Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of The
Speaker 1: Cajun Night Live. I am your host, Jacob muk The
Speaker 1: Cajun Night. We're going all over the world tonight, as
Speaker 1: we do every episode. We're gonna start off in the
Speaker 1: good old us of A. Then we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: little trip down south to Mexico where the president was
Speaker 1: publicly groped by some dude that was drunk, off of
Speaker 1: his off of his ass, and she.
Speaker 2: Will be pressing charges the video of it.
Speaker 1: You'll watch this and think there's no way this guy
Speaker 1: is gonna do this to the current seated president of Mexico.
Speaker 2: He had no clue where he was, and I don't
Speaker 2: think he knew who she was either.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna talk about it right Then we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a little trip over to the other side of
Speaker 1: the pond. We're gonna start off in East Asia and
Speaker 1: work our way west.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna start off talking about Russia.
Speaker 1: And the oil market dip that they have experienced because
Speaker 1: of the meeting that Trump just had with g China
Speaker 1: has stopped buying Russian oil. India has also stopped Russian oil.
Speaker 1: Welt for the most part, anyway, the Russian economy, depending
Speaker 1: on who you listen to, apparently the Russian economy has
Speaker 1: been on the verge of collapse since they started this
Speaker 1: two week special military operation about to hit her four
Speaker 1: but beside the point it might actually start to hit
Speaker 1: them with the tear offf situation. Now, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that in kind. Then we're gonna shift over to
Speaker 1: the situation in Israel and Gaza. The ceasefire isn't exactly
Speaker 1: as ceased as we would like to believe, but at
Speaker 1: least now they are allowing press to go into Gaza City.
Speaker 1: We're gonna show some videos. Then we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Tanzania and all the wild revolution slash coup slash civil
Speaker 1: war that is popping off over there. So buckle up, everybody,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be going in on all of it. Oh
Speaker 1: and did I also mention Trump is about to start
Speaker 1: nuclear testing again for the first time in decades and
Speaker 1: people are pissed. Does he mean bombs or energy? We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it. Actually the answer is very clear.
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Speaker 1: start off with some of the more negative news here.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty five election results are in and the
Speaker 1: Democrats have taken a lot of seeds that, to be honest,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are very upset about. The Democrats
Speaker 1: are screaming like this as a victory. The Republicans are
Speaker 1: seeing this as the pendulum shifting into the other. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see how it all plays out. Without further ado,
Speaker 1: let's get started here. This is NBC ten talking about
Speaker 1: the election decision results of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Let's listen in and learn together.
Speaker 3: Also tonight, major wins across the country for Democrats. On
Speaker 3: election Night, three high profile races in New York City,
Speaker 3: New Jersey, and Virginia all ended with a Democrat on top.
Speaker 4: Democrats and Republicans are dissecting the results and looking ahead
Speaker 4: to what it could mean for twenty twenty six the midterms.
Speaker 4: NBC ten political reporter Matt Pritchard is in studio. Matt,
Speaker 4: what are you hearing about all of this?
Speaker 5: Well, Glenn JC. Both parties see this as a temperature check.
Speaker 5: Democrats feeling a change in the wind, while Republicans are
Speaker 5: pondering potential adjustments.
Speaker 6: From Virginia and New Jersey, we sent.
Speaker 7: A message, do you guys just scream.
Speaker 6: From the rooftop to the busy streets of New York City?
Speaker 7: My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
Speaker 5: Election Day twenty twenty five came loaded with marquee moments,
Speaker 5: particularly for Democrats, who saw voters a lot to Democratic socialists,
Speaker 5: to moderates in greenlight mid decade redistricting in California.
Speaker 8: I think they're exhausted to Donald Trump.
Speaker 9: I feel like if we came away with anything last night,
Speaker 9: it was understanding that authenticity matters.
Speaker 6: The victory's drawing concern from the President himself.
Speaker 10: But we had an interesting evening and we learned a.
Speaker 5: Lot who penned GOP losses on ongoing political fights like
Speaker 5: the government shutdown.
Speaker 10: And the shutdown was a big factor negative for the Republicans.
Speaker 5: But Democrats have their own post election dissections to do both.
Speaker 5: Abigail Spanberger and Virginia and Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey
Speaker 5: won largely on anti Trump platforms.
Speaker 6: Is there a risk to be so Trump focused? There's
Speaker 6: a risk to be cookie cutter.
Speaker 9: There's a risk to say that one strategy works in
Speaker 9: every place. So just because something worked in Virginia, where
Speaker 9: northern Virginia obviously horrifically impacted by the shutdown and the
Speaker 9: cuts to huge federal huge numbers of federal workers, is
Speaker 9: going to work in say, rural Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5: A message strategists hope to refine in the months ahead.
Speaker 8: Be abundantly clear that they are a contrast to what's
Speaker 8: going on in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5: And of course both parties are going to take these
Speaker 5: elections and diagnose the good, the bad, and the ugly
Speaker 5: were already moving on all eyes on the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: six midterm set for November three of next year.
Speaker 11: Guys, back to.
Speaker 3: You, Okay, Matt, thank you. The results are also in
Speaker 3: for elections across Massachusetts. While there were no statewide races
Speaker 3: on the ballot, cities and towns made decisions about leadership.
Speaker 3: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu heading to a second term in
Speaker 3: office after running unopposed in Boston's mayoral race. Josh Kraft
Speaker 3: dropped out of the race after placing second in September's
Speaker 3: preliminary election. We go to District seven and Miniard Culpepper
Speaker 3: declared victory over Said Ahmed in the race for city councilor. Culpepper,
Speaker 3: an attorney and pastor from Dorchester, told NBC ten Boston
Speaker 3: District seven is quote the heartbeat of the city. The
Speaker 3: district includes the South End, Roxbury, Fenway, and Dorchester. This
Speaker 3: was former city Councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson seat. She resigned
Speaker 3: after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges.
Speaker 4: In Everett, voters have ousted Incomebent Mayor Carlo Di Maria.
Speaker 4: He's been in office since two thousand and eight. He
Speaker 4: was recently under intense criticism over improper bonus payments. Instead,
Speaker 4: voters chose city councilor Robert Van Campen. He told NBC
Speaker 4: ten Boston, the city is ready to turn the page.
Speaker 6: In a resounding voice.
Speaker 11: To see these numbers. They affirm they're ready for change,
Speaker 11: They're ready to write a new chapter.
Speaker 4: Last week, Van Campen told us the audit that found
Speaker 4: de Maria received more than he should have in longevity
Speaker 4: payments was a catalyst for his campaign and history was
Speaker 4: made in Brockton last night. The city elected Moysis Rodriquez,
Speaker 4: the city's first black mayor. Rodriquez was declared the winner
Speaker 4: over Jean Bradley Durnan Court. He was an at large
Speaker 4: member of the city council and has Cape Thirtian roots.
Speaker 4: NBC ten Boston is your home for election coverage. Head
Speaker 4: at five point thirty. We have a look at some
Speaker 4: of the questions. Voters answered.
Speaker 1: Okay, so a lot of things going on in the
Speaker 1: political spectrum right now. I gotta tell you that might
Speaker 1: be the first time I've ever seen a do with
Speaker 1: the last name Rodriguez be called.
Speaker 2: But that's neither here or there. Beside the points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Democrats have secured a number of important
Speaker 1: mayoral and Congress seats, and apparently this is all in
Speaker 1: retaliation to trump Ism. For lack of better words, I
Speaker 1: don't know what these people are expecting as far as
Speaker 1: government shutdowns and how somebody at the mayoral level will
Speaker 1: be able to handle or do something about a federal
Speaker 1: government shutdown. I don't understand how It's like Americans don't
Speaker 1: understand how local politics and federal politics. While there is
Speaker 1: some connection, they're also very, very different. But hey, there
Speaker 1: you go. The people's voices have been heard, so to speak.
Speaker 1: With that being said, they did bring up that the
Speaker 1: California redistrict thing has been greenlit. It is still being
Speaker 1: fought as of time of recording. They're gonna fight a
Speaker 1: tooth and nail all the way to the end. I
Speaker 1: am curious to see if the Republicans of California are
Speaker 1: gonna do what the Democrats of Texas did when the
Speaker 1: redistricting and jerrymandering conversation happened. They just decided to leave
Speaker 1: the state and just not show up to work to
Speaker 1: keep the vote from taking place. I'm very curious if
Speaker 1: the Republicans in California are gonna pull the same stunt.
Speaker 1: I hope they don't. I hope they do the job
Speaker 1: that they were elected to do. But you know, time
Speaker 1: will tell anyway. As always, everybody, if you would like
Speaker 1: to join in on the conversation, throw that hand up
Speaker 1: emoji or drop something into the comment section.
Speaker 2: I'm good either way.
Speaker 1: Now, let's jump over to Trump's testing plans for US
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons won't include any explosions. Energy secretary says, So
Speaker 1: a little bit of a misnumber here. Is he talking
Speaker 1: about doing testing for nuclear energy? Is he talking about
Speaker 1: doing nuclear testing for something weapons grade? You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of in the conversation, but America hasn't done any
Speaker 1: kind of real testing in the nuclear variety in quite
Speaker 1: some time. Trump is saying, Now, let's get back to that, so,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's read on the whole situation here.
Speaker 2: This is from the Associated Press.
Speaker 1: New tests of the US nuclear weapons system ordered by
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary
Speaker 1: Chris Wright said on Sunday. It was the first clarity
Speaker 1: from the Trump administration since the president took to social
Speaker 1: media last week to say that he had quote instructed
Speaker 1: the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons
Speaker 1: on an equal basis. I still love the fact that
Speaker 1: it's the Department of War, now, you know. I'm also
Speaker 1: of the belief that we should have a Department of
Speaker 1: Defense and a Department of Offense. I'm good with that,
Speaker 1: but neither here nor there. I think the tests we're
Speaker 1: talking about right now are system tests. Right, said in
Speaker 1: an air view on Fox News Sunday briefing. These are
Speaker 1: not nuclear explosions. These are what we call non critical explosions.
Speaker 1: So right, whose agency is responsible for testing, added that
Speaker 1: the plan testing involves all other parts of a nuclear
Speaker 1: weapon to make sure they delivered the appropriate geometry and
Speaker 1: that they set up the nuclear explosion. The confusion over
Speaker 1: Trump's intentions started minutes before he hailed a critical meeting
Speaker 1: in South Korea with Chinese President Jijuping. Trump took to
Speaker 1: his Truth social platform and appeared to suggest he was
Speaker 1: preparing to discard a decades old US prohibition on testing
Speaker 1: the nation's nuclear weapons. So essentially, they're talking about testing
Speaker 1: the triggering devices, not the actual uranium cores or any
Speaker 1: of that kind of thing. Later that day, as he
Speaker 1: made his way back to Washington. Trump was coy on
Speaker 1: whether he really meant to say he was ordering the
Speaker 1: resumption of explosive testing on nuclear weapons, something only North
Speaker 1: Korea has undertaken in this century, which again not very successfully,
Speaker 1: but there have been a few little they got lucky
Speaker 1: a couple of times, and you know whatever. Anyway, which
Speaker 1: is far more routine his I'll get out of here,
Speaker 1: you add. He remained opaque on Friday when asked by
Speaker 1: reporters about whether he intended to resume underground.
Speaker 2: Nuclear detonation tests.
Speaker 1: You'll find out very soon, Trump told reporters aboard Air
Speaker 1: Force One on Friday as he headed to Florida for
Speaker 1: a weekend stay. The US military regularly regularly tests its
Speaker 1: missiles that are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, but
Speaker 1: it has not detonated the weapons since nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which the US signed
Speaker 1: but did not ratify, has been observed since its adoption
Speaker 1: by all countries possessing nuclear weapons, north Korea being the
Speaker 1: only exception. Trump announced his plans for nuclear tests after
Speaker 1: Russia announced it had tested a new atomic powered and
Speaker 1: nuclear capable underwater drone and a new nuclear powered cruise missile.
Speaker 1: Russia responded to Trump's nuclear testing comments by underscoring that
Speaker 1: it did not test its nuclear weapons and has abided
Speaker 1: by global bioglobal ban on nuclear test. The Kremlin warn though,
Speaker 1: that if the US resumes testing on its weapons, Russia
Speaker 1: will as well as intensification and intensification rather that would
Speaker 1: restart Cold war air attentions. Okay, and we talked about
Speaker 1: this last week, the nuclear powered missile, right, that's not
Speaker 1: anything new. America had that technology and we can't the
Speaker 1: program in nineteen sixty one because it is not an
Speaker 1: effective way of delivering a payload. Right, It's just it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's possible, and that's cool that it's possible. But then
Speaker 1: also if that missile gets intercepted, you have now created
Speaker 1: a dirty bomb. And that's something that we recognize way
Speaker 1: back in sixty one. So Russia has now finally caught
Speaker 1: up to where America was in nineteen sixty one as
Speaker 1: far as their missile technology goes. And that's fine, cool,
Speaker 1: good for y'all. Right, now, Trump talking about testing the
Speaker 1: for lack of better words, the triggering device. I guess
Speaker 1: the best way I could put this would be so
Speaker 1: in my hand right now, I'm holding a thirty odd
Speaker 1: six bullet, right He is essentially talking about testing the
Speaker 1: primers on the bullet itself rather than the bullet. And
Speaker 1: who's to say if it's going to lead to further
Speaker 1: nuclear testing and testing actual bomb capabilities. Again, I feel
Speaker 1: like we don't need that, you know, that's just me
Speaker 1: personally and testing underground like that, I mean need we
Speaker 1: remind ourselves of Operation plumb Bob, where we sent a
Speaker 1: storm sewer grat or the manhole cover into space at
Speaker 1: over one hundred and twenty five thousand miles per hour.
Speaker 1: We don't need this, We don't need to test it.
Speaker 1: We know how nuclear bombs work. We've been very good
Speaker 1: at this for quite some time. But hey, if you
Speaker 1: want to run some like system tests to see if
Speaker 1: the triggering devices work and things like that, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: just make sure that there's no actual you know, nuclear
Speaker 1: payload within the missile that you're testing. That's just my
Speaker 1: two cents. But hey, anyway, moving on here, let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. This is a video from Fox thirteen. US
Speaker 1: Trump administration restarts nuclear testing.
Speaker 12: President trumpp wants more nuclear testing done, but on Sunday,
Speaker 12: his Energy secretary clarified it won't involve these giant explosions
Speaker 12: and mushroom clouds. Reporter Ryan Schmels as the latest from Washington, DC.
Speaker 13: And these will be non nuclear explosions.
Speaker 14: The White House is clarifying President Trump's push to restart
Speaker 14: nuclear testing after a thirty year pause. The President said
Speaker 14: several times last week he wants the Pentagon to begin
Speaker 14: testing America's nuclear arsenal, but on Sunday, his Energy Secretary,
Speaker 14: Chris Wright, said those tests won't involve mushroom clouds or fallout,
Speaker 14: but rather what he called non critical explosions meant to
Speaker 14: test the systems involved.
Speaker 13: With our science and our computation power, we can simulate
Speaker 13: incredibly accurately exactly what will happen in a nuclear explosion.
Speaker 14: It's still not clear how this new testing will be
Speaker 14: different from the military's routine assessments of America's nuclear delivery
Speaker 14: systems like missiles and submarines, but the President told Sixty
Speaker 14: Minutes on Sunday that it's a response to increased nuclear
Speaker 14: activity from Russia, including nuclear power, missiles, and torpedoes.
Speaker 10: The reason I'm saying testing is because Russia annow said
Speaker 10: they were going to be doing a test. If you
Speaker 10: notice North Korea's testing constantly, other countries are testing. We're
Speaker 10: the only country that doesn't test.
Speaker 14: President Trump also claiming China and Russia are conducting secret
Speaker 14: nuclear test, which both countries deny. Russia responding by threatening
Speaker 14: its own detonations, with China urging the US to abide
Speaker 14: by the nuclear test Ban treaty.
Speaker 9: With flexing military muscles and stirring up confrontation are detrimental
Speaker 9: to regional peace and stability.
Speaker 14: North Korea is the only country that has detonated a
Speaker 14: nuclear weapon in the twenty first century. In Washington, Ryan Schmels,
Speaker 14: Fox News.
Speaker 2: All right, and once again, just so everybody is clear.
Speaker 1: As far as the missile slash submarine, slash drone that
Speaker 1: Russia is saying is nuclear power to it's like the
Speaker 1: latest and greatest thing. Do a quick deep dive, ont it?
Speaker 1: Look at their capability and what this missile is able
Speaker 1: to do. First of all, it is so slow. It's
Speaker 1: damn near prop driven a cessna plane. But aside from that,
Speaker 1: if you look at the mechanics of what makes it go,
Speaker 1: and then you look at Project Pluto from nineteen six
Speaker 1: or it was like started in fifty eight and it
Speaker 1: indied in sixty one. Look at these two side by side,
Speaker 1: and you'll understand why it's not that much of a concern.
