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So last hour, we got a 10 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:38,280 text about some ridiculous topic that the NPR station was 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,799 airing on one of their programs about democrats are going 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,000 to try to grow facial hair in order to get 13 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:48,960 people to vote for them. This is I guess also 14 00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:55,200 in addition to the cursing and getting themselves arrested. I 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,759 guess it's not their policies, it's not their positions that 16 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:03,320 people are rejecting. It's the lack of facial hair that 17 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:09,120 turns people off, apparently, according to NPR. Speaking of NPR 18 00:01:09,239 --> 00:01:15,840 Stacy Matthews writing over at legal insurrection dot com. For decades, 19 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,560 Republicans have argued that its supporters of NPR and PBS 20 00:01:19,599 --> 00:01:23,799 were so fond of keeping their purported news organizations operational, 21 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,079 then they should have no problem forking over the donations 22 00:01:27,159 --> 00:01:31,560 needed to keep them going. As it turns out, that 23 00:01:31,719 --> 00:01:37,159 is what is happening. As I predicted this would happen, 24 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,280 because of course it would. When you cut the government 25 00:01:41,359 --> 00:01:46,480 funding that has been propping up NPR and PBS, now 26 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:53,560 your listeners don't have an excuse not to donate. This 27 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,239 happened decades ago also when the funding levels were reduced 28 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,359 and they said, oh my gosh, we're going to go 29 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,000 out of business, we're going to go off air, and 30 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,480 all of this, and in fact it led to an 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:13,159 increase in listeners support. So the New York Times reports 32 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:16,800 that in the aftermath of NPR and PBS losing their 33 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,800 federal funding thanks to the GOP controlled Congress, donations from 34 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:26,879 private citizens have exploded at unprecedented levels. The number of 35 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,400 new donors has surged to over one hundred and twenty 36 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:37,960 thousand in a roughly ninety day period. Here's the New 37 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:41,199 York Times quote. Over the last three months, as the 38 00:02:41,199 --> 00:02:45,159 prospect of the cuts intensified, roughly one hundred twenty thousand 39 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:51,159 new donors have contributed an estimated twenty million in annual revenue. 40 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:59,879 That's according to Michael hayblic Hyplick. He Hippilick anyway, Michael 41 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,759 as the president and chief executive of the Contributor Development Partnership. 42 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,280 That's a firm that analyzes public media fundraising data. But 43 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,240 that's an exciting workplace. Overall, donations committed to public media 44 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,000 for the year or about seventy million dollars higher than 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,680 they were last year now, and Stacey points out that 46 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:26,759 these are not just one time donors. These are what 47 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:30,599 they call sustaining members, so they you know, they're they're 48 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:33,960 making donations over the course of the whole year, so 49 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,639 they've signed up for like an auto draft thing. Now, 50 00:03:37,919 --> 00:03:41,039 all that being said, they're going to have to get 51 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:47,360 a lot more donations if they're going to replace all 52 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,000 the money that was cut, because they're going to need 53 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:52,840 to raise somewhere in the neighborhood of like five hundred 54 00:03:52,879 --> 00:03:56,599 and fifty million dollars a year to make up for 55 00:03:56,639 --> 00:04:00,280 what they no longer will be getting from taxpayers. Sort 56 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:01,919 of kind of proves the point that if there's a 57 00:04:01,919 --> 00:04:04,719 strong enough market for something, consumers will make it happen, 58 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,919 and that neither PBS nor NPR need public funding to survive. 59 00:04:09,719 --> 00:04:14,159 She's exactly right. And you know that's not to say 60 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:19,199 some outlets are gonna are are not going to be pinched, 61 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:23,759 Yes they will. Some stations in some cities will I 62 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,079 don't know, problem, maybe they go off air, maybe they 63 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:31,360 have to cut back on their their staff. I saw 64 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,000 I saw Tommy Tomlinson. He used to be in a 65 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:39,639 columnist for the Charlotte Observer, and he was doing work 66 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:43,839 over at w FAE, the public radio affiliate here, and 67 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:49,800 they they let him go. But I don't know, like 68 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,839 I don't