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illiterate only in English. And uh there
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you have it. Um
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well,
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there's there's news going on. So much
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news, but I think the most uh the best
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you Well, I the most appropriate news to
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share here on international flavor is
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news that has an international sort of
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flavor. Isn't that correct? That is what
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we were doing. So now we understand that
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a German tabloid has published nude
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photos. Now we normally wouldn't get
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into the, you know, the obscene, the
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lewd, except on Fridays when we discuss
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uh the state and the uh alcohol tobacco
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control and their obsession with
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lewdness
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uh misplaced. Uh, however, now since
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we're on international flavor, we can
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say whatever we like about nude. And a
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German tabloid is publishing nude
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photos. Haven't been able to get to them
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yet, and I've been looking.
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Well, they show them. There's a nipple.
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Uh-oh. Where is ATC when you need them?
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How in the world can we be showing a
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nipple? Oh, this is horror stories for
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us here on DAM Radio. the female
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Ukrainian diver that was part of the
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crew blamed by the western media for the
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2022 bombing of Nordstream 2.
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Savoke
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Dva. Uh, by the way, last week, I think
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it was Andre Pescov announced that uh
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uh one of the one of the Nordstream
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lines is is now up and running and ready
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to pump oil into uh Europe, should they
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ask. So, I suppose this little nude
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Ukrainian driver might or diver, I mean,
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might have to uh jump back into water,
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you know, and uh destroy some stuff.
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Ready? Uh, German tabloid build. If you
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want to find these pictures, you can see
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the nude images of this Ukrainian woman
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allegedly linked to the 2022 sabotage of
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Nordstream pipelines for gas. According
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to media reports, the woman was part of
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a group of Ukrainian nationals suspected
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by German investigators of renting the
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yacht Andromeda to carry out the
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sophisticated underwater operation. Her
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name is Ukrainian diver Valyria
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Cherisova Cherishova.
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Uh claims about the woman's past as an
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erotic model identified under the alias
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Fria were first reported by Wall Street
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Journal chief European political
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correspondent Bojan Pansvski in his book
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on the Nordstream attack. His account is
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based on interviews with individuals
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allegedly connected to the case. I need
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to find this book uh for Bojan Pen Pen.
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Maybe it's Penski. Uh you would think,
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but it's a C in there. So, who knows if
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they do it s or ch penski is what it
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appears to be. Polish guy. So, we're
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going to find his book and we're going
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to offer it for sale here. Actually,
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we're going to try to find it in the
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English language.
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Nordstream.
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We're doing the research right in front
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of you here today. Uh Nordstream book.
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And where is it and where can we buy it?
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We can find out about the Nordstream.
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The Nordstream conspiracy. It's
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available on Amazon. Holy shikes. We
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might have to buy this. The Nordstream
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Conspiracy. The inside story of the
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explosions that shook the world. A
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riveting expose on the attack of the
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Nordstream pipelines. The largest act of
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sabotage in modern history. Not true
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though because now yesterday and the day
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before 108 let's see two days ago the
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Ukrainians only sent three drones.
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Yesterday they sent 140 something and
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over the weekend they sent a pretty good
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number and they're attacking a place
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called Touapsa and Touapsa is uh on the
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Black Sea near Sevastapole and uh it
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houses refinery huge Twapsa refinery
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down to 9% capacity according to what
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they say because the Ukrainians are
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blowing up there's like some 50s
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something tank tanks and the Ukrainians
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have blown up nearly all of them with
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these attacks and they've done the same
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up in um St. Petersburg. So, uh get
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ready to hold on to your wallets because
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when uh when refineries are gone, that
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means what? That means oil is gone. And
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so, where are you going to get it? We
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got Trumpster over here bombing. I'm
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going to send you back to the stone ages
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Iran. And Iran's going, well, that's
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fine, but we're taking all your oil
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capacity with us. So the only people
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that will be and don't think that we're
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exempt if you live near a near a a oil
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refinery. I'd move even now. You don't
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want to live nearby one of those because
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these drones will go everywhere and uh
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the Ukrainians are are pretty good at
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this. The Ukrainians are fighting in
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Mali against the Russians. The Russians
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are trying to support the government
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after the French departed Mali. I got a
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little story on that for you uh today.
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But this is a Scandinavian in September
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22. Scandinavian seismologists detected
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what seemed to be an undersea earthquake
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near the Danish island of Bourneholm.
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Instead, several explosions destroyed
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Nordstream. The 20 billion pipeline
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system, transporting cheap Russian gas
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to Germany under the Baltic Sea. The
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mysterious blast shifted global
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politics, disrupted European economies,
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and triggered a manhunt that strained
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relations within the NATO alliance.
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drawn on years of firsthand reporting.
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Can't be that many years. Was only 2022.
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Award-winning Wall Street Journal
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correspondent Bojan Penski presents the
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definitive behind-the-scenes account of
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this audacious operation authorized at
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the highest levels of Ukrainian
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leadership. Mission was ostensibly
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unofficial. Conducted with secrecy.
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Pansfki secured exclusive access to
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German investigators and their political
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overseers. Oo, I love that word. as well
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as the Ukrainian agents who executed the
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attack. A team of intelligence officers,
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military personnel, and civilian divers,
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saboturs operated on a shoestring
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budget, used a small rented yacht with
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seven member crew to conduct the strike
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at great risk in extremely turbulent
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water. The Nordstream conspiracy
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addresses two leading theories about who
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was responsible,
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the Russia or the US, and explains how
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these narratives developed, including
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the popular US theory involving the CIA,
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which knew about the plot. This gripping
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account exposes human stories and moral
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complexity behind one of the most
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remarkable geopolitical mystery. It's
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not a freaking mystery, one that
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redefined modern warfare. It didn't even
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redefine modern warfare. But that
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doesn't mean I'm not going to buy the
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book. Mr. Bojan uh uh Copinsky. You can
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get it on Kindle for $15.99.
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You can get a hardcover version for
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$29.99 or the audio book for free with a
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free trial of uh I forget what that's
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called, but I have it. I have to I have
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an Audible account. I'm going to
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download this sucker on Audible because
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I want the Audible book. Oh, this is
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fantastic. I can now listen to it in the
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car. See, now you guys have learned
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right along with me what is going to
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happen here. But we still have to go
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back to the German tabloid and finish up
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about the Ukrainian diver Valeria.
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Valeria.
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Cherishova. Cherishova is probably how
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it's pronounced. Cherishova. Uh uh.
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Cherisha. Miss Black. Chney is black. So
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she's Valeria Black. Uh let's see. In
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his book, Nerd Blah blah blah. His
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account is based on interviews with
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individuals allegedly connected to the
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case. The photos, now we're back to
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nudity, which we like. Also, the photos
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released by build include fully naked
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images said to show Fria, whose real
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name was previously reported as Valyria
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Cherishova. One image shows her featured
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in the 2004 Erotic Magazine cover. She
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made it to the cover. Another one shows
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her on the sofa, but her face was
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obscured in both photos.
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Well,
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photo concourse the photo concourse of
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her is there. And Rascazi Inovi
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Lana is listed also in Sri.
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Uh what else do they say on there? This
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is uh well there she is. Um, Russian
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officials express skepticism about
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Western media narratives surrounding the
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investigation, suggesting that these
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reports attempt to attribute
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responsibility to rogue Ukrainian actors
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for what Moscow regards as an act of
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terrorism backed or potentially even
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carried out
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by NATO. So, here on International
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Flavor, where the truth just tastes
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better, we just got all kinds of things.
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Nudity, that was fun. We had some nudity
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in there. And uh we actually even So,
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they they obscured the uh the naughty
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bits and but they did expose the nipples
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of this girl. So, they they uh blurred
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out her face. They but they showed the
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nipples, showed the uh weird
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positioning, you know, that uh they
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think is somehow very attractive when
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they uh I don't know what um
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are being sexy, I suppose. And uh uh
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well, there you have it. All you got to
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do is get your copy of Build B and you
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can see these photos. or there's a dude
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named at Hanza 4746
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who uh
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uh this is in in Ukrainian written here
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it looks like uh in Nordstream they have
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he has the X post you can go out there
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and see it as well because it's
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apparently on X and you can see the
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entire show if we open it in the new tab
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Yeah, this dude is named Ing I Ning G
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Hanza. H O N Z A. And Ing has uh uh
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7,000 followers and he has posted this
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um these photos, but it's Ukrainian.
