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Peter Mackendoe is no fan of birds.

In fact, he has a theory about them that might be hard to swallow at first, but stick with

his talk from Ted 2023.

It takes a turn that makes a much larger point about these divisive times we're living

through after the break.

Hi, I'm Peter.

And six years ago, I received information that changed the course of the rest of my life.

From 1969 through 2001, the US government murdered over 12 billion birds in the American

skies.

They did this using poisonous toxins dropped from airplanes.

It was contagious and murdered all of the birds over the course of about 40 years.

Now I know this is not the public understanding of this, and may sound absurd, but please

just bear with me, keep in open minds, and just be respectful.

I know a lot of you may be wondering, why would the government kill 12 billion birds?

It seems like an awful lot of trouble for a government to go through.

The reason is as devastating as it is simple.

For each bird, the government killed, they replaced it with a surveillance drone replica

in disguise designed to spy on the American people.

Now some may say, if you're the government, at least, that this is a worthy sacrifice

these 12 billion lives for the safety of the people, right?

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