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From Zaporizhzhia’s Nuclear Standoff to Moldova’s Manipulated Elections: Truth, Power, and Peace in a Fractured World · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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This incredibly awesome music to bring you some incredibly awesome political talk on damn radio
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That is correct. I am Samuel Trapp
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This is international flavor. You are on damn radio
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Lots going on plenty plenty. There's something I just came across that I had read but I didn't realize
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There's a 61
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Minute video attached to it, which I'm gonna share and
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With myself I mean
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Listen to it later and it's in Sochi and
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Southern Russia, you know in Crimea actually and basically it's a TV show
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That I had read this report, but I didn't notice that the actual show that it referenced was out there
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And I want to because it has and I'm gonna read you the article I intended to anyway
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But it's called it's from a show called the Sanchez effect guy named Rick Sanchez, right?
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And they they pose in it something that's of a great deal of interest to me
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Basically, it's a million dollar question that they're talking about and well
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Obviously, nobody gets a million dollars if they answered a question, but they want to know the following
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can
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multipolarity
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deliver peace
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That our world so desperately seeks or are we just destined to swap one hegemony for another?
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Okay, get rid of the u.s. Get rid of
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EU and what do you get in its place? Is it China? Is it China and Russia?
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Is it China Russia India? Is it bricks? What is it? And and I don't know
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I I think that like I talked about last night a lot of the UN
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BS that's going around. It's it's a shame what we have done and clearly something needs to change what the answer is
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Lord knows I mean who knows what the correct answer would be, but it's not
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Continuing the way we are. It's not starting out and saying geez. Let's create a war department and
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Get ready for war. Everybody's getting ready for war you get ready for war wars a-coming and and I'm not I
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Think that's what the world is tired of is all of this war and I have plenty on that topic tonight
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That I wish to get to but before I get in this is a very short article
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but I haven't had the time to
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I'm wondering if it'll let me for example
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Save this
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Show I wonder if it'll just let me keep it
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Here's a link that I copied by you a hundred bucks
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It won't let me copy it to where I want to copy it wonder if it'll let me email it to my damn self
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At any rate I
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I'll skip that part and
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Tell you what what this short little article says about this million-dollar question
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Somebody named T. Ha
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Ocean, and I don't know if I've said her name correctly
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Research director at the Ankara Institute, Turkey says that as multi polarity appears
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increasingly
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inevitable
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From their point of view the u.s. Seems to be
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retreating into
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isolationism
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While the u.s. Can afford to go it alone
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Other nations particularly in Europe may not share that luxury
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I mean we like I've told you repeatedly that we both us and Russia and maybe Brazil
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Have the resources the people the money the land everything that you need to take care of ourselves
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You know we don't have to
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import
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things from other countries we do not have to and
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You know there's some argument that that is some of what Trump is trying to accomplish
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You know getting a more reflective and inward view towards us. I
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Haven't made my own determination of that or not. I'm just saying that people have been talking about it, so
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Somebody named Radhika Desai professor at the University of Manitoba and a director of the geopolitical
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Economy research group says multi-polarity isn't on the horizon. It's been here all along
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Ironically this reality may be what obstructs lasting peace as the u.s.
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Is fighting against a disappointing end of its unipolar?
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Dream, so that's you know Manitoba. That's freaking
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Canada right somebody named coffee
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Kwakow an African analyst from the University of Johannesburg
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Cautions that labeling the world as
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multi-polar
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doesn't
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guarantee tranquility
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after all
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Could China and Russia be vying for the same dominant position held by the u.s.
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As I just said Rick raises a critical point do people trust Beijing and Moscow more than Washington
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Well, it's pretty hard to trust
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Washington that is for damn sure, but I don't want to make the mistake of
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Trusting
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Russia and Beijing either you know it's still
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You know
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Government you know what I mean, and I don't trust ours as far as you could pick them up and heave them
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You know there's there's zero to trust you know, but a true believer. You know
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well famous last words you're not a
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A fool for a client right
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For now the answer seems to be yes, we do trust Beijing and Moscow
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More than Washington, but history shows us that skepticism is definitely warranted
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Because those in power can easily backtrack on their own commitments
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So what does the future hold join us for answers in?
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This thought-provoking episode well, I thought it was gonna be more of reading right
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But it isn't it's a shared a shared video
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which I haven't had time to watch or download and I and but I do intend to and
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Hopefully I can share it with you tomorrow. That would be that would be kind of fun
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But
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Something that would
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I
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Force the u.s.. Force the West for you know and I don't see it
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because once again, you know you have Moldova in this position of
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being the next Ukraine right and
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They're they're changing the rules in the EU to get Ukraine in Moldova
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in without a veto they're gonna
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Change the rules of how the EU works and get rid of veto power
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for like people like Orban who could veto their entry into the
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Block, and they're just gonna change the rules. Sorry. We're changing rules at the end
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But as I told you yesterday there were some interesting
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Developments on that end too because now there's a couple of countries saying that their own
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Constitution can override EU mandates, which is also against the EU
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You know operational
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Structure so I don't know but I but I do intend to get to this article or this show it's called the
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Sanchez effect and you can find it out out there
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This was this show was put on in Sochi
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Crimea and so I'll try to get to that by tomorrow. Okay, there's something extremely dangerous going on and if you haven't heard about it yet
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Perhaps I should tell you
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so
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We talked at length several times about the
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Zaporozhye nuclear power plant
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Z and PP and it is in Zaporozhye and Russia has taken it over since
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2022 and
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One of the things they would like to do because this is the largest nuclear power plant in
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Europe it's huge and it has six reactors. Okay, and
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It has been on shutdown for a
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long period of time and
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That means it has to be
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Powered from the outside during the cool-down phase
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So that it gets cool because you can't just turn off a nuclear power plant
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And I'm not an expert on how long it takes to to cool the reactors and get it down
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But it take it does have to be powered
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Externally, okay, and so there has to be power coming in from certain ways. Well recently
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The
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Power was cut off
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Russia blames Ukraine Ukraine blames Russia the IAEA doesn't blame anybody
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They just say look we need to restore the power or because now it's been off since
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September 23rd, I think and
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So, let me summarize
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Basically what they are saying
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Let's get to where the bottom line why this is such a big deal
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So as of October 1st today
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External power is
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Down, there is no external power powering it
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the plants been on
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emergency diesel generators
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for eight days
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This is the longest off-site power loss since the war began
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The reactors are in what they call cold shut down radiation levels are normal
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plant management and the IAEA both say that and
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but restoring off-site power is a
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Huge priority they have to restore it
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so
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Most
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Sources, you know and you can go out and read about a whole bunch of this and they all they do is finger point
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You know, but most of the sources if you can get to the actual what happened part the cooling
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Still needs to occur. Okay, even with the reactors shut down
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pumps have to run for the reactor cores the decay heat and
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Spent fuel has to cool down right?
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Diesel plus on-site procedures make the situation stable for now
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But this isn't sustainable long term
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off-site power has to be restored and IAEA is getting increasingly a
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Vocal and saying look we don't care who's to blame. We got to get the power restored
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so why it's why is this tense because every additional day on diesel increases the dependence on
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resupply of diesel fuel and there's a war going on over there and
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Trust me Ukraine would like nothing better than to deny Russia the ability to get diesel fuel there
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I think they'd prefer an incident. I mean in all seriousness, you know
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it's a they
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This is a I think they would happily watch something big occur at
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You know
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They would prefer to have some huge massive emergency and just blame it on Russia because that might bring
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I don't know the war to an end, you know what I mean?