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Can't read it. I'll have to figure out
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how to how to uh interpret Ukrainian at
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some point in my life, I suppose. But
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now it's too late for that kind of thing
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for today's show. I should have done it
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yesterday. Uh let's see.
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Merits. Now there's been some
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interesting stories. India India Israel
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has slammed
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Ukraine's Twitter policy, their Twitter
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diplomacy. Their foreign minister Gideon
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Sar says Kiev never has provided any
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evidence that the Jewish state is buying
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stolen grain from Russia. So now we have
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more disputes. All of these disputes.
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Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sar
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rebukes his Ukrainian counterpart on
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social media saying Kiev has not
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provided evidence that Israel is buying
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stolen grain from Russia. Now Israel
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buys a lot of stuff from Russia. They're
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actually very large partners of Russia.
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There's a a butt ton of Russians in
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Israel. You Jew Jewish u Russians that
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uh there's tons of them and uh they they
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uh are in Israel and so don't go
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thinking that Israel has any uh
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anti-Russian policies. It'd be very
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foolish to have them because there are
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tons of Russians over there.
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On Monday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister
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Andre Ciga condemned Israel for
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facilitating what he called Russia's
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illegal trade in stolen Ukrainian grain.
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Ukrainian media earlier reported that
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the cargo vessor Panorus carrying grain
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from Russia's new regions, so those are
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actually Russian regions, not Ukrainian
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regions, was approaching the Israeli
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port of Hifa. It is difficult to
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understand Israel's lack of appropriate
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response to Ukraine's legitimate request
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regarding the previous vessel that
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delivered stolen goods to Hifa.
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Siga wrote on X, adding that the Israeli
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ambassador was summoned to the ministry
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on Tuesday morning. A in a rebuke to
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Siga, Sar wrote that X unex that
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diplomatic relations, especially between
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friendly nations, are not conducted on
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Twitter or in the media. Somebody should
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tell the Trump administration that. Ah,
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that's funny. Allegations are not
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evidence. Evidence substantiating the
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allegations has yet to be provided. You
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did not even submit a request for legal
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assistance before turning to the media
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and social network. Well, frankly,
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that's all that that's all a lot of
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people have. They don't have any facts,
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no reality. So, they go to uh nude
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photos. they go to uh putting stuff out
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that uh is incorrect through the
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networks or whatever their twist on the
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facts is. Relations between countries
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are tense as Ukraine has criticized
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Israel for not imposing sanctions on
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Russia or cutting its ties. Reuters
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citing Ukrainian diplomatic sources
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reported that Kiev would reserve the
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right to deploy
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a full suite of diplomatic and
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international legal responses if the
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ship is allowed to dock in Israel.
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Ukraine considers five regions including
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Herzone and Zaparisia which joined
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Russia following referendums in 2022 to
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be occupied territory. Russia insists
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that for lasting peace settlements,
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Ukraine has to recognize its new
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borders.
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H isn't that crazy?
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Well, Israel is being attacked elsewhere
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as well. Uh, from the black cube stings
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to Pegasus spyw wear, Israeli
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intelligence firms have repeatedly
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targeted European politics.
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Right.
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Two proven cases of political
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interference by MSAD linked P private
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intelligence firms should have set alarm
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bells in Brussels. The EU's silence
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reveals how deeply the Israeli spy tech
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has penetrated the block. The European
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Commission claims that Russia interfered
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in every major European election of the
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last half decade.
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Yeah, that seems popular. Despite being
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proven wrong in France, Germany,
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Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and
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counting, the allegations have been
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enough to justify the commission's
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activation of its rapid response system.
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A powerful suite of censorship tools
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that gives Brussels the power to decide
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what voters get to see
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and what they don't get to see on social
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media in runup to elections. This year
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alone, two cases of meddling by Black
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Cube, a private intelligence company
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staffed by former MSAD and Israeli
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defense agents
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IDF uh have taken place in the EU
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without any so without so much as an
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acknowledgement from Brussels.
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Posing as foreign, uh well, what did
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these cyber spies do? Posing as foreign
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investors.
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Black Cube agents recorded their
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conversations with associates of
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President Nikos Christa Dullis of Cyprus
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and released the videos days after
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Cyprus assumed the EU's rotating
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presidency in January.
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The videos
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in which Christa Duides associates
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offered access to the president for cash
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triggered multiple resignation and
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undermined Cypress's stint at the helm
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of the EU.
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Mhm. Another series of videos was
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released in Slovenia two months later.
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This time featuring associates of
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Liberal Prime Minister Robert Golab
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discussing similar pay-to-play
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arrangements within his Fabotaa party.
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The recordings are widely suspected to
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have been ordered by former Prime
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Minister Janes Jansa, who met with Black
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Cube executives in Ljubljana in late
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December. Slovenia held parliamentary
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elections less than two weeks after the
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videos hit the internet. And Golab's
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party managed to beat Johnson's
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Slovenian Democratic Party.
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Uhhuh. By a margin of 67.
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Isn't that crazy?
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Wow.
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How deep does this Israeli interference
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in the EU go? The EU has stayed silent
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on both of these cases even after the
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Slovenian government described Black
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Cub's pre-election activities as a clear
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hybrid threat against the European Union
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and wrote to the European Commission
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President Ursula Fandanderline demanding
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investigation. The commission has not
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publicly acknowledged receiving any
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letter. It is worth noting that the EU
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had skin in the game in Slovenia,
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dispatching two commissioners to
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Ljubljana to meet with Jansa, including
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defense commissioner Audreas Kubilius,
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whose office said that he was
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campaigning for EU defense readiness.
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Isn't that crazy? Mhm.
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Yeah. However, the commission silence is
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baffling, especially given the fact that
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Black Cube has been active in Europe
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before. Two of the company's employees
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were convicted in Romania in 2016 for
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spying on chief prosecutor of the
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Romanian national anti-corruption
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director and the company was reportedly
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hired by Hungarian Minister Victor
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Orbin, Prime Minister, to collect dirt
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on opposition NOS in 2017. This lack of
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response is not unprecedented. According
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to investigative reporting, Pegasus
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spywear developed by Israel's NSO group
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has been used in nearly a dozen EU
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countries since 2016. Pegasus, which can
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be remotely installed on the cell phone
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without the target on somebody else's
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cell phone, without the target having to
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click a link, was used by EU governments
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to spy on journalists and political
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opponents, by foreign powers to spy on
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EU leaders, and by unknown actors to spy
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on the European Commission. itself.
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Despite this and despite the European
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Parliament urging the Commission to
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implement more rigorous control
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on software that could impend the
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principles of democracy, good
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governance, the rule of law, and respect
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for human rights, the commission has
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refused to act. The commission likewise
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took no action when spyw wear developed
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by Israel's paragon solutions was
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developed in Cyprus, Denmark and Italy
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or when predator malware, an analog of
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Pegasus developed by Israeli firm Citrox
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was used in Greece, Hungary, Poland,
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Spain. Brussels regulatory cutoldry is
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exemplified by the ISS world exhibition,
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an annual trade fair that takes place in
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Prague every summer under the EU
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regulators noses. Spyware, surveillance,
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data mining firms openly hawk their
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wares to private and state customers.
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The event's leading sponsor is the same
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NSO spy group whose spy wear was used
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against the European Commission. And
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according to Politico, the ISS World
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exhibition is known within the industry
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as the wiretappers
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ball. Isn't that wondrous? In the wake
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of the Pegasus scandal, European
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Commission has left it up to individual
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states to draft their own laws and
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practices governing spyware.
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Defenders of this com position could
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make the case that Black Cube, NSO
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Group, Paragon Solutions, and their ilk
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are private companies and are therefore
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mercenaries undeserving of the same
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attention as the supposed threat posed
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by Russian intelligence agencies.
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They're all about Russian intelligence
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agencies having interfered with
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elections all over the world. But
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Israel's MSAD, well, that's not a big
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deal. And there are people who left and
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took their technology with them and
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created some more. Well, there you have
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it. Um, however, this would miss how
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inshed these companies are with the
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Israeli state and in particular with
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MSAD. Black Cube was founded by two IDF
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intelligence veterans and counts on
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international advisory board to former
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MSAD directors, a former Israeli police
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commissioner and the former chief of
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Israel's National Security Council. One
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of the NSO group's three founders served
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in both the IDF and MSAD citrus received
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startup funding from Israel Aerospace
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Industries was later bought out by
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former IDF colonel. Paragon Solutions
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was founded by none other than former
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehoud Barack
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along with a former commander in the INF
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unit 8200,
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a clandestine intelligence unit within
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the Israeli army. All four companies
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employ veterans of unit 8200. Within the
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world of espionage, it is an old adage
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that there is no such thing as a former
24:03
spy. As the activities of these
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companies suggest, Israel's private
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intelligence sector shares the same
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goals as the Israeli state. In Slovenia,
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Black Cube intervened against Golab, who
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was recognized the state of Palestine.
