PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR EXPERIENCE: Eoisode 77

Phil shares his over 50 years experience out around the world and how he views the current situation in the U.S. and the world. Phil gives insight in the first 10 days of the New Trump administration and the accomplishments. Phil point out the dangers to watch for out around the world and which ae the most critical. Phil comments on the demise of DEI, CRT and related social justice agenda of the last administration. Phil gives a wake up call to all Americans that this is not the time to set back and think we won the war to get our country back, when we only won a battle. The war wills till rage as long as there is evil people who want to change out way of life. Now is not the time to let our guard down, but this is the to  step out of the crowd, become our own investigator and find out where the problems are around us and get involved with solutions. I look your comments let me know what you think. Thank you for liking, sharing, and subscribing. 

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Hello, and thank you for joining me today on the Private Investigator Experience podcast. I'm your host, Phil Little, and what a week have we had, or 10 days. Are you still running in circles or blowing in the wind of all the things that's happening so fast? Are you able to adjust to them all? You know, on the show, we talk about the life and times and cases of a private investigator. talk about our international clients, our domestic clients and the kind of cases they come to us with. And I'm getting a lot of requests now from out around the world about what can they expect from the United States. And as an investigator, we work a lot for clients to give them information, doing deep dive investigations, doing due diligence. And I do all this from my military law enforcement intelligence service, a global security background. And I just add a touch of my biblical worldview. And I want us to, look today at some of the issues that are going on in our country and around the world. What has happened in the last nine days and why it happened, what led to it, and what we can learn from it, and how we can make sure that it goes on for more than just four years. I'm reminded of my friend And a coworker at the French National Police that ran my operations out of our intelligence gathering station there. And he was head of The counterterrorism unit. I remember when I was going to French National Police in those days, he was handling the Carlos case, Carlos the Jackal, and he was a famous terrorist at that time. It was a kind of a myth. He was a phantom. And of course, a lot of things got attributed to him that he didn't do, but there was a four or five foot case, high foot case file at my friend's desk. And I would look at those files and. Imagine that I was on the trail of Carlos the Jackal, and I remember him telling me, he said, the best thing in France was that when the Socialists got in power, they lasted for four years, and then they got kicked out because the public had learned how bad they were, and they didn't get back in for another 40 or 50 years until that generation was gone, and a new generation came up that really didn't understand what had happened then, and you would see that cycle again. Well, I think some of that happened in the United States. In November, the American people finally had enough of the leftist, leftist, Marxists, socialist, attitudes that was sweeping and policies that was sweeping the radical left, the Democratic Party lost its way. that old Democratic Party doesn't exist. It's radical. And people just are fed up with it. So many of my Democrat friends said they voted for Trump and many of them has left the party, most of them becoming independents, a few becoming Republicans. So there was a shift and they brought it on themselves. The Democratic party brought it on themselves. I'm reminded that it's a lot like that in many things in life. I remember in terrorism, it was the same way I started my career in. Israel, southern Lebanon in the seventies. And that's where I learned about terrorism and what's the Israelis work and how they handled it and dealt with it. and then my first book, hostile intent came from that journey. I started there to find out where does terrorism really come from? What's its purpose is its origins. And then that led me. Around the world in the seventies and eighties and nineties when, in the eighties particularly was just a terror haven across Europe with attacks and, all across in England, Germany, France, Italy. And, the terrorists, what they did and how they brought their minds down and really stopped the spread was they overdid it. And they overdid it by having 12 attacks one day in Paris, 12 bombs were off. And that caused the French people just to rise up. And say enough's enough, government do something, you're not going to get away with letting these guys live here. And the deal was in France at that time, there was this kind of unspoken deal that they had with the government. We won't attack on the French soil, but we'll live here. And they had that going and a lot of them were living there and being protected and nobody was coming after them. And after this event. Then the public demanded that the government do something. So we saw that in, in, the state. And there's a lot of factors, much more than back in that 70s and 80s time. In Europe, it was a one issue. It was about terrorism. It's about, they wanted to change the way of life. And, the terrorists of that day were young. people, most of them. they came from very affluent families. They were well educated and they got disgruntled with, their ease of life, I guess. they, wanted to change it into that utopian socialism that, everybody would be equal and everybody would come along and get along just fine. Well, that didn't work out too well. And so, but in the States, it went way beyond that. We don't only have Socialist Marxist, tendencies coming. We had DEI, diversity, inclusion, equity, And, then we had gender confusion. Then we had CRT, corrupting the lives and minds of our kindergartners up through, into college. And we've seen the results of, a lot of that happens. And, with the anti Semitism, which I'll get into later. So, there's, the, the left here in the United States brought this on themselves. Thank God, enough American people woke up. To give not only the Electoral College, to, President Trump, but the popular vote, which, made it where it was impossible for the left to rig, like they did in 2020. They stole some congressional seats, there wasn't any question, down in California, it was one place. They kept counting for 30 days almost, and kept coming up with more Democratic ballots. Wow, that was interesting. so, but the general