Speaker 1: Why is Trump taking this opportunity to make it a
Speaker 1: thing to where we need to start retesting our arsenal
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 2: I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: There's literally no reason for America to flex against Russia
Speaker 1: right now. Nobody is afraid of the Russian military. They
Speaker 1: were five years ago until they were shown to be
Speaker 1: the paper tiger that they are, and that two week
Speaker 1: operations about to hit year four.
Speaker 2: So it's not like this is a.
Speaker 1: Thing that we really need to be concerned about, at
Speaker 1: least not in my humble opinion.
Speaker 11: But go ahead, Tony, Well, I just read Putin announced
Speaker 11: today that Russia has no intentions of resuming any kind
Speaker 11: of nuclear testing. But it was probably bench Vidyev who
Speaker 11: said that they were gonna because he's basically the ship
Speaker 11: poster of the month in Russia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 11: He's always saying stuff like that, And we'll get to
Speaker 11: Russia later. They're slowly taking Kukonsk and Pakroffs. I predicted
Speaker 11: last March that this war would last another year. So
Speaker 11: it's kind of going according to schedule as far as
Speaker 11: I'm concerned. Okay, Russia will still be Now.
Speaker 1: We do have some more things about Russia with their
Speaker 1: oil conversation that will bring up here in a moment,
Speaker 1: But as of this moment, you are still of the
Speaker 1: belief that by March of twenty twenty six, this war
Speaker 1: will come to its final conclusion.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I still want to bet on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and I'm very curious to hear what
Speaker 1: you have to what your thoughts are as far as now,
Speaker 1: China and India are not going to be buying as
Speaker 1: much Russia oil from the sea. But we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to that here in a few minutes.
Speaker 11: But well, one quick thing. Did you notice in the
Speaker 11: article that they were just playing Trump was accusing Russia
Speaker 11: and China of collaborating on something nuclear wise? Yeah? Why
Speaker 11: would it make so much sense for them to collaborate
Speaker 11: on that, but for China to hurt them so much
Speaker 11: on the whole petroleum market question, especially when China needs
Speaker 11: lots of oil and Russia needs to sell it. I
Speaker 11: think they're gonna keep cooperating, and I don't think that
Speaker 11: the sanctions are going to last, and I don't think
Speaker 11: the US can really rally the world to sanction a
Speaker 11: country like they could twenty years ago. So I don't
Speaker 11: I personally believe that that's gonna work.
Speaker 1: I don't think that China and Russia are resuming any
Speaker 1: kind of nuclear testing behind closed door by any means,
Speaker 1: especially with the insane terriffs. We just had China under
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five percent tariffs. Why would they
Speaker 1: go out of their way to try to do the
Speaker 1: nuclear saber rattle right now when they need us for
Speaker 1: their economy of nothing else. That makes no sense to
Speaker 1: me whatsoever. But Trump is doing his Trump thing right now,
Speaker 1: and he's gotta he's gotta find boogeymen out there to
Speaker 1: kind of justify his actions. Some of them are justified,
Speaker 1: some of them are actual boogeymans that we need to face.
Speaker 1: Some of them are just simply not what he's trying
Speaker 1: to make them out to be. And I'm still the
Speaker 1: belief as far as economy wise, Yeah, China versus US,
Speaker 1: we're kind of in this weird almost precursor to a
Speaker 1: Cold war that is that is happening right now. But
Speaker 1: it's not to the level of the actual Cold War,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's gonna get to that level either.
Speaker 1: We have this weird, unhappy symbiotic relationship when it comes
Speaker 1: to cheap slave labor in China and the goods and
Speaker 1: services that America needs on the cheap I'm not happy
Speaker 1: about it. But then at the same time, India has
Speaker 1: moved in to take over a lot of those cheap
Speaker 1: labor jobs from China. However, when you look at Modi
Speaker 1: and g and both of these dudes being the head
Speaker 1: of Bricks Nations and their immediate ties to Russia on
Speaker 1: an economic standpoint, it's messy. It's messy, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense that these dudes would be making a deal
Speaker 1: with America right now in an attempt to up their
Speaker 1: nuclear arsenal tomorrow. I don't think Bricks is trying to
Speaker 1: take over any kind of military standpoint either.
Speaker 2: They're trying to.
Speaker 1: Just devalue the US dollar, which okay, they're trying to
Speaker 1: get off the Petro dollar. That might lead to something
Speaker 1: of a war, but it's also never going to get
Speaker 1: to a nuclear war. So again, I don't really see
Speaker 1: it going the way that Trump is portraying it right
Speaker 1: now and again, I am hoping that he is talking
Speaker 1: about testing the triggering mechanisms for some of our nuclear arsenal.
Speaker 2: They have said.
Speaker 1: We all just heard them that it's not going to
Speaker 1: be nuclear explosions.
Speaker 2: We will see if they stand by that word or
Speaker 2: what comes of it.
Speaker 15: Go ahead, Sam, I know I'm just the weird guy
Speaker 15: in all, but like there's Russia actually care about their
Speaker 15: young men, like their bloodlines and everything, because how many
Speaker 15: how many men have Russian young men have died all
Speaker 15: due to Putin's of ego. And the reason why I
Speaker 15: asked that is because didn't like didn't Russia almost lose
Speaker 15: like half of their popular the population just from the
Speaker 15: Battle of Staling God or like all their young Bible
Speaker 15: men and everything in World War Two? Like that's why
Speaker 15: they have a genetic bottleneck, right and why some of
Speaker 15: them look in wood.
Speaker 1: Uh, there's a shred of truth to what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was half of their population in
Speaker 1: one battle by any means. But the Russians were known no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the Russians were known for their high casualty numbers in
Speaker 1: World War Two, specifically because they if you even tried
Speaker 1: to make any kind of thing that looked like you
Speaker 1: were treating they would shoot you like your own soldier
Speaker 1: would shoot you.
Speaker 2: And that's well documented.
Speaker 1: That being said, yes, there was a bit of a
Speaker 1: genetic bottleneck after World War Two, so there were a
Speaker 1: lot of cases. This wasn't like some sort of a
Speaker 1: national rule or anything, but there were a lot of
Speaker 1: cases of men taking, for lack of better words, more
Speaker 1: than one wife to try to repopulate the nation.
Speaker 2: The Russian dudes are down with that.
Speaker 1: They didn't see it as a negative, so like good
Speaker 1: for them. But as far as the population in Russia
Speaker 1: right now, their numbers are fine. Yes, there was a
Speaker 1: mass exodus out of Russia when the war first kicked off.
Speaker 1: Whenever they started conscripting dudes, they didn't want to fight.
Speaker 1: But they've got more than enough manpower to keep this
Speaker 1: war going for as long as they want to, honestly.
Speaker 1: And then the big thing was Russia has never gotten
Speaker 1: involved in a military conflict and decided to go home
Speaker 1: until they have lost like half a million men, And
Speaker 1: that number has stood since I think Peter the Great honestly,
Speaker 1: but they are surpassed that number at this time. As
Speaker 1: far as losses go like casualty in the sense of
Speaker 1: wounded and dead. They have surpassed half a million last year.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken. They're not in it for the
Speaker 1: stance or for the optics anymore. They basically have to
Speaker 1: win this war to justify everything that they've done for
Speaker 1: the past four years. Putin is depends on which section
Speaker 1: of Russia you talk about. A lot of people see
Speaker 1: him as an inherent good and they still support him fullheartedly,
Speaker 1: But there are pockets of Russia where dissent is starting
Speaker 1: to spread a bit Tony correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 11: Well, I wish I knew that geographic breakdown a little better.
Speaker 11: I do know that demographically, he tends to be most
Speaker 11: popular among older and female demographics and less popular among
Speaker 11: younger and male. But he's still pretty popular across the board,
Speaker 11: even the younger male it's like fifty percent support. As
Speaker 11: for World War Two, I've heard estimates between nine million
Speaker 11: and twenty seven million men lost in World War Two
Speaker 11: out of a population of the Soviet Union of one
Speaker 11: hundred and eighty million or so. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 11: and today's numbers are at least you know order magnitude
Speaker 11: lower than that. I believe that the total like deaths
Speaker 11: are gonna be probably six hundred thousand for Ukraine and
Speaker 11: two hundred thousand for Russia, and when you include wounded,
Speaker 11: being about double that number on both sides. Yeah, they
Speaker 11: probably Russia is probably at six hundred thousand right now
Speaker 11: dead and wounded, in my opinion. Now, the National Review
Speaker 11: claims it's over a million Russian dead right now. I
Speaker 11: don't see any evidence to support that. The evidence I'm
Speaker 11: going on is based off reports from obituaries in Russian newspapers.
Speaker 11: They're saying they can see about one hundred and sixty
Speaker 11: thousand right now, and I'm just patting that a little bit.
Speaker 11: But you know, maybe the real numbers high. I don't
Speaker 11: think it's anywhere near a million Russian dead.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 1: If I'm not saying a million Russians are dead by
Speaker 1: any means. If we were gonna say maybe a million
Speaker 1: Russian casualties by the loose translation of that term, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we could.
Speaker 2: Have that talk.
Speaker 1: Even still, I think that's that's kind of a large
Speaker 1: number to throw out at this time.
Speaker 11: But yeah, I think to kill ratios in Russia's favor
Speaker 11: and Ukraine's also lost about ten million due to emigration,
Speaker 11: and they're the lost territory, so they went from forty
Speaker 11: six million to about thirty six million or something. If
Speaker 11: I'm not mistaken, Sorry, I kind of talked over you, Sam,
Speaker 11: you got something else right.
Speaker 15: I was just it's a two part of the thing
Speaker 15: about World War Two. It took British intelligence, Americans still
Speaker 15: in Russian blood. But the thing about I was gonna
Speaker 15: say is is it isn't Ukraine and like Russia. I
Speaker 15: know they were both the Soviet Union like up until
Speaker 15: I the nineties, but what and I know that Stalin
Speaker 15: pretty much did the hold over to stall the Ukrainian
Speaker 15: famine too, did a uh designed a Ukrainian famine to
Speaker 15: keep them fall wanting to find independence? At what point
Speaker 15: is it just you're trying to subjugate another plan of
Speaker 15: people that you'll just never be happy with.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead, Tony.
Speaker 11: The Helotomore is a pretty controversial issue, and I personally
Speaker 11: don't know what to feel about it. I am still
Speaker 11: pretty anti Stalin. But you've probably noticed there's a lot
Speaker 11: of pro Stalin stuff on the right very recently, like
Speaker 11: Nick Flint is very pro Stalin.
Speaker 2: Is a is a retard.
Speaker 15: I think we can all know that the dude got
Speaker 15: caught with a grinder profile and said that the Israeli
Speaker 15: set him up. Yet he's the dude's also not very intelligent.
Speaker 15: And I say that somebody who I watched. I've watched
Speaker 15: his son, I've watched everybody, so I can understand the
Speaker 15: thinking of my enemies a lot better. And whether right
Speaker 15: or left at that point, the extreme art and extreme
Speaker 15: left or the exact same thing.
Speaker 2: He's in it for the hate.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, he's like the logan Paul of the political
Speaker 1: conversation right now, and that's that's his jam. Like he's
Speaker 1: doing it to piss people off, and at least I
Speaker 1: can understand it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, anyway, yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 11: The political spectrum is kind of a horseshoe. Some people
Speaker 11: would say it's even a circle. And I think especially
Speaker 11: on the you know, most israel Critical part of the right,
Speaker 11: they really like Stalin because he urged all the Jews
Speaker 11: out of the government. Yeah, all the mention why some
Speaker 11: of they all right now loves Stalin. But I'm going
Speaker 11: on a little too much of a dangit. I'm just
Speaker 11: going to take another half a minute. It's a contentious issue.
Speaker 11: I don't know whether I really believe the heloamre was
Speaker 11: more a result of incompetence for so you know, I'm
Speaker 11: giving Stalin a little bit of benefit of the doubt here.
Speaker 11: But Ukraine and Russia used to be basically one country
Speaker 11: for a long time, and then Kaiser Wilhelm and the
Speaker 11: Treaty of Breslatosk carved Ukraine out of Russia the Russian
Speaker 11: Empire in nineteen eighteen, in March of nineteen eighteen also
Speaker 11: carved out the Baltic States, and then right after the
Speaker 11: war was over, Ukraine had its own Communist revolution and
Speaker 11: it became a Soviet republic. So basically the border went away,
Speaker 11: and then in nineteen ninety one the border, I mean,
Speaker 11: the border kind of came back. I'm oversimplifying a lot,
Speaker 11: and I'm skipping over Crimea. But these two countries, they've
Speaker 11: they've gone back and forth between unified and divided, and
Speaker 11: that border was put, in my opinion, way far to
Speaker 11: the east of where it actually belongs. Because the people
Speaker 11: of the Dombas republics they speak Russian. Kharkoff speaks Russian,
Speaker 11: Odessa speaks Russian. They have no interest in the Ukrainian
Speaker 11: nationalism which is born the western half of the country,
Speaker 11: like west of Kiev even Yeah, so yeah, I think
Speaker 11: the border does need to be redrawn to the west
Speaker 11: where it is now, and then that'll be the most
Speaker 11: peaceful solution. And I hope that answers all the question
Speaker 11: about you know what, what's what's what's the deal with
Speaker 11: Russia and Ukraine. Historically that's the deal.
Speaker 2: And I will say that you're onto something here too.
Speaker 2: I don't know what is going on, but Russians these
Speaker 2: days have this weird It's almost like Stalin is in
Speaker 2: vogue again. Not not one hundred percent across the board,
Speaker 2: but there is a lot more Russians that are looking
Speaker 2: at Stalinism way more fondly now than they have in
Speaker 2: the last three decades. It's wild to see that come
Speaker 2: full circle, but it is being pro Stalin is absolutely
Speaker 2: on the rise in Russia right now. It's insane.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks for reminding me. They're trying to rename Stalingrad Stalingrad,
Speaker 11: and they I think just successfully renamed Stalingrad Airport Stalingrad Airport.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I don't think there's a movement to rename Leningrad lenin
Speaker 11: Grad though that's gonna be Saint Petersburg. I really hope
Speaker 11: just Stalin is popular.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what to put that into.
Speaker 1: Respective for the amount of deaths that Stalin caused, this
Speaker 1: would be like Hitler getting back in vogue in Germany.
Speaker 1: I mean, realistically, Stalin, if I'm not mistaken, isn't he
Speaker 1: responsible for somewhere around like eighty million deaths or something
Speaker 1: like that in Russia over the course of his tenure
Speaker 1: as leader.
Speaker 11: Well, I don't know, but I do know that the
Speaker 11: West has kind of an ambivalent relationship with him. So
Speaker 11: he was bad in the thirties, and then he was
Speaker 11: good during World War two, and then he was bad
Speaker 11: after World War two, and then he died, And I
Speaker 11: don't know. The Russians have more of a you know,
Speaker 11: they think he was good the whole time, basically, and
Speaker 11: they also see him as quite different from Lenin and Trotsky.
Speaker 11: Trotsky is still pretty villainized in Russia. But yes, American
Speaker 11: the West, Trotsky is better is than Stop. That's that's
Speaker 11: the general prevailing view here.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's because of Stalin, because Trotsky
Speaker 1: and Stalin had that big rivalry between the two of them.
Speaker 1: So most Russians see Trotsky is an inherent bad and
Speaker 1: see Stalin as an inherent good, at least as of
Speaker 1: these days, even though I don't think that's necessarily a
Speaker 1: fair shake. I mean, both of them were comedies, so
Speaker 1: like they're not people, you know. But besides that, if
Speaker 1: you look at it, yeah, the West much would have
Speaker 1: rather Trotsky be in that position in Stalin, but that
Speaker 1: we're getting into politics from the.
Speaker 2: Thirties and forties and fifties of this area.
Speaker 1: But anyway, anyway, Sam.
Speaker 16: With so.
Speaker 15: Stalin, if I memo cre I, I think he's actually
Speaker 15: the second most us the second dictator with the most kills.
Speaker 17: The other one is malz Dong.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm a I'm actually I have a
Speaker 15: fever right now, so I'm sorry, I'm stuttering and everything,
Speaker 15: but you're good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Mao definitely has a higher kill count than Stalin.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's not it's not by leaps and bounds,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 15: But the thing about Stalin is everyone it seems to
Speaker 15: me that everyone forgets that he was in bed with
Speaker 15: Hitler in the beginning and then he got mad, and
Speaker 15: you because communism and fascism is literally two sides of
Speaker 15: the same coin. And well one is that there the
Speaker 15: two ideology, which is pretty much the same, just one's
Speaker 15: a national and the other one because the Nazis were
Speaker 15: national socialist and Stalin was a true like uh, he
Speaker 15: was a communist, which is why his type of communism
Speaker 15: is called Stalinism. He also he banished Travotsky. Also on Lennon,
Speaker 15: his body is still on display. The majority of is
Speaker 15: actually plaster and everything. Right now, I'm sorry, gentlemen, No.