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banned the import of goods from the
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illegal Israeli settlements in the West
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Bank and weighed joining South Africa's
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genocide case against Israel at the ICJ
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International Court of Justice. Jens on
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the other hand is a close ally of
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Netanyahu and has equated recognition of
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a Palestinian state with supporting the
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terrorist organization Hamas.
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Let's go up here. We need to see
24:50
something. Uh because I want to make
24:53
sure
24:55
Slovenia held and J so the guy barely
24:59
held on when they were fighting um you
25:03
know these issues. Israel's defense
25:06
minister classifies spyware programs
25:08
like Pegasus and Predator as weapons,
25:12
meaning it has final say over who NSO
25:14
group Citrox and their competitors can
25:17
sell to. According to an investigation
25:20
by Herets, exporting export license for
25:23
Pegasus were most often granted when
25:26
doing so would advance Israeli foreign
25:28
policy interest or an implicit exchange
25:31
for the purchasing country, signing
25:33
trade agreements with Tel Aviv or voting
25:36
with Israel at the UN.
25:40
Wow. So, two interesting things there.
25:43
Number one is that um they classify
25:48
spyware programs
25:50
not as some administrative
25:53
I don't know what platform
25:57
non-lethal they count them as weapons
26:02
and uh so they have to regulate their
26:06
export and approve all of the uh all of
26:10
the sales and who they're sold too.
26:13
That's kind of interesting. Uh and the
26:16
other thing is that uh they only sell to
26:20
people who uh support
26:24
Israel.
26:25
Now, that makes sense if you classify it
26:28
as a weapon. America shouldn't be out
26:30
selling weapons to Iran, should they? I
26:32
mean, what if we sold them the weapons
26:35
that we were, you know, now blowing up
26:38
kind of like we did in Iraq
26:41
everywhere else?
26:42
We arm the guys and end up fighting them
26:44
a few years later. That's how it works
26:47
in America. But in Israel, they actually
26:49
have a policy of not selling weapons to
26:52
enemies. You know what? That that would
26:54
be really funny to to just do a quick
26:56
search on u has the US sold weapons
27:03
to Iran? Let's see what it says.
27:08
Um, yes. The U US secretly sold weapons
27:13
during the mid 1980s, called it the Iran
27:17
Contra affair. Reagan administration had
27:20
facilitated these sales in an attempt to
27:22
secure the release of American hostages
27:24
held in Lebanon and controversially to
27:26
fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua using
27:28
the proceeds
27:30
bypassing congressional bans on such
27:33
funding. the deal. In 1985 and86, US
27:37
shipped over 1,500 missiles to Iran.
27:40
That that's so they could tear them
27:41
apart and uh learn how to make them. The
27:46
purpose primary goal was to free US
27:47
hostages through though the sales
27:49
occurred despite a public vow by Reagan
27:52
never to negotiate with terrorists. The
27:54
scandal in November 86, the secret sales
27:56
were exposed, revealing that officials,
27:58
including Lieutenant Coloner, Colonel
28:01
Ali North, remember that guy, diverted
28:03
millions of dollars in profit to
28:05
anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua. The
28:08
actions violated US arms embargo against
28:11
Iran and legal restrictions on funding
28:14
Contras. Before the 1979 Islamic
28:17
resolution, the US was a major supplier
28:19
of arms to Iran. But in 1980, sales were
28:23
covert, illegal, and controversial.
28:28
H
28:30
back in history. Back in history.
28:35
Well, these things are uh are uh
28:40
terrible for all of us, isn't that? So,
28:46
uh let's see. I wanted to play for you
28:49
even because I think it is important. So
28:53
in in uh when we first started the show
28:56
today, we started talking a little bit
28:59
about uh Twapsa and Twapsa being hit
29:03
again. And I think it is uh something
29:07
that I'm even going to share with you on
29:12
Twapsa because I think that they uh um
29:18
have really done some damage in Twapsa
29:21
and I wanted you know people need to be
29:24
aware of this sort of thing and I think
29:26
I'm at the right spot
29:29
but I'm not positive
29:32
cuz we're going to find the twops oil
29:35
refinery which is right in here
29:40
and talk about it. Okay, I'm going to
29:43
let you hear it from the and it'll we're
29:46
we're we're gathering it mid uh
29:48
midcourse.
29:49
midcourse is where we are. And you might
29:51
hear a little bit about some uh Russian
29:54
some Ukrainian uh
29:58
activity first, but we're going to talk
30:00
about Twapsa or we're going to listen to
30:03
this about Twapsa. Um here we go. 7th
30:07
and the 28th of April of 2026, the
30:10
Russians stated that the Ukrainians used
30:13
hundreds of drones to attack the ch of
30:15
Russia. And the Russians reported that
30:18
more than
30:20
186 drones were destroyed over Russian
30:23
regions overnight. And the sources
30:25
saying that the biggest number of drones
30:27
were recorded in the direction of the
30:28
shi of tops. And the thing is that the
30:31
Ukrainians during the previous night
30:33
once again attacked the TOPS oil
30:35
refinery and we received a lots of
30:37
updates on this mata during the previous
30:40
12 hours. And this is basically the
30:42
first picture that was published by
30:44
pro-Russian sources and by pro Ukrainian
30:46
sources. Here we can see just a fire
30:48
after a massive attack on top said the
30:50
oil refinery which was recently
30:52
extinguished was hit again. And this
30:56
morning we received a lots of videos
30:57
from this from the city of topen from
31:00
the top refinery. And as we can see once
31:03
again the Ukrainians attacked uh this
31:05
oil refinery and as we can see according
31:08
to this video the top refinery was
31:10
significantly damaged by the armored
31:12
force of Ukraine. Basically the top oil
31:15
refinery is about to be completely
31:17
destroyed. If you remember just
31:18
yesterday we discussed uh some numbers
31:21
regarding this situation. Let's discuss
31:23
them once again. So according to
31:25
information we have uh uh during the
31:27
previous attacks during the previous
31:29
attacks that's been taking place that
31:32
have taken place since the beginning of
31:33
April of 2026 the Ukrainians managed to
31:37
destroy 24 tanks or 52% of the top
31:41
capacity of the top refinery capacity.
31:44
Furthermore, four tanks were damaged or
31:47
9% and by the end of the 27 26th of
31:52
April of 2026, uh the Russians had only
31:55
18 tanks or 39% of total capacity of the
31:59
two refinery. And right after we
32:02
discussed these numbers, the Ukrainians
32:04
had the two refinery once again. And it
32:07
seems that the Ukrainians managed to
32:09
deal damage and to destroy more tanks in
32:11
this area. For example, these are the
32:13
map of fire anomalies. And according to
32:16
this map of fire anomalies, we can say
32:18
that uh some uh tanks in this area and
32:21
in this area were completely damaged and
32:23
destroyed. Once again, we have a lots of
32:26
videos. It's not just uh uh the thing
32:28
that the two up refinery was damaged or
32:31
maybe even destroyed. This is an
32:33
ecological disaster. Uh we know that
32:36
lots of problems with oil uh and local
32:39
sources are trying to stabilize the
32:41
situation to fix these things but it
32:44
seems that now it will take a lot of
32:46
time before the Russians are able to
32:48
stabilize the situation and to restore
32:51
the tops refinery but telling the truth
32:53
it seems that the Russians won't be able
32:56
to repair or to fix the tops refinery
32:59
before the end of the conflict with
33:01
Ukraine because obviously the Ukrainians
33:03
will continue attacking the top refinery
33:06
until they reduce uh the total capacity
33:09
of this refinery tier 0%.
33:13
Furthermore, according to information we
33:14
have during the previous days, the
33:16
Ukrainians attacked deep inside of the
33:18
chry that are under complete control of
33:20
the Russian forces. We are talking about
33:22
Zaparo regions. And here we can see how
33:25
Ukrainians Yeah, we don't we don't
33:28
really need to worry about that. We're
33:30
gonna take a tiny bit of a break and
33:34
we're going to uh listen to some Tiestto
33:39
and uh featuring I like listening to
33:42
songs like that. I don't know why. So
33:44
that was actually Sarah Mlaughlin and uh
33:46
but it was done by Tiestto Tiestto
33:48
remix. So, a lot of these uh people like
33:50
there was a there was a really good um
33:53
Eminem with uh oh man, what is her name?
