Hearts of Oak Podcast

Christopher Ruddy - Newsmax's Next Frontier: IPO and the Conservative Media Landscap

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In this episode of Hearts of Oak Podcast, we sit down with Christopher Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax, as he delves into the inception and growth of his media empire, culminating in the announcement of Newsmax's upcoming IPO. Christopher shares his journey from covering the Clinton White House to founding Newsmax with a vision to counter the mainstream media's perceived bias. He discusses the challenges of maintaining a conservative voice in media, the surge in Newsmax's popularity during the 2020 election, and the strategic move towards an IPO. Listeners will gain insights into how they can invest in Newsmax's future, as Chris outlines the IPO process and its significance in broadening the platform's reach. This episode not only explores Newsmax's past and present but also looks forward to its role in shaping a more balanced media landscape.
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Christopher Ruddy, is CEO of Newsmax Media, Inc., the parent company of NEWSMAX, America’s fastest-growing cable news channel. He is a noted journalist and entrepreneur, is CEO and president of Newsmax Media Inc., one of the nation's leading news media companies. In 1998, Ruddy founded Newsmax, a multimedia publishing company that publishes online and offline content in the fields of news, politics, health and finance. Newsmax.com ranks consistently as one of the country's most trafficked news Web sites.As a journalist, Ruddy previously worked at the New York Post and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.A Newsweek cover story named him as one of America's top 20 most influential news media personalities. He also studied as a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.Ruddy sits on the Board of Directors of the Financial Publishers Association, the industry organization representing investment publications that reach 25 million Americans monthly.He holds a B.A. summa cum laude in history from St. John's University in New York and a master's in Public Policy from the London School of Economics.
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Hearts of Oak:
And I'm delighted to have Christopher Ruddy with us, CEO of Newsmax. Christopher, thank you so much for your time today.
Christopher Ruddy:
Well, very nice to be on with you. Very excited, Peter, to do the show. And I know you're developing an international following, so it'll be fun to see the impacts we have. Maybe Newsmax will be well beyond the borders of the United States when we're done.
Well, it is. And I've enjoyed Newsmax on Roku in the UK. On the app, online, on Freeview. It's available on terrestrial TV in the UK. So it is everywhere, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. But you started Newsmax 25 years ago. Maybe let us know, before we touch on the IPO, which is coming up in months, let us know what was behind that, your idea of launching a new media venture. What was your vision for it?
Well, it goes back a little bit of ways. 25 years ago, you know, I was covering the Clinton White House at the time in the 90s, and I saw them that the media was pretty one-sided. I remember there was a study of the White House press corps in the 90s that showed that 89% of the White House press corps had voted for Bill Clinton. I mean, how do these people claim that they're balanced or they talk about diversity, but they're not for diversity of opinion? And remember, Clinton only got in the 92 election about 42%, I think, of the vote. He didn't get a majority because it was – Ross Perot was in the race. So, I mean, they're so lopsided it wasn't funny. As bad as it was then, Peter, it's worse today because not only are people – are they leaning left like they were in the 90s. Now they're polarized and weaponized. I've been very disappointed. We subscribe to the Associated Press. I've been very disappointed how just weaponized and woke that organization has become. and, I'm sorry, if you cross the border of the United States illegally, it's a crime, and you're an illegal alien into the United States. To say that Newsmax is a racist organization, because we use that term, I just think it's unbelievable.
That said, I believe that illegal aliens should be treated with dignity and that we should – they are human beings. And they have certain rights that the Constitution provides of anybody that's in the country, whether they're a citizen or not. But I think you've got to be honest with the language you use. Anyway, that's just like a small portion of why I sort of – I'm a contrarian when it comes to the mainstream media.
Newsmax has taken the view we should give public both sides and the other side of the story. And we have done that. And I think it's been a big success for us digitally and now television.
Vision no certainly and I mean it started just with a few tens of thousands of dollars that probably couldn't even buy you an advert now on most tv channels and you've grown Newsmax from those humble beginnings, to taking it to an IPO through launching on TV in 2014, I mean it has been quite a ride. What has that been like for you yourself whenever you look back at that rise?
Well, I don't do a lot of looking back. I'm so busy dealing with the issues that I face today. And, you know, it's not really that easy running a conservative media operation in the United States. There's a lot of constant flack and attacks and efforts against us. Despite all of that, we've continued to rise. And what I think gratifying, if you look back on what the current situation is, I feel like the American people really do support us, that we've had tremendous amount of support and you know, Reuters came out with a study. Reuters is not like conservative, they did a study in June that found that there are 12 top news brands in the United States and Newsmax was one of those 12. Now I didn't ask to be on the list, they just did their survey, they were honest and you know I have to tell you I almost fell off my seat because we were the only ones that was like, not backed by a billion dollar corporation, it was ABC, MBC, Fox was on it, but we were the only real conservative leaning one on the channel. Fox you know is changing so I thought it was like areal affirmation that the American public's waking up and we're breaking through. We now have a cable channel that's number four in the United States but we're really close to overtaking CNN, we would have done it had we been on an equal basis and the number of cable homes. So that's happening. We were number seven in July for all of cable. So there's a couple of hundred cable channels. And again, this was not, you know, I come from a middle-class, humble beginnings. My dad was a New York police lieutenant. I grew up, and you mentioned I started with a $25,000 investment. But over time, people have supported us, the American people. They're voting with their remote controls and their apps. And downloads, and it's actually wonderful and gratifying to see.
I mean, for me, it was 2020, that election.
Newsmax was put on my radar, and I think you took up the baton from Fox News that had got a bit of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and you stuck with Trump. But you seem to have taken that baton for conservatives, certainly in the TV space and wider, and that is a responsibility to take, isn't it?
Yeah. No, I mean, Fox has been good for a long time. I actually have a very high opinion of Rupert Murdoch. I think the guy is an American hero, should have won the American Medal of Freedom. If Trump gave the American Medal of Freedom to one man, it should have been Rupert Murdoch because, and I have no benefit saying it, he's a competitor now. But I did work for him in the 90s and I have a tremendous amount of respect. What he's done in Britain, in the United States and think aboutall of these billionaires. We hear a lot of them complain about the American media and the woke left, but it took an Australian who became an American to actually do something about it and I think Fox News was a game changer. And it was for a long time. I think his son, Lachlan, is a good conservative from what I can see. But I also think he's not so much caught into the whole desire to make America great and all of that other stuff and maybe likes the entertainment part of the business more. I mean, he's a pretty savvy business guy. He launched the major real estate thing in Australia that was huge for his companies. So, but, I think Fox is changing. I think that's the best way to put it. People are leaving and they're going to Newsmax and that's good for us and it's good for competition.
No, I remember being in a hotel room in the States and watching, turning on to Fox and they had an LGBT advert or a pride festival. And I thought, wow, it has changed. It's no longer for their base. And Newsmax certainly has picked it up. But you must be in a constant battle between entities like the Soros Foundation that want to see you gone because you seem to be the mouthpiece for conservative thinking and the weaponization of the institutions in the States. And you've managed to walk that, I'm sure it's been a very difficult line for you to walk, that regulation and attacks. And yet, despite that, you've grown and grown year by year.
I think it's important work, and it's nice to think somebody else might do it, but they're not, so we're doing it. And if Fox goes, and it does seem like it will eventually go, right, when Rupert passes, he's 93, there's a battle in courts going on. But I'm not so sure, no matter what happens there, that it's going to really be consistent to his vision, initial vision. And Newsmax is really the only thing left standing now. So through the years, I've had offers for people to buy Newsmax and we've turned them down or did not pursue them. And I think it's important that we keep doing it. It's one of the reasons we decided to go public because we felt like we could have remained a private company. We've been successful. And we think that by joining with hundreds of thousands of investors as we go public, if we're approved, that we will have an army of supporters that will help push us over CNN and to market dominance. And we saw the success of President Trump's, Trump Media, which we think indicates there's a significant demand for conservative media out there. So we announced it, and we've gotten a tremendous response to it.
So what does that, because some of the viewers, I know our viewership is half and half U.S, U.K and many of them will be watching thinking, actually I'd like to play a part, I've enjoyed, I benefited from watching Newsmax. I mean how do they play a part in this IPO to actually support Newsmax, to make sure you go to the next level?
