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Walker Wildmon Welcome to at the Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. I'm your host for the program today. Rick Green and I were your host each week on the program rotating days and on this edition, you've got me for the hour. And we're going to have a good show and hopefully bring you a lot of content and information that maybe you wouldn't have otherwise heard or learned.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to mother
Let's turn our attention to the scripture and then we'll jump into some of the news of the day. Proverbs chapter 10, verse 1. A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. What do we draw away from this? Well, we ought to seek to follow one of the Ten Commandments and that is to honor your father and mother. And when you do so, you will make your father glad and you will avoid bringing grief upon your mother. That's proverb chapter 10, verse one there in that proverb.
We have our annual Ten Commandments speech challenge coming up in June
Several events that we have going on that I want to highlight and some special projects. We have our annual Ten Commandments speech challenge coming up in over the Next, let's say six to eight weeks. It's going to end June 30th and the entire month of June is when we're going to begin fielding these speeches. But just to give you a little background or if you haven't heard of this project, we give young people, ah, student age, individuals, boys and girls the opportunity to present a one, two, three minute speech on the Ten Commandments. And looking at this year, this is for youth age 7 to 17 and this year they're invited to write and present a three to five minute speech on the topic of the First Commandment. What is the First Commandment? You shall have no other gods before me. Participants may receive assistance from a parent or a sibling to write, record and submit the speech. Speeches must be submitted by June 30th. All participants will receive a Ten Commandments t shirt, bookmark and coupon code to use in our resource center. So there is somewhat of a participation, not trophy but you're going to get something out of it if you participate and if you win, you'll get more and we'll bring you more of that information in the coming weeks. But this is our annual Ten Commandments Speech Challenge for youth ages 7 to 17. We just are looking for about a three to five minute speech that's recorded on video of you emphasizing and talking about the importance of the first commandment. You shall have no other gods before me. You can go over to afr.net/ford/10 spelled out T E N commandments and find out all the instructions and how to submit your speech. Afr.net/10 spelled out commandments and you can check out all the information. It's a four step process, pretty simple and a great opportunity to get young people involved in reciting the scripture. And it teaches how to give a speech, how to look at the camera, how to read and focus. And there's a lot of skills that are learned here and the most important one is that we need to follow the Ten Commandments. A few other things I want to mention are our Activate Summit registration is actually closed on that. But we look forward to seeing many of you in June at our Activate Summit. And then as we head towards next year and then we'll I'll say this, and then we'll move on. We've got a couple tours coming up that we do these spiritual heritage tours that we do all around the country or all around the world really, whether it's in Greece, Israel, Boston, Washington D.C. we're going to be heading to Greece and Israel back to back in March of next year. So in about 11 months, 10, or 11 months we're going to be in March, we're going to be in March, we're going to be in Greece and Israel in March of 2026. Those back to back trips, they're separate tours but if you want to do both back to back, you can of course register for both and we'll be sure you get transferred from, from Tel Aviv over to Greece to meet us there. So it's going to be a great trip. First time going to Greece, at least for my brother and I. We're going to lead a trip there with many Christians from the US and so we look forward to that. And then our Israel trip, we've been doing that for 27, 28 years. My dad has and my brother and I have been doing it for about a decade. And so we're looking forward to seeing everyone on those two trips. You can go over to wildman group.com to check out the dates and itinerary and all the information you need to register.
There's some critical national security conversations that need to be had over tariffs
All right, let's jump into some clips here. let's look at clip one. This is the once again we're looking at the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett and the topic here is the supply chain and how the tariff strategy and the reshoring of America's manufacturing industry is about more than just jobs, about more than just gdp. It's about more than just a booming economy. There's some critical national security conversations that need to be had that a lot of the economists are completely missing out on because they're so hung up on the tariff talk. Let's listen to clip one.
Scott Bessent Well look, the bringing back our strategic, that are important strategic industries can be a result of tariffs, but it's also a result of national will. So this administration is running full speed to make sure that what we saw during COVID never happens again. So it's a combination, it can be tariffs, but again it is the administration moving as quickly as possible to make sure that we are self sufficient in the strategic industries.
Walker Wildmon All right, so that's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and he's been honestly one of the best spokespersons and articulators of the president's policies here. But we, I have to highlight, and this really hasn't been highlighted enough. I'm glad, I'm glad Bessant went this direction. But we can have a debate about tariff rates and the effects of tariffs and we've done it on the program we had on Jerry Boyer to talk about his view of tariffs. He's not a fan of tariffs, doesn't like them, thinks they're bad for the consumer. But when you take this conversation beyond what the price of goods is or will be, might be and should the president have this authority or not, well that's, you know, that's on Congress. This tariff authority at least under emergency authorization has been given to the President. And so if you want Congress to reign in executive authority, well that's a good discussion to have. And I think in some instances it's a very, very, it would be a positive discussion. But when you get hung up on what the tariff rates are and is my or my China goods going to go up by 5% because of the tariffs or whatever, then, and you don't talk about the strategic move here, the national security angle, you're not painting a whole picture. You're not painting a whole picture. And I think it's being a disservice to the voters by not talking about the big picture here. Well, what is the big picture? The big picture is that we're relying way too heavily on China. And it's not that we're relying way too heavily on China for toys or iPhones. We're relying way too heavily on China for critical things that are needed to live. All right, and when we look at the. Let's just talk about the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical supply chain. About 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients APIs used to make drugs in the US are said to come from either China or countries like India. This is, according to Council on foreign relations, 80%. And so you can say, well, the U.S. produces X amount of our own drugs. Well, okay, where are they getting those, those core ingredients from? Well, they're getting it from China or India. That's a problem.
China placed export restrictions on rare earth elements as part of response to tariffs
Another category that China is just dominating the market on is these rare earth minerals. And if you, if you think that, well, China would surely never weaponize rare earth Minerals against the U.S. you're wrong, because they just did four weeks ago. This is the headline from Reuters. China hits back at the US over the tariffs with export controls on key rare earths. This is out of London. China placed export restrictions on rare earth elements on Friday as part of its sweeping response to President Trump's tariffs, squeezing supply to the west of minerals used to make weapons, electronics, and a range of consumer goods. The move once again, I'm still reading from Reuters, which Beijing had long hinted was possible for the ratchet sub trade tensions between the world's two largest economies and leaves American manufacturers scrambling for fresh supplies of the critical minerals they have relied upon for decades. All right, and so I think this is important from a. Just from, a public perception standpoint and the talking points for the White House to continue hammering home. Because if not, then we're dumbing this tariff debate down to a debate on whether we want to pay a dollar for a toy or $1.50. And unfortunately, some of the studies have shown that consumers pick the China products over the U.S. products. And they do that because they're all about getting the cheaper product. And that's an unfortunate thing. There's actually been some AB testing on this from different, different companies where they've posted, hey, this, this product's from China and it's a little bit cheaper. And this product's made in the US and it's a little bit costly, but, the consumers unfortunately tend to flock towards the, made in China products just from a simple economic standpoint. But if you dumb it down to just economics and who's going to pay more and what are the cost of goods, then that's missing the big picture here. And the big picture is that we don't get in another predicament like we did during COVID where our whole supply chain gets thrown in, you know, in a, in a tizzy over, China. And, and if you, and if you were naive enough to think that China would never threaten us, China would never withhold rare earth minerals from the US over some kind of dispute, well, you're wrong because they just got done doing it five weeks ago, over the tariff debate. So we've got to get back to producing some of these critical, critical industries in the U.S. now, it's one thing if we want to have some, you know, some toys made in China or T shirts made in China, whatever, you know, I don't expect everybody to flee China, but we can't have insulin, we can't have these critical pharmaceutical drugs continue to be dominated by China, along with the rare earth minerals that are now used in the defense industry, in the tech industry. We've got the boom of AI we just cannot expect to leave the majority of the supply chain in China's hands and then think that's going to go well. It's just not going to go well at all. And, unfortunately, we don't have the upper hand in many regards, when it comes to these situations because we're beholden to China to a large degree. And I think this whole tariff talk has highlighted, the vulnerabilities that we have in the US Supply chain. Another stat, that I wanted to highlight, before we wrap up this subject, when it comes to the rare earth minerals, China dominates the refining and processing of rare earth minerals, controlling about 85% of the global processing capacity. This isn't 40%, 50%. China is the largest producer of rare earth metals, accounting for 70% of global mine production. And then they control 85% of the processing capacity or the refining capacity. that's a problem. And I think if we articulate that to the American consumer, they're okay with some tariffs for a time if it means we reshore these industries.
