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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Stateside 3. I'm your host Mark Anderson, U.S.-based U.K.
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  Speaker 1: column correspondent. Thanks for your positive feedback out there about
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  Speaker 1: Statesides 1 and 2. Topic number one today is NATO
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  Speaker 1: Secretary-General Mark Rutte's recent end-run sales pitch, I'll call it,
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  Speaker 1: his excellent adventure to Iowa. Which begs the question, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: is Trump a true NATO skeptic as he claims to be? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: NATO Secretary General Rutte visited D.C. as recently as latter
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  Speaker 1: June to lobby for keeping the U.S. in the alliance.
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  Speaker 1: But he recently upped the ante by venturing to the
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  Speaker 1: American heartland for the first time in his life, he said,
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  Speaker 1: to press even harder to keep the U.S. and its
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  Speaker 1: money in NATO. President Trump's stated doubts about staying in
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  Speaker 1: NATO have a strong potential of dampening or scuttling NATO's
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  Speaker 1: future ambitions. So Rutte, a longtime former Dutch Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: and Bilderberg regular named to head NATO two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: visited the heartland city of Des Moines on September 22nd
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  Speaker 1: to attempt an end run around the White House by
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  Speaker 1: going to the American people directly. While there, Rutte praised
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  Speaker 1: Trump's Greenland-Denmark deal, saying it's a good hedge against Chinese
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  Speaker 1: and Russian Arctic operations. Rutte's host in Iowa was the
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  Speaker 1: snooty Chicago Council on Global Affairs, that ever-busy sibling of
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  Speaker 1: the ultra-plutocratic New York Council on Foreign Relations. The Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Council's new CEO and president, as is generally known, Leslie Vingimuri,
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  Speaker 1: is an import from Chatham House. the British parent think
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  Speaker 1: tank of the CFR in New York. Of course, that's
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  Speaker 1: the Royal Institute of International Affairs. It goes all the
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  Speaker 1: way back to the British roundtable groups of the 19th century.
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  Speaker 1: Benjamiri is taking a noticeably aggressive approach, very comprehensive, in
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  Speaker 1: utilizing the Chicago Council to manipulate public opinion in the
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  Speaker 1: name of informing it. Beyond the Iowa event, she revealed
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  Speaker 1: her hand a bit in one of the few articles
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  Speaker 1: outside of Chicago Council and NATO press releases that even
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  Speaker 1: publicized Ruta's trip to Iowa in the first place. Her
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  Speaker 1: article appeared, of course, in the UK's Guardian. Where else, right?
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  Speaker 1: In that Guardian piece, Vinja Murray noted the following, quote,
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  Speaker 1: When Europe is focused on persuading Donald Trump to remain
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  Speaker 1: committed to NATO, it needs to convince Americans too. So
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the NATO Secretary-General in front of a
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  Speaker 1: public audience in Des Moines, Iowa, is significant. She added
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  Speaker 1: that Rutte's visit, quote, takes the debate over NATO's future
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  Speaker 1: directly to a Midwestern audience in a red state that
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  Speaker 1: operates far away from elite foreign policy circles in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Rutte's appearance is long overdue. Rutte and U.S. NATO Ambassador
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  Speaker 1: Matt Whitaker, who's from Des Moines, it just so happens,
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  Speaker 1: engaged in a discussion right after Rutte's remarks to the
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  Speaker 1: audience at the popular Tea Room in Des Moines. For
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  Speaker 1: his part, Whitaker noted that the post-Cold War peace dividend
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  Speaker 1: tended to hollow out Europe's defense preparedness and mindset. He
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  Speaker 1: then described U.S. defense priorities in a nation-centric way as follows.
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  Speaker 1: Number one is the homeland. Number two is the Western Hemisphere.