Well, we have a website that we created, and a lot of it's being done online with this very innovative investment bank that's been around for over a decade. And the website is NewsmaxInvest.com, which is one word, NewsmaxInvest.com. And on it, we talk about not only the plan, we just filed last week to go public with the SEC. So there is an approval process. But we are allowed under this particular offering to seek early share investments if people want preferred shares. They can buy shares. They can even do it with a credit card. And by the way, if they fit the eligibility standards, whether they're in the US or in England or anywhere in the world, they investors can buy shares. The eligibility standards are based on income and net worth and they're determined not by us, but by the SEC for this preferred share offering, but basically we're selling shares where you can get a seven percent dividend until we go public and then you get the shares are valued at 25 % discount to the IPO price. So you're basically locking in a potential profit. And we think it's a great deal. And certainly, we're seeking to raise $150 million. So far, we've raised about half of that amount, which is tremendous. And we're expecting to close pretty soon because we just have so many, over 45,000 investors have said they plan on investing in either this or the IPO. So we're really excited about the potential there.
And so it's important to read all the material in the memorandum. You go to Newsmaxinvest.com and there's, I think, a lot of information. But I think what's really going to happen is the way this regulation is organized, it's an expedited IPO process under Regulation A. You can only raise 75 million when you go public which is a small amount, but by doing the early raise now we're essentially raising the shares that will be in the marketplace. These shares will be registered to be trading soon after the IPO happened, so I think the shareholders will do pretty well, I can't guarantee it and obviously you should talk to your investment advisor about it.
Well, all those links will be in the description for people to click on it and look at that and take part if you so wish.
And the response to that call for investment shows the surge of conservative media. People are hungry for truth. They're hungry for something different from the established media. And Newsmax seems to bridge that alternative media, which you started at, moving into TV. And you seem to have crossed over that from alternative to established. And sometimes I guess that must be a hard path to follow, keeping all those from being hugely successful from 2014 and TV.
Well, I think we just, you know, we follow sort of whether you say alternative or establishment. We just do it the old-fashioned way. We just report the news. And, you know, people say, oh, it's nice to say that. But, you know, like I have people on that are liberal, all day long. And then we have people that are very critical of Trump. We have people on that are Republicans that are critical of Trump. John Bolton comes on Newsmax all the time. And we're considered very supportive of Trump. I think it largely comes because we actually cover him. And President Trump has spoken very highly of us, says it's his favorite network and he's tuning in and all that's great. But at the end of the day, we're going to still put criticisms on because people should be informed of both sides. And I don't think ultimately he has a problem with that, where Fox was basically freezing him out for a long period of time, wouldn't put him on, wouldn't cover his events. And I think that's wrong. You know, when the primary happened, we didn't say, and I've known Donald Trump for 25 years. I'm a friend of his, but I didn't say, you know what, we're supporting him over the other candidates. We had DeSantis on all the time, Nikki Haley, et cetera.
And we let people decide. And I think Fox is like, well, we don't want Trump. We're going to back DeSantis. And then he wasn't working. And then they were going to back Nikki. And then she wasn't working. And they did this in 2016, where they opposed Trump in every candidate. To me, I think this is just unbelievable. You wouldn't think CNN and MSNBC said in the 2020 election, And you know, we're going to endorse Biden. We're going to give him favorable coverage because we want him. I think it would have been a revolt to the Democratic Party and they would have lost a lot of credibility, but Fox, I think it comes from, you know, frankly, Rupert Murdoch came where he was a major, the major dominant figure in media in Australia and then certainly in England for a long period and he is a king made gurney was more used to that. I think in the U.S market it really doesn't work and I don't think it's a good business approach and so I let the people decide.
Oh, well, I'm glad that I can enjoy Newsmax here in the UK and get that perspective. So Christopher Ruddy, thank you so much for giving us your time and talking about the upcoming IPO and letting us know how the viewers and listeners can be a part of that. 60 days to go to the election, it's going to be a wild ride. So thank you so much for your time today.
Well, thank you. And my only two things, one is check out newsmaxinvest.com if you're interested in the IPO or the planned IPO or buying shares now and number two there's a rumor you're going to Chicago next week and I want you to know that,
if you need to buy body armor, we could recommend some places, extra security?
I’m a Catholic so maybe we could get some novena's said for you.
I mean, God love what you are doing, it's so important and keep up your good work Peter.

Lou Engle - Women Warriors of Faith: The Upcoming 'A Million Women' Gathering in D.C

Welcome to "Hearts of Oak," where today we delve into a profound discussion on spiritual revival and cultural transformation. Our guest, a pivotal figure in the American Christian movement, shares insights on the upcoming "A Million Women" event set for October 12. This gathering isn't just an event; it's a call to action for women across America to unite in prayer and fasting, mirroring the biblical Esther's stand against injustice. We explore the event's significance in addressing critical issues like abortion and the erosion of family values, and how it aims to be a catalyst for national repentance and revival. Our conversation also touches on the power of collective prayer, the impact of recent cultural shifts, and the urgent need for a unified Christian response to contemporary challenges. Join us as we discuss the role of faith in public life and how this movement might just be the spark needed for a sweeping moral restoration in America.
Lou Engle is an intercessor for revival, and the visionary co-founder of TheCall, a prayer and fasting movement responsible for gathering hundreds of thousands around the globe.He has been involved in church planting, establishing prayer movements and strategic houses of prayer. Lou is the founder of the pro-life ministry Bound4Life. Now residing in Colorado Springs, he is married to his beautiful wife Therese and blessed with 7 wonderful children. He is the president of Lou Engle Ministries, recently launched to mobilize fasting and contending prayer, and to envision and empower stadium Christianity, and to ignite reformation prayer into the nations of the earth.For the past twenty-two years, Lou has been an international voice calling a generation to Nazirite consecration, fasting and prayer, and the pursuit of God’s dreams for their lives through the ministry of TheCall.Lou has raised up prayer movements, has been a voice for the shifting of the supreme court for ending abortion, and has encouraged a movement of adoption to be the answer for the great injustice.Now, Lou is prophetically declaring that we are on the verge of the 3rd great awakening, and Jesus the evangelist will be manifested in great salvation and deliverance power. A mighty Jesus movement is coming to America, Billy Graham’s mantle is falling on a new generation of evangelists, and streets and stadiums will be filled with a new song of God’s salvation. 
A Million Women: Day of Atonement Solemn Assembly  amillionwomen.orgOctober 12, 2024 The National Mall, Washington D.C. 
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Hearts of Oak:
Absolutely honoured to have Lou Engle with us today. Lou, thank you for joining us today.
Lou Engle:
What a pleasure, Peter. I look forward to connecting and getting to know you. I don't know what Hearts of Oak is, but I'd love to hear about that. But thank you for bringing me on.
Not at all. For the 20 years I've known your name in the background for the phenomenal work you're doing. Just to the before we delve into what's coming up in DC with a million women which is on the screen amillionwomen.org everyone needs to go and check out the website find out what's happening in DC I will discuss all of that @LouEngle on X on Twitter and make sure and the website is there make sure and delve into that but for maybe our audience just a little sidestep before I jump in with Lou. I mean, I am honoured to have someone on who has called America and the nations to repentance over decades, has called individuals to take the responsibility as Christians, has called the church to actually stand in the gap for the nations whenever there weren't many other voices. And it is a delight to have someone who actually,
For 20 years, I've certainly known your name, Lewis, someone who actually is bold and is taking the word of God to the nation and to the nations and calling them back to a position where they put God where he should be, the honour he should be. So I'm absolutely delighted. But even before I get into Million Women, before I get into the call, I want to ask you personally, what's your story? How did you end up being used by God to fill stadiums up with tens of thousands of Christians calling out to God? What led you to that point and starting such events like that?
Yeah. Well, I can go back. Thank you, Peter, for asking. I can go back 40 years to a book I read by Derek Prince, an Englishman, a statesman who loved Israel, loved America, and he wrote a book called Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting. Basically, the premise of that book is this, that nations are shaped by fasting and prayer. Governments, leaders are shaped by the prayers of God's people. And then in the book, he talks about that in the days of the crisis of nations, the answer will be collective, united, massive fasting and prayer, like Joel chapter two, like Esther's fast.
Those gatherings actually shifted history. And his premise is that those gatherings will shift history even in our day. I was gripped by this book. It's been my textbook book for 40 years. I've done long fasts for 40 years because of an Englishman who gave me my marching orders. In fact, before the first call, I had never met him, but the first gathering 24 years ago, 24 years ago, where 450,000 primarily young people gathered to fast and pray in D.C. I heard he was in Fort Lauderdale I called his people and said Can I have a half an hour I just want to thank a father Who gave me my calling And I ended up meeting with him In Fort Lauderdale He was like 84 years old.
Not well. And there in that hotel room I said as a son, I want to thank you. As a father, that you gave me a calling. He laid down on his bed and began wailing.
