WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.120 You want to hear the latest episode of Freetalk Live, but all you have is your phone. 00:04.420 --> 00:08.300 You forgot to download our archive, and you have no data connection. 00:08.700 --> 00:13.780 You can call our listen line at 641-793-0191. 00:14.080 --> 00:16.780 That's a long distance number, so you may incur charges. 00:17.180 --> 00:23.040 If not, listen as long as you want 641-793-0191. 00:23.340 --> 00:28.160 The Freetalk Live listen line 641-793-0191. 00:30.000 --> 00:36.740 You're six minutes away from a live episode of Freetalk Live. Listen live at freetalklive.com. 00:39.060 --> 00:44.500 From Feature Story News in San Francisco, I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back at some of the 00:44.500 --> 00:50.360 week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British 00:50.360 --> 00:56.540 Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It relates to 00:56.540 --> 01:02.540 his time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of confidential material with the late sex offender 01:02.540 --> 01:07.100 Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has long denied any wrongdoing. 01:07.900 --> 01:10.140 FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London. 01:10.400 --> 01:15.400 What police are further saying is that this is part of an investigation now they confirm. 01:15.860 --> 01:19.840 The reason that is significant is that previously Thames Valley Police had simply 01:19.840 --> 01:24.120 said they were assessing claims that had been made to them about the potential of 01:24.120 --> 01:27.960 misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a formal investigation is underway 01:27.960 --> 01:33.980 and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on suspicion of misconduct in public 01:33.980 --> 01:39.980 office and they say they're also carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. 01:40.240 --> 01:44.760 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's sweeping tariffs on global trading 01:44.760 --> 01:49.060 partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that the tariffs 01:49.060 --> 01:55.600 didn't have the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington. 01:56.080 --> 02:01.140 This ruling is a tremendous blow for the U.S. President and a rare rebuke of his 02:01.140 --> 02:06.740 presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe 02:06.740 --> 02:12.400 he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have 02:12.400 --> 02:18.320 congressional authorization to exercise this power. They said that he had tried to 02:18.320 --> 02:24.280 assert extra ordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, 02:24.820 --> 02:31.940 and scope. He has reacted by calling the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. 02:32.380 --> 02:38.540 It is likely the White House will look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs using other means. 02:38.940 --> 02:45.100 India joined the U.S.-led AI infrastructure initiative called Pax Silica, which is widely 02:45.100 --> 02:50.940 seen as a countermeasure to China's dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. 02:51.400 --> 02:57.820 It came as top U.S. companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google pledged to invest billions 02:57.820 --> 03:04.440 of dollars in India during an AI Impact Summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. 03:04.800 --> 03:09.300 India joined the Pax Silica initiative on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 03:09.300 --> 03:14.240 ending speculation over whether trade tensions were getting in the way of broader cooperation 03:14.240 --> 03:18.440 between Washington and New Delhi. According to the U.S. State Department Pax, 03:18.600 --> 03:24.080 Silica is aimed at bringing friendly countries together to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies. 03:24.620 --> 03:28.440 The initiative was launched in December last year with countries including the UK, 03:28.720 --> 03:31.880 Australia, South Korea, and the UAE as its first few members. 03:32.480 --> 03:37.540 With India pitching itself as a key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the move 03:37.540 --> 03:41.480 not only highlights New Delhi's role on a global stage, but also signals 03:41.480 --> 03:44.760 thought in U.S.-India ties Ishan Garg, New Delhi. 03:45.260 --> 03:47.800 From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN. 03:48.560 --> 03:53.500 Eleven people were arrested in France over the recent killing of a far-right activist. 03:54.080 --> 03:59.240 Conten Deronk died after sustaining a severe brain injury when he was attacked on the 03:59.240 --> 04:05.040 sidelines of a far-right protest against a left-wing politician speaking in the city of Lyon. 04:05.680 --> 04:08.200 FSN's Ross Cullen reports from Paris. 04:08.200 --> 04:13.800 The 23-year-old was part of a group providing security for nationalist activists who were 04:13.800 --> 04:18.780 demonstrating against the leftist gathering at a university in France's third biggest city of Lyon. 04:19.100 --> 04:22.880 Video footage of the attack on the 12th of February shows a group of people 04:22.880 --> 04:28.600 setting upon Conten Deronk who's kicked multiple times before being left lying on the sidewalk 04:28.600 --> 04:33.120 while those involved in the attack fled on foot. The incident has fueled tension between 04:33.120 --> 04:38.140 France's far-right and hard left ahead of local elections in March and next year's 04:38.140 --> 04:44.080 presidential race in which the Nationalist Party is currently leading the polls. Ross Cullen, Paris. 05:03.120 --> 05:09.160 There, when King was assassinated in 1968, he was in fact very close to him when that happened 05:09.160 --> 05:15.280 physically, just a couple of feet away, but he is really seen as carrying on the fight for Black 05:15.280 --> 05:22.280 Americans. He transformed American politics, particularly the Democratic Party, by empowering 05:22.280 --> 05:28.700 these marginalized communities through his coalition, getting millions and millions of Black, 05:28.700 --> 05:34.880 Latino and Asian Americans to register to vote and completely reshaping the face of the Democratic 05:34.880 --> 05:41.040 Party. Those were some of the week's top stories. Iris Spitzer. It seems like we're constantly hearing 05:41.040 --> 05:45.260 different fitness advice. Exercise two to three times a week for at least 30 minutes a day. 05:45.460 --> 05:51.500 And don't forget cardio, but don't exercise too much or you'll get hurt. So how much 05:51.500 --> 05:56.340 exercise should you be getting? Well actually not that much, since the human body is only 05:56.340 --> 06:00.920 built to withstand walking a short distance before lying or sitting down again. In fact, 06:01.140 --> 06:04.680 a group of biologists from Stanford found that walking more than five feet at a time 06:04.680 --> 06:09.440 can cause joint pain, fatigue and even extreme hunger. The study concluded that the maximum 06:09.440 --> 06:13.920 effort the human body can safely endure is reaching for an item high on a shelf. 06:14.780 --> 06:19.220 Our bodies simply aren't built to stand up and move around, so maybe those high-intensity 06:19.220 --> 06:23.760 spin classes and daily jogs aren't such a good idea. Instead of walking up the stairs 06:23.760 --> 06:28.620 every day, try taking the elevator whenever possible. You can even use a fitness tracker 06:28.620 --> 06:32.700 to let you know when you've been exerting too much energy. Your body will appreciate it. 06:33.460 --> 06:35.180 For The Onion, I'm Jill Hooper. 07:10.980 --> 07:18.200 You can get your thoughts and ideas on the air by calling 603-283-6160. 07:19.860 --> 07:23.900 In the studio tonight you have Stu and Riley O'Bill. 07:25.260 --> 07:32.700 Can I get some volume on my headphones producers? Yeah, you bet. How's everything going Riley? 07:33.020 --> 07:36.360 Everything's going pretty good so far. Volume sounding good. Thank you producers. 07:37.000 --> 07:41.660 Actually, it's just Stu and I right now, so no producers really, but everything's going good. 07:42.500 --> 07:48.680 I've had a good week. It was nice and relaxing. Not too much drama that I can recall, but 07:49.940 --> 07:53.580 that can change during a show. Life comes at you fast. 07:54.300 --> 08:02.680 So for a guy who does his best to consume no news, all I know about is that Jesse Jackson 08:02.680 --> 08:07.880 died. Yep, Reverend Jesse High Jackson has freshland values to like calm. 08:08.180 --> 08:12.580 And so all I can think about whenever I hear his name is the South Park episode where 08:14.220 --> 08:19.320 Stan's dad has to apologize to him. And if you know what I'm talking about you're probably 08:19.320 --> 08:24.720 laughing right now because that was quite funny. Otherwise I don't really know a lot about the 08:24.720 --> 08:31.040 guy. I don't think he was the hero that a lot of people paint him to be. 08:31.040 --> 08:37.680 I don't know much about him either and I'm not really willing to pass judgment, but you know, 08:38.960 --> 08:43.200 he's from what I know he seemed like kind of a leftist sort of. 08:43.760 --> 08:48.040 Yeah, kind of a go along to get a long sort of attitude about things. And yeah, 08:48.720 --> 08:53.520 yep. Okay, so that's enough of that. Maybe a pseudo Christian who knows. I don't know. 08:53.900 --> 08:57.280 Yeah, I don't know. I really not that well studied on that. 08:57.280 --> 09:06.720 I'm not either. One thing that came to my attention via Ernie Hancock's podcast 09:07.760 --> 09:13.820 which is called Declare Your Independence and it's a good show. He interviewed a gentleman named 09:13.820 --> 09:22.960 Joe Diawix or it goes by Joby. And Joby got harassed and detained by law enforcement officials 09:22.960 --> 09:29.880 who demanded that he turn over the private keys to all this Bitcoin and a whole bunch of other things 09:29.880 --> 09:34.660 threw him in a cage, kidnapped and wouldn't let him call his family. Why would they demand that he's 09:34.660 --> 09:38.880 turning over the, that he should turn over the private keys to his wallets? Because he had a lot 09:38.880 --> 09:47.000 of Bitcoin. Is that the only reason though? A lot of dollar value in Bitcoin and they wanted 09:47.000 --> 09:52.120 it. Apparently that seems to be the only reason because they've had him on house arrest with 09:52.120 --> 09:57.640 an ankle monitor for six years now and don't seem to be doing a whole lot. He hired some very 09:57.640 --> 10:01.860 expensive lawyers that wanted him to take a plea deal and he said that's not good enough and 10:01.860 --> 10:09.160 they said that's all we got and he said then you're fired. So now he's hoping he can get 10:09.160 --> 10:15.500 some public attention on this thing and he's gone ahead and filed criminal complaints against 10:15.500 --> 10:24.360 some of the judges and lawyers involved in this because I have no doubt that many of them are 10:24.360 --> 10:29.560 acting illegally. That's kind of how this thing operates and they get lazy because nobody ever 10:29.560 --> 10:34.840 calls them on their illegal actions. But there's a whole list of things that your average judge 10:34.840 --> 10:40.360 or prosecutor might be doing that's totally against the law. Sure and there are definitely 10:40.360 --> 10:49.100 corrupt judges and corrupt lawyers in the system. Most everybody knows about law enforcement 10:50.080 --> 10:56.040 acting criminally from time to time or maybe more often than not depending on how you look at it. 10:56.620 --> 11:02.220 But for some reason people just can't get past the mental hurdle of your judge might be 11:02.220 --> 11:06.880 criminal as well. He might be acting criminally right now in your simple traffic case or 11:06.880 --> 11:11.640 whatever it is. Well it just goes to show that a lot of people depend on the system to protect them. 11:11.940 --> 11:17.180 But as we both know the Supreme Court has ruled time and time again that the place are not obligated 11:17.180 --> 11:21.340 to protect you and people forget that. So they assume that the place are going to be there 11:21.340 --> 11:25.100 to protect them when it matters most. But in reality they're just there to protect the bottom 11:25.100 --> 11:33.420 line which is the government. Yeah kind of a sad city of affairs. So he's got a petition 11:33.420 --> 11:40.880 I believe it's a change.org petition. It might help if you sign that. Somebody set up a fundraiser at 11:40.880 --> 11:47.200 one of these fundraising sites but I don't think he's too concerned about that. He just he wants 11:47.200 --> 11:52.640 some attention on this thing and he's tired of being locked in his house. He'd like to go 11:52.640 --> 12:00.880 somewhere. He's kind of a thrill seeker. So that's sort of his thing. And I don't know if 12:00.880 --> 12:06.080 if you look him up there will be plenty you can find that's negative against him but 12:08.360 --> 12:14.800 most of us who have friends who have been framed this way are no strangers to the concept of them 12:14.800 --> 12:20.660 just making stuff up on the spot or blowing things out of proportion or you know things 12:20.660 --> 12:23.660 out of context. What are the negative things that are said about him do you know? 12:24.200 --> 12:30.200 They said he failed the cocaine test. Oh no not cocaine. But he says he wasn't doing 12:30.200 --> 12:37.320 cocaine and that he provided a hair sample. He paid a private lab to test his hair sample 12:37.830 --> 12:42.240 to show that he wasn't on cocaine and that's I believe one of the criminal charges that he's 12:42.240 --> 12:46.580 throwing at them. So they're you know falsifying evidence. Interesting. 12:49.440 --> 12:53.020 Another thing a lot of it has to do with like he was into 12:53.020 --> 12:59.540 he made his money through multi-level marketing things. 13:00.860 --> 13:04.600 It's hard not to say the word scam after that. It just flows naturally right. 13:05.520 --> 13:10.140 Oh yeah multi-level marketing is definitely a scam. It's something I'm not a fan of. 13:10.340 --> 13:18.100 They're scammies anywhere from like extremely scammy to this is fair enough. 13:18.500 --> 13:21.920 Yeah. You know what I mean. And I think he was in one of the ones that was kind of fair 13:21.920 --> 13:26.040 enough because a lot of it had to do with you know the increasing price of bitcoin and stuff 13:26.040 --> 13:34.940 like that. And what what I had to do with was I think mining hash rate in Iceland right. So it 13:34.940 --> 13:43.140 was part of a mining like a mining pool kind of thing early on. So a lot of people made a 13:43.140 --> 13:49.560 lot of money off of you know what he signed them up for. And I think they got upset at him 13:49.560 --> 13:56.920 because he was just he was showing people. He was very vocal about the fact that bitcoin allowed 13:56.920 --> 14:01.860 him to do whatever he wanted. He wanted the South Pole and he's like you know hey government 14:01.860 --> 14:06.660 scientists open up I'm here I'm a taxpayer and I want in I want to look around and see what's 14:06.660 --> 14:13.120 down here. And he was you know he's like all over the place making videos and just showing 14:13.120 --> 14:18.340 people what it's like to live free outside of the banking system and outside of governmental 14:18.340 --> 14:25.680 controls. And I think that's I think that's why they landed the hammer on him. Interesting. Like I 14:25.680 --> 14:31.480 don't know enough about this guy to know if he's a good guy a bad guy. But if if what you're 14:31.480 --> 14:37.960 saying is true then he definitely doesn't deserve to be imprisoned for having a ton of bitcoin. 14:39.080 --> 14:44.900 Well even if he was a pretty like even if the worst case scenario is true and that he's 14:46.100 --> 14:53.440 he's kind of a drug crazed scam artist. Let's say that if that's true still what business do they have 14:53.440 --> 14:58.940 keep keeping on house arrest and not you know like what happened to speedy trial kind of a thing 15:01.400 --> 15:07.880 for six years. He gets to hang out his house on an ankle monitor. Yeah. Yeah. They've given 15:07.880 --> 15:15.060 themselves 33 continuances. I guess he's the the recent criminal filings that he's put in 15:15.060 --> 15:21.280 cause have been causing a wave of lawyers to come in read the document decide that 15:22.140 --> 15:26.120 they incriminate themselves if they go forward and so they have to quit right there on the spot. 15:26.280 --> 15:33.380 And then new set comes in reads the paper and they quit. And so the government has failed to 15:34.100 --> 15:38.920 you know drop the whole thing which is what they should have done quite some time ago because 15:38.920 --> 15:43.580 they seem to be waffling hard on this one. Yeah. These the government lawyers that are quitting 15:43.580 --> 15:48.940 or his lawyers that are quitting. Yeah. The government lawyers that I think he's now without 15:48.940 --> 15:54.720 any lawyers. Okay. He's doing this on his own which is what I recommend. Lawyers are 15:55.520 --> 15:59.520 lawyers are not there to help you. They're not on your team. I don't know about 15:59.520 --> 16:05.880 how to pay them and proceedings to go without lawyers. So I would probably ask a lawyer for help 16:05.880 --> 16:11.520 or something just to get through the system. Yeah. I guess they could be useful in that they know 16:11.520 --> 16:17.100 when to say what and how to you know file a motion and whatever like but keep them in your 16:17.100 --> 16:26.500 back pocket and don't let them run the show. Yeah. Anyway I think that covers pretty much 16:26.500 --> 16:32.500 all I wanted to say about Joby Weeks. I wanted to bring some attention to that and if you feel 16:32.500 --> 16:36.740 like going to sign the petition then I'm sure he would be very appreciative. 16:39.080 --> 16:43.540 We definitely have a lot of crypto prisoners out there like Ian Freeman, Joby Weeks. 16:45.160 --> 16:52.900 I know I'm pretty sure that Trump's alleged ending of the crypto war wasn't really an ending. 16:52.900 --> 16:59.640 He just wanted his guys in power and his guys on the front line so he could be front and center 16:59.640 --> 17:06.380 looking at crypto and pretending to love it while in fact wanting to you know use stolen crypto to 17:06.380 --> 17:13.220 hoist his government and hoist his powerful people into power and make it look good on him 17:13.780 --> 17:17.600 for being willing to end the crypto war but he's really not ending the crypto war at all. 17:17.600 --> 17:23.620 He's just being a scumbag but then again Trump is a scumbag so there's that. 17:25.920 --> 17:33.040 Yeah it's supposed to be all crypto freedom under Trump but you see about what we get you're just 17:33.040 --> 17:39.320 going to get you're going to get CBDC in the form of in the form of what like the stable coins. 