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And even if it destroys whatever's in Zaporizhia, you know for miles around like it did in Chernobyl in the northern part
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of Ukraine, right
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so
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but it's a definitely a
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a
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serious problem because this resupply the risks that a single failure to get fuel on site a
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Generator that faults or dies would be they can't get it
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Restarted or a new
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strike military drone whatever this would trigger a real
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I mean not that this isn't an emergency, but a real emergency some kind of a nuclear issue just like
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Chernobyl and the IAEA is pressing both sides to allow
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these
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Repairs which are a kilometer and a half away from the plant to occur
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And so where does the story split, you know, who's who's saying what the Russians are saying?
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That fighting and
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Ukrainian attacks
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Prevent repairs so they cannot repair because Ukrainians attack anybody who comes within any
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place where they can get close enough to repair the the
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Lines the power lines to get the power restored the off-site power restored, right and
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And
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The they also say the diesel is working
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There is no abnormal radiation
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but external power has to be restored and
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so
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IAEA says well, yes power has to be restored and it has to be restored quickly, but we don't assign
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Blame, you know, we're not blaming Ukraine. We don't care who's who's to blame. We just want it fixed Ukraine
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Who used to operate it a company called in their go atom and
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several Western outlets and NGOs
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argue that
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Russia is deliberately not reconnecting the power
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Is an interesting argument and there there could be some some truth to this
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It wouldn't surprise me if this were the case, let's put it that way
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Russia is according to Ukraine Russia is deliberately not reconnecting
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And or has sabotaged this last power line
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to
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you know, which
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Could restore external power and allow the cooling to be you know
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Treated that way and
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They've been
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The kind of supported in this by what Greenpeace says Greenpeace
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Claims that they have a new satellite review that says that the
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750
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kilovolt
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Maybe that's kilowatt. I don't know. I don't understand the
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The terminology that they have there the this shows no major combat damage
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which contradicts Russia's claim that shelling of the
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Power line that leads here is what's blocking the problem
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and
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So we have Russia saying one thing Ukraine say in another I a e a says the on-site team says
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That power loss and nearby shelling
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They do report nearby shelling and power loss and say the plant and its people they have the spares to fix the line
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and they have the way to get out to the line, but they cannot get access and approval to get to the space to
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Repair it and every time somebody goes out there people are you know getting bombed and whatnot and you know
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They don't want to send these engineers out to repair this and kill
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So grossie who runs the IAEA is working with both Moscow and Kiev for a restoration of this
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This is a really big deal and the IAEA
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Won't validate either side about who broke what they don't care
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They just want it fixed and that's exactly the the point of view they should have
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The with all six of the units in a cold shutdown
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The heat loads are definitely lower than they would be during normal operation and this reduces
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But doesn't get rid. I mean it seriously reduces
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But doesn't get rid of the hazard the real risk would be the loss of all AC power
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Including the diesel long enough to stop the cooling water
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circulation
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especially on the spent fuel pools
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So there wouldn't be any sort of
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Instantaneous blast or anything like that and everyone is
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Obsessed with off-site power rather than the reactor status alone
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You know they're not with the reactor status because they're already in shutdown
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It's not as terrible, but they still need that off-site power
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So this is the tenth time that off-site power has been lost
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at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant since 2022
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Repeated line trips and access fights are always a pattern each time the IAEA
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urges a return to a stable grid connection
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past incidents do matter in this regard because the IAEA
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documented direct drone strikes by Ukraine at
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Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in 2024 including a direct hit on unit 6 is dome and
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Reports of mines and shelling near the site. This is
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not good and
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It illustrates how fragile you know the safety is in the in combat situation so but the bottom line
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As as much as I can tell it you know without
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Intentionally trying to say that it's you know one side or the other you know Russia has been claiming that
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Ukraine has been bombing the place for a while
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Ukraine says something and I found this entering. I don't know interesting. I don't know speak to the truth of it
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I don't know, but like I said it wouldn't surprise me the confirmed fact is this is the longest power outage
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stretch
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Where they've had to run on diesel and the reactors are shut radiation and normal
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but urgent need to restore that power line and
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You know who to attribute this to is of course contested Russia's blame in Ukraine
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Attacks and access you can't won't let us in there and there go Adam from Ukraine and NGOs saying well
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There's no clear damage to the key
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Connections and they're saying this is where it gets interesting that this is a deliberate
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Non-reconnection by Russia that they don't want to reconnect
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and
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Like I said I EA state states out, but wants to pressure both sides
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But the risk is real and and what they're saying is that if this is true
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What Russia has wanted to do according to some other?
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stories is
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that
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they want to
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Switch the lines right I mean
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For example
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Greenpeace asserts to blackout fits a
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Russian strategy to disconnect
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Zaporizhia from Ukraine's power grids and
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Reroute it all to Russia right now. I believe it split
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Half of it goes toward Russia half of it goes toward Ukraine
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you know when lines go in both ways and
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They're saying that if Russia can keep it shut down long enough
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they can reroute it to their own power grid and then
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Restart to plant in Ukraine gets none of the nuclear power none of it heads west it all heads east
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or north you know whatever north south and east and
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but not west into Ukraine proper and
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All right, that's a reasonably good argument
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I would think or something that certainly would be worth looking into if there were if I had any trust in Greenpeace
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It'd be it'd be a little different
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But I don't know you know trust them any any any more than I trust the government. You know what I mean and
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So they say they want to ultimately
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Reconnect it and they have previously published
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satellite evidence of new Russian power line construction
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Toward Mariupol and Berdyansk and these are accusations and the IAEA hasn't said anything about them
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right so this is just Greenpeace and
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Certain other you know intelligence outlets that are claiming. Oh geez Russia. Just won't steal the power plant well Russia already runs the power plant and
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You know Ukraine wants it back remember the back year ago
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Well not quite because Trump hasn't been in office yet a year, but they were talking about well jeez you know okay?
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US will run the power plant
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We'll do it. Yeah, good plan. You know why don't we run it, and we'll make sure everything is safe over there
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We'll just steal the power plant. How about that instead of you getting it?
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We'll take it you know I suppose that's that goes well with if nobody you know if if you can't decide well
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Then mom's taking it. You know you'd like a toy
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Toy in the toy in the living room there you are you two are playing it wasn't either one
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I'll take it you know throw it away. You know split the baby into whatever you will call it I
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Don't know Reuters and AP and others are saying you know this is the longest outage
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They really need to do something no immediate danger blah blah blah this the Guardian keeps sight in Greenpeace and mentions a leaked
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Russian paper
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to the IAEA in June
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about
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Reconfiguring control and power flows, which has been reported in the press, but not published by IAEA
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So whether that's true or not. I don't know
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but
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When there's a cold shutdown it doesn't mean there's no heat even in shutdown reactors and spent fuel
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They got to be have powered cooling and instrumentation
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you know with
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Diesel generators running and refueled the risk is pretty low, but if something you know you get a station blackout
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You're you're screwed. You know spent fuel pools core integrity if could decay heat isn't moved and all of this is
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unsustainable redundancy
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you know they if they have more than one of these but
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Generally 10 to 20 days of diesel autonomy with refueling is about as long as you got and they're halfway through it
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But prolonged blackouts and wartime scared the hell out of everybody right and they also
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Got to have water for cooling and since a Cacova dam
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2023 was destroyed
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Zaporizhia's relying on alternate source groundwater and on-site
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Reservoirs for cooling which means not a huge reservoir this makes stable electric power even more
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Critical and to move the water and keep safety systems running so I
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Don't know with the dispute over this
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750
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Kilowatt
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Segment ie a you know just says the line is damaged. We don't care who did it fix it
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We have staff ready to fix it. Let us in you know help us get there. We don't care who did it Russia says Ukraine fire
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You know firing on it cut the line
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And that they also say though
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And this is the curious part Russia says well. We're maintaining safe conditions and nothing will happen down there
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We won't allow anything well
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Okay
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Does that mean?
