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Nord Stream, Tuapse, Spyware, and Mali: The Proxy War Circus Gets More Expensive While Everyone Pretends Not To Notice · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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And there you have it.
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Well, there's news going on.
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So much news.
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But I think the most, the best, well,
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the most appropriate news to share here on
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International Flavor is news that has an international
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sort of flavor.
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Isn't that correct?
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That is what we were doing.
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So now we understand that a German tabloid
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has published nude photos.
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Now, we normally wouldn't get into the, you
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know, the obscene, the lewd, except on Fridays
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when we discuss the state and the alcohol
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tobacco control and their obsession with lewdness misplaced.
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However, now, since we're on International Flavor, we
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can say whatever we like about nude.
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And a German tabloid is publishing nude photos.
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Haven't been able to get to them yet,
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and I've been looking.
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Well, they show them.
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There's a nipple.
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Uh-oh.
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Where is ATC when you need them?
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How in the world can we be showing
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a nipple?
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Oh, this is horror stories for us here
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on Damn Radio.
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The female Ukrainian diver that was part of
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the crew blamed by the Western media for
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the 2022 bombing of Nord Stream 2.
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Uh-huh.
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Severny Partokh 2.
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By the way, last week, I think it
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was Andrei Peskov announced that one of the
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Nord Stream lines is now up and running
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and ready to pump oil into Europe, should
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they ask.
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So, I suppose this little nude Ukrainian driver
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might, or diver, I mean, might have to
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jump back into water, you know, and destroy
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some stuff.
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Ready?
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A German tabloid Bild, if you want to
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find these pictures, you can see the nude
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images of this Ukrainian woman allegedly linked to
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the 2022 sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines for
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gas.
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According to media reports, the woman was part
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of a group of Ukrainian nationals suspected by
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German investigators of renting the yacht Andromeda to
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carry out the sophisticated underwater operation.
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Her name is Ukrainian diver Valeria Chernysheva.
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Chernysheva claims about the woman's past as an
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erotic model identified under the alias Frya, were
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first reported by Wall Street Journal chief European
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political correspondent Bojan Pansevsky in his book on
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the Nord Stream attack.
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His account is based on interviews with individuals
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allegedly connected to the case.
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I need to find this book.
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For Bojan Pan, Pan, maybe it's Pansevsky, you
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would think, but it's a C in there.
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So, who knows if they do it.
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Pansevsky is what it appears to be, Polish
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guy.
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So, we're going to find his book.
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And we're going to offer it for sale
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here.
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Actually, we're going to try to find it
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in the English language.
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Nord Stream.
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We're doing the research right in front of
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you here today.
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Nord Stream book.
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And where is it?
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And where can we buy it?
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We can find out about the Nord Stream.
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The Nord Stream Conspiracy.
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It's available on Amazon.
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Holy shnikes, we might have to buy this.
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The Nord Stream Conspiracy, the inside story of
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the explosions that shook the world, a riveting
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expose on the attack of the Nord Stream
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pipelines, the largest act of sabotage in modern
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history.
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Not true though, because now, yesterday and the
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day before, 108, let's see, two days ago,
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the Ukrainians only sent three drones.
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Yesterday, they sent 140 something.
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And over the weekend, they sent a pretty
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good number.
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And they're attacking a place called Tuapse.
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And Tuapse is on the Black Sea near
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Sevastopol, and it houses refinery, huge Tuapse refinery,
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down to 9% capacity, according to what
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they say, because the Ukrainians are blowing up,
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there's like some 50 something tanks, and the
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Ukrainians have blown up nearly all of them
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with these attacks.
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And they've done the same up in St.
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Petersburg.
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So get ready to hold onto your wallets,
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because when refineries are gone, that means what?
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That means oil is gone.
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And so where are you going to get
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it?
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We got Trumpster over here bombing, send you
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back to the stone ages, Iran, and Iran's
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going, well, that's fine.
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But we're taking all your oil capacity with
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us.
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So the only people that'll be, and don't
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think that we're exempt.
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If you live near a oil refinery, I'd
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move even now, you don't want to live
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nearby one of those, because these drones will
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go everywhere.
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And the Ukrainians are pretty good at this.
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The Ukrainians are fighting in Mali against the
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Russians.
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The Russians are trying to support the government
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after the French departed Mali.
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I got a little story on that for
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you today.
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But this is a Scandinavian, in September 22,
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Scandinavian seismologists detected what seemed to be an
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undersea earthquake near the Danish island of Bornholm.
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Instead, several explosions destroyed Nord Stream, the $20
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billion pipeline system, transporting cheap Russian gas to
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Germany under the Baltic Sea.
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The mysterious blast shifted global politics, disrupted European
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economies, and triggered a manhunt that strained relations
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within the NATO alliance.
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Drawn on years of first-hand reporting, can
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be that many years, it was only 2022,
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award-winning Wall Street Journal correspondent Bojan Pancevsky
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presents the definitive behind the scenes account of
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this audacious operation authorized at the highest levels
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of Ukrainian leadership.
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Mission was ostensibly unofficial, conducted with secrecy.
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Pancevsky secured exclusive access to German investigators and
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their political overseers, who I love that word,
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as well as the Ukrainian agents who executed
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the attack, a team of intelligence officers, military
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personnel, and civilian divers.
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Saboteurs operated on a shoestring budget, used a
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small rented yacht with seven-member crew to
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conduct the strike at great risk in extremely
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turbulent water.
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The Nord Stream conspiracy addresses two leading theories
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about who was responsible, the Russia or the
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U.S., and explains how these narratives developed,
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including the popular U.S. theory involving the
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CIA, which knew about the plot.
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This gripping account exposes human stories and moral
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complexity behind one of the most remarkable geopolitical
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mystery, it's not a freaking mystery, one that
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redefined modern warfare.
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It didn't even redefine modern warfare, but that
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doesn't mean I'm not going to buy the
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book.
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Mr. Bojan Kopinski, you can get it on
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Kindle for $15.99. You can get a
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hardcover version for $29.99 or the audio
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book for free with a free trial of,
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I forget what that's called, but I have
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it.
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I have an Audible account.
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I'm going to download this sucker on Audible
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because I want the Audible book.
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Oh, this is fantastic.
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I can now listen to it in the
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car.
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See, now you have learned right along with
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me what is going to happen here, but
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we still have to go back to the
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German tabloid and finish up about the Ukrainian
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diver, Valeria Chernysheva.
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Chernysheva is probably how it's pronounced.
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Chernysheva.
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Chernysheva, Ms. Black.
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Cherny is black, so she's Valeria Black.
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Let's see.
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In his book, blah, blah, blah, his account
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is based on interviews with individuals allegedly connected
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to the case.
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The photos, now we're back to nudity, which
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we like also.
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The photos released by Bild include fully naked
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images said to show Friar, whose real name
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was previously reported as Valeria Chernysheva.
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One image shows her featured in the 2004
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erotic magazine cover.
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She made it to the cover.
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Another one shows her on the sofa, but
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her face was obscured in both photos.
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Well, photo concourse for the photo concourse of
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her is there, and Raskazi i Novosti Svetlana
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is listed also in surprise.
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What else do they say on there?
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This is, well, there she is.
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Russian officials express skepticism about Western media narratives
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surrounding the investigation, suggesting that these reports attempt
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to attribute responsibility to rogue Ukrainian actors for
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what Moscow regards as an act of terrorism
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backed or potentially even carried out by NATO.
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So here on International Flavor, where the truth
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just tastes better, we just got all kinds
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of things.
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Nudity.
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That was fun.
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We had some nudity in there.
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And we actually even, so they obscured the
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naughty bits, but they did expose the nipples
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of this girl.
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So they blurred out her face, but they
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showed the nipples, showed the weird positioning, you
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know, that they think is somehow very attractive
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when they, I don't know what, um, are
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being sexy, I suppose.
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And, uh, well, there you have it.
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All you got to do is get your
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copy of Build, B-I-L-D, and
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you can see these photos.
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Or there's a dude named AtHonza4746 who, uh,
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uh, this is in, in, uh, Ukrainian written
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here.
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It looks like, uh, in Nord Stream, they
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have the, he has the X post.
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You can go out there and see it
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as well because it's apparently on X and
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you can see the entire show.
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If we open it in the new tab.
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Yeah, this dude is named Ing, I-N
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-G Honza, H-O-N-Z-A.
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And Ing has, uh, uh, 7,000 followers
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and he has posted this, um, these photos,
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but it's Ukrainian, can't read it.
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I'll have to figure out how to, how
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to interpret Ukrainian at some point in my
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life, I suppose.
