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AI Bias & Borders: Canada-China Visa Shift, X Censorship Claims, Europe Dumps Zoom, Satellites Race · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is Dam Radio. You are
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  listening to International Flavor coming
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  to you live from the Lake Ozark Real
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  Estate of the Art Studio. How does that
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  make you feel? I hope it makes you feel
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  good this morning.
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  You know, when you're sitting around in
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  a world of uh nothing but bad news, I
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  mean, when do we get good news? You
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  know, you always and I suppose it's the
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  shock content. Ever since I was a kid,
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  you got um everybody fighting for a
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  headline. Now everybody's fighting for
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  clicks.
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  I believe I'm guilty of this. You go in
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  and you look for the for the click. What
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  news you're interested in?
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  What does that mean? Does it mean that
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  we are creating our own news in part?
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  Hm. It's a curious thought because I
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  believe that your requests certainly in
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  AI there's here's there's a danger in
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  AI. Okay. Everybody, I don't know if
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  everybody knows this, but uh
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  [clears throat] but I've been doing
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  quite a bit of research on AI over the
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  last uh year and getting some things
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  together for me. And I use it I I use it
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  pretty frequently and it is getting much
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  much better extremely quickly
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  and that in itself is scary. Uh I've
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  given I've sent to you a couple of
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  stories about AI
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  um and how AI
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  what now they're talking about bias you
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  know in AI bias and in think well but
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  the AI bias is something like
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  the and and I and I'm not how do I want
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  to put this I don't want to be negative
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  about AI because I'm not I'm extremely
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  positive but like any platform like any
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  technology it's going take a little bit
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  of uh
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  development. It's going to take a bit of
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  getting used to. And what what I have
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  discovered using it every day for at
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  least the last year, you know, I've been
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  using it for some some uh fantastic
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  things to get things done. And
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  you f I I had a I did some research on
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  my research. Okay. and and and and I
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  actually,
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  how do you want to put it? Natively came
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  up with this. It wasn't something I I I
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  read online, but everybody else has come
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  to the same conclusion. So when when
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  well not not the same, but very similar.
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  So, so I've I've shared with you stories
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  before like in England that case where a
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  Qatari uh a Qatari
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  attorney unlicensed in in Britain hired
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  a British attorney and he gave the
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  British attorney some case law that he
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  had developed on AI. At least he's the
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  one who took the fall for it because
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  they went all the way up to the high
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  court and the and in the high court they
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  were smacked down because they had a
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  whole bunch of law that was not law. It
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  was uh law that didn't exist in the and
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  the guy who was a lawyer in another
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  country
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  uh he's the one who took the blame
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  anyway. Uh, no. The the guy took the
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  punishment anyway because he should have
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  checked, but he um the the the other guy
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  tried to make it easy on him. And that's
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  happened a few times, a few different
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  states here in in America. I follow it
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  sometimes. And uh the danger is of
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  submitting uh incorrect cases and there
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  it it will research and find for you uh
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  potentially [snorts]
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  incorrect case law. So you use it on
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  Lexus. Nexus or you use it on West Law
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  or any of the big ones. There's quite a
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  few big platforms out there that uh
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  advertise that they have the AI u uh
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  links and the only way to do it is to
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  build your own. And so you you've got to
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  build your own and you have to have your
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  own system and your own mechanism for
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  verification even if you're using any of
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  the big ones. And and that's that's just
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  how it works. And it's like that with
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  everything. But the the discussions on a
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  whole lot of these places are the bias
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  that just your questions have. And I
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  don't know if you've looked at this or
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  not, but if you go on to Gra Grock or
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  Deepseek or any of the um uh chat GPT I
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  think even has it. Couple other ones
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  have them on there. And you
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  have yourself
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  uh the vocals. So you're having a vocal
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  discussion with your AI. I've done this
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  before. And you put the the AI lady up
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  there. I always use a woman. I don't
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  know why. I just use a woman to talk
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  back to me. Maybe I like a woman t
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  talking back to me. Who knows? But I I
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  use a woman's voice. Uh but you can pick
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  anything. You can pick like an
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  Australian, I don't know, back woodsman
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  if you want to on a on a lot of these
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  places, you know. Please respond to me
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  in Russian. I do that all the time. And
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  uh I use it quite a bit for uh
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  for trying to get direct translation and
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  uh it's hard to do and even that you got
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  to check. Okay. So because all of these
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  things there are billion bits of uh of
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  information going out. That's why the
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  power takes so much. But you can have it
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  research documents uh for you and uh uh
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  read these documents in in in grand
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  form. But the bias based on your
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  questioning
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  is extremely interesting. There's a lot
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  of discussions going up on that and I
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  say stay tuned on that because there's a
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  lot of discussion about this going on
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  and uh you know there's a u there's
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  several uh different global forums about
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  this AI and it's and it's very very
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  important. Um they're using it in u in
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  military. They're using it um in
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  analysis of intelligence. Is that
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  frightening or what? There's plenty of
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  frightening stuff. Anyway, stay tuned on
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  this on the AI part. There's uh in fact,
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  just while I'm sitting here that JR has
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  all the TVs up running on here, I
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  suppose it's not JR. All the TVs are
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  always up, but um they there's there's
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  one up here that says uh combating bias
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  in AI. Holy crap, combating bias in AI
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  and I just maybe it was subliminal.
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  Maybe you people talked about your
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  telephone before telling you what you
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  wanted to see or your phone spying on
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  you and all of a sudden you start
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  getting news stories that on a
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  discussion you had with somebody at
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  lunch and your phone was laying on the
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  side of the table. Who's spying on who?
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  Scary stuff. Friends and neighbors, stay
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  tuned because we're going to get into a
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  little bit of this. I wanted to share
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  with you this morning the uh so la over
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  the last few days
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  of my show I have been uh sharing with
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  you
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  uh
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  a lot of the events that went on in
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  Davos
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  and the fracture that's uh evident in
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  world politics and in some of the things
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  that's going the carney carney Trump uh
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  discussions that have in
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  I don't know that that were a big part
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  of the media last week. Certainly for
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  me, it was a big deal what they were
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  talking about. I want to share with you
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  and it's a little bit longer than uh I
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  normally do, but it's a news story from
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  who is this? It's it's uh it's somebody
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  with only 65,000
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  uh subscribers. So, nobody huge on uh
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  it's a news channel, but it's not a huge
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  one. And uh it's
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  uh
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  it's a story on Mark Carney.
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  And
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  I I brought to you in full his uh speech
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  last week in Davos in front of
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  everybody.
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  And I also brought to you quite a bit of
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  discussion on Davos since that time.
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  and Canada and the shift,
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  the diversion
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  on
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  well maybe the hedging of their bets
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  would be a better way to put it. the
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  hedging of their bets with
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  uh going to China and one of the things
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  that came out recently and what China
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  has been doing they did it with America
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  too by the way we have this
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  visafree travel to China so going to
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  China you could never really go before
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  it's I mean you could but it's pain in
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  the ass to get a visa um and I don't
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  mean your visa master card. I mean
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  getting a visa. So for me, this is a
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  part of my life anyway because because I
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  like to travel and if if you go to
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  Russia, my visa and I've I've told you
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  about this on my Russian stuff, my visa
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  expires the end of February and I'm all
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  depressed because I have to go get
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  another one. And I I got uh fortunate in
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  the last time that I got a uh three-year
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  Russian visa. And usually you get a uh
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  it's called a noakrata
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  um mo more than one time multiple entry.
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  You get a multiple entry visa to go back
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  and forth. Um when uh my wife came here
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  from Russia, she um
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  got a multipleyear multiple entry visa
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  to come back and forth to United States.
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  very hard for a Russian to get coming to
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  America, but she had one and she had
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  come back and forth a number of times,
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  traveled the United States, liked it,
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  you know, going back and forth. I've
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  done the same thing going back to
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  Russia, but it's no guarantee that
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  you'll get a second one. It's no gu they
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  don't have to let you in if they don't
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  want to. And uh so I'm uh I'm certainly
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  going to apply for a new one because uh
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  one of the highlights of of of my my
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  life has been being able to go to Russia
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  at will. I've gone once or twice a year
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  uh once three times. I've gone to
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  sanatoriums. I've gone to some fantastic
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  places over there and I've got some
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  excellent stories uh of Russia, of
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  Russians, of uh the the culture over
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  there, of all that other stuff. It's
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  it's something that uh to me is
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  important in life and visa-free access
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  to travel is one of the strong things
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  that people fight for on their uh
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  passports, right?
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  They rate passports. You can go out and
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  you can find a uh country. America used
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  to be number number one. We're somewhere
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  in the I don't remember where like in
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  the top 20 somewhere with the visas as
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  far as the number of countries we can go
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  to visa-free without getting a visa to
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  go to a country. Russia is advancing but
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  they're much further down the list. And
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  China is uh pretty far. Well, they're
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  getting better, you know, where they are
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  down. I haven't looked at the list in a
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  while, but the last time I looked it was
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  uh uh America was in the it was between
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  10 and 20. I want to say 15 16 down the
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  list now. And we're no longer in the top
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  10. Uh but we used to be in the top 10.
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  And uh some of your places have uh the
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  the number one. I should probably look
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  it up for you and tell you which one it
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  is that have the visa-free travel. But
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  of big news are the China Canada talks.
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  And so I wanted to share with you this
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  and one of the big deals is visafree
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  access between the two countries. And
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  this is uh well at least the Canadians
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  going to China. We may have to check out
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  and see what they've allowed on the uh
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  on the uh Canadian side, but they were
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  pretty clear and I don't think it goes
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  both ways yet. But but I don't know.
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  We're going to listen to this story cuz
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  it's a good story and um uh and it it it
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  falls in line with what we've been
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  talking about about Davos, about the
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  rupture in world politics, about the
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  rupture in hegemony and uh one one
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  country rule. Although Trump is trying
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  to re reinstall that as it were, but
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  without any hangers on, it's it's now
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  brute force. Period. We're brute force.
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  Do what we say. And he's actually
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  smacked down. There are plenty of
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  stories about uh uh you know Trump
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  tariffs and uh he's not going to talk to
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  Carney anymore. There's been a bunch of
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  that going on uh as well over the last
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  couple of days as a result of Davos. And
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  so we're going to share this article
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  because when I listened to it, I I
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  thought it was uh fairly well done. So
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  here we go. It's called Canada China
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  Talks achieve a major breakthrough.
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  Okay. And uh you can uh we're going to
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  listen in even now. Where are we? And to
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  make sure we have it, here we go.
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  In recent [music] years, the
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  relationship between Canada and China
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  has been characterized by turbulent
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  exchanges, [music]
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  escalating tensions, and trade
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  restrictions. Diplomatic spats between
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  the two nations have caused significant
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  rifts, [music]
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  especially in sectors like trade,
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  security, and international politics.
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  However, a pivotal moment of
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  reconciliation occurred in January 2026
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  [music]
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  when Mark Carney, Prime Minister of
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  Canada, made his first official visit to
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  Beijing [music] in over 5 years. The
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  meeting marked a dramatic shift in the
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  diplomatic and economic relationship
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  between Canada and China as both [music]
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  leaders signaled a commitment to moving
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  beyond past discord. The visit [music]
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  by Mark Carney and his meeting with Xi
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  Jinping, President of China, represented
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  an important reset of Canada [music]
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  relations. It was not just a meeting
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  between two heads of state, but a
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  declaration of intent to rebuild trust
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  and cooperation after years of strained
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  interactions. [music]
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  At the heart of this historic meeting
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  was the shared desire to open new doors
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  for collaboration [music] and strengthen
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  mutual respect between the two nations.
