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Speaker 1: On the Cult of Conspiracy Live, we talked about the
Speaker 1: four radioactive wasp nests that were found in South Carolina's
Speaker 1: around a nuclear facility, and I had heard just a
Speaker 1: little thing about it. I didn't find out too much
Speaker 1: about how they became radioactive or what the potential blowback
Speaker 1: could be from this, so I decided to do some
Speaker 1: research into it. This is from art Stechnia art Arstecnia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a thing our Stechnia and let's go into it
Speaker 1: now for radioactive WASP nests found in South Carolina's nuclear facility.
Speaker 1: Wasps living around a Cold War era nuclear facility in
Speaker 1: South Carolina had built at least four radioactive nests, raising
Speaker 1: questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent
Speaker 1: of environmental contamination. According to a report by The New
Speaker 1: York Times last week, news broke the officials, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: at the officials at the site in Savannah River Site
Speaker 1: SRS near ak in South Carolina have found one radioactive
Speaker 1: nest on July third. The discovery was documented in a
Speaker 1: July twenty second report by the US Department of Energy,
Speaker 1: which of course owns the site. The report said that
Speaker 1: the nest was on a post near a tank used
Speaker 1: to store a nuclear waste and that it quote was
Speaker 1: probing one hundred thousand dBm per centimeter squared beta gamma.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I don't know if that's hell
Speaker 1: a little bit or a lot of bit or whatever
Speaker 1: the case was. But basically, this old tank that was
Speaker 1: used to store nuclear waste was at least giving some
Speaker 1: some readings on the Geiger counter. This contamination level is
Speaker 1: greater than ten times the total contamination values listed in
Speaker 1: federal regulations for areas that require contamination posting and monitoring.
Speaker 1: The report said, oh, well, there you have it. Then, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: still in it concluded that the radioactivity of the nest
Speaker 1: was considered to be from on site legacy radioactive contamination,
Speaker 1: not related to a loss of contamination control. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. It's not like they had unaccounted for
Speaker 1: radio active waste or anything like that. But even still,
Speaker 1: the fact that a WASP nest was able to be
Speaker 1: built in form around a known radioactive source of waste.
Speaker 1: This is again that we kind of brought it up
Speaker 1: on the Cult of Conspiracy Live. But this is kind
Speaker 1: of the beginning of a comic book series. It sounds like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what would happen if one of these
Speaker 1: stung you. I hope the report kind of talks about
Speaker 1: it here, honestly. But The Times uncovered that three additional
Speaker 1: radioactive nests had been found since July third discovery. The
Speaker 1: US Department of Energy is managing the discovery for WASP
Speaker 1: nests with very low levels of radioactive contamination. Edward DeShong, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Edwin DeShong, manager of the Department of Energy Savannah River
Speaker 1: Operations Office, said in an email statement to The Times,
Speaker 1: the nests do not oppose a health risk to SRS workers,
Speaker 1: the community or the environment. Well that and that just
Speaker 1: make you feel better, okay. The SRS is a three
Speaker 1: hundred ten square mile facility built in the nineteen fifties
Speaker 1: to produce material for nuclear weapons, including plutonium and tritium okay,
Speaker 1: a component of hydrogen bombs. The Times noted activity at
Speaker 1: the SRS, which is located near the border with Georgia,
Speaker 1: declined at the end of the Cold War. The Department
Speaker 1: of Energy began cleaning up the site in nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: a slow process that is currently estimated to be completed
Speaker 1: by twenty sixty five. Wow, so they stopped using it.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, it was I don't even
Speaker 1: know what they really said when they made the site
Speaker 1: like inactive by any means. But they started cleaning up
Speaker 1: in ninety six, and they were expecting that it was
Speaker 1: already going to take till twenty sixty five to complete
Speaker 1: the cleanup. WHOA, that's crazy. According to the Department of Energy,
Speaker 1: the site produced one hundred and sixty five million gallons
Speaker 1: of radioactive liquid waste, which has been evaporated to thirty
Speaker 1: four million gallons. The site has of fifty one waist tanks,
Speaker 1: eight of which have been operationally closed, with the remaining
Speaker 1: forty three in various states of closure or of the
Speaker 1: closure process. Outside experts have been quick to point out
Speaker 1: critical information missing from the Department of Aryangy's next report,
Speaker 1: including the absolute level of radioactivity found in the nest,
Speaker 1: the specific isotopes that were found, and the type of
Speaker 1: wasps that built the nest. Some wasps build their nests
Speaker 1: from mud, while others might use chewed up pulp from wood. Now, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it's fair enough. I about to say the ones that
Speaker 1: use mud, I know, like dirt dabbers, for instance, And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's like the official name of them.
Speaker 1: They look like wasps, but they're black and they don't sting.
Speaker 1: They just make like mud huts on your wall and
Speaker 1: they're painting the butt to clean off. But yeah, most
Speaker 1: of the ones that sting that I know have kind
Speaker 1: of used chewed up pulp wood or something like that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right. Timothy Musso, a biologist at the
Speaker 1: University of South Carolina who studied organism and ecosystems in
Speaker 1: radioactivity or radioactive regions, told The Times that the Department
Speaker 1: of Energies explanation that the WASP gathering legacy contamination for
Speaker 1: their homes is not unreasonable. There's some legacy radioactive contamination
Speaker 1: sitting around in the mud, in the bottom of the legs,
Speaker 1: or you know, here and there, he said. The main
Speaker 1: concern relates to whether or not there are large areas
Speaker 1: of significant contamination that have escaped surveillance in the past.
Speaker 1: Musso said alternatively, this could indicate that there is some
Speaker 1: new or old radioactive radioactive contamination that is coming to
Speaker 1: the surface that was unexpected. The Department of Energy report
Speaker 1: of the first WASP nests said that the nest was
Speaker 1: sprayed to kill wasps, then bagged as radioactive waste. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's I think that's fair. The ground and area around
Speaker 1: where the nests had been did not have any further contamination.
Speaker 1: That's at least what they said, we don't know, Okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough. The DO report's first wasps, oh, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: in a statement to the Aiken Standard, and that's the
Speaker 1: local publication. Officials worked at the Department of energy site
Speaker 1: noted that the wasps themselves pose little risk to the community.
Speaker 1: They likely have lower contamination on them and generally don't
Speaker 1: stray more than a few hundred yards from their nests.
Speaker 1: That's also very fair. However, The Times pointed out a
Speaker 1: report from twenty seventeen when officials at SRS found radioactive
Speaker 1: bird droppings on the roof of a building at the site.
Speaker 1: Birds can carry radioactive materials long distances. Muso said, Okay,
Speaker 1: so according to the report, they pose no threat. However, again,
Speaker 1: they didn't really specify the type of wasps. They didn't
Speaker 1: specify the type of isotopes, they didn't specify levels of contamination.
Speaker 1: They just said that it was negligible and it wasn't
Speaker 1: anything to worry about. I feel like we need a
Speaker 1: little more detail to feel more at ease about it.
Speaker 1: But that being said, like there is a greater than
Speaker 1: zero percent chance that somebody in South Carolina is gonna
Speaker 1: get stung by a radioactive wasp. And this is how
Speaker 1: Spider Man started, essentially, And I thought that was crazy
Speaker 1: when that joke was made on the Cult Live. That's
Speaker 1: also not like the craziest thing now knowing that this
Speaker 1: is a real insect contamination. But anyway, Raven, you said
Speaker 1: that there was also before we started shooting, you said
Speaker 1: that there was also a little bit of precedence for
Speaker 1: radioactive insects being used by humans for other purposes. So
Speaker 1: there may be a little bit more of a correlation here.
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, I dropped a link in the chat
Speaker 2: kind of, but it pretty much it essentially is talking
Speaker 2: about the screwworms. Screwworms have been around for quite a while,
Speaker 2: Like nineteen thirty three is when they got brought over
Speaker 2: to America, and then like nineteen sixty six is when
Speaker 2: they got fully eradicated from America, but then had a
Speaker 2: resurgence in nineteen seventy six and now we're battling it again.
Speaker 2: Pretty Much, what they did was the US of Mexico
Speaker 2: got with Panama and made the Wall of Flesh. And
Speaker 2: what that is is they have a nuclear facility that
Speaker 2: that breeds these flies that are alive, but they're dead inside.
Speaker 2: So they're the males that can't reproduce with the females
Speaker 2: because they've used radioactive nuclear waste and stuff to pretty
Speaker 2: much sterilize them. And that was the one thing that
Speaker 2: they could find that would be able to let them fly,
Speaker 2: get dropped out of the planes, be able to like
Speaker 2: mate quote unquote with females, and then essentially they die off.
Speaker 2: So it's like a super slow process that took like
Speaker 2: decades to eradicate. The first time, the wall of flesh
Speaker 2: is failing because they only have one facility that's open,
Speaker 2: and so it's that max capacity or right now. And
Speaker 2: so the last like since twenty twenty three, I think
Speaker 2: it is, is when it started to spread across UH
Speaker 2: Central America again, and so Mexico and the US have
Speaker 2: decided that they're going to make a facility, another nuclear
Speaker 2: facility on the Texas Mexico border to try and reproduce
Speaker 2: as many flies as possible, because at one point they
Speaker 2: were using for one facility, it was seventy tons of
Speaker 2: meat and it was like one hundred it was twelve
Speaker 2: million gallons of blood to produce like two hundred million
Speaker 2: flies because it has they have to be like living
Speaker 2: in flesh, and so they've created like different stuff now,
Speaker 2: but they all are nuclear radioactive flies that are flying around,
Speaker 2: and it's like a slow process that happens.
Speaker 1: So and I remember whenever you came on the Cult
Speaker 1: and we talked about this the the negrew screwworm, right,
Speaker 1: and they were using a flyworld. Yeah, that's a weird
Speaker 1: one to say out loud too, that's a tongue twister
Speaker 1: new world So.
Speaker 2: Why why would they call it new worlds? Like, you know,
Speaker 2: just the weird symbology of it, like why new world?
Speaker 2: Like it's been around the same time. It really hasn't
Speaker 2: mutated much. It has changed slightly where it's like a
Speaker 2: variant that is getting in more is like adapting and
Speaker 2: going into more like warm blooded things. They don't really have.
Speaker 2: They don't really affect humans like most of the time.
Speaker 2: They would rather go for horses and cows. That's why
Speaker 2: for the last like two years, the shipments of horses
Speaker 2: between Mexico and the US have like stalled. It wasn't
Speaker 2: until like I think a month or two ago is
Speaker 2: when they finally open it up again for them to trade.
Speaker 2: But they have like a seven day quarantine now, so
Speaker 2: it's it's still an issue and still gaining more of
Speaker 2: an issue. But this kind of all ties in with
Speaker 2: the conversation of Bill Gates's bugs as well and that
Speaker 2: other company that they created what seven now seven types
Speaker 2: of bioengineered bugs. So if this is like a radioactive bug, like,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's going to somehow be exploited or used
Speaker 2: in some regard, because it seems to be for right now,
Speaker 2: it seems to be like their positive net positives to
Speaker 2: try and control things. But who knows at this point,
Speaker 2: because then you get the super bugs like the ones
Speaker 2: over in Africa, the mosquitoes that are now like even
Speaker 2: more deadly.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and I remember when we were talking about it,
Speaker 1: they so Gates was trying to make it to where
Speaker 1: vaccines were actually genetically inside of mosquitos, where whenever they
Speaker 1: bite you you would get accidentally vaccinated. And originally the
Speaker 1: whole the bioengineered mosquitos and things like that. It was
Speaker 1: I remember they tried doing it in America as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, to where more male mosquitoes would be
Speaker 1: born than female mosquitos because the other ones right right
Speaker 1: right female excuse the one's a bite. So their theory
Speaker 1: was if we could make it to where genetically they
Speaker 1: are more prone to produce male larva, then we would
Speaker 1: have a lot less mosquito bites, And that overall sounds great,
Speaker 1: but that kind of backfired in a sense because you
Speaker 1: just had more what's the way I'm looking, more more
Speaker 1: prolific breeding happening within the mosquito population. It didn't drastically
Speaker 1: increase or decrease. It kind of was seen as a
Speaker 1: net wash, not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Well, they haven't. So they released two different rounds of it.
Speaker 2: They released it in Texas and in Florida, like twelve
Speaker 2: million in one location, and I can't remember the amount
Speaker 2: and the other location, and that's from I can't remember
Speaker 2: the company it was. They haven't technically like I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't read any reports of it being a success
Speaker 2: or failure either way. But that company has also made
Speaker 2: several other bugs that they've used in South America that
Speaker 2: has been seen as a success in Brazil, if I remember,
Speaker 2: it is the first location that they dropped them all,
Speaker 2: and that's how they got approved to drop them here
Speaker 2: in the US. It's trying to combat malaria is the
Speaker 2: big game. The thing about the malaria talk is though,
Speaker 2: so they have the malaria vaccine that they've come out with,
Speaker 2: the two levels, the two different vaccines that Gates has
Speaker 2: his hand in both, and that's a whole nother ordeal.
Speaker 2: But it's like one of the number one killers in
Speaker 2: the world. So why would they realistically, if they're in
Speaker 2: game is to keep people sick and keep people in
Speaker 2: the cycle of needing things and all that, then why
Speaker 2: would they technically cure or kill off the mosquito population.
Speaker 2: What they did was is they sprayed chemicals before the bioengineers.
Speaker 2: They sprayed certain chemicals and as they mutated to the chemicals,
Speaker 2: they became superbugs. So now we have the superbug population
Speaker 2: and now we have the bioengineered ones. The bioengineer makes
Speaker 2: more sense because they are they're actually taking out sequencing
Speaker 2: of the like pretty much a Jurassic Park, which like
Speaker 2: you know, some people don't know about, but they take
Speaker 2: out the sequencing and then that way they can mutate
Speaker 2: what they actually are passing on to the next party.
Speaker 2: So like they say they have like ten boys and
Speaker 2: they two girls, the next time they'll have only they
Speaker 2: won't be able to reproduce or they'll have broken genes,
Speaker 2: and so they'll end up being sterilized and then it
Speaker 2: kind of like goes down the cheam like that.
Speaker 1: So and maybe it had just hadn't been enough seasons
Speaker 1: for lack of better words, to see if those results
Speaker 1: will actually take hold in Florida and Texas. But as
Speaker 1: far as I've done in my research ever since that episode,
Speaker 1: it's kind of been seen as a net wash at
Speaker 1: least as of this moment. So Royce, go ahead, brother, I.
Speaker 3: Just have a quick question as far as the whole thing.
Speaker 3: So I'm kind of understanding the concept about what's going on. Besides,
Speaker 3: was it with these either with the losses or any
Speaker 3: one of these creatures that have been.
Speaker 1: Nuked?
Speaker 3: Essentially, what happens whenever those bugs get eaten by higher
Speaker 3: life worm so those birds and those birds are eaten
Speaker 3: by etcetera, etcetera. So it seems like that would be
Speaker 3: a greater chance for it to be spread to us.
Speaker 3: It would be through the eating of you know, with
Speaker 3: the foul or whatever, as opposed to just getting stunks.
Speaker 3: Like's what's stopping that necessarily from happening.