know what the nature of his deal was, 69 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:54,839 because he did. I think he did like a show, 70 00:04:55,519 --> 00:04:57,560 like a once a week show or something like that. 71 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,480 I mean, look, they've got they have a news department 72 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:07,120 over across the street over there, and their reporters do 73 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,360 some really good work. They cover you know, government meetings 74 00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:14,800 and stuff. But there's a lot of I mean, there's 75 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:19,240 a lot of staff in NPR stations. There's a lot 76 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,160 of staff. And I make this joke all the time. 77 00:05:22,199 --> 00:05:24,079 You know, you listen to any of these programs that 78 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,959 are coming from the National Network, which, by the way, 79 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,000 the local affiliates have to pay for those. See and 80 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,560 I've explained this relationship before, like Limbaugh's show was the 81 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,240 only show that radio stations had to pay for because 82 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,160 he could charge right because it was the tent pole 83 00:05:44,319 --> 00:05:47,079 in the ratings. You know, it's like everybody was under 84 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:53,879 his his tent and everybody else gives you their their 85 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:56,759 shows for free. And the idea there is that they 86 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,800 sell advertising on their show, and they control most of 87 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,560 that inventory, so they can then sell to national products 88 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,319 and services and then the local affiliates that carry the program. 89 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,839 We would get the program for free, but we would 90 00:06:12,879 --> 00:06:15,360 also get a couple of spots that we could sell. 91 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,000 That's the model, and it's in television. It's radio obviously 92 00:06:22,639 --> 00:06:26,560 NPR and what's the other one, American Public Radio APR, 93 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,079 I think, or American Public Media APM something like that. 94 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:36,079 They create content usually out of like Chicago and New York, right, 95 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:38,879 and then you have to you have to pay them 96 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,959 for airing those programs. So like local hosts, they I 97 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:46,519 think there's Mike Collins, right, I think he's the only 98 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,319 one over there. I think that it's the only local 99 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,560 show that's actually done versus us. We're live and local 100 00:06:55,639 --> 00:07:00,560 from five am until eight pm. Now, so you like 101 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,279 there is a way to make that that radio model work. 102 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,279 I'm sure Public Radio will figure it out at some point. 103 00:07:08,439 --> 00:07:13,079 And also they've got the McDonald's money. Joan Kroc. Ray Kroc, 104 00:07:13,319 --> 00:07:16,519 the the guy who stole McDonald's from the McDonald's brothers. 105 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,120 I'll never forgive Michael Keaton for that. But you know 106 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,720 when he when when he died, she got all of 107 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:28,240 the wealth. And then when she died she donated like 108 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:31,639 a billion dollars to uh, to public radio or something, 109 00:07:32,279 --> 00:07:39,199 so like, you guys, you guys got money. Okay, This 110 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:45,720 story out of Seattle, the climate activists are very upset 111 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:51,720 at the Blue Angels, the US Navy Blue Angels air show. 112 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,800 They're very upset. They call it wasteful, burning a lot 113 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,920 of you know, fuel and stuff just to fly around 114 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,920 and try to make people love their country. How dare they? 115 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:07,720 Seattle climate activists to protesting and upcoming US Navy Blue 116 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:13,600 Angels air show, claiming the jets pollute the environment. Also, 117 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:21,600 a woman in Seattle filed a lawsuit against against the 118 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:26,800 Blue Angels, I guess the US Navy, claiming that the 119 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:34,480 military jets killed her cat. Killed her cat. The cat 120 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,519 was old and it was already kind of sickly. The 121 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,720 Blue Angels the elite military flight demonstration team consisting of 122 00:08:42,759 --> 00:08:46,360 one hundred and forty active duty sailors and marines, now 123 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,200 in their seventy ninth year. The squadron has been performing 124 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:56,240 at Seattle Seafair Festival since nineteen seventy two. The Air 125 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,639 Show Climate Action Coalition, that's what they're called, the Air 126 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:06,240 Show Climate Action Coalition, the ACAC or the AKAK. They 127 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,080 put up a billboard in Seattle this week declaring say 128 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:15,320 no to Blue Angels. It's a very persuasive campaign, guys. 129 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,200 I'm sure it's going to work. The coalition, made up 130 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,799 of members from local climate groups as well as the 131 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:26,240 radical global climate group Extinction Rebellion, is planning to march 132 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,080 Oh that'll do it, and hold a rally on August 133 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,480 second to protest the Blue Angels air Show that weekend. 