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  With an increasingly complex global
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  environment, the relationship between
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  Canada and China [music] is evolving
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  into a more stable and pragmatic
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  partnership. The visit [music] was a
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  clear effort to break free from the
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  tensions of the past. For both
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  countries, [music] the reset had
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  far-reaching implications across
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  multiple sectors, including [music]
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  trade, travel, and diplomacy. This
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  marked a fresh opportunity for Canada
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  and China to foster a positive, mutually
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  beneficial [music]
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  relationship moving forward. The
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  atmosphere in Beijing was one of
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  cautious [music] optimism as both
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  nations sought to reconcile differences
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  and explore areas of shared interest.
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  [music]
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  Trade has long been a cornerstone of
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  Canada China relations. But in recent
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  years, the two countries [music]
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  economic ties were strained. Political
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  disagreements and the imposition of
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  [music] tariffs and trade restrictions
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  created obstacles for industries in both
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  nations. [music] In particular, Canada's
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  agricultural exports were adversely
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  affected by punitive tariffs, especially
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  in sectors such as canola seed, a
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  [music] crop for which China has
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  historically been one of Canada's
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  largest markets. [music] During the
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  highlevel talks in Beijing, Mark Carney
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  emphasized the importance of rebuilding
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  the agricultural trade relationship,
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  [music] noting China used to be the
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  largest market for Canadian canola seed.
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  We want to not just return to those
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  levels, but to surpass them. The
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  discussions [music] were centered on
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  removing the barriers that hindered
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  trade and revitalizing Canada's [music]
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  export industry, especially in
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  agriculture.
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  One of the major announcements from the
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  talks [music] was a preliminary
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  agreement to reduce tariffs on a range
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  of agricultural [music] products. China
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  agreed to lower tariffs on Canadian
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  canola seed to [music] approximately 15%
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  by early March 2026,
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  down from the significantly higher
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  tariffs that had been imposed [music] in
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  recent years. This move is expected to
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  have a profound impact on the Canadian
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  canola industry, [music] which had
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  struggled due to prohibitive tariffs.
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  Industry leaders in Canada expressed
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  cautious optimism, hoping that this
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  [music] reduction would restore
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  competitiveness and stabilize the market
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  for Canadian producers. The reset in
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  trade also went [music] beyond
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  agriculture. Both countries recognized
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  the need to diversify their economic
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  [music] relationships. While the United
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  States remains Canada's largest trading
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  [music] partner, there was growing
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  recognition that Canada must reduce its
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  reliance on one market. [music]
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  As the global economy continues to
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  evolve and uncertainties mount,
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  deepening trade ties with other major
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  economies [music] like China is seen as
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  an essential step in ensuring Canada's
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  long-term economic stability. [music]
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  In light of ongoing trade tensions with
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  other nations and the risks of
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  overdependence on one market, [music]
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  Canada has increasingly sought to
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  strengthen its relations with China. By
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  improving ties with China, [music]
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  Canada is positioning itself to play a
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  more prominent role in the global
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  economic system, [music]
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  reducing its vulnerability to market
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  fluctuations in the United States and
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  beyond. For China, the benefits of
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  [music] improving trade relations with
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  Canada are equally significant.
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  As one of the world's largest consumers
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  of agricultural products, China sees the
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  opportunity to source highquality goods
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  from Canada [music] as a way to enhance
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  its domestic market. Beyond agriculture,
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  China is also keen to tap into Canada's
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  [music] vast resources and technology
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  sectors. Both leaders expressed [music]
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  interest in expanding collaboration in
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  areas such as clean technology, electric
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  vehicles, [music]
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  and advanced industries, marking a
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  shared commitment to advancing
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  industrial [music] partnerships and
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  technological innovation. Another major
• 18:29
  outcome of the meeting between Mark
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  Carney and Chinping was the announcement
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  of a visa-free [music] travel agreement
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  for Canadian citizens. This breakthrough
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  represents a significant shift in
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  people-to-people relations which have
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  long been hindered by [music]
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  restrictive visa requirements. The
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  announcement was a welcome one for
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  Canadians [music]
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  who for years faced cumbersome visa
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  processes when traveling to China.
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  [music] I'm very pleased to share that
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  President Xi in our meeting today has
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  committed to ensuring visa free access
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  [music] for Canadians traveling to
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  China, said Mark Carney. This
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  announcement [music] was not just a
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  practical step forward. It symbolized
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  the intention of [music] both countries
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  to open up avenues for greater
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  engagement, especially in sectors like
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  tourism, education, and business. The
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  decision is [music] expected to have
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  immediate positive effects on Canadian
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  citizens who will benefit from easier
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  access to one of the world's most
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  significant [music]
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  global markets. The visa-free travel
• 19:30
  arrangement is likely to stimulate
• 19:32
  tourism, academic exchanges [music] and
• 19:34
  business collaborations between Canada
• 19:36
  and China. More students, tourists, and
• 19:39
  business people will have the
• 19:40
  opportunity to engage with each other,
• 19:42
  fostering [music] greater cultural
• 19:44
  understanding and economic ties. This
• 19:47
  agreement [music] also marks a clear
• 19:49
  signal from both nations that they are
• 19:50
  ready to overcome past [music] tensions
• 19:52
  and work together more cooperatively.
• 19:54
  Moreover, this agreement carries
• 19:56
  symbolic [music] weight as it
• 19:58
  demonstrates a shift towards more open
• 20:00
  and transparent communication between
• 20:03
  the two nations. [music]
• 20:05
  It is a tangible manifestation of the
• 20:07
  reset in diplomatic relations, providing
• 20:10
  an opportunity for Canadians to
• 20:12
  experience [music] China more directly
• 20:14
  and for Chinese citizens to visit Canada
• 20:16
  with fewer bureaucratic hurdles. [music]
• 20:18
  The highlevel talks between Mark Carney
• 20:21
  and Xiinping were not just limited to
• 20:23
  trade [music] and travel. The
• 20:25
  discussions also touched on broader
• 20:28
  strategic issues [music]
• 20:29
  including security, regional stability
• 20:32
  and cooperation on global challenges.
• 20:34
  [music] Over the past decade, political
• 20:36
  disputes, security concerns, and
• 20:39
  retaliatory measures had created
• 20:41
  significant [music]
• 20:41
  obstacles to meaningful dialogue between
• 20:44
  Canada and China. Diplomatic [music]
• 20:47
  engagement had become sporadic with
• 20:50
  trust eroded on both sides. [music]
• 20:52
  During the talks, both Carney and she
• 20:55
  emphasize the importance of managing
• 20:57
  differences through constructive
• 20:59
  dialogue [music] and cooperation. They
• 21:01
  recognize that while their nations may
• 21:03
  not always agree on every issue, there
• 21:06
  are still areas where they can [music]
• 21:08
  find common ground. The reset in
• 21:10
  relations reflects a mutual
• 21:12
  understanding that stability and
• 21:14
  cooperation are crucial, especially in
• 21:16
  an increasingly unpredictable global
• 21:19
  environment. The reset also underscores
• 21:21
  the [music] importance of sustained
• 21:23
  diplomatic efforts as both countries
• 21:26
  work towards more predictable and
• 21:28
  transparent engagement. [music]
• 21:30
  Mark Carney stated, "We may not agree on
• 21:33
  all issues, but through continuous
• 21:35
  communication, [music]
• 21:36
  we can manage differences effectively
• 21:38
  and build a foundation of trust for the
• 21:40
  [music] future." As Mark Carney wrapped
• 21:42
  up his visit to Beijing, both sides
• 21:45
  expressed [music] optimism about the
• 21:46
  future of their relationship. The
• 21:48
  announcements made during the visit
• 21:50
  represent [music] a positive shift in
• 21:52
  the trajectory of Canada relations, but
• 21:55
  the work is far from over. While
• 21:57
  agreements on visa-free travel and trade
• 21:59
  have been reached, [music] the details
• 22:01
  of these agreements still need to be
• 22:03
  fully implemented and new challenges may
• 22:05
  arise [music] in the coming months. The
• 22:08
  visa-free travel arrangement, for
• 22:10
  example, requires both nations to ensure
• 22:12
  that administrative and security
• 22:14
  procedures [music] are in place.
• 22:16
  Likewise, a reduction in tariffs on
• 22:18
  agricultural products will require
• 22:20
  further regulatory steps to finalize and
• 22:23
  ensure that both [music] sides uphold
• 22:26
  their commitments. The implementation of
• 22:28
  these measures will be crucial in
• 22:30
  determining whether the reset will lead
• 22:32
  to tangible long-term benefits. [music]
• 22:34
  The success of the reset also depends on
• 22:37
  the continued political will from both
• 22:40
  sides to follow through on their
• 22:42
  promises. [music]
• 22:42
  Canadian business leaders, farmers, and
• 22:45
  investors are watching closely, hoping
• 22:47
  that the momentum generated by this
• 22:49
  visit [music] will lead to long-term
• 22:51
  stability and growth. There are still
• 22:54
  risks and uncertainties, particularly as
• 22:56
  both countries [music] navigate the
• 22:58
  changing dynamics of global trade and
• 23:00
  politics. Nevertheless, [music]
• 23:02
  the reset represents an opportunity to
• 23:05
  move beyond years of diplomatic tension
• 23:07
  [music]
• 23:08
  and toward a future of more stable and
• 23:10
  pragmatic cooperation. [music]
• 23:13
  The high level talks between Mark Carney
• 23:15
  and Xiinping in January 2026 [music]
• 23:18
  represent a significant turning point in
• 23:21
  the relationship between Canada [music]
• 23:23
  and China. The agreements made during
• 23:26
  the visit, from the visa-free travel
• 23:27
  arrangement to trade breakthroughs,
• 23:30
  signal a new chapter in [music]
• 23:31
  diplomatic relations between the two
• 23:33
  nations. By focusing on areas of mutual
• 23:36
  [music] interest, both countries have
• 23:38
  laid the groundwork for a stronger, more
• 23:41
  cooperative future. The road ahead may
• 23:44
  not be [music] without its challenges,
• 23:46
  but for now, both Canada and China are
• 23:48
  committed to building a more stable
• 23:50
  [music] and predictable relationship.
• 23:52
  Whether this newfound partnership will
• 23:54
  endure and thrive will depend on how
• 23:56
  [music] well both nations manage to
• 23:58
  overcome challenges, stay committed to
• 24:00
  their promises, and ensure that this
• 24:02
  reset [music] produces tangible results.
• 24:05
  For now, both nations are focused on
• 24:07
  turning the page to a new chapter in
• 24:10
  their diplomatic relationship with a
• 24:12
  clear emphasis on cooperation, [music]
• 24:14
  economic engagement, and peopleto-people
• 24:17
  ties.
• 24:21
  So I tell you what, [clears throat] I
• 24:24
  found that uh pretty much enlightening.
• 24:27
  So I try to uh you know, do you remember
• 24:31
  Steve Martin? Every day I like to do one
• 24:33
  impossible thing. And so today I'm going
• 24:36
  to suck this piano stool into my lungs.
• 24:39
  And he'd take a straw out and oh darn.
