RADIOJuly 14, 2022

What’s REALLY going on with gas prices, Biden & Saudi Arabia

Do NOT be fooled by President Biden’s trip to Israel, the rhetoric coming from his mouth, or by what’s happening with our gas prices, Glenn says. Because Biden’s trip to Israel — and the messages he gave while there — actually are all about Saudi Arabia. Glenn explains what’s REALLY going on, why our president is practically ‘begging’ Saudi officials for oil, the connections to the World Economic Forum/ESG, and how this all hints at IMPOVERISHMENT coming throughout the world soon…

Transcript

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GLENN: I want to stop here for just a second, as we're wrapping up on the economy. Do not be fooled. Do not be fooled on what is happening with our gas prices.

I know the White House says, it's come down 40 percent!

They're selling our strategic oil reserve, to China. That alone, I think, is treasonous, seeing that it was funneled through Hunter Biden's company in China.

It's crazy! Crazy!

But right now, Joe Biden is in Israel. Why?

Why is he in Israel? Because he's going to Saudi Arabia. And don't be distracted by his trip to Israel. He doesn't give a flying crap about Israel. Nor does anyone in the Democrat Party. Or the majority of them, okay?

We have no strength in the Middle East right now. None. We abandoned all of our allies in Afghanistan. The way we pulled out, it makes us just look like absolute fools, and boobs. Who wants to be on our side?

We left the refugees, that we got out of Afghanistan. We left them in the gulf states. Trapped! Because our State Department won't let them move anywhere. We're negotiating with the Middle East's biggest threat. And that is Iran.

Saudi Arabia does not like Iran. Saudi Arabia wants to defeat Iran.

Israel wants to defeat Iran. Jordan, the UAE. They do not look at Iran as anything other than a grave threat. And whose side are we on right now?

It feels like we're on Iran's side.

So we're negotiating with them. And then, we're not only putting our oil and gas business out of business. But we're doing it to the Gulf States as well.

So now, the president went to Iran. To Israel yesterday.

And he was talking tough on Iran. We're going to make sure that we have tough sanctions on Iran. And we're -- yeah. They're going to have to come through us. Who believes that in the first place?

Second of all, he's not saying it to Israel. He's saying it because he's going to Saudi Arabia.

So he's talking tough on Iran. Because Saudi Arabia, they view their biggest enemy. If it's not us. It would be Iran.

And our president is about to almost literally go and kneel to beg for them to open up the oil.

And give us -- sell us some oil, please!

Open it up.

Now, can I just ask you to think, not as a Saudi Arabian, not as a political person. Just as a businessperson. Okay?

Your -- what used to be your friend. Has betrayed you. They are working with somebody who you feel is their -- is your biggest enemy.

And they're enabling them to gain power. Then, they're also doing everything in their power, in fact, they're leading the march, to put you out of business.

And it's the only business you really have, in your country. Okay?

It's made you rich. You didn't save it. You've got gold Ferraris. So you're going to put us out of business on oil? Now that customer comes to you. Somebody you used to think is a friend. You now know is not a friend. And they say, hey. Can you sell us some of your product? Because we really, really need it. And the world really, really needs it.

Well, wait a minute. Are you still going to try to continue to put me out of business?

Globally? Well, yeah. We have to. Because of global warming. And ESG is the wave of the future.

Do you give that person, what they need, to weather the storm, as they're trying to put you out of business? Or do you say, no. I think I'm going to let your people feel the full ramification of this. Because it's probably the only hope, that they'll kick you out of office and stop this insanity. And I don't care about your country, but I care about mine and our business and what feeds our people.

No, I'm going to let you feel the full ramifications. Because I've already got another customer in China.

What does our president have to promise Saudi Arabia, to get them to lower the price of oil and to pump more? What could that possibly be?

Because I know it's not because it's we're friends. I mean, we lead the world, on Build Back Better. Our corporations, our banks, our government.

You know, we sent 60 billion dollars to fund this war in Ukraine, for -- against Russia. But what's amazing is, while this country is at war, their citizens are out of their house. They've fled to other countries. The refugees. Missiles are coming down into their neighborhoods. What is the Ukrainian parliament working on? A bill to allow gay marriage to happen.

Now -- now, wait a minute.

Ukraine is not a place that traditionally is for gay marriage.

