In this thought-provoking episode, the Kim Monson Show delves into the pressing issue of government control and its impact on transportation, education, and more. Kim Monson engages with listeners on the importance of truth and clarity, especially in the battle between freedom and force. Dive deep into current topics such as the socialization of critical sectors and what that means for individual liberty. Stay tuned as we discuss Minnesota’s colossal welfare fraud scandal and explore potential national repercussions.
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water. What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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Under the guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it’s actually tapping down the truth.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation and welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for listening. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. and thank you to the team that i get to work with that’s producer joe luke rachel zach echo charlie mike theresa amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting and amanda is manning the board right now because there’s snow out there and joe is on his way and i greatly appreciate her for stepping forward she is one of those critical crawford people that keeps us on the air and i really i really do appreciate her Our website is Kim Monson. That’s M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Make sure that you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. It will highlight our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. The text line I do like to hear from you. That line is 720-605-0647. I thank all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station. We’re searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s never compassionate or altruistic to take other people’s stuff via force. And force can obviously be a weapon policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation. Fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, this agenda by the World Economic Forum and globalist elites, it’s playing out all the way down to the local level. You can just look at these road diets with these bike lanes that are taking up more and more of… The traffic lanes, and I think biking is great, but I’m wondering why couldn’t the bike lanes be on maybe one street over that’s not such a thoroughfare? But instead, what we’re seeing is they’re trying to take these major thoroughfares and reduce the amount of cars that can be in those thoroughfares. And obviously that’s going to create congestion. And yet these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interest parties, they wring their hands about congestion, but yet they create it. And I guess that’s just typically what happens. But you can see this agenda. of the World Economic Forum taking away individuals’ rights, particularly after the everyday American, to thrive and prosper. And so that’s why we’re engaged in this big battle of ideas that we have to continue to search for truth, bring truth out, because truth ultimately will prevail, and that’s why we do what we do at the show. We do focus on… The issues will mention the people that have been involved in those issues. We try to stay out of the personality fighting all that emotion and all that. We want to stay reasoned and focused on the issues. And that’s that’s our commitment to do that. We are blessed with amazing sponsors. One of those is Laramie Energy. LearnMate Energy has been a gold sponsor of the show for many years, and it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate, to be warm on mornings like this, and to be cool in the summer. And so thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship for the show. If you are having any challenges, particularly right now with your own personal climate, being warm or water heaters, anything like that, reach out to our great sponsors, Benz, that’s B-E-N-Z, plumbing, heating, and cooling. You can find that number online. on my website. I’m getting over here to our word of the day. And it’s just a very good word for all that’s going on out there in the world. And it’s scruple or scruples. It’s a noun. It could be an uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder actions. And number two, it could be a unit of apothecary weight equal to about 1.3 grams. uh… number three a minute part or amount i would say that uh… what we’re seeing coming out of this is one of our headlines out of minnesota regarding the as somali community that there were those in the somali community uh… that had created a massive welfare fraud scandal but this group there were no scruples obviously with that uh… and scruples is spelled s c r u p l e s But this article from the National Review is titled Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud Scandal. It says the nation is finally awakening to an ongoing scandal of massive proportions in Minnesota where state taxpayers have had somewhere north of $1 billion stolen from them by concentric rings of welfare fraudsters based in and around Minneapolis’s tightly knit Somali diaspora community. It is a story with far deeper implications than the mere loss of dollars and cents, one that implicates our national immigration policy, among other things. But it says the fraud, the depth of the fraud, and how long it was ignored by the media at large, although they say not by those at Powerline, has been following it from the beginning, and especially Scott Johnson, who has covered the trials. I will see if I can somehow maybe get him on the show. But it goes on to say that basically there was a breakdown by all the way up to the top politicians. It says in September 2022, the federal government began to indict multiple sets of Minneapolis area. somali americans on charges of defrauding minnesota welfare and public assistant programs first came the feeding our future scandal where to date 75 defendants associated with the somali charitable organization allegedly chose to feed on the sudden flood of post-2020 covet era relief money available to anyone willing to claim a vaguely good cause and feeding our future was able to hoover up millions of dollars And COVID funding with the promise of providing school lunches. And again, there you have the feed our children. So this actually probably just will stay tuned. But this looks like this goes all the way to the top of those in the Minnesota government. And so we wonder where the scruples are for all those regarding this scandal. So we’ll have to continue to watch this. And again, these crimes, the stealing, it’s a wealth transfer from everyday hardworking people. Minnesotans and Americans to, in this case, the criminals and what they’re doing. We have all these important discussions because of our sponsors. Hooters Restaurants is a great sponsor of both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. They really have great specials, in particular, really wonderful nachos. And specials are Monday through Friday for lunch and for happy hour, so be sure and check them out. Our quote of the day, I went to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was born in 1803. He died in 1882. He went by his middle name, Waldo. He was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, and abolitionist. And I’ve always loved this quote. So I thought this would be good for all of us today. He said, successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for Earth’s beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves. And that is Ralph Waldo Emerson. The next headline that I wanted to go to is from Newsmax. And this is Donald Trump as Trump is terminating all Biden auto pin actions. And this is by Mark Swanson. It was published yesterday. Last night, he said President Donald Trump followed through on a pledge that he had made last week, announcing that he has completely terminated every action signed by former President Joe Biden using the auto pin, declaring those measures null and void. Any and all documents, proclamations, executive orders, memorandums or contracts signed by order of the now infamous and unauthorized auto pin within the administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. are hereby null, void and of no further force or effect, Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Goes on to say anyone receiving pardons, commutations or any other legal documents. So sign, please be advised that said document has been fully and completely terminated and is of no legal effect. He added, which this is rather remarkable. This is going to the ramifications of this are going to be super interesting. And this post echoed his remarks from last Friday when he wrote that any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the auto pin, which was approximately 92 percent of them, is hereby canceling and of no further force or effect. And so this is Federal Defense Attorney Ronald Chapman II told Newsmax on Sunday that Trump has the authority to avoid executive actions taken under Biden’s auto pin if the device was used without Biden’s approval. So this is pretty big news. And so stay tuned on this. The next headline is this is from AP, the Associated Press, and it says that Trump, because of what had happened with the National Guardsmen that had been shot in Washington, D.C., and one of them had died, that the Trump administration is halting immigration applications for migrants from 19 travel ban nations. And it says that they’re pausing all this immigration from these 19 countries because of the attack on the National Guard troops. It says the changes were outlined in a policy memo the Tuesday that was posted on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website. The agency tasked with processing and approving all requests for immigration benefits. And again, this is from the Associated Press. Next thing, this is very important. Every one of these congressional seats is so important. And this is from the Tennessean. And there was a special election for Tennessee’s seventh district congressional seat. And U.S. Army combat veteran Mac Van Epps successfully held off a challenge from liberal state rep Democrat Afton Bain in the last showdown yesterday. of elections in 2025. The seat was left vacant by U.S. Representative Mark Green, who retired earlier this year to seek a job in the private sector. And I had read a Daily Wire piece about this, Afton Bain, last night, and she… is all in for all of the radical stuff, abortions, late-term abortions, transgender mutilation of our kids. She’s on record of all of those things, and it appears that she was able to make some progress as far as number of votes in a very red district. So we have to continue to work on our messaging and to shed light on what these people are doing. These radical activist Democrats are not the Democrats of JFK, nor your grandpa and your grandma. They have a radical activist agenda, and we need to continue to shed light on that because I think that that doesn’t really, that’s not the values, that’s not the principles of most of America. And that would be our moderate Democrats, unaffiliated Republicans, conservatives, liberals, or excuse me, libertarians, and well, liberals as well. And so we need to continue to shed light on this. And we do this because we have amazing sponsors. And for everything regarding your insurance needs, reach out to the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And do you want more freedom and confidence with your money? Then Mint Financial Strategies can help. They’re an independent firm with over 25 years of experience. And as an accredited investment fiduciary, they put your best interests first always. With a strategy-first approach, they’ll help you build a plan. that fits your life. So call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-3080, 303-285-3080. I’m pleased to have on the line with me a citizen watchdog. He is with Ralston Valley Coalition, and that is Mike Rolick. Mike Rolick, welcome.