• 24:42
  And then he'd throw it away. That didn't
• 24:44
  work. Uh at any rate, um one impossible
• 24:47
  thing is creating a a positive world.
• 24:51
  it it appears to me sometimes. And uh so
• 24:56
  I want to focus on how important that
• 25:01
  step is globally and what a punch in the
• 25:05
  nose it is to the United States
• 25:09
  based upon what happened in Davos last
• 25:11
  week and these talks ongoing in multiple
• 25:17
  areas with um China and other countries.
• 25:22
  by the way, because they're they're not
• 25:24
  alone. Uh Europe is doing the same
• 25:26
  thing. They're creating they're
• 25:30
  diversifying and this is some of the
• 25:33
  effect of uh of how Trump does it. Now,
• 25:35
  some of it's natural anyway. Uh some of
• 25:37
  it it has to go this way. So, I'm not
• 25:40
  blaming the old Trumpster. I I'm saying
• 25:43
  that these multiple pathways I I speak
• 25:47
  about this all the time and how uh how
• 25:50
  the world is changing. You need to
• 25:52
  either get on board uh you know or
• 25:56
  [laughter]
• 25:57
  or get off and push. You know, we got to
• 25:59
  go in the right direction here, right?
• 26:01
  And the right direction is not all the
• 26:04
  conflict. Okay? I don't prefer to take
• 26:09
  on a world where everything is about
• 26:14
  uh dominance. Everything is about uh I'm
• 26:18
  in charge. You know, you uh outliers
• 26:21
  there just,
• 26:23
  you know, follow me. And and I I don't
• 26:26
  like that form of leadership. I I
• 26:29
  dislike it. And uh I've always been that
• 26:31
  way. I'm much more of a a cooperative
• 26:34
  leader. Anybody ever take any of those
• 26:36
  uh psychological profilers? The I'm an
• 26:39
  I'm an INTJ.
• 26:42
  And the J at the end is a little bit
• 26:44
  that's a judgmental portion of it. And I
• 26:46
  haven't done one of these in a long
• 26:48
  time. In fact, I can't recall what they
• 26:50
  all mean anymore. But uh I I believe is
• 26:52
  intuitive. I'm an intuitive sort of guy.
• 26:55
  Big picture sort of guy. And uh so it it
• 26:58
  how and the these we used to use them
• 27:01
  for hiring when I was an HR director for
• 27:03
  for Fortune 500 companies. We would use
• 27:06
  them because they're actually a pretty
• 27:09
  good indicator of how you approach
• 27:11
  problems in life. And if you don't know
• 27:13
  what they are, get on there and I forget
• 27:15
  what it's called, the Briggs Briggs
• 27:16
  Meyers MyersBriggs or something like
• 27:18
  that, uh personality profile and you can
• 27:22
  get online and and take it. I don't know
• 27:24
  what they charge you for them these
• 27:25
  days. back then we were paying I don't
• 27:27
  know couple hundred bucks uh every time
• 27:29
  we sent somebody to go get one and uh
• 27:32
  but they were very useful because it's a
• 27:35
  and if you're working with as part of a
• 27:37
  team you need uh a various types of
• 27:43
  people to
• 27:45
  guide a ship right and uh Trump would be
• 27:49
  on the uh on the dictator side for sure
• 27:52
  but he's highly performance you know
• 27:54
  performanceoriented did highly uh
• 27:57
  structural, highly um negotiating, you
• 28:01
  know, all those things. So, if you can
• 28:03
  and and I might look into that for us
• 28:04
  because it's kind of a cool thing, but
• 28:06
  but how you approach problems in the
• 28:09
  world is almost as important as
• 28:11
  [clears throat] what you do when you get
• 28:13
  there. Okay? And I try because I'm a
• 28:16
  little bit on the uh I'm intuitive, but
• 28:19
  I'm also a realist. And the problem is
• 28:21
  is that that means I'm somewhat
• 28:23
  negative. [laughter]
• 28:24
  And I don't mean it cuz I'm really not.
• 28:27
  I'm a generally positive guy. But I
• 28:30
  think of all the problems that could
• 28:32
  come up. I'm always thinking about I
• 28:33
  started out by talking to you about uh
• 28:36
  AI and the bias that is slanted towards
• 28:38
  things and it's still part of the same
• 28:40
  focus and the the positive outlook of
• 28:43
  China and Canada
• 28:46
  right now is something that I prefer
• 28:50
  over the
• 28:53
  force concepts. I I don't like being
• 28:56
  forced to do things myself and therefore
• 28:59
  I don't like forcing other people. I
• 29:01
  believe in more of a libertarian stance
• 29:04
  when it comes to that. You know,
• 29:05
  whatever you're doing, more power to
• 29:07
  you. God bless you. Uh just don't
• 29:09
  interfere with what I'm doing. I don't
• 29:11
  like that. I don't like government
• 29:13
  overreach telling me what I got to do.
• 29:15
  You know, and and part of that goes to
• 29:17
  your MyersBriggs personality profile.
• 29:19
  You know, who you are, how you adjust,
• 29:22
  how you approach things, right? And uh
• 29:25
  and and it's important to know who
• 29:27
  you're dealing with. And I believe that
• 29:28
  the world is changing. Much of the world
• 29:32
  has taken shape because of the
• 29:35
  doineering attitude of the United States
• 29:38
  over the last [snorts] at least 30 years
• 29:42
  since the collapse of Soviet uh the
• 29:43
  Soviet Union and how horrible uh we
• 29:48
  deal with international
• 29:52
  problems. we are dictator, we are
• 29:55
  colonialists and that is uh I don't like
• 29:58
  that approach and so I talk about it all
• 30:00
  the time and a lot of it gets to where
• 30:04
  let's go back to it to a second with the
• 30:06
  article on Canada and China and the
• 30:08
  positive nature of that 11inut
• 30:13
  blurb that I gave to you about the China
• 30:16
  Canada talks and all the things that
• 30:18
  they're talking about from canola oil to
• 30:21
  visaree traveled
• 30:23
  US citizens that go to mainland China.
• 30:26
  Okay, I've looked into this before, you
• 30:29
  generally have to have a visa and you
• 30:32
  can get a 10-year multiple entry visa
• 30:35
  for tourism or business. You can you
• 30:38
  have to you can go to their place
• 30:39
  online. You can you have to upload
• 30:41
  documents, submit passports. Now, it's
• 30:44
  pretty involved in order to get one,
• 30:46
  right? There's a couple of visa-free
• 30:48
  options, you know, cuz I've I've looked
• 30:49
  into this recently and uh you can go to
• 30:52
  Chinese visa centers and I'll I'll tell
• 30:54
  you how I got the Russian one because
• 30:56
  I'm going to have to go through it again
• 30:57
  and it's a similar similar approach over
• 31:00
  there. And coming back the other
• 31:03
  direction from Russia to America, from
• 31:06
  China to America is is equally
• 31:11
  uh hard steps. You know, it's not easy.
• 31:14
  you know, it's it's it's a process
• 31:16
  definitely. Um, and you have to submit
• 31:19
  your passport physically to the Chinese
• 31:23
  visa center, Russian visa center too.
• 31:25
  And uh, some of the some of them have
• 31:27
  been simplified over time, but the basic
• 31:30
  rules are this. You have to use an
• 31:32
  online visa application form, which you
• 31:34
  got to fill out.
• 31:36
  You do the same for Russia, but I think
• 31:38
  that one's only in written form. I had
• 31:40
  to go to Houston. Uh first time I got a
• 31:43
  visa, I went to to Washington DC to go
• 31:46
  get it. And I believe you can go to
• 31:48
  Washington DC, New York,
• 31:51
  San Francisco or Houston uh how did
• 31:54
  Houston, New York, San Francisco uh any
• 31:58
  one of the Russian consulate centers to
• 32:00
  uh get a visa. And I've done the
• 32:04
  Houston and the Washington DC to the go
• 32:07
  to the Russian consulate to get a visa
• 32:10
  and take your passport and it's a long
• 32:13
  wait when [laughter] you get there. You
• 32:15
  better plan a couple of days. Uh the
• 32:17
  last time I went it was a mail-in
• 32:19
  process and it was 10 times better. And
• 32:20
  I got the three-year but it cost me a
• 32:22
  hell of a lot of money and you you give
• 32:24
  it to a private firm but they take care
• 32:26
  of it for you. Hell of a lot of money.
• 32:28
  the typical thing be a couple three
• 32:30
  hundred bucks and I think I paid I don't
• 32:33
  know 750 something like that but uh I
• 32:36
  don't remember and uh so the application
• 32:39
  process for China is you fill out the
• 32:41
  the application online [snorts] you can
• 32:44
  get a simplified tourist visa you're no
• 32:46
  longer required to submit along with
• 32:49
  your visa because here was the pain you
• 32:52
  had to submit your air air tickets your
• 32:55
  round trip tickets so you buy the
• 32:57
  tickets and then you find out whether or
• 32:59
  not you can go. And a lot of times they
• 33:02
  want to know what specific hotel you're
• 33:04
  staying in. You need an invitation from
• 33:06
  somebody to get a tourist visa. There
• 33:08
  are all kinds of uh of uh requirements
• 33:13
  or historically there have been and
• 33:15
  they're trying to make visaf-ree travel
• 33:17
  is kind of a priority with a bunch of
• 33:19
  these people. So the documents you got
• 33:21
  to submit usually you got to submit your
• 33:24
  whole passport the the physical passport
• 33:26
  itself with a six-month or more validity
• 33:29
  period meaning you got at least 6 months
• 33:31
  left on your on your passport. Two uh
• 33:35
  blank pages of u
• 33:38
  stamp area in the back of your you know
• 33:40
  where your visa kits where where they
• 33:43
  stamp it when you come in. Uh, but
• 33:48
  Americans are no longer required to
• 33:51
  submit to get a simplified tourist visa.
• 33:54
  You don't have to submit your roundtrip
• 33:55
  air tickets, your hotel reservations, or
• 33:58
  an invitation letter to be a tourist.
• 34:00
  Now, for business, you do. It's a
• 34:02
  different different sort of deal. The
• 34:03
  documents um you know, you have to get a
• 34:06
  visa photo, the complete application, a
• 34:09
  proof of where you uh reside, a driver's
• 34:12
  license and utility bill. Usually you
• 34:14
  can get a a L uh which is a tourist
• 34:17
  visa, a business visa which is class M
• 34:20
  or a family visit Q Q visa and then you
• 34:23
  submit it. Well then they have similar
• 34:25
  rules for all this and there are
• 34:26
  countries where it's extremely hard.
• 34:28
  Well, as Americans, we've been kind of
• 34:30
  spoiled. Uh where you could go places
• 34:33
  and never have to worry about these
• 34:35
  processes cuz we were up on the top of
• 34:37
  the list for for where we would uh get
• 34:39
  our our our visa when you just show up.
• 34:44
  And showing up, you'd get your visa
• 34:47
  right there when they stamp it, right?