17:40.380 --> 17:44.360 Something like that. Yeah well it's been going this way for a long time they just 17:46.860 --> 17:54.540 they just uh they keep driving it in a more centralized sort of fashion nobody seems to care. 17:54.640 --> 17:59.360 They're more mostly concerned about whether number go up or number go down which right now I guess it's 17:59.360 --> 18:06.540 kind of down. Yep I think Bitcoin was last around like $70,000 I want to say. It sounds 18:06.540 --> 18:12.400 so strange to say Bitcoin's down to 70,000. I know like I remember when Bitcoin was like 18:12.400 --> 18:17.740 two to three hundred dollars of Bitcoin. I wish I could have held on to some more but 18:17.740 --> 18:22.960 I know all of us too but we know but you know we make life choices and family things come up and 18:22.960 --> 18:32.240 sure life life throws things at us and we just let the Bitcoin go. Yep um let's see here 18:33.200 --> 18:42.360 Riley suggested this story uh found found a story from AP that is chat GPT maker open AI 18:42.880 --> 18:47.160 considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago 18:49.620 --> 18:58.120 in Toronto. Chat GPT maker open AI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police 18:58.120 --> 19:03.320 about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in 19:03.320 --> 19:10.020 the country's history. Open AI said last June the company identified the count of Jesse Van 19:10.020 --> 19:19.440 Roos uh Roostelar by abused detection efforts for furtherance of violent activities. The San 19:19.440 --> 19:23.700 Francisco tech company said it considered whether to refer the account to Royal Canadian 19:23.700 --> 19:29.200 mounted police but determined at the time that the account activity did not meet a threshold 19:29.200 --> 19:36.160 for referral to law enforcement. Open AI banned the account in June 2025 for violating its usage 19:36.160 --> 19:43.200 policy. The 18 year old killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia last week and 19:43.200 --> 19:50.040 died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound allegedly recording to the story. Open AI said 19:50.040 --> 19:55.980 the threshold for referring a user to law enforcement is whether the case involves an imminent and 19:55.980 --> 20:02.140 credible risk of serious physical harm to others. The company said it did not identify identify 20:02.140 --> 20:08.080 credible or imminent planning. The Wall Street Journal first reported open AI's revelation. 20:09.140 --> 20:14.560 Open AI said that after learning of the school shooting employees reached out to the RCMP 20:15.040 --> 20:19.680 with information on the individual and their use of chat GPT. 20:22.980 --> 20:28.140 Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Tumblr Ridge tragedy and we proactively 20:28.640 --> 20:33.080 reached out to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with information on the individual 20:33.080 --> 20:39.220 and their use of chat GPT and will continue to support their investigation an open AI spokesperson 20:39.220 --> 20:46.020 said. RCMP Staff Sergeant Chris Clark confirmed in an email statement Friday 20:46.020 --> 20:53.840 that open AI contacted police after the shootings. Clark said a thorough review of the content 20:53.840 --> 21:00.460 on electronic devices as well as social media and online activities of the shooter is taking 21:00.460 --> 21:08.220 place. He said digital and physical evidence is being collected, prioritized and methodically 21:08.220 --> 21:15.720 processed. RCMP said the shooter first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home 21:15.720 --> 21:21.740 before attacking the nearby school. The shooter had a history of mental health contacts with police. 21:22.720 --> 21:28.020 The motive for the shooting remains unclear. The town of 2700 people in the Canadian Rockies 21:28.020 --> 21:35.200 is more than 1,000 kilometers 600 miles northeast of Vancouver near the provincial 21:35.200 --> 21:40.780 border with Alberta. Police said the victims included a 39 year old teaching assistant and 21:40.780 --> 21:47.580 five students ages 12 to 13. The attack was Canada's deadliest rampage since 2020 when a 21:47.580 --> 21:52.900 gunman in Nova Scotia killed 13 people and set fires and left another nine dead. 21:54.540 --> 22:00.000 That's how the article ends. So it seems to me that there are a couple takeaways from 22:00.000 --> 22:08.400 this article. Number one, your chats are being monitored somehow by employees of chat GPT or 22:08.400 --> 22:14.320 whatever AI company you might be using. So yes, it's the pre-crime aspect of this story that stands 22:14.320 --> 22:20.600 out to me. Yeah, it sounds like a set of a head galey and dialectic setup where they're like, 22:20.620 --> 22:25.460 oh, look, this thing could have told us about that. And now, you know, so now we need to do 22:25.460 --> 22:29.320 this all the time. And then pretty soon he got pre-crime just like in what was that 22:29.320 --> 22:34.720 movie with Tom Cruise? I didn't watch it. I couldn't tell you a minority report. Yeah, 22:34.740 --> 22:38.840 that's the one. Okay, it was all about pre-crime. And they like, what did they decided he was 22:38.840 --> 22:44.360 he was a detective, right? And the thing decided that he was going to murder someone. 22:44.980 --> 22:49.260 And he's like, oh, that can't be true. But it has to because the thing never is never wrong. 22:49.380 --> 22:53.220 And so he's like, I don't know, that's what the movie's about. But anyways, 22:53.780 --> 23:00.340 this is what it's going to be is like, you'll be sitting there, not really do much. Your search 23:00.340 --> 23:06.240 history will trigger something weird in the AI algorithm. And a team of thuggish goons will show 23:06.240 --> 23:11.700 up and break your door down and throw you in a van. But because of, you know, in six months from 23:11.700 --> 23:16.580 now, you're going to do something horrific. And you had no such thoughts of doing any 23:16.580 --> 23:23.080 anything like that. Or you might be searching health queries like, Oh, I might have some 23:23.780 --> 23:29.140 some some health issues that I'm concerned about. And, you know, they might alert and somehow they 23:29.140 --> 23:33.800 might alert a doctor and the doctor is gonna be like, we gotta medicate this guy or 23:34.640 --> 23:40.840 prescribe things or do things beyond our scope, beyond beyond against his will right now to 23:40.840 --> 23:44.760 prevent him from getting sick. I mean, that could look really good on the surface. But 23:44.760 --> 23:52.880 like you said, you know, criminal activity could be detected with AI and it may not be 23:52.880 --> 23:59.660 criminal activity at all, maybe just an innocent question to chat GBT or an in or just an innocent scenario. 24:02.660 --> 24:10.660 Yeah, it seems a bad idea to leave security up to an AI program. 24:12.160 --> 24:15.380 Just my opinion. So many things feel wrong with that. 24:16.040 --> 24:21.400 I hear you. But you know, we live in a day and age where people want the AI to solve their 24:21.400 --> 24:26.740 problems or or it's easy to use AI to come up with things to help you on your journey 24:27.540 --> 24:34.760 of career or whatever. But the reality is we use we're going to use it too much and it's going to get 24:35.760 --> 24:39.280 problematic because we won't be able to think for this for ourselves and be creative as 24:39.280 --> 24:46.620 ourselves for ourselves. But I see AI as a tool to help benefit us if we use it wisely. 24:47.080 --> 24:53.060 And we all know that once smartphones came into our hands that we're all addicted to these 24:53.060 --> 24:57.720 things. Yeah. And so we're not wise people on the whole. 25:00.240 --> 25:06.060 Yeah. Maybe people should put their devices down and go into the wilderness for a week. 25:08.440 --> 25:11.700 I don't know if that would help anything. I don't know if it would either. But 25:12.260 --> 25:16.420 you know, being in the wilderness for a week sounds really really daunting to me. 25:16.640 --> 25:22.040 But I'm sure I benefit from it. Yeah, you have a couple of friends who know what they're 25:22.040 --> 25:26.600 doing. You'll be fine. I know I feel better. 25:28.680 --> 25:36.640 The longer I can leave my phone alone, I just it feels like it separates me from reality 25:36.640 --> 25:43.260 to some degree. Yeah. A pretty small degree granted. Nothing like what I imagine some of 25:43.260 --> 25:49.240 the VR sets are like now. I imagine those detach you from reality almost almost as 25:49.240 --> 25:56.680 strongly as it, you know, like ketamine or something maybe. But I haven't tried any of 25:56.680 --> 26:01.020 those. I'm not really interested. You're not really interested in ketamine or ARs or 26:01.560 --> 26:06.960 yeah, virtual reality sets? Yeah, neither one. Okay. I'm not interested in either one either. 26:07.620 --> 26:12.700 I like nature and I like real things. Yeah, I hear you. So there's that. 26:13.840 --> 26:20.680 Um, what else going on? I guess Trump's going, going and tariffing things again. 26:20.900 --> 26:25.560 Is it a tariff just like, like when they put sanctions on another country, 26:25.780 --> 26:31.000 isn't tariffs just putting sanctions on yourself? Kind of. I think a tariff is basically 26:31.000 --> 26:37.420 a tax in the sense that if you're, let's say that I'm selling a good to 26:37.420 --> 26:45.720 you to Scotland or the UK and Scotland is going to make me pay a fee so I could sell 26:45.720 --> 26:51.040 that good in Scotland and the US is doing the same thing where they're saying, oh, 26:51.040 --> 26:57.140 if you want to sell a good here, you got to pay a fee for it and that fee is then 26:58.180 --> 27:02.760 given and passed on to the consumer so that they can pay for the good and thus 27:02.760 --> 27:08.500 bring up the price of the good. Now, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Trump's 27:08.500 --> 27:13.420 tariffs were unconstitutional. He got upset and said, well, I'm going to do a tariff, 27:13.520 --> 27:22.460 a 15% tariff globally across the board. So Trump's just throwing a fit. That's what Trump does. 27:24.640 --> 27:32.440 Okay. Well, it seems like the rest of the world is not not playing his game so much. 27:33.180 --> 27:38.240 So we'll see how this goes for him. Originally it was 10%. Now I think it's been updated to 15. 27:38.960 --> 27:42.700 So that's what it looks like. And the latest updates are 27:43.680 --> 27:53.480 since that he raised it to 15 from 10. So yeah, I don't know what that actually looks like is 27:53.480 --> 28:00.400 things are just 15% more expensive, right? Yep, pretty much. We have inflation eating us. We have 28:01.340 --> 28:07.580 taxes eating us and tariffs eating us. It's like, dude, when are people going to realize 28:07.580 --> 28:11.780 that government is your enemy and they don't care about you as a consumer, they want to 28:11.780 --> 28:17.420 enslave you. So you think, oh, the government's my savior. Please save me government from the 28:17.420 --> 28:21.940 big bad bullies. But no, the big bad bullies, the government, they're stealing your lunch money 28:21.940 --> 28:27.400 and you don't seem to care about it. Yeah, they're definitely not coming to save you. They do 28:27.400 --> 28:36.320 not care at all about you. They'd rather that if you're not going to further their agenda in 28:36.320 --> 28:41.840 some way that you just be dead. And they've provided plenty of plenty of ways for that to 28:41.840 --> 28:49.560 happen as well. Right. Yeah, so many counts on which you can just look and see clearly that 28:49.560 --> 28:54.900 they don't care at all for your health or your wellbeing or your mental stability, 28:55.620 --> 29:01.240 any of that. In fact, they'd rather you not have any of those things in any kind of 29:01.240 --> 29:05.900 order inside of your life. They'd rather have you chaotic and running all the time. 29:06.820 --> 29:11.360 So that you don't even have time to sit down and think about what they're doing to you. 29:11.480 --> 29:18.760 I know. It's terrible. Sure is. Give us a call. Let us know how you deal with the 29:18.760 --> 29:27.460 run around that we get from Big Brother. Phone number here is 603-283-6160. It's free talk live. 29:39.540 --> 29:44.840 Phone records, financial and location data, prism, tempura, x-key score, boundless informant. 29:45.240 --> 29:50.120 Hey, I'll Scott Horn here for offnow.org. Now, here's the deal. Do the Snowden revelations. We 29:50.120 --> 29:53.880 have a great opportunity for a short period of time to get some real rollback of the 29:53.880 --> 29:57.200 national surveillance state. Now, they're already trying to tire us by introducing 29:57.200 --> 30:01.420 fake reforms in the Congress and the courts, they've betrayed their sworn oaths to the 30:01.420 --> 30:05.560 Constitution and Bill of Rights again and again and can in no way be trusted to stop the 30:05.560 --> 30:12.260 abuses for us. We've got to do it ourselves. How? We nullify it at the state level. It's 30:12.260 --> 30:16.400 still not easy. The offnow project of the 10th Amendment Center has gotten off to a great 30:16.400 --> 30:20.100 start. I mean it. There's real reason to be optimistic here. They've gotten their 30:20.100 --> 30:24.460 model legislation introduced all over the place. In state after state, I've lost count 30:24.460 --> 30:29.100 more than a dozen. You're always wondering, yeah, but what can we do? Here's something, 30:29.440 --> 30:35.080 something important, something that can work if we do the work. Get started cutting off the 30:35.080 --> 30:41.760 NSA support in your state. Go to offnow.org. From feature story news in San Francisco, 30:42.140 --> 30:47.760 I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back at some of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, 30:47.940 --> 30:53.680 formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of 30:53.680 --> 30:59.440 misconduct in public office. It relates to his time as trade envoy and the alleged 30:59.440 --> 31:05.120 sharing of confidential material with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged 31:05.120 --> 31:10.320 and has long denied any wrongdoing. FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London. 31:10.580 --> 31:15.560 What police are further saying is that this is part of an investigation now they confirm. 31:16.020 --> 31:20.040 The reason that is significant is that previously, Thames Valley Police had simply 31:20.040 --> 31:24.320 said they were assessing claims that had been made to them about the potential of 31:24.320 --> 31:28.180 misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a formal investigation is underway 31:28.180 --> 31:34.180 and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on suspicion of misconduct in public 31:34.180 --> 31:40.160 office and they say they're also carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. 31:40.480 --> 31:44.960 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's sweeping tariffs on global trading 31:44.960 --> 31:50.460 partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that the tariffs didn't have the 31:50.460 --> 31:55.760 proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington. 31:55.760 --> 32:02.020 This ruling is a tremendous blow for the U.S. President and a rare rebuke of his presidential 32:02.020 --> 32:08.740 powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe he had the legal authority 32:08.740 --> 32:14.420 to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional authorization. 32:14.960 --> 32:20.200 They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs 32:20.200 --> 32:27.120 of unlimited amount duration and scope. He has reacted by calling the ruling a disgrace, 32:27.420 --> 32:33.420 but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House will look for other ways to 32:33.420 --> 32:40.040 reimpose these tariffs. India joined the U.S.-led AI infrastructure initiative called Pax 32:40.040 --> 32:45.940 Silica, which is widely seen as a countermeasure to China's dominance over the supply of key 32:45.940 --> 32:51.920 materials used in the industry. It came as top U.S. companies pledged to invest billions of 32:51.920 --> 32:58.300 dollars in India during an AI impact summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. 32:58.760 --> 33:03.320 India joined the Pax Silica initiative on the sidelines of the AI impact summit, 33:03.580 --> 33:08.040 ending speculation over whether trade tensions were getting in the way of broader cooperation 33:08.040 --> 33:12.860 between Washington and New Delhi. 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Multiple apps are available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. 34:38.440 --> 34:43.240 Social.freetalklive.com. In the studio tonight, it's Stu. 34:43.240 --> 34:44.280 Riley O'Bill. 34:47.400 --> 34:50.580 We were talking about Trump and his tariffs. 34:51.160 --> 34:56.640 Yep, and him throwing a fit and doing a 15% tariff globally after the Supreme Court set up. 34:57.460 --> 35:01.480 Tantrums. Let's read about this a little bit. I haven't caught any WWE for a little while. 35:01.820 --> 35:02.860 All right, let's hear about it. 35:03.880 --> 35:05.780 This from AP News. 35:06.760 --> 35:08.180 A reputable news source, by the way. 35:08.460 --> 35:11.420 Reputable if you like government propaganda. 35:13.240 --> 35:20.060 The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs in a 6-3 35:20.060 --> 35:25.700 decision on Friday, handing him his stinging loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. 35:26.180 --> 35:29.120 Doesn't this read almost like a WWE thing? 35:29.540 --> 35:29.900 Oh yeah. 35:30.140 --> 35:31.000 Stinging loss. 35:31.540 --> 35:31.820 Yep. 35:32.240 --> 35:33.140 Crucial agenda. 35:35.060 --> 35:39.340 Furious about the defeat, the president lashed out at the Supreme Court for striking down 35:39.340 --> 35:44.200 much of his sweeping tariff infrastructure as an illegal use of emergency power. 35:44.840 --> 35:50.280 Trump said he was absolutely ashamed of justices who voted to strike down his tariffs and called 35:50.280 --> 35:52.300 the ruling deeply disappointing. 