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Glenn Beck: Redford's new weapon

July 17, 2008
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The Glenn Beck Program


The Glenn Beck Program published this, An open letter to Robert Redford, after the 2004 Presidential Election. Read it as a PDF file here...

GLENN: Now, speaking of Robert Redford, he has been -- quoting from an NPR article. Don't ask me why I'm reading NPR. Let's not investigate that too deeply. Robert Redford has been, quote, fighting on behalf of the environment for more than 30 years, from producing documentary films about solar power to lobbying congress. Really? That's fighting on behalf of the -- producing documentary films about solar power? You know I was just at Sundance. Sundance, great place, beautiful place. Really, really spectacular. You know what I loved about Sundance was the environmentally friendly soap that they were using in the soap dishes. No, it was really good. No, it was -- Tania said, "I love this soap. It's environmentally friendly." And then we ran out and so we had to go down and it was hard -- because there's all these little cabins and everything all around and we stayed the weekend there and we were, you know, driving around. I got lost and so I had to go to the Sundance place and luckily they helped me find the way back to the cabin. They had one of those, you know, those big SUVs. In fact, they had a lot of them. They're beautiful, too. Stu, have you seen the new Lexus SUV?

STU: No, no, no, you're thinking of something else. You are thinking of another story because this was -- you were talking about Sundance and Robert Redford, and Robert Redford for the Earth for decades, he's been producing documentaries about solar -- no, no, but solar panels.

GLENN: No, no, I didn't see any solar panels there but they had these great SUVs from Lexus, they had a whole fleet of them. They were great and they take you up to the cabins and go around.

STU: Glenn, you are embarrassing yourself. This is Sundance, Robert Redford.

GLENN: Yeah, Robert Redford, Sundance, yeah.

STU: What you saw was a wind powered car.

GLENN: No, it's weird, I didn't see any wind-power there, either. Lots of electricity, tons of electricity going on. Just pumping up -- and you should see. They're building these new houses up there. They are spectacular. There's this one place where they cut down all these trees and they built this really -- huh?

STU: No, no, they didn't cut down the trees. They're part of the natural landscape and --

GLENN: No, no, they cut them down and there was this gigantic house. I think this thing must have been at least --

STU: 500 square feet or something to save energy.

GLENN: No, it was like 10,000 square feet. I think it was a vacation home. But it was 10,000 square feet. So if you had the money to buy a place like that, you could just take your private jet and just fly into the area. You can take -- I don't know if Sundance does this with their SUVs or you just have to call for a car service but you have the car service or the Lexus SUV from Sundance meet you at the airport, you drive 20 minutes into the beautiful mountains. I mean, it is spectacularly beautiful. And then you just take that SUV right up into that 10,000 square foot vacation home and it's -- and I don't know if the vacation home comes with the soap that is organically, you know, organic and environmentally friendly or you have to buy it.

STU: So you're saying it's -- I mean, I thought you, for a minute I thought you were trying to make some, you know, point against Robert Redford but now I understand you're saying he's just offsetting with the organic soap.

GLENN: Yeah. There was organic, like, salsa, too, I think. I'm not kidding you. I think I had organic salsa. And it was -- again we just took one of the SUVs down to the bottom of the hill and then got some of it. But anyway --

STU: Are you sure you don't mean took the Prius?

GLENN: No, I didn't see a Prius there. Anyway, I was talking about Robert Redford. You know, he's been lobbying congress, you know, flying back and forth to Washington and stuff to fight for the environment. By the way, may I just have an ADD moment? Have you seen the cost of the Democratic National Convention? You know they're doing all the green stuff, everything has to be green, all the coffee has to be green, all the cups have to be green. You know, they're making sure there's tricolored food because it looks healthier and everything else. They actually have a green of the convention president or head of -- that is overseeing how green it is. Can I ask you something? Is it just me that thinks they should just do like a teleconference. Why don't they just do something like on the Internet where they have all the convention delegates just on the Internet? Because that's new technology. I know the Democrats are looking for new technology. That's new technology that they could use today. You know, why drill? Why drill? Why not use the new technology that we have today to hold your convention instead of having everybody fly in from all over the country. It's great.

Anyway, Robert Redford has decided that he's got a new venture and a new venue for environmental activism. It is called Slam Poetry. I don't even know what slam poetry is. Does anybody know what slam poetry is? Do you know what slam poetry is, Stu?

STU: That's the thing that cures the Earth, right?