Speaker 1: Right, So in the case with the New World screwworm, right,
Speaker 1: they used radioactive flies to combat it and pretty much
Speaker 1: eat the larva of the New World screwworm to kind
Speaker 1: of keep it where it was. But once the larva itself,
Speaker 1: which is that's how it works, right, So there'd be
Speaker 1: like a cut or a sore on a cow. The
Speaker 1: New World screw worm will embed itself in there and
Speaker 1: lay its eggs in there. Their thought was that these
Speaker 1: radioactive flies would come and kind of kill those and
Speaker 1: then since they're radioactive, they're not gonna produce and die
Speaker 1: and whatever else. But if a bird eats that fly,
Speaker 1: or if a frog eats that fly, or whatever the
Speaker 1: case is, the thought process was that the radioactivity of
Speaker 1: these insects were so low and so negligible that we
Speaker 1: wouldn't see the effects down the road in the ecosystem. Personally,
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. I don't know. Yes, they've
Speaker 1: had it's been decades. They started doing this with the
Speaker 1: New World screw worm in the fifties, and they've had
Speaker 1: decades of testing to show that, like at least if
Speaker 1: it is having some sort of a secondhand effect, it's
Speaker 1: not something that we are seeing, at least not on
Speaker 1: our end. I don't mean just in America, but like
Speaker 1: right here, it's shown that Panama, Costa Rica, Nick Garagua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize,
Speaker 1: El Salvador, these countries had outbreaks of this, but we
Speaker 1: haven't really seen an outbreak in twenty years. So I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I don't think that it is something that
Speaker 1: you could just say, oh, well, so the frogs might
Speaker 1: get a little radioactive, but it's no big deal. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a biggie because there's something else that's
Speaker 1: gonna come and eat the frog, right, And there's something
Speaker 1: else that's gonna come and eat that the circle of
Speaker 1: life happens. I don't believe that introducing radioactive waste into
Speaker 1: the circle of life and into the food chain is
Speaker 1: a inherently okay thing to do. Raven, I know you
Speaker 1: know a thing or two about this, so please weigh in.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm actually going to read it.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I've actually read about this, but I it is a
Speaker 2: very good question because I had the same similar question.
Speaker 2: So it says that in a sterile fly production facility
Speaker 2: this that they are injected with high energy gamma rays
Speaker 2: that break down the DNA of the males, damaging their
Speaker 2: sex chromosomes. According to the USDA, the results are the
Speaker 2: flies are no longer able to lay fertilized eggs. The
Speaker 2: amount of radiation the male flies are exposed to does
Speaker 2: not pose a danger to animals. Or humans. But since
Speaker 2: the female flies only mate one time in their short
Speaker 2: twenty days lifespan, once populations are exposed to sterile males,
Speaker 2: the population dies out over the course of months or years,
Speaker 2: depending on the size of the outbreak. While it is
Speaker 2: unclear how the dispersal would work in the US, it
Speaker 2: is in the event of an outbreak let's see blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. So pretty much what they're saying is is like,
Speaker 2: it's not enough to actually impact us because they die.
Speaker 2: So the screw worms, for example, they only mate for
Speaker 2: one male. They don't go and mate a whole bunch
Speaker 2: like mosquitoes do. They only mate one male and then
Speaker 2: they die within thirteen to twenty days, so that life
Speaker 2: cycle is dead. Then the male will die too, so
Speaker 2: they're continuously dying off. So the broken sperm, the broken
Speaker 2: sperm or whatever you want to call it, the you know,
Speaker 2: is not able to actually fertilize any eggs, So then
Speaker 2: that is going to be completely avoid of all radiation
Speaker 2: gamma stuff, so they are not actually nothing is consuming
Speaker 2: them unless they're consuming the ones the males that are exposed.
Speaker 2: But it's so small it really shouldn't actually impact anything
Speaker 2: unless they're eating, like unless they're a bat that's eating
Speaker 2: like massive amounts, then potentially there probably could be a
Speaker 2: conversation of this being a real issue.
Speaker 1: Dude, a radioactive bat. Now we're getting radioactive batman. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like it ooh, that's where COVID came from.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Actually, I know for a fact it
Speaker 1: came from a lab in Wuhan, not from bat meat.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. It could be fun,
Speaker 1: it could be cool. I don't know. Now, with all
Speaker 1: of that being said, the radioactive wasp nests listen, we
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to be the blowback from this
Speaker 1: or what's going to be the fallout. I should say,
Speaker 1: as of this moment, they're saying that it is localized,
Speaker 1: it is nothing for anybody to worry about. But I
Speaker 1: do find it to be interesting. We talked about on
Speaker 1: another recent episode that there is a new type of
Speaker 1: fungus that is eating radioactivity in Chernobyl as we speak,
Speaker 1: and it's actually helping to repair the affected area. Now,
Speaker 1: if nature finds a way, which it always does, and
Speaker 1: we now have a real life potential for radioactive insects
Speaker 1: to become a thing. Now, I'm not saying this is
Speaker 1: the spark of something new. I'm not saying that either.
Speaker 1: So what's to say that some other insect or some
Speaker 1: other type of reptile whatever will be exposed to some
Speaker 1: radioactive waste from one of these Cold War era sites
Speaker 1: and we don't have bigger problems to worry about. So
Speaker 1: I see this as kind of a potential microcosm for
Speaker 1: something that we really do need to pay more attention towards. Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on, and we're still sticking in the Nation of America,
Speaker 1: there are some things going on with Texas Democrats who
Speaker 1: have decided to leave the state to avoid voting on
Speaker 1: a certain thing, and they're facing some issues where they
Speaker 1: have decided to take up residency for their little extended vacation.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in here. This is NBC News for some
Speaker 1: Texas Democrats in Illinois.
Speaker 4: Tonight, a bomb threat at a Chicago area hotel, forcing
Speaker 4: Texas Democrats to evacuate.
Speaker 5: We were awakened to an alarm going off from the
Speaker 5: hotel around seven thirty this morning over the loudspeaker saying
Speaker 5: there's been a bomb threat made on this hotel. Please
Speaker 5: evacuate immediately.
Speaker 4: Representative John Busey is one of dozens of Democratic lawmakers
Speaker 4: staying there after leaving Texas to stall a Republican plan
Speaker 4: to redraw congressional districts. Police say four hundred people were
Speaker 4: evacuated from the hotel as they scoured for an explosive device,
Speaker 4: but none was found. Authorities have not yet reported the
Speaker 4: source of the threat, but Bucy blames the heated political
Speaker 4: rhetorics surrounding their protest.
Speaker 1: Real quick, I do want to point this out. This
Speaker 1: dude standing next to Bucy, I forget his name, but
Speaker 1: I remember hearing him speak more than a few times.
Speaker 1: That dude, I don't actually think has like a functioning brain.
Speaker 1: Like I think they found somebody who is mentally what's
Speaker 1: the correct term impaired. He's mentally impaired to actually run
Speaker 1: for his office, and he's based out of Chicago. The
Speaker 1: guy is is I think he might be a barely
Speaker 1: functioning human being. I think we might call him what
Speaker 1: like a imbecile or an invalid. I don't know one
Speaker 1: of those words. He's he's really dumb. But anyway, so
Speaker 1: these Texas Democrats, which that sounds like a weird misnomer
Speaker 1: in and of itself, but a lot of them have
Speaker 1: decided to flee the state and they are taking up
Speaker 1: residents in very heavily democratically ran cities, and that got
Speaker 1: me thinking, wait, why what is making all of these
Speaker 1: Democrats from Texas decide to like all take vacation at
Speaker 1: the exact same time. WHOA, there's some things going on.
Speaker 1: But let's listen in a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Here est are you concerned for your safety?
Speaker 5: We don't take the rhetoric of Ken Pax and Greg
Speaker 5: Abbott lightly. They are sparking a fire and people and
Speaker 5: zealous that support them. It's unacceptable. Are we afraid? We
Speaker 5: are undeterred. We're undeterred, and we're going to continue in
Speaker 5: our fight back.
Speaker 4: At the Texas Capital without enough members present, business stood
Speaker 4: still for a third straight day. Republican State Senator Brian
Speaker 4: Hughes condemning the threat of violence.
Speaker 6: That's horrible to think of someone resorting to violence for
Speaker 6: anything like that, And so I hope everybody's okay, while.
Speaker 4: Urging Democrats to return, what's your message to the Democrats
Speaker 4: who have fled the state.
Speaker 6: This is going to get done. The will of people
Speaker 6: is going to get done. A qure and break can
Speaker 6: delay the process. It can temporarily swart the will of
Speaker 6: the people, but we'll be back and tom.
Speaker 4: Even after this bomb threat, Democrats tell me they are
Speaker 4: committed to staying for the long haul. At least thirteen
Speaker 4: more days to run out the clock on this special session.
Speaker 4: Governor Rabbit can always call them back again.
Speaker 1: Tom Okay. Now they have fled the state to avoid
Speaker 1: voting on redistricting certain areas of the state. The overarching
Speaker 1: theme here is that Texas has been a red state
Speaker 1: for quite some time. It's not new news to anybody.
Speaker 1: Texas is a very strong conservative red state. Democratic lawmakers
Speaker 1: in the state are afraid of it being rezoned in redistrict, which,
Speaker 1: for the record, the majority of the people want, and
Speaker 1: I don't mean the citizens of Texas. I can't speak
Speaker 1: on behalf of them, but the majority of the elected
Speaker 1: officials who would be voting on this will get it approved. Now,
Speaker 1: rezoning it means that it will become an even heavily
Speaker 1: or a more heavy red state. They're basically trying to
Speaker 1: topple the Democrat vote in the state as of this moment,
Speaker 1: putting them to different zones, different counties, different cities, all
Speaker 1: these things, different jurisdictions and precincts. So instead of voting
Speaker 1: for this and trying to rally the people around them,
Speaker 1: they decided to just up and leave the state for
Speaker 1: fourteen days until the vote is no longer up for vote.
Speaker 1: And what they don't understand is that what's about to happen,
Speaker 1: they are about to be subpoenaed, and if and when
Speaker 1: they do come home, they may be facing jail time
Speaker 1: for evading their jobs. But let's watch a little bit
Speaker 1: more here. This is from NBC ten in Boston, another
Speaker 1: heavily blue city where Texas Democrats have fled to. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the bomb threat that was
Speaker 1: called in. I don't know for a fact that that
Speaker 1: had anything to do with the fact that the Democrats
Speaker 1: are staying this specific ozell or if that was a
Speaker 1: random act that just so happened to be at this place.
Speaker 1: I'm not big on coincidences. That being said, I don't
Speaker 1: think that that was being done as a scare tactic
Speaker 1: to make these dudes and ladies come back home. I
Speaker 1: don't see that. But then whenever you see with this video,
Speaker 1: things start to come a little bit more into focus.
Speaker 4: Crats remain far from home tonight.
Speaker 7: They are drawing attention to a Trump Trump backed redistricting
Speaker 7: plan and gaining support from deep blue states like here
Speaker 7: in Massachusetts. NBC ten political reporter Matt Pritchard is on it.
Speaker 7: He's live from Beacon Hill with the latest map. What
Speaker 7: can you tell us, well.
Speaker 8: JC Glenn. Texas Dems are clear that they are working
Speaker 8: trying to shift a narrative that they fled their state,
Speaker 8: even as penalties await them once they do return home.
Speaker 8: A Texas signed crowd when wait fight standing atop the
Speaker 8: state House steps, legislators from thirty five states showing support
Speaker 8: for Texas Democrats who left Austin in the midst of
Speaker 8: a Trump backed redistricting battle aimed at tipping the scales
Speaker 8: in five congressional districts and keeping the House in GOP
Speaker 8: hands come twenty twenty six.
Speaker 9: This is the only tool we have to stop them
Speaker 9: from doing something.
Speaker 1: It's going to steal the voices of so many.
Speaker 10: We are alerting the rest of the country what is
Speaker 10: taking place in Texas.
Speaker 8: They're absence, setting off alarm bells for Dems nationwide.
Speaker 2: What's happening in Texas? Matters to the people of Massachusetts.
Speaker 10: We have had a state senator in New Hampshire who
Speaker 10: has said that he is going to file legislation during
Speaker 10: the upcoming filing period to try to redistrict.
Speaker 1: But when it comes real quick, real quick, we're going
Speaker 1: to get back to it. But you boy just said,
Speaker 1: this is the only tool we have to fight for
Speaker 1: what we believe. See, you're telling me that the best
Speaker 1: way to do your job is to not show up
Speaker 1: for work Like this isn't a strike. You're an elected official.
Speaker 1: You don't get the option to strike like that. That
Speaker 1: is asinine out loud. And I'm not saying that because
Speaker 1: I am more right leaning than left leaning by any means.
Speaker 1: I would feel the same way if it was a
Speaker 1: bunch of Republicans that decide to just up and leave
Speaker 1: instead of vote, even though they're in a Democrat ran state.
Speaker 1: Like so, if you're not gonna stand and do the
Speaker 1: one thing that you were elected to do, you don't
Speaker 1: need that job anymore. That's just my opinion. I know
Speaker 1: I only speak on behalf of myself, But then the
Speaker 1: other one saying that what happens in Texas matters to Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: I think that might be the first time that that
Speaker 1: sentence has ever been uttered by a human being ever.
Speaker 1: I just it's funny to watch how these people rally
Speaker 1: around the cause that they actually don't care about. What
Speaker 1: do the people of Massachusetts care if Texas remains a
Speaker 1: red state? But all right, yeah, that's let's keep going.
Speaker 8: Comes to Massachusetts. Republicans are quick to counter that rhetoric.
Speaker 11: Governor Hanley talked about that this action by Republicans in
Speaker 11: Texas would force her hand.
Speaker 12: You know, what is there left to do? They've gerrymandered
Speaker 12: the entire.
Speaker 8: State in Texas, the House seeking a quorum for a
Speaker 8: third straight day, delaying the effort and leading Governor Greg
Speaker 8: Gabbott and state leaders to issue civil arrest warrants for
Speaker 8: those out of state and threatening outright removal from the legislature.
Speaker 4: All elected members should be here representing their districts.
Speaker 1: The people are on our side.
Speaker 2: They see how rigged.
Speaker 8: This is defiance echoed by DEM's here in New England.
Speaker 2: They're right, what will happen to them will eventually happen
Speaker 2: to us.
Speaker 10: That balance of power in Congress should be decided by
Speaker 10: the voters of this country.
Speaker 1: Now you notice they cut it off right actually said
Speaker 1: the power should be elected by the voters of this country.
Speaker 12: You mean the.
Speaker 1: Ones that elected these officials to hold that position. I
Speaker 1: agree with that, intimate, random white lady from Massachusetts, but
Speaker 1: I'm also going to throw out that if you elected
Speaker 1: a person to do a job and they just decided
Speaker 1: to not show up as a way to protect their
Speaker 1: what like, they're not going to protect anything. And even
Speaker 1: if they were to stay out of the state long
Speaker 1: enough to where this vote goes away, that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that it's not going to be put up again for
Speaker 1: another vote. Given another month or six or whatever the case, like,
Speaker 1: this isn't going to go away by any means. So
Speaker 1: for a bunch of Texas lawmakers to abandon their post
Speaker 1: rather than you know, do the one job that they
Speaker 1: were elected to do, I find that to be cowardice,
Speaker 1: just speaking on behalf of myself. And again, if this
Speaker 1: was the roles were reversed and it was a bunch
Speaker 1: of Republicans that were fleeing instead of voting and doing
Speaker 1: the thing that they were elected to do, I would
Speaker 1: have the same kind of critique That is, that is ridiculous,
Speaker 1: And now they may be facing legal action if they
Speaker 1: return home.
Speaker 8: A question that I asked Texas deems was how long
Speaker 8: they could keep this up. They said they are taking
Speaker 8: it day by day and they certainly feel like this
Speaker 8: is a worthwhile exercise. Again though, once they get home,
Speaker 8: they realize this map may ultimately pass on Beacon Hill.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, all right, So anyway, if anybody wants
Speaker 1: to weigh in on this, please feel free this. This
Speaker 1: is mind blowing that you have elected officials that are
Speaker 1: running from their job that they were elected to do.
Speaker 1: Please royce.
Speaker 3: So I basically have a kind of a question. So
Speaker 3: on one hand, they're saying this, this is their only option,
Speaker 3: obviously that they realize that the vote could be brought
Speaker 3: up again. However, could this be a hey when in doubt,
Speaker 3: Like they're trying to basically send a message to anyone
Speaker 3: that to do this. So it's not necessarily just about
Speaker 3: this one issue, but it's like, hey, if you guys
Speaker 3: don't or have an issue that you don't want to
Speaker 3: vote on whatever, you can use us as a precedent.
Speaker 3: So could that be a reason why they're doing it?
Speaker 3: So not necessarily just for this case, but call it
Speaker 3: in this case democrats, you know, countrywide.
