Thailand–Cambodia border conflict & open-source intelligence | Pete Crittenden

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1:38 friend from high school, Pete Kreninan. Pete, welcome back to Patriots Perspective. It's been so long since you've been on. >> It's a pleasure to be here. >> Thank you so much for coming on and choosing us to help break this news that you've um kind of put together and disseminated so that the public can understand where we are, what's going on in the world, and um not let the bad players win. >> Well, thanks very much. Um, as as uh many people seem to be aware right now, I started an endeavor about this time last year and uh my media and

2:19 information company, Info Blurbs, uh grew out of a a real world tasking. I was helping a uh a group of uh people like myself uh ex greener who uh go overseas as freelancers and help uh recover Americans and bring back them back to the United States. And I was sending them information. I could not participate because of personal reasons. So, I was supporting with information uh intelligence uh related information on the situation on the ground where they were at, which was um north of Israel and south of Syria, if that narrows it down. And um

2:59 it it became overwhelming to the point I was handling so much message traffic. I decided to go to one point uh for all uh you know, knowledge and wisdom. And that morphed into what we have now on X as info blurbs. And I'd like to uh you know expand my social media footprint. It's just I'm one man deep. Uh I've got some tremendous sources of information. Open-source intelligence is a discipline of intelligence. We're in the information era. And um you know it's possible in the old days you'd have to have some sneaky spy going around taking

3:40 pictures with a Minox camera or something. Nowadays it's all all the information is out there uh to a a large extent. So my sources include military, diplomatic, political, journalists, and just uh ordinary people in the street. Um mostly in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Western Europe, um Ukraine of course, and Southeast Asia, but also I'm getting some information out of Central and South America from time to time. uh and you know of course Australia um which is where I started actually a long time ago. Um yeah and uh when I started my objective was to cover just security information

4:27 the international security scene because it seemed to me that the airwaves are saturated with political stuff and of course we're in the middle of the election. Since then, I've decided I'm going to cover some political or uh domestic uh stories that are um related to the uh this remarkable cultural revolution/counter revolution that we're in the middle of. And um so that's about where it's at right now and that's what I've been up to. >> Well, Pete, before we go into it, I want my audience to understand and be reminded that you've lived on six continents. Um, and let's talk a little

5:07 bit about what you do as a Green Beret because you kind of, you know, I I find that a lot of our veterans and and special intelligence like yourself, they will bypass over some of the things that you guys have done or do, which I know that you have to with some of those things, but you're easily able to put pieces together that are out here in the mainstream media um or intelligence things that we may be missing like the other government whistleblowers have put forth or that you're you're able to see things a lot clearer sometimes than we

5:42 are as the public and mainstream and be concerned about it way sooner. I know my grandfather was, you know, always concerned about communism and Cuba and what was taken over Cuba, but he could never say those things. um especially considering you know like you were just saying that we now have social media we have different platforms in which news can travel in his era he didn't really have that so he would have been you know obviously giving out the information which he was not allowed to do considering he served um our state department with presidential access to

6:16 JFK during the Cuban missile crisis and I know that your father also served because your father and my grandfather were both stationed in Thailand together. So, can you talk a little bit about that, about what that was like growing up in Thailand first because I think that's where we're where we're we're about to get into the information that you've informed me that you want to share. Um, we're basically going to go to Asia a bit a minute so that people can understand like where you've gotten some of this information and um where you've served. So, I don't know how much

6:47 you can say. I mean, I know you can talk about when you were in Thailand. you and my mom were in Thailand because you were not under any kind of military operation. Your your parents may have been, but so can you just tell me tell what you can tell? >> Well, my father was a mechanical engineer and he built power plants in Southeast Asia and my first memories are in Somatra and uh left there when I was about 6 years old. We had to get evaced out of the war that they had. Went back to

7:18 Australia. Uh, my family's Australian. I'm Australian. Uh, don't have the accent. I'm an Americanized Australian. Anyhow, so we we went back to Aussie. Then we made our way back to the States once my dad got out of Indonesia. And uh the next uh overseas assignment was uh Bangladesh. In those days, it was Pakistan. And he built a power plant there. And then uh we ended up in Thailand. And I spent my entire teenage years 1970 to 1979 in Bangkok, Thailand. And so, as you can imagine, I'm totally jaded, ruined for life. Uh, I was the first five years the war was

8:03 on and the US military was had an enormous presence, a huge presence in Thailand. Everywhere you looked, you saw GIS. They had PXs, they had a hospital, they had bowling alleys. I mean, it they they were occupying hotels uh all over town as barracks and offices. It was crazy. Huge logistical footprint, air bases. In any case, on the last day of the war, I was on a beach in southern Thailand in a place called Sadi, which actually is a harbor which has a naval base, which at that time was US anti-naval base and I was watching

8:44 helicopters come out of the east and I wasn't quite sure what it was and it became evident this was the evacuation of Pon Pen and after that I wanted to study everything I could about communism. We were getting all the stories directly out of the refugee camps about the madness that was going on in Cambodia, the killing fields. And there were Viet people that were actually coming in our direction. They didn't all go out to the east. Some of them floated around into the Gulf of Syiam. And uh we were getting the stories from them about, you

