RADIOJune 06, 2022

Nobody will ever FORCE this new ESG app on you...RIGHT?

A new app called the “Smart Citizen Wallet” has been released in Italy and it rewards people for being environmentally friendly. But don't worry, Glenn says. It's ridiculous to think that anyone will ever be FORCED to participate in this or any other ESG system! Just like it was crazy to say the housing market would collapse in 2007, or that Donald Trump would ever be president, or that America would leave people behind in Afghanistan, or that the entire global economy would shut down, or that the government would allow Home Depot to open but not your local hardware store, or that we'd see $8/gallon gasoline, or...

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GLENN: So there's a new app now, just been released in Italy. And, wow, it looks like China's social credit system, which kind of looks like the mark of the -- but what happens is, if you sign up for it, the smart citizen wallet, is going to be there. And going to -- it's -- it's going to give you points for things that you do right. And it's wonderful. If you use the app. You'll be rewarded for things like recycling.

Using like buses. Managing your energy well.

And not getting fined for any of those things.

What they're going to do is give everybody a virtuous behavioral pointedly. So you'll get a score. (?) you'll win points. You'll be able to spend on various awards, such as discounts, and free cultural activities. Oh, man.

It is going to be great. It really -- it is. Now, they did say, no one, quote obviously will be forced to participate.

Oh. Okay. All right. And, you know, I think that's -- I think we should probably trust them. Because it's ridiculous to think, in 2007 that the housing market would collapse. That's ridiculous. We would never bail out the pig banks and leave the little guy behind. The caliphate, what! That's a conspiracy.

Trump will never become president. And the military would never purge red staters out of their ranks. I mean, why would they do -- e, yeah. We're going to pull (?) out of Afghanistan. And leave people and equipment behind. Right. Right.

And you're saying that I'm going to tell you we can't define what a woman is?

You actually believe that there will come a time, where you are ostracized because you say men can't get pregnant. You're crazy. You're crazy. This is not a -- a tracking, you know, China mark of the beast.

It's not anything. You're nuts. It's likable the people who say, oh. Antifa and BLM. They're going to burn cities to the ground. And then they'll be called heroes by the media. And then they'll be bailed out of jail, by the person who becomes the next vice president. Right. Right. Oh, yeah. And our schools are going to teach CRT.

Yeah. Right. Look, believing, that these things could happen. That this is not some just innocuous kind of thing that will help people. You know, is -- is totally believable. And to not believe it. I mean, then you would have to believe like the FBI and DOJ and DHS would target parents as terrorists. You know. Or teach transgenderism. Or turn our kids against parents, beginning in kindergarten. You know. Or the FBI would abuse the FISA courts. And then if they did, you're expected to believe that there wouldn't be serious consequences? Right?

That's like believing that we'll shut down the entire economy, over the whole globe!

Oh, no one is going to tell you when to shut your business. And Americans will just take it. They'll shut their businesses down. And then if they don't, the cities will just come after them, you know. Oh, wait. Wait. Wait. What was that theory?

They're going to close down your local hardware store. But they'll open the doors of Home Depot. Because that's a safe zone. Come on. That's crazy.

Oh, yeah. And they're going to start, you know, suggesting that we round those people up, or, you know, what do we do with those kinds of people? It's like the climate deniers. Yeah. We're going to arrest them.

There's no inflation. It's transitory. Wait. You just said that there was no inflation. No. It's transitory.

Okay. Were you wrong? Oops. No. I mean. Squirrel.

ESG is a conspiracy theory. It's only for your information.

That's it. We're never going to apply this. This is so you know what you're investing in. We're never going to hold companies or states or countries hostage by it. That's crazy.

So, anyway, definitely not the mark of the beast.

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VOICE: Digital angel.

VOICE: Warning, resistance is futile.

GLENN: And, by the way, don't worry -- because there's nothing that anybody can do about inflation. And it's not going to get out of hand. And even if it does, Joe Biden, he knew. He said, this will cost (?) we want to stand against Russia. We're going to pay a microwave price for it.