35:53.080 --> 35:55.460 Of course he would be ashamed. 35:56.040 --> 36:00.840 The president said on social media Friday night that he signed an executive order enabling 36:00.840 --> 36:05.420 him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports around the world. 36:05.420 --> 36:10.500 The new tariffs would come under a law that restricts them to 150 days. 36:14.180 --> 36:21.700 So it sounds like this Trump guy is going to be like, oh well, I get to bypass Congress to do 36:21.700 --> 36:27.300 tariffs whenever I want, all because I'm upset. 36:28.300 --> 36:32.200 Yeah, it sounds like he's trying to be the king that he got accused of being. 36:32.680 --> 36:33.580 Yeah, pretty much. 36:34.140 --> 36:34.500 Okay. 36:35.180 --> 36:43.760 He definitely likes wielding his power around like a, I don't know, but what kind of psychopaths 36:43.760 --> 36:51.100 do people want ruling over them that will bypass Congress, bypass the Supreme Court and say, 36:51.120 --> 36:52.220 well, I'm going to do what I want anyway? 36:54.940 --> 36:59.760 It seems like all governments, it seems like all these people and the so-called leaders 36:59.760 --> 37:04.640 have to do is declare that it's an emergency and they get whatever power they want to bypass the 37:04.640 --> 37:09.940 Congress. But no, it shouldn't be that way. The executive power should not be this prevalent. 37:10.380 --> 37:14.040 The executive branch, ladies and gentlemen, should be checked and balanced like everything 37:14.040 --> 37:18.940 else in government. And if you don't like the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday, 37:19.500 --> 37:22.560 then maybe you should look at yourself and realize that you're dumb. 37:23.380 --> 37:27.180 Dumb enough to believe that there are people that have the right to rule you, 37:27.180 --> 37:28.440 which they don't. 37:29.020 --> 37:33.120 You know, what is the, I forgot, was it George Carlin or 37:34.980 --> 37:41.360 one of those guys said, think about how stupid the average person is and they realize the, 37:41.800 --> 37:44.760 you know, the half of them are dumber than that. 37:47.860 --> 37:51.240 I'm not saying I'm smart either. I'm just suggesting that, you know, 37:52.020 --> 37:55.540 I'm trying to be a little more alert and aware of, 37:56.040 --> 37:59.880 hey, these people that claim the right to rule me are just people with titles. 38:00.940 --> 38:04.480 Yeah, yeah, it's ridiculous to, that people are still 38:05.360 --> 38:11.960 holding up this WWE show like it's really, like it's, like they have any, you know, 38:13.400 --> 38:19.260 I guess I kind of get it, the sports, like the sports fanatic thing where you cheer for 38:19.260 --> 38:22.720 the home team and you wear the jersey and you don't miss any games and like, 38:23.280 --> 38:27.600 I guess I kind of get it. There's like a camaraderie going on there. 38:27.760 --> 38:28.000 Oh yeah. 38:28.280 --> 38:31.520 But, but that's even a little ridiculous because like, 38:32.820 --> 38:39.760 you don't actually feel a camaraderie with the entirety of New England over the Patriots team. 38:40.120 --> 38:41.680 You know, I'm like, nobody actually does. 38:42.340 --> 38:46.400 And so it's false, right? And it's even more false when you find yourself in, 38:46.400 --> 38:52.520 in a group of, you know, that calls itself MAGA, which is about one of the most Barnum statements 38:52.520 --> 38:57.380 I've ever heard. If you don't know what that is, go, go watch Barnum World. 38:57.840 --> 39:03.020 You can find it for free. It's an excellent film that'll show you how things are run. 39:05.040 --> 39:09.900 Anyways, it is ridiculous. I keep hoping that people would just stop, 39:11.220 --> 39:15.780 stop allowing it. All it takes is a little, a little courage and stand up for yourself. 39:15.780 --> 39:20.700 I don't think a lot of people want that. I don't think a lot of people will actually do that because 39:20.700 --> 39:28.140 they want to believe so wholeheartedly in the system. Like for example, you know, people have 39:28.140 --> 39:36.520 this idea that America is built on this idea, which is that, you know, freedom is going to rain, 39:36.980 --> 39:40.560 liberty and justice for all. But we all know how that worked out. 39:41.320 --> 39:44.820 There wasn't liberty and justice for the blacks. There wasn't liberty and justice for 39:44.820 --> 39:49.900 the Native Americans until slavery ended pretty much. But even then, you know, 39:49.920 --> 39:54.240 the Native Americans are pushed under reservation, then enslaved by government money. 39:56.460 --> 40:03.260 And is America really free? Well, compared to Venezuela, yeah, it's a free nation. 40:03.600 --> 40:09.920 Was America built on Christian principles? Not really. I mean, definitely there are a lot 40:09.920 --> 40:15.800 of Christian people in the government at the time, but it's not built on entirely, 40:15.800 --> 40:24.080 it's not entirely built on Christian principles. So I don't know. I think believing in a system 40:24.940 --> 40:32.200 so religiously and vociferously by claiming that this is God's promised land, and we've got to 40:32.200 --> 40:40.280 keep preserving freedom by keeping America going, to me, it's a losing battle. Let's stop having 40:40.280 --> 40:46.180 people rule over us. You know, learn to govern yourself, learn to let your neighbors be neighbors, 40:46.820 --> 40:52.580 and if they harm your property, okay, deal with that. But at the same time, it's like, well, 40:54.160 --> 40:57.900 people want people in D.C. to rule over somebody else. That's pretty sad. 40:57.900 --> 41:02.620 I wonder how much of this, what they were just describing as far as 41:04.300 --> 41:09.660 Christian values, freedom and liberty for all, all of that kind of stuff. I wonder how much of that 41:09.660 --> 41:14.500 was just added later to the history books and said, oh, this is what it was all about, and 41:14.500 --> 41:18.320 everybody at the time totally agreed. Oh, I'm sure it was. I'm sure a lot of it. 41:18.420 --> 41:22.000 It may not have had. It had a definitely, definitely the 50s. I'm sure. 41:22.340 --> 41:26.320 Most colonists, I bet, at the time had no idea what was going on as far as a revolution. 41:26.320 --> 41:32.980 They just knew there was hiding activities between rebels and the Red Codes. 41:34.040 --> 41:38.980 I don't think they had any idea. They didn't know when the Constitution was being signed because that 41:38.980 --> 41:47.580 was done basically in secret. They just snuck off to do it. The Federal Reserve thing is 41:47.580 --> 41:53.580 kind of a more modern example that we can look at. They did it on Christmas so that nobody knew 41:53.580 --> 41:57.460 what was going on. It had already been shot down. They just renamed it and then passed it 41:57.460 --> 42:02.960 when no one was looking. I wonder how much of that is exactly how it's gone for all of history. 42:03.060 --> 42:06.760 I wonder if it was never about freedom and liberty. They just said it was and got people 42:06.760 --> 42:12.020 to believe it, kind of a thing. I'm sure a lot of it was propaganda that came about 42:13.080 --> 42:18.540 in the 1800s to keep America going. A lot of it was also done in the 1900s, 42:18.540 --> 42:24.860 especially the 1950s during the Cold War because that's when under God was added into the 42:25.800 --> 42:31.300 Pledge of Allegiance. That's when it was added to the money to unite Americans around this idea 42:31.300 --> 42:38.480 that we believe in God and that Godless Communists do not, which is understandable for the time. 42:39.300 --> 42:47.280 But at the same time, it's still propaganda. It does seem that there was a belief in God was 42:48.540 --> 42:54.260 kind of thematic to the construction of America, but it certainly wasn't built on Christian values. 42:55.100 --> 42:59.340 Most of those guys were deists or something else, not Christians, 43:00.380 --> 43:06.600 which is fine because Christianity is a big mess anyways. It's a hodgepodge of, you know, 43:07.320 --> 43:14.100 like maybe something close to the original Christianity mixed in with a tiny bit of 43:14.100 --> 43:21.060 Islam and a whole bunch of paganism. Yeah. So I wonder what original Christianity really, 43:21.080 --> 43:24.680 really looked like. Me too. That would be fascinating to know. I'm sure it's, 43:25.540 --> 43:29.660 it might be an undiscoverable thing at this point, completely lost to history. 43:30.000 --> 43:33.100 Yeah. Well, Mormons claim that they have the original Christianity. 43:34.960 --> 43:39.600 Yeah, we could spend the rest of the night talking about how that's not true, 43:39.600 --> 43:45.020 but this is not. Well, they do have apostles and prophets and 43:46.120 --> 43:49.380 in my mind, you know, if you're going to have a church and might as well have 43:50.220 --> 43:56.660 some sort of authority structure. But whether it's original Christianity, I don't know. 43:57.060 --> 44:04.240 I have no real way of knowing because I mean, the Bible we have now is 44:05.040 --> 44:11.580 like, let's think of the Gospels, for instance, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, these texts were 44:12.240 --> 44:21.380 written between 70 and 90, 80, I want to say, earliest. Like the Gospel Mark came first 44:21.980 --> 44:31.000 and it was written pretty early on like 70 AD or so. And again, I could be completely wrong 44:31.000 --> 44:34.580 on this. I'm just a talk show host here. I could be completely wrong. So if you have any. 44:35.720 --> 44:39.540 The point is, though, all these writings came after. Right. And they're not 44:40.420 --> 44:44.800 contemporary to Jesus. They're not really eyewitness accounts. Not only did they come 44:44.800 --> 44:50.360 after, but then they were also like assembled and edited later by the Pharisees. Is that right? 44:50.700 --> 44:55.780 I wouldn't say the Pharisees, but definitely some other groups definitely edited. I'm pretty 44:55.780 --> 45:04.560 sure the Catholic Church had a huge hand in preparing the text for publication and editing 45:04.560 --> 45:11.540 them here and there. So to claim the Bible is original to me is just absurd. Claiming it's 45:11.540 --> 45:16.900 the infallible word of God is also absurd. But I will say this, I think the Bible has some 45:16.900 --> 45:21.720 good things we can learn from it. Absolutely. And you know, our civilization, whether we like 45:21.720 --> 45:30.160 or not, was based on biblical ideas. And I think we can really look and I think we should 45:30.160 --> 45:33.640 really search this text and look at it and see what we can learn from it, rather than saying, 45:33.700 --> 45:37.740 oh, well, it's all corrupt. We should dismiss it. I think there are definitely things we can 45:37.740 --> 45:45.160 learn from it. No, I agree with that. And it's not. I disagree wholeheartedly that 45:45.160 --> 45:52.120 that's what it was patterned on. And so if you look historically at the ancient mystery 45:52.120 --> 46:05.620 traditions, there are many examples of a spiritual guru or leader or chosen one born of a virgin 46:06.420 --> 46:11.560 lived for a certain amount of years, died and came back to life, right? Basically, 46:11.560 --> 46:17.060 the Jesus story repeats out in at least seven different cultures under some different name 46:17.060 --> 46:22.680 with different, slightly different details and stuff. All this is is it's a rehash of 46:23.620 --> 46:32.360 it's a rehash of spiritual teachings that were meant to keep a society in line mixed in with 46:36.300 --> 46:42.300 with astrological things. So like the Son of God is that's a metaphor for the sun that's in the sky. 46:42.640 --> 46:50.260 And that goes on and on, right? So a lot of this is it's spiritual teachings that they just 46:50.260 --> 46:57.660 keep trying to repackage in order to get either for people to behave right. That was the original 46:57.660 --> 47:01.420 intention, right? But then somebody comes along and gets in charge of the thing and they 47:01.420 --> 47:06.960 just use it to line their pockets with silver coins or whatever. Pretty much. And they use it to 47:06.960 --> 47:12.380 make money or to have real estate holding so they can sell later. Or to engineer a society in such a 47:12.380 --> 47:18.620 way that it's very obedient or whatever their agenda is. So it always gets hijacked. And I 47:18.620 --> 47:26.180 think the aim of religion was a noble one and that I wish it could have succeeded. But 47:26.720 --> 47:32.360 so far it seems to have failed in its aim at giving people a celebration of 47:33.040 --> 47:38.600 treating each other decently, right? Which is what it really comes down to. Sure. And it's 47:38.600 --> 47:42.500 really supposed to be designed to, hey, you got to take care of the poor, the fatherless, 47:42.580 --> 47:47.540 the widows, rather than, hey, you're not wearing your certain clothing right or 47:47.540 --> 47:52.300 you're not, or you're drinking a certain beverage that we prohibited. You're not, 47:52.300 --> 47:56.320 you don't believe that this, you don't believe in the Trinity, or you believe in the Trinity, 47:56.640 --> 48:00.440 or you don't believe in transubstantiation, or you believe in transubstantiation. It's just 48:00.440 --> 48:07.160 become a religious war of who, who has the biggest Christianity? Who has the best Christianity? 48:07.320 --> 48:13.440 We are the one true Christians. Yeah. It's just become absurd to me. Yeah. That was some 48:13.440 --> 48:18.180 of the, some of the stuff that Mormons used to say when I, that made me most uncomfortable 48:18.180 --> 48:25.520 back when I was a believing Mormon. There's all that about the, the great and abominable church, 48:26.040 --> 48:31.300 and them being the chosen ones, and, and that, you know, and they had this like 48:32.080 --> 48:37.100 special little place in their heart for God's other chosen people, which were the Jews. And 48:38.060 --> 48:42.140 there's a whole lot of discomfort going on in those subjects in the Mormon church. 48:42.140 --> 48:49.900 Well, I know, for me, I know that a lot of early members of the church either interpreted the great, 48:50.040 --> 48:54.300 the quote unquote, great and abominable, abominable churches, Catholicism, which 48:54.860 --> 49:01.220 other Christian groups also do, or they interpreted it as Christianity as a whole. 49:01.600 --> 49:06.400 But nowadays, I've seen them walk back that statement quite a bit to interpreting people 49:06.400 --> 49:12.040 say that, oh, it's people who are teaching you not to follow Christ or who would go against God. 49:13.320 --> 49:20.200 So definitely walking that back. And, you know, the great, what, what Mormons call the great 49:20.200 --> 49:25.640 apostasy, which is just, you know, apostasy is rebellion against God and rebellion against 49:25.640 --> 49:32.520 his kingdom. Well, they claim it happened after the last apostle died or disappeared or 49:32.520 --> 49:37.680 whatever happened. And the church, the early church wasn't kept together with its authority. 49:38.040 --> 49:42.800 And so, yeah, people weren't good enough to have God's church on earth. And so he took it away from 49:42.800 --> 49:47.820 them. Yeah. And this time, this time, he gave it back to Joseph Smith. Yeah, he gave it back 49:47.820 --> 49:51.760 to Joseph Smith. And this time it's going to be around forever and keep your eye on the 49:51.760 --> 49:55.300 prophet. The prophet will never be led astray. And guess what, ladies and gentlemen, 49:56.200 --> 49:59.920 every offshoot of Mormonism has its leader that claims the same thing that God will 49:59.920 --> 50:06.340 never lead me astray, or in just, for instance, Paul Kingston of the Kingston clan in northern Utah, 50:06.960 --> 50:13.440 same thing. So it's just a story. It's just a story so you can follow the leader. Yeah. 50:14.020 --> 50:19.120 And they take your money and claim that God needs the money. It's not for us. God needs it. 50:19.260 --> 50:25.720 Well, yeah, because, you know, God's got bills to pay. God must owe a lot of people, 50:25.720 --> 50:37.000 a lot of money. All right. I got one here kind of along the crypto lines. This is from Activist Post. 50:38.640 --> 50:40.980 A lot more reputable than most news sources. 50:43.580 --> 50:50.840 This is fugitive foreigner sentenced in the US to 20 years for 73 million crypto scam. 50:52.440 --> 50:59.860 A judge sentenced Darren Lee to 20 years for a 73 million dollar crypto fraud. The scam used 50:59.860 --> 51:05.540 Cambodia based compounds to target victims via social media and dating apps. 51:07.580 --> 51:13.840 All right. Here we go. The story starts here. A federal judge in California sentenced in 51:13.840 --> 51:20.500 absentia, a dual national of China and St. Kitts and Nevis, to 20 years in prison for his role in a 73 51:20.500 --> 51:26.180 million dollar international crypto scam. Darren Lee, who was a fugitive after removing an ankle 51:26.180 --> 51:32.600 electronic monitoring device in December, was also handed three years of supervised release 51:32.600 --> 51:37.820 for his role in an international cryptocurrency investment conspiracy carried out 51:38.300 --> 51:43.180 from scam centers in Cambodia, according to a court statement on Monday. 51:44.900 --> 51:51.360 Cambodia has become a hub for pig butchering crypto scams, generating over 30 million daily 51:52.020 --> 51:58.560 via forced labor compounds, according to a TRM Labs report. A separate TRM report 51:58.560 --> 52:04.420 revealed how over 96 billion in crypto has flowed to Cambodia linked companies 52:04.420 --> 52:11.980 since 2021, used heavily for money laundering and fraud. As part of an international cryptocurrency 52:11.980 --> 52:20.560 investment scam, Darren Lee and his co-conspirators laundered over 73 million dollars stolen from 52:20.560 --> 52:27.980 American victims. Assistant Attorney General A. Tyson Duva of the Justice Department criminal 52:27.980 --> 52:33.840 division said in the statement. Duva said the court's criminal division is working with 52:33.840 --> 52:40.600 global law enforcement officials to find, detain, and return Lee to the U.S. to serve his entire sentence. 52:42.220 --> 52:48.180 Lee pleaded guilty on November 12, 2024 in the central district of California into conspiring 52:48.180 --> 52:54.760 with others to launder funds obtained from victims through crypto scams and related fraud. 