9:20 know, the the the killings, the the blood bath that was going on in Vietnam. I wanted to understand. So I read Chevara's book, Guerrerilla Warfare. Then I read Mao's book and about about this time my father thought I was becoming a communist. Um since then I've been studying Marxist revolution uh revolutionary theory, Marxist Leninism and totalitarian regimes ever since. Um and as part of as a green beret we study this stuff also because guerrilla warfare is what we're all about. Revolutionary warfare. All right. Um, now, uh, if you'd like, I can, uh, uh, reflect on, uh, some of the current, uh,

10:04 situations over there in Southeast Asia. >> Before you do that, I want us to comment. I want to play just a little clip from Four Corners. Um, and and I have not even watched this clip myself, so we're both maybe going to be slightly surprised in what we're seeing here. Um, but just so the audience can kind of kind of understand, this is a 2011 clip from um, >> surviving Cambod it's called surviving Cambodia's um, killing fields in 2011. This is by ABC's Four Corners, ABC News Four Corners, which I find that, you know, they've often at one point in time

10:38 told us the truth. >> 20 handpicked products. It says the Four Corners documentary originally broadcast. Hold on just a second. It was originally broadcast. They tell where it was originally broadcast because we also know that they've told us a lot of, you know, what happened and the truth of the matter of what happened and it is out there for us to kind of figure out um what is going on. So, just give me one second while it's loading. But I believe in, you know, making sure that people really understand what you're talking about, maybe what your father saw. Um, in terms

11:14 of Okay, so it says the Four Corners documentary was originally aired and broadcast. Where are they? As where are they now? On June 27th, 2011, ABC TV. So, evidently it's not there anymore. It's very strange. So, they've evidently pulled it and renamed it. >> There we go. [Applause] Last month in a modest temple in suburban Sydney, Piney came with her mother, Mrs. Kang, and her husband, Boon, to celebrate the Buddha's birthday. [Music] >> I first met them and other survivors from the Cambodian genocide in 1987 after they'd settled in Sydney. Today, the latest bitter debate over

12:13 refugees is again dominating the media. We decided to revisit these survivors to hear from those so rarely given a voice in the refugee debate. We don't want to die. We must leave. And that's what when we um determined to risk our life to cross the border when we escape that was extraordinary experience in our life and yes of course the scar stay there forever that doesn't matter how happy how much you enjoy it's here with you I'm going to take it to my grave a little over three decades ago Penny was among the haunted men, women, and

13:03 children who fled the nation then known as Campachia, a place that became synonymous with the killing fields. They came across the Thai border in their tens of thousands, starving and desperate, refugees from the Cambodian Holocaust. Under Pulp Pot's Cime Rouge regime, some 1,700,000 Cambodians had perished from execution, war, and starvation. A fifth of the entire nation in less than four years. Many buried in mass graves. [Music] Okay, Pete. So, I'll stop it there so that you can continue on. I think that that kind of gives the audience an opportunity to hear, you know, what actually occurred. Um, so that they can

14:10 get a better understanding of what really did occur during that time frame and so that um they can understand what you know what that actually was. you know that it it was you know recorded in time it is there and um in comparison to what you're seeing now um yes well Cambodia is a small country and it's not uh particularly rich country it's um you know compared to Thailand Thailand has a huge economy comparatively and um uh the Cambodians don't have as professional a military as the Cambodians. Um the Cambodian army, it's uh undisiplined. It's unorganized. And

14:59 um what we've seen in the past couple of weeks is a border clash that erupted. Uh and this is an actual um I don't know, a cyclic sort of thing. uh they essentially fight over a section of the border where the lines were drawn during the French colonial period um that were problematic and uh there at the center of it is an ancient temple that was originally of the Chimera Empire that is Cambodian and that temple is perched on a very high cliff overlooking Cambodia. Um, the cliff goes like this. So, where the temple is, if you look on

15:46 it from above, the borderline goes. It's in Cambodia. But to access it, you have to go through Thailand. And they've been fighting over this ever since. And um when I was when I was there, when I was young in the 70s, uh, every couple of years they'd have an exchange of mortar shells uh, and you know, that would be it. maybe a little bit of gunfire, honor would have been served and then, you know, they'd uh pull back and wait another year or two and then rinse or repeat. What made this uh series of clashes significant is

16:23 the Cambodians were using heavy uh weaponry, multiple launch uh rocket systems uh and they were they were taking out targets. They hit a hospital and they hit a a gas station u deeper within Thailand and a lot of people were hurt and um uh of course um you know there were casualties and uh this is extraordinary. This is beyond the normal uh of this of this clash of this situation. And so then it it just doesn't make any sense. Why would the Cambodians want to unleash a fullscale, you know, conventional type war? And of course, the ties, they um they responded

17:12 with uh flights of F-16s going over and bombing headquarter elements, uh bombing their artillery uh systems and their associated radar arrays. And um like I said, it just doesn't make sense. the Thai military um budget is about a hundred times bigger than the Cambodian military budget. Why would they do such a thing? So when things don't make sense, you have to look for what is there that does make sense. And it was suggested to me uh by one of my uh sources that this is actually Russian and Chinese interference. They uh practice something known as