34:00
I'm terrible with names. I'm just one of
34:02
those people and I very much apologize
34:04
for it, but I can't remember it. But I
34:06
like to listen to remixes like this and
34:08
you can go and see the creativity of
34:10
some of these um whatever deep house
34:14
people or however they they create the
34:16
music and internationally. I I I told
34:18
you before that I went to one of these.
34:21
I think it was in Usbekistsan. It might
34:23
have been Kyrgyzstan, but uh I think it
34:25
was
34:28
No, maybe it was Kyrgyzstan. May I think
34:30
we're outside of Bishk when we went
34:32
there and uh it was I mean here going to
34:36
a they had a some kind of a concert in
34:39
St. Louis one time and I went to it and
34:41
it and they took um
34:45
huge area and I went to another one in
34:48
Florida and they take these huge blocks
34:50
and blocks of park and they shut them
34:52
off and they have uh selling booths
34:55
everywhere and it's an all day music of
34:59
this type of uh electronica of deep
35:02
trance of house of whatever it is like
35:04
that and you can go all over the place.
35:06
There are several different stages and
35:08
they have them. And the biggest
35:09
performers are people like this guy
35:11
Tiestto and uh uh uh Paul I think the
35:15
guy's name is Paul Van Djk. And there's
35:17
a couple other great big ones that you
35:18
can go and listen to and they take all
35:20
these remixes of all these songs. And
35:22
for me it was something I don't want to
35:24
say it was new because I always liked
35:26
that stuff. I went to some clubs in
35:28
Berlin way back in the '9s and I went to
35:30
some in Munich over there when uh
35:32
European kids were going crazy on this.
35:35
I've never done any in uh uh New York or
35:38
anything like that. Assumably, we have
35:39
them as well in some of these places,
35:41
but I'm telling you, they're massive.
35:43
And you go to these and there are so
35:46
many people floating around. The one in
35:47
Bishk was probably the smallest. And uh
35:51
uh you know what? There wasn't Bishkek
35:53
because we rode a cable car up a
35:55
mountain that day uh in order to get
35:57
there. So, Bishkek is flat. Um I don't
36:01
remember. It doesn't matter. It was
36:02
somewhere in a foreign country. And it
36:05
only cost like uh the equivalent of uh I
36:07
don't know 15 bucks. And here you'd pay
36:11
several hundred for that, you know what
36:13
I mean? And 15 bucks. And they had you
36:16
know an all day affair um um stalls and
36:20
drinking and games and uh you know walk
36:23
out and there's bars and it was a very
36:24
large area. It was really kind of cool
36:26
and uh everybody walking around hundreds
36:28
of different languages, people from
36:30
everywhere enjoying stuff because on the
36:32
European and the Asian sides, they they
36:35
think differently than we do. You know,
36:37
if you don't speak um English, that's
36:40
okay. You know, a lot of them don't uh
36:43
don't don't uh speak English either. and
36:46
um you know and so but having a
36:48
different language isn't necessarily a
36:51
uh a bad deal
36:54
you know what I mean and it was of
36:56
course that prevalent heavy prevalence
36:58
of Russian with people that spoken from
37:01
former Soviet republics or from wherever
37:03
else Kaz Kazakhstan Kyrgystan and uh uh
37:08
Usbekiststan are all former Soviet
37:09
republics so plenty of Russian spoken
37:11
down there anyway and at any rate I
37:14
don't know why I like playing songs like
37:15
that. But that was uh the song's called
37:17
Delirium with uh Sarah McLaclin and it's
37:20
a Tiestto remix um of that same same
37:27
song and event which I've played for
37:29
here yesterday. I learned that if I'm
37:32
going to broadcast them later on my u uh
37:35
at least on the YouTube side. Now we
37:37
have licenses for all the music we play
37:39
here. We can play any song we want. We
37:41
didn't get any story. It's part of the
37:43
licensing of having a radio station,
37:45
right? But if you store it and put it
37:49
out later, uh, uh-oh, US soldier charged
37:52
with using classified in Oh, yeah.
37:54
That's the guy I told you about
37:55
yesterday. Did you hear about this guy?
37:56
Um, this guy, where is he? This is This
38:01
is a story that has to be known. So when
38:02
I served in the military, I had a top
38:04
secret US government clearance, top
38:06
secret TSI, highest level you could
38:08
possibly get because I was working on
38:09
the Nevada nuclear test site. We worked
38:12
with Soviet and Russian um
38:14
communications that would come in from
38:16
various sources around the world,
38:18
whether it was bounced radio signals,
38:20
whether it was spy stuff, whatever. And
38:22
uh we had satellite photo imagery and
38:24
stuff like that. All the stuff that now
38:26
you get on Google for free back then was
38:29
huge money and huge dollars. And there
38:31
were a couple of times when I served,
38:33
okay, some of these stories would come
38:35
out uh when you when I went to Russia,
38:37
okay, and uh I they would always warn
38:40
us. You'd have a briefing before you
38:42
left, a briefing when you came back, say
38:44
what you said, right? And back then that
38:47
we would take these little mini
38:48
satellite phones with us, which really
38:51
crazy. They had these uh fold out dishes
38:53
that you put a a a dish a communication
38:57
dish on your hotel balcony and you know
39:03
you point it in a you know up to the sky
39:07
and then you get to make a phone call
39:09
once a week to your uh family but it was
39:12
incredibly expensive and so you'd get 10
39:15
minutes on the phone you know and I was
39:16
in charge of having the satellite phone
39:19
that was this huge freaking thing that
39:22
would satellite up. And one day, one, we
39:24
did them every Sunday, you know, I'd let
39:26
people come into my room. We'd go out on
39:28
my uh u what do you call it? my um uh a
39:33
balcony and I was, you know, the one I
39:36
remember in particular was when we were
39:38
in Malddova and uh so I was in Malddova
39:41
for like 18 weeks and and they got used
39:43
to used to us after a while, but we had
39:46
this uh mini dish. They come out in this
39:49
huge box and I had to carry it around
39:51
and you had this huge uh you know foam
39:53
filled crate or case that you would put
39:55
it in. You open the thing up and you
39:57
take it out and you put your uh your uh
40:01
satellite phone up and you begin to
40:03
speak on it, right? And uh uh the the
40:06
the you know, couldn't have been first
40:08
time we had it up. I swear to God, it
40:10
could have been couldn't have been 15
40:12
minutes. Some guy comes up, knocks on
40:14
the door, you know, KK beast KJB KGB
40:19
dude or security aana. He was a security
40:24
and he says, "Uh, listen, you're not
40:28
allowed to have a satellite here." And I
40:30
said, "Well, it's not a satellite. It's
40:32
a phone." All it is an antenna. You
40:33
know, obviously I can't launch a
40:35
satellite from here. And uh you know,
40:38
it's it's a phone. He goes, "Is it is it
40:40
registered?" I said, "Well, I have a
40:42
diplomatic passport. Here it is." They
40:45
saw, you know, they know we bring it. We
40:46
bring it every time we go. you know, uh,
40:49
go check with whoever you got to check
40:50
with. If you'd like us to wait, you
40:52
know, an hour or two, I'll wait an hour
40:53
or two. But this is how we communicate
40:55
and get our phone systems, uh, so that
40:58
you don't listen to our phone calls
41:01
to our spouses. You know, it's crazy. We
41:04
make a call once a week. And uh, so he
41:06
left, came back a half an hour later and
41:08
said uh, uh, it was like he didn't have
41:11
anything negative to say about it, so he
41:13
let it go and they got used to us. I
41:15
guess they didn't do anything else about
41:16
it. But uh uh the first uh few times
41:19
they you know somebody come up and knock
41:21
and we'd say you know it's only you
41:23
can't have that. And and part of it was
41:25
they couldn't have it cuz they didn't
41:26
want people looking out and thinking you
41:29
know people were walking down the street
41:31
and somebody might look up and see us
41:33
with a freaking satellite and you know
41:34
we're obviously doing something uh a
41:37
satellite phone I mean and obviously
41:39
doing something uh improper and and we
41:42
weren't. That was just how cell phones
41:44
were back then. So, remember the great
41:47
big box phone you'd put in your car? I
41:50
remember having one of those uh for for
41:53
certain purposes that Oh, yeah. It was
41:55
in our uh our van that we would cruise
41:57
around with the Russians. They're very
41:58
impressed. And do you remember the ones
42:00
on airplanes when you'd go in in the
42:02
airplane? The airplane would have this
42:03
big ass phone that was on a huge It was
42:06
like a brick. It was a a large more like
42:09
a concrete block than a brick. and uh
42:12
they bring it over and you could make a
42:15
call and the phone call had cost you
42:17
like $50 or something crazy that you'd
42:20
make a call, speak for 3 minutes, 50
42:22
bucks and uh uh you know that was those
42:26
were the days, huh? And now it's
42:28
nothing. You get Wi-Fi on your if you
42:30
buy your Wi-Fi plan when you fly Turkish
42:32
Airlines cost 15 bucks and you get free
42:35
Wi-Fi the whole way. and h maybe it's
42:37
30, maybe it's only 15 for a two-hour
42:39
pass, but you want it for the whole
42:40
flight. It's like 30 bucks or something
42:42
and it's a 12 13 hour flight. It's worth
42:44
the money. And uh and most of the time
42:48
it works complete um uh internet all the
42:52
way across the ocean. These are
42:54
different times, but back then people
42:56
were worried about uh spying and were
42:59
worried about using insider information
43:02
a lot more than they are today, right?
