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Welcome to Keith's night. 
Don't try down anyone and the 

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libertarian Institute. 
This is the story of how Winston

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Churchill's debacle in Norway. 
Got him promoted to prime 

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minister of the United Kingdom. 
I'm quoting from Human smoke. 

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The beginnings of World War Two,
and the end of Civilization by 

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Nicholson Baker. 
Winston Churchill, lord of the 

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admiralty, wrote a memo about 
mining Norwegian, Waters, iron 

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ore, which made steel, which 
made the tools of war, was 

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getting through, to Germany from
Norwegian points of Entry 

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stopping. 
The influx of iron ore through 

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the remote Port of narvik above 
the Arctic Circle would cripple,

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the enemies industry Churchill 
contended, and it might succeed 

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in provoking Germany into an 
imprudent action, which would 

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open The door for us. 
The plan code named Wilfred was 

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Myna and innocent. 
He told his admirals. 

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Hints of Churchill's plan 
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Alerting the German High command
which made counter plans, prime 

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minister, Chamberlain didn't 
like the narvik idea, partly 

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because it was illegal. 
Norway was a neutral country and

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sewing mines. 
In neutral Harbors was contrary 

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to international law. 
It was also a war. 

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Widening provocation, German 
Admirals, mused over the 

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consequences of losing Norwegian
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The war would be as good. 
Lost. 

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They said, vidkun quisling, the 
former war minister of Norway 

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began talks with Hitler about 
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There had been no plans in 
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Norway. 
Now, there were, it was March 

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1940 Harold nicolson noted in 
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was laying mines in Norwegian 
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This will create a rage. 
He said, it was April 8th, 1943.

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Sweet. 
Ashish foreign officer dropped 

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by undersecretary cadogan's. 
Office says, we have done the 

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silliest thing in history in our
own interests could dogen wrote 

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and I think he is right, but I 
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The Norwegian government 
protests Gravely and strongly 

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against this open breach of 
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Norway's. 
Foreign minister German forces 

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surged in by April 9th 1940. 
They were in control of a nun. 

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Bombed has low. 
And of narvik, German singing to

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have got into narvik wrote Under
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suddenly it was a real war on 
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There were midnight Landings on 
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English, and French forces, 
which were set upon by German 

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airplanes. 
The French had forgotten their 

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mules, the English had, no 
snowshoes one group 

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commandeered, some horse-drawn 
sleds from local peasants and 

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serge. 
Through the drifts a squadron of

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RAF planes was sunk when it 
parked on a frozen lake and the 

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love. 
Woof bomb the ice. 

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The Royal Air Force began 
writing Norwegian airports under

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German control sometimes with 
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Then British retreat, disaster, 
excoriation, and leaping outrage

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in the press and Parliament. 
The outrage was aimed. 

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Not at Churchill who had 
conceived of the Norwegian 

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campaign. 
But at Chamberlain, the first of

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our glorious evacuations, h.g. 
Wells said later a debacle or 

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not a debacle. 
If what you wanted was Noble 

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chaos, wounded struggle, a 
spotlight, trained on chamber, 

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linnaean, indecisiveness, and 
the Above all of a stoic 

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England, be set but steadfast 
carrying bravely on in a world 

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everywhere enslaved and 
prostrate Norway was Winston's 

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adventure and poor Neville 
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Chips Cannon wrote in his diary.
So this was the final straw that

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got Neville Chamberlain to step 
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Churchill appointed as prime 
minister, May 10th 1940, you 

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might I want to say, well, 
unfortunately, you have to do 

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some terrible things. 
So good. 

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People can really take charge 
and they can defeat the evil in 

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the world that in this case were
the national socialists in 

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Germany. 
Here's Winston, Churchill in his

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book, The Gathering storm in 
March of 1948. 

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One day President Roosevelt told
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for suggestions about what the 
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I said it once the unnecessary 
War. 

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There never was a war more easy 
to stop than that which has just

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wrecked. 
What was left of the world. 

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From the previous struggle, the 
human tragedy reaches its climax

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in the fact that after all the 
excerpt ations and sacrifices of

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hundreds of millions of people 
and the victories of the 

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righteous, cause we have still 
not found peace or security and 

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that we lie in the grip of even 
worse, perils than those, we 

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have surmounted. 
Did another words on September 

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3rd, 1939 Neville, Chamberlain. 
And the United Kingdom declared 

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war on Germany. 
For violating Poland's 

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independence. 
By the invasion of Danzig. 

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After six years of Bloodshed, 
millions of people killed 

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millions of men, enslaved, 
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Millions of lives are ruined, 
they gave Poland to Joseph 

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Stalin. 
Here is how Pat Buchanan and his

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book, Churchill Hitler, and the 
unnecessary war in his chapter 

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on Churchill in Cairo. 
In 1943. 

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Churchill was entertaining 
MacMillan. 

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The war had passed its crisis 
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And Churchill seen, briefly to 
realize that, after all the 

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spilled blood and lost treasure.
Stalin might emerge as master of

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Europe. 
One month's regime about to 

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replace another, that was slowly
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To death. 
He turned suddenly to McMillan. 

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Crumb wall was a great man, 
wasn't he Churchill last? 

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Yes, sir. 
A very great man. 

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MacMillan replied. 
Ah, but he made one terrible 

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mistake. 
Churchill went on obsessed in 

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his youth by fear of the power 
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He failed to observe. 
The rise of France. 

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Will that be said of me? 
Yes, it will be said of him. 

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He had been a great man at the 
cost of his country's greatness.

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Thank you for watching Keith 
Knight. 

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Don't tread on anyone and the 
libertarian Institute Silver 

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Lining there. 
But this is what central 

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planning does in healthcare and 
education and infrastructure in 

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policing in everything in every 
single thing when government 

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gets their hooks on it. 
And it's not because of this 

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party's bad, or this 
politicians, bad. 

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It's because of the system 
itself when you have a system, 

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That is financed by extortion, 
and enforced, not by Merit, or 

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by value, but by threats and 
violence, they don't have to 

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actually work. 
If I had a company, if we if we 

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open it me an eight. 
We open, Nate and spikes Chicken

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Shack. 
Okay, and our model for Natan 

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spikes. 
Chicken Shack is anyone who 

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dares to walk anywhere near our 
store. 

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We point a gun in their face and
say, give me all the money in 

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your wallet and we'd get all the
money we go. 

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This entitles, you to X number 
chicken sandwiches over the next

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month. 
Great job, everyone. 

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And then and then they come in 
and they try to get their 

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chicken sandwiches. 
Do you think those sandwiches 

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are going to be good? 
Do you think that we're going to

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have any need at all whatsoever?
To make sure that people are 

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getting their sandwiches in the 
timely fashion or that they're 

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not poisonous much less tasty. 
Is there any reason to think 

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that that's going to work out? 
Well, no, because it's 

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extortion. 
We've removed the entire profit 

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motive, an incentive of 
providing value. 

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That makes us have to provide 
more value than the money were 

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receiving an exchange. 
That's how the the entire world 

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works every single person or 
organization on earth, except 

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for the government or its 
cronies that are attached to it.

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Like now the healthcare sector 
are expected to provide more 

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value than the money, they're 
receiving, or else, they won't 

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get any money in their 
competitors. 

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Will this is why central 
planning always fails is by the 

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very nature of how it exists. 
And that's the problem that 

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we're facing. 
We're face.