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Join Kim Monson as she analyzes the most pressing issues from political strategies to community developments. Dive into today’s episode where freedom and force are at the heart of the discussion, examining how they influence policies that shape our lives. With insights from special guest Mike Rolick, discover the impact of citizen engagement in governmental processes and local projects. We’ll also cover the latest international changes, including significant developments in Venezuela. Brought to you with the support of our valued sponsors, Kim connects the dots between current events and foundational principles of liberty. Tune in to stay informed and
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured. You’re valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And if it’s Wednesday, that means that it is Wings Day at Hooters restaurants. You buy 20 wings. You get an additional 10 for free. That’s for to go or to dine in. And Hooters is a great sponsor of both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster and in Aurora on Parker Road. Great specials Monday through Friday. for a happy hour, as well as for lunch. 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As you know, on the show, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. if something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it it’s not compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff whether or not it’s their rights their property freedom livelihood opportunity childhood or lives via force and force can obviously be a weapon but it’s also policy unpredictable and excessive taxation fear coercion government-induced inflation the agenda of the world economic forum and the globalist elites played out through the United Nations, this Colorado State Legislature, this governor, through all kinds of things, land use codes, transmission, easements, all kinds of things. And people are waking up and we’re having these important conversations. about these particular issues. We focus on the issues. We really work to stay out of the personalities. What happens is it takes our brain or our focus off of what is really happening. And there are those on both sides of the aisle that would like to control our lives. They just want to do it differently, but they both want to control our lives. And so they They push chaos, confusion, and that’s why we search for truth and clarity, so that we can reclaim our great state as well as these founding principles of our country. Our word of the day is, and I chose this because I was reading Dr. James Lyons Weiler’s piece that we’ll talk with him about a little bit later. And that is, it’s Corrigendum. And it’s spelled C-O-R-R-I-G-E-N-D-U-M. And it could be an error to be corrected, especially a printer’s error. Number two, a list of errors in a book along with their corrections. Or number three, a fault or error to be corrected. So it’s corrigendum. It’s C-O-R-R-I-G-E-N-D-U-M, corrigendum. And that is your challenge to use that in a sentence today. Okay. Our quote of the day, Ramey Johnson, thank you for sending this over. It was a Turkish proverb, and it goes like this. The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. So I’ll just let you ruminate on that today, because I think that’s very telling. So thank you, Rami Johnson. And she is a fellow board member on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And I am still working diligently on this mailing list of our members to get a hard copy of our ratings report out. And if you would like one of those, join us. Go to coloradotaxpayer.org. It’s $25 a year. It is probably the best $25 that you’re going to spend this year because what you will receive is hours and hours of work that is condensed into good reasoning. And this will help you as you are trying to get your brain around the issues on what is occurring in our state. And I wanted to say thank you to my fellow board members. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. When you see these people out there. Thank them, because they have really, in the spirit of America, citizens that are stepping forward to serve our other citizens. And so it’s pretty amazing. Let’s see. I did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of this show. Susan Harris was on yesterday, and she ended her portion of the show with Christ Commons Peace I Give to You. And it really… it really uh resonated with so many of you and i thank you for all of your text messages regarding that the text line is 720-605-0647 i do want to hear from you and probably the biggest news here is this is from newsmax it says quoting the new york times trump clears the cia covert ops in venezuela And I really haven’t totally been watching all of this of what’s happening regarding the international component of Venezuela. But it looks like Trump has been pretty frustrated with him. So President Donald Trump has authorized the CIA to prepare covert operations inside Venezuela as part of a broader pressure campaign on the Nicolas Maduro regime, the New York Times reported yesterday. According to The Times, Trump signed off on CIA planning for clandestine measures that officials described as potential battlefield shaping actions. The paper reported that while the president has not authorized U.S. combat troops on the ground, the CIA has been instructed to develop options that could include sabotage, cyber operations, psychological campaigns, or other covert tools. And the authorization comes as the U.S. Navy’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has moved into the Caribbean as part of what military planners call Operation Southern Spear, a buildup the Times notes is the most significant in the region since the Cuban Missile Crisis. So this is one of those things, I think, that we just stay tuned on. And we are watching things on the local, in the county, the state level, and internationally, some. But anyway, this is big news, and this was the first headline on Newsmax. These conversations happen because of our sponsors, and one of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. They want you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your coverage. 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There’s so much noise coming at us. Sometimes it is difficult to make sense of it all. How can you sift through the clamor for your attention and get to the truth? The Kim Monson Show is here to help. Kim searches for truth and clarity by examining issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Tune in to the Kim Monson Show each weekday, 6 to 8 a.m. with encores 1 to 2 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. on KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM. The KLZ website, the KLZ app, and Alexa. Play KLZ. Shows can also be found at KimMonson.com, Spotify, and iTunes.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. Do check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are doing great work maintaining the official memorial, which is out here in Golden at 6th and Colfax. And then these great plans that they’re raising money for the remodel. And a great Christmas or Hanukkah gift would be to buy a brick that will be on one of their pathways of service to honor your loved one’s military service. You’ll receive a beautiful certificate that you can wrap up for Christmas or Hanukkah. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Mike Rolick. He is a citizen watchdog as well as he’s with the Ralston Valley Coalition. Mike, welcome to the show. Tim, good morning. How’s it going? It is going well. So let’s jump in here. I know that you’ve got a lot going on this morning. So give us an update regarding this Glow Park development that you’ve been watching. And give us the overview if somebody has not heard the previous interviews.
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Sounds good. Well, Globe Park is a potential property project name that’s next to the Emerald Campus, just south of the Emerald Campus along South Table Mountain over in Golden. It is on about 9.27 acres of land that was swapped out. Jeff Coop and Space used to own it. Now they have land on top of South Table. The state got this land. And then they use this P3 project, which is part of the Department of Public Administration. And the state architect’s office looks at unused real property owned by the state and see what they could do with it. Originally, the idea was to do a renewable project. or I guess even cleaner fossil fuel energy campus that would be connected to MREL, but not actually part of MREL, but like in concert, in unison. They were having trouble finding a partner for the past three years. Blame the current administration for that, which doesn’t chronologically kind of work. question that but you know hey everybody everybody wants to do what they do um but we stick just to the fact they’re looking at um projects for three years which would be both administrations fine no one wanted to come up with 120 million dollars at the time and then the state then switched over to do really high density housing on that land uh eight story building 40 dwelling units per acre and uh We got wind of it, worked with Adrian Waller, who’s been on the show as well. He’s the Metro Board President for the Fire and Sanitation down there. And we were actually able to talk with our state reps that are part of the Capital Development Committee. Tammy Story up in Evergreen, she is the head. Although we might see some things differently, she’s very nice. We were able to meet with her. She got us invited to speak today. in front of the committee, which is not normal. I’ve tried to speak in other committees and I basically get the boilerplate, well, you can watch online. So it was really nice that we felt included. We did talk to Senator Baisley about it as well, Ty Winter. And basically, we’re able to get the message out about what was going on. The problem here was not only was it high density housing, But really, the area could not handle that amount of housing. It is on state land with a 99-year ground lease. So for anyone who truly needs help with affording housing, I don’t know if they want to be answerable to the state for 99 years. And also, the law, SB 22-130, allows for affordable housing. They went for attainable housing, market rate housing, and some commercial uses. So that is a flagrant violation. I would see it in the actual law. There might be some folks who truly need some help out there. Attainable housing at 80% to 120% AMI, which is area median income, and market rate housing is not that. So good news is we just got an email from the – The woman who was running the request for quote at the state level, and she said they’re switching towards an energy security focus to start. This is interesting because this actually might provide some research into grid resilience. As I was reading this this morning, I thought about that. Grid resilience is actually probably a really smart thing to look at. Especially if you really want to dive into space weather and the fact that our grid infrastructure is pretty fragile when it comes to large disturbances in the magnetosphere. So, you know, everything kind of came around and they’re looking at new partners there. Now, I don’t know if this is a result of our efforts or not. I would seem so because we were able to present a well-founded case. We were able to do a PowerPoint in front of the committee and also met with committee members beforehand. And now we’ve got this great news.
