.
CARLSON: So, the southern border is completely open, transforming the country. The Biden administration has allowed many thousands, very soon it’ll be millions of foreign nationals from other nations to enter our country.
Now, there is an effort underway to make sure all of them can vote. Oh, but don’t say it out loud, that’s a conspiracy theory. Right? We’ve got details for you coming up live from Budapest.
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MATT FINN, FOX NEWS CHANNEL CORRESPONDENT: Welcome to “FOX News Live.” I’m Matt Finn.
The White House calling on states and local governments to take action after an eviction moratorium expired over the weekend. The Biden administration says the Federal government has provided more than $45 billion to keep renters in their home and is accusing states and cities of being quite, “too slow to act.”
President Biden has faced criticism that he was slow to address the end of the moratorium imposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senator Lindsey Graham has tested positive for COVID-19. The South Carolina lawmaker is the first senator to test positive despite being vaccinated.
Senator Graham says he is quote, “very glad he received the vaccine” and that without it, his current symptoms would be far worse.
I’m Matt Finn, now back to TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT.
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CARLSON: So the Biden administration started doing all kinds of things almost immediately after Joe Biden was inaugurated in January, but the very first thing they did, the first big policy change they made and the one they have stuck to most deciduously has been to open our southern border, not simply to Latin America, but to the world.
Now why did they do that? Why is that the one thing they did immediately and have kept doing? Well, of course because they want to change who lives in this country and they’re doing that to undermine democracy itself. When you change who votes, you change the outcome of elections, and they believe by opening the border, they can ensure permanent control of our political system by the Democratic Party for generations.
That’s not a conspiracy theory, they say it out loud all the time, and attacked you if you noted.
Dick Durbin who is a senator purportedly from Illinois just said it out loud on the floor of the Senate a few days ago. Last week “The New York Times” published an op-ed — and we’re giving the title here directly — quote, “There is no good reason you should have to be a citizen to vote.”
In other words, the millions coming in should be able to choose your government. The author of that piece argues that actually non-citizens contribute just as much to this country as people who are born here and they should be allowed to pick your government.
If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He joins us tonight.
Professor, thanks so much for coming on. So, they scream at you if you repeat their own words back to them, but I think it’s pretty clear, they are not even hiding it that the whole point of their immigration policy is to ensure political control, replace the population, get a different outcome.
Am I misreading this?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, SENIOR FELLOW, HOOVER INSTITUTION: No, you’re not, and I think it was really important you stressed the urgencies just as we’re seeing the efforts to destroy the Electoral College or pack the court or have a national voter law. They feel that the constituency of the present demography is not on their side, so they can’t wait to legally have residents come with green cards and go through a lengthy process of citizenship because they don’t think they’re going to be in power or they won’t have this moment.
So, they want to have residents immediately become equal to citizens and they forget that citizens — they know that citizenship is the foundation of western civilization, Tucker. We had a long period of settled civilization, but was only 2,700 years ago when, in the classical world, people said, wait a minute, we are a permanent fixed peoples. We have identifiable borders. We can make our own laws and elect our own officials and take governance in our own hands. We can’t do that if we’re migratory tribes or we don’t have a settled space or we don’t have shared and collective customs and traditions that develop from settlement.
So, when we look at people crossing the border, two million of them are scheduled in the next 12 months, we don’t know who these people are, Tucker. We don’t know if they speak their language and we don’t know if they share our values, and we don’t even know if they’ve ever voted before.’
And the idea that the moment they come across and that’s the first decision they made was to break U.S. law, the second will be to reside here illegally, they would be co-equal to a citizen defies the whole concept of civilization.
And remember, citizenship has already eroded. It started out — it is mentioned several times in the Constitution as an assumption. You don’t even have to define it, but it used to be the idea that a citizen could only elect — hold elected office, could only vote, could only go in and out of the country at his own permission and will, and could serve in the military and was subject to the laws of the United States.
And now, we see those are mostly eroded and we’re down to just — the only thing that separates a citizen from somebody crossing the border on day one was that they could not hold office and they could not vote. Yet, already people in some jurisdictions, school board elections in California are voting and there is talk about even people holding office.
When that happens, then we’re no different than Rome with people just in the late 5th Century A.D. coming across the Roman borders, Huns, vandals, goths with no difference in their status than Roman citizens and you know what happened after that.
CARLSON: Yes, and this is being done intentionally, stealing our country from American citizens. That’s exactly what this is and we’re allowing it.
HANSON: Yes. It is.
CARLSON: Victor Davis Hanson, I appreciate your coming on tonight.
HANSON: Thank you.
CARLSON: So Joe Biden has only been in office for a little over six months, he has already radically changed this country in a lot of different ways. He has accused a huge part of the population of being white supremacists, criminals, enemies of the state, and with very few exceptions, Republicans have not even mentioned it, not said a word, and of course done nothing to protect their own voters. Why is that?
We talked to one journalist, a man who long considered himself a member of the hard left, why this is and his answer — bracing. It’s coming to you in just a moment.
We’ll be back from Budapest, Hungary.
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CARLSON: So, we’re in the Central Square in Budapest. This is really the scene of all modern Hungarian history. At various points, there have been executions in this square, revolutions fomented in this square.
Right now, this is the seat of the legislative branch. Now, there are three main buildings in this square and they were the product of a competition in the 19th Century. The Hungarian people were asked, what kind of Parliament Building do you want? And so there were three entries in that competition and they built all three, first, second, and third.
The winner is now the Hungarian Parliament, right behind me. Neo-gothic as you can see. The second is the Supreme Court, which is as you’ve noticed neo-classical, and that’s the third place, right there. We’re not even going to name the architectural style, but I think they got it right, first, second, and third.