52:55.020 --> 52:59.260 As part of his plea agreement, Lee said he and his cronies would contact 52:59.960 --> 53:06.620 victims directly through unsolicited social media interactions, telephone calls and messages, 53:07.000 --> 53:12.180 and online dating services. Their tactics entailed gaining victims trust by establishing 53:12.180 --> 53:18.400 professional or romantic relationships with them, then luring them into using spoof platforms to 53:18.400 --> 53:25.300 appear to invest in crypto. In other instances, the group posed as tech support 53:25.300 --> 53:30.960 staff and induced victims to send funds via wire transfer or cryptocurrency training platforms 53:30.960 --> 53:37.440 to purportedly remediate a non-existent virus or other false computer-related problem. 53:38.220 --> 53:45.400 Social engineering scams such as fake investment offers and impersonation tactics were the leading 53:45.400 --> 53:50.960 threat to crypto users according to accounting for losses in the billions of dollars and 53:50.960 --> 53:56.020 representing nearly 41% of all crypto security incidents in 2025. 54:02.280 --> 54:08.740 That's where the article ends. Huh. So, yep, there's another guy probably never was in America 54:08.740 --> 54:14.540 just scamming Americans and the U.S. decides they can go and lock him up, but he cut his 54:14.540 --> 54:22.080 ankle monitor off and ran away. I guess they're still looking for him too, so this shows you 54:22.080 --> 54:28.580 that they're not all-knowing and all-seeing. You can't actually fly under the radar if you really 54:29.080 --> 54:34.140 feel like you want to run away. You definitely can, and some people will. 54:35.600 --> 54:42.480 It just goes to show that I think Ian Freeman is innocent and is not a criminal the way people 54:42.480 --> 54:47.980 portray him, but there are also definitely criminals and people like, you know, the guy 54:47.980 --> 54:53.040 referenced in this article that we just read that are criminals and definitely should be 54:53.040 --> 54:57.100 put in a cage. However, I don't know if it's the U.S. government that should be 54:57.100 --> 55:00.540 prosecuting everybody they think they should prosecute. 55:01.760 --> 55:13.060 Right. Definitely. And you know, this kind of fraud, while I definitely don't condone it, 55:13.160 --> 55:21.660 it's one of the least, one of the types of, you know, what libertarians would call aggression. 55:22.320 --> 55:25.620 It's one of the least offensive forms, in my opinion, because 55:25.620 --> 55:32.540 it's just don't get fooled. These things are not that sophisticated usually. They'll say, 55:32.640 --> 55:37.940 this is a very sophisticated operation, but what it looks like is a text message from 55:37.940 --> 55:44.200 some random number that you've never seen, and it's like, hey, I'm a 23-year-old college 55:44.200 --> 55:50.840 student looking for whatever, whatever, and it's total bait, and I don't know 55:51.400 --> 55:56.980 why anybody falls for this to put apparently billions of dollars, get funneled out that way, 55:57.160 --> 56:03.040 and in the opinion of, you know, some people like John McAfee, they'd say good. Those people 56:03.040 --> 56:08.260 deserve to get robbed. They paid to learn a lesson. Yeah. And I don't know if I go that far with 56:08.260 --> 56:14.820 it. It's still fraud. It's still wrong, but at the same time, nobody's tricked me into 56:14.820 --> 56:20.820 giving me, given any of my crypto to them ever. I've only ever sent it where I wanted to. 56:21.940 --> 56:28.960 One time I tried to send a zero sat transaction fee transaction to see where we go, and I don't, 56:28.980 --> 56:35.780 I still to this day don't know where that is. It was in BCH though, so I think, I don't know, 56:35.900 --> 56:40.700 it's probably, I think it was in BCH in 2017. The price was like above a thousand. 56:41.340 --> 56:45.820 I've never really been all that worried about it, but otherwise, you know, I've never, 56:45.920 --> 56:50.740 I've never been scammed out of my crypto or anything else really. I don't think I've ever 56:50.740 --> 56:56.180 run scammed out of my crypto either, that I can recall. And there's, there's been times where it's 56:56.180 --> 57:00.840 like almost closed, but you hit a couple of checkpoints before you actually send the crypto 57:00.840 --> 57:06.920 where a red flag comes up and you're like, Hey, something doesn't seem right. Yeah. And one 57:06.920 --> 57:14.140 time I got, I got a message from, you know, one of the co-hosts on the show and it was like, 57:14.240 --> 57:21.240 Hey, I need some crypto. And I entertained it for about, you know, five or six interactions back 57:21.240 --> 57:24.680 and forth until I figured out that somebody just spoofed in an account to look like this 57:24.680 --> 57:28.860 other one. And it was totally not even the person that I thought I was talking to. I was like, 57:28.980 --> 57:34.120 Oh, I see. Nice try though. And, you know, they didn't get anything out of me. 57:34.120 --> 57:39.960 Yeah. Which is the way it should go. 99.9% of the time with these things because they're not, 57:39.960 --> 57:44.980 they're just not that clever. Oh, have a little self-awareness. 57:45.480 --> 57:49.920 Right. And, you know, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. 57:50.500 --> 57:54.460 If some girl says, Oh, I'm so interested in you and blah, blah, blah. And it's so early 57:54.460 --> 57:57.280 on in your first question should be, how'd you get my number? Yeah. 57:58.580 --> 58:02.120 Who are you? People don't, people don't even go to that step. 58:02.120 --> 58:06.660 No. Give us a call. Have you ever let us know? Have you ever fallen for a crypto scam? 58:06.880 --> 58:14.940 What do you think of these? Phone number here is 603-283-6160. This is Freetalk Live. 58:31.400 --> 58:34.700 So the protection of life, liberty and properties is what the Free State 58:34.700 --> 58:38.640 Project all about. 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Andrew Mountbatten-Winsor, formerly known as Prince 01:00:49.040 --> 01:00:55.200 Andrew of the British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. 01:00:55.760 --> 01:01:01.080 It relates to his time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of confidential material 01:01:01.080 --> 01:01:07.020 with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has long denied any wrongdoing. 01:01:07.820 --> 01:01:12.900 FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London. What police are further saying is that this is 01:01:12.900 --> 01:01:18.360 part of an investigation now they confirm. The reason that is significant is that previously 01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:21.820 Thames Valley police had simply said they were assessing claims that had been 01:01:21.820 --> 01:01:25.760 made to them about the potential of misconduct in a public office. They've 01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:31.980 now confirmed a formal investigation is underway and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was 01:01:31.980 --> 01:01:36.700 made on suspicion of misconduct in public office and they say they're also carrying out searches 01:01:36.700 --> 01:01:42.840 at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's 01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:48.380 sweeping tariffs on global trading partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined 01:01:48.380 --> 01:01:54.280 that the tariffs didn't have the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper 01:01:54.280 --> 01:02:00.040 has more from Washington. This ruling is a tremendous blow for the US President and a rare 01:02:00.040 --> 01:02:06.700 rebuke of his presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe 01:02:06.700 --> 01:02:13.060 he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional 01:02:13.060 --> 01:02:20.100 authorization to exercise this power. They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power 01:02:20.100 --> 01:02:27.080 to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope. He has reacted by 01:02:27.080 --> 01:02:33.600 calling the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House 01:02:33.600 --> 01:02:41.080 will look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs using other means. India joined the US-led AI 01:02:41.080 --> 01:02:47.220 infrastructure initiative called Pax Silica, which is widely seen as a countermeasure to China's 01:02:47.220 --> 01:02:53.380 dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. It came as top U.S. companies 01:02:53.380 --> 01:03:00.540 like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google pledged to invest billions of dollars in India during an AI Impact 01:03:00.540 --> 01:03:07.340 Summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. India joined the Pax Silica initiative on the 01:03:07.340 --> 01:03:12.300 sidelines of the AI Impact Summit, ending speculation over whether trade tensions were 01:03:12.300 --> 01:03:17.380 getting in the way of broader cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. According to the US 01:03:17.380 --> 01:03:22.420 State Department, Pax Silica is aimed at bringing friendly countries together to reduce what it 01:03:22.420 --> 01:03:27.440 calls coercive dependencies. The initiative was launched in December last year with countries 01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:32.880 including the UK, Australia, South Korea and the UAE as its first few members. With India 01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:37.940 pitching itself as a key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the move not only 01:03:37.940 --> 01:03:43.540 highlights New Delhi's role on a global stage, but also signals thaw in U.S.-India ties. 01:03:43.680 --> 01:03:47.760 Ishan Garg, New Delhi. From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN. 01:03:48.520 --> 01:03:53.460 Eleven people were arrested in France over the recent killing of a far-right activist. 01:03:54.040 --> 01:03:59.200 Conten Deronk died after sustaining a severe brain injury when he was attacked on the 01:03:59.200 --> 01:04:05.000 sidelines of a far-right protest against a left-wing politician speaking in the city of Lyon. 01:04:05.820 --> 01:04:08.160 FSN's Ross Cullen reports from Paris. 01:04:08.660 --> 01:04:13.740 The 23-year-old was part of a group providing security for nationalist activists who were 01:04:13.740 --> 01:04:18.440 demonstrating against the leftist gathering at a university in France's third biggest city of 01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:23.240 Lyon. Video footage of the attack on the 12th of February shows a group of people setting 01:04:23.240 --> 01:04:28.820 upon Conten Deronk who's kicked multiple times before being left lying on the sidewalk while 01:04:28.820 --> 01:04:33.080 those involved in the attack fled on foot. The incident has fueled tension between 01:04:33.080 --> 01:04:38.100 France's far-right and hard left ahead of local elections in March and next year's 01:04:38.100 --> 01:04:44.040 presidential race in which the Nationalist Party is currently leading the polls. Ross Cullen, Paris. 01:04:45.200 --> 01:04:49.800 U.S. civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died at the age of 84. 01:04:50.520 --> 01:04:54.760 He was one of America's most influential black figures and twice ran for president. 01:04:55.500 --> 01:04:57.420 FSN's Tony Waterman has more. 01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:02.240 He was this towering figure. He was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr. 01:05:02.240 --> 01:05:08.660 He was there when King was assassinated in 1968. He was, in fact, very close to him when that 01:05:08.660 --> 01:05:14.520 happened physically, just a couple of feet away. But he is really seen as carrying on the fight 01:05:14.520 --> 01:05:21.100 for black Americans. He transformed American politics, particularly the Democratic Party, 01:05:21.180 --> 01:05:27.540 by empowering these marginalized communities through his coalition, getting millions and 01:05:27.540 --> 01:05:33.760 millions of black Latino and Asian Americans to register to vote and completely reshaping 01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:38.960 the face of the Democratic Party. Those were some of the week's top stories. Iris Spitzer. 01:05:39.600 --> 01:05:44.060 Later in the hour, the U.S. Postal Service announces that you can deliver the mail yourself 01:05:44.060 --> 01:05:49.120 if you think it's so easy. But first up in health news, researchers from Harvard University 01:05:49.120 --> 01:05:53.760 have found a strong link between male virility and wearing motley crew denim jackets. 01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:58.120 For the study, researchers paired fans of the band with a control group and found that those 01:05:58.120 --> 01:06:02.960 wearing motley crew attire were far more likely to knock out some chick's totally jacked boyfriend 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:06.420 and then do it with her later that same day than those who simply wore casual 01:06:06.420 --> 01:06:10.480 clothes and probably wouldn't know what it feels like to have two threesomes in one night. 01:06:10.860 --> 01:06:15.660 Men who own jackets with an image of Tommy Lee and Nikki Sick sitting on top of a pair of 01:06:15.660 --> 01:06:20.100 breasts with nipples in the shape of pentagrams showed higher levels of sexual potency, 01:06:20.100 --> 01:06:25.680 endurance, and libido. These guys do it all the time and sometimes even in public. They don't 01:06:25.680 --> 01:06:30.640 f***ing care. Although the study primarily focused on men in motley crew jackets, researchers also 01:06:30.640 --> 01:06:34.680 found that men who listened to Nirvana had a high likelihood of staying virgins forever. 01:07:07.330 --> 01:07:15.190 Talk radio, you control. All you have to do is call 603-283-6160 and we will talk to you about 01:07:15.190 --> 01:07:23.010 whatever you'd like to. And also, I'd like to let you know that Free Talk Live is brought to 01:07:23.010 --> 01:07:28.670 you by LibertyMinded.com. Official Free Talk Live gear like t-shirts and hoodies are available 01:07:28.670 --> 01:07:35.090 at LibertyMinded.com. Plus, you'll find a unique collection of cool and funny Liberty-oriented 01:07:35.090 --> 01:07:44.170 clothing at LibertyMinded.com. That's LibertyMinded.com. In the studio tonight, you got Stu and Riley O'Bell. 01:07:45.550 --> 01:07:49.270 This is a calling show and we have a caller on the line, so we're going to go straight to the 01:07:49.270 --> 01:07:54.570 phones. We have Sarah in New Mexico. You're on Free Talk Live. What's on your mind? 01:07:55.530 --> 01:08:05.350 Oh, yes. We just finished the 30-day session this year and one of the bills was to add 01:08:06.030 --> 01:08:17.630 three hours of vulnerable people on the road. It teaches that for you to stop for pedestrians 01:08:17.630 --> 01:08:22.950 and cyclists. So, it's for all the new drivers. 01:08:24.250 --> 01:08:28.050 Part of the driver's aid training. Right. Yeah, okay. 01:08:28.390 --> 01:08:29.950 You think that's going to accomplish anything, Sarah? 01:08:36.070 --> 01:08:42.130 I think it's better than nothing. You know, three hours of beating them into their heads, 01:08:42.250 --> 01:08:48.070 like it's illegal to run over pedestrians at crosswalks and bicycles. 01:08:49.690 --> 01:08:52.930 The people that don't forget their driver's aid training once they're done the driver's 01:08:52.930 --> 01:09:00.530 aid, you do realize. Yeah, you know, it's an effort. I think it's not going to 01:09:01.010 --> 01:09:07.550 really do much of much of anything except that, you know, it's a reminder. You know, 01:09:07.650 --> 01:09:15.910 it has to, with a house bill, my representative Heather, what is it, a Bergman when she was 01:09:15.910 --> 01:09:23.930 running, I actually called her and talked to her. I said, if I vote for you, will you help the 01:09:23.930 --> 01:09:30.610 pedestrian safety? Because I'm a pedestrian. And it sounded like, you know, she wasn't 01:09:30.610 --> 01:09:37.550 in favor of doing something. And she sponsored the bill. She's the one that wrote the bill, 01:09:38.310 --> 01:09:43.030 came up with a bill and put it up for her and it made it to the governor's desk. 01:09:44.230 --> 01:09:51.030 So I think it was kind of significant because, you know, if I, you know, when you get elected, 01:09:51.190 --> 01:09:56.350 would you do something to make it safer? So, you know, something is better than nothing. 01:09:56.910 --> 01:10:03.930 It's all, you know, happens by incremental things. So, you know, I think maybe we'll have 01:10:03.930 --> 01:10:12.510 maybe a couple of pedestrians killed less. You know, just at the start of something, 01:10:13.350 --> 01:10:18.390 you know, it's just all little things that eventually adds up to the big picture. 01:10:19.730 --> 01:10:24.690 Well, I'm sure those couple of pedestrians will appreciate being killed less. 01:10:25.170 --> 01:10:31.630 Yeah, I personally, I sympathize with this notion as well, though. I wish 01:10:32.090 --> 01:10:37.430 there were a way to get it through young people's heads, particularly, you know, 01:10:37.490 --> 01:10:43.470 young drivers are the worst about this. They just, they get in the car and they, they forget the 01:10:43.470 --> 01:10:50.150 fact that it's, you know, 2000 pounds of whatever fiberglass or steel. Yeah. And it's going fast 01:10:50.150 --> 01:10:55.050 enough to absolutely destroy human body. That is just the thought doesn't even occur to them. 01:10:55.090 --> 01:10:58.810 And I wish there was a way to get it across. I just don't think three hours of extra training 01:10:58.810 --> 01:11:03.870 is going to fix this. Well, unfortunately, they've already done up to this point, like 10,000 hours 01:11:03.870 --> 01:11:09.470 of government indoctrination. They've learned the lesson well enough that they don't need to know 01:11:09.470 --> 01:11:12.670 what the person in the front of the room is saying. They just have to satisfy, 01:11:13.270 --> 01:11:20.230 you know, the standardized testing. Yeah. So they're absolutely incentivized to not pay 01:11:20.230 --> 01:11:25.550 any attention. And most people, at least most people I know, maybe not everyone I know, 01:11:25.550 --> 01:11:29.390 but a lot of people I know in school are just, I just want to know what I can do to get 01:11:29.390 --> 01:11:35.250 through the test and survive this class. Whereas on a subject like that, they really 01:11:35.250 --> 01:11:39.050 probably ought to be taken seriously. They've already been trained to not take any 01:11:39.050 --> 01:11:42.790 subjects seriously because they know the bell is just going to ring in 15 minutes. 