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Wow, Mike Rolick, you are a testament to citizens being able to make a difference. It takes a lot of time and research to understand these issues, but you are actually, with Ralston Valley Coalition, you are sharing your institutional knowledge that you have learned on these different things that you’ve taken on, correct?
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That is correct. Ralston Valley Coalition, in one part, our mission is in Arvada, but the second part, if there’s other groups who are facing a similar situation, we like to help coach. and keep everything just nonpartisan at that point. We’re just looking at the facts, saying what can a citizen group in this county or that county of Colorado do to help their own case along, whether it’s a mitigative win, so we’ve seen some of those, or an outright win for the citizens, no matter what, we teach professional engagement. And as such, we’ve gained some really good credibility with Nevada City, with Jefferson County. They know we might not agree, But we’re going to come through with engineers. We’re going to come through with traffic studies. We’re going to come through with whatever we can in the law to say this is what we’re looking at and this is what the citizens are asking about. So, yeah, no, it’s been great. So if anyone ever has that kind of situation, feel free to reach out. We’ve worked with other coalitions before to a great network effect.
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Okay. And that website is RalstonValleyCoalition.org. There’s a contact there. That’s the best way to contact you, correct? Correct.
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Correct. Now, as far as this goes, just in case this is happening in your neighborhood, I just want to mention there’s a few more P3.
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And those are public-private partnerships, right?
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Yes, sorry. Public-private partnership from the state, the DPA office. They’re looking at one at Lookout Mountain in Golden, and that’s kind of right near the Taj Mahal there. Steamboat Springs, they have an early child care center. This one seems to be a little bit more in line with the law because they’re actually looking at, what they say, workforce housing. That usually means attainable. We have to watch the slippage in terms. So I actually want to take that back. They’re not talking about truly affordable housing workforces in the attainable category and they’re also getting five hundred thousand dollars for a mass timbers project on that land so if you’re out there in steamboat that’s an interesting one uh lookout mountain they’re looking at a 30 acre parcel near johnson road for a lot of housing as well and then durango this is an interesting one because the the law says unused real property 22 130 to look at it however For Durango, right off their own website, it says the T3 unit purchased the property adjacent to the current Region 5 CDOT headquarters in Durango, 3803 North Main Street. It’s a former community hospital site. And previously, the property was approved for development of 140 units for residential. Acquiring this property is a crucial step. in advancing the p3 office’s efforts to expand affordable and workforce housing across colorado unfortunately to me this is an interesting one because the law actually just says right here unused state owned real property means state-owned real property identified in the inventory list maintained on the department’s website if they’re actively going out and searching for properties i don’t know if it fits for something that you can find on your your current uh inventory and so what i fear i think we all fear this cam is when you have a department and they seek that reason to continue to exist right you want to prove that your department’s worth something now they’re actively going out and soliciting property purchases when literally it says identified in the inventory list maintained on the department’s website and then it says here The department may enter into contracts with qualified developers for proposals to construct affordable housing, child care facilities, public school or residential, mental health and behavioral health care facilities, or to place renewable energy facilities on unused state-owned real property. Now, when we’re actually going out there and actively soliciting and buying properties, I question if that’s fiscally sound, especially because we always hear the state is broke. So if anyone’s out there that can take a look at that, that’d be great. But that’s kind of a kind of fix a micro that we always hear we’re broke, but we’re actually going out and buying property in efforts to solve a housing crisis that may or may not be a crisis, and do attainable housing so there’s slippage because it should truly be affordable, which is usually classified as under 80% area median income. Where workforce goes 80 to 120, we’ve seen up to 140%. If you’re making 40% more than the average person, why are we helping?
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Well, and there’s much bigger questions on all this that housing has gotten expensive because of rules and regulations and taxes. Mike, do you know on the way these deals are structured, do these properties pay with these three Ps, the public-private partnerships, do they pay property taxes?
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I don’t know. I can look into that for you. But I know that there was a – I was looking into this yesterday because I had a similar question where they were talking about being able to assign fees or not. And I would have to give you a better answer next week, but – Oh, boy. No, I don’t have that up for right now.
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Okay. Well, you know so many things now. We were going to try to hit two other subjects, but I think you have to jump, right? You’re pretty booked up today, yes? Yes.
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Yes, I am, and I really appreciate it. I just want to say this one thing. The Fix Our Forest Act is coming up for a full Senate vote. Although we might have certain disagreements with Senator Bennett, he did vote no, and he did try to add a lot of amendment language to solve up the Fix Our Forest Act. And from someone that I know in his camp, he is also very concerned about the privacy issues when it comes to the AI in that Section 303. So… If you could support him in voting no on the full vote, that’d be great. That’s what I’ll be doing because we have to find unison where we can. If they’re concerned with privacy, we’re concerned with the privacy, you know, that’s where it is for now.
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Right. We focus on the issues and it sounds like he is on the right side of the issue because we’re all very concerned about this Fix Our Forest Act. When is this vote going to occur? Do you know?
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I looked on the Senate calendar. It’s very tough to figure out. It just says it’s some form of scheduled and section 212 on the calendar. I literally went through the calendar document. It’s beyond me right now. So if anyone knows, please let Kim know and we’ll get that word out somehow. But it’s coming soon. And like I said, Hickenlooper was a sponsor and kind of a kind of a cheerleader for this situation, and Bennett is breaking ranks and voting no. So that’s really good.
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Okay. Well, Mike Rolick, as always, thank you for sharing your research knowledge with us. That website is RalstonValleyCoalition.org. Have a great day. We’ll talk soon.
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Thanks, Kim. You do the same. Bye-bye. Wow.