election itself was too big. And that stopped them from trying to do what they did in 2020. And, unfortunately, most of the Democrats that are on the leftist side still haven't got the message. Some have. but, now, senators and congressmen are starting back that it's, Trump hating, bashing, Actually, they've been on for the last few years, so we'll have to see how this plays out. My challenge and call to the American people is become your own investigators, rise up in your community. Get involved and find out what is going on. So you can remove people from office that are corrupted your children's lives that are trying to push this diversity and inclusion and take away. people's rights and not having a merit based system where the best person gets a job, man, woman, no matter what race, color, creed, the best person gets a job and that's what the American life has been built on and what it has to get back to. so this voting shift came about, because of these, events and The actions and policies, the left, the difference really in this, election, with what happened between the election and inauguration that November the fifth to January the 20th, we saw a complete change and a difference than we'd never seen before. the world started coming to visit, President elect Trump, he was acting in many cases and took action on things around the world and caused things to happen, even though he wasn't president yet. And Biden was kind of, nowhere to be found at times. And, Harris was, definitely not, exposing herself. the world, it was obvious that the world was waiting for a change in America. When, President Trump went to the, reopening of, Notre Dame in Paris, he was greeted like a, hero and, there were over 80 heads of government there. They all came to talk to him. during the ceremony, Mrs. Biden, who went to represent, Joe, and, the government, she was seen chatting, very friendly with, president Trump. They were laughing and talking back and forth. So, the Trump charm had spread across, many different, arenas. And, we saw as it continued during, the lead up up to the inauguration day, that Trump was given his voice in knowing the Middle East, to Russia, to nato. to the UN and he was, letting everyone know that change was coming. America was coming back and that he was going to, bring about a strong America. That was good for everybody. It's not good for Americans. It's going to be good for the world now. What was the first actions that he took? And I'm, the reports I'm giving to my clients when they request this from around the world, give us your take on what's going to happen and what's the climate going to be like for us doing business there and longevity is, is it going to be tariffs on a particular part of the world? What do you think, you know, what's assessment, what's the feel on the ground and, what good American people feel like, well, These first actions that President Trump took was the executive orders. And I, I was fascinated by, I was watching him, on the inauguration night, even before he went to the White House, but he was there signing. The executive orders and the press was just bombarding him with questions. He would stop, he would sign his first name, stop, he'd look at this reporter and he would say, Oh, and he would back and forth, you know, and then go ahead and sign his name and he kept this up doing. I don't sign enough. 15, 20 or whatever it was, there's that one stretch and people were laughing and saying, after this first couple of days, Trump has spent more time with the press and Biden had done in four years. And it was obvious that, and there was a huge amount of press there. I mean, there was 40 or 50 at least, that's huddled, huddled around and they were all getting their questions in and he was asking them all. Answering them all, even though they were some from reporters that were trying to trip him up. So, that was his 1st step that he did. Promises made, promises kept. He's going to bring the country back. He's going to bring oil production back to where we're not dependent on other countries. He's going to bring prices down by reducing this oil dependence on the world. And he's going to restore, the American common sense that two genders, you know, the Bible is pretty clear on that from my biblical worldview, I find it, I've always known there was two genders. That's all God made. God said he made man and woman. So. He brought that back. He's outlawed DEI and CRT in government, across government. No other flags can fly at our embassies out around the world. And he's taken more action in the first nine days. It's been wild to watch. And CNN was reporting a couple of days ago. They didn't really, um, would enjoy reporting this He has been, he's the most liked president. His ratings are higher, polls are higher than any other president at this time in the second term. And it's because he's taken action. The American people asked for results. He promised results. And now it's critical that the, Senate and the Congress, follow along and they stay in step with him, not being, broken apart like they've, been in the past on issues that bottom line is none of us gets everything we want in a situation in life. as an example with, uh, a congressman or senator. Maybe that's going to be a bill that's got 70, 80 percent of this good stuff, but that's the things they would like to be in it. Well, they need to go along with a majority that's going to do good for the country. And later on, work on getting those things that they're focused on, not disrupting the whole process. And destroying the, the Republican focus of doing what the people have said, I think all these, Congressmen should remember there's another election coming up in two years and the people will be watching both the Senate and the House and how they operate. So, what was the initial benefit from, these actions that, that he's taken? Well, The world had seen that there is that new sheriff in town that's not going to just say don't, as the former president said so many times, nobody listened to him, Iran didn't listen to him, Russia didn't listen to him, nobody listened to him. But when this new man now, President Trump says don't, it means something. we've got, we're back in, we're being respected in the world. Because America, the world wants a strong, America, they realize that their freedom and their future is based on America being strong. I remember when I was building my intelligence gathering group out around the world, going from country to country, setting up stations, recruiting people. I would be talking to leaders many times and heads of government agencies, and they would tell me so many times, Phil, if we could sit down and talk to your government leaders, like we talked to you, then we could solve the problems of the world. We could get