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00:00 Due to the salamanders listing as an endangered species, they cannot allow the public to be walking around where they may be apparently harassing or squishing them. So that's the salamanders' favorite area? The scientists believe is right there below the diving board? Just upstream from the diving board and right across from the diving board is an area with some changes happening in Barton Springs pool I love Mike Hanson Archives. Hello folks, it's Mike Hanson from Mike Hanson Archives Yes! I'm right here in front of the Elvis Mansion and hope you enjoyed tonight show with the young and enthusiastic Alex Jones from the 1990s

01:04 If you'd like to help support this channel, just email us here at this email address or give us a call at 830-672-3089. Otherwise let's go back to the future with Alex Jones We just got done talking to the head of public relations Jim Holbrook down at Austin Parks and Recreation, and he told us how they have to save the salamanders so people can't swim down here where they've been swimming for over 100 years before that where the Indians were swimming. So let's go on down there and talk to the park police

01:52 who I've heard are very friendly people. Generally, if they catch you swimming in an area you're not supposed to be or if your dog's swimming where it's not supposed to be and let's find out how the feds are saving us from ourselves Enforcing the law! Look at them How y'all doing? Y'all protecting the salamander down here enforcing the federal edict I see

02:29 We're here to keep an eye on the project that they're building. What's the project? This fence Building a fence, huh To protect us alamanders Yeah Jim Holbrook we were just over at his office You say we probably got more information than we do Oh yeah, we know about the feds and their land grabs getting used them telling us how to live for our best interest but No, you guys are just doing your jobs. So people aren't allowed to swim down here anymore is what y'all been told? As far as I know People just aren't even allowed to go down there That's who you're with Yeah i'm with KJFK radio and I have an access TV show How ya doin'? Doing fine Y'all out here making sure... 43 brah

03:16 Yes, sir. We're instructed not to speak with the media. This is not because of this or any issue that's why he's heading to the house and going home now but thats why we are not giving much information under our general order say were not supposed talk to me so I understand thats what's going on we're not trying evade your questions you know that's whats going on I think APD be the same way they have a public information officer That's probably why I saw a lot of chit-chat going on. Oh, well I understand! It is just funny in America now we see police everywhere protecting areas that the feds say we can't use meanwhile they're selling crack on East 11th and i realize y'all are park police but how many people are in the park police? How many officers? About 32 I believe. So commissioned officers. Commissioned on the street and then how many in the bureaucracy? What do you mean by bureaucracy sir? People with desk jobs

04:13 I think just the chief. Just the chief? So 32 people to protect the parks, yes sir well it seems reasonable i've actually heard there's some other areas off around in Austin where people aren't allowed to swim what kind of areas do you mean as that I'm not aware about told about friends of mine being at other areas with their dogs and things and being totally can have dogs swimming haven't heard about those what about right down here below are they planning to restrict down below the spillway? I haven't heard about that. Haven't heard about that? Yes, sir What's your name sir? Uh, Megalorino Officer Megalorino Officer Megalorino? Yes, Sir Nice to meet you Alex Jones Nice meeting you Thanks alot The uh...the lines and things is it alright if we go down an just film it Sure Okay thanks You ready Well here we go

04:59 The last few days as they construct a fence around the area, place where people have been swimming for over 100 years and before that the Indians as we said earlier. So let's go down and take a look at the area that EPA is here to keep us safe from ourselves because were so evil lets go. Oh yeah I'm in on it. Yeah, okay. No no we'll just zoom up to him You know as we walk down here to film this historic area where Austinites have been enjoying nature for a long time This gentleman out of the clear blue said something that made absolute sense what'd you say sir? First they lock you out then they lock you up That's how systems have always worked That's how it always works

06:05 Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Come down here and just get me... Okay, Mike start with me and then zoom in Here you have it As we speak they are putting in these poles to create a fence around the sunken gardens which were constructed for people's enjoyment It is a real shame that we are losing our sovereignty here locally as the country is losing its sovereignty internationally And with executive orders another unconstitutional acts