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But now it's too late for that kind
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of thing for today's show.
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I should have done it yesterday.
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Uh, let's see.
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Mertz.
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Now there's been some interesting stories.
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India, uh, India, Israel has slammed Ukraine's Twitter
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policy, their Twitter diplomacy.
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Their foreign minister Gideon Saar says Kiev never
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has provided any evidence that the Jewish state
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is buying stolen grain from Russia.
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So now we have more disputes, all of
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these disputes.
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Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar rebukes his Ukrainian
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counterpart on social media saying Kiev has not
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provided evidence that Israel is buying stolen grain
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from Russia.
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Now Israel buys a lot of stuff from
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Russia.
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They're actually very large partners of Russia.
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There's a, a, a, a butt ton of
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Russians in Israel.
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You're a Jew, Jewish, uh, Russians that, uh,
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there's tons of them and, uh, they, they,
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uh, are in Israel.
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And so don't go thinking that Israel has
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any, uh, anti-Russian policies.
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It'd be very foolish to have them because
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there are tons of Russians over there.
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On Monday, Ukrainian foreign minister Andrei Sebega condemned
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Israel for facilitating what he called Russia's illegal
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trade in stolen Ukrainian grain.
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Ukrainian media earlier reported that the cargo vessel
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Panormitis carrying grain from Russia's new regions, so
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those are actually Russian regions, not Ukrainian regions,
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was approaching the Israeli port of Haifa.
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It is difficult to understand Israel's lack of
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appropriate response to Ukraine's legitimate request regarding the
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previous vessel that delivered stolen goods to Haifa.
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Sebega wrote on X adding that the Israeli
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ambassador was summoned to the ministry on Tuesday
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morning.
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Aw, in a rebuke to Sebega, Saar wrote
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that X on X, that diplomatic relations, especially
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between friendly nations are not conducted on Twitter
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or in the media.
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Somebody should tell the Trump administration that, ah,
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that's funny.
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Allegations are not evidence.
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Evidence substantiating the allegations has yet to be
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provided.
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You did not even submit a request for
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legal assistance before turning to the media and
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social network.
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Well, frankly, that's all that that's all a
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lot of people have.
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They don't have any facts, no reality.
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So they go to, ah, nude photos.
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They go to, ah, putting stuff out that,
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ah, is incorrect through the networks or whatever
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their twist on the facts is.
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Relations between countries are tense as Ukraine has
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criticized Israel for not imposing sanctions on Russia
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or cutting its ties.
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Reuters, citing Ukrainian diplomatic sources, reported that Kiev
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would reserve the right to deploy, to deploy
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a full suite of diplomatic and international legal
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responses if the ship is allowed to dock
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in Israel.
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Ukraine considers five regions, including Kherson and Zaporizhia,
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which joined Russia following referendums in 2022 to
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be occupied territory.
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Russia insists that for lasting peace settlements, Ukraine
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has to recognize its new borders.
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Hmm.
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Isn't that crazy?
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Well, Israel is being attacked elsewhere as well.
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Ah, from the black cube stings to Pegasus
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spyware.
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Israeli intelligence firms have repeatedly targeted European politics,
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right?
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Two proven cases of political interference by Mossad
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linked private intelligence firms should have set alarm
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bells in Brussels.
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The EU's silence reveals how deeply the Israeli
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spy tech has penetrated the block.
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The European Commission claims that Russia interfered in
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every major European election of the last half
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decade.
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Yeah, that seems popular.
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Despite being proven wrong in France, Germany, Romania,
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Hungary, Bulgaria, and counting, the allegations have been
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enough to justify the commission's activation of its
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rapid response system, a powerful suite of censorship
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tools that gives Brussels the power to decide
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what voters get to see and what they
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don't get to see on social media in
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run up to elections.
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This year alone, two cases of meddling by
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black cube, a private intelligence company staffed by
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former Mossad and Israeli defense agents, IDF, have
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taken place in the EU without any so
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without so much as an acknowledgement from Brussels.
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Posing is for well, what did these cyber
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spies do posing as foreign investors?
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Black cube agents recorded their conversations with associates
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of President Nikos Christodoulidis of Cyprus and released
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the videos days after Cyprus assumed the EU's
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rotating presidency in January.
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The videos in which Christodoulidis associates offered access
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to the president for cash triggered multiple resignation
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and undermined Cyprus's stint at the helm of
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the EU.
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Another series of videos was released in Slovenia
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two months later, this time featuring associates of
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liberal Prime Minister Robert Golob discussing similar pay
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to play arrangements within his party.
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The recordings are widely suspected to have been
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ordered by former Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who
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met with black cube executives in Ljubljana in
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late December.
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Slovenia held parliamentary elections less than two weeks
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after the videos hit the internet and Golob's
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party managed to beat Jansa's Slovenian Democratic Party
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by a margin of 0.67. Isn't that
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crazy?
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Wow.
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How deep does this Israeli interference in the
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EU go?
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The EU has stayed silent on both of
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these cases.
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Even after the Slovenian government described black cubes
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pre-election activities as a clear hybrid threat
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against the European Union and wrote to the
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanding
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investigation, the Commission has not publicly acknowledged receiving
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any letter.
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It is worth noting that the EU had
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skin in the game in Slovenia, dispatching two
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commissioners to Ljubljana to meet with Jansa, including
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Defense Commissioner Andreas Kubelius, whose office said that
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he was campaigning for EU defense readiness.
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Isn't that crazy?
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Yeah.
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However, the commission silence is baffling, especially given
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the fact that black cube has been active
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in Europe before.
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Two of the company's employees were convicted in
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Romania in 2016 for spying on chief prosecutor
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of the Romanian National Anti-Corruption Directorate, and
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the company was reportedly hired by Hungarian Minister
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Viktor Orban, prime minister, to collect dirt on
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opposition NGOs in 2017.
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This lack of response is not unprecedented.
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According to investigative reporting, Pegasus spyware, developed by
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Israel's NSO group, has been used in nearly
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a dozen EU countries since 2016.
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Pegasus, which can be remotely installed on the
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cell phone without the target on somebody else's
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cell phone, without the target having to click
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a link, was used by EU governments to
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spy on journalists and political opponents, by foreign
21:04
powers to spy on EU leaders, and by
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unknown actors to spy on the European Commission
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itself.
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Despite this, and despite the European Parliament urging
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the Commission to implement more rigorous control, and
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software that could impinge the principles of democracy,
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good governments, the rule of law, and respect
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for human rights, the Commission has refused to
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act.
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The Commission likewise took no action when spyware,
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developed by Israel's Paragon Solutions, was developed in
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Cyprus, Denmark, and Italy, or when predator malware,
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an analog of Pegasus, developed by Israeli firm
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Citrox, was used in Greece, Hungary, Poland, Spain.
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Brussels' regulatory coldry is exemplified by the ISS
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World Exhibition, an annual trade fair that takes
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place in Prague every summer.
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Under the EU regulators' noses, spyware surveillance data
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mining firms openly hawk their wares to private
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and state customers.
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The event's leading sponsor is the same NSO
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spy group whose spyware was used against the
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European Commission, and according to Politico, the ISS
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World Exhibition is known within the industry as
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the wiretappers' ball.
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Isn't that wondrous?
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In the wake of the Pegasus Scandal, European
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Commission has left it up to individual states
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to draft their own laws and practices governing
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spyware.
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Defenders of this position could make the case
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that Black Cube, NSO Group, Paragon Solutions, and
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their ilk are private companies, and are therefore
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mercenaries undeserving of the same attention as the
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supposed threat posed by Russian intelligence agencies.
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They're all about Russian intelligence agencies having interfered
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with elections all over the world, but Israel's
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Mossad, well, it's not a big deal, and
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their people who left and took their technology
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with them and created some more, well, there
23:04
you have it.
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However, this would miss how enmeshed these companies
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are with the Israeli state, and in particular
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with Mossad.
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Black Cube was founded by two IDF intelligence
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veterans and counts on international advisory board two
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former Mossad directors, a former Israeli police commissioner
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and the former chief of Israel's National Security
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Council.
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One of the NSO Group's three founders served
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in both the IDF and Mossad, Citrux, received
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startup funding from Israel Aerospace Industries, was later
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bought out by former IDF colonel.
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Paragon Solutions was founded by none other than
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former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, along with
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a former commander in the INF unit 8200,
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a clandestine intelligence unit within the Israeli army.
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All four companies employ veterans of unit 8200
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within the world of espionage.
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It is an old adage that there is
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no such thing as a former spy.