• 34:50
  And you stamp it, you make it easy to
• 34:53
  come in and out. And then when you stamp
• 34:55
  it, you have whatever the time period is
• 34:58
  per country, you know, 30 days, 90 days,
• 35:01
  180 days. Uh in Canada, US used to have
• 35:04
  one where it was uh you could come over
• 35:06
  and you could stay for 6 months at a
• 35:07
  time. And so at the border crossing,
• 35:10
  which you could drive across up in
• 35:11
  Minnesota, we would drive across into
• 35:13
  Canada and drive back for shopping and
• 35:15
  for whatever. And it's all based on the
• 35:17
  uh person who is uh looking at your visa
• 35:20
  application. Well, you get a jerk. you
• 35:22
  can probably get out of line, go around
• 35:24
  a circle, and come back. I I've told the
• 35:26
  story before about me being an idiot
• 35:29
  when I was in the military and uh went
• 35:31
  to Mexico from uh what was the name of
• 35:35
  that that place? Fort Wuka.
• 35:38
  Fort Wuka is in Arizona. And I was there
• 35:41
  for I don't remember uh two months or 3
• 35:44
  months for some kind of a helicopter
• 35:45
  school and uh Russian speaking
• 35:48
  helicopter school. But uh it was it was
• 35:51
  for a quick fix set of system. Quickfix
• 35:54
  was a collection and jamming platform
• 35:56
  for helicopters. And uh so I went to
• 35:59
  this school and was I was there for a
• 36:01
  while. I was you know uh took my crew
• 36:03
  chief. I was the interpreter. Excuse me.
• 36:06
  And we would go to anyway we went to
• 36:07
  Mexico and on the way back I was I was
• 36:10
  an idiot. You know I was young, stupid
• 36:11
  and thought I was and I was a smartass.
• 36:14
  And uh it's like
• 36:16
  and I have a history of not taking
• 36:19
  things seriously enough. And so we drove
• 36:20
  across the border. Uh actually we didn't
• 36:23
  drive. We drove down to the border in my
• 36:25
  my old blazer and we got out and walked
• 36:28
  across the border. Did some whatever the
• 36:30
  town is in uh across the border from
• 36:32
  Ngalas that I don't remember. And we um
• 36:36
  it might even be Ngalas. I don't
• 36:37
  remember. But but uh we went into uh no
• 36:39
  Gallas right there and crossed the
• 36:42
  border and we went across and we spent
• 36:44
  the day over there uh or the weekend, I
• 36:46
  don't remember. And then we were coming
• 36:48
  back and I was a smartass. Important
• 36:51
  safety tip. Never be a smartass because
• 36:54
  uh uh I handed the guy my military ID
• 36:58
  to get back. um you hand I gave him my
• 37:01
  military ID and I was with seven or
• 37:03
  eight other military guys and we were we
• 37:06
  went across and we were coming back and
• 37:09
  um on the way back you know I'm the
• 37:12
  smartass and uh the the
• 37:16
  border guy [laughter]
• 37:18
  the now it's called ICE the the border
• 37:21
  guy standing there says uh uh state your
• 37:26
  state your country what country do you?
• 37:29
  And I'm look I looked at him like he was
• 37:31
  nuts and and I was like I was like I
• 37:34
  just gave you my military ID and he says
• 37:37
  state your country that you reside where
• 37:40
  you reside and I said Jesus Israel
• 37:44
  [laughter]
• 37:46
  and I was like you got my ID. He took me
• 37:49
  into custody took me upstairs and
• 37:51
  interrogated me for 2 three hours. Don't
• 37:53
  screw around with those guys. It's a bad
• 37:55
  plan. And uh the whole reason was
• 37:58
  because I was a smartass. So that's an
• 38:00
  important safety tip. But uh but I
• 38:02
  [laughter] I never lived that down
• 38:04
  because I was a senior ranking guy at
• 38:06
  the damn thing. It was my team for God's
• 38:09
  sake. And uh at any rate, it was
• 38:11
  completely idiotic. And uh so at any
• 38:15
  rate, never screw around at the border
• 38:17
  in any country. Uh I told the story
• 38:20
  before of when I was in Russia last uh I
• 38:23
  went to Russia several times. Uh let's
• 38:27
  see two three times in the last year. I
• 38:29
  drove across from Georgia, the country
• 38:31
  of Georgia into u Russia and and went to
• 38:37
  I mean it was awesome and and I got to
• 38:39
  go to the place where uh uh Sergey Bodrv
• 38:43
  uh a famous Russian actor was killed in
• 38:46
  an avalanche while while doing a movie
• 38:48
  and it was a a very very cool trip. But
• 38:52
  driving across coming from Georgia into
• 38:55
  Russia, there's a border dispute of a
• 38:57
  little state in between the two. I
• 38:59
  forget the name of it, but uh Abazia, I
• 39:02
  don't remember, but uh in between the
• 39:04
  two countries, it's a it's a you leave
• 39:06
  one country and you got to exit Georgia
• 39:08
  and enter Russia. And there are, you
• 39:11
  know, I had a visa. I had a Russian
• 39:13
  visa. I've had a Russian visa for three
• 39:14
  years in one of the trips when I was
• 39:16
  driving across. And that entry into
• 39:21
  Russia took about
• 39:24
  an hour and a half and we were in a line
• 39:27
  and they were they they were pretty
• 39:29
  serious at the border both directions by
• 39:31
  the way cuz we flew in and out of TLI
• 39:34
  and in Georgia and back and forth in
• 39:36
  between the two the two countries
• 39:38
  driving and I was in a car full of other
• 39:41
  people. you you uh it it was a like a
• 39:44
  minivan and there were I don't know
• 39:45
  seven eight people and I'm the only
• 39:47
  American
• 39:49
  and they were they kept me and quizzed
• 39:53
  me for a while wondering what an
• 39:54
  American was doing coming into Russia by
• 39:57
  car and uh so the other people were kind
• 40:00
  of upset that we had to wait so long
• 40:02
  most of them just showed their Russian
• 40:04
  they said man you should have got your
• 40:05
  own car and stuff like that they well I
• 40:09
  didn't know it would take me an hour and
• 40:10
  a half I figured everybody was in the
• 40:12
  same car. You know that when you go on a
• 40:14
  bus, it's generally a pretty quick
• 40:16
  process. Um, and so, uh, but it can take
• 40:19
  a while these visa processes. Even after
• 40:22
  you have the visa coming in and out,
• 40:24
  they want to know what you're
• 40:25
  specifically coming in for. Other
• 40:27
  countries have serious
• 40:29
  um, border patrol guards and you don't
• 40:32
  screw around while you were there. I
• 40:33
  would have never ever ever thought of
• 40:35
  saying something smartass like that
• 40:38
  coming into Russia is my point and I
• 40:41
  certainly wouldn't going back into
• 40:43
  Georgia the other direction. You don't
• 40:44
  want to get stuck in a country where you
• 40:46
  can't get in, you can't get out. That's
• 40:48
  a that's a bad plan no matter who you
• 40:49
  are. And so I'm perhaps a little more
• 40:53
  understanding of the visa issues and
• 40:55
  coming back to and I I think we should
• 40:57
  have very strict rules and requirements
• 40:59
  the rest of the world does is my point.
• 41:02
  Why wouldn't the United States? And the
• 41:04
  United States does at the larger places.
• 41:06
  We all complain a little bit when you
• 41:08
  fly into Miami or you fly into New York
• 41:10
  or you fly into Dallas, these large
• 41:12
  international hubs, and they make you
• 41:14
  check your baggage there before you can
• 41:16
  transfer to your next destination flight
• 41:19
  because those are the big places for
• 41:20
  coming in and getting inspected uh into
• 41:24
  the United States at these large
• 41:25
  airports. Anyway, that's a long story
• 41:28
  about visa processes and I apologize for
• 41:30
  that. But the world is a changing and so
• 41:32
  I prefer the much the the shorter
• 41:36
  variety of trying to get a visa. the
• 41:39
  shorter variety of trying of of allowing
• 41:42
  travel in between and this China Canada
• 41:45
  talks. This really is a large
• 41:48
  breakthrough with Canadians being
• 41:49
  granted visafree travel between Russia
• 41:54
  and China, between India and China,
• 41:56
  between several other places and China.
• 41:58
  China has been opening its doors uh
• 42:02
  quite a bit more uh
• 42:06
  uh regularly for other countries. And so
• 42:10
  uh China is
• 42:12
  playing well with uh others where the US
• 42:18
  recently hasn't really been. I do like
• 42:22
  that we are now have some rules and our
• 42:24
  borders aren't just wide open, you know,
• 42:27
  uh coming across. And I and I and I do
• 42:29
  think that that that was one big I
• 42:33
  remember when Biden got elected and it
• 42:36
  was literally within days that the doors
• 42:40
  were open and it was just a flood of
• 42:43
  people coming in,
• 42:45
  huge numbers. And I was as an American
• 42:50
  offended by that, especially as an
• 42:53
  American that traveled. I'm not saying
• 42:55
  our doors shouldn't be open. They should
• 42:58
  be, but other countries don't just open
• 43:01
  their doors and let people to come
• 43:03
  through. Now, the Shenhen visa is a visa
• 43:05
  in uh uh Europe that allows people to
• 43:08
  travel uh if you can get a Shenhen, you
• 43:11
  can go anywhere in the European Union,
• 43:14
  right? and without a visa, whatever
• 43:16
  country you're from. And this is one of
• 43:18
  the big things that Ukrainians want.
• 43:20
  They wanted that Shenhen visa and
• 43:22
  they've been giving it to them. And
• 43:23
  these people are going from country to
• 43:25
  country. I complain about that, too.
• 43:27
  They're going from country to country
• 43:29
  and taking the three months of free
• 43:32
  housing and free money in France. And
• 43:34
  then they're going to uh Germany and
• 43:37
  getting the six months free there. Then
• 43:39
  they're going to Poland and getting the
• 43:40
  the two years free there, you know. And
• 43:43
  and it's this is what they are doing.
• 43:45
  And I've shared stories with you of the
• 43:47
  girl that went to China. She went to
• 43:49
  China and was like, "Hey, they told me I
• 43:51
  can't stay here and we're not getting
• 43:52
  anything for free. I'm not going to stay
• 43:54
  here. They haven't they aren't even
• 43:56
  giving us anything." And she did this on
• 43:57
  a Tik Tok video and that thing went
• 43:59
  viral for how stupid that girl was to
• 44:03
  say something like that. Like me in the
• 44:04
  smartass comment coming back into the
• 44:07
  United States and saying I was from a
• 44:08
  country that I'm not from. Uh just being
• 44:11
  a smartass. And uh but but her
• 44:14
  commentary was I mean that's foolish and
• 44:16
  and she left and and it didn't cost her
• 44:19
  anything, you know, she just had to
• 44:21
  leave China anyway. She was and she said
• 44:23
  I'm just and she was very straight up
• 44:25
  about it. I'm just going to another
• 44:26
  country and I'll take you know whatever
• 44:28
  they're giving me free there. So at any
• 44:31
  rate, a a large story and and it's a
• 44:34
  very
• 44:36
  I believe a positive development for
• 44:39
  China, Canada, and it makes me think
• 44:42
  about the bigger picture. What does it
• 44:44
  mean for China, Canada,
• 44:47
  Arctic,
• 44:49
  China, you know, Canada's
• 44:51
  all along the Arctic? China. If if we're
• 44:55
  worried about China taking over
• 44:57
  Greenland, which I think is foolish
• 44:59
  propaganda BS, China, nobody neither
• 45:03
  Russia nor China has any intention of
• 45:06
  taking over Greenland. So that's that's
• 45:09
  nonsensical to even think that way. Uh
• 45:13
  they don't have any intentions in that
• 45:17
  regard. Okay. The world's a change in
• 45:20
  anyway. And I believe that I prefer
• 45:24
  Canada's approach with trying to develop
• 45:25
  that entire story I shared with you was
• 45:27
  quite a positive a positive development
• 45:31
  for Canada. And I think our approach
• 45:35
  instead of a militaristic we're taking
• 45:37
  over the world sort of thing, which I
• 45:40
  disapprove of, although I understand the
• 45:43
  the the what do you call it? The um the
• 45:46
  concept. I get it. I I I get what Trump
• 45:49
  is trying to do. I just think there are
• 45:50
  better ways to skin a cat is all I'm
• 45:52
  saying. And uh so anyway, enough on the
• 45:55
  visa topic. I wanted to share a few more
• 45:58
  stories that uh remember we were talking
• 46:00
  about free speech and I wanted to share
• 46:02
  with you um
• 46:05
  a story about free speech and Elon Musk.