06:47 The executive branch is robbing Americans of their birthright. You see, if they can restrict you from using your own park lands... What's next? What else will you accept? This is insanity and make no mistake it's aimed directly at private property watering down property rights right here in the good old US of A! I have trouble even seeing any salamanders in this pool Salamanders are a very common amphibian

07:27 I would venture to guess if i could capture one of these salamanders and go compare it with other stream and river salamanders that you would find that it's a very common salamander but that would be a federal crime. I will be put in federal prison as others have been for what they call endangering endangered species, a trojan horse to get your private property okay? You're talking about right here now we're discussing an area which

08:10 We were just talking to a lady and we'll talk to her more in the future. And she says that earlier this year, she was here swimming with her son and they helped save some fish that are getting caught in a crack over here kind of like what happens to salmon when they go into dams. Of course you don't hear the EPA trying to fix these fish traps that have been created by the wall falling down here no they're just concerned about getting used to doing what they say so let's go down here check this out Ma'am, is this what you're talking about right here? Right here. I've got somebody's watch if they want it okay We're told that there are cracks in the rock here that creates a powerful suction that small fish get stuck in and I'm sure a precious salamander could also get stuck in there and We hope that the EPA They really care about wildlife will try to check into this some of the real threats to wildlife And not people but as you can see

10:01 This entire area is being fenced off because they say we are causing a problem. You ready? This is the last time that any human, unless you're an environmentalist priest of the modern age, that Austinites or anyone else will be allowed in this area and it's again been used for a long time people actually built this structure and no longer will it be allowed for public use

10:51 Well, let's uh... Let's go down here and get this and get out of here. I gotta go This entire area is being restricted to human use What's next? We hear that there may even be plans to restrict the spillway area where you're allowed to bring your dogs Take a look at the lush Eden that the federal government And pencil-necked bureaucrats The type of people that tattled on you in high school and would try to steal your lunch money are engaged in Hoorah! Yeah, I'm with the radio station. I just got acted Come on lets' go

11:45 KJFK, what do you think of this area being fenced off and people not be able to use it? I think it sucks. I'm from Canada where people have freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to do what they want and over here you guys are putting up fences in Austin left and right man around the park downtown now your fixing on doing it down here You're gonna restrict this whole waterway? I don't think so man! I think that people oughta get up stand for their rights Freedom of speech, freedom to go where they want. This is the land of opportunity? This is the land of freedom?! You're putting up fences everywhere! What's free? Well search for your best interest please My best interest? Yes, the government wants to help you now give up your private properties next we're gonna help you out of your money Yeah, yeah, you want you want to help me yes

12:32 Let me enjoy myself. Leave me alone! Sir, you're causing... Keep the places that people enjoy for the people What about the university professors that want to control your life? University professor? Yeah Why are you talking about those who are concerned with salamanders? I think they oughta put them in their backyard near a stinking pool if they wanna observe em Alright Salamanders are very rare They're only on every continent of the planet except Antarctica I'm pretty close to Antarctica and I'll vouch for that. There are no lizards there, all right? But we don't need any if they're gonna restrict the way we live Well sir they're very rare. There's only thousands of species of them They're only all over the place We must take your property please No thank you How about just dump a gallon chlorine in that bass and will exterminate once and for all we can keep on enjoying ourselves Well...We don't uh

13:27 subscribe to that type of behavior. But, you know that might... That's how they do it in Russia! They take everybody rights away and then nobody cares anymore and the whole country goes to crap everything falls apart And then you can set up on top of it bureaucrats and control the whole mess Yes we know how you operate slime We're gonna stop ya Everybody saying it The rumors are in the air and bureaucrats won't give us a straight answer What next? shut down the lower part of Barton Springs where it feeds into Lake Austin. This belongs to the people of Austin and it's very frightening to me that control freaks, that lie to you have control over your minds out there They should not be shutting down sunken gardens and they should not be restricting Barton Springs and the area that feeds out of it This has been The Freedom Report Stay tuned Turians protecting the King's land You know there is nothing new

14:32 in history with elitist wanting to control property. It's as old as feudalism itself, it is old slavery it's an institution teach population that they don't have access the lands that they pay to maintain and you've created a public that can be subverted and controlled and manipulated. Let's go Mike! Earlier we first got here this gentleman called from distance away