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So much. And he is a citizen who’s just started digging into things and is really making a difference. And we’re going to be talking with other citizens that are making a difference as well. In the second hour, we’ll talk with Trent Luce and Wendy Volk. She is a realtor up in Cheyenne regarding a piece that she’s written regarding the Wyoming wind wall. And so all of us need to pick one thing, at least, that keeps us up at night and become an expert on that because that is the way we are going to reclaim our country and our state. And these important discussions happen because of our sponsors. And Mint Financial Strategies can help you have more freedom and confidence with your money. They’re an independent firm with over 25 years of experience. And as an accredited investment fiduciary, they put your best interests first always. So with a strategy first approach, they’ll help you build a plan that fits your life. Call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-3080. That’s 303-285-3080. And another great sponsor of the show is Karen Levine. And you want to make sure you have her on your side of the table if you’re looking to buy a home, sell a home, or if you’re looking for a new build.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And a nonprofit that I dearly love and support on the show is the Center for American Values. The center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And they focus on these foundational principles of honor, integrity and patriotism. And I’d really recommend that you take the kids down there sometime during Christmas break because it is certainly a place that can change your life as you reflect upon these sacrifices that our Medal of Honor recipients made to protect those around them. And it gives us great heart as we engage in this great battle of ideas that is happening in our country at this particular point in time. To get more information, go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. Regarding some of the headlines that are out there, on the local level, I just saw this regarding Jenna Griswold. She is the Secretary of State here in Colorado, and she and nine other Secretaries of State sent a demand letter saying, to the Department of Justice regarding some of the information that the Department of Justice has requested on our voter rolls. And as we are preparing for the 2026 election, there is much to be done. And if you are aware on this last election of anything that you think is questionable regarding our elections, I would really appreciate it if you would contact me. The text line is 720-605-0647. That’s 720-605-0647. And let me know about that because we have these two… these two different lawsuits that are out there. And I did talk to Harry Howery yesterday with Unite for Freedom regarding these, it seems that the justice system moves very, very slowly. But it’s great that we’ve got those lawsuits out there. And we talked about what to do here in the future regarding these prevalent studies that they’ve done. They’ve done one on Jefferson County. And what they found with that is, and again, this is a very scientific sampling of the election of 2024. And it found that with that, 9% of the voters in… In Jefferson County were phantom voters, either they were potentially illegal, didn’t have just a whole bunch of a variety of different things. And so that is that is very. Very concerning. And so we’re trying to figure out what our next steps are going to be as we are looking at these elections here in our country. Another headline, and this is from Fox Business. It says that homeschooling, there’s becoming a real boom in homeschooling as people are becoming less and less happy with the public education system. And it says homeschooling is on the rise across America. And I think when we look at these reports that many of our children are not being able, cannot read and write and do arithmetic, then people are, I think, pretty frustrated with that. And so this whole education system, we’re spending so much money on it. And I was thinking about this whole wealth transfer that has been going on in our country as I was driving over here to the uh… station hold on just one second let me just uh… send this quick quick text message here uh… i i was looking at these in pretty empty buses sometimes totally empty buses and And trains that are empty, but yet money is being spent for those. Now, the fares that people pay, I’m not even sure if they still are paying fares, is only covered, when I was on city council, only covered about 20% of the operating costs for the trains and the buses. So that means the other 80% is being paid for by others. And that other 80%, most of it is in the form of sales taxes. And sales taxes are regressive taxes because the people that can least afford it are the ones that are having to, that takes a big part of their budget. And so we’ve got to get these taxes lowered across the spectrum. Sales taxes and property taxes. But as you can see, this is a wealth transfer. is that the sales taxes that are being paid is going to pay to operate empty trains, empty buses. And so that’s one type of a wealth transfer. And that is something that the United Nations, the World Economic Forum is really trying to do is to transfer Take wealth from middle-class Americans and move it to others. And initially, who it goes to is politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. It’s many times under the guise of helping others. But quite frankly, it is a wealth transfer from hardworking, everyday Americans. And it’s a way to really go after the whole American idea of everyday people being able to keep most of the fruits of their labor. And the same thing is with the public education system, is we are paying significant amounts in property taxes, and we’re voting ourselves into that here in Colorado. With TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, there’s three things that are the main tenets of TABOR. First and foremost is it says to politicians, bureaucrats, and interest parties, if you want to raise our taxes, you have to ask us. But what we’re seeing is we’re saying yes. If they say it’s for the fire department or for the children and they spend a lot of money trying to convince us of that, we vote yes. We’ve got to start to say no, no to this new debt. and no to these higher and higher taxes. The second tenet of TABOR is, well, and I alluded to this, is that if PBIs are going to incur debt that we have to pay off, they have to ask us. And then the third tenet is if these entities have collected more of our tax money above a very generous formula, of inflation plus population growth, they have to ask us if they want to keep the rest of the money, which I think is pretty greedy if they want to keep the rest of the money. But that was what Prop LL was all about. And again, the people of Colorado voted for that. We’ve got to start to think about just what this is. This is a wealth transfer from everyday people to these projects. And Many times the PBIs, the politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that are pushing these things, many of them are making very healthy salaries in doing so. And so this is definitely a wealth transfer. We’ve got to understand what it’s all about. And we have to get to a point where we start to say, no, because I’m concerned that people are going to be taxed out of their homes and and tax out of their businesses. We see the economy here in Colorado is slowing down, and it’s all because of public policy. And so we’re going to go to break early, and we’re going to continue discussing some of these headlines. And I also wanted to go through this piece that Dr. James Lines Weiler has published regarding making science honest again. And so we have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And I wanted to go through this piece from Dr. James Lyons Weiler. As you know, he is the scientist. He’s the founder of IPAC and IPAC-EDU. And IPAC stands for the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. And then he’s put together these great educational programs. They’re very reasonable with experts throughout the country and international experts as well who are the instructors. And it’s very interactive and really would highly recommend that you check that out. And it’s really, I think, important that we try to understand these issues. So the piece that he’s written recently is Making Science Honest Again, How Institutions, Platforms, and Journals Weaponize Science and How to Bring Them to the Maha Standard. And he said, in a world where careers, policies and billions hinged on a single narrative, even truth wasn’t safe. Vaccines were heralded as the singular key to freedom. Treatments that had stood for decades as safe and generic became suddenly controversial. Scientists asking real questions lost funding, platforms and reputations. But what happened behind the scenes was even worse. The machinery of science itself, definitions, journals, review, retraction, was recalibrated to punish dissent, not correct error. It says this isn’t paranoia. It’s documentable, and it’s time to reverse it. And I think also we’re going to be talking, obviously, about the COVID pandemic. the reaction to COVID. But the same thing was happening over here regarding the climate narrative as well. And that is why the Climate Conversation, which is the documentary, it’s the project of Walt Johnson that we did about three years ago now, is so important because he brought together some experts and scientists that were questioning the narrative out there. When we talked with Daniel Turner yesterday, with Power the Future regarding Bill Gates’ U-turn on the climate crisis. As Daniel said, there was no new science, there was no new data, there was no new anything to substantiate why Bill Gates did a U-turn. It’s because he decided to, both Daniel and I are surmising it is because of he wants money for, or he wants to build these data centers and the power that that has over everyday people’s lives. But the same thing was happening over on the climate side as what Dr. Jack is describing here regarding these vaccines. And that was if there was any dissent, instead