GLENN: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it is. Robert Redford is now venturing into poetry to help fight global warming. I just have to say it's a good thing, for Osama Bin Laden, that Robert Redford isn't, you know, the head of the team that's looking for Osama Bin Laden so seriously because, you know, I can hear him right now, vicious, vicious. He's like, guys, he's still out there; write some more poems, damn it, haikus, sonnets, something, hunt the man down. Because that's really what's going to -- whew.

I guess this is what we should expect from Robert Redford. I mean, it is the guy who brought us The Horse Whisperer. If I remember that right, it was a nine hour movie about -- I don't remember what it was about, but I remember that the camera was zooming in to the horse's face for about 90% of the time and I think you were supposed to think -- did anybody remember the movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull? It was kind of like that except for dull. I would have gotten up and laughed but by the time I realized this thing just isn't going to get any better -- have you ever had your butt fall asleep to where you've been sitting so long and your butt falls asleep and then all of a sudden your legs don't work and you know you're going to, like, fall down as soon as you get up? That's what it was. I was watching the horse whisperer and I'm like, my butt hurts so bad because it's dead asleep. So I had to sit there and try to wake my butt up before I left and by then it was into the fifth hour and you just, you've got to see how the thing ends by then.

Anyway, Robert Redford said words are just words without action, but I think what we're seeing here today with these poets is the beginning of action. Bob, I'm not a poet but I'm not sure that the first quote, words are just words without action, it didn't really help explain why you're writing poems about global warming, you know, and how it's a helpful thing. I -- poems are just words. They are. I'm pretty sure that poems are just words. Government officials, you know, barely act when they're being jabbed with pitchforks. I mean, I really seriously have talked to somebody about making me a torch. Now, I know I've got a lot of extra time on my hands. You know what I mean? You know, you're working. Me, I'm thinking things like that: I need a torch; where do you get a torch. I've actually seriously discussed with somebody, how do we make a torch. We're making torches and buying pitchforks! Do you think a poem is going to do anything, I mean besides brainwash our kids. Oh, maybe that's the point. He says, I think what you're seeing here is the beginning of action. Redford said, "We're going to see the children take this to the next level." Bob, how do you sleep at night? How do you sleep at night? I mean, if global warming was really so bad, so horrible, going to kill us in the next five minutes, you know, if we don't act and we're all gonna die, shouldn't we be doing more than writing poetry? I mean, seriously. "Well, yeah, Glenn, that's why we're doing slam poetry." Oh, I'm sorry.

'I don't give a damn whether they come voluntarily or under subpoena': Ted Cruz fights for tech CEO hearing BEFORE election

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The Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote on subpoenas to compel Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on alleged censorship and bias across their platforms. But that all changed when Republican committee members "expressed reservation about the maneuver," Politico reports.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who chairs Judiciary's Subcommittee on the Constitution, was definitely not one of the committee members with cold feet. On the radio program Tuesday, he told Glenn Beck that he's fighting "vociferously" to ensure Dorsey and others testify before the November 3rd election.

"Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are both going to testify. They're are going to testify in person. They're going to testify before Election Day. That's what I think should happen," Cruz said. "That's what I'm fighting vociferously to happen. Right now, the companies are negotiating with the chairman's office to discuss terms to come voluntarily. I don't give a damn whether they come voluntarily or under subpoena. They need to testify in person and answer questions for the American people about why they are trying to steal this election, to suppress the free speech, and to censor the press."

The subpoenas would require Big Tech leaders to testify on the alleged "suppression and/or censorship" of two consecutive blockbuster stories from the New York Post. The first story was about emails that allegedly came from Hunter Biden's computer which are currently being investigated by the FBI, and the second was based on additional emails that allegedly showed communist China directly offering millions of dollars to then-Vice President Joe Biden.

"Big Tech stepped in, and they've done something they've never done before," Cruz explained. "We know that Big Tech has been censoring individual conservatives, trying to suppress conservative speech. But the step they took here is, they blocked if any individual user tried to share either of the New York Post stories, [they] were blocked ... Sharing a news story, from a major media outlet is part of democracy, part of free speech. And not only that, they blocked the New York Post itself. Right now, today, the New York Post is not being allowed to post its own damn stories on corruption. This is ridiculous. It's a threshold that's never been crossed before, of Silicon Valley oligarchs declaring the authority to determine what the press is allowed to report, and who is allowed to see it."

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TIMELINE OF CORRUPTION: Biden’s nefarious ties with communist China exposed

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If we learned nothing from the media over the past 4 years it's that colluding with a foreign entity to either win an election or for personal gain is absolutely grotesque. Well, that depends on whether you have a (D) or (R) before your name anyway. President Trump was impeached on rumor and innuendo yet Joe Biden has all but skated on his corruption up to this point.

