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'Pax Romana" is a Latin phrase that translates literally into "Roman Peace". It refers to a period in the Roman Empire that historians overwhelmingly accept as the golden age of Rome. It was a 200 year period that began with accession of Octavian in 27 BC, the first Roman emperor, and it ended in 180 AD upon the death of Marcus Aurelius. Pax Romana was a period that was marked by peace, prosperity, stability, and growth. Historian, Edward Gibbon characterized the last 85 years of Pax Romana as the happiest time and place to be alive in all of human history. Pax Americana is the golden age that could have been in the United States of America had our golden age not been sabotaged. Instead of a long period of peace and prosperity in America, the saboteurs ushered in a long period of endless war and massive debt. Why was Pax America sabotaged to usher in the American nadir? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #167.

In 2011 National Public Radio filed a Freedom of Information request for a secret document that had been hidden from the American people for over a decade. Few people knew about this document before it was made public in 2011, and still today after it is public few people know about it. The document is titled, 'Life After Debt', and it was written and circulated in the Clinton administration, and at the Fed in 2000. The document states that because the government had balanced the budget, and even had a surplus, in the three previous years the United States would be completely debt free by 2012. The document identified this as a CRISIS that needed to be averted. In 2000 when this document was composed and circulated in the private halls of the government the national debt was around $4 trillion. In 2011 when the document was made public the debt was around $15 trillion. Today our debt is just under $32 trillion. Crisis averted. Why are the budget and debt ceiling debates nothing more than theater? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #166.

The elaborate scheme to frame Russia and Donald Trump with rigging the 2016 presidential election originated with one person, and that individual is Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was the one who paid for and commissioned the phony Christopher Steele dossier. After the dossier was composed, she took it to the media and tried to get them to report the nonsense in it. She was first to make the accusation that WikiLeaks was working with Russia to expose emails and documents from her private server, from the DNC, DCCC, and from her campaign manger, John Podesta. It all originated with her, but she had a lot of help selling these lies to the American people. She got help from the Obama administration, from the FBI and CIA, from the DOJ, and from the media. With all of these powerful forces participating in the Clinton Plot it's not surprising that the American people ate it up like candy. Why did Clinton devise this plot? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #165.

Now that John Durham has completed his investigation and released his final report what have we learned? We’ve learned that the FBI and the Department of Justice are corrupt. We learned there was no justification for the FBI to take the unprecedented action of getting a FISA warrant to surveil Trump’s 2016 campaign, not to mention the renewals they got to continue the surveillance after he was sworn in as President. We learned there was no justification to appoint a special counsel to investigate Trump, and that the FBI had exculpatory evidence that should have quickly ended all suspicion into President Trump, but it was ignored. In a statement in response to the Durham report the FBI said they had implemented dozens of corrective actions and had these reforms been in place in 2016 the “missteps identified in the report could have been prevented.” Missteps? Could have? Can you trust the FBI, and can you feel comfortable that nothing like the Crossfire Hurricane investigation will ever happen again? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #164.

There is a correlation between peace and prosperity. During times of peace nations can invest in itself. It can build infrastructure and make improvements. It can cut taxes and reduce the burden on it's citizens. It can create a social safety net, and programs to aid its less fortunate citizens and help them improve their lives. There are many positive things a nation can do to make improvements and create prosperity during peacetime. However, war can create prosperity as well. War will cripple nations! It will put nations in debt and divert resources from the nation to the war; resources that would be better used making improvements and caring for citizen. Despite all of the woes that war can bring upon a nation, war can be very prosperous for those who are investing in the continuation of war. For them, the more war the better. Are the people who own our media the same people who are invested in the wars, and what does it mean for our nation? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #163.

After Fox News and Tucker Carlson parted ways last week the feud between them has been getting interesting. Fox News seems to be leaking videos and messages from Tucker that they believe will tarnish his reputation. Also, fans of Tucker have been sharing clips of his speeches and appearances on podcasts where he has been openly discussing a transformation in his thinking about the media landscape and the corrupt alliance between the media and people in power. One clip that went viral is of Carlson on the 'Redacted' podcast with his former colleague Clayton Morris. In the clip Carlson tells Morris that if someone in the media asks what happened to World Trade Center Building 7 they would be immediately fired. The clip clearly demonstrates the awaking Carlson has had, because 20 years ago he was the one in the media shutting down people who asked about Building 7. What did happen to Building 7, and how did this viral Tucker Carlson clip reignite the questions about the collapse of the skyscraper? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #162.

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Tucker Carlson is finally out at Fox News and the left is celebrating. It has been a mission of theirs for a long time. The Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer called for him to be censored from the well of the Senate just a few weeks ago. Congresswoman, AOC called for him to be censored just a few days before it was announced he would no longer be on the air. It wasn't only members of Congress calling for Tucker to be censored, other members of the media were also calling for censorship. Tucker was their competition and he was beating them all, every night, yet they claim their calls to censor him were purely out of the interest of "democracy". He was their white whale and they were obsessed with harpooning him. Tucker knew it, but it was the enemies from within Fox News that should have concerned him most. With Paul Ryan, the Murdoch sons, and BlackRock influencing the decisions, Tucker's days at Fox were numbered. Is Abby Grossberg just a cover story for the real reason why Fox News got rid of their number one host? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #161.

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The transgender agenda currently sweeping the United States of America is spreading like a virus. It is being force fed to us with a synergy that is becoming all too familiar. It is the same synergy that we saw in 2020 with the Black Lives Matter movement. It is the same synergy we saw pushing propaganda about the war in Ukraine. The effort to spread the transgender agenda is broad and wide, and the messaging is coming from the White House, from major corporations, from all of the media, entertainment, and sporting leagues. It is everywhere and it feels impossible to escape it. It seems sinister, especially the way the agenda targets children. However, if you speak up and say you don't feel comfortable with men in women's locker rooms, or you don't think children should be given hormones and puberty blockers, you will be called transphobic and a bigot. Many have just gone along to get along. What are the effects of this agenda on our culture, and what are the longterm goals of those promoting it? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #160.

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After the shooting at the Christian school In Tennessee a few weeks ago we saw something that we have never seen after a mass murder. Six people were killed, including three children, but there seemed to be more sympathy for their killer and the killer’s community in the wake of the mass murder. The killer was a 28 year old transgender woman that was transitioning into a man. The media and many prominent voices offered condolences to the trans community in the aftermath. Several people made TikTok videos excusing the transgender shooter. Three days after the mass murder Biden’s press secretary said, “Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now.” Articles were written in an attempt to humanize the monster, like the article in the New York Post with the headline, "Nashville shooter Audrey Hale was 'heartbroken' over death of friend she may have been 'infatuated' with". Why is this killer getting this type of reaction after committing mass murder, and why are the authorities still hiding her manifesto from us? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #159.

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The United States of America is far from perfect, but it has been a thriving aspiration of this nation to always move closer and closer towards perfection. The preamble to the Constitution says, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..." Over the 236 years since this preamble was composed our nation has always aspired to move towards a more perfect Union, whether if it was fighting a Civil War to end slavery, winning equal rights for woman and minorities, or ending segregation and Jim Crow in the South. We have always sought to be better, and slowly but surely we have moved closer to that more perfect Union. However, lately we seem to have taken a U-turn and we are moving our Union away from perfection. How does the indictment of President Trump in New York demonstrate a departure from our pursuit for perfection, and takes us down the path of becoming like many other despotic nations? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #158.

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