17:55 hybrid warfare. They can't fight us on a conventional battlefield. So, they're going to do everything they can to suck our resources, to distract us, to sew seeds of confusion. And of course, Thailand is a US client. And um >> you say a US client, what do you mean? >> Uh well, we train their military. We we sell them um you know, weapons and equipment. Uh we sponsor them. We have security agreements. That's what I mean by a client state, an ally. >> Okay. Yeah. Because I think a lot of people don't realize that they are allies, you

18:35 know, and that we are supposed to be >> so and and you had said that you believe that >> but there is a >> hold on there. You believe that our that that our resources are being cut very short. It sounds like >> well uh if if there is Russian and Chinese uh sponsorship of this extraordinary Cambodian military activity, well then that would uh represent they're trying to um you know take our uh focus away from Ukraine and away from Taiwan and suck our resources away. And the United States has been giving so much military aid to Ukraine

19:15 that uh our stocks are running low. When I mean low, I mean we're down to uh normally US military forces would have to have their go to war stock and then double that in reserve. And uh we're significantly lower than that double amount. >> Yeah. So >> So what do you what do you think that um what do you think should be happening? What should President Trump be doing about it? What information would you want him to know in the process? >> Well, I'm sorry. >> I think I'm getting cut. Um, what information would you want President

19:55 What What do you think President Trump should be doing? What should he be aware of? And what should Americans be doing in the process? Do you think >> President Trump already communicated with the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia and uh called for a ceasefire and then they uh those leaders last week met in Koala Lumpur in Malaysia and shook hands and said uh okay ceasefire and right on up to the ceasefire of course Cambodia was firing that you know they they were having their mad minute firing as much as they can because that's what countries do prior to a

20:27 ceasefire the tempo of uh of fires increases. is uh you know because everybody's trying to get as much territory right at the end as they can. Um and at this point so you know there was some uh discussion well the ceasefire is disingenuous. Um since then all I've heard is that uh yeah the ceasefire is holding. It's very tenuous and um there was some rumors of Russian speaking Russian signals intelligence being received from the Thai side and which suggests a Russian presence there as advisers. When the Russians send in advisers, they don't just send in one or two teams like we

21:10 do. They'll send in a battalion uh or a brigade with a headquarters element um that parallels the uh local forces that are advising. Um think of the Wagner group, that sort of thing. >> Wow. Okay. So, you're saying that the Russians are in communication with the ties? >> Um no, with the Cambodians. That's sort of how it appears. >> Okay. So the Russians are in uh in conversation with the Cambodians. So who do you think is in conversation with the ties? >> Well, we would be of course um you know we directly support them. Uh we support

21:53 them like I said with military training uh equipment and we have a uh a pretty you know significant uh diplomatic footprint over there. uh they're they're good allies, good friends of the United States have been since World War II. Um so, you know, nothing is happening in a vacuum on the Thai side as far as we're concerned. >> So, what is what is going to be happening with or or do we have any any idea what the Chinese are doing? Are they, you know, in the same box as the Russians or are they standing with us on

22:27 the Thai side? And um you know is this you know what what is the effect on Cambodia? And you know do you feel like this is you know a major reason? Are they trying to stretch the US and our resources too thin so that we get distracted from Ukraine? Should we pull out of Ukraine? What is your opinion there? Um the Chinese of course uh their motivation is um primarily they want to get back to where they were 200 years ago and uh this would take a history lesson to explain but they used to have the

23:04 highest uh GDP in the world and they want to get back to that and they want to get back to their greatness and they're well on their way of getting there and uh they also want to unify their country. They want to uh take Taiwan and they'd like to do that by the 100red-year anniversary of their uh revolution which would be in 2048. Um now their method of uh flexing their muscle and stretching out their power is their belt and road technique. They're building ports, airports, and establishing uh commercial ties with all kinds of uh countries around the world,

23:42 notably in Africa, but also in Cambodia. >> And um they uh recently gave two warships to Cambodia. So Cambodia actually has a tiny navy now. Um and uh yeah, so their intent would be to distract in any way the United States security focus away from Taiwan. Um and uh and so that would be a possible, you know, motivator, a driver for the Chinese in this uh Thai Cambodian theater. >> Well, let's look and see exactly what's going on here. I just found a clip from 12 hours ago. Um, showing how many are killed and so on and so forth.