And weeping. And I knew that God had given me a father's blessing to carry united fasting and prayer. So it goes really back to Derek Prince, an Englishman, statesman, who loved Israel and who called for fasting and prayer. Then in 19, I led fasting and prayer movements in the 90s with a group called Rock the Nations. And I won't go into the whole story, but promise keepers put a million men on the mall in 1997.
A week later, I held up the front page of the USA Today, which shows the picture of that gathering. And the spirit of prophecy came upon me. And I said, the hearts of the fathers are turning to the children, but the hearts of the children return to their fathers. And there's coming a corresponding movement of young people who will go to the mall in D.C. To fast and pray that America would turn back to God. I didn't know how to pull that off. We actually held three gatherings, 1997, 1998, 1999, where up to 4,500 kids gathered for three days to fast and pray that stadiums would be filled, that massive gatherings would take place to turn America back to God. And then the brief version is in 1999, Peter, I prayed a prayer that has defined everything that I've done since that point. And that prayer was this, God, how can I turn America back to God? It seemed crazy, but I knew my heart had reached up into heaven. Couple of weeks later, a woman came to me and she said, you don't know who I am, but the Lord told me to pay your salary this year because you're going to start something with the Youth of America in prayer that will change the destiny of the nation. She paid my salary for 15 years.
And she came to me and she said, have you ever thought about putting promise keepers on the mall in D.C.? I mean, kids on the mall like promise keepers. She said, I'll give you $100,000 to start. And I said, I'd prophesied it. So 24 years ago, September 2nd, in a week, it will be the 24th anniversary. They came to a sound and the sound was this. We're not speaking. We're not telling anybody who the speakers are or the worship teams are. We've had enough personality-driven religion. When there's no hope for a nation, when there is no remedy, blow the trumpet in Zion. Call a fast, Joel 2. And they came to a sound. We've taught our children to feast and play. The times demand they fast and pray. And that launched the movement of the call 24 years ago. And since then, we've done stadiums and arenas all across America. The lady who paid my salary is 100 years old. I just visited her. I didn't know if she knows who I am, but as a son, I said, thank you for giving me the calling of God in my life. And that's how the journey began. And I believe we're in a divine narrative, though, even though we're in such a crisis in America, I still believe the promise. America, something stronger than the the rebellion can be poured out in America. That's the story.
Can I ask you through stadium, because I've only ever been once, coming from a small Baptist background, ending up, as Esteban knows, in a charismatic church in London. But it was 2003, I went to Bogota with MCI and actually saw a stadium full of Christians calling out to God. And I'd never experienced something like that before or after, you were doing this on a rolling basis. Maybe give the viewers an insight and the listeners an insight who may not have any concept of what that is to have a stadium not calling for a football team, but calling out to God.
Yes. Well, really, our gatherings were 12-hour gatherings, which you've come here not for a festival, but for a fast. Because we had festivals, but we have not had a fast. And so those 12 hours is like lots of presence worship. If God's not there.
It's not worth to call a gathering. And literally, really, in many ways, I believe these solemn assemblies are like court cases, that God holds a court case for a nation or a city, and basically he calls for repentance to remove the enemy's accusations before the very throne, own the courtroom of God. And so we go through repentance. We go through repentance and personal encounter. A lot of it is literally people praying in small groups on the grounds. It's not just stage driven. It's people calling on God, praying for revival. And then even recently more so that that these will be massive gatherings of communion, lifting the blood that is really our only answer, the mercies of God. So this is what it would look like. And then releasing sounds of authoritative decree, declaring the victory of God over our nations. I don't know if that answers your question, but that's what it looks like. Ten hours, this one will be a fasting and prayer.
And Yeah, so that's Peter, that's kind of what we do.
Can I before we jump into what's happening in DC and I think even for the WarRoom posse, I am sure that Steve Bannon if he wasn't in jail, would be talking about this and Mo Bannon or someone else can correct me but I'm sure he would be here seeing this a nation calling out to God and he understands the importance of that. But can I ask you personally, what's your salvation experience? Because I think it's important. We've only ever had two or three people on, I think, in like 700 interviews who have mentioned their salvation experience, how they came to Christ. But I think what you're doing, it's important to hear your personal side. So how did you actually come to Christ?
Well, actually, I grew up in church and prayed a million times to get saved. You know, when I went to Christian college, I played basketball for four years and I was lost. I believed in Jesus. I yearned for him. I would go down by the river and cry to God, but I never felt had an assurance of salvation. And I hated the gospel team, the Christian group on the Christian campus. I hated them. They bothered me, but they put me on a hit list, most wanted, least likely to be saved. And they prayed for me for three years. I graduated from college unsaved. And I went back to California in the midst of the Jesus movement where thousands were being saved all over, not not even in the churches, in the streets. And I was invited to an Afterglow meeting where they're in the charismatic movement. And my parents invited me. I went into this living room and there was singing in tongues.
And all I know, the whole room seemed to be lit up. I could say I was saved by a sound of the presence of the Holy Spirit. And I invited the, I get so hungry to know Jesus. I invited the leader of that gathering to come to my house and I said to him, I've got to get saved. And he said, well, you just pray to receive Christ. And I said, I've done it a hundred times, but I've never felt it. He said, you may never feel it, but God's word is true. You believe his word. You take a stand and he that comes to me will no wise be cast out.
I prayed a prayer and felt nothing. And for 13 days, a war went on in my mind. The devil would say, you're not saved. You don't feel it. I said, I'm saved. I'm saved. And I went into a 13-day battle. On the 13th day, I was in the White House. That's where I lived, in the White House. In an upper room, my bedroom, I remember kneeling down, and suddenly the love of God was shed abroad in my heart to the Holy Spirit. Instantaneously, I knew I had passed from life into death. I ran down the stairs screaming, I'm saved. I'm saved. I went and bought all the gospels of John. They kicked me out of the mall. I preached in movie theaters. Something happened that this religious kid encountered Jesus and turned me into a journey and a hunger for revival that marked me, and that was 49 years ago.
This is October 9th will be my year, the jubilee, going into the 50th year, and I believe it's time for another Jesus movement.
Tell us about this gathering you've called it would have been easier for it to call maybe a thousand women or ten thousand, I'm wondering, tell us about that that boldness calling for a million women to gather in DC.
That boldness really I mean it's all scary but that boldness comes because when you get the word of the Lord, I remember years ago saying that what happens with me is dreams come and it's sovereign supernatural confirmations to the point that I simply talk about those things and bones rattle and movements occur. And I said to my friend 40, 30 years ago, I think my calling is to just tell dreams and prophetic confirmations, and that my calling is to bring forth movements. And that's how it's worked for me. So it began 24 years ago, and then we've done these gatherings that I believe every one that we have done is a part of the divine narrative. This gathering that we're entering into is not an isolated event. I don't want to do events, I want a breakthrough that is connected to 25 years, 25 years of believing God, and this one was supernatural.
2014, I was in a prophetic gathering, and an explosion took place in the spirit, and a word came for two hours, and it was this. Like promise keepers, again, a million women will go to the mall in D.C. It will be the last stand for America. I believe America in many ways with the ideologies that are coming into this nation. I believe it could be our last stand. Once a nation adopts transgenderism, that nation literally collapses in the times of that adoption.
We're losing the school system, the education system. There's coming a point where the church has got to take a stand and can't be silent anymore. more. So this word came forth, a million women will come to the mall and it will be a last stand for America. And they will come in the spirit of Jeremiah chapter nine. Death has climbed through our windows. The fentanyl, the death culture that is rolling. Death has climbed through. Call your daughters, teach them to mourn. And they'll come and they'll give birth to a revival that will save a nation. And so since 2014, I've lived under the shadow of that dominating prophecy waiting for the moment. Then in 2017, witches rose up worldwide to curse President Trump.
Now, you've got to ask the question, and I started to ask, why would witches worldwide rise up to curse President Trump, a man that's not necessarily moral, a man that, you know, character is suspect, even though who could stand the barrage of witchcraft coming against him? And oh, my goodness. Anyway, so I asked that question. I wondered if the witches understood more than the pulpits of America, that this man was a threat to the blood altar of Roe v. Wade, that the bloodshed of the unborn 62 million babies. Listen, the Bible, the two things, the hills that we must stand on, in the image of God, he made man male and female, and the other images, it's in Genesis, you shall not shed innocent blood. When a nation changes the laws of God like that, that nation is under judgment.