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  Speaker 1: Number three is the Pacific. And last but not least,
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  Speaker 1: number four is Europe. Hence the need, he says, for
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  Speaker 1: Europe to better arm itself. And Rutte agrees. In his
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  Speaker 1: remarks to the audience, Secretary General Rutte, NATO's 14th General Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: that is, said he'll continue to honor Trump's wishes for
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  Speaker 1: NATO member states to pay more of their own expenses
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  Speaker 1: in the interest of collective security, up to 5% of
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  Speaker 1: national GDP, though some NATO member states may take 10
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  Speaker 1: years to get there. Against that backdrop, Rutte, cozying up
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  Speaker 1: to Midwestern Americans in the audience, claimed that he understands
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  Speaker 1: why a sizable cross-section of Americans... although they may feel
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  Speaker 1: that U.S. membership in NATO is generally acceptable, still likely
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  Speaker 1: wonder about what real benefits they actually derive from an
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  Speaker 1: often uneventful membership that goes back to NATO's creation in 1949.
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  Speaker 1: Rutter remarked, quote, When it comes to securing the U.S. homeland,
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  Speaker 1: you need a secure Europe, a secure Atlantic, and a
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  Speaker 1: secure Arctic. The U.S. is mighty. but doing all of
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  Speaker 1: this alone is not efficient and is not necessary. He
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  Speaker 1: went on to say, you now have 31 allies in
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  Speaker 1: NATO and these 31 other democratic countries joined NATO in
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  Speaker 1: order to contribute to our collective security. He continued by saying,
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  Speaker 1: when the U.S. was attacked on 9-11, we invoked NATO's
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  Speaker 1: Article 5 for the first and only time in our history.
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  Speaker 1: NATO planes helped police U.S. airspace in those dark days
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  Speaker 1: after 9-11. Notably, Rutta visited the Joint Force Headquarters of
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  Speaker 1: the Iowa National Guard at Camp Dodge, where he praised
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  Speaker 1: Iowa's troops for taking part in KFOR, which was NATO's
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  Speaker 1: 1999 Kosovo mission back in 1999. But let's take a
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  Speaker 1: harder look at NATO. All this praise, all this glowing talk,
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.-NATO partnership keeps plenty of American tax dollars, of course,
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  Speaker 1: in the internationalist pipeline amid a host of geopolitical threats,
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  Speaker 1: real or contrived, that supposedly could strike the West at
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  Speaker 1: virtually any moment and justify these hefty wealth transfers that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. Yet whatever threat that China, for example,
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  Speaker 1: may pose, that's often speculative, but the massive defense contracts
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  Speaker 1: that will strike taxpayers... and strike their pocketbooks, that is,
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  Speaker 1: in all the involved transatlantic nation states are an absolute surety.
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  Speaker 1: At any rate, having reported this underreported visit by Ruta
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  Speaker 1: to Iowa, let's step back and ask whether Trump and Ruta,
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  Speaker 1: who are presented as would-be antagonists, are slyly playing mutually
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  Speaker 1: supporting roles. Think about it. Trump pressures European nations to
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  Speaker 1: pay more to NATO, and Rutte soapboxes Middle Americans to
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  Speaker 1: keep their cash on the table. It really is stacking
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  Speaker 1: up like that, isn't it? As Rutte told Iowans, speaking
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  Speaker 1: as if NATO can do no wrong, quote, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just a commitment in principle, it's a commitment backed by
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  Speaker 1: blood and treasure. And there, Mr. Rutte is certainly correct.
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  Speaker 1: Let's recall NATO's brutal airstrikes in Kosovo in which state-run
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  Speaker 1: media facilities were destroyed and many innocent reporters and staff
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  Speaker 1: were killed. And let's not forget NATO's denial of diplomatic
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  Speaker 1: solutions and its extended airstrikes in the violent 2011 overthrow
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  Speaker 1: of the Libyan government and the resulting long-term and very
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  Speaker 1: serious destabilization of that country, very destabilized, practically turned into
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  Speaker 1: total chaos. Furthermore, recall U.S. and NATO-led airstrikes and night
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  Speaker 1: raids in Afghanistan resulting in thousands of noncombatant and civilian
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  Speaker 1: deaths between 2001 and 2021 in America's longest war. Well,
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Because next, in a little segue, it's
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  Speaker 1: worth reporting, of course, it's very noteworthy that the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: has finally fully withdrawn from Iraq after 25 years there.
