Population Control: History Of This Anti-Human Agenda - In The Tank #407

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 439 of the In The Tank Podcast. The electric vehicle industry can not catch a break. There have been a number of stories coming out highlighting the "sluggish" sales of electric vehicles over the past few months. But now, a recent study is challenging the very idea that electric cars are better for the environment. Additionally, a massive Tesla plant in Germany was apparently the target of ecoterrorism.

OPENING CHIT CHAT = SUPER TUESDAY ELECTIONS/HALEY IS OUT

NYT - 5 Takeaways From Super Tuesday: Trump Wins and Haley Exits

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/politics/super-tuesday-trump-biden-takeaways.html

ABC News - Nikki Haley suspends 2024 campaign, doesn't endorse Donald Trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=107842396

Primary Topic = Electric Vehicles Are Worse For The Environment

WSJ - Electric Cars Emit More Particulate Pollution

https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-cars-emit-more-soot-california-ban-gas-powered-vehicles-521b29e3

Daily Mail - Electric cars release more toxic emissions than petrol-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13156803/Electric-cars-release-toxic-emissions-petrol-powered-vehicles-worse-environment.html

Emissions Analytics - Gaining traction, losing tread Pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-losing-tread

Fox News - Stop Chinese EVs before they destroy our auto industry

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/stop-chinese-evs-before-they-destroy-our-auto-industry

CNN - How EVs became such a massive disappointment

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/cars/what-happened-with-electric-vehicle-sales-in-2023/index.html

Fortune - Elon Musk’s German Tesla plant suffers close to $1 billion in damages after attack by the ‘dumbest ecoterrorists on earth’

https://fortune.com/2024/03/06/elon-musk-tesla-germany-gigafactory-fire-volcano-group-damages/

Davos Watch = ESG Fails in Europe

Forbes - Vote On EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Law Falls Short, March 15 Deadline Looms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmcgowan/2024/02/28/vote-on-eu-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-law-falls-short-march-15-deadline-looms/?sh=2cef033b7de9

Euro News - Euroviews. CSDDD: A tale of corporations hijacking the EU's democratic process

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/03/05/csddd-a-tale-of-corporations-hijacking-the-eus-democratic-process

Climate Change Roundtable is now The Climate Realism Show. The same great climate news and analysis from The Heartland Institute's world-class climate and energy experts, but a snazzy new name that gets right to the heart of what it is about.

On episode 100 of The Climate Realism Show, we look into the declining trends of the ESG. The Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely, H. Sterling Burnett, and Linnea Lueken, plus special guest, anti-ESG investment guru Don Harrison look at the madness behind ESG and why it is now failing to maintain momentum as investors back away.

Dr. Matthew Wielicki has had a heck of a year, voluntarily leaving academia when he found the pursuit and promotion of knowledge was being subverted by an effort to enforce consensus on researchers. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of climate change. He now refers to himself as "earth science professor in exile." Recently he has written about why "global average temperature," is a poor metric for climate change, and how poorly conducted, alarming climate research is being heralded by the media, and not being called out by scientists -- all in an effort to motivate climate action which will rob our children of their money, freedom, and mental health.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Katja Hoyer, research fellow at King’s College London, to discuss her new book, Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. They chat about the political, social, and cultural landscape that existed in East Germany, the oppressions and hardships implemented and placed on the East German population by the communist regime, and why East Germans were so into blue jeans. 

Get the book here: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/katja-hoyer/beyond-the-wall/9781541602571/

Show Notes:
Commentary: Clare McHugh – “East of Eden”
https://www.commentary.org/articles/clare-mchugh/east-germany-katja-hoyer-matthew-longo/

The Critic: David Goodhart – “The country that went to the wall”
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2023/the-country-that-went-to-the-wall/

The Economist: “Beyond the Wall adds depth to caricatures of East Germany”
https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/03/23/beyond-the-wall-adds-depth-to-caricatures-of-east-germany

The European Conservative: Jonathon Van Maren – “The Personal Narratives of Hoyer’s Beyond the Wall”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/reviews/the-personal-narratives-of-hoyers-beyond-the-wall/