134 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,000 The billboard depicts people with hands over their ears and 135 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:44,200 others raising their fists in protest of the jets, So 136 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:47,720 it's like literally shaking your fist at the sky. That's 137 00:09:47,759 --> 00:09:54,320 the image that the Okay, they say the jets cause 138 00:09:54,799 --> 00:10:03,480 war trauma and pollution, war trauma. Just planes flying around 139 00:10:03,519 --> 00:10:08,919 produces war trauma. Okay, and then there's the cat all right. 140 00:10:08,919 --> 00:10:10,759 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 141 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:12,559 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 142 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,639 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 143 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,919 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 144 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:21,639 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 145 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:24,960 been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 157 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,799 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 158 00:11:03,799 --> 00:11:07,279 get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not 159 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,320 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 160 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,639 as they make the media landscape more transparent on Twitter 161 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,840 at Pete Calener, where I have this massage from It's 162 00:11:18,879 --> 00:11:22,679 all a distraction who says the Blue Angels should fly 163 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,279 crop dusters over Seattle and release a bunch of xanax. 164 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:31,840 Those people need to chill. Ah. That would be funny. 165 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:39,200 That would be funny. This is from Ann in rock Hill. 166 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,000 Our local PBS is promoting donations and the spokesperson claimed 167 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:47,360 that it was important to contribute to continue quote independent journalism. Yes, 168 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,240 I have heard them say the same on our public 169 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,919 radio station here too. Independent journalism. As you say, don't 170 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:57,600 pee on my boots and tell me it's raining there 171 00:11:57,639 --> 00:12:03,919 I getting my money. No, that's yeah. I saw one clip. 172 00:12:04,159 --> 00:12:06,720 I think it was in Stacy Matthews piece. Actually I 173 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:08,840 think she had a linked in her piece over at 174 00:12:08,919 --> 00:12:13,320 legal insurrection dot com and it was, you know, one 175 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,120 of these because they're all doing their fund drives and stuff, 176 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,080 and they have been leaning in on the whole you know, 177 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,200 defunding thing and using it to drive more donations, you know, 178 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,960 existential threat to you know, your favorite radio station, all 179 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:32,279 of that and this this so this guy is doing 180 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:34,240 this employee. I think it was out of like Denver 181 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:38,440 and he's, you know, doing a like a video appealing 182 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,240 to people to donate, and and the tweet says when 183 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,120 they send this thing out the video, the tweet says 184 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:51,360 something like join the resistance. Like what is that? The 185 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,320 independent journalism joining the resistance? Right, or as I call it, 186 00:12:55,399 --> 00:13:01,879 the resistanans. This is from somebody on the text line Pete. 187 00:13:01,879 --> 00:13:04,080 I just want to know how are all the activists? 188 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:11,080 How are all the activists getting to the protest by airplane? No, 189 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:16,519 they're probably local. They probably just they probably take mass Yeah, 190 00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:20,440 probably mass transit or bicycles. Yes, they probably ride bicycles 191 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,080 because they care more than you. So you got the 192 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:29,039 Air Show Climate Action Coalition, which is sort of like 193 00:13:29,039 --> 00:13:33,120 an ad hoc activist group. I guess like they it's 194 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,759 like they're just like pull. It's like an all star team. 195 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:41,679 You know. You get all these existing eco warrior groups, 196 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:44,399 and so you just collect some from each team and 197 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,240 you put them together into this Air Show Climate Action 198 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,159 Coalition so they can go protest the air show specifically. 