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  Speaker 1: This was official 30 September. While NATO played a minor
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  Speaker 1: auxiliary role in Iraq, it played a leading military operations role,
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  Speaker 1: at least a significant one, in the post-911 Afghanistan occupation.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S. and its partners finally departed Afghanistan, recall, on
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  Speaker 1: 30 August 2021, after 20 years there. So that's 25
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  Speaker 1: years Iraq, 20 years Afghanistan. The longest military occupations that
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  Speaker 1: anyone can think of pretty much anywhere. At any rate,
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  Speaker 1: we're now moving on to a very compelling topic, topic
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  Speaker 1: number two. And today, as we record this, it's 15 October,
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  Speaker 1: and the organization Michigan for Vaccine Choice has organized its
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  Speaker 1: seventh annual Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk, which is taking place
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  Speaker 1: as we speak. They're preparing it for 18 October in Ada, Michigan, ADA, Ada, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: But lest you think that vaccine news in Michigan ends
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  Speaker 1: with this awareness walk, let's chronicle the 17 September testimony
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  Speaker 1: of epidemiologist Nicholas Hulscher to a T subcommittee, a very
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  Speaker 1: important subcommittee of the Michigan State Legislature. Hulscher, who's a
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  Speaker 1: McCullough Foundation researcher named after the noted Texas cardiologist Peter McCullough,
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  Speaker 1: presented data regarding an unpublished study conducted by an organization
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  Speaker 1: known as Henry Ford Health. He co-authored a published reanalysis
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  Speaker 1: of this Ford study. Methodology-wise, Halsher noted that the Ford
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  Speaker 1: Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study analyzed the medical records of a
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  Speaker 1: little over 18,000 children born between 2000 and 2016, comparing
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  Speaker 1: the health of vaccinated children against completely unvaccinated children using
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan Immunization Registry. Henry Ford Health representatives reportedly declined
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  Speaker 1: to attend this hearing. Halsher shared the Ford findings with
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  Speaker 1: the Subcommittee on Child Welfare simply to advocate for further
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  Speaker 1: investigation into long-term chronic disease outcomes and vaccine data transparency.
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  Speaker 1: This unpublished Ford study, which is said to be the
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  Speaker 1: largest ever vax-versus-unvaxed birth cohort study to date, and this
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  Speaker 1: is the main point, strongly suggests that unvaccinated kids are
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  Speaker 1: much healthier overall. Let me repeat that. Unvaccinated kids are
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  Speaker 1: much healthier overall and far less likely to suffer lifelong
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  Speaker 1: chronic diseases. So without further ado, here's a key video
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  Speaker 1: segment of Halsher's testimony to that subcommittee.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Nicholas Holscher. I'm an epidemiologist at
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  Speaker 2: the McCullough Foundation. I have a master of public health
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  Speaker 2: and epidemiology. And today I'll be speaking on the unpublished
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  Speaker 2: Henry Ford vaccinated versus unvaccinated study. In my expert opinion,
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  Speaker 2: this is the strongest, most comprehensive, and largest vaccinated versus
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  Speaker 2: unvaccinated birth cohort study looking at chronic disease outcomes ever conducted. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so it's the best of the best that we have
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  Speaker 2: so far. They had 18,000 children, about 2,000 unvaccinated, which
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  Speaker 2: is the largest unvaccinated cohort a study has ever had
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  Speaker 2: of this type, and about 16,000 vaccinated children. They followed
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  Speaker 2: all of the standard epidemiological methods that they should have
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  Speaker 2: done for that data set. They followed the children from
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  Speaker 2: birth to average age 10. They were all enrolled in
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  Speaker 2: the Henry Ford system in their insurance plan, so they
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  Speaker 2: saw them every time they came for a visit at
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. They verified their immunization records with not only
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  Speaker 2: their medical records, but also the state immunization registry, so
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  Speaker 2: this was not subject to recall bias. They verified all
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  Speaker 2: of that, and then the standard methods they use what's
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  Speaker 2: called Cox proportional models which takes into account confounding variables
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  Speaker 2: over time specifically they use incident rates it's called so