I think that they understood this man was a threat to Roe v. Wade. He gave us three judges. Peter, we started a movement, 18 years, five days a week, pleading the blood of Jesus in front of the Supreme Court, 18 years. Jesus, I plead your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation, God, end abortion, send revival to America. That was our assignment. Roe v. Wade was brought down partially by the blood of Jesus. So I went up into the mountains. The Lord led me. He said, to go up into Esther's Park in Colorado. Some people call it Esther's Park, to fast and pray. I was fasting and praying on the third night I had a dream. And as far as I could see, I saw women coming from everywhere, young and old. And they were all coming to hear the book of Esther be taught. I'm looking at this women's revival.
And this Esther movement, I'm stunned by what I'm looking at in the dream. And I'm the only man there with an ancient Bible, which now I understand was an ancient call of Mordecai to mobilize what I'm looking at in this dream. And then the woman stands up in the book of Esther. I mean, it's teaching the book of Esther in the dream. And she says, and these two words in the book of Esther actually mean Nazgul, N-A-Z-G-U-L. I explode out of the dream instantly knowing what it means because I watched the third part of the movie, The Lord of the Rings, where the Nazgul witch king is destroying the armies of men and says, no man can kill me. But the king's daughter takes off her helmet, lets her hair down and says, I am no man. And she pierces the Nazgul. I explode out of the dream knowing there is coming a righteous women's movement that are going to take a stand like Esther, to stand in fasting and prayer, to challenge the ideologies of this nation, to fight for their children, but not just that, go public into the governmental places.
Go public into the education systems. She must fast and pray to break Haman's divination. When Haman was releasing divination in the casting of lots, he was the avatar. He was a governmental host carrying the ideologies that were going to destroy the Jews.
Today, we have governmental leaders that are avatars, that are literally the ones that are being possessed. Maybe not demon possessed, but they're carrying the ideologies that are fueled by the spirit realm. That's why Esther knows, I think she knows, that she calls for a jolt-to-kind of fast. Because you can't deal with spirit powers, witchcraft, that are fuelling ideologies. By politics alone, you must break those through united fasting and prayer. Then it's not enough to pray and fast. She's got to go public into the governmental realm. And I believe the nations of the West are going to find the discovery of what Derrick Prince actually preached. United Mass, a fastening prayer, challenging the powers in the heavens, and then raising up leaders like you're doing.
Raising up voices that will take a stand for righteousness. If I die, I die. Out of that movement, that was 2017, we have launched this movement that is now going to the mall on October 12th, the Day of Atonement. My Jewish friends literally have said to me, Peter, that the Day of Atonement is a court case. To see if a nation will get a verdict of mercy or judgment. And on that day, where there is repentance, then that blood is applied. And I'm believing that God is going to give a verdict of mercy to America. But I don't think it's just America.
I think we're in a worldwide Esther movement. When we started mobilizing this, we had no idea that October 7th would take place. And worldwide anti-Semitism. We're going to stand on that day and we're going to declare our covenant with the Jewish peoples and we're going to declare your people will be my people. We're believing that America doesn't have to divide Israel. And I have a word for Great Britain.
I'm just going to deliver it right now. My friend had a dream several years ago. He was in Wembley Stadium and I was on the stage of Wembley Stadium and we were singing that song. Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let Jerusalem into your heart and it will start to make it better. This is the interpretation. Hey Jude, it's the word for juice.
Don't make it bad. Don't make that name bad. Take a sad song, your history in Great Britain, that in 1948, you rose up and did everything almost to stop Israel from becoming a nation. Take a sad song, your history, and make it better. Remember to bring Jerusalem into your heart, and you will start to make it better. My wife had a dream last night that in my backyard, there was a massive gathering of people People from England celebrating and lines of people were being baptized among the English. Why would she dream that the night before I talked to you?
I believe there's coming a massive gathering, and Peter, I said it today. I'm sorry about prophesying, but I wonder if we're being connected for a massive movement of righteousness, maybe a solemn assembly in Wembley Stadium, where we would repent on behalf of England, who divides the nation. Joel 2, I will gather the nations, and I will judge them on how they scattered and divided my people. Joel 3 is a massive word for the world right now. I believe this gathering on October 12th, the blood of Jesus will be applied. But I believe nations are going to be looking on online. Many are coming from the nations to stand and repent for their own nations, like Esther, to break the anti-Semitism and to pray that God would pour out his revival on all nations, America, because we are beginning to understand that God is saying, I'm going to raise up a movement to end, to stand against anti-Semitism. Sorry, I just went into, I hope that's okay, Peter, but...
No, and for UK viewers who are Christians, please do pray into that, because I'll take that dream your wife had, that word of prophecy, because we need revival in the UK so much. So I'll certainly take that and I encourage the viewers, if you're a Christian watching, and then you pray into that and pray that God sees that fulfilled and pray that you have a part to play in this. But can I... In the U.S.. We are 80 days from election. You talked about the Roe versus Wade. That was the 24th of June, I think, 2022. So just over two years ago, that was overturned. And this gathering in October, it fits into actually where some things are being pushed back. That change, I remember that day vividly, whenever that result from the Supreme Court came, him as like, no, it can happen. And then you begin to believe that God can change the institutions that we maybe accept or have come to accept as evil and destructive. God can, if he so chooses, push those back and change them. So tell me how this gathering of million women fit into that current situation, I think, in the US, where a lot of people are beginning to question how far the pendulum has swung, certainly on the issue of life, on abortion, and the whole transgender issue that people are becoming very concerned about, especially how children are being sexualized. So how does the gathering fit into that current climate in the U.S.?
Huge. 2004, I gathered 70 young people to fast and pray for 50 days and 50 nights continuously is he praying for the ending of abortion and a pro-life president, Derek Prince's stuff. We had a dream of two tornadoes coming to destroy America. The tornadoes had the letters H-A-H-A, abortion and the homosexual agenda. Not people, the agenda. In the dream, our company was called to restrain that. When Roe v. Wade fell, which was our assignment in intercession 18 years later, by the blood, the Lord said, now the next tornado. A prophet gave me a word 20 years ago that he had a transvision of 100,000 LGBTQ being saved and transformed. I've been praying this for 20 years, our team has been. We had a dream of a Wailing Wall with names that said 100,000 LGBT saved and transformed. And people on this Wailing Wall were names, and they were weeping over their names, and their names would leap off the Wailing Wall board to the testimony board. I believe this is what we're believing, even on that day. I don't think you're going to shift this in politics, the issue of the LGBTQ. It's going to be shifted by a massive Jesus movement, an awakening, that they're going to put it on Time magazine. What is going on? This is what this gathering to me is.
I literally had a dream, Peter, after a 40-day fast last year. I had a dream. I had this dream. I said to the Lord, Lord, you showed us how to reach the Supreme Court by the blood of Jesus, by dreams. If I'm your friend, give me a dream tonight. Show me how I can reach 100,000 LGBTQ. I go to sleep. I have a dream. And in the dream, it is Delta Factor. I wake up and I said, Lord, I know that's you, but I have no idea what Delta Factor is. So Lord, I'm going back to sleep. Give give me a dream and tell me what a delta factor is. I go back to sleep and I have a dream. I see a tall, strong military officer. And I said, excuse me, sir, what's a delta factor? He said, it's the leader of a million. I woke up and I knew the groans.
Of mothers that are losing their kids to the transgender, to the counter-cultural movement. God is going to hear their groans. I believe when Roe fell, it closed something and opened the womb of America. I am believing the womb of America is going to be open. We're going to see a Jesus move, but Delta means change factor.
And so on that day, we're going to cry out to God. We're going to have testimonies. We're going to have a testimony of a transgender woman who literally is a firebrand and is going to war against transgenderism. There's got to be a stand. It's going to be costly. There's a movement called Don't Mess With Our Kids coming out of this gathering. Jenny Donnelly, who I'm running with, is raising up a movement that we're going to believe in the days ahead. Millions will go to the streets, maybe in the next 10 years. Millions of women will go to the streets and they'll say, and men, don't mess with our kids. We will not go with your pronouns.
When you say you can't ever, we'll go to jail if we need to, but we're not giving you our kids. I think once you start pushing the button on children, mama bears will arise and say no more. And we're believing that, I mean, it's controversial, But we're believing for a stand that day that actually could set things in motion to challenge the spirits that are behind this whole agenda.
Can I tell you how it fits with the church? Because your agenda is radical, yet you take your marching orders from God and not from denomination or from cultural agenda. And churches have probably believed up to a certain point, you know, we'll just be left alone. We'll get on to our church business behind closed doors. We'll meet for a Sunday service and we'll be good. But I think some churches are wakening up to the reality, especially during COVID, that actually the government won't leave us alone. We will not have the right. We are moving towards times where Christians are having their freedoms restricted. So how does your radical approach of God says this, let's do it, fit into a church has maybe been lulled into a false sense of security?