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You know you planned ahead for this. I don't know
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Green peace and very you know all that other stuff
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What would change the risk picture really fast is any or interruption in diesel delivery?
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Failed access to the repair cord or a push to restart a unit while the site lacks
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You know if Russia wanted to restart one unit, or I mean obviously wouldn't start on, but if they want to restart one
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There's not enough
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not enough
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Defensive posture to keep it going going
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The way they need to so it's a it's a pretty scary
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scenario
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The guy that I like to listen to on the Ukrainian side is as Alex a
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Aristovitch and his position you know he is citing the Ukrainians he said qualified
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Ukrainian specialists are
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Saying that the current dramatization is false or overblown
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He said that according to them the reactors are
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Inactive and easier to keep safe. He says neither he nor the host or technical experts
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So they're kind of saying some of the stuff, but they spoke to some you know some
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qualified Ukrainian experts and
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He said that
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For Russia the Zaporizhia plant
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Powers the entire
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occupied South and
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Crimea Crimea and for Ukraine it could supply you know their industrial regions
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You know so this is an important an important
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asset so it's a convenient blackmail
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amplification pressure
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public opinion
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political stress for both sides and so
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the
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There hasn't been enough attention to this in my humble opinion
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Not enough people are talking about this you don't need another Chernobyl type incident in Ukraine
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They already have one you know with what is the line? It's like 30
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30 you know from my
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What do you call it conspiracy theory on on the Chernobyl incident that I read to you a couple of
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Maybe a week and a half ago
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30 30
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Radius of 30
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That means a 60 mile circle. That's crazy
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you know and nobody it's you know uninhabitable and
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We don't you don't need another one of those
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I mean
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I suppose you could say you know well
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Then if if we're gonna lose it in Ukraine since they've already lost it well fine blow it up
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You know it's a Zaporizhia anyway
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We're mad at them they voted to stay with Russia screw it let it go. You know that's
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Horrible to say, but I suppose it's possible
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You know blackmail there you go who is hitting it with drones and blocking repairs
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We don't know says Aristovich. He said he doesn't know, but it's pretty scary on both sides, and then you know a serious
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Nuclear incident is part of it
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Aristovich sarcastically says that the IAEA chief
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being
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You know proactive on this the greater the
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Danger the higher chance
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That he gets you know promoted. You know gets more money and all that he's pretty he you talk about cynical. You know
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That that sounds pretty good. He he was asked directly will this change the war he had like a
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an hour discussion on this with an
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interviewer and he said
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If a Zaporizhia
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Emergency occurred would it be a game-changer?
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and
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Aristovich said that right now. It's primarily a media instrument and
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psychological pressure
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Not a proven technical inevitability in that change in the rules
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He doesn't confirm that people have been talking about Fukushima, too, and you know stuff like that. He doesn't I
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think
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it's
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Using him as a guy to say something. It's more of a political
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He's taking a political approach kind of like me because I don't claim to be an expert on nuclear
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Energy and nuclear power plants. I do get the danger and and I think I've explained it pretty well here, but I
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Assume it really would change the work regardless of which side you know you know which side caused it
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It doesn't matter and it does need to be to be fixed
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that is why this war needs to be one of a million reasons, you know including all the millions of dead that
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This war needs to end sooner rather than later
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Now Russia has been beaten the snot out of
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Ukrainian
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Energy
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For upcoming winter anyway, they're destroying power plants. They're destroying oil gas
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Facilities they're destroying water places. I mean there they are
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They are really pounded now Ukraine for their part is doing the same thing
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You know all the talks about tomahawks going on or as is a is a serious escalation
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You got that idiot Kellogg running around. Oh geez give him some tomahawks. That'd be great
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That's a game-changer. Oh, yeah idiot
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What in the world is wrong with that guy
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He's yeah, I have an idea what's the next ramp up can we can we make it bigger some other way hell
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He's he'd be the guy standing out instead of having a Greenpeace sign in front of a nuclear power plant
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He'd be going blow this thing up
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You know, it's nonsense and the the positions he takes I just don't get
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at all, but
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Anyway, the Ames, you know strikes on Russia's
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They took out
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330 kilowatt substations
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Railway locomotives, they're trying to get a blackout and put pressure on civilians with with zero power
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they're trying to show their own capabilities and that they don't have to negotiate if they don't want to and
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they want to destroy Ukraine's ability to
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Continue
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Military production and logistics. There were a lot of talks in the last few days about Russia
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bombing factories where drones and
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missile items were being
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Manufactured a lot of it and where where they were
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some operational plants as well and
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So those I get those are not necessarily
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Nuclear power plant
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Specific but it's why energy is a central issue
33:21
Especially heading into the winter because if Russia has beaten the crap out all Ukraine's ability to provide power
33:27
Anyway, and the power to the Zaporizhia plant is coming from the Ukrainian side, which it is
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Maybe it needs to be restored from the Russian side and you know
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But then what Russia will then transfer all the power
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To their direction and quit supplying it the other direction, you know what I mean?
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so
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Let us take a call
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Hello, sir
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Hey, Sam, how's it going? I didn't hear better
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There you it's going better than I could even describe to you. Oh, well, that's good
34:08
What's so good?
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Yeah, I've got kids. Ah
34:14
Let's swirl around me right now. I'm like I've got three children and then one grandchild
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and they they are
34:26
Just in
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They're giving me
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feelings
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that
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Make me believe that
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There's something good in this life
34:42
Well, there you go. Well, there is something good in this life
34:46
But I'm glad they're
34:49
Encouraging you toward that belief as well. So deep. Do you have any kids or grandkids? I do both
34:58
But you have kids and grandkids quite true
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so
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How do they make you feel?
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Pretty good
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That's a weird question, I'm not sure what you mean
35:17
Well, what I mean is would you not sacrifice
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Anything in this world for them quite true. Yes, so
35:29
So, how do we collectively?
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Provide a
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Just a wide
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Swath of information for them to discern
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I
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Think our
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primary objective Sam is to
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provide information I
35:55
Think that's true provide guidance and learning. You know, I have a there's a Sam jr. Running around, right and
36:04
You have a
36:06
there's a Sam jr. Running around and he's a he's an interesting cat and
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And
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For years and years and years, I always wondered because he was just
36:21
All of my kids are so much different than me, you know, well, that's not true
36:25
One of them is very much like me
36:27
But but the other three I you know, you don't understand them and and it's and I love that by the way
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I think it's it's it. I don't need a little um, a little mini me, you know, I don't need that in
36:42
I
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Want them to be their own?
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But you do have a mini me. Well, I I do have one. That's quite true. And but
36:53
Well in various ways, yes, but but one is extremely like me but Sam jr. Is not in Sam is
37:02
Extremely interesting and I remember getting mad at him when
37:06
when he was in high school and
37:08
Something to the effect of why in the world do you put these ridiculous?