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  Speaker 2: they did everything you're supposed to do for a longitudinal
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  Speaker 2: birth cohort study and when they accounted for all of
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  Speaker 2: these confounding variables age sex preterm birth other underlying differences
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  Speaker 2: in baseline health status. When they did all of that,
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  Speaker 2: adjusted for all of that, their final statistical measure was
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  Speaker 2: that vaccinated children had a 2.5 times higher risk of
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  Speaker 2: developing a chronic disease compared to the unvaccinated children. After
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  Speaker 2: all that statistical modeling that they were supposed to do,
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  Speaker 2: And at the end of the 10 years, they did
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  Speaker 2: something called a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. The vaccinated group, after
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  Speaker 2: average 10 years, from birth to average age 10, 57%
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  Speaker 2: of the vaccinated had at least one chronic disease. Only
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  Speaker 2: 17% of the unvaccinated had at least one chronic disease.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is a very powerful study. And we
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  Speaker 2: actually published a peer-reviewed reanalysis of these data. So it's
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  Speaker 2: actually in the peer-reviewed record now, these data. And I
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  Speaker 2: want to read the raw numbers of these chronic disease
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  Speaker 2: categories that they looked at. Just stripping away all of
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  Speaker 2: the modeling, all of the statistical measures, just what were
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  Speaker 2: the proportions between these groups. Any chronic conditions. 250% higher
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  Speaker 2: proportionally in the vaccinated. Asthma, 553% higher in the vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: Atopic disease, so skin disorders, 386% higher in the vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: Autoimmune disease, 1,120% higher in the vaccinated children. Brain dysfunction,
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  Speaker 2: this was only in the vaccinated group. Cancer. This was
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  Speaker 2: 54% higher in the vaccinated children. Diabetes. This was present
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  Speaker 2: only in the vaccinated children. Food allergies. This was 128%
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  Speaker 2: higher in the vaccinated children. Mental health disorders. This was
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  Speaker 2: 696% higher in the vaccinated children. Neurodevelopmental disorders. This was 1,254%
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  Speaker 2: higher in the vaccinated children. ADHD, only in the vaccinated children.
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  Speaker 2: There was 262 cases of ADHD. There was zero cases
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  Speaker 2: in the unvaccinated children. Autism, 180% higher proportionally in the
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  Speaker 2: vaccinated children. Behavioral disabilities, only in the vaccinated children. Developmental delays,
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  Speaker 2: 412% higher in the vaccinated children. Learning disabilities, only in
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  Speaker 2: the vaccinated children. Intellectual disabilities, only in the vaccinated children.
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  Speaker 2: Speech disorders, 803% higher proportionally in the vaccinated children. Motor disabilities,
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  Speaker 2: 810% higher in the vaccinated children. Tics, only in the vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: Other psychological disabilities, this group was only in the vaccinated
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  Speaker 2: as well. Neurological disorder, 26% higher in the vaccinated. And lastly,
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  Speaker 2: seizure disorders, this was 216% higher in the vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: This is just a preliminary report, by the way, that
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  Speaker 1: this testimony and the reanalysis of the Ford study took place.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be much more coming up in the near future
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  Speaker 1: here on stateside, perhaps elsewhere too. And take note that
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  Speaker 1: this year, 2026, represents the 40th anniversary of then-President Ronald
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  Speaker 1: Reagan's signing of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. That
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  Speaker 1: act gave considerable liability protection to the vaccine industry, though
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  Speaker 1: it did create a compensation program, a rather cumbersome one,
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  Speaker 1: that requires people seeking damages for covered vax injuries to
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  Speaker 1: petition the federal court system before pursuing traditional civil litigation. Many,
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  Speaker 1: of course, are highly critical victims of this program. At
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  Speaker 1: any rate, again, stay tuned for more on Nicholas Halsher's work,
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  Speaker 1: and it's worth noting as I move on, this epidemiologist, Mr. Halsher,
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  Speaker 1: noted that all 22 of the chronic disease categories were
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  Speaker 1: proportionally higher in vaccinated children, again, in this large, largest ever,
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  Speaker 1: that is, comprehensive vax versus unvaxed birth cohort study to date.
