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Welcome to Annette on America. This is Annette Bybee, single mom to three teenage girls, lawyer, college professor. And I just want to warn you ahead of time, if you hear any background noise, that’s my 14-year-old playing Roblox, and she likes to make a lot of noise when she’s doing that. And I went in there a minute ago, and I said, stop hollering. I’m going to be recording. And she says, no one’s hollering. I’m screaming. Oh, well, that’s much better. Just gonna love that screaming in the background. Anyway, fingers crossed that she keeps it down. So, but that wouldn’t be the worst thing that happens is the screaming. What would be even worse is if an asteroid hits the Earth. And did you know that NASA is plotting how to destroy the city killer asteroid that has 1.5% chance of hitting the Earth? So my first thought was, why would you want to stop that? I confess that all those of you that listen to this show know that I’m hoping for the second coming. So like end of the world stuff is cool to me. But if it’s just going to hit one city and destroy one city, I guess we should try and do something about it. Although now I’m curious to see what they would do to try and stop that asteroid that has 1.5% chance. So NASA is on the high alert for a city killer asteroid that’s headed towards Earth because they don’t want to miss a thing. Okay, yeah. They’re poking fun at that movie, right? Where, what’s it called? Asteroid? I don’t remember what it’s called now. But, and it’s got the song, Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing. Okay, so now I have to look up the movie. And you’re probably sitting there going, we know the name of the movie. So I’m just going to ask, what is the name of the movie where an asteroid is headed to? to Earth. And I’m going to get the name and I’m going to be like, duh, of course, no, it’s not Orpheus. Well, there’s Asteroidageddon. I don’t think that’s it. No, none of these movies sound right. Maybe it is Armageddon. Yeah, I think Armageddon is right. Anyway, so don’t want to miss a thing. Okay, the asteroid called 2024 YR4 now has a 1.5% probability of hitting Earth in 2032. So seven years from now. And also for those of you that have listened to the program, you know that I have predicted the second coming for 2028. And you know what, I’m just gonna, what the heck. Might as well go all in. I’m gonna say April 6th, 2028. So mark your calendars. Anyway, according to NASA and international agencies are feverishly working together to track the space rock and looking at how to blow it to smithereens if necessary. No one is panicking, but it’s definitely what we’re talking about in the hallways of NASA, says a project manager at Kennedy Space Center. We know we have enough time to act, but now’s the time to start planning. You can’t half-blank this at the last minute. No, I guess you can’t half-blank it. So here are the stats on the asteroid. It’s 130 to 300 feet wide. It circles the sun every four Earth years. The impact probability is down from 3.1% to 1.5%, which begs the question, is that gonna go down further by 2032? At risk, 110 million people. Well, yeah, that’s significant. When could it hit? Oh, they actually have a date on it, December 22nd, 2032. By the way, that’s my daughter’s birthday, the one that’s in there screaming in the other room. And in seven years, she will be 21. Impact region, or impact location, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea, and South Asia. So, not gonna be here, right? Although, Northern South America, pardon me, is a little closer than I like. Anyway, all right, let’s keep reading what their big plans are. On Tuesday, NASA put out a bombshell estimate that put the probability of deep impact at 3.1% or 1 in 32 more likely than choosing a correct number on a roulette wheel. The space agency later upgraded Earth’s chance of missing the space rock with the new observations on Wednesday. Okay, so we’re going to keep changing this from day to day, apparently. YR4 is believed to be 130 to 30 feet wide, about the size of a large office building. Its projected trajectory could mean impact in eight of the world’s most populated cities, including Bogota. Well, I think most of us would be okay with getting rid of Bogota, sorry. Lagos, Nigeria, and Mumbai, India, with up to 110 million people potentially at risk for a strike if it hits Earth. If it hit one of those cities, the consequences would be catastrophic. If you put it over Paris or London or New York, you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs, Bruce Betts, chief scientist for the nonprofit Planetary Society, told AFP. If world space agencies determine that the asteroid is likely to hit Earth, they could send a rocket armed with explosives towards the rock as it hurtles towards us in 2032, changing its trajectory or destroying it entirely. Destroying it would be easy, said the NASA project manager. It wouldn’t even take that much explosives. The trick is getting to it and delivering the explosives precisely at the right time at the right angle. That’s the hard part. The means to destroy the asteroid would be largely dependent on its density and makeup, which scientists don’t yet know. Some asteroids are made of porous rock and metal, causing them to disintegrate easily like the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. Those would take less explosives than other more solid asteroids. all right um sorry there’s a big