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Morning, Kim. How’s it going?
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Well, it’s going well. It’s a little snowy out there, but it’s time for us to get some snow here in Colorado.
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Yes, it is. It’s about time, absolutely. Rough roads, though, so everybody be safe out there.
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Yes. So, yeah, take it easy out there and just be aware of your surroundings. Mike, I wanted to talk with you about these flock cameras, these flock cameras that are in many jurisdictions. And if somebody is hearing about them for the first time, how would you explain this flock camera system?
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It’s pretty interesting. Basically, what they say is they’re automatic license plate readers. The flock is growing to do other types of things. The initial idea of the license plate reader would be, from what I’ve read, there might be a situation where there’s a stolen car and you’ve got a license plate reader at certain intersections, key intersections. and that stolen cars might go by, the license plate is red, and then it gives an alert, and Flock can then tell authorities to then go to that intersection in that specific direction and give an alert. So in that sense, it’s supposed to be a good thing to help law enforcement, but where’s that mission creep, where’s that slippage into things that could really start going wrong? And That’s where the concern really begins for me.
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Well, it really goes down to, you know, we are supposed to be secure in our privacy, our possessions, and all of this automation, while there may be something positive about it, this continued surveillance state, we have to be very concerned about it and talk about it. So what’s your concerns right now, Mike Rollick?
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Just recently, flock safety has partnered with Ring Camera. And so now they’re interfacing or integrating, I should say, their license plate readers along with your doorbell cameras. And so there was a map that was put out of basically where it’s like complete coverage, you know, throughout this country. And then also you might have heard a little bit about Denver City Council wanting to cancel the contract with Flock, but apparently the mayor refused. signed again and now they’re also working with a uh the drone alpha so flock has a a specific drone that they’re doing a uh a trial program for a year with um through next august in denver as well and and this uh right from their right from their website here um flock safety unveils alpha their new drone. And so they’re saying it’s available for law enforcement customers to reach emergency scenes, identify suspects, resolve calls for service in seconds. Um, Alpha is purpose-built for emergency situations and public safety, combining rapid response capabilities with extended flight endurance and advanced cameras capable of reading a vehicle license plate up to 2,000 feet away and able to fly at 60 miles an hour. It’s the fastest-built drone for this type of operation, has the longest flight time, and it’s got a dual battery situation where as soon as it lands, like a pit stop, they can pop a new battery within 90 seconds. So now you’ve got a situation where you’ve got ring camera, You’ve got automatic license plate readers. And now you’re looking at this drone alpha system of which there is a program in Denver for a year. Kind of interesting situation. Right here, again, off the website, it says this is the only DFR platform available that lets an analyst or officer sitting safely in a real-time crime center seeing a LPR alert, license plate reader alert, come in, dispatch a drone within seconds from the same software, and follow the suspect vehicle in real time while directing patrol officers onto the scene, all within one integrated system. I think that’s kind of the secret here is you’re integrating all these different systems into one software. If we look at the basics of how our layers of government are supposed to work, whether it’s federal, state, local, city, county, metro district, there is an inefficiency kind of sought after and built in by the founding fathers. To integrate everything into one federal government would have been a mistake. So by that virtue, to integrate all these kind of systems, whether it’s your home camera system, seeing what’s going on in your street, the drones, license plate readers, I would say that becomes a problem as well. It really was not supposed to be how this is. So, yeah. And I’ve got this interesting patent from Flock that describes exactly how they’re going to use Ring Camera and other systems in an integrated fashion as well. Pretty crazy stuff, actually.
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So ultimately what this is, and we see this appetite for these data centers and that we’re seeing really, I think, land grabs with wind projects, solar projects, and transmission lines to get power to these data centers. And I’ve been concerned about the growth of the data centers because it’s like, why do they need all of these? They are collecting so much data on us that, and some of it might be incorrect. How do you correct it? But all of this stuff is connected. And you go back to the Fourth Amendment. It says, “…the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause.” supported by oath or affirmation, all of this surveillance can put in place, I think, can be in direct conflict to our Fourth Amendment. What do you think?
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Yes. There are some lawsuits going on right now. I think we’ve talked about the one out in Norfolk, Virginia, where it’s actually a flock safety lawsuit that some citizens are suing. And the idea here is FLOC will store the data for 30 days. And I was reading one of the contracts with Arvada, and they’ll allow the municipality to download and store that indefinitely on their own. The data that’s collected belongs to the agency, i.e., the government institution or whoever who’s got the subscription. The IP, as far as the technology, generally is on Flock’s side. But what’s getting picked up? Flock has now decided that our government owns these videos and not us. And that’s a disturbing trend. 30 days is an interesting benchmark. I believe it’s Carpenter versus U.S. That was a cell phone scrub. And the U.S. Supreme Court said anything more than seven days generally constitutes a search. And that kind of plays against his reasonable expectation of privacy situation, right? So you’ll hear people say, well, if you’re in the public, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. The trend back in the day of that would be if I’m sitting outside a convenience store and I just happen to see a robbery, yes, the suspect has no reasonable expectation of privacy. The police can come talk to me. I can tell them what the witness looks like and what have you. The difference is, is when you are storing data of all the cars going by. And they say they just read the license plate, but I’ve actually seen things that show they got more than that. Flock has gunshot detectors. They have other visual cues that they can look for as well. They’ve got these drones. So you’re storing this data in an integrated fashion for 30 days and then possibly going backwards to try to find the crimes. And that becomes an interesting problem in and of itself, as opposed to there’s a probable cause. They say, okay, Let’s go talk to some witnesses, what have you. Now you’ve got AI that can look through terabytes of data within seconds or less. I’m not an AI tech guy, but I know it happens really fast. And this seven-day benchmark is being violated by this 30-day retention of data. And that is definitely a problem.
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And then the 30-day retention is by flock, is that correct? But then the governmental agency, they say that they own it instead of us. This comes down to the big question, who owns our data? And I know because of convenience people, and we like all the conveniences of data, all these apps and things, but we’re giving up our privacy. Susan Kochavar just texted me. She said, privacy equals freedom. I think that pretty well encapsulates what we’re talking about, Mike Rolick, is this lack of privacy becomes a lack of freedom.
