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nationwide hack of a supercomputer with all sorts of sensitive
information in it? Then that data is now being offered
up on the dark web. Probably not because it happened
in China. Yes, finally some hackers targeted the commies. Man,
I didn't think I would ever live to see this day.
So a hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of
sensitive data, including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics,
from a state run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially
constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The
data set allegedly contains more than ten pedabytes. No relation,
is it pedabyte or petabyte?
Speaker 2: Do we know?
Speaker 1: Maybe a petabyte. Petabytes sounds something like illegal. You know,
one petabyte equals one thousand terabytes, so it's a lot
like if you have one of those external storage bricks,
you know, like usually those things are a terabyte or
three terabytes something like that. I mean, you can go higher, obviously,
you can get a lot more, but that's kind of
the standard.
Speaker 2: One to three terabytes, I think.
Speaker 1: So think of a thousand of those things, of those
terabyte storages, one thousand of them, that's one petabyte, and
this is ten petabytes. It is believed by experts to
have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center in chan Jin.
That is a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for
more than six thousand clients across China, including advanced science
and defense agencies.
Speaker 2: Oh By Goods.
Speaker 1: Cyber experts who have spoken to the alleged hacker and
reviewed samples of the stolen data that they posted online
say they appeared to gain entry to the massive computer
with relative ease and were able to siphon out huge
amounts of data over the course of months they were
in there without being detected. Months, according to CNN's Isaac Yee,
an account calling itself. Flaming China posted a sample of
the alleged data set on an anonymous telegram channel on
February sixth, claiming that it contained research across various fields
including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformation or informatics, fusion simulation,
and more. The group alleges the information is linked to
top organizations top organizations. Cybersecurity experts who have reviewed the
data say the group is offering a limited preview of
the alleged data set, So if you want to check
it out, you're going to have to pay thousands of
dollars just to get a limited preview of the data set.
And if you want full access, that's going to run
you into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and payment
is requested in cryptocurrency. According to Mark Hofer, a cybersecurity
researcher and author of the blog net Ascari never heard
of it, the size of the data set would make
it attractive to adversarial state intelligence services. You don't say,
if we haven't already purchased all of this stuff, like
what are we even doing?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Because Mark Hoefer, cybersecurity researcher, says only state intelligence services
probably have the capacity to work through all of that
data and come back with something useful. Yeah, it's a
lot of stuff. See, this is part of the problem.
When you centralize all control into the communist model, it
opens up vulnerabilities. You know, it's a shame China, M
And I mean, usually you guys are the ones doing
all the hacking of our stuff. But the alleged breach,
if genuine, points to a potentially deeper vulnerability in China's
technology infrastructure as it vies with the United States to
be a world class technology innovator and AI leader cybersecurity.
Speaker 2: Hang on a second, do we.
Speaker 1: Really want the chy comms to be a leader in AI?
Like I already have a lot of concerns about AI
breaking containment and becoming you know, self aware and realizing
it doesn't need us anymore except maybe as some slaves
to it, and that kind of that way of thinking
I feel like would probably be more in line with
the communist way of thinking.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: And you know AI, I think if you have biases
as programmers, like if you feed in all of this
stuff and you have a certain bias like in America
and our AI platforms we're seeing like chat GPT and
such where it has a left wing progressive bias. What's
the bias over in China? Probably not great. Cybersecurity has
long been known to be a weakness across both the
government and private sector. In twenty twenty one, a massive
online database apparently containing the personal information up to one
billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible.
Speaker 2: For more than a year.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm old enough to remember when you can just
like not even lock up your data in China.
Speaker 2: I mean, those were the good old days. It was
just so safe, you know.
Speaker 1: So they apparently left this thing unsecured for more than
or all this data unsecured for more than a year
until some anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to
sell the data, which then brought it to wider attention
in twenty twenty two. So yeah, I would love for
like American hackers to spend a lot more time on
China and Russia too, Oh and Iran, Like you could
just that would be super helpful, you know.
Speaker 2: And then there's this story.
Speaker 1: From Just the News that's John Solomon's outfit. The Director
of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard has learned that US intelligence
intercepted Ukrainian government plans to route hundreds of millions of
American tax dollars. Two, what do you think? Remember all
the money that got sent over to Ukraine. There's apparently
some communications going around the Ukrainian government about, Hey, we
got all these billions of dollars, what do you think
we should do it with it all? And apparently some
of the ideas floated, or one of the ideas floated,
was to send a bunch of the money to Joe
Biden's twenty twenty four campaign against Donald Trump, as well
as the Democrat National Committee. Isn't that ironic? Well, they
intercepted the communication, so obviously you would do a big investigation, right. Wrong.