199 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:56,039 I don't know why you would need to do that, right, Like, 200 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,039 why not just have all of the groups joined together 201 00:13:59,159 --> 00:14:04,679 and just be their own groups still? Because anyway they 202 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,279 don't want the air show there. And then there was 203 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,799 the cat. The Blue Angels are facing criticism and a lawsuit, 204 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,840 apparently from a Seattle woman who blames the noisy air 205 00:14:15,919 --> 00:14:21,600 show for the death of her sickly, elderly cat. Lauren 206 00:14:21,879 --> 00:14:26,879 Ann Lombardy filed a lawsuit against Blue Angels officers in 207 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,120 federal court last week, claiming that her beloved family member 208 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,440 was terrorized by the Blue Angels. She called it quote 209 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:46,320 state sanctioned acoustic torture. The lawsuit claims the noise. Look, 210 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:50,240 if that's the case, then my dishwasher is acoustic torture 211 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,960 because my cat seems completely terrified every time the cycles 212 00:14:55,159 --> 00:14:59,120 change or there's some noise difference inside that machine when 213 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:04,440 it's running. The lawsuit claim maybe I could, maybe I 214 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:11,519 could sue Whirlpool for acoustic torture. Okay, now I'm interested 215 00:15:11,559 --> 00:15:13,480 in this case. I'm gonna be following this now. The 216 00:15:13,559 --> 00:15:17,960 lawsuit claims the noise of the low flying fighter jets 217 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,519 spurred panic attacks in the cat. How would you even know? 218 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,639 How would you even know the cat's having a panic attack? 219 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:34,799 Wouldn't it just look like the zumis right? Cat was? Okay? 220 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,000 The cat was in critical condition due to her worsening 221 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:46,039 congestive heart disease, and ultimately led to her euthanasia last year, 222 00:15:46,159 --> 00:15:50,559 last August. She also is accusing the Blue Angels of 223 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:56,279 unconstitutionally blocking her profanity laced comments criticizing the US Navy 224 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:03,480 squadron on its Instagram page. So now you have a 225 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:09,840 constitutional right to curse on the Navy's Instagram page. That's 226 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,080 what she's Okay, that's her argument. She is seeking a 227 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,480 court order to unblock her account and to prohibit the 228 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,960 Blue Angels from blocking any other accounts on the basis 229 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:24,000 of viewpoints. Well, see, that's the thing. It's not really 230 00:16:24,159 --> 00:16:26,799 it's not based on a viewpoint. It's based on your 231 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:31,480 potty mouth or potty fingers, which actually sounds grosser for 232 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:37,080 some reason. But yeah, it would be based on your behavior, 233 00:16:37,679 --> 00:16:41,399 not your viewpoint. Your behavior is what they were blocking 234 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:48,240 because you obviously cannot express yourself in a civil way. 235 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:50,399 So anyway, all right, now, I don't care about this 236 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,480 lawsuit anymore. I am not going to really sue Whirlpool. 237 00:16:54,879 --> 00:16:56,840 I'm not gonna because I like just my cat does 238 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,679 not suffer from panic attacks that I know of. 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But I don't know, because I 267 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:48,200 think partly, like you know, liberals donate far less than 268 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,119 conservatives do, and so I mean just in general, like 269 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,960 that's the that's the thing. So I don't know if 270 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,240 they're donating enough to actually get like just more than 271 00:18:58,279 --> 00:19:01,079 the standard deduction. So I don't know if that, I 272 00:19:01,079 --> 00:19:10,880 wouldn't count that as taxpayer funded. So China apparently a 273 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,759 bunch of hackers launched a cyber attack as commis do. 274 00:19:16,319 --> 00:19:21,200 Three China linked hacking groups are among those responsible for 275 00:19:21,279 --> 00:19:26,640 a sweeping cyber attack against users of popular Microsoft server 276 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:32,559 software that has already impacted dozens of organizations across the globe. 