24:29 >> This is last week, I believe. >> It's saying 12 hours ago. So, I don't know if this is just a repost. Um, this is actually coming, just so everybody knows, it's coming from Money Control with 1.8 million subscribers. So, it's saying, it doesn't have a date, um, but it's saying 43 killed and over 300,000 displaced in 5 days. >> Yeah. And that's huge for this Thai Cambodian border clash. It's never been like this. This is significant. >> Okay. And then the Thai Cambodia had three days of talks in Koala Lumpur. >> Yes. [Music] And then Malaysia Malaysia returns as

25:15 the regional mediator. >> Yes. >> Malaysia is mediating renewed talks between Thailand. >> Malaysia is meeting renewed talks between >> after earlier negotiations broke down last week due to repeated ceasefire breaches. The two sides are meeting again in Koala Lumpur to try and maintain a tentative truce following days of heavy fighting that left hundreds and thousands displaced near the border. Over 43 people have been killed and more than 300,000 people have been displaced in just 5 days of intense shelling, air strikes, and gunfire last month. Now 54 delegates, defense officials from both countries are in

25:55 Malaysia for three days of talks with eyes on Thursday meeting that could decide the future of peacekeeping in the region. We propose two additional matters. The first which was agreed upon earlier in Koala Lumpur is the establishment of an interim defense ates monitoring force. Only after that will we proceed with the formation of the Azan monitoring force. I have conveyed my views on this to both chiefs of defense forces and the relevant authorities. They have agreed and we have proposed the terms of reference which have been submitted to both countries, Thailand and Cambodia. >> Malaysia's top military commander,

26:36 General Zafur, says both sides have agreed in principle to the terms of reference for the interim force seen as a vital confidence building step. It is now at the final stage of discussions to be agreed upon before they move on to the next meeting. We are also discussing the proposed ASEAN monitoring team including the detailed actions we intend to undertake. Additionally, we are refining the forms of assistance we require from major powers that are also present to provide support. While the ceasefire was brokered with backing from both US and China, the next phase will see the two superpowers

27:13 attending Thursday's general border committee meeting as observers alongside Malaysia. Officials are working through an agenda that includes the proposed monitoring teams and how Azan can take the lead in future peace enforcement missions. The Cambodian and Thai officials have today, tomorrow, and the day after to reach a consensus according to the outlined agenda, which includes understanding the terms of reference, the Azan defense ates monitoring team, and related matters before the general border committee meeting at the time of the GBC. Only then will we, Malaysia, the United States, and China be invited to participate as observers. This week's

27:50 meetings are crucial not just for Thailand and Cambodia, but for Ajan's credibility in conflict resolution. The region's ability to manage its own crisis without relying solely on foreign powers is being put to test. Following the GBC, there will be another session involving the foreign ministers of the three countries, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia, as well as the defense ministers of all three nations to hold informal discussions. This is a follow-up to the GBC. This GBC is also referred to as the extraordinary GBC because it will address many critical issues to ensure that peace and stability continue to be upheld.

28:29 >> Thursday's general border committee meeting will be key in determining whether the ceasefire holds and if ASEAN can move forward with a formal monitoring mission. Both sides are expected to present concrete steps. We'll bring you the latest updates as the situation unfolds. Stay tuned to Money Control for more global updates from around the world. See you in the next report. >> Well, that was kind of interesting, huh? >> Yes. Uh I noticed that like the voice to text um it it kept talking about Azan or Azan and that the in the end they got it

29:03 correct. It's as ean is the association of Southeast Asian Nations which is sort of like a um it's not like NATO. Uh it's more like a miniature United Nations. It's they all get together and talk and they they do economic cooperation. >> Pete, one of the things that I always look into is to see what you know like the natural resources are in an area that's being targeted. um their their imports, their exports, it looks like, and I don't know if you can confirm this, but their major exports are dominated by textiles and apparel, apparel, excuse me, followed by

29:42 electrical, machinery, and then a variety of other goods like footwear, furniture, and travel goods. Um they do a lot of like knits and crochets and articles of apparel, and then electronic equipment. Um, and then also the other interesting thing to me is always, you know, what natural resources do they have? Because we found that a lot of the disaster areas tend to have like be very rich in natural resources, um, such as key minerals that are included there are, you know, minerals, forest, and potential renewable energy in Cambodia as a whole. But um their key mineral

30:20 resources include iron ore um uh it looks like mang manga magne magnes maganese and I'm sure yeah >> yeah I'm sure I'm butchering that phosphates and gemstones um so do you know like what were what would like what are they really after here I guess is my question to you >> I don't think they've got a true objective to try and um you know for one country to beat the other you know to take it over because it's way beyond uh Cambodia's capability I I think there's an ulterior motive. It just wouldn't make sense. There's no possible way they

31:02 could really do any kind of significant incursion into Thailand. Um those countries are rich in agriculture particularly rice and other agricultural uh products. uh they um there there are some uh mineral resources such as natural gas platforms out there in the Gulf. Um you know the agriculture rice is the big thing uh in both of those countries uh particularly Thailand, Southeast Asia is the rice bowl of Asia. >> Yeah. because it it definitely says that there you know we are the Cambodia is one of our main suppliers for Camb Cambodian goods and then China's the next second in terms of

31:51 trade. Um Vietnam being third and the European Union being fourth um with Japan being a fifth and Thailand being a sixth. you know, considering that Thailand's so close, you would think that, you know, Thailand would be a a major consumer of their goods, but considering we are a major consumer of their goods, you know, I just wonder sometimes are they trying to hurt us? Are they trying to um cause, you know, trade issues with us so that we'll be short of things? And you always look at things like, okay, if we're getting um a lot of our resources or a lot of the

