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Then that data is now being offered 12 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:51,799 up on the dark web. Probably not because it happened 13 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:57,679 in China. Yes, finally some hackers targeted the commies. Man, 14 00:00:57,759 --> 00:01:00,320 I didn't think I would ever live to see this day. 15 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:05,079 So a hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of 16 00:01:05,159 --> 00:01:11,760 sensitive data, including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics, 17 00:01:12,359 --> 00:01:17,040 from a state run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:23,480 constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The 19 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:29,920 data set allegedly contains more than ten pedabytes. No relation, 20 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:34,200 is it pedabyte or petabyte? 21 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:35,079 Speaker 2: Do we know? 22 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,799 Speaker 1: Maybe a petabyte. Petabytes sounds something like illegal. You know, 23 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:48,640 one petabyte equals one thousand terabytes, so it's a lot 24 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:53,159 like if you have one of those external storage bricks, 25 00:01:53,359 --> 00:01:58,120 you know, like usually those things are a terabyte or 26 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,000 three terabytes something like that. I mean, you can go higher, obviously, 27 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,760 you can get a lot more, but that's kind of 28 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:04,760 the standard. 29 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: One to three terabytes, I think. 30 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: So think of a thousand of those things, of those 31 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:16,080 terabyte storages, one thousand of them, that's one petabyte, and 32 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:22,400 this is ten petabytes. It is believed by experts to 33 00:02:22,439 --> 00:02:27,199 have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center in chan Jin. 34 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:32,560 That is a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for 35 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:37,919 more than six thousand clients across China, including advanced science 36 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,000 and defense agencies. 37 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 2: Oh By Goods. 38 00:02:43,039 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: Cyber experts who have spoken to the alleged hacker and 39 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,840 reviewed samples of the stolen data that they posted online 40 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,639 say they appeared to gain entry to the massive computer 41 00:02:55,199 --> 00:02:59,199 with relative ease and were able to siphon out huge 42 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,439 amounts of data over the course of months they were 43 00:03:03,479 --> 00:03:10,120 in there without being detected. Months, according to CNN's Isaac Yee, 44 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 an account calling itself. Flaming China posted a sample of 45 00:03:16,039 --> 00:03:19,599 the alleged data set on an anonymous telegram channel on 46 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,159 February sixth, claiming that it contained research across various fields 47 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:34,759 including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformation or informatics, fusion simulation, 48 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:39,520 and more. The group alleges the information is linked to 49 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:46,520 top organizations top organizations. Cybersecurity experts who have reviewed the 50 00:03:46,599 --> 00:03:49,400 data say the group is offering a limited preview of 51 00:03:49,439 --> 00:03:51,879 the alleged data set, So if you want to check 52 00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:55,680 it out, you're going to have to pay thousands of 53 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,879 dollars just to get a limited preview of the data set. 54 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,680 And if you want full access, that's going to run 55 00:04:03,719 --> 00:04:07,240 you into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and payment 56 00:04:07,319 --> 00:04:16,240 is requested in cryptocurrency. According to Mark Hofer, a cybersecurity 57 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:21,160 researcher and author of the blog net Ascari never heard 58 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,480 of it, the size of the data set would make 59 00:04:23,519 --> 00:04:31,279 it attractive to adversarial state intelligence services. You don't say, 60 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:33,920 if we haven't already purchased all of this stuff, like 61 00:04:33,959 --> 00:04:34,839 what are we even doing? 62 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:35,199 Speaker 2: You know? 63 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:45,199 Speaker 1: Because Mark Hoefer, cybersecurity researcher, says only state intelligence services 64 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,079 probably have the capacity to work through all of that 65 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,720 data and come back with something useful. Yeah, it's a 66 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,800 lot of stuff. See, this is part of the problem. 67 00:04:56,199 --> 00:05:00,279 When you centralize all control into the communist model, it 68 00:05:00,319 --> 00:05:05,240 opens up vulnerabilities. You know, it's a shame China, M 69 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,319 And I mean, usually you guys are the ones doing 70 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,839 all the hacking of our stuff. But the alleged breach, 71 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,600 if genuine, points to a potentially deeper vulnerability in China's 72 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,639 technology infrastructure as it vies with the United States to 73 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:25,759 be a world class technology innovator and AI leader cybersecurity. 