01:11:42.990 --> 01:11:47.770 And then I got to be off to the next thing. Yeah. So yeah, just extra three hours. 01:11:48.290 --> 01:11:54.890 So I was told that, I mean, they teach you how to be careful with bicyclists, pedestrians 01:11:54.890 --> 01:12:03.230 already as it is. I remember that part in the training. I remember them talking about that, 01:12:03.390 --> 01:12:08.710 like be extra careful about pedestrians and bicyclists. They had a big focus on that. 01:12:09.870 --> 01:12:14.330 Right. That's New Hampshire. No, that was Utah, actually. 01:12:15.770 --> 01:12:21.670 Oh, that was Utah? Yeah. Well, this is New Mexico. I wonder if that three hours the person 01:12:21.670 --> 01:12:27.210 teach the people here that it's actually against the law to hit them and keep on going. 01:12:28.210 --> 01:12:34.970 You know, it's, I don't know what it takes to get a driver's license in New Mexico. 01:12:35.630 --> 01:12:41.450 You know, obviously they, they don't think it's a crime to, you know, run over 01:12:42.290 --> 01:12:47.010 red lights and just hit people and keep on going. I think that's what it is that 01:12:47.730 --> 01:12:52.890 different laws when this state is not considered like any kind of anything illegal. 01:12:53.490 --> 01:13:00.930 I think maybe that actually just, it makes the situation worse when you try to frame it as 01:13:00.930 --> 01:13:06.410 this is so illegal, you should never do it. That's not, that's not the way I look at it. It's, 01:13:06.890 --> 01:13:14.270 it's something that consciously I would have a very hard time living with if I struck somebody 01:13:14.270 --> 01:13:19.310 with a vehicle. And that's why I'm careful about it. Not because I think, you know, the law 01:13:19.310 --> 01:13:24.230 is going to come down on me for it has nothing to do with that. And I'll run a red light if 01:13:24.230 --> 01:13:29.290 nobody's around and, you know, like I'm waiting on nothing. Why am I going to wait for that 01:13:29.290 --> 01:13:36.830 light? Well, you know, this class, it sounds good, but it, there has to be consequences. 01:13:37.330 --> 01:13:42.710 Like as a matter of you sit there and they ramble on about another three hours of class, 01:13:43.370 --> 01:13:50.670 if you do hit a pedestrian, they have to be sentencing or liability or 01:13:50.670 --> 01:13:55.390 it's not going to have consequences like jail time. If it's not backed up by that, 01:13:55.390 --> 01:14:00.750 there's nothing behind it. Or then you sit there and waste three more hours acting like you're 01:14:00.750 --> 01:14:04.850 learning something, you know? A better social deterrent, in my opinion, would be 01:14:05.390 --> 01:14:13.070 some kind of a public shaming toward, you know, everybody knows that you are irresponsible 01:14:13.710 --> 01:14:18.430 when behind the wheel of a vehicle. In British where the scarlet ladder. Yeah. 01:14:20.150 --> 01:14:28.870 Hey, I have a joke. You know, New Mexico, we're ranked out worst drivers by accidental data. 01:14:29.350 --> 01:14:35.230 They actually keep a record. Okay. You know, with me, I don't need a data. All I have to do is look at 01:14:35.230 --> 01:14:43.550 all the, you know, banged up fences, railings and apartments demolished. They're just all 01:14:43.550 --> 01:14:49.670 these walls are knocked over everywhere, you know, just self-explanatory. You know, 01:14:49.990 --> 01:14:54.330 like we are the worst drivers. Just looking at how much things they ran into. 01:14:56.670 --> 01:14:57.850 So where's the joke? 01:15:00.170 --> 01:15:04.710 Well, don't you think that's funny? I don't need a data to tell me this. I could just 01:15:04.710 --> 01:15:08.530 see by looking at whatever they've demolished, ran into and destroyed. 01:15:09.390 --> 01:15:14.510 Hmm. Yeah, that's funny. There's a whole list of things that 01:15:15.450 --> 01:15:20.690 government does with data that would just, it'd be funny if it wasn't so 01:15:20.690 --> 01:15:28.930 phase palmingly, just sad. Yeah. The kind of government. You know, it's like, this is 01:15:28.930 --> 01:15:37.310 done by auto insurance companies. It's capitalist into entity. There's many involved in it. 01:15:37.310 --> 01:15:43.730 See the auto, the insurance companies, they have to pay out. So they, they're the one that keeps 01:15:43.730 --> 01:15:53.330 track of who did what and how many people it where, did Rex and that's who keeps track of it. 01:15:53.470 --> 01:15:57.970 The government doesn't. I don't know if they hand over the data to the government later, but 01:15:58.870 --> 01:16:03.130 So where, where did they post the rankings of worst drivers that you found? 01:16:03.770 --> 01:16:09.430 Um, it's, it's classified auto insurance. It's, there's a one that keeps track of it. 01:16:09.650 --> 01:16:13.010 Okay. I think, don't they have to, every time there's a wreck, 01:16:13.570 --> 01:16:17.930 they have to analyze who did why, who was at fault, and then they have to pay out. 01:16:18.350 --> 01:16:21.270 That makes sense. They would be doing that for their own interest. Yeah. 01:16:22.570 --> 01:16:23.410 Right. There you go. 01:16:23.410 --> 01:16:29.330 Keep track of all that. So yeah, they would know who's the least safe driving state. 01:16:31.410 --> 01:16:37.270 Right. That was them. Yeah. It's not, it's not a, I mean, the government agency wouldn't, would not, 01:16:37.850 --> 01:16:42.170 I think they, they would take data from them after they analyze it, 01:16:42.310 --> 01:16:48.150 but they're the one that would keep track of that really detailed data. And then they came out with 01:16:48.750 --> 01:16:52.550 apple cookie drivers and the Mexico drivers were the worst drivers. 01:16:53.430 --> 01:16:56.330 You know, I guess. Have you thought about moving, Sarah? 01:16:59.370 --> 01:17:01.210 There are other places. 01:17:03.170 --> 01:17:07.930 It's horrible. You know, I, I like the weather here. My, 01:17:09.330 --> 01:17:14.230 that's the only thing I don't like about New Mexico and I'm here. So I'm trying to improve 01:17:14.230 --> 01:17:20.370 all of it. Okay. Well, that's a decent attitude. There are things I liked quite a bit about 01:17:20.850 --> 01:17:26.690 Albuquerque. The, um, I forgot what the name of that mountain range is. I think it's out. 01:17:27.150 --> 01:17:29.730 Yeah. Yeah. Those are some nice mountains. 01:17:31.490 --> 01:17:34.570 And the air always just kind of spells nice and deserty there. 01:17:35.090 --> 01:17:40.270 Plenty of sagebrush and the weather's nice. So there are things to like about Albuquerque. 01:17:40.390 --> 01:17:42.390 That's one thing I miss about the desert is the smell. 01:17:42.390 --> 01:17:43.030 Yeah. 01:17:45.390 --> 01:17:47.590 Anyways, you got anything else for her, Sarah? 01:17:54.690 --> 01:18:00.410 On reality, you know, some people say all the politicians are the same. To me, they're different. 01:18:00.910 --> 01:18:07.270 And you, a lot of people feel that they're worse. The worst of the other, the other ones. 01:18:07.810 --> 01:18:13.790 But to me, I feel like there is a difference between the president and the less 01:18:13.790 --> 01:18:18.330 worth president, you know, what is the difference between Obama and Bush? 01:18:21.350 --> 01:18:26.170 Obama and Bush and what about Trump? Well, you know, I, I tell you something, 01:18:26.730 --> 01:18:32.270 when we have those awful presidents, if you're an American living a broader, traveling a broader 01:18:32.270 --> 01:18:39.450 embassy, you're like, the foreign policy is so horrible, like they want you to get out of there. 01:18:39.730 --> 01:18:45.410 You know, like, you know, Ron, if you're in a military base now, they'll tell you to escape. 01:18:45.970 --> 01:18:51.170 Yeah, but that didn't get, that didn't get better after Bush when Obama took over and got worse. 01:18:53.070 --> 01:18:58.710 Well, I don't know. I don't, I don't think we had all that, um, controversy as Reagan. 01:18:59.430 --> 01:19:05.230 Absolutely. You had the Bengali thing. You had, uh, let's see, you had, um, is that when they 01:19:05.230 --> 01:19:12.110 overthrew Libya? I think so, yeah. And Gaddafi. Yep. And, uh, Obama is famous for being the 01:19:12.110 --> 01:19:19.950 drone strike in his president in history. And, um, like he definitely didn't make the, uh, the 01:19:19.950 --> 01:19:26.470 public perception of America better. He made it worse. And that's what, that's what we mean by 01:19:26.470 --> 01:19:33.950 that. Uh-huh. Well, the prince, wasn't he a capitalist, um, in cahoots with the American 01:19:33.950 --> 01:19:40.290 oil companies and they booted him out. But basically Iran is a communist country. It 01:19:40.290 --> 01:19:47.270 has turned into communist country. And then his son is still alive, but he's not welcome. I think 01:19:47.270 --> 01:19:52.850 that's what's going on. And that's why they shut up the missile to Ukraine to help them out. 01:19:54.130 --> 01:19:58.470 Um, so they're, they're basically socialist communists fighting with Russians. 01:19:58.850 --> 01:20:05.190 And that's why they want to have a fight with Iran. So there you have it. I, 01:20:05.650 --> 01:20:13.030 what I noticed is that most of the, um, Middle Eastern countries are socialist communist, 01:20:13.670 --> 01:20:20.330 um, countries, they don't have turned that way. And, uh, most of the South American countries 01:20:21.010 --> 01:20:29.170 are socialist, um, communist countries leaning. And, um, it's no surprise that 01:20:29.170 --> 01:20:34.630 they even have a poison that killed that, that guy in prison that anti in Russia, 01:20:35.330 --> 01:20:42.350 it was a South American frog poison. You know, isn't that kind of ironic? You know, 01:20:42.390 --> 01:20:47.790 because I think the Russians are there to establish a communist system in South America. 01:20:47.970 --> 01:20:54.130 They would know a poisonous rock from South America. So I just put that together. 01:20:54.890 --> 01:21:05.130 Well, yeah, kind of accepted. So communist is the label that the, um, the Western regime will 01:21:05.130 --> 01:21:13.950 slap on any country that it wants to pick a fight with. Um, communist is not, it's not 01:21:13.950 --> 01:21:19.290 really an ideology that holds strongly in a lot of places where they claim that it does. 01:21:19.290 --> 01:21:26.810 Maybe it does in China, maybe it does in Russia, probably not so much in Iran. I would guess they're 01:21:26.810 --> 01:21:31.890 just, you know, they're just a place that wants to be left alone to do their own thing for the 01:21:31.890 --> 01:21:37.130 most part. And well, the U.S. has been meddling with Iran since the 1950s, as far as I'm aware. 01:21:37.410 --> 01:21:45.110 Yeah. Yep. And, uh, wasn't he living high off the hog from the travel shows that I have seen? 01:21:45.110 --> 01:21:50.770 He was like living in mansions and stuff like that because he wasn't, he was in the bed with, 01:21:50.830 --> 01:21:56.810 um, American oil companies, you know, like, so he got all the money. 01:21:57.450 --> 01:22:01.230 You're talking about the son of the shawl oil, 01:22:02.130 --> 01:22:10.270 Gaddafi or whatever that Prince that got exiled. Oh, Gaddafi. He started making a gold currency 01:22:10.270 --> 01:22:13.490 and they didn't like that. That seemed to be the final straw with that. 01:22:14.010 --> 01:22:18.090 Is that what happened? That and he was gonna, he was actually doing some things that we're gonna 01:22:18.090 --> 01:22:23.970 bring prosperity to that part, that part of Africa. And they couldn't have that could be, 01:22:24.050 --> 01:22:27.750 because once you have an African country show that it could be prosperous, 01:22:28.630 --> 01:22:31.970 you know, pretty soon they're all gonna do it and then they're uncontrollable. 01:22:32.110 --> 01:22:40.510 And Africa is a major hub of, you know, like international trade for resources of all kinds. 01:22:41.870 --> 01:22:46.830 That's why China is doing the, what do they, they call it the Belt and Road, right? This 01:22:47.570 --> 01:22:50.190 basically their highway to get all the minerals out of Africa. 01:22:51.310 --> 01:22:55.870 Well, Venezuela, when they were in the States, they were Chinese. So it gets that to when 01:22:55.870 --> 01:23:02.750 the, go back to China because they were doing business in Venezuela. They were there to 01:23:02.750 --> 01:23:08.210 their communists, to their allies. And, uh, Chinese are developing a lot of 01:23:08.210 --> 01:23:14.850 African countries too, before what I was told. Yeah, China is pretty much one Africa and America is 01:23:15.490 --> 01:23:22.790 is not even looking at that with any interest anymore. They used to run, the Westerners used 01:23:22.790 --> 01:23:28.290 to run a big portion of Africa. Now they're just kind of giving up on it, letting China have it. 01:23:28.910 --> 01:23:33.790 Trump now wants Greenland, which he occasionally calls Iceland. Yeah. And, 01:23:33.790 --> 01:23:40.090 um, and Venezuela, right? But that's only because this has been set out by like 01:23:40.090 --> 01:23:47.590 Council on Foreign Relation, UN type agendas where, uh, where they have this notion of 01:23:48.410 --> 01:23:55.510 blocking up the world into anywhere from three to five power blocks, right? So the Western 01:23:55.510 --> 01:24:02.570 one, they have envisioned as being Greenland, Canada, Mexico and the United States and some 01:24:02.570 --> 01:24:09.690 of South America. And they call that the, um, the American Technique or the, or the 01:24:09.690 --> 01:24:15.990 Homeland America, American Technique, Technique Homeland or something like that. So, 01:24:16.090 --> 01:24:22.090 Well, I don't know. I think Mexico is communist because I think if you want to go to 01:24:22.090 --> 01:24:27.770 Communist Cuba, you could actually travel back and forth from Mexico. They've always, 01:24:27.770 --> 01:24:34.590 it was not, it was never an embargo. Mexico is just doing whatever they can under the thumb of 01:24:34.590 --> 01:24:41.870 CIA. They're, um, they're, they're scattered because, you know, the corruption that runs 01:24:41.870 --> 01:24:47.110 through that place and the corruption is all sponsored by, you know, the Western establishment. 01:24:47.670 --> 01:24:53.350 And so they basically operate as much in the gray and black markets as they can and it 01:24:53.350 --> 01:24:59.630 works out well for them. Uh, things seem pretty decent in Mexico most of the time. It's like, 01:24:59.890 --> 01:25:04.750 obviously Mexico City is going to be a little rough and things like that. But, um, 01:25:06.470 --> 01:25:08.210 Mexico is a decent place to live. 01:25:08.410 --> 01:25:12.930 You know, Kroski or whatever that guy that was, they're going to kill him in Russia, 01:25:13.210 --> 01:25:20.450 Kroski or whatever, he ran into Mexico City because it's a communist country at the time. 01:25:20.450 --> 01:25:29.090 They welcome them, right? Kroski? Yeah, Kroski, yeah. Why did he out of all the countries to hide, 01:25:29.250 --> 01:25:35.850 he went to Mexico to hide? I don't know, there seems to be some kind of a weird, um, 01:25:37.430 --> 01:25:43.350 it was like a weird espionage pipeline that goes between Russia and Mexico or definitely was around 01:25:43.350 --> 01:25:48.590 that time because you have a whole Oswald, um, Lehar v. Oswald being in Russia for a long time 01:25:48.590 --> 01:25:52.370 at a time when no America was really allowed to just hang out in Russia. 01:25:53.850 --> 01:26:01.770 And, you know, that's because he was all hooked up in the intelligence community and like their 01:26:01.770 --> 01:26:10.790 side business of, what, fomenting coups and running drugs and weapons and all the stuff that they 01:26:10.790 --> 01:26:17.450 said about who the, the Oswald, what is this guy? Is he the one that, the Oklahoma bomber? 01:26:17.850 --> 01:26:24.650 No, that's the one they said killed JFK. Allegedly. Yeah, the uh, the Patsy that they put up as being 01:26:24.650 --> 01:26:35.250 the JFK killer. And he was hanging down in Mexico? Yeah, he was in Mexico City, um, and he was in 01:26:35.250 --> 01:26:42.770 Russia, he was in Moscow. And, uh, there were, yeah, there's a lot to his story. So there's 01:26:45.470 --> 01:26:48.650 Trotsky, Trotsky was funded by the Westerners in the first place. 01:26:50.450 --> 01:26:56.010 I don't know if you know about that, but that was all like rockerfeller money and, um, 01:26:56.710 --> 01:26:59.650 a large part of it was, uh, Ross child money as well. 01:27:01.090 --> 01:27:06.770 Oh, is that why he was fighting and picking fights with all the Communist parties to 01:27:06.770 --> 01:27:12.110 break them up? Is that, and then he got took bribe for it? Is that what his job was? 01:27:12.750 --> 01:27:17.470 I'm not sure. All I know is he was in New York and got loaded up with a whole bunch of cash 01:27:17.470 --> 01:27:22.530 before he went over to Russia and did his thing there. Interesting. Oh boy. Interesting. 01:27:23.870 --> 01:27:29.950 Oh my goodness. I never heard that. I just, I just thought he liked to pick. I wasn't 01:27:29.950 --> 01:27:38.050 he like a founder of a Communist party and, and so in the Russia, but I never heard that he, 01:27:38.070 --> 01:27:44.210 he took bribe. Yeah. Well, I never knew that. I don't know if it was bribes exactly, but he 01:27:44.210 --> 01:27:49.250 was funded by people with an agenda and they have the same agenda as they do all over 01:27:49.250 --> 01:27:55.110 the world. It's a very small global club that kind of does, um, what do they call it? 01:27:56.250 --> 01:28:02.190 What would the big new Brzezinski call it? Uh, the grand chess board, right? Uh, that, 01:28:02.310 --> 01:28:08.710 I think that was his book and they, it's, it's all about geopolitical strategy and whatever, 01:28:08.870 --> 01:28:14.390 but it's not, it's never what they tell you it is that it's always, um, a very small 01:28:14.390 --> 01:28:19.010 group of people with a whole bunch of money that decide what's going to happen and then 01:28:19.010 --> 01:28:22.510 what story they're going to make up to tell the rest of us about it. 01:28:23.430 --> 01:28:28.230 Well, so just like I applied to make sure everyone's paying attention and falling in line. 01:28:29.310 --> 01:28:33.330 You know, history is a strange thing when you start looking into it. Yeah. 01:28:34.830 --> 01:28:42.210 Yeah. But did you believe in 1988 the one that Berlin wall fell that communism fell to? 01:28:42.650 --> 01:28:48.550 I, I thought if that was a major con job, you know, because the worships were so 01:28:48.550 --> 01:28:56.170 strong just overnight are the collapse. I, I thought that was always fishy. I, I never believed it. 01:28:56.730 --> 01:29:03.750 Yeah. I don't know a whole lot about that one. And it wasn't real impactful on me at that time. 01:29:04.130 --> 01:29:07.510 Thanks for the call tonight, Sarah. I was only eight years old when that happened. 