277 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:36,680 This is from the Washington Post. Federal investigators believe multiple 278 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:39,839 US government agencies are among the early victims of the 279 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,880 ongoing cyber exploitation campaign, though the full scope is not 280 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:49,599 yet clear. This is according to two US officials with 281 00:19:49,759 --> 00:19:55,039 knowledge of the matter. Microsoft confirmed in a blog post 282 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,559 last week that three Chinese hacking groups are involved in 283 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:05,000 the f One is called Violet Typhoon, another is called 284 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:11,519 Linen Typhoon, and the other is called storm Dash twenty 285 00:20:11,559 --> 00:20:14,839 six oh three. I don't know what any of those 286 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,680 names mean. I'm not clear. I assume Violet Typhoon and 287 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:25,640 Linen Typhoon must be related or no is to the 288 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,839 Chinese names. Do they put the surname at the front 289 00:20:30,039 --> 00:20:33,680 of the names anyway. At least two US federal agencies 290 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,519 are among the roughly one hundred suspected victims of the 291 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:41,400 hacks thus far. Both people were granted anonymity to discuss it. 292 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:48,359 Blah blah blah. The attacks allowed hackers to extract cryptographic 293 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:55,240 keys from servers run by Microsoft clients. Those keys, in turn, 294 00:20:55,799 --> 00:21:00,440 would let them install anything, including back doors that they 295 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:05,480 could use to return only versions of share Point that 296 00:21:05,559 --> 00:21:09,039 are hosted by the customer, not those in the cloud 297 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:14,519 are vulnerable. Right, So if you use share Point and 298 00:21:14,599 --> 00:21:19,480 you're using the cloud, apparently that's fine. That if you're 299 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,960 hosting it, you're not fine. Microsoft issued effective patches for 300 00:21:24,039 --> 00:21:29,039 the last of the exposed versions. While installing the patches 301 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:32,119 should prevent new intrusions, customers also need to change the 302 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,559 machine's digital keys, apply anti malware software, and hunt for 303 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:42,440 any breaches that have already occurred. That's all from the 304 00:21:42,559 --> 00:21:46,880 Washington post ed Morrissey at hotair dot com. He notes 305 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:51,000 the irony, which is that Microsoft and Google have ben 306 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,559 over backwards in their dealings with the tricoms to access 307 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,079 their market, the China market. Both have long partnered with 308 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,160 state linked firms to help China build out its cyber infrastructure, 309 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:09,039 and in doing so also helped Xixinping build systems that 310 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:15,039 censor and spy on its citizens, even with China's hackers 311 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,799 using that infrastructure to target the US government. Since at 312 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:23,079 least twenty fifteen, Google had been backing away from China 313 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,240 for the last few years. They had bailed on the 314 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,920 as at twenty ten they classed with China over censorship, 315 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,680 but then they came back in around twenty seventeen twenty 316 00:22:34,759 --> 00:22:40,240 eighteen to offer a chi coom controlled search app as 317 00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:47,079 well as an AI project, but Google's employees protested and 318 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,519 they forced an end to both of those projects after 319 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:58,119 a public backlash. Yeah, to help the communists with their 320 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:04,640 AI research and to control the search results. Right, because 321 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,000 if you like, this is one of the tests. If 322 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,279 you want to know if your search engine is compromised, 323 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,440 or your social media platform, your AI assistant whatever, ask 324 00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:19,039 it about Tianaman Square, what happened to Tianaman Square and 325 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:24,480 if the if the response is you know, not about 326 00:23:24,519 --> 00:23:29,119 the protest of the Chinese government, but instead bounces back 327 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,039 as something else, or in some cases I've seen it 328 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,680 says we are unable to process that request. That means 329 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:43,000 the try cooms of control over your your platform, Morris. 330 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,759 He goes on to say, we have had a decade 331 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:48,920 now of cyber warfare aimed at our national security infrastructure 332 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,480 by China. It has not stopped, nor will it ever stop, 333 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,240 not even if we normalize trade and offer tariff free 334 00:23:56,279 --> 00:24:03,119 access to our markets. That's because Xijenping is not interested 335 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,240 in profitable and friendly relations with US. He wants to 336 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:11,880 destroy American power and seize control of global commerce on 337 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,960 his own terms. This latest hack or a cyber attack 338 00:24:17,279 --> 00:24:20,519 should make this very clear to everyone. But then again, 339 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:22,680 it should have been clear all along. I mean, they 340 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,640 are Kamis, and rule number one with kamis they lie. 341 00:24:27,839 --> 00:24:31,680 I added that part, that's my rule. But it's true. 342 00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:34,599 The only question now is whether the corporate quizzlings in 343 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,480 