of having a conversation about it, They were tapping that down. And so I just want to make sure to mention on a climate conversation, you can watch that for free at a climate conversation dot com. So what is happening, though, is Dr. Jack and others are starting a new standard. And he says the Maha model emerges under NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. The post-COVID era ushered in a new promise. Science should be reproducible, replicable. and generalizable. He says, NIH’s commitment to this gold standard science is both reform and a reckoning. But he says, yet real-world implementation lags. And I think this is one of the questions that we have, and I know that there are those that are frustrated with the Trump administration coming out and saying – some things they want to get done and then actually getting them done is taking a long time and I think this is one of the reasons And Dr. Jacks says the promise of transparency collides daily with legacy habits of secrecy, backdoor editing, anonymous vetoes, and political choreography disguised as peer review. He said the Maha initiative, Make America Healthy Again, has risen as the civic complement to Bhattacharya’s institutional blueprint. Together, they offer a unifying theory. Honest science protects lives. Weaponized science… steals them. And then he goes on to talk about Dr. Mark Skidmore, who is an economist at Michigan State University, and he had conducted a survey on what adverse events were people sharing experiences about their post-COVID-19 vaccination. The result was signal, not noise. The consequence, character assassination, university pressure, and a journal retraction devoid of scientific rebuttal. The journal alleged data problems, but Mark told us they never saw the data. So I wonder how they could say that there were data problems. And as icing on the cake, Mark experienced an attempt by his institutional review board to pull their exemption because some of the respondents reported deaths. Mark appealed for the IRB reversal, and he won. So it says the retraction note offered platitudes, not proofs. Skidmore was never offered the opportunity to respond with corrigendum. That’s where I got the word of the day. And he said there was no erratum, no public debate. There was only deletion and silence. This is not how science repairs errors. It’s how power enforces conformity. Then it goes on to say that there was a group of Israeli experts led by Professor Edsel Elashikoff and other criminologists, vaccine researchers, whose papers had been retracted, not for fraud, but for questioning safety. In their report, the authors found that all respondents reported the same pattern. Opaque processes, anonymous post-publication attacks. That whole word anonymous there is, we’ve got to substantiate stuff. Whenever you see a news report citing an anonymous source, you have to question that. But anyway, he said, anonymous post-publication attacks, vague statistical critiques that could have been handled with standard corrections and coordinated pressures from journals with financial ties to vaccine manufacturers. Retracted authors described reputational damage, career sabotage, funding loss, and retaliatory smear campaigns. The common denominator was their findings threatened profits, prestige, or political standing. It says not a single paper retracted in their sample had favorable findings about vaccine safety. The authors conclude that retraction has become a form of censorship, a tactic used to silence, punish, and marginalize dissent. And they said this is not hypothetical, but it is methodically documented. And it goes on to ask these questions. It says, who were the complainants? Anonymous. What were the rebuttals? Editorialized generalities. What did the COPE, the Committee on Public Ethics, offer as procedural safeguard? None. There was no discourse, just erasure. And he said the pattern repeats. So the next point he makes is a dangerous list when truth becomes ammunition. He said in 2025, Dr. Jack personally handed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then the HHS secretary, a list of 28 journals where evidence had been manipulated, where good faith scientists were being silenced, and where peer review had collapsed into narrative enforcement. To his credit, Kennedy did not shelve it. He forwarded it to the Officer of the Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney General. By late 2025, that list became the basis for active federal investigations into editorial fraud, abuse of retraction authority, and grant manipulation.” What is revealed was not isolated malpractice, but a system designed to marginalize uncertainty. And then we see that word grant. These government grants across the spectrum, again, have become a real problem. And they’re part of – Mike Rolick had referenced PPPs, public-private partnerships – What I have seen with PPPs and the World Economic Forum really pushes them as well is that the government and business, so public, private, and I have that in air quotes, really kind of get into bed together on a partnership and who really takes on all the risk is the everyday American taxpayer. And how all of this many times works is these government grants. We see government grants, incentives, tax incentives, all these different things are used many times to manipulate a particular narrative. I think initially the government grants were to maybe to try to do research to, again, do something good for the people of America, but they’ve gotten out of hand. So Dr. Jack goes on to talk about this whole retraction thing. And he said that retractions were once reserved for fraud, plagiarism, or egregious error. He says today they’re deployed like political assassinations. They’re swift, they’re anonymous, and they’re final. So the Center for Open Science, Retraction Watch, and others have documented the surge in COVID-related retractions. But the surge isn’t always a function of integrity. It’s often a function of pressure. And then he went on to say some of the worst practices on this are anonymous readers acting as executioners without confrontation. Number two, retraction notices written to shame, not to clarify. Number three, no venue for errata, corrigenda, or author replies. Number four, journals citing media backlash, not scientific rebuttals as cause. Number five, the weird culture of seeing controversy and dissent in science as unwelcome. And then lastly, COPE guidelines interpreted to preserve brand trust, not epistemic validity. And it says, this is not scientific method. It is the inquisition in latex gloves. And so with that, we now have Dr. Jack on the line. Dr. James Linesweiler, welcome to the show.
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Hey, thank you. Thank you. Sorry, I was a little delayed, but thank you for carrying the flame here.
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Well, I’ve been going through your piece here, Dr. Jack, and this is really important. And I’ve gotten to the point where you are coming up with a solution that IPAC’s model is a hired standard for retraction. So walk us through this.
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Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, these journals actually have weaponized retraction to bias the scientific literature against findings that might impair or impede a particular profit stream, a revenue stream. And we know this is true with vaccines. I mean, there are many other instances. The goal here is to actually educate the public and get people understanding that if a paper is retracted, it used to have significant effect on a scientist or doctor’s academic career. And it’s very stigmatized to have a paper retracted. And so they weaponize retraction because it’s a twofer. They destroy the evidence. of something wrong with their pharmaceutical product or device or some medical practice, if risk is involved and risk is shown. But then they also stigmatize the individual that’s willing to go the distance for the public. And, you know, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became secretary of Human Health and Services, it became really clear very quickly that his agenda was to do a course correction on scientific publishing on this. He sent a notice to journals that had a history of retracting papers and studies without sufficient evidence of a serious problem of the paper, that their contracts would be nullified. And in fact, he he ended the publication contracts with some very, very, very prestigious and heavy-hitting journals. Because it’s clear, and it’s been clear for many years, that they are basically advertising outlets for pharmaceutical companies. And I guess it was a few months ago, he asked me, Secretary Kennedy asked me to put together a list of papers and studies, reviewing studies that were wrongfully retracted, that are generally recognized as being wrongfully retracted because the journal did not go through the proper procedures of identifying a serious problem with the study. did not find evidence of fraud, but rather somebody wrote in anonymously and said, you know, hey, here’s a problem with this. We think there’s a problem with this study. And they speculate on what the problem must be. They don’t have any evidence that it’s actually a problem. The journal might look into it and talk to the authors. And the author says, no, that’s not true. And then the journal retracts the paper anyway. Or worse, the journal will just retract over an expression of concern and not provide any opportunity for rebuttal. And so that list of 28 journals that have a habit of doing this were sent to Secretary Kennedy, and then he referred them to the Office of Attorney General. Because to bias science using U.S. taxpayers’ funds through contracts, through government contracts, is fraud. And so these journals are getting their warning shots, they’re getting their notifications, And we certainly hope they start reinstating some of these wrongfully retracted papers.
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Okay. And you are doing something here, and that is this, you’re going to have an event on, or wait, I guess you already had it, and that was back in October, correct?