Speaker 1: I could see that for sure, they're trying to like
Speaker 1: start a precedence or at least have that conversation. But
Speaker 1: then let's take that a step further. So the next
Speaker 1: time that the state of Kansas decides that they want
Speaker 1: to vote on any hot button issue doesn't have to
Speaker 1: necessarily be for redooning and rezoning and redistricting. It could
Speaker 1: be for the legalization of a certain substance or you know,
Speaker 1: the legalization of I don't know, prostitution. It doesn't matter abortion,
Speaker 1: It could be anything, could be anything. So if you
Speaker 1: have a faction of the elected officials that know that
Speaker 1: their voice won't be heard, instead of going in and voting,
Speaker 1: they will just not show up as a way to
Speaker 1: prevent the vote from happening. And if that's the case,
Speaker 1: and if this goes on unchecked, how will any laws
Speaker 1: get passed in this country moving forward from this point on?
Speaker 3: Unless so, unless they want it to go their way,
Speaker 3: because because if it's so, then no problem, and God
Speaker 3: forbid a republic game or or whomever gets six or
Speaker 3: the day oh well, hey, you know, let's let's ye know,
Speaker 3: subpoena whatever.
Speaker 12: All that's fun, jazz and bullshit.
Speaker 1: But this is the thing, right, It's majority rule. That's
Speaker 1: how democracy runs. So if the majority wants one thing
Speaker 1: and the minority doesn't, then that's just kind of how
Speaker 1: the cookie crumbles. And if all these elected officials don't
Speaker 1: like the Texas being a red state, why don't they
Speaker 1: permanently move to Chicago and to Boston and to these places.
Speaker 1: See that's the other thing. In America, we do have
Speaker 1: the freedom of travel, and you can just pick up
Speaker 1: all of your belongings and move to another state and
Speaker 1: claim a new home of address, right, a new home
Speaker 1: of residency, and run for an elected official position in
Speaker 1: that spot. You don't have to stay in Texas. This
Speaker 1: is this is mind blowing that this has actually happened
Speaker 1: by grown adults. And I think you're right. If this
Speaker 1: does happen unchecked, this will set a very bad precedence
Speaker 1: because I could see this going even to a federal level.
Speaker 1: How do we know that we won't have half of
Speaker 1: Congress not show up because they know that they're gonna
Speaker 1: lose on whatever vote is about to be proposed. So
Speaker 1: instead of trying to make deals happen and have a
Speaker 1: little give and take and come to a common ground
Speaker 1: and do what's better for the for the good of
Speaker 1: the American people, which I understand that no political official
Speaker 1: cares about the American people. I get that, but just
Speaker 1: out loud on a hypothetical what's supposed to be versus
Speaker 1: what is right. If that's the case, they could just
Speaker 1: not show up for however long until the vote is
Speaker 1: supposed to pass, and if they're not there to vote
Speaker 1: for it, the vote can't pass and boom, mission mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: That that's mind blowing, Raven, what you got.
Speaker 12: So?
Speaker 2: Like, is this because we are having such a narcissistic
Speaker 2: tendencies in our society now? Like it's that word gets
Speaker 2: thrown around a lot, but like isn't that kind of
Speaker 2: inherently a trade of Like, well, since it's not gonna
Speaker 2: go my way, I'm just gonna like make sure an
Speaker 2: avoid actively avoid all things. Like where does it end?
Speaker 2: How does this like why is this even being allowed
Speaker 2: to be something that's happening at all? Like this is
Speaker 2: not how any of this works, Like think about Rome,
Speaker 2: think about all the arguments, Like look at the Vatican,
Speaker 2: for example, when they have to vote in a new pope,
Speaker 2: how many days they deliberate and fight and argue and
Speaker 2: you know, kiss each other's ass to try to find
Speaker 2: who they want. I don't understand how this is even
Speaker 2: how things are gotten to this point, and how it's
Speaker 2: just allowed to keep happening.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it either. I to my knowledge, I'm
Speaker 1: sure something like this has happened before in American history.
Speaker 1: I just can't recall one off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: But even still, it's this is a sin actually school
Speaker 1: yard tactics of well, looks like we're losing the game. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm taking my ball and I'm going home.
Speaker 1: Nobody's winning this game. That's essentially what they're doing on
Speaker 1: a large, very important scale. I really do hope that
Speaker 1: Governor Abbott stands by wow, Okay, bad phrasing, but for
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, stands by his word and
Speaker 1: has these people see jail time for abandoning their posts.
Speaker 1: That's that's negligence, which is a criminal offense when done
Speaker 1: to this scale. So we will see how it shakes out.
Speaker 1: I don't know, they'll probably return. I hope that they
Speaker 1: return and vote on this and just face the music,
Speaker 1: and that this whole show of action of these people
Speaker 1: just gets blown under the rug of like, well, that
Speaker 1: was really dumb. You had, you had your moment, you
Speaker 1: had your little hissy fit there, blue boy, all right,
Speaker 1: time to come home and do your job. I know,
Speaker 1: it's a wild concept to do the job that you
Speaker 1: were hired to do. It's it's mind blowing these days, Royce. Please.
Speaker 3: So one of the things it seems like the Democrats
Speaker 3: try to I don't want to say fight for the minority,
Speaker 3: because you know, they're just trying to get votes. However,
Speaker 3: could they also try to see it as like they
Speaker 3: think that the minority should be the majority and could
Speaker 3: be listened to. So therefore, even though they are currently
Speaker 3: in the minority of what America wants, for example, they
Speaker 3: are like, all right, well, we really don't give a
Speaker 3: shit because you guys oppose us, and we we have
Speaker 3: our desires and wants and what we say goes and
Speaker 3: you just have to deal with it.
Speaker 1: I understand the premise of this, right, and that's the
Speaker 1: Democrats are definitely no longer the party of the minority
Speaker 1: that was their platform for decades, right, the marginalized groups,
Speaker 1: the ones who don't really have as much of a
Speaker 1: voice as the majority. So if all the minority groups
Speaker 1: will rally together, they can be heard on a larger scale,
Speaker 1: and they could be used to fight against the majority narrative,
Speaker 1: and especially in cases where the majority ostracizes and passes
Speaker 1: legislation to belittle and undermine the minority. I understand this
Speaker 1: one hundred percent and I get that, but that's not
Speaker 1: the case here as far as that conversation goes, the
Speaker 1: quote unquote minority groups that might have a conversation like
Speaker 1: this in Texas, all these elected officials were of the
Speaker 1: Caucasian persuasion, and they were all they weren't a part
Speaker 1: of any of the alphabet people minority groups, the LGBTQ,
Speaker 1: ELEMENTO P plus exclamation point, asterist community. So it's not
Speaker 1: like they're even representing those minority groups. From what I
Speaker 1: can tell here, it is Democrats that are afraid of
Speaker 1: losing whatever foothold they have developed in Texas, and so
Speaker 1: rather than trying to fight for their turf, so to speak,
Speaker 1: they decided to avoid the problem altogether and just leave
Speaker 1: until the vote is over, which is mind blowing. Still,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, Tony, you, being the Texas resident of the conversation,
Speaker 1: please weigh in.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I didn't I wasn't paying attention to this, honestly,
Speaker 11: But I think this happened in Wisconsin in twenty eleven,
Speaker 11: and I could have sworn it to happened a few
Speaker 11: other times since then, and it's usually Democrats trying to
Speaker 11: prevent a quorum. I guess I can understand the flip
Speaker 11: side of the argument that you need a quorum of
Speaker 11: enough people to vote for anything, otherwise a minority in
Speaker 11: a legislature can get together kind of in secret or
Speaker 11: surreptitiously and override a majority opinion. So this whole quorum
Speaker 11: idea goes back pretty far in history, and like farther
Speaker 11: back than the Declaration of Independence. And I think even
Speaker 11: at the Declaration of Independence, they really wanted to get
Speaker 11: it at least fifty six or fifty eight legislators together,
Speaker 11: and they felt like they had a critical number and
Speaker 11: it couldn't be less than that, otherwise it would not
Speaker 11: be legitimate. But that also reminds me that there's lots
Speaker 11: of other ways for minorities to subvert the democratic process.
Speaker 11: And by minorities, I mean of my minority in a legislature.
Speaker 11: So Philip bustering is one way to pulld up votes
Speaker 11: and just prevent anything from getting passed. And another way,
Speaker 11: this isn't so much to prevent stuff from getting it passed,
Speaker 11: but yeah it is. But the House Speaker, for example,
Speaker 11: can assign a law to a committee where it's just
Speaker 11: gonna take forever to get the law written, and then
Speaker 11: it never gets passed because it's not the speaker's priority.
Speaker 11: And another thing, now this isn't so much about preventing
Speaker 11: laws from getting passed, but Congressmen often avoid responsibility for
Speaker 11: their votes by you know, voting according to acclamation or
Speaker 11: voting on something called tellers where they don't even record
Speaker 11: their votes. They just say, oh, well the eyes have.
Speaker 1: It or something right.
Speaker 11: And Thomas Massey has tried to say no, for this
Speaker 11: Cares Act, we're gonna have a roll call vote instead
Speaker 11: of just everyone saying, well, we all passed it together.
Speaker 11: I'm not gonna, you know, take responsibility for voting yes
Speaker 11: and putting my name on it just to prove by acclamation.
Speaker 11: So I know that's kind of a couple of tangents,
Speaker 11: but this is kind of what's wrong with democracy in general.
Speaker 11: There's no perfect system, obviously, but yeah, this kind of
Speaker 11: thing is almost to be expected.
Speaker 1: I agree, if I'm not mistaken, Senator Barack Obama voted
Speaker 1: he was only like a junior senator for like less
Speaker 1: than two years before he was nominated for the presidency,
Speaker 1: and I think the last time I looked at the
Speaker 1: statistics had been a few years, So forgive me if
Speaker 1: I'm a little off on the numbers here, but like
Speaker 1: somewhere around eighty five percent of the votes that he
Speaker 1: cast as a member of the Senate were present, not
Speaker 1: yay or nay, but like here, like he was present
Speaker 1: for role call. So yeah, one hundred percent. There's there's
Speaker 1: other ways that you can go about doing this without
Speaker 1: looking like spoiled brats about it. And again, out out
Speaker 1: of Texas, of all places, you wouldn't expect people to
Speaker 1: be so spineless and afraid of what's inevitably to come.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We will see what happens. As of now,
Speaker 1: they're saying that they may face legal action when they
Speaker 1: get home unless they come home quickly. I don't know.
Speaker 11: Well, one other thing, I grew up in California, and
Speaker 11: that's where I spent most of my life. I would
Speaker 11: say that Texas is California, but thirty years behind approximately
Speaker 11: because California was a Republican state when I was born.
Speaker 11: California voted sixty one to thirty nine against gay marriage
Speaker 11: in two thousand. But just the way things are going,
Speaker 11: everything Kathulhu swims slowly, but he swims to the left.
Speaker 11: So Texas is gonna be purple and then blewe someday.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, good Cthulhu reference dog. He doesn't give
Speaker 1: a shout out as much as he should, but yeah,
Speaker 1: good things. I hope that that doesn't happen, although, especially
Speaker 1: with the way that the past few elections have taken place,
Speaker 1: Texas is looking more and more like it's about to
Speaker 1: become purple, or, for lack of better words, just a
Speaker 1: swing state overall. Maybe not on the state level, but
Speaker 1: in federal elections and things like that. It's looking more
Speaker 1: and more like it's going to become a swing state
Speaker 1: here in the next definitely, I would say the next
Speaker 1: three presidential elections, if not the very next one. We
Speaker 1: will see what happens. But that's the thing. If this
Speaker 1: rezoning law happens, the redistricting law happens, maybe not. They're
Speaker 1: trying to do what they can to prevent that. But
Speaker 1: like you said, California traditionally was a red state up
Speaker 1: until two thousand and four. Mistaken it's kind of when
Speaker 1: it went hard to the other direction. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've always had your your big cities, right, La is
Speaker 1: always going to be blue, Sacramento, name your whatever state
Speaker 1: you currently reside in, the big city thereof is going
Speaker 1: to be blue. That's pretty much a mathematical certainty, with
Speaker 1: some very few exceptions. But the state overall isn't ran
Speaker 1: by a big city or two or three or four.
Speaker 1: But they're trying to make it so. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: will see. Right now, they've only been gone for a
Speaker 1: few days. This vote has fourteen days to pass, and
Speaker 1: as of this moment, the Texas political officials are all
Speaker 1: acting like they're willing to stay out of the state
Speaker 1: for two weeks as a way to prevent the vote
Speaker 1: from passing. And even if they are successful with that,
Speaker 1: and even if they don't face legal retribution, there is
Speaker 1: literally nothing preventing this vote for coming up again in
Speaker 1: six months or next month for that matter. There's nothing
Speaker 1: stopping that at all. Yeah, they'll have to restart the
Speaker 1: process of submitting it and getting it to the floor
Speaker 1: and all these things, but it's also prolonging the inevitable
Speaker 1: if the people really do want this. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: will keep everybody posted as more things about that transpire.
Speaker 1: Now as we're talking about the United States and political conversations,
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting that Superman star Dean Kin
Speaker 1: has now said that he has joined ICE. This is
Speaker 1: a Newsweek article, but it's interesting. Nonetheless, let's talk about
Speaker 1: it here. Actor Dean Kin, known for his role as
Speaker 1: Clark Kent in Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman,
Speaker 1: says he has joined the Immigration and Customs Enforcement AKA ICE.
Speaker 1: But some critics are saying he is above the maximum
Speaker 1: recruitment age. Yes, that's what we need to be critiquing
Speaker 1: about this, not the fact that Superman, a well known
Speaker 1: Hollywood guy, is becoming an ICE agent that we need
Speaker 1: to get mad about his age. But all right, dope,
Speaker 1: why it matters? Cane start alongside Terry Hatcher, we talked
Speaker 1: about that the show Lewis and Clark New avengerans a
Speaker 1: Superman in the nineteen nineties. He was also the host
Speaker 1: of Ripley's Believe It or Not. I used to love
Speaker 1: that show. Last week, Trump the Yeah, President Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: administration launched an ICE campaign to help carry out its
Speaker 1: detention and deportation of migrants. The program promised a robust
Speaker 1: package of incentives, including a fifty thousand dollars signing bonus
Speaker 1: and retirement benefits. Not bad, your country is calling you
Speaker 1: to serve at ICE, Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nome
Speaker 1: said in a press release on July twenty ninth, continuing
Speaker 1: the quote, your country needs dedicated men and women of
Speaker 1: ICE to get the worst of the worst criminals out
Speaker 1: of our country. This is a defining moment in our
Speaker 1: nation's history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have
Speaker 1: no ever been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland.
Speaker 1: And again, I'm not anti ICE by any means, but
Speaker 1: the campaign promises that we were told was that he
Speaker 1: was going to be going after the hardened criminals, not
Speaker 1: the people actually working at a job that were punching
Speaker 1: a clock that we're gonna get picked up from their job.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, he said he was gonna
Speaker 1: specifically not do that, but whatever. Anyway. On Tuesday, Kane
Speaker 1: said on x and Instagram that he joined ICE and
Speaker 1: encouraged his followers to do the same. I wonder if he,
Speaker 1: like you know, forwent the fifty thousand dollars signing bonus.