74 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 2: Hang on a second, do we. 75 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: Really want the chy comms to be a leader in AI? 76 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,199 Like I already have a lot of concerns about AI 77 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:40,199 breaking containment and becoming you know, self aware and realizing 78 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,160 it doesn't need us anymore except maybe as some slaves 79 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:49,439 to it, and that kind of that way of thinking 80 00:05:49,639 --> 00:05:53,240 I feel like would probably be more in line with 81 00:05:53,319 --> 00:05:54,839 the communist way of thinking. 82 00:05:55,079 --> 00:05:55,439 Speaker 2: And so. 83 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,519 Speaker 1: And you know AI, I think if you have biases 84 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:04,879 as programmers, like if you feed in all of this 85 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,639 stuff and you have a certain bias like in America 86 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,360 and our AI platforms we're seeing like chat GPT and 87 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:21,079 such where it has a left wing progressive bias. What's 88 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:26,600 the bias over in China? Probably not great. Cybersecurity has 89 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,680 long been known to be a weakness across both the 90 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:35,480 government and private sector. In twenty twenty one, a massive 91 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,959 online database apparently containing the personal information up to one 92 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:45,639 billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible. 93 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:47,639 Speaker 2: For more than a year. 94 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,879 Speaker 1: Well, I'm old enough to remember when you can just 95 00:06:50,959 --> 00:06:53,759 like not even lock up your data in China. 96 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,399 Speaker 2: I mean, those were the good old days. It was 97 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:56,360 just so safe, you know. 98 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: So they apparently left this thing unsecured for more than 99 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,120 or all this data unsecured for more than a year 100 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:07,279 until some anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to 101 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,800 sell the data, which then brought it to wider attention 102 00:07:10,879 --> 00:07:15,959 in twenty twenty two. So yeah, I would love for 103 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,079 like American hackers to spend a lot more time on 104 00:07:20,279 --> 00:07:24,720 China and Russia too, Oh and Iran, Like you could 105 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:27,519 just that would be super helpful, you know. 106 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,199 Speaker 2: And then there's this story. 107 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: From Just the News that's John Solomon's outfit. The Director 108 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,600 of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard has learned that US intelligence 109 00:07:45,759 --> 00:07:52,120 intercepted Ukrainian government plans to route hundreds of millions of 110 00:07:52,199 --> 00:07:58,199 American tax dollars. Two, what do you think? Remember all 111 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,959 the money that got sent over to Ukraine. There's apparently 112 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,879 some communications going around the Ukrainian government about, Hey, we 113 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,680 got all these billions of dollars, what do you think 114 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,240 we should do it with it all? And apparently some 115 00:08:12,279 --> 00:08:14,680 of the ideas floated, or one of the ideas floated, 116 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,879 was to send a bunch of the money to Joe 117 00:08:19,879 --> 00:08:23,879 Biden's twenty twenty four campaign against Donald Trump, as well 118 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:31,000 as the Democrat National Committee. Isn't that ironic? Well, they 119 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:37,000 intercepted the communication, so obviously you would do a big investigation, right. Wrong. 120 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:42,240 Gabbart is now asking the US Agency for International Development, 121 00:08:42,279 --> 00:08:46,279 that is, USAID, to determine if the plot was ever 122 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,799 actually carried out. The US tax dollars were earmarked for 123 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:58,440 Ukraine to use for clean energy, so we're we're doing 124 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,440 green energy programs in Ukrain. We sent the money for 125 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:08,440 clean energy. Gabbard's team found that the communications were intercepted 126 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:15,120 under Joe Biden's administration and they were not thoroughly investigated. Well, 127 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,759 I mean, that does seem wise on the part of 128 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:22,080 Biden right like, because if you start investigating and if 129 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,279 you find out that this did occur, like that would 130 00:09:25,279 --> 00:09:29,360 be very embarrassing. Here's a great idea. How about making 131 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,480 an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in 132 00:09:32,519 --> 00:09:35,200 western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain 133 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,639 and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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All right, So, Just the News 153 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:51,679 reporting US intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot 154 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,159 to route hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars earmarked 155 