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CARLSON: So 20 years ago, the U.S. government built a massive National Security state to fight the threat from Islamic extremism. That entire apparatus has now been turned on the American population itself, the white supremacists that Joe Biden says live in our midst.
White supremacy, Joe Biden has told us is the greatest threat this country faces. What is it exactly? Who are these people? Why have none been arrested? No one has asked that question. No one in Congress has, not even Republicans. Why is that exactly?
David Horowitz is a long time conservative writer, but he began his career on the hard left. He is the son of communists. He understands exactly what’s happening. He has been predicting it for quite a bit of time. We just spoke to David Horowitz for a brand new episode of “Tucker Carlson Today.” Here’s part of that conversation.
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DAVID HOROWITZ, AUTHOR: Republicans are poor defenders of our country because they are poor messengers. The Democrats control and have controlled every major city, inner city in America for 50 to a hundred years, controlled them a hundred percent.
Every injustice, real or imagined in the inner cities done to minorities and the black people in particular, Democrats are one hundred percent responsible for, and yet Republicans are too polite to ever mention this. It’s as though they don’t want to embarrass their enemies by confronting them with their worst crimes.
So everything that we’ve seen, all these protests and this tearing up the cities, which was over the summer, which were done with Democratic support, these racist mayors largely black and a hundred percent Democrat encouraged the riots, did not call out the proper forces to suppress them, to arrest these people, allowed them to occupy our cities and burn them. There were over 600 violent riots in 220 American cities.
This is the problem in our country, everything is upside down. The racism in our country is an epidemic of anti-white racism. You can say anything about white people, you can fling terms like white supremacy around with no evidence, no basis in reality.
America is not a racist society, in the least, and you know Joe Biden — what has he said? The greatest threat is not ISIS, it’s not china, it’s not the Iranian terrorists, the greatest threat to America is white supremacy. Well, he must be talking about himself because he has been a lifelong white supremacist.
And I guess, he is doing some kind of what he thinks is a personal atonement by dumping that charge unjustly on his country, but it’s a monstrous lie.
Now, why aren’t Republicans referring to the Democrats as the racists that they are? This is a racist party. Equity programs are designed to help black people and minorities like small business people, but not whites. How racist is that?
Yet the only Republican I know who has called the Democrats are racist is Donald Trump. That’s why they hate Donald Trump. Republicans have to stop being so nice and going along with this language control.
You know, the border crisis, this is treason. You can’t blow up the southern border in the midst of a pandemic. It is not only — I mean, the conservative estimate is that a hundred thousand coronavirus carriers will come in illegally into the country this year, thanks to the Democrats; but of course there’s the, you know the billion dollar cartels that they are empowering, there are the sex traffickers. People are dying.
You don’t hear rhetoric coming from the Republican Party that even approaches the seriousness of the problem that the Democrats have created.
They have betrayed the country.
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CARLSON: Our conversation with David Horowitz, fascinating. It went on for about an hour. You can find it on foxnation.com under “Tucker Carlson Today.”
Well, as we told you a moment ago, Barack Obama is having a 60th birthday party and when you’re king of the Democratic Party, why wouldn’t you go big? And he has — 200 servants at Barack Obama’s oceanfront estate in Martha’s Vineyard. Who are they exactly? It must be a pretty diverse group.
Mark Steyn has looked into it. That’s next.
We’ll be back live from Budapest.
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CARLSON: No one is more oppressed than Michelle Obama, she has told you that many times. She can barely go outside. But when she is at home, she goes big. She and her husband, the King of the Democratic Party, he is turning 60, so naturally, they are celebrating at Martha’s Vineyard with 200 servants.
Will there be elephants that will be brought in on a litter? And what will Rochelle Walensky have to say about it? Talk about a super spreader event. We don’t have answers, but would you believe Mark Steyn might?
He is our high society correspondent. Needless to say, he is based in Martha’s Vineyard. He joins us tonight.
So, do you think 200 servants seems like a lot even for Barack Obama? What do you think they will be doing?
MARK STEYN, AUTHOR AND COLUMNIST: Well, actually, in fairness, I think all these under butlers and deputy footmen are actually be the only diversity because the 500 guests, seem to be the same guests who go to — we are basically back to Medieval Era, where it is the same 500 people who go to all the parties.
As you know, Barack Obama has got Oprah and George Clooney, just as Oprah and George Clooney went to Harry and Meghan’s wedding even though they had never met either of them. I mean, you have to feel sorry for George and Oprah just going to the parties of people you don’t know is a really sad and miserable existence.
But I have to say when you look at this, 500 guests, 200 fawning footmen and under butlers, what is interesting to me is the way people are actually perfectly happy with this. You have been talking about citizenship on this show, but actually, a disturbing number of people are quite happy to be subjects.
They say, “Oh, yes, I couldn’t go to granny’s 90th birthday, but it is perfectly fine for Barack Obama to have 500 people,” because our rulers are so much better than us.
The last 18 months has actually clarified this. The Governor of California eating at the French Laundry, oh, well, that is different. He is a great man. Obama is a great man. Fly in George Clooney and Oprah in, that is appropriate. Oh, I’m just going to put my mask back on and go back in the house for another 18 months.
CARLSON: That is the saddest observation — the fierce egalitarian spirit of America society dying and that is our fault. I agree with you completely. Mark Steyn, sometimes it takes a foreign eye to see the truth about our country. Great to see you.
STEYN: Or sometimes, you have to be in Budapest to see America clearly. I envy that, Tucker.
CARLSON: Yes. Safe, clean Budapest. The Great Mark Steyn.
Now, we are signing off tonight from this city, on the Danube. We will be coming from here all week. We are filming a “Tucker Carlson Original,” part of the documentary series.
We will be back every night at 8:00 p.m. The show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink.
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