along. And too many times our state departments get staffed by this level that's under the appointment people that always stay there. they're embedded and they develop these ideas. And many times they sway the political appointees to their way of thinking and, and we have these actions many times it's pro military, pro military action when we should be using that as a last resort, doing everything preventive that we could, everything, with, discussions that, we could before we jumped the military. And that's what president Trump is doing with his appointees, getting people that are extremely capable. Just think of the people that he's appointed and think of the strong women that he's got around him. Pam Bondi, the, new attorney general, no pushover, he's, going to click a button, take your name, and he's not going to be pooched around by anybody. And the new Homeland Security director, Krist Noem, that woman is something else, a rancher, A mother, grandmother, and the governor, and a former congressman, and it's amazing just to watch her. You would never think of meeting her if you didn't know who she was or what she did. But when she addressed the staff there at, Homeland Security when she went in after she'd been, sworn in, she made it very clear. I mean, she came across polished, smooth, nice, we're going to get along, We're going to make a difference. We're going to do what President Trump wants done what he was elected to do, and that's all these issues of closing the border, cleaning up, getting the criminals off the streets, the illegals back to the country where they came from, and making America safe again. And then Tulsi Gafford, I, you know, there's so much flack going in her, and I don't know why, this woman's amazing. And, she's what Trump needs there in the balance of DEI, the Director of National Intelligence, She's a military veteran, a lieutenant colonel. She's got all that experience and for her war is a last resort and this will give him a balanced view of intelligence and say, how do we assess this and I'm just, I can't understand how people don't. That have seen what's happened in the last four years, what they've lived through many of them, and then they fight, Trump every step of the way when he's going to bring change that's going to benefit everybody. then, he's made some other good decisions, which were to, that trips he made the first trip, he was, Monday was the inauguration, Friday, he left on a trip to two disaster areas. The first one he went to was North Carolina. And that was amazing. Not only did he show up there and Melania's wife went with him, First Lady. They talked and met with the people, real people. I mean, people that, weren't the up and outers. At this point, they're the down and outers because they've lost everything. And they're just normal Americans. And he gave them the mic. He said, tell me your story. Tell the nature of your story. They told about how FEMA had let them down, how they'd gotten no help. but some organizations like Samaritan's Purse and others, and other people, Elon Musk had given hundreds Of star links there for communication and on and on other people's lows. And I think some other builders were given materials and builders were building small homes for people. So, he let it be known you're not forgotten. And he told the core of engineers get in here in force and get these roads back, build them back, get the, infrastructure back work until so people can move around. They can have some freedom. And get back to having some hope that they will have a home again, and they're not the forgotten Americans anymore, as they were under former administration. and I'm sure most people in the States know or heard, if you're been awake at all that FEMA had told their employees, if you see a Trump Sign on the homes, by pass it and once they try to deny that now, Trump is looking at, eliminating, FEMA and making a state resource where money will be funneled to the states that handle these, Devastations that happened because they're better equipped if they got the money and the funds and the federal government will help them with things they don't have, but it will be them doing it under their governor or elected officials, not from a federal, group, which, like the President said, it's slower. there's a lot more red tape and it slows everything down to get, to the people what they need. Then he was on the Los Angeles. And in this trip, he was a typical, well, he got off the, airplane and tarmac and Governor, Newsom was there and, give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. And he was gracious. And even in the set down where, the mayor was there and, other, local officials, but he didn't pull any punches. He was called him right out. To their failures and how they had messed up to, in not preparing and not being, not just being planned for. And he did say, we're gonna help, we're gonna help California. But there's gonna be some restrictions on what has to be done to help prevent future, events because the Santa Ana's will be back next year in Southern California. And the same thing can happen again, so he set the stages and he's letting it be known to not only domestically, but around the world. I think, it was very pointed and the world got the message. They sent a plane load of Columbians, criminals back to Columbia. Well, they refused to let them unload there. And when President Trump heard that, he gave the order to the State Department and others appropriate to put a 25 percent tariff and to cancel all visas and everybody coming to the United States. And if in seven days, it was still not settled to reduce, to increase the tariff to 50 percent within six hours. The president of Colombia, who is a Marxist, how they got him elected, who knows, but, he had a change of heart and they said they will gladly accept the, Colombians coming back. And the world now knows that if they sent us their worst, if they don't want to take them back, it's going to cost them and cost them a lot. So, I'm very optimistic now. I'm an optimist, but let me tell you, during the last, four years, I had become a pessimist. I really thought that, we didn't have many options for our future and we were headed downhill really fast. I really felt Leading up to November, one or two things were going to happen. There's two stories in the Bible, the Old Testament, many of you, I'm sure know them. One was about the city of Nineveh and he was sending Jonah, which was a prophet, to the city to call them to repent. They were evil, real evil, way worse than what we've got going on here and everything on steroids and Jonah didn't want to go. But he got the message and he went, and Jonah, went and preached and told the people that God was bringing judgment if he didn't repent. Well, the king of Nineveh