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Scott Bessent talks about China not following through on previous trade deal
Walker Wildmon Welcome back to the program here on American Family Radio. Just to put a bow on the topic that we were covering in the last segment, I've got one, more clip on the treasury secretary. And this has to do with the, China and the trade deal that President Trump struck in the first term and them not holding up their end of the deal. And this is, once again, we have to jog our memories about how this went down. But China basically, no, they didn't. Basically, they reneged completely on the trade deal that President Trump struck with them where they were supposed to buy billions of dollars in agricultural products from U.S. farmers. And when Biden got in there, they dropped the whole deal, didn't follow through with it at all. And this is a deal that President Trump struck in, let's, say around 2019, 2020, with, China. And so this is Scott, Besant talking about China not following through on their previous trade agreement. Clip 2.
Scott Bessent What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, President Trump produced a, template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China, and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The Chinese delegation basically told us that once President Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations. So, we all already have a large framework.
Walker Wildmon All right, well, there you have it. That's clip two. That's Scott Besant on, China not holding up their end of the deal last Trump term. And that probably explains the more aggressive nature that Trump is using with China when it comes to these trade discussions.
Kendall Tietz is an investigative reporter with Defending Education
Well, I do want to introduce our, next guest. We have with us, Kendall Tietz if I'm pronouncing that right, probably not. Investigative reporter with defending education. Defending ed.org Kendall's with us now. Hey Kendall, welcome to the program.
Kendall Tietz Hi, thank you for having me.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. Tell me how to pronounce your last name because I probably got it wrong.
Kendall Tietz It's teats. So close. A lot of people, say it the way you did.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, absolutely. Well, my last name is Wildmon and I can't tell you how many times I get Mr. Wildmon.
Kendall Tietz So I totally get very creative with it.
Walker Wildmon Yes, exactly. So I usually just give them the liberty. Kendall, welcome to the program. Once again, Kendall's an investigative reporter with Defending Education. And Kendall, there's been a huge pushback in recent years against diversity, equity, inclusion, dei, which on the surface might sound good, it sounds fuzzy, maybe sounds virtuous. But what's been uncovered in recent years thanks to the work of you and others, is that DEI is very toxic. It has very Marxist humanist roots. It actually divides people, it doesn't unify people. And a lot of parents have been waking up to this and thankfully a lot of educators and governors and other officials waking up to this reality. So bring us up to speed on this whole DEI funding report that you guys have put out and where we are now.
Kendall Tietz Great. Yeah, so very true. what Defending Education has found in one of our numerous reports about DEI in higher ed that we've rolled out given our expansion into higher education from K through 12, is that since 2021, over 300, $373 million has been funneled into DEI programs. That's diversity, equity and inclusion across 130 US colleges and universities. So these funds, they support DEI offices and identity based scholarships as well as other race based programs, you know, staff positions, training and you know, DEI infrastructure. and these funds are often without public transparency or academic accountability. it's really unclear who, who is contributing to these funds, especially because they're often established through university foundations or so called day of giving campaigns. so there's really kind of a lack of transparency regarding, you know, donor identity and you know, fund allocation. So that's what we've found and ah, you know, like I said, Over 130 US colleges and universities across the country. And I think, you know, this is especially salient given what we've seen out of, you know, Trump administration. there's been kind of a crackdown on this, and changing the name of these different scholarships funds. Whatever doesn't at the End of the day, change, the merits or the core of what they, they might be trying to do.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, this is, I don't know whether I'm naive or I just had my head in the sand on this, but the level at which this had saturated and permeated America's higher ed and even lower, you know, K through 12. Maybe not, maybe they didn't call it DEI, they called it something else. But just to see how rampant this was. And then you look at what Doge has uncovered, where the government was spending hundreds of millions of dollars in these dei, contracts, having these basically woke training sessions for executive agencies. It's just shocking to me. I mean, I don't, I just don't see this DEI doesn't get me excited. Like, it doesn't get me, like, yeah, we need dei. Ah, but apparently this was rampant. I mean, the left had really latched onto this and this had almost become like a religious tenet of being a Marxist. You have to do dei. What do you think about, and this report, by the way, is very helpful. Just looking at some of the top line numbers you guys have put out. this number of states where you discovered or uncovered this funding, according to your investigation, is in 44 states plus D.C. and then, this affects roughly 130 colleges. The number of funds, 281 funds. So that means some of these colleges and universities had multiple funds. what do you see? Here's my concern, and I want to get your opinion on this. My concern is a rebrand. My concern is that, yes, I think the Trump administration is genuinely ditching the dei, in large part. And I think his executive order actually mentions like, hey, you guys can't rebrand this. I don't care what you call it. We're not doing DEI in principle. But my concern is that some of these states, just rebrand it. Right, and come up with some new fancy talking point. That sounds great. And then we still have dei. What are y' all, what are you thinking on that? Is that a viable concern or do you think DEI is truly being ditched?
Kendall Tietz I mean, like I said, you know, in some cases caption our. In our report, universities, just use the same giving account number and would change kind of those DEI buzzwords that we've seen all over, you know, to examples like belonging or inclusive excellence. And you know, it was clear that that does not, like I said, change kind of the meaning behind what these, funds are supposed. And people can agree or disagree, about the value of these programs. But in cases where they're using race or sex to include or exclude participants, that's a violation of federal law.
Walker Wildmon Yes.
Kendall Tietz and that is, you know, what we've seen. Trump's cracking down on DEI because it's in response to these, these pervasive examples of, you know, Title 6 violations. And so, you know, I know you mentioned kind of at the, you know, maybe states are rebranding, but really, you know, we see this as a violation of federal law. pretty much anytime, you know, you're discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin.
Walker Wildmon Yeah. This is textbook dei, to its furthest degree is textbook segregation. And you know, America fought a civil war, long before even the whole Martin Luther King civil rights dispute. Our battle fight, we had, of course, a whole civil war over the slavery issue. And then of course you have segregation and Jim Crow. And we can go through all the history, but I mean, America has a pretty, in depth history, a pretty expansive history, not in a positive sense, but over the issue of discriminating against people based on immutable characteristics. And you look at this and go, ah, have we not learned anything? Like we fought a whole civil war over discrimination based on immutable characteristics. And here we are developing funds so that we can discriminate against white people, basically our males. Right. Because masculinity is somehow a bad thing. And then, we can lift up the victim and the oppressed and then demonize the, the majority, if you will, or who's viewed as the aggressor.