old chart that i’m not going to try and read right now nasa has not commented on whether it would send a nuclear warhead or some other explosive count counteract to counteract i think they mean the asteroid and experts caution that the talk may be premature because we’re still very much in the wait and watch phase The NASA source said, we’ll be able to track it until April and then it’ll be too far away, but we can learn a lot in the next month or so and figure out what to do from there. The post confirms that NASA has been in contact with several space agencies, including the China National Space Administration, the Russia Space Agency, Roscosmos, and the European Space Agency. The agencies are also in contact with astronomers from the International Asteroid Warning Network to map out the rock’s path and ascertain the risk that it could slam into Earth at 38,000 miles per hour. Wow, that’s pretty fast. Hundreds of telescopes are trained on the asteroid, which is currently hurtling away from us in an elliptical route that takes it closer to the sun. It takes approximately four years for the rock to orbit the sun. YR4 was initially spotted rocketing through our solar system in December. Now this asteroid is pretty popular, lots of attention. Astronomers at first believed that the asteroid had a one in 83 chance of hitting Earth during its return to Earth in 2032. The rock will return to Earth’s vicinity in 2028, giving scientists another chance to recalculate the odds and determine if the rock is still threatening Earth. Some scientists believe that the odds will drop dramatically upon its next orbit. At some point in the next months to few years, the probability will go to zero, said Betts. See, that’s what I’m thinking. That’s my guess. But NASA and the other agencies aren’t taking any chances. We have plenty of notice, and this is one to watch, said the NASA project manager. It could end up not being a danger at all. It could change en masse if there’s ice on it, and that would change things tremendously. It could wobble just a little bit now, and that slight change now could add up to tens of thousands of miles by the time it gets back this way. The sky isn’t falling yet. Anything can happen, but we still have to stay on our guard. That sounds like this dude over at NASA just really wants a big project. Maybe he gets paid by the project. This is a big one. What I’m wondering is, why don’t they just ask Elon Musk to take care of the problem? Isn’t that in his wheelhouse? There’s just a lot of Elon Musk stories these days. And this next one, is an interesting one. And I talked to my Facebook group about it today. I saw a lot of energy in their responses. And so usually when I see that kind of energy, it means this is an issue that people care about. So Trump weighing Doge dividend to send taxpayers checks with saved funds. And so there was a story out earlier where they were talking about how Doge has already reportedly found $55 billion in savings. It must be the greatest return on investment in the history of the world. Yesterday, in the space of less than a month, Elon Musk’s small band of T-shirt-clad 20-somethings issued the Department of Government Efficiencies’ first progress report, which claims to have uncovered some $55 billion in savings. Really, the Musk-led department has plunged into the records of federal government agencies to find them rife with fraud, waste, abuse, error, and redundancy. You can see it for yourself exhaustively itemized right there on the Doge website. So if you want to look it up, go look it up. Complete with a top 10 list of both total contract savings and contract savings as a percentage of budget. Spoiler alert, USAID tops both lists. How’s that for transparency? So that’s the good news. They found $55 billion so far, which shouldn’t shock anybody. What’s interesting is that I guess one of the reporters asked Musk, hey, are you going to send some of that back to the American citizens? And Elon was like, oh, I’ll go ask the boss. And I read someplace that they were looking at like $5,000 a person. And as nice as that sounds, my first thought was why on earth would you even be thinking about doing that when we have a $2 trillion deficit and a 30 something trillion dollar debt? And so I thought, this is a question for my Annette on America radio show Facebook group. And if you’re not a part of it, go join us. We’re over 1,000 members. Of course, all those people aren’t talking. But I have a small cadre of active people speaking and a lot of smarties on here. And so I always love to go on here and get their opinions because they’re generally educated and intelligent opinions. So… I think I’ll give you the overview of the responses. Mostly people are saying, I would rather put mine towards the deficit. How about they just cut back government spending? Let’s see. Someone else says it needs to go through Congress. Someone else said, no, we need to balance the federal budget and then start paying down the national debt. That’s my first thought. That’s my mom, by the way, that said that. She didn’t raise any dummies. Well, maybe a couple, but not me. Anyway, we need to balance the budget. So no more checks. And also somebody else said that this is basically vote buying and it’s not good for either party. And I think that’s a very fair point. That is vote buying, even though we know Trump can’t be elected again, it feels, it smacks of, look at us, look at us Republicans. Somebody else, said how about instead of sending out checks, the IRS just gives us a tax credit. That would simplify things. No checks to get lost in the mail, no tracking who has and hasn’t received a separate payment, and the people who actually pay taxes would get a break while the freeloaders don’t. Sorry, you probably just heard that holler slash scream in the background of my daughter. She doesn’t take me seriously. No one ever takes their parents seriously, even when they’re on the radio. I’m telling you, I get no respect. My cousin Matt says, I’d rather pay off national debt, but I guess if Christ comes, that won’t matter. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying too, Matt. I keep thinking, 2028 works for me, then I don’t have to worry about retirement. Because, you know, I’m going to have to work till I die, the way things are right now. Someone says add it to Social Security. Someone else made the point that we’re never going to pay off our debt. Let’s see. I think that’s pretty much it. Most people say the money would be nice, but pay it towards the deficit. Start paying off the debt. So, yeah. If you’ve listened to this show before, you know that I had the Libertarian presidential candidate on a while back, and he talked about how if we don’t get our debt under control that this country doesn’t last past mid-century. So, you know, there’s always that. Whether or not there’s a, and I don’t think he was talking about the asteroid. Nope, he was talking about debt. So, I thought, yeah, you know, let’s just do that. I hope that someone whispers in Trump’s ear besides Elon and says, dude, no, no. Okay, speaking of which, DC judge blocks bid to stop Doge mass firings federal data access. So in other words, we can keep, Doge can keep firing and we can keep federal data access. Oh, that was another question. I think I asked this yesterday because there’s a big, to do about Doge having access to IRS records. And so I asked my peeps, are you concerned? Let me just find it. I said, are you concerned with Doge having access to your IRS records? And most of them said, I’m more concerned about the IRS having access to my IRS records. And I thought, yeah, you know what? Yeah, let’s see, here’s my, nope, nope, that’s not it. Anyway, that was the long and short of it. Oh, I did a poll, and 96% said no, 2% said yes, 2% said I’m not sure, I need to know more. And some of the comments were, no, because I want them to have access to the IRS records of every congressman and senator. Yeah, me too. Someone else said he owned PayPal for a while, right? A very good point. Elon did own PayPal. So if you had PayPal, like most everyone, he had access to your records if he wanted them. Someone said, I’ve got nothing to hide besides tax records don’t mean anything. Those numbers can easily be fudged by someone with inside information like a politician. I want to see bank statements and investment portfolios. Show me the money trail. Yeah. So… Anyway, that’s the other thing. So Doge can keep firing people, which I think is just fine. And now I’m wondering where I, there was an article that I read recently. I don’t think I have it on tap for today because I just have so much. There’s just so much and I only have an hour a week. But it talked about how basically, well, maybe let me just look, make sure I don’t have it. Yeah, you know what? I’m going to get to it next half hour. So I’m not going to give it away right now. All right. So let me get to some short news because I see this other story on China and that’s going to take a little time. So, all right. What else have we got here? Uh, Eighth Circuit dumps Biden’s student giveaway. Joe Biden’s original gambit to see some $500 billion in student loan debt canceled was finally ruled unconstitutional by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Jeez, took long enough. The court initially blocked the SAVE plan after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey raised a lawsuit against it. And on Tuesday, it ruled that Biden’s plan after Missouri Attorney General, oops, sorry, it ruled that Biden’s Secretary of Education had gone well beyond the authority by designing a plan where loans are largely forgiven rather than repaid. Bailey welcomed the court’s decision stating, though Joe Biden is out of office, this precedent is imperative to ensuring a president cannot force working Americans to foot the bill for someone else’s Ivy League debt. When I took out my student loans, I took them out knowing I was going to be paying for them, not realizing probably until I die, which is fine, whatever. But I borrowed that money for my education. I don’t expect Joe the plumber, or Joe the cop, or anyone else, any other Joes out there, to pay that student loan. And so, finally, and Joe, lunch pail Joe, All right, US and Russia continue to talk about Ukraine. You know, it looks like Trump’s going to achieve some peace over there. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced yesterday that the world’s foremost nuclear superpowers have agreed to reestablish the functionality of our respective missions in Washington and Moscow. adding that the U.S. would also build a senior level team focused on Donald Trump’s promise to ending the awful war in Ukraine. Notably absent from these discussions is any diplomatic representation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which has understandably fueled fears that Russia will hold the upper hand in any peace deal. Rubio added that negotiators have agreed to explore the resumption of geopolitical and economic cooperation once peace is restored to Ukraine. Rubio’s comments came in the wake of yesterday’s four and a half hour meeting between his team and that of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. But I don’t know why nobody was there from Zelensky’s team. I just wonder if it’s some Trump bargaining tactic, like you go and talk to one side and get their best offer, and then you go and take that offer to the other side. I mean, I’m just thinking like a lawyer. Because, I mean, mediation, from my experience so far, mediation’s not always such a great deal. Doesn’t always work out. All right. Rand Paul opposes Trump’s labor pick. One of Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet nominations is Lori Chavez de Ramirez, a pro-union ex-Congresswoman to head the Labor Department. Why would he pick a pro-union person? She is scheduled for a Senate hearing today, though Senator Rand Paul made clear that he will oppose her confirmation. What is most troubling for Paul is Chavez de Ramirez’s support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work, but it would preempt state law on right to work. The PRO Act is indeed a dangerous threat to work freedom, severely limiting Americans’ ability to self-employ. Should Chavez de Vermeer fail to gain the majority votes needed to advance from the committee, she would need a 60-vote threshold in the full Senate in order to move to a confirmation vote. It’ll be interesting to see if any Democrats back her. Well, it seems like most Democrats would back her if she’s pro-union. I just hope that Rand Paul is successful in blocking her because we do not need to lose our right to work. We’re not Californians. All right. Dems vow to recapture the working class. Eh, let’s skip that. Hamas animals return baby boys’ bodies. I just… Hamas announced yesterday that it would return on Thursday the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including a young mother, Shiri Bebas, and her two little boys, Kafir and Ariel, who were just nine months and four years old, respectively, when they were kidnapped on October 7th, 2023. Hamas claims that the three were killed in an airstrike. Meanwhile, in Brooklandsboro Park last night, The pro-Palestinian, a.k.a. pro-baby murdering group staged an anti-Israel protest right smack in the middle of one of the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. Fights broke out amid chants of Zionists go to hell and there is only one solution, Intifada revolution. Again, I don’t know that we’ll ever see peace in the Middle East. Actually, more likely to see it in Russia and Ukraine. Um, okay, I’ll skip that one. All right, moving on. Um, not enough time for that story. One other short one. Nope, already talked about that. Okay, can’t keep up. Oh, this is an interesting one. Elon Musk again. Elon Musk has taken over as the most hated man, by the way. I don’t know if you know that. More people hate Elon now than they do Trump. I’m sure Trump is probably appreciating second tier status now when it comes to being the most hated person. But what Elon said today, or yesterday, whenever, he said that the International Space Station astronauts were left up there for political reasons by Biden, which shouldn’t surprise anybody. Elon Musk accused former President Biden of leaving two astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station for political reasons. They were left up there for political reasons, which is not good, the world’s richest man said while seated next to President Trump in a joint interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday night. By the way, did you know, this is just a little aside, but it’s fascinating and kind of disgusting at the same time. Did you know that Elon Musk has 13 children from four different women? Yeah, I find that frankly disgusting. Because first of all, 13, you cannot successfully and you can’t do a good job as a father, as one dude to 13 children. especially not when they’re spread out amongst four women. There’s no way you’re getting enough time with each of those children. Now, I know of people who have really large families with two parents, but at least if they’re both in the home, there’s a better chance that daddy gets enough time with those kids. It’s hard, but it’s more doable than 13 kids spread amongst four women. Anyway, okay. Musk’s SpaceX in September launched a Crew Dragon capsule to rescue the pair, and it docked at the space station, but NASA opted to stall its return. The billionaire told Hannity the craft will return to Earth in about four weeks after the plans were postponed, kind of to a ridiculous degree. At the president’s request or instruction, we are accelerating the return of the astronauts, Musk said. We have brought astronauts back from the space station many times before and always with success, he added, saying that his team still would be extremely cautious. They didn’t have to go ahead with Biden, Trump said. He was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space. He didn’t want the publicity. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were stranded in June when an issue was found with Boeing Starliner capsule, which returned without them. They were supposed to remain aboard the station for just eight days, but now have been there for 258. How frustrating must that be? Stuck in this dumb space station for 258 days. Just think of all the stuff you missed. NASA said in December that the two astronauts would have to wait for yet another SpaceX rescue vehicle to arrive with replacement scientists no earlier than late March, and then would have to go through an unspecified handover period before finally departing. Trump said on social media last month that Biden abandoned Wilmore and Williams, prompting their denials. We don’t feel abandoned. We feel stuck. We don’t feel stranded, Wilmore insisted to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, adding, I understand why others may think that. Williams said it was a little bit longer stay than we had expected, but we’ve made the most of it. I’d be really curious to know what that means. How did you make the most of it? Oh, of course, out of time already on my first half. I get into an interesting story and that’s what happens. Anyway, do not go anywhere. I will be right back.

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Annette Bybee back with Annette on America. Thanks for sticking around. So if you missed the last half… You can find it on AnnetteTalks.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, YouTube, Rumble, yada, yada, yada. All right, so a couple of stories in this half. Yeah, I think I want to cover Class Forfare and China. Let’s see if I can get those two. That will be a coup because… I have so little time and so much to say. Anyway, so this is about all the whining and the federal workers that are getting fired. Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion, the Associated Press reported last week. In response to the Trump administration’s layoffs of probationary workers, CBS News tells us, federal workers express shock, anger over mass firings. And the New York Times writes that federal workers face sleeplessness, anger, and tears. It’s really hard. for me to feel bad for these federal workers that are facing sleeplessness, anger, and tears. I mean, how many of them have been on the government teat doing next to nothing from home for a long time? Just wondering. Some workers launched lawsuits against the Trump administration. Others went on legacy media television shows to claim that they have been mistreated. The media, interviews, lawsuits, protests, and open letters all hit on a similar theme, that it’s wrong and unfair that taxpayer-funded government workers might have to look for work in the marketplace like ordinary people. Regular workers, after all, the type without federal jobs from which historically it is virtually impossible to be fired, often have to change jobs whenever there is a restructuring, merger, bankruptcy, or budget cut. This is life outside the comfortable fantasy world of federal employment. Naturally, federal employees don’t like the sound of that at all. Think about how many of us have had to I’ll dust off our resumes and go out there and look for work and hope and knock on wood that our money, our severance, our savings, whatever unemployment will get us through until the next job comes. And assuming we do find one and we don’t give up because we can’t find one. So I do not feel bad for federal workers. The legacy media has portrayed this all as a conflict between the hardworking, guileless folk of the federal workforce on the one hand, and the insensitive villains of the Trump administration on the other. There is a third party to all of this that is virtually never mentioned by the media, the taxpayers who pay for it all. After all, the federal employees’ salaries only exist because money is transferred by force from taxpayers to federal employees. If a taxpayer doesn’t want to pay for USAID’s countless left-wing propaganda programs across the globe, then he has no choice. He has to pay up or go to jail for tax evasion. Thus, any discussion of federal employees that doesn’t mention the taxpayers who pay bureaucrats’ salaries is fundamentally dishonest and incomplete. Donald Trump isn’t paying for these jobs. American fast food workers, insurance agents, and cell phone salespeople are paying for it all. Indeed, in America, there are more than, wait for it, 10 million jobs funded by federal taxes, including direct hire federal employees, contractors, and grantees. These jobs are paid for by about 131 million private sector workers. That’s one federal worker for every 13 private workers. Given that taxes on income are the primary source of federal revenue, each federal worker owes nearly everything to the 13 workers who pay for it. Federal workers also tend to enjoy salaries well above the national average, which means the people paying the bills are often people with lower salaries and fewer benefits than federal workers. Yes, that would be me. I know that a lot of these federal workers make six figures plus and have fat, fat benefits. Oh boy, do they have health insurance and pensions. While some of us who own our own small business have to go out into the terrible, ridiculous, super, I’m trying not to say, I don’t curse, but I don’t wanna use silly words either. into the marketplace that was set up by Obama and buy health insurance that sucks. Yes, that’s me I’m talking about. I have health insurance that sucks. Every time I have to go to the eye doctor, it costs me $90 after I pay my insurance. Not that I haven’t had to go to the eye doctor four times recently. Just do the math. Anyway, federal workers and their defenders have a ready response to this. They insist that all federal jobs are absolutely essential and the taxpayers are getting a bargain for the money