and the leaders accepted it. And called for the city and surrounding areas to repent, they put on sackcloth and ash, which in those days meant that they were in mourning and repented they wiped out the idols and all of the evil things that were going on. and God, gave them another 70 years when they fell out of, again, went back to their old ways. Nineveh was one, and I said, we're either going to be like Nineveh, which, heard the message that God had repented, or we're going to be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which it was evil, real evil. And in the Bible, it says he came down himself. God came down himself in the form of man. And came to Abraham and talked to him and went into the city of Sodom and Gomorrah to see if it was as bad as he was hearing in heaven. That's something that seems pretty bad, but God himself will come down. Excuse me, I'm still dealing with a little bit of the aftermath of a strep throat. And, they didn't repent and, uhGod destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. do we, we were at this cross road thankfully, millions and millions of Americans rose up, prayed and asked God, have mercy on our nation. And he did. And he's given us a time, I believe now the rebuild, change, preach out all this evil and, worshiping idols and, other evil things. So, We have before us a great opportunity, but it's we, the people have to be involved. We can't just expect a new administration to do officials and. Department government heads, they could be the right people and do all wonderful things, but it's going to take all supporting this to make sure that we get this locked in. By law, so that somebody can't come along later and change it. And also we want to be. So effective. Doing what was promised for the American people that four years from now, they will keep, the same group in power with a, new president and someone who is part of this, solution, not a problem. And so, we are looking at, So many obstacles, but they're all fixable. They're all doable. If together, we will come out and get involved. Well, what would the difference be in the Middle East? This is an area I'm very familiar with. I've been in and out of there since the 70s. I was on the ground in June the 6th, 1982, when the Israelis went through the Good Fence out of Mattua into, take Mofok Castle, which was shelling down on Israel, every night, missiles into Northern Israel. And, it was, My first trip into southern Lebanon, and I'd mentioned that's where my first book Hostile Intent came from, but we were in a convoy going across the ridge above the Ritani River. We'd come in from the good fence to out of Metula and headed north towards Beirut, then right out across the ridge above the Ritani River, and Beaufort Castle was on the other side, a few miles away. You could see it. It was a big, imposing castle, been there for centuries, And as we were about halfway across, we had five or six jeeps in the convoy and they kept switching back and forth so that people wouldn't know, which jeep major Haddad the leader of Free Lebanon, Haddad was in. And as we were driving along, we were just enjoying the sights and scenry and the driver said, look out, incoming missile. And we all thought, Oh my God, we're in a war zone. We heard about this. We didn't think it was really going to happen. And he laughed and said, oh, don't worry. They don't have guided missiles, and they don't have good aim. Sure enough, they didn't, they missed it. But, that was the 1st missile that shot at me. and with all my time in the, in the military and other things that I've done. So. I've watched this, Middle East spiral out of control, then it was the PLO, which was trying to set up a homeland. And that's what led me to really, try to find a source of terrorism. Where did it come from? Where did it start? And what can we do about it? So I, learned from that first visit that the dangers, and I was back there many times after that, setting up, early warning devices on, we'd put a radio station in southern Lebanon and had a television station there, to help, Major Haddad and his people. And, there was, a lot of evil going on, attempting to stop everything we were doing, and, to, push the Israelis, out of southern Lebanon, which they were the only ones that were supporting and protecting the, Christians in southern Lebanon. So, now, the difference is, instead of having someone in the White House that says don't, and they know that he's not going to do anything about it, we have a president that's going to say don't. And they're going to say, whoa, we're going to stop. So immediately, I Iran. It's thinking twice about what they do. Even Hamas, to some extent, you know, Hamas is a group of thugs. And, they've got this ideologue, viewpoint that they're supposed to kill every Jew on earth and eliminate the Jew from the world. And so these aren't people that you could even talk to or reason with and it's been shown that even anything with Hamas is one of the worst. they don't keep their word. And I've said this before, they're not going to release all the hostages, because if they do, they realize they're going to be eliminated real fast. And the only thing that's held the Israelis back, completely, cleaning up that mess there, is the hostages. Israel's concerned about them. And Israel's also concerned about the Palestinian people. They. have been careful and independent studies from military people and others that had nothing to do with Israel say that Israel has done more in protective civilians than any other armies ever done It's so it's been very obvious and they have risked their lives and caused the lives of Israeli soldiers by being so cautious and warning. what they're going to do before they do it. And if, if you see the devastation and destruction in, In Gaza. It's so interesting. Today, I was just watching, some footage from Gaza. This was an area where these people were well dressed. They were out far looking and having fun. they were in any American city. cars zipping around everywhere. plenty of gas, plenty of food. These people sure weren't, struggling and, this was down in a southern tip of Gaza there. And, then the people want to head back north to where, it's still, you know, terrorist, strongholds there, but the cities has just been destroyed, so, and that whole area. So, it's going to take, I don't know, What, and how this can be solved? Because Hamas only wants the destruction of Israel. They won't negotiate on anything else. It's not going to be a two state. I've said this before. There's not going to be a two state solution. It'll never happen. Because we could go all the way back to, the Bible times, Abraham's son, Ishmael and Isaac. And I talked about, that and God said that he would, have a nation developed out of Ishmael, even though he