Well, I've been saying this for some time. I said, Esther, do not think that you can hide in your palace, and have self-preservation, I'm saying, hey, this stuff about the grooming of your kids in public schools isn't stopping there. They're coming for your home-schooling. You can't hide in the palace of your home-schools. The spirit of Jezebel, however you want to say it, begins by simply raising up a culture of sexual immorality and the likes. She doesn't stop there by putting the prophets in prison, hiding in prisons, she actually slaughters them. That spirit hates Christianity, and it's being manifested in our governments. And I just want to say, the preachers that are saying, don't get involved in politics, is like saying, it's like Like the guys of Mount Carmel. How...
He says, how long will you hold between two opinions? And they were all silent. You cannot divorce the political realm from the protection, the view that you think you can protect your children. No, that spirit of Athali is looking for all the offspring. And I'm telling you, I'm fighting for my grandkids. And actually, people don't like because of my stand, Christian nationalism. I don't even know what that means. It has nothing to do with nationalism. It has everything to do with fighting for my grandkids. That's my answer.
100%, 100%. Can I, men might be watching thinking, this is a million women, so do I not have a part to play? Is this only a call for women?
Well, the main assignment was, I think, like Esther, She took a place of leadership when God called her. I'm not saying this big question, you know, men, women in ministry, all of this. All I know, there are moments of time in history, biblical history, where God raised up a woman, put his hand on them to actually lead great wars, I mean, cultural wars. And I believe that right now, even with the story of Israel right now and rising up, God is laying his hands on a new Esther moment all over the world to take a stand against false ideologies. There's something about women and when it affects children.
God put Esther in place. Mordecai needed to understand that.
But Mordecai was a man that cared for his adopted daughter. She was sex trafficked, Peter. She was in a harem. Her name is Esther, named after the spirit of Eshtar, the goddess of transgenderism, homosexuality, and pornography. That spirit. She's living in that culture. And God uses a woman under the culture of Ishtar, named Ishtar, to actually overthrow the various powers.
But it was never to be disconnected from the Mordecai movement. I want to call men. Call your women to this movement. Call your women and men on the Day of Atonement. Tune in with a millionwomen.org. Tune in online. Maybe many would want to come from England and actually join the battle, and so we're saying every man a Mordecai, every woman an Esther. We don't want to have like a women's movement that's separated from men. It's families. This is the only way it makes. In the image of God, he created men, male and female, and he gives them dominion. Together they take dominion, but we're recognizing now there is a hand of the Lord being pointed on the Esther movement worldwide, and that's my answer to that.
This, I mean, there may be people watching, you know, people are busy, they've got a lot of responsibilities, and I've been challenged recently with that verse, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from in the mouth of God. And I think Christians have forgotten what it means to feed on and exist on the word of God, the word of God who spoke the universe into existence, who is the creator. I think people are often caught up in their lives and think, actually, I'm serving God by doing this. And they forget that actually it is the Word of God that brings life. And this type of event speaks into, we need to hear God speak. And that is what it is about.
Peter, you're asking a great question. Sometimes I appeal to people. On the basis of a narrative, a prophetic storyline, where a woman paid my salary for 15 years to do solemn assemblies. I wasn't looking for this Esther thing, but I was interrupted by the word of the Lord. I think we've lost something that the scriptures are very clear, even in the book of Nehemiah. Let the trumpet player be next to me, Nehemiah says. When you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather to me there, there the Lord will fight for us. There are times when God will not fight for people unless they're willing to drop their denominational differences, their gender differences, their race differences. Brothers and sisters, the church is being massacred in some way, and she still wants to fight one another. Father, I believe how often I would have gathered you under my wings, but you would not have. God says there are times when you must gather. And Joel chapter 2, blow the trumpet in Zion, call a fast, gather the people, consecrate a solemn assembly, and afterwards I'll pour out my spirit. There is this sense that we become used to the prophetic, but a casual approach to the prophetic brings casualties. I believe we're in a last stand for America. And a dream was given in 1998. I was kneeling down and my friend was flying over me and he heard the voice of the Lord reading Psalm 50, The Lord, the mighty one, God, he comes to judge the earth. Gather to me my consecrated ones who have made a covenant by sacrifice, and let them call upon me in the day of trouble. Even in 1998, the Lord was speaking through this. And in the dream is Psalm 50, verse 15, all the way to verse 15. And it was this, there's still a window of mercy when God comes to judge his people. But the answer is gather. God put a gathering anointing on my life. I don't understand it. Stadiums, arenas, thousands, you know, I don't know, millions.
Anyway, Peter, I think the Ninevites, who had heard only one prophet, immediately repented. Yet with Judah, they had prophet after prophet after prophet. They became dull of hearing. And so they're judged when Nineveh, an unrighteous, ungodly nation, actually gets mercy because they respond to the urgency of the moment. I'm saying there's a last stand for America. And I believe those who hear will respond. Gather the consecrated ones. You don't need everyone. You needed the ones that have heard the fire in their bones and move. Move. We're doing 20 on September 22nd, Peter.
We received phone call from a man from Egypt, so concerned. He's in a network of 110 million intercessors worldwide. They called us and said, we are all concerned about your elections. We want to call 110 million people to fast and pray for you. Pray for America on September 22nd. Maybe the world understands more than even the church in America understands. Then we're calling 21 days of fasting right up to October 12th, because I mean, I love it. I never wanted to do an event. I only wanted a breakthrough. I'd like to call England. Fight for your, even though we were a rebellious son or daughter, fight for America Derek Prince said that years ago a great revival will come to America and sweep into England and we dream it last night I'm wondering out of my it's bizarre I think our two nations, I've been prepared for a great revival.
Amen. And can I say that it's not up to us to understand the call of God. It's up to us to respond in obedience. And often that's in confusion and not understanding. And I'm sure there are people watching and listening, Lou, who say, I want to be there. I know they can go to the website at millionwomen.org. They can click on that tab and register. They're coming. They can also register to volunteer because this event takes people. And I think there'll be people watching and listening that say, I want to go not only participate, but I want to go and be part of making sure this event happens. So just tell the viewers why being part of a volunteer team is so important for events like this.
Well, it's so interesting. 24 years ago, I think it was 500 Australians came a week before that gathering because they had this ancient calling of the Light Horsemen. The ones that went before and fought for Jerusalem. There's an army of people coming from Australia. We're talking to those from China and Korea, Brazil. There is a sense that they come as representatives. And some of them have said, we are coming to pay back. What America said for missionaries to our nation. I think there is something about representing a nation. In a sense, we're all coming to stand before God. As representative priests. But it's really for the whole world. There are 70 elections coming this year worldwide. The whole world, we're looking at world war possibilities. And many people believe that even the elections in America will determine the future of world wars. I think there's something about coming and representing your people and standing there, not just for America, but for the nations of the earth and for Israel. And so, yeah, absolutely. We're just believing for thousands to come from the nations.
Lou, I want to let you go because I know your time is precious, but I just wanted to finish just for you to take just a minute to pray for this because the time we are living in is uncertain. The elections are critical in America in the 5th of November. This event in October is also essential into that. So maybe could I just ask you just to finish and just take a moment to pray into those two situations?
Yes. Well, years ago, a guy said to Derek Prince, what do you want your legacy to be? Something to that effect. And he said, have you ever heard of the call, which was the name of the gatherings we held? And when I heard that, I said, Lord, if you'll allow me, I'll carry Derek Prince's seat to the nations. I want to pray for the grace of fasting worldwide. England, this is our roots. This is where we all came from. So, Father, right now, in the time of crisis of nations, Joel chapter 2, Lord, I pray that you would loose a trumpet sound, not by men, not by, you know, just because of podcasts or phones, but because you yourself are sounding an alarm worldwide. Lord, I loose your trumpet sound over Great Britain. Lord, I loose your trumpet sound over the nations of the earth. Lord, we pray that in the name of Jesus, the God you would restrain worldwide war.
Because in the days of world wars, the gospel is hindered. I pray, give us a shot with one more massive missions movement from Great Britain, from England. Lord, I pray, Father, that you would shift elections. You raise up kings and you bring them down. Lord, I pray for America, that you would preside. You would preside over this great assembly. You would preside over the shifting’s of governments. Again, in the name of Jesus.