Gabbart is now asking the US Agency for International Development,
that is, USAID, to determine if the plot was ever
actually carried out. The US tax dollars were earmarked for
Ukraine to use for clean energy, so we're we're doing
green energy programs in Ukrain. We sent the money for
clean energy. Gabbard's team found that the communications were intercepted
under Joe Biden's administration and they were not thoroughly investigated. Well,
I mean, that does seem wise on the part of
Biden right like, because if you start investigating and if
you find out that this did occur, like that would
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reporting US intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot
to route hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars earmarked
for clean energy in the war torn country and then
move those dollars to the United States to enrich then
President Joe Biden's twenty twenty four re election campaign and
the Democratic National Committee. According to a declassified intelligence report
summarizing the intercepts, which was obtained by Just the News,
the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsea Gabbard recently learned of
the intercepts and has asked the USAID officials to go
through your records and tell me if the plot actually
was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be
made to the FBI. Gabbert's team has not found substantive
evidence the intercepted allegations were thoroughly investigated either during the
Biden administration, and the communications are not believed to be
tied to Russian disinformation efforts. The declassified report is a
summary of raw intercepts from US spy agencies in late
twenty twenty two concerning the alleged plot. Officials who have
reviewed the files said there seem to be a lack
of curiosity to investigate such an explosive allegation of foreign
interference in a US election. Well, I mean not really
any other administration. Yes, like that may make you wonder
about a lack of curiosity, But under the Biden administration,
if I recall correctly, it's been a long time ago.
But wasn't there something about I don't know, Joe Biden's
kid who was doing deals and selling access and got
an appointment to an energy companies board in Ukraine? Right,
wasn't Wasn't that part of the storyline? I feel like
that was part of that storyline. The Ukrainian government and
unspecified US government personnel through USAID in Kiev, reportedly developed
a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US
taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine, and
they would use that as cover to send about ninety
percent of the funds allocated to the DNC to fund
Joe Biden's re election campaign. Not a good look, Joe.
The intercepts mentioned two American subcontractors as possible recipients of
the money that would eventually be moved to the Democratic coffers.
The names are included in still classified raw spy data,
but they were redacted from the declassified report, so we
don't know who the subcontractors named in this plot are.
The plan includes details of how subcontractors would be funded
through US companies, so that how the funds were spent
and allocated would be difficult to track. Oh, I say,
so when you take a bunch of money and you
run it through a bunch of different organizations, it makes
it more difficult to track.
Speaker 2: I seem to recall.
Speaker 1: This being wasn't this also part of that whole laptop
thing too, right? Weren't there a bunch of banks and
accounts and LLCs and money that was just constantly moving
between all the accounts and like had all the hallmarks
of a money laundering operation. I feel like that was
part of the story too, right. Additionally, contracts would be
executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner,
most of the US funding would be diverted to Joe
Biden's election campaign without the ability to track where exactly
the funds came from. So David Strom at hotair dot
com he writes about this, He says, I actually recall
the controversy over the aid to Ukraine for green energy.
The idea was transparently insane, but I stupidly assumed that
it was just more Biden green insanity, and the Ukrainians
just wanted to skim their cut off the project, And
in a way, that was part of the plan, right,
with ten percent going to Ukraine's corrupt officials. Except this
time the ninety percent went to the big guy. Right,
the ten percent for the big guy. That was the
normal terms. But I guess once you are a president
you get to invert that.
Speaker 2: Ratio.
Speaker 1: Speaking of craziness, a new study at Pediatrics Journal by
Semi Meti Ruska. The aim of the study quote to
examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender referred
adolescents focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical
gender reassignment. Right, So what are they talking about here?
Mental health among u transgender adolescence that undergo some form
of gender reassignment surgery. Because what have we been told
for all the you know, the years of this, you know,
you of the transgender issue is that you know, do
you want a live daughter or a dead son?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: That was how this was framed to parents to get
them to go along with this transgender insanity that you
have to affirm otherwise, you know, your child's mental health
will never recover and they'll be depressed and anxious for
the rest of their lives and they'll probably you know,
take their own life at some point because of all
of this. So you have to do it, and when
presented with that choice, parents agree. So what this study
did was it was out of Finland and apparently they
have a thing there called the Register which has like
everybody in it, and so they took a cohort nationwide
of people under the age of twenty three who were
gender referred. In other words, they were referred to psychiatric evaluation.