was not the chosen heir of Isaac or of Abraham, Isaac was. And we have, these issues that politicians just don't seem to understand when, and I'm hopeful that President Trump and those around him, and there's people around him that know the Bible, that know history, that know what land was given to Israel as an everlasting possession and know that there wasn't any Palestinian, people, in the history, this name came up, and, actually it came about in, right after the first century when the Roman Nero had Got so fed up with the Jews that he took away their name and called them Palestinian. But really, the Palestinian name was given to Jews first. And Gaza was originally the home of the Philistines, not some Arab group or Palestinian group. And that's all in history. It's all recorded. It's all there if anybody wants to look at it. So we need to get informed. We, the people, you, me, we need to become good investigators, find out what the truth really is. And then, see who's following, what is right, following our constitution, following our Judeo Christian, values of, protection of life. And, and stopping all this, pornographic material even done in kindergarten books and gender confusion on our children, which it was a big factor in the election, which, parents had said enough, no more of this. And, I don't understand why any politicians, could follow through on this. And a lot of these that have children of their own that would support it and try to protect it. So. I'm hopeful now that we've seen that there's been a rising up in America, that we will continue to rise up and we will come together, the volumes of individuals, will become an army, to support through, different political things that we can do, not violence, but through voting, I think. And letting our voice be heard and in a necessary recalling people that's been done many school boards across the country have been totally cleaned out and righteous men and women have been put in taken over where they're going to protect the mind of their children. So. and we, we have that now, back in California again, there's a petition started to recall Newsome again, and they're talking about what, I don't know where it started yet on the mayor, Karen Bass, because they failed in their duties. I don't care if they're a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or Libertarian, or who they are, they failed and somebody needs to be held accountable. Then, to me, that Middle East is the, it's the most dangerous situation that President Trump has to deal with. And unless we understand what the, what's causing it, anything we try to do will be a band aid. And as before I've mentioned, the danger is that we'll get drawn into it then. and that is something we really don't want. We don't want more. blood and treasure of our, young men and women, paying the price for some politician's war. So, let's stay vigil and, maybe, maybe you aren't a Christian. Maybe, maybe you believe in God, but you're just not really into that thing. pray. You know, just ask God. Simple. You don't have to have a knowledge of some, prayer that has all the D's in the house that say God. Amen. Amen. Come and bless Israel, help, help President Trump and the other leaders in Israel solve this problem that won't lead to further bloodshed and a bigger problem. You know what happens many times? It's happened in business, and I did this early on in my business. You go out to solve a problem, and you get in a hurry. I mean, you don't understand the whole issue, so you create two bigger problems by the one you solved. So, that's a danger that we have is. Middle East trying to solve this problem. We're going to create a much bigger problem. I saw a message that Trump had given to the leaders of the Middle East. He was very emphatic. I mean, he was, well, no punches. He told them all of what would happen if, There wasn't a peace coming to the Middle East and it would be in their individual, each country, for them to become part of the solution and help develop, even expand the Abraham Accords and work to neutralize terrorists. Saudi Arabia did that in their own country. I was part of that. I was there on the ground. I had an office in Saudi Arabia for years and in Riyadh. And, Saudi Arabia, was cleaning up the terrorists. They cracked down hard when they realized they were victims and they were targets of Al Qaeda, not just, the U S or Israel or some other place. they took it seriously and they eliminated them. Well, we know they can do that because they did. And other countries could to, other countries have been soft on supporting, particularly Hamas and the billions of dollars that have gone in to Hamas with the top leaders. And I saw this laid out, Forbes actually did this. So it wasn't some hit piece by somebody or some thing, but somebody's imagination that showed that those five top leaders had, a 4-5 billion. In, personal holdings, individually, but they had built and they had all these huge businesses and homes and places and, all kinds of trappings and while the people in Gaza were suffering and, being, abused by Hamas on the ground, if they didn't pull the line and obey everything they were told, and then Hamas was taking This aid that was going in, stealing it and then selling it to the, Gazing people at inflated prices, even though they didn't pay for it, they just stole it. So, this is, something that, we need to be paying attention to when we need to be, thinking about, what can we do to be part of this solution? That's been my whole challenge. When I first started talking about terrorism back in the early eighties, I was part of the white house outreach group when Reagan, was president and speaking on terrorism. And I had hundreds and hundreds of meetings in those years early eighties, and before the Olympics in Los Angeles, talking about the dangers of terrorism and how to prevent it. This was, something that we need, to be paying attention to again today, preventing things in many places, undercover operations by, the police agency to ferret out, the criminal ailment have been taken away, so, we need to, pay attention to that. ensure that our cities, local governments, state and federal governments have the tools they need to have preventive resources in place to protect the citizens. Well, what about this issue with Russia and Ukraine? It's in a place where both parties want to settle. Even the last couple of days, Russia has, Putin has put out. Information from, some press conferences that he is definitely open to and eager to talk to. Excuse me, President Trump and, Zelenskyy also, wants to settle. So this can be settled. And I believe we're going to see that done quickly. Obviously there are issues with both sides. Putin, was evil. He's wrong. He's a thug. He's a murderer. He's a, KGB guy still