Radio Show Hour 2 – 02/16/2024
Liberty Roundtable PodcastFebruary 16, 20240:54:5025.1 MB

Radio Show Hour 2 – 02/16/2024

* Chicago Drops ShotSpotter, Mayor Brandon Johnson says city won’t renew contract with provider of controversial detection system – Newser.

The system, which relies on an artificial intelligence algorithm and network of microphones to identify gunshots, has been criticized for inaccuracy, racial bias, and law enforcement misuse – AP.

Chicago’s contract with SoundThinking, a public safety technology company that says its ShotSpotter tool is used in roughly 150 cities, expires Friday – The city plans to wind down use of ShotSpotter technology by late September.

* Since 2018, the city has spent $49 million on ShotSpotter – soundthinking.com

* Several of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter casting doubt on the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 presidential election are now pushing Congress to enhance the surveillance of Americans.

* Big pharmacies are distributing Americans’ private medical information to law enforcement agencies without a warrant, lawmakers said in a Tuesday letter to the HHS.

* Law enforcement agencies discreetly get a hold of thousands of Americans’ prescription records per year with no warrant, and often with no legal review.

* Special Counsel Jack Smith collected data from the cellphone Trump used in the White House, according to a recent court filing.

* Any potential investigative leads pointing towards Joe Biden were “off the table” during the DOJ criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, new testimony from two IRS agents shows.

IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler testified Dec. 5 before the House Ways and Means Committee and described how they “weren’t allowed” to look into leads potentially implicating Joe Biden, according to testimony excerpts released by the committee.

* Sudden Russian Nuclear Threat in Space? – Joel Skousen, WorldAffairsBrief.com

* Rep. Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, released an urgent warning on Wednesday about a “serious national security threat” of Russia putting a nuclear weapon in space ostensibly as an anti-satellite weapon.

* It appears that Russia is in the process of deploying (via multiple recent satellite launches), or is preparing to deploy, an anti-satellite based nuclear weapons system into space.

* Russia has cheated on every treaty they’ve ever signed (bio-weapons, INF, and START Treaties) when it didn’t serve their needs, and so has the West relative to biological weapons. So, treaties are no deterrent.

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[00:00:28] your radio Yeah, we really do. I mean, the phrase that I used to do that came out of the end of the Constitution Convention of 1787, where Ben Franklin noted the chair that George Washington was sitting on, had carved into the head of it, a son. And he said he had trouble figuring out if it was a rising or setting son during the

[00:01:44] whole time that the convention was in session a bunch of microphones mounted out on the city streets. And then those microphones take in data and then the data or the sounds are sent to a backend AI processing system. And that processing system is supposed to detect shots.

[00:03:02] The system, which relies on artificial intelligence,

[00:03:06] algorithms and a network of microphones loan has spent $49 million on shot spotter. And anyway, it's under criticism now, but it's in 150 cities nationwide. Now, you know, some would think, well, this is good technology. The cops are all for it, everything else. I find this to be absolutely abusive privacy

[00:04:22] when I when a car backfires or, you know, a firecracker going off a car being backfired or whatever happens. And I might guess is that when when kids find out about this, they they do a lot of hijinks like throwing a cherry

[00:05:41] bomb out and watch the police run around with their weapons drawn. I don't

[00:05:44] know. There's got to be a have said, yeah, this is a valid approach to doing things. There's a high cost associated with it. There's all sorts of, you know, police response issues involved with it. And I guess the, you know, if I think about if I was 17

[00:07:00] years old and I had a few cherry bombs and I enjoyed watching the flashing red

[00:07:05] lights come around and seek things out, in a poke kind of thing to a community

[00:08:20] that thinks they got to spend more taxpayer without fathers influence, all this kind of stuff, it's kind of unraveled on them. And so then we get the White House Press Secretary

[00:09:44] calling for a assault weapons ban,

[00:09:45] and it's like, did they use assault weapons? to request shot spotter for your neighborhood doctor. Oh my goodness that's the thing I got to put on my list to do today. Come on Sam. I mean you know in my neighborhood well I don't know about I mean you know we got a lot of educators and physicians in effective jab. You know, it's a marketing. It's marketing hype. I guess I don't know it'll be interesting to see how this rolls out. I mean, you know Jack Hammers could set it off nail guns. I mean you've probably used We've used bolt, you know that shoot bolts into concrete when you're putting up construction, you know, I mean

[00:12:25] Even manual hammers could could cause a problem. I don't know

[00:13:26] So I guess it doesn't happen much on campuses, does it? I mean, we don't have a lot of shooters, active shooters on campus.

[00:13:30] Anyway, we'll have to see how that gets de-installed wherever it does.

[00:13:36] All right, just so you guys know the website, if you want to check out more about it, go

[00:13:41] to Sound Thinking.

[00:13:43] Just like it sounds, soundthinking.com the reality is that it ends up being abused. It ends up being a pro Hey, what it was first designed for now. Well, we're they're progressing through the legislature. Some more facial recognition type surveillance laws that they're just passing even as we speak. So yeah, this is becoming very much a

[00:16:22] surveillance society. Dossier's on everybody. Well, doesn't it's getting

[00:16:26] worse because there's the latest headline to drill into this a little bit National Intelligence James Clapper, former Deputy Director for the National Security Agency or NSA, Richard Ledgett's on their people. That's just a truism. And if you look at these surveillance societies, whether it's the Gestapo or the Stase nation. You can buy anything with money or power or prestige. Whatever they're seeking it doesn't always have to be a dollar. Very often it is though.