Below is a timeline that shows the level of corruption and the lengths the Biden's went to in order to build that family's wealth and influence internationally.

2009

In 2009, Joe Biden was the brand-new Vice President and John Kerry was a U.S. Senator. Just five months after Joe was sworn in, his son Hunter, and Kerry's stepson, Christopher Heinz, formed an international private equity firm called Rosemont Capital. It had several different branches, including one called Rosemont Seneca Partners.

2010

Just nine months after Rosemont Seneca opened its doors, Hunter Biden went to China for meetings with executives from China's biggest banks, and its sovereign wealth and social security funds. That's unheard-of access for a brand-new firm. Was it just coincidence that at the same time Hunter was meeting these Chinese bigwigs, his dad was meeting with China's then-president Hu Jintao in Washington DC at a nuclear security summit?

2011

In May 2011, Joe Biden met with Chinese officials for the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue conference in Washington. Just two weeks later, Hunter Biden went to Taiwan for meetings with the same Chinese financial giants he'd met in China in 2010, plus some new ones.

2013

By December 2013, Joe Biden was enjoying his second term as VP, and John Kerry was now Secretary of State. That's when Joe traveled to Beijing on an extended official trip and Hunter traveled with him on Air Force Two.

During their stay, Vice President Biden met with President Xi and Hunter was mostly out of sight. We don't know exactly what he was up to, but the deal finalized between Rosemont Seneca and the Bank of China just ten days after the Bidens' trip pretty much gives it away. The most powerful financial institution in China formed a joint venture with tiny Rosemont Seneca to create a giant new investment firm called Bohai Harvest RST – the "RS" stands for Rosemont Seneca.

The firm is often called "BHR" for short.

Hunter Biden was a member of the Board. Remember, the Bank of China is government-owned, which means its business is completely intertwined with the goals of the Chinese Communist Party. BHR also got the freedom to operate in the newly created Shanghai Free-Trade Zone where, over the next six years, it would use $2.5 billion of Chinese government money to invest in China, as well as in other countries, including the U.S.

During their Beijing trip, Hunter also introduced Jonathan Li to his dad. Li is Hunter's business partner – he's CEO and Director of BHR.

Hunter arranged for Joe to meet Li in the lobby of the hotel where they stayed during their Beijing trip.

2014

In 2014, one of BHR's first major investments was in the China General Nuclear Power Corporation.

CGN is a Chinese government-owned nuclear power company that sold off a stake of the company to outside investors. Problem is, CGN was under FBI investigation for paying informants in the U.S. to steal nuclear secrets.

In 2016, the FBI arrested the ringleader of this nuclear espionage, a man named Allen Ho.

When they arrested Ho, he was using a random code generator to access funds being provided to him from – where else? – the Bank of China.

Yet while this FBI probe was going on, the son of the Vice President owned a stake in the company being investigated. And even after arrests were made, Rosemont Seneca did not alter its relationship with BHR, nor did it divest from CGN, even though it was stealing U.S. nuclear secrets.

2015

In 2015, BHR partnered with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to buy an American company called Henniges for $600 million.

AVIC is a gigantic military contractor in China – think Lockheed Martin – that makes fighter jets, bombers and drones. BHR bought 49% of Henniges and AVIC bought 51%.

Henniges is a precision parts manufacturer specializing in anti-vibration technology. The stuff they make is known as "dual use" by the U.S. State Department, which means the technology can also have a military application.

Because of that, the deal had to be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) since it could have national security implications. The thing is, the American side of BHR – meaning Hunter Biden and his pals – had to know there were serious national security implications with AVIC.

The year before they formed a partnership with AVIC, the Wall Street Journal reported how AVIC stole technology related to the U.S. Air Force's F-35 stealth fighter and used it in its own stealth fighter for the Chinese.

How the Committee on Foreign Investment approved that deal remains a mystery. CFIUS does not publicly disclose any information regarding its decisions. Their findings are not publicly announced.

Interesting that China accounted for the largest share – with 74 transactions – approved by CFIUS during Obama's second term (2013-2015).

Under the umbrella of Rosemont Capital was a real estate company called Rosemont Realty. In 2015, a Chinese company called Gemini Investments bought a 75% stake in Rosemont Realty. The company was renamed Gemini Rosemont

Gemini brought $3 billion to the partnership with Rosemont, with the aim of buying "Class A institutional-quality commercial office properties in U.S. markets."