I'm just taking my headphones off in my ear. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that those who are hearing this, you would stir them to fasting’s and prayer in these days. I pray for Israel. I pray that you would restrain Hezbollah. You would restrain the spirit of Haman in Hamas. That God, you would release, Lord, Lord, Lord, a movement worldwide of the roots, the Gentile church that said your people will be my people. I don't know how to pray. All these things coming down. I pray that you would restrain China and the Taiwanese. But think, you would restrain the Prince of Persia. Lord, in these days, let a massive shift. Father, I pray that you would do a miracle, even in this gathering, to release hostages. You're the unrestrained, unchallenged sovereign of the universe. Arise, O God. Arise with worldwide revival. The promise of Joel 2. After the fast, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. And so I pray these things. And I bless Peter. I bless Hearts of Oak. I pray you'd put a trumpet to his mouth like never before. That his podcast will explode. and Lord, it'll come a sound of revival and reformation. And I pray for all those, Lord, listen, stir hunger.
Call them from the north, south, and east and west. Gather to me my consecrated ones who have made a covenant by sacrifice. And may your blood be exalted over all ideologies, over all demonic powers, that when you went to the cross, you said, Father, forgive them. And you dislodge principalities and powers. Do it in these days. Let the blood of Jesus be exalted. Amen.
Amen. Lou, thank you for your time. I really appreciate it. 12th of October.
Everyone make sure if you're there, you can go to millionwomen.org and be part of that. So thank you.

Matt Schlapp - A CPAC Perspective: Conservatism's Global Footprint and the Importance of the US Election

Welcome to Hearts of Oak, where we explore the essence of conservative thought. Today, we're privileged to have Matt Schlapp, the chair of CPAC, join us for a discussion that spans from the lively atmosphere of Mexico City to the critical landscape of American politics. We'll delve into CPAC's international expansion, the global conservative movement's fight against leftist ideologies, and the stark differences in political climates between the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, we'll tackle social issues, the upcoming U.S. elections, and the pivotal role of media in shaping our political discourse.Join us for an insightful conversation that promises to enlighten and engage, offering a deep dive into the heart of modern conservatism.
On June 19, 2014 the board of the American Conservative Union unanimously voted to elect Matt Schlapp as the ninth Chairman of the nation’s oldest and largest conservative grassroots organization. From 2001 to 2005, he served as President Bush’s political director during the re-election and previously as his deputy political director. During the 2000 presidential campaign he was a Regional Political Director with oversight of Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, and Oklahoma.Matt left the White House to run the Washington, DC offices of Koch Industries, a company headquartered in his hometown and known for their philanthropy to free market causes. Matt's Congressional experience began during the historic Republican wave of 1994 where he served Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) as Chief of Staff for 5 years. During his tenure, Tiahrt averaged an ACU rating of 98%.Matt’s political activism first took root at the University of Notre Dame, where he started a conservative student magazine. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (B.A.) and Wichita State University (M.P.A.)Matt and his wife Mercedes have five daughters.
Founded in 1974, CPAC is the nation’s oldest conservative grassroots organization and seeks to preserve and protect the values of life, liberty, and property for every American.
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Petr Bystron - Immigration, Sovereignty and the Future of EU: An AfD Perspective

Join us for another episode of Hearts of Oak Podcast, where we're honoured to have the return of Petr Bystron, a Member of the European Parliament representing the Alternative for Germany (AfD), as our guest. In this insightful conversation, Petr delves into the transformative currents sweeping through European politics, sparked by the AfD's significant electoral achievements. We'll explore how the AfD's strategic alliances are influencing European policy, the media's portrayal of populist movements, and the party's dedication to tackling critical issues like immigration and national sovereignty head-on. Petr provides a unique perspective on the shifting dynamics within the EU, where traditional political alignments are giving way to a resurgence of nationalist sentiments.Expect a candid discussion that goes beyond the headlines, examining the core values and political philosophies at play in today's Europe. Tune in as we navigate these complex waters with one of the key figures shaping the continent's future.
Petr Bystron is the highest-ranking foreign politician of the AfD: He has been Chairman of the AfD in the Foreign Committee of the German Bundestag since 2017. Since 2021 he has been the foreign policy spokesman for his party and its representative in the Council of Europe and the Interparliamentary Union (IPU).He was the first AfD politician to be officially received by an incumbent president (Milos Zeman) and the first European to receive the „Eagle Award “ from the conservative US Phyllis Schlafly Foundation.He was born in the CSSR, from which he fled to Germany at the age of 16, where he received political asylum.Thirty years later, he faced similar persecution in Bavaria: during the 2017 election campaign, he was subjected to an illegal house search and it was announced that he was being monitored by the Bavarian secret service.In addition to these state reprisals, he is always the target of attacks by left-wing extremists.Bystron is actively committed to supporting politically persecuted people. In 2018, with the help of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, he was able to free journalist Billy Six from Venezuelan detention.Petr Bystron is one of the founding members of the AfD. From 2015 to 2017 he was the state leader of the party in Bavaria. He took over the party in a crisis and led it from 3.5% of the vote to the best election result of all western federal states in the 2017 federal election with 12.7%.He founded and headed his party's National Committee for European and Foreign Policy (2013-2015).Bystron studied political science at the University of Politics and the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich and has been working as a journalist for years. His articles on business and politics have been published in renowned daily newspapers and magazines in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.He has won several creative competitions, including an EU essay competition on the future of Europe.His current book 'MEGA – Make Europe Great Again' contains portraits of leading conservative politicians such as Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Penn and Nigel Farage.Petr is married, has two children and has lived in his constituency of Munich North for more than 30 years. He has been an entrepreneur for over thirty years.
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Transcript
And hello, Hearts of Oak.
I'm delighted to have Petr Bystron joining us once again, this time not as a member of the Bundestag, but as a member of the European Parliament.
Petr, thank you so much for giving us your time today.
Hello, Peter.
Welcome and nice regards to everybody who is watching this podcast.
No, thank you. And you were, what, seven years in the Bundestag with AfD Alternative for Deutschland, and you have just taken up the position there in Brussels, the elections obviously a few months ago, and you're now there in Brussels.
Tell, maybe ask you about the European elections because AfD came second. It was at 16 percent of the vote and actually you came first in five of the 14 regions in Germany and that seems to be just going up and up and up.
Thee vote share that AfD are getting, but maybe Let us know your thoughts as an AfD politician in Europe, as an MEP.
What are your thoughts for the year ahead? And obviously, you'll be there for five years.
Yeah, well, firstly, yes, it was a win.
It was a big success for AfD, but this is just a part of all European movement.
As you can see, in all European countries, the populistic movements, the right-wing, the conservatives, they won.
We are much stronger than in the former European Parliament.
What is the result?
The result is that now there are three right-wing conservative groups.
Viktor Orban established one big group.
They are the third biggest group in the European parliament the ECR is there and we as AfD we established a new group; Europe of Sovereign Nation in addition to that there is the old EPP.
Which contains parties which officially are claiming that they are conservative, like the German CDU, and you are laughing too, because that's the problem.
They are big, they are the biggest group, in fact.
Ursula von der Leyen is from this group, and she was elected for president. But what is happening?
They are working together with communists, socialists, greens.
They are collecting their majorities on the left part of the spectrum in spite of they have the majority with us, with the right-wing conservatives.
So, those guys, they are the betrayals of their voters, and this is what will I think determine, the next five years in the European parliament.
How will behave this EPP group?
Will they still liaise with the left extremists or will they remain themselves what is the origin of their parties what their voters really want and will they do a right-wing conservative politics again.
It's going to be interesting and I'm assuming that some of the Conservatives stay within the EPP, because it gives them position, maybe voting rights in certain areas, committees.
The European Parliament set up is a curious set up.
So, that's why I'm assuming Conservatives has stayed in that group and not joined, not joined Viktor Orban's group or not joined the ECR or not joined the Europe of Sovereign Nations.
Well, this is a really good point.
It was showed, displayed even in the first voting.
The EPP members together with the left and socialism greens, they kind of avoided that that members of Orbán's new group were elected for chairs they should receive in many committees, you know, in spite of that this group is the third biggest.
So, it will be difficult, yeah.
Tell me what I remember back in the UKIP days and the difficulties that UKIP had in the European Parliament.
They were rejected, ignored. And it's kind of a similar position to where the AfD find themselves as a party that is maligned and attacked and ridiculed and et cetera, et cetera.
UKIP exactly was the same for UKIP.
And then they had a grouping that came together and obviously UKIP were extremely successful in terms of actually getting a Brexit vote.