And for sure darn it, (?) we all knew what he meant by it. Every American was like, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sure.

Eggs, according to the USDA. This week. Eggs, you know, in the fall could be a dollar a piece. Twelve dollars a dozen. We all knew that.

We explain that to us. Hey. You might be paying $8 a gallon for gasoline.

We said, damn, the Russians. Right? Am I right?

You know, inflation, where you don't have the product because we all agreed, people should get money from the government, to stay home, and not go back to work. We all voted for it. We all agreed. We knew. We knew. And they were very clear with us. You know, hey, it's going to cost us a pretty penny. We've printed too much money. We've done crazy things. Hey, let's send $58 billion over to Ukraine. You know, that's just what? $7 billion more. Than the yearly budget for Russia's Department of Defense. But let's send that over to that crooked country, and don't worry about the accounting. We'll all figure it out. Oh, and, by the way, it was 58 trillion. And then -- and then last week, I think they had a few more million to it.

And then yesterday, the president said, my gosh we need to send them another seven had million dollars. Why don't we just give them (?) another open checkbook. Just give them the country's credit card. Because we're in. I don't care if we're paying $15 a gallon for gasoline.

I'm in. And I don't have to worry, because I have an electric car. Don't pay any attention to the blackouts that are now coming this summer. But only for two-thirds of the country. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

So that's good. Jamie Dimon, by the way, he's preparing JP morning chase, the -- the country's biggest bank for what he describes as an economic hurricane.

And advised investors to do the same. Quote, you know, I said there are storm clouds. But I'm going to change that. It's a hurricane.

We're fine at the moment. Nobody knows that the hurricane is just a minor hurricane. Or a Superstorm Sandy. But I would recommend to everybody, you should brains yourself. JPMorgan (?) is bracing ourselves. And we're going to be very conservative. The only time they've used conservative. We're going to be very conservative with our balance sheet. Hmm.

So that means, you're going to stop giving loans to people, I mean, unless the Federal Reserve is interested, pour, you know, BlackRock is behind it. (?) okay. All right. Well, that's great.

He said, right now. It's kind of sunny. Things are doing fine. Are they?

Oh, I forgot. He lives in New York. So he doesn't have to pump his gas. For his black seed an (?), of course, he would never talk to somebody. I have to talk to my driver. What?

I'm -- I'm working right now. And we're funding things to replace that person in the front seat. I don't want to talk to anybody. I want a robot to do it.

You know what I mean?

Talk to my driver. That's a scream. He said, we've never seen anything like this.

We're looking at something you could be writing in the history book, fort next 50 years. (?), oh. Oh. Huh.

He also said, quantitative easing backfired, including the negative interest rates, which he called a huge mistake. Oh. Well, it's a good -- see, we've been saying that forever, since, what? 2008. We've been like, hey. Tonight go down that road. But (?) we didn't know what we were talking about. No. No. We didn't know all the systems. You know. We're just too stupid. We didn't go and get our economic degree, where we were all taught to think exactly alike. We're just a bunch of hillbilly hicks. We couldn't have seen this coming. And Jamie, don't you dare talk (?) to that man in the front seat, who might have seen that too.

You knew he was a boob. The day he picked (?), by the way, nice black seed an. It's electric, isn't it, Jamie?

Anyway, (?) it didn't make us right, and you wrong. It just made you weren't as right as you usually are. And we're still wrong! I don't know why. But we're still wrong.

He said, oil is going to hit 150 to $175 a barrel. By the way, the western economy is built on the fact that oil will never sustain over $100 a barrel. That's how our economy works.

When it's $100 a barrel, or less, everything functions.

When it's 150 a barrel, and it's sustained, it doesn't function.

When it's $175 a barrel, we've never considered what that means. Now, I know you're just a bump on the log, like me. But let me click the switch. I want to ask you, how long does your family survive, with 12-dollar dozen of eggs. And gasoline, at colors a gallon.