Speaker 1: No, no, you're good, bro, but uh but yes, to your point,
Speaker 1: it's I've always seen fascism as a vehicle for communism
Speaker 1: slash socialism. It works best whenever you have a totalitarian
Speaker 1: regime that implements these types of systems and then they
Speaker 1: rule that with an iron fist.
Speaker 2: So it's awesome.
Speaker 15: I'm sorry, but you said how it like Stalin is
Speaker 15: back in vogue in Russia and how that like that
Speaker 15: would be like Hitler.
Speaker 17: But that that's the thing.
Speaker 15: There are Germans who are trying to pretty much bring
Speaker 15: back the Nazism like but Nazi esque also, I believe
Speaker 15: it or not, Like so I grew up down south,
Speaker 15: I'm I'm a down South gettle boy.
Speaker 17: I you know, I've actually.
Speaker 15: Heard a a black person talk about Jim Crow in
Speaker 15: a good light, and I'm just like, that's.
Speaker 1: What dog the they do exist, that's not that's not
Speaker 1: the going narrative for the rest of the black community.
Speaker 1: Same with Germany, that's not the going narrative that Hitler
Speaker 1: was actually a good guy who was just a really
Speaker 1: strong hearted nationalist and yeah, yeah he did some bad shit,
Speaker 1: but like he really just.
Speaker 2: Cared about Germany.
Speaker 1: Stalin, on the other hand, Russians these days, and it's
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent across the board, but they are.
Speaker 1: There's like a movement going on within the Russian culture
Speaker 1: to actually say, you know, say what you want about Stalin,
Speaker 1: but he had some good things that he did for
Speaker 1: Russia while he was in charge, and it's it's the conversation.
Speaker 2: The narrative is shifting a bit.
Speaker 11: In China he's credited with really spreading literacy, and in
Speaker 11: Germany you really won't get much in public about, you know,
Speaker 11: positive about Hitler, maybe in hush tone behind closed doors,
Speaker 11: but it's very rare. It's very illegal. They don't have
Speaker 11: freedom of speed for there. AfD is the most right
Speaker 11: wing thing over there, and it's yeah, it's very constrained
Speaker 11: in what they can do. Yeah, one other thought, you know, Americans,
Speaker 11: many Americans love Abraham Lincoln. I think that's about the
Speaker 11: same thing as love and stalin. You really don't like
Speaker 11: Lincoln personally.
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan of him, gonna be honest,
Speaker 1: if and no, I don't mean because he freed the slaves,
Speaker 1: like okay, okay, yes, that's a great thing that he did,
Speaker 1: but he also actually didn't care about slavery. He was
Speaker 1: kind of forced into caring about them because of the
Speaker 1: political climate at that time from his constituents. But if
Speaker 1: you look at what he did with his administration that
Speaker 1: led up to the Civil War, like, yeah, he uh,
Speaker 1: he was not very popular even by most of his
Speaker 1: his uh colleagues, for lack of better words, he was
Speaker 1: kind of seen like a bit of a buffoon, to
Speaker 1: put it as kindly as I can.
Speaker 2: But anyway, but yeah, to your point about.
Speaker 1: Mao Tony, Yeah, he did give literacy to the majority
Speaker 1: of China, This very true. But he also forced Chinese
Speaker 1: people out of the fields and into the factories, which
Speaker 1: he brought about the industrialization of China, which for economic
Speaker 1: reasons seemed like a really good idea, but then his
Speaker 1: people starved because there was nobody.
Speaker 2: Working the farms anymore. So it's like, you're right.
Speaker 1: It's on the one hand, yeah, he gave literacy to
Speaker 1: the country, but his people starved and suffered as a result.
Speaker 1: So there should have been some sort of a happy
Speaker 1: medium somewhere in there. But it, yeah, mal depending on
Speaker 1: who you ask. Certain Chinese people think that Mao was
Speaker 1: just amazing, and then other analysts would look at it
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, that was kind of a net negative
Speaker 1: for our country. But I mean, to be fair, China
Speaker 1: has never batted an eye at losing massive amounts of
Speaker 1: people's that's kind of China one oh one historically speaking,
Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, take that with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt. Anyway, all right, moving on to the next
Speaker 1: topic here, uh, as we're talking about politicians just going
Speaker 1: out of their way to do some shit, we have
Speaker 1: some allegations of excessive force being used by immigration agents
Speaker 1: and this is taking center stage at a federal court hearing.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in on this one.
Speaker 18: Federal agents are at O'Hare Airport today. The US Border
Speaker 18: Patrol Chief tell US News Nation. Over the past few weeks,
Speaker 18: there have been several instances of undocumented immigrants driving taxis
Speaker 18: or ride share type vehicles.
Speaker 19: Ceral arrests have been made. Chief Greg Bovino rejecting any
Speaker 19: possible allegations though of racial profiling.
Speaker 8: Those allegations are patently faults. We're looking for Title eight violators,
Speaker 8: and when I walk up to car, I don't know
Speaker 8: who's in the car. I know nothing about their race, color, creed, religion, sex,
Speaker 8: or anything else. What I'm looking for is that Title eight.
Speaker 8: We've arrested illegal aliens from over thirty different countries just
Speaker 8: in the past few weeks here at Operation Midway Blitz.
Speaker 8: Those countries include places like Russia, Kajikistan, Poland, Austria, Korea, China,
Speaker 8: and many many of there's from around the globe.
Speaker 19: Bovino had a body worn camera during that interview, saying
Speaker 19: that they're fantastic tools to help catch criminals and an
Speaker 19: illicit activity. He also insisted that tear gas is used legally,
Speaker 19: ethically and morally.
Speaker 18: Meantime, demonstrators spoke out today against the US Border Patrol, Chief,
Speaker 18: US Customs and Border Protection, and ICE outside the Dirks
Speaker 18: and Federal Building. The US Border Patrol's aggressive immigration enforcement
Speaker 18: tactics in the Chicago area are the subject of a
Speaker 18: court hearing this morning. That hearing in the Loop Deli
Speaker 18: Jan's Courtney Spinelli is at the DIRKS and Federal Building
Speaker 18: with details.
Speaker 20: It's expected to be a long day in court today.
Speaker 20: US District Court Judge Sarah Ellis is hearing testimony and evidence,
Speaker 20: and we'll need to decide whether to implement more long
Speaker 20: term restrictions when it comes to crowd control tactics by
Speaker 20: federal immigration agents. Since the start of Operation Midway Blitz,
Speaker 20: a frenzy of cases filed in federal court over immigrants
Speaker 20: agents use of tear gas and other chemical agents on
Speaker 20: protesters in media. That includes the Chicago Headline Club lawsuit
Speaker 20: against the Department of Onland Security and Secretary Christy Nome.
Speaker 20: Lawyers for plaintiffs in a recent motion calling the alleged
Speaker 20: actions by federal agents shocking acts of violence. After ordering
Speaker 20: agents to wear badges and give proper warning if tear
Speaker 20: gas or other chemical agents are deployed, Ellis determined orders
Speaker 20: weren't being followed and added a body worn camera requirement.
Speaker 20: Throughout the marathon hearing, Wednesday. Some of that footage expected
Speaker 20: to be shown, along with videotape testimony from Border Patrol
Speaker 20: Chief Gregory Bovino. Bovino and DHS argue agents have repeatedly
Speaker 20: faced violent crowds and had rocks, fireworks, and other objects
Speaker 20: thrown at them. In a recent interview, he defended the
Speaker 20: agent's actions.
Speaker 8: We're going to use the just as we always have,
Speaker 8: that least amount of force necessary to affect the arrest
Speaker 8: or the mission.
Speaker 20: Wednesday's hearing began with opening arguments from both sides, an
Speaker 20: attorney for the plaintiffs multiple times bringing up a quote
Speaker 20: he says Bovino gave during his deposition. He says, someone
Speaker 20: strays into a pepperball that's on them, don't protest. You
Speaker 20: don't want to get tear guests, don't protest. A lawyer
Speaker 20: for the Department of Justice, arguing the case is not
Speaker 20: about free speech, he brought up allegations of protesters slashing tires,
Speaker 20: threatening federal agents and their family, and throwing objects. He said,
Speaker 20: this is the language of extremists and terrorists, your honor.
Speaker 20: Several witnesses have taken this stand already, including a pastor,
Speaker 20: an older woman, and a Trustee attorneys played some video
Speaker 20: during one of their testimonies of an arrest that they
Speaker 20: say involved Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.
Speaker 1: Of course, all right, so I just want to make
Speaker 1: a quick mention of something real quick. Okay, all of
Speaker 1: these clips that we saw on screen, all of all
Speaker 1: the things.
Speaker 2: Just gonna throw something out here.
Speaker 1: You know how you could tell that this isn't all
Speaker 1: from Chicago and that they're piecing together clips and videos
Speaker 1: over the past year. Well, let's just say the last
Speaker 1: six months, give or take the camouflage that this is wearing.
Speaker 1: Does anybody want to take a guess at what that is?
Speaker 1: That is Marine Corps marpat that is that would be
Speaker 1: a marine that is helping ICE agents. And they're talking
Speaker 1: about things in Chicago. There have been no marines deployed
Speaker 1: to Chicago. This was from la with the riots that
Speaker 1: took place. So this media agency is piecing together videos
Speaker 1: of some of the worst things they could find to
Speaker 1: try to spin the narrative in the worst possible light.
Speaker 2: Now that being said, the chief of the Border Patrol, who.
Speaker 1: Is saying that ICE I should say, who's saying listen
Speaker 1: if you don't want to get pepper spray, don't protest, Okay,
Speaker 1: the right to peacefully protest is an inalienable American right.
Speaker 1: I'm with that one hundred percent, and I would fight
Speaker 1: to the death for that right. That being said, there's
Speaker 1: a difference between protesting and looting. In rioting, right, there's
Speaker 1: a very fine line, and it usually goes somewhere around
Speaker 1: the lines of violence or destruction of property.
Speaker 2: That's usually where that line gets crossed.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, all of that to be said, they're saying
Speaker 1: that there's an excessive force that's being used in some
Speaker 1: of these ice raids and things like that. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of allegations, but all these agents have cameras on them,
Speaker 1: and when they make these arrests, everybody has a at
Speaker 1: one point in time, a professional grade camera in their pocket,
Speaker 1: i e. Their cell phones. So I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: not saying there's one hundred percent across the board. There's
Speaker 1: absolutely agents that are doing things in these arrests that
Speaker 1: they should not be doing. I'm with you one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: but I feel like, en mass, that's kind of a
Speaker 1: bit of a misnomer.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 1: It's more or less people that are trying to find
Speaker 1: reasons to stir the pot and say that these raids
Speaker 1: are unethical and immoral and illegal and all these things again,
Speaker 1: And I also think it's kind of crazy that the
Speaker 1: chief brought up that there has been in the past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks people from thirty different countries. He named
Speaker 1: Poland and Kajikistan and Korea. Okay, okay, bro, I hear you,
Speaker 1: But I also feel like that's the minute onesies and
Speaker 1: twosies over the thousands of arrests that you've made in
Speaker 1: the past few weeks. But sure, I guess it's worth
Speaker 1: mentioning that, yes, there have been any legal immigrants that
Speaker 1: have been caught from other nations other than Latin American nations. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: But again he's trying to put things in the best
Speaker 1: life possible for himself and the news is trying to
Speaker 1: put it in the worst possible life for themselves. So
Speaker 1: there it is. You know, that's media for you, one
Speaker 1: oh one. Anyway, moving on to the next topic of
Speaker 1: the conversation this evening, we're gonna talk about the UPS
Speaker 1: playing the wind down. At least twelve killed others injured
Speaker 1: after a UPS plane crashed near the Louisville Airport.
Speaker 2: What we need to know. An investigation is underway.
Speaker 1: A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from
Speaker 1: the Louisville, Kentucky Airport Tuesday, leaving a fiery trail of
Speaker 1: destruction and a half mile long debris field. At least
Speaker 1: twelve people have died and others are in Officials say,
Speaker 1: warning the death toll cook climb as the investigation continues.
Speaker 2: Now, the black box has been recovered.
Speaker 1: And NTSB investigation team is on site at the crash
Speaker 1: location and has recovered the aircraft black boxes, the cockpit
Speaker 1: voice recorder, and the flight data recorder. Now the state
Speaker 1: of emergency. Kentucky Governor Andy Basher declared a state of
Speaker 1: emergency and mobilized the National Guard in an effort to
Speaker 1: quickly free up resources. Flights are scheduled to resume on
Speaker 1: a limited basis. Passenger flights to and from Louisville are
Speaker 1: now resuming, according to the airport's website, but they are
Speaker 1: hampered by a major backlog of delayed flights from Tuesday
Speaker 1: night and only one runway currently in operation. Now, all
Speaker 1: of that to say, with the government shutdown, we're seeing
Speaker 1: multiple airlines and multiple airports saying that they are going
Speaker 1: to either a outright stop flights or b it's going
Speaker 1: to be dropped down to somewhere between forty to ten percent.
Speaker 2: Of the flights that were scheduled because.
Speaker 1: The government shutdowns happening, and apparently air traffic controllers are
Speaker 1: not getting paid, so they're not going to continue showing.
Speaker 2: Up to their jobs.
Speaker 1: It all is a cascading effect because of the Democrats
Speaker 1: hold out in Washington, DC with the government shutdown right
Speaker 1: now going on, it says as of about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half ago, Louisville Airport reopens second runway following
Speaker 1: ups plane crash. Two of the three runways at Louisville
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali International Airport are open as of Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: According to an update from the airport, The East runway
Speaker 1: is now open following yesterday's aircraft incident, and SDF are
Speaker 1: at SDF, the airport's said in an ex post. With
Speaker 1: the addition of the East runway, this means two of
Speaker 1: sdf's three runways are available for aircraft operations. Passenger flights
Speaker 1: to and from Louisville are resuming amid a major backlog
Speaker 1: of delayed flights from Tuesday night.
Speaker 2: According to the airport's website yet again.
Speaker 1: So anyway, moving on, this clip talks about the crash
Speaker 1: a little bit more, but it also brings up a
Speaker 1: few other things that are going on in the news
Speaker 1: as of this moment, and I thought it'd be interesting
Speaker 1: to play it this time. So without further ado WKYC
Speaker 1: Channel three, let's listen into what the mainstream is saying
Speaker 1: about some things in the US right now.
Speaker 3: It's five forty four here in the land, and time
Speaker 3: to check in on the national stories making headlines. For that,
Speaker 3: Russ Mitchell joins us for what's happening now in America?
Speaker 21: Hi, Russ, Hey, Betsy, good evening, could even you at
Speaker 21: home as well. We begin with breaking news the FAA
Speaker 21: will cut air traffic by ten percent in forty high
Speaker 21: volume markets beginning Friday because of staffing shortages caused by
Speaker 21: the government shutdown. There is no word at this point
Speaker 21: if Cleveland will be one of those markets. It comes
Speaker 21: as many air traffic controllers are working unpaid or calling out.
Speaker 21: We'll have more in this developing story tonight at six o'clock. Also,
Speaker 21: Kentucky state officials had declared a state of emergency after
Speaker 21: yesterday's ups freight plane crash near Louisville Muhammad Ali Airport.
Speaker 2: At least twelve are dead.
Speaker 21: That's going to the mayor of Louisville. An interview just
Speaker 21: moments ago with our sister station there. Officials say that
Speaker 21: number could rise, and investigators now say an engine fell
Speaker 21: off the plane after takeoff before slamming into an industrial area.
Speaker 21: Kentucky Governor Andy Basheer says despite the massive damage, he
Speaker 21: believes it could have been worse.
Speaker 11: The plane barely missed a restaurant bar. It was very
Speaker 11: close to a very large board plant with hundreds, if
Speaker 11: not one thousand plus workers.
Speaker 21: UPS has halted operations at its worldport hub, impacting thousands
Speaker 21: of employees and hundreds of flights. The airport has reopened
Speaker 21: after being shut down. In a highly watched case, the
Speaker 21: Supreme Court heard arguments today about the legality of President
Speaker 21: Trump's sweeping tariffs. The justices are wing whether the President
Speaker 21: has the authority to impose those tariffs on imports under
Speaker 21: a law design for use during a national emergency. Opponents
Speaker 21: say the tariffs are hurting small businesses.
Speaker 22: If you allow the President to continue to do this,
Speaker 22: you can raise taxes on anything left and right. On
Speaker 22: any good, any amount, for any duration, and all of
Speaker 22: us are going to pay the cost. That's why this
Speaker 22: is so important.
Speaker 21: The Justice Department is aren't caring. The law gives the
Speaker 21: president expansive tariff power during an emergencies. The court is
Speaker 21: expected to decide by the end of its term next summer.