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  Speaker 1: All 22 of the chronic disease categories. And as we
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  Speaker 1: just heard in the video, the stats and the data
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  Speaker 1: are quite unsettling. Though there's more to explore, more to
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  Speaker 1: find out. Now moving on, and there can be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of humor in this topic, but who can
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  Speaker 1: ignore the U.S. midterm elections, right? Those colorful elections that
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  Speaker 1: take place between the presidential elections and involving the U.S. House,
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Senate, various state and local offices right down
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  Speaker 1: to the school board level, and even ballot proposals and initiatives.
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  Speaker 1: At any rate, one-third of the U.S. Senate is elected
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  Speaker 1: or re-elected every two years per the Constitution's Article I,
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  Speaker 1: so 33 or no more than 34 Senate seats are
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  Speaker 1: up for grabs per election, and they're divided into classes I, II,
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  Speaker 1: and III, technically speaking. Currently, Senate Republicans hold only a
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  Speaker 1: 53 to 47 edge, while in the House chamber, the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans have an equally fragile 218 to 214 edge. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot at stake for Donald Trump's Republican Party,
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  Speaker 1: at least his version of it. While early voting is
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  Speaker 1: starting across the U.S., the midterm general election, the official
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  Speaker 1: election day, is the 3rd of November. So please stay
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  Speaker 1: tuned to see if this incumbent Republican stronghold led by
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  Speaker 1: Trump can hang on to either of the legislative chambers.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just mention that the U.S. Senate races here in
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  Speaker 1: Texas and in Alaska and North Carolina are particularly interesting,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out, because those Democrats running in those elections
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  Speaker 1: are distancing themselves from the far left, taking a more
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  Speaker 1: centrist approach. That's bound to attract any disillusioned Trump supporters, independents,
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  Speaker 1: and non-leftist Democratic voters. Texas, where I happen to live,
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  Speaker 1: is as good an example as any. Texas U.S. Senator
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  Speaker 1: John Cornyn, who served four full terms, each six years
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  Speaker 1: in length, was recently defeated by Texas Attorney General Ken
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  Speaker 1: Paxton in this year's May Republican primary, which is a
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  Speaker 1: nominating election, of course. But Paxton is going up the
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  Speaker 1: political ladder against a fresh face in the scene here, somewhat,
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  Speaker 1: Presbyterian seminarian and former middle school teacher James Tallarico, who
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  Speaker 1: appears to exemplify the quintessential American populist, He speaks mainly
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  Speaker 1: about issues that many liberals and conservatives can often agree on.
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  Speaker 1: And that, of course, threatens the carefully crafted left versus
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  Speaker 1: right construct that for too long has kept Americans way
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  Speaker 1: too divided to agree on key issues. Although, in a
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  Speaker 1: more sane world, candidates with such widely varying views would
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  Speaker 1: have more viable U.S. parties to choose from beyond Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and Republicans. Yet, and this isn't commonly discussed, there are
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  Speaker 1: actually 200 or more minor, regional, and state-level political parties
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  Speaker 1: in the U.S. And that really shows the extent of
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat-Republican stronghold in the middle and upper echelons of
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  Speaker 1: political power, especially. This is not to say that James
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico walks on water. Far from it. He's been accused
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  Speaker 1: of calling Jesus a radical feminist. That's been floating around
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  Speaker 1: the TV sphere. and supporting kids' sex change surgeries with
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars, which he vehemently denies. But still, his campaign
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  Speaker 1: may give Texas its first fully elected Democratic U.S. Senator
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  Speaker 1: since Lloyd Benson in 1988, going back to the Reagan years,
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  Speaker 1: no less. And of course, I'll talk about the midterm
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  Speaker 1: election outcomes later this year. We'll see what happens with
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  Speaker 1: both those legislative chambers, with Trump's agenda, and the overall
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  Speaker 1: big picture. It ought to be interesting. But I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: ignore that one in this third stateside. Now, as I
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  Speaker 1: kind of wind up and start summarizing today's presentation, I