they are forced to pay into federal salaries. Do the taxpayers agree? An easy way to find out would be to give the taxpayers a choice to keep the money they pay towards federal salaries. If the taxpayers think they’re getting a great deal, I’m sure they’ll be happy to voluntarily keep paying. For instance, We could ask the mom of three who works a drive-thru at Burger King if she wants to keep paying for the U.S. aid grant manager who has paid $120,000 to work from home. Naturally, we would helpfully explain to the drive-thru worker that without this U.S. aid worker, there might not be any new transgender operas in Columbia next year. To make things easier, we could even include a checkable box on tax returns to the effect of, yes, tax me to pay for the FBI agents who will investigate me for criticizing the local school board. Exactly. If we think the answer might be no to all this, then this illustrates a fundamental problem with forcing private sector workers to pay all those federal salaries. classical liberal exploitation theory. We have a word for this relationship between the federal workers and the taxpayers. The word is exploitation. Another term for it might be class conflict. Whatever we call it, the relationship is this. The state with all its coercive powers extracts money from one group of people and hands it over to another group of people. In this relationship, the government class exploits the private sector class. In a larger sense, this describes the relationship overall between the state and the taxpayers who pay for it. The Marxists were right that class warfare exists but they were wrong about the nature of the classes. The conflict is not between the capitalists and the workers. The conflict is between the productive taxpayer class, which pays for everything, and the parasite class, which exploits the productive class. Indeed, contrary to a myth often spread by conservatives, it was not the Marxists who invented the idea of class conflict or class warfare. It was rather the laissez-faire liberals, aka classical liberals or libertarians, who pioneered the idea. It’s easy to see why. The liberals understood that market production is based on voluntary exchange. In the marketplace, no one is forced to pay for what he does not want. The old liberals identified the market classes as the business owners, the private sector laborers, and all who were net taxpayers and whose income came by free commerce. There were other classes too though. These were the non-market classes who relied on government salaries, government contracts, and government subsidies for income. By the 19th century, the liberals already had it mapped out. The market classes were the exploited. The government classes were the parasites. Or as historian Ralph Rako put it, this is a conflict in which it is the tax eating versus the tax paying class. Nonetheless, the media narrative on this has consistently been that it is the tax eating class that is the victim here. They are the victims of Trump or of Elon Musk or whatever public figure can serve as the nemesis to the presumably selfless public servants. The taxpayer, through it all, usually remains invisible. Fortunately, the same media convinces us that we need not be too concerned about the workers who have been let go. We have been told for years that federal employees are the cream of the crop, exceptionally competent, hardworking, highly educated, dedicated servants of the public interest. If this is the case, then these laid off workers will have no trouble finding new jobs very soon. And it would be kind of fun to see that process. You know, because when they move into a new job and they discover that, first of all, they’re probably going to have to go into the office. And secondly, they’re going to have to work eight actual hours a day. It’s going to be a culture shock for them. And they’re going to find out that they’re probably in a job that they can be fired from at any time. Just like what just happened to them. All right, I want to jump into this China article because this is kind of what we suspected. Congress unmasks perils of Beijing Biden era, China’s expanding mass espionage efforts. So for those of you who are new to the program or haven’t been paying attention for the last four years, Biden has taken and his son have both taken a ton of money from China. So that will help explain why this has been happening. Why would Biden stop a government from spying on his country when he has taken money from them? He’s not going to stop it. Because guess what? They’re going to come out and say, he’s taken money from us. The revelations made two years ago that Joe Biden’s family sought to cash in on communist China with millions in payments immediately raised concerns about what Beijing got in return. Now, new evidence unearthed by the U.S. House suggests America’s main adversary may have succeeded in launching a mass espionage blitz on the last administration’s watch. The House Homeland Security Committee last week painted the contour of China’s surveillance surge, documenting more than 60 espionage operations in 20 states during the Biden administration that unmasked the breadth of Beijing’s efforts to steal America’s intellectual property and the tools of its military might. In addition, lawmakers confirmed the Chinese spy balloon that embarrassed the Biden administration two years ago when it traversed U.S. airspace for days unimpeded likely contained technologies from multiple U.S. companies, illustrating how Beijing even uses U.S. friendships to gain advantage. So in other words, they steal our technology, put it in a spy balloon, float it over the United States, and Biden just sits there in the White House eating ice cream, getting more brain freeze, and not doing anything about it. He let it go all the way across the country before it was shot down, what, outside of North Carolina or South Carolina? There are still people who see China like we used to see it as an economic partner. They are not that. They are an enemy. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green told Just the News. By the way, Trump had mixed success. His policy on China was kind of all over the place. I hope he does a better job this time. Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping want to see China at the top of the international world order, and they want to see the international world order working to advantage China. So if they can get that through theft of intellectual property, or they can create disruption inside our own country, they’re going to do that, Green said during a wide-ranging interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast. And by the way, this story doesn’t even talk about TikTok and how they are collecting data all the time from, I wanna say 100 million, is it that high? I think 100 million users. Green has taken the lead in educating colleagues on all the intelligence about China’s effort to steal U.S. ingenuity and technology and recently reintroduced legislation called the China Technology Transfer Control Act, which imposes tougher export control designed to keep China’s military from acquiring sensitive U.S. technology. His proposed law would augment the traditional review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States with an additional export license for any transfer of sensitive U.S. technology or assets, creating a second layer of review. Green said he is concerned bureaucrats have been too lax in approving sales to China that come back to her U.S. interests. The China balloon that came over and all the tech that’s on that, we want to restrict that, he explained. The required license would be sort of a second step after the CFISU nod, that’s the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and it now forces the bureaucracy to look at these guys. They’re missing right now. CFIUS and others are missing, he added. Green also applauded states like Texas and Virginia that have restricted use of Chinese apps, TikTok and DeepSeek AI that can collect valuable data on Americans without protection. That’s only two states that are doing that. States need to act. Local governments need to act, the chairman said. Local governments are probably more susceptible to the cyber threats that China poses. But really, you know, we needed vigilance at all levels. They’ve gotten into our own critical infrastructure and our telecoms, he continued. Green’s committee laid bare just some of the extensive efforts by China to steal U.S. secrets or wage oppression on U.S. soil, chronicling more than 60 cases recorded in 20 states that occurred after Biden became president, and relaxed some counter-espionage efforts against China, including the FBI’s successful program rooting out spies in academia. The report noted that federal prosecutors have lodged Chinese espionage cases in Alabama, Arkansas, California, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington, demonstrating the sheer breadth of efforts. And so they go on to talk about… All these cases, every 12 hours, a new case is opened up by the FBI. That’s a Chinese counterintelligence operation. As a result, 80% of the cases opened since 28 alleged that China would benefit and 60% of trade secret theft cases are linked to China. That’s why recently departed FBI Director Christopher Wray called China’s espionage the greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property and to our economic vitality. So they list a few cases that have been reported over the last, oh, what was this, three months? One dude was indicted on February 4th because he stole AI secrets from Google, a Chinese national. He allegedly uploaded over a thousand files containing confidential company information into his personal Google Cloud account. How does that happen? Then a resident of New York City pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an illegal agent for the People’s Republic of China in connection with opening and operating an undeclared overseas police station in lower Manhattan for China’s Ministry of Public Security. Isn’t that weird? How do you open a police station for China in Manhattan? That’s interesting. Also in December, a Chinese citizen and lawful permanent resident of California was arrested for allegedly flying a drone over and taking photographs of Vandenberg Space Force Base, according to the Los Angeles Times. So we have a lot. In other words, there’s a lot going on. Representative Andy Biggs told Just the News that we need to ratchet up the tariffs, but we’ll also have to provide incentives for businesses to leave China and come back to the US. So we’ll see if Trump turns around, pardon me, some of the relaxing that Biden did. and tightens up some of the actions against china all right um and as i mentioned before russia is talking with ukraine and the us about how to end the war i read somewhere that russia has gained very little to no ground in ukraine so this war has been going on for what almost two years and That’s, no wonder Russia’s ready to start negotiating. They realize they’re in a losing situation and I wonder how much of that is bad strategy on the side of Russia or just that they’ve been outspent by us. So I saw someplace that, what did Trump call Zelensky? an unelected, what was it, dictator? Let’s see if I can find, oh, here we go. Trump blasts dictator Zelenskyy amid escalating feud over peace talks. So not unelected, he was elected, but he calls him a dictator. President Trump excoriated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over his refusal to hold elections and lambasted the poor return on America’s investment in that country. It’s not investment, it’s money laundering. Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Voldemort Selensky, talked the United States of America into spending $350 billion to go into a war that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a war that he, without the US and Trump, will never be able to settle, Trump posted to Truth Social. Trump definitely has no problem with his self-confidence. The remarks come after Zelensky accused Trump of disinformation after he made public statements supporting elections in Ukraine in the wake of talks with Russia and Saudi Arabia. He refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden like a fiddle. A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left, Trump warned. Biden never tried. Europe has failed to bring peace and Zelensky probably wants to keep the gravy train going. I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job. His country is shattered and millions have unnecessarily died and so it continues. Trump further pointed to U.S.’ ‘s $200 billion investment in Ukraine in Zelensky’s statements that he had received less than half. Hmm. I don’t think we’re ever going to really know how much money actually made it to the war effort in Ukraine. We’re never going to know. And how much came back here? I don’t have time to talk about it, but Germany is silencing speech. Sorry, I hear my daughter screaming, hollering in the background again. Germany is, it’s always bad when Germany starts acting like a dictatorship. And anyway, they’re silencing speech and our vice president went over there to tell them, you guys are dummies. Anyway, just watch Germany. Bad things happen when Germany starts cracking down on free speech. I don’t think that’s a good look for you, Germany. Oh, okay. I just wanted to read like one other headline before I go to my favorite news source of the day because I have no time left. But there is a bizarre vegan or transgender vegan cult. and it’s killed six people. So all I can think is no wonder these people are ticked off. They don’t think they’re in the right body and they’re not eating any meat. I would be pretty ticked off too if I were in that space, that head space, right? Anyway, this alleged Zizian transgender cult leader interrupts judge to claim he will starve in jail without vegan food. If you want a laugh, go to the New York Post and find the story about the Zizians. I’ve never heard of a transgender vegan cult until today. Anyway, all right, so for the end of my episode here from the Babylon Bee, my favorite news source, 10 suspicious names still on social security roles. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is still in the process of combing through the records of the Social Security Administration in search of potential fraud, but several red flags have already arisen. one of them being suspicious names on the rolls. Through well-established insider connections at Doge, the Babylon Bee has confirmed that the following names were found on the Social Security rolls. Number one. Drum roll. Elvis Presley. The king has been dead for nearly a half century. Or has he? Number two. Voldemort Zelinski. Doge reportedly has yet to find a pie this guy doesn’t have a finger in. Number three, Seymour Butts. Wait a minute, we’re not sure this is a real name. Number four, George Washington. He was a great American hero, but we’re not sure he needs the Social Security check anymore. Number five, Mitch McConnell. Considering he passed away in 2017, he should not be on the list. Number six, Leroy Jenkins. He never even existed. Number seven, John Lennon. Hogging the money from the surviving Beatles just like the old days. Number eight. Barack Hussein Obama. This man isn’t even eligible as he wasn’t born in the United States and isn’t a real citizen. Number nine. Obi-Wan Kenobi, clarification is needed on whether forced ghosts can legally cash social security checks. Yeah, that one is really sus, right? Number 10, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or AOC. Everyone knows she died on January 6th, 2021. Who knows how long the people listed above or fraudsters using their names have been raking in taxpayer money. Who else have you heard is collecting Social Security? Send me an email if you’ve heard that at Annette at AnnetteTalks.com. And by the way, If you have any comments on this program, good, bad, indifferent, send me the good ones. No, you can send them all. You can email to me at Annette at AnnetteTalks.com. You can find this episode and all past episodes on AnnetteTalks.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, Rumble, all the other podcast providers that I’m forgetting right now. Anyway, as always, thank you for listening to Annette on America, where freedom lovers die.

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