Speaker 21: At a federal judge is ordered prosecutors in the criminal
Speaker 21: case against former FBI director James Comy to produce materials
Speaker 21: from the investigation by the end of tomorrow. The judge
Speaker 21: went on to say he's concerned the Justice Department's position
Speaker 21: had been to quote indict first and investigate later. In quote,
Speaker 21: Komy is charged with lying to Congress and a case
Speaker 21: final after President Trump appeared to urge as Attorney General
Speaker 21: to prosecute him.
Speaker 1: All right, so at least we've got a little bit
Speaker 1: of an update on the Komi trial. And again, as
Speaker 1: the time of recording, they had to produce that evidence
Speaker 1: by the end of the day tomorrow, So we will
Speaker 1: see what happens. I honestly do hope that Komy gets
Speaker 1: justice for that. But that's just my personal take. I
Speaker 1: know some people swear that he's was never wrong with
Speaker 1: anything he did, but you know, hey, neither.
Speaker 2: Here nor there.
Speaker 1: Now moving on to a little bit south of the border,
Speaker 1: we are going to be talking about Mexico here. Mexican
Speaker 1: mayor killed during Day of the Dead celebrations in Mehauican.
Speaker 2: I probably mispronounced that.
Speaker 1: I don't speak Spanish, but let's talk about it here.
Speaker 2: European Mexico.
Speaker 1: A mayor in Mexico's western state of Mccawacon was shot
Speaker 1: dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people
Speaker 1: who had gathered for.
Speaker 2: A Day of the Day festivities authority set.
Speaker 1: Local politicians in Mexico are frequently victims of political and
Speaker 1: organized crime violence. The mayor of European Municipality, Carlos Alberto Manzo.
Speaker 2: Rodriguez, Lord of Mercy, was.
Speaker 1: Gunned down Sunday or Saturday night in the town's historic center.
Speaker 1: He was rushed to a hospital where he later died.
Speaker 1: According to the state prosecutor, Carlos Torres Pina, a city
Speaker 1: council member and a bodyguard were also injured in the attack.
Speaker 1: The attacker was killed at the scene. Federal Security Secretary
Speaker 1: Omar Garcia harfut harfooch don't know told journalists Sunday the
Speaker 1: attack was on the mayor the excuse me. The attack
Speaker 1: on the mayor was carried out by an unidentified man
Speaker 1: who shot him seven times.
Speaker 2: Garcia Harfoch said the.
Speaker 1: Weapon was linked to two armed clashes between rival criminal
Speaker 1: groups operating in the region.
Speaker 2: He added, pop get out of here, ad No.
Speaker 1: Line of investigation is being ruled out to clarify this
Speaker 1: cowardly act that took the life of the mayor. Harfooch
Speaker 1: said mccoacon is one of Mexico's most violent states and
Speaker 1: is a battleground among various cartels and criminal groups fighting
Speaker 1: for control of territory, drug distribution routes and other illicit activities.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, hundreds of European residents, dressed in black and
Speaker 1: holding up photographs of Manzo Rodriguez, took to the town
Speaker 1: streets to accompany the funeral procession and bid farewell to
Speaker 1: the slain mayor. They chanted justice, Justice out with Marina Interesting,
Speaker 1: a reference to the ruling party of Mexican President Audio
Speaker 1: Shanbaum Shinebam.
Speaker 2: Rather.
Speaker 1: In recent months, the European mayor had publicly appealed to
Speaker 1: Shinebaum on social media for help to confront the cartels
Speaker 1: and criminal groups. He had accused mccolla, COM's pro government
Speaker 1: governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedola and the state police of corruption. Shocker, shocker.
Speaker 1: And then especially when you're talking about Shinebaum and how
Speaker 1: even during her election there was thirty two assassinations of
Speaker 1: political candidates and then the cartels decided on her at
Speaker 1: the last second.
Speaker 2: But okay, yeah, at the head of the.
Speaker 1: Procession, a man led Manzo Rodriguez black horse with one
Speaker 1: of the mayor's signature hats placed on the saddle. A
Speaker 1: group of musicians, also dressed in black, followed and played
Speaker 1: mariachi songs in the narrow streets of the agricultural town
Speaker 1: where avocados evokadoo's rather.
Speaker 2: Are the main crop.
Speaker 1: Dozens of police and military officers stood guard around the area,
Speaker 1: so rip to a real one. At least he was
Speaker 1: there trying to call out government corruption. But in Mexico,
Speaker 1: it's very clear where that's going to lead you. But
Speaker 1: still speaking on Mexico, and let's now talk about Shinebam.
Speaker 1: This is something that took place this week. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, Mexico President Claudia Shinbaum was groped by
Speaker 1: a man as she talked to residents Tuesday on the
Speaker 1: streets of Mexico City. A video of the incident shows
Speaker 1: the man, who was allegedly drunk, sauntered up to Shine
Speaker 1: Bamb and draped an arm across her shoulders. He can
Speaker 1: be seen in a video attempting to kiss Shine Bamb
Speaker 1: on the neck, I might add, and then can be
Speaker 1: seen lifting his hands to her breast. Basically, he walked
Speaker 1: up to the seated president of the country, kissed her
Speaker 1: on the back of the neck, and then moved both
Speaker 1: of his hands to grab or tits. And somehow this
Speaker 1: guy was allowed.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 1: Her security team just like didn't notice this guy walk
Speaker 1: up and do this until it was kind of too late.
Speaker 1: I will say this just by watching the video, this
Speaker 1: dude is more fucked up than Cooter Brown. Like that
Speaker 1: is a true statement. You boy was probably high off
Speaker 1: his ass and he was absolutely drunk. But that being said, brother,
Speaker 1: you're telling me that you are so drunk that you
Speaker 1: don't realize that this is the fucking president of the
Speaker 1: country you live in.
Speaker 2: That is a bold claim. Government officials quickly stepped in
Speaker 2: to stop.
Speaker 1: The man, not in time, but we'll see that in
Speaker 1: the video here in a moment a visibly uncomfortable Shinbaum said,
Speaker 1: don't worry, as he was escorted away. The man who
Speaker 1: is not who has not been identified, was taking into
Speaker 1: police custody. On Wednesday, Shinebaum said she has decided to
Speaker 1: press charges.
Speaker 2: As well she should as well she should, and also
Speaker 2: she needs to fire her security staff.
Speaker 1: No man has the right to violate that space, Shinebaum
Speaker 1: said of the incident.
Speaker 2: Again fully agreed she this is her direct quote here.
Speaker 1: I decided to press charges because this is something that
Speaker 1: I experienced as a woman, but that we as women
Speaker 1: experience in our country. She added, I have experienced it before,
Speaker 1: but when I wasn't president, when I was a student.
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, let's go ahead and watch the video
Speaker 1: because it is pretty insane that this guy was able
Speaker 1: to successfully achieve this.
Speaker 2: I don't know, y'all tell me what y'all think about it.
Speaker 23: Stunning moment on a Mexico city street. The President of Mexico,
Speaker 23: Cloudya Shinebaum, harassed in public by a man who tries
Speaker 23: to kiss her and then appears to grope her. That
Speaker 23: encounter now reigniting a national conversation about violence against women,
Speaker 23: She had a press conference Wednesday. Shinebaum saying she's decided
Speaker 23: to press charges against the man, who, according to Mexico
Speaker 23: City's mayor, was arrested overnight. Shinebaum adding if I don't
Speaker 23: report it as a crime, in what condition are all
Speaker 23: Mexican women left in? If they do this to the president,
Speaker 23: what will happen to all the young women in our country?
Speaker 23: The first woman to lead Mexico elected last year, nodding
Speaker 23: to the challenges women face every day, which some have
Speaker 23: called a crisis.
Speaker 14: Job.
Speaker 23: For many, the danger goes far beyond unwanted, touching. On average,
Speaker 23: ten women and girls are killed every day in Mexico,
Speaker 23: the United Nations says, citing government data, only a fraction
Speaker 23: of cases are classified as femicide and only two percent
Speaker 23: of cases end in a criminal sentence. And it's not
Speaker 23: just women at risk. The nation saw a wave of
Speaker 23: murders targeting political candidates heading into its presidential election last June.
Speaker 23: In just the last three years, seven sitting mayors assassinated.
Speaker 23: The most recent a mayor in Michoacan, known for trying
Speaker 23: to crack down on cartel crime, just days ago, seen
Speaker 23: here at a public festival for the Day of the
Speaker 23: Dead All Going. Moments later, he was shot seven times
Speaker 23: and pronounced dead himself. He's murdered, sparking protests earlier this
Speaker 23: week as citizens demanded justice and an end to violence. Unfortunately,
Speaker 23: around the corner you can get killed, Things can go
Speaker 23: really bad. This protester says, we're tired as.
Speaker 24: A people organized crime in Mexico. It's no longer just
Speaker 24: pivoting around drug trafficking. Increasingly it's involved in extortion, illegal mining,
Speaker 24: illegal logging, all these activities that really require control of
Speaker 24: local territory. So that means that a lot of these
Speaker 24: criminal groups have had an incentive to actually make themselves
Speaker 24: part of the political process.
Speaker 23: In response to the outrage, shine Baum unveiling a new
Speaker 23: security plan for the state, sending more National Guard troops,
Speaker 23: federal agents, and creating an office for high impact crimes
Speaker 23: like homicide. But Shinbaum brushing off concerns about her own
Speaker 23: security after Tuesday's incident, also calling on states to make
Speaker 23: it easier for women to report similar assaults. Shinbaum now
Speaker 23: tested on whether she can protect a nation where even
Speaker 23: the president is not immune.
Speaker 1: We think, yeah, I have to agree with President Scheinbaum
Speaker 1: on her sentiment there. They do, in fact feel so
Speaker 1: bold that they can come up and just grope the
Speaker 1: seeded president of the country. So what chance do other
Speaker 1: women in Mexico have. They don't, they don't. That's what
Speaker 1: the takeaway should be from this. The crimes against women
Speaker 1: in this country are legendary, or I should say, at
Speaker 1: least infamous for lack of better words. That being said, Yes,
Speaker 1: the political violence that even got her into that position
Speaker 1: in the first place. He's talking about seven mayors being
Speaker 1: assassinated in the last three years.
Speaker 2: How about the.
Speaker 1: Thirty two assassinated presidential candidates. Like she wasn't even in
Speaker 1: the running to be president of Mexico. Everybody else that
Speaker 1: was in the running was assassinated. So shocker that she's
Speaker 1: being quote unquote left alone by the cartel because they're
Speaker 1: the ones that put her in that position. But I
Speaker 1: do think that she is taking the right steps as
Speaker 1: far as reporting this and seeking justice for this guy
Speaker 1: that was not a that's never gonna be okay, that's
Speaker 1: never gonna be okay.
Speaker 2: That being said, yeah, this kind.
Speaker 1: Of highlights the overall problems within the country of Mexico,
Speaker 1: not just against women pretty much from start to finish.
Speaker 1: And yeah, these protests, like even the protester had said,
Speaker 1: even out here, if you turned down the wrong street corner,
Speaker 1: you'll probably get killed. Like it's not a good place
Speaker 1: to be. And I understand why there's so many people
Speaker 1: that are wanting to leave Mexico. I get it in
Speaker 1: all other Latin countries. Cool, but if you keep leaving
Speaker 1: your country, you're never gonna make your country better. You
Speaker 1: have to stand and fight for your nation. You have
Speaker 1: to rid yourself of the evil that has become such
Speaker 1: an epidemic in your country. Otherwise it's just gonna get worse.
Speaker 1: At least that's the American mindset. Anyway, go ahead, sam Oh.
Speaker 15: I don't know if any of you are aware of
Speaker 15: the the musician Chelino Sanchez.
Speaker 11: He was.
Speaker 15: He his little sister was assaulted and killed by the
Speaker 15: by the Cortels. If I remember quickly, well, he killed
Speaker 15: the guy that was uh that was responsible and everything,
Speaker 15: and then he eventually went back to Mexico because he
Speaker 15: was he made it big over here.
Speaker 17: But he went back over there and they get the Cortel.
Speaker 15: Members spout sorry, found him. They gave him a piece
Speaker 15: of paper while he was singing and pretty much saying
Speaker 15: if you sing again, will kill you, and he he
Speaker 15: gave the best edition of his life. And then two
Speaker 15: hours later he was found in a covert a drainage
Speaker 15: ditch with his handcuff, with his hands tied behind his
Speaker 15: back into bullet holes in the back of his head.
Speaker 15: So the dude was a g I I don't understand
Speaker 15: a lot of Spanish, but I listened to his music
Speaker 15: and the dude like, say what you will, But the
Speaker 15: dude was about that life. He he uh take, he
Speaker 15: took a rapist out over a sister, And I wish
Speaker 15: that there was more people that would stand up against
Speaker 15: the cartels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: And then also the president saying that she's gonna implement
Speaker 1: more National Guard troops and all these things. I was
Speaker 1: literally having this conversation with my son earlier today. He
Speaker 1: was asking me about like the situation with Mexico and
Speaker 1: all the craziness, and it's like, you got to understand,
Speaker 1: the cartel has all the good talent as far as
Speaker 1: anybody who is well, I don't want to say anybody,
Speaker 1: but if you were to take a litmus test of
Speaker 1: your average Mexican soldier, Mexican police officer, Mexican National Guard member,
Speaker 1: and your average cartel gunman, I'm just gonna throw this out.
Speaker 1: I would be of the belief that the cartel member
Speaker 1: is probably better trained, better equipped, and more highly motivated
Speaker 1: than the federal or state employees of the Mexican government.
Speaker 15: Well, Jacob, they are the cartel's literally are high special
Speaker 15: operations people to train them. Yeah, and like they hire
Speaker 15: people from all over the world, and that there's even
Speaker 15: people like the cartel's even told Trump like, what are
Speaker 15: you gonna do? We have the we have, we have
Speaker 15: people are trained by special ops, and they seem to
Speaker 15: forget the US military's one who trains everybody's special operation
Speaker 15: units and all.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I think that's why Trump decided to declare
Speaker 1: war on the cartels, not just send some sort of
Speaker 1: a you know, arbitrary word of trying to dissuade them
Speaker 1: from their activities.
Speaker 2: He's declared war on them.
Speaker 1: And I for one, hope that we actually do start
Speaker 1: taking the fight to the cartels.
Speaker 2: That would be excellent.
Speaker 15: Keep in mind, this isn't the first time that America
Speaker 15: has done something like this. Hell, we sent the DEA
Speaker 15: in to get Pablo, but there at least that was
Speaker 15: more convert and everything.
Speaker 17: But this is out in the open.
Speaker 15: And I don't mean to sound mean or anything, but
Speaker 15: like the biggest thing about Venezuela in Latin American everything
Speaker 15: is the fucking.
Speaker 17: Force and everything.
Speaker 15: So like you'd have which if they're smart, they would
Speaker 15: do stuff like the viet Cong did the pungee sticks
Speaker 15: and everything, which would be a real uh real will
Speaker 15: paint in the ass, But like you'd have the vegetation
Speaker 15: that you'd have to worry about. You have the jaguars
Speaker 15: and shit like that, not just the cartels and cocaine labs.
Speaker 17: But I don't see us.
Speaker 15: Going in and like we are good at conventional warfare,
Speaker 15: we like the a conventional warfare.
Speaker 17: Our main troops are slacking in a little bit.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 15: I do think that what they probably should do is
Speaker 15: throw up the like de vegetation agent. I'm not saying
Speaker 15: agent orange because that's fucked, but something to kill off
Speaker 15: all the vegetation.
Speaker 1: We could be good at a typical warfare if the
Speaker 1: politicians would get out of our way.
Speaker 15: Well, I don't believe politicians should be talking to any generals.
Speaker 15: I believe that the meditarian politicians should be separate. I
Speaker 15: believe that you can tell I personally believe that you
Speaker 15: can tell us when to fight and what to fight,
Speaker 15: you should not tell us how to fight. Agree, And
Speaker 15: that's that's why I have a problem with some of
Speaker 15: the walls of engagement, like that you can't fire upon
Speaker 15: even though you know that there are a threat, You
Speaker 15: can't fire upon them until they start shooting you, and
Speaker 15: at that point you've already lost two or three of
Speaker 15: your guys.
Speaker 17: So fuck that. I believe that you should shoot first,
Speaker 17: ask questions later.
Speaker 1: I agree with it, well to a point, depends on
Speaker 1: the environment you're in, but I see where you're going
Speaker 1: with this, and I don't inherently disagree with what you're saying.
Speaker 15: Also about the marine that they showed, well, those desert cammies, Yeah,
Speaker 15: so that isn't that It's been a while since i'me out,
Speaker 15: but like I've only ever wore like my woodlands. I
Speaker 15: don't remember wearing my desert cammies up until like a
Speaker 15: part of like boot. But like I thought that the
Speaker 15: woodlands was where you could wear out, but the deserts
Speaker 15: you couldn't, because that was like the combat.