Red flag (literally) – Gemini Investments is a subsidiary of the China Ocean Shipping Company, a.k.a., "COSCO."

COSCO is a Chinese government-owned company. Its headquarters in Beijing is actually next to the headquarters of the Bank of China. COSCO is well-known for its close military ties. It's essentially a branch of the Chinese Navy.

2017

In 2017, BHR invested in Face++. That's the facial recognition phone app built by a Chinese company that is incorporated in a separate app built by the Chinese government. Police in the Xinjiang [Sin-jong] region of China use that app to keep tabs on citizens, and track and detain Uiguhr [Wee-ger] Muslims.

The app allows police easy access to data about Chinese Muslims including things like religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity they use.

2018

In March 2018, a spokesman (Chris Bastardi) for Christopher Heinz (John Kerry's stepson) emailed The Hill to say that Heinz had "no operating role" in Rosemont Seneca, and that he was not involved in any of Rosemont's deals in China (which contradicts Schweizer's report in his book Secret Empires).

Chris Heinz was involved in Rosemont Capital. Rosemont Seneca was established under the same GP as Rosemont Capital, but Chris Heinz had no operating role in it. Chris and his family have no financial interest or investment in Bohai Harvest RST, he has never traveled to China, and he has never met with the firm's Chinese management team or investors.

2019

In October 2019, Hunter Biden's lawyer, George Mesires, said Hunter did not conduct any business on that 2013 trip to Beijing with his Dad.

Mesires said the timing of BHR's business license getting approved was purely coincidental because the paperwork had been submitted months before the Bidens' China trip.

According to Hunter's lawyer, the approval " was not related in any way, shape or form to Hunter's visit."

Hunter Biden finally stepped down from the BHR board last October (2019), but he DID NOT give up his 10% stake in the company.

Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden's jailed former business partner flips, grants access to NEVER-before-revealed emails

When Bevan Cooney — the former "junior" business partner to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer — went to jail in 2019, investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer thought he'd never gain access to the damning emails Cooney had promised. That all changed three weeks ago when Schweizer was given complete access to Cooney's gmail account.

Schweizer joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Tuesday to describe just some of the business deals revealed within these emails — like Hunter working with an alleged Russian criminal and with Chinese communists to secure their assets, or to secure one-on-one time with his dad, then-Vice President Joe Biden. And all of this new information is completely separate from the emails allegedly discovered on Hunter Biden's laptop recently reported by the New York Post.

"So, I want to make this clear. This [Cooney's emails] has nothing to do with what's on the laptop … It didn't come from [Rudy] Giuliani. It didn't come from anybody else, right?" Glenn asked Schweizer.

"That's absolutely correct," Schweizer confirmed.

He briefly explained how Cooney, a former Los Angeles nightclub owner, is currently serving a prison sentence for his involvement in a fraudulent business bond scheme with Biden and Archer. From prison, Cooney gave Schweizer written permission to access his Gmail account.

"This is really important," he noted. "We're not looking at printouts. Not looking at PDFs. We're actually in his Gmail accounts themselves, sifting through these emails. And there's a shocking amount of information about deals involving China, involving Russia, involving all sorts of things they were trying to pull off."

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O'REILLY: The Left HATES Trump so much, they'd rather vote for the 'senile, corrupt guy'

The king of "No Spin" and bestselling author of "Killing Crazy Horse," Bill O'Reilly joined Glenn Beck on this week's podcast to talk about the latest developments in Joe Biden's Ukraine and China corruption scandal. Now that some of the details are finally coming out in the open, does the average Democrat care? Maybe, but the Left doesn't seem to.

O'Reilly argued there's more hatred for President Donald Trump now than in 2016, and that some people hate President Trump so much that they'd rather vote for the "senile, corrupt" Joe Biden.

"Hunter got tens of millions of dollars from Ukraine, from Russia, from China because his father was vice president. I have no doubt in my mind," O'Reilly said. "But the hatred for Donald Trump overrides that in the minds of millions of viewers. They're saying, 'You know, we'd rather have the senile corrupt guy than Trump.'"

Asked by Glenn if any other Republican running for president would be met with the same level of vitriol, O'Reilly answered, "The Left is the Left. They don't like America. The want to redo the Constitution. They want to take some of our freedoms, like the Second Amendment and the First Amendment, and change them. And they want to destroy capitalism and replace it with a big centralized government in Washington that controls the economy … but I'm talking about the folks. I have liberal friends and I say to them, 'Do you not understand that when you vote for Biden, you're voting against your own self interest?'"

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