the West will realize it or whether they will continue 344 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,680 to collaborate with China to the destruction of all others 345 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,599 and the oppression of China's people. Meanwhile, Washington Post also 346 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,960 reporting that Chinese authorities blocked a US based Wells Fargo 347 00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:56,799 banker from returning home and separately sentenced a Japanese executive 348 00:24:56,839 --> 00:25:01,920 to more than three years in prison for espionage. According 349 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,440 to the Washington Post, the Wells Fargo executive, named Mao 350 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:10,880 chen Yu, was not detained, but she has been ordered 351 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,000 not to leave China. That's according to the bank. Wells 352 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,160 Fargo has suspended travel by its executives to China. Many 353 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,480 Japanese companies have already been limiting travel to China and 354 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:30,319 have been withdrawing family members of managers stationed there. One 355 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,480 of Ed Morrissey's colleagues David Strom at hot air dot com. 356 00:25:35,559 --> 00:25:39,000 He points out that China's modernization has been driven by 357 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:41,559 its acceptance into the World Trade Organization back in two 358 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:43,440 thousand and one, and for twenty five years, China has 359 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,519 undergone increasing integration into the global economy. 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They went down to one 399 00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:18,279 World Trade Center after an off duty federal Customs officer 400 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,759 was shot by an illegal alien in an attempted robbery 401 00:28:22,519 --> 00:28:27,079 the other weekend, Holman said, quote, you don't want to 402 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,319 let us in the jails to arrest a bad guy 403 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,039 in the safety and security of a jail. You want 404 00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:34,559 to release him into the street, which makes it unsafe 405 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:37,039 for the alien because anything can happen in an on 406 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,200 street arrest. So what are we going to do. We're 407 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,799 going to put more agents in New York City to 408 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,559 look for that bad guy. So sanctuary cities get exactly 409 00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:53,720 what they don't want, more agents in the community. This 410 00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:59,880 is the thing I do not understand why the demo 411 00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:03,920 don't get this right. When when you say we're a 412 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,400 sanctuary city and we're not going to cooperate with ice, 413 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:12,680 you're going to then get more of this activity. The 414 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,960 alleged shooter entered the country illegally in twenty twenty three, 415 00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:18,759 during then President Joe Biden's tenure, when it was you know, 416 00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:22,720 Ali Ali Oxen free and he had been arrested and 417 00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:28,160 released and then arrested again, and then released, and then 418 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:33,240 arrested again and then released and then arrested again for 419 00:29:33,359 --> 00:29:38,799 a fourth time. Four times this guy got arrested since 420 00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:43,319 twenty twenty three, she blamed Christy Nooman blamed the shooting 421 00:29:43,359 --> 00:29:46,359 on New York sanctuary city policies that limit the city's 422 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,960 cooperation with immigration enforcement and Mayor Eric Adams for not 423 00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:54,839 changing the policies despite what people believe is a good 424 00:29:54,880 --> 00:30:01,480 relationship with the Trump administration. Now, Adams says like not 425 00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:05,319 my fault, much like our sheriff here is not my fault. 426 00:30:05,319 --> 00:30:08,400 This is the city council that did it. He said 427 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:14,680 he wants to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration, but 428 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:19,240 he blamed the left leaning city council for not letting him. 429 00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:21,960 He said he welcomes more ICE agents in the city 430 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,599 if they're going to help the city go after quote, 431 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:30,079 dangerous people like the alleged shooter, But he said that 432 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,039 if it's going to be to go after everyday individuals 433 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:36,559 who are trying to complete the path, who are trying 434 00:30:36,599 --> 00:30:41,279 to be a citizen. I don't think we should do that, Okay, 435 00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:45,319 So what does that mean, complete the path, trying to 436 00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:51,880 be a citizen. Well, if they're on the path to citizenship, 437 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,960 then they would be allowed to be here, right, they'd 438 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,559 be in that process, that naturalization process. Now, if you're 439 00:30:58,599 --> 00:31:00,720 just saying that they're on the path and that that 440 00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:03,799 just means that they're an illegal alien here. But they haven't, 441 00:31:04,079 --> 00:31:06,960 you know, murdered anybody, they haven't been arrested for anything. 