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As the activities of these companies suggest, Israel's
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private intelligence sector shares the same goals as
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the Israeli state.
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In Slovenia, Black Cube intervened against Golab, who
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has recognized the state of Palestine, banned the
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import of goods from illegal Israeli settlements in
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the West Bank, and weighed joining South Africa's
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genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, International
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Court of Justice.
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Jens, on the other hand, is a close
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ally of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and
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has equated recognition of a Palestinian state with
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supporting the terrorist organization Hamas.
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Let's go up here.
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We need to see something because I want
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to make sure.
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Slovenia held and so the guy barely held
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on when they were fighting, you know, these
25:04
issues.
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Israel's defense minister classifies spyware programs like Pegasus
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and Predator as weapons, meaning it has final
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say over who NSO group Citrux and their
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competitors can sell to.
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According to an investigation by Haaretz, export licensor
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for Pegasus, where most often granted when doing
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so would advance Israeli foreign policy interest or
25:29
an implicit exchange for the purchasing country signing
25:33
trade agreements with Tel Aviv or voting with
25:36
Israel at the UN.
25:39
Wow.
25:40
So two interesting things there.
25:43
Number one is that they classify spyware programs
25:49
not as some administrative, I don't know what,
25:55
platform, non-lethal.
25:58
They count them as weapons.
26:02
And so they have to regulate their export
26:07
and approve all of the sales and who
26:11
they're sold to.
26:13
That's kind of interesting.
26:15
And the other thing is that they only
26:18
sell to people who support Israel.
26:24
Now, that makes sense if you classify it
26:28
as a weapon.
26:28
America shouldn't be out selling weapons to Iran,
26:31
should they?
26:32
I mean, what if we sold them the
26:34
weapons that we were, you know, now blowing
26:37
up?
26:38
Kind of like we did in Iraq.
26:40
Everywhere else we went, we armed the guys
26:43
and end up fighting them a few years
26:45
later.
26:46
That's how it works in America.
26:48
But in Israel, they actually have a policy
26:50
of not selling weapons to enemies.
26:52
You know what?
26:53
That would be really funny to just do
26:56
a quick search on, has the U.S.
27:00
sold weapons to Iran?
27:05
Let's see what it says.
27:08
Yes, the U.S. secretly sold weapons during
27:14
the mid-1980s, called it the Iran-Contra
27:17
affair.
27:18
Reagan administration had facilitated these sales in an
27:21
attempt to secure the release of American hostages
27:23
held in Lebanon and controversially to fund Contra
27:26
rebels in Nicaragua using the proceeds, bypassing congressional
27:31
bans on such funding.
27:34
The deal in 1985 and 86, U.S.
27:37
shipped over 1,500 missiles to Iran.
27:40
That's so they could tear them apart and
27:42
learn how to make them.
27:45
The purpose, the primary goal was to free
27:47
U.S. hostages through, though the sales occurred
27:49
despite a public vow by Reagan never to
27:52
negotiate with terrorists.
27:53
The scandal in November 86, the secret sales
27:56
were exposed, revealing that officials, including Lieutenant Colonel
28:00
Ollie North, remember that guy?
28:02
Diverted millions of dollars in profit to anti
28:05
-communist rebels in Nicaragua.
28:07
The actions violated U.S. arms embargo against
28:10
Iran and legal restrictions on funding Contras.
28:15
Before the 1979 Islamic resolution, the U.S.
28:18
was a major supplier of arms to Iran,
28:20
but in 1980, sales were covert, illegal, and
28:25
controversial.
28:28
Hmm.
28:29
Hmm.
28:30
Back in history.
28:32
Back in history.
28:35
Well, these things are are terrible for all
28:41
of us.
28:41
Isn't that so?
28:46
Let's see.
28:47
I wanted to play for you even because
28:49
I think it is important.
28:53
So in when we first started the show
28:56
today, we started talking a little bit about
29:00
Tuapse and Tuapse being hit again.
29:05
And I think it is something that I'm
29:07
even going to share with you on Tuapse
29:12
because I think that they have really done
29:19
some damage in Tuapse.
29:21
And I wanted, you know, people need to
29:24
be aware of this sort of thing.
29:26
And I think I'm at the right spot,
29:28
but I'm not positive because we're going to
29:33
find the Tuapse oil refinery, which is right
29:37
in here and talk about it.
29:41
OK, I'm going to let you hear it
29:44
from the end.
29:45
We're gathering it mid midcourse.
29:49
Midcourse is where we are.
29:51
And you might hear a little bit about
29:52
some Russian, some Ukrainian activity first, but we're
30:00
going to talk about Tuapse or we're going
30:02
to listen to this about Tuapse.
30:05
Here we go.
30:07
The 7th and the 28th of April of
30:09
2026, the Russians stated that the Ukrainians used
30:12
hundreds of drones to attack the Chech of
30:15
Russia.
30:15
And the Russians reported that more than 186
30:20
drones were destroyed over Russian regions overnight.
30:24
And the sources are saying that the biggest
30:26
number of drones were recorded in the direction
30:28
of the Chech of Tuapse.
30:29
And the thing is that the Ukrainians during
30:32
the previous night once again attacked the Tuapse
30:34
oil refinery.
30:36
And we received lots of updates on this
30:38
matter during the previous 12 hours.
30:40
And this is basically the first picture that
30:43
was published by pro-Russian sources and by
30:45
pro-Ukrainian sources.
30:46
Here we can see just the fire after
30:49
a massive attack on Tuapse.
30:50
The oil refinery, which was recently extinguished, was
30:53
hit again.
30:55
And this morning, we received lots of videos
30:57
from this from the Chech of Tuapse and
30:59
from the Tuapse oil refinery.
31:01
And as we can see, once again, the
31:03
Ukrainians attacked this oil refinery.
31:06
And as we can see, according to this
31:08
video, the Tuapse oil refinery was significantly damaged
31:12
by the armored forces of Ukraine.
31:13
Basically, the Tuapse oil refinery is about to
31:16
be completely destroyed.
31:18
If you remember, just yesterday, we discussed some
31:20
numbers regarding this situation.
31:22
Let's discuss them once again.
31:24
So according to information we have, during the
31:27
previous attacks, during the previous attacks that's been
31:30
taking place, that have taken place since the
31:33
beginning of April of 2026, the Ukrainians managed
31:36
to destroy 24 tanks or 52% of
31:40
the Tuapse capacity of the Tuapse refinery capacity.
31:44
Furthermore, four tanks were damaged or 9%.
31:47
And by the end of the 26th of
31:52
April of 2026, the Russians had only 18
31:55
tanks or 39% of total capacity of
31:59
the Tuapse refinery.
32:01
And right after we discussed these numbers, the
32:03
Ukrainians had the Tuapse refinery once again.
32:06
And it seems that the Ukrainians managed to
32:09
deal damage and to destroy more tanks in
32:11
this area.
32:12
For example, these are the map of fire
32:14
anomalies.
32:15
And according to this map of fire anomalies,
32:17
we can say that some tanks in this
32:20
area and in this area were completely damaged
32:23
and destroyed.
32:24
Once again, we have a lot of videos,
32:26
it's not just the thing that the Tuapse
32:29
refinery was damaged or maybe even destroyed.
32:32
This is an ecological disaster.
32:35
We know that lots of problems with oil
32:38
and local sources are trying to stabilize the
32:41
situation to fix these things.
32:43
But it seems that now it will take
32:45
a lot of time before the Russians are
32:48
able to stabilize the situation and to restore
32:51
the Tuapse refinery.
32:52
But saying the truth, it seems that the
32:54
Russians won't be able to repair or to
32:57
fix the Tuapse refinery before the end of
33:00
the conflict with Ukraine.
33:01
Because obviously, the Ukrainians will continue attacking the
33:05
Tuapse refinery until they reduce the total capacity
33:09
of this refinery to zero percent.
33:12
Furthermore, according to information we have during the
33:15
previous days, the Ukrainians attacked deep inside of
33:18
the Cheytri that are under complete control of
33:20
the Russian forces.
33:21
We are talking about Zaporozhye, Donetsk regions.
33:24
And here we can see how Ukrainians Oh,
33:57
man, what is her name?
34:00
I'm terrible with names.
34:01
I'm just one of those people and I
34:03
very much apologize for it.
34:04
But I can't remember it.
34:05
But I like to listen to remixes like
34:07
this.
34:08
And you can go and see the creativity
34:10
of some of these whatever deep house people
34:14
or however they create the music.
34:17
And internationally, I told you before that I
34:19
went to one of these, I think it
34:21
was Uzbekistan.
