RADIOJanuary 17, 2023

4 World Economic Forum ‘theories’ that just might be TRUE

The Associated Press (and pretty much every other mainstream media source) is working hard to convince the world that unfavorable claims made about the World Economic Forum are ‘conspiracy theories.’ Hmm. In this clip, Glenn gives you the information to decide for yourself: Are these just fabricated stories peddled by online commentators, or is there actually truth behind all the “theories” that the far-left wants you so badly to ignore?

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Let me give you this story, from the Associated Press. When some of the world's wealthiest and most influential figures gather at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems. But an entirely different narrative played out on the internet. Where social media users claimed leaders wanted to force the population to eat insects instead of meat. In the name of saving the environment.

Oh, by the way, I should point this out. In a completely unrelated story, I just saw this as I was doing some research on another story in Canada. And I came across -- you can find it. Canadian manufacturing.com. Some really good news.

Aspire food group has announced that it has completed construction of its alternative protein manufacturing facilities in London, Ontario, which is now home to the world's largest cricket production facility.

Aspire's new plant will reportedly produce 9,000 metric tons of crickets every year for human and pet consumption. That's about 2 billion insects to be distributed annually across Canada and throughout the United States.

Now, I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for a plant to make 9,000 metric tons of crickets. The demand is going crazy for -- I hear it all the time.

People -- my friends here in Texas. We're all talking. Hey, do you have any crickets? I'm out of crickets. The supply line for crickets.

But the good news is: Aspire food group has completed their production facility. They're ready now to just start sending out the crickets. What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Elites arrive in Davos. And conspiracy theories align. Blah, blah.

Some conspiracy theorists force the population in Essex. The annual event in the Swiss Ski Resort Town of Davos which opens today, has increasingly become a target of bizarre claims. From a growing chorus of commentators, who believe the forum involves a group of elites, manipulating global events for their own benefit.

Experts say, that it was once a conspiracy theory, found in the internet's underbelly. But now it has hit the mainstream.

One of the things, that apparently these conspiracy theorists are talking about. Is how the World Economic Forum, had The Great Reset, ready to go. And were part of the, you know, WHO, and all of the plans, to shut down the economies of the world, when it came to a -- you know, some sort of a pandemic.

And then people started with those conspiracy theories. And the World Economic Forum, you know, started warning, misinformation. You have to control that misinformation.

And they did. Hey. I -- I'm sorry. I'm so riddled with ADD. You know, that cricket story, I was just telling you about. The reason why I was looking up at Canada and seeing things up in Canada. Was because there's -- there's a story up in Canada. That is out today.

Danielle Stephanie Warner. She was sitting alone in a Toronto Hospital. She was wearing a blue medical gown. And she was sitting in kind of like a wheelchair. And she has her mask down, off of her face. But that's because she went to the hospital, because she was having a hard time breathing.

So she couldn't have the mask, over her face. She didn't have COVID, by the way. But she couldn't put the mask over her face, because she couldn't breathe.

But, you know, hey, rules are rules. So the nurse came out, started yelling at her. And then two security guards came.

In fact, we have a little film of it. There you see Danielle, if you happen to be watching on TheBlaze. Here comes the nurse to yell at her. You've got to put that mask on your face. She's like, I can't breathe.

So the security guards are given gowns. And the security guards push her up against the wall along with the nurse. And they pin her against the wall. You know, putting her arm against her chest, kind of in a George Floyd sort of way. There they are, wheeling her dead body in the wheelchair, with such class.

She died. She died.

STU: Of COVID?

GLENN: No, no, no, no.

She died of COVID-related issues, but don't worry. There's nobody -- I'm sorry. I have to get back to this economic story. There is nobody trying to take your rights away. That's not happening.

And the World Economic Forum, and the world leaders, they haven't been doing the -- I mean, can you think of a time, when all world leaders were doing the same thing?

Where every country, was doing exactly the same thing?

I mean, sure, they all said, it's The Great Reset. Sure, they all said, Build Back Better, which is from the World Economic Forum. But can you think?

I mean, look at how different every country reacted to COVID, and nobody lost their rights. Sure, in China.

But nowhere else. Anyway, so now increasingly, in mainstream corners of the internet, and conservative talk shows. Stu, I think they're talking about you.

The Great Reset has become shorthand for what skeptics say, is a reorganization of society, using global uncertainty as a guise to take away rights. Now, why would you say that?

Why would you say that? That is crazy.

Yes. They put out their own video, made by them. That said, by 2030, you'll own nothing.

You will not have privacy. But you'll like it.

I mean, what rights are you talking about taking away?