There was a lack of transparency about where...where this money was coming from
But to your point about rebranding, I like that you in this report, once again, we're looking at this defending education report, that was put out. And you in this report, you actually look at some of the rebrands. And for example, right here at the top of the report is where the University of Nebraska Lincoln actually did a rebrand. Exactly what you're talking about. And instead of calling it, you know, basically the DEI Fund, they started calling it the Community and Belonging Support Fund. But it has the same, fund ID number. So the money's going to the same place. And. But then they think that we're not going to catch on to this. But everything's the same. They changed. They went in the website and changed out a few words and thought, we're just going to be fine now. but that definitely didn't trick me. And I'm sure it didn't trick you guys, Kendall.
Kendall Tietz Definitely not. And you Know, like we said, like I've said, we really need to ensure transparency from these universities. you know, they should be responsible for publicly disclosing detailed reports on dei, how it's funded, allocated what the expenditures are, identify donors and the specific purposes of their contributions. That was often murky a lot of times. And what we found, like I mentioned, there was a lack of transparency about where, where this money was coming from. In certain instances, you know, we would, you could look to university foundations, alumni, you know, some private foundations, philanthropic organizations and whatnot that are, you know, responsible for this funding. But there does need to be, you know, some transparency and accountability on the part of, you know, these higher education institutions.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, that's exactly right. And especially when you're looking at tax dollars. I mean, this is, this is most of this, if not all of these universities that you are included in this report are in some way subsidized by the government, whether it's state or federal. And not to mention the entire premise of DEI at its core, the ideology itself is against the Civil Rights act, because you're discriminating against people, based on the attributes that are described in the Civil Rights Act. And so it's illegal. But then what makes it even more egregious is that they're using taxpayer dollars to subsidize it. And I would be surprised, Kendall, that this is. Maybe there's a lot of donors out there that like DEI. I mean, I know, we're a 50, 50 country, there's a lot of Democrats out there. So, you know, I don't think, I think that this has some support amongst the Marxists and the Democrats. But the level of support that I'm looking at, Kendall, it seems as though this is probably being underwritten in large part by multimillion and multi billionaire donors that are far left Soros types. Is that a, is that a wrong conclusion? Is this grassroots or do you think that this is being funneled at the top, funded at the top by some major left wing billionaires?
Kendall Tietz Yes. I mean, you know, you've got groups like the W.K. kellogg foundation donated $4 million to Florida International University to establish a digital transformation program aimed at supporting food entrepreneurs of color.
Walker Wildmon so please tell me you're making that up, Kendall. Please tell me you're making that up.
Kendall Tietz I can quote it here. To establish the digital transformation program at startup FIU Food, an online platform to help people of color who are food entrepreneurs. So, so, you know, we could, we have a whole list of, of these examples, you can go check them out, in their report. I highly recommend it. There's, there's comedic nuggets like that throughout. But you know, like I said, definitely there are groups that are very influential and have lots of money that are, are behind this a lot of the time. and it's you know, people with influence, like I said.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And you had. The whole Democrat Party apparatus is behind this. And what I want to end on is the ultimate goal. When you look at, and this is, a little bit above my pay grade, but I do read and I do listen to people who are experts on this, and that is the underlying roots of DEI is at its core Marxism. And the purpose and this. You can look at China and look at other countries that practice this, but the goal is to undermine American culture. to create like a victim class, a permanent, this isn't a temporal. This is a permanent victim class based on immutable characteristics. And then you divide everybody and there's the aggressors and then there's the victims and everybody's pitted against each other. And we've got to prop one up and we got to punish the other simply, based on skin color, our sex, and it ultimately brings down a culture. I mean, am I pretty much summarizing the end result if this DEI were to continue permeating our society?
Kendall Tietz Yeah, you bring up a good point. I mean it definitely does have Marxist origins. We saw this with critical race theory. I mean that was a buzzword, 2020, 2021, which was ultimately kind of extended, exposed for what it was. DEI came in kind of as, you know, maybe a softer sounding alternative, that was institutionalized across, you know, education, health care, I, mean, you name it, all of our industries in the business world, and it's really, really permeated, kind of our, our society's ideology in recent years. but I do think that people are waking up and they're real kind of what this really means. I know you said at the outset that it's, you know, might sound great on the surface and, and that's, you know, in theory it maybe could have been, but, once we see really how this, this ideology plays out, it's ultimately, you know, dividing people by race, by sex and you know, nobody benefits from tribalism in the, that way.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, that's exactly right. Hey Kendall, thanks so much for coming on. Tell our folks your URL real quick for website or. Yeah, defending it.
Kendall Tietz Yeah, you can find our Work at, defendinged. Ah,.com or sorry.org and forward slash investigations. But, more generally just defendinged.com Excellent.
Walker Wildmon All right. Hey, thanks, Kendall. Appreciate you coming on.
Kendall Tietz Awesome. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Walker Wildmon All right. Defending Ed is the organization defendinged.org check it out. We'll be back in a few.
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The mainstream media focuses on minuscule issues like the measles outbreak
Walker Wildmon Welcome. Welcome back to the Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us in this last segment of the program. Well, let's talk health. Let's talk RFK Jr. Let's talk department of Health and Human Services. And, the recent story or headline that the media has just tried to get us all worked up about is the, measles. And the media started this highlighting of the measle cases in the U.S. since January, since President Trump was sworn in, even though this was an issue that existed under Biden. This issue goes back, under the Biden administration. But all of a sudden, we don't highlight it, we don't harp on it, we don't ask questions about it when Biden's in charge. And then all of a sudden, President Trump takes over and RFK Jr gets sworn in as health secretary. And every day it's about, what do you think about the measles? What are you doing to stop the measles? What are you doing to control the measles outbreak? And here's, here's the common theme, if you want to kind, of get a tip, if you will, into how the mainstream conglomerate media operates. These are the legacy media organizations. They're in bed with the Democrat Party. They fund the Democrat Party. They pair up the talking points, they feed questions to the candidates. They are one in the same. I mean, the major media conglomerates. Now, thankfully, there is a rising up of independent media. There's outfits like AFR, but the legacy ABCs, NBC, CNNs of the world, they're an arm of the Democrat Party. That's a fact. Okay? You look at their funding, look at their campaign contributions, look at their ideology. It's heavily Democratic operated. And where I'm going with this is that if you want to tip into how these folks operate and how to spot their dishonesty, and they're uncalled for hysteria. They hardly ever focus on the things that really matter. And this measles situation is exhibit A. All right? When you look at the rate of occurrence, when you look at the number of cases, this is far from apocalyptic. It's far from Even concerning because RFK Jr. Is actually going to highlight in this clip the number of cases in Canada and in Mexico. And the fact that this is not a big deal. It's just not a big deal. And then how, you know, they're focused on the wrong things is because I can tell you 10 things that are a big deal, but the journalists don't want to ask questions about it. And so before I get into all the things that are problematic that really we should be asking questions about, this is RFK Jr responding to a Democrat question in a hearing in Congress about the measles outbreak and how Canada and Mexico have the real problems. And instead we might should focus on that and not that the US Has a problem and try to turn this into a scandal.