01:29:08.090 --> 01:29:11.130 I was too. I was two years old when that happened. 01:29:11.130 --> 01:29:16.330 But yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of fishy stuff about it, as well as in the early 90s when the 01:29:16.850 --> 01:29:24.050 Soviet Union had split apart. Yeah. That was all. I'm sure there was a whole bunch of fishy 01:29:24.050 --> 01:29:28.030 goings on in that. I just haven't looked at the end of that part. Give us a call. The phone 01:29:28.030 --> 01:29:34.730 number here is 603-283-6160. Let us know what's on your mind. It's free talk live. 01:29:40.110 --> 01:29:47.030 Negotiation isn't just something union leaders and sports agents do. 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I'm Holland Cook. 01:30:39.190 --> 01:30:44.410 From Feature Story News in San Francisco, I'm Ira Spitzer with a look back at some 01:30:44.410 --> 01:30:50.510 of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten-Winsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British 01:30:50.510 --> 01:30:57.370 Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It relates to his time as 01:30:57.370 --> 01:31:03.010 trade envoy and the alleged sharing of confidential material with the late sex offender Jeffrey 01:31:03.010 --> 01:31:09.210 Epstein. He has not been charged and has long denied any wrongdoing. FSN's Ollie Barrett 01:31:09.210 --> 01:31:14.370 has more from London. What police are further saying is that this is part of an investigation 01:31:14.370 --> 01:31:19.990 now they confirm. The reason that is significant is that previously, Thames Valley Police had simply 01:31:19.990 --> 01:31:24.770 said they were assessing claims that had been made to them about the potential of misconduct 01:31:24.770 --> 01:31:29.510 in a public office. They've now confirmed a formal investigation is underway and an arrest 01:31:29.510 --> 01:31:34.470 has been made. They say the arrest was made on suspicion of misconduct in public office 01:31:34.470 --> 01:31:40.130 and they say they're also carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. 01:31:40.470 --> 01:31:44.890 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's sweeping tariffs on global trading 01:31:44.890 --> 01:31:50.090 partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that the tariffs didn't have 01:31:50.090 --> 01:31:55.710 the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington. 01:31:56.210 --> 01:32:01.290 This ruling is a tremendous blow for the U.S. President and a rare rebuke of his 01:32:01.290 --> 01:32:06.890 presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe 01:32:06.890 --> 01:32:13.330 he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional 01:32:13.330 --> 01:32:19.290 authorization. They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power to unilaterally 01:32:19.290 --> 01:32:26.030 impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope. He has reacted by calling the ruling 01:32:26.030 --> 01:32:32.370 a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House will look for 01:32:32.370 --> 01:32:38.970 other ways to reimpose these tariffs. 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Thanks again to Elliott and everyone who 01:34:45.230 --> 01:34:50.650 supports us. Again, that's amps.freetalklive.com if you'd like to check out the perks and 01:34:50.650 --> 01:34:56.070 benefits of becoming an amplifier. In the studio tonight, it's Stu. 01:34:56.390 --> 01:35:02.450 And Riley O'Bill. In the last segment, we had a conversation with Sarah. 01:35:03.410 --> 01:35:10.110 All about how New Mexico, she started her call out off with talking about how New Mexico 01:35:10.790 --> 01:35:16.170 was adding three extra hours of training to their driver's app program or something like that to 01:35:16.850 --> 01:35:21.750 say, oh, it's against a lot of kill pedestrians. Well, I don't know how much good that's going to 01:35:21.750 --> 01:35:28.650 do because whether it's against a law or not, it's still a terrible idea to drive a car 01:35:28.650 --> 01:35:35.170 and kill people. So I don't know how good the training's actually going to be. 01:35:35.970 --> 01:35:39.270 Maybe it's just three extra hours that a student has to deal with a class. 01:35:40.470 --> 01:35:45.030 Yeah, I don't think it'll be very effective. The kids aren't paying attention to that. 01:35:45.250 --> 01:35:48.850 They're just waiting until they can play with their phone again. 01:35:51.530 --> 01:35:58.250 Let's see. She's talking a little bit about the geopolitical situation as well. 01:35:58.650 --> 01:36:03.670 Yep. So kind of along those lines, I think we could read this story here. 01:36:04.530 --> 01:36:11.050 This is from, I found this also at Activist Post. This is from Max Blumenthal. 01:36:12.270 --> 01:36:18.750 A U.S. funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment 01:36:18.750 --> 01:36:24.650 of Venezuela's acting president to hold it over her head and will execute it if she derails. 01:36:25.790 --> 01:36:31.450 The Trump administration is using a secret indictment to assert leverage over Venezuela's 01:36:31.450 --> 01:36:36.650 acting president, Delcey Rodriguez, according to the editor-in-chief of the U.S. 01:36:36.710 --> 01:36:46.550 government-funded outlet Armando.info. One of the information we manage is that the U.S. 01:36:46.730 --> 01:36:51.990 is holding an indictment against Rodriguez to make it public just in case she derails. 01:36:53.370 --> 01:36:57.910 Valentina Lariz-Martiz revealed during a February 6, 01:36:58.130 --> 01:37:03.670 2026 webinar hosted by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, 01:37:04.970 --> 01:37:09.470 the OCCRP, an outlet also sponsored by the U.S. government. 01:37:10.310 --> 01:37:18.750 Just hold it over her head. Oh, just hold it over her head, asked OCCRP Deputy Editor Julia Wallace. 01:37:21.990 --> 01:37:30.630 Yeah, so I think she and her brother, Jorge Rodriguez, are in this survival mode and they 01:37:30.630 --> 01:37:36.330 will have the capacity to move the pieces as long as the U.S. backs her up. Armando.info's 01:37:36.330 --> 01:37:44.610 Lariz-Martiz affirmed. A January 17, 2026 report by the Associated Press revealed 01:37:44.610 --> 01:37:50.350 that the Drug Enforcement Administration classified acting president Rodriguez as a 01:37:50.350 --> 01:37:55.710 priority target almost as soon as she was appointed as Vice President in 2018. 01:37:57.190 --> 01:38:04.370 David Smilde, an academic who crusades for regime change in Venezuela at the U.S. 01:38:04.590 --> 01:38:10.670 government and Exxon Mobile-funded Atlantic Council, described the DEA investigations 01:38:11.150 --> 01:38:19.970 of Rodriguez as logical. Smilde explained to the AP that the investigation gives the U.S. 01:38:19.970 --> 01:38:26.090 government leverage over her. She may fear that if she does not do as the Trump administration demands, 01:38:26.290 --> 01:38:34.070 she could end up with an indictment like Maduro. During the OCCRP webinar, Stephen Dudley of the 01:38:34.070 --> 01:38:39.710 State Department-funded Insight Crime Outlet remarked that, this isn't without precedent 01:38:40.210 --> 01:38:43.870 in terms of the U.S. government hanging an indictment over somebody 01:38:43.870 --> 01:38:46.330 to control them into doing their bidding. 01:38:48.010 --> 01:38:50.090 That seems like dirty dealings. 01:38:50.810 --> 01:38:52.590 Yeah, the United States government- 01:38:52.590 --> 01:38:53.030 They just say all about now, too. 01:38:53.470 --> 01:38:58.270 The United States government lately has been dealing in dirty dealings for a long time, 01:38:58.450 --> 01:38:59.570 so I'm not surprised. 01:38:59.690 --> 01:39:03.130 Yeah, it's been going on for a long time, but they'd like, for the most part, 01:39:03.250 --> 01:39:07.490 you had to really be paying attention to hear them say it. Now they just say it. 01:39:07.950 --> 01:39:09.710 Oh yeah, they just want to make it front and center. 01:39:10.350 --> 01:39:15.710 Yeah, Dudley added, they don't need an indictment to cajole people. 01:39:16.110 --> 01:39:19.690 They have a giant military and they've shown that they're willing to use that military. 01:39:20.290 --> 01:39:21.570 That is the biggest stick. 01:39:22.330 --> 01:39:24.150 Jesus, horrible things to say. 01:39:24.710 --> 01:39:28.990 Confronting a military aggression unprecedented in our history, 01:39:29.570 --> 01:39:35.630 Delcy Rodriguez stepped in as acting president following a deadly U.S. military raid on Caracas 01:39:35.630 --> 01:39:41.190 this January 3rd, which left over 100 dead, including 32 Cuban military officers, 01:39:41.850 --> 01:39:45.570 and resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, 01:39:46.030 --> 01:39:51.870 Celia Flores. In an interview with the Atlantic the following day, U.S. President Donald Trump 01:39:51.870 --> 01:39:56.670 recognized Rodriguez as the new leader, but warned if she doesn't do what's right, 01:39:56.810 --> 01:40:00.610 she's going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro. 01:40:01.570 --> 01:40:07.880 Since then, Rodriguez has presided over the passage of an organic law on hydrocarbons, 01:40:09.150 --> 01:40:13.570 which rolled back the socialist reforms to the late President Hugo Chavez, 01:40:14.250 --> 01:40:16.900 made to the country's state oil company, PDVSA. 01:40:19.930 --> 01:40:25.260 In a January 16 speech to Venezuela's National Council of Economic Productivity, 01:40:26.220 --> 01:40:29.320 Rodriguez explained the impetus for the new law. 01:40:29.820 --> 01:40:36.600 Enough time has passed and Venezuela has been subjected to an unprecedented economic blockade. 01:40:37.420 --> 01:40:43.000 Well, recently there has been a military aggression unprecedented in our history, 01:40:43.440 --> 01:40:48.900 and Venezuela must move forward without compromising historical principles or compromising 01:40:48.900 --> 01:40:53.260 Venezuelan dignity, and in that direction we have made the decision, 01:40:53.820 --> 01:41:01.160 seeing the successful results of the business models contemplated in the organic anti-blockade law, 01:41:02.120 --> 01:41:07.660 to take the models that are there and incorporate them into the organic law on hydrocarbons. 01:41:09.440 --> 01:41:17.920 While the law allows Venezuela to draw new revenue streams from an oil sector that has 01:41:17.920 --> 01:41:22.740 administration has assumed custody of Venezuela's oil revenue at the point of a gun, 01:41:23.220 --> 01:41:28.320 holding the profits in a private account in Qatar, which is not accountable to Congress. 01:41:29.580 --> 01:41:30.740 That's not good. 01:41:31.480 --> 01:41:37.440 Rodriguez and her older brother Jorge have both served in influential roles under Maduro, 01:41:37.920 --> 01:41:43.140 with Delcey Rodriguez operating as vice president while overseeing hydrocarbon policy. 01:41:43.140 --> 01:41:51.060 In 2018, she initiated a project to survive Trump's maximum pressure policy successfully 01:41:51.060 --> 01:41:59.180 guiding an organic anti-blockade law through the constituent assembly, which reformed PDVSA. 01:42:00.040 --> 01:42:04.480 Since Maduro's abduction, the Rodriguez siblings have been undermounting pressure 01:42:04.480 --> 01:42:10.700 to accommodate onerous demands from Washington in order to prevent a destabilizing process 01:42:10.700 --> 01:42:18.160 of regime change. Do you remember the videos of Donald Trump talking about regime change and 01:42:18.160 --> 01:42:22.240 like how American needed to stop with the regime change and- 01:42:22.240 --> 01:42:29.520 Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I remember hearing about that. Well, I guess he's furthering the U.S. 01:42:29.560 --> 01:42:30.880 agenda of regime change. 01:42:31.300 --> 01:42:33.800 Putting out things quick, how quick things change. 01:42:33.980 --> 01:42:39.700 Yeah. Just like he was saying a long time ago that Obama would use a war with Iran 01:42:39.700 --> 01:42:46.500 to get her elected. Well, guess what, ladies and gentlemen, Trump is weighing options 01:42:47.620 --> 01:42:48.880 to go to war with Iran. 01:42:49.520 --> 01:42:53.720 Yeah, and I knew this was coming. And it's okay if you got tricked. You shouldn't feel too bad. 01:42:54.040 --> 01:42:59.460 I mean, he did say the right things. Just, you know, I knew he wasn't- 01:42:59.460 --> 01:43:03.200 Trust not their words. Trust their actions. 01:43:03.680 --> 01:43:06.500 Yeah, trust that guy did not regime change a country. Sure. 01:43:08.620 --> 01:43:14.040 Let's see. Looming behind every move is the memory of their father Jorge Antonio Rodriguez, 01:43:14.340 --> 01:43:20.220 a leftist militant who was tortured to death in prison by CIA-trained interrogators under a 01:43:20.220 --> 01:43:30.640 pro-U.S. government in 1976. In the past, the U.S. Department of Justice has used sealed 01:43:30.640 --> 01:43:37.860 indictments to deny targets of its global lawfare regime to change the chance to preempt investigations. 01:43:40.630 --> 01:43:47.480 As the gray zone revealed, Trump's DOJ secretly intited WikiLeaks co-founder Julie Assange 01:43:47.480 --> 01:43:54.930 on December 21, 2017, just one day after CIA spies learned that Assange was planning to 01:43:54.930 --> 01:43:58.350 leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he had been given sanctuary. 01:43:59.670 --> 01:44:07.250 On April 11, 2019, British police stormed the embassy on U.S. orders and arrested Assange 01:44:07.250 --> 01:44:14.170 in a blatant violation of diplomatic sovereignty. Colombian-born Venezuelan official Alex Saab 01:44:14.170 --> 01:44:20.450 was also the target of a secret U.S. indictment that was only publicized after he was abducted 01:44:20.450 --> 01:44:25.950 from an airport in Cape Verde while on an official diplomatic mission in 2020. 01:44:27.210 --> 01:44:35.810 During the OCCRP webinar, Armando de Info's Laris Martiz noted that the U.S. slapped 01:44:35.810 --> 01:44:42.830 sanctions on Delce Rodriguez in 2017, however she doesn't have an open and formal investigation 01:44:42.830 --> 01:44:48.810 against her. But that could all change, she insisted, if the acting president defies 01:44:48.810 --> 01:44:52.430 the Trump administration's paternalistic instructions. 01:44:54.990 --> 01:45:01.190 Pro-transparency Armando de Info based at a Delaware mailbox funded by Washington. 01:45:02.790 --> 01:45:09.170 Laris Martiz is in a prime position to know if the U.S. is preparing a secret indictment of 01:45:09.170 --> 01:45:15.530 Rodriguez as the publication she edits Armando de Info functions at the center of a network 01:45:15.530 --> 01:45:22.750 of U.S. government funded journalistic outlets which exist to shop dirt on the Latin American 01:45:22.750 --> 01:45:30.130 leaders targeted by Washington. You hear what they're doing with your tax money? 01:45:30.750 --> 01:45:31.190 I do. 01:45:31.390 --> 01:45:36.090 Let me read this again. Laris Martiz is in a prime position to know if the U.S. is preparing 01:45:36.090 --> 01:45:42.330 a secret indictment of Rodriguez as the publication she edits Armando de Info functions 01:45:42.330 --> 01:45:46.770 at the center of a network of U.S. government funded journalistic outlets 01:45:46.770 --> 01:45:53.230 which exist only to stop, only to shop dirt on Latin American leaders targeted by Washington. 01:45:54.930 --> 01:45:59.770 Yeah, I guess, I mean, Norm is just going to go, yeah, that's what 01:46:01.450 --> 01:46:08.690 national intelligence and security is. But I don't know, that's just plain dirty. 01:46:09.560 --> 01:46:15.530 Though its staff operates from Bogota, Colombia, Armando de Info is registered in a post office 01:46:15.530 --> 01:46:21.410 box in Newark, Delaware, where it is listed by Delaware's division of corporation as not in 01:46:21.410 --> 01:46:29.670 good standing. Interesting. It's a, yeah, they've even gone ahead and posted the information 01:46:29.670 --> 01:46:37.530 right from, right from that website showing that it's a corporation not in good standing. 01:46:38.170 --> 01:46:42.670 One of Armando de Info's top donors is the National Endowment for Democracy. Those guys 01:46:42.670 --> 01:46:48.630 are not good. A CIA spinoff which channels U.S. money into opposition parties and media 01:46:49.230 --> 01:46:55.330 promoting regime change. The outlet is also listed as a member of the global network 01:46:55.330 --> 01:47:03.510 of OCCRP, which has received most of its budget from the U.S. agency for international development, 01:47:03.910 --> 01:47:13.010 USAID. A 2024-25 frontline documentary series about Armando de Info's work in Venezuela, 01:47:13.590 --> 01:47:19.430 a dangerous assignment, made it clear the outlet's staff were dedicated anti-Chavista 01:47:19.430 --> 01:47:23.710 operatives seemingly coordinating their work with the U.S. government. 01:47:24.970 --> 01:47:31.850 The documentary chronicled the investigation by Laris Martiz and her colleague Roberto 01:47:31.850 --> 01:47:41.030 Deniz of the Colombian-born Venezuelan official, Alex Saab, who had spearheaded a food importation 01:47:41.030 --> 01:47:47.670 program known as CLAP that claimed that aimed to prevent widespread hunger amid crushing 01:47:47.670 --> 01:47:54.330 American sanctions by providing food at below market value to the Venezuelan public. Published 01:47:54.330 --> 01:48:00.150 by the U.S. government's public broadcasting service, a dangerous assignment, received investment 01:48:00.150 --> 01:48:10.870 support from Luminate, a NGO founded by U.S. intelligence adjacent billionaire Pierre Omidar. 01:48:15.570 --> 01:48:23.830 In 2020, Saab was abducted under orders from U.S. authorities following a series of Armando 01:48:23.830 --> 01:48:30.630 de Info reports accusing him of using the CLAP program as an avenue for corruption. 01:48:32.570 --> 01:48:38.410 He was released from U.S. federal prison through a December 2023 prisoner swap. 01:48:39.250 --> 01:48:45.030 By this point, Armando de Info's leadership had left Venezuela following lawsuits by 01:48:45.030 --> 01:48:52.330 attorney general Tarik William Saab. In the aftermath of Maduro's abduction, 01:48:52.670 --> 01:48:58.390 the Armando de Info team is homing in on Saab once again and apparently working to whip up 01:48:58.390 --> 01:49:07.150 a dossier on the newly inaugurated president. But during the OCCRP webinar, Laris Martiz 01:49:07.150 --> 01:49:12.930 conceded that she lacks compromising information on Delce Rodriguez and her brother Jorge. 