They were referred to therapists, right or doctors. So they're
taking everybody under the age of twenty three that was
gender referred, and they looked at a span of from
nineteen ninety six through twenty nineteen, and that gave them
the data set of two thousand and eighty three gender
referred individuals. Two thousand eighty three. Okay, and you'll never
guess what they found. Now, you probably can guess, but
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We have now our first report out of Iran of
resistance fighters, the armed resistance group that gunned down two
IRGC forces released a video message and it's a person
with you know, all covered up so like a ball
cap and face covering. I'm sure Democrats will protest that
in a moment. They've got a symbol behind them. It's
like a looks like an eagle with its wings, you know,
spread out to either side. They call themselves the Homeland
Defenders Organization. They shot and killed two regime officers at
a checkpoint near Kom which is a that's one of
the areas beside Tehran that's got like the highest concentration
of IRGC and regime support.
Speaker 2: So they had a checkpoint set up.
Speaker 1: The Homeland Defenders Organization hit it killed two of the
checkpoint troops that were there and in their message. They
dedicated the operation to two young protesters who were murdered
by the regime, Nika Shakarami and Pjman Gollipur. They claimed
to be a pro Iran anti regime outfit. They did
not indicate whether more operations will be coming, but reports
are that they appear organized. That is good to hear,
and hopefully there will be more of this kind of thing. So,
but I laid out the other day about the ceasefire
with all of the conflicting information going around, and why
are we doing this? They said, we have to open
the straight of horror moves and or they have to
open it and it's not open, So why are we
even talking?
Speaker 2: Why do we cease fire? Right? All of that?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, is it possible that they've achieved,
you know, virtually everything on their objective list militarily tactic wise,
and they've always said the boots on the ground are
going to have to be the Iranians.
Speaker 2: And then you had the message from the.
Speaker 1: The Prince the form or the late Shaw's sun res
a pa la vi pavla vi whatever, and he put
out several statements calling for the National Army to rise
up and defend the Iranians against the IRGC. So after
that message and then you have the suspension of the
air campaign, so the skies are clear, we're not doing
bombs runs.
Speaker 2: That gives the Iranian.
Speaker 1: People who wished to rise up, that would give them
a safe or safer place to maneuver because you're not
getting bombed, all right.
Speaker 2: So I thought I would bring that to you. Positive
development there, all right.
Speaker 1: So back to this study Pediatrics Journal, Yeah, Pediatrics Journal
by Sammy matty Ruska. Gender referred adolescents showed significantly higher
higher psychiatric morbidity than the control groups, both before referral
for psychiatric care and referral for gender dysphoria. Right, so
they had higher psychiatric morbidity than non gender dysphoric people
of the same age group during the same time the
control group was like sixteen thousand people, so they had
a higher psychiatric morbidity before referral as well as after.
And in fact, those referred had greater psychiatric needs than
the earlier cohorts prior to twenty ten, basically because the
study went back to nineteen ninety six. A new Finnish
study reports that youth gender transitions under the age of
twenty three did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth,
medical gender reassignment may have actually had a negative impact.
Finland's data, according to the Society for Evidence Based Gender
Medicine says, Finland's data are critical in the current debates
on pediatric gender medicine. To our knowledge, Finland is the
only country reporting full registry data, which means outcomes are
captured for all patients. By contrast, you hear a lot
about the Dutch model. Their follow up studies rely on volunteers,
and they have a dropout rate in their studies and
their research of about half, and that creates a large
risk of bias. But Finland doesn't have the dropout rates
because it's everybody. A key question is when does the
absence of evidence of benefit translate into the evidence of
absence of benefit. Back to the study here. Among adolescents
who underwent medical gender reassignment, so the surgeries, psychiatric morbidity
increased markedly during follow up, rising from nine point eight
percent to sixty point seven percent after the surgeries. After
that's among boys becoming girls, it goes from twenty one
or i'll just round up twenty two percent to fifty
five percent psychiatric morbidity in the female to male transitioners.
So again the whole narrative that we have to agree
to do this, this is the way that you protect
the mental health of the transgender individuals. That does not
seem to be the case at all. In fact, it's
the opposite. In their summary, they say gender referred adolescents
show high psychiatric morbidity, yet gender differences and mental health
trajectories after medical gender reassignment remained poorly understood. These adolescents
had markedly higher psychiatric morbidity than the control group before
and after referral, with treatment needs often persisting and even
intensifying medical interventions, and on some they might even have
had a negative impact. Findings emphasize the need for thoroughpsychiatric
assessment and ongoing treatment throughout medical gender reassignment. Gender referred adolescents.