And they're in the middle of a war. That's your priority? I mean, that sounds purely American. It sounds so ridiculous. Well, it is American. I can guarantee you. Our money came with strings!

And it was all about ESG. We've got to wake up. People who think that gas prices are going to come down. Let me just give you this story from the World Economic Forum. World Economic Forum released a position paper on Monday, that links two claimed global crisis as one.

Climate change, and the decline of democracy.

It says, fighting the former, will save the latter, as long as consumers stop burning coal, oil, and gas, in exchange for green renewables.

The World Economic Forum paper argues that for the past 15 years, democracy has been in decline, worldwide.

To protect and promote freedom, leading democracies must strengthen their economies, and safeguard liberty. Now, why is this?

If you sign up for my newsletter, and it's free, by the way. Go to Glenn Beck.com and sign up for it. Let me see if I can find it real quick. There was a -- there was a story, that came out in 2003.

In fact, do we have this audio? This is me in 2003, talking about Civil War. Listen to this.

You know, is there a bigger example of democracy and the health of capitalism, than the United States of America? I mean, that's it! This is the pinnacle of this form of government. And we're about 80 years into it. And we had a Civil War.

80 years later! We were still to the point, where we could still have a Civil War.

Can you imagine even having a Civil War now? What would it take to have a Civil War? I mean, look at -- look at what happened to us in the '90s. Well, we did impeach a president.

Almost removed him from office. And nobody was talking about, get into the street with guns!

Florida election. That thing was hotly contested. Back and forth. People were passionate about their views. And nobody was saying, it's a Civil War!

Nobody.

You know what it takes to have a Civil War? It's incredible. It takes instability it takes poverty. It takes gang rule.

GLENN: That was 2003. And I was warning, we're nowhere close to a Civil War. But if these trends continue, we will get there.

All you have to do is impoverish the people. What's happening to you right now?

Are you getting into a better situation, or a worse situation?

I know people who have millions of dollars. I mean -- in my job, I am fortunate, to meet with regular people, and prime ministers, and senators. And business icons.

So I get the full scope of things.

I know people who have millions of dollars. Who are freaked out of their mind right now. Who are saying, I don't know what to do, with the money. I just -- I just don't want to lose all of my money.

Now, them losing all of their money, would probably put them in the situation, maybe the best situation of your life. But still, they're having the same feeling, that you're having. Everyone knows, top to bottom, impoverishment is coming.

Did you see what Spain just did?

The prime minister of Spain, just out of the blue, levied a new tax on the banks and financial institutions. And energy.

There's a new windfall tax. Well, this has put the stock market over in -- in Spain, just upended it. Because new, if -- wait a minute. Nobody likes higher interest rates.

But higher interest rates do play a role in business. If I can't give people a different interest rate, based on their situation, well, then, my -- I don't have any risk. I mean, I -- it's all risk. Because I -- I can't balance it out.

So they're just screwing up the free market there. And they're going to use that money. Because the prime minister says, people can't afford their lifestyle anymore. So the government has to provide more.

So they're now going after anyone who has any money.

And that's coming. That's coming. Eventually, as Winston Churchill says, was it Winston Churchill, or Margaret Thatcher? At some point, with socialism, you run out of other people's money.

But the World Economic Forum, has now said, global warming, and the saving of global freedom, is all about getting off of oil and coal, gas. All of it.

I will tell you, it is the exact opposite. This is what the -- the -- the hierarchy, the elites are walking in lockstep. Because they know, if they don't change things. They're going to lose their positions. They're going to lose their wealth. So all of the elites have agreed. Let's all go with this Great Reset. And we'll all work together. Media, everybody, all the big, huge, huge power players are playing that way. As George Soros told one of my guys, 15 years ago, ten years ago.

You tell your boss, the ship has sailed. And you're either on it, or you are not.

Well, I would rather stand with you, than be on a ship of fools, that is destined, destined for ports of call, that I never want to see.

The World Economic Forum says, now, if you listen to Mr. Build Back Better. To Joe Biden, he will tell you, that it's the greedy oil companies. No. It is not.

Mr. Build Back Better, should understand, that the World Economic Forum says, that there -- we need a clean energy transition, and these countries, like ours, are selling gasoline at too cheap a price, even today.

And we need to stop the cheap energy. It's not stopping, it's not stopping. We have got to be informed

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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.”

Transcript

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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.