15:10 and what he said rings absolutely true. Tell us what you said, sir? First they lock you out then they lock you up. First they lock you out then they lock you up. Feudalism my friends showing us who's boss, who controls the situation-the bureaucrats downtown, the bureaucrats in Washington not the people of this country and the way most Americans behave we deserve what's happening and someday you'll be paying 30 bucks a pop to go in Barton Springs and there'll be some elitist Cult-like environmental priestess or priest who has nothing to do with environment everything to do with your bank account making you say some strange incantation Governments need religions and modern environmentalism is that religion? Of course, it's controlled by a bunch of transnational banks want to steal your property But that's a little bit too intellectual for most Americans. So we'll continue to go on be slaves meanwhile they'll continue to pillage the third world in the name of environmentalism and

16:04 Just give up your private property and all your problems will be solved. Maybe they're right, thanks a lot man. Take care. You see this picture? People pass by my door to tell me paradise on earth looks like water. You know it's always water and I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I don't smoke And I come here bring my nine-and-a-half year old because within two miles of our home and you see how special this ring is? It's man-made since 1930s. And if you go to the middle of that water, when you sing, you get echoes all around and there are people playing drums and guitar here every day. I'll be 51 years old next month... But the bureaucrats don't like that! They don't want you have a good time. You know, last time they wanted me to go shopping mall with cameras watching you ha ha The last time

17:04 some early 20 year old there and he said this is a professional killer because he get hired to go to Hong Kong or foreign places. Kill people for lots of money, you really need a massage because they know I do alternative healing so i just massaged him right here on the wall and I was talking to him I say you know how long it takes maybe 3,000 diapers pampered to change for mother raise her child? How do you feel if Someone's professional killers kill you how your mother would feel I was talking to him the whole time Before I know it there was people massaging all along the walls. You know they were engaged They were just normal kids, and it was such a beautiful side of music those drums their kids there were dogs and they're massaging touching and They really looked like a paradise, but this is free we must shut it down

18:02 I know you'll be the cynical one. I'm being sarcastic, I'm illustrating absurdity on the inside. Okay here my statement is a water hole is where human race congregates and where all culture mingles and starts you know? No it's shopping malls! And I am environmentalist to 100% no garbage in my household Okay, I can live without money without electricity without Refrigerator. I spent 25 years in the Eastern world 25 years in the Western world and I have something to say this should stay open This part police over here Mike How you doing

19:16 Yeah, my name is Alex Jones and my friends and others have been calling me about what area below Barton Springs that they're going to be closing. Sure. What's his first name? Hey! What's your name sir? Jim Halbrook I'm Alex Jones from KJFK Radio. I've talked to you before. Hey Access TV show when did i talk to ya? Because I was on KJFK one time doing a show, yeah Blowing Smoke. Shannon Burke? And then I think I talked to you on another issue and I had to get it recorded because I couldn't go to his show that was being broadcast from Central Market. That's right. Can we just spend a few minutes with you and ask about what area down below Barton Springs is getting closed? Yeah sure. You're going to the office or outside doesn't matter to me. Nice and cool in here!

20:16 I just came down here to find out exactly what the rumors are and what i've been hearing about an area below Barton Springs being closed to the public. There is an area that is salamander habitat at Sunken Gardens which is the concentric stone rings, yes that are downstream from Barton Springs That environmental conservation services department has decided they need to put a fence around litter, debris and people from intruding upon that salamander habitat. I know those springs are natural but aren't the gardens themselves man-made? The gardens themselves are man made. It's the concentric walls and the area that they're looking at putting them in would come in basically right

21:07 at the second ring, you know you got your top ring and then a second ring. And then the third ring is the little spring area and putting the fence there after the second ring and before the third one. Then fencing off the water area which is the salamander habitat and bringing that fence down from the spring to where the spring flows to the trail itself I heard also that it was to keep some of the vagrants and people from congregating down there at night. That's not true because obviously we're sitting here with an endangered species, and if that was the case...if that was a problem one, we wouldn't deal with a problem that way, and you would be seeing fences in other places as now now the fence is there. The reason for the fence is for salamander habitat. Yeah