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And so I think a general, if anyone’s interested, a next step to do would be to look at Skagit County Superior Court in Washington. Electronic Frontier Foundation, if you guys follow them, they’re great. But they put something out about a court case that said since, now this is just in basics, you know, like any lawyers out there, I apologize. But since the city owns the data and Flock is doing a job for the city or the county, that their Open Records Act out in Washington allows for the citizen to have this data as well. There was an actual ruling about that. And so what had happened is a citizen used their Open Records Act. The city or county said no. And then the court actually said, well, hold on. If the city owns the data, and this is a job being done by Flock for the city, and it’s in their contract, and it’s in the contract for our municipalities as well, then this should be Open Records Act. Now, that doesn’t solve the problem of Flock cameras. but at least it opens the transparency and opens the discussion of who really owns the data and if we’re able to see it. So I would ask that if anyone’s interested, just do a simple core request for your city or county and get that slot contract. Minuteman’s another company that I see out there right now. They’re looking at doing automatic license plate readers installed into actual police cruisers with Minuteman. So Things like that, that’s a good first step, I think, is just to get a hold of those contracts and see where that IP, quote-unquote, actually lies. Whether it’s a tech IP, obviously, with a company, or that intellectual property of the actual video, the audio, what have you, where that lies. And the second step would be then just give it a shot and just say, hey, county or city, wherever you’re at, is that data something that I can ask for? But Block also wants to partner with Axiom, the dash cams and the lapel cams as well. So when you start looking at that, you have one integrated system that might not even be law enforcement on the other end. And we talked about that Dorito bag incident. There’s other incidents that were mentioned as well. There’s another incident I heard about in Aurora where AI is getting it wrong. And people that are, you know, in a center a thousand miles away are getting it wrong. And that puts people at risk. You know, our privacy is at risk. And also, you know, the responses that shouldn’t be issued, that constitutes a risk as well.
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Mike Rolick, I so appreciate your deep thinking, your deep dives on these important issues. And we will talk with you again next week. I so appreciate you keeping us up to speed on these really important issues. So thank you, Mike Rolick. Have a great day.
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Thank you, Kim. You do the same.
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And Susan did respond. She said being followed and watched is different than an expectation of privacy. Being followed is intrusive. And she’s got an excellent point there as well. And Susan’s going to be on the show here in a couple of weeks. So I guess it’s a couple of weeks we’ll talk about that as well. These are such important discussions, and they happen because of our sponsors for everything regarding residential real estate. You’ll want to have Karen Levine on your side of the table.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And I’m pleased to have on the line with us Greg Walcher. He is one of the most recognized and respected national leaders in natural resources policy. In addition to his popular blog, Resources and Reality, He writes a weekly newspaper column on Western resources issues and is the author of Smoking Them Out, The Theft of the Environment and How to Take It Back. It’s now in its second printing, and he is a frequent and popular speaker at conferences in the state and around the country. Greg Walter, welcome.
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Thanks. Good to be with you, Kim.
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Well, and you write such interesting pieces, Greg. And one of the first ones, which you published in mid-November, is Unsolicited Advice to the Sierra Club. And basically, the Sierra Club got out of its lane, and you’re suggesting they get back into it, right? Yes.
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Yeah, I’m not under any illusions that the Sierra Club is going to take my advice, by the way. But, yeah, the Sierra Club has lost 60% of its membership nationwide just in the last couple of years because it has veered off into a bunch of issues that have nothing to do with the environment, and they forget. This happens to all kinds of organizations, not just that one. But, you know, if they forget what their mission was, they forget what they’re all about, then they have forgotten why people join and sign up and volunteer and go to meetings and write checks.
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And so this really stemmed from after the death of George Floyd in 2020, correct?
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Lots of organizations got involved in what they call social justice issues. But the Sierra Club, there’s not the reason people join the Sierra Club. That’s because they care about the environment. It was, as you well know, was founded by John Muir as an organization originally designed to try and save Yosemite National Park, which they successfully did, and to stop the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam there, which they did not succeed in doing. But in the years since then, they’ve been involved in a vast array of environmental activities, issues and were involved in the original passage of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act and some of the things that we think of as cornerstones of the environmental movement. But in more recent years, these social justice issues and LGBTQ rights and gun control and all sorts of other things, these are all issues that are perfectly debatable, by the way, and there’s legitimate Voices on both sides of them all. My point was, it’s not what the Sierra Club is about. And they wonder why they’re losing members and why they’re losing donors and why they’ve lost so much credibility. It’s because they didn’t stick to what they’re good at and what they’re known for.
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So mentioning this social justice movement that’s been out there that really has, in a way, it’s been, I think it’s somewhat anti-everyday Americans thriving and prospering and putting people into different groups and and going after some of our constitutional rights. And as you mentioned, there are many organizations that got on that bandwagon in 2020, that whole COVID time, that was a unique time in our country. But as we go through time and looking back, I think people are looking back at these organizations and saying, wait a minute, What you say you are and what you have been doing are just two completely different things, and that’s what’s happened to the Sierra Club. You said that there’s two executive directors that have left the organization. Are they getting back to their foundation of what they’re focused on?
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No. Well, no, I don’t think so. I think with the latest director they hired, they’re just doubling down on the same issues. But they, in fact, have fired two directors in a row, not because they disagreed with them on the political issues, but because they were losing members and donors. One of them, in fact, was a guy who tried to cancel the history of John Muir, who was one of the greatest heroes of the conservation movement, who was a personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt, one of the early progressives, but he was the guy who saved Yosemite and founded what we now think of as the modern conservation movement. But because when he was a teenager, he wrote some unflattering things after traveling among some of the native tribes, this guy decided that John Muir should never be mentioned again, he should be taken out of all the history books and so on, and literally made the statement, that John Muir was involved in white supremacy, which is completely not only insane, it’s insulting for people who know anything about John Muir. He literally was one of the abolitionist progressives of his era, and the fact that as a teenager he wrote down something that all Americans practically thought at the time is just dumb. I hate judging people of the past by the standards of today. And for them to just sort of want to walk away from the proud legacy of conservation that he started is part of what started the Sierra Club on this downward spiral that they’ve been on. And they’re not the only ones. People don’t join Defenders of Wildlife so that they can get involved in the global climate change movement. They get involved in it because they care about wildlife. And so when an organization veers away from the founding mission, then they can’t be too surprised when they start losing members.
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right and we’re seeing that across the board you you mentioned the sierra club they were very involved in the clean water act the endangered species uh you know these were these are things that americans care about these particular issues and when those things those uh were put in place um that legislation and um you know when all that was put in place
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It was put there for a specific reason, but then what we saw is that they were used… These are things that most Americans and virtually all Coloradans are passionate about. We care a lot about clean air and clean water and healthy wildlife populations. We want to preserve and protect the most beautiful places on Earth. Coloradans don’t care any less about that than they ever did. I know all sorts of conservatives, and I’m sure you do too, who used to be members of the Sierra Club. Not because they didn’t care as much about limited government and low taxes as I do, but because they care passionately about the environment, as I do and as you do and as most Coloradans do.