is, should have never gone into, Ukraine, and, pretty much what he was saying, he was concerned about NATO, getting into Ukraine and Ukraine becoming part of NATO. Well, he has NATO in Poland and around him and other places, but the big reason here was that part of, Ukraine that sits right on the border, that there was a Russian enclave there, a lot of Russian speaking people that he annexed back in 14, I think it was, wasn't it? Yeah. So, he thought that, because he would see bad information, I'm told that, he has people around him and he likes to hear how good things are. And he was being told apparently that this is going to be a few day event, their weak will overrun him and we'll be, in Kiev, in three or four days in control. Well, as we know, that didn't happen. They messed up really bad. Not only was their equipment malfunctioning and breaking down, I mean, setting ducks for the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians were much more prepared, with a whole lot better weapons than what thought they had. So, now, he's learned that lesson. and sitting down in any thing that we do where there's two sides to something, whether it's in a business, it could be in a marriage or a relationship or a family, whatever it is, the government, we have to sit down and say, okay, what's your issues? What's your issues? well, we can live with this. We can live with that. And here's a way that we can get that settled. it brings, righteousness to it. I mean, you can't, and don't want to reward a dictator, an evil person for what they did, but there's gotta be a way to stop this carnage that's going on, and I believe we're going to see, we'll see that happen. It's going to be much easier than what's going on in the Middle East. Then we have, NATO. What is the situation with NATO? NATO obviously has never really had to fight a, a war and, the U. S. has put more money than NATO to, support NATO, to support Europe. And I, I believe, and, and Trump has been very vocal on this, that, that needs to change. And that needs calling Countries to give 5 percent of their gross national product. Well, I think we, I was, I was listening to an expert last night that was talking about this and he said that I think we're like a 2. 1 or 2 traditionally for our, our defense spending, but he said for us to get the 5. With the level that we've had advancing would take us like 20 years, and unless obviously something was, different, and you had to put a lot more into it, like, say, during the Second World War or something, it would go faster, of course. So, when you look at the European countries, most of them, they'll think about, well, how fast would it take them to get to 5%? It would take a long time. So, there's got to be, but there's got to be a way that they start doing more for their own. support and particularly some that weren't really doing anything, in those early years before Trump's term. And I, I haven't heard a report, this recently of what it's at right now, if there's any that aren't paying anything, but, he's going to have a strong hand with that and we're going to see some changes in this. Well, his, cabinet members, the first, cabinet member that was put in his, office was the secretary of state. And I've told my friends out around the world that are talking to me, what can we expect from the United States is judge what you see by the people that he's putting in. It's a state department, the defense department, Attorney General. Homeland Security, Director of National Intelligence, and all these other, Treasury Secretary, on and on, and we need to keep going, and Ambassadors even, gives you an indication that things aren't going to be done as usual. And so what did, I knew the Secretary of State said, and it was interesting, I wasn't a supporter of Trump. When he first, started running. I thought we need some young blood. We need to now get young people in and we need to have a change. And I was really leaning towards Rubio back in that time. And then when president Trump got the, Nomination, of course, I supported it. I found out pretty quick why he was the best person for the job because he was an outsider. and even though he was up against odds, he didn't have any idea that he was going to be up against. He still did amazing. Thanks for the country. So, but now, we have, The new secretary that he was. in the Senate, I don't really, remember him, doing a lot of things. I don't, he wasn't a standout, of course, somebody that was out there getting attention. Somebody that was, banging the table to get notoriety. But what he's done, as I've listened to him, I listened to him at the, first, statement he had in a gathering he had with employees at the, State Department, and what he talked about doing, and it's obviously he's on the same page with Trump. the first thing he did was take down all the flags across the world, and it wasn't an American flag, only flies. He eliminated all DEI. He, you know, it's cleaning house. it's the State Department and getting rid of, many of the holdover, progressives that were, a lot of the problems. And so it's a breath of fresh air We cut off all foreign aid going out for 90 days to review where it's going, what it's being spent, and is it meeting the mission of helping America and helping people too. And this is an example of what's been going on. With the new Doge, Elon Musk, and I'll get into that in a minute with. the Vick and all that, the flack and the misinformation again, it's been going on, but, under Elan direction, at, O& B, they found this week, and it was, well, it was either last Friday or Monday, they discovered, even though Trump had stopped everything going out, he'd cut off funding to the WHO, the World Health Organization, which was, is a disaster. and it cut off all money going to Gaza, boondoggle, but they found out ready to go out was, like 37 million going to, who in violation of Trump's order and 50 million going to the Gaza for the, Condos. For condos. Condos? Have you looked at Gaza? Have you looked at the situation going on? Of course they stopped it. And that was, Just an example of what DOGE is going to do to cut down on unnecessary expenses and a government which has been out of control the way they throw around and put money out into people's hands and particularly sending it into, Gaza. And, look what happened with when President Trump made it his first time. The nation was at, what, less than 2 percent and a half of inflation. Gas was 170 a gallon across the country. We were energy independent. We didn't have to import any oil. Prices were down. Interest rates, I had a 2. 