32:24 Cambodian resources, then if they hurt Cambodia, then guess who can't get their resources, and then we're supposed to be going back to who? China. >> Um what caught my ears when you said uh that they have a lot of textiles and and clothing, and that's true. a lot of shoes, uh, a lot of items we have like, um, you know, are, you know, all the the coats and the and the things are made out of, uh, sort of modern textiles these days. >> Uh, you know, fuzzy jackets and big poofy jackets and all that stuff. Um,

33:00 and, um, of course, uh, all the duck down the duck feathers that they're used in those kind of, uh, products that comes out of Cambodia. In fact, I even put that into a book that I wrote into a story I wrote in uh in my first uh fictional part based on a guy who actually made a fortune um in duck feathers in Cambodia. And when the Camar Rouge showed up back in the mid70s, he had to get on a Vespa and get out of town and he he he managed to get one one step ahead of the uh Camar Rouge. But

33:32 yeah, um they do produce a lot. And the reason why they're probably uh higher trading partner with us than Thailand is probably because their labor is so much cheaper. >> Those people actually can work for a dollar a day and that's good pay >> for them. >> Yes. Yeah. Exactly. And you know, Americans are really tending to go away from like the polyester and they're they're really looking at the goods and they're trying to get away from, you know, one of the things that we know is trending is they're getting away from Chinese-made products. And I know that

34:09 the Chinese are desperate to try to get into some of these small countries that maybe um have lower tariffs and like for instance Cambodia has a long history of silk and cotton being their number one resources whereas China is mostly and these madeup words that nobody's ever heard of before um because they're not really good for our health and our skin and other things. So, you know, when it when it comes to the natural products, like you were just saying, duck feathers, the actual duck feathers versus the synthetics. Um, so we have natural, you know, natural things versus

34:46 synthetic that you often kind of wonder, you know, are they trying to hurt that as well? You know, is that is that part of the game of of them trying to prevent us from having some of these products um and being sustainable? Because, you know, a lot of our fast fashion is made there and they're if they're able to resource the cotton and silks in place of polyester, we're all going to be a lot healthier because we're much better off if we're wearing natural fibers like linen, silks, cotton. I mean, even I, you know, I love to buy thrift because

35:19 I, you know, and I have certain brands that I like to buy and wear because I really don't like to wear polyester anymore. Drives me nuts. Well, um it gets to be a bit like a uh a puzzle or a cookie cutter situation. Everybody knows that a lot of our uh you know, our our sneakers and other kinds of gear is made in Vietnam >> and they've got a huge population and they've uh they've been doing good deals for us for a long time. And again, they're uh the price of labor is really cheap. Well, the Viet and Chinese hate

35:53 each other, particularly the Viet hate the Chinese. Uh, not a lot of people are aware that after the Vietnam War, China went down to move in. Uh, and they got they got spanked and sent on their way. They lost a war to little Vietnam. But Cambodia has been a client state of China for a long time. The Camar Rouge were Chinese communist inspired. You know, every kind of communist country's got its own. These ones are Russian and those ones are uh Chinese. Well, the Viet were Russian clients. The Camar Rouge were Mauist and they were Chinese

36:31 clients and um so uh you know the Chinese influence is very strong in Cambodia. That's the only place they can get their foot in. They do a lot of business with Thailand. That's on a commercial level. But of course, there's no political influence. I mean, beyond corruption, there wouldn't be any political influence, no sponsorship. >> Yeah. >> Un unlike the situation that you would see in uh Vietnam, Cambodia with uh you know uh one country being uh pro-Russian, that would be Viet, and the other being um having tendency to lean towards China, that would be Cambodia.

37:12 >> Yeah. Because I mean we it looks like we that Cambodia was actually paying almost double the amount of tariffs in 2022 when Joe Biden was in power. So you know when people are complaining about the tariffs um we basically imposed um a 30% um reciprocal tariff on Chinese goods and see that's reciprocal. So you know they're getting our goods, we're getting their goods. Um and they basically China has retaliated um with a 10% tariff on US goods. Um you know so it's kind of keeps going back and forth and actually Cambodia um the US set a 19% um reciprocal tariff

37:53 on Cambodian imports. So and that's according to JD Sapura and the White House. This reflects a reduction from a previously considered higher rate. Um and China the US has imposed 30% on reciprocal tariff on Chinese goods subject to some of this exceptions and temporary reductions. So um this is in addition to 7.5% section of 301 tariffs which is non-book products. Um so in other words products that were not already booked or on the table. Um so you know and then of course China like I said China retaliated with 10%. So I think it's very difficult for

38:33 people to understand because you know we're lied and told you know that oh we're making our own prices on products go up. Well we're actually constitutionally we are supposed to only be taxed on we're only supposed to be taxing on tariffs and not our property taxes and income taxes and so on and so forth. So I believe President Trump um may be doing something about that very soon. I mean, we'll all find out and and I'm hopeful that if you will because I think that Americans would would like to know the truth about their income taxes

39:04 and that they are paying income taxes to a source directly from Puerto Rico. Um, and that they're not going where we think that they are and the IRS is a is a a different entity and not actually owned by our government. Um but yet we're believe we're we're made to believe that we you know that we have to comply. Um so I believe these tariffs are going to be a longterm standing in that we will be paying our taxes based on the goods that we're actually purchasing. So I know agree or disagree. >> Well I I know I can give you a little