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But the Clean Air, Clean Water, Endangered Species Act, all those ended up then being hijacked for pushing agendas that took away freedom, took away choices of people. So what’s your thoughts on where we are with that at this particular point in time?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think it’s what’s happened to the whole climate change movement. Lots of people… have started to separate that in their mind from their concern about the environment. Because for most people, the environment is almost a localized kind of thing. I care about the forests and the rivers and the wildlife in Colorado, but it’s a little bit hard for a lot of people to make the leap from that to, I have to give up the use of my car, while billions of people on the other side of the planet are leaving their bicycles behind and getting into cars, because somebody somewhere thinks that I’m destroying the planet, and it’s the overreach in that movement, trying to convince people that the Earth will no longer be able to sustain life. It’s a reach too far, and what people are seeing instead is a 60% increase in the cost of their home heating bill. And a lot of people have just started to say, I don’t think that’s really about the environment. I think there’s some other agenda there. So people want to go back to caring about the environmental causes that brought them to conservation in the first place. And so the same thing is happening to the global climate change movement. It’s losing adherence. All over the world, they’ve got some of their biggest donors, including Bill Gates, are walking away from the whole thing and essentially saying, I think we’re trying to convince people of something that’s not as big a threat as we’ve been saying.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and we’ll talk about that because that’s your next piece that you had published. But before we do that and go to break, I remember I was at a meeting where you were one of the speakers, and you talked about your book, Smoking Them Out, The Theft of the Environment and How to Take It Back. When was that initially published, Greg?
SPEAKER 11 :
Actually, it’s a decade old now. It’s in the second printing and published. It’s been amazing to me the length of the shelf life of that book. I still get invited all over the country to make speeches because of it. What I was trying to do was to give people better talking points on it. There’s this whole movement trying to convince us all that we hate the environment and they love it and we’re the bad guys and they’re the good guys. People just don’t feel that way. They feel more like somehow these issues have been hijacked by people whose real agenda is money and power and control, especially money. And there’s not a lot of sympathy for that. And so for me, the way to take back the high ground on environmental issues is to be more pro-environment than anybody else. And literally to ask yourself, whenever they’re talking about any environmental cause of some kind, ask yourself if what they want to do will actually improve the environment. And in most cases, people will say, well, that isn’t going to help the environment. That’s just going to make somebody rich. And so I was trying to give people better talking points, how to talk better about forest health and water and wildlife and mining and minerals and energy and all the rest of it.
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s an excellent book. I have it on my bookshelf here at home. And how can people buy the book, Greg Walter?
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s on Amazon, any place that people buy books.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. I did want to mention the two nonprofits that I highlight on a regular basis on the show and would recommend that you support them because they’re doing amazing work. One is the USMC Memorial Foundation. The official Marine Memorial is right here in Colorado. in Golden at 6th and Colfax. And they’re doing great work to remember and honor those that have given their lives, have been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And I’d recommend that you support them through this holiday season. And that is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. It’s nonpolitical, it’s nonpartisan, but focused on these foundational principles through many of their educational programs for k through 12 kids as well as educators and that those principles are honor integrity and patriotism and you can support them by going to americanvaluecenter.org i’m talking with greg walcher he’s one of the most recognized and respected national leaders in national resources policy in the country he has a popular blog resources in reality and he writes a weekly newspaper column on Western resources issues. And you can get all of his articles are archived at gregwalcher.com. Greg, you have written another very interesting piece, The Political Climate is Deteriorating Even Faster. And I’ve just been so intrigued with this whole COP30, this UN Climate Change Party. And you really… brought up some important pieces in this, or important points in this piece. So where would you like to start?
SPEAKER 11 :
I would just say that nobody has to take my word for it about the deterioration of the climate change movement. They need only to look at what happened in Brazil at this COP30 climate conference, which just ended. This is the 30th anniversary United Nations climate conference. several of those have been very high profile, especially the one in Kyoto in the 1990s and the one in Paris during the Obama years. We’ve gone from a point where just a handful of years ago, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury then, Janet Yellen, told the conference that the world was going to have to spend $30 trillion changing away from fossil fuels to renewables, to a time now when they literally adjourned that conference without an agreement on much of anything, and 80 countries refusing to sign a document that had any reference to fossil fuels at all in it. They’ve lost a lot of the major funding countries. The United States, for example, was the sugar daddy that basically financed these conferences for 30 years. The United States wasn’t even there. and eighty countries refusing to sign on to a document that even mentioned fossil fuels uh… on the heels of the loss of their largest individual donor which was the gates foundation we now know of course that the gates foundation was it wasn’t bill gates is money it was they they were the u s a i d was was funneling tens of millions of dollars through the gates foundation to that movement and when that money got cut off gates suddenly said wait a second i’m not putting my money into this
SPEAKER 19 :
Greg Walter, I try to watch headlines. I did not realize that USAID, I missed that, was funneling money into the Gates Foundation. I didn’t know that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, tens of millions of dollars. And a lot of the charitable work was original Gates Foundation money, but almost all of the climate work that it was doing was that AID money. Anyway, that’s just one example. When the British energy minister spoke to this COP30 conference in Brazil, he started off by saying, oh my gosh, even in my own country, there’s a lot of people who aren’t buying this world is collapsing theory. We’ve got to do something because our own people aren’t believing it anymore. And just almost to prove his point, a few days later, the British prime minister, his boss was there, And he started off by saying, yeah, remember when we the Brits created that massive fund to save the rainforest and we committed $125 billion to that fund? Yeah, we’re not doing that anymore. And six countries in Europe said, yeah, we’re not going to meet the targets that we agreed to 10 years ago either. And it just sort of spiraled down from there.
SPEAKER 19 :
So I saw this headline from the Center Square. It says that the climate workforce gaps threaten path to net zero in Colorado. So this is playing out on the international level, but it’s also playing out. Colorado’s really had a lot of policies that have been climate change related. And so this is interesting to see this headline here in Colorado, Greg.
SPEAKER 11 :
Lots of people are genuinely concerned about climate change. Climate change is real. Lots of people argue about what causes it and whether man is involved in it or not. But clearly we have periods of cold and periods of warmer temperatures and droughts and things like we’re suffering in the West today. It may be part of that. So lots of people are genuinely worried about it. But this idea that we’re going to wean ourselves of coal and oil and gas and all the things that make our economy work in exchange for a different form of energy that is not reliable because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, what it’s done instead is raise the cost of electric bills in Colorado by 60%. And lots of people are looking at that and saying, yeah, I think this whole carbon-free by 2030 or now it’s 2035 and later it’s going to be 2050, they keep having to move the needle back a little bit because the technology isn’t there economically to make that happen. And the reality is just trying to be more like California. It’s sad that Governor Polis was so bought into that, but it was a fad. And in my opinion, it’s probably going away.