37:15
Ideas out there and who is filling your head with these nonsensical ideas and then he would
37:24
Come around, you know, try to convince me of what it was and it was more of a I
37:34
Don't know what a learning a learning curve
37:37
For both of us, I'm I'm saying that I still
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believe
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Anyway that I taught him more than in and convinced him more than he convinced me
37:49
but but I like it when they you know, I think that's part of being your own person part of
37:56
Growing up and and so I suppose if I want
38:01
If I could pass on anything, it would be to stand up for your own position and don't
38:08
But not foolishly, you know, you better have a basis for it. Give me, you know
38:13
I've always said to everyone, you know including on this show you can convince me of a lot of things
38:20
You can't tell me what I need to believe and say well, you're just wrong. All right
38:25
Well, then I'll be wrong or you can convince me why I should come around to your point of view
38:32
You don't just go well, you're canceled until you believe the way I say it or this person is canceled or well
38:39
Geez, we'll just kill him. We don't like his point of view. We'll just kill him. That'll teach you won't it?
38:44
well, no, it actually won't in fact, it'll make me go stronger the other way and that is my point about Sam because
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You can convince Sam jr. But you cannot
38:58
Tell him what he will or will not believe, you know, you know what I mean?
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And and and I like that sometimes it's frustrating but you know, I assume I'm a frustrating person as well
39:08
Because you know, I have positions that I have no problem attempting to back up
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But I also say that anyone at any time
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Can come to me and say?
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Have you thought about it from this point of view Sam? Have you thought about?
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This what if so in law school they have, you know, they tell you about
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the
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Socratic method and the Socratic method isn't
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wrote
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Memorization or here's how it works. It's ideas to make you think and law school is full of it
39:44
Okay, and in a lot of ways they really are full of it
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No, but but I but I mean they come out and they they
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Read you a case and there's no right answer in the law
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Okay, it's not black and white. It's well
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What about this
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What if this circumstance happened? What if you know?
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Well, it might be right for this particular person at this particular time against that particular person or group
40:16
But maybe it's not the same if it happened to you in this group in this location at a different time
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in in
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History, you know what I mean?
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That's why I have such trouble with people who want to destroy what happened in the past and say, you know
40:34
Well, those those idiots killing the Indians. They were wrong. Yep
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They probably were and we learned from it those people have in slaves
40:42
they were just wrong and so we should cancel them and take their names off of
40:47
grade schools and stuff like that well
40:50
That is still your history and just because you cancel them doesn't mean that's not still your
40:58
History, we're supposed to learn from those kind of things not just cancel it
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So I hope that explains some of the ways I think
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So it does Sam. So we're so fortunate to have
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posterity that are willing to open their minds to
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Historical
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Issues, you know just history in general and you know
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The the old saying is that if we are unwilling to you know
41:30
Take lessons from history then we're doomed
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To you know repeat them. So so
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Have such things
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Are you cutting out? I can't hear you
41:48
I'm using a pregnant pause
41:50
We are so congruent we have so many things that are congruent and
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There are so many ways that there are things that are trying to
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Separate us and I really truly believe
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That there is only one thing to come together under and that is God and Jesus. I
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really believe that's the thing and
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We
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We have got to figure out a way
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to get along instead of fight
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Fighting is not the way
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It's supposed to be we have got to get along
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and I
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Support that position a hundred percent wish we could get rid of
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You know Trump Trump on the one hand talks about
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Ending all these wars and on the other hand talks about
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the Department of War and
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gathering whatever it was 800 admirals and generals together to talk about how we're gonna
42:59
We're gonna start winning wars. Well, that means I have to start more of them, doesn't it?
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I thought we were about peace. Are we about peace? Are we about war? I'm confused
43:10
I'm confused too. So here's what I think
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So so so Russia is is a good nice decent Christian
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Even if they're a little bit, you know
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Communistic and socialistic. They're a good they don't like
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Pedophiles, you know what? I mean? They're just decent people and then
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America for the most part is decent people. They don't we don't like
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Pedophiles and and and baby killers and bomb builders. So why don't we get along?
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With Russia, why don't we get along with them? Well, it's just foolish that we don't
43:54
I don't know if you listen to my show on Sunday and I but regular
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well, well, I know you listen to me regularly, but but I was about to somewhat repeat a
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line of thought that I had because I
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Truly am
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planning and I've already
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Looked into what's happening. I want to
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You remember I don't know if you remember but I had an interview with that Scott Ritter
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Guy that I used to work in the same
44:27
Same place he did in the same organization
44:31
doing
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Verification of our treaties between the US and Russia, right and so so did he and
44:40
He got his passport back and was telling about it on my when I interviewed him, right a couple months ago
44:46
And he said that he was gonna start and what he had tried to do in the US took his passport
44:53
For making the effort they took his passport took him off the plane
44:57
Didn't arrest him anything like that just confiscated his passport
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and he said what he was trying to do was to go over and
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Begin and he had already arranged a lot of these
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discussions and meetings to go over and and work with some sort of
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Russian American
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friendship or
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cooperation
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organization or something like that and I'm telling you I want to do something like that and
45:27
I'm planning a trip over there for New Year's
45:31
I want I've never been to st. Petersburg and I've never been to Russia over
45:36
Their holiday season which theirs is the reverse of ours ours is like the last 15 days of the year
45:43
theirs is the first 15 days of the year and the country shuts down from New Year's Eve to about the 15th and
45:50
I plan to fly over to st. Petersburg, Russia in
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The last week of the year and stay there for two weeks and during that time I want to
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Meet with similarly minded people in
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Russia now I did a little bit of it when I was in Moscow a month or two month and a half ago
46:12
And I did a little bit of it. You know, I did an interview on TV with a group
46:17
I had an article published over there where I talk about you know
46:21
That we really are normal people, you know, I had and and it's in Russian
46:27
but so what you know, and I got interviewed in Russian and that's that's a good thing because there aren't a lot of
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people that are going over and saying
46:38
What needs to be said and and I think we need to do more of that and and I'm not saying
46:44
From the point of view that Russia is always right and that we're always wrong. I don't mean it that way but that the people
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We have a lot of commonality and I mean a lot it's like what you said
46:56
Generally, they're religious
46:58
Generally, they they don't believe in you know
47:04
That you know, you can turn some worship. Well, they don't believe
47:09
Nonsense, they don't they don't believe in geez if you want to say you're a cat guess you're a cat
47:15
You know the litter boxes in schools. They'd throw you in a nut house. You know what I mean?
47:20
And I don't know if you know that story or not
47:23
But but they were they were providing freaking litter boxes in a school. Wasn't that what kind of?
47:31
nonsense Emperor's new clothes crap is that and you know, a lot of us are
47:38
Quite similar here. I feel like it's I hate to say it
47:41
But sometimes I feel like it's a lot of us that have been around for a while, you know in the older generation
47:47
But over there it's
47:50
Every generation they're all like what in the world is wrong with those nutjobs over in America. You know what I mean?
47:57
Here's what I have to say. I think it's reasonable
48:01
for somebody that's
48:04
lucid and you know
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normal
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to be
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Afraid of
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the leftist
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transgender
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Thing they're there. I mean there it's reasonable for a normal person to be phobic
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of a
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Transgender someone that has got like zero
48:28
Zero baseline
48:32
Intelligence that it's reasonable for a normal person to be afraid of that
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ridiculous
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You know SH I T
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It's I mean, they're G. Holy
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f-ing f
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They are so
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Ridiculously
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Unacceptable but I
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Don't even know well, but you gotta admit that since the old trumpster came along that that is no longer the default
49:06
I mean we are not so we are not seeing that all
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All over the television any longer we are you know
49:16
Everywhere and and you know, that's actually a good thing
49:21
Yeah, so so what I heard and I listen to x-22. Do you listen to x-22 report ever?