39:40 history lesson. >> Okay. >> That prior to 1913 the federal government of course was a lot smaller in those days. you know before FDR made it huge in the 30s. Uh but in those days there w there was no income tax and the way the federal government made money was through tariffs and the tariffs uh people realized they were kind of punitive. They were hurting the average person. I'll give you an example. Everybody needs a wool coat. Well, the wool industry and the wool garment industry was owned by the British. They had all the sheep. They had the wool out of

40:15 Australia. They had all the uh the looms over there and if you wanted a wool coat, you had to buy one made in Great Britain. And um the uh the tariffs caused uh a wool coat which would normally cost a person say under $100. Now it's over $200. So who's who's paying the burden of it? And but you can't get away from it. You need a wool coat. It gets cold in the winter time. >> Y >> All right. Um and all kinds of wool clothing. Um, >> y >> okay. So, the idea was, why don't we get rid

40:51 of all the tariffs and we'll just do an income tax? And so, they passed the the uh 14th amendment in 1913 and they established federal income tax and the original rate was 1%. Everybody will pay 1%. And then that way we can finance the federal government and there are no more tariffs. And now that $200, $300 code only only cost the $40 or $50. >> Um and you know and down the line other products, you know, uh paper, rope, um coffee, tea, etc. Okay. Um after a few years they said, well, you know, we need to up that rate a little

41:39 bit. 3% isn't uh to ask too much. And of course now where we're at, it's about 35%. And if you add in all the other taxes, look how much tax you pay on gasoline. A gallon of gas is mostly tax. >> Yep. >> And it's taxed every mile it goes down the road to get from the uh port through the refinery to the pump. Okay. Um you got property taxes, you've got all kinds of taxes, sales taxes. Uh when you get right on down to it, we're paying about 50% 50 cents on the dollar tax.

42:14 >> I would say we're probably paying more. I would say we're probably paying more. If you think about even your tag on your car, the taxes on your insurance, the tag the the your phone has a tax on it. I mean, it's crazy. >> Tax. Yeah. >> If you buy insurance, you're paying tax. It's crazy. >> Okay. Um, and so I don't mind if they start using these taxes or rather these tariffs, you know, and and they're using their flexing muscles and going around. Uh, Trump appears to be using it as a uh uh a bit of a carrot and stick ploy with

42:50 his foreign policy. I wouldn't mind if we've got we lower the taxes down. And uh how much should we be paying taxes? I would say, what does it say in the Bible? 10% to the king. >> 10% the temple tax. That's tithing. So that's really not the government. And 10% to the widows and orphans. >> Mhm. >> So it's about 20% of your first harvest. Well, the average American makes 12 harvests a year. So yeah, I'd be all right with that. Let's do that. Okay. Um Yeah. Well, I'm not going to hold my breath, but uh you know, and they're not

43:26 going to give up the tax system they've got because they can affect people's behavior on what they tax, you know. Um it's too much of a tool for them. But already we we're seeing some development. Um now, China, they need us more than we need them. Every year, the president of China has to find jobs for a million more Chinese people. >> Yeah. >> Okay. and they make stuff for us to buy and we can just say, "Look, we're not going to buy any more coffee makers and alarm clocks or what have you. We're going to,

44:02 you know, move our stuff to Taiwan or to Korea or to Mexico or to Costa Rica or we'll just make it in the States." Um, >> what about we fix some of the ones that we already have? I mean, like, we really don't need anything. Like, we don't have to have a lot of what we're buying, you know, because we have, you know, we we have gotten in a world where we're like, "Oh, I want a new coffee maker. I want a pink one instead of a green one." You know, and back in the day, you know, my

44:30 grandparents, your parents would have probably painted something or fixed it or kept it clean. >> You boiled water and you put it through, you know, that way. Yes. Or you had the >> pourovers. Hey, they were doing pourovers before it was cool. Yeah. Um, well, United States has 340 million people. That's 340 million consumers. Yes. Because children and babies, they consume, too. They need their, you know, kids items. Uh, that's a huge market >> and we can we can, you know, leverage that uh to China to make them dance to our tune. They need us more than we need

45:07 them. >> Yes. Um it's it's a bit of a dilemma. >> Yes. >> I'm sorry. I think we're cutting a cut cutting out. I apologize. U in your book, you actually talk a little bit about some of that in your book. Um the survival mind. >> Yes. >> Tell a little bit a little bit about that. >> Um what specifically you referring to in in survival? >> I don't know. like in survival mindset, you had like several ways to get by with things and things that you would do if if that you think people should be ready

45:48 with and for. >> Oh yeah. Well, um there's primitive living. Uh my book survival mindset is about primitive skills, bushcraft skills, survival skills, but it's also about situational awareness and emergency planning. And um yeah, you can simplify your life. Uh I'm not suggesting we go back to some sort of pastoral lifestyle where we're all, you know, uh trying to, >> you know, uh carve civilization out of the wilderness like our ancestors did. That's a very hard life to follow. >> Yes. >> Um yeah, >> that's what my great-grandparents did. My greatgrandfather, he never borrowed anything. Everything was he never