SPEAKER 19 :
But that fad has cost everyday Americans billions of dollars. And look no further than the hypocrisy of all. You said there was, what, 56,000 delegates to this conference? That’s a lot of people to get there. And I don’t know, did they use an electric plane or how did they get there?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, in fact, there was a study about the amount of, about the millions of tons of carbon pumped into the air specifically by attendees at that conference. It’s remarkable. It was many times the amount of carbon that most of us generate in the course of a year. The delegates going to an international conference like that, counting their airplane tickets and the ground transportation and the energy that it takes to heat the building and all of that, it’s remarkable. And it’s kind of hypocritical when you get down to it to see major figures and world leaders and famous people, actors and so on, taking private jets and belching out carbon into the atmosphere so that they can be there and make a speech about how the rest of us should stop doing that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and the other thing we need to always remember to say is that carbon dioxide is nature’s fertilizer. You know, it’s this big circle of life, and that is that plants can thrive and prosper if there’s more carbon dioxide in the air, and that’s one of the things that We talked about in our documentary a climate conversation, and then, of course, you were one of our guests for a climate conversation podcast as well. But carbon dioxide is nature’s fertilizer, and we need to remember that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and I was one of a number of people advocating that the administration needed to withdraw what the EPA called the endangerment finding, literally the finding that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant which is just not true. It’s a naturally occurring substance that all life on Earth depends on, and it’s always been in the atmosphere, and it’s still in the atmosphere, and we change over a slow period of time. We might change the amount of it in such a miniscule way that it’s hardly even measurable, except our technology is so incredible that we can now measure parts per trillion, where we used to measure parts per million and then parts per billion. The technology is amazing for sampling a piece of air and seeing what’s in it, But going from that to a determination that it’s a dangerous pollutant that we have to stop putting in the atmosphere is just weird. Man doesn’t create carbon. We move it around and take it out of the ground and put it in the air, and nature will put it back in the ground over time. But it’s the same as, for me, the concept of renewable energy is a little bit ironic because all energy is renewable. Some of it just takes a little longer. So because we can see in the course of a day or a lifetime, we can see energy like wind and sun and water being renewed. We can’t really watch new coal and oil being created, but that doesn’t mean they’re not being created. It’s just part of the big cycle that you mentioned a second ago.
SPEAKER 19 :
And that’s absolutely fascinating. Greg Walcher, we have one year, or excuse me, one minute left, and your book is Smoking Them Out, The Theft of the Environment and How to Take It Back. I’d recommend that people have this on their bookshelf at home. Your final thought.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, thanks. I wish we had a year left because we could talk about this for the rest of the day and quite a bit beyond. I just think people need to remember we all care a lot about the environment, and any accusation that we don’t tells you right off the bat that there’s some other agenda there. We ought to be talking instead about how to ensure clean air and clean water and protect pretty places and make sure we have healthy wildlife.
SPEAKER 19 :
And also have human flourishing. And I think all those things can coexist, Greg Walcher.
SPEAKER 11 :
Me too. I never have bought the people say, if you want a healthy economy or a healthy environment, you can’t have both. I’ve never believed that. I still don’t.
SPEAKER 19 :
I don’t either. And we can definitely coexist. Greg Walcher, you can find him at gregwalcher.com. That’s W-A-L-C-H-E-R dot com. Greg, we’ll talk again very soon.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thanks, Kim.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, good morning, Kim.
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Now, we were prerecorded for the week of Thanksgiving, so it’s been a couple of weeks. What’s happening in the mortgage rate arena at this time?
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Not a whole lot, which can kind of be good news. The market’s been kind of flat. I reference with you all the time the 10-year note, U.S. Treasury, and it got as low as, I think, $399. maybe a week and a half ago or so, and then back to 410 the other day. Now it’s in the mid-405. So we’re just kind of bouncing around, Kim. There’s not a lot going on, which is good. There’s not a lot of volatility right now, not a lot going on with the markets. So we’re still in that lower six range in rates, which is nice. People are looking for homes, and we’re helping them and still refining some people that have gotten rates in the high sixes, low sevens over the last couple of years.
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So generally, I know each situation is unique, but if somebody, say, did get a mortgage rate in the sevens, and at the rates they are now, is there a ballpark on how much they could save per month if they did a refi?
SPEAKER 10 :
It really depends on the size of their mortgage, right? I mean, some people, if they have a really low mortgage… amount, then moving the rate a little bit isn’t a large savings. But with the way home values have gone up here in Colorado, with the average home price being much higher than several years ago, typically loans have gotten higher. That’s why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have consistently, year over year, increased the high loan amount that they’ll cover, which is now over $800,000 for a Fannie and Freddie loan. When I first got into business, it was in the 300s. So that’s how much they’ve raised their lending limits for, you know, Fannie and Freddie protection. So, you know, a lot of people have larger loans nowadays. So even, you know, a half a point can really make a difference of a couple few hundred dollars for people on these larger loan amounts now, which is real money in today’s world with inflation and the way people are hurting, you know, day to day. A slight move of like a half a point can really help people. So the days of The concept of, you know, you have to be able to lower your rate by a full point to make it worthwhile are long gone, in my opinion.
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So a couple of hundred dollars a month is $2,400 a year. Over 10 years, that’s $24,000. That’s after-tax money, really, that people are saving, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Exactly. And, you know, when I help your people, your listeners with their appraisal, you’re talking about closing costs of about, let’s say, $2,400 for a loan per So that means they’re recouping their expenses within 12 months, which is really good on a refinance. And a lot of people are saving more than $200 a month. You know, we’re helping people save, you know, sometimes $300, $400, $500 a month, which makes the recovery of the fees way quicker. And then it’s just money in your pocket after tax dollars. And that could be used to, you know, pay down a credit card bill that’s got really high rates or anything that would help the family breathe a little bit more. So it’s fun to do it. It’s fun to help people. And it’s available for, you know, people that have – higher rates and people might not even think their rate is that high, but it might be worth a phone call just to see.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and there’s no cost to asking the question and having you run the numbers, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Exactly. And, you know, we do that a lot. And I just talked to someone yesterday that’s not in a position to be helped just yet. And that’s OK. You know, things are changing every time they make a payment and they’re restoring their credit score from paying down some debt. And, you know, we’re just a few months away, but sometimes we just have to say it’s not the right time. And we’re not afraid to do that. We’re not going to push anybody into something that doesn’t make sense for them.
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OK, so if people would like to ask the question, what’s that number to call, Lorne Levy?
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The best number is always 303-880-8881.
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And, again, that’s Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages, 303-880-8881. And I also wanted to say thank you. And, Lauren, have a great week. We’ll talk next week.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Thank you so much. You as well.
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Hi, Kim. Seems like it’s been a long time, although we were here last week and didn’t realize it.
SPEAKER 19 :
We were. We had prerecorded that particular interview. I heard from a number of listeners that they thought it was just really, it was a lot of fun. We talked about some non-serious issues, which we do. But anyway, we prerecorded for that week, and we’re back here live, though. But one of the cliffhangers that you left a couple of weeks ago was cows in Alaska. So what about cows in Alaska?