Speaker 17: I'm not exactly shure.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, So at least back when they
Speaker 1: issued desert cammies. From what I've been told, it's only
Speaker 1: woodlands year round. Now it's just the sleeves roll versus
Speaker 1: the sleeves down, whether it's a winter or summer.
Speaker 2: But what it was was, well, good keep.
Speaker 1: Them because that's a sign of a foregone era.
Speaker 2: So now what it is.
Speaker 1: It used to be you would wear your deserts with
Speaker 1: rolled sleeves during the summer months or when daylight savings
Speaker 1: time was not in effect, and then as soon as
Speaker 1: daylight savings time hit, it would swap to woodlands with
Speaker 1: the sleeves down.
Speaker 15: I like the I can never get the sleeves to
Speaker 15: be perfect when they rolled. I've always just preferred the
Speaker 15: sleeves down, though there were some people that did the
Speaker 15: wizard sleaves.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, no, no, oh no, no, that was
Speaker 1: that was absolutely you would get your shit wrecked for
Speaker 1: having loose sleeves.
Speaker 2: We call them gunny rolls.
Speaker 1: And yeah, if you if you were a gunny or up,
Speaker 1: you could roll your sleeves out the hell you want it.
Speaker 1: But if you were a staff sergeant on down, that
Speaker 1: shit needs to be ironed and crisp and tucked.
Speaker 15: But anyway, I ended up taking one of my other woodlands.
Speaker 15: I just I modified it. I pretty much cut the
Speaker 15: thing and rolled the seas up with nice and cleaston
Speaker 15: everything and just had them sewed like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had dudes that did that too. We
Speaker 1: just also learned how to roll our sleeves properly. But
Speaker 1: the coolest shit I ever seen was actually a major
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, and this was I went
Speaker 1: back to Paris Island for some work twice. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I saw this dude who he was
Speaker 1: I think he was a major. Think he was one
Speaker 1: of the battalion commanders or something like that, and he
Speaker 1: had rolled sleeves. But he was getting on his motorcycle
Speaker 1: to go home after work. And Marine Corps order says,
Speaker 1: if you're riding a motorcycle, you cannot have any skin
Speaker 1: below the chin showing, so you have to wear long sleeves,
Speaker 1: you have to wear.
Speaker 2: Gloves, a whole nine.
Speaker 1: This dude had cut desert camie sleeves like at the
Speaker 1: sh and basically just pulled these things over his rolled
Speaker 1: sleeves and tucked them in on each side and just
Speaker 1: rolled out so that when he got to where he
Speaker 1: was going, he could take the sleeve off and his
Speaker 1: sleeves would be rolled properly, and I'm just like, that's
Speaker 1: fucking genius. This guy's got it all figured out.
Speaker 15: Also not to be laying go back. But like with
Speaker 15: the rioters, they could be worse. At least they're getting
Speaker 15: tear gas and not getting molotov cocktails like the bonus
Speaker 15: on me. And when the quote unquote protesters become violent,
Speaker 15: throwing rocks, books, fireworks and even there's even people who
Speaker 15: shot at the ICE agents and the marions and everything,
Speaker 15: at that point, that is not a protest. And I
Speaker 15: don't believe that we should hurt them or whatever, But
Speaker 15: why don't we use live ammunition when they're actively trying
Speaker 15: to kill our troops and our federal agents.
Speaker 17: Why is live ammunition not a thing?
Speaker 1: Because the optics are already bad enough using pepper balls,
Speaker 1: they're already saying that it's an excessive use of violence
Speaker 1: whenever they're using the most non lethal thing that they
Speaker 1: can legally use, Like if they started tazing people, they
Speaker 1: would have court cases being brought against them.
Speaker 15: Boy plays stupid games when stupid prizes don't agree.
Speaker 1: I agree, but at the same time, it's it's about
Speaker 1: the optics and you don't.
Speaker 2: They already are.
Speaker 1: Accusing Trump of having a totalitarian regime and trying to
Speaker 1: put America under a police state style rule. They start
Speaker 1: using live ammunition on protesters. That that's not going to
Speaker 1: go well for anybody, honestly.
Speaker 15: They want to talk about a totalitarian police state, yet
Speaker 15: they're trying to push socialism in communism and Islamic shai
Speaker 15: a law.
Speaker 2: Well, they don't see it. I can't. I can't make
Speaker 2: it make sense. Brother, I don't. I don't speak retard ease.
Speaker 11: But.
Speaker 2: Probably all of them, to be honest with you anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on into other international affairs, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Russia's crew deliveries plunge as US sanctions begin to bite.
Speaker 1: This is from the economic times, and apparently the sanctions
Speaker 1: are finally working allegedly.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: This could all just be a media optic thing. But
Speaker 1: let's learn about it together, shall we. Russia's seaborne cruise
Speaker 1: shipments fell sharply, dropping by the most since January of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four as the latest US sanctions led Key
Speaker 1: buyers to shy away from Moscow's oil. Cargo discharges have
Speaker 1: been hit even harder than loadings with oil on the
Speaker 1: water surging four weeks. Average volumes from the country's ports
Speaker 1: were three point five eight million barrels a day to
Speaker 1: November two, according to vessel tracking data compiled by Bloomberg,
Speaker 1: down by about one hundred and ninety thousand from the
Speaker 1: revised figure from that period to October twenty six. The
Speaker 1: average provides a clearer picture of underlying trends that more
Speaker 1: volatile weekly figures, which also sank. The slump in flows
Speaker 1: hit Moscow's oil revenue, which fell to the lowest since
Speaker 1: all and follows a US ban on dealings within the
Speaker 1: country's two biggest exporters, Roseneft PJSC and Luke Oil PJSC.
Speaker 1: Refiners in China, India and Turkey are pausing purchases of
Speaker 1: sanctioned cargoes and seeking alternative supplies, at least for now.
Speaker 1: Russian exporters are continuing to load crude oil onto tankers,
Speaker 1: but refiners are less willing to take the cargoes into
Speaker 1: their storage tanks. That's caused the amount of Russian crude
Speaker 1: at c to soar to more than three hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty million barrels, rising by twenty seven million, or at
Speaker 1: eight percent since the start of September, according to tanker
Speaker 1: tracking data compiled again by Bloomberg, Together, India, China and
Speaker 1: Turkey sweep up more than ninety five percent of Russia's
Speaker 1: seaborn crude oil exports, so it will be almost impossible
Speaker 1: to compensate for any significant pullback in their purchases. Moscow
Speaker 1: will likely want to continue to load cargoes for as
Speaker 1: long as it can, even if they remain in floating storage,
Speaker 1: so oil held at c will be from an increasingly
Speaker 1: important measure of the impact of the latest sanctions continuing,
Speaker 1: it says, the ban on dealing with Russian Russian companies,
Speaker 1: which now extends to its four biggest crude oil exporters,
Speaker 1: will hit global supplies. The CEO of big European oil
Speaker 1: companies warned, potentially reducing the size of any glut next year.
Speaker 1: Several large Indian oil refiners, who have been buying almost
Speaker 1: a million barrels a day of Russian crude oil, are
Speaker 1: pausing purchases at least until workarounds can be found. That's
Speaker 1: expected to hit deliveries for December and January crude that
Speaker 1: should be loading at Russia's ports this month. India State
Speaker 1: run refineries are considering whether they can continue to take
Speaker 1: some of the cargoes from small suppliers instead of Russia's
Speaker 1: sanctioned energy giants. Chinese refiners are taking or they're taking
Speaker 1: similar steps. State owned processors Cinepec and Petro China Company
Speaker 1: have canceled some Russian cargoes following the US sanctions, with
Speaker 1: the buyers cautioned likely to affect as much as forty
Speaker 1: five percent of China's total sea born crude oil imports
Speaker 1: from Russia, or about four hundred thousand barrels a day,
Speaker 1: according to Riistad Energy, As the move could hit Russia's
Speaker 1: key ESPO trade shipped from the Pacific port of Cosmino,
Speaker 1: which is just a few days sailing from refineries in
Speaker 1: northern China. Refiners in Turkey, the third largest buyer of
Speaker 1: Russia's crude, have now started cutting purchases, seeking alternative supplies
Speaker 1: from other short haul suppliers, including Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: and Kazakhstan. Nevertheless, some think the disruption will be temporary.
Speaker 1: Down the line, you will see that more and more
Speaker 1: of the disrupted Russian oil, one way or another, finds
Speaker 1: its way onto the market. That was Gunvor Group chief
Speaker 1: executive officer. Sure, I'm not even gonna pronounce that name.
Speaker 1: He said that in an interview on Tuesday. It always
Speaker 1: does somehow, which is very true. That's very true. Whenever
Speaker 1: they first put the sanctions on Russian oil, the Russians
Speaker 1: just started using middlemen and they would offload the oil
Speaker 1: onto another ship that has a different country flagwave from it,
Speaker 1: and then they would still find a buyer, and it
Speaker 1: was just a way to fence it. So that's pretty
Speaker 1: much all they're saying, Like they're just gonna cut back
Speaker 1: on the suppliers until a workaround quote unquote can be found.
Speaker 2: It's not going to take them long to figure out, honestly.
Speaker 1: Separately, Russia's crude processing continued to climb in the final
Speaker 1: week of October as plants increased runs after seasonal maintenance
Speaker 1: on Ukrainian drone strikes, but it is likely to fall
Speaker 1: again this week after another attack, the seventh so far
Speaker 1: this year on Roseneff's Suatov plant.
Speaker 2: Probably mispronounced that so the crude shipments.
Speaker 1: A total of twenty six tankers loaded twenty one point
Speaker 1: eleven million barrels of Russia's crewed in the week of
Speaker 1: In the week to November two, vessel tracking data and
Speaker 1: port agent report show the volume was down from a
Speaker 1: revised twenty six point four to one million barrels on
Speaker 1: the thirty four.
Speaker 2: Ships in the previous week.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they are now down eight, yeah, eight ships
Speaker 1: and about four million barrels coming up on four and
Speaker 1: a half million barrels in a week.
Speaker 2: That's not that's not a little bit. But again they
Speaker 2: will find a work around.
Speaker 1: On a daily average basis, shipments in the week to
Speaker 1: November two drop to three point zero two million barrels
Speaker 1: a day, the lowest in ten weeks. Separately, two cargoes
Speaker 1: of Kazakhstan's kebco grade were shipped from oust Luga and
Speaker 1: one from Novarosik Novara six. Hold on, I know that
Speaker 1: word Novarosic, Novarosik. I don't know during the week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: help me out, Tony, Noverisk, Novarosisk.
Speaker 11: I can't even see it, but I'm sure that must
Speaker 11: be it.
Speaker 1: It is, that is absolutely it, And I've heard that
Speaker 1: word said so many times, and at this moment, I
Speaker 1: just I'm having a hard time speaking. The Russian shipments
Speaker 1: were down from all regions with Dakastri linked to the
Speaker 1: Sakhent Sakkalin one project okay, the only port to show
Speaker 1: stable flows the export value on a four week average basis,
Speaker 1: the gross value of Moscow's exports fell from about ninety
Speaker 1: million to a US to one point three six billion
Speaker 1: in a week wow in the twenty eight days November second,
Speaker 1: with export quantities and prices both failing or falling, I
Speaker 1: should say using this measure, the export prices of Russia's
Speaker 1: urals from the Baltic and Black Sea both fell by
Speaker 1: about sixty cents a barrel to fifty one point four
Speaker 1: to two and fifty one point.
Speaker 2: Seventy nine okay, so hold on.
Speaker 1: It fell sixty cents to about fifty one dollars respectively.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: The price of pacific espo crewed dropped by eighty cents
Speaker 1: to average fifty nine dollars twenty cents a barrel, remaining
Speaker 1: below the G seven price cap of sixty dollars for
Speaker 1: a second week.
Speaker 2: Delivered.
Speaker 1: Prices in India also dropped, falling by about sixty cents
Speaker 1: to sixty two point sixty two dollars and thirteen cents
Speaker 1: a barrel, all according to numbers from Angus media on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis, the value of exports average from about
Speaker 1: one point one five billion in the seven days to
Speaker 1: November two, down by twenty seven percent from the revised
Speaker 1: figure for the October period to October twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: Wow. So again, this is all kind of tying in.
Speaker 1: The sanctions seem as of this particular moment in time
Speaker 1: to finally be taking effect. But will that last? How
Speaker 1: quick will they find a work around? All of these
Speaker 1: things and more are still up for debate. But let's
Speaker 1: hear it from China himself. This is from the Hindustan Times.
Speaker 1: China and India to stop buying Russian oil at MIID
Speaker 1: Ukraine war watch. Donald Trump's bombshell claim.
Speaker 2: Listen here.
Speaker 10: India, as you know, has told me they are top
Speaker 10: stop you know there. It's a process. You can't just
Speaker 10: stop it. But by the end of the year they'll
Speaker 10: be down to almost nothing. That's a big thing. China's
Speaker 10: a little bit different, you know, They're a little bit
Speaker 10: different relationship they have with Russia.
Speaker 1: Trump's big remarks on China Russia ties ahead of high
Speaker 1: stakes meat to shee.
Speaker 2: So this is all happening.
Speaker 7: Before she stop purchasing all that Russian oil that's funding
Speaker 7: as words.
Speaker 10: Well, I think I'll be talking to him about it.
Speaker 10: I think it's a little bit of a different talk. India,
Speaker 10: as you know, has told me they are stopping you
Speaker 10: know there it's a process. You can't just stop it.
Speaker 10: But by the end of the year they'll be down
Speaker 10: to almost nothing. That's a big thing. That was almost
Speaker 10: forty percent of the oil. India. They've been great. Spoke
Speaker 10: to the Prime Ministermota yesterday. They've been absolutely great. China's
Speaker 10: a little bit different, you know, They're a little bit different.
Speaker 10: Relationship they have with Russia. It was never good, but
Speaker 10: because of Biden and Obama, they got forced together. They
Speaker 10: should never have been forced together. But they're a little
Speaker 10: bit forced. But they're by nature, they're not They can't
Speaker 10: be friendly. They can't be by nature. Then I hope
Speaker 10: they are friendly frankly, but they can't be the you
Speaker 10: don't want. You should not have forced Russia at China together,
Speaker 10: and Biden did that and Obama did that. They forced
Speaker 10: them together because of energy, because of oil, and so
Speaker 10: they are closer than they would normally be. I think
Speaker 10: I'll probably be talking about it. What I'll really be
Speaker 10: talking to them about is how do we end the
Speaker 10: war with Russia and Ukraine, whether it's through oil or
Speaker 10: energy or anything else. And I think he's going to
Speaker 10: be very receptive. He would now like to I'm not
Speaker 10: sure that he did at the beginning. He would now
Speaker 10: like to see that war ends.
Speaker 7: Do you think she plays an important role in terms
Speaker 7: of inserting himself and convincing we speak to regularly stop
Speaker 7: the war.
Speaker 11: I do.
Speaker 10: I think he can have a big influence on Putin.
Speaker 10: I think he can have a big influence. So a
Speaker 10: lot of people, look, he's a respected man, he's a
Speaker 10: very strong leader of a very big country. Yeah, I
Speaker 10: think he can have a big influence. And we will
Speaker 10: certainly be talking about Russia Ukraine.
Speaker 1: All right, So hey, who knows. Maybe she will have
Speaker 1: an effect on the Russian situation. Maybe this war will
Speaker 1: come to an end sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I also think it's very possible that all this
Speaker 1: was posturing and that China and India and Turkey will
Speaker 1: continue to buy Russian oil whether it has a Russian
Speaker 1: stamp on the barrel or not. They just need a middleman,
Speaker 1: that's all. It is, just fencing the product. That being said,
Speaker 1: let's continue learning about this. This is from Yahoo Finance China.
Speaker 1: Chinese oil buyers reduce Russian purchases. Chinese refiners are canceling
Speaker 1: Russian oil cargoes and adopting a weight and see attitude
Speaker 1: after the US or latest US sanctions on Russia's oil industry.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg reports, citing traders, that state owned majors including Cinopek
Speaker 1: and Petro China have canceled previously ordered Russian oil cargoes,
Speaker 1: while the so called tea pots or independent refiners had
Speaker 1: stopped buying Russian crew to avoid getting penalized for violating
Speaker 1: the US sanctions. The publication cited Riistat Energy as estimated
Speaker 1: that some forty five percent of Chinese imports of Russian
Speaker 1: crude ole have been affected by the sanctions. The figure
Speaker 1: represents some four hundred thousand barrels daily. As a result
Speaker 1: of the force change in buying habits, Russian crude is
Speaker 1: trading at deeper discount, with the flagship Urals at fifty
Speaker 1: seven point nine to nine dollars per barrel at the
Speaker 1: end of last week. China mostly imports other blend or
Speaker 1: another blend the Eastern Siberian Pacific Ocean or ESPO, and
Speaker 1: the cargo cancelations have pushed its prices lower. Bloomberg noted
Speaker 1: Russia became the largest single oil supplier to both China
Speaker 1: and India over the past three years. Again, that ma
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense because when the sanctions went out, China
Speaker 1: and India really need oil, and Russia is willing to
Speaker 1: sell it to them on the cheap to.