By the way, you know, I got to be careful what I say here. Because you say that words, The Great Reset on YouTube. And they -- they take you off of YouTube, because you can't say those things. Oh, I'm on YouTube now. The Great Reset. The Great Reset. The Great Reset. Sucks, doesn't it?

Now, I can't imagine -- for instance, let me -- let me give you this conspiracy theory. That it was just from right-wingers. Okay?

Remember the right-winger, Richard Trumka, last week, last Sunday. Why are you looking confused?

STU: Well, Richard Trumka was an Obama-era --

GLENN: Yeah, but he's spreading conspiracy theories now, so he is clearly a right-wing zealot.

So he comes out, and he says, you know, as a consumer protection agency guy, we are now looking at gas stoves. Because there's this really credible source out there, that did a study. That says gas stoves can lead to asthma in kids.

And so, we're -- we're going to -- we're going to look at opening it up to public comments, should we restrict or ban gas stoves.

Well, of course, this was Republican scare tactics.

I mean, they're not going to do it.

There is no intention of doing it.

And nobody is suggesting this. Nobody is.

Well -- well, okay. The Department of Energy, okay. I mean, they're looking for efficiency standards. Gas furnaces. They're going to try to get rid of gas furnaces. And there's a not yet released proposed rule for water heaters, that will tilt away from gas.

STU: I bet Republicans are going to pounce on that too. When that comes out.

GLENN: It's just like them. It's just like them. And, you know, who did the study?

I mean, this is -- I mean, how do you question this study?

The green energy group, behind the study. The study. You know, cited by Richard Trumka Jr. to just look into banning gas stoves. That's all he was doing. Is partnered with the Chinese government. And their goal is an economy-wide transformation away from oil and gas.

Now, it's a Colorado base group, from -- it's a nonprofit. The Rocky Mountain institute. And it published the study, that attributes 13 percent of US childhood asthma cases to gas stove use.

But they don't really get into how they came up with that, in the study. But don't worry about that.

The organization is demanding systematic changes to the economy-wide total transformation to address climate crisis. And this group says, we have to -- you know, we have to go to great lengths to avoid the climate crisis.

In 2013, they went the long way. They have joined forces with China's national development and reform commission.

Which is great! And China went into business with them. And then, you know, some of the things didn't work out.

And they -- you know, the traffic lights had to be dimmed. And nobody could cook on their stoves.

But -- but that was just the first trial, okay?

Now, they advocate the banning of gas stoves.

They advocate the banning of gas stoves.

Okay.

The study, which spans nine paragraphs, was based on a bunch of hodgepodge different data. And methodologies spanning various years and countries.

And really, nobody can really make sense of it. The -- the -- the experts at Yale University, say, yeah. It's a little more than questionable. The way they put this together.

STU: No.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, I just -- I just want to tell you, that you should not worry.

When we have a government official citing something, you know, like this study, it's from Colorado. What could possibly be wrong?

Now, I will say, I will say, that they have a board of directors. But look how strong the board of directors are.

Board members, We Ding (phonetic) -- who doesn't love We Ding?

STU: That's a sentence I've --

GLENN: We Ding, that's a name.

STU: Oh.

GLENN: He's the founder and chairman of the Chinese equity firm, Broad River Capital.

He started the firm, after serving as chairman of the China International Capital Corporation. It's a state-owned investment bank.

And the executives, Chinese leader Xi Jinping's vice president, right-hand man, Wayne Keyson (phonetic). And they have deep participation in China's economic reforms and development. And their goal is to serve the nation.

Rocky Mountain Institute also sits on China Clean Transportation partnership. A Chinese green energy nonprofit, whose founding members include China's National Developing Reform Commission and Ministry of Transport.

So they -- yes. Yes. Yes. They're deeply in bed with communist China.

And, you know, who wins, if the United States gets off of oil and gas and China doesn't?

Okay. China.

What does our president -- you know, his son in bed with chain. Who got the Bagram Air Force Base after we -- okay. China.

But I'm sure this is all just because gas stoves are very dangerous. Very, very dangerous.

And it's a conspiracy anyway. It's not happening. Okay?

STU: It's all Republicans thrusting this issue into the culture wars.

GLENN: Right. Right.

And they don't have any power. World economic power. No power at all. They're skiing this week. That's what they're doing. They're skiing. Man, it's just a bunch of rich people getting together. Get over it. It's not going to affect your life.

Man, when do those bugs start to arrive in America? I can't wait.

Oh, there's another story out today. Coincidentally has nothing to do with anything. Wall Street Journal says, the central bank digital currency, where you'll have a -- a bank account with the Federal Reserve, yeah, that's coming, whether you like it or not.

Because we just have to do it. But that's a conspiracy. It's not going to happen.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.