46:30 borrowed anything on land. It was all borrowed on the mules. the mules are actually listed on any um any deeds. Like in other words, there's no mortgage. There was a loan for seeds and things like that that right my great-grandfather might have needed. Um but if he didn't generate >> the crops, then he just basically didn't, you know, they would just come and get the mules >> because the mules were worth really more than the land at the time. >> So, you know, nobody was worried about taking your land and so you never mortgaged your land. So therefore you

47:02 never paid taxes on your land. You know there were no taxes even back then. There was nobody to come and collect taxes. I mean it was all you know everybody kept up their own land. We become very um we we become very just reliant upon the government and the government like in the case of Miami we literally have politicians trying to give themselves more time in office which is ridiculous. you know, they are literally voting for themselves, trying to remove an election off the ballot, while we have a veteran for the first time ever running for office. And so,

47:37 obviously, they they seem to be extremely scared of Amelio Gonzalez, who is a colonel, who is probably right up there with um I know my grandfather and you're maybe possibly your dad. Um he's served with army intelligence um in the state departments across the across the world um in Mexico and other countries. So he's very familiar but it's very strange that we're relying upon like local governments to do basic things like hey mow the grass you know in the middle of your island. Well really do they actually do that? No. They don't really show up to do it. Meanwhile,

48:13 we're expected to pay property taxes. Um, which part of your dollars are supposed to be going towards those basic services that you're really not getting. Um, like even the police that's that stake out in front of my house, they're paid for by the Russian developments um at the tune of over $100 an hour. And you know, that's not even coming out of taxpayer dollars. So, you know, what are your taxes really going forward? Who are they going to? And um why aren't we, you know, why are they even having choices to clean this stuff up? And why are they

48:46 trying to avoid elections when we actually have veterans that are that are running for office? You know, to me it sounds like that sounds like something that would happen in a third world country, right? Like politicians trying to remove an election. You know, it's not constitutional. Two courts have already ruled on it. And we literally have people, politicians from third world countries that were raised in third world countries that have moved here and have tried to take away elections. No, that's very interesting what you just said because today there was a Democratic Congress person uh Democratic

49:22 Congresswoman who went down to Mexico and she's uh originally uh I believe from uh uh Honduras or um or or Costa Rica originally. She's US citizen now. and she said in Spanish in Mexico City that her loyalty is to uh you know her original country, not to the United States. I I posted about that on info blurbs. Um and give me a moment, I'll find it. And you know, I got a problem with that. I got a big problem with that. I'm >> I'm an immigrant. >> I immigrated to the United States. I I became a naturalized US citizen after I

50:04 joined the army. And um in fact I had to become a US citizen in order to become a Green Beret to get a >> I was going to ask you so exactly you know how did your citizenship journey I mean considering you you have a very unusual so you and your family um from Australia were in Thailand now who did your father work for Thailand? My father was a mechanical engineer. He worked for a uh consulting firm, a US consulting firm called Black & Beach International. And he was working under uh contract uh for the Thai Electrical Generating

50:38 Authority. And um yeah, here we go. Uh Democratic Congresswoman, Representative Dileia Ramirez, she's uh from uh Illinois. She tells an audience while speaking in Spanish, "I'm proud Guatemalan before Guatemalan before I'm American. When I took my oath of citizenship, part of the naturalization oath right up there is I renounce any loyalty to any foreign prince or potentate. >> So, you know, I don't even understand this dual citizenship business. That used to not be a thing. Um, yeah, there she is. And in any case, >> let's let's play this while you're while you're talking about it. And

51:21 >> yeah, I got a serious problem with this. woman here has a loyalty thing. She should watch herself. I don't know if she's a naturalized US citizen or she was born here. I think she was born here. But it seems to me that a naturalized us citizen like myself can get their citizenship revoked for coming out and saying something like that. >> Interesting. >> Oh yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Um >> so you know I had to actually turn in my Australian passport. I had to cut it in half and turn it in to get my uh

51:53 >> So, you do not have You do not have You don't >> I'm I'm American all the way. USA, baby. >> Okay. So, how in the world are these people in Congress, how do they have like Israeli passports? How do they have passports to any other countries or any other allegiances? I've always wondered this. >> I'm aware of two countries where a US citizen can easily get a foreign passport. One is Israel. If you're Jewish, you just speak up, they'll give it to you. Okay, that's a passport. And that's not the same thing as being a

52:22 dual citizen, but in another sense it is. And uh the other one is Ireland. If you have a grandparent who is Irish, you speak up and you can get a Irish passport. Um yeah, and and of course there's not some big oversight where they're concentrating on people and like, hey, you're not allowed to have this. I just I never understood this dual citizenship business. It seems to me it was not always this way. And then it emerged sometime in the '9s or something. And I'm dead set against it. I mean, particularly if you're part of

52:53 the US government, you've got to be USA all the way. And if you're not some sort of foreign agent. >> Yeah, that's what I that's I don't understand how they distinguish between a foreign agent and and an, you know, an actual American. Let's Let's see what she says here. Yeah. She said, "I'm a Guatemalan before. I'm an American." >> Wow. Unbelievable. But but this is what's happening all over Miami. I mean, Miami um basically Miami is about 80% Hispanic speaking. They try to speak Spanish in the local government. Um, I asked President Trump for a sign and in shortly after he

53:39 released the statement um, and actually the executive order naming English as the official language and people in general, >> yeah, it is very important. And he even went on to explain why it was important because you cannot get along. You cannot you can't know what's going on in your government. You can't know what's going on in America if you do not speak English. And it's very dangerous um to to like think that you can get by without speaking English or any other language when you're living in a different country. I mean you how many languages do you speak?