34:22
It might have been Kyrgyzstan.
34:24
But I think it was.
34:27
No, maybe it was Kyrgyzstan.
34:29
I think we're outside of Bishkek when we
34:32
went there.
34:33
And it was I mean, here going to
34:36
a they had a some kind of a
34:38
concert in St. Louis one time and I
34:40
went to it and they took huge area
34:46
and I went to another one in Florida
34:48
and they take these huge blocks and blocks
34:51
of park and they shut them off and
34:53
they have selling booths everywhere and it's an
34:57
all day music of this type of electronic
35:01
of deep trance of house of whatever it
35:03
is like that.
35:05
And you can go all over the place.
35:06
There are several different stages and they have
35:08
them and the biggest performers are people like
35:11
this guy Tiesto and Paul, I think the
35:15
guy's name is Paul Van Dyke.
35:16
And there's a couple other great big ones
35:18
that you can go and listen to.
35:19
And they take all these remixes of all
35:21
these songs.
35:22
And for me, it was something I don't
35:24
want to say it was new because I
35:25
always liked that stuff.
35:26
I went to some clubs in Berlin way
35:29
back in the 90s and I went to
35:30
some in Munich over there when European kids
35:34
were going crazy on this.
35:35
I've never done any in New York or
35:37
anything like that.
35:38
Assumedly, we have them as well in some
35:40
of these places.
35:41
But I'm telling you, they're massive.
35:43
And you go to these and there are
35:45
so many people floating around.
35:47
The one in Bishkek was probably the smallest.
35:50
And you know what that was in Bishkek
35:53
because we rode a cable car up a
35:55
mountain that day in order to get there.
35:57
So Bishkek is flat.
36:00
I don't remember.
36:01
It doesn't matter.
36:02
Somewhere in a foreign country.
36:04
And it only costs like the equivalent of,
36:07
I don't know, 15 bucks.
36:09
And here you'd pay several hundred for that.
36:12
You know what I mean?
36:14
And 15 bucks.
36:15
And they had an all-day affair.
36:19
Stalls and drinking and games and walk out
36:23
and there's bars.
36:24
And it was a very large area.
36:25
It was really kind of cool.
36:26
And everybody walking around.
36:28
Hundreds of different languages.
36:29
People from everywhere enjoying stuff.
36:31
Because on the European and the Asian sides,
36:34
they think differently than we do.
36:37
If you don't speak English, that's okay.
36:41
A lot of them don't speak English either.
36:46
But having a different language isn't necessarily a
36:51
bad deal.
36:54
You know what I mean?
36:55
And of course, the heavy prevalence of Russian
36:59
with people that spoken from former Soviet republics
37:02
or from wherever else.
37:04
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are all former Soviet
37:09
republics.
37:10
So plenty of Russians spoken down there anyway.
37:13
And at any rate, I don't know why
37:14
I like playing songs like that.
37:16
But that was the songs called Delirium with
37:18
Sarah McLachlan.
37:20
And it's a Tiesto remix of that same
37:25
song and event, which I've played for here.
37:30
Yesterday, I learned that if I'm going to
37:32
broadcast them later on my, at least on
37:35
the YouTube side.
37:37
Now, we have licenses for all the music
37:39
we play here.
37:39
We can play any song we want.
37:41
We can get any story.
37:42
It's part of the licensing of having a
37:44
radio station, right?
37:46
But if you store it and put it
37:48
out later, uh-oh, U.S. soldier charges
37:52
using classified and oh yeah, that's the guy
37:54
I told you about yesterday.
37:55
Did you hear about this guy?
37:56
Um, this guy, where is he?
38:00
This is a story that has to be
38:02
known.
38:02
So when I served in the military, I
38:04
had a top secret U.S. government clearance,
38:05
top secret TSI, highest level you could possibly
38:08
get because I was working on the Nevada
38:10
nuclear test site.
38:11
We worked with Soviet and Russian communications that
38:15
would come in from various sources around the
38:17
world, whether it was bounced radio signals, whether
38:20
it was spy stuff, whatever.
38:21
And we had satellite photo imagery and stuff
38:24
like that.
38:25
All the stuff that now you get on
38:26
Google for free back then was huge money
38:30
and huge dollars.
38:31
And there were a couple of times when
38:32
I served, okay?
38:33
Some of these stories would come out when
38:36
I went to Russia, okay?
38:38
And they would always warn us.
38:40
You'd have a briefing before you left, a
38:42
briefing when you came back, say what you
38:44
said, right?
38:45
And back then, we would take these little
38:48
mini satellite phones with us, which was really
38:50
crazy.
38:51
They had these fold out dishes that you
38:54
put a dish, a communication dish on your
38:59
hotel balcony.
39:01
And you know, you point it up to
39:07
the sky, and then you get to make
39:08
a phone call once a week to your
39:10
family.
39:12
But it was incredibly expensive.
39:14
And so you'd get 10 minutes on the
39:15
phone, you know, and I was in charge
39:17
of having the satellite phone that was this
39:19
huge freaking thing that would satellite up.
39:23
We did them every Sunday.
39:26
You know, I'd let people come into my
39:27
room.
39:27
We'd go out on my, what do you
39:30
call it?
39:30
My balcony.
39:34
And I was, you know, the one I
39:36
remember in particular was when we were in
39:38
Moldova.
39:39
And so I was in Moldova for like
39:41
18 weeks.
39:42
And they got used to us after a
39:44
while.
39:45
But we had this mini dish come out
39:48
in this huge box, and I had to
39:50
carry it around.
39:51
And he had this huge, you know, foam
39:53
filled crate or case that you would put
39:55
it in, you open the thing up, and
39:57
you take it out and you put your
39:59
satellite phone up, and you begin to speak
40:04
on it, right?
40:05
And the, you know, couldn't have been first
40:08
time we had it up, I swear to
40:09
God, it could have been 15 minutes.
40:12
Some guy comes up, knocks on the door,
40:14
and he's, you know, KGB dude, or security,
40:22
he was a security.
40:24
And he says, listen, you're not allowed to
40:28
have a satellite here.
40:30
And I said, well, it's not a satellite,
40:31
it's a phone.
40:32
Well, it is an antenna.
40:33
You know, obviously, I can't launch a satellite
40:35
from here.
40:37
And, you know, it's a phone, he goes,
40:39
is it registered?
40:40
I said, well, I have a diplomatic passport,
40:44
here it is, they saw, you know, they
40:45
know we bring it, we bring it every
40:47
time we go, you know, go check with
40:49
whoever you got to check with, if you'd
40:51
like us to wait, you know, an hour
40:52
or two, I'll wait an hour or two,
40:54
but this is how we communicate and get
40:56
our phone systems.
40:57
So that you don't listen to our phone
40:59
calls.
41:01
To our spouses, you know, it's crazy.
41:03
We make a call once a week.
41:05
And so he left, came back a half
41:07
an hour later and said, it was like
41:11
he didn't have anything negative to say about
41:13
it.
41:13
So he let it go.
41:14
And they got used to us, I guess
41:15
they didn't do anything else about it.
41:17
But the first few times they, you know,
41:20
somebody come up and knock and we'd say,
41:22
you know, it's only you can't have that.
41:23
And part of it was they couldn't have
41:25
it because they didn't want people looking out
41:28
and thinking, oh, you know, people were walking
41:30
down the street and somebody might look up
41:32
and see us with a frigging satellite, you
41:34
know, we're obviously doing something, a satellite phone,
41:38
I mean, and obviously doing something improper.
41:41
And we weren't.
41:43
That was just how cell phones were back
41:45
then.
41:46
So remember the great big box phone you'd
41:48
put in your car?
41:49
I remember having one of those for certain
41:53
purposes that were, oh, yeah, it was in
41:55
our van that we would cruise around with
41:57
the Russians.
41:58
They were very impressed.
41:59
And do you remember the ones on airplanes
42:01
when you'd go in the airplane, the airplane,
42:03
it had this big ass phone that was
42:05
on a huge, it was like a brick.
42:06
It was a large, more like a concrete
42:10
block than a brick.
42:11
And they'd bring it over and you could
42:14
make a call.
42:15
And the phone call had cost you like
42:17
$50 or something crazy that you'd make a
42:20
call, speak for three minutes, $50.
42:23
And, you know, that was, those were the
42:26
days, huh?
42:27
And now it's nothing.
42:28
You get Wi-Fi on your, if you
42:30
buy your Wi-Fi plan when you fly
42:32
Turkish Airlines, it costs $15 and you get
42:34
free Wi-Fi the whole way.