You know what, that would be an economic emergency -- I got an idea. What if we get into a situation, where it's an economic emergency. A food emergency. An energy emergency. A war emergency.

And then there's riots on the streets. Because we're in an election emergency. You know, what we got to do? We have to hope the president will declare an emergency.

Well, people like Jamie Dimon, who know period of time, know for a fact (?) that's a conspiracy theory. And that will never happen. Unless you actually read what the administration is actually working on. And I'm going to give that to you, in about 15 minutes. So don't go anywhere.

Back in a minute.

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Deep State NGO CAUGHT trying to restart opium trade in Taliban-run Afghanistan

Was an NGO with deep government ties trying to RESTART the opium trade in Taliban-run Afghanistan while former Taliban members were on its payroll...only to be caught DESTROYING the evidence?! The State Department's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Darren Beattie joins Glenn Beck to expose what he found when he was made Acting President of the United States Institute of Peace. Plus, he debunks ProPublica’s claim that DOGE “targeted” an “Afghan scholar who fled the Taliban.”

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GLENN: Darren, welcome to the program. How are you? Darren, are you there? Is he there?

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Okay. Check if he's there. Is he? Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney.

STU: Trying to shut him down. They don't want peace. They don't want peace.

GLENN: They don't. They don't.

He is -- he is a big-time anti-globalist. I've got to tell you, what we're doing with the State Department. I absolutely love. The State Department has been a big problem for this country for a very long time. It's what's gotten us into these global wars. These endless wars, and everything he is.

And, I mean, I don't know what happened to Marco rube, but he is tremendous.

And the way president Trump is appointing different people like Darren, it's fantastic. Darren, are you there? Darren.

STU: Something must be wrong with the lines. Because we are talking to him offline on the phone here. And it does seem to be working, but not coming through our broadcast board here for whatever reason.

GLENN: Well, let's see if we can get that fixed, and maybe let me just talk here for five, six minutes on something else. Then we'll take a break and come back and see if we can get him.

There's something else that I really want to talk about. And that is this flag-burning thing. Now, it's not an amendment.

This is something that the president is putting up in an executive order and has very little teeth to it.

But I -- I -- look, I understand. As a guy putting an enormous flagpole up at my house today.

I mean, an enormous flagpole.

I love the flag. I love it!

And there are a few things that make me more angry than see somebody you set our flag on fire.

For a lot of people, that's a punch in the gut, especially our military people. And it has been planted on distant battlefields. It's raced after victory. Saluted in the morning, or should be in our schools and folded and given to the hands of grieving families. It feels like spitting on every sacrifice, that ever made this nation possible. And the argument against flag burning is really simple: It dishonors the idea of all of that. Okay?

And it defends millions of people, including me. It disrespects, I think the veterans that bled. The families who mourned. The dream that binds us together.

However, here's the hard truth: Symbols only mean something, in a land where freedom is alive.

If you outlaw the burning of a flag, the you have placed the cloth above the Constitution that it represents. You have made the flag an idol.

We don't worship idols. If you can only praise the flag and never protest it, it just stops being a symbol of freedom. And starts being an idol of obedience.

Now, that's the argument for allowing it. At least to me.

Because the real strength of a free nation is -- is to -- it's -- it's how we protect, not the speech we love, but how we endure the speech we hate!

And the Supreme Court has already ruled on this. And, you know, they -- the line they drew wasn't an easy one. Freedom of speech, stops where it directly -- directly insights violence. And that's it same thing, kind of, in this executive order.

You can burn the flag. But if I'm not mistaken, but if it incites violence, then you're in trouble.

And that's true. But the bar of inciting violence is so incredibly high. And it's -- it doesn't have anything to do with speech that offends. It's not speech that stirs anger. Not speech that wants you to punch the speaker in the mouth. It's speech only, that provokes imminent and specific violence.

And unless it's that be with the government doesn't have any right to -- to get into the business of silencing speech. Ever. Ever. Ever.

It is a hard line. And that standard is really hard. It's painfully hard.

Because what our citizenship requires, this is civics. What our citizenships require, is that we defend -- oh, I hate this.