Speaker 2: Fuel the war machine.
Speaker 1: So of course why wouldn't they thanks to the discounts
Speaker 1: its oil carries amid Western sanctions. Now both China and
Speaker 1: India need to find alternatives to Russian crude, of which
Speaker 1: there are plenty, but at usually higher prices. China has
Speaker 1: made itself a supply cushion by importing more crude than
Speaker 1: it is using this year and building more storage capacity.
Speaker 1: Plans are to have eleven new storage sites with a
Speaker 1: combined capacity of one hundred and sixty nine million barrels
Speaker 1: by the end of twenty twenty six. India is having
Speaker 1: a more challenging time replacing Russian oil supply. Russia accounts
Speaker 1: for a third of its total oil imports, which in
Speaker 1: turn accounts for some eighty five percent of its consumption
Speaker 1: Due to its overwhelming dependence on imported crude, India is
Speaker 1: especially vulnerable to price differences and is especially motivated by
Speaker 1: discounts when making buying decisions. Even Indian refiners are portally
Speaker 1: turning away from Russian crude as well to avoid US
Speaker 1: sanctions and penalties. Oil price intelligence brings you the signals
Speaker 1: before they become front page news. This is the same
Speaker 1: expert analysis read by veteran traders and political advisors. So
Speaker 1: there you have it, you know, before we go into
Speaker 1: the next topic, Tony way In on this bro, what
Speaker 1: do you think is going to be the shakeout of
Speaker 1: this well?
Speaker 11: I was searching telegram to try to find more information
Speaker 11: from the Russian side, and I couldn't really find anything,
Speaker 11: which means either they're not worried or they're so worried
Speaker 11: they don't want to talk about it. But my gut
Speaker 11: feeling is they are going to keep exporting as much
Speaker 11: as they want, but they will find a way. Like
Speaker 11: you were saying, you were saying that, I think the
Speaker 11: the crude barrel price has gone down sixty cents out
Speaker 11: of fifty something dollars a barrel. To me, that doesn't
Speaker 11: sound big enough to be you know, even exclusively Abscribua
Speaker 11: the buld of this, but we will see if anything,
Speaker 11: when you know, you would see a big price differential
Speaker 11: between Russian crewed and others, like the other crews would
Speaker 11: go way way up if the sanctions were really effective.
Speaker 11: I also want to mention that at the beginning of
Speaker 11: the Russian invasion, Joe Biden said that we don't even
Speaker 11: need to give Ukraine weapons. We can just put SAG
Speaker 11: sanctions on Russia and that alone will choke their economy
Speaker 11: and potentially cause regime change. And of course it didn't
Speaker 11: even come close. Even all the weapons to Ukraine didn't
Speaker 11: save them.
Speaker 1: So to be fair, though, the Biden administration was incapable.
Speaker 2: But the point that you're making is still true.
Speaker 11: So I think the US has very consistently overestimated the
Speaker 11: effectiveness of sanctions, and there used to be a lot
Speaker 11: more effective long long ago, for example on South Africa,
Speaker 11: And even when the US got a bunch of sanctions
Speaker 11: on Iran in the early two thousands, we can't really
Speaker 11: do that again. So yeah, that card's been played, and
Speaker 11: Russia survived, and I think world markets were really afraid
Speaker 11: of the sanctions on Russia. So Russian. The Russian ruble
Speaker 11: went down like sixty percent of its value very quickly,
Speaker 11: but it recovered in about three weeks in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 11: right after the invasion. Yeah, it never looked.
Speaker 1: I never put a lot of stock whenever a nation's
Speaker 1: currency drops some value if it is a oil producing country,
Speaker 1: because at that point it's just a matter of time
Speaker 1: before it bounces back. It might be a year, it
Speaker 1: might be a decade, but if that nation is pumping
Speaker 1: oil from their sovereign land, their money is going to
Speaker 1: bounce back to be worth something. It literally is just
Speaker 1: a mathematical certainty.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Well, unless it's you know, certain countries with hyper inflation,
Speaker 11: then it's got a very hyperbolic looking curve to it.
Speaker 11: But Russia is pretty much a flat line except for
Speaker 11: the week after after the invasion, or like three weeks
Speaker 11: or so it knows to But then it came back
Speaker 11: and it's been relatively a flat line ever since.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that's as I said that. I did
Speaker 1: remember that Iraq and the dinar in that whole ponzi
Speaker 1: scheme that was going on back in the day. I mean,
Speaker 1: hell even got me on it. I think I got
Speaker 1: like I think it was like two hundred dollars of
Speaker 1: Iraqi dinar because they produce oil, so give it a
Speaker 1: matter of time. Because before the war their currency was
Speaker 1: like four to one to ours or something like that,
Speaker 1: so over time that two hundred would have skyrocketed into more.
Speaker 1: But then, of course, when terrorist organizations took over that
Speaker 1: country and no solid government took control of the oil market.
Speaker 2: It kind of dwindled down.
Speaker 1: And now those are literally not as they're worth the
Speaker 1: toilet paper you wipe you ass with.
Speaker 2: So I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 11: You know, Speaking of currencies, I haven't kept up with Argentina,
Speaker 11: but that's another kind of hyperbolic or exponential death. They're
Speaker 11: to a currency, and I haven't heard of it getting
Speaker 11: any better since Trump tried to swap a bunch of
Speaker 11: currency with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't really think that's gonna get better. That
Speaker 1: would be if it does get better, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of those.
Speaker 2: Long, long, long term.
Speaker 1: Investments that's that's not going to get fixed with the
Speaker 1: current administration. Maybe in about three more administrations of people
Speaker 1: really buckling down and trying to fix their nation's economy,
Speaker 1: it might That's not something that we're going to even
Speaker 1: remember when the time comes if we even see the
Speaker 1: ROI on that.
Speaker 17: But he.
Speaker 2: Is what it is. But yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think Russia is gonna find workarounds. Sixty cents per
Speaker 1: barrel drop is not a lot, however, And even this
Speaker 1: initial hit saying that these countries are dropping their imports
Speaker 1: from Russia by forty five percent, give it a month,
Speaker 1: give it time for them to set up some sort
Speaker 1: of a network of middlemen or fencing, and next thing
Speaker 1: you know, they're still buying rush and oil, just.
Speaker 2: With a new label on it. And it's either way
Speaker 2: it goes.
Speaker 1: They're still going to buy the cheapest oil available to
Speaker 1: them and find a way to work work around the
Speaker 1: tariff situation that Trump is putting on them. It's it's
Speaker 1: not like these people are just gonna capitulate and say, okay, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: mister Trump, whatever you say. That's that's not how these
Speaker 1: people do business. So, you know, anyway, all right, moving on,
Speaker 1: but still sticking into the Asian area, South Korea launches
Speaker 1: its final spy satellite to track North Korea twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven, completing the four to twenty five project.
Speaker 2: I think this is rather interesting.
Speaker 1: South Korea has successfully launched the fifth and final military
Speaker 1: reconnaissance satellite under its Project four twenty five program, making
Speaker 1: the completion of a year's long effort to establish an
Speaker 1: independent space based surveillance network over the Korean peninsula. According
Speaker 1: to the Cho Sun Daily, hope I pronounced that right
Speaker 1: on November TEWOD the satellite, designated number five very Original
Speaker 1: the Koreans, was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon nine rocket
Speaker 1: from Cape Canaveral Space four station in Florida and successfully
Speaker 1: entered orbit, establishing communication with ground stations shortly after separation.
Speaker 1: The launch concluded the four to twenty five project, which
Speaker 1: deploys one electro optical and infrared satellite and four synthetic
Speaker 1: aperture radars satellites to provide round the clock monitoring capabilities.
Speaker 1: The South Korean Ministry of National Defense said the system
Speaker 1: will enable the military to detect and track potential North
Speaker 1: Korean provocations at two hour intervals, serving as a key
Speaker 1: component to Soul's quote unquote kill chain preemptive strike system.
Speaker 1: This strengthens the foundation of our three axis to turrent
Speaker 1: and significantly enhances the effectiveness of the preemptive strike system.
Speaker 1: The Ministry stated the SAAR equipped satellite Number five offers
Speaker 1: a resolution of about thirty centimeters per pixel. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: actually pretty impressive, allowing for precise observation of missile launch sites,
Speaker 1: troop movements, and other strategic facilities in North Korea under
Speaker 1: any weather conditions. The first EOIR satellite was launched in
Speaker 1: December of twenty twenty three, followed by four SAAR satellites
Speaker 1: between April twenty twenty four and now November twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Fringe companies Thallas A Nia Space, a key partner in
Speaker 1: the project, confirmed its contribution of radar systems and ground
Speaker 1: data infrastructure, describing the consolation as a quote high agility,
Speaker 1: high performance observation platform end quote. The firm worked alongside
Speaker 1: Korea Aerospace Industries and Hanwa Systems for the Defense Acquisition
Speaker 1: Project Administration or DAPPA. I wonder if they're trying to
Speaker 1: have a little DARPA nod on that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: With Project four to twenty five, now, Operational Soul plans
Speaker 1: to expand its reconnaissance capabilities by launching an additional fifty
Speaker 1: to sixty small and micro satellites by twenty thirty wow.
Speaker 2: The Defense Ministry said these.
Speaker 1: Efforts are part of a plan to quote advance self
Speaker 1: reliant national defense and space operational capabilities. Earlier, North Korea
Speaker 1: launched quote unquote strategic sea based cruise missiles over the
Speaker 1: Yellow Sea just hours before President Trump arrived in South Korea.
Speaker 1: The missiles flew over two hours in what appeared to
Speaker 1: be an endurance test. South Korea's Joint chiefs of Staff
Speaker 1: confirmed the launch and said the incident is under joint
Speaker 1: analysis with US authorities. So when the President gets when
Speaker 1: Trump gets to South Korea, North Korea's first course of
Speaker 1: action is to try to flex. That's a move, that's
Speaker 1: one of the moves, one of the most moves some
Speaker 1: might say that North Korea could have done, but all
Speaker 1: things considered, Yeah, So South Korea now has five satellites
Speaker 1: in the sky that they will be able to watch
Speaker 1: every single move the North Korea makes, and they're talking
Speaker 1: about launching fifty more sometime in the next five years.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. But anyway, I thought it was interesting enough
Speaker 1: to bring up on this episode. Now let's move more
Speaker 1: west but still in Asia, and let's talk about updates.
Speaker 1: Hama's hands over a body of an Israeli captive and
Speaker 1: Israel kills two in Gaza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is from Al Jazir. Let's get into it here.
Speaker 2: Read more. Hold on, here's what happened today.
Speaker 1: Israel has confirmed that the body of a deceased Israeli
Speaker 1: captive has been received via the Red Cross. Two Palestinian
Speaker 1: men have been killed in separate Israeli attacks in central Gaza,
Speaker 1: the army said, claiming the men crossed the CeaseFire's yellow line.
Speaker 1: The Israeli army has also launched raids and intensive artillery
Speaker 1: shelling while carrying out demolitions in South Gaza.
Speaker 2: But I thought there was a ceasefire. What happened there?
Speaker 1: In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces rated several towns,
Speaker 1: sparking confrontations with residents and detaining at least three people,
Speaker 1: while settlers assaulted residents and hebrons must.
Speaker 2: Mass off for YadA. Probably mispronounced it, but it's fine.
Speaker 1: The water crisis in Gaza has reached a catastrophic level,
Speaker 1: municipality spokesperson Hasni Mana said, with the central desalination plant
Speaker 1: completely out of action and with only seventeen out of
Speaker 1: eighty eight wells still in operation and Israeli strike on
Speaker 1: southern Lebanon killed one person and injured another. Lebanese authorities reported, Wow,
Speaker 1: so here we have a couple of pictures on screen
Speaker 1: of some of the the burials that are that are
Speaker 1: taking place right now. Israel's military claims to have killed
Speaker 1: Hamas fighter. Israel's military says it killed a Hamas fighter
Speaker 1: who it claims was responsible for holding six Israeli's captive
Speaker 1: in Gaza. In a post on x, the Israeli military
Speaker 1: said it had eliminated Zaid Zaki, Abd al Hadi, ak
Speaker 1: Jesus these names in a strike it said was carried
Speaker 1: out in response to Hamas's violations of the Seasfire Agreement.
Speaker 1: Israeli media said the strike was conducted on October twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: The Israeli military claimed that they killed Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: misspelling there. They killed Himas fighter responsible for the captive
Speaker 1: captivity of Israeli bar Cooper Steen, Ohad been Ami, Maxim Herkin,
Speaker 1: El Kana Bobot and Segev Calfon Yep and Yusuf Heim
Speaker 1: o'hannah Ohannah is an Israeli name. I swear that was Hawaiian, okay,
Speaker 1: who were abducted into Gaza during the October seventh attack.
Speaker 1: The six captives have all been released. One of the captives, Calfon,
Speaker 1: told Israeli papers uh the Jerusalem Post, that the captives
Speaker 1: had been hailed in a pit in Al's house. Okay,
Speaker 1: So with that being said, in the situation in Gaza
Speaker 1: is still as there is a quote unquote cease fire
Speaker 1: going on there right now. They have now allowed reporters
Speaker 1: to make their way into Gaza for the first time
Speaker 1: in a good while, and what they're reporting it from
Speaker 1: the vantage point that they were allowed to show is
Speaker 1: absolute destruction. Let's watch this together. This is from NBC
Speaker 1: News tonight.
Speaker 7: Everywhere you look, the destruction in Gaza is overwhelming. This
Speaker 7: is the Shujaiya neighborhood in Ruins.
Speaker 25: This is my first time visiting and seeing this destruction
Speaker 25: close out since the ceasefire. Israel's military took journalists into
Speaker 25: Gaza on the condition that we not show the military
Speaker 25: facilities or faces of most military personnel, for what the
Speaker 25: IDF said are security reasons. The devastation can be seen
Speaker 25: from space. This was that neighborhood before October seventh. This
Speaker 25: after two years of war, just.
Speaker 7: A month ago. This would have been the scene of
Speaker 7: some of the fiercest loudest fighting of the war. Israeli
Speaker 7: forces withdrew as part of the ceasefire. In the distance,
Speaker 7: that's hamas controlled territory. The IDF, says, Hamas is still
Speaker 7: firing on Israeli troops. You can see the shellcasings from
Speaker 7: the IDF firing back from here.
Speaker 11: We've seen Tamas violate the agreement almost on a daily basis,
Speaker 11: in some days more on the daily basis.
Speaker 7: Both sides accuse each other of violating the peace steel,
Speaker 7: which is still holding. They took us to a fortified
Speaker 7: out post over Shouldaia, where Hamas said it exhumed the
Speaker 7: body of Etai Hen, the last American hostage still in Gaza.
Speaker 7: His remains finally returned last night.
Speaker 8: Two years of hell, two years of sleepless nights, we
Speaker 8: could finally say the sentence we've been waiting for.
Speaker 6: He tie is back home.
Speaker 7: Elsewhere in Gaza, Palestinians living in the middle of the destruction.
Speaker 7: This man, a father of nine kids. We can't afford food,
Speaker 7: he said. Without this soup kitchen, we wouldn't eat tonight.
Speaker 7: Hamas handed over the remains of what it said, was
Speaker 7: another slain hostage also exhumed and should Jaia. They Israeli
Speaker 7: say they're working to identify the body.
Speaker 1: We think, all right, so the ceasefire quote unquote is
Speaker 1: still holding quote unquote for now.
Speaker 2: It's literally a powder keg.
Speaker 1: One false move could set everything back into motion and
Speaker 1: somehow they're still fighting going on, but it's they're tentatively trying,
Speaker 1: and by they, I mean both sides are tentatively trying
Speaker 1: to bring all of this to a resolution and has
Speaker 1: of this moment. It's just it's not a good situation
Speaker 1: and it hasn't been for quite some time. But at
Speaker 1: least reporters are now able to get into a certain
Speaker 1: section of the city to report on what they're seeing,
Speaker 1: and it is absolute destruction, honestly.
Speaker 2: So now let's go a little more.
Speaker 1: South of the Israel Gaza conversation to Tanzania. Tanzania election
Speaker 1: failed to comply with democratic standards, says the African Union,
Speaker 1: and this has led to essentially a civil.
Speaker 2: War taking place in Tanzania right now.
Speaker 1: Last week's Tanzania election failed to comply with democratic standards,
Speaker 1: says the African Union, adding to mounting international pressures from
Speaker 1: President Samya Soluhu Hassan's administration over the deadly vote UOTE.
Speaker 2: The African Union's Election.
Speaker 1: Monitoring arm, which sent a team of seventy two observers
Speaker 1: to Tanzania and Zanzibar for the October twenty ninth election
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, pointed to ballot stuffing, the government imposed internet blackout,
Speaker 1: allegations of excessive military force, and politically motivated abductions as
Speaker 1: quote unquote compromising election integrity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's Africa, but okay.