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,399 for clean energy in the war torn country and then 156 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:05,440 move those dollars to the United States to enrich then 157 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:09,080 President Joe Biden's twenty twenty four re election campaign and 158 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,159 the Democratic National Committee. According to a declassified intelligence report 159 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,960 summarizing the intercepts, which was obtained by Just the News, 160 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,639 the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsea Gabbard recently learned of 161 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:29,000 the intercepts and has asked the USAID officials to go 162 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,600 through your records and tell me if the plot actually 163 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:39,519 was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be 164 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:44,399 made to the FBI. Gabbert's team has not found substantive 165 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,519 evidence the intercepted allegations were thoroughly investigated either during the 166 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:53,399 Biden administration, and the communications are not believed to be 167 00:11:53,519 --> 00:12:00,039 tied to Russian disinformation efforts. The declassified report is a 168 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,879 summary of raw intercepts from US spy agencies in late 169 00:12:04,919 --> 00:12:10,759 twenty twenty two concerning the alleged plot. Officials who have 170 00:12:10,879 --> 00:12:13,679 reviewed the files said there seem to be a lack 171 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,759 of curiosity to investigate such an explosive allegation of foreign 172 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,039 interference in a US election. Well, I mean not really 173 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,799 any other administration. Yes, like that may make you wonder 174 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,080 about a lack of curiosity, But under the Biden administration, 175 00:12:31,279 --> 00:12:33,480 if I recall correctly, it's been a long time ago. 176 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:39,200 But wasn't there something about I don't know, Joe Biden's 177 00:12:39,279 --> 00:12:47,080 kid who was doing deals and selling access and got 178 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:53,679 an appointment to an energy companies board in Ukraine? Right, 179 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,679 wasn't Wasn't that part of the storyline? I feel like 180 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,159 that was part of that storyline. The Ukrainian government and 181 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:09,960 unspecified US government personnel through USAID in Kiev, reportedly developed 182 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,960 a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US 183 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,120 taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine, and 184 00:13:16,159 --> 00:13:19,679 they would use that as cover to send about ninety 185 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,799 percent of the funds allocated to the DNC to fund 186 00:13:23,879 --> 00:13:29,919 Joe Biden's re election campaign. Not a good look, Joe. 187 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,600 The intercepts mentioned two American subcontractors as possible recipients of 188 00:13:34,639 --> 00:13:38,240 the money that would eventually be moved to the Democratic coffers. 189 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,360 The names are included in still classified raw spy data, 190 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:47,159 but they were redacted from the declassified report, so we 191 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:53,039 don't know who the subcontractors named in this plot are. 192 00:13:53,919 --> 00:13:58,080 The plan includes details of how subcontractors would be funded 193 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:03,120 through US companies, so that how the funds were spent 194 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:09,279 and allocated would be difficult to track. Oh, I say, 195 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,320 so when you take a bunch of money and you 196 00:14:11,399 --> 00:14:14,919 run it through a bunch of different organizations, it makes 197 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:16,480 it more difficult to track. 198 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 2: I seem to recall. 199 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:22,519 Speaker 1: This being wasn't this also part of that whole laptop 200 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,600 thing too, right? Weren't there a bunch of banks and 201 00:14:26,679 --> 00:14:31,039 accounts and LLCs and money that was just constantly moving 202 00:14:31,039 --> 00:14:36,080 between all the accounts and like had all the hallmarks 203 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,600 of a money laundering operation. I feel like that was 204 00:14:40,639 --> 00:14:44,960 part of the story too, right. Additionally, contracts would be 205 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,600 executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, 206 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,240 most of the US funding would be diverted to Joe 207 00:14:51,279 --> 00:14:55,240 Biden's election campaign without the ability to track where exactly 208 00:14:55,519 --> 00:15:03,159 the funds came from. So David Strom at hotair dot 209 00:15:03,159 --> 00:15:07,120 com he writes about this, He says, I actually recall 210 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,600 the controversy over the aid to Ukraine for green energy. 211 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,919 The idea was transparently insane, but I stupidly assumed that 212 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,559 it was just more Biden green insanity, and the Ukrainians 213 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:21,519 just wanted to skim their cut off the project, And 214 00:15:21,639 --> 00:15:25,240 in a way, that was part of the plan, right, 215 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,080 with ten percent going to Ukraine's corrupt officials. Except this 216 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:35,320 time the ninety percent went to the big guy. Right, 217 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,679 the ten percent for the big guy. That was the 218 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,960 normal terms. But I guess once you are a president 219 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 you get to invert that. 220 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:43,919 Speaker 2: Ratio. 