Financial Times: Frederick Studemann – “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”
https://www.ft.com/content/3f26324f-081c-47de-a168-4fdf03a1e4ed

Foreign Policy: Allison Meakem – “A Tale of Two Germanies”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/01/germany-east-west-reunification-book-review-katja-hoyer-michael-kater/

The Guardian: Jacob Mikanowski – “Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – the human face of the socialist state”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/02/beyond-the-wall-by-katja-hoyer-review-far-from-the-gdr-of-the-western-imagination-east-germany-1949-1990

Literary Review: John Kampfner – “Honecker’s Hidden Pleasures”
https://literaryreview.co.uk/honeckers-hidden-pleasures

Los Angeles Review of Books: Matthew Longo – “Ostalgie: Revisiting East Germany”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ostalgie-revisiting-east-germany/

The New Republic: Samuel Clowes Huneke – “The Lost History of East Germany”
https://newrepublic.com/article/175286/lost-history-east-germany-katya-hoyer-beyond-wall-book-review

New York Times: Kati Marton – “Life During Cold Wartime in East Berlin”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/books/review/beyond-the-wall-katja-hoyer.html

The Telegraph: Saul David – “Willkommen to the GDR! A warts-and-all history of East Germany”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beyond-wall-katja-hoyer-review-brilliant-warts-and-all-history/

The Times: Dominic Sandbrook – “Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review: real life in East Germany”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beyond-the-wall-by-katja-hoyer-review-real-life-in-east-germany-qjzx603rt

Times Literary Supplement: Karen Leeder – “Goodbye, GDR!”
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/beyond-the-wall-katja-hoyer-book-review-karen-leeder/

A recent study by Jack McPherrin from Heartland explores how state legislatures, in adopting provisions of the Universal Commercial Code, have enabled "too big to fail" banks to seize the private retirement accounts of both individuals and institutional investors during times of crisis.

Olympian Mary Lou Retton made a stunning revelation when asked why she didn’t have health insurance while she was in intensive care fighting for her life.  “I couldn’t afford it,” Retton told the Today Show on January 8 when she was faced with a life threating pneumonia recently.  Retton’s daughter started a “Go Fund Me” page to help her mother pay for what was likely to be tens of thousands of dollars in hospital bills. 

Health Care News managing editor AnneMarie Schieber talked to Kansas State Senator Beverly Gossage as to why Retton may have gone without health insurance. The likely answer is Obamacare, the only option for people without an employer health plan. Gossage discusses what Retton might have paid for an Obamacare plan without subsidies and why there are almost no other options today for middle income people.  She also discusses what Congress needs to do about it.

Read more: https://heartlanddailynews.com/2024/02/i-couldnt-afford-it-olympic-champion-mary-lou-retton-on-health-insurance/

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The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 438 of the In The Tank Podcast. Every so often, the public gets a little more information about the role the intelligence community played in undermining Donald Trump at every turn. This week, we are going to attempt to organize as much of this information as possible to provide a sort of abridged history of the Trump vs. The Deep State saga. From spying on the campaign to the Mueller Report, we have a lot to cover.

PRIMARY TOPIC - TRUMP vs. THE DEEP STATE

#1 The “Five Eyes” Campaign

Substack - CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say
https://public.substack.com/p/cia-had-foreign-allies-spy-on-trump?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

NYP - CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims: report
https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/news/cia-and-foreign-intelligence-agencies-illegally-targeted-26-trump-associates-before-2016-russia-collusion-claims-report/

#2 Steele Dossier/Fusion GPS

AP - Trump dossier source shocked speculation portrayed as fact
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-donald-trump-presidential-elections-campaign-2016-41116202428688e1088829852505e144

CNN - The Steele dossier: A reckoning
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/steele-dossier-reckoning/index.html

#3 Operation Crossfire Hurricane

Fox News - FBI opened Trump-Russia probe despite Papadopoulos' denial that said collusion would be 'treason': Durham
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-opened-trump-russia-probe-despite-papadopoulos-denial-collusion-treason-durham

