Let's take a little time to do a deep dive into history and do a little history lesson.

So in 1949 Chinese communist leader Maizeetong took power in China and just nine years later he announced the great leap forward. This was an

economic and social campaign that was supposed to last four years but they scrapped it.

One of the things they did was they abolished private ownership of farms.

So you cannot own anything.

So all traditional household farms are transformed into large scale

collectives, animals, household tools, everything, your land, it was all given to the government.

And essentially at that point, everyone was equal because they had to work on the collective

as well, so you had no more landowners. And well, how did that work out out there's a paper that was written on this a really

in-depth examination and it's titled great leap forward or backward anatomy of a

central planning disaster it says says in there, starts in 1958, it says,

in 1959 grain output in China fell precipitously by 15 percent. It declined by another 16 percent in 1960. Based on census data,

demographers were able to infer from extrapolations of Chinese mortality trends

that the total number of premature deaths between 1959 and 1961 range from 18.48 to 30 million.

If these estimates were accurate in the order of magnitude,

this famine would still be the worst in world history in terms of loss of human life.

Now I'm going to get to why I'm covering that in a second, but breaking news right now is

what's happening at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.

They've been surrounded by protesting farmers.

We've been covering this.

Germany, Italy, France have been protesting throughout the last couple months. They have converged in Brussels and

have surrounded this building here. We have some footage. Police have shot rubber bullets. There's fires, there's barricades, it's getting a little hairy there.

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