49:29
I have seen it, but no, I'm not a big follower
49:33
Listen to it. Trust me. You'll like it. You're a good guy Sam
49:38
I feel I feel so really close to you. You're not a bad guy. You're a guy you fool. Don't I?
49:47
You're maybe a little bit of a guy that believes in you know, big world stuff, which is okay
49:54
I I don't disagree with that. I mean we need to learn how to get along as a global society
49:59
I I truly suck at that. We really do we suck at that, bro
50:05
We suck at that so hard that we should be the best at it and we're not
50:12
We're not we're not
50:14
So anyway, I feel like I kind of bogart your airwaves from time to time, but I so much enjoy
50:23
Discussing just open open dialogue with you
50:26
Just like Charlie Kirk, you know all Charlie Kirk ever wanted to do whether it be good
50:32
Jew or bad Jew or good Christian or bad Christian all he ever wanted to do was just throw out
50:39
Some ideas that's all he ever wanted to do and he got shot. He got silenced
50:45
Who know who knows who shot him?
50:49
Who knows what silenced him someone something silenced him just like they silenced
50:56
JFK RFK
50:58
MLK they silenced them with an assassin's bullet, you know only because they were they were
51:06
They were preaching
51:08
Truth, you know just openness honest honesty, you know
51:13
Oh, that's the only reason they were shot down and killed is because they were just
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offering
51:24
Honesty, you know, it's a shit. I saw a I had a
51:30
Client down in Florida who was a
51:34
she was looking for a a
51:37
house and you know, I was I was helping her try to find one for a couple of months and I haven't
51:44
Talked to her heard a bit since you know, the house was done and all that stuff was done
51:49
That was six eight months ago, but somehow we ended up
51:53
on each other's pages on
51:56
Social media and I never get on social media any I mean pretty rare the only time I do it is for
52:05
Real estate. No, I don't do it for anything else and I just
52:11
I'm just sick of it and and every once in a while
52:14
I'll get on there and and make a comment about one of my shows or something, but I was on there the other day and
52:21
something popped up
52:22
From from her and I and I I barely remembered the name, you know what I mean?
52:28
but I was reading this name and I was like, oh who is this and
52:31
And then it struck me who it was and there was a long. She had written a
52:37
Reasonably lengthy post and normally I completely ignore and just click and leave, you know
52:44
mark, all is red and I'm out right and
52:48
and but but this one it started out with
52:54
Since she says if any of you
52:58
Have and I'm not gonna quote it. I don't remember it
53:00
I'm not gonna pull it up or anything like that and it was a long post
53:03
but the basics were the start went like if any of you have
53:10
Taken joy in
53:12
the death of
53:14
Charlie Kirk
53:16
Please delete me and never talk to me again
53:19
She said I I have seen several people
53:23
Posting things that are political in nature and it was for me
53:28
It was exactly what I say and what I did say on this program, you know a couple of nights afterward, you know
53:35
For a week or so afterward, you know
53:38
As long as I was talking about it and what I will say again now and she said look those are you who take joy?
53:45
in the death of another
53:47
That has been murdered you are not my friends and
53:52
you need to get out of my life and I in and she went on a
53:56
Bit of a tirade and I read the whole thing and I was like and I always thought she was a you know
54:02
She's a I don't know what she's single. She's attractive single mother blah blah blah raising a kid
54:08
however, whatever age he was he couldn't have been more than 10 and
54:12
she was but I always thought she was a
54:16
Little on the worldly side, you know what I mean?
54:18
And then when when and I don't know why I just I didn't know her very well and then reading that article. It's like, you know
54:26
This is somebody that you and not me, but anybody would need to know this is the type of people
54:33
that you want to
54:36
associate with our people who don't condemn others, you know what I mean, we don't condemn them we don't
54:43
We don't
54:44
Cancel them. We don't wish them death. We don't I mean none of these idiotic
54:52
things that people seem to do and it's just like what I mean, I grew up Mormon
54:58
I think I've said that on this show before and
55:01
when I was reading that that story the other day and I think the kid who who shot Charlie Kirk grew up grew up Mormon if
55:09
I recall and
55:11
There was a Mormon Church that got
55:13
shot up the other day some guy drove a truck into it and then got out and started shooting people in the middle of a
55:19
Church in what was it, Michigan?
55:22
So I didn't know this
55:24
You you grew up Mormon. I sure did. Yes
55:28
How about that? Have you ever heard about the Mormon?
55:33
Mafia I have there's like 35% of the CIA and the FBI
55:39
There's something you know one I I had this Mormon kid when I was
55:48
I'm a well, I haven't really practiced since I left home, but I don't
55:55
I do not
55:57
Condemn Mormons I can derm condemn churches. Okay, that's that's my problem is when I was in the military
56:06
What about that?
56:08
Anointing with oil
56:09
You know, I don't comment on that stuff. That is not for me. I am NOT
56:16
Any of it
56:20
Well, I'm being honest I don't know anything about it because I quit
56:29
Associating shortly after joining the military and my issue is and always has been with that religion and
56:37
every other religion, it's
56:41
Being one person on Sunday and
56:44
Someone completely different through the week and when I was
56:52
But it's not we it's not for us
56:55
I don't let it happen because I don't do it
56:59
I don't do what I do during the week and you know, I don't know what I'm gonna do
57:03
I don't do anything horrible anyway, but I don't I don't pretend
57:07
I'm one person during the week and then on Sunday get all cleaned up put on a new suit, you know put on a
57:14
White shirt and go to church and pretend that I'm someone I'm not and I'm not saying that Mormons do this
57:20
I'm saying that some Mormons do this. I'm saying that some Catholics do this
57:24
I'm saying that every religion has these types and I don't believe that I need a place
57:32
To
57:34
believe what I choose to believe and to worship a God that I choose to believe in in the manner that I
57:40
Would like to do so that doesn't make me a horrible person
57:43
It makes me a person that doesn't now I've had arguments with my brothers with with plenty of people that go
57:50
Well, wait, Sam
57:52
You're not sharing your knowledge with other people at the church and your fellowship. It could be this. Okay
57:59
I I take that argument, but I would prefer not to be
58:04
And and I try not to judge people. I don't want to judge people
58:08
So therefore I'd prefer not to know and I would prefer not to be judged myself
58:12
So, I don't know what's right wrong or indifferent nor do I condemn anyone from their belief?