Give us an idea for our UK or US viewers, the warring posse that may not understand kind of where the AfD will fit into a European parliament.
What can you do and will you be allowed actually to be a proper political party there?
Well, for first, yeah, this is a good comparison with UKIP.
It's really the same treatment we are receiving here.
And also what is different is maybe the treatment at home.
We got a heavy, really heavy fire from all the state-owned media in Germany before the election, from the Secret Service, which is led by the government and is used to oppress all opposition, not only opposition parties, but also the opposition on the streets.
You know, they put the leader of the opposition, Michael Baalbeck, for nine months in the jail, a week of the trial.
And after the nine months, they said, OK, we don't have anything against you.
You can go.
But the guy was nine months in jail.
You know, it's incredible.
And they also did a really insane campaign against us, against my friend Max Kau, who was the number one on the list for the European Parliament, against me.
I was the number two on the list.
They said we are agents of China, of Russia.
I was confronted with the same accusations like Donald Trump.
You know, Donald Trump was hearing for two years that he has a Russian collusion, Russian collusion.
They did the same with me.
They said I was paid by Russians for my behavior in the German Bundestag, which is quite stupid.
You know, you must just imagine why should somebody pay an MP to behave as he would behave anyway?
Because this was our party program. program, you know.
All our ATA deputies were against the war in Ukraine, against weapons, and so on and so on.
So, if you want to pay somebody, you have to pay him, to behave in a different way, but not the same.
But it was a campaign.
They wanted to make this Russian narrative.
They played this scenario, and even in other countries, it happened the same to our friends in Austria.
They were accused also to be Russian spies and all.
So, this narrative was the same, and what is really terrible, after the election, the state-owned public television, they displayed the graphics which was saying, well, our campaigns did work. Look, we pushed the AfD down from 21% to 16%, and they named the campaigns.
They named the Wannsee campaign, the Potsdam campaign, then Max Krad, the China campaign, Peter Weiss from the Russian campaign.
So, they showed how they produce fake news, how they push the biggest opposition party from 21% down to 16%.
In spite of it, we were very successful, but we could be more successful. So this is how it works.
Now, in the European Parliament, a new game starts.
Many parties from other countries join us as AfD.
They said, okay, we would like to be with you in the group.
So, we have now a true AfD group together with six or seven partners from other countries.
And let's see how things will develop.
I'm watching closely, certainly.
Yeah, it would be nice if the result would be as successful as UKIP, but this was a really historical success.
Nigel Farage is a big guy, a great guy.
So, not big, not big one, a great guy.
And so, let's see.
We will go in his footsteps.
Well nothing in politics happens quickly and Nigel worked 25 years to actually get that Brexit vote.
Can I ask you about regional elections because we've just had regional elections there into the the areas in Germany AfD won the most seats and this is just going back a week and a half ago AfD won the most seats in the election in and I can't even say it right Thuringian you can correct me a third of the parliament.
So, 32 33 percent of the vote chair and you very nearly came first in Saxony with 30 huge results and I've seen some of the headlines in the media they're panicking they are so scared of this AfD rise tell us about that because you're having success in different areas, European parliamentary elections, very well in that second place.
And these local, these regional elections, that happened just a week and a half ago.
Tell us about that result and what that means for the rise of AfD in Germany.
Yeah, well, you name it, Thuringia, we are the number one.
And the funny situation is we have so many seats that the others must stick all together.
From the left extreme communists, who work together with the spin-off of the communists, together with the CDU, so-called conservative.
And if they all together, if they stick all together, they have exactly so much, so many seats as we.
So, they don't have a majority.
Sorry, then they would have a majority then, but only then. It would be very difficult to make a coalition with the communists and CDU, because there are members of the CDU in Western Germany.
Germany, they are protesting against it because they say, we cannot make a coalition with former communists.
You know, those people were in the GDR. They were those who shoot on the border on their own people if they wanted to escape to the West.
So, this is the current situation there.
In Saxony, it's similar. We nearly won the election.
We are very, very close to the number one.
The difference is just 1%, and it's a really historical success.
What connects it to the European election?
All those successes have the same reason.
The people are sick.
The people are sick of the current government.
It doesn't matter who rules, who from the other parties, from the old parties is on power, because they are all globalistic parties.
And this is the difference. We are the only true populistic power.
We are the only party which really wants to do what the people need.
And what is it?
You know, the people want to have good schools for their kids.
They want to have safe ways.
They don't want their wife or their daughters being raped in the evening if they go out of their homes.
They want to have a good infrastructure.
They don't want to be involved in some wars somewhere, you know, thousands of kilometers away of Germany.
They don't want to be enforced to believe that there are 58 sexes.
They want a policy which is based on support of normal families and the family should contain a mother, father and kids.
Kids that's the normal family you know and this is what the norm ordinary normal people wants and we are the only party which is offering this all other parties are promising to do such things, and immediately after election they start to do sometimes even opposite of it, you know.
And people are sick of it and therefore they are they are voting more and more for the AfD they are voting for us and this trend will continue in the next election for sure, because the old parties they don't change their policies you know you see what they are doing now they really thinking about to creating those coalitions as as I described it before they are really now talking make a coalition with the Christians social union Christian democratic union together with communists, with former communists from the GDR.
It's a similar situation in France with Marine Le Pen, in that all the parties are coming together.
It's a stop Marine Le Pen ticket. In Germany, it seems to be a stop AfD ticket.
These parties, the ruling parties, whether it's the coalition in Germany, whether it's Macron in France, they're not standing for anything.
All they are is against this rise of populism.
Is that how you see it in Germany?
Exactly.
They're standing only for their wish to stay on power, on any price, and standing to be against the populistic parties.
But it says, in fact, they are against the people.
This is the main news.
They are against the people.
They are against their own voters.
Look at the last two elections in Thuringia and Saxony.
I mean, what do you think the people want, which elected the CDU? They wanted a strong coalition between AfD and CDU.
They want conservative politics. They want exactly everything I named just two minutes ago. And what will they get?
They will get a coalition of CDU with the communists.
They will get exactly the opposite of what they wanted.
This is creating immense tensions in the society.
And this is really not good for the future.
Tell us how immigration fits into it, because there's a huge backlash against mass immigration here in the UK.
And that's why Nigel Farage's new party reform did well in the European Parliament.
That's why populist parties are doing well.
It fits into President Trump in November.
And that's why huge support for him.
What is the kind of situation in Germany?
Because it was Angela Merkel that said, come, come, and tried to open the borders of Europe.
What is the current situation, the feeling towards how mass immigration is affecting Germany?
Well, one of the former Innenminister said migration is the mother of all our problems.
And he was even not from the AfD.
But in this sentence and this one, he was absolutely right.
Our society is facing enormous problems. I will just shortly name it, because you know everything the same is happening in UK even on the broader scale you know we have, rapes we have killings by knives we have a huge problem in the social sector you know, it's really incredible and those things happened didn't happen before.
This is something our Western European society doesn't know in this quality.
And again, the old parties are not willing to change it.
Why are they not willing?
Because they established a system which is profiting from migration.
We call it the asylum industry.
This is an industry which is taking more than 50 billion euro per year from taxpayers money and spending it on migrants.
And you have just imagine the dimensions, you know, I guess who is the biggest private employer in Germany?
And just imagine, we have companies who are on the stock exchange like Allianz, BMW, BASF, you name it.
And the biggest employer is the Catholic Caritas.
The biggest owner of real estate is the Catholic Church.
You know, and this is going so on.
We have, of course, it's not just Catholics, but Protestants, and there is Arbaid Avolfat, which is connected to the socialists.
So they all have their organizations.
They are earning so much money.
This is a really huge business.
So in their interest is more migrants and possibly as complicated as possible.
So, they don't want the motivated, good educated migrants, which would quickly, start to work and be part of our society.
They need cases, they can give them tutorials, you know, teach them how to speak German, how to work, and so on, and so on.
And this is the true reason why they are not changing anything.
Tell me, the European Conservative had a great headline that you may have sent it to me earlier saying the Germans say, 'enough'.
And that's to do with immigration.
What are the other, as you have talked to voters during the many elections you've been involved in, immigration certainly is there.
You touched on some of the other areas.
What are the other concerns and what do AfD offer apart from closing borders and stopping the mass immigration?
What else do you offer to the voters as AfD when you're kind of knocking doors at rallies and talking to the public?
It's similar what, for example, Viktor Orban offered to the people of Hungary.
Viktor Orban is the most successful politician in the whole Europe.
He was elected three times after each other. and every time he got 5% more. It's the opposite of Angela Merkel.