42:36
And maybe it's 30, maybe it's only 15
42:38
for a two-hour pass, but you want
42:40
it for the whole flight.
42:41
It's like $30 or something.
42:42
And it's a 12, 13-hour flight.
42:44
It's worth the money.
42:45
And most of the time it works, complete
42:49
internet all the way across the ocean.
42:53
These are different times.
42:55
But back then people were worried about spying
42:58
and were worried about using insider information a
43:02
lot more than they are today, right?
43:04
And so when we would go over to
43:06
Russia, we would get told about all of
43:08
these worries.
43:09
We would worry, you know, make sure that
43:10
everything was going the correct way.
43:12
And then they would say, don't end up
43:15
like a soldier so-and-so.
43:18
He went over there and had a girlfriend.
43:20
Middle of the night, one night in the
43:21
same place in Moldova, I was there 18
43:23
weeks, some chick comes and knocks on the
43:25
door at like two o'clock in the
43:26
morning.
43:27
And whoa, I opened the door and it
43:30
was like, oh my God, this is an
43:34
attractive girl.
43:36
And in nice, fluent Russian, she says to
43:40
me, are you needing company of some sort?
43:46
I said, I truly am, but it would
43:49
be a big mistake for me to get
43:52
company at this period in history.
43:55
Thanks for stopping by.
43:57
I booted her out.
43:58
Well, some people didn't.
44:01
And well, crazy stuff.
44:08
Would always occur.
44:10
And there was a lot of, well, I
44:12
wish I could remember some of them, some
44:14
of the names of people who would end
44:16
up taking secrets.
44:18
And we didn't know anything really secret.
44:20
It was crap.
44:21
And, you know, it was like, oh, yeah,
44:23
everything that we do now or that we
44:25
talked about back then is not remotely important
44:30
even.
44:31
And except, I mean, it was, but everybody
44:34
threw them out the window.
44:35
There are no nuclear threshold test ban treaty
44:39
obligations anymore.
44:40
There's no intermediate range nuclear forces treaties anymore.
44:45
And we are expanding warfare, not curtailing it.
44:51
And so that's where we are today.
44:53
But that doesn't mean that people should be
44:55
able to use their influence, their knowledge, their
45:00
systems to individually profit from what they have
45:05
done.
45:06
And it's, I mean, think about this.
45:12
This guy, the one that I'm talking about,
45:15
let's get his name so we make sure
45:17
we have it.
45:18
The guy who went to, who was part
45:23
of the Venezuela attack team in the U
45:29
.S. and he was a military guy, he
45:33
profited from this.
45:36
He bet $30,000 on Maduro being removed
45:43
from office.
45:45
And he knew about the events because he
45:51
was involved in them.
45:53
And so he places a bet and he
45:58
was a high ranking dude.
46:01
I mean, this is a freaking idiot.
46:02
U.S. Army Special Forces soldier identified as
46:08
Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested
46:13
for using classified information to bet $30,000
46:17
on a prediction market about the January 3rd,
46:22
2026 U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas
46:26
Maduro.
46:27
He earned $400,000 profit from his bet
46:32
just before the operation was finalized.
46:37
The operation, the incident known as Operation Absolute
46:41
Resolve involved U.S. Special Forces raid on
46:45
January 3rd, 2026 in Caracas, which resulted in
46:48
apprehension of Maduro.
46:50
The bet, soldier placed roughly $32,000 to
46:53
$33,000 on poly market.
46:56
Now this was interesting to me when I
46:58
first heard the case and I haven't looked
47:00
into it.
47:00
I want to because I want to uh
47:04
make some bets and predictions.
47:07
I'm not involved in any of that crap.
47:09
Why not go make some bets on what's
47:12
going to happen?
47:13
Wouldn't that be fun?
47:14
So instead of us opining, apparently it's a
47:18
reality, you know, instead of us out here
47:20
opining and they're always asking, well, what do
47:22
you think's going to happen?
47:23
What do you think's going to happen?
47:24
You know, I should have done this years
47:26
ago when people were saying, oh gee, Ukraine's
47:29
going to kick your crap out of Russia
47:30
in no time.
47:32
Russia's just going to fall over.
47:34
And the idiot experts that we've alleged were
47:37
doing things.
47:38
But this soldier bets $32,000 takes his,
47:41
you know, part of his pension there on
47:44
poly market in December, late December.
47:47
And he wagers that Maduro would be out
47:49
of power by January.
47:52
He was charged with confidential government information for
47:55
insider trading.
47:56
Now, here's the problem.
47:58
Everybody's doing insider training.
48:00
What about all these oil people that have
48:03
inside information?
48:05
Hey, make sure you put some money on
48:07
this.
48:07
And so they put millions, put all their
48:09
best customers on it and they make shit
48:12
tons of money.
48:13
Pardon my French.
48:14
Nobody goes after them, you know.
48:17
And when the straight to whore moves are
48:19
closed, suddenly oil futures go up and it's
48:21
the futures market where people make the biggest
48:23
piles of cash is on the future.
48:26
So, if you happen to know that the
48:28
Russian Tuapse refineries are going to be bombed,
48:31
why wouldn't you, oh Ukrainian, take the money
48:34
that you've stolen from the United States and
48:37
put it in the market?
48:38
And that's how they make their money.
48:40
That's a little bit cleaner than just stealing
48:44
the money.
48:44
They take the money they've stolen, a small
48:47
amount, which, you know, a million bucks, and
48:50
they put it on a futures market, knowing
48:53
that what they're about to do is going
48:54
to have great trade significance.
48:57
And then they bomb the Tuapse oil reserve.
49:00
The oil reserve people get up in the
49:03
morning, go, look at this, three refineries are
49:05
bombed overnight.
49:06
That's going to stress the global market.
49:09
Futures are going up and everybody is you
49:12
know, is betting that oil prices are going
49:15
to go up.
49:16
And so, the futures go up tenfold because
49:19
the stock goes up tiny, the future goes
49:21
up enormous.
49:22
And that is how it works.
49:26
So, this guy takes his insider information and
49:30
he gets rich, 400,000.
49:33
This guy's a piker.
49:34
He's a nobody.
49:35
But you have to show somebody getting in
49:37
trouble, government, right?
49:39
Somebody has to get in trouble.
49:41
Maybe he's, you know, honestly, is betting?
49:49
I mean, if I happen to know that
49:52
a player is injured and nobody else does,
49:58
you know, is that insider gambling?
50:02
I mean, insider gambling?
50:03
What the hell is that?
50:04
I mean, I don't know.
50:07
But they're definitely charging with something.
50:10
And this event is notable for soldiers using
50:14
insider knowledge of a major military operation.
50:17
This was put out in the Miami Herald
50:19
for personal financial gain via a prediction market.
50:24
Now, I was interested in this prediction market
50:27
thing anyway.
50:30
And this is an English Facebook post.
50:34
Well, but nobody's out there.
50:37
Al-Arabia English.
50:39
Nobody's even looked at it.
50:41
I wonder if you got to, in order
50:43
to get into poly market.
50:47
Okay.
50:49
No, thanks.
50:51
US soldier bet on poly market.
50:53
Where is poly market?
50:55
We want to get to poly market.
50:58
Well, maybe we just have to type polymarket
51:01
.com.
51:02
I'll do that later.
51:02
I'll get into my gambling on world events.
51:06
We'll do it publicly right here.
51:08
We'll take 10 bucks and put it on
51:11
what people think.
51:14
So someone gave a prediction to me not
51:19
long ago that all of the debt, United
51:27
States debt, would be liquidated by the time
51:35
the old Trumpster leaves office.
51:38
Now, if you have insider information that says
51:41
that Trump's going to nationalize all the debt
51:43
and forget about it or do something and
51:46
wipe it all out, say, sorry, we've taken
51:49
all your debt and that's the end, which
51:51
is probably about the only thing that would
51:52
work right now.
51:54
And the people that get screwed are rich
51:57
anyway.
51:58
What difference does it make?
51:59
You know, where other countries that can recover,
52:03
you know, if you want to screw Europe,
52:05
you want to screw Japan, you want to
52:06
screw China, then nationalize debt.
52:11
See, it's done.
52:12
It's over.
52:12
And we're not paying it.
52:13
Sorry.
52:14
We've had to take bankruptcy and we're only
52:17
doing it once, but we're going to open
52:19
it.
52:19
That actually makes a hell of a lot
52:21
of sense, you know, to do it.
52:23
I mean, the world's a mess anyway, right?
52:27
I mean, if the world is a mess
52:29
anyway, what difference does it make?