We have about 1100 measles cases in this country; Canada has more
RFK, Jr Clip 3 Let me, address your first issue first, because I want to correct you. We have about 1100 measles cases in this country. The growth rate last year was 15 additional. So we have plateaued. Mexico has roughly the same number with a third of our population, and they got 300 extra quick cases last week. Canada has more measles. 1500. They have one eighth of our population. Your Western Europe has about 6,000, which is 10 times the number that we have. Oh, you are wrong about earlier.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, you're wrong. You're trying to turn this into a RFK junior is anti vax and everybody's gonna die because RFK juniors at HHS and the measles are going crazy. Give me a break. I mean, give me an absolute break. And this is why Trump gets the votes, because he puts people in power that aren't towing the talking points, they're not towing the party line, they're not playing nice, they're just telling it how it is. And she's wrong. And either she's woefully unprepared, uneducated, or she's lying. I'm talking about the congresswoman. And when you look at the numbers, America doesn't have a measles problem, okay? We just don't. I'll tell you what we do have a problem with. We've got a diabetic problem, but we can't talk about that because that doesn't make the pharmaceutical industry money. Oh, wait, it does. If you encourage to get folks to get Ozempic or get the shot or do anything but control their own lifestyle. And so the media, back to the media. And the Democrats, they're not interested in anything that's actually important. They're only interested in the topics that they can weaponize and turn into a scandal. And this measles topic is, is, is the perfect scenario where we don't have a problem, but they want to make a problem. Why not to end the measles outbreak to whatever extent it is an outbreak. And what is the definition of an outbreak? Right. and instead they want to make RFK Jr look bad, basically is what they're trying to do here. And it's very dishonest, it's very low and it's not helpful. And this is why people are fleeing the Democrat party. They're completely an unserious party. They're really not interested in fixing anything. I mean this is the party of breaking everything they touch. Everything they touch, they break. And it's, it's. And that's how you know it's spiritual. Because who else breaks everything they touch? Satan, the author of lies.
Walker Wildmon: Rising diabetes numbers amongst youth comes from unhealthy eating practices
And when you look at things that are a problem that maybe they should be asking RFK Jr about and we should be having public discourse about is things like the diabetes, the rising diabetes numbers amongst youth. Amongst youth. This used to not be a thing. Here we are. Listen to these stats. A, from. Let's just say these stats are from, These are type 2 diabetes numbers. And once again, this, a lot of this comes from unhealthy eating practices. This comes from, this data is from 2002 to 2018. All right, so roughly a 16 year window. There was a 5% increase not over a 16 year period per year, per year for diabetes type 2amongst youth in America. And the new cases of type 1 increased about 2% per year. so 2% for type 1 diabetes and 5% per year on type 2 diabetes. These are hundreds of thousands of young people that should not be going to a doctor talking about diabetes. But our food supply chain is full of junk. It's full of junk. Added sugars, ultra processed foods, all these fake dyes. And the FDA's just been rubber stamping it. Rubber stamping it, rubber stamping it. I don't know why. Is it, is it, is it kickbacks? Is it they just don't care? Are they bought off? I have no idea. I'm not in the room. I have no idea why the FDA has been signing on, off on all of this garbage. But yet we've got breakthrough cancer cures and they've, they're doing clinical trials for eight years. Listen to this. I just watched this two hour interview with a doctor from UCLA who's got a breakthrough cancer shot. Technology. I'M not going to call it a vaccine, but it's a cancer technology that basically enables your good cells to fight the cancer cells. It's a very simple kind of concept, but, he's had to do clinical trials for eight years because he can't get the FDA to sign off on this. But we have this Covid outbreak, this upper respiratory, basically a bad cold released out of Wuhan, China by the Chinese and Fauci's buddies. And they don't even do clinical trials for it. They just rush it to market despite all the concerns. And we don't even know that. We don't even know the long term effects of the shot because nobody's looking at it. But everybody's got to get it. If not, you're fired, no religious exemptions, and if anybody criticizes it, well, you're anti vax. And do you see that the common theme here, they don't focus on things that matter and things that work and things that bring about true solutions and instead they focus on all these tertiary issues that don't really matter in the grand scheme of life in America. And that's the common occurrence. And that's your brief, that's your seven minute tip as to how you can spot who's on your side or not. What are they focusing on, what are they highlighting, what are they talking about? And they seem to very, very infrequently talk about things that actually matter, what else actually matters?
From 2005 to 2014, antidepressant prescriptions among minors doubled 50%
All right, here's another issue that ought to be talked about more and we ought to be looking at what on earth is going on here and that is the rate of, antidepressant use amongst minors. Once again, I keep focusing on kids because kids and the elderly are the most vulnerable amongst us. All right? And when a 20 year old, when a 30 year old, when a 40 year old makes a decision in life, at some point, we can't influence them, right? We can tell people our opinions, we can give them good advice, but adults simply and unfortunately have the liberty to make bad decisions sometimes. And so I keep highlighting these stats on young people because as parents it's our job to foster a healthy, safe environment for young people and for our, children. So back to this stat on antidepressants. From 2005 to 2014, this is amongst 12 to 19 year olds, antidepressant prescriptions have doubled 50%. They've doubled, actually, that'd be 100%. Antidepressant use has doubled from 12 to 19 year olds in a nine year window. Not a 30 year window in a nine year window. What on earth is going on here? Well, there may be a couple things going on here, but we've seen, during that same period we have a continual degradation of the American family structure as God designed it. You have continued woke education that doesn't talk about God, but talks all about humanism, and, and evolution and how we're just, you know, a descendants of monkeys. We're feeding them this tick tock Instagram poison of what life is supposed to look like even though it's all fake, it's all Botox. And then on top of this, you've got a medical industry that isn't really interested in large part isn't really interested at getting to the root cause of our problems. Instead they are eager to just write you the next prescription. Why? Well, in many cases, writing the next prescription means more profit, means more commission, means more kickbacks, means more incentives, and that this is the ultimate perversion of our medical industry. If you had to pinpoint one unethical perversion of America's medical industry over the history of our country, it is the financial incentivizing of prescription meds. I mean, does nobody else see the conflict here? It's one thing to have a commission on, hey, you sell a car, you get a commission, you sell a house, you get a commission. But all these other, all these examples are not dealing with people's lives. It's not dealing with people's life or death. But we've, we've, we've entered this capitalism, philosophy into the medical industry. And boy, that can go wrong in so many ways. And we've got the, the, the insurance disaster, I mean the, the medical insurance fiasco that it is unaffordable, unefficient. And then you've got government inserting itself through Obamacare and through Medicaid and Medicare. And so as you consume the news, as you look at the headlines of the day, you have to ask yourself, before you get your, before you get all worked up about the measles outbreak and whatever CNN tells you should be your latest concern of the day, please, for the sake of your sanity, ask yourself, is this a real problem? Is this a real problem? And what you'll find is 90% of the time the answer is no, this is not a real problem. Instead, here are the other things that actually are a real problem that our country should be working to fix. And I just went through four or five of them, there's dozens more. And so let's focus on things that actually matter. And it's not the measles outbreak. We'll see you next time.
