Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Lake Jackson. I want to echo my colleague Chris's

appreciation for everyone who's here, everyone who made it happen financially and everyone

who physically made it happen by showing up. It means a lot to us. Very touching. We talked

about it before. So the story of my talk began probably in early February

and I wrote a little update to our subscribers about it. I was rather more sanguine than I am now,

I'll be honest with you. I was going to talk solely about the mind-blowing aspect of understanding the exposure of the real

under core of our foreign policy. But then things sort of went a little bit south over the past few weeks.

You know, he hit the ground running, I mean President Trump, and then did some boneheaded things in my opinion.

So I went from my title of being, looking through the matrix, to now the good, the bad, and the

ugly.

And so I'm going to have more of a reflection than a proper speech, so to speak.

I just want to make some observations on these three categories.

So in the good category, and I will say there are more good than bads, so, and there's only one ugly, but it's pretty ugly.

So the good, the first one I would say, and this is my own bias, obviously there's plenty of others that we could talk about, but the ex-posé of USAID, and that,ID and through that the entirety of our foreign policy and foreign aid system, or scam, you would say.

Because what it showed us when we actually saw what happened is an unbelievable spider web, reaching throughout the entire world, manipulating not only policies and

politics and who gets elected and Burkina Faso or what have you, but manipulates our very

perception of reality. And that's where it starts. Spending budget, that's very important, but it starts with our

perception of reality. And what we found out is that USAID wasn't mucking around everywhere else.

It was mucking around in our own minds. And that's critical. And I'll just give one example.

So we learned when we had this exposure of what was going on that 90% of

the independent newspapers in Ukraine were actually funded by the United States government.

Now on the one hand, you could look at it from a fiscal perspective. Gee, that seems like a waste

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