43:04
And so when we would go over to Russia,
43:07
we would get told about all of these
43:08
worries. We would worry, you know, make
43:10
sure that everything was going the
43:12
correct way. And then uh they would say,
43:14
"Don't end up like uh soldier soando. He
43:18
went over there and had a girlfriend."
43:20
Middle of the night one night in same
43:22
place in Malddova, I was there 18 weeks.
43:23
some chick comes and knocks on the door
43:25
at like 2:00 in the morning and whoa, I
43:29
OPEN THE DOOR and it's like, "Oh my god,
43:33
this is an attractive girl." And uh in
43:37
nice fluent Russian, she says to me,
43:40
"Um,
43:42
are you u you know, needing company of
43:46
some sort?" I said, "I truly am, but it
43:49
would 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. Well, some people
44:00
didn't. and uh well um crazy stuff uh
44:08
would always occur and there was a lot
44:11
of I I wish I could remember some of
44:13
them some of the names of people who
44:15
would end up taking secrets and we
44:19
didn't know anything really secret it
44:20
was crap and you know it's like oh yeah
44:23
we we everything that we do now or that
44:25
we that we we talked about back then was
44:28
is not remotely
44:30
important even and uh except I mean it
44:33
was but everybody threw them out the
44:35
window. There are no nuclear threshold
44:37
testban treaty obligations anymore.
44:41
There's no intermediate range nuclear
44:43
forces treaties anymore. And we are
44:47
expanding warfare, not curtailing it.
44:51
And uh so that's where we are today. But
44:53
that doesn't mean that people should be
44:56
able to use their influence, their
44:59
knowledge, their systems to individually
45:02
profit from what they have done. And
45:06
it's um
45:09
it's
45:11
I mean, think about this. This guy, the
45:13
one that I'm talking about, um let's get
45:16
his name so we make sure we have it. the
45:18
guy who went went to
45:22
uh who was part of the Venezuela
45:25
attack team
45:28
and in the US and he was a military guy.
45:32
He
45:35
profited from this. He bet $30,000
45:39
on uh
45:42
Maduro being removed from office. and he
45:45
knew about the
45:49
the
45:50
events cuz he was involved in them and
45:53
so he
45:56
places a vet a bet and he was a he was a
46:00
high ranking dude. I mean this a
46:01
freaking idiot. US Army Special Forces
46:05
soldier
46:07
identified as Master Sergeant Ganon Ken
46:11
Van Dyk was arrested for using
46:14
classified information to bet $30,000
46:18
on a prediction market about the January
46:22
3rd, 2026 US capture of Venezuelan
46:26
leader Nicholas Maduro. He earned
46:28
$400,000
46:30
profit from his bet just before the
46:33
operation was finalized.
46:37
The operation, the incident known as
46:39
ABS, operation absolute resolve involved
46:43
US special forces raid on January 3,
46:46
2026 in Karacus which resulted in
46:48
apprehension of Missouri. The the bet
46:51
soldier placed roughly 32,000 to 33,000
46:54
on poly market. Now, this was
46:57
interesting to me when I first heard the
46:59
case, and I haven't looked into it. I
47:01
want to because I want to um uh make
47:05
some bets and predictions. I'm not
47:08
involved in any of that crap. Why not go
47:10
make some uh some bets on uh what's
47:12
going to happen? Wouldn't that be fun?
47:14
So, instead of uh so instead of us
47:17
opining, apparently it's a reality, you
47:19
know, instead of us out here opining and
47:21
they're always asking, "Well, what do
47:22
you think's going to happen? What do you
47:23
think's going to happen? You know, I
47:25
should have done this years ago when
47:26
people were saying, "Oh, gee, Ukraine's
47:29
going to kick the crap out of Russia."
47:31
No, no time. Russia's just going to fall
47:33
over and the idiot experts that we've uh
47:36
alleged were doing things. But this
47:38
soldier bets 32, takes his, you know,
47:42
part of his pension there on on poly
47:45
market uh in December, late December,
47:47
and he wagered that Maduro would be out
47:50
of power by January.
47:52
He was charged with confidential
47:54
government information for insider
47:56
trading. Now, here's the problem.
47:58
Everybody's doing insider training. What
48:00
about all these oil people that have
48:03
inside information? Hey, make sure you
48:06
put some money on this. And so, they put
48:08
millions, put all their best customers
48:10
on it, and they make [ __ ] tons of money.
48:13
Pardon my French. Nobody goes after
48:15
them, you know. And when when the
48:18
straight to Hormuz are closed, suddenly
48:20
oil futures go up. And it's the futures
48:22
market where people make the biggest
48:23
piles of cash is on the future. So if
48:27
you happen to know that the Russian
48:29
TWAPSA refineries are going to be
48:31
bombed, why wouldn't you, oh Ukrainian,
48:34
take the money that you've stolen from
48:35
the United States and put it in the
48:38
market? And that's how they make their
48:40
money. That's a little bit cleaner than
48:43
just stealing the money. They take the
48:46
money they've stolen, a small amount,
48:48
which you know, million bucks, and they
48:50
put it on a futures market knowing that
48:53
what they're about to do is going to
48:55
have great trade significance. And uh
48:57
then they bomb the TWAPS, say oil
48:59
reserve. The oil reserve people get up
49:03
in the morning, go look at this. Three
49:04
refineries are bombed overnight. That's
49:07
going to stress the global market.
49:09
futures are going up and everybody is
49:11
buying the FE, you know, is uh betting
49:13
that uh oil prices are going to go up
49:16
and so the futures go up tfold because
49:19
the stock goes up tiny, the future goes
49:22
up enormous and uh uh that is how it
49:26
works. So this guy takes his insider
49:29
information and he gets rich. Rich
49:32
400,000. This guy's a perer. He's a
49:34
nobody. But you have to show somebody
49:37
getting in trouble. government, right?
49:39
Somebody has to get in trouble. Maybe
49:42
he's, you know, I honestly
49:47
is betting does bet I mean, if if I
49:51
happen to know that a player is uh
49:55
injured and nobody else does, you know,
49:58
is that insider uh gambling? I mean,
50:02
insider gambling. What the hell is that?
50:04
I mean, I don't know. They're but
50:08
they're definitely charging uh with
50:10
something. And this event is notable for
50:13
soldiers using insider knowledge of a
50:15
major military operation. This was put
50:18
out in the Miami Herald for personal
50:21
financial gain via a prediction market.
50:25
Now, I was interested in this prediction
50:27
market thing anyway. And um
50:32
this is an English Facebook post. Well,
50:35
but nobody's out there.
50:38
Al Arabia English. Nobody's even looked
50:40
at it. Wonder if you got a in order to
50:44
get into Poly Market.
50:47
Okay.
50:49
Uh, no thanks. US soldier bet on Poly
50:53
Market. Where is Poly Market? We want to
50:56
get to Poly Market.
50:59
Well, maybe we just have to type
51:00
polyarket.com. I'll do that later. I'll
51:03
get into my my gambling on world events.