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Yeah. Yeah, there’s a whole slew of things going on, Kim. I mean, I’m going back and forth to Washington, it seems, every other week. It’s breaking my bank account, frankly, to try to keep up. But it’s a joy. It’s a labor of love, of course, and it’s an honor to be trusted, to be one of the carriers of the message of the Maha movement. I don’t presume any particular leadership role. I know people say that I’m a visionary. People say that I have You know, my finger on the pulse of what’s going on, that’s all true, but I say that modestly because I’ve always looked at the long run. When your mom dies from breast cancer, when you’re four years old, you do look after other people in spite of their best, you know, other people’s best interests in spite of their own limitations, so… You know, there’s this myth that Maha somehow is elite. It’s wonderful watching, you know, the elite left media saying that there’s this elite ball and there’s this elite Maha event and that there are a bunch of elites. And the fact is, if you got to know Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the way I’ve come to know him over the past, you know, 15 years, he’s truly a down-home guy. He doesn’t really enjoy the spotlight. He would rather be chasing snakes in the grass, you know, in the hills of California and taking people on hikes and spending times with his grandkids and his kids. And this mythos of the fact that we have to go after someone’s character has nothing to do with logic and reason. It’s just these are cheap shots. Keep your eye on the ball about what’s happening with child trafficking from the border and Kennedy really got something started there in a big way. And Kash Patel, FBI director, Kash Patel, you know, has recovered, what, 22,000 kids that were in danger. They were in drug homes. They were in violent homes. They were being trafficked. That’s the Kennedy effect. He got this started. as a result of a memo that a group of us sent to him before he was secretary. And it was his first official action was to change what was wrong with the Office of Refugee Relocation. Kennedy is a man of action. He is a man of integrity. If he says he’s going to do it, he’ll do it. He’s got a lot on his plate, so he deserves a lot of gratitude, and he certainly needs our support. So don’t believe what you read in the funny papers about Secretary Kennedy.
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Okay. And check out Dr. Jack at Popular Rationalism at Substack. Dr. Jack, thank you so much. And I love this last line. You said, if we want science to serve health, we must de-weaponize its tools. Let this be our line in the lab. I love that, Dr. Jack. Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Kim. Thanks.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured. You’re valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And interesting conversation regarding Dr. Jack, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler and his piece that he has recently published, Making Science Honest Again, how institutions, platforms, and journals weaponize science and how to bring them to the MAHA standard. And if you missed that discussion, that will be rebroadcast today in one to two in the afternoon. Getting over here to our word of the day, I chose it because he used this in his article. I’d never actually heard the word before. It’s corrigendum, and it’s spelled C-O-R-R-I-G-E-N-D-U-M. And number one, it could be an error to be corrected, especially a printer’s error. Number two, it could be a list of errors in a book along with their corrections. Or number three, a fault or error to be corrected. And I think that this… climate agenda, the climate crisis agenda, we certainly need to make a core agenda regarding that. And of course, Walt Johnson and his project, A Climate Conversation, I think was a great step in that direction. You can watch A Climate Conversation for free at aclimateconversation.com. Our Quote of the day came comes from Ramey Johnson. She sent this over. It was a meme, a Turkish proverb. It says the forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. I’ve been going down a bit of a rabbit hole here regarding these public-private partnerships and the World Economic Forum. The first thing that I found here, this is the World Investment Forum, Investing in Sustainable Development. The World Investment Forum, I’m sure, is associated with the World Economic Forum. This is something that was dated. It says, opening remarks and high-level PPP dialogue. And this was on October 17th in 2023 in Dubai. And it says there at the opening ceremony, top decision makers, top decision takers discuss public private partnership challenges and opportunities. They say public-private partnerships are, and again, this is World Economic Forum stuff. Public-private partnerships are a vital tool to promote investment in sustainable infrastructure and the energy transition. As pointed out at the UNCTAD’s World Investment Report in 2023, infrastructure projects in which international investors join hands with governments and development banks achieve the lowest cost of finance. It goes on to say that this WAPP is a leading voice in the public-private partnership industry. It has over 400 members with about 50 PPP units and over 350 PPP professionals and corporate members. The public-private partnership forum, through multiple sessions, will discuss how to mainstream the three Ps in public investment plans, how to promote SDG-driven and climate-resilient public-private partnerships, and what options are available to strengthen capacity, building on public-private partnerships in developing countries. So then I said, well, what is SDG? And SDG is from the United Nations. They define it as the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. It has 17 goals. And those goals are, number one, no poverty. When in essence, the real plan is to impoverish the middle class American. Zero hunger. And I love this, no poverty, but take a look at the American idea. The American idea has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else ever in our history. Zero hunger, agree with that. They say that, but yet the UN and the World Economic Forum are pushing these ideas. And I have this in air quotes, sustainable, renewable, again, in air quotes, projects which are not reliable. They’re not efficient. They’re not affordable. And they’re pushing those and they’re taking land with different ways, eminent domain for, for example, transmission lines out in Elbert County and El Paso County. But they’re taking land out of food production. Well, you can’t have zero hunger if you’re taking land out of food production. They want to promote good health and well-being. Quality education. Well, we don’t have quality education for many of our students. Gender equality. Clean water and sanitation. And I’m just running through these SDG goals from the U.N., Affordable and clean energy. All these things, many of them sound great. Decent work and economic growth. Industry innovation and infrastructure. Reduced inequalities. Sustainable cities and communities. Responsible consumption and production. Who decides that? Climate action, life below the water, life on land, peace, justice, and strong institutions, and partnerships for the goals. And again, this is sdgs.un.org goals. And you may want to do a little bit of research on this because this is the agenda that they are pushing. And what… While that may sound good, actually what the policies are doing is they are pushing more and more control into the globalist elites. So they say one thing, but they use that narrative to gain more and more power. And we’re seeing that across the spectrum. And people are recognizing… Many of the challenges, and we’ll be talking with the challenges of what that is for the American idea for everyday people to thrive and prosper. This is all pushing more and more power into the globalist elites. And again, the conversation that I’ll reference with Daniel Turner, he and I both were surmising at the same time that the reason that Bill Gates has made a climate U-turn is is because of these data centers. And these data centers are collecting all kinds of data on a regular basis on each and every one of us. And ultimately, that could be used against freedom of the individual. And so that’s why we’ve got to really watch what is going on. And as Daniel said, it’s not because Bill Gates wants more money, because he’s got plenty of money. But it’s really more about power. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And while you’re at the website, sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. Did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. It’s because of all of our sponsors and because of all of you that our independent voice is out here kicking the tires on all of these ideas so that you can get your brain around them. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to implement it. And we focus on the issues. And mention the people pushing these issues. We work diligently to stay out of all the personality fighting that’s going on. Because if these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties can keep your mind off of searching for truth and looking at these issues, then they can control the narrative. And that’s why we do the show is so that that doesn’t happen. and i did want to mention a little ritchie’s pizza and i did stop and get one of their great calzones yesterday and they are pretty delicious they have locations in parker and golden and it is authentic new york flavor with colorado roots and they have daily specials and weekday lunch deals and they have a happy hour worth planning around so little ritchie’s is your neighborhood favorite and they’re always serving it up something worth stopping for and again locations are in parker and in golden It is Wednesday, so it’s a Trent Luce Wednesday. You know him. He is a sixth-generation farmer and rancher. Trent, welcome to the show.