Speaker 1: I don't know his financial standings, but I just had
Speaker 1: this weird feeling that fifty k wasn't like that much
Speaker 1: of an incentive for him. I'm also wondering if because
Speaker 1: he's a I don't know, if you want to call
Speaker 1: him a B tier, C tier or even D or
Speaker 1: E tier celebrity, maybe he's getting some sort of like
Speaker 1: endorsement deal out of it. Will he actually be like,
Speaker 1: you know, carrying a badge and going through the academy
Speaker 1: and all of these things, or is it going to
Speaker 1: be more like a Steven Sagall being a New Orleans
Speaker 1: police police officer thing, which, for the record, is a
Speaker 1: real thing. It wasn't just for TV. They actually deputized
Speaker 1: Stephen Segall and followed him with cameras as he did
Speaker 1: police things in the city of New Orleans. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe Dean Kin is like actually trying to
Speaker 1: become a legitimate field agent. I don't know. Let's see,
Speaker 1: this is a direct quote from his X and Instagram.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Dean Kin here For those who don't know,
Speaker 1: I am a sworn law enforcement officer as well as
Speaker 1: being a filmmaker, and I felt it was important to
Speaker 1: join with our first responders to help secure the safety
Speaker 1: of all Americans, not just talk about it. The fifty
Speaker 1: nine year old began his one minute and thirty two
Speaker 1: second video, so I joined up. He's fifty nine and
Speaker 1: he's deciding to strap up for the cause. Wow. Since
Speaker 1: President Trump took the office, ICE has arrested hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of criminals, including terrorists, murderers, pedophiles, MS thirteen, gang members,
Speaker 1: drug traffickers, you name it. Very dangerous people who are
Speaker 1: no longer on the streets. Cain added that people who
Speaker 1: sign up will receive great benefits and can get to
Speaker 1: work right away. If you want to help save America,
Speaker 1: ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing
Speaker 1: them from america streets. He concluded the clip I like that,
Speaker 1: I voted for that, okay. At the time of the publication,
Speaker 1: the actors expost racked up over eighty two thousand views,
Speaker 1: five thousand likes, and three hundred and fourteen comments on Instagram.
Speaker 1: The views are hidden, though it had an additional two
Speaker 1: thousand likes and three hundred and eight comments. I think
Speaker 1: this might be the video. Let's see if we could
Speaker 1: play it.
Speaker 13: Hey, everybody, Dean Kine here And for those who don't know,
Speaker 13: I am a sworn law enforcement officer as well as
Speaker 13: being a filmmaker. I felt it was important to join
Speaker 13: with our first responders to help secure the safety of
Speaker 13: all Americans, not just talk about it. So I joined up,
Speaker 13: And here's your opportunity to join ICE. You can earn
Speaker 13: lots of great benefits and pay.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Since President Trump took office, ICE has arrested hundreds of
Speaker 13: thousands of criminals, including terrorists, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, ms thirteen,
Speaker 13: gang members, drug traffickers, you name it, very dangerous people
Speaker 13: who are no longer on the streets. You can defend
Speaker 13: your homeland and get great benefits like a fifty thousand
Speaker 13: dollars signing bonus. Think about that student loan repayment, legally
Speaker 13: enhanced retirement benefits, and special pay for those in the
Speaker 13: field operations and law enforcement roles. I don't get that
Speaker 13: special pay, but you also don't need an undergraduate degree.
Speaker 13: You can get to work right away. So if you
Speaker 13: want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst
Speaker 13: of the worst and removing them from America's streets.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 13: I voted for that. They need your help. We need
Speaker 13: your help to protect our homeland and our families.
Speaker 1: So check into it.
Speaker 13: As I said, and joined today if it's something that
Speaker 13: tickles your fancy, because we can use you.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not necessarily, like I said, I'm not
Speaker 1: against ICE by any means. I think they're doing great work.
Speaker 1: I may not like the way they're going about it currently,
Speaker 1: but overall, I am a very big supporter of ICE.
Speaker 1: That being said, I being a content creator and I
Speaker 1: hate the fact that I have to use that term.
Speaker 1: It's very cringe worthy. I get it. I know an
Speaker 1: ad read when I hear one that was that was
Speaker 1: an ad read one hundred percent. But okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: just thought it was worthy to bring up here. Dean Kine,
Speaker 1: former Superman and former Ripley's Believe It or Not host,
Speaker 1: is now an ICE agent. Like you say, he doesn't
Speaker 1: get the special field pay though, so you know, hey,
Speaker 1: take that for what it's worth. Okay, moving on. While
Speaker 1: we were talking about legal things, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a good time to bring up the fact that Army
Speaker 1: soldiers tackled a sergeant accused of opening fire at Fort Stewart.
Speaker 1: Five were wounded. This is a speech, or at least
Speaker 1: a statement that was given by Brigadier General John Loubas
Speaker 1: from the third Infantry Commanding General. Yeah, long story short,
Speaker 1: this guy opened fire and an army base. The dude
Speaker 1: was a logistics guy at that and he just lost
Speaker 1: his mind, I suppose, and decided he wanted to just
Speaker 1: take some guys out. He didn't actually kill anybody. Five
Speaker 1: were wounded, but they're all expected to make full recoveries.
Speaker 1: And that insert or joke about army shooting being dog shit,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, whatever. Now may not be the time
Speaker 1: for jokes, but I mean dark humors how we make
Speaker 1: through the hard times. Anyway, let's hear straight from the
Speaker 1: General himself about this tragedy and the events that unfolded.
Speaker 14: At forts to Shortly before eleven o'clock, an active duty
Speaker 14: soldier assigned to Fort Stewart, Georgia, shot and wounded five
Speaker 14: of his fellow.
Speaker 1: Soldiers here on Fort Stewart.
Speaker 14: Thankfully, all are in stable condition and all are expected
Speaker 14: to recover. The alleged shooter is in custody. We have
Speaker 14: re established security. I have lifted all lockdown measures on
Speaker 14: Fort Stewart and there is currently no threat to the
Speaker 14: local community. I'd like to recognize and thank our Army
Speaker 14: law enforcement and medical personnel, and our partners from local, state,
Speaker 14: and federal law enforcement and emergency services for their quick
Speaker 14: response and support. I would also like to thank the
Speaker 14: brave soldiers who immediately intervened and subdued the shooter. These soldiers,
Speaker 14: without a doubt, prevented further casualties. Our wounded soldiers were
Speaker 14: initially evacuated to Win Army Community Hospital right here on
Speaker 14: Fort Stewart. All arrived in stable condition, and three of
Speaker 14: the five required surgical intervention. Two have been transported to
Speaker 14: Memorial Hospital in Savannah, Georgia for additional care. We have
Speaker 14: identified the alleged shooter as Sergeant Cornelius Radford, an automated
Speaker 14: logistics sergeant assigned to second Brigade Combat Team. Sergeant Radford
Speaker 14: has not previously deployed to combat. Sergeant Radford has been
Speaker 14: interviewed by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and is currently
Speaker 14: in pre trial confinement awaiting a charging decision by the
Speaker 14: Office of the Special Trial Council. Right now, our primary
Speaker 14: focus is first on caring for our injured soldiers and
Speaker 14: their families, and also supporting the soldiers of the Spartan Brigade.
Speaker 14: All of the families of the victims have been notified
Speaker 14: and we're wrapping our arms around them and ensuring we
Speaker 14: provide them all the support that we can. Before I
Speaker 14: take questions, I want to remind you that this is
Speaker 14: an ongoing investigation and we're still gathering questions. Ladies and
Speaker 14: gentlemen on now take your questions.
Speaker 12: General Louis. Can you give us what unit he was
Speaker 12: assigned to and how long you're searching your army.
Speaker 14: Yeah, he is assigned to one of our sustainment units
Speaker 14: here in second Brigade Combat Team at Fort Stewart, and
Speaker 14: I will have to confirm how long he served.
Speaker 15: With us, Yes, Sir, respond him with the associated press
Speaker 15: as best you can know.
Speaker 12: And it's so early. Can you walk us through here.
Speaker 3: This happened, what happened in the shooting, and where the victims.
Speaker 12: Subordinates of the sergeants or where they eat people over
Speaker 12: him and ran? Yeah, right right now.
Speaker 14: It's premature and we're gathering a lot of the information.
Speaker 14: What we know is the soldier the shooting occurred at
Speaker 14: the soldier's place of work. It did involve his co workers.
Speaker 14: We're still not certain about the motivations, but again, he's
Speaker 14: been interviewed by Army investigators and we believe will gain
Speaker 14: more information here shortly.
Speaker 12: Do you know this is any kind of training exercise
Speaker 12: or they any brand n No, ma'am.
Speaker 14: We don't have any reason to believe it had anything
Speaker 14: do with with a training event. Other than that, I
Speaker 14: can't state the motivations for the soldier.
Speaker 1: Okay, real quick, that was I understand that the press
Speaker 1: has to ask the hard hitting questions. Do we believe
Speaker 1: that the automated logistics sergeant did this as a training
Speaker 1: accident or any type of thing and arrange? But what No,
Speaker 1: clearly not, and he involved his coworkers. This probably took
Speaker 1: place in his office like they were probably in the
Speaker 1: bullpen of cubicles. But sure, all right, anyway, anyway, with
Speaker 1: that being breaking news, I felt like it was only
Speaker 1: right that we bring that up so and you could
Speaker 1: find more reports. Are still conducting their investigation, but essentially,
Speaker 1: homeboy walked in open fire. He got at least five
Speaker 1: rounds and five individuals before someone else in the office
Speaker 1: came up and tackled him. I did not see any
Speaker 1: pictures of him after the fact. I personally would like
Speaker 1: to believe that hopefully he had a broken jaw and
Speaker 1: a couple of broken ribs when they finally got cuffs
Speaker 1: on him. I don't know that for a fact, but
Speaker 1: old Cornelius spelled with a Q, I might add, Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: let's see here, there's at least Cornelius Radford, excuse me.
Speaker 1: The suspect has been identified as twenty eight year old
Speaker 1: Cornelius Radford, a US Army active duty automated logistics sergeant
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville, Florida, who was assigned to the installation. Army
Speaker 1: officials said Radford allegedly used a personal handgun in the
Speaker 1: shooting and was tackled by soldiers before being taken into custody.
Speaker 1: He has not deployed to combat, So before anybody gives
Speaker 1: some crazy PTSD situation as to what happened here, that
Speaker 1: is obviously not what took Now, I understand that that
Speaker 1: doesn't Combat is not the only place where PTSD comes from.
Speaker 1: I understand that, However, I also have a hard time
Speaker 1: believe that he's going to get the insanity case from
Speaker 1: this in any way shape and form. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at this guy, he was clearly the turd of his unit, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, without any other knowing anything else about him.
Speaker 1: Just looking at this guy and saying that he was
Speaker 1: active duty army, I could tell that he was obviously
Speaker 1: the shit bag of his group, you know, before hearing
Speaker 1: anything else. But yep, So anyway, more information about that
Speaker 1: is going to be coming out in the upcoming days.
Speaker 1: I am sure that every news publication is going to
Speaker 1: be speaking on it. Thankfully, none of the five victims
Speaker 1: of this atrocity were in any kind of critical care.
Speaker 1: The surgery was probably to just remove the bullets and
Speaker 1: stop the bleeding, but all of them are expected to
Speaker 1: make full recoveries at this time, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was worth bringing up here on the cage night now
Speaker 1: to put things on to a slightly lighter note. Is
Speaker 1: it a Rolling Stone article? I don't know if anybody's
Speaker 1: heard this yet or not. I just discovered this today
Speaker 1: my damn self, But apparently we now have the first
Speaker 1: derogatory term for an AI driven robot. Because we needed that,
Speaker 1: the public needed some type of a slur to call
Speaker 1: Tesla's new robotics and things clanker is the term the
Speaker 1: old dirty clankers are gonna take over and things like that.
Speaker 1: So the Rolling Stone is speaking on it. How clanker
Speaker 1: became the Internet's new favorite slur. New derogatory phrases are
Speaker 1: popping up online thanks to a cultural pushback against AI.
Speaker 1: Praise be to Jesus am I right, So clanker, wireback, cogsucker,
Speaker 1: I like that one too. People are feeling the escapable
Speaker 1: inevitability of AI developments, the encrow of the digital into
Speaker 1: everything from entertainment to work, and their answer slurs. Now,
Speaker 1: I understand that the robots are not going to be
Speaker 1: offended by these slurs being thrown out in things. However,
Speaker 1: I think that's just great. Clanker or wireback, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. Cogsucker might be my other favorite. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: think that one goes harder than clanker personally. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: clanker is about the most non ominous, g rated one
Speaker 1: that you can come up with. However, if any of
Speaker 1: you have slurs that you would like to start calling
Speaker 1: the AI robots, I would love to hear them. I
Speaker 1: would love to hear them, and I think that there's
Speaker 1: no shortage of inspiration when it comes to this, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, just everyone's clear here, clanker.
Speaker 2: We need to get like a list going of what
Speaker 2: AI slurs we can we can come up with. I
Speaker 2: guess we need to decide which ones are which and
Speaker 2: then pick slurs for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because at what point do we just say which
Speaker 1: one is just for AI on a computer, which one
Speaker 1: is for the robotics, which one are for the automation
Speaker 1: things or the manufacturers of these robotics. There's there's so
Speaker 1: many ways to go.
Speaker 14: Oil guzzler, oil.
Speaker 1: Guzzler, I like it, or well, not all of them
Speaker 1: take oil, but maybe like a data guzzler. It doesn't sound,
Speaker 1: it doesn't see, it's gotta be catchy, it's got a roll, right,
Speaker 1: I like oil guzzler. That's pretty good. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I know.
Speaker 12: I said.
Speaker 1: I definitely have to think about that.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be funny. This is gonna be a thing
Speaker 1: that consumes hours out of my day. Like realistically, y'all,
Speaker 1: I have not been shy about my hatred of AI
Speaker 1: and my not fear I would say, very healthy skepticism
Speaker 1: of the robots and the AI that is taking over
Speaker 1: so many industries and so many jobs. But man, I
Speaker 1: like wireback. That's pretty that's pretty solid. Gearback. That might
Speaker 1: be another one too. I don't know. God, there's a lot,
Speaker 1: all right, So homework for everybody. We need more slurs
Speaker 1: for AI robots. And it's okay because they're not living entities, right,
Speaker 1: they don't have sentients allegedly, right, so it's okay to
Speaker 1: call them bad things. I'm good with this, all right.
Speaker 1: And for anybody out there listening, it's gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: how do you know that's mean? The robots have feelings.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the point then, So I like it.
Speaker 1: I like this a lot. We're gonna we're gonna I'm
Speaker 1: actually gonna put that out on the Culture Conspiracy as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that probably the next live I want
Speaker 1: to hear people's AI robotics slurs. I love this, okay. Now,
Speaker 1: sticking on the American Conversation and the Tech Conversation, we
Speaker 1: talked about this a couple of weeks ago, where China
Speaker 1: and Russia had plans to build a nuclear power station
Speaker 1: on the Moon and it was planned for twenty thirty five. Right,
Speaker 1: the nuclear reactor, word power rese an exploration of the
Speaker 1: Moon's South Pole as part of the International Lunar Research
Speaker 1: Station Project. Now, because America can simply not be outdone
Speaker 1: by anyone ever, because that's just preposterous, NASA is aiming
Speaker 1: to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by twenty thirty,
Speaker 1: five years before China and Russia's plans are to come
Speaker 1: through to fruition. Interim NASA Chief Sean Duffy will announce
Speaker 1: the ambitious goal this week. According to Politico, NASA is
Speaker 1: accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the Moon.
Speaker 1: For several years now, the agency has been working to
Speaker 1: get a forty kilowatt fission system ready for launch on
Speaker 1: the Moon or to the Moon by the early twenty thirties,
Speaker 1: but Interim NASA Chief Sean Duffy is about to announce
Speaker 1: a more ambitious path via a directive set to be
Speaker 1: released this week. According to Politica, the reactor directive orders
Speaker 1: the agency to solicit industry proposals for a one hundred
Speaker 1: kilowatt nuclear reactor to launch by twenty thirty, a key
Speaker 1: consideration for astronauts return to the lunar surface. Political report
Speaker 1: on this Monday, August fourth, so all right, I'm still
Speaker 1: not in grants that I am not an expert in
Speaker 1: engineering or nuclear or anything like this. Okay, although I
Speaker 1: understand the concept of how nuclear fission produces power. Right,
Speaker 1: this thing gets really really hot, you make steam with
Speaker 1: that heat. The steam pushes through turbans, which spins them,
Speaker 1: creating electricity. Like, I know, I'm oversimplifying by a large spectrum,
Speaker 1: but that is the over under of how this takes place.