51:06
We'll do it publicly right here. We'll
51:08
take 10 bucks and put it on uh put it on
51:11
uh what what people think. Um, so
51:14
someone gave a uh uh prediction to me uh
51:18
not long ago that
51:22
uh all of the um
51:26
debt, United States debt would be
51:30
liquidated by the time um
51:34
by the time the old Trumpster leaves
51:37
office. Now, if you have insider
51:40
information that says that Trump's going
51:42
to nationalize all the debt and forget
51:44
about it or or do something and uh wipe
51:46
it all out and 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
51:52
would work right now. And uh the people
51:55
that get screwed are are are rich
51:57
anyway. What difference does it make? Um
52:00
you know, or other countries that can
52:02
recover. you know, if you want to screw
52:04
Europe, you want to screw Japan, you
52:06
want to screw China, uh then um
52:10
nationalize debt, say it's done. It's
52:12
over and we're not paying it. Sorry,
52:14
we've had to take bankruptcy and uh
52:16
we're only doing it once, but we're
52:18
going to we're going to open it. That
52:19
actually makes a hell of a lot of sense,
52:22
you know, to do it. I mean, the world
52:24
the world's a mess anyway, right? I
52:27
mean, if the world is a mess anyway,
52:30
what difference does it make? If we're
52:33
bombing refineries all over the planet
52:36
because we don't like the people that
52:38
own the refinery
52:40
and the only refineries left are going
52:42
to be US.
52:45
Um,
52:47
maybe
52:48
it's a good thing. We've already stolen
52:50
all of Venezuela's oil capacity, you
52:53
know, they don't have any, you know, and
52:55
uh now we've taken that. We're trying to
52:57
get Iran's or blow it up. Um Iran is
53:00
responding by blowing up everybody
53:02
else's capacity. We're blowing up Kar
53:05
Island. Uh the Ukrainians are blowing up
53:08
all the crap in Russia. And uh the uh
53:11
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland are
53:13
allowing them to route their and Finland
53:15
are allowing them to route their drones
53:17
through their territory so they can hit
53:20
Russian areas up north, which is frankly
53:23
a war crime. and uh so is a lot of the
53:26
other stuff that's going on. It's a war
53:27
crime to destroy to destroy
53:30
infrastructure anyway.
53:33
All of these are war crimes. Are you
53:36
aware of this? And they are not supposed
53:40
to occur and we are using it as the tail
53:45
twister and nobody pays attention to it
53:47
anymore because well Iran's just the
53:51
face of evil, right? And uh Russia is
53:54
just the face of evil, right? These are
53:56
people that uh think differently than
53:59
you do. And so therefore they are the
54:02
faces of evil. Um so now we all have to
54:05
get on Poly Market and make bets. So
54:08
that's what we're going to do from now
54:10
on. We're going to I'm going to try to
54:12
look on Poly Market every day and find
54:15
the U bets that are uh the most
54:18
ridiculous and we're going to take some
54:20
and see if we can't make some money on
54:23
uh the the poly market. Now, so
54:29
you wonder if it's any different than uh
54:32
uh you know, Friday we're going to do a
54:34
little bit on the uh VT, the video
54:36
lottery terminals and all the crap going
54:38
on in the uh state of Missouri about
54:40
that right now. And uh uh that'll be
54:43
fun. and uh talking about the
54:49
let's call it in congruence of thought
54:52
processes on these things that uh you oh
54:56
they're evil. You know we're we we have
54:58
to be sold that these are evil machines
55:01
that are putting gambling everywhere.
55:03
Gambling is gambling. Life's a freaking
55:07
gamble. You know what what do you care
55:09
if somebody chooses to spend their money
55:11
on it? If you want an evening, you go to
55:14
a casino. You do what I do. You dress
55:17
up. You uh take what little money you
55:20
have to throw together that you can
55:21
afford to lose. Never go with money you
55:24
can't afford to lose. And you call it an
55:26
event. They usually have good
55:27
restaurants. You go find a good
55:29
restaurant inside. Hopefully, you go
55:31
regularly. I like to go and play u uh
55:36
Texas Holde and do tournaments like
55:38
that. That's kind of entertaining and
55:40
fun. And um you know I've made it to the
55:43
final table several times you know at
55:46
some of these places and it's a lot of
55:48
fun. I've made a little bit of money on
55:49
it. Usually not. You're out and you know
55:52
first couple of tables cards aren't with
55:54
you or you're not a good player. You
55:57
know I suppose it is um is a profession.
56:00
You know it's not gambling if you're
56:02
playing against me
56:05
because I read the cards and I bet the
56:07
cards. I never bet playing playing
56:10
games. I just don't do that. I I either
56:13
have it or I don't. And if I don't, I
56:15
don't bet. And that's the problem.
56:19
If you don't have it, you're still
56:20
supposed to bet and play the games and
56:23
trick somebody and think I'm It's like,
56:25
well, no, that's not what I do. So, for
56:27
me, it's better to play against a
56:29
machine because a machine doesn't have
56:31
any of those feelings there. It's
56:33
straight percentages. And you know the
56:35
percentages. play blackjack. It's
56:37
straight percentages. There is no skill
56:39
in playing blackjack. There is in
56:41
knowing how to bet in blackjack. But
56:44
this these other things, the way this uh
56:47
uh what do you call it now? I've
56:50
forgotten the name of it already. The uh
56:53
uh
56:55
uh damn it. Now I can't remember where
56:58
he bet.
56:59
We have to remember that. We're gonna
57:01
have to print this or at least send me
57:03
the uh send me the the uh link so that I
57:08
have it. You know what people do these
57:10
days 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 uh
57:21
you know you can turn anything into a
57:22
PDF these days. It's great. And so, uh,
57:25
you you ship it off, you turn it into a
57:28
PDF.
57:33
Well, let's see. We still have a couple
57:35
of things to go over. So, NATO is,
57:41
get this. Well, you know what? We should
57:42
throw a song in there just because I I
57:45
like uh I like to put songs up. Let's
57:47
see where we are in in my history and
57:51
see if we can find uh the history of Sam
57:56
on YouTube because I do listen to some
57:58
pretty good stuff on the old YouTube.
58:01
And uh let's see. We're going to find
58:06
Oh, there's a Russian one that I might
58:07
play for you. No, I'm going to do
58:11
something a little different. Oh,
58:13
there's Bert Reynolds. Oh, that's
58:15
actually Norm McDonald playing Bert
58:17
Reynolds, but that's pretty damn funny.
58:18
He actually almost looks like him in the
58:21
photo. So, we're going to go to an
58:24
orchest. So, so yesterday I found some
58:26
orchestra music that you would not
58:29
believe. It is uh the OT orchestra
58:33
Samara
58:35
the OTTA
58:37
orchestra and Samara Philharmonic
58:40
academic symphony orchestra in Greece in
58:44
2019
58:46
and uh this was
58:49
just a very a very good orchestral uh
58:53
performance. There's a video of it and
58:55
the video is pretty fantastic also. And
58:59
uh Oh, but this is the wrong song.
59:01
Where's that other that other
59:04
uh the guitarist?
59:06
She must be out there somewhere. Let's
59:08
make sure. No, because
59:13
well, we're just winging it today,
59:16
obviously,
59:18
putting stuff together. I don't know
59:20
what the hell we're doing. So, I wanted
59:22
to play for you the il brutol the the
59:25
live orchestral version of uh um what's
59:29
his name? The um
59:32
good to bad and the ugly movies. Holy
59:35
snikes. That is some good stuff. And uh
59:38
let's see.
59:40
We wanted to go to
59:43
Is this the one? No. I don't like you
59:46
people. You're driving me crazy. Well,
59:48
it doesn't matter. We're going to pick
59:49
one because we're going to take a break.
59:51
And so we were going to find the
59:52
shortest one in the group. And this is
59:55
going to be a new one for me, but we're
59:56
going to listen to it. And this is OT
59:59
official OTTA. If you want to hear some
1:00:01
uh some really good stuff and we're
1:00:04
going to um listen to them play. Here
1:00:07
goes nothing.
1:00:09
Join in the clapping on that one. So
1:00:12
that is some pretty good stuff. And that
1:00:13
is the one I wanted. It's called Royal
1:00:16
Safari. It was done actually in 2018.