58:19
They can live the way they choose and I can live the way I choose. I believe that's what God intended. I
58:27
There is
58:28
You said it best just you just said it best we have to accept our own
58:35
Particular points of view for what they are, you know and and and Sam
58:40
That's why I continue to listen and tune in and dial in to your signal
58:46
because your signal is is worthy and and and and and
58:53
Good to tune into
58:55
Well, I'm very glad of that I like it
58:58
Yes, of course you do. And so what I try hard not to judge other people. I got my own problems
59:05
You could throw stones at me all day long
59:07
And so therefore I try not to throw them at others if you wish to be a I don't know what anything
59:15
But a murderer I you know people in in in in prison Jesus there
59:20
But for the grace of God and you know a cop turning the wrong turning right instead of left, you know
59:27
I'd be there. You know what I'm saying? It's and I don't I don't mean that but I mean
59:35
But it's but it's true though because
59:38
You know
59:39
Sometimes it's just luck of the draw, you know
59:42
And some of these people end up in horror story lives where the rest of us get to judge them and go
59:49
Geez, you know that guy's got a felony. Yeah. Well, trust me
59:54
I probably deserved a couple in my life and I don't have one so, you know count yourself lucky, you know
1:00:01
But deep down and in your soul of souls and your heart of hearts, you know the right thing
1:00:07
Well, of course and I can honestly tell you that I have never
1:00:11
Intentionally
1:00:13
Screwed one that didn't screw me first
1:00:15
You know what? I'm saying if somebody screwed me now there could be
1:00:19
Unintentional screwings did have happened and I'd do my damnedest to try to fix them. But never I must have I do have a
1:00:28
sometimes I have
1:00:29
gone after people who've gone after me and
1:00:33
You know, I don't like that, but I have done it in
1:00:38
No, I'm not a bad guy, I may not be the best but I'm not bad
1:00:45
Should you be a senator a congressman? Oh, hell no
1:00:53
Listen what is best for me is to I you know
1:00:58
what I would if I were to be able to have my druthers and do something it would be
1:01:06
to have
1:01:08
People like the fools that currently
1:01:14
You
1:01:16
foreign policy in
1:01:19
America and the whole West but this will never happen, you know, it's kind of a pointless endeavor
1:01:26
Have them because all of the so-called experts aren't remotely experts
1:01:33
Certainly not when it comes to Eastern Europe and Russia. They are they are
1:01:38
salesmen selling you a
1:01:42
Some some defective goods
1:01:44
So really quick. I I don't think it's a pointless endeavor Sam
1:01:49
You're you're doing you've been doing what you're doing for a long long time brother and listen
1:01:54
There's not very many people that listen closely to you as I do
1:01:59
You're you're you're intelligent. You're you're just a smart cat. Okay, so that
1:02:06
notwithstanding
1:02:08
There are songs that go on in the world, there's this guy that his name is Jackson Brown and
1:02:16
You love Jax, of course you do there are lives in the balance and you know, I hope you you know
1:02:22
Maybe exit your show with the song lives in the balance
1:02:25
There are so many things and there's only so few of us that that get it together
1:02:31
and it's it's up to us man you and me and you know, the the the
1:02:37
but
1:02:38
Mmm, I don't even know how to say it. There's only a few of us that are
1:02:44
Sharing the gospel and I don't mean that in God's way. I mean that in just the world's way
1:02:50
You know just sharing truth just sharing honesty and you do it, you know from your point of view. And so my
1:02:57
Question to you Sam is how better?
1:03:01
Can we share our?
1:03:03
Our
1:03:05
Thoughts how better how much what can we do to expand the word?
1:03:12
That is good. We'll share them share share
1:03:15
Everywhere send it out to other people, you know, like do you know?
1:03:22
and and sorry to do an about-face here, but you mentioned Jackson Brown and
1:03:29
JR
1:03:30
Took me to the Jackson Brown or allowed me a couple of tickets
1:03:35
I think he gave them to him 90% certainly gave me tickets and was down in the pit at the amphitheater last year
1:03:42
Sometime right two years ago might have been gone might have been too. I don't know but I
1:03:49
was in the pit during the last song and I have a pretty good phone and pretty good camera and
1:03:57
I filmed the last song
1:04:01
the oh, won't you stay, you know that one just a little bit longer and
1:04:07
That I posted it on my youtube page there's like
1:04:14
22
1:04:14
23,000 people that
1:04:18
that have watched that video and
1:04:21
Every you know once a year, so it'll pop up again and I'm just alarmed as I holy crap, you know, but it was an
1:04:29
Excellent video and if you you know, like a Jackson Brown, of course Jackson Brown
1:04:35
And so, you know you you post that up
1:04:37
He could have deleted it
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But I think that mine got somewhat promoted because it turned out to be because of JR
1:04:45
I mean hell I was right down there in the front pit and it just
1:04:49
Something happened to make it seriously worthwhile
1:04:52
so it's it's people like you that listen and call in and say things and
1:04:57
and let people know about
1:05:00
Damn radio and about all the other people that speak on this on this
1:05:05
channel, you know Wednesday's a
1:05:07
Long day for us. It's when everybody comes and has you know, we have a good number of shows on
1:05:13
You know long radio day and I get to end it, you know
1:05:18
and and I like that that people listen we have a good number of folks that that listen and
1:05:24
You know, I I post mine
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Part of me part of me thinks I do it too often
1:05:30
you know and that I should cut down and do it one day a week two days a week something like that and
1:05:37
cuz I
1:05:38
Don't know and a lot of times most of the time I have a couple hours to prepare and get the show ready
1:05:43
You know like Jackson Brown practices every day, you know, he has these good shows
1:05:49
Sometimes I get on and I'm just winging it, you know what I mean? And and I come up with stuff but but not every day
1:05:57
Sam you're doing the right thing brother and you're and your brother. I don't remember Matt or whatever his name Matthew
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Yes
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Matthew and then you what do you have a family of like 20?
1:06:11
12
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12 children 12 children and mostly, you know, my father passed away in oh
1:06:18
7
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My mom is my mom is still kicking in
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She's 80. She's 85 and honoree as hell
1:06:29
Proud how proud she is of you guys
1:06:32
Well, she can't she she can still say cuz I have no idea but she can still say
1:06:38
how many
1:06:40
Grandchildren and great-grandchildren she has and that number is astronomical. She's got like
1:06:47
60 60 something
1:06:50
Grandkids in 90 something great-grandkids. He's close to a hundred and
1:06:58
Sam and and you're just one of many and and
1:07:01
So here's what I have to say for you and I'm gonna hang up because we've been it's been a long conversation
1:07:07
But you have to be so
1:07:10
thankful and so grateful for the for the
1:07:14
Matriarchy that that mother left for you, you know
1:07:17
And then and the patriarchy that your father God rest his soul
1:07:22
Left for you and now you are the guy that carries on that
1:07:28
legacy that is
1:07:31
Important brother. He was probably the best dude on the planet. You know what I mean?
1:07:36
He was just a good guy
1:07:40
He was a little bit of a perv, you know, my dad was a sexual, you know
1:07:45
I mean not a fag but a deviant, you know
1:07:48
That's with a lot of women
1:07:50
That's just the way he was and you know, I just have to you know, I was there
1:07:55
I'm never I've never been that way. I've only been a one
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girl guy
1:07:59
How is my father fo sho?
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Right a one a one woman one woman man, yeah
1:08:07
remember that song
1:08:09
it was by the
1:08:11
I'm not gonna remember it now, but
1:08:14
Norman Jackson a kid a guy a man that my son took
1:08:21
Lessons from Norman Jackson played it. What was that damn song? Damn it. It was my daddy left me a long ago
1:08:28
September 6, I don't know
1:08:31
What was that song I wish I didn't know that one
1:08:35
or if I do I don't recall it, but
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so
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Here's my point. My kid has been so influenced by so many people
1:08:48
Down around this area and now he's like one of the highest
1:08:54
renowned
1:08:55
Players ever and it's because of the people he met down around here
1:09:01
Norman Jackson
1:09:04
the Randall's war taste the
1:09:07
You know the all those guys down here
1:09:11
That's where he came from and now he's off out in the world playing playing
1:09:17
All over and it's outstanding
1:09:21
It is outstanding. What was that guy's name?
1:09:25
Me I
1:09:28
barely know my own name sometimes so
1:09:33
Well
1:09:34
It's it's been a long call. Thank you. Yes, sir. I appreciate your call
1:09:40
Certainly not on topic, but I enjoy it nevertheless and I thank you very much for your call
1:09:47
Very off-topic. Yep. Good night. You have a good night
1:09:51
Thank you
1:09:54
And there he goes well that was an interesting call I enjoyed it that was
1:10:01
Somewhat of a tiny walk down memory lane and an interesting
1:10:06
An interesting, what would you call it a stroll?