01:49:12.930 --> 01:49:20.690 They are hardly in any cases of corruption that I have written about or in Armando de Info or even 01:49:20.690 --> 01:49:27.810 OCCRP has investigated. Sounds like they're squeaky clean. But she suggested that U.S. 01:49:27.810 --> 01:49:32.790 intelligence is actively investigating Venezuela's state oil company in search of dirt on 01:49:32.790 --> 01:49:39.510 Venezuela's new president. Everything is related to corruption in PDVSA, she remarked. I think 01:49:39.510 --> 01:49:46.690 it's going to be looked up very carefully. On January 16, Rodriguez met in her office with CIA 01:49:46.690 --> 01:49:54.730 director John Ratcliffe. Later that month, CNN reported that the CIA is poised to help 01:49:54.730 --> 01:49:59.810 actively manage the Trump administration's dealings with Venezuela's new leadership. 01:50:01.170 --> 01:50:04.670 In other words, the CIA is poised to run Venezuela. 01:50:06.950 --> 01:50:13.070 And Trump's going to let them. Of course he has. He wants to be the big dog in the neighborhood by 01:50:13.070 --> 01:50:24.450 keeping peace. So the summary of that story is that the CIA is using a reporting agency, 01:50:24.450 --> 01:50:35.510 like a news agency, to gather intelligence and build a dossier or any kind of criminal 01:50:36.050 --> 01:50:44.770 things they could point at for the new president of Venezuela who was previously the vice president 01:50:45.930 --> 01:50:52.570 in order to keep her in line. This is Blackmail. That's the way everything's run. That's the 01:50:52.570 --> 01:50:59.930 main point of the Epstein stuff in my opinion. I know a lot of that is people think it's just about 01:51:02.310 --> 01:51:13.130 weird sex stuff or child victims or cannibalism or whatever. But that is an aspect of what it's 01:51:13.130 --> 01:51:25.150 really about, which is control through Blackmail. Everybody who gets to make big decisions on the 01:51:25.150 --> 01:51:32.370 world stage has some amount of Blackmail on them keeping them under control. That's the 01:51:32.370 --> 01:51:37.790 main takeaway from all this Epstein stuff. Yeah. They basically want to have enough dirt on you 01:51:37.790 --> 01:51:44.530 that if they find you doing something that is out of line with their agenda, they'll release 01:51:44.530 --> 01:51:54.230 the dirt they have on you to the public. So fall in line or incur the wrath? Pretty much. 01:51:58.590 --> 01:52:01.130 Let's see. What else is going on? 01:52:05.590 --> 01:52:11.610 Well, there are a lot of things going on that we could talk about. Silver is going up and down. 01:52:12.690 --> 01:52:15.910 Bitcoins going up and down. Not that these things matter, but... 01:52:15.910 --> 01:52:22.530 The metals market things also kind of a geopolitical global thing going on. 01:52:22.810 --> 01:52:29.990 Price of silver in China right now is 10 to 20 percent higher than it is over here. 01:52:29.990 --> 01:52:38.190 I think so, yeah. And that's for various reasons that are complicated, but worth looking into if 01:52:38.190 --> 01:52:44.990 you're interested in that stuff. If not, maybe just buy a little silver. Silver Dave I think has 01:52:44.990 --> 01:52:53.670 the best prices on fractional silver anywhere if I heard that right. So maybe you don't want to 01:52:53.670 --> 01:52:58.730 buy a whole bunch. Maybe you just want like a little bit. You can buy these gorgeous little 01:52:58.730 --> 01:53:07.010 10 ounce bars. I think his mint is called local silver mint and they have one in 01:53:07.010 --> 01:53:12.450 I think Manchester and one in where? I think so, yeah. So local silver mint is 01:53:13.350 --> 01:53:17.750 Silver Dave's operation. He does really good work. Highly recommend them. 01:53:21.550 --> 01:53:25.430 I definitely like the 10 ounce bits that he offers. 01:53:26.010 --> 01:53:30.870 He has one 10th of an ounce rounds. He has one 10th of an ounce bars. 01:53:32.370 --> 01:53:35.610 Definitely check out his work. Definitely check him out. Local silver mint. 01:53:37.070 --> 01:53:39.450 Highly recommended. Yep. Good stuff there. 01:53:43.530 --> 01:53:48.150 Slow night on the phones, isn't it? That's all right. We can still do a show. 01:53:48.610 --> 01:53:54.210 Oh yeah. We got plenty to talk about. This is a calling show though. So if you're listening 01:53:54.210 --> 01:54:00.410 and you think you should call in, please do. The phone number here is 603-283-6160. 01:54:02.450 --> 01:54:09.470 Let's see. One of the big goings on in the libertarian community is the debacle of pork 01:54:09.470 --> 01:54:16.110 fest slash fork fest for this year. Yeah. It sounds like there may not be a pork fest at all 01:54:16.690 --> 01:54:21.090 this year. I don't know if that's an official announcement, but that's the word that I've 01:54:21.090 --> 01:54:25.550 heard floating around. I've heard that word too. I've also heard rumors that they're going to announce 01:54:25.550 --> 01:54:32.530 a real location for pork fest at Liberty Forum this year, which is March 5th through the 8th 01:54:33.930 --> 01:54:37.850 in what is it, Concord? And then they're holding it in Concord this year. 01:54:40.650 --> 01:54:44.190 That's getting a little close to the deadline. It seems like if they have something worked 01:54:44.190 --> 01:54:49.690 out, they might want to say it now. Yeah, definitely. But definitely if they don't 01:54:49.690 --> 01:54:53.210 have anything set by the 8th, I'm going to say it's not happening this year, 01:54:55.270 --> 01:54:59.890 because I don't know. They're running out of time, definitely. Oh yeah. And people like to plan for 01:54:59.890 --> 01:55:08.550 these things. So fork fest is still a thing since it has no leaders and is dependent on 01:55:09.310 --> 01:55:14.270 people behaving themselves and having a good time. And it's decentralized, so there's no 01:55:14.270 --> 01:55:18.530 one organizing it and saying we're going to do this at this time, get a sign up here to do 01:55:18.530 --> 01:55:24.390 a speech, or you get a sign up here to provide your vending. You show up, you do your vending, 01:55:25.030 --> 01:55:30.290 you give a speech. If people want to show up for your speech, then perfect. If people don't, perfect. 01:55:32.910 --> 01:55:38.550 Yeah, should be a good time if the attendees make it so. 01:55:40.190 --> 01:55:44.090 And it's going to entirely depend on you. Like if you go to fork fest expecting to be 01:55:44.090 --> 01:55:49.170 entertained and you're not providing entertainment, well, you're not learning 01:55:49.830 --> 01:55:54.670 why fork fest is a thing. You're learning that, hey, I should provide, I should rely on others 01:55:54.670 --> 01:56:00.170 to do the work for me. Well, you got to do the work yourselves on, as they would say. So 01:56:00.710 --> 01:56:08.410 go to forkfest.party to learn more about fork, about fork fest and come attend. It's going 01:56:08.410 --> 01:56:16.390 to be a fun event. Now, the reason we should probably get into a bit of the history about fork 01:56:16.390 --> 01:56:22.230 fest fork fest is a spin off of the porcupine freedom festival. Some people were upset with 01:56:22.230 --> 01:56:27.670 the way the Free State project was handling pork fest. And so it was like, ah, well, let's do 01:56:27.670 --> 01:56:33.830 our own thing either before or after the porcupine freedom festival. And so fork fest became a 01:56:33.830 --> 01:56:39.450 thing entirely entirely decentralized. You show up for your own thing, provide your goods, provide 01:56:39.450 --> 01:56:45.750 your services, whatever. And that was that it was a way to get back to the original porcupine 01:56:45.750 --> 01:56:54.470 freedom festival. So that's what I remember as a history of fork fest. Yep. And sometimes 01:56:56.070 --> 01:57:06.050 historically it has preceded pork fest. Sometimes it has come after. This year it might just run the 01:57:06.050 --> 01:57:10.730 week that pork fest normally would have and there's not going to be a pork fest, but we'll see how 01:57:10.730 --> 01:57:16.430 all this boils out. Yeah, we will. Only time will tell. I just find it interesting that, 01:57:16.470 --> 01:57:22.750 you know, libertarians, libertarians seem to love to argue and, you know, we've conditioned 01:57:23.370 --> 01:57:27.130 ourselves as libertarians to love arguing so much that we argue amongst ourselves 01:57:27.130 --> 01:57:29.790 a little too much. So, you know, 01:57:31.030 --> 01:57:38.810 Sam Bingman Fried is back in the news. Oh, the fraudster himself, huh? Yeah. He wants a new trial. 01:57:40.350 --> 01:57:47.270 It looks like his mom went and filed a request to have a new trial. 01:57:47.950 --> 01:57:54.570 Okay. So we can get into that article. Let's do it. Especially if we don't get any callers. 01:57:56.470 --> 01:58:03.650 We'd much rather talk to you, though. So give us a call. The phone number here is 6032836160. 01:58:04.250 --> 01:58:10.090 You can talk about whatever is on your mind. You just have to follow the FCC rules about 01:58:10.090 --> 01:58:16.030 the certain words you can't say. Yeah. And some contextual things. But mostly you can say 01:58:16.030 --> 01:58:30.210 whatever you want. Again, that phone number is 6032836160. This is Free Talk Live. Free Talk Live. 01:58:30.550 --> 01:58:35.170 I'm not interested in supporting the killing of people around the world. I'm not interested in 01:58:35.170 --> 01:58:39.990 supporting the imprisoning of people within this country. So that should make it pretty clear 01:58:39.990 --> 01:58:45.970 what my position is. What's yours, Frankie? Oh, I have an inclination from what's going on 01:58:45.970 --> 01:58:50.250 and, you know, the media, how the media plays into it and how they're popping up with 01:58:50.250 --> 01:58:55.450 different areas in the world, like Somalia. Who's popping up with different areas of the world? 01:58:57.530 --> 01:59:04.010 Hell no. Who's popping up? You said someone's popping up. They are popping up. Who is they? 01:59:08.810 --> 01:59:12.310 Yeah, I don't watch television. 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Our number three is next after the news here 02:00:34.310 --> 02:00:41.490 on the Liberty Radio Network at lrn.fm. From Feature Story News in San Francisco, 02:00:41.850 --> 02:00:47.390 I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back at some of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten-Winzer, 02:00:47.630 --> 02:00:53.350 formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of 02:00:53.350 --> 02:00:59.850 misconduct in public office. It relates to his time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of 02:00:59.850 --> 02:01:05.550 confidential material with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has 02:01:05.550 --> 02:01:11.350 long denied any wrongdoing. FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London. What police are further 02:01:11.350 --> 02:01:17.570 saying is that this is part of an investigation now they confirm. The reason that is significant 02:01:17.570 --> 02:01:21.770 is that previously Thames Valley Police had simply said they were assessing claims that had been 02:01:21.770 --> 02:01:26.430 made to them about the potential of misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a 02:01:26.430 --> 02:01:32.310 formal investigation is underway and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on 02:01:32.310 --> 02:01:36.610 suspicion of misconduct in public office and they say they're also carrying out searches 02:01:36.610 --> 02:01:42.730 at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's 02:01:42.730 --> 02:01:48.230 sweeping tariffs on global trading partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined 02:01:48.230 --> 02:01:55.050 that the tariffs didn't have the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from 02:01:55.050 --> 02:02:01.030 Washington. This ruling is a tremendous blow for the US President and a rare rebuke of his 02:02:01.030 --> 02:02:06.630 presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe 02:02:06.630 --> 02:02:13.090 he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional 02:02:13.090 --> 02:02:20.230 authorization to exercise this power. They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power to 02:02:20.230 --> 02:02:27.450 unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. He has reacted by calling 02:02:27.450 --> 02:02:33.710 the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House will 02:02:33.710 --> 02:02:40.570 look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs using other means. India joined the US-led 02:02:40.890 --> 02:02:47.150 infrastructure initiative called PAX-SILICA, which is widely seen as a countermeasure to China's 02:02:47.150 --> 02:02:53.770 dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. It came as top US companies like 02:02:53.770 --> 02:03:00.430 OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google pledged to invest billions of dollars in India during an AI Impact 02:03:00.430 --> 02:03:06.930 Summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. India joined the PAX-SILICA initiative 02:03:06.930 --> 02:03:12.210 on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit, ending speculation over whether trade tensions were 02:03:12.210 --> 02:03:17.270 getting in the way of broader cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. According to the US 02:03:17.270 --> 02:03:21.110 State Department, PAX-SILICA is aimed at bringing friendly countries together 02:03:21.110 --> 02:03:26.470 to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies. The initiative was launched in December last 02:03:26.470 --> 02:03:31.410 year with countries including the UK, Australia, South Korea, and the UAE as its first few 02:03:31.410 --> 02:03:37.230 members. With India pitching itself as a key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the 02:03:37.230 --> 02:03:41.390 move not only highlights New Delhi's role on a global stage, but also signals 02:03:41.390 --> 02:03:49.190 thaw in US-India ties. Ishan Garg, New Delhi. From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN. 11 people 02:03:49.190 --> 02:03:55.170 were arrested in France over the recent killing of a far-right activist. Conten Deronk died 02:03:55.170 --> 02:04:00.530 after sustaining a severe brain injury when he was attacked on the sidelines of a far-right 02:04:00.530 --> 02:04:08.090 protest against a left-wing politician speaking in the city of Lyon. FSN's Ross Cullen reports from Paris. 02:04:08.590 --> 02:04:13.630 The 23-year-old was part of a group providing security for nationalist activists who were 02:04:13.630 --> 02:04:18.370 demonstrating against the leftist gathering at a university in France's third biggest city of 02:04:18.370 --> 02:04:23.150 Lyon. Video footage of the attack on the 12th of February shows a group of people setting 02:04:23.150 --> 02:04:28.730 upon Conten Deronk who's kicked multiple times before being left lying on the sidewalk while 02:04:28.730 --> 02:04:33.590 those involved in the attack fled on foot. The incident has fueled tension between France's 02:04:33.590 --> 02:04:39.090 far-right and hard-left ahead of local elections in March and next year's presidential race 02:04:39.090 --> 02:04:43.970 in which the Nationalist Party is currently leading the polls. Ross Cullen, Paris. 02:04:45.030 --> 02:04:50.890 US civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died at the age of 84. He was one 02:04:50.890 --> 02:04:56.890 of America's most influential black figures and twice ran for president. FSN's Tony Waterman 02:04:56.890 --> 02:05:02.110 has more. He was this towering figure. He was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. 02:05:02.550 --> 02:05:09.010 He was there when King was assassinated in 1968. He was in fact very close to him when that happened 02:05:09.010 --> 02:05:14.790 physically, just a couple of feet away. But he is really seen as carrying on the fight for 02:05:14.790 --> 02:05:20.990 black Americans. He transformed American politics, particularly the Democratic Party, 02:05:20.990 --> 02:05:28.230 by empowering these marginalized communities through his coalition, getting millions and millions of 02:05:28.230 --> 02:05:34.390 black Latino and Asian Americans to register to vote and completely reshaping the face of the 02:05:34.390 --> 02:05:39.130 Democratic Party. Those were some of the week's top stories. Iris Spitzer wrote. 02:05:40.750 --> 02:05:45.790 They started with Google Glass and now the engineers behind Google have created a new 02:05:45.790 --> 02:05:50.210 body part to strap gadgets onto. They're calling it the flange and the new synthetic 02:05:50.210 --> 02:05:55.070 skin appendage fits between the shoulder blades into a flat surface capable of holding a wide 02:05:55.070 --> 02:06:00.030 array of new gadgets for Google to hawk to consumers. While unveiling the innovation today, 02:06:00.290 --> 02:06:05.310 Google CEO Larry Page said, quote, the possibilities for the number of completely pointless gadgets 02:06:05.310 --> 02:06:10.850 to strap, bind and stick to your body are now endless. Early adopters are already raving about 02:06:10.850 --> 02:06:15.110 the synthetic body part. It overheats and burns my skin pretty bad when I have it on, 02:06:15.210 --> 02:06:18.370 but I'm really getting to like it. I'm actually thinking of getting a second one installed. 02:06:18.870 --> 02:06:22.590 Critics are cautioning the tech world to not hail the flange as an achievement yet, 02:06:22.830 --> 02:06:26.910 since several users have reported problems with the device permanently grafting to their spinal 02:06:26.910 --> 02:06:32.510 column if worn overnight. Coming up next, Doritos unveils new E-Doritos that come in JPEG form 02:06:32.510 --> 02:07:05.980 whenever you're hungry. You can help spread the ideas of liberty with our Patreon for just 02:07:05.980 --> 02:07:11.420 free talk live. Talk radio you control. Give us a call. Let us know what you're thinking about 02:07:11.420 --> 02:07:21.860 tonight. The phone number here is 6032-836-160. Fort Fest is back at Rogers Campground in the 02:07:21.860 --> 02:07:27.000 beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire. This June 22nd through the 29th come camp with people 02:07:27.000 --> 02:07:31.720 who actually think and live like libertarians. Jump on a soapbox and give a speech if you'd 02:07:31.720 --> 02:07:36.160 like to give one or listen to others. Vendor enjoy food and wears from other vendors. 