We defend the right of your opponent to mock everything that we hold sacred.

Now, I want you to think of this. You can burn a Bible. You can burn the Word of God. But some want to make it illegal to burn a flag. Where are our priorities? You can burn the Constitution. The words that actually are the ones that stir us into action. But you can't burn a flag.

You can't burn a Koran. Can't burn them. Can't. Can't.

You will -- you will quickly come to a quick end, not legally. But you will come to a quick end. I don't ever want to be like that. Ever!

You burn a Bible. I think you're a monster. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you?

But you have a right to do it. Why are we drawing a line around the flag? It -- the reason is -- is because we feel things so passionately. And that is really a good thing, to feel love of country so passionately. But then we have to temper that. My father used to tell me, that I think this country needs to hear over and over again, every day. My father -- we would talk to somebody. And we would walk away. And he would go, I so disagree with everything that man just said. But, Glenn, son, he would say. I will fight to the death for his right to say it. He used to say that to me all the time. Which now lees me to believe, I know where I've got my strong opinions from. Because dad apparently would disagree with a lot of people all the time.

But that was the essence of freedom. That is the essence of what sets us apart. Standing for universal, eternal rights like free speech. It's not easy. It means you have to take the size of those people that offend you. It means -- it doesn't mean you have to disagree with it. You can fight against it. You can argue back and forth.

But you -- can you tolerate the insults to the things that you love most. That is so hard, and that is why most of the world does not have freedom of speech. It's too hard! But our Founders believed people are better than that. Our citizens can rule themselves!

And the only way you can rule yourself is if you don't have limits on freedom of speech. So the question is, do we want to remain free? Or do we want to just feel good? It really is that simple. It's why no one else has freedom of speech. It's too hard! I think we're up to the task. Okay. Give me 60 seconds. And then we will try again.

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All right. Let me -- let me bring Darren in. Darren, are you there now?

DARREN: Yes!
GLENN: Oh, God. Thank goodness.
Thank you for putting up with us. I don't know what happened with the phone system. But, first of all, tell me what the US Institute of Peace is. I've never even heard of it.

DARREN: That is a fantastic question. And I'll try to give the abbreviated answer, because I know we don't have several hours.

GLENN: Good. I know.

DARREN: But US Institute of Peace is one of lesser known, but quite important member of the NGO archipelago, that was created in the '80s. It belongs to the same cohorts as national endowments for democracy.

GLENN: Oh.

DARREN: And some other -- some other better known NGOs that really in the broad context of things. In kind of the sweep of things, was created as a kind of reorganization of the government structure in the aftermath of the church type committee hearings that expose a lot of the dirty dealings of government agencies such as the CIA, and so sort of a broader response to that government lie was to create this NGO layer of governance, with an armed distant plausible deniability, a kind of chameleon character of not exactly being government, not exactly being private, in order to fulfill some of those more sensitive functions that had been exposed in the course of the church hearings.

And so US Institute of Peace is one of those NGOs that had particular focus on conflict regions. But, of course, as I think you -- you suggested earlier, peace requires at the very least, an asterisk. Because there involves a lot of things, that conventional, most American citizens would not think should belong as part of the portfolio of something calling itself an institute of peace.

GLENN: So what was the thing with the -- with this Taliban member that was getting money from us?

DARREN: Right. So this is an interesting case. So there's a whole saga of a takeover of the US institute of peace under -- under DOGE.

And that's really a fascinating story unto itself. Just to give you a sense of what these characters were like. They barricaded themselves in the offices.

They sabotaged the physical infrastructure of the building. There were reports of there being loaded guns within the offices.

GLENN: Wow!

DARREN: There was one, like, hostage situation where they held a security guard under basically kind of a false imprisonment type situation. It was extremely intense.

Far more so than the better known story of USAID. And in the course of all of that, they tried to delete a terabyte of data, of accounting information that would indicate what kind of stuff they were up to.