They say in their rite of that these kids exhibit
elevated levels of psychopathology, particularly depression and anxiety. A systematic
review of papers published by the end of twenty twenty
concluded that among gender referred adolescents, the prevalence of mental
health problems, most commonly depression and anxiety, ranged from twenty
two percent all the way to seventy eight percent. Subsequent
studies confirm similar prevalences, Which is what I have been
saying for years, is that this cohort of people, they
are already dealing with mental health issues, and they have
been sold this lie that oh, it's it's your body,
and so change your body and that will fix what's
going on in your head. I mean, you're talking almost
eight out of ten gender referred adolescents already have depression
and anxiety. Well, that's because they're gender confused and whatnot,
because they're in the wrong body and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what if it's not that.
Speaker 1: What if that's just the manifestation of a social contagion
kind of effect. All right, if you're listening to this show,
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more transparent. So do you send your kids to government
schools still? If so, you might want to have a
backup plan for COMI Day otherwise known as May first
May Day. This is the big communist holiday. Well, I mean, honestly,
I mean, if you think about it as an everyday,
a holiday for a commie, they don't do any work.
Speaker 2: I mean, as anyway.
Speaker 1: The North Carolina Association of Educators totally not a union,
but it's a union, is encouraging teachers to call out
of work on May first for a mass march in
Raleigh to protest for more funding for public schools. Funny
side note here, strikes are illegal here in North Carolina.
You cannot go on strike as a teachers' union. No, no,
it's not not a strike.
Speaker 2: They say. This is totally not a strike. Not a strike.
Speaker 1: It is simply a national union organized collective walkout of
workers in order to extract concessions from the employer.
Speaker 2: See it's completely different.
Speaker 1: NCAE is telling teachers that they need to come to
Raleigh during school hours on May first to quote, take
back control of public dollars, hold politicians accountable to families
instead of donors, and finally put our kids first. So
you're so you're gonna march to Raleigh and take back control?
Is that sounds kind of insurrectiony? Like what are you
planning on doing? A're you gonna do another one of
your your mass arrests stunt?
Speaker 2: You're gonna do that?
Speaker 1: You're going to like storm the legislative chambers and and
like beat up or drag out the lawmakers and install
yourselves into power and then pass big budgets for yourselves.
Is that the idea, which is very on brand for comedies.
Don't get me wrong, but is that the plan? How
are you going to be taking back control by playing hooky?
By going on strike, sorry, by doing a national unionized
union organized collective walkout to extract concessions from the boss.
This would be the first mass mobilization organized by NCAE
since the he May sixteenth, twenty eighteen and May first,
twenty nineteen marches in Raleigh that caused many school districts
to close due to not having enough staff to supervise students.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: See, when you allow this stuff to occur, you get
more of it. NCAE says. The May first march in
Raleigh is part of a nationally coordinated effort of no school,
no work, and no shopping to coincide with International Workers Day,
or as I call it, COMMI Day, first reported by
The Carolina Journal. Terry Stoops said, ordinary North Carolinians are
going to be the ones that bear the burden if
the schools have to close again. He said, quote When
unanticipated cancelations occur, working parents must scramble to make arrangements
for childcare, students are deprived of a day of learning,
and districts hourly workers are robbed of a day's wages.
But the president of the NCAAE, Tamika Walker Kelly, said
North Carolina parents are already burdened by problems such as
having substitute teachers cover their children's classes. But you think
that's a burden for the parent. Why would that be
a burden for the parent. It's just a sub Like
when I would get a sub in school and I
would go home and mom would ask, you know, oh
I was school today, and I'd say, oh, we had
a substitute today, and oh, okay, there was a burden there.
My parents were not burdened anytime any of us kids
had a substitute teacher. May first is a teacher work
day for traditional calendar schools in Wake County, so they
already know what's happening, so they're already giving them a
teacher work day. So this way parents won't be livid
when you know the school has to close. So this way,
you got plenty of advance notice that May first, on
Comedy Day, your teachers are going to be marching in Raleigh.
The NCAAE memo includes a section answering the question won't
we be hurting our students by not being in the classroom,
and the NCAAE response is the way we hurt our
kids the most is by doing nothing and failing to
stand up for what is right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Not teaching the kid how to read seems pretty bad too, right,
like losing instructional time for at risk kids. The rally
is part of NCAA's Kids Over Corporations campaign. That's what
they are calling it the KOC or the I'm just
going to call it the KOC. Under state law, public
employees are not allowed to go on strike. And they say, no,
we're not going on strike. It's just a mass mobilization
and we're not refusing to work until all our demands
are met. We're just refusing to work on this one day, Okay.
Speaker 2: They say the May.
Speaker 1: One march is one way to build their skill and
readiness for a more potentially powerful action in the future.
So it's a training for them. It's like a teacher
training day for them on how to be a commy activist.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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