52:32
If we're bombing refineries all over the planet
52:36
because we don't like the people that own
52:38
the refinery and the only refineries left are
52:42
going to be U.S., maybe.
52:48
It's a good thing.
52:49
We've already stolen all of Venezuela's oil capacity.
52:53
You know, they don't have any, you know,
52:54
and now we've taken that.
52:56
We're trying to get Iran's or blow it
52:58
up.
52:59
Iran is responding by blowing up everybody else's
53:03
capacity.
53:04
We're blowing up Karg Island.
53:06
The Ukrainians are blowing up all the crap
53:08
in Russia and Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland are
53:13
allowing them to route their and Finland are
53:15
allowing them to route their drones through their
53:18
territory so they can hit Russian areas up
53:21
north, which is frankly a war crime.
53:24
And so is a lot of the other
53:26
stuff that's going on.
53:27
It's a war crime to destroy, to destroy
53:30
infrastructure anyway.
53:33
All of these are war crimes.
53:36
Are you aware of this?
53:37
And they are not supposed to occur.
53:41
And we are using it as the tail
53:45
twister and nobody pays attention to it anymore
53:47
because well, Iran is just the face of
53:51
evil, right?
53:52
And Russia is just the face of evil,
53:55
right?
53:56
These are people that think differently than you
53:59
do.
54:00
And so therefore they are the faces of
54:02
evil.
54:04
So now we all have to get on
54:06
Polly market and make bets.
54:08
So that's what we're going to do from
54:09
now on.
54:10
We're going to, I'm going to try to
54:12
look on Polly market every day and find
54:15
the bets that are the most ridiculous.
54:18
And we're going to take some and see
54:20
if we can't make some money on the
54:24
Polly market.
54:27
Now, so you wonder if it's any different
54:31
than, you know, Friday, we're going to do
54:34
a little bit on the VLT, the video
54:36
lottery terminals and all the crap going on
54:38
in the state of Missouri about that right
54:40
now.
54:41
And that'll be fun.
54:44
And, uh, talking about the, let's call it
54:49
incongruence of thought processes on these things that,
54:55
uh, you know, they're evil.
54:57
You know, we're supposed, we have to be
54:59
sold that these are evil machines that are
55:01
putting gambling everywhere.
55:03
Gambling is gambling.
55:05
Life's a frigging gamble.
55:07
You know, what, what do you care if
55:09
somebody chooses to spend their money on it?
55:11
If you want an evening, you go to
55:13
a casino, you do what I do.
55:16
You dress up, you take what little money
55:19
you have to throw together that you can
55:21
afford to lose.
55:23
Never go with money.
55:24
You can't afford to lose.
55:25
And you call it an event.
55:26
They usually have good restaurants.
55:28
You go find a good restaurant inside.
55:30
Hopefully you go regularly.
55:32
I like to go and play, uh, uh,
55:35
Texas Hold'em and do tournaments like that.
55:38
That's kind of entertaining and fun.
55:41
And, um, you know, I've made it to
55:43
the final table several times, you know, at
55:46
some of these places and it's a lot
55:48
of fun.
55:48
I've made a little bit of money on
55:49
it.
55:50
Usually not.
55:51
You're out and, you know, first couple of
55:53
tables, cards aren't with you or you're not
55:55
a good player.
55:56
You know, I suppose it is, uh, is
55:59
a profession.
56:00
You know, it's not gambling if you're playing
56:02
against me because I read the cards and
56:06
I bet the cards.
56:08
I never bet playing, playing games.
56:11
I just don't do that.
56:12
I, I either have it or I don't.
56:14
And if I don't, I don't bet.
56:16
And that's the problem.
56:18
If you don't have it, you're still supposed
56:21
to bet and play the games and trick
56:23
somebody and thing.
56:24
And it's like, well, no, that's not what
56:26
I do.
56:26
So for me, it's better to play against
56:29
a machine because the machine doesn't have any
56:31
of those feelings there.
56:33
It's straight percentages and you know, the percentages
56:35
play blackjack.
56:37
It's straight percentages.
56:38
There is no skill in playing blackjack.
56:41
There is a knowing how to bet in
56:42
blackjack, but this, these other things, the way
56:46
this, uh, uh, what do you call it?
56:49
No, I forgot the name of it already.
56:51
The, uh, uh, uh, damn it.
56:56
No, I can't remember where he bet poly
56:59
market.
56:59
We have to remember that we're going to
57:01
have to print this or at least send
57:03
me the, uh, send me the, the, uh,
57:07
link so that I have it.
57:08
You know what people do these days?
57:11
And what I do frequently is I just
57:13
break out the old handy dandy phone and
57:16
I take a picture of the screen and,
57:20
uh, you know, you can turn anything into
57:22
a PDF these days.
57:23
It's great.
57:24
And so, uh, you ship it off, you
57:27
turn it into a PDF.
57:33
Well, let's see.
57:34
We still have a couple of things to
57:36
go over.
57:37
So NATO is get this.
57:42
Well, you know what?
57:42
We should throw a song in there just
57:43
because I, I like, uh, I like to
57:46
put songs up.
57:47
Let's see where we are in, in my
57:49
history and see if we can find, uh,
57:54
the history of Sam on YouTube.
57:57
Cause I do listen to some pretty good
57:59
stuff on the old YouTube and, uh, let's
58:03
see, we're going to find, Oh, there's a
58:06
Russian one that I might play for you.
58:08
No, I'm gonna do something a little different.
58:13
Oh, there's Burt Reynolds.
58:14
Oh, that's actually Norm McDonald playing Burt Reynolds,
58:17
but that's pretty damn funny.
58:18
He actually almost looks like him in the
58:20
photo.
58:22
So we're going to go to an orca.
58:24
So, so yesterday I found some orchestra music
58:27
that you would not believe it is, uh,
58:31
the OTA orchestra, Samara, the O O T
58:36
T a orchestra and Samara Philharmonic academic symphony
58:42
orchestra in Greece in 2019.
58:46
And, uh, this was just a very, a
58:50
very good orchestral, uh, performance.
58:53
There's a video of it and the videos
58:56
are pretty fantastic also.
58:58
And, uh, Oh, but this is the wrong
59:01
song.
59:01
Where's that other, that other, uh, the guitarist,
59:06
she must be out there somewhere.
59:08
Let's make sure.
59:10
No, because, well, we're just winging it today,
59:16
obviously putting stuff together.
59:19
Uh, don't know what the hell we're doing.
59:21
So I wanted to play for you the
59:23
ill Bruto, the live orchestral version of, uh,
59:28
um, what's his name?
59:30
The, um, good to bad ugly movies.
59:34
Holy Snikes.
59:35
That is some good stuff.
59:37
And, uh, let's see.
59:40
We wanted to go to, is this the
59:44
one?
59:45
No, I don't like you people.
59:47
You're driving me crazy.
59:48
Well, it doesn't matter.
59:49
We're going to pick one because we're going
59:50
to take a break.
59:51
And so we were going to find the
59:52
shortest one in the group, and this is
59:54
going to be a new one for me,
59:56
but we're going to listen to it.
59:57
And this is OTA official OTT a, if
1:00:00
you want to hear some, uh, some really
1:00:02
good stuff and we're going to, um, listen
1:00:05
to them play here goes nothing joined in,
1:00:09
in the clapping on that one.
1:00:12
So that is some pretty good stuff.
1:00:13
And that is the one I wanted.
1:00:14
It's called Royal Safari.
1:00:17
It was done actually in 2018.
1:00:19
It's the OTA OTT a orchestra.
1:00:22
You can find them on YouTube.
1:00:23
And, uh, I, I usually do, um, uh,
1:00:27
background music in the office.
1:00:29
And so sometimes I'll put on like a
1:00:31
orchestra or I'll put on those long play,
1:00:33
uh, deep house stuff in the background, you
1:00:36
know, and have it, have it, uh, have
1:00:38
it, um, put there, um, and in the
1:00:43
background.
1:00:44
So, uh, but sometimes I play these orchestral
1:00:47
things and, uh, and I really like them.
1:00:49
And if you, uh, uh, have, you know,
1:00:51
I haven't gotten to the symphony in a
1:00:53
long freaking time and, uh, I'm, I'm thinking
1:00:55
I need to, uh, become a better citizen
1:00:58
and, uh, uh, go watch some of these,
1:01:01
but, uh, I have some deep feeling, you
1:01:04
know, I listened to this deep feeling stuff,
1:01:05
French music, uh, uh, Italian, Cuban.
1:01:08
I just put one on and I have
1:01:11
it, you know, play in the background.
