RADIOJuly 25, 2022

The far-left’s ABSURD attempt to stop climate change in CA

Did you hear that we’re now fighting a climate change EMERGENCY? And for the far-left, that means it’s all hands on deck to save the planet…even if it means entrenching your rights (or now, entrenching onto your LAND). In this clip, Glenn details the latest, ABSURD step California officials are taking to control water — EVEN if it’s water on your own property. Is this even legal?!

Transcript

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STU: I've heard, it was warm while I was gone. And that's an international crisis.

GLENN: It is warm. Oh. From your lips to somebody's ear. Because that is -- that's exactly right. That's exactly right. It is a climate emergency. And while the president hasn't declared it yet, we all feel it's coming, you know what I mean? It's kind of like, climate is not in a transition. The economy is in not in a transition. But the climate is in an emergency.

STU: Right. This is not a transitory warning of the planet. As we may have heard about inflation. This one will stay here forever.

GLENN: Forever.

STU: I heard this morning, these temperatures will last until at least the end of the century. Which surprised me. I honestly predicted a winter coming soon. No. They'll last until the --

GLENN: No. No, no, no. No. Now, Stu, I have to give you an update on some of these things we're trying to do to curb the emergency. First of all, we're all using way too much water. And, you know, water belongs to the state, not to us. California is -- has just sent out a letter. The notice of groundwater extraction reporting. That is now required under the sustainable groundwater management act. So people in California, if you have a well, you're getting -- you're getting a letter that says, this notice is to inform you, that the state water resources control board, believes you own property or properties, not covered by the management authority of Ground Water Sustainability Agency, as required under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. The state water board considers areas within high priority or medium priority groundwater basin, that are not within the jurisdiction much GSA, to be unmanaged under SGMA. So here's what you have to do: If you're pumping groundwater within unmanaged areas, this notice is intended to provide you with early notification, so you can take appropriate steps necessary to meet your reporting responsibilities. Now, I love reporting responsibilities. I think everybody does. You know, especially when you've bought a piece of property, and you have a well. That's your well. That's the water you pump up. And I love the reporting responsibilities. But it goes further than just reporting. This -- this -- this apparently has a base filing fee. You know, when you find out, what are my responsibilities. I love this. I want to be a responsible citizen in California. And they're like, well, you have to pay a filing fee of $300 per well. I mean, we already have your name. We already know you have a well. Because that's why -- that's why we wrote to you and told you, but you need to tell us that you have a well. And that's going to cost you $300. And then you also have an additional fee of $10 per acre foot with a meter. And 25 per acre foot without a meter. And if you're tardy, you will get a late fee of 25 percent per month. So...

STU: Hmm. This is -- what could possibly go wrong here?

GLENN: Well, I mean -- go ahead.

STU: I was at a -- I was at a restaurant over -- over vacation, if you ask my scale. I would point to several. But one in particular, showed a -- the intersection of all of the green stuff, with all of the covid stuff. And it was this lengthy dissertation on how to wash your hands. And it started with turning -- because they wanted you to do two things. Wash your hands to this ridiculous extent of covid, where they want you to do it for ten minutes. And also, save water. It was like, turn the water on. Wet your hands. Go get soap. Wash your hands together for 20 seconds. Turn the water back on. Rinse your hands. Turn the water back off. Shake your hands dry. Because you don't want to use too many towels or have the power dryer on for too long. And it went on and on. It was a legitimately 14 steps on how to wash your hands, in this period, where we're supposed to spend almost all of our time washing our hands, but none of our time with the water on.

GLENN: Well, I can't remember. Sara, can you remember? Because Barack knew something around 2008, that I just didn't know.

VOICE: Barack knows that we're going to have to make sacrifices. We're going to have to change our conversation. We're going to have to change our traditions, our history. We're going to have to move into a different place.

GLENN: And I think we're in a different place. Where it's a 14-step process to wash your hands. By the way, back to the water thing, the state water resources control board, I'm not sure how they have the right for imminent domain. Because that's what's happening. You own your water. They are now saying, the state owns the water. And the next step is rainwater. Now, that's what's happening in Colorado. They just need to make some more money. So you can't just scoop up all that rainwater. Because the state owns that rainwater. Now, I'm pretty sure that God owns that rainwater. And it rains equally on everybody. So if you want to save it, you can save it. If not, let the flowers grow.

By the way, the -- the other great thing about this is, when you look at this, it says the Californians have to report this themselves. And you have to start paying a fee for the water that is being pumped -- starting February 2023. And what I think is really great about this, is the government wrote the letter. But they don't provide any service. At least for free. You have to pay the $300 to let them know that, yes. Their letter was right. You have water. But then they don't support it. There is no product. They don't even do the billing. That's you. Okay? So they don't provide the water. It's already there. They don't even bill you for the water, you have to.

So I think this is -- I think this is going to go over big. But that's to protect the planet. As is this, the federal government of Canada is looking to impose a requirement to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers. Because it's a greenhouse gas, that is contributing to climate change.

Now, the Trudeau government says, they want a 30 percent reduction in emissions from farms. Not the fertilizer. Farm producers groups say, at this point, reducing nitrous oxide emissions can't be done without reducing the fertilizer use. But they are saying, we just need a 30 percent. Just 30 percent cut. So just cut at some place. And they're like, no. Well, we don't use nitrous oxide at anything, but fertilizer.

Several provincial governments in Canada now, and organizations representing farmers have asked for emission reductions for -- from fertilizer to be measured via intensity. Meaning, how much food is being produced, in comparison to the amount of fertilizer used. And Trudeau has said, that sounds totally -- no. I'm sorry. No. That's what I said. That's totally reasonable. They are demanding an absolute reduction in emissions. Farmers are telling the government now in Canada. That that's going to result in a lot less food being produced. And we're kind of on the edge with that right now. Oh, and that kind of reminds me. Net zero is breaking the energy markets in -- in Australia. These -- I guess they're having gas prices. Is the Putin gas hike there too? Must be. My gosh, it's everywhere.

Anyway, the energy market is tubing in Australia there as well. Because the government is basically threatening people with ESG. And the -- the net zero thing is -- is really -- it's really working out well for them. The literal doubling of electricity prices, is -- is happening in Australia now. So they just doubled the price of electricity. And, you know, it's just for customers. You know, it's small towns, or small electricity retailers. But they say that net zero by 2050, will require 120 trillion dollars in Australian money. Remember, that's Australian money. So those numbers always seem crazy. That's just 86.25 trillion in the U.S. dollar. So it's much -- much more reasonable.

STU: A bargain.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. And that's just equivalent -- that's just equivalent to $369,000 for a household of four. And an annual cost of $30,200 per person. But just over the next 28 years. So once we pay that.

STU: And that -- that won't increase. That won't make things better, right? Like, this isn't something that will get us a lot more electricity, and innovation. That will just continue what we currently have. But with new green energy options. What?

GLENN: Well, no. We're shutting everything down. Well, I can't say anything. The West is shutting everything down. For instance, Australia has to cut their carbon emissions. And they're just not going to be doing it in the coal fire plant as well. They are going to be doing it in the coal-fired plants. But it won't be Australian emissions. China has 57 coal-fired stations for every single one in Australia. And Australia is providing them with some of that coal. And so they're just shipping it off to someplace else. Which is good. Because that's the way -- you know, the air stays in China. The Chinese air. It stays right there. It never moves.

STU: Uh-huh. If we've learned any lesson in the last couple of years. Anything in the air in China, stays in the air in China. That's the lesson we've taken in 2020.

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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!

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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.