25 percent veteran home loan. And on and on it went. Iran was broke. You weren't seeing the terrorist activities like had been going on the years before because they were broke. They didn't have the money to do it. Instantly when the former administration Biden went in, they released money going to Iran and billions and billions started pointing to Iran. And that's when the buildup started, to, build up Hezbollah and Hamas even more. I just don't get it. and I'd love to have somebody tell me, hey, if you understand why these people did this, send me a comment, send me an email, which I'll give it in a little bit. about why did they do this, thinking that, negotiating, be nice to Iran, giving them money, being soft on them would help them be nice and like us, when that would against everything that, we know is real. I don't get it. So, someone, can you explain that to me? I'm just a farm boy from Missouri. I grew up on a farm. I understand cattle and horses and, and ranching and, and, the crops in and out and milking cows and, I understand all that. Snow in the winter that was up to the fence posts for three or four months. Yeah, no more. Don't want to go back to that. But, that's reality. I don't get this. So, well, let me know if you can figure that out. And then over to the Department of Defense with Pete Hedsef. that was amazing how they tried to kill him. from getting, not literally, but to stop him from becoming a defense, a head of defense. But, he made it and he's already, got, things happening. and remember, I built a business, had up to 1, 500 employees. And there was a lot I didn't know. I didn't have any college education. I didn't have any training. I was just blessed by having people help me. And I realized a lot of things I didn't know. Yeah, I'm a visionary. Yeah, I could build things. Yeah, people would follow me. But I wasn't an administrator in those days. I didn't understand all the stuff of wanting to run a business. I didn't want to. So I got people around me. That could do that. Well, he's doing that at, Department of Defense. What I've heard was that, a billionaire businessman who is leaving the head of his business and turning that over and he's coming in to be, assistant there at the state, at Defense Department. To help Pete in the administration organization side. Also, there will be generals there that will be promoted and up. There'll be a lot of generals that will be gone, which some of them are already on the way out for, what their actions have been, and Pete has also followed up on President Trump's promise to bring back any of the military veterans who were Fired and kicked out because they wouldn't take the jab. That, it wasn't a vaccine. It was experimental. It said that. It was never a vaccine. So, they got that in play. And now, they're, getting DEI out. So that training will get back to the way that it was meant to be. And getting the strong military ready for action, and they'll be so ready for action, they'll never have to be used because it's peace through strength. Well, there's so much we can talk about here. As I wind this thing down in the last few minutes, the U. N. is out of control, and now we have a new ambassador to the un, She is a go-getter. Another one of those strong women that Trump that's going in there and kick butt and take names. And she, says that, the UN has lost its way. It's an let's say, haven for terrorist and, antisemitism and all events that were not meant to be part of the un. In fact, when the UN was formed, it was to prevent another, attack on the Jewish people, and it was meant to. develop relationships between the countries to foster supportive things that would help countries grow and be a positive influence. Well, it's gotten a long way from that. And there needs to be a lot of changes and she will bring change. If you watched her, when she took on the, presidents of, Harvard, Columbia and Yale? Was it or? I can't remember now which other one it was, but. at Congress where she was a Congresswoman from Upper New York and he tore them apart. They, they had nothing to say. Actually, they all wind up resigning. She got rid of all of them because of what she did. So there's good news there. We're, developing new, relationships and we're going to be a force for good in the world. Well, what is, what has happened with DEI just in America? After Trump, not elected, companies started, sliding all the way, out of, the DEI, they started deleting it, eliminating it, and, I've, got some information here. I've been reading that, even before the executive order, and all this massive, Programs that Biden group has set up. Trump calls these DEI programs illegal and immoral, which is very true. the companies that started, in fact, you know, McDonald's was one that started early on, but these, companies now have abandoned or rolled back or getting rid of all of their commitments or program relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And just before I get into these companies, I think it was the Department of Labor that they were interviewing the former head of that. And they're talking about getting rid of DEI. And when they asked her, well, how many people would this mean to go? She said, oh, about a hundred. A hundred? They had a hundred people with the salaries they were making just playing with DEI at the Labor Department. Think about that. All of the departments of government and state department, military, treasurer, everywhere, White House, thousands of people in DEI, unbelievable what they did to America on our watch. And we led them to, well, companies like Amazon, they, in December, they said it was winding down, DEI, Boeing, dismantled theirs. In fact, they started dismantling in 2023. Brown and Foreman, the Jack Daniels maker, you know, we don't talk about Jack Daniels, do we? they announced the name Caterpillar will no longer participate in the Ford, no longer participating. In all these, issues. John Deere, Lowe's, McDonald's, Meta, which is Facebook, the biggie. you know, we've heard him talking about that and what he's done. Target, the one that, developed and put all these gender, oh, diversity. Displays with the, with the gender confusing closing for young children is 5, 6, 7, 8, they paid a big price for that. And now they have concluded that it's, Not working and they're getting rid of a tractor supply. That was another big one. That's, in Texas and around. There's a big Texas boy. They tried it and they got such a backlash from their, customers, which were ranchers and farmers and just real people. Toyota same thing. Walmart will phase out though. All these, companies, Costco, Cisco, Apple, Delta. on and on. in just a matter of weeks, the difference that Trump has made to wipe out these kind of programs that are so devastating to our country. Now, one other thing, in this line with DEI. Might have heard, I don't know where, how many did, but Davos the economic forum, President Trump spoke at that and in that group with a lot of the big, heads