• 46:10
  Okay. Uh X and go back a very
• 46:16
  long time. Elon Musk, the owner of X,
• 46:19
  and this is a story uh by a guy that I
• 46:22
  follow all the time, uh TK Omar, I his
• 46:26
  opinions I I kind of like. And uh this
• 46:29
  one I'm going to share with you about
• 46:31
  suppression of freedom of speech, okay?
• 46:35
  And take from it what you will. I'm not
• 46:37
  trying to tell you I I agree with this
• 46:39
  or disagree with this. I'm sharing it
• 46:41
  with you is all. And uh I have my own
• 46:43
  thoughts on it which I will probably
• 46:45
  share when when I'm done here. But I
• 46:47
  wanted to share the uh the story with
• 46:49
  you because it's a certainly an
• 46:51
  interesting story. Elon Musk, who
• 46:54
  happens to be the world's richest
• 46:57
  oligarch, a major war contractor through
• 47:01
  his uh uh what do you call it?
• 47:03
  satellites given it free to Ukraine and
• 47:06
  whatnot. And self-declared
• 47:09
  free speech absolutist
• 47:12
  has claimed that his platform strives to
• 47:15
  be the town square of the internet by
• 47:19
  promoting and protecting freedom of
• 47:22
  expression. But that is not true
• 47:26
  entirely. In reality, Musk is a man of
• 47:30
  strong opinions. Not merely an uber
• 47:33
  capitalist. He is also a very right-wing
• 47:36
  libertarian
• 47:37
  full of odd anxieties strong enough to
• 47:40
  produce plenty of posts about whites and
• 47:43
  their civilization disappearing.
• 47:47
  And when in a really good mood, a
• 47:49
  greeting that looks like a perfect
• 47:51
  imitation of a fascist salute. Now,
• 47:53
  that's in my opinion. Remember
• 47:55
  that one where he allegedly was doing a
• 47:58
  Nazi salute? I don't believe that at
• 48:00
  all, just so you know. Uh, that would
• 48:02
  all be bad enough if true. But Musk has
• 48:05
  also taken to promoting people he likes
• 48:08
  politically and culturally. For
• 48:10
  instance, those that glorify, lobby, and
• 48:14
  make excuses for Israel. Okay? If this
• 48:18
  is the town square, then it's one where
• 48:21
  you need a microphone to be heard. And
• 48:24
  that microphone is under the control of
• 48:27
  a biased and overbearing mayor and his
• 48:30
  buddies. Now, I'm telling you, I don't
• 48:33
  necessarily agree with this, but it's a
• 48:35
  story I wanted to share. Or, as Musk's
• 48:38
  own team has put it, exusers have
• 48:42
  freedom of speech, but not of reach.
• 48:46
  That's an interesting concept, is it
• 48:48
  not? And I'll share that with you here
• 48:50
  in a bit. On the other hand, the
• 48:52
  platform systematically suppresses
• 48:54
  whatever or whoever the owner doesn't
• 48:57
  like.
• 48:59
  Much, but by no means all, of this de
• 49:02
  facto censorship is imposed by what X
• 49:05
  itself euphemistically describes as a
• 49:08
  more reasonable, proportionate, and
• 49:11
  effective moderation process.
• 49:15
  What does that mean? That is often by
• 49:17
  mass demotion deboosting rather than a
• 49:21
  direct ban. If you say things that Musk,
• 49:24
  his ideological buddies, his business
• 49:26
  partners and his financeers do not like,
• 49:29
  X is less likely to kick you out,
• 49:33
  although that option is always there
• 49:34
  too, than to quietly put you in a tight
• 49:37
  soundproof box. You might think you are
• 49:40
  speaking to others, but X makes sure
• 49:43
  your voices reach almost no one. Let
• 49:47
  freedom ring, but in silent mode,
• 49:49
  please. Okay. Uh, now I'm not saying I
• 49:53
  agree with this. It's an interesting
• 49:54
  story. There is no topic on X where all
• 49:58
  of the above is more in evidence than
• 50:01
  Israel. or to be more precise, Palestine
• 50:05
  and the endless series of crimes
• 50:06
  Israelis and their accompllices are
• 50:09
  committing against Palestinians. From
• 50:11
  violent, often murderous dispossession
• 50:14
  to apartheid to de facto mass kidnapping
• 50:18
  and mass torture, including rape, to
• 50:22
  ethnic cleansing by genocide.
• 50:25
  Recently, Grock X's in-house AI has
• 50:29
  revealed that critics of Israeli crimes
• 50:32
  are being suppressed. Their reach is
• 50:35
  throttled by 80 to almost 100% of what
• 50:39
  it would be otherwise.
• 50:41
  prompted with a specific phrase which
• 50:44
  exusers have shared widely, Grock has
• 50:47
  been delivering detailed insights into
• 50:50
  how the X algorithm censors those who
• 50:53
  mention and protest against Israel's
• 50:56
  current Gaza genocide, its all-purpose
• 50:59
  brutality, and rogue state wars of
• 51:02
  aggression against Lebanon, Syria, and
• 51:04
  Iran, its habit of assassinations,
• 51:07
  including of other countries scientific
• 51:09
  and political elites as in Iran and
• 51:12
  Yemen or the perverse influence it
• 51:14
  exerts on the US and in general western
• 51:18
  politics. According to at least one
• 51:21
  usually well-informed inver observer,
• 51:23
  this is a mass campaign with Elon Musk
• 51:26
  censoring hundreds of millions of people
• 51:29
  for a foreign Israeli government. In
• 51:33
  return, Musk's own customers are calling
• 51:36
  him a huge threat to freedom of speech.
• 51:40
  Politically, those targeted by ex
• 51:43
  repression campaign are as different as
• 51:46
  it gets. They include idiosyncratic
• 51:50
  very right-wingers such as Candace Owens
• 51:52
  and generally left-wing voices such as
• 51:55
  journalists and dissident like Max
• 51:57
  Blumenthal and Al Ali Abuni Abunima.
• 52:03
  Full disclosure, they also include yours
• 52:05
  truly. That's TK uh TK Sural Amar on the
• 52:09
  left of the spectrum as well. And it's
• 52:11
  fairly representative case too. The
• 52:14
  suppression of the exac account at TK
• 52:17
  serial Amar as reported by Grock is
• 52:21
  massive and comprehensive including
• 52:24
  hiding it and its activity and in
• 52:26
  general reaching 78 to 85% suppression
• 52:31
  is what he says.
• 52:33
  But what is most typical is the big fat
• 52:35
  lie used to justify the censorship that
• 52:38
  somehow the account's open and honest
• 52:41
  criticism of Israel and its crimes and
• 52:43
  explicit anti-sionist anti-fascist
• 52:46
  position overlaps with anti-semitism.
• 52:50
  That is the core smear used by all
• 52:53
  defenders of Israel and its genocide.
• 52:55
  that to be against crimes and state
• 52:58
  commit and the state committing them
• 53:00
  with no end in sight indicates you are
• 53:03
  anti-semitic.
• 53:07
  This draft lie has long lost all
• 53:11
  credibility among those with half a
• 53:13
  brain, except in Musk's world, where
• 53:16
  it's still good enough to shape what
• 53:18
  exusers are not only allowed to say, but
• 53:22
  to hear. Both active and passive freedom
• 53:25
  of speech are a joke there. And all that
• 53:29
  for Israel.
• 53:31
  So, uh let's see.
• 53:35
  These are claims now surfac There are
• 53:38
  claims now surfocing on X that somehow
• 53:42
  this scandal is not quite real that
• 53:44
  Grock isn't delivering real data but a
• 53:47
  mere simulation that seems very very
• 53:49
  far-fetched and is likely to turn out to
• 53:51
  have been yet another untruth. For one
• 53:54
  thing, X has a proven record of
• 53:56
  suppressing what Israel doesn't like.
• 53:58
  Last year, Grock itself was suspended
• 54:01
  when it called the Gaza genocide a
• 54:05
  genocide. Clearly, Musk's AI has gotten
• 54:09
  a little too, oh boy, I don't even know
• 54:12
  this word. Persp ppeacious and honest
• 54:17
  for its masters. In October 2023, while
• 54:20
  Israel was launching its genocide and
• 54:22
  speaking about it proudly, ex purged
• 54:25
  hundreds of Palestinian accounts,
• 54:28
  depriving the victims of another way to
• 54:30
  reach out, thus contributing to Israel's
• 54:32
  policy of siege, blockade, and blackout.
• 54:36
  It is unclear why Musk is behaving like
• 54:39
  this. Conviction, fear, dogged by some
• 54:42
  real anti-semitic signals of his own.
• 54:45
  Musk has repeatedly done penance by
• 54:48
  serving Israel and its propaganda. What
• 54:50
  is clear is that his motives motives are
• 54:54
  of decidedly secondary importance. What
• 54:57
  matters is the atrocious moral failure.
• 55:00
  Not his only one, but his worst. And
• 55:03
  ironically, Musk, who prides himself on
• 55:06
  being a bit of a nonconformist and a
• 55:09
  maverick, is all too representative of
• 55:12
  the West's rotten elites as a whole. If
• 55:16
  only he were more exceptional.
• 55:19
  Now, I don't agree with that all, but
• 55:21
  you know that here I don't mind
• 55:22
  providing uh contrary voices. I don't
• 55:25
  disagree with it either. Um, now Grock,
• 55:30
  uh, when we started this show today, we
• 55:32
  were talking about AI. It's kind of the
• 55:34
  theme of the show a little bit is
• 55:36
  talking about the uh end of censorship
• 55:38
  and of bias and where the bias comes
• 55:42
  from and how well if you've ever I've
• 55:46
  talked about this when you es especially
• 55:50
  a couple three years ago it's gotten
• 55:52
  better now because there are other
• 55:54
  things but if you did a Google search
• 55:58
  or try going out onto any platform out
• 56:01
  there Wikipedia even and try to find a
• 56:04
  place that isn't slanted so badly to the
• 56:09
  left when you ask it a question.