1:00:19
and it's the OT ot orchestra. You can
1:00:22
find them on YouTube. And uh uh I I
1:00:25
usually do um background music in the
1:00:28
office. And so sometimes I'll put on
1:00:30
like a orchestra or I'll put on those
1:00:33
long play uh deep house stuff in the
1:00:35
background, you know, and have it have
1:00:37
it uh have it um put there um
1:00:42
and but in the background. So, uh, but
1:00:45
sometimes I play these orchestral things
1:00:47
and I and I really like them. And if
1:00:49
you, uh, uh, have, you know, I haven't
1:00:52
gone to the symphony in a long freaking
1:00:54
time and, uh, I'm I'm thinking I need
1:00:56
to, uh, become a better citizen and, uh,
1:00:59
uh, go watch some of these. But, uh, I
1:01:02
have some deep feeling, you know, I
1:01:04
listen to this deep feeling stuff,
1:01:06
French music, uh, uh, Italian, Cuban. I
1:01:09
just put one on and I have it, you know,
1:01:11
play in the background. I like all the
1:01:13
international stuff. and you come across
1:01:15
some great music that way. And that last
1:01:17
one, you know, isn't, you know, songs
1:01:19
and anything like that. And um what is
1:01:22
this on the screen here in the studio?
1:01:25
Why are the communists unafraid? If I
1:01:28
knew how to use this TV stuff, I would
1:01:30
uh pull it up for you. Maybe I'll have
1:01:32
to ask J.R. for a lesson. And so here
1:01:34
they are talking about communists being
1:01:36
unafraid. Well, why would communists be
1:01:38
afraid in the first place? You know,
1:01:41
communism, they they they they pump down
1:01:43
your throat as something evil and
1:01:45
horrible. No, it's not. It's no
1:01:47
different than any other form of
1:01:48
government, friends and neighbors. It's
1:01:51
unfortunately the government takes over.
1:01:55
It's always that way. Communism rules
1:01:58
for thee, but not for me. The same as we
1:02:00
have, but in reverse. Our people are all
1:02:03
fabulously wealthy. Oh, wait. That's not
1:02:05
a reverse. So were the communists. the
1:02:07
ones they were all fabulously wealthy.
1:02:10
So, but there are a lot of people that
1:02:12
didn't play along. They stayed out of
1:02:14
it, right? So, they used to have the um
1:02:18
uh what do you call it? The uh Kamsum
1:02:20
Wolsy. And the Kamsumolds were uh uh
1:02:24
children that uh went to these clubs to
1:02:27
be prepped for later being in the party,
1:02:33
you know. And there when when the
1:02:35
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. Okay,
1:02:41
there's only so much you can do if
1:02:43
you're uh an interpreter and the people
1:02:46
are digging a hole for eight months and
1:02:49
what are you going to, you know, after
1:02:50
the first couple of days, there's not
1:02:52
much to uh interpret.
1:02:55
Well, we're watching the same guy dig
1:02:57
the hole that he was digging yesterday
1:02:59
and we're doing it again today. It's uh
1:03:03
here here's here's the whole uh let's
1:03:06
watch it be dug. But uh we would have a
1:03:08
lot of free time to talk about this and
1:03:11
they would talk about and make jokes
1:03:12
about the uh uh Kamsa Moltzi and about
1:03:16
the party and they'd say, "Oh, is he a
1:03:19
member of the party?" The joke would
1:03:21
always end with because they were all
1:03:23
geologists, right? So all these guys
1:03:25
were geologists and they studied levels
1:03:26
of the uh of the of the layers of the
1:03:30
earth and so that you could put in
1:03:32
exactly the same layer at every spot. So
1:03:35
every day one of their jobs was to take
1:03:37
whatever came out of the hole and
1:03:40
analyze what came out of the hole. Say
1:03:42
you went 10 feet a day and there and I'm
1:03:44
making this up, but say you went 10 feet
1:03:46
a day and they have these huge 10- foot
1:03:48
wide diamond bit blades that are
1:03:50
drilling these enormous holes and uh so
1:03:52
and tons of money and they go down there
1:03:54
and then they would suck out all the
1:03:56
stuff that they pulverized and bring it
1:03:58
up and then all the geologists would
1:04:01
review what was taken out or they would
1:04:04
go down and take a core sample at that
1:04:06
depth. Right? You take a core sample
1:04:08
where they go out and drill into the
1:04:10
side of the hole, pull out a a three-
1:04:12
foot long core of what is there and say
1:04:14
this is the core of what it is. So that
1:04:16
when you filled it back up, you would go
1:04:18
but that's and so these core samples
1:04:20
very important. And all the geologists
1:04:22
would go and review them and talk about
1:04:23
all the you know what's in there
1:04:24
sandstone? Oh gee, what's in this one? I
1:04:27
don't know what limestone, you know, and
1:04:29
on and on and on. And when you filled up
1:04:31
the hole, you had to fill it up in the
1:04:34
same with the same sort of uh material
1:04:39
all the way up the hole. So you got your
1:04:41
layers of earth and each layer up the
1:04:43
hole for the whole 2,000 ft. You would
1:04:45
fill in the same stuff that was there
1:04:47
before. So the science could work. So
1:04:50
the science wasn't uh uh improper.
1:04:53
Although it's a freaking nuclear bomb.
1:04:55
When it blows up, all that crap's gone
1:04:57
anyway. Anyway,
1:05:00
uh they would tell jokes about they were
1:05:02
all geologists and say they said that in
1:05:04
college when they were in college, they
1:05:05
would tell jokes about being uh um in u
1:05:11
the party. Is he a member of the party?
1:05:15
Uh and they'd say, "Oh, no, he doesn't
1:05:18
do." and they'd say, "Not the not the
1:05:20
communist party, the geologic party, the
1:05:24
party of geologist, the gelich of
1:05:27
partia." And so they they would always
1:05:29
make jokes about that. Anyway, long
1:05:31
stupid story that has absolutely no, but
1:05:33
I had a lot of fun out there with those
1:05:35
guys and they were highly intelligent
1:05:37
and uh uh we had great discussions on
1:05:40
many many topics while we were out there
1:05:44
uh doing uh various things and uh uh
1:05:48
anyway it's um it's an interesting old
1:05:51
world out there. Where are we going to
1:05:53
Poly Market? Oh yeah, I found Poly
1:05:55
Market. Um, here's a New York Times
1:05:59
article if I can actually read it. And I
1:06:02
don't think I can. No, they won't let me
1:06:05
in. Um,
1:06:09
yeah. Why don't we take a Google account
1:06:12
and see if they'll let me in? I don't
1:06:14
think so.
1:06:16
No, I got to do two two uh step
1:06:19
verification all this stuff. You don't
1:06:21
get to read the articles. Um,
1:06:25
let's see. What we do have though is
1:06:32
why does Iran have This is all over um
1:06:35
Reddit, right? Why does Iran have so
1:06:38
much US equipment and weapons?
1:06:42
Yeah, bro. Uh, they blame Reagan for
1:06:45
this all the way off. So, they're still
1:06:47
holding the uh the issue as being all a
1:06:51
failure of
1:06:54
Reagan only. I'm telling you, um
1:06:59
these people uh are selling weapons to
1:07:02
everyone. And by the way, guess who sold
1:07:05
a lot of weapons and what they resell?
1:07:09
These people got it wrong on Reddit. in
1:07:11
my uh humble opinion there's this
1:07:14
dispute that went on um through the
1:07:16
whole you know forever and the fact is
1:07:20
and these are facts these are not uh you
1:07:24
know I don't know what dreamings of
1:07:26
somebody this is the fact
1:07:29
Ukraine has been caught on more than one
1:07:32
occasion
1:07:33
reselling US weaponry and selling it to
1:07:38
enemies of the United states and it's
1:07:41
happened repeatedly. It is not new news.
1:07:47
It's happened all the time. Um, oh boy.
1:07:52
Gavin Newsome wrote a new book. Oh, he
1:07:55
bought he bought 67,000 of his own books
1:07:58
to boost it apparently. That's what it
1:08:00
says. And his book says, "A young man in
1:08:03
a hurry." A that means he's running for
1:08:06
president. You know, you write a book,
1:08:07
you're trying to get people to know
1:08:09
about you and hopefully be interested in
1:08:12
you, but uh maybe no one is, and so they
1:08:14
have to buy uh you have to buy your own
1:08:18
book. H
1:08:21
curious. Well,
1:08:24
let's see. We never did uh uh go through
1:08:27
enough about the nude pictures of that
1:08:30
girl from the beginning of the show, did
1:08:32
we? gonna have to buy build I suppose
1:08:35
and get a membership to that maybe if
1:08:37
they're posting nudie photos of
1:08:40
Ukrainian divers. So Ukrainian women are
1:08:42
some of the most beautiful in the world
1:08:44
that's for sure. Um, senior EU officials
1:08:47
have been targeted with Israeli spyw
1:08:50
wear. That comes to you from the uh,
1:08:55
Reuters. Um,
1:08:58
lady named Rafa, that's a guy Raphael
1:09:01
Sat and Christopher Bing. Wasn't there a
1:09:05
Bing on Friends? Chandler type. Mhm.