221 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: Speaking of craziness, a new study at Pediatrics Journal by 222 00:15:53,600 --> 00:16:00,559 Semi Meti Ruska. The aim of the study quote to 223 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:06,399 examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender referred 224 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:12,120 adolescents focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical 225 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,799 gender reassignment. Right, So what are they talking about here? 226 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:29,600 Mental health among u transgender adolescence that undergo some form 227 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:35,519 of gender reassignment surgery. Because what have we been told 228 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,919 for all the you know, the years of this, you know, 229 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,120 you of the transgender issue is that you know, do 230 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,360 you want a live daughter or a dead son? 231 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:46,759 Speaker 2: Right? 232 00:16:46,799 --> 00:16:49,639 Speaker 1: That was how this was framed to parents to get 233 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:54,519 them to go along with this transgender insanity that you 234 00:16:54,759 --> 00:16:58,759 have to affirm otherwise, you know, your child's mental health 235 00:16:58,799 --> 00:17:02,759 will never recover and they'll be depressed and anxious for 236 00:17:02,799 --> 00:17:05,200 the rest of their lives and they'll probably you know, 237 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,279 take their own life at some point because of all 238 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:09,799 of this. So you have to do it, and when 239 00:17:09,799 --> 00:17:16,759 presented with that choice, parents agree. So what this study 240 00:17:16,799 --> 00:17:20,720 did was it was out of Finland and apparently they 241 00:17:20,759 --> 00:17:23,079 have a thing there called the Register which has like 242 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:28,839 everybody in it, and so they took a cohort nationwide 243 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:34,359 of people under the age of twenty three who were 244 00:17:34,559 --> 00:17:41,400 gender referred. In other words, they were referred to psychiatric evaluation. 245 00:17:41,519 --> 00:17:45,640 They were referred to therapists, right or doctors. So they're 246 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,160 taking everybody under the age of twenty three that was 247 00:17:48,319 --> 00:17:53,440 gender referred, and they looked at a span of from 248 00:17:53,559 --> 00:17:58,799 nineteen ninety six through twenty nineteen, and that gave them 249 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:03,519 the data set of two thousand and eighty three gender 250 00:18:03,599 --> 00:18:08,680 referred individuals. Two thousand eighty three. Okay, and you'll never 251 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,319 guess what they found. Now, you probably can guess, but 252 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,680 I'll tell you anyway in a minute. You know, stories 253 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,880 are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to 254 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,440 understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our 255 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,960 past while transcending generations. 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I have a bit of a breaking news. 272 00:19:20,279 --> 00:19:24,880 We have now our first report out of Iran of 273 00:19:26,799 --> 00:19:33,240 resistance fighters, the armed resistance group that gunned down two 274 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:39,119 IRGC forces released a video message and it's a person 275 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,039 with you know, all covered up so like a ball 276 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:44,160 cap and face covering. I'm sure Democrats will protest that 277 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:49,079 in a moment. They've got a symbol behind them. It's 278 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:53,559 like a looks like an eagle with its wings, you know, 279 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:59,079 spread out to either side. They call themselves the Homeland 280 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:04,759 Defenders Organization. They shot and killed two regime officers at 281 00:20:04,759 --> 00:20:08,039 a checkpoint near Kom which is a that's one of 282 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:12,359 the areas beside Tehran that's got like the highest concentration 283 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:15,880 of IRGC and regime support. 284 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 2: So they had a checkpoint set up. 285 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: The Homeland Defenders Organization hit it killed two of the 286 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:28,599 checkpoint troops that were there and in their message. They 287 00:20:28,599 --> 00:20:32,160 dedicated the operation to two young protesters who were murdered 288 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:40,440 by the regime, Nika Shakarami and Pjman Gollipur. They claimed 289 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,839 to be a pro Iran anti regime outfit. They did 290 00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:48,839 not indicate whether more operations will be coming, but reports 291 00:20:48,839 --> 00:20:55,559 are that they appear organized. That is good to hear, 292 00:20:55,799 --> 00:20:59,480 and hopefully there will be more of this kind of thing. So, 293 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,799 but I laid out the other day about the ceasefire 294 00:21:01,839 --> 00:21:05,240 with all of the conflicting information going around, and why 295 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,440 are we doing this? They said, we have to open 296 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,839 the straight of horror moves and or they have to 297 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,960 open it and it's not open, So why are we 298 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:12,640 even talking? 