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Walker Wildmon Welcome to at the Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. I'm your host for the program today. Rick Green and I were your host each week on the program rotating days and on this edition, you've got me for the hour. And we're going to have a good show and hopefully bring you a lot of content and information that maybe you wouldn't have otherwise heard or learned.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to mother
Let's turn our attention to the scripture and then we'll jump into some of the news of the day. Proverbs chapter 10, verse 1. A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. What do we draw away from this? Well, we ought to seek to follow one of the Ten Commandments and that is to honor your father and mother. And when you do so, you will make your father glad and you will avoid bringing grief upon your mother. That's proverb chapter 10, verse one there in that proverb.
We have our annual Ten Commandments speech challenge coming up in June
Several events that we have going on that I want to highlight and some special projects. We have our annual Ten Commandments speech challenge coming up in over the Next, let's say six to eight weeks. It's going to end June 30th and the entire month of June is when we're going to begin fielding these speeches. But just to give you a little background or if you haven't heard of this project, we give young people, ah, student age, individuals, boys and girls the opportunity to present a one, two, three minute speech on the Ten Commandments. And looking at this year, this is for youth age 7 to 17 and this year they're invited to write and present a three to five minute speech on the topic of the First Commandment. What is the First Commandment? You shall have no other gods before me. Participants may receive assistance from a parent or a sibling to write, record and submit the speech. Speeches must be submitted by June 30th. All participants will receive a Ten Commandments t shirt, bookmark and coupon code to use in our resource center. So there is somewhat of a participation, not trophy but you're going to get something out of it if you participate and if you win, you'll get more and we'll bring you more of that information in the coming weeks. But this is our annual Ten Commandments Speech Challenge for youth ages 7 to 17. We just are looking for about a three to five minute speech that's recorded on video of you emphasizing and talking about the importance of the first commandment. You shall have no other gods before me. You can go over to afr.net/ford/10 spelled out T E N commandments and find out all the instructions and how to submit your speech. Afr.net/10 spelled out commandments and you can check out all the information. It's a four step process, pretty simple and a great opportunity to get young people involved in reciting the scripture. And it teaches how to give a speech, how to look at the camera, how to read and focus. And there's a lot of skills that are learned here and the most important one is that we need to follow the Ten Commandments. A few other things I want to mention are our Activate Summit registration is actually closed on that. But we look forward to seeing many of you in June at our Activate Summit. And then as we head towards next year and then we'll I'll say this, and then we'll move on. We've got a couple tours coming up that we do these spiritual heritage tours that we do all around the country or all around the world really, whether it's in Greece, Israel, Boston, Washington D.C. we're going to be heading to Greece and Israel back to back in March of next year. So in about 11 months, 10, or 11 months we're going to be in March, we're going to be in March, we're going to be in Greece and Israel in March of 2026. Those back to back trips, they're separate tours but if you want to do both back to back, you can of course register for both and we'll be sure you get transferred from, from Tel Aviv over to Greece to meet us there. So it's going to be a great trip. First time going to Greece, at least for my brother and I. We're going to lead a trip there with many Christians from the US and so we look forward to that. And then our Israel trip, we've been doing that for 27, 28 years. My dad has and my brother and I have been doing it for about a decade. And so we're looking forward to seeing everyone on those two trips. You can go over to wildman group.com to check out the dates and itinerary and all the information you need to register.
There's some critical national security conversations that need to be had over tariffs
All right, let's jump into some clips here. let's look at clip one. This is the once again we're looking at the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett and the topic here is the supply chain and how the tariff strategy and the reshoring of America's manufacturing industry is about more than just jobs, about more than just gdp. It's about more than just a booming economy. There's some critical national security conversations that need to be had that a lot of the economists are completely missing out on because they're so hung up on the tariff talk. Let's listen to clip one.
Scott Bessent Well look, the bringing back our strategic, that are important strategic industries can be a result of tariffs, but it's also a result of national will. So this administration is running full speed to make sure that what we saw during COVID never happens again. So it's a combination, it can be tariffs, but again it is the administration moving as quickly as possible to make sure that we are self sufficient in the strategic industries.
Walker Wildmon All right, so that's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and he's been honestly one of the best spokespersons and articulators of the president's policies here. But we, I have to highlight, and this really hasn't been highlighted enough. I'm glad, I'm glad Bessant went this direction. But we can have a debate about tariff rates and the effects of tariffs and we've done it on the program we had on Jerry Boyer to talk about his view of tariffs. He's not a fan of tariffs, doesn't like them, thinks they're bad for the consumer. But when you take this conversation beyond what the price of goods is or will be, might be and should the president have this authority or not, well that's, you know, that's on Congress. This tariff authority at least under emergency authorization has been given to the President. And so if you want Congress to reign in executive authority, well that's a good discussion to have. And I think in some instances it's a very, very, it would be a positive discussion. But when you get hung up on what the tariff rates are and is my or my China goods going to go up by 5% because of the tariffs or whatever, then, and you don't talk about the strategic move here, the national security angle, you're not painting a whole picture. You're not painting a whole picture. And I think it's being a disservice to the voters by not talking about the big picture here. Well, what is the big picture? The big picture is that we're relying way too heavily on China. And it's not that we're relying way too heavily on China for toys or iPhones. We're relying way too heavily on China for critical things that are needed to live. All right, and when we look at the. Let's just talk about the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical supply chain. About 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients APIs used to make drugs in the US are said to come from either China or countries like India. This is, according to Council on foreign relations, 80%. And so you can say, well, the U.S. produces X amount of our own drugs. Well, okay, where are they getting those, those core ingredients from? Well, they're getting it from China or India. That's a problem.
China placed export restrictions on rare earth elements as part of response to tariffs
Another category that China is just dominating the market on is these rare earth minerals. And if you, if you think that, well, China would surely never weaponize rare earth Minerals against the U.S. you're wrong, because they just did four weeks ago. This is the headline from Reuters. China hits back at the US over the tariffs with export controls on key rare earths. This is out of London. China placed export restrictions on rare earth elements on Friday as part of its sweeping response to President Trump's tariffs, squeezing supply to the west of minerals used to make weapons, electronics, and a range of consumer goods. The move once again, I'm still reading from Reuters, which Beijing had long hinted was possible for the ratchet sub trade tensions between the world's two largest economies and leaves American manufacturers scrambling for fresh supplies of the critical minerals they have relied upon for decades. All right, and so I think this is important from a. Just from, a public perception standpoint and the talking points for the White House to continue hammering home. Because if not, then we're dumbing this tariff debate down to a debate on whether we want to pay a dollar for a toy or $1.50. And unfortunately, some of the studies have shown that consumers pick the China products over the U.S. products. And they do that because they're all about getting the cheaper product. And that's an unfortunate thing. There's actually been some AB testing on this from different, different companies where they've posted, hey, this, this product's from China and it's a little bit cheaper. And this product's made in the US and it's a little bit costly, but, the consumers unfortunately tend to flock towards the, made in China products just from a simple economic standpoint. But if you dumb it down to just economics and who's going to pay more and what are the cost of goods, then that's missing the big picture here. And the big picture is that we don't get in another predicament like we did during COVID where our whole supply chain gets thrown in, you know, in a, in a tizzy over, China. And, and if you, and if you were naive enough to think that China would never threaten us, China would never withhold rare earth minerals from the US over some kind of dispute, well, you're wrong because they just got done doing it five weeks ago, over the tariff debate. So we've got to get back to producing some of these critical, critical industries in the U.S. now, it's one thing if we want to have some, you know, some toys made in China or T shirts made in China, whatever, you know, I don't expect everybody to flee China, but we can't have insulin, we can't have these critical pharmaceutical drugs continue to be dominated by China, along with the rare earth minerals that are now used in the defense industry, in the tech industry. We've got the boom of AI we just cannot expect to leave the majority of the supply chain in China's hands and then think that's going to go well. It's just not going to go well at all. And, unfortunately, we don't have the upper hand in many regards, when it comes to these situations because we're beholden to China to a large degree. And I think this whole tariff talk has highlighted, the vulnerabilities that we have in the US Supply chain. Another stat, that I wanted to highlight, before we wrap up this subject, when it comes to the rare earth minerals, China dominates the refining and processing of rare earth minerals, controlling about 85% of the global processing capacity. This isn't 40%, 50%. China is the largest producer of rare earth metals, accounting for 70% of global mine production. And then they control 85% of the processing capacity or the refining capacity. that's a problem. And I think if we articulate that to the American consumer, they're okay with some tariffs for a time if it means we reshore these industries.