• 56:13
  uh you give out uh you do a question
• 56:16
  about uh I don't know what um Bruce
• 56:19
  Jenner and you won't get a story about
• 56:22
  Bruce Jenner and how he show how how
• 56:26
  well he shown shined in the 1976
• 56:31
  Olympics. You won't get that. you will
• 56:34
  get the story about [snorts] uh whatever
• 56:37
  his name is now uh Caitlyn Jenner and
• 56:40
  the uh noble the fact that he's an
• 56:42
  Olympian is is no longer even relevant
• 56:46
  at all the fact that uh he is now a
• 56:50
  woman that is what is relevant and uh so
• 56:53
  there's certainly a bias if if you go
• 56:56
  out and you search for that try it
• 56:58
  anywhere you can go to Wikipedia X any
• 57:01
  of the places where we get a lot of our
• 57:04
  information including Grock. They are
• 57:09
  highly twisted and they do depend upon
• 57:11
  the owner or the board of directors. Uh
• 57:15
  certainly when it was
• 57:19
  uh anti-Trump
• 57:22
  when ex you know why why why did uh why
• 57:25
  did uh Elon Musk buy Twitter for
• 57:27
  example?
• 57:28
  I remember that debacle. I remember it.
• 57:31
  Is it gone too far the other way? Is it
• 57:34
  openness or is it censorship in the
• 57:36
  other direction? I don't know. Don't
• 57:38
  care. But it's an interesting uh uh
• 57:41
  theory to be aware of when you're using
• 57:43
  Grock or you're using any AI or you're
• 57:47
  using something like Wikipedia or you're
• 57:50
  watching CNN or you're watching Fox
• 57:53
  News, you're watching uh news from other
• 57:56
  sources. This is why the bulk of us are
• 57:59
  getting our news and information from
• 58:02
  other sources. And for me, I like a wide
• 58:06
  variety of sources. You know, I like a
• 58:10
  wide variety. I like to But then you
• 58:13
  wonder if what you're doing is the exact
• 58:16
  same thing like your telephone listening
• 58:18
  to you and uh and it worrying about it
• 58:22
  isn't going to do you any good.
• 58:24
  accepting
• 58:26
  commentary is exactly that and a
• 58:29
  libertarian point of view toward others
• 58:32
  opinions is playing well with others.
• 58:36
  And if you can do that on a global
• 58:38
  stage, you're probably far better off
• 58:42
  than if you cannot. That's all I'm
• 58:45
  saying. And uh uh when you when when you
• 58:49
  blanket approve one
• 58:54
  point of view and despise another
• 58:58
  and refuse to accept the counterargument
• 59:03
  or refuse to even listen to the
• 59:06
  counterargument.
• 59:09
  Perhaps you should uh take pause and put
• 59:12
  some thought into that uh is is my point
• 59:15
  into how you approach the world. And I
• 59:18
  kind of like the world approach of
• 59:22
  moderation of diplomacy of mediation and
• 59:27
  extremes one way or the other I'm very
• 59:30
  much against. So, uh, I believe that a
• 59:34
  well-developed world view means that you
• 59:37
  listen to all other sources and then
• 59:40
  share your hopefully positive
• 59:43
  commentary. And but sometimes with all
• 59:45
  the news that we saw, all the news that
• 59:48
  we see is so negative that you can't
• 59:52
  help but become slightly negative
• 59:55
  yourself. And I'm I'm trying to combat
• 59:58
  that some on my own. Um, there was
• 1:00:02
  another story. Now, who's the um, when
• 1:00:06
  did this one come out? This was in 2023.
• 1:00:09
  Do you remember when Linda Yakarino, who
• 1:00:12
  was the CEO of X, the company formerly
• 1:00:16
  known as Twitter, she revealed the new
• 1:00:19
  the new era of freedom of speech, not
• 1:00:22
  reach. That's I shared that with you as
• 1:00:24
  well. So that that actually I like to
• 1:00:27
  back up my facts and that came from uh a
• 1:00:30
  news story written on in August of 2023.
• 1:00:35
  So that is for real. Um, I wanted to
• 1:00:38
  talk about the the dictatorship of
• 1:00:40
  Ursula Fanderline and it's not me saying
• 1:00:43
  that uh but I wanted to share this story
• 1:00:45
  as well because last week again going
• 1:00:50
  slightly back to Davos and the approach
• 1:00:52
  of the world toward the uh economic
• 1:00:54
  realities of the world these days and
• 1:00:57
  Trump's uh dictatorship uh speech about
• 1:01:00
  give me Greenland or give me [laughter]
• 1:01:04
  give me death and Canada going off the
• 1:01:06
  rails and headed off to China. And uh
• 1:01:09
  many people like I've analyzed for the
• 1:01:11
  last few days talking about Davos and
• 1:01:13
  the changes in what's going on. Uh
• 1:01:16
  Kayakalis has privately complained. Now
• 1:01:19
  there's a story about the dictator
• 1:01:22
  Fonderline. This comes from political uh
• 1:01:25
  European Union foreign policy chief
• 1:01:28
  Kayakalis
• 1:01:30
  is privately complaining about the
• 1:01:32
  authoritarian style of European
• 1:01:34
  Commission President Ursula Fonderline
• 1:01:38
  says Politico yesterday.
• 1:01:41
  She [clears throat] views Fonderline as
• 1:01:43
  a dictator. A senior diplomat told the
• 1:01:46
  outlet adding that there is little or
• 1:01:49
  nothing she can do about that.
• 1:01:51
  [laughter]
• 1:01:52
  Isn't that true? Previous reports
• 1:01:56
  have described the bitter rivalry
• 1:01:58
  between these two senior officials with
• 1:02:02
  the commission president holding the
• 1:02:04
  upper hand. Well, of course, she's the
• 1:02:06
  president. Politico named five people in
• 1:02:09
  Brussels who it claimed to have the
• 1:02:11
  toughest jobs, including Kalis. Another
• 1:02:15
  is Paulino, Vanderline spokesperson, who
• 1:02:18
  the outlet reported is often left
• 1:02:20
  uninformed by her boss, who works in a
• 1:02:24
  bunker with strict need to know
• 1:02:26
  protocols, making the current commission
• 1:02:28
  at times more secretive than the
• 1:02:31
  famously opaque Vatican. Last week,
• 1:02:35
  Fonderline survived a fourth no
• 1:02:37
  confidence vote in the European
• 1:02:39
  Parliament from non-entrist lawmakers
• 1:02:43
  who accuse her of lacking transparency
• 1:02:45
  and pursuing policies harmful to the
• 1:02:48
  block. Well, it's the EU, of course. Her
• 1:02:53
  conflict with Kalis reportedly stems
• 1:02:56
  from constant efforts to sideline the
• 1:02:59
  European external action service on key
• 1:03:02
  foreign policy matters. Kalis is a
• 1:03:05
  former Estonian prime minister is
• 1:03:07
  herself criticide criticized as unfit
• 1:03:10
  for her role. I absolutely believe she
• 1:03:14
  is unfit for any role.
• 1:03:18
  She is unintelligent
• 1:03:20
  and maybe that's the bias of everything
• 1:03:23
  uh uh that you hear about her everywhere
• 1:03:26
  but find any piece of information
• 1:03:30
  of that um about her that is positive um
• 1:03:35
  anyway including by EU member Slovakia
• 1:03:37
  partly due to her anti-Russian stance.
• 1:03:40
  This lady is hugely anti-Russian. Last
• 1:03:43
  September, she was ridiculed by
• 1:03:45
  ridiculed by Moscow and Beijing after
• 1:03:48
  appearing to treat it as a revelation
• 1:03:50
  that Russia and China take pride in
• 1:03:53
  defeating Axis powers in World War II. A
• 1:03:57
  lot of people, appears to me, including
• 1:03:59
  Kus uh were unaware that China lost
• 1:04:03
  nearly 20 million people in World War II
• 1:04:07
  and Russia 26 million. and she expressed
• 1:04:12
  surprise about the fact that these two
• 1:04:14
  nations honor each other's anniversary
• 1:04:18
  of the corresponding ends of World War
• 1:04:21
  II, which for um Russia is in May, early
• 1:04:26
  May, and for China, I believe is
• 1:04:29
  September, but both in the same year.
• 1:04:31
  So, both of them this past year were
• 1:04:33
  celebrating 80 years. And uh anyway,
• 1:04:36
  that she she had no idea that China was
• 1:04:40
  even involved in World War II. And that
• 1:04:44
  the fact that Russia and China both take
• 1:04:46
  pride in defeating the axis powers of uh
• 1:04:49
  Hitler and of um uh emperor, what was
• 1:04:54
  his name in Japan? I honestly don't
• 1:04:56
  remember myself, but the axis powers
• 1:04:58
  were uh Mussolini, Hitler, and uh damn
• 1:05:01
  it, I can't remember the guy from Japan,
• 1:05:03
  and it's embarrassing to me not to know
• 1:05:05
  that, but they were axis. It was a world
• 1:05:08
  war for God's sake. And uh anyway, the
• 1:05:11
  Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Pescov, said
• 1:05:13
  this weekend that neither Moscow nor
• 1:05:16
  Washington believe she is productively
• 1:05:19
  she can productively be negotiated with.
• 1:05:21
  I happen to agree. I think she's dumb as
• 1:05:23
  a bag of hammers, but that's a a
• 1:05:25
  personal deal. Um, political listed NATO
• 1:05:28
  Secretary General Mark Rut described as
• 1:05:31
  a Trump whisperer for European NATO
• 1:05:34
  members. Hungary's EU envoy Balint Odor,
• 1:05:38
  who must soften Prime Minister Victor
• 1:05:40
  Orbin's anti- Brussels rhetoric, and
• 1:05:43
  veteran trade commissioner Maros
• 1:05:44
  Sephovic dubbed Mr. fix it as those with
• 1:05:48
  supposedly the toughest jobs inside of
• 1:05:52
  Brussels.
• 1:05:53
  And uh call us number one on that list.
• 1:05:57
  I find it amusing um because of course
• 1:06:00
  they're at each other's throats
• 1:06:02
  of course. So I wanted to share that
• 1:06:05
  story with you today.
• 1:06:08
  Um,
• 1:06:09
  so has anybody been following so so
• 1:06:13
  England uh Britain for a long time
• 1:06:15
  there's been a a good deal of protest
• 1:06:18
  about the open doors that they are that
• 1:06:22
  that people are they're calling them
• 1:06:24
  boat people too. They're coming across
• 1:06:26
  hundreds of people on packed boats
• 1:06:28
  coming across the English Channel. And
• 1:06:31
  uh so this past weekend, thousands of
• 1:06:36
  people marched through East Sussex town
• 1:06:38
  of Crowbar over the weekend to protest
• 1:06:41
  the government plans to house asylum
• 1:06:44
  seekers on a former military site. The
• 1:06:47
  march came after the British Home Office
• 1:06:50
  announced plans to house 500 male asylum
• 1:06:54
  seekers at the former army camp in
• 1:06:57
  Crowbar, a town of about 20,000. As part
• 1:07:01
  of a wider effort to end the use of
• 1:07:03
  hotels for temporary accommodations,
• 1:07:06
  men, women, and children joined the
• 1:07:08
  demonstration and protests, hundreds of
• 1:07:10
  residents marched toward the former
• 1:07:12
  military training camp for a 12th
• 1:07:16
  consecutive week weekend, waving St.
• 1:07:19
  George's flags and chanting, "We want
• 1:07:22
  the Labor Party out."