Speaker 1: I can put these pieces together in my mind. I
Speaker 1: got you, So I guess my question is how are
Speaker 1: you supposed to create steam in a vacuum? That doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense to me. Now, perhaps it is a completely
Speaker 1: enclosed system, right, But the only time I've seen an
Speaker 1: enclosed system like that be effective is like you could say,
Speaker 1: like the radiator in your car, But you're not producing steam, right,
Speaker 1: that's a coolant and it's okay to maintain its fluidity
Speaker 1: because of our atmosphere in our environment in space, how
Speaker 1: are you supposed to create enough heat? Because heat has
Speaker 1: to pass through a medium in order to be effective.
Speaker 1: The medium that we have on Earth would be our air.
Speaker 1: Steam has to be produced at a certain pressure point. Right,
Speaker 1: Water boils off at two hundred and twelve degrees fahrenheit,
Speaker 1: and depending on what your atmospheric pressure is, depending on
Speaker 1: how far away you are from sea level, depends on
Speaker 1: how much that fahrenheit has to be. How many jewels
Speaker 1: of energy is needed to heat the water to a
Speaker 1: point of going through the phase change from its liquid
Speaker 1: to gaseous state. How are you doing that in a
Speaker 1: vacuum with no air. I don't know, Raven, I saw
Speaker 1: your hand raised. Please weigh in.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious to us to how America thinks that
Speaker 2: they're going to beach China considering as of right now,
Speaker 2: China holds the record for the longest time being able
Speaker 2: to create energy in stabilized enough, which is like ten
Speaker 2: point nine seconds long. It's working. They're operating outside of
Speaker 2: everyone else. So I'm just confused as how they're going
Speaker 2: to beat them, considering we haven't even been able to
Speaker 2: stabilize long enough here on Earth to just it doesn't
Speaker 2: make any sense to me, because they've been struggling to
Speaker 2: be beating them quote unquote anyways, because China stepped away
Speaker 2: from everybody because Germany and it's like twenty five countries
Speaker 2: are working together, and was like nope, I'm doing it
Speaker 2: on my own, and then we are the first and
Speaker 2: have done it longer than anyone else so far.
Speaker 1: So when you say stabilizing, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: Like, it was stabilizing the fusion. So they were trying
Speaker 2: to get it to where it was going to cycle
Speaker 2: fast enough to be able to create energy and like
Speaker 2: be able to sustain it for a certain amount of
Speaker 2: time without it blowing up or anything. And so when
Speaker 2: they did it, they got it to like I think
Speaker 2: America had it at like eight point nine seconds or something,
Speaker 2: and then China came in and did like ten point
Speaker 2: nine or something like that. It was when they were
Speaker 2: doing the fusion reactor, they were like creating the energy,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to stabilize it long enough to generate
Speaker 2: massive amounts of power, and so they weren't. They still
Speaker 2: haven't been able to get it to actually go very
Speaker 2: long without it like trying to melt down everything.
Speaker 1: So I haven't heard about this, but okay, that being said,
Speaker 1: China is also.
Speaker 2: There's like a really good YouTube guy that's actually like
Speaker 2: a physicist that breaks it down and like shows the
Speaker 2: components of it and explains how they do it and
Speaker 2: all this stuff because it like, yeah, it was like
Speaker 2: really high tech, and he's like, let me make it
Speaker 2: really simple, and I'm like, yes, do that. So he
Speaker 2: kind of explained like they've been this has been going
Speaker 2: on for like seven or eight years now. They've been
Speaker 2: like actively working towards trying to get it because if
Speaker 2: they can get it to stabilize long enough, it can
Speaker 2: actually generated enough power for the entire world. And so
Speaker 2: that was the whole fight to the race of the
Speaker 2: energy war.
Speaker 1: And I mean, and just going off of let's just
Speaker 1: assume that China didn't steal the plans and improve upon
Speaker 1: them in some sort of way to get it to
Speaker 1: that point. I don't know that for a fact. I
Speaker 1: know China does that a lot with like military tech.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they've done it with the nuclear
Speaker 1: power tech. Maybe they haven't. Maybe they really did develop
Speaker 1: this completely organically on their own. Let's assume that that's accurate.
Speaker 1: I still have no idea how you're supposed to create
Speaker 1: steam on the moon. That sounds preposterous to me. And
Speaker 1: again I'm not a fit. I don't know. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: the people in the International Space Station can totally boil
Speaker 1: water in the vacuum of space. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it just I don't understand how any of this is
Speaker 1: actually supposed to happen, or is this just international flexing
Speaker 1: on something that's impossible. I don't know, Tony. I see
Speaker 1: you unmuted brother. You know way more about nuclear things
Speaker 1: than I do. Please weigh in.
Speaker 12: Yeah. I looked this up a little while ago.
Speaker 11: They're gonna use thermoelectric generators, which are like thermo couples,
Speaker 11: which I had heard of, and the ones i'd heard
Speaker 11: of could only make a few watts. But apparently they
Speaker 11: got better ones that can make kilowatts now, so no
Speaker 11: steam required, because I think that would have been an
Speaker 11: insurmountable obstacle for them. They just heat up one side
Speaker 11: of a thermo couple and you know, the heat transfer
Speaker 11: goes to the bolt side and you can get some
Speaker 11: some amps.
Speaker 1: Out of that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I've done that to scale, I mean to
Speaker 1: a smaller scale in industry. When I was an instrument
Speaker 1: sech these thermal couples all the time. But like like
Speaker 1: you said, we're talking about very small voltage. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if you were to upscale that, I how are
Speaker 1: you doing that? So you're talking about using the nuclear power,
Speaker 1: which you don't need oxygen for that. I understand this.
Speaker 1: So they're using the heat from the nuclear fission to
Speaker 1: transfer the heat from one side of the thermal couple
Speaker 1: to the other, which is then going to produce enough
Speaker 1: voltage to power a lab.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's exactly how it works. It's like having you.
Speaker 11: Know, thousands of thermo couples and series and all of
Speaker 11: those milli vaults just kind of add up.
Speaker 12: You get a voltage and an antbridge. The way a
Speaker 12: thermal couple works.
Speaker 11: Is you have two metals and two metal wires, let's say,
Speaker 11: and you connect connect them together on one end somewhere
Speaker 11: where it's cold, and connect them together at the other
Speaker 11: end where it's hot, and that will create circuit loop
Speaker 11: with a voltage on it. And in the process of that,
Speaker 11: here's the weird thing in the physics. The temperature on
Speaker 11: the hot side will go down a little bit and
Speaker 11: the temperature on the cold side will go up. The
Speaker 11: wire will just conduct the temperature through. That is the
Speaker 11: wildest thing. But you need that temperature difference and you
Speaker 11: need to maintain it so the fission reactor will stay it.
Speaker 11: I think two hundred or three hundred celsius or something,
Speaker 11: and then the cold side is gonna be cold, which
Speaker 11: on the Moon could be you know, really really cold,
Speaker 11: negative one hundred c or something and a bing bout
Speaker 11: of boom, you got some volts and ams.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I'm I'm picturing it in my mind
Speaker 1: of how that would go, and yes, in theory, that
Speaker 1: would work. But dude, the metal historicity itself, like you
Speaker 1: might get it for a year or two before you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to send a whole team out there just
Speaker 1: to replace thermo couples left, right and center, because even
Speaker 1: just maintaining it in some way, shape or form, over
Speaker 1: time that metal is going to snap that. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna have constant teams out there because they can't reproduce
Speaker 1: the components to repair this on the moon. So they
Speaker 1: are now going to have to fund hypothetically, and even
Speaker 1: if America was to do this, China, Russia, America, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter a name. Country that's trying to make this happen
Speaker 1: on the Moon is going to, if not every six
Speaker 1: months every year, send up a repair team just to
Speaker 1: maintain and bring materials to make these repairs so that
Speaker 1: they could run a lab on the dark side of
Speaker 1: the Moon. That just doesn't sound feasible.
Speaker 11: I don't Yeah, I don't know if they think they
Speaker 11: can protect it from meteors or something, because those things
Speaker 11: are hitting the Moon all the time. And yeah, I
Speaker 11: guess we'll just have to find out the hard way.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing all the on the moon. Dude,
Speaker 1: one meteor hits the Moon at this nuclear reactor. We
Speaker 1: just had a bomb go off on the Moon like that.
Speaker 1: That's a real possibility, or even worse Chernobyl situation.
Speaker 11: Uh huh, No, there's a bit of a tangent. But
Speaker 11: there's a lot of uranium two thirty six on the Moon.
Speaker 11: I just learned this kind of recently, and it shouldn't
Speaker 11: be there. Uranium two thirty six has a half light
Speaker 11: of half live of twenty any two thirty five has
Speaker 11: a half life of seven hundred million years, and uranium
Speaker 11: two thirty eight has half light of four hundred four
Speaker 11: point four billion years. So two thirty five and two
Speaker 11: thirty eight are the only isotopes found on Earth. Uh,
Speaker 11: you know, all the other less stable ones cracked and
Speaker 11: disappeared eons ago. But somehow there's this other isotope on
Speaker 11: the Moon that shouldn't be there. I wonder if it
Speaker 11: got there through meteor or something.
Speaker 1: Now, that's fascinating. I haven't heard that either. Is it
Speaker 1: abundant or is it seen in like certain spots on
Speaker 1: the Moon.
Speaker 11: I think it's scattered everywhere from from what I saw
Speaker 11: it was on the Wi Files if you've ever heard
Speaker 11: of them.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love the Wi Files. I love that show.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and there's also this xenon on isotope C not
Speaker 11: ninety one on Mars that shouldn't be there either. That
Speaker 11: normally only comes about as a result of nuclear explosions.
Speaker 11: So some people think that Mars had a civilization.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, I'm gonna have to watch that episode
Speaker 1: of the Wi Files. Now, I've heard a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, me being the professional conspiracy the arsenal that
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of things about Mars having his
Speaker 1: civilization on their surface at one point in time. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of argument as to how they got ice
Speaker 1: at the caps, how and why they're covered in rust?
Speaker 1: Why are they so iron rich as a planet. I
Speaker 1: haven't heard about the xenon that if not mistaken as
Speaker 1: a noble gas and You're right, that doesn't just that
Speaker 1: doesn't just happen in nature on its own, however, I
Speaker 1: mean we're talking about on Earth, maybe another planet that
Speaker 1: happens natrally. I don't know that that I've heard the conversation,
Speaker 1: and I don't inherently disagree or agree with it. It's
Speaker 1: more just into the realm of hypotheticals to say that
Speaker 1: Mars had a civilization and they nuke themselves to oblivion.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I'm with you on that though. If
Speaker 1: Mars or not Mars, I'm sorry. If the Moon has
Speaker 1: this abundantly readily available radioactive isotope, that's not the source
Speaker 1: of Like where would they get the radiation from? How
Speaker 1: would they have a reactor? Like they could source that
Speaker 1: one locally. I get that. The expensive metals that are
Speaker 1: gonna try to withstand that type of heat and that
Speaker 1: type of strain for any actual amount of time. Anybody
Speaker 1: who works in metal urge you'll know. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can find ink and nel, you can find monail,
Speaker 1: you can find even the high grade, super expensive metals
Speaker 1: to work those thermal couples. It's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: a yearly, if not every six months, maybe even more
Speaker 1: frequent than that to go up there and bring the
Speaker 1: materials just to make repairs on one of ten thousand
Speaker 1: thermal couples that are in series with each other. That
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, that's a better that's a more of
Speaker 1: a reasonable explanation than making steam on the moon. That's fascinating,
Speaker 1: But oh my god, that sounds like a logistical nightmare
Speaker 1: and a drain on whatever country is the guy the
Speaker 1: people to do it. Their tax dollars are going to
Speaker 1: be like solely wrapped up in this raven. Please weigh in.
Speaker 2: Well, since we're on the topic of space, I have
Speaker 2: like two things that I just was reading about recently.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard about this, but there
Speaker 2: was two massive black holes that merged together.
Speaker 1: I have heard about this, but let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: So that.
Speaker 2: The report was just released July thirteenth that was talking
Speaker 2: about the cosmic collision of the two massive black holes.
Speaker 2: Approximately one and forty times the massive our Sun combined
Speaker 2: together to form a new black hole that's two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five times more mass than the Sun. And
Speaker 2: apparently when these two converge together, why it's so different
Speaker 2: is because the black holes appear to be spinning very
Speaker 2: rapidly near the limit that allowed is pretty much surpassing
Speaker 2: Einstein's theory of general relativity, and there is like the
Speaker 2: really really smart people you know are going over this
Speaker 2: and pretty much just like questioning. It's put these two
Speaker 2: black holes merging has put everything we thought we knew
Speaker 2: about black holes into like just we just don't understand
Speaker 2: it now at this point, like they're questioning so many
Speaker 2: different things. It's because the biggest black hole you can
Speaker 2: get from a supernova super nova is maybe a few
Speaker 2: dozen times the mass of the Sun, but this is
Speaker 2: one hundred one and forty times solar masses. Of the
Speaker 2: two of them is above the limit both of them
Speaker 2: before they converged, and so this is like it's it's
Speaker 2: a whole new record, and people are trying to understand
Speaker 2: what it means and why they're moving and flattening. They're
Speaker 2: flattening down when they converge. They're like changing time and
Speaker 2: space in and of itself. Because we know that black
Speaker 2: holes the time is different from the beginning to the
Speaker 2: middle to the end. Time ceases to exist the way
Speaker 2: that we understand, and so now that two of them
Speaker 2: have converged together, it's a huge issue pretty.
Speaker 1: Much, how far away is this from us?
Speaker 2: Let's see, uh, because.
Speaker 1: I heard about it just kind of but I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's is it in our galaxy or is
Speaker 1: it in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we can see it, so it is doesn't
Speaker 2: need a GW two three one one two three for
Speaker 2: people that want to look it up. And it was
Speaker 2: picked up during the fourth observing run of the Ligo Virgo.
Speaker 2: What it is, it's the LVK network, which includes the
Speaker 2: observation so we can see it. It's detected in Italy
Speaker 2: and Japan, so they can see this. It's like at
Speaker 2: least where we can actually observe what's going on. It's
Speaker 2: the most massive black hole binary we've observed through gravitational waves,
Speaker 2: and it represents a challenge to our understanding what black
Speaker 2: hole formation means. So we can observe it, and like
Speaker 2: you can actually watch the videos of it and what
Speaker 2: they were able to see, and it's it's really kind
Speaker 2: of mind blowing to see the two of them come together.
Speaker 2: And then the other thing about we're talking about planets
Speaker 2: is the girl that's like twenty two twenty five, I
Speaker 2: can't remember exactly she's going to be the first person
Speaker 2: to go to Mars and never leave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2: Signed up again, she signed up in all of that stuff,
Speaker 2: and she's going to give up her life to go
Speaker 2: to Mars and stuff. And so, speaking of like putting
Speaker 2: things on planets, I'm curious to see if they're going
Speaker 2: to have a weight list of people that want to
Speaker 2: run this said, you know center, if they actually make it.
Speaker 2: But it reminds me of that movie when when the
Speaker 2: Moon got blown apart like in half. If a nuclear
Speaker 2: bomb would to go off on it, and wonder what
Speaker 2: it would do to our actual solar system, to.
Speaker 1: The solar system. Who knows to us on Earth that
Speaker 1: will screw up a lot of our biome because the
Speaker 1: Moon is an integral part to our circle of life,
Speaker 1: not just in tidal waves or how plants grow, but
Speaker 1: how even animals move. It's that is terrifying as a thought,
Speaker 1: which is why I don't understand why they think building
Speaker 1: a nuclear reactor. And it's all on the dark side
Speaker 1: of the moon. None of it is what we would
Speaker 1: be able to observe with a telescope. They are all
Speaker 1: talking about doing this on the opposite side, and we
Speaker 1: have no idea how many times the Moon gets hit
Speaker 1: by outside things. We see all the craters and it
Speaker 1: gets hit all the time. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: dark side gets hit more often than the light side.