02:07:36.660 --> 02:07:40.000 Fort Fest is what you want it to be. There's no ticket cost and no one is in charge. 02:07:40.400 --> 02:07:45.780 Fort Fest.party for more info. That's Fort Fest.party and disclaimer, 02:07:46.000 --> 02:07:54.620 this is still an ongoing formation of a Fort Fest. Right. But there will be some kind 02:07:54.620 --> 02:07:58.880 of a party. I'm almost sure of it. Oh, we're libertarians and you know, 02:07:58.880 --> 02:08:03.900 we're going to find a way to party and sell things. Definitely. Live freedom as much as possible. 02:08:05.540 --> 02:08:11.060 If you're thinking about coming up, I would encourage it. I would too. Come visit New Hampshire. 02:08:12.600 --> 02:08:17.720 So we were about to talk about Sam Bankman Freed again. You know, just a side note, 02:08:17.960 --> 02:08:22.800 Sam Bankman Freed was coming on to the new cycle when Ian Freeman was put on trial. So 02:08:23.580 --> 02:08:26.600 I wonder if that had anything to do with this conviction. 02:08:28.400 --> 02:08:35.340 Um, let's get into this story here. Sam Bankman Freed, the former CEO of Collapsed Crypto Exchange 02:08:35.340 --> 02:08:42.640 FTX, is seeking a new trial according to a request filed in a New York federal court by his mother. 02:08:43.520 --> 02:08:49.760 Since being convicted and imprisoned on a 25 year sentence, SPF has been continually 02:08:49.760 --> 02:08:54.640 challenging his situation in court. The latest motion for a new trial first reported 02:08:54.640 --> 02:09:01.400 on Tuesday by inner city press was filed by his mother Barbara Freed, claiming new evidence in the 02:09:01.400 --> 02:09:08.160 case would justify a reset. The filing noted the initial absence of testimony from figures, 02:09:08.260 --> 02:09:14.520 including FTX's Ryan Salome, who who fought his own separate legal battle. 02:09:16.320 --> 02:09:22.480 The former FTX executive Salome was also convicted on federal charges, but had 02:09:22.480 --> 02:09:27.720 claimed he made an arrangement to cooperate with prosecutors that should have protected his wife, 02:09:27.960 --> 02:09:32.340 Michelle Bond, from legal pursuit. She was later charged with allegedly 02:09:33.040 --> 02:09:36.860 taking illegal campaign contributions in her congressional bid. 02:09:39.860 --> 02:09:45.580 SPF's 35 page document arrived at the court as a pro se request, 02:09:46.120 --> 02:09:52.980 meaning the defendant is representing himself. How does one represent themselves? Don't you just 02:09:52.980 --> 02:09:59.180 present yourself because it's yourself? I think so. I don't know how you represent yourself. 02:10:00.680 --> 02:10:07.820 Earlier efforts by SPF to argue he didn't get a fair initial trial, which came to a 02:10:07.820 --> 02:10:11.940 head in November, were met with some skepticism by appellate judges. 02:10:13.020 --> 02:10:19.400 SPF's defense in seeking a retrial through appeal focused attention on the later solvency 02:10:19.400 --> 02:10:26.160 of FTX and his account on the social media site X continues to make the argument that the company 02:10:26.160 --> 02:10:32.040 wasn't bankrupt when it collapsed. However, judges contended in November that solvency 02:10:32.040 --> 02:10:37.600 didn't seem to be the primary issue. Part of the government's theory of the case is that 02:10:37.600 --> 02:10:44.280 the defendant misrepresented to investors that their money was safe, was not being used in the way 02:10:44.280 --> 02:10:51.180 that it was, the government claims, and the jury convicted it was, in fact, used. 02:10:51.980 --> 02:11:00.120 Said Circuit Judge Maria Arruho Khan, referring to the misappropriation of customer 02:11:00.120 --> 02:11:06.060 money at the heart of his conviction. Shutting down another potential path to freedom, 02:11:06.280 --> 02:11:10.800 President Donald Trump recently said he wouldn't consider clemency for SPF. 02:11:11.940 --> 02:11:20.320 However, the former FTX CEO is still campaigning for himself via his account on X, arguing he's 02:11:20.320 --> 02:11:28.060 victim of former President Joe Biden's lawfare machine, accelerating convergence between traditional 02:11:28.060 --> 02:11:45.780 and on-chain finance in 2026. So, Bankman Fried is going after a new trial. I wonder what the 02:11:45.780 --> 02:11:50.140 courts are going to decide on this one, because it sounds like to me he may not get 02:11:50.140 --> 02:11:56.960 another trial based on what we know about him. I think it's just a last ditch effort to try and 02:11:56.960 --> 02:12:06.260 get a new trial, so we'll see. It's funny he claims that he's a victim of the Biden regime's 02:12:06.260 --> 02:12:15.500 lawfare machine, because wasn't he, wasn't part of his misappropriation of customer funds that 02:12:15.500 --> 02:12:23.160 he was giving it to like the Democratic Party? I have no idea. Maybe I'm remembering that wrong, 02:12:23.840 --> 02:12:29.520 but... If it was, it's kind of strange. Yeah, I think he was just absolutely backfilling the 02:12:29.520 --> 02:12:36.820 coffers of the Democrats. Right, and now that they're not in power, his friends can't bail him 02:12:36.820 --> 02:12:44.280 out of jail. I don't know if he was surprised that his quote-unquote friends threw him under 02:12:44.280 --> 02:12:48.540 the bus, but whether you hang out with those types of people and call them your friends, 02:12:48.780 --> 02:12:56.720 that's what's going to happen to you. Right. So, I don't know. SBF might be even a decent person 02:12:56.720 --> 02:13:01.020 for all I know. I really don't know all that much about him. I doubt it. He's probably 02:13:01.560 --> 02:13:09.880 pretty scummy, but you hang out with those guys. That's how you get to end up, 02:13:10.180 --> 02:13:12.560 whether you like it or not. Whether you're a good person or not, 02:13:13.200 --> 02:13:17.160 doesn't really matter. Yeah. Hang out with evil people, they're going to rub off on you. 02:13:21.320 --> 02:13:29.100 I've got one here about further destruction to the economy at the hands of Trump. 02:13:30.140 --> 02:13:37.260 This is Google Expans in India to avoid Trump's $100,000 H1B visa fee. 02:13:39.540 --> 02:13:45.500 On Friday, September 19, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation 02:13:46.640 --> 02:13:54.260 restriction on entry of certain non-immigrant workers that took an important initial and 02:13:54.260 --> 02:14:01.120 incremental step to reform the H1B visa program to curb abuses and protect American workers. 02:14:01.900 --> 02:14:10.060 This proclamation requires a $100,000 payment to accompany any new H1B visa petitions 02:14:10.060 --> 02:14:18.220 submitted after 12.01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 21, 2025. This includes the 02:14:18.220 --> 02:14:26.680 2026 lottery and any other H1B petition submitted after 12.01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on 02:14:26.680 --> 02:14:35.140 September 21, 2025, authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of 02:14:35.140 --> 02:14:40.440 State to coordinate to take all necessary and appropriate action to implement this proclamation. 02:14:43.020 --> 02:14:47.800 Alphabetting gives plotting to dramatically expand its presidents in India with the 02:14:47.800 --> 02:14:52.640 possibility of taking millions of square feet of new office space in Bangalore, 02:14:54.160 --> 02:15:00.900 India's tech hub. Google's parent company has leased one office tower and purchased options 02:15:00.900 --> 02:15:07.960 on two others in Alembic City, a development in the Whitefield Tech Corridor totaling 2.4 02:15:07.960 --> 02:15:13.740 million square feet, according to people familiar with the deal. The first tower is expected 02:15:13.740 --> 02:15:19.160 to open to employees in the coming months while construction on the remaining two is set to 02:15:19.160 --> 02:15:25.320 conclude next year. Options in the real estate industry give would-be tenants the exclusive 02:15:25.320 --> 02:15:31.320 right to rent or in some cases buy a property at a pre-determined price with a specific timeframe. 02:15:32.080 --> 02:15:36.900 It's also possible Alphabet will not exercise the option to use the additional towers. 02:15:38.540 --> 02:15:43.680 If it does take all the space, the complex could accommodate as many as 20,000 additional 02:15:43.680 --> 02:15:49.280 staff which could more than double the company's footprint in India, said the people asking not 02:15:49.280 --> 02:15:54.300 to be identified because the plans aren't public. Alphabet currently employs around 02:15:54.300 --> 02:15:59.880 14,000 in the country out of a global workforce of roughly 190,000. 02:16:01.980 --> 02:16:09.380 Google rivals, including OpenAI and Anthropic PVC, have recently set up shop in the country 02:16:09.380 --> 02:16:17.100 with Anthropic appointing former Microsoft Corp executive Irenek Goz to lead its India 02:16:17.100 --> 02:16:24.780 operations in January. India has a real opportunity to shape how AI is built and deployed at scale, 02:16:25.080 --> 02:16:32.360 Goz said at the time. For U.S. tech giants, India offers a strategic workaround to Washington's 02:16:32.360 --> 02:16:36.940 tightening immigration regime. The Trump administration has moved to sharply hike 02:16:36.940 --> 02:16:42.720 the fees for H1B work visas potentially to $100,000 per application, 02:16:44.880 --> 02:16:49.160 making it harder for companies to bring Indian engineers to the U.S. 02:16:50.460 --> 02:16:56.520 The shift is feeling the growth of so-called global capability centers or technology hubs 02:16:56.520 --> 02:17:02.040 operated by multinational corporations across sectors from software and retail to finance. 02:17:02.680 --> 02:17:06.720 Many of these centers are now focused on building AI products and infrastructure. 02:17:08.020 --> 02:17:14.720 NASCARM, India's IT industry trade group, estimates such centers will employ 2.5 million 02:17:14.720 --> 02:17:22.180 people by 2030 up from 1.9 million today. Google has already a major player in this shift. 02:17:22.520 --> 02:17:29.540 Last year it opened its largest campus in Bangalore, complete with an indoor mini golf, 02:17:29.540 --> 02:17:33.740 pickleball courts, and cafeterias serving cardamom tea. 02:17:35.660 --> 02:17:42.480 For AI giants like Alphabet, India's appeal is not just its talent pool, tens of millions of new 02:17:42.480 --> 02:17:48.160 internet users come online annually, becoming potential customers for chatbots and AI assistants, 02:17:49.240 --> 02:17:56.760 as well as trying out new AI coding tools. The India headcount for the U.S. 02:17:56.760 --> 02:18:01.660 tech giants Facebook, Amazon.com, Inc., Apple, Inc., Microsoft Core, 02:18:01.880 --> 02:18:07.380 Netflix, Inc., and Google collectively grew by 16 percent over the last 12 months, 02:18:07.940 --> 02:18:10.480 the biggest jump in a three-year period, according to 02:18:11.380 --> 02:18:18.800 talent solutions and staffing company Zeno, Zeno PVT. 02:18:26.120 --> 02:18:31.120 So it sounds like Google and Alphabet are expanding to India, 02:18:32.200 --> 02:18:38.200 not just because of the talent pool, as they said, that because new users are going to be available, 02:18:38.920 --> 02:18:44.920 people are coming online. I think it's going to be interesting to watch how India and Asia 02:18:44.920 --> 02:18:51.280 are going to dominate the AI space in coming years. They're going to be online more. 02:18:52.240 --> 02:18:56.680 The third world's going to come online more. It's going to be really interesting to see what happens. 02:18:58.080 --> 02:19:01.500 Yeah, it does seem there's a tech race going on for that. 02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:10.040 Trump's solution was to throw $500 billion at it, calling it Operation Warp Speed, 02:19:10.040 --> 02:19:13.680 one of the first things he did, and then China was like, 02:19:13.740 --> 02:19:17.280 dude, we can make what you're trying to make for less than a million bucks. 02:19:18.100 --> 02:19:25.040 And they just laughed at him. But I don't know, Trump didn't pull back his $500 billion to his 02:19:25.040 --> 02:19:31.760 tech bro buddies. This article concludes by saying, congratulations to Trump. 02:19:32.200 --> 02:19:38.280 Congratulations to Trump for creating as many as 600,000 jobs. Well, sort of. Those jobs are 02:19:38.280 --> 02:19:45.360 India. In October, Google had said it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up 02:19:45.360 --> 02:19:52.260 an artificial intelligence data center in India's southern state of Andhra, Pradesh, 02:19:52.760 --> 02:19:57.800 its biggest ever investment in the nation. That's $15 billion there, not here. 02:20:00.860 --> 02:20:04.800 It says the question, what do we call this? Answer, winning, silly. 02:20:05.540 --> 02:20:10.740 It's not like we need workers here spending money in the US. That's why it ends. 02:20:13.220 --> 02:20:18.680 I'm torn on this. I don't know. You work where the incentive is. 02:20:18.900 --> 02:20:22.580 You really do. You can only go where the work goes and there's no work in your 02:20:23.120 --> 02:20:25.820 town or whatever. You got to go somewhere else. 02:20:26.180 --> 02:20:31.640 Yeah. And I've always found it distasteful when economists and social planners start talking 02:20:31.640 --> 02:20:38.000 about my incentives and what I'm going to do. You know what I mean? You guys can't actually 02:20:38.000 --> 02:20:43.840 make anything. I can make super high quality stuff. You can't do any of it. Here you are. 02:20:44.760 --> 02:20:50.360 You're making the lion's share of the money just planning what I'm going to do 02:20:50.360 --> 02:20:53.920 when you can't actually do any of it. How does that make any sense? 02:20:54.800 --> 02:20:56.900 That was a big reason I quit being a machinist. 02:20:58.440 --> 02:21:02.460 Oh, and by the way, without me as a machinist, America, you can't win a war. 02:21:03.400 --> 02:21:07.120 You're going to need me building your missiles or they weren't just not going to work very well. 02:21:07.980 --> 02:21:10.240 You don't think they can automate the process? 02:21:11.460 --> 02:21:15.740 Well, they would need me to maintain those robots. I know how the automation robots 02:21:15.740 --> 02:21:19.300 work too. They definitely need human oversight. 02:21:19.740 --> 02:21:26.780 Yeah. I've been listening to a few videos on YouTube from an airline pilot who 02:21:27.360 --> 02:21:33.460 talks about his opinion is that automation can be good for the aviation industry, 02:21:33.900 --> 02:21:38.020 but it will never replace an experienced pilot in the cockpit because 02:21:38.780 --> 02:21:42.380 if you have an experienced pilot, they can make better decisions than a computer. 02:21:47.600 --> 02:21:52.700 That's true and it isn't true. Targeting software by AI is going to be way 02:21:53.280 --> 02:21:56.560 more accurate and fast than a human ever could be. Sure. 02:21:56.820 --> 02:22:02.060 So there's that aspect of it, but also split second decisions 02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:09.000 probably still go to the human at this point because the AI is going to misinterpret data. 02:22:09.420 --> 02:22:12.120 Yeah. Whereas the human mind is, 02:22:12.800 --> 02:22:19.540 it's incredibly good at calculating a whole bunch of data real fast in situations like that 02:22:20.120 --> 02:22:24.660 where it's like, you know, you got to make a muscle response in order to save your life. 02:22:25.180 --> 02:22:28.420 Human brains are incredibly good at that real fast. 02:22:28.420 --> 02:22:35.840 Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. Good job, Trump. 02:22:36.740 --> 02:22:37.240 I know, right? 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:44.940 $100,000 H1B visas. I wonder, I don't know. It'll be interesting to look at how many 02:22:44.940 --> 02:22:52.820 of those are applied for and granted and then where that money came from and 02:22:52.820 --> 02:22:55.480 I'll bet there's a whole bunch of corruption that ensues there. 02:22:58.900 --> 02:23:04.200 Well, we live in a time of corruption and everything is coming out right now. 02:23:09.620 --> 02:23:17.560 Yeah. What else we got? We were talking about the metals markets earlier. 02:23:20.140 --> 02:23:22.360 You know who Peter Schiff is? 02:23:22.960 --> 02:23:27.300 I've heard of the name. I know he's a huge proponent of metals. 02:23:27.300 --> 02:23:35.320 So he does shift gold and he has, for a long time, 02:23:35.320 --> 02:23:40.680 hovered around the crypto community and has been shouting at them about how gold is better than 02:23:40.680 --> 02:23:51.060 crypto. And recently, he has really made his statement well. And his whole point is, 02:23:51.060 --> 02:23:57.620 you know, Bitcoin's not backed by anything. I could give you a crypto that's actually backed 02:23:57.620 --> 02:24:05.660 by gold. And so that's like the best of both worlds, right? The sound money people want 02:24:06.440 --> 02:24:12.660 return to the gold standard. And the crypto people want, you know, easy to use, cheap 02:24:12.660 --> 02:24:17.900 transactions, send it anywhere in the world, digital, magic internet money. 02:24:18.580 --> 02:24:23.880 So if you had a gold backed one of those, that's the best of both worlds. 02:24:24.160 --> 02:24:28.120 And you're in good shape. Well, I think he's now offering just that. 02:24:30.200 --> 02:24:34.640 So we'll see how that goes. I'm kind of excited about that. 02:24:35.660 --> 02:24:40.580 It'll be interesting to see how it goes for sure. I wish there was a way for me to audit 02:24:40.580 --> 02:24:47.340 everything. If there were a gold backed crypto, I wish there was a way, a simple way, 02:24:47.340 --> 02:24:55.100 for me as a layman to audit, that's the crypto to see, okay, well, they're able to back my 02:24:55.100 --> 02:25:00.900 transactions up with gold. They have the gold, they'd store it somewhere. So I don't know, it would 02:25:00.900 --> 02:25:07.100 be nice. It would be nice. The other thing along those similar lines that I heard, 02:25:07.220 --> 02:25:14.060 and we were speaking of earlier, Silver Dave, he is now offering, I'm not exactly sure what 02:25:14.060 --> 02:25:24.680 the details on it are, but he's offering precious metal banking, essentially, to where you'll get 02:25:24.680 --> 02:25:29.660 an interest return paid in Silver on Silver deposits with him. 02:25:29.960 --> 02:25:30.440 Interesting. 02:25:32.300 --> 02:25:38.600 I think I'm going to look into that. Silver is definitely a more appealing currency, 02:25:38.600 --> 02:25:47.