• 1:07:25
  Local reports said 27 alleged asylum
• 1:07:30
  seekers arrived Thursday with the
• 1:07:33
  government stating they will stay no
• 1:07:35
  longer than 3 months while their claims
• 1:07:38
  are processed. Despite official
• 1:07:40
  assurances, protesters marched through
• 1:07:42
  Crowbar, expressing concern over the
• 1:07:45
  impact of housing undocumented men in
• 1:07:48
  the community. Some cited previous
• 1:07:51
  incidents at asylum hotels, including
• 1:07:53
  sexual assault, as heightening their
• 1:07:56
  fears over safety. The initiative to
• 1:07:59
  house asylum seekers at former military
• 1:08:02
  sites is part of Labour's pledge to end
• 1:08:05
  the use of taxpayer funded asylum hotels
• 1:08:09
  by 2029,
• 1:08:12
  which currently costs billions of pounds
• 1:08:16
  each year. Early reports said the Home
• 1:08:19
  Office plans to resettle as many as
• 1:08:22
  10,000 asylum seekers across the UK at
• 1:08:27
  14 additional shelter sites. Under the
• 1:08:30
  plan, migrants would be accommodated at
• 1:08:33
  former military facilities that have
• 1:08:35
  been upgraded and could begin receiving
• 1:08:39
  arrivals immediately.
• 1:08:41
  Mounting anger over immigration has
• 1:08:44
  sparked protests across the UK.
• 1:08:47
  Echoing concerns in Spain, Sweden,
• 1:08:49
  Germany, and other countries,
• 1:08:51
  high-profile sexual assault and violent
• 1:08:54
  crime involving migrants have fueled
• 1:08:57
  political debate across Europe and
• 1:08:59
  intensify calls for strict immigration
• 1:09:03
  and public safety measures. This
• 1:09:05
  decadesl long migrant crisis is being
• 1:09:09
  driven by conflict, poverty, and
• 1:09:11
  political instability in the Middle
• 1:09:13
  East, Africa, and South Asia. Western
• 1:09:17
  interventions,
• 1:09:19
  including war in Iraq, Libya, and
• 1:09:21
  Afghanistan, as well as support for
• 1:09:24
  uprising uprising in Syria, have
• 1:09:27
  destabilized governments and worsened
• 1:09:29
  violence across the world, forcing many
• 1:09:33
  to flee. And folks,
• 1:09:37
  on a macro level, huge picture way up in
• 1:09:41
  the satellite sphere,
• 1:09:43
  when you look at what the West has done
• 1:09:47
  with regime change and violence
• 1:09:50
  everywhere, creating these things,
• 1:09:53
  there's a story I want to share with you
• 1:09:54
  about the uh the Kurds, who we allegedly
• 1:09:58
  have just abandoned, which we'll get to
• 1:10:00
  in just a second here, that uh uh but
• 1:10:03
  these type of conflicts that we go and
• 1:10:06
  create
• 1:10:08
  problems like let's take the example
• 1:10:10
  that I always use of Ukraine right let's
• 1:10:13
  let's let's go to Ukraine and what the
• 1:10:15
  west has done with Ukraine over the last
• 1:10:20
  20 years 30
• 1:10:23
  we have
• 1:10:25
  played our part in creating this
• 1:10:28
  conflict and what has happened
• 1:10:32
  millions literally literally millions
• 1:10:35
  upon millions. Half the population of
• 1:10:38
  Ukraine
• 1:10:40
  is no longer there. Half they had a
• 1:10:43
  population of some 40 million pretty
• 1:10:46
  close to it when uh uh Ukraine
• 1:10:50
  was given independence or had its
• 1:10:53
  independence back in whatever year that
• 1:10:55
  was 9192 something like that. And now
• 1:10:58
  they only have half of that.
• 1:11:01
  And most of that has been in the last uh
• 1:11:04
  four or five years that the the doors
• 1:11:07
  are open all over Europe for these. Why?
• 1:11:10
  Because we did our part in creating a
• 1:11:13
  conflict to destabilize Russia for the
• 1:11:17
  same macro things that we're trying to
• 1:11:20
  do across the world today. We just
• 1:11:23
  created another one in Venezuela. And
• 1:11:25
  and what did they show on on all of the
• 1:11:27
  TV? Oh, all the Venezuelans in Miami are
• 1:11:31
  celebrating. Yeah, that's because
• 1:11:33
  they're in Miami. [laughter]
• 1:11:35
  They've left. They aren't going back to
• 1:11:37
  Venezuela. They're not going to go back
• 1:11:39
  and fix their country. Ukrainians aren't
• 1:11:41
  going back to Ukraine. It's not going to
• 1:11:43
  happen. You know, all we're doing is
• 1:11:45
  using it as an excuse. Why don't we help
• 1:11:47
  them fix their own world instead of
• 1:11:50
  having them come and
• 1:11:52
  destabilize ours or the rest of the
• 1:11:55
  world or England, which is this is this
• 1:11:57
  is happening. It's happening around the
• 1:12:00
  world except in in in places that don't
• 1:12:04
  allow that sort of thing to happen. But
• 1:12:06
  we create a a lot of the conditions that
• 1:12:10
  destabilize governments and the world.
• 1:12:15
  We and and I don't mean we, me and you.
• 1:12:17
  I mean we America and the West have we
• 1:12:21
  create some of these things. You know
• 1:12:23
  the the talk of taking over Greenland. I
• 1:12:26
  think of it from this point of view. The
• 1:12:27
  what we have already done in Venezuela
• 1:12:30
  isn't doing anybody any favors. You have
• 1:12:33
  a different master. That's it. Trump's
• 1:12:35
  the new dictator down there. That's it.
• 1:12:38
  Maduro was the dictator before. Now it's
• 1:12:41
  Trump. And uh you know, you may not
• 1:12:43
  agree with that philosophy, but what's
• 1:12:44
  the difference? What difference is it to
• 1:12:47
  the guy in Venezuela that is looking for
• 1:12:49
  a job and looking to raise a family,
• 1:12:51
  that is looking to uh have something
• 1:12:53
  positive in his life? What's he got? You
• 1:12:56
  could say, "Yeah, but what Trump did is
• 1:12:58
  so positive for all of them." Okay,
• 1:13:00
  let's let's assume that's true. Who
• 1:13:03
  benefits? Who benefits? Big money.
• 1:13:06
  Before it was some dictator. Now it's
• 1:13:08
  big oil companies. They're the ones who
• 1:13:10
  get to suck all the money out of you out
• 1:13:12
  of Venezuela. It ain't going to stay
• 1:13:13
  there. You know what? Do we get trickle
• 1:13:16
  down economy for Venezuela?
• 1:13:18
  We get the trickle down. Yeah. Well, you
• 1:13:20
  know, the the pennies they make are
• 1:13:22
  great, but the big money is going to the
• 1:13:24
  same pockets it always goes to.
• 1:13:27
  different different set of pockets this
• 1:13:30
  time, but the same rich elite globalist
• 1:13:33
  a-holes will get the money for this one
• 1:13:36
  cuz they're the same rich elitist
• 1:13:38
  globalist a-holes that do it all over
• 1:13:40
  the world. Same thing's going on in
• 1:13:42
  Ukraine. Same thing's going on
• 1:13:44
  everywhere.
• 1:13:45
  And what are we doing? We're taking the
• 1:13:47
  the small stories from England with
• 1:13:50
  people protesting what's going on.
• 1:13:52
  Americans protesting about the open
• 1:13:54
  borders. Why? because we all have the
• 1:13:57
  same long-term concerns. And what
• 1:14:00
  happens? Your culture is uh is is
• 1:14:04
  changing from
• 1:14:07
  I I what it used to be the way America
• 1:14:09
  was when I was a kid to the realities of
• 1:14:12
  now. Anyway, that's a bit too far
• 1:14:14
  further than I wish to go on that. Um, I
• 1:14:18
  want to switch back uh to my uh because
• 1:14:21
  I haven't talked about in a little bit
• 1:14:23
  the uh peace talks that are allegedly
• 1:14:26
  going on.
• 1:14:28
  uh they haven't revealed anything and
• 1:14:31
  and and it's more just noise and uh
• 1:14:35
  let's see Vladimir Zalinski has been
• 1:14:38
  encouraged
• 1:14:39
  [laughter]
• 1:14:40
  by Italy to Jesus make a deal.
• 1:14:44
  [laughter] Ukraine Zalinski is losing in
• 1:14:47
  the conflict with Russia and needs to
• 1:14:49
  urgently sign a peace deal says Italian
• 1:14:52
  deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini. He
• 1:14:56
  made the call in response to Zalinsk's
• 1:14:58
  speech at the Ednap World Economic Forum
• 1:15:01
  in Davos. I probably should have shared
• 1:15:04
  that entire speech with you instead of
• 1:15:06
  just a critique of it yesterday.
• 1:15:10
  It it truly is. If you get a chance, you
• 1:15:12
  should go out and listen to it and maybe
• 1:15:14
  I'll share it uh on the biggest day in
• 1:15:16
  radio which is Wednesday tomorrow
• 1:15:20
  uh on on DAM radio. But Salvini made
• 1:15:23
  this call in response to the speech at
• 1:15:25
  the World Forum. The Ukrainian litter
• 1:15:28
  leader ridiculed the EU said it was
• 1:15:31
  indecisive and insist that it needs to
• 1:15:34
  know how to defend itself and used the
• 1:15:37
  you use Ukraine
• 1:15:39
  to defend Greenland instead of relying
• 1:15:41
  on the US. Zalinski failed to express
• 1:15:44
  any gratitude at all for the receiving
• 1:15:48
  193 billion euro or 227 billion dollars
• 1:15:52
  in military and financial assistance
• 1:15:54
  from the EU since the escalation uh
• 1:15:58
  that's taken place since February of
• 1:16:00
  2022. In a post on Facebook on Sunday,
• 1:16:03
  Salvini said that we have heard Zalinski
• 1:16:06
  who after all the money, effort, and aid
• 1:16:10
  he has received still has the nerve to
• 1:16:13
  complain. My friend, you are losing the
• 1:16:16
  war. You are losing men credibility and
• 1:16:20
  dignity. Sign a peace agreement as soon
• 1:16:23
  as possible, he wrote. According to
• 1:16:26
  Salvini, the choice that the Ukrainian
• 1:16:29
  leader faces is between defeat and a
• 1:16:33
  complete route. I happen to agree with
• 1:16:35
  that assessment. On Friday, Italy's
• 1:16:38
  foreign minister Antonio Takahani
• 1:16:41
  called Zalinski's speech in Davos not
• 1:16:45
  generous considering the support which
• 1:16:47
  the EU has provided to Kiev. Italian
• 1:16:51
  lawmaker.
• 1:16:52
  Rasano Saso from Salvini's Legata Nord
• 1:16:56
  Northern League party suggested last
• 1:16:59
  week that if the EU truly wants to help
• 1:17:02
  the Ukrainian people, it should stop
• 1:17:05
  funding Kiev. He must have been
• 1:17:07
  listening to international flavor and
• 1:17:09
  instead ask Zalinski to accept peace.
• 1:17:14
  Russian, US, and Ukrainian delegations
• 1:17:17
  held two days of talks in Abu Dhabi in
• 1:17:20
  the United Arab Emirates earlier this
• 1:17:23
  week using a trilateral agreement for
• 1:17:26
  the first time, I'm sorry, arrangement
• 1:17:29
  for the first time since the conflict's
• 1:17:31
  escalation in 2022.
• 1:17:34
  Zilinski commented on the negotiations
• 1:17:36
  on Sunday by saying that under no
• 1:17:39
  circumstances will Ukraine agree to
• 1:17:42
  territorial concessions.
• 1:17:47
  Funny that, isn't it? He will instead
• 1:17:50
  continue sending all the remaining men,
• 1:17:54
  which there aren't very many left, to
• 1:17:56
  slaughter on the Eastern front.