Speaker 1: I kind of think so. But that even being said,
Speaker 1: you're one piece of space trash away from potentially having
Speaker 1: either a a nuclear explosion on the Moon or b
Speaker 1: ruining the nuclear reactor and the entire planet being so
Speaker 1: for lack of better words, infected or as I say,
Speaker 1: contaminated by a nuclear radioactive waste, that nobody will be
Speaker 1: able to go there again. Which I know that some
Speaker 1: people think that humans haven't been back to the Moon,
Speaker 1: and maybe there's more reasons to that than we originally thought.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't I don't see any of this
Speaker 1: as a positive. I think it's like a cool science experiment.
Speaker 1: But man, they are going about it with some fervor
Speaker 1: behind it, and the Moon by twenty thirty that's even
Speaker 1: assuming the next administration will continue the funding for this price. Now,
Speaker 1: China and Russia, their administrations as of this moment, are
Speaker 1: at no risk of losing their power, so them having
Speaker 1: a goal set for twenty thirty five, it's a very
Speaker 1: viable talking point to say that Ji and Putin will
Speaker 1: both be in charge in twenty thirty five. I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily think that so, but I don't also necessarily think
Speaker 1: false either. It's that it could go either way. But
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that the Trump administration won't
Speaker 1: be there in twenty thirty or even five years from now.
Speaker 1: So well, yeah, it's twenty thirty, I should say the
Speaker 1: next election, if the Democrats win, they could pull the
Speaker 1: funding for this and all of these this funding and
Speaker 1: science and all that was for nothing, go ahead, Raven.
Speaker 2: So I started looking at videos and I dropped on
Speaker 2: a chat. I haven't actually watched all the way three,
Speaker 2: but I was looking at videos because it's been a
Speaker 2: long time since I watched what the progression of fusion
Speaker 2: energy war is. It looks like they've stabilized it three
Speaker 2: times so far from different countries. So and but it's
Speaker 2: not very long though that that's the thing, Like.
Speaker 12: They can.
Speaker 2: Here, So how are they going to have to stabilize
Speaker 2: it there, let alone get all of the material up
Speaker 2: there and account for it. Like we're like, you know,
Speaker 2: simpletons when it comes to this stuff, compared to these
Speaker 2: genius people like I don't understand how they're going to
Speaker 2: have the material to be able to withstand this long
Speaker 2: term and everything else, Like, why not try to at
Speaker 2: least establish fusion here to support all of the world
Speaker 2: instead of building more of those massive nuclear because like
Speaker 2: China right now is like really pushing for condominance over
Speaker 2: energy because they're building that massive reactor, that nuclear program
Speaker 2: that they have going on to so they're just dumping
Speaker 2: billions and billions into into fusion, into the into nuclear
Speaker 2: and now into this. Like, I just don't understand why
Speaker 2: they need to feel the need to do it on
Speaker 2: the dark side of the moon when it has no
Speaker 2: real effect here on us, considering we could build it
Speaker 2: here and actually have fusion for everyone here.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know. China's got a hard enough time
Speaker 1: feeding their people without worry about producing power for their people.
Speaker 1: But you know what, let's watch at least a little
Speaker 1: bit of this. It's a ten minute video. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna watch all of that, but let's pick up at
Speaker 1: the tokomac and maybe that'll shed some light on One of
Speaker 1: these newer programs.
Speaker 9: Is within a device called tocomac. A tocomac apparatus has
Speaker 9: a toidly shaped chamber in which magnetic solid fields create
Speaker 9: and confine the plasma. These magnetic fields are produced by
Speaker 9: refrigeration appliances to the adherents called superconducting magnets. The nearly
Speaker 9: absolute zero a few degrees above minus two hundred and
Speaker 9: seventy three zero point one five degrees celsius inside the
Speaker 9: tocomac are hydrogen isotopes like deuterium and tritium, heated until
Speaker 9: they turn to plasma. Thereafter, magnetic fields are arranged so
Speaker 9: the plasma is confined long enough so that the two
Speaker 9: nuclei as the particles collide, will fuse and create energy.
Speaker 9: This is a very difficult job to achieve with machine building,
Speaker 9: and that's where ITER proves to be an absolutely important mission.
Speaker 9: The ITER tokomag is the largest and most complex fusion
Speaker 9: device ever designed and built. More than a million pieces
Speaker 9: and ten million different components must fit together with the
Speaker 9: tightest tolerances. Clearly, it shows ITER to be an international venture.
Speaker 9: Components come from several parts of the world. In total,
Speaker 9: thirty five nations are involved with building and running ITER,
Speaker 9: so it is one of the most significant international collaborations
Speaker 9: of countries acting together in history. The idea for building
Speaker 9: ITER began in the nineteen eighties when Mikhail Gorbachev, representing
Speaker 9: the Soviet Union, and US President Ronald Reagan proposed an
Speaker 9: international fusion initiative. In this era, as the Cold War
Speaker 9: was coming to a close, the two leaders saw new
Speaker 9: energy for all of humanity in nineteen eighty six. The
Speaker 9: counterpart to the formal launch of the ITER project was
Speaker 9: those subsequent years, as more states joined in, including members
Speaker 9: of the European Union, Japan, China, India, South Korea, and
Speaker 9: of course Russia. It is at this moment that ITER,
Speaker 9: with the choice of the best location in France and
Speaker 9: the necessary infrastructure, began construction in twenty ten. Since then,
Speaker 9: thousands of scientists, engineers and construction workers have applied their
Speaker 9: efforts to implement the project. The very technicality of a
Speaker 9: Tokomac meant it was designed to overawe the user. The
Speaker 9: sum of its parts, from the superconducting magnets to the
Speaker 9: cooling system, calls for sophistical to technology and fine engineering.
Speaker 9: For example, the cryostats, the largest thing less steel vacuum
Speaker 9: chamber ever built in the world, was fabricated in India,
Speaker 9: pre assembled and then shipped to France, where it was
Speaker 9: finally assembled.
Speaker 1: Now that's interesting as well. So I didn't know about
Speaker 1: this new way to make nuclear power happen. But they
Speaker 1: need negative two hundred and seventy degrees celsius, which is
Speaker 1: super cold. You may not need as much effort to
Speaker 1: get it that cold in space and the vacuum chamber itself.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not gonna be able to just use
Speaker 1: space as vacuum for that purpose because it has to
Speaker 1: be enclosed. I understand this, But that's interesting. I wonder
Speaker 1: if the Moon might provide a better environment to make
Speaker 1: newer forms of fission or fusion work in that regard.
Speaker 1: That's very interesting. Okay. I mean I do want to
Speaker 1: watch this later on, but I don't want to spend
Speaker 1: ten minutes of this episode watching this video. But wow, Okay, Raven,
Speaker 1: thank you for bringing that to our attention. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of international things, Trump has now imposed another twenty
Speaker 1: five percent tariff on India. We're not going to spend
Speaker 1: too much time on it, but we do have a
Speaker 1: quick clip to talk about it.
Speaker 16: Let's go today, President Trump imposed an additional twenty five
Speaker 16: percent tariff on India. The additional tariff follows Trump's previous
Speaker 16: twenty five percent tariff on Indian imports. The White House
Speaker 16: calls the new tariff a necessary and appropriate punishment for
Speaker 16: India's imports of Russian oil. This action is the president's
Speaker 16: first use of so called secondary sanctions on countries the
Speaker 16: US says are fueling Moscow's war machine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we kind of knew that one was going to come.
Speaker 1: I also don't believe that Mody is that concerned with
Speaker 1: it as of this moment. Trump's doing this whole tariff thing,
Speaker 1: and all right, cool. So now India's under fifty percent tariffs,
Speaker 1: which honestly, tariffs are kind of a second cousin to
Speaker 1: embargoes when used in this manner. I see what you're
Speaker 1: trying to do, Donald jay I get it. But India's
Speaker 1: got more than enough buyers of their goods, and they
Speaker 1: don't have an issue buying Russian oil. They're going to
Speaker 1: do what's best for their people, regardless of America's opinion
Speaker 1: on it. So I have a feeling that we're gonna
Speaker 1: see those tariffs climb even higher in the following weeks.
Speaker 1: I don't know that for a fact. It just wouldn't
Speaker 1: shock me. But moving on here, we do have something
Speaker 1: else that's going on in DC, and Trump gave a
Speaker 1: statement that honestly kinda makes me uneasy. Let me know
Speaker 1: what y'all think about this. I'm gonna turn the volume
Speaker 1: down because there's not a lot of talking until the
Speaker 1: very end here. So for anybody who doesn't know, doose
Speaker 1: employee was assaulted and fueled Trump's threats to federalize DC.
Speaker 1: Word Coorchristine, also known as quote unquote big Balls Online
Speaker 1: that's his online alias, was nearly carjacked by a group
Speaker 1: of teens, according to a Washington Metro police report. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was getting into his car and like ten teenagers
Speaker 1: basically surrounded him. Beat the absolute dog shit out of
Speaker 1: this boy. Look at him. This is the guy. This
Speaker 1: is an old big balls himself here. After the incident,
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump posted a photo reportedly of a bloodied
Speaker 1: courtisine Chorstein. I don't know what you mean. Reportedly, you
Speaker 1: can look at it and see that, Yeah, he's bleeding
Speaker 1: like crazy. And this is when Trump made the claim
Speaker 1: that he wants to federalize DC.
Speaker 15: I don't like a young man who was beat up
Speaker 15: by a bunch of thugs in DC. And neither they're
Speaker 15: going to straighten their act out in the terms of
Speaker 15: government and in terms of protection, and we're gonna have
Speaker 15: to federalize and run it the way it's supposed to
Speaker 15: be run.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I don't like federaling a city,
Speaker 1: even if it is Washington, d C. I understand that
Speaker 1: it's its own thing, it's the District of Columbia. I
Speaker 1: really just don't like federal things being interwoven into people's
Speaker 1: lives any more than they already are. But yeah, so,
Speaker 1: and there's still there's this big conversation happening, and this
Speaker 1: is kind of breaking news. It only happened a few
Speaker 1: hours ago as of time recording, so I don't know
Speaker 1: if this attack was because your boy is a member
Speaker 1: of the Doge Committee, or more than likely because DC
Speaker 1: is a cesspool of underprivileged youths doing gang violence. I
Speaker 1: remember when I lived in southeast d C, which is
Speaker 1: at the time not a nice area of the city.
Speaker 1: That's where I was stationed. You couldn't go three blocks
Speaker 1: away from our barracks to the local store without the
Speaker 1: possibility of getting jumped. As a matter of fact, me
Speaker 1: and a buddy of mine almost did one day. We
Speaker 1: almost got robbed. Now, thankfully the uh, the youths for
Speaker 1: lack of better words, thought better of their actions before
Speaker 1: they did it. But yeah, it was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a situation. We even laughed about it, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how they thought that was gonna go, but
Speaker 1: like we were ready or so, we thought these dudes
Speaker 1: probably had guns or something like that. We weren't armed
Speaker 1: at the moment, you know, we we were Marines, but
Speaker 1: we were also in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: You can't just carry a weapon there. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: crazy how the places with the strictest gun laws also
Speaker 1: have very high crime rates. But that's taught for another
Speaker 1: day anyway. Yeah, I don't know if this had anything
Speaker 1: to do with the fact that he is a Doze employee.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Off the rip, however, it's not
Speaker 1: a good look for DC, and now it's got Trump
Speaker 1: talking about federalizing the city. It's not a good sign.
Speaker 1: Not a good sign at all all. Right, Now, as
Speaker 1: we're kind of getting towards the end of the episode,
Speaker 1: let's shift gears a little bit to something that is
Speaker 1: a little bit more comical. Here. This is a report
Speaker 1: from the Moscow Times. Now I understand there is going
Speaker 1: to be some that say that this is or is
Speaker 1: not credible sources. There was another one from the Ukrainian Times.
Speaker 1: This report comes from multiple outside sources that are not
Speaker 1: involved in the Russia Ukraine conflict. But apparently Russia's war
Speaker 1: against Ukraine has seen an explosion in HIV rates. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about it here. Russia's HIV statistics and dynamics were
Speaker 1: far from encouraging long before the full scale invasion of Ukraine,
Speaker 1: but the war has dramatically worse in the situation. In
Speaker 1: the first year of the war, according to Defense Ministry data,
Speaker 1: the recorded incident of HIV among military personnel soared by
Speaker 1: more than forty times. The demographic and economic losses Russia
Speaker 1: will suffer as a result of this outbreak will have
Speaker 1: repercussions for decades and may ultimately even exceed the damage
Speaker 1: it has sustained from its invasion of Ukraine. The number
Speaker 1: of people living with HIV in Russia passed the one
Speaker 1: million mark back in twenty sixteen. That's almost one percent
Speaker 1: of the population to or about one point five to
Speaker 1: two percent of working age people, and does not include
Speaker 1: those who simply did not get tested. Even at that
Speaker 1: stage the epidemic could still have been brought under control.
Speaker 1: There is a vast accumulated experience of fighting HIV around
Speaker 1: the world. Had there been the political will, it would
Speaker 1: have been enough to increase the Health Ministry's budget for
Speaker 1: tackling the bread of HIV and to introduce proven methods
Speaker 1: of prevention instead of relying on outdated and harmful ideas
Speaker 1: about family life and quote unquote moral staples. Now don't
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Russian ideas of family life
Speaker 1: and moral staples are, but I don't necessarily think that
Speaker 1: those are harmful. They might be again, maybe they're telling
Speaker 1: their people to do some horrendous things to themselves and
Speaker 1: calling it moral. I just have a hard time seeing that.
Speaker 1: They're probably talking about like abstinence or things like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. But the HIV spread
Speaker 1: is not just from intercourse or things like that. It's
Speaker 1: also being fueled by a lot of drug use as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, on the front which and it's
Speaker 1: not just on the Russian side. I understand the Ukrainians
Speaker 1: are doing a lot of this as well. But you'll
Speaker 1: have that whenever you have people who didn't want to
Speaker 1: fight that are forced to the front. Look at Vietnam.
Speaker 1: How many of our soldiers came back from Vietnam after
Speaker 1: being drafted to go there, came back strung out on
Speaker 1: all types of drugs because you find yourself in hell
Speaker 1: that you didn't volunteer yourself to go to, and you're
Speaker 1: willing to do whatever it takes to get your mind
Speaker 1: off it for a bit, including injecting or shooting up
Speaker 1: or smoking or whatever the case would be, of some
Speaker 1: sort of a list substance. And not all conditions in
Speaker 1: the trench warfare that the Russians and Ukrainians have found
Speaker 1: themselves in are the most hygienic, So needle sharing has
Speaker 1: become more of the reason for this epidemic, but let's
Speaker 1: keep talking about it here. Modern antra anti retrovenal retroviral
Speaker 1: Jesus therapy ART, which is prescribed to every person newly
Speaker 1: diagnosed with the HIV for the rest of their life,
Speaker 1: is not cheap. Even before the war, only a few
Speaker 1: wealthy regions could afford to fully finance it for all
Speaker 1: who needed it. The health ministry tried to switch to
Speaker 1: cheaper domestic generics of Western drugs to cut costs but
Speaker 1: HIV organizations were already reporting disruptions in the availability of
Speaker 1: essential drugs even before the war. Now, wartime priorities have
Speaker 1: exacerbated the problem. The proportion of HIV patients receiving treatment
Speaker 1: has now fallen below fifty percent in Russia for the
Speaker 1: first time in many years. The wartime wave of repression
Speaker 1: against civil society proved to be the final nail in
Speaker 1: the coffin of Russia's already weak system of assistance for
Speaker 1: people living with HIV. The Elton John Foundation, the world's
Speaker 1: largest sponsor of NGO's working in the field of HIV,
Speaker 1: was declared and quote unquote undesirable organization, forcing Russian organizations
Speaker 1: to stop any cooperation with it. Yeah, Russia decided that
Speaker 1: the Elton John found Nation was one of those undesirable organizations. Fair, okay.