54:12 >> I speak four languages and I enjoy speaking languages and learning languages. I actually speak uh almost five. I speak uh French, Spanish, Thai, English of course, and a little bit of Arabic. >> Enough Arabic to get by in a marketplace. And um you know I I got no problem with people speaking a foreign language in my presence around here in America. I think you know that's the way I grew up overseas. We spoke English to each other in Thailand >> as it's our native language and then when necessary we'd start speaking in Thai of course. Um, but in government,

54:48 in official documents in Australia, in in in Melbourne, Australia, in the phone book, there's like half of it is in 11 different languages, and that's crazy. Yeah. >> Um, you know, you can't do business. There's something called the Tower of Babel syndrome. >> Yeah. >> You know, and that's why we should have a national language. And, you know, they can call it English. I'd say call it American. There are more Americans speaking English than any other group in the world. >> Yep. >> So, it used to be English, but now it's America, just like the Gulf of America.

55:23 >> Yep. Just like the Gulf of America. That's a that's a great place for us to close, Pete. So, um u tell everybody where they can find you and um any closing words. Uh, well, I'm posting all day every day on uh X on >> You just cut out for some reason. Strangely, you just cut out. I don't know what happened. We can't even hear you. So, he's saying that he you can post on X on um infoblurbs and that's info blurbs on X. Um and then on Facebook, it's a little bit different. It's info- blurbs on Facebook. So, make

56:07 sure that you follow Pete there. Um he has a lot of followers on X and um a few on Facebook. He's just getting started on Facebook and Instagram. You want to try again, Pete? Yep. He's gone. Like, Pete, I I didn't mute you or anything, man. Let's see. I'm gonna try to mute you and bring you back in, but I can't hear you. I don't know if your mic cut out or what. We were having mic issues before. So, um, and it was me having the mic issues then. Um, but I am super grateful to have Pete in his um,

56:45 infoblurbs and knowing exactly what any of our military men are thinking um, or retired military men because the other thing that I want to have Pete back on to talk about that we talked about a little bit about the last time is we talked about um, HARP and weather warfare. That's h a r p and you can and I'll link it in the description so that you guys can go watch it and also it'll come up as um a suggested watch after this is live on YouTube. Um so if you haven't already, please make sure that

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57:57 sure that you do comment and let us know what questions you have. Um, so that I can try to answer those questions for you or get Pete back on to answer them. um because we'd be glad to have have him back on um because he has great insights and as do many of our people with national security clearances and who have served our country especially now that we know the citizenship information. It's kind of awkward that Pete's mic just cut out after that citizenship information. It's like he's Oh, okay. Here you're you're back, man. You're back. Okay,

58:33 great. Great. >> Okay, it's working now. >> How suspicious is that? Yeah, I was like thinking >> on >> they did not want you to talk about like your citizenship, you know, and your views on citizenship. >> Um, so yeah, Pete, I hope that you'll come back on and I I think I gave out your your info blurbs information, but you want to close us out with some closing words. >> Um, well, uh, thanks again for, uh, having me on the show, of course. And uh yeah, I just like to say that uh I'm trying to uh make Infoobs into a uh

59:08 significant uh media presence. Um I've got some unique sources like I pointed out. Um I I have I can actually say I've lived and worked on six continents. Asia, Australia, North America, Central and South America, Africa too much and uh uh Europe both in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe and uh of course Asia both in the uh Middle East and uh East Asia and um and when I say I've lived and worked there, I mean uh between at least 6 weeks to 6 months or over 6 years or in the case of Thailand, I was

59:48 there for 10 years. of course lived in Japan in Okinawa for four and um that's that's what I bring to the table. >> And even though he's Aussie, he has no accent. He's all American. No dual passports here. >> Oh, that's right. USA all the way. I mean, I love Australia. It's a beautiful country. But uh man, just look at the way they were treating their own people during the COVID time. >> Yeah. No kidding. No kidding. And that's when people start saying, "Now we see what you're telling us about Australia because they've got >> British style socialism over there and

1:00:21 it's not good." >> Yes. And I I noticed that you have some information on that on infobls as well. So I highly recommend everybody go over take a look, give them a follow. Man, you're building up your following over there fast. So wish you much luck with that. We'll be paying close attention to it. And what >> one year anniversary in August. Oh, congratulations. Congratulations. I like your little mic piece, too. That's awesome. Thank Thanks for coming on, Pete. You're awesome. Um, everybody, make sure you comment below. Follow Pete. I'll have his links down below.

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