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Scott Bessent talks about China not following through on previous trade deal
Walker Wildmon Welcome back to the program here on American Family Radio. Just to put a bow on the topic that we were covering in the last segment, I've got one, more clip on the treasury secretary. And this has to do with the, China and the trade deal that President Trump struck in the first term and them not holding up their end of the deal. And this is, once again, we have to jog our memories about how this went down. But China basically, no, they didn't. Basically, they reneged completely on the trade deal that President Trump struck with them where they were supposed to buy billions of dollars in agricultural products from U.S. farmers. And when Biden got in there, they dropped the whole deal, didn't follow through with it at all. And this is a deal that President Trump struck in, let's, say around 2019, 2020, with, China. And so this is Scott, Besant talking about China not following through on their previous trade agreement. Clip 2.
Scott Bessent What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, President Trump produced a, template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China, and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The Chinese delegation basically told us that once President Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations. So, we all already have a large framework.
Walker Wildmon All right, well, there you have it. That's clip two. That's Scott Besant on, China not holding up their end of the deal last Trump term. And that probably explains the more aggressive nature that Trump is using with China when it comes to these trade discussions.
Kendall Tietz is an investigative reporter with Defending Education
Well, I do want to introduce our, next guest. We have with us, Kendall Tietz if I'm pronouncing that right, probably not. Investigative reporter with defending education. Defending ed.org Kendall's with us now. Hey Kendall, welcome to the program.
Kendall Tietz Hi, thank you for having me.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. Tell me how to pronounce your last name because I probably got it wrong.
Kendall Tietz It's teats. So close. A lot of people, say it the way you did.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, absolutely. Well, my last name is Wildmon and I can't tell you how many times I get Mr. Wildmon.
Kendall Tietz So I totally get very creative with it.
Walker Wildmon Yes, exactly. So I usually just give them the liberty. Kendall, welcome to the program. Once again, Kendall's an investigative reporter with Defending Education. And Kendall, there's been a huge pushback in recent years against diversity, equity, inclusion, dei, which on the surface might sound good, it sounds fuzzy, maybe sounds virtuous. But what's been uncovered in recent years thanks to the work of you and others, is that DEI is very toxic. It has very Marxist humanist roots. It actually divides people, it doesn't unify people. And a lot of parents have been waking up to this and thankfully a lot of educators and governors and other officials waking up to this reality. So bring us up to speed on this whole DEI funding report that you guys have put out and where we are now.
Kendall Tietz Great. Yeah, so very true. what Defending Education has found in one of our numerous reports about DEI in higher ed that we've rolled out given our expansion into higher education from K through 12, is that since 2021, over 300, $373 million has been funneled into DEI programs. That's diversity, equity and inclusion across 130 US colleges and universities. So these funds, they support DEI offices and identity based scholarships as well as other race based programs, you know, staff positions, training and you know, DEI infrastructure. and these funds are often without public transparency or academic accountability. it's really unclear who, who is contributing to these funds, especially because they're often established through university foundations or so called day of giving campaigns. so there's really kind of a lack of transparency regarding, you know, donor identity and you know, fund allocation. So that's what we've found and ah, you know, like I said, Over 130 US colleges and universities across the country. And I think, you know, this is especially salient given what we've seen out of, you know, Trump administration. there's been kind of a crackdown on this, and changing the name of these different scholarships funds. Whatever doesn't at the End of the day, change, the merits or the core of what they, they might be trying to do.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, this is, I don't know whether I'm naive or I just had my head in the sand on this, but the level at which this had saturated and permeated America's higher ed and even lower, you know, K through 12. Maybe not, maybe they didn't call it DEI, they called it something else. But just to see how rampant this was. And then you look at what Doge has uncovered, where the government was spending hundreds of millions of dollars in these dei, contracts, having these basically woke training sessions for executive agencies. It's just shocking to me. I mean, I don't, I just don't see this DEI doesn't get me excited. Like, it doesn't get me, like, yeah, we need dei. Ah, but apparently this was rampant. I mean, the left had really latched onto this and this had almost become like a religious tenet of being a Marxist. You have to do dei. What do you think about, and this report, by the way, is very helpful. Just looking at some of the top line numbers you guys have put out. this number of states where you discovered or uncovered this funding, according to your investigation, is in 44 states plus D.C. and then, this affects roughly 130 colleges. The number of funds, 281 funds. So that means some of these colleges and universities had multiple funds. what do you see? Here's my concern, and I want to get your opinion on this. My concern is a rebrand. My concern is that, yes, I think the Trump administration is genuinely ditching the dei, in large part. And I think his executive order actually mentions like, hey, you guys can't rebrand this. I don't care what you call it. We're not doing DEI in principle. But my concern is that some of these states, just rebrand it. Right, and come up with some new fancy talking point. That sounds great. And then we still have dei. What are y' all, what are you thinking on that? Is that a viable concern or do you think DEI is truly being ditched?
Kendall Tietz I mean, like I said, you know, in some cases caption our. In our report, universities, just use the same giving account number and would change kind of those DEI buzzwords that we've seen all over, you know, to examples like belonging or inclusive excellence. And you know, it was clear that that does not, like I said, change kind of the meaning behind what these, funds are supposed. And people can agree or disagree, about the value of these programs. But in cases where they're using race or sex to include or exclude participants, that's a violation of federal law.
Walker Wildmon Yes.
Kendall Tietz and that is, you know, what we've seen. Trump's cracking down on DEI because it's in response to these, these pervasive examples of, you know, Title 6 violations. And so, you know, I know you mentioned kind of at the, you know, maybe states are rebranding, but really, you know, we see this as a violation of federal law. pretty much anytime, you know, you're discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin.
Walker Wildmon Yeah. This is textbook dei, to its furthest degree is textbook segregation. And you know, America fought a civil war, long before even the whole Martin Luther King civil rights dispute. Our battle fight, we had, of course, a whole civil war over the slavery issue. And then of course you have segregation and Jim Crow. And we can go through all the history, but I mean, America has a pretty, in depth history, a pretty expansive history, not in a positive sense, but over the issue of discriminating against people based on immutable characteristics. And you look at this and go, ah, have we not learned anything? Like we fought a whole civil war over discrimination based on immutable characteristics. And here we are developing funds so that we can discriminate against white people, basically our males. Right. Because masculinity is somehow a bad thing. And then, we can lift up the victim and the oppressed and then demonize the, the majority, if you will, or who's viewed as the aggressor.