SPEAKER 09 :
It was 2000. I got a phone call from a gentleman in Alaska who I did not know. But he called and he said, his name was Tim. He said, I need to get 1,500 head of cows off of Shercoff Island here in Alaska because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants the cows removed because they are a threat to birds in their nestings. I thought, well, that’s strange, the whole concept. But cows on an island in Alaska? I’m in. I’ll be there. So I bought a ticket pretty quickly and went up there and spent a week on this island, which was 250 miles southwest of Kodiak Island. I flew into Kodiak. And you had to take a float plane out to this island. And it was fascinating, the whole story. In the 1850s, the Russians were invading what was now considered Alaska. And any of the unruly natives, excuse me, they would just capture them and put them on this island and turn the island into a penal colony. Because it was out in the middle of the ocean, they couldn’t go anywhere. But they were considered enough to put fox and cattle on this island so that they had something to eat and clothe themselves with. Well, moral of the story, with a little bit of a juggernaut during World War II, these cattle have been on this island for 150 years with, well, since 1852, with zero human intervention and just were out there on their own in survival of the fittest. And the interesting thing, because it’s in the ocean, even though it would get down and be cold, the vegetation was year-round. Most interesting thing about my observation, Kim, was the fact that they never ate themselves out of habitat. And that I found fascinating, that their reproduction summit was 33,000 acres, put it into context. The island is 11 miles by 7 miles. So anyway, I went there simply because he had a contract from U.S. Fish and Wildlife to remove these cattle, and he wanted me to help because he heard that I was adventuresome and was a rancher and knew how to handle livestock. So I went back. That was in May the first year. That fall I went back in October, and I decided that the cattle needed to stay there. They did not need to leave this island. But it was a fascinating study in what these animals do without human intervention. And ultimately, because I shed some light on that scenario through my media outlets, the United States Department of Agriculture at Miles City at Fort Keogh, They actually went there and got some DNA and did some DNA evaluations of those cattle, and they were unique to Russia and completely different from the cattle that we have. Now, the reason I brought up World War II is because during World War II, we established on the north end of that island an anti-tracking station for monitoring what was coming or going on in Japan. Okay. absolutely the most fascinating part of this and I’ve got some pictures on the north end of this island and what I estimated to be about a section which would be 640 acres there was nothing growing absolutely nothing growing there’s one spot out in the middle where there was this six-foot-high, like, pillar, had a little clump of grass on top of it, which told me that the erosion since the 40s, because of no vegetation in this spot, had eroded six feet of the soil. And so why was there nothing growing there? There had to be some chemical that sterilized the soil that spilled during that period of time of World War II.
SPEAKER 19 :
Wow. As you say that, then, my mind goes directly to the conversations that we’ve had about, for example, solar industrial projects. And so there’s chemicals in those solar panels, and if they’re destroyed by hail or something like that, that could really destroy the soil health, yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, 100%. It will. So anyway, I don’t get often to talk about that project anymore. The cattle are still on that island. The guy that I worked with, when I decided that they needed to stay there, he had a contract. He ended up finding a way to get 80 of them gathered up on a ship. And I understand about a third of them died between Cherkoff Island and Kodiak Island. And that is where the USDA did get that DNA sample from. But for that to be, I mean, it was 19, let’s just say, 45, and I was there in 2000, 2001. That soil to be that sterile so many years later, that’s some serious stuff.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, it is serious stuff. How many head of cattle are on Sharkoff Island now?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well. I estimated at the time, just from when you fly in, we would fly around the island and I would look at groups. I estimated 1,500. Nobody really knew, nor knows today.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. And the other thing is the herd probably stayed the size of what they could sustainably eat, yes? Yes. Isn’t that kind of a natural occurring thing as well, wouldn’t you think?
SPEAKER 09 :
That is a natural occurring phenomenon, except that that wasn’t the case because the forages were abundant. It’s not like they were eating more than was there. But because it was in the ocean, I assume there’s some massive storms from time to time because I would see on east side of cliffs. It’s very mountainous, too. It wasn’t just a flat island. It’s very mountainous. And I can see on east sides of embankments and different formations, there would be massive skeletons and bones. So what I anticipate is there would be big storms come in from the west, and the cattle would go for protection like they would anywhere. And I think that the reason the population kept held in check was because in the middle of the ocean, they would have storms that would kill off large numbers at different times.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. What about foxes? Did they survive all these years?
SPEAKER 09 :
I saw the most beautiful fox that you’ve ever seen. They’re beautiful blue fox. Most all the fox were beautiful. And the only thing still on that island today, through all of these years, because it’s so remote out in the middle of the ocean, is those cattle, fox, and birds.
SPEAKER 19 :
Wow. And then one other question. When were humans that was being used as a penal colony, when did that stop? When did humans get off the island?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know the answer to that question.
SPEAKER 19 :
Hmm. I hardly ever ask you a question that you don’t know the answer to.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Because there’s so much of that that’s just hard to find facts, you know, what was taking place and what the time frame was.
SPEAKER 19 :
That is really interesting. And again, taking care of our soil. We had Greg Walter on in our number one, who’s a natural resources expert. And we were talking about this COP 30 big conference down in Brazil and really the hypocrisy of people flying down there. What we’re seeing, the veil is coming off on the whole climate change issue. issue and it’s really about money and control and transferring money, not transferring, I would say taking money from one to give to another, which that really is socialism moving into communism. But one of the things that Greg has said is that we all care about clean air and clean water and our earth. And it’s important for us to understand that what we’re doing with these big wind and solar projects are detrimental to, or can be detrimental to our soil health. And if we don’t have healthy soil, we’re not able to grow food for everyday people to thrive and prosper, which that’s the dot that you’ve been connecting on for many, many years, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 :
The quality of life on earth is 100% driven by the top six inches of earth. the soil and the ability to maintain soil health. And if we can’t keep soil health in the top six inches, we won’t keep mankind. One of the greatest hypocrisies of that whole top 30 thing was the fact that they cleared 40,000 acres of Amazon rainforest to build an interstate to get people to an event that gathered and talked about why you should not tear down the Amazon rainforest.
SPEAKER 19 :
I saw that headline. It is beyond belief. And that’s why we have to shed light on what’s going on there, because if they were really serious about the rainforest, then they would not have done that. Trent Luce, we’re going to continue the discussion. These are important discussions to have. They happen because of our sponsors. Our Second Amendment was put into the Constitution so that everyday people could protect themselves against bad actors. It’s under attack here in Colorado with legislation and rules and regulations. It’s like they’re trying to get rid of our Second Amendment by a thousand cuts. That’s why the work of the Second Syndicate is so important.
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SPEAKER 09 :
I actually did not look into that. I did know they filed bankruptcy. I don’t know on the surface what that’s going to mean. I do know that we are fast approaching a new record in terms of the number of farmer bankruptcies in the United States. And the truth of the matter is, whatever the details are, we are in a very volatile situation economically, not only in the country across all facets, but certainly in food and fuel and fiber production.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and connecting COP 30 with the American farmer is there’s been all kinds of rules, regulations, and things put in place that have made it more expensive for the American farmer to produce food. And one has to ask why. In fact, I remember talking with… farmer this was a couple years ago that they had gone back to John Deere to see a piece of equipment that they had purchased being manufactured and there was another piece of equipment the same kind of equipment but it was not having to have all of the the same bells and whistles that was put on it and he said well why is that and they said well that piece of equipment is going to I think it was Australia and And they don’t have all the rules and regulations that we do here in America. So speak to me about that, Trent.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re speaking about the emissions standards that are put in place for vehicles and for tractors and combines and semis. Trains, by the way, are exempt from emission standards for whatever reason.