1:09:09
Um,
1:09:11
I don't know. We're going to go back to
1:09:12
Ukraine. Okay. Friedrich Merittz,
1:09:17
Chancellor of uh Germany,
1:09:21
says an eventual peace deal with Russia
1:09:25
will require concession by Kiev.
1:09:29
Ukraine may have to accept territorial
1:09:32
losses in a peace deal with Russia to
1:09:35
keep its EU membership hopes alive.
1:09:39
German Chancellor Mertz said yesterday
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Monday Moscow has maintained that for a
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lasting peace Kiev must pull its
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soldiers from the regions of Detsk
1:09:51
Lugansk Herson Zapriia as well as
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recognize Russia's new territories
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including the Crimea all the regions
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overwhelmingly voted to join the Russian
1:10:02
Federation from 2014 to 2022
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in all this uh you have self right to
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self-determination.
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Not if you're Ukraine and you want to
1:10:12
kill Russians. You don't.
1:10:15
Uh hopefully there here's here's
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Friedrich. Hopefully there will
1:10:20
eventually be a peace treaty with
1:10:22
Russia. Then possibly part of Ukraine's
1:10:26
territory will no longer be Ukrainian,
1:10:29
he said during a speech in Marsburg as
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cited by several sources. for Vladimir
1:10:35
Vince Zalinski to push through a
1:10:37
referendum for such a decision. He could
1:10:40
tell Ukrainians, I have opened the path
1:10:43
to Europe for you, he said. Now,
1:10:48
the Ukrainians in large majority are not
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for continuing the war. Uh they just
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aren't. And uh uh so uh you know the
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last ones that I saw say that it's he's
1:11:04
down to a popularity rating well below
1:11:07
50%. You know 30%. And uh that he would
1:11:11
not certainly be elected president at
1:11:14
present and uh it was just a couple of
1:11:17
days ago. I think there's only five days
1:11:18
left until he has to extend martial law
1:11:23
again. and he's already, you know,
1:11:26
trying to push it through. And uh um
1:11:30
Miritz added that the EU could then
1:11:32
initiate steps for Kiev's accession, but
1:11:35
warned that Zalinsk's timeline for
1:11:37
membership are too optimistic. Zilinski
1:11:41
has the idea of joining the EU on
1:11:43
January 1, 2027.
1:11:46
This will not work. Even January 1, 2028
1:11:49
is unrealistic, said the German
1:11:52
chancellor. Zilinski has for months
1:11:54
demanded that Brussels give Ukraine a
1:11:56
clear date for joining the EU.
1:12:00
He's also consistently rejected
1:12:02
accepting territorial losses. However,
1:12:05
the economic block accession criteria
1:12:09
demand prospective members have no
1:12:12
unresolved border disputes with their
1:12:15
neighbors. Moscow stresses that any
1:12:18
stable peace and they've always stressed
1:12:20
this has to include the withdrawal of
1:12:22
any Ukrainian troops from the parts the
1:12:25
Donbass still under Kiev control that's
1:12:28
uh I'm sorry um Detskin Lugansk Moscow
1:12:32
has also said it does not oppose Ukraine
1:12:34
joining the EU
1:12:37
but has criticized um you know what
1:12:40
foreign minister Sergey Lavrov describes
1:12:42
as its metamorphosis EU metam
1:12:45
metamorphosis into an aggressive
1:12:47
military political block. I happen to
1:12:50
agree with that. Didn't used to be that
1:12:51
way.
1:12:53
For his part, apparently, uh Putin knows
1:12:58
how the war is going to end.
1:13:02
Um
1:13:04
let's see. Russian adversaries are busy
1:13:06
thinking about how to shape the
1:13:09
country's victory in the Ukraine
1:13:12
conflict says President Putin. He made
1:13:16
the remarks in response to comments by
1:13:18
the head of the local legislature of the
1:13:20
city of Nijnovi
1:13:23
Chinsv during a meeting with
1:13:25
representatives of country's
1:13:27
municipalities.
1:13:28
Chins have said that nobody, including
1:13:31
the enemy, doubts that conflict will
1:13:34
result in Russian victory. Well, that is
1:13:37
absolutely true, Mr. Chint of Yfkeni.
1:13:41
Uh Putin agreed, but appeared to caution
1:13:44
against making overly bold statements
1:13:46
prematurely. Yes, they are just thinking
1:13:50
about how to shape it all. We'll see.
1:13:53
However, military action is always very
1:13:56
complicated and dangerous thing. We know
1:13:59
how everything will end, but we will not
1:14:01
make any public statements about it. We
1:14:04
will simply strive to achieve the goals
1:14:06
we have set. They've been pretty
1:14:10
steadfast in this resolve and saying,
1:14:13
"Well, we know what's going to happen.
1:14:15
Is that a Oh my goodness, they have
1:14:17
another guy being another guy girl on
1:14:20
TV.
1:14:21
Oh boy.
1:14:24
Sometimes they're just not very
1:14:25
attractive. Okay, if you want to be most
1:14:28
of the time, in fact, they're just
1:14:29
absolutely not attractive. And uh um
1:14:34
perhaps if you're going to be a woman,
1:14:35
you should look like a woman. It's uh
1:14:38
unfortunate. Early in the conflict,
1:14:41
Moscow outlined the goals it seeks to
1:14:43
achieve through the Ukraine operation,
1:14:45
maintains they have remained unchanged
1:14:47
ever since. And that's true. These
1:14:50
include demilitarization,
1:14:52
dennazification of the country, and
1:14:54
protection of Russian speakers, as well
1:14:56
as ensuring Ukrainian neutrality. Did
1:14:58
you hear the thing the other day that
1:15:00
the EU wants uh
1:15:03
um
1:15:05
Ukraine to implement laws protecting
1:15:07
minorities because they're not
1:15:09
protected.
1:15:11
Additional goals that emerge later
1:15:13
include the recognition of the formerly
1:15:15
Ukrainian regions that voted to join
1:15:17
Russia. Moscow repeatedly signals its
1:15:20
openness to resolve the hostility
1:15:22
through diplomacy, which doesn't exist
1:15:24
these days, should its demands be met
1:15:27
while maintaining its readiness to
1:15:29
achieve the goals by force should
1:15:31
negotiate efforts ultimately fail.
1:15:33
Territorial issues have become one of
1:15:36
the main obstacles in the negotiation as
1:15:38
Kiev repeatedly refuses to withdraw its
1:15:41
forces from the parts of the Dan Donbass
1:15:44
it still controls. It's very small those
1:15:47
uh those parts that they uh
1:15:51
um that they do control. They're tiny.
1:15:56
Um, we started this show with Tuapsa and
1:15:59
I don't think I have time to get into
1:16:01
this article to finish it, but uh,
1:16:04
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's
1:16:06
Black Sea port uh, city of Tuapsa are
1:16:10
worsening the global oil crunch caused
1:16:13
by the USIsraeli war. Multiple Ukrainian
1:16:16
drone strikes hit Tapsa, densely
1:16:18
populated port in Russia's Cross Nadar
1:16:20
region, having targeted uh of the
1:16:23
refinery and adjacent marine terminals.
1:16:27
Regional Governor Vignyamin, which is
1:16:29
Benjamin Kandrav,
1:16:32
reported fires at the site, including a
1:16:34
major blaze at the refinery, prompting
1:16:36
evacuation of citizens and emergency
1:16:39
response. The attacks led to high-risk
1:16:42
air pollution with residents advised to
1:16:45
use respirators as an oil spill
1:16:47
destroyed miles of beach on this resort
1:16:51
town.
1:16:52
Kondrat also released a video from the
1:16:55
town filled with smoke with a cleanup
1:16:57
operation ongoing at the beach.
1:17:01
Speaking with reporters Tuesday, Pescov
1:17:03
confirmed that Russian President Putin
1:17:04
has been briefed on the situation. Kiev
1:17:07
regime once again has struck oil storage
1:17:09
facilities where the oil is intended for
1:17:11
export operations and fulfilling export
1:17:14
contract obligations. He said these are
1:17:17
frightening times people and oil
1:17:20
continued target all over the world
1:17:23
including in Russia, Iran, Venezuela.
1:17:27
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