There was a lack of transparency about where...where this money was coming from
But to your point about rebranding, I like that you in this report, once again, we're looking at this defending education report, that was put out. And you in this report, you actually look at some of the rebrands. And for example, right here at the top of the report is where the University of Nebraska Lincoln actually did a rebrand. Exactly what you're talking about. And instead of calling it, you know, basically the DEI Fund, they started calling it the Community and Belonging Support Fund. But it has the same, fund ID number. So the money's going to the same place. And. But then they think that we're not going to catch on to this. But everything's the same. They changed. They went in the website and changed out a few words and thought, we're just going to be fine now. but that definitely didn't trick me. And I'm sure it didn't trick you guys, Kendall.
Kendall Tietz Definitely not. And you Know, like we said, like I've said, we really need to ensure transparency from these universities. you know, they should be responsible for publicly disclosing detailed reports on dei, how it's funded, allocated what the expenditures are, identify donors and the specific purposes of their contributions. That was often murky a lot of times. And what we found, like I mentioned, there was a lack of transparency about where, where this money was coming from. In certain instances, you know, we would, you could look to university foundations, alumni, you know, some private foundations, philanthropic organizations and whatnot that are, you know, responsible for this funding. But there does need to be, you know, some transparency and accountability on the part of, you know, these higher education institutions.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, that's exactly right. And especially when you're looking at tax dollars. I mean, this is, this is most of this, if not all of these universities that you are included in this report are in some way subsidized by the government, whether it's state or federal. And not to mention the entire premise of DEI at its core, the ideology itself is against the Civil Rights act, because you're discriminating against people, based on the attributes that are described in the Civil Rights Act. And so it's illegal. But then what makes it even more egregious is that they're using taxpayer dollars to subsidize it. And I would be surprised, Kendall, that this is. Maybe there's a lot of donors out there that like DEI. I mean, I know, we're a 50, 50 country, there's a lot of Democrats out there. So, you know, I don't think, I think that this has some support amongst the Marxists and the Democrats. But the level of support that I'm looking at, Kendall, it seems as though this is probably being underwritten in large part by multimillion and multi billionaire donors that are far left Soros types. Is that a, is that a wrong conclusion? Is this grassroots or do you think that this is being funneled at the top, funded at the top by some major left wing billionaires?
Kendall Tietz Yes. I mean, you know, you've got groups like the W.K. kellogg foundation donated $4 million to Florida International University to establish a digital transformation program aimed at supporting food entrepreneurs of color.
Walker Wildmon so please tell me you're making that up, Kendall. Please tell me you're making that up.
Kendall Tietz I can quote it here. To establish the digital transformation program at startup FIU Food, an online platform to help people of color who are food entrepreneurs. So, so, you know, we could, we have a whole list of, of these examples, you can go check them out, in their report. I highly recommend it. There's, there's comedic nuggets like that throughout. But you know, like I said, definitely there are groups that are very influential and have lots of money that are, are behind this a lot of the time. and it's you know, people with influence, like I said.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And you had. The whole Democrat Party apparatus is behind this. And what I want to end on is the ultimate goal. When you look at, and this is, a little bit above my pay grade, but I do read and I do listen to people who are experts on this, and that is the underlying roots of DEI is at its core Marxism. And the purpose and this. You can look at China and look at other countries that practice this, but the goal is to undermine American culture. to create like a victim class, a permanent, this isn't a temporal. This is a permanent victim class based on immutable characteristics. And then you divide everybody and there's the aggressors and then there's the victims and everybody's pitted against each other. And we've got to prop one up and we got to punish the other simply, based on skin color, our sex, and it ultimately brings down a culture. I mean, am I pretty much summarizing the end result if this DEI were to continue permeating our society?
Kendall Tietz Yeah, you bring up a good point. I mean it definitely does have Marxist origins. We saw this with critical race theory. I mean that was a buzzword, 2020, 2021, which was ultimately kind of extended, exposed for what it was. DEI came in kind of as, you know, maybe a softer sounding alternative, that was institutionalized across, you know, education, health care, I, mean, you name it, all of our industries in the business world, and it's really, really permeated, kind of our, our society's ideology in recent years. but I do think that people are waking up and they're real kind of what this really means. I know you said at the outset that it's, you know, might sound great on the surface and, and that's, you know, in theory it maybe could have been, but, once we see really how this, this ideology plays out, it's ultimately, you know, dividing people by race, by sex and you know, nobody benefits from tribalism in the, that way.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, that's exactly right. Hey Kendall, thanks so much for coming on. Tell our folks your URL real quick for website or. Yeah, defending it.
Kendall Tietz Yeah, you can find our Work at, defendinged. Ah,.com or sorry.org and forward slash investigations. But, more generally just defendinged.com Excellent.
Walker Wildmon All right. Hey, thanks, Kendall. Appreciate you coming on.
Kendall Tietz Awesome. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Walker Wildmon All right. Defending Ed is the organization defendinged.org check it out. We'll be back in a few.
Jeff Chamblee This is At the Core on American Family Radio with your host, Walker Wildmon.
The mainstream media focuses on minuscule issues like the measles outbreak
Walker Wildmon Welcome. Welcome back to the Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us in this last segment of the program. Well, let's talk health. Let's talk RFK Jr. Let's talk department of Health and Human Services. And, the recent story or headline that the media has just tried to get us all worked up about is the, measles. And the media started this highlighting of the measle cases in the U.S. since January, since President Trump was sworn in, even though this was an issue that existed under Biden. This issue goes back, under the Biden administration. But all of a sudden, we don't highlight it, we don't harp on it, we don't ask questions about it when Biden's in charge. And then all of a sudden, President Trump takes over and RFK Jr gets sworn in as health secretary. And every day it's about, what do you think about the measles? What are you doing to stop the measles? What are you doing to control the measles outbreak? And here's, here's the common theme, if you want to kind, of get a tip, if you will, into how the mainstream conglomerate media operates. These are the legacy media organizations. They're in bed with the Democrat Party. They fund the Democrat Party. They pair up the talking points, they feed questions to the candidates. They are one in the same. I mean, the major media conglomerates. Now, thankfully, there is a rising up of independent media. There's outfits like AFR, but the legacy ABCs, NBC, CNNs of the world, they're an arm of the Democrat Party. That's a fact. Okay? You look at their funding, look at their campaign contributions, look at their ideology. It's heavily Democratic operated. And where I'm going with this is that if you want to tip into how these folks operate and how to spot their dishonesty, and they're uncalled for hysteria. They hardly ever focus on the things that really matter. And this measles situation is exhibit A. All right? When you look at the rate of occurrence, when you look at the number of cases, this is far from apocalyptic. It's far from Even concerning because RFK Jr. Is actually going to highlight in this clip the number of cases in Canada and in Mexico. And the fact that this is not a big deal. It's just not a big deal. And then how, you know, they're focused on the wrong things is because I can tell you 10 things that are a big deal, but the journalists don't want to ask questions about it. And so before I get into all the things that are problematic that really we should be asking questions about, this is RFK Jr responding to a Democrat question in a hearing in Congress about the measles outbreak and how Canada and Mexico have the real problems. And instead we might should focus on that and not that the US Has a problem and try to turn this into a scandal.