22:00 Why then have they not shut down Barton Springs Pool proper if it's salamander habitat but they're shutting down some smaller springs? They have roped off areas of Barton Springs pool and restricted, no access to some the areas. And those areas, the fissures right next to the diving board will no longer having any public access because the springs are coming up right there and due to the salamanders listing as an endangered species. They cannot allow the public to be walking around where they may be apparently harassing or squishing them." So that's the salamanders favorite area, scientists believe is right there below the diving board? Just upstream from the diving board right across from the diving board is an area there are some changes that are happening to Barton Springs pool in getting a 10-a permit that have been proposed one of the changes is the beach area deepening it

22:56 so that there's less chance of salamanders being traded on by swimmers. So, there is actually going to be some perhaps construction or some altering of the pool? There seems to be for environmental reasons a lot of proposed changes to the Barton Springs area including sunken gardens Wasn't the salamander originally... I mean this is a whole other debate in and of itself but we've had Lakeline Mall being held up because of a cave beetle I'm sure you remember that, don't you? Yeah. And then it was found that the beetle was actually all over the place. Do you remember that or... Umm..I remember late long lost still got built. Yes. But i'm not familiar with all of them Well, the only point I am trying to make sir is that either.... I understand people need a reason to say Barton Springs. I've been swimming there since I was little kid but there are salamanders all over country

23:50 tens of thousands of different subspecies and variations. One salamander might have a tail that's a millimeter longer, it might have two black spots on its back rather than one. This is species variation you will say some pools in the mountains of Arizona which are spring fed where you'll have a type of fish that has a different color spot and actually that stopped construction and development. Actually many people who have lived in Arizona for hundreds of years, had to move out their property because they were paid for it for fish that really can't even mate with other fish but since they're localized to specific pool and have few characteristics that are different

24:33 I just have a lot of problems with the so-called science behind this because i've seen so much corruption. I don't mean you personally, I know your public information officer people that mean well go out and find something like the spotted owl say because most people don't want to just clear cut that beautiful timber destroy our old growth forest So they go and say well this is hurting the uh... this owl And then later they found out That the owl could actually live in barns and many other places Uh species have a lot It's like we have parakeets, the monk parakeets live right down here and monk parakeets have never lived in this part. Yeah they're definitely an exotic. Of North America they're in Guatemala and southern Mexico but because of the climate changes which are either cyclical or I mean...I don't mean to be diatribing it just that

25:27 I've heard about the Environmental Protection Agency now trying to actually classify some forms of bacteria as endangered down in the Houston Ship Channel and other areas, and it seems like a Trojan horse. So...I don't mean to be diatribing this probably won't even get on air but I'm just trying to get to the point where you understand where i am coming from sir is that-is that I don't understand why we're allowing more and more our properties public lands to be restricted in the name of things like a salamander Do you have any of the Environmental Protection Agency's information about the salamander? That information and the questions that your really presenting, which are good questions really need to go to Robert Hanson who is an endangered species biologist on staff who is dealing with this issue. Is he here? No, he is in a different building but I would be glad if we could get his phone number. Yeah...I mean it just that I heard all about Barton Springs over and over again

26:23 and I heard about how we should do this, and we should do that. And then they said well the people in the springs are hurting salamander. We're really going to be honest about it when you just shut the springs down? See that's not gonna happen because people want to use it." And they've been using for 69 years but again with questions about the species and habitat I really have to refer you to the Environmental Conservation Services Department because there who were getting basically our instruction from to some degree on this as far as what needs to be done and we're just trying to keep the pools and places open and operational. So basically y'all are just doing what you're told? Yes And then it's Mr Holbrook, right? Yeah We're doing what we're being told to do to comply with environmental laws