1:10:11
Through a different part of the forest very nice
1:10:16
I
1:10:18
Wanted to talk about the other night
1:10:20
I and and I'm finished on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and I really hope that
1:10:27
Nothing horrific occurs there
1:10:32
Saner heads will prevail at some point and we will
1:10:37
Get rid of this war, you know, peace will prevail at some point
1:10:42
without
1:10:45
But
1:10:47
One very big but is
1:10:50
Moldova and Moldova is is
1:10:53
similar to the next Ukraine the next Bosnia the next King the next places that we talked about and
1:11:00
They're trying to change the laws to allow Ukraine and
1:11:05
Moldova to come in
1:11:07
around a veto
1:11:09
Instead of a unanimous vote to enter they're trying to change the rules and just say oh it just has to be a majority
1:11:17
to to change what's going on and
1:11:21
on that vein the
1:11:25
XUSAID chief
1:11:27
Is bragging about
1:11:30
funding a
1:11:32
Democratic bright spot in Moldova
1:11:37
American money
1:11:39
Helped president Maya Sandhu narrowly squeaked by at the ballot box
1:11:45
Said Samantha Power the former head of US Agency for International Development
1:11:51
American
1:11:53
Taxpayer money played a crucial role in keeping president Sandhu in power said Samantha power
1:12:01
Said Samantha power she said and it was a prank call
1:12:07
with Russian comedians Volvin and Lexus
1:12:10
Power who led USAID under President Biden was recorded and I was list
1:12:16
In fact, I kind of want to play it. Let me see if I can
1:12:20
find it for you because I had it a
1:12:24
second ago and
1:12:28
It it it's I think it's too long to fit in here
1:12:34
but I
1:12:36
Think we'll have to find it and play it for you tomorrow
1:12:43
And I had it up on my other computer and not on the studio computer so
1:12:49
Figuring out how to get it here is gonna be there
1:12:51
So I'll just tell you the story tonight and but maybe we'll play it tomorrow because geez
1:12:57
This is nonsense and here and maybe JR will play it during his show or something, but this is crap
1:13:04
She under under Biden. She was recorded speaking to these pranksters as they posed as
1:13:11
former Ukrainian president Piotr Poroshenko in the video released Wednesday
1:13:17
she reflected on her time overseeing an agency with
1:13:22
15,000 staff and a
1:13:24
multi-billion dollar budget and
1:13:28
cited
1:13:29
expanded aid to Moldova as
1:13:32
One of her successes now. I told you that in the mid 90s when I very first went to Moldova
1:13:39
I was on task from the military to
1:13:44
USAID and I got paid
1:13:47
my regular salary, you know, which is what you get anyway, you know and a
1:13:55
What do they call it per diem I got a daily rate of
1:14:03
$250 a day in
1:14:07
1993 or something like that and
1:14:11
This is during a time when the average Moldovan was earning $20 a month
1:14:18
Okay, you couldn't have spent that money in
1:14:24
Moldova in a year, you know
1:14:27
And it was I remember getting the money to go and go into my ex-wife and saying geez
1:14:32
They told me I gotta leave I'm begun like 18 weeks and when you leave for 18 weeks
1:14:37
They give you some percentage of it up front
1:14:40
You know when you go because you get a percentage there and at the end you turn in a final deal and then you get all
1:14:45
Your money, but they since they knew that I was gonna be getting
1:14:50
$250 a day for Jesus however many days that is
1:14:54
18 weeks long number of weeks is
1:14:57
You know, that's a hell of a lot of money, you know, and and I remember going home and given she's my ex-wife now
1:15:04
but giving her
1:15:05
Five six thousand bucks and going sorry, I gotta go, you know, I hope this
1:15:10
Eases your pain somewhat
1:15:13
And I know it's gonna ease mine because I'm going to a place where Jesus I'm gonna be fabulously wealthy for about a half
1:15:20
You know for about 18 weeks, you know, whatever that is three three four months almost we were there and it was
1:15:28
It was crazy
1:15:29
But and so they're passing money out like like crazy and I've heard that it's ten times worse over the years, right?
1:15:37
But here's what she says with her
1:15:39
15,000 staff and multi-billion dollar budget paying military interpreters
1:15:45
$250 a day per diem nonsense
1:15:48
This was not a country that USA ID had really much of a presence in
1:15:55
Very small presence we expanded it
1:15:58
Massively for the sake of Ukraine and also for Moldova
1:16:04
It was a Democratic bright spot with President Sandhu a Kennedy School graduate and a real
1:16:12
reformer
1:16:13
According to power Sandhu narrowly squeaked by the last time though
1:16:18
She didn't specify whether she was referring to last year's presidential election election or the recent
1:16:24
Parliamentary vote in Moldova
1:16:26
Sandhu and her party secured both contests with strong support from Moldovan expatriates in Washington
1:16:33
Western nations while failing to secure it a majority in the popular vote at home
1:16:40
So at home, they don't get a majority but people who live out of the country swing the vote
1:16:45
So the West is still in control of this lady
1:16:48
Who was educated where?
1:16:50
Kennedy School and then she gets to go over and basically she'll be the queen of Moldova right and anti-russia
1:16:57
We got to get you into
1:16:59
Into the EU, right?
1:17:02
This is what it's happening a lots of opposition figures have argued that the process is extremely skewed to limit turnout
1:17:10
And Sandhu who's a Romanian?
1:17:13
Citizen has faced criticism about what opponents describe as authoritarian tactics shutting down opposing media
1:17:21
Branding rivals as Moscow backed criminals that seems to go around we do it here in the u.s. To
1:17:28
She has maintained Moldova's path to the EU depends on her leadership
1:17:34
Yeah power said the Biden administration
1:17:37
folded tens of millions of dollars for Moldova into a broader
1:17:42
Ukraine aid
1:17:44
Appropriation requests and then she said that money went much much further in Moldova
1:17:51
Than it did in Ukraine because it is such a small country
1:17:55
You can just buy everybody off right? She also suggested people tend to associate Washington support with
1:18:02
arms and the and the Newland
1:18:06
Interference, but they overtook forms of more subtle they overlook. I'm sorry
1:18:12
Forms of more subtle support that she was talking about
1:18:16
former US
1:18:18
Undersecretary Victoria Newland is widely described as a key architect of the
1:18:23
2014 coup in Kiev and subsequent escalation of tensions with Russia Moscow
1:18:29
reiterated their own criticism of Sandhu after the latest victories, which foreign minister Lavrov branded as a blatant example of
1:18:38
Electoral fraud and I've been sharing it since before the election on Sunday about what they were gonna do and people going
1:18:45
Yeah, you've jailed anybody that opposes you real democracy, right?