She was elected also three times after each other, but I think she got every time 4-5% less.
And what Orban said, he just said, I put the Hungarian people in the focus of my politics.
And again, this is really very easy.
Just take care for the families, support people to have kids, make their life easy.
That's the key message.
Don't take care mainly for minorities, you know, for people with physical problems, Muslims, men who are thinking they are women, and women they are thinking they are men, You know, focus on the 98% of population and try to make their life, better.
That's, that's the message.
Exactly. It's a simple message, which we're seeing across nearly every European country.
And then, then you can say, lower taxation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Inner security, higher inner security, better schools, more money for schools, and so on and so on.
Not a key message.
In The Guardian, the far left paper that we have on the left, although most of them are on the left, we have AfD success in German elections piles pressure on a fragmented EU. And they talk about the European project facing a rocky few years if the AfD's ascent continues.
How does...
Europe has kind of been driven for decades by a French-German axis and now you've got that void with Merkel stepping down, this strange coalition.
We've got Macron, little Macron, not being able to do anything and being neutered by Marine Le Pen.
What does that mean for Europe going forward?
Because there doesn't seem to be a drive, a direction that there used to be whenever there was a strong French government and actually a strong leader in Germany.
That's gone.
So what are your thoughts, kind of the future for Europe, especially now you're in the European Parliament?
Well, this is an interesting question because there is a change of paradigm within the European politics.
At the beginning, the whole project of European Union was, of course, industrial cooperation, the coal and steel union.
Union, and on the political level, it was a kind of, well, they wanted to abandon the possibility of a new war.
So therefore, the friendship between France and Germany was so heavily in focus.
To be honest, I think it was never a friendship, a true friendship.
The French, they don't like the Germans still today.
They don't like anyone, the French.
Well, the British as well, I know.
Yeah, well, but it was enforced and cultivated, let's name it as you want.
But this was the nucleus of the European Union, like a peace project, yes?
And it was successful in this matter.
It was successful.
But now we have a change of paradigm because the EU is turning into a tool of.
How to say just get through some globalist agenda it has nothing to do anymore with with peace and with with a friendship between France and Germany or any other country now.
It's about about regulations about trying to transform this European union into a kind of state you know to take a lot of rights from the national states to this supranational organization.
And this is, again, creating a lot of tension. Just look at what is happening, how the European Union is behaving towards independent states.
They were trying to punish the sovereign state of Poland for years, as long as they had a conservative government under PiS.
They immediately stopped all the punishments when the government changed.
So, it is showing that they had nothing, nothing to do with the reasons they named.
It was just, they just tried to get one specific government down.
And the same is happening to Hungary under Viktor Orban.
And it will be similar with Slovakia.
And also, this is really a big danger.
We as AfD, of course, we are trying to strengthen the rights of the sovereign national states.
This is our main task.
And this is also the reason why our group is called Europe of Sovereign Nations.
Tell me, finishing off, Ursula von der Leyen is a name that any citizen of Europe knows, obviously, as President of the Parliament, or the European Commission.
We'll not even get into the complexities, but, yeah, President, and the most well-known figure. And obviously, she was part of the EPP they voted her in.
Is her role, her position on the European project, Is it going to have a rougher ride?
Is she going to get more pushback, more scrutiny because of the new parties and the larger parties in the European Parliament?
Because for the five years she's done what she wanted to do.
This seems to be pulling her back a little bit.
What are your thoughts on kind of how the five years will move forward?
Sure, she will, because the structure of the plenum of the parliament changed.
You cannot deny that the majorities changed, simply.
Suddenly it will move towards more back to normality I would say, but sadly the process is slow this is what you said on the beginning.
Nigel Farage had to fight more than 20 years and the processes are really slow, slow, slow, and this is what Max Weber wrote already, I think, 100 years ago, politics, it's drilling of a hard piece of wood and slow drilling.
Yeah, that's our job.
In spite of all of us would wish, it goes quickly.
Well see how it develops.
Peter I do appreciate your time.
I know you've got a lot on your plate there in the European parliament trying to bring common sense to that chamber so I appreciate your time today.
Peter, you're always welcome thank you very much for your job you are doing a tremendous job and one more time nice regards to everybody who is watching this, support this blog, support all independent media.
This will be for sure one of the biggest fights in the European Union to save the freedom of speech, the freedom of expression.
The globalist circles are trying to oppress it.
You see it everywhere. Where they are trying to censor X.
They're trying to censor all the social media. They're trying to censor independent media.
So, this will be the fight for the next five years.
And I'm looking forward to many good speeches from you.
We had Rob Bruce on two months ago when he gave some great speeches in the Parliament.
So, we're looking forward to watching those clips of you, speaking in the European Parliament and causing frustration and anger amongst the establishment.
So, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Bye, bye.

The Week According To . . . David Vance

Join us as we explore critical contemporary issues from the past seven days with the irrepressible David Vance, covering surveillance, politics, healthcare, and societal tensions across the UK and US. We start by questioning the UK's move towards facial recognition in retail, suggesting a shift towards a surveillance state. We then delve into the political landscape, discussing the implications of hate speech laws, free speech, and the upcoming US elections' integrity. The conversation shifts to healthcare, reflecting on Elle Macpherson's choice of cancer treatment, highlighting the profit-driven healthcare system. We also touch on London's public transport strategy for Jewish communities and the debate over transgender inclusion in women's sports. Throughout, David Vance offers insights into how these issues reflect broader themes of control and democracy's erosion. Tune in for a deep dive into these pressing topics and their future implications.
Pureblood David Vance will not submit, and he will not comply.He used to be disgusted but now he tries to be amused!In the battle for truth and liberty, David chooses the front line, he has been writing and talking politics for a long time and is a published author, political commentator and podcaster extraordinaire!If the Covid 19 plandemic taught him one lesson it is that critical reasoning and a healthy contempt for the mainstream media are desirable armoury in the fight against tyranny.
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Robert W Malone MD - PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order 'The Battle for Minds and Rights'

Join us for an in-depth conversation with Dr. Robert Malone, a key figure in the debate over COVID-19, vaccines, and the broader implications of government control and censorship. In this episode, we dive into his latest book, which is released 8th October, "Psywar: Enforcing the New World Order," co-authored with his wife Jill, which delves into psychological warfare and its role in global governance. Dr. Malone shares insights from his extensive research, discussing the impact of fifth-generation warfare on personal freedoms and how technology has reshaped our societal landscape. We explore the chilling effects of censorship, the manipulation of public perception, and the erosion of civil liberties, drawing parallels between the US and UK political climates. This episode is a critical examination of where technology, politics, and human rights intersect in today's world, offering a stark warning about the future of free speech and individual rights.
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Efrat Fenigson - Decentralized Communication: Nostr, Bitcoin and the Deep State's Attack on Telegram

⁨Efrat Fenigson, a marketing expert and Bitcoin maximalist, shares insights from her encounter with Michael Saylor at a Bitcoin conference, discussing the risks of advocating for cryptocurrency amid economic instability. She addresses rising threats to free speech and government control over digital platforms, highlighting decentralized solutions like Nostr that preserve user data and social connections. Efrat advocates for financial sovereignty through Bitcoin and micropayments, linking these innovations to broader themes of freedom and personal rights, while also reflecting on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s support for Bitcoin as a pivotal stance in today's socio-political climate.
Efrat Fenigson is a marketing expert and former CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of global companies, who turned into an independent journalist when the void left by the mainstream media and their lies became too big to bear. She strives to uncover the hidden truth from Israel and report it to the world, and bring the world’s hidden reality to uninformed Israelis. Efrat is a very popular podcaster, public speaker and also writes for Bereshit - one of the only non-censored papers in Israel. 
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The Week According To . . . Charlie Sansom

This is 'The Week According To' where we invite a guest to give their thoughts on some of the talking points and headlines from the tabloids and across social media over the past 7 days.This episode, we welcome back our good friend Charlie Sansom to discuss key political issues. We preview the return of his show, "X Uncensored" on X Spaces, focused on free speech and deregulating British media with his initiative "Ofcom Watch."We evaluate London Mayor Sadiq Khan's performance on crime and air quality, addressing government policy implications. Charlie critiques Prime Minister, 'Two Tier' Keir Starmer's proposed smoking bans for their regulatory inconsistencies between tobacco and food.The conversation shifts to free speech concerns, including Mark Zuckerberg's comments on censorship and the legal challenges faced by political dissidents like Tommy Robinson. We also debate identity politics in education and media narratives around race, before concluding with reflections on a Trump campaign ad and the necessity for independent thought in political discourse.
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