SPEAKER 19 :
And Warren Buffett owns a lot of railroad, you know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. I just once again yesterday had this conversation with Kevin Kinney from Grand Island, Nebraska, about the emission standards. And the data is pretty clear. You know, in a time when we make progress in so many industries and we produce widgets that are better, no matter what that widget is, Our vehicles are not as good as they were 40 years ago, and really we’re talking pre-2004 because that’s when the emission standards truly started. And even more concerning than just the problem with these vehicles and tractors and combines that are so unaffordable to fix and how now we have the manufacturer, in this case it would be John Deere, that says you can’t fix your own. We’ve got to come with our computer and we’ve got to have the codes and get in there and do all of these other things. The reliability of what they take, what they brought to the forefront is just unbelievable, the lack of reliability. But in 2004, we have under George W. Bush, by the way, as president, we have this new emission standard, which is when low sulfur diesel came into the forefront. And low sulfur diesel is about what you just said, protecting the environment along the lines of COP 30 and all of this UN nonsense about protecting the environment. We now are in 20 plus years of low sulfur diesel in all of our vehicles. And we know we’ve forced the power plants to do all coal mines jobs. All coal-fired power plants, I should say, have reduced, according to the Department of Energy, have reduced sulfur standards by 92 percent, excuse me, sulfur emissions by 92 percent since 1990. And do you know that prior to 2010, no farmer ever put sulfur in their fertilizer mix because we naturally had enough sulfur in the soil? And today, every single farmer has to add between 15 and 20 pounds of sulfur to a fertilizer mix per acre because we’ve depleted sulfur in the atmosphere? That’s the kind of implication that takes place, again, back to what we were talking about in the first segment, soil health. If you don’t have soil health… You don’t have anything that’s going to grow and humanity will suffer. And emissions are truly nothing other than a source of nutrition for some plant and living thing. And we’ve completely lost sight of that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Wow. So what do we do about this? Well, I think what we do is we continue to shed light on it. But what else can we do?
SPEAKER 09 :
Just get loud. We absolutely have to get loud. I stood… In an audience, having to be at the same meeting Kevin Kinney was at at the Nebraska State Fair, Lee Zeldin, director of the EPA, stood in front of this group and talked about rolling back all of these emissions, and not one bit of it’s happening. We continue to get lip service from D.C. with zero follow-through on the ground. We’re still making emission standards that are incompatible with what nature needs and what we need as humanity to go forward.
SPEAKER 19 :
So, Trent, somebody had said to me that regarding Trump and he makes these announcements. And as you mentioned, it seems like nothing is happening. And I saw an article that said that there are those that are within the deep state that are trying to slow walk some of these directives or ignore them. What’s your thoughts about that?
SPEAKER 09 :
I in no way, shape or form believe the deep state is preventing any of these things from happening. There’s just simply no desire to make them happen at the ground level because Trump has surrounded himself with people like Howard Lutnick and Scott Bissett who are financially winning from all of these things that are happening and taking place in front of us. They are the deep state.
SPEAKER 19 :
Hmm. Okay. Then why would Trump even say it? Why would they even voice these directives?
SPEAKER 09 :
A hundred percent. That’s a great question, because it allows us to just have this peace of mind and people stop fighting because they think, oh, look, Trump’s going to take care of this. And then when you let your guard down, the people who he has surrounded himself with continue to look at Howard Lutnick. He’s 800 businesses that he owned part of. Cantor Fitzgerald is his business. Actually, they owned part of 800 different businesses. He owns the majority owner in Benergy, one of the largest solar and wind developers. He’s a significant owner of NextEra.com. the largest wind and solar developer in this country. And that’s the guy who’s in charge of the Secretary of Commerce for the United States, appointed by Trump, who’s his number one financial advisor that’s outside of his cabinet that he turns to. Larry Fink. Larry Fink is the CEO of BlackRock, who’s in all of these things, who has pushed the net carbon zero agenda like nobody else. And he’s the current chairman of the World Economic Forum. And he don’t even hide the fact that he’s his number one financial advisor outside of his cabinet.
SPEAKER 19 :
Hmm. I’m going to have to research that some more because I have I have guests on on a regular basis in some industries that have been very happy about. For example, when I talked to Lauren Fix regarding anything regarding autos, she’s she’s been very positive about the things that Trump has done.
SPEAKER 09 :
So and I do think positive about what?
SPEAKER 19 :
So, for example, the rollbacks on EV mandates or EV incentives. That’s a real positive, I think. I mean, it’s a step in the right direction.
SPEAKER 09 :
Are we actually investing, putting less incentives in for electronic vehicles?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, that’s my understanding, yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know where. Sure.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. You know what? Let me make a note to look that up so that I know what I’m talking about, and we can talk about that next week because I want to make sure that I’m getting it right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Excellent.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. Let’s… The mandate’s making a note here. Next thing, I got a… email from Carrie Giblets, who is with the Environmental Alliance out in Elbert County. And she said this, she said, important, as you may know, Elbert County commissioners denied Xcel’s application to put high voltage transmission lines through the heart of Elbert County, also through El Paso County, but this is in reference to Elbert County. Xcel has appealed to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission asking them to overturn our commissioner’s decision and allow them to put their lines along their chosen route. The PUC will be holding a public comment hearing regarding this, and it’s important to fill that hearing room. And it’s next Tuesday, December 9th, 5 to 7 or longer if necessary, at the Elbert County Fairgrounds in Kiowa. And I’m going to plan on being there. I had a Christmas party that I was supposed to or RSVP that I was going to attend. But I think this is so important, Trent, that I’m going to be out there for that.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is a classic situation where the people of Albert County actually have spoken, have spoken more than once, have shown up at meetings. And this is what, you know, Wendy and I and you have talked about on a regular basis is that they just continue to bring the resistance until people say, I’ve been there, done that. I just can’t fight it anymore. We must remain resilient and show up when they have these meetings because they’re just waiting until the point in time where people wear down. And like you said, how many people have a Christmas, some Christmas function? It’s the last half of December. That’s not a time you should schedule any of these meetings unless you’re planning to have a meeting where you actually have less resistance so they can just railroad it through. This is exactly what I see happening in all of the states I work with on a daily basis.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, I’ve seen it as well, that many times, in fact, when I was on city council, there was a rewrite of an agreement. It was like, I can’t remember exactly, like a master plan for the east side of I-25 for the Ridgegate development. And I kept asking staff and the mayor for this. And by gosh, I get the agenda for the meeting that was going to be right before Christmas. And this was on the agenda item. So I called the city manager and I said, I see that this is on the agenda. And really, there’s not much time to review this. And I kid you not. Trent, it was like within a week of Christmas, and when people are not paying attention. But I said to the city manager, I said, well, at least this will be the first hearing. We’ll have a second hearing. He said, oh, no, no, for something like this, this is the only hearing. And I thought, oh, okay, I see. This is a strategy, exactly what you’re describing. We see this across cities. local, county, state governments where these decisions, these big decisions are being put forth when people may not be paying attention, and then the PPIs opine and they say, oh, we had this meeting and you didn’t show up. And many times people didn’t even know about the meeting. And so that’s why Kerry getting this information out is so important, and I really would recommend, even if you don’t live in Elbert County, Get there because they may be taking their land in Elbert County and you may say, oh, that doesn’t matter to me. And XL is out there trying to take land via eminent domain. But if they will take somebody else’s land someday, what you care about may be on on the chopping block or, you know, maybe what they’re going to try to take a trend. So this is super important.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it’s Martin Niemöller that comes to my mind in this situation. And he’s the one, he was the Lutheran pastor in Germany who was talking about they came for the trade unionists. I was not a trade unionist, so I did not speak up. They came for the capitalists. I was not a capitalist, so I did not speak up. They came for me, and there was nobody left to speak up for me.