442 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,559 They're not dangerous, right, then you're okay with them. Keeping 443 00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:12,559 is that the path you're talking about? Is this the path, 444 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:19,160 the pathway to citizenship or a pathway to amnesty? Have 445 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:25,359 you heard this? Representative Maria Alvira Salazar, Republican out of 446 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:30,559 Florida is sponsoring immigration legislation that they're calling it the 447 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:37,079 Dignity Act, and it envisions a healthy budget for modernizing 448 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:42,079 border infrastructure and funding for ICE. It requires companies to 449 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,480 use the Everify system to ensure everybody hired has legal status. 450 00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:51,920 The legislation would immediately discourage illegal employers and laborers from 451 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,039 seeking each other out. Those are good provisions, according to 452 00:31:55,079 --> 00:32:00,759 the editors at National review. However, those good provisions are 453 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,279 fatally undermined in the rest of the bill. Taken as 454 00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:09,759 a whole, this latest attempt at comprehensive immigration reform is 455 00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:14,480 a cure worse than the disease. Supporters of the act 456 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:16,960 claim the bill does not offer amnesty to millions of 457 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,759 illegal immigrants. By that, they mean it does not offer 458 00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:23,279 full citizenship. But the bill does offer a form of 459 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,759 legal resident status to millions of illegal immigrants. This is 460 00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:32,680 the core of amnesty, a promise that the normal consequence 461 00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:39,440 of an infraction will be stopped and the object of 462 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,839 the infraction, the ability to live in work in the US, 463 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:47,440 is gained. Right. That's you don't suffer any of the negative. 464 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,920 You get what you wanted. Passing this bill would be 465 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,440 the first official step towards creating a permanent resident under 466 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,799 class with a perpetually renewable legal status that falls short 467 00:32:58,839 --> 00:33:02,039 of citizenship. It is the kind of arrangement that the 468 00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:05,599 Republican Party was founded to oppose because it undermines free 469 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:12,039 and fair competition in the labor market. Stop helping, Representative 470 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:17,920 salaz Are, please, you're not helping. The American Republic does 471 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,759 not want and is not fit for a racialized under class. 472 00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:27,400 Such an arrangement would be a powerful magnet for entering 473 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,799 the country illegally. Come one, come all, lay low for 474 00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:34,240 seven years, then watch as your children and children's children 475 00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:37,240 live as American citizens. You yourself may qualify for a 476 00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,920 future legal status once our political class has established the 477 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,200 precedent that dignity calls for nothing less. Yeah, it's just 478 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,119 a matter of time, because then it's like, well, these 479 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,400 people are being taken advantage of now, and so we 480 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,720 need to just you know, they have none any crimes, 481 00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:55,440 and so we need to just give them full citizenship. 482 00:33:58,599 --> 00:34:00,480 In the twenty years that Congress has been trying to 483 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,599 make a version of amnesty now plus enforcement sometime in 484 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,759 the future, they've been trying to make this sound like 485 00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:07,960 a good deal. It never sounds like a good deal. 486 00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:10,079 The rest of the world has already moved on. Border 487 00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:14,320 infrastructure is hardening almost everywhere, according to studies of satellite 488 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,639 images and the evidence from the border crossings of the 489 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:22,599 world data set. Democratic publics want a system that is fair, 490 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,639 that works for the long term interest, and they are 491 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:30,000 forcing their governments to respond with measures of restriction and control. 492 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:36,159 Stop helping Salazar all right. That'll do it for this episode. 493 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,320 Thank you so much for listening. 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