1:01:12
I like all the international stuff and you
1:01:14
come across some great music that way.
1:01:16
And, uh, that last one, you know, isn't,
1:01:18
you know, songs and anything like that.
1:01:20
And, um, what is this on the screen
1:01:23
here in the studio?
1:01:24
Why are the communists unafraid?
1:01:27
If I knew how to use this TV
1:01:29
stuff, I would, uh, pull it up for
1:01:31
you.
1:01:32
Maybe I'll have to ask JR for a
1:01:33
lesson.
1:01:34
And so here they are talking about communists
1:01:36
being unafraid.
1:01:37
Well, why would communists be afraid in the
1:01:39
first place?
1:01:40
You know, communism, they, they, they, they pumped
1:01:43
down your throat is something evil and horrible.
1:01:45
No, it's not.
1:01:46
It's no different than any other form of
1:01:48
government, friends and neighbors.
1:01:50
It's, uh, unfortunately the government takes over.
1:01:54
It's always that way.
1:01:57
Communism rules for the, but not for me
1:01:59
the same as we have, but in reverse,
1:02:02
our people are all fabulously wealthy.
1:02:04
Oh, wait, that's not a reverse.
1:02:05
So we're the communist ones.
1:02:08
They were all fabulously wealthy.
1:02:10
So, but there are a lot of people
1:02:11
that didn't play along.
1:02:13
They stayed out of it, right?
1:02:14
So used to have the, um, uh, what
1:02:18
do you call it?
1:02:19
The, uh, Komsomoletsy and the Komsomoletsy were, uh,
1:02:23
uh, children that, uh, went to these clubs
1:02:26
to be prepped for later being in the
1:02:32
party, you know, and there were when, when
1:02:34
the Russians, when, when I was with the
1:02:36
Russians in the, uh, on the nuclear test
1:02:38
site, we had a lot of downtime.
1:02:41
Okay.
1:02:41
There's only so much you can do if
1:02:43
you're, uh, uh, an interpreter and the people
1:02:46
are digging a hole for eight months.
1:02:48
And what are you going to, you know,
1:02:50
after the first couple of days, there's not
1:02:52
much to, uh, interpret while we're watching the
1:02:56
same guy dig the hole that he was
1:02:58
digging yesterday.
1:02:59
And we're doing it again today.
1:03:01
It's, uh, here, here's, here's the hole, uh,
1:03:05
let's watch it be dug.
1:03:07
But, uh, we would have a lot of
1:03:09
free time to talk about this.
1:03:10
And they would talk about and make jokes
1:03:12
about the, uh, uh, Komsomoletsy and about the
1:03:16
party.
1:03:17
And they'd say, Oh, is he a member
1:03:20
of the party?
1:03:20
The joke would always end with because they
1:03:22
were all geologists, right?
1:03:24
So all these guys were geologists and they
1:03:25
studied levels of the, uh, of the, of
1:03:29
the layers of the earth.
1:03:30
And so the, you could put in exactly
1:03:32
the same layer at every spot.
1:03:34
So every day, one of their jobs was
1:03:36
to take whatever came out of the hole
1:03:40
and analyze what came out of the hole.
1:03:42
Say you went 10 feet a day in
1:03:43
there and I'm making this up, but say
1:03:45
you went 10 feet a day and they
1:03:47
have these huge 10 foot wide diamond bit
1:03:49
blades that are drilled in these enormous holes.
1:03:51
And, uh, so, and tons of money.
1:03:53
And they go down there and then they
1:03:55
would suck out all the stuff that they
1:03:56
pulverized and bring it up.
1:03:58
And then all the old geologists would review
1:04:02
what was taken out, or they would go
1:04:04
down and take a core sample at that
1:04:06
depth, right?
1:04:07
You take a core sample where they go
1:04:09
out and drill into the side of the
1:04:10
hole, pull out a three foot long core
1:04:13
of what is there and say, this is
1:04:15
the core of what it is.
1:04:16
So that when you filled it back up,
1:04:17
you would go, but that's, and so these
1:04:19
core samples, very important.
1:04:21
And all the geologists would go and review
1:04:22
them and talk about all the, you know,
1:04:23
what's in there, sandstone.
1:04:25
Oh, gee, what's in this one?
1:04:26
I don't know what limestone, you know, and
1:04:28
on and on and on.
1:04:30
And when you filled up the hole, you
1:04:32
had to fill it up in the same,
1:04:34
with the same sort of, uh, material all
1:04:39
the way up the hole.
1:04:40
So you got your layers of earth and
1:04:42
each layer up the hole for the whole
1:04:43
2000 feet, you would fill in the same
1:04:46
stuff that was there before.
1:04:47
So the science could work.
1:04:49
So the science wasn't, uh, uh, improper, although
1:04:53
it's a fricking nuclear bomb.
1:04:54
What, when it blows up all that crap's
1:04:57
gone anyway.
1:04:58
Anyway, uh, they would tell jokes about, they
1:05:01
were all geologists and say, they said that
1:05:03
in college, when they were in college, they
1:05:05
would tell jokes about being, uh, um, in,
1:05:09
uh, the party.
1:05:12
Is he a member of the party?
1:05:15
Uh, and they'd say, oh no, he doesn't
1:05:17
do it.
1:05:18
And they'd say, not the, not the communist
1:05:20
party, the geologic party, the party of geologists,
1:05:25
the geologic party.
1:05:27
And so they, they would always make jokes
1:05:29
about that.
1:05:30
Anyway, long, stupid story that has absolutely no,
1:05:33
so, but I had a lot of fun
1:05:34
out there with those guys and they were
1:05:36
highly intelligent.
1:05:37
And, uh, uh, we had great discussions on
1:05:40
many, many topics while we were out there,
1:05:43
uh, doing, uh, various things.
1:05:46
And, uh, uh, anyway, it's, um, it's an
1:05:50
interesting old world out there.
1:05:51
Where are we going to Polly market?
1:05:54
Oh yeah.
1:05:54
I found Polly market.
1:05:56
Um, here's the New York times article.
1:05:59
If I can actually read it and I
1:06:02
don't think I can, no, they won't let
1:06:05
me in.
1:06:07
Um, yeah.
1:06:09
Why don't we take a Google account and
1:06:12
see if they'll let me in.
1:06:13
I don't think so.
1:06:15
No, I gotta do to, to, uh, step
1:06:19
verification and all this stuff.
1:06:21
You don't get to read the articles.
1:06:23
Um, let's see what we do have though
1:06:29
is why does Iran have, this is all
1:06:34
over Reddit, right?
1:06:37
Why does Iran have so much us equipment
1:06:40
and weapons?
1:06:42
Yeah, bro.
1:06:43
Uh, they blame Reagan for this all the
1:06:46
way off.
1:06:46
So they're still holding the, uh, the issue
1:06:49
as being all a failure of Reagan only.
1:06:55
I'm telling you, um, these people, uh, are
1:07:00
selling weapons to everyone.
1:07:02
And by the way, guess who sold a
1:07:05
lot of weapons and what they resell.
1:07:08
These people got it wrong on Reddit.
1:07:11
In my, uh, humble opinion, there's this dispute
1:07:14
that went on, um, through the whole, you
1:07:17
know, forever.
1:07:18
And the fact is, and these are facts,
1:07:21
these are not, uh, you know, I don't
1:07:24
know what dreamings of somebody.
1:07:26
This is the fact you Ukraine has been
1:07:30
caught on more than one occasion reselling us
1:07:35
weaponry and selling it to enemies of the
1:07:39
United States.
1:07:40
And it's happened repeatedly.
1:07:42
It is not new news.
1:07:46
It's happened all the time.
1:07:48
Um, oh boy, Gavin Newsom wrote a new
1:07:53
book.
1:07:54
Oh, he bought, he bought 67,000 of
1:07:57
his own books to boost it.
1:07:59
Apparently.
1:08:00
So what it says in his book says
1:08:02
a young man in a hurry.
1:08:04
Uh, that means he's running for president.
1:08:06
You know, you write a book, you're trying
1:08:08
to get people to know about you and
1:08:10
hopefully be interested in you, but maybe no
1:08:13
one is.
1:08:14
And so they have to buy, uh, you
1:08:16
have to buy your own book.
1:08:18
Hmm.
1:08:21
Curious.
1:08:22
Well, let's see.
1:08:24
We never did, uh, uh, go through enough
1:08:28
about the nude pictures of that girl from
1:08:30
the beginning of the show.
1:08:31
Did we going to have to buy build,
1:08:34
I suppose, and get a membership to that.