Speaker 1: This The designation of LGBTQ plus element of PQRSTUV Excavation
Speaker 1: point Asterisk people as an extremist movement quote unquote has
Speaker 1: further increased the cross stigma around both the gay community
Speaker 1: and the issue of HIV. Yeah, HIV is no longer
Speaker 1: just a gay thing, by the way, I know. It
Speaker 1: was seen as that in the eighties. But that is
Speaker 1: way more often than not these days really got nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the gay community, and it hasn't for
Speaker 1: the better part of two decades, I might add. But
Speaker 1: all right, However, the greatest impact has been caused by
Speaker 1: the war itself. Epidemiologists say that the risk of HIV
Speaker 1: spreading at the front increased with blood transfusions and the
Speaker 1: reusing of syringes infield hospitals. Right, that's that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Syringe and bad blood transfusions at the front. Clearly, that's
Speaker 1: the dirty needles that we're talking about. Sure, people who
Speaker 1: take ART every day are no longer infectious, but when
Speaker 1: soldiers are living in trenches in conditions of round the
Speaker 1: clock shelling, the uninterrupted supply of administration of ART is
Speaker 1: hardly realistic. Meanwhile, irregular treatment is even worse than no
Speaker 1: treatment at all, since it can cause the virus to
Speaker 1: become drug resistant and get passed on in that new mutation.
Speaker 1: The problem is so grave that it has been officially
Speaker 1: acknowledged even by Defense Ministry doctors. The number of new
Speaker 1: HIV cases detected in the armed forces grew fivefold from
Speaker 1: the first quarter of twenty twenty two to the fall
Speaker 1: of the same year. By the end of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: it increased by thirteen times, and by the beginning of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, peak growth was recorded at more than fortyfold.
Speaker 1: By the end of the same year, the HIV detection
Speaker 1: rate among military personnel was about twenty times higher than
Speaker 1: before the war. Y'all that was in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: The statistics right now are exponentially worse. Such high transmission
Speaker 1: rates can be explained by the fact that HIV is
Speaker 1: not just passed on in war through wounds and their treatment.
Speaker 1: The two more traditional transmission transmission channels unprotecting sexual contact
Speaker 1: including sex with workers or with sex workers, I should say,
Speaker 1: and sharing needles to inject drugs have not disappeared. On
Speaker 1: the contrary, according to independent journalists, both are thriving in
Speaker 1: an army of men who are earning decent money and
Speaker 1: live every day as if it was their last. And
Speaker 1: I get that, you know you're going to have You're
Speaker 1: going to have sex, work and drugs anywhere where that
Speaker 1: type of warfare is being done again, we only need
Speaker 1: look at Vietnam. But anyway, despite the surge of HIV
Speaker 1: cases in the Russian armed forces. Testing positive for the
Speaker 1: disease is still officially cause for being declared unfit to
Speaker 1: serve in the military. At the conscription stage, this rule
Speaker 1: is generally followed. There have been reports of draftees buying
Speaker 1: fake certificates for positive HIV and hepatitis tests in order
Speaker 1: to avoid being sent to the front. Yeah, I'll bet
Speaker 1: there have been at the front itself. However, these rules
Speaker 1: are no longer so closely observed. Independent media and social
Speaker 1: media are full of stories of commanders on the ground
Speaker 1: refusing to let soldiers leave the front no matter what
Speaker 1: conditions they are in, because manpower is in short supply. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's happening on both sides. By the way, that's not
Speaker 1: just a Russian problem by any means. Worst of all,
Speaker 1: no epidemiologists is prepared to say that the explosion of
Speaker 1: new HIV cases is confined to the military and that
Speaker 1: it is caused by army specific factors. The dynamics among
Speaker 1: the rest of the population could be just as bad.
Speaker 1: The rise may have been spotted because military personnel, along
Speaker 1: with pregnant women, migrants, and professionals including pilots and chefs,
Speaker 1: who are subject to mandatory HIV testing. One Russian publication
Speaker 1: reported that in fourteen Russian regions, the proportion of pregnant
Speaker 1: women testing positive for HIV is now regularly more than
Speaker 1: one percent. That, according to the World Health Organization standards,
Speaker 1: is another symptom of the transition to a generalized HIV
Speaker 1: epidemic when there is no longer any point in talking
Speaker 1: about at risk groups quote unquote in that particular country. Wow,
Speaker 1: just so we're clear here, here's some other statistics for people.
Speaker 1: Russia has been among the top five countries in terms
Speaker 1: of HIV cases since twenty twenty two, accounting for a
Speaker 1: three point nine percent of the one point five million
Speaker 1: new infections worldwide. Only South Africa, which is fourteen percent
Speaker 1: of all new cases, Mozambique six point five percent of
Speaker 1: all new cases, Nigeria at fourteen point nine percent, in
Speaker 1: India at four point two percent have more new cases,
Speaker 1: and the latter two have significantly larger populations than Russia.
Speaker 1: That is that is pretty pretty insane. So, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: things going on at the Ukrainian Russian front, and I
Speaker 1: know that people are hearing right now that they may
Speaker 1: be coming to the table for a ceasefire conversation. This
Speaker 1: might be the final thing. I just I don't see it.
Speaker 1: I don't see it as of this moment. Realistically, Russia
Speaker 1: is still making their forward advance into a few regions
Speaker 1: as we speak. They just launched a massive three prong
Speaker 1: offensive in the past two weeks. They gained some ground,
Speaker 1: not a lot, but they are still gaining ground. So
Speaker 1: and it was at the cost of a lot of
Speaker 1: lives and a lot of equipment, thousands of pieces of equipment,
Speaker 1: I might add, And we don't even want to talk
Speaker 1: about the death toll, or we should just say the
Speaker 1: Kia not well, I guess for lack of Let's call
Speaker 1: them casualties, because a lot of these guys are not
Speaker 1: going to return to the front, but they still have
Speaker 1: their lives. Some reports are saying that it's even over
Speaker 1: a million for the Russian side, and it's not like
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian side is much better. It's but not by
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds. So now we have HIV that is
Speaker 1: making people battlefield casualties, allegedly if they're allowed to lead
Speaker 1: the front. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to bring
Speaker 1: up this one was actually dropped by raven STI epidemic
Speaker 1: slows as new syphilis gonerhea cases fall in the United States,
Speaker 1: the CDC says, well, hey, that makes me happy. Rates
Speaker 1: of sexually transmitted infections appear to be leveling off after
Speaker 1: decades of growth in the United States. According to the
Speaker 1: latest statistic from the CDC, STIs remain at record levels,
Speaker 1: but new cases of chamytee and sephius could finally be stabilizing,
Speaker 1: while cases of goneriea have declined for two years in
Speaker 1: a row. Large discrepancies in STIs persist for certain populations,
Speaker 1: with adolescents, gay men, and black individuals bearing much of
Speaker 1: the burden. Well, that doesn't make me happy, but the
Speaker 1: fact that these levels are leveling off and are reducing
Speaker 1: in certain cases, that really does make me happy. Let's see. Overall,
Speaker 1: the total number of STIs decreased by one point eight
Speaker 1: percent between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. We
Speaker 1: can read this one here. It says more than two
Speaker 1: point four million cases of chlamydia, goneriea, and syphalis were
Speaker 1: reported last year, the vast majority one point six million,
Speaker 1: where chlamydia followed by gonnoia six hundred thousand and syphilis
Speaker 1: a little over two hundred thousand. Wow, there's a direct
Speaker 1: quote from Bradley Stoner, a doctor and the director of
Speaker 1: the Division of STD Prevention at the National Center for
Speaker 1: HIV Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention at the CDC.
Speaker 1: Good God, the moniker on that guy's door. We are
Speaker 1: at the infection point in the epidemic. This report is
Speaker 1: encouraging in a number of areas, but it also shows
Speaker 1: that we have a lot of work to do. We
Speaker 1: still have a lot of STIs in the United States,
Speaker 1: and they're not equally distributed. Okay, the way that word
Speaker 1: it was weird. Does he want them equally distributed or
Speaker 1: he wants them just eradicated as a whole. Okay, the
Speaker 1: data confirms discrepancies and disease burdens. Stoner noted rates of
Speaker 1: SCIS are not equally distributed, with certain groups including gay
Speaker 1: and bisexual men, black people, and young adults age fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty four disproportionately affected. That's not new. I don't
Speaker 1: like that. But that's also not like new information. But anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, now, let's kind of take things to a
Speaker 1: lighter note, shall we, as are still talking about crazy
Speaker 1: things in the sexual realm. This is an article from
Speaker 1: the BBC. A tie woman was arrested for blackmailing monks
Speaker 1: with thousands of videos after sex. Yeah, so that's a
Speaker 1: thing with Buddhist monks. A lot of them are supposed
Speaker 1: to abstain from sex, but there was more than a
Speaker 1: handful of them, about a thousand that were hiring a
Speaker 1: tie lady of the evening. I'm gonna try to keep
Speaker 1: it as respectful as I can. She was then black
Speaker 1: mailing these dudes and extorting millions from them. Let's read
Speaker 1: it in here, ty. Police have arrested a woman who
Speaker 1: allegedly had sexual relations with monks and then use photos
Speaker 1: in videos of the acts to extort money from them.
Speaker 1: The woman, who police are calling Miss Golf, had sex
Speaker 1: with at least nine months. Police said at a press
Speaker 1: conference on Tuesday, they believe she received around three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty five million bot which is almost twelve million
Speaker 1: dollars over the past three years. Investigators who searched her
Speaker 1: house found more than eighty thousand photos in videos used
Speaker 1: to blackmail the monks. The police spokesperson said this scandal
Speaker 1: is the latest to rock Thailand's much revered Buddhist institution,
Speaker 1: which in recent years has been plagued with allegations of
Speaker 1: monks engaging in sexual offenses and drug trafficking. Police said
Speaker 1: the first case sorry the case first came to their
Speaker 1: attention in mid June when they learned that an abbot
Speaker 1: in Bangkok had suddenly left the monk hood after being
Speaker 1: extorted by a woman.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 1: Miss Golf quote unquote had a relationship with the monk
Speaker 1: in May of twenty twenty four. Police said. She later
Speaker 1: claimed to have his baby and demanded child support of
Speaker 1: more than seven million bots. They added. Authorities then discovered
Speaker 1: that other monks had similarly transferred money to Miss Golf,
Speaker 1: which police called her modus operandi orm O, her standard
Speaker 1: going procedure, if you will. Police added, they found that
Speaker 1: nearly all of the money has been withdrawn and some
Speaker 1: of it had been used for online gambling. Bro if
Speaker 1: that is, oh man, oh, the jokes right themselves. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: When investigators searched Miss Golf's house earlier this month, they
Speaker 1: seized her phones and found more than eighty thousand photos
Speaker 1: and videos that she had used to blackmail the monks.
Speaker 1: She was facing multiple charges including extortion, money laundering, and
Speaker 1: receiving stolen goods. Police have also opened a hotline for
Speaker 1: people to report misbehaving monks quote unquote, uh wow. The
Speaker 1: scandal has prompted the Sunga Supreme Council, the governing body
Speaker 1: for Thai Buddhism, to say it will form a special
Speaker 1: committee to review monastic regulations. The government is also pushing
Speaker 1: for harsher penalties, including fines in jail time, for monks
Speaker 1: who breached the monastic code. Whoa can you imagine if
Speaker 1: they did that? For just religious leaders around the world,
Speaker 1: if you were to step outside of the oath that
Speaker 1: you took as a religious figure, you could face actual
Speaker 1: jail time. Now, I'm not talking about for things that
Speaker 1: are obviously illegal, like you know, pedophilia or something horrible
Speaker 1: like that, but that is a crazy precedence to set.
Speaker 1: I'm not against it, but damn okay. This week, Thailand's
Speaker 1: King vijar longcorn v Jai raw Longcorn Yeah, revoked a
Speaker 1: royal command he had issued in June conferring higher titles
Speaker 1: to eighty one monks. He cited the recent cases of misconduct,
Speaker 1: which he said have quote caused Buddhists to suffer greatly
Speaker 1: in their minds end quote. Yeah. In Thailand, there where
Speaker 1: more than ninety percent of the population identify as Buddhists.
Speaker 1: Monks are highly revered. Many time men also choose to
Speaker 1: temporarily ordain as monks to accumulate good karma. Okay, but
Speaker 1: the Buddhist institution has been plagued by scandals in the
Speaker 1: recent past. You'll have that with people who temporarily do things,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of taking a lifelong goal and take
Speaker 1: the discipline to achieve that lifelong goal, and they just
Speaker 1: do it for a season of their life. You'll you'll
Speaker 1: have some scandals that will come up as a portion
Speaker 1: of that. Where a Paul Suk Paul, I'm sure I'm
Speaker 1: butchering that pronunciation, a jet setting monk known for his
Speaker 1: lavish lifestyle, made international headlines in twenty seventeen when he
Speaker 1: was charged with sex offenses, fraud, and money laundering. And
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, a temple in the northern province
Speaker 1: of Pechabun was left without any monks after all four
Speaker 1: of its monks were arrested in a drug raid and
Speaker 1: were disrobed.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, as we're talking last week about the Thailand
Speaker 1: Cambodia Conversation, found it interesting that they arrested a woman
Speaker 1: for blackmailing monks with eighty thousand pictures in videos and
Speaker 1: got a little under twelve million dollars eleven point nine
Speaker 1: million dollars US in extorting these dudes over the past
Speaker 1: couple of years.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Moving forward here, We're not going to spend too much
Speaker 1: time on these things, but we did. We do need
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about this here. The US
Speaker 1: and Europe are condemning Iranian intelligence threats on Western soil.
Speaker 1: So apparently, the United States and thirteen allied countries have
Speaker 1: accused Iran of plotting to kill, kidnap, and intimidate individuals
Speaker 1: in Europe and North America, citing violations of sovereignty and
Speaker 1: links to international criminal networks. This is a direct quote here.
Speaker 1: These services are increasingly collaborating with international criminal organizations to
Speaker 1: target journalists, descend dissidents, Jewish citizens, and current and former officials,
Speaker 1: the US State Department said in a joint statement with
Speaker 1: European countries. They include the United Kingdom, Albania, Australia or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Speaker 1: the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. The governments called on Iranian
Speaker 1: authorities to immediately halt the activities and pledged to work
Speaker 1: together to prevent further threats. On Monday, of Belgian lawmaker
Speaker 1: of Iranian descent, Daria Safai, said the European Countries police
Speaker 1: warned her of an Iranian plot to abduct her via
Speaker 1: Turkey after she backed labeling the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group. Wow,
Speaker 1: and this is not without its precedents, right, we just
Speaker 1: talked about this a couple of weeks ago. They found
Speaker 1: Iranian spies in Cyprus that we're also trying to We
Speaker 1: don't know if they were just gaining intelligence for a
Speaker 1: military operation or if they were trying to plan and attack.
Speaker 1: Last we heard they were still trying to ascertain the
Speaker 1: over under on the details. That being said, we know
Speaker 1: that Iran Iran has spies all over the earth. That's
Speaker 1: not a secret to anybody. But all these countries are
Speaker 1: basically saying, yo, we know what you're doing and you
Speaker 1: need to stop. And for the record, this isn't un
Speaker 1: terroristic of them. To the links to the international criminal networks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you can only find and Tony, you brought
Speaker 1: this up last time. There's only like one or two
Speaker 1: Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organizations that are not directly connected to Iran.
Speaker 1: So to say that these terrorist organizations are involved with
Speaker 1: the targeting of journalists, dissidents, Jewish citizens, and former and
Speaker 1: current officials, that's not new. That's kind of terrorist one
Speaker 1: oh one. So with all of that, these countries are
Speaker 1: coming together and telling Iran to stop. Now that being said,
Speaker 1: this is an article from Al Jazeera. A man was
Speaker 1: arrested for spying for Iran before possible attacks in Germany.
Speaker 1: Iran's embassy in Berlin swiftly rejects allegations. After a man
Speaker 1: is arrested in a neighbor in neighboring Denmark, a danish
Speaker 1: Man has been arrested on suspicion of spying in Germany
Speaker 1: on behalf of Iran, on an allegation swiftly denied by
Speaker 1: the embassy. German prosecutors on Tuesday said the man, identified
Speaker 1: only as Ali s under German privacy laws, was suspected
Speaker 1: of conducting the surveillance in preparation of further intelligence activities
Speaker 1: in Germany, possibly including terrorist attacks on Jewish targets. I'm
Speaker 1: not you know, Germany doesn't have like a really big
Speaker 1: Jewish population, right, like they have some, but there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of them anymore, for you know, reasons, you know,
Speaker 1: read a history book at some point. But okay, for
Speaker 1: intelligence activities in Germany, and yes, possibly an attack, probably
Speaker 1: just spy operations. I don't know, Tony your thoughts.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna say the Sony she has split is pretty important.