1:18:51
Western style democracy you jail everyone and
1:18:56
And now Maya Sandhu. I wish I had that that
1:19:02
Audio to play for you, but I'll find it and it's still interesting. Maybe we'll listen to it tomorrow could be fun
1:19:09
so Poland is
1:19:11
now
1:19:13
rebuffing a demand by Zelensky about Russia
1:19:16
president
1:19:17
Carol Milwaukee has dismissed a call by Ukrainians
1:19:22
Ukraine's Zelensky for Western countries to try to close the Baltic Sea
1:19:28
Now Ukraine's not connected to the Baltic Sea, by the way to Russian vessels over concerns that they could be used for
1:19:36
launching drones
1:19:37
I'm telling you there is a ton of talk about Ukraine starting false flag operations and bombing Europe or
1:19:45
bombing Poland or sending drones or sending aircraft
1:19:49
Themselves to places and then blaming it on the Russians in order to escalate. It's it's getting serious
1:19:56
Russia's losing their asses and Russia Ukraine is losing their asses and so
1:20:04
Zelensky and the Ukrainians are getting more and more desperate
1:20:08
Officials in several EU countries in recent weeks have spoken of drones
1:20:13
Violating their country's airspace there have been speculations in the media that Russia could have been behind the incidents
1:20:20
Western governments have refrained from
1:20:23
Leveling accusations saying there is no evidence
1:20:27
But Poland has been a notable exception saying last month that Russian drones crossed its airspace
1:20:34
during strikes on Ukraine
1:20:37
Moscow rejected the claim and noted that Warsaw didn't provide any proof but on Sunday
1:20:44
Zelensky claimed that Russian forces were using oil tankers to launch drones against the EU and
1:20:51
Saying that this is more evidence. Why the Baltic Sea and other seas must be closed to Russian tankers
1:21:01
Speaking on the radio on Monday Naroki rejected that demand he concurred that Russian activity is
1:21:07
Concerning he stressed that we're waiting for an analysis from the military such decisions are not made based on Zelensky's words
1:21:16
Brussels and Western governments sought to tackle what they call Russia's shadow fleet
1:21:21
Which they claim is used to circumvent sanctions
1:21:25
Well more power to Moscow has called Western sanctions illegal
1:21:31
Warning that any attempts to restrict freedom of the sea including the Baltic will be met with appropriate response
1:21:38
EU officials have also been discussing creation of a
1:21:41
Drone wall in fact they stole Russia's it stole two more billion of Russia's money to assist in creation of this
1:21:50
They want to build a drone wall along the Russian border to be able to neutralize unidentified unauthorized UAVs
1:21:57
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticized the idea saying that building walls is always bad as history shows
1:22:05
It is very regrettable that this militaristic
1:22:09
confrontational policy of Ukraine may now lead to further divisions
1:22:14
Yeah
1:22:16
I'm open that people listen to my
1:22:21
Reading of
1:22:23
the Russian
1:22:26
Representative to the UN after Zelensky and
1:22:31
Rubio spoke
1:22:34
the other day if
1:22:37
You get a chance and you or you haven't heard it
1:22:39
You should probably go back and listen to the Russian response
1:22:46
To what Zelensky and Rubio put out
1:22:51
It is
1:22:53
absolutely accurate and
1:22:56
not full of
1:22:57
BS like Zelensky's and Rubio's
1:23:02
It's pretty sad that we have a complete inability to tell the truth in the West and
1:23:10
certainly
1:23:13
Politicize
1:23:14
Absolutely everything especially about this war there was a
1:23:21
Piece that was talking about Russia and
1:23:26
the real
1:23:28
reason
1:23:30
Behind the u.s. I need to find this article again, and I'll try to find it and bring it bring it back to us
1:23:37
I think because I would like to read it, but the gist of this article went as follows
1:23:44
The u.s. Is creating a I don't know a
1:23:53
Pretext let's call it for going into Venezuela
1:23:58
Why?
1:24:00
So that long term they can put their the u.s. His own peacekeeping sorts of things
1:24:08
Into Venezuela, why is this important from this story, okay?
1:24:14
Because Venezuela is
1:24:17
one of the largest
1:24:20
Untapped well, it's tapped as well, but but there's plenty more oil
1:24:27
and
1:24:27
If the u.s. Can go to just like Iraq let's go in and we'll control it for the West right
1:24:35
we pick on these countries that allegedly can't you know defend themselves and
1:24:41
then go in and
1:24:43
Funnel the that's what everybody accused George Bush of right funneling the oil which is
1:24:49
Find out later there aren't any weapons of mass destruction
1:24:54
You know they were always talking about them their terrorizers. We got like Matt would say we got to go after them
1:25:00
they're terrorizers and
1:25:03
The argument is that the same thing is happening even now with the u.s.
1:25:12
Nonsensical blowing up boats in the water and saying it's
1:25:15
Narco-terrorism or whatever that's coming from you know the G's are bringing fentanyl to us
1:25:21
I thought it was China that was doing all that now. It's not China. It's
1:25:26
Venezuela you know this that's creative right?
1:25:30
I I didn't like it from the very first ship that was blown out of the water and said oh
1:25:35
Yeah, we killed three drug addicts or drug dealers
1:25:39
We're just supposed to believe that you couldn't pull up stop the boat get out arrest them and
1:25:47
Seize the boat and seize the drugs and destroy them without killing them send them to prison do something like that
1:25:54
Send them to the El Salvador prisons. They've been collecting a lot of drug dealers are there right?
1:26:02
Instead we destroy all evidence
1:26:06
Not once not twice now three times we've blown up boats in international waters
1:26:13
just on the say-so of
1:26:15
Whoever say so we're taking today to blow them up. That is just wrong
1:26:22
Whether you're guilty of something or not you don't just get blown up
1:26:27
You don't just well here you go. I've decided. You know the king the king gets to do it. Just like
1:26:33
You know 500 years ago in England well the king said you stole his
1:26:38
His deer Robin Hood. I guess you got a fry you know and
1:26:43
There you got a hang. That's how it works. You know well, but what about a trial?
1:26:49
Formality nobody needs that we all know you did it so
1:26:53
Let's screw all that, but you know that is not how the world is supposed to work
1:26:59
So the argument is that the u.s.. Is creating this scenario
1:27:04
Where they get to go and invade in Venezuela so that ultimately it impacts even further
1:27:13
Russia's oil
1:27:14
Because if the u.s.. Can take it and curtail the pricing it would take a little while to affect a price a year or two
1:27:22
According to the article that I read and I'm no expert on it
1:27:26
But they say that if they could curtail it it would force the price it or maybe it was increased
1:27:33
I don't know. I wish I had the article in front of me that they say
1:27:36
Affect impact the oil market to such a degree that it impacts Russia
1:27:43
So that there is increased pressure on Russia because the u.s.. Is endgame is still hegemony
1:27:51
It's still Ukraine. It's still we need to control the planet
1:27:56
And if we lose you know we're we're running out of rope in this
1:28:01
Ukraine war we are
1:28:04
Losing we're losing with other people dying for it, but it's not Ukraine. That's losing
1:28:11
It's we are the West are losing and it's it's Europe is losing
1:28:17
It's the deep state that's losing its hegemony that is losing and I'm
1:28:26
It's an interesting concept whether it's true or not or needs
1:28:31
Something a little bit more to to dig into I'll try to find the article so for tomorrow's show
1:28:37
Which by the way last in the week already this week is just flown by I will try to find the
1:28:46
Oil
1:28:48
Allegations of Venezuela, I'll try to find that and I will try to find this
1:28:54
nutty lady this Samantha power
1:28:58
that
1:29:00
And her and her audio of what
1:29:04
She of her prank phone call, and I listened to it all earlier, but I got to be able to find it
1:29:10
Just I did want to say one more thing there was a pretty powerful
1:29:14
6.9 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines that occurred today and
1:29:20
You know hope that everybody's okay over there. It's been
1:29:25
Pretty bad deal from what I can see on the news and that'll cover it for tonight
1:29:31
I appreciate you joining the show please join me again tomorrow night 9 p.m.. To 1030
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1:29:55
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