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  Speaker 1: strive to keep enough depth in stateside, but yet keep
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  Speaker 1: a fairly punchy and straightforward format. I'm going to announce
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  Speaker 1: that I've kind of developed my UK column stateside honor roll,
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  Speaker 1: honoring monetary warriors and others, dead and alive, who've braved
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  Speaker 1: the winds of corruption and tyranny to try and make
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  Speaker 1: the world a better place. Honoring them strengthens us. So,
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  Speaker 1: for stateside three, let's honor former Representative Dennis Kucinich, a
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  Speaker 1: congressman from Ohio. He's still alive. He's, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: been busy in the monetary reform area much of his
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  Speaker 1: career and other things. And this is the 15-year anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of his introduction of an important monetary reform bill, the
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  Speaker 1: NEED Act, H.R. 2990, in the House of Representatives. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that was 2011, so it's been 15 years. And in H.R. 2990,
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  Speaker 1: he said the following, and I believe he said this
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  Speaker 1: on the House floor at the time, that the bill
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  Speaker 1: would reassert congressional sovereignty and regain control of monetary policy
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  Speaker 1: from private banks. And the bill would also address our
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  Speaker 1: structural economic problems directly by creating over 7 million jobs,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those were slated for infrastructure, when the
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  Speaker 1: nation struggles with long-term unemployment at rates not seen in
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  Speaker 1: generations and as infrastructure crumbles across the nation. And there
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  Speaker 1: are still major infrastructure problems in the U.S. Trump has
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  Speaker 1: addressed a little bit of them, but the repair costs
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  Speaker 1: still go up into the upper billions, even into the trillions,
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  Speaker 1: according to noted engineering and other organizations. So the NEED
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  Speaker 1: Act basically would have done what the Bradbury Pound actively
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  Speaker 1: did had the NEED Act, H.R. 2990, been approved. So
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  Speaker 1: today we honor President Kucinich, Dennis Kucinich, former congressman from Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't seek to regain his House seat when he
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  Speaker 1: lost a few years back, but he's always been a
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  Speaker 1: good friend of the taxpayer and the citizen in the
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  Speaker 1: monetary reform category. Now, I often like to throw in
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  Speaker 1: more than one honoree. In Stateside 2 recently, I honored
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  Speaker 1: monetary warriors, the late Father Charles Coughlin and the late
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Wright Patman. My other honoree today for my stateside
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  Speaker 1: honor roll of honorable statesmen and citizens is the late
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame football coach, a coach philosopher, you might say,
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  Speaker 1: Knute Rockne, who died 95 years ago this year in
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  Speaker 1: a 1931 plane crash in Kansas at the age of 43.
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  Speaker 1: And The Prayer of the Sportsman, a poem written by
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  Speaker 1: Burton Braley, was widely used and popularly attributed to this
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  Speaker 1: philosopher coach, Knut Rockne, who was born in Norway and
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  Speaker 1: he lived by the principles of this rather moving poem.
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  Speaker 1: He was dearly loved by his own team and the
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  Speaker 1: football players on opposing teams. He really left an indelible
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  Speaker 1: mark on society and you can still feel the reverberations today.
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  Speaker 1: He exemplified something we all need in these difficult times
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  Speaker 1: as we face these difficult problems the UK column reports,
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  Speaker 1: while we seek solutions. He exemplified ethics, courage, fair play, decency,
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  Speaker 1: and honor. And don't we all need more of that
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  Speaker 1: in these troubled times? And here it is, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: conclude with this, the prayer of the sportsman. Dear Lord,
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  Speaker 1: in the battle that goes on through life, I ask
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  Speaker 1: but a field that is fair, a chance that is
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  Speaker 1: equal with all in the strife, a courage to strive
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  Speaker 1: and to dare. And if I should win, let it
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  Speaker 1: be by the code, with my faith and my honor
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  Speaker 1: held high. And if I should lose, let me stand
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  Speaker 1: by the road and cheer as the winter goes by.
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  Speaker 1: And with that, I'll see you next time on Stateside
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  Speaker 1: for UK Column. I'm Mark Anderson. Thanks for listening.