299 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 2: Why do we cease fire? Right? All of that? 300 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: And I said, well, is it possible that they've achieved, 301 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:26,119 you know, virtually everything on their objective list militarily tactic wise, 302 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,599 and they've always said the boots on the ground are 303 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:29,839 going to have to be the Iranians. 304 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 2: And then you had the message from the. 305 00:21:35,839 --> 00:21:41,599 Speaker 1: The Prince the form or the late Shaw's sun res 306 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,119 a pa la vi pavla vi whatever, and he put 307 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,240 out several statements calling for the National Army to rise 308 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:54,279 up and defend the Iranians against the IRGC. So after 309 00:21:54,319 --> 00:21:56,440 that message and then you have the suspension of the 310 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,599 air campaign, so the skies are clear, we're not doing 311 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,000 bombs runs. 312 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,799 Speaker 2: That gives the Iranian. 313 00:22:04,279 --> 00:22:07,759 Speaker 1: People who wished to rise up, that would give them 314 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:10,960 a safe or safer place to maneuver because you're not 315 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,279 getting bombed, all right. 316 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: So I thought I would bring that to you. Positive 317 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,559 development there, all right. 318 00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: So back to this study Pediatrics Journal, Yeah, Pediatrics Journal 319 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:32,960 by Sammy matty Ruska. Gender referred adolescents showed significantly higher 320 00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:42,000 higher psychiatric morbidity than the control groups, both before referral 321 00:22:43,559 --> 00:22:48,119 for psychiatric care and referral for gender dysphoria. Right, so 322 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:54,079 they had higher psychiatric morbidity than non gender dysphoric people 323 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,599 of the same age group during the same time the 324 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,720 control group was like sixteen thousand people, so they had 325 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:05,200 a higher psychiatric morbidity before referral as well as after. 326 00:23:06,279 --> 00:23:13,400 And in fact, those referred had greater psychiatric needs than 327 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,440 the earlier cohorts prior to twenty ten, basically because the 328 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,759 study went back to nineteen ninety six. A new Finnish 329 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:26,119 study reports that youth gender transitions under the age of 330 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:31,240 twenty three did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, 331 00:23:31,319 --> 00:23:34,680 medical gender reassignment may have actually had a negative impact. 332 00:23:35,519 --> 00:23:39,720 Finland's data, according to the Society for Evidence Based Gender 333 00:23:39,799 --> 00:23:44,039 Medicine says, Finland's data are critical in the current debates 334 00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:47,680 on pediatric gender medicine. To our knowledge, Finland is the 335 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:53,160 only country reporting full registry data, which means outcomes are 336 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:58,079 captured for all patients. By contrast, you hear a lot 337 00:23:58,079 --> 00:24:04,119 about the Dutch model. Their follow up studies rely on volunteers, 338 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,119 and they have a dropout rate in their studies and 339 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,160 their research of about half, and that creates a large 340 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:19,480 risk of bias. But Finland doesn't have the dropout rates 341 00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:24,359 because it's everybody. A key question is when does the 342 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,000 absence of evidence of benefit translate into the evidence of 343 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:37,160 absence of benefit. Back to the study here. Among adolescents 344 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:42,759 who underwent medical gender reassignment, so the surgeries, psychiatric morbidity 345 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,559 increased markedly during follow up, rising from nine point eight 346 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:55,599 percent to sixty point seven percent after the surgeries. After 347 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:04,640 that's among boys becoming girls, it goes from twenty one 348 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,119 or i'll just round up twenty two percent to fifty 349 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:16,640 five percent psychiatric morbidity in the female to male transitioners. 350 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,880 So again the whole narrative that we have to agree 351 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,279 to do this, this is the way that you protect 352 00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:27,240 the mental health of the transgender individuals. That does not 353 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,599 seem to be the case at all. In fact, it's 354 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:37,079 the opposite. In their summary, they say gender referred adolescents 355 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,759 show high psychiatric morbidity, yet gender differences and mental health 356 00:25:41,799 --> 00:25:47,440 trajectories after medical gender reassignment remained poorly understood. These adolescents 357 00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:53,079 had markedly higher psychiatric morbidity than the control group before 358 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:58,400 and after referral, with treatment needs often persisting and even 359 00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:04,119 intensifying medical interventions, and on some they might even have 360 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:10,000 had a negative impact. Findings emphasize the need for thoroughpsychiatric 361 00:26:10,039 --> 00:26:17,839 assessment and ongoing treatment throughout medical gender reassignment. Gender referred adolescents. 