27:12 So Mr. Holbrook, all you're really doing is... You're the public information officer here in Austin for Parks and Recreation? Right And you're just saying hey the Environmental Protection Agency is saying that the salamanders are endangered so they're gonna... Yeah and they're telling us stop doing this start doing this uh you know we held up some cleanings and then we got permits to The city got the permits to allow our department to go in and clean the pool again while they monitored our cleaning efforts. And while they were monitoring, evaluating what works, what doesn't work, what harms the salamander or what doesn't harm the salamander... Did those permits cost money? We can change it. You need talk to Robert Hanson. My guess is that the money that it costs us basically staff time Why why can't Austin

28:03 have a referendum on the salamander or why can't Austin do its own work, or why can't Texas? Why don't we need the Environmental Protection Agency and Carol Browner. to do that for us? That's an environmental question that I can't answer. I don't have information on that one, and I don't know how the federal regulations work on that So Mr. Holbrook basically what you're saying is they're going to shut down the sucking gardens areas, the pools that have water in them Right Which would be the third ring is the pool area And then the outflow to the trail itself

28:44 Because the salamanders live in there because the Salamanders are living there and people are stepping on them. Yeah, it's a matter of people being in the salamander habitat just like they roped off the areas in Barton Springs as well as Other things that come with people you know the trash that gets in there and stuff like that so So it's just people, how old are the Sunken Gardens? When were they first constructed. I believe that they were built by the CCC one of the depression area work corps has a lot of the things in Circle Park it has the look of a Roosevelt program yes it's a beautiful old structure so basically boy I guess that's all my questions then Mr. Holbrook it just comes down to

29:30 The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing Barton Springs in their graciousness, and their splendidness to keep the parks open. But there's going to be some restrictions certain areas are gonna be shut down that's correct roped off and they may actually alter the depth of the pool that's correct in some areas. And I have something to say this should stay open because Our medical industry, our government industry is not dealing with the homeless people on the root. The ground root level to deal with their blood sugar. To settle their chemistry and blood sugar where the homeless people gather it should be people there to deal with their blood sugar and help them

30:19 All the other existing organizations is not helping them to do that. And this their last of oasis here, because that's the only thing healing for them to jump in... ...to get rid off with their alcohol and jump out I stay away from there because they might trip on my feet and so forth. This place since the 30s man-made and salamander was once disturbed already And in the winter, my son and I would jump in this cold water trying to get the crawfish's claws tight and pull them straight out so we don't yank them. They were still alive!

30:57 I can't imagine how many salamanders got sucked in there. Oh, you say there's a crack in the wall? Many cracks on the wall! It sucks my hair right through it and pulls all of the way back So your saying that government is not really concerned about the welfare of the salamanders No! See... The focus point should be fixing the walls so its not detrimental to marine biology in this pond You know And then when the next flood comes the wall will be so expensive to fix Because because right now you still can fix it with little money maybe for the same money that using defense Okay, ma'am listen. We got to go but thank yes. Thanks the information. Yes Thank you for taking an interest hey I'm glad

31:42 Ma'am, what's your name again? My name is Wing Bo. Wing Bo. W-I-N-G B-O-W Sun. Sun stands for Servant of Mother Earth. Hey thanks a lot! It's Mike Hanson here with a little breaking news on the 29th of January 2022 Trump rally and Mr. Trump our ex president mentioned our beautiful smart mayor Connie Kassir. That's a really big honor! Alright, here it is...a little breaking news. A lot of power that guy! Lot of power! Gonzales Bear, Connie Kassir! Connie Kassir! Thank you! Thanks Connie! Good luck in your race! And Texas GOP chair, he's done a fantastic job! Let's hear it again! Gonzales Bear, Connie Kassir! Connie Kassir! Thank you! Thanks Connie! Good luck in your race!

32:50 And that guy, light of power. Gonzales Bear, Connie Casier! Connie Casier thank you thanks Connie good luck in your race and Texas GOP chair he's done a fantastic job That's very much of an honor to have him mention your name alrighty there ya go One more little bit of news here on January 29th 2022 Trump mentions part of my heritage, Davy Crockett. And he also mentions the come and take it in Gonzales Texas so here we go. You could say our country has never seen anything like it but no matter how big or powerful these corrupt radicals may be you must never forget our nation does not belong to them our nation belongs to you

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36:40 Yes, thank you very much folks.