Speaker 1: The election did not comply with African Union principles, normative frameworks,
Speaker 1: and other international obligations and standards for democratic elections, the
Speaker 1: mission's report concluded, adding that the environment was not conducive
Speaker 1: to peaceful conduct and.
Speaker 2: Acceptance of electoral outcomes.
Speaker 1: We have a couple of videos that are attached to
Speaker 1: this article that we're actually going to play at this
Speaker 1: time once again, if you'd like to see what these
Speaker 1: articles are about, rather than just hear about it, go
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Speaker 1: on Patreon.
Speaker 2: Let's watch these together.
Speaker 23: To the height of somebody on.
Speaker 2: Real Quick, it said.
Speaker 1: That video was Tanzanian soldiers fighting at pro or shooting
Speaker 1: at protesters who say the government of President Samia Saluk
Speaker 1: Whu rigged the October twenty ninth election. It's just one
Speaker 1: of dozens of videos that have come out since the
Speaker 1: polling was released. The opposition says the crackdown has killed
Speaker 1: more than eight hundred people.
Speaker 2: Tanzanians. They say that they are fighting for their country.
Speaker 26: Uh.
Speaker 1: The video purports to show about thirty bodies at a
Speaker 1: medical facility. Many of those killed up here to have
Speaker 1: been shot in the head. The UN says dozens of
Speaker 1: government critics have been arrested or disappeared. The government has
Speaker 1: also blocked the Internet and restricted the press those are
Speaker 1: never good signs, but has rejected accusations of using disproportionate violence.
Speaker 27: The security forces haven't been too heavy handed. It's a
Speaker 27: right of a nation. It's our sovereign right to protect
Speaker 27: our people, to maintain peace in our country. It's our
Speaker 27: constitutional right also to protect people's properties. So whatever means
Speaker 27: of force that has been used is just the level
Speaker 27: of protecting force, not None of the excessive force has
Speaker 27: been used, and the country cannot use an excessive force
Speaker 27: against its own citizens for sure.
Speaker 1: According to official results, President Samia Salut who won ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent of the vote. Her main challenges were either
Speaker 1: jailed or barred from running. Government officials also reported a
Speaker 1: record turnout, although protesters set fire to some polling stations
Speaker 1: and others were anty. The UN has called for a
Speaker 1: third and impartial investigation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a good situation over there. And again.
Speaker 1: Outside sources, well not even fully outside sources.
Speaker 2: African Union members have said that this.
Speaker 1: Was wrought with just illegal practices as far as an
Speaker 1: election is concerned. Now the UN is getting involved, saying, no,
Speaker 1: we need to have a real investigation into this, especially
Speaker 1: if your people are so upset. You apparently won the
Speaker 1: election by ninety eight percent, and you are saying that
Speaker 1: your people are so upset by this that they're taking
Speaker 1: to the streets and you have to launch your military
Speaker 1: to literally shoot them all down. This sudden sound good,
Speaker 1: especially whenever they stop the internet and the press. These
Speaker 1: are very massive telltale signs that there is a little
Speaker 1: more chicanery going on than what they're letting us know.
Speaker 1: Protesters poured into the streets of Dar s Salaam and
Speaker 1: other cities following the election, where they faced police these violence,
Speaker 1: clouds of tear gas and limited internet access. The country's
Speaker 1: main opposition party, Chameida or Kammeida I'm not sure, has
Speaker 1: since claimed hundreds of people were killed, a figure the
Speaker 1: government has denied. Videos were reviewed by Al Jazeera showed
Speaker 1: dozens of bodies, including a people shot in the head,
Speaker 1: protester with bloody faces, and security forces firing guns in
Speaker 1: the street. The AU's mission urged Tanzanian authorities to exercise
Speaker 1: restraint and pursue throw investigations into violence against protesters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen. Quote here says
Speaker 1: Tanzania should prioritize electoral and political reforms to address the
Speaker 1: root cause of its democratic and electoral challenges witnessed ahead of, during,
Speaker 1: and after the twenty twenty five general election, the report said.
Speaker 1: The AU report came amid another rare rebuke from the
Speaker 1: Southern African Development Community the SADC earlier this week, which
Speaker 1: detailed violence, censorship and general intimidation of the public and
Speaker 1: opposing figures. Overall, all, voters could not express their democratic will,
Speaker 1: SADC said in a preliminary report on Monday, adding that
Speaker 1: the elections fell short of the SADC principles Hassan swept
Speaker 1: nearly ninety eight percent of the vote after her two
Speaker 1: main competitors were barred from competing. Again, that's not exactly
Speaker 1: a fair democratic practice there. Kadema was disqualified in April
Speaker 1: after refusing to sign an electoral code of conduct, while
Speaker 1: the country's second biggest party, the act Wazalindo, was excluded
Speaker 1: after an objection from an attorney general. Interesting Kamida's leader,
Speaker 1: Tundu Lesou separately faces a treason trial after calling for
Speaker 1: election reforms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got all the signs of some chakanery. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be honest.
Speaker 1: The SADC chronicled such events directly, writing that the disqualifications
Speaker 1: had created an uneven political playing field and undermining the
Speaker 1: democratic process. The last time SADC openly criticized an Africa
Speaker 1: election process was during Zimbabwe's election in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: It has since observed a handful of other elections, including
Speaker 1: in Malowi, Botswana, South Africa, Madagascar, and the Democratic Republic
Speaker 1: of the Congo, which most of those countries. If you
Speaker 1: look at what the political situation looks like right now,
Speaker 1: is not exactly a positive thing. So let that sink him.
Speaker 1: Her first comments after being sworn in, Hassan appeared to
Speaker 1: blame foreigners for the protests, saying it was not a
Speaker 1: surprise that those arrested were from other countries, according to
Speaker 1: a translation by the Associated Press. Hassan first took power
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one after the unexpected death of her predecessor,
Speaker 1: John Magoofouli Okay. Since then, local and international watchdogs have
Speaker 1: repeatedly raised the alarm over her administration's alleged campaign of
Speaker 1: forced disappearances, torture and assault of critics, as well as
Speaker 1: widespread media repression. In June, a panel of United Nations
Speaker 1: experts said they had documented more than two hundred disappearances
Speaker 1: in the country since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 17: Wow.
Speaker 1: So yes, the political situation in Africa, specifically Tanzania. Also,
Speaker 1: if you want to look at what's going on in
Speaker 1: Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Botswana
Speaker 1: and South Africa right now, there.
Speaker 2: Is a lot of turmoil in these places right now.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying all of it's political, but especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to something like this where it's right
Speaker 1: after an election where ballot stuffing was already being talked
Speaker 1: about and then she wins with ninety eight percent of
Speaker 1: the vote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems like it's a no brainer. What I mean?
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's move a little north. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some European conversation here. Despite chargers being filed against
Speaker 1: four suspects in the Louver heist, stolen jewels are still missing.
Speaker 1: So we talked about this one of the baalsiest heists
Speaker 1: I've ever heard of in my life. These dudes a
Speaker 1: they keep using the term crane. I would call it
Speaker 1: a bucket truck, but whatever. They use that to break
Speaker 1: into a window of the Louver like they were construction workers,
Speaker 1: walked up to some of the crown Jewels of France
Speaker 1: and with miniature chainsaws, cut through the display, took the
Speaker 1: jewels and ran and then got away on basically east scooters.
Speaker 1: And apparently they've got four suspects and they were gonna
Speaker 1: hear report in a minute saying somewhere possibly five.
Speaker 2: We shall see.
Speaker 1: This is still getting updated by the minute here, but
Speaker 1: the jewels nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2: Let's learn more about this together.
Speaker 1: As the investigation into the brazen heist at the Louver
Speaker 1: Museum in Paaris stretched into its sixteenth day. On Monday,
Speaker 1: authorities said the whereabouts of the stolen jewels remain a mystery,
Speaker 1: despite four suspects being charged in the case. Paris Public
Speaker 1: Prosecutor Laura buck Cowell said in a radio interview on
Speaker 1: Sunday that three of the suspects so far had been
Speaker 1: linked to the Louver robbery through DNA, and insisted the
Speaker 1: detectives had not exhausted all the leads that have poured
Speaker 1: in since the pro began.
Speaker 2: All leads have been explored.
Speaker 1: Bull told Franchi's Faux Radio of efforts to recover the jewels,
Speaker 1: but Kyle added that the arrests made at the Louver
Speaker 1: or in the Louver investigation have led to new searches
Speaker 1: and the seizure of new objects that are being examined.
Speaker 1: We are following leads that for the moment have absolutely
Speaker 1: not been.
Speaker 2: Exhausted by Mi Kyle said. Hope, I'm pronouncing that name right.
Speaker 1: But Kyle said, one suspect who played an active role
Speaker 1: in the heist remains at large, while three others have
Speaker 1: been charged with organized robbery and conspiracy to commit organized robbery.
Speaker 1: So again we're where are the missing jewels? The prosecutor said,
Speaker 1: investigators have not given up on recovering the one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty million dollars worth in jewels. These are the
Speaker 1: jewels in question that we're stolen, which I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to take my glasses off to read this. Empress Eugene's
Speaker 1: bo bodice yep made of two four and thirty eight
Speaker 1: diamonds and it was commissioned to be made in eighteen
Speaker 1: fifty five. A neck composed of eight sapphires and six
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one diamonds, gifted by Napoleon the First
Speaker 1: to his second wife, Marie Louise as a wedding present
Speaker 1: in eighteen ten.
Speaker 2: Empress Eugene's broach made of ninety diamonds. Necklace made of
Speaker 2: thirty two emeralds and one thousand, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: eight diamonds, gifted by Napoleon the first to Marie Louise.
Speaker 1: Emerald and diamond earrings gifted to Napoleon the first two
Speaker 1: Marie Louise. They look like they might match that necklace, honestly.
Speaker 1: Earrings composed of sapphires and diamonds, gifted by Napoleon the
Speaker 1: First to his second wiferom Marie Louise as a wedding
Speaker 1: present in eighteen ten. Tiara made of twenty four sapphires
Speaker 1: and a one thousand eighty three diamonds that was worn
Speaker 1: by Queen Horteens Queen Maria Meals and Isabelle of Orleans,
Speaker 1: and tiara made of two hundred and twelve pearls two
Speaker 1: thousand diamonds. Wow, from Queen Maria Meals and Queen Hornys's collection.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, these are gorgeous artifacts
Speaker 1: and legitimate crown jewels of the royal family. But also yeah,
Speaker 1: still no sign of them.
Speaker 2: Turning up anywhere. So there's that.
Speaker 1: We are examining all aspects of the parallel market, Makal said,
Speaker 1: and by that she means the black market, the illegal
Speaker 1: trade here. But Christopher Maronello, CEO of Art Recovery International,
Speaker 1: a private company that specializes in locating looted artworks, told
Speaker 1: ABC News that he fears the jewels might have been
Speaker 1: dismantled by Now, yeah, I think it's a pretty fair assessment.
Speaker 1: As we said from the beginning of this theft, if
Speaker 1: the jewels are not recovered in the first forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: they are most likely broken up into smaller jewels and
Speaker 1: gyms and sold in the marketplace, Marinello said. Asked if
Speaker 1: there was any way to identify the thousands of individual diamonds, emeralds,
Speaker 1: and sapphires that compose each of the missing eight pieces,
Speaker 1: Marinello said, many of the smaller stones are virtually untraceable
Speaker 1: to this collection. Yeah, only the larger stones could possibly
Speaker 1: be traced to this but unfortunately, those are the stones
Speaker 1: that will have wanted to break up as quickly as possible,
Speaker 1: Mayor Nolla said. So moving on from this article, we
Speaker 1: can watch a little news clip that's going to talk
Speaker 1: about it a little deeper. Apparently five in the jewel
Speaker 1: heist have been arrested, and this was dropped just a
Speaker 1: couple of hours prior to recordings.
Speaker 2: So let's listen.
Speaker 28: In the investigation into the Crown jewel heist at the
Speaker 28: Louver Museum here is heating up. Five new suspects have
Speaker 28: been arrested. One was identified because his DNA was found
Speaker 28: in the Apollo gallery where the theft took place. Two
Speaker 28: others have been given preliminary charges in the case, but
Speaker 28: the jewels themselves have not yet been found. The Paris
Speaker 28: prosecutor made a plea to those who have the jewels
Speaker 28: to hand them over, saying they cannot be legally sold
Speaker 28: anywhere in the world, but experts say they're probably being
Speaker 28: cut up and sold on the black market instead. Under
Speaker 28: French law, investigations are supposed to be secret, so we
Speaker 28: don't have identification of the suspects or many details. The
Speaker 28: prosecutor has not said whether they've identified the mastermind behind
Speaker 28: this audacious theft. Meanwhile, the Apollo Gallery where this took place,
Speaker 28: remains closed to all the visitors here at the Louver today.
Speaker 2: Now, I do want to make a mention of this.
Speaker 2: I was watching this.
Speaker 1: Video where it was a former jewel thief who was
Speaker 1: doing a breakdown of some like movie scenes then you'll
Speaker 1: see like bank heists and things like that happening. He
Speaker 1: was showing what things that the movie directors got right,
Speaker 1: some stuff that they got wrong, and he made a
Speaker 1: very interesting point that I think plays in here there.
Speaker 1: I forget if it was the town or what the
Speaker 1: movie was, but basically he saw these dudes who was
Speaker 1: taking basically saran wrapped stacks of cash, throwing it in
Speaker 1: double bags, and they were just like throwing all of
Speaker 1: these on their backs and then running out the door.
Speaker 1: He's like, you gotta understand, cash is king, but cash
Speaker 1: is heavy.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: If one dollar weighs you know, one gram, and you're
Speaker 1: doing that to a stack of thousands of that, and
Speaker 1: then basically you gotta keep in mind.
Speaker 2: It's like compressed paper.
Speaker 1: So think about a double bag full top to bottom,
Speaker 1: side to side full of unopened packs of computer paper. Essentially,
Speaker 1: you're not just gonna like throw that over your shoulder
Speaker 1: and take off in a full sprint like that weighs
Speaker 1: a lot. That's why he did jewel thievery, because one
Speaker 1: rock in your pocket could be worth thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: as opposed to carrying around thirty thousand dollars in cold,
Speaker 1: hard cash on your back.
Speaker 2: He's like, cash is king, but cash is heavy.
Speaker 1: Jewels, I mean, you could throw that in your pocket
Speaker 1: and be ready to roll for as long as you
Speaker 1: need and nobody's it's not gonna look out of character
Speaker 1: whenever you make your way to a crowd either. So
Speaker 1: when they're talking about the Crown jewels here and they're
Speaker 1: being broken up and sold on the black market, I
Speaker 1: think it's possible and very probable when you're talking about
Speaker 1: this in the black market of fine jewelry collectors that
Speaker 1: would have the amount of money required to buy this
Speaker 1: as a collected piece, like the tiaras for instance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got some very wealthy person that doesn't really ask
Speaker 1: questions as to how this seller came about this souln artifact.
Speaker 2: They want the entire tiara in totality.
Speaker 1: Right, that is a thing, But especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to some of those larger sapphires and emeralds, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think those are gonna be I don't think those are.
Speaker 2: Gonna be intact.
Speaker 1: And when you got like that one where it was
Speaker 1: what was it the bodice, I think is what they
Speaker 1: used in the term this thing here where it's like
Speaker 1: a jeweled bow. Yeah, that's two four and thirty eight diamonds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna break that up. They're absolutely gonna break that
Speaker 1: up and sell the diamonds as individual things. They might
Speaker 1: possibly be able to find a buyer for the entire
Speaker 1: piece itself, but it is way more probable that they're
Speaker 1: breaking this up for the larger stones to sell it
Speaker 1: to collectors and all the things. But anyway, so as
Speaker 1: of now, no new headway has been made into the
Speaker 1: louver heist situation, but I thought it was interesting enough
Speaker 1: to bring up here. All right, now, our resident Jewish correspondent,
Speaker 1: Royce or aka yoked Yid, this expang's new humanoid gynoid
Speaker 1: looking closer to human form. Okay, this is actually kind
Speaker 1: of scary, but we're gonna watch this together. Don't know
Speaker 1: any words, it's just gonna be sound. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: a robot, that is, and granted you could still tell
Speaker 1: that it's a robot. It's still a little robotic in
Speaker 1: its movements. But they're getting closer and closer to making
Speaker 1: these things as human acting and moving as possible.
Speaker 2: This is scary to me personally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's. Oh, that's disconcerting to me personally. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of it. I don't like
Speaker 1: humanoid looking robots making their way into the public like this.
Speaker 2: That it just reeks of Terminator movies to me.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right now, let's hear the latest from
Speaker 1: three I atlass mystery. NASA on alert as interstellar comet
Speaker 1: brightens after sun encountered. There are those there are those
Speaker 1: that is saying that the three I Atlas is making
Speaker 1: very alien slash extraterrestrial slash intelligent design movements.