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I don’t think you can be a farmer and a rancher. You can’t? I suppose you could be. Well, I don’t know. You know, pretty much a farmer, in my mind, this is my definition, a farmer tends to the soil, plants crops, harvests crops. A rancher… uses the same soil to generate food for livestock.
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So what are you? I’ve been saying you’re a farmer and rancher for all these years. So what are you?
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I fancy being a rancher because we don’t plant any crops.
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Okay. Okay. So I will correct that.
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It can be the one. You know, everybody gets hung up on that, Kim. I don’t. I just want to be a man from the land.
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Okay, a man from the land. I like that. And being a man from the land is getting more and more difficult with these PBIs, these politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties that are doing all kinds of land grabs through transmission line easements. And we’re going to talk with Wendy Volk regarding these industrial wind and solar projects. But also another way they’re doing that is property taxes, Trent Luce.
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This past weekend, I was participating in actually the MC for what was called Why Not? And it was a play on Wyoming. Why not reduce spending? And two state legislators from Wyoming came to Miller, South Dakota. I actually streamed this two-hour event live, which I think is worthy for people to watch. But Chip Nyman came. And Rachel Rodriguez-Williams came from Wyoming to Miller and explained what they did in terms of leading the charge to get a 25% reduction. on residential property tax in the state of Wyoming. And it was Mike Fell from Rapid City who wanted to bring these two individuals to Miller and invite anybody in South Dakota that wanted to come. But we had an excellent representation of current members of the State House and State Senate, plus candidates. And the discussion was very, very good. And there may be a point or two on this that Wendy and I don’t even agree yet, but at the end of the day, we need to hold these PBIs, as you call them, these people who are spending our future to oblivion, accountable. And I see this as a first step. Immediately people want to say, well, we’ve got to fund these government programs and we’ve got to keep this going. Well, we’ve got to stop spending. And if they’re not going to do it on their own, I guess I’m going to support finding a way to make it happen. But that brought about a whole other level of problems in Wyoming that I can’t even imagine exist, but they do.
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So, well, a couple of things. I want to interject. Here in Colorado, we have TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. So to incur new debt or to extend debt, these PBIs have to ask us via we vote on it. But by gosh, the people of Colorado are voting yes. It seems like if you say firefighter or the children, then people vote yes. They don’t think about this amount of debt that we’re incurring.
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You’re absolutely right. And look what has happened with them getting in and writing Tabor dollars to places that it’s not supposed to go. I mean, at some point, everybody’s going to have to recognize we’ve got to stop spending. And what I’m trying to do, Kim, is just what you just said. We have to bring this awareness to the forefront before it’s too late, because once it’s too late, period, it’s too late.
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Well, you know, we are so concerned and we talk about the national debt on a regular basis. But here we are at the local and the county and the state level. incurring debt and gladly voting for or supposedly voting for it. And that’s why we must have free, fair, honest and transparent elections as well. Because we are voting ourselves into debt oblivion at the local and the county and the special district levels as well.
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Well, I actually think you nailed the biggest part of this discussion. We are told that people are voting for that. I’m still not convinced that we have honest elections, period, no matter what the topic. Obviously, the presidential election 2020-2024 got a tremendous amount of attention. I think these elections, look at what happened in New York. And by the way, this is getting left out of the equation. We have New York mayor, proud to be from the Islamic community, and were to believe that the majority of New Yorkers voted for this, 42 other Islamic individuals were placed in similar positions, whether it be mayor, governor, city council, county commissioner, or school board. But what if none of that is based upon what the people actually voted? We have done nothing to improve the integrity of these elections as long as I’ve been involved, Kim.
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Well, and we’ve got our two lawsuits out there, and I’m trying to think about what to do for 2026. So stay tuned on that. I had a long discussion with Harry Howry with Unite for Freedom yesterday, because we’ve got to make sure that we have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. And so we’ll continue on that. But with that, in New York… They have ranked choice voting, which there is no way you can ever, from what I can tell, audit ranked choice voting because it becomes a computer algorithm of determining who voted. If Mondami was somebody’s second choice, third choice, he did not get 50% of the vote on the first round. So they do this computer algorithm to ultimately get that person to 50%. But right here in Colorado, I want to connect this dot. That was on our ballot in 2024. Kent Theory, who is a big mover and shaker here in Colorado, the former CEO of DaVita Dialysis, along with Josh Penry, big Republican consultant, who is – Kent Theory is Josh’s client, as I understand. So you’ve got this Republican consultant that is pushing that – that ballot question on ranked choice voting. It was defeated here, and I think part of it was our voice. We were a very strong voice against it, and I think the people of Colorado looked at it and said, this stinks. But they spent $14 million. Also, Catherine Murdoch, who is the daughter-in-law of Rupert Murdoch with Fox News, she’s very left-leaning. She put millions of dollars into this as well. Fort Collins has ranked choice voting. I think Broomfield has it. We need to, everywhere that this is being promoted, we need to say no. But I guarantee you that Kent Theory and Josh Penry are going to be back with this at some point in time here in Colorado. I guess I shouldn’t say I guarantee it. I can’t prove that for sure. But that seems to be the way things work out. Let me put it that way, Trent Luce.
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Yeah, I agree to that. But I want to follow up because just this week, the state of Nebraska and the state auditor, Mike Foley, who, by the way, is doing a really good job as state auditor. He continues to unveil information that is known or needed to be known. We got a lot of attention that Nebraska could not balance the budget in 2025, and that’s with federal dollars coming in, by the way. You should balance the budget without federal dollars involved. But it was $500 million short with the budget as it was, and that caused a lot of consternation. Well, Mike Foley… This week on the 17th, that was what, two days ago, he brought it to light that $310 million have not been paid. $310 million unpaid dollars in state taxes in the calendar year 2025. You know that that is an indication of what is taking place with the economy, and trying to keep up and pay taxes is not working. And it just is an indicator that people are overtaxed. And when you include, I’m going to include insurance as taxes, because most of the insurance premiums we pay today are a direct result of some policymaking mandate. When you include all of those costs of living, without even talking about a substantial increase in the cost of food, it’s becoming more difficult to make ends meet, pun intended, than it ever has been. And that is a direct result of overspending, and nobody seems to be talking about it. So kudos to Mike Foley today or this week for bringing to the forefront that $310 million unpaid taxes in the state of Nebraska in 2025 alone.
SPEAKER 15 :
And it’s because people are getting so squeezed, is your point on this, right?
SPEAKER 1 :
100%. 100%.
SPEAKER 15 :
And so we’ve got to reduce spending. So what PBIs are going to do, though, is they’re going to try to take these individuals’ properties for taxes, to pay taxes, right?
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 10 :
So the challenge in Wyoming, and that’ll be the perfect segue to bring Wendy in, is that if we have initiatives to limit the revenue to the counties, or in this case, property tax goes to the schools, you’re going to see people try to seek other revenue supplies instead of cutting spending. We as taxpayers must demand cut spending. We cannot allow them to seek other revenue sources that are perceived to make up for the loss in the property tax. And that will come in the loss of land and property rights in exchange for the property tax.