362 00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:23,839 They say in their rite of that these kids exhibit 363 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:30,240 elevated levels of psychopathology, particularly depression and anxiety. A systematic 364 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:33,559 review of papers published by the end of twenty twenty 365 00:26:33,599 --> 00:26:38,519 concluded that among gender referred adolescents, the prevalence of mental 366 00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:42,559 health problems, most commonly depression and anxiety, ranged from twenty 367 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:46,000 two percent all the way to seventy eight percent. Subsequent 368 00:26:46,079 --> 00:26:49,880 studies confirm similar prevalences, Which is what I have been 369 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,799 saying for years, is that this cohort of people, they 370 00:26:53,799 --> 00:26:58,519 are already dealing with mental health issues, and they have 371 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,960 been sold this lie that oh, it's it's your body, 372 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,880 and so change your body and that will fix what's 373 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,119 going on in your head. I mean, you're talking almost 374 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:16,160 eight out of ten gender referred adolescents already have depression 375 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,200 and anxiety. Well, that's because they're gender confused and whatnot, 376 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,680 because they're in the wrong body and all that. 377 00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, but what if it's not that. 378 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,319 Speaker 1: What if that's just the manifestation of a social contagion 379 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,440 kind of effect. All right, if you're listening to this show, 380 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,000 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 381 00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:35,079 of current events, and I know you do too, And 382 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,960 you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why. 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If so, you might want to have a 403 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,000 backup plan for COMI Day otherwise known as May first 404 00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:54,200 May Day. This is the big communist holiday. Well, I mean, honestly, 405 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,440 I mean, if you think about it as an everyday, 406 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,079 a holiday for a commie, they don't do any work. 407 00:28:59,119 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 2: I mean, as anyway. 408 00:29:02,319 --> 00:29:07,319 Speaker 1: The North Carolina Association of Educators totally not a union, 409 00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:11,039 but it's a union, is encouraging teachers to call out 410 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:15,039 of work on May first for a mass march in 411 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:23,559 Raleigh to protest for more funding for public schools. Funny 412 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,880 side note here, strikes are illegal here in North Carolina. 413 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,000 You cannot go on strike as a teachers' union. No, no, 414 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:34,039 it's not not a strike. 415 00:29:34,079 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 2: They say. This is totally not a strike. Not a strike. 416 00:29:38,279 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: It is simply a national union organized collective walkout of 417 00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:48,680 workers in order to extract concessions from the employer. 418 00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 2: See it's completely different. 419 00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: NCAE is telling teachers that they need to come to 420 00:29:55,799 --> 00:29:58,759 Raleigh during school hours on May first to quote, take 421 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:03,359 back control of public dollars, hold politicians accountable to families 422 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,720 instead of donors, and finally put our kids first. So 423 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:10,799 you're so you're gonna march to Raleigh and take back control? 424 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,359 Is that sounds kind of insurrectiony? Like what are you 425 00:30:13,359 --> 00:30:15,319 planning on doing? A're you gonna do another one of 426 00:30:15,359 --> 00:30:18,599 your your mass arrests stunt? 427 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 2: You're gonna do that? 428 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,799 Speaker 1: You're going to like storm the legislative chambers and and 429 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,920 like beat up or drag out the lawmakers and install 430 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,960 yourselves into power and then pass big budgets for yourselves. 431 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,440 Is that the idea, which is very on brand for comedies. 432 00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:37,039 Don't get me wrong, but is that the plan? How 433 00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:41,480 are you going to be taking back control by playing hooky? 