We have about 1100 measles cases in this country; Canada has more
RFK, Jr Clip 3 Let me, address your first issue first, because I want to correct you. We have about 1100 measles cases in this country. The growth rate last year was 15 additional. So we have plateaued. Mexico has roughly the same number with a third of our population, and they got 300 extra quick cases last week. Canada has more measles. 1500. They have one eighth of our population. Your Western Europe has about 6,000, which is 10 times the number that we have. Oh, you are wrong about earlier.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, you're wrong. You're trying to turn this into a RFK junior is anti vax and everybody's gonna die because RFK juniors at HHS and the measles are going crazy. Give me a break. I mean, give me an absolute break. And this is why Trump gets the votes, because he puts people in power that aren't towing the talking points, they're not towing the party line, they're not playing nice, they're just telling it how it is. And she's wrong. And either she's woefully unprepared, uneducated, or she's lying. I'm talking about the congresswoman. And when you look at the numbers, America doesn't have a measles problem, okay? We just don't. I'll tell you what we do have a problem with. We've got a diabetic problem, but we can't talk about that because that doesn't make the pharmaceutical industry money. Oh, wait, it does. If you encourage to get folks to get Ozempic or get the shot or do anything but control their own lifestyle. And so the media, back to the media. And the Democrats, they're not interested in anything that's actually important. They're only interested in the topics that they can weaponize and turn into a scandal. And this measles topic is, is, is the perfect scenario where we don't have a problem, but they want to make a problem. Why not to end the measles outbreak to whatever extent it is an outbreak. And what is the definition of an outbreak? Right. and instead they want to make RFK Jr look bad, basically is what they're trying to do here. And it's very dishonest, it's very low and it's not helpful. And this is why people are fleeing the Democrat party. They're completely an unserious party. They're really not interested in fixing anything. I mean this is the party of breaking everything they touch. Everything they touch, they break. And it's, it's. And that's how you know it's spiritual. Because who else breaks everything they touch? Satan, the author of lies.
Walker Wildmon: Rising diabetes numbers amongst youth comes from unhealthy eating practices
And when you look at things that are a problem that maybe they should be asking RFK Jr about and we should be having public discourse about is things like the diabetes, the rising diabetes numbers amongst youth. Amongst youth. This used to not be a thing. Here we are. Listen to these stats. A, from. Let's just say these stats are from, These are type 2 diabetes numbers. And once again, this, a lot of this comes from unhealthy eating practices. This comes from, this data is from 2002 to 2018. All right, so roughly a 16 year window. There was a 5% increase not over a 16 year period per year, per year for diabetes type 2amongst youth in America. And the new cases of type 1 increased about 2% per year. so 2% for type 1 diabetes and 5% per year on type 2 diabetes. These are hundreds of thousands of young people that should not be going to a doctor talking about diabetes. But our food supply chain is full of junk. It's full of junk. Added sugars, ultra processed foods, all these fake dyes. And the FDA's just been rubber stamping it. Rubber stamping it, rubber stamping it. I don't know why. Is it, is it, is it kickbacks? Is it they just don't care? Are they bought off? I have no idea. I'm not in the room. I have no idea why the FDA has been signing on, off on all of this garbage. But yet we've got breakthrough cancer cures and they've, they're doing clinical trials for eight years. Listen to this. I just watched this two hour interview with a doctor from UCLA who's got a breakthrough cancer shot. Technology. I'M not going to call it a vaccine, but it's a cancer technology that basically enables your good cells to fight the cancer cells. It's a very simple kind of concept, but, he's had to do clinical trials for eight years because he can't get the FDA to sign off on this. But we have this Covid outbreak, this upper respiratory, basically a bad cold released out of Wuhan, China by the Chinese and Fauci's buddies. And they don't even do clinical trials for it. They just rush it to market despite all the concerns. And we don't even know that. We don't even know the long term effects of the shot because nobody's looking at it. But everybody's got to get it. If not, you're fired, no religious exemptions, and if anybody criticizes it, well, you're anti vax. And do you see that the common theme here, they don't focus on things that matter and things that work and things that bring about true solutions and instead they focus on all these tertiary issues that don't really matter in the grand scheme of life in America. And that's the common occurrence. And that's your brief, that's your seven minute tip as to how you can spot who's on your side or not. What are they focusing on, what are they highlighting, what are they talking about? And they seem to very, very infrequently talk about things that actually matter, what else actually matters?
From 2005 to 2014, antidepressant prescriptions among minors doubled 50%
All right, here's another issue that ought to be talked about more and we ought to be looking at what on earth is going on here and that is the rate of, antidepressant use amongst minors. Once again, I keep focusing on kids because kids and the elderly are the most vulnerable amongst us. All right? And when a 20 year old, when a 30 year old, when a 40 year old makes a decision in life, at some point, we can't influence them, right? We can tell people our opinions, we can give them good advice, but adults simply and unfortunately have the liberty to make bad decisions sometimes. And so I keep highlighting these stats on young people because as parents it's our job to foster a healthy, safe environment for young people and for our, children. So back to this stat on antidepressants. From 2005 to 2014, this is amongst 12 to 19 year olds, antidepressant prescriptions have doubled 50%. They've doubled, actually, that'd be 100%. Antidepressant use has doubled from 12 to 19 year olds in a nine year window. Not a 30 year window in a nine year window. What on earth is going on here? Well, there may be a couple things going on here, but we've seen, during that same period we have a continual degradation of the American family structure as God designed it. You have continued woke education that doesn't talk about God, but talks all about humanism, and, and evolution and how we're just, you know, a descendants of monkeys. We're feeding them this tick tock Instagram poison of what life is supposed to look like even though it's all fake, it's all Botox. And then on top of this, you've got a medical industry that isn't really interested in large part isn't really interested at getting to the root cause of our problems. Instead they are eager to just write you the next prescription. Why? Well, in many cases, writing the next prescription means more profit, means more commission, means more kickbacks, means more incentives, and that this is the ultimate perversion of our medical industry. If you had to pinpoint one unethical perversion of America's medical industry over the history of our country, it is the financial incentivizing of prescription meds. I mean, does nobody else see the conflict here? It's one thing to have a commission on, hey, you sell a car, you get a commission, you sell a house, you get a commission. But all these other, all these examples are not dealing with people's lives. It's not dealing with people's life or death. But we've, we've, we've entered this capitalism, philosophy into the medical industry. And boy, that can go wrong in so many ways. And we've got the, the, the insurance disaster, I mean the, the medical insurance fiasco that it is unaffordable, unefficient. And then you've got government inserting itself through Obamacare and through Medicaid and Medicare. And so as you consume the news, as you look at the headlines of the day, you have to ask yourself, before you get your, before you get all worked up about the measles outbreak and whatever CNN tells you should be your latest concern of the day, please, for the sake of your sanity, ask yourself, is this a real problem? Is this a real problem? And what you'll find is 90% of the time the answer is no, this is not a real problem. Instead, here are the other things that actually are a real problem that our country should be working to fix. And I just went through four or five of them, there's dozens more. And so let's focus on things that actually matter. And it's not the measles outbreak. We'll see you next time.
Jeff Chamblee The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.
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