SPEAKER 19 :
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And a couple of things. Gift ideas for Christmas would be, A, to honor your loved one’s military service by purchasing a brick that will be on one of the pathways of service at the… Marine Memorial when they do that update. You’ll receive a beautiful certificate that you can wrap up for Christmas for your loved one to honor their military service. And to do that, go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then also, I’d highly recommend that you have the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values on your library at home, on your bookshelf at home. But also, it is a great gift, and you can order that by going to The American Values Center, let’s see, Center for American Values is AmericanValuesCenter.org, and so I’d highly recommend that. Trent Luce is on the line. He is a sixth-generation rancher from Nebraska. We had two of the subjects that, well, one that we had left as a cliffhanger regarding cows in Alaska and the other regarding this grain giant in Nebraska that’s declared bankruptcy and really went The challenges that our food producers are having in America. What else is on your radar? What’s happened over the last couple of weeks, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, yesterday, biggest news of the year for me. But before we get to that, I did look up during the break. BlackRock owns 9.1% at this moment of Xcel Energy. So to my point that we still have the same people profiting from these events that are all close to Donald Trump, and yet he continues to say that he’s opposed to them is just hypocrisy. 9.1% is owned by BlackRock. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who is his personal advisor and chairman of the World Economic Forum. Vanguard actually owns a larger percentage, but BlackRock is second at 9.1%. You know that I’ve been fighting the CO2 pipeline and, more importantly, the injection of CO2 a mile and a half deep. And this is not only a Dakota issue. Trailblazer Pipeline is supposed to start running CO2 to northern Colorado and southeast Wyoming within a couple of weeks. And yesterday, a district court in North Dakota ruled that the injection of CO2 into the pore space in North Dakota is unconstitutional. This is a big deal, and the pore space is that empty spot of this geological formation that’s right on the edge of the Bakken, which is where oil once was. It’s like a sponge. There was a 2022 Supreme Court ruling in North Dakota that said poor space is tied to the property, that you cannot separate the two. And this court ruling saying that if somebody has poor space that will be invaded by the injection of CO2 into that poor space, that’s a violation of their property rights. And so this is major news coming out of North Dakota that should extend and everybody needs to understand all across this country, particularly those that are dealing with injected CO2. CO2 belongs in the atmosphere, not a mile and a half deep under Earth. And so I’m pretty excited about what this is going to mean going forward.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay, so probably this is going to be appealed, right, by those that want to inject. But this is going to stop it at this time, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct. This will stop it?
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. Okay. And again, 100% of why they want to do this is $85 per metric ton tax credit. It’s a Ponzi scheme that people are chasing. Right. This is just the first victory for property rights where we can just hang our hat on and say, okay, now we have a path forward. But you’re right. It will be appealed. The lawsuit was basically against the state of North Dakota. And so the appeal may or may not be heard, but it brings to light. And now I had more. This announcement was yesterday afternoon at some point in time at mid-afternoon. And I’ve had more people reach out to me that I’ve never heard from before since that. And they’re sending me scientific data that I’ve been trying to get people to listen to. And all of a sudden they’re like, hey, look what we found. I know. I know. Now we have the opportunity to make sure people hear. It’s like back to where you started this whole conversation. exposing the truth and make sure that people make wise decisions going forward. It is absolutely dangerous to take CO2 and put it a mile and a half deep under earth anywhere. And we cannot allow this to happen in southeast Wyoming and northeast Colorado either.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay, true, true. You’ve got me thinking about so many things, and we’ve got a lot coming in on the text line 720-605-0647. And it says, tell Trent to get a bulleted list to us of Black Rock and Cantor Fitzgerald for those out here in the public commenting and to Albert County meeting on Tuesday. I will do that. Okay, that will be good. And then connecting the dot, and I know that Wendy sent something over, and I really was checked out for Thanksgiving, and I think you might be a little bit more updated regarding Wendy Volk and what’s happening up in… But Black Rock has its tentacles all over. And so I looked up the owner, and I had done this a while back, of Repsol, which Repsol is the Spanish group that is trying to do that big land grab on those 56,000 acres in northwest of Cheyenne. for an industrial wind project. BlackRock owns almost 7% of Repsol, and Vanguard owns 4.44%. So they’ve got their tentacles all over the stuff that is taking land from everyday people, and I think that’s what we have to continue to focus on here at Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 :
And don’t forget, Wendy’s done a great job bringing to light that this is not just a Laramie County, Wyoming issue. This is a corridor that is going to run nearly from the Colorado border to the Montana border. It’s 100%. It is nothing other than a land grab, because along with these projects comes an easement that says you no longer decide what you’re going to do with your property. I’ve said that from the beginning, and I still say that stronger today than ever before. And I’m reading a book that I don’t want to talk about this week. We can talk about it next week. And it was written in 1903. They talked about the best way and the ultimate way to cripple a country is to remove the land rights from the individuals who have it.
SPEAKER 19 :
And we’ll talk about that next week. We’ve got just a couple of minutes. We’ve got Gammy on the line. Gammy, what’s your comments?
SPEAKER 17 :
Good morning, you kids. I listened to Trent’s whole hour this morning before this show, and I’m going to ask that you figure out a time where you can do a two-hour show with Trent and the energy guys that you have on, the climate conversation guys, where you have on a two-hour with real descriptive data for the public so that they can know how to get engaged in and involved, and I would ask every single person listening, I don’t care if it’s Christmas, New Year’s, that you need to call all of your elected representatives and make them aware of your concerns. It’s going to take calls and writing, you know, which you know I do a lot of. I just did a post this morning for For Tina Peters, who they’re denying turning into the hands of the feds, and she gets sicker every day. At RealTinaPeters on X and TinaPeters.us. We need to fight back for our rights because Think and the World Economic Forum, the globalists, are destroying America. And even the president alone can’t do this. And we need to point out the people who are around him who are snakes. and those who aren’t, and only pressure from everybody from every local end is going to make any kind of resonating noise. It’s that bad. If we want this republic free.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you, Gammy. She’s absolutely spot on. We’ve got only about 30 seconds left. Trent Luce, I will talk again next week. Your final thought on all this.
SPEAKER 09 :
I guess we’re going to have to be more like the Europeans, which I didn’t think I would ever say. Parliament told the farmers in London, don’t show up with tractors in our town, and 1,000 farmers showed up. You’ve got to make a stand and be heard.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I think that’s exactly what Gammy was saying as well. And I think what she’s asking for is good, concise talking points so that people can understand that. So as always, Gammy, thank you for your perspective. Thank you, Trent. We’ll talk next week. Our quote for the end of the show is from Ralph Waldo Emerson. He said, freedom is not the right to do as you please. but the liberty to do as you should. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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i don’t want no one to cry but tell them if i don’t survive
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