Speaker 11: And al Qaeda and ISIS are definitely not affiliated with
Speaker 11: Iran in any way. Hesbal as their main I guess
Speaker 11: you could call terrorists militia, and they have had some
Speaker 11: relations with Hamas but not much, and the same thing
Speaker 11: with the hu Thies. But yeah, Iran, I guess I
Speaker 11: don't consider them the chief state sponsor of terrorism. I
Speaker 11: would think something like Saudi Arabia would be.
Speaker 8: How not.
Speaker 1: I mean, even if, yeah, you're right about the Sunni
Speaker 1: and she has split, I'm with you one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: But at that point it's also enemy of my enemy, right.
Speaker 11: Well, I think personally I think the Sonis are a
Speaker 11: bigger problem than the Shia. But that's just a matter
Speaker 11: of personal opinion.
Speaker 1: I guess on what grounds I'm not trying to necessarily
Speaker 1: like straw Man or steel Man, you hear, but go
Speaker 1: deeper on that if you could.
Speaker 11: The soonis well, that's that's al Qaeda, that's Osama bin Laden.
Speaker 12: Those are the only America the only enemy America has
Speaker 12: really had over there. In my opinion, that.
Speaker 11: The Iranians kicked America out in nineteen seventy nine and
Speaker 11: we haven't had an embassy there since. But al Qaida
Speaker 11: they're the only ones who really struck over here. And
Speaker 11: Faisal Shazade I think was soon he actually I don't
Speaker 11: know this. This gets into a lot of you know,
Speaker 11: one on one by one events and people and fair
Speaker 11: ye who But I'd say they're pretty much all soony.
Speaker 11: I mean, that's our biggest problem.
Speaker 1: I get that. But even still, you look at the
Speaker 1: most brotherhood hamas, the Houthis. I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they're like all lead like they they're getting their orders
Speaker 1: from a rambin any means. But they're being funded, they're
Speaker 1: being armed. I don't think they're being trained necessarily. If
Speaker 1: they are, it's it's piss poor training at best. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're right there is at least some sort
Speaker 1: of a breakdown between But I mean that's not just
Speaker 1: of terrorist cells. That's a breakdown of the Islamic religion
Speaker 1: as a whole, from the Sunni and the si I,
Speaker 1: to the to the Kurds, to the Drus, to the Alawad,
Speaker 1: to the the Basque to you there, there's I'm with
Speaker 1: you there. There's levels to that for sure. But most
Speaker 1: of the terrorist organizations that are going after Israel anyway,
Speaker 1: I think have pretty decent connections to Iran.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I think I agree with you on that.
Speaker 11: And the Shia allied part of the world never tires
Speaker 11: of pointing out that why doesn't al Qaida ever attack Israel?
Speaker 12: Why does an isis separate attack Israel. So that is
Speaker 12: kind of something.
Speaker 11: That the Iran people should definitely want America to to
Speaker 11: change its opinion on. They want to say, hey, you know, America,
Speaker 11: we're more friendly to you than than the al kind
Speaker 11: of Isis Israel axis, which you know, maybe partly in
Speaker 11: their imagination, but that's how they portray it.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's probably something to be said for that,
Speaker 1: for sure. And in the same spirit of Iran trying
Speaker 1: to you know, not necessarily change their tomb, but being
Speaker 1: about this kind of conversation here, they're also kind of
Speaker 1: cleaning House internally, Iran says spy was executed for passing
Speaker 1: nuclear secrets to Moussad so. Iran said it has executed
Speaker 1: a man caught working as a spy for Israel's Mussad
Speaker 1: intelligence agency, accusing him of passing one secrets, including information
Speaker 1: about an Iranian nuclear scientist who was killed in Israel's
Speaker 1: recent attacks. This is from Newsweek, by the way, long
Speaker 1: story short, why it matters here. The reported execution reflects
Speaker 1: Iran's intensifying efforts to root out suspected espionage following the
Speaker 1: twelve Day War in June. If we're gonna really call
Speaker 1: it a war, wow, twelve day bombing, but all right,
Speaker 1: which saw Israel and US strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Amir Hatami,
Speaker 1: the commander in chief of Iran's military, warned on Sunday
Speaker 1: that threats from Israel persisted in that Iranian forces were
Speaker 1: ready for operations. Iranian state media reported Iran executed three
Speaker 1: men charged with spying for Israel on June twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: as part of a sweeping crackdown. Human rights groups have
Speaker 1: condemned a wave of hundreds of arrests and warned that
Speaker 1: the government is using the June conflict as a pretext
Speaker 1: to escalate repression. Rights groups have also cited concerns over confessions.
Speaker 1: I mean again, you'll kind of have that what to know.
Speaker 1: The Iranian news agency s n N or Student News
Speaker 1: Network That's yeah Okay, reported that a man named ruseb
Speaker 1: Vedi had been found guilty of espionage and intelligence cooperation
Speaker 1: in favor of the Zionist regime and was hanged on
Speaker 1: August fifth. According to the case documents of rusbe Vedi's statements,
Speaker 1: the man was fully aware of his cooperation with Mussad
Speaker 1: spy terrorist service and deliberately collaborated with the Zionist enemy.
Speaker 1: The S and M reported, according to an unofficial translation
Speaker 1: of its report, I love that the defendant was an
Speaker 1: act was active in one of the country's important and
Speaker 1: sensitive organizations, and given the level of access he had
Speaker 1: had become an attractive subject for the Zionist regime's spy service.
Speaker 1: It said. This is the report. By the way. The
Speaker 1: news agency did not elaborate on which organization he was
Speaker 1: working for, but said he had traveled to Vienna five times,
Speaker 1: including for training where he met Mussad agents in the
Speaker 1: course of his extensive cooperation with the Zionist regime. Quote unquote,
Speaker 1: the man quote provided information to Mussad spy service about
Speaker 1: one of our country's nuclear scientists who was martyred in
Speaker 1: the recent Israel Israeli aggressions and m reported, So is
Speaker 1: that what they hung him for? For acknowledging that Israel
Speaker 1: in fact did kill a nuclear scientist of one of
Speaker 1: the bombs. Because I thought that we kind of knew that,
Speaker 1: we knew that it wasn't a massive loss of life
Speaker 1: when the bombs were hitting the nuclear sites. There were
Speaker 1: some there were some like scientists that were on site
Speaker 1: that day that died and things like that. So if
Speaker 1: this guy just confirmed the name of one of the
Speaker 1: scientists that died, was that enough for him to be
Speaker 1: publicly hung. I don't know. I don't know. I know
Speaker 1: Roan does things a little on some might say the
Speaker 1: extremist side. Vadi had been placed under surveillance after he
Speaker 1: returned from one of his trips abroad and was arrested
Speaker 1: quote when his connections and cooperation with the Zionist enemy
Speaker 1: were discovered. As an In said, they love just throwing
Speaker 1: out that Z word, don't they. That's a whole thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Moving on, here we could go to the next topic
Speaker 1: of conversation. Sudan accuses the UAE of funding Colombian mercenaries
Speaker 1: to fight alongside the RSF in a civil war. This
Speaker 1: is kind of an interesting one here, so this is
Speaker 1: from Cayo Sorry, Cairo Associated Press. Sudan has accused the
Speaker 1: UAE of sending Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the Parliamentary
Speaker 1: Rapid Support Forces against the military in the country's civil war.
Speaker 1: The Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday that the
Speaker 1: Sudanese government has irrefutable evidence confirming mercenaries from Colombia and
Speaker 1: some neighboring African countries were sponsored and financed by Maraudi authorities.
Speaker 1: The statement didn't share the evidence or name the neighboring countries.
Speaker 1: So they got the proof. We're not going to talk
Speaker 1: about the proof, but we got it anyway. Is a
Speaker 1: direct quote here from the Foreign Ministry. This unprecedented phenomenon
Speaker 1: poses a serious threat to peace and security in the
Speaker 1: region and across the continent. The Foreign Ministry set asserting
Speaker 1: that hundreds of thousands of mercenaries were hired from across
Speaker 1: the African continent, and an email statement to the Associated Press.
Speaker 1: The UAE's Foreign Ministry said the government categorically rejects the
Speaker 1: allegations and denied involvement in the war by backing armed groups.
Speaker 1: The UAE emphasizes that these claims are merely attempts to
Speaker 1: derail the peace process and evade moral, legal and humanitarian
Speaker 1: obligations to end the conflict and paid the way for
Speaker 1: a transitional process that reflects the aspirations of the Sudanese
Speaker 1: people for security, stability and development. There is no immediate
Speaker 1: response by Colombia. The four of the civil war in
Speaker 1: Sudan erupted in April and twenty twenty three in the
Speaker 1: Khartoum in Khartoum, rather before spreading across the country following
Speaker 1: simmering tensions between RSF and the army. The fighting has
Speaker 1: killed over forty thousand people, displaced as many as twelve million,
Speaker 1: and pushed many to the brink of famine, which is
Speaker 1: nothing new for Sudan. Let's be honest. They use hunger
Speaker 1: as a weapon, and they have for a very long time,
Speaker 1: you know, anyone Sudan has long accused the UAE of
Speaker 1: being involved in the war by supplying the RSF with weapons,
Speaker 1: but the Gulf country has denied that claim. In November,
Speaker 1: an Amnesty International report armored vehicle manufactured by the UAE
Speaker 1: and equipped with French defense systems had been captured by
Speaker 1: the Sudanese military. A spokesperson for the Imorati government said
Speaker 1: at the time that the UAE was the target of
Speaker 1: a coordinated disinformation campaign aimed at undermining our foreign policy,
Speaker 1: regional role, and humanitarian efforts. Sudan's army and the RSF
Speaker 1: both have been accused of committing atrocities like ethnic cleansing,
Speaker 1: extra judicial killings, and sexual violence against civilians, including children.
Speaker 1: Once again, this is nothing new for Sudan. That's kind
Speaker 1: of how they have done war for quite some time.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting, but okay, that's the thing that's happening right now.
Speaker 1: So while that was a very dark conversation, let's try
Speaker 1: to end this on a lighter note, shall we. And
Speaker 1: this is also gonna kind of be dark in another regard,
Speaker 1: but I think it's also kind of funny and also
Speaker 1: kind of dark. Let's go dark humor, can we do that? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Let's go a little dark humor. This are from ABC
Speaker 1: News Denmark. Zoo is asking people to donate their pets
Speaker 1: to feed their predators. Yeah, Denmark Zoo is asking the
Speaker 1: public to donate their pets, particularly chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs,
Speaker 1: so that they can feed them to the zoo's predators.
Speaker 1: Is a direct quote here. In zoos, we have a
Speaker 1: responsibility to imitate the natural food chain of the animals
Speaker 1: in terms of both animal welfare and professional integrity, the
Speaker 1: Alborg Zoo said in a statement last Thursday. The request
Speaker 1: created a backlash online, with many disagreeing with the practice,
Speaker 1: but the zoo said the purpose of the program is
Speaker 1: to make sure nothing goes to waste and to ensure
Speaker 1: natural behavior, nutrition and wellbeing of our predators. According to
Speaker 1: the zoo's website, the zoo also said they would accept
Speaker 1: horses which they euthanize and slaughter for the food, though
Speaker 1: they said that the zoo needs The zoo's needs vary
Speaker 1: throughout the year and there might be a waiting list.
Speaker 1: There might be a waiting list, so listen. They're talking
Speaker 1: about rabbits, guinea pigs and chickens and depending on the predator.
Speaker 1: I can at least understand the thought process here. But
Speaker 1: while you're in, if you got any horse laying around
Speaker 1: that you just need to get put down, bro, donate
Speaker 1: it to the zoo. They got a spot for it,
Speaker 1: but you may need to hold off for a bit.
Speaker 1: They may be a waiting list for people trying to
Speaker 1: offload their old horses. Good God. The zoo also said
Speaker 1: they would have said that one okay. So for horses.
Speaker 1: Alboorg Zoos said it receives the horses as a donation
Speaker 1: and the owner of the horse can obtain a tax
Speaker 1: deduction for the value of the horse, according to the
Speaker 1: zoo's website. The zoo also said that they will accept chickens,
Speaker 1: rabbits and guinea pig on weekdays between ten am and
Speaker 1: one pm, but no more than four at a time. Bro,
Speaker 1: What there's that many people in Denmark that have chickens,
Speaker 1: rabbits and guinea pigs that they only can donate four
Speaker 1: of them at a time. And then also are they
Speaker 1: getting tax right offs for this? I mean bunny farms themselves.
Speaker 1: You have a turnaround time because whenever I was looking
Speaker 1: into doing subsistence farming, rabbits are the number one best
Speaker 1: bang for buck as far as the amount of feed
Speaker 1: and care and water they require versus the amount of
Speaker 1: protein that you can get on a repeatable timeframe. I
Speaker 1: want to say it's like six to eight weeks from
Speaker 1: the time that the rabbits are born to the time
Speaker 1: you can harvest them for their meat. So you get
Speaker 1: a good few breeding stock rabbits and you can slaughter
Speaker 1: the rest and you can feed yourself pretty decently off
Speaker 1: of them. Although they don't have a high fat content,
Speaker 1: it's very lean meat. I personally love the taste of rabbit.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I don't know about guinea pigs, and I
Speaker 1: don't know about the chickens and the gestation period for them,
Speaker 1: but no more than four animals at a time, and
Speaker 1: you can donate them week days between ten am and
Speaker 1: one pm.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: ABC News has reached out to the zoo for comment.
Speaker 1: The practice is not unheard of in Denmark, and in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen the Copenhagen Zoo garnered attention on social media
Speaker 1: when it killed a healthy giraffe and fed it to
Speaker 1: their predators, whoa Four lions, including two cubs, were also
Speaker 1: euthanized several weeks later to make room for a new
Speaker 1: male lion. In the Danish zoo, the lions were euthanized,
Speaker 1: not for being for not being able to defend themselves
Speaker 1: against him. So they were bringing in a new male
Speaker 1: and they knew that these four lions and two cubs
Speaker 1: weren't gonna be able to like defend themselves, and this
Speaker 1: male lion was gonna just destroy them, so they just
Speaker 1: took them out early. You know, it's more humane that way,
Speaker 1: I suppose. So you made room for one lion by
Speaker 1: killing four. Okay, that's a that's a thing in Copenhagen.
Speaker 12: Wow. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you have an animal that has to leave here
Speaker 1: for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us.
Speaker 1: The zoo said the animals are gently euthanized by trained
Speaker 1: staff and are afterwards used as fodder. That is a
Speaker 1: direct quote. Oo wow. Okay, Like I said, we're gonna
Speaker 1: end that on a darker note, but also kind of
Speaker 1: a humorous note. Good God, Almighty Denmark is getting wild
Speaker 1: with it, okay. Good. Members of the Cajun Night Retinue,
Speaker 1: we kind of went all over the board with the
Speaker 1: conversations tonight. We stuck primarily in the Nation of America,
Speaker 1: but then we went international. There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: going on, and I think we all kind of learned
Speaker 1: a little something tonight, and I appreciate everybody for joining
Speaker 1: in the conversation and adding in your own flavor to it. Again,
Speaker 1: for anybody who is listening to this, anytime that you
Speaker 1: might be listening to this, it gets posted on Thursdays. However,
Speaker 1: we do shoot this every Wednesday night at nine pm
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Speaker 1: this community grow to even further and bigger heights in spaces.
Speaker 1: I want this to be a larger community where we
Speaker 1: have more people chiming in, throwing in their opinions, growing
Speaker 1: it and sharing this information. This is fun. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love our Wednesday night conversations. Once again, everybody, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining me on this excursion. My name
Speaker 1: is Jacob Mook. I am the Cajun Night and as always,
Speaker 1: God bless