of companies that really were proponents and started this and, and, helped encourage DEI, they were there setting. And Trump just called it like it was. He just said, we're eliminating all this. It's been a detriment. And he just systematically took it apart. And I suspect there was a lot of very uncomfortable people sitting there. Does he, does Trump talk about how the American people had said enough, enough. So there are, other foreign countries dropping DEI. Javier, Millie, the president of Argentina followed him. and he said the same thing. They're eliminating it and they're bringing Argentina back to common sense, merit base, and eliminating all this social justice stuff. El Salvador president. When, if you followed anything, it's amazing what happened in El Salvador. When, he became president back in. 2019 and, he saw that they were the murder capital of the world. the gangs were everywhere taken over and he saw the only way they were going to be able to get back control is if they took the gangs out of the street. So he put together a task force of police, military, and in a matter of weeks, they had rounded up thousands of, these, gang members. And now, I think the last I heard is like 50 or 60, 000 they have in prison. El Salvador, right now, went from the Most unsafe country in the world. It's the safest country in the world. People are flocking back to El Salvador that even came to the States because there's opportunity and security and safety there. the hungry, prime minister, he is also, Orban, O R B A N, Orban, the prime minister, he is also taking his country out of these kind of disastrous, things that DEI and other social justice back to merit. There's other EU countries that are waking up and are starting to follow along with Italy. Italy had, that woman, the leader of Italy, and she is, also, transporting out illegals. She's cracking down on crime, and, she is really making a difference there In Germany, I saw an interview by one of the, rightist parties, smaller party, but it looks like she's headed to be the next, chancellor in Germany. Alice, Elon Musk interviewed her, and they went through all the things that had happened in Germany, and now disasters. I didn't realize how bad it was in the economy there. And all of it only happened from all of the millions of illegals they let in. But, in their, gas and oil and everything that's happened, they depended on Russia, so they're in trouble. But if she now is, along the lines of a Trump and Argentina and Italy, a leader that will bring some sane, common sense back to government. So it's happening folks out across the world. And now we just have to keep this going. It's real turning because the progressives will keep coming back. They're not going to say, Oh, okay, they won. We might as well give up and go home. No. They will build while we're, sailing along. And if we don't keep our antennas up while we're saying, Oh, everything is great. They'll be planning that next big move, which could sweep us off, our feet. Another, thing that I watch is our second amendment rights being military law enforcement. All the things I've done have a lot of guns. got them over the years at one point, back in the, 80s there in California, I had, probably eight or 900 people carrying guns, issued out like a police department and, we didn't have any problems. people were well trained. It was a whole different era, but, now. There's been, California has obviously had this attacks on, on guns and gun ownership. And they've kept, even though the Supreme Court gives these, decisions that should give us more freedom, they keep, sometimes just ignoring it to make the people, sue them because they know they're not going to be any penalties if they disobey the Supreme Court. And that's bad. most of us would obey a Supreme Court order if they could. That's the Supreme Court. We have to obey that. Well, another state, Washington, which I had had a home in many years ago and spent a lot of time in, I had a concealed weapon permit out of Tacoma up there. And I went in to see the sheriff and he gave me a permit, which was blanket without maiming weapons. In California, you could put three weapons, I think it was, on a concealed weapon permit when you could get it. And I had one, both of my residence in San Diego County. but, like in Texas now, Idaho, and many others, Montana, on and on, they get a concealed weapon permit that covers anything I carry, and it's automatic as long as you don't have a criminal record and you can legally, you know, not a, terrorist or got a mental problem, I heard something, yesterday, and this is happening right now, In the state of Washington, this is going to affect every gun owner, and it's new law that they've written, they're getting ready to push it through, and probably it'll go through and the governor will sign it and all indications unless something happens and enough people rise up. If you're a gun owner in Washington, every gun you have, it can't be a blanket. If you own 20 guns, it's not one you will have to have. a insurance policy, a 25, 000 insurance policy, liability policy, on every gun you own. That means if you've got a handgun or two or three, every one of those will have to have a separate policy. If you've got a shotgun, a rifle, AR or something, every one of them, you have 20 guns, you're going to have 20 insurance policies. Can this be real? I don't think that can be legal, can it? If you, if you're, into, gun law and, amendment, second amendment rights and all that, send me a comment. Let me know about that. Is it possible? hopefully, lawsuits will stop this or the Supreme Court if it goes, that far. But if that comes through and they're able to sustain this in Washington, look out California, look out, Illinois, New York. Washington, D. C. and all these other leftist states, Michigan, Minnesota, be aware, be tracking, second amendment rights and, there's a whole lot of different, Emails you could get where you'll get information about various, situations NRA of course, puts it out, but there's other people that are really active in the 2nd amendment area. That are putting on information, so, you know, what's going on. Well, there's so much more happening and I don't have to be for another time. Hopefully you're still with me. I appreciate your liking and sharing and subscribing and, you know, the drill hit that notification bell for future posts and, together, we can make a difference. And, you know, I hear from people, that I meet as I move around and say, I wish I'd have known you 2 or 3 years ago, because I had this problem. I didn't know a PI could have helped me. And so if you're one of those, maybe you've got a problem in your business or family, or it's a situation and you need help. 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