#4 FISA Warrants

WSJ - How FISA Shields FBI Abuses
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-surveillance-fisa-court-rudolph-contreras-a7f69cd6

#5 “The Insurance Plan”

Fox News -  Lisa Page transcripts reveal details of anti-Trump ‘insurance policy,’ concerns over full-blown probe
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lisa-page-transcripts-reveal-details-of-anti-trump-insurance-policy-concerns-over-full-blown-probe

CBS News - FBI agent Peter Strzok's texts with Lisa Page disparage Trump throughout campaign
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-strzok-lisa-page-texts-trump-idiot/

#6 Michael Flynn Takedown

Fox News - DOJ drops case against Michael Flynn, in wake of internal memo release
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/drops-doj-case-against-michael-flynn-in-wake-of-internal-memo-release

Glenn Beck - CHALKBOARD: President Obama involved with ILLEGAL Trump, FBI investigation & Michael Flynn takedown
https://www.glennbeck.com/chalkboard/chalkboard-president-obama-involved-with-illegal-trump-fbi-investigation-michael-flynn-takedown

#7 Mueller Investigation

ABA - Mueller finds no collusion with Russia, leaves obstruction question open
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/

The Hill - Mueller probe: A timeline from beginning to end
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/435547-mueller-probe-a-timeline-from-beginning-to-end/

#8 The Era Of Lawfare

NPR - How Trump's trials for 91 felony charges in 4 states could take over his campaign
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1233132273/how-trumps-trials-for-91-felony-charges-in-4-states-could-take-over-his-campaign

The other day, Heartland Editorial Director Chris Talgo appeared on the Richard Syrett Show to discuss Heartland’s blockbuster poll revealing that at least one-in-four mail-in voters illegally cast mail-in ballots in the 2020 election. They also discuss how this might have impacted the outcome of the 2020 election as well as what states can do to prevent widespread illegal mail-in voting in 2024 and beyond. Have a listen.

Read the shocking report at Heartland's website.
https://heartland.org/who-really-won-the-2020-election/

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Justin Haskins present episode 437 of the In The Tank Podcast. Left-wing billionaire George Soros is reportedly on the verge of taking a controlling interest of the second-largest radio broadcasting companies in America. This move is leaving many concerned that Soros is planning to exert substantial influence on important broadcast markets in the months before the 2024 election.

OPENING CHIT CHAT - Don't Believe Your Eyes

OpenAI - SORA

https://openai.com/sora

PRIMARY TOPIC - GEORGE SOROS SEIZING CONTROL OVER RADIO

NYP - George Soros fund poised to take control of nation’s second-largest chain of radio stations: ‘This is scary’

https://nypost.com/2024/02/14/business/george-soros-poised-to-control-audacy/

Washington Examiner - Did George Soros’s recent purchase just doom Republican radio media?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2857898/did-george-soross-purchase-doom-republican-radio-media/

Market Watch - George Soros’ fund set to become largest shareholder in radio giant Audacy

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/george-soros-fund-set-to-become-largest-shareholder-in-radio-giant-audacy-0b4d6047

Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Fergus M. Bordewich to discuss his new book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction. They chat about the formation of the Ku Klux Klan and the terroristic violence they committed against both new freed blacks and white Republicans, and how Grant and a Republican Congress went about destroying the Klan and protecting civil rights for newly freedmen in the postbellum South.

Get the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647165/klan-war-by-fergus-m-bordewich/

Show Notes:

The Guardian: Rich Tenorio – “Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/08/klan-war-ulysses-s-grant-book-fergus-bordewich

National Review: Kevin R. Kosar: “Ulysses S. Grant’s Final Battle”
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2024/01/ulysses-s-grants-final-battle/

New York Times: Jennifer Szalai – “The President vs. the Klan”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/books/review/klan-war-fergus-bordewich.html

Wall Street Journal: Roger Lowenstein – “‘Klan War’ Review: The Agony After Appomattox”
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/klan-war-review-the-agony-after-appomattox-957ed319