1:08:37
Maybe if they're posting nudie photos of Ukrainian
1:08:40
divers.
1:08:41
So Ukrainian women are some of the most
1:08:43
beautiful in the world.
1:08:44
That's for sure.
1:08:45
Um, senior EU officials have been targeted with
1:08:49
Israeli spyware that comes to you from the,
1:08:54
uh, Reuters, um, lady named Rafi.
1:08:59
That's a guy, Rafael Sater and Christopher being,
1:09:04
wasn't there a being on friends Chandler type.
1:09:08
Um, I don't know.
1:09:11
We're going to go back to Ukraine.
1:09:13
Okay.
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Friedrich merits chancellor of Germany says an eventual
1:09:22
peace deal with Russia will require concession by
1:09:28
Kiev.
1:09:29
Ukraine may have to accept territorial losses in
1:09:33
a peace deal with Russia to keep its
1:09:36
EU membership hopes alive.
1:09:39
German chancellor Mertz said yesterday, Monday, Moscow has
1:09:45
maintained that for a lasting peace, Kiev must
1:09:47
pull its soldiers from the regions of Denetsk,
1:09:51
Lugansk, Herson, Zaporizhia, as well as recognize Russia's
1:09:54
new territories, including the Crimea.
1:09:57
All the regions overwhelmingly voted to join the
1:10:01
Russian federation from 2014 to 2022.
1:10:06
Well, in all this, uh, you have self
1:10:08
right to self-determination, not if you're Ukraine
1:10:12
and you want to kill Russians.
1:10:13
You don't, uh, hopefully there here's, here's Friedrich.
1:10:19
Hopefully there will eventually be a peace treaty
1:10:22
with Russia.
1:10:23
Then possibly part of Ukraine's territory will no
1:10:27
longer be Ukrainian.
1:10:28
He said during a speech in Marsburg as
1:10:31
cited by several sources for Vladimir events, Zelensky
1:10:36
to push through a referendum for such a
1:10:38
decision.
1:10:39
He could tell Ukrainians, I have opened the
1:10:42
path to Europe for you.
1:10:45
He said, now the Ukrainians in large majority
1:10:51
are not for continuing the war.
1:10:55
Uh, they just aren't.
1:10:57
And, uh, uh, so, uh, you know, the
1:11:01
last ones that I saw say that it's,
1:11:04
he's down to a popularity rating, well below
1:11:07
50%, you know, 30% and, uh, that
1:11:11
he would not certainly be elected president at
1:11:14
present.
1:11:15
And, uh, it was just a couple of
1:11:16
days ago.
1:11:17
I think there's only five days left until
1:11:19
he has to extend martial law again.
1:11:24
And he's already, you know, trying to push
1:11:26
it through.
1:11:27
And, uh, um, Mertz added that the EU
1:11:31
could then initiate steps for Kiv's accession, but
1:11:35
warned that Zelensky's timeline for membership are too
1:11:39
optimistic.
1:11:40
Zelensky has the idea of joining the EU
1:11:42
on January 1, 2027.
1:11:45
This will not work.
1:11:47
Even January 1, 2028 is unrealistic, said the
1:11:51
German chancellor.
1:11:52
Zelensky has for months demanded that Brussels give
1:11:55
Ukraine a clear date for joining the EU.
1:11:59
He's also consistently rejected accepting territorial losses.
1:12:05
However, the economic block accession criteria demand prospective
1:12:10
members have no unresolved border disputes with their
1:12:14
neighbors.
1:12:16
Moscow stresses that any stable peace, and they've
1:12:19
always stressed this, has to include the withdrawal
1:12:22
of any Ukrainian troops from the parts that
1:12:25
Donbass still under control.
1:12:27
That's, uh, uh, I'm sorry, um, Donetsk and
1:12:31
Lugansk.
1:12:32
Moscow has also said it does not oppose
1:12:34
Ukraine joining the EU, but has criticized, um,
1:12:39
you know, what foreign minister Sergei Lavrov describes
1:12:42
as its metamorphosis, EU metamorphosis into an aggressive
1:12:47
military political block.
1:12:49
I happen to agree with that.
1:12:50
Didn't used to be that way.
1:12:53
For his part, apparently, uh, Putin knows how
1:12:58
the war is going to end.
1:13:01
Um, let's see, Russian adversaries are busy thinking
1:13:07
about how to shape the country's victory in
1:13:11
the Ukraine conflict, says president Putin.
1:13:15
He made the remarks in response to comments
1:13:17
by the head of the local legislature of
1:13:20
the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Yevgeny Chintsov, during
1:13:24
a meeting with representatives of the country's municipalities.
1:13:28
Chintsov said that nobody, including the enemy, doubts
1:13:33
that conflict will result in Russian victory.
1:13:36
Well, that is absolutely true, Mr. Chintsov, Yevgeny.
1:13:41
Uh, Putin agreed, but appeared to caution against
1:13:44
making overly bold statements prematurely.
1:13:48
Yes, they are just thinking about how to
1:13:50
shape it all.
1:13:52
We'll see.
1:13:53
However, military action is always very complicated and
1:13:57
dangerous thing.
1:13:58
We know how everything will end, but we
1:14:01
will not make any public statements about it.
1:14:03
We will simply strive to achieve the goals
1:14:06
we have set.
1:14:08
They've been pretty steadfast in this resolve and
1:14:13
saying, well, we know what's going to happen.
1:14:15
Oh my goodness.
1:14:17
They have another guy being another guy, girl
1:14:19
on TV.
1:14:21
Oh boy.
1:14:24
Sometimes they're just not very attractive.
1:14:26
Okay.
1:14:26
If you want to be most of time,
1:14:28
in fact, they're just absolutely not attractive.
1:14:31
And, um, perhaps if you're going to be
1:14:35
a woman, you should look like a woman.
1:14:37
That's unfortunate.
1:14:39
Early in the conflict, Moscow outlined the goals
1:14:42
it seeks to achieve through the Ukraine operation
1:14:45
maintains they have remained unchanged ever since.
1:14:48
And that's true.
1:14:49
These include demilitarization, denazification of the country and
1:14:53
protection of Russian speakers, as well as ensuring
1:14:56
Ukrainian neutrality.
1:14:58
Did you hear the thing the other day
1:14:59
that the EU wants, uh, um, Ukraine to
1:15:05
implement laws, protecting minorities because they're not protected.
1:15:11
Additional goals that emerged later include the recognition
1:15:14
of the formerly Ukrainian regions that voted to
1:15:17
join Russia.
1:15:18
Moscow repeatedly signals its openness to resolve the
1:15:21
hostility through diplomacy, which doesn't exist these days.
1:15:25
Should its demands be met while maintaining its
1:15:28
readiness to achieve the goals by force should
1:15:31
negotiate efforts ultimately fail.
1:15:33
Territorial issues have become one of the obstacles
1:15:37
in the negotiation as Kiev repeatedly refuses to
1:15:40
withdraw its forces from the parts of the
1:15:43
Dan Don Basset still controls.
1:15:45
It's very small.
1:15:46
Those, uh, those parts that they, um, that
1:15:52
they do control.
1:15:53
They're tiny.
1:15:55
Um, we started this show with two OPSA
1:15:58
and I don't think I have time to
1:16:00
get into this article to finish it.
1:16:03
But, uh, Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's black
1:16:07
sea port, uh, city of two OPSA are
1:16:10
worsening the global oil crunch caused by the
1:16:13
U S Israeli war.
1:16:14
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes hit two OPSA densely
1:16:18
populated port and Russia's Krasnodar region having target,
1:16:22
uh, of the refinery and adjacent marine terminals.
1:16:26
Regional governor Veniamin, which is Benjamin Kondratyev reported
1:16:32
fires at the site, including a major blaze
1:16:35
at the refinery, prompting evacuation of citizens and
1:16:38
emergency response.
1:16:40
The attacks led to high risk air pollution
1:16:43
with residents advised to use respirators as an
1:16:46
oil spill destroyed miles of beach on this
1:16:49
resort town.
1:16:52
Kondratyev also released a video from the town
1:16:55
filled with smoke with a cleanup operation ongoing
1:16:58
at the beach.
1:17:00
Speaking with reporters Tuesday, Peskov confirmed that Russian
1:17:04
president Putin has been briefed on the situation.
1:17:06
Kiev regime once again has struck oil storage
1:17:09
facilities where the oil is intended for export
1:17:11
operations and for filling export contract obligations.
1:17:15
He said, these are frightening times, people and
1:17:18
oil continued to target all over the including
1:17:23
in Russia, Iran, Venezuela.
1:17:27
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