434 00:30:42,119 --> 00:30:46,720 By going on strike, sorry, by doing a national unionized 435 00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:52,200 union organized collective walkout to extract concessions from the boss. 436 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,559 This would be the first mass mobilization organized by NCAE 437 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,759 since the he May sixteenth, twenty eighteen and May first, 438 00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:05,799 twenty nineteen marches in Raleigh that caused many school districts 439 00:31:05,839 --> 00:31:08,960 to close due to not having enough staff to supervise students. 440 00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 2: Yes. 441 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,079 Speaker 1: See, when you allow this stuff to occur, you get 442 00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:17,160 more of it. NCAE says. The May first march in 443 00:31:17,279 --> 00:31:21,480 Raleigh is part of a nationally coordinated effort of no school, 444 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:27,759 no work, and no shopping to coincide with International Workers Day, 445 00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:32,400 or as I call it, COMMI Day, first reported by 446 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,880 The Carolina Journal. Terry Stoops said, ordinary North Carolinians are 447 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,480 going to be the ones that bear the burden if 448 00:31:38,519 --> 00:31:41,920 the schools have to close again. He said, quote When 449 00:31:42,039 --> 00:31:47,440 unanticipated cancelations occur, working parents must scramble to make arrangements 450 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,440 for childcare, students are deprived of a day of learning, 451 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,480 and districts hourly workers are robbed of a day's wages. 452 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:00,240 But the president of the NCAAE, Tamika Walker Kelly, said 453 00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:04,240 North Carolina parents are already burdened by problems such as 454 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:09,720 having substitute teachers cover their children's classes. But you think 455 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,880 that's a burden for the parent. Why would that be 456 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,799 a burden for the parent. It's just a sub Like 457 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:20,680 when I would get a sub in school and I 458 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,680 would go home and mom would ask, you know, oh 459 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,240 I was school today, and I'd say, oh, we had 460 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,680 a substitute today, and oh, okay, there was a burden there. 461 00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:33,160 My parents were not burdened anytime any of us kids 462 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:38,920 had a substitute teacher. May first is a teacher work 463 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,240 day for traditional calendar schools in Wake County, so they 464 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,799 already know what's happening, so they're already giving them a 465 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:51,599 teacher work day. So this way parents won't be livid 466 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:55,240 when you know the school has to close. So this way, 467 00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:58,839 you got plenty of advance notice that May first, on 468 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,759 Comedy Day, your teachers are going to be marching in Raleigh. 469 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,799 The NCAAE memo includes a section answering the question won't 470 00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:08,559 we be hurting our students by not being in the classroom, 471 00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:12,119 and the NCAAE response is the way we hurt our 472 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,160 kids the most is by doing nothing and failing to 473 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,680 stand up for what is right. 474 00:33:18,599 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. 475 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,279 Speaker 1: Not teaching the kid how to read seems pretty bad too, right, 476 00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:30,319 like losing instructional time for at risk kids. The rally 477 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,240 is part of NCAA's Kids Over Corporations campaign. That's what 478 00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:39,599 they are calling it the KOC or the I'm just 479 00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:42,839 going to call it the KOC. Under state law, public 480 00:33:42,839 --> 00:33:45,759 employees are not allowed to go on strike. And they say, no, 481 00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:49,279 we're not going on strike. It's just a mass mobilization 482 00:33:49,839 --> 00:33:53,359 and we're not refusing to work until all our demands 483 00:33:53,359 --> 00:34:00,759 are met. We're just refusing to work on this one day, Okay. 484 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 2: They say the May. 485 00:34:02,319 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: One march is one way to build their skill and 486 00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:08,840 readiness for a more potentially powerful action in the future. 487 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,280 So it's a training for them. It's like a teacher 488 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,920 training day for them on how to be a commy activist. 489 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,199 Speaker 2: I guess. 490 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 491 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,239 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. 492 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: I could not do the show without your support and 493 00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:26,239 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. 494 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:28,679 So if you'd like, please support them too and tell 495 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,440 them you heard it here. You can also become a 496 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,159 patron at my patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, 497 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,920 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 498 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,480 while I'm gone.