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SPEAKER 20 :
sure so i live in cheyenne and my husband’s family has had a ranch out in horse creek it’s just 26 miles northwest of cheyenne we were notified earlier this summer of the proposed plans for a 56 000 acre wind turbine project and then that went before our county commissioners for a site plan review and a vote and our county commissioners turned it down And now the company is appealing that decision. So in the last six months, I was totally focused on just looking at this 56,000 acre project. It’s almost three times the size of Cheyenne in terms of the amount of land that is currently being used for agriculture purposes to convert it to a very industrial purpose with 170 wind turbines. So I was focused on that, and then I start hearing about another project just north of Cheyenne in Chugwater on 53,000 acres, wind, solar, and lithium battery storage. And so, you know, some of the people heard about what I was bringing to the forefront in Laramie County and Chugwater’s in another county. And Trent even asked me, what do you know about the Chug Water Project? And so I was like, I can’t take on any more. You always say, I’m not going to put anything more on my plate. But somehow friends like Trent Luce can always say, no, you need to look a little bit more into this and what’s going on around you. And then it was just last week, all of a sudden, as I’m reading the 2,500-page application that’s supposed to go before our conference, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Industrial Siding Commission. When I was reading theirs, a phrase kept coming back in my mind of saying, what’s the cumulative impact of this? And sure enough, right then in the application, the applicant, which in this company is NextEra, that would be up in Chugwater, as part of the application, they are to talk about what is the cumulative impact. So I just was… delving into that part of the application, and that’s when I saw they were talking about the cumulative impact and their definition and the state’s definition is saying, you know, what other major employers or industries might have an impact at the same time of this project if it’s approved and goes forward. And the project in Chugwater would bring about 450 construction workers in a very short time period to work on this project for two to three years. And so they mentioned in Cheyenne there was going to be the possibility of the Laramie Range Wind Project. They were also talking about in Cheyenne there is a huge meta project. the parent company of Facebook’s data center expansion, and there’s also a gold mine. And as a real estate agent, I thought, wait a minute, there’s a lot more new development being proposed, and there’s already a wind farm in Cheyenne, just west of Cheyenne, on 20,000 acres. And then a friend that has also spoken on Trent’s show and brand in Laramie, which is Albany County, they also have been going through… a wind project that’s, I think, on 26,000 acres. That’s between, you know, when you go north from Fort Collins, Colorado, to Laramie, it’s State Highway 287. Tye Siding, there’s another wind project. And then I had another person reach out up in Glen Rock, north of Chugwater. And all of a sudden I thought, oh my goodness, this is 100 miles of wind. It’s going to be an entire wall of wind turbines, like when you drive through Iowa or drive through Texas. And I just hadn’t thought about it, that where most companies during these industrial review processes, they’re only looking at maybe within a 40-mile radius of a project, 60-mile radius. But I hadn’t put together, like, oh, my goodness, as all these state agencies are weighing in on this one project in Chugwater, what about the other projects that have already gotten up and running, as well as what’s in the pipeline, and that’s where I was realizing we’re talking about a 200,000-acre wind wall in Wyoming.
SPEAKER 15 :
In your piece, you talked about some of the real effects on the land, on wildlife, And I find this interesting. And, Trent, I’m going to throw this over to you. I was down in Pueblo for the Center for American Values last Tuesday evening emceeing the event for their 15th anniversary. And congratulations to the Center for American Values. Check out their website. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. But I think it’s in between the South Metro area and Colorado Springs. There is a huge wildlife event. overpass that’s being built. And of course, they say they’re building that because they want wildlife to not get hit by cars. And I thought, isn’t this interesting? We are spending all this money because we care about wildlife there. But what Wendy highlighted in her piece here is there’s a real detrimental effect impact on wildlife with what could be this 200,000 acre, 100 mile wind wall. Trent, your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 10 :
This is just Wyoming. This is what I’ve been trying to convey, Kim, for quite some time. And I felt people pausing, thinking that this White House was somehow going to be a part of stopping this type of activity. Well, I just want to remind people that Cantor Fitzgerald is a majority owner of many of these wind developments, and that’s owned by Howard Lutnick, our Secretary of Commerce. This administration is deeply involved in it. And at the end of the day, if you just listen to what Whitney walks us through, Whitney. Hi, Whitney. What Wendy walks us through is the fact that here we have 200,000 acres of land that is now controlled by somebody other than the people who pay the property tax on the land is subject to being that easement is subject to being sold to anybody else. And at the end of the day, they’re not generating a more reliable, affordable supply of electricity because we’re seeing electric rates go up between 12 to 16 to 20 cents per kilowatt hour in the percentage bracket of increased cost. And we have a few people through these development companies who are doing nothing other than chasing tax credit dollars to make it all happen. So who wins in this? The taxpayers are funding this whole project, Kim.
SPEAKER 15 :
We’re funding our demise is what we’re doing. And these PBIs are becoming fabulously rich in doing so. But the other thing, and Wendy had brought up a really good point. And actually, Daniel Turner, when I had him on yesterday with Power of the Future, he was talking about solar projects. Financially, they would be very well rewarded by solar companies if they allowed these solar panels to be put on their land. And this is back – he’s in Virginia, back in that area. But he speaks all over the country. And he said that he’s talked to people and said, have you thought about – if those solar panels are damaged in a hailstorm, who’s going to repair them? Wendy had brought up the point that after the life of, say, these wind turbines, who’s going to remediate the land for that, to try to put the land back? These are all questions that people have not been asking, but they’re starting to ask these questions, Wendy Volk.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, I think that’s a really good question, and just decommissioning plan the company is supposed to propose of what’s going to you know what they’re going to do they don’t say where the blades are going to go where where will the blades be buried um is it adequate to set aside 59 or 60 000 per turbine to take it down when in fact each one of these 700 600 to 700 foot turbines have a foundation that’s the size of a small house and they only have to go down three or four feet of remediation but the rest of that foundation a buried house basically stays buried i’m just i’m worried that we’re not thinking it through and that’s that’s where asking our um i think as a state we need to pump the brakes we have to stop we have to look under the hood and say to ourselves does this make sense is there a plan let’s look at the if there really is this corridor and it could be i mean i’m only looking at the southeast corner of the state this corridor could highly i think there’s a high probability there’s other projects people are telling me that extend farther north and so i think if we’re not looking at what that cumulative regional impact is or statewide effect that’s where i think our our top elected officials need to say stop we need to put a moratorium until we study more of this and from start to finish we have a plan we know what’s going to take place because taking this much agriculture land out of commission and some of it is state-owned land that belongs to state trust land that’s what funds public education in the state of wyoming they they’re signing a 40-year wind permit agreement with the company um i want to make sure for future generations what are we what are they going to be straddled with with these projects
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I think looking into the future is so important, Wendy, and you getting the word out is also important. I’m talking with Trent Luce. He is a sixth-generation rancher from Nebraska. And Wendy Volk is a fourth-generation Wyomingite, and she married into a family that has a family. Horse Creek property, about 25 miles northwest of Wyoming. And she got wind, no pun intended, of an industrial wind project that was going to be built right next to their property. And she’s really done the work to understand what’s going on, reading 2,500 pages of of a permit request is significant. But we the people, we the everyday people, are the ones that need to be stepping forward. Wendy Volk is doing so. We’re going to continue this discussion with both Trent and Wendy. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. For everything regarding if you’ve been injured, reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 15 :
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is kimmonson.com. You can text me at 720-605-0647. The text line is busy. I’ll try to intersperse some of these into the conversation with Trent Luce. sixth-generation rancher from Nebraska, and Wendy Volk, who is a fourth-generation Wyomingite, and she is a realtor in Cheyenne. Before we get back to the conversation, I did want to mention the U.S. MC Memorial Foundation, the great work that they’re doing. And a way to say thank you to our military is to support the foundation, and you can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Wendy Volk, I think that this is something that you really made me start to question in my mind, and that is, what happens 20 years down the road when these wind turbines have gone through the life of their productivity or… In fact, if the tax incentives have gone away and they’re no longer economically viable, what does that do to the land? And, Wendy, several years ago, in fact, this might have been pre-COVID, there was a wind project north of Fort Collins that one of our listeners, Jenny, had said, Kim, you need to come up here and take a look at this because they were taking down these wind turbines. And to your point, the amount of concrete… and rebar and all the different wiring that was just laying on the ground was significant. And so if, in fact, these projects, I think one of the things you need to look at is having these companies put up the money to put the land back to how it was before they got there. And that means going down deeper than four or five feet, Wendy.