What kind of people they were paying. And in the course of that, DOGE found that one of the people on their payroll. Was this curious figure, who had a prominent role in the Taliban government. And then seemed to kind of play a bunch of angles across each other.

Sort of one of these sixer types in the middle of Afghanistan.

The question is, what the heck is an organization like this, having an individual, who is a former Taliban member on their payroll.

It underscores how incredibly bizarre the whole arrangement is. And to just reinforce that. I think even more bizarre than having this former Taliban guy on the payroll is the kind of schizophrenic posture exhibited by the chief -- one truly bizarre thing is that one of the US Institute of Peace's main kind of policy agendas was basically lamenting the fact that the opium trade had dissipated under Taliban leadership. They had multiple reports coming out, basically saying, this is horrible, that the opium trade is diminished under the Taliban. Meaning, finding some way to restore it. How bizarre is that!

GLENN: What was their thinking?

DARREN: Well, it's -- it's very strange, and it depends on what kind of rabbit holes you want to go down. But the whole story of opium and Afghanistan and its connection to, you know, government entities, is a -- is a very intricate and delicate and fascinating one. But it seems very clear that the US Institute of Peace was involved in that story to some degree because their public reports. They had a full-the time guy of basically lamenting the fact that the opium trade dissipated under the Taliban. And, meanwhile, they're funding this former Taliban guy.

GLENN: Unbelievable. Now, ProPublica got this. And you have released the statement on it. And ProPublica just completely white-washed this -- said this guy was a victim, and his family was taken hostage. Was his family ever taken hostage because he was exposed?

And correct the ProPublica story, would you?

DARREN: Yeah, I mean, the ProPublica thing, as usual and as expected was a total joke.

GLENN: Yes.

DARREN: I mean, this guy, I'm not an expert on this particular person's history. But what's very clear is he was a former Taliban guy, and he was probably one of these people, who was playing all sides, made a lot of enemies. I know that there were several kind of attempts on his life by the Taliban, in the course of various -- various decades.

This has nothing to do with -- with DOGE.

I mean, he's a known quantity in the region.

And somebody who has made a lot of enemies.

And he was not -- he was on the payroll of the US institute of peace.

And nobody is expecting something like that. So then, and, again, there's this sort of hostile takeover situation.

Where the people are barricading he themselves in. Trying to delete all this data.

And sure enough, what's in the data, is stuff like this.

These random former Taliban guy, making his contract with $130,000.

GLENN: You know, this is the -- this is the real Deep State stuff, that I think bothers people so much.

Look, we expect our CIA to do stuff, we don't necessarily want to do it. We expect it.

When it's in the State Department.

When every department is pushing out money to NGOs to overthrow governments and everything else.

It's out of control!

It's just completely out of control.

And who is overseeing all of that.

DARREN: That's a great question.

I think part of the NGO -- UCEF was almost a cutout of a cutout.

A fourth of its money came from USAID.

In many ways, it was a cutout of USAID. Which itself was a cutout.

So there are many layers of distance. Plausible deniability.

And UCEF, I think institutionally really perfected this chameleon structure of being able to plausibly present itself as government. When that was convenient for what they were doing.

And also to present itself as a private organization, when that was convenient.

It's a very intricate setup that they had, that was truly optimized for this chameleon character of plausible denial operations. In conflict zones. Doing God knows what, with American taxpayer money.

And it's just an absolute hornet's nest.

We have recovered that terabyte that they tried to delete. And once we get things settled in the building itself, I intend to do a kind of transparency effort, whereby we release all of this material to the public.

GLENN: Good. Good.

DARREN: Just like I'm doing at the State Department. I'm currently acting as secretary at the State Department. And doing a transparency effort here. After I eliminated the global engagement center, which was sort of the internal censorship office within the State Department, decided, we've got to -- we've got to air this out to the public.

So within the next couple of weeks.

We'll have our next tranche of helps you of thousands of emails, documenting what this were doing.

GLENN: I would love you to go back on, through those emails.

I think you guys in the State Department are doing an amazing job. Thanks for being on.