Speaker 2: Right now, I don't know what to make of it.
Speaker 2: As of this moment.
Speaker 1: When it was way off into the distance, they couldn't
Speaker 1: really tell what it was comprised of.
Speaker 2: They said it was copper or something like that, or iron.
Speaker 1: Then as it got closer to the Sun, it morphed
Speaker 1: into mostly nickel made, which is very interesting that it
Speaker 1: would change what it's made of.
Speaker 2: I don't think it actually changed. I think we probably
Speaker 2: just got a better look at it.
Speaker 1: But either way, the early other thing that I saw
Speaker 1: was usually whenever our comet is making its way through space,
Speaker 1: it has a tail going off behind it, right, And
Speaker 1: as it gets closer to the Sun, certain frozen gases
Speaker 1: on the comet meteor asteroid the object are going to
Speaker 1: melt and they are going to go sublime. Right, They're
Speaker 1: going to go from its solid state to its gaseous state.
Speaker 1: Stop off in liquid land for just a second. But
Speaker 1: it's basically going to be used to give propulsion to
Speaker 1: the object, and it should zoom away from the Sun
Speaker 1: faster than it arrived at the Sun. But it should
Speaker 1: all be behind it as it takes off three Iye
Speaker 1: Atlas is very interesting in the fact that it has
Speaker 1: a gaseous plume on the front side of it and
Speaker 1: the backside of it at the same time. To my knowledge,
Speaker 1: we've never had something douce this before, so I find
Speaker 1: that very interesting. But let's hear from the news media.
Speaker 1: What is the latest on three iye Atlasts?
Speaker 16: Its secrets closed? With this t something has broken the
Speaker 16: cosmic silence at read it from beyond seven billion years
Speaker 16: in the baking has managed to enter into our solar system.
Speaker 16: We'll leave you with this boat, which explains how the
Speaker 16: selestial wisdom known only as the three I Atlas has
Speaker 16: rewritten the physics textbooks and then disappeared from the script altogether.
Speaker 16: Thanks watching.
Speaker 26: For months, it was just a smudge of light, a
Speaker 26: ghostly halo on the edge of the queeper belt. Then
Speaker 26: the data stream screamed three Iye Atlas, the third interstellar
Speaker 26: object ever confirmed, was on a strange trajectory toward the Sun. Now,
Speaker 26: as three eye at Lasts slink shots around the Sun,
Speaker 26: something extraordinary unfolds the comet's light pens it turned and twisted.
Speaker 26: This was exactly as Einstein's general relativity predicted astronomer's watch
Speaker 26: stunned as gravity turns spacetime into a lens, the universe
Speaker 26: itself seems to bow to Einstein's mass. Then, in a
Speaker 26: move no model saw coming, three eye atlas shift skiers.
Speaker 26: Instead of the predicted cause, the comet vears, as if
Speaker 26: under the control of an invisible force. The comet or
Speaker 26: ship made an unscheduled maneuver, a distinct, inexplicable shift in
Speaker 26: its orbital path. No known rules could account for this
Speaker 26: year force, a clear deliberate vector change, defying all known
Speaker 26: Newtonian and relativistic calculations. So what's the driving force behind
Speaker 26: three I atlas? It was a physics viodation, an engineering marvel,
Speaker 26: or something far darker. Every eye is glued to fresh data.
Speaker 26: Was this a natural interstellar retic or evidence of alien
Speaker 26: technology piloting a path beyond physics? You will report meon
Speaker 26: world is one.
Speaker 2: So I find that very interesting.
Speaker 1: So three I atlasts took a crazy shift turn, if
Speaker 1: you will. But again, I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: were concerned that it was going to hit Earth. It
Speaker 1: was never slated to do so as of this moment.
Speaker 1: As a time of recording, on the fifth of November.
Speaker 1: It has not made its way and hit Earth or
Speaker 1: or made a direction like it's about to come to
Speaker 1: earth either. So as far as alien craft trying to
Speaker 1: make contact with humans or something, yeah, as of this moment,
Speaker 1: nothing nothing to report on, but I think it's still
Speaker 1: interesting that we stay up to date on it. So
Speaker 1: before we wrap, I'm gonna get over here to the uh,
Speaker 1: to the chat and see what everybody's been.
Speaker 2: Talking about on the back burner. Here. I like to
Speaker 2: throw hands with the haters. I'll introduce me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Thomas Massey got married again. That's interesting, Tony Okay,
Speaker 1: Thomas Massey? Uh yeah, No, Spear and Anam. I know
Speaker 1: who Veporion was. I remember we talked about that on
Speaker 1: the Cult Live last night. Let's see here, what else?
Speaker 1: Socialism you line up for bread? Capitalism, breadlines up for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a very good that's a very good meme about
Speaker 1: how that works. I have a Titan one missile in
Speaker 1: my town next to the christ stools and a gas station.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Was just talking about the man cover with the cousins
Speaker 1: and brother in law to day. Yeah, for anybody who's
Speaker 1: curious about us launching the manhole cover into space, Operation
Speaker 1: plumb Bob the Fat Electrician did an amazing take on it.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, China has a great wall.
Speaker 2: Hadrian also had a wall. Yeah, and Hadrian didn't. That
Speaker 2: didn't work out too well for him for too long.
Speaker 1: Spiar and Almo says, Stalin let his son die in
Speaker 1: a concentration camp. Yeah, he absolutely did. Lincoln and Sherman
Speaker 1: for burning down Ga. They could also get it too, Yeah, agreed, agreed. Uh,
Speaker 1: kadjiki stand sounds like it should be in a so
Speaker 1: calm game. It might be one day, but yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a stand. So was at one point a part of
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, but they're they're doing their own thing
Speaker 1: these days. Let's see, isn't that The desert camis yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: The yoaked Yid released this clip that was the AI bought. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we played that video.
Speaker 1: My Matsasu Mano was a Japanese right wing porn star
Speaker 1: in the seventies who kama cosied his plane into a
Speaker 1: politician's house. He walked away unharmed. I don't know why, Sam,
Speaker 1: This is the first time I've ever heard that. That's
Speaker 1: that's new infro to me. But okay, that's a thing
Speaker 1: that took place. I guess does Russian even care if
Speaker 1: their bloodlines are how many Russians are lost? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: talked about that on the on the show. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Most of the way the US kills people is drones, bombs, missiles,
Speaker 1: and sanctions, not so much by bullets. Yeah, agreed, we
Speaker 1: should relegalize drugs, but we never will because that's how
Speaker 1: the CIA makes money.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Tony to a point.
Speaker 1: I feel like the legalization of drugs there, there's gotta
Speaker 1: be a little bit of some some give and take there.
Speaker 1: I don't think we should have free and legal every drug. Ever,
Speaker 1: I think we should decriminalize certain types of drugs. And
Speaker 1: I also don't think that a drug dealer should get
Speaker 1: the same type of punishment that a violent criminal gets.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you to a point on that one.
Speaker 1: But that's the other thing too. We now have narcan
Speaker 1: vending machines in multiple states. In California, and as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I just saw an article on this
Speaker 1: in reading California, there is a vending machine where you
Speaker 1: can get clean needles, narcan, and condoms.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of this. I don't
Speaker 2: think that like, yes, narcan can.
Speaker 1: Save a life, and I absolutely am down with that,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, does that not give people
Speaker 1: a green light to do these things even further, which
Speaker 1: is kind of against the point.
Speaker 11: It's a yeah, yeah, I guess I'm in favor of it,
Speaker 11: seeing also the downsides. But what would you make of
Speaker 11: a system where peopeople could just get a prescription for
Speaker 11: fentanel just because, and then you know, they get the prescription,
Speaker 11: they go buy a defined amount of it or just
Speaker 11: whatever the drug is, even heroin.
Speaker 1: And so I have many people in my life that
Speaker 1: have died as a result of opiates. I've talked about
Speaker 1: this before. My buddy Tray Alaman, rip Marine Corps veteran,
Speaker 1: got blown up in Afghanistan. His back was shattered. He
Speaker 1: gets home and he has prescribed oxy for the pain,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't abusing them. He was using them as prescribed.
Speaker 1: Then in twenty sixteen, the VA decided that they're no
Speaker 1: longer going to prescribe opiates to any veterans. And he
Speaker 1: had an addiction at this point, so he went to
Speaker 1: the streets to score h to feed his addiction, and
Speaker 1: he got to where he was spending four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: A day on his opioid addiction, and.
Speaker 1: They didn't try to step off veterans or give them
Speaker 1: another kind of pain relief substitute or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So I disagree with a medical system that is going
Speaker 1: to just easily and OsO willy nilly.
Speaker 2: Hand out very harmful drugs.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that in fentanyl has a place in
Speaker 1: the medical industry, but they handed out way too liberally,
Speaker 1: the same way they hand out opiates way too liberally.
Speaker 2: I think that there's a time and place for you.
Speaker 2: It's same with cocaine.
Speaker 1: Cocaine has medical uses, and it's excellent for those uses,
Speaker 1: But you don't see anybody going and getting a cocaine
Speaker 1: prescription filled.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think that we should have some sort of a
Speaker 1: better revised medical system and a way better revision of
Speaker 1: our pharmaceutical industry than what we currently have. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that green lighting it on the street level
Speaker 1: is going to fix the problem that you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like there's got to be some sort of a
Speaker 1: give and take here.
Speaker 2: There's got to be some sort of a middle ground
Speaker 2: that we can find.
Speaker 11: Yeah, kinda what do you think would have happened if
Speaker 11: your friend had just been able to keep getting that
Speaker 11: prescription filled indefinitely for years and years, even if he
Speaker 11: would be dependent on it for the rest of his life,
Speaker 11: that you think that would be better than you know,
Speaker 11: trying to make him go cold turkey. Maybe not cold turkey,
Speaker 11: but ween and my off of it. If that also
Speaker 11: has a risk in not working, so.
Speaker 1: He would have stayed on it for the rest of
Speaker 1: his life. Yes, he would have taken his two pills
Speaker 1: a day, which is what he needed to function. He
Speaker 1: was not somebody with an addicted personality by nature, but
Speaker 1: he got that way because of this. But personally, I
Speaker 1: would have rathered him go towards cretom than opiates. And
Speaker 1: I'm not like the biggest fan of kretom, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, it is a much.
Speaker 2: Healthier and better solution than opiates.
Speaker 1: And I feel like there's there's all kinds of other
Speaker 1: natural solutions that we can find that do not require
Speaker 1: labs and chemicals and long form addiction. I have an aunt,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, she got in a car
Speaker 1: wreck years and years back, jacked up her back.
Speaker 2: She got prescribed.
Speaker 1: Opiates, she got off of the opiates, and then a
Speaker 1: month later gotten another car wreck rejacked up her back.
Speaker 2: She was back on opiates and was.
Speaker 1: She couldn't function without them, but then there was examples
Speaker 1: where she kind of abused those for the better part
Speaker 1: of fifteen years. She's doing a lot better now, but
Speaker 1: it took years to get to that point. I would
Speaker 1: hope that people that are addicted to these types of
Speaker 1: painkillers can find their way off of them. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, when it's something with the back that
Speaker 1: unless you're willing to do some sort of crazy surgery,
Speaker 1: and then in some cases there's no surgery offered to
Speaker 1: fix the problem itself, aside from burning a nerve, But
Speaker 1: then that also causes other problems on the other end.
Speaker 1: So it's like I said, I think there's a place
Speaker 1: for these types of things, but it's done so frivolously,
Speaker 1: and people get prescribed hard narcotics for essentially growing pains
Speaker 1: so often, and then there's people that really could use
Speaker 1: these types of hard drugs, but there should be a
Speaker 1: system in place to get them off of it.
Speaker 2: It's like it should be a.
Speaker 1: Rehabilitation method rather than a new lifestyle method.
Speaker 11: That's just me, yeah, yeah, I understand and agree there
Speaker 11: must be a word for that, like detoxing or you know,
Speaker 11: getting off of one thing even if you get onto
Speaker 11: another thing. But I think for a few people out there,
Speaker 11: just accepting the fact that they're going to be on
Speaker 11: it for the rest of their lives might be the
Speaker 11: best thing that they can hope for, because if the
Speaker 11: alternative is a high probability of seeking it out on
Speaker 11: the street for four hundred dollars a day and accidentally
Speaker 11: killing themselves or deliberately killing themselves, Yeah, just letting them
Speaker 11: stay on a low dose for the rest of their life,
Speaker 11: in my opinion, for some people, that's probably the best
Speaker 11: thing they can expect. And well, yeah, and the CIA
Speaker 11: makes money off of it, so anyway, it's probably not
Speaker 11: going to change. But yeah, Oregon had a pretty bad
Speaker 11: experience with marijuana and I think they recriminalized it.
Speaker 2: Goodday.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they had a bad experience of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 11: Bob Murphy did a podcast about this, and yeah, they
Speaker 11: recriminalized it. But basically he and his friend, they're both
Speaker 11: super libertarian and anarchists. They were trying to say, you know,
Speaker 11: maybe they just didn't do it right, but we don't
Speaker 11: want to sound like Tom he's saying, well, they just
Speaker 11: didn't do it right, you know, right, they didn't do
Speaker 11: libertarianism right, but there were there were a lot of
Speaker 11: reasons that they really just did not do it right,
Speaker 11: and maybe it could be done a lot better.
Speaker 1: Agreed, And I think that marijuana should be decriminalized, right unless, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're buying ten pounds of weed, I think that
Speaker 1: a very easy case could be made for intent to distribute,
Speaker 1: and then we should have that kind of conversation that
Speaker 1: that's illegal. Okay, fine, but somebody buying it for their
Speaker 1: own personal use, I don't who are they hurting with that? Right,
Speaker 1: that's not I don't see an issue with that personally.
Speaker 1: But and then the whole conversation that weed is a
Speaker 1: gateway drug. It can be, but it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1: And I feel like more often than not it's not.
Speaker 1: Pills are way more of a gateway to hard drugs
Speaker 1: systematically than weed is. So, yeah, Oregon is a I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's a isolated case of people that
Speaker 1: experience bad rapport from the legalization thereof Colorado, if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, hasn't seen any kind of real negative drawbacks.
Speaker 1: There's been some cases, sure, but once they legalize marijuana,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, their hard drug usage drastically dropped
Speaker 1: in the state have way more tax revenue. I know
Speaker 1: Washington had a very similar experience, but it's been so
Speaker 1: long since I looked at the statistics of these states
Speaker 1: and what things look like now that I honestly couldn't
Speaker 1: speak intelligently on it. All right, let's continue in here.
Speaker 1: It says cut it cutting out on me. I have
Speaker 1: searched this topic in telegram. Oh you said that earlier
Speaker 1: Tony got you, got you the Queper belt.
Speaker 2: The culper of Kuyoper is pronounced like hyper Okay.
Speaker 11: Indian guy in the video you just played said, oh,
Speaker 11: we have a comment out of the queeper belt, and
Speaker 11: I thought, haha, I know it's pronounce Kuiper belt.
Speaker 2: Got you, Got you okay?
Speaker 1: And then have I heard of a muhamua which people
Speaker 1: think was an alien probe a similar asteroid. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: talked about that on the cult not too terribly long ago.
Speaker 1: I had heard of a muhamua. I hadn't done much
Speaker 1: digging into it, and you get a lot of wild
Speaker 1: reports when you start doing digging into this. Depending on
Speaker 1: the source, some will say that it transmitted like Morse
Speaker 1: code to certain receivers on Earth, and then there are
Speaker 1: others that say that, yeah, it was a very interesting commet,
Speaker 1: but that's all it actually was. I think it's a
Speaker 1: very interesting comet just personally. The more I looked at it.
Speaker 1: There's not many credible sources that say that it was
Speaker 1: transmitting some sort of a message to Earth, but there
Speaker 1: are definitely those reports out there. You know, there's reports
Speaker 1: of people that are meditating and channeling in on three
Speaker 1: Iye at List and they're receiving I think the term
Speaker 1: they uses downloads from it or metaphysical messages from it,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a thing to them.
Speaker 2: I guess. I I don't know. Maybe we're all crazy.
Speaker 1: And Three Eye Atlas is absolutely an alien craft that
Speaker 1: is going to stop on Earth and we're going to
Speaker 1: meet aliens in the flesh. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: think it was worth bringing up on this episode. Amuamo
Speaker 1: is another very interesting case study. With that being said,
Speaker 1: all the contingent of the Cajun Night, I want to
Speaker 1: thank y'all for joining me this evening, and I do
Speaker 1: want to leave y'all with a.
Speaker 2: With a parting word here.
Speaker 1: Okay, as of time recording, it is November the fifth,
Speaker 1: and I do think that it is worth remembering the
Speaker 1: gunpowder treason and Guy Fawkes remember remember the fifth of
Speaker 1: November the gunpowder treason to plot.
Speaker 2: I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should
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