SPEAKER 20 :
You’re right. And it is. And I think that’s where looking at it as a cumulative. I mean, if you’re taking 200,000 acres out of commission and then you have to restore the land, if that’s even possible. The project you talked about between Fort Collins and Cheyenne near I-25, kind of near our Cherry Bison Ranch area. When it came time to decommissioning it, first it just stood dormant. Nothing happened for the longest time. And when they finally started the process of taking apart the turbine piece by piece, they realized it was taking too much time and it was too costly, and that’s when they started using explosives and just blowing the things up. And so now you’ve just totally then – I can’t imagine all the different materials that would be blown up and then left on the ground. And some of it is a fiberglass type material is my understanding that can’t be good for the ground. It can’t be good for cows to graze or other animals to graze on. It’s just that if you just take that over a big swath of Wyoming, what is that going to do to agriculture? What is it going to do It’s just I can’t imagine because the state of Texas has the most number of wind projects and wind turbines in production. The second largest state is Iowa. And anyone that’s traveled through either one of those states. you can start to use your imagination of what we’re talking about in terms of how large the scale could be.
SPEAKER 15 :
So I really think that this is a big land grab, Trent Luce. And I think one of the ways to stop this is have people start to think about having these companies have to put up real money regarding the decommissioning of these projects, Trent.
SPEAKER 10 :
Cherry County, Nebraska was successful in keeping them out by not rejecting them, but doing exactly what you said, required a larger percentage of the decommissioning funds up front. And I just want to, Wendy is spot on with all of this, except she said 50,000. I’m very fortunate to have somebody that lives in my community who used to build these things. And so he quietly gives me whatever information I need. There’s 1,650 tons of material in one wind turbine. That is including the concrete you’re talking about to the 680-foot tower, whatever that case may be. The decommissioning price at this moment, average, depending on all the parameters, but the average is $640,000 per turbine. Per turbine. And there’s 1,350 tons of concrete… in that base that goes down into earth at least 20 feet in some cases 40 feet deep depending on the situation so to wendy’s point to just go and try to do something in the top four feet is is it’s not acceptable that cannot happen and yet when they go down and remove that concrete even deeper they’re just going to continue to continue to contribute to the demise of the land I agree with you 100%, and this has been my message from day one. This isn’t about electricity. This isn’t about anything other than controlling the land, and we continue to hear the rhetoric that we are not going to take any more farmland for any of these projects, and yet every day my phone rings. In fact, I just got a text. There was a meeting last night in Allendale, North Dakota. And what they’re doing in these public meetings should be also scrutinized because they force you to sign in. I do not sign in to any public meetings. I don’t either. Because once you sign in to a public meeting, they can use your signature to verify that you approve of whatever who asks you to sign wants to say you approved of. There’s nothing that says you have to sign to go into a meeting. And they’re gathering data on the people who are for them and against them. And the public meeting is essential. You must show up. You must be heard. You must make sure that the people who are making these decisions know what you think. But you do not give data. You do not do anything to go to that meeting other than go there and show up and speak.
SPEAKER 15 :
And when you speak, Trent, here in Colorado, many times they ask you to give your address. Don’t give your address. You don’t have these electeds giving out their address in a public meeting. Don’t give out your address there. A couple of things that did come in on the text line, this came in from Holly, and she said regarding that overpass down south of I-25, she said it’s not really for wildlife. It’s probably for future development. I hadn’t thought about that. And then another one that came in from Richard. He said that when he mentioned putting in a wind farm near Glen Rock, Wyoming, and there’s already a massive nuclear plant there. Why would we do that? These, again, are important questions. And then, Trent, you connected this dot. And that is, is the people whose land is they’re giving up these easements for this. They’re giving up control of their land, but they still have to pay the taxes. That’s an important dot to connect as well, Trent. And thank you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and let’s not also forget. 60,000 Wyoming households were without electricity for an extended period of time this past week. Meanwhile, we are reluctant to continue to burn coal to generate a reliable supply of electricity. Accidents happen, but anybody who understands the electric grid and understands reliable electric supplies will tell you the path we are taking is a path of darkness. We will not have electricity 24 hours a day.
SPEAKER 15 :
And that is why asking these questions at the local and the county level are so important. Wendy, you have shed so much light on these issues. And this last dot that you’ve connected, well, it’s not the last dot, but the most recent dot that you’ve connected is so important. And people can find this at the Wyoming Tribune, right?
SPEAKER 20 :
It’s on the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. I’m also submitting one to our Cowboy State Daily. And, you know, I just think that Wyoming deserves coordinated planning and not fragmented industrialization. Our landscapes, our wildlife, our heritage ranches, they deserve nothing less. And that would be the same for Colorado, for Nebraska, everywhere. But I think just because this is – I think in recent Wyoming history, I don’t know of a – A more pivotal time of seeing a tremendous amount of industrialization taking place, and it’s not as well coordinated looking at what the cumulative impacts are. So I think that’s that’s where it came from is it needs to be. regional cumulative impact across social, economic, environmental, and infrastructure systems. It’s just too important to ignore.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and you connecting this cumulative dot is so important because I think these big companies have wanted to have the narrative fragmented and then go after these different county commissioners in different areas. And so they’re only looking at that project while these big companies are looking at as Wendy connected the dot on the wind wall. Trent Luce, your final thought. Wendy, as always, thank you. I wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving. And I’m very grateful for all the great work that you’re doing. Thank you. Thank you, Kim. Appreciate it. And Trent, I do think that it is by design that these big companies, they’re trying to fragment the permit process. And I think this thought that Wendy connected is so important.
SPEAKER 10 :
What the country can preserve in its liberties if the rulers are not warned from time to time that the people persevere with the spirit of resistance. Let them take ours.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, okay. Thomas Jefferson. Okay. Trent, as always, these are important discussions. We’re going to prerecord for next week. So a little bit later this morning, you and I are going to prerecord for next Wednesday. And as always, I really appreciate all the conversations that we have.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you, Kim. Can’t wait till Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER 15 :
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