[00:20:20] But at any rate they'll do anything for money or this

[00:20:24] whatever their gain is. And I fear that we are allowing the in a Tuesday letter to the Department of Health and Human Services. Law enforcement agencies discreetly get a hold of thousands of Americans' prescription records every year with no warrant and often with no legal review. That's according to say five out of eight pharmacies. Let me get this right here. Five out of eight pharmacies. Say, well, we don't really need.

[00:23:02] Government information or mandates to reply and give them the information they're seeking.

[00:24:06] I'm not fond of saying it, but I commonly say it that the Fourth Amendment has been completely expunged by the Patriot Act, and some of these follow on other things like the FISA 702 stuff

[00:24:13] that's going on.

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[00:29:46] Say goodbye to long-term contracts as kind of the core way to just literally infringe on your God given in animal rights. They want to go ahead and you know control what you eat what you put in your body they want to control all these things and so now pharmacies are literally turning over information about your prescriptions to the law

[00:31:00] enforcement with literally out the proper documentation. Mike Johnson What did you do? They literally monitored when he opened his, his Twitter app, what he did with his phone, exactly, you know, all the communications that took place on January the sixth. So Jack Smith is going after Donald, um, and they're actually being forced to go after Hunter, but they're making sure nothing points to Joe in the process. IRS is all in court. This isn't speculation. This isn't Sam Bushman just going off. The double standard is in your face and this is going to be the future. Forget Donald for a second. Forget Joe for a second. You got to ask yourself which class will you end up in when it becomes your turn, doctor? Well

[00:33:45] we're all pretty sure what class we're in right now but but here's just here's Evidence would indicate that there is stuff out there. So what needs to happen is to pursue that through evidentiary processes where you do go get a warrant. You do specifically seek those things. You focus, hone in your investigation on things that were implied

[00:35:03] but are not really known at this time very, very questionable and really need to be aired. I think that they could pursue that. It just takes another step or two to take it down that road. They can get it, if they will. And it's interesting that they've done it in this way with the double standard, but go

[00:36:21] pursue it now.

[00:36:22] Let's find it.

[00:36:23] Let's bring it to light. around where it's kind of a big issue. Mike Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, issued an urgent warning about a national security threat of Russia, I guess putting a nuclear weapon in space.

[00:38:44] and see on this thing. Well, you're right about that. It's not sudden. It's been going on for a long time. They just weren't well into a minute. Personal involvement. More than 40 years ago,

[00:38:51] let's put it that way. And some issues that were involved with, you know, nuclear strikes and

[00:40:05] debated at that time. The issues were far different than what the public was being exposed to. Reliability and cost and everything like that made it completely unfeasible to put

[00:40:10] it in that long ago. But honestly, I guess I'm not going to lose any sleep tonight about

[00:40:18] some of the things that the Russians are correct and you know we just we live in a dangerous world and and here's kind of part of the problem we've got. Now again, we're harking back to that conversation we had with the Tucker Carlson interview with with Putin. When overtures are made

[00:41:42] heads of state need to have dialogue and you know when let's not going to be a threat anymore. I mean that's the intent. They took down all of their apparatus for doing that kind of stuff. I know and I know there's still stuff there. But the fact of the matter is that we deflected to have you speak to, Dr. Bradley, and then I've got a couple of quick questions for you about this. Russia has cheated on every treaty they've ever signed regarding these weapons, and when

[00:44:20] it didn't serve their purpose, and Americans have done the same.

[00:44:22] That's really something kind of as we speak, right? Okay, but when Trump was president There was some dialogue going on You know and I think that and it was good by the way Yeah, there was less tension And it's kind of like well. Well, can that be all bad? I mean, what was his name?

[00:45:42] Rotman, what was the basketball players named Dennis Rotman?

[00:46:45] American model. I mean, you say, yeah, we're a peaceful nation. Are we really? We're the biggest belligerent in the world when it comes to supplying weapons of destruction, mass

[00:46:50] destruction, individual single bullets, everything. It comes more from us than anywhere in the

[00:46:57] entire world. And you say, well, no, but the Iranians are arming people and the Afghanis

[00:47:03] have got all our bazillions of dollars we left over there when Biden did his debacle regards to that stuff. I think that's right. And I also think too, when you think about it, you know, if I develop a friendship with you, we may be completely different in our beliefs. We may have different forms of government, but we might be able to develop some mutual respect and say, listen, I understand that we don't agree on everything. And I understand that, you know, any foreign nation Joe Biden kind of a guy. And he's very savvy and smart. So you got to keep your friends close and you're enemies closer, doctor. Well, Biden has not come across as an intelligent or articulate well briefed individual. Putin did come across that way. And you know, you can't if you've got things to exchange,

[00:49:43] you can discuss, you can, you know, say, well, that I would have done it right. All I know is Tucker did open up some diplomatic relations that in my opinion should have already happened and if not should be jumped on immediately to try to deescalate. But Joe wants none of it. Tucker is just the bad guy, right? Absolutely. That's a tragic situation. I personally think that there was a wealth of

[00:51:01] intelligence that certainly our intelligence agencies could have and should have gathered And the rest of the leader kind of complained about it at the end. He said, I was surprised by Tucker and I didn't go as well as I had hoped. I wanted to listen this and this. And so I think that Vladimir had a lot more control than we think, but at the same time, I think Tucker got more than we thought we would. Well, and again, it's, it's an introduction. It's a high howdy.

[00:52:21] I hope there's many follow ons and, uh, and in the future, you probably won't show, uh,

[00:53:25] I encourage it as well and I think that's in my opinion what's been wrong with president after president after president

[00:53:31] You know they say Dennis Rodman's a fool now. I don't think Dennis Rodman should be hanging out with commonest dictators necessarily

[00:53:37] In other words, I'm a little concerned about citizens just you know running around everywhere at the same time again

[00:53:43] Why not use all the influence we have to create diplomatic relationships that will deescalate situations