• 1:18:00
  Crazy. Kremlin press secretary Dmitri
• 1:18:04
  Pescov said Monday that Russian
• 1:18:06
  President Putin
• 1:18:08
  his stance is that the territorial issue
• 1:18:11
  is of course of fundamental importance.
• 1:18:15
  I mean it's obvious. All you got to do
• 1:18:17
  is have a look. He was referring to
• 1:18:20
  Donetsk and Lugansk as well as Kerson
• 1:18:23
  and Zaparisia which have officially
• 1:18:25
  joined Russia as of the fall of 2022.
• 1:18:30
  as a result of election referendums.
• 1:18:35
  Later, Putin's envoy, Carrill Demitri,
• 1:18:37
  insisted that Zilinsk's reluctance to uh
• 1:18:41
  face reality has been delaying the peace
• 1:18:45
  process. Well, very much true.
• 1:18:50
  So, have you heard that Zoom is out?
• 1:18:54
  France is allegedly
• 1:18:58
  uh getting rid of Teams and Zoom.
• 1:19:02
  Isn't that crazy? And they're going to
• 1:19:04
  go with u uh uh locally developed app.
• 1:19:08
  The French authorities are planning on
• 1:19:11
  phasing out the American
• 1:19:13
  teleconferencing services like Teams and
• 1:19:16
  Zoom within a year and replacing them
• 1:19:19
  with a domestically developed app.
• 1:19:23
  This from civil service minister
• 1:19:26
  delegate David Emile on Saturday. He
• 1:19:30
  said the country needs to detoxify
• 1:19:33
  itself from US technology.
• 1:19:36
  The bulk of European data is stored on
• 1:19:39
  American cloud services through
• 1:19:42
  companies like Amazon, Microsoft and
• 1:19:44
  Google.
• 1:19:46
  So in in Russia they have Wildberries
• 1:19:49
  instead of Amazon. They have um what is
• 1:19:53
  it called?
• 1:19:56
  I can't remember what their platform is
• 1:19:59
  called
• 1:20:01
  but they don't have Google and uh oh
• 1:20:04
  they have Yandex
• 1:20:05
  Yandex instead of Google and uh but they
• 1:20:08
  control two Amazon, Microsoft and Google
• 1:20:11
  have over twothirds of the market and AI
• 1:20:15
  majors dominate the European AI sector.
• 1:20:20
  Uh so they're of course talking about uh
• 1:20:23
  diversifying there as well. Last year
• 1:20:26
  media reports emerged that the European
• 1:20:29
  governments and companies have been
• 1:20:31
  rethinking their dependence on major US
• 1:20:34
  cloud providers with concerns about
• 1:20:37
  their own data sovereignty, privacy, and
• 1:20:40
  political leverage. Isn't that crazy?
• 1:20:44
  Earlier this year, the director of of
• 1:20:46
  the Center for Cyber Security in
• 1:20:48
  Belgium, Miguel Deker,
• 1:20:51
  claimed that the EU has lost the
• 1:20:54
  internet because storing data within the
• 1:20:57
  block is impossible due to the dominance
• 1:21:00
  of American technology. The official
• 1:21:03
  added that EU regulation of AI was
• 1:21:05
  blocking innovation that could improve
• 1:21:08
  the situation. [snorts]
• 1:21:10
  I don't know. I think every country is
• 1:21:12
  involved in attempting to find its own
• 1:21:14
  share of AI these days. So, we've come
• 1:21:18
  right back full circle on the topic of
• 1:21:23
  the day.
• 1:21:25
  The UK [laughter]
• 1:21:27
  is complaining about its own dependence
• 1:21:30
  on US satellites.
• 1:21:33
  This is I mean it's the same concept. A
• 1:21:36
  major British contract to build new
• 1:21:38
  military stat satellites has sparked
• 1:21:41
  concern in London about the UK's growing
• 1:21:43
  reliance on the US for critical
• 1:21:46
  communication.
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  At the center of the bait is Skynet 6,
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  [laughter] excuse me, a planned fleet of
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  next generation military communication
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  satellites that will replace and expand
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  the UK's Skynet system which is used to
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  connect armed forces at home and
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  overseas. The 10 billion pound 14
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  billion
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  program is being contested by Airbus, a
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  European aerospace group that has run
• 1:22:16
  the UK's military space program for 25
• 1:22:19
  years and Lheed Martin. According to
• 1:22:23
  unnamed officials,
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  there are doubts that the sensitive
• 1:22:28
  project should go to a US headquartered
• 1:22:31
  company as Washington's policies are
• 1:22:34
  seen as increasingly
• 1:22:36
  unpredictable.
• 1:22:38
  Recent remarks by Donald Trump towards
• 1:22:41
  European NATO members over Greenland
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  have heightened concerns that political
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  tensions will affect defense
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  cooperation.
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  Interesting effects, huh? A decision on
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  which company will get the contract is
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  expected by the end of 2026. Airbus has
• 1:23:00
  large satellite building sites in
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  Stanage and Portsmouth employing around
• 1:23:05
  3,000 people, and sources told the paper
• 1:23:07
  that billions of pounds of potential
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  exports would be at risk if the company
• 1:23:11
  loses its role in the UK program.
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  Lockheed Martin, of course, is promising
• 1:23:16
  to build a UK facility if it wins the
• 1:23:19
  contract.
• 1:23:21
  The US pursues its own high-profile
• 1:23:23
  military projects in space. Last year,
• 1:23:25
  Trump announced the launch of the Golden
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  Dome aimed at building a space
• 1:23:30
  integrated shield capable of
• 1:23:32
  intercepting missiles from anywhere in
• 1:23:34
  the world. It is a cuttingedge system
• 1:23:37
  combining existing defense with new
• 1:23:40
  technology across land space, including
• 1:23:43
  orbital sensors and interceptors.
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  Uhhuh. Have you heard that Russia is
• 1:23:49
  planning to launch a rival to uh
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  Starlink?
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  Yes, indeedy. 300 satellites will be put
• 1:24:00
  into orbit by Moscow, Rosscosmos
• 1:24:05
  and uh this according to the head of
• 1:24:07
  Roscosmos uh Dimmitri Bakanov. Think
• 1:24:11
  this came out uh just this just recently
• 1:24:13
  last week or so. Russia is going to
• 1:24:16
  launch its own satellite network similar
• 1:24:19
  to Starlink.
• 1:24:22
  Starlink provides high-speed internet
• 1:24:25
  via the world's largest network of
• 1:24:27
  satellites with over 9,000 in low Earth
• 1:24:31
  orbit. The service began rolling out in
• 1:24:35
  2020 and according to the company now
• 1:24:39
  has 9 million users in more than 150
• 1:24:43
  countries and territories. Officially,
• 1:24:46
  it's not available in Russia. But if you
• 1:24:49
  get your satellite um little link thing
• 1:24:52
  that you can buy and put on your u
• 1:24:54
  camper or your car uh for using in the
• 1:24:57
  woods or something, it'll still work in
• 1:24:59
  Russia, but you got to buy it somewhere
• 1:25:01
  else. On Friday, Bakanov showed Channel
• 1:25:03
  1 journalists
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  uh a Russian designed terminal for
• 1:25:08
  satellite broadband internet access,
• 1:25:10
  saying that it will allow users anywhere
• 1:25:12
  around the globe to stay connected. The
• 1:25:15
  head of the country's space agency added
• 1:25:18
  the serial production of the hardware
• 1:25:19
  will begin the end of this year. An
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  orbital constellation of more than 300
• 1:25:24
  satellites will ensure that Russian
• 1:25:27
  system called Rasviet, which means dawn,
• 1:25:30
  is fully deployed and operational by
• 1:25:32
  next year, said Roscosmos CEO.
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  It is very important to provide
• 1:25:38
  connectivity to all territories not
• 1:25:40
  covered by terrestrial communication
• 1:25:42
  networks. In November, the head of
• 1:25:44
  Russian Parliament's info policy
• 1:25:47
  committee, Sergey Bayarkski, told TAS
• 1:25:50
  that the low Earth orbit satellite
• 1:25:51
  constellation would be Moscow's response
• 1:25:53
  to Starlink. The project developed by
• 1:25:56
  Moscow-based aerial company Brio 1440
• 1:25:59
  will allow for a qualitative leap in
• 1:26:01
  providing communication to Russia's
• 1:26:02
  remote region, said Bayars. Because that
• 1:26:05
  is a big problem if you're in the middle
• 1:26:07
  of nowhere. Uh, now my phone generally
• 1:26:09
  works. I have T-Mobile and I like
• 1:26:11
  T-Mobile because
• 1:26:14
  from what I understand at least it used
• 1:26:16
  to be this way and uh uh uh T-Mobile is
• 1:26:20
  owned by or was owned by one of the
• 1:26:23
  largest or is associated with the
• 1:26:26
  largest um phone and tech company in
• 1:26:29
  Europe. And therefore when you go
• 1:26:32
  overseas I get free internet everywhere
• 1:26:36
  you know and and it but tell you what it
• 1:26:39
  it was a little more difficult this
• 1:26:41
  time. There were recent in my last trip
• 1:26:43
  to Russia which was in uh September.
• 1:26:46
  Yeah. was about um it was much worse
• 1:26:50
  then than it has ever been and it's
• 1:26:53
  always been just fine anywhere in the
• 1:26:55
  world that you go to a T-Mobile they
• 1:26:58
  have a international plan that you can
• 1:27:00
  get for same price is you know whatever
• 1:27:02
  it's it's global works everywhere and
• 1:27:05
  you can use it for your directions you
• 1:27:06
  can get uh you know info all that stuff
• 1:27:09
  and uh but now it's a lot worse they're
• 1:27:13
  blocking it um Google is blocked
• 1:27:16
  everything is blocked inside of Russia.
• 1:27:18
  And so it was quite a bit diff different
• 1:27:20
  this year than it was in previous years.
• 1:27:22
  Uh Ukraine has received 50,000 Starlink
• 1:27:26
  terminals since 2022 from Elon Musk.
• 1:27:30
  Last year, Musk called his satellite
• 1:27:32
  internet the backbone of the Ukrainian
• 1:27:34
  army and said the entire front line
• 1:27:37
  would collapse if he turned it off.
• 1:27:42
  Officials in Moscow repeatedly expressed
• 1:27:44
  concern about the weaponizing of
• 1:27:46
  technology while the Russian military
• 1:27:48
  has developed effective electronic
• 1:27:50
  warfare means that can jam the Starlink
• 1:27:52
  signals.
• 1:27:54
  Crazy stuff going on these days and
• 1:28:00
  everyone should pay attention.
• 1:28:03
  Well, we started today with the bias of
• 1:28:05
  uh AI and the internet and we just
• 1:28:09
  finished with the bias of Starlink and
• 1:28:12
  Elon Musk. Um I hope that you join in
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• 1:28:21
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• 1:28:23
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• 1:28:25
  information about where we should go and
• 1:28:28
  what is going to happen with uh the
• 1:28:32
  Ukraine war. I've stayed away from it
• 1:28:34
  for nearly a week now and we shall have
• 1:28:38
  a big update tomorrow on what is going
• 1:28:40
  on, the effect of the uh uh of the uh
• 1:28:44
  discussions this past week and where do
• 1:28:46
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• 1:28:49
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