RADIOMarch 17, 2022

Why food shortages & digital dollars are coming to America

In order for Modern Monetary Theory to work, Glenn explains, a ‘programmable’ currency must be in place. And the far left no longer is trying to hide it! The Fed and the Treasury Department ADMIT change for Americans is on the horizon. Glenn explains the signs of what’s coming and what a digital dollar could look like for YOU. Plus, he explains why the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine have not only contributed to the fall of the U.S. dollar, but how it could bring MASSIVE food shortages to America as well…

Transcript

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GLENN: All right. Let me give you an update on something that happened yesterday. Do you remember the Russian state television employee, that stormed on to the set, during a live broadcast, on Russian news?

She was -- we reported yesterday, lost. Nobody could find her. Where did I put that protester?

Speculation was that she had been disappeared. She was not allowed to see her attorney. Her attorney had no idea where she was. All the police stations said, no, she's not here.

Well, she just spoke out. In a video recorded outside of a courtroom, she said, I just spent two days, without sleep. I wasn't allowed to contact my relatives or people close to me.

She was not allowed access. I'm quoting her, to any legal representation, so I was fairly in a difficult position. End quote.

Yeah. Yeah. She was. Here's what she did: She got on channel one in Moscow. And she went right behind the anchor of a very popular news show. And she was yelling, stop the war.

She held up a sign that said, they're lying to you here.

She had said, that she had engaged in Kremlin propaganda. And she felt horrible about it. And deeply ashamed.

Well, after two days of not being able to sleep, the Russian government has decided that she should be charged with organizing an unauthorized public event.

And she was fined $273. Uh-huh.

Now, you think, huh. That doesn't sound so bad.

Yeah, well, she's also going to be charged with false information. I don't know exactly what the false information was.

They're lying to you. Kremlin propaganda. Remember, there are -- there was at least at the beginning. I don't know about it now. But towards the beginning. There were large swaths of the population, that only were getting their news from the -- you know, from the Kremlin, and from the Moscow news. That didn't even know there was a war going on.

STU: Well, you can't even say that. That might be what the false information is. According to the Kremlin. You're not allowed to call it a war. You have to call it a special military operation.

GLENN: Yeah. Well, that -- she's facing now 15 years, for doing that. Now, here in America, is our media just stupid, or do they not want to talk and warn you about what's coming on a couple of things?

We are headed for a major food shortage, all around the world. And we are not going to be left out of it. Because of the invasion by Russia, in Ukraine, the global supply chains for food is going to cause a global crisis, that will affect millions of people.

Here's why it's going to affect us: The agricultural mayhem that's going to happen here in the United States, is off the charts. First of all, Russia and Ukraine. And I don't know when they got this, instead of us. But Russia and Ukraine, is known as the breadbasket of the world.

Wasn't that us? Wasn't it our farmers? When did we stop being the breadbasket of the world?

Both countries are responsible for a quarter of the international wheat trade. A fifth of corn. And 12 percent of all calories traded globally.

Look at what we're facing with cutting off 12 percent, or not even that. Eight percent of our oil.

Look at what's happening with gas prices.
If you think that's not coming with food, you're mistaken. The -- one of the main things, that we also get from Russia and Ukraine, not just food supplies around the rest of the world.

But we have access to fertilizer. And fertilizer, Russia has banned the exports of that.

This is going to choke off our farmers. Our farmers in the South are now saying, they can't get fertilizer. And they're stockpiling beef. They're stockpiling the foods, if they can get them.

And they are looking at bad conditions, for our own food.

The UN has warned that global food prices can jump eight. That's already happened. To 20 percent, from here. Why the media is not telling you these things is beyond me.

But maybe, it's just -- they're so worried about misinformation, and malinformation. And conspiracy theories.

Last spring, we told you, the secretary of Homeland Security, ordered an internal review, to identify how best to detect, prevent, and respond, to threats related to domestic, violent extremism. Here in America.

A component of this, was based on online activity. The domestic, violent extremist attackers, quoting the DHS now. Often radicalized independently by consuming violent extremist material online. And mobilize without direction, from a violent extremist organization. Making detection and disruption difficult.

The report that has now been obtained said the extremist exploits a variety of popular social media platforms, smaller websites with targeted audiences, and encrypted chat applications to recruit new adherents. They plan and they rally support for in-person actions. They disseminate materials. They contribute to radicalization, and mobilization to violence.

Wow, it sounds like our universities.

One of the recommendations is to increase efforts to better identify and evaluate mis, dis, and malinformation, with a Homeland Security nexus, including false or misleading conspiracy theories, spreading on social media, and other online platforms, that indoors violence.

Good thing this program has been against violence, from the very beginning of this broadcast. That is the last thing, that the world needs.

So they are now monitoring all online activity. And they are looking for their version of violent extremists.

I will tell you, that the great reset, just held a war game a couple of months ago. And they war gamed about mis, dis, and malinformation coming out from people who have audiences, about the failing banking system and the trouble with the dollar and the trouble with the failing of the entire financial system.

Well, I hope that doesn't happen. But I'm telling you right now, we are being sold a bill of goods. And not by our president.

I mean, is our president, the one who is getting us into war?

I just he's the guy who made it very, very clear, by playing the role of Chamberlain. Everything he does, he sends a signal of weakness to all of our enemies. And all of our enemies, seem to be, in a way, benefiting from this.

We seem to be actually kind of forcing an axis power, to believe together. The latest, we told you yesterday, was Saudi Arabia.

They are now talking about seriously accepting the yuan instead of dollars for oil. That is the beginning of the end of the petrodollar, which means the world's reserve currency. If that happens, we are looking at a massive lifestyle change. If the world goes off the U.S. world reserve currency, you're looking at becoming Mexico. Overnight. Venezuela, overnight.

I know. I know. It could never happen. Do you think the guy who was famous for saying, you're fired, could ever be president?

No. It could never happen. Do you think they would close the entire country and the entire world for something that is a little worse than the flu?

I mean, bad. But worse than the flu? But not the Ebola virus?

Closing the entire world. No. It could never happen.

Today, I give you the news, that Russia and India, are now exploring alternative payment channels. So now India is starting to lean towards the axis power. What is happening right now, is that we are freezing all the Russian assets. All of the Russian assets are sitting there, ready to default.

Now, they have to make today, $117 million, interest payment, on some of its bonds.

They have been loaned money. And so they have to pay $117 million on some of their bonds.

Today, well, the problem is, they have the money. But it's all in rubles. And you can't pay this. You have to pay it in U.S. dollars. World reserve currency.

So they usually just take their rubles, and they pay for them. They use rubles, to buy American dollars. And then they take those American dollars, and they wire those to the bank.

Well, not only can they not change their rubles into dollars now. Because of us.

But we also, because of our banking industry, they have also kicked them off of SWIFT.

There's no way to wire anything. So they're stuck. And they're going to default on this loan.

We're forcing them to default. If they default on these loans. What happens when you default on a loan?

There's a grace period, but then what happens?

You lose it. These are their treasuries. These are the things that they have held, and they are good for it. But we're forcing them, into it.

Now, I would say, that much of what we have done, is good.

But much of what is happening right now, is out of your hands.

Does anyone else notice that you are just along for the ride on this one?

As I said last hour, who convinced Adidas, who convinced Adobe? Who convinced Apple, Audi, the BBC. BMW. Boeing. Bolt. Cadillac. Carlsburg. Chevrolet. Coca-Cola.

Who convinced Dell? DHL. Disney. Dropbox. Erickson. Federal Express. FIFA. Ford. GM. Google. Harley-Davidson. HP. Instagram. Intel. Mercedes Benz. MasterCard. LinkedIn. Land Rover.

Jaguar. Metro. Michael's. Microsoft. Who convinced all of these companies?

STU: Don't forget about PornHub.

GLENN: PornHub. PlayStation. And PornHub. Who convinced these companies? Was it our president? Was it you? Was it backlash from social media that all of these companies worked together, almost immediately, to say within we're leaving our assets. Did you know our -- our aircraft. American aircraft, that would fly into Russia, was left there.

And now all of our American companies lost those aircraft.

Because Putin just said, they're ours. What board of director did they even meet on this, and have that discussion?

We are hurtling towards World War III. And I don't think the American voice is being heard. There's no discussion in Congress, that is open.

There is no debate on these things. And our corporations, are really wielding more public policy and foreign policy, than our State Department is. That's saying something, and we should wake up.

Because as these debts default over in Russia. As they get into a box, they are building a New World Order themselves.

And that New World Order, will tube the American dollar. So what does that mean to you?

I'll tell you in 60 seconds.

GLENN: Okay. There will be a lot of people that really, truly think that none of this is going to happen, because there are systems.

I've gone through this dance before. You remember how long I fought? I fought and fought and fought.

With really, very smart people, that really have best interest of everybody at heart. In 2006 and '7, I was saying, look, it's going to collapse. It -- there's a housing bubble. It is so clearly obvious. No. We have systems for this. They are not even saying, we have systems for this. All of the people that would have said, in 2008, don't worry, we have systems, and then that system was completely broken. And they had to come up with TARP. In the middle of the night. Those same people are now saying it on their websites.

They are now saying it, at -- at the Treasury.gov.

They are now saying it at whitehouse.gov.

The banks are saying, it's a change is coming.

And the reason why is once they default, Russia starts to default, a spooky word that should just scare the hell out of you, if you live through the 2008 crash.

CDOs. And credit default swaps.

When they default, the system has to pay the people, who had the default swap.

Do we have the money? Or does that mean even more money has to be printed to bail out those who were holding those things that have to pay them?

This is what happened in 2008. And our -- our problem with credit default swaps is bigger than it was in 2008. I don't know if that's the piece, or if it's going to be a collection of pieces. But we are going to go to a different currency.

And each of us have to decide now. You have to decide new. Am I going to be a part of that currency?

Because that currency is programmable. Read it for yourself.

Go to the fed. Or go to the Treasury. It's programmable.

Which means, it will follow you. They can cancel at any time. They can say, it doesn't work at these stores, et cetera, et cetera. And they're doing that, because of modern monetary theory, which I explain in my book, The Great Reset.

The second half of modern monetary theory, is programmable money. It doesn't work without programmable money. But that means, they can treat you like the Canadian trucker, and completely cut you off.

This is not the mark of the beast. It is not. But it is the technology, that would allow that to happen. Where you can't buy sell or trade, unless you kneel.

Well, that's what's coming. We may not be kneeling to the beast, but you will kneel. Your question that you have to answer is: Are you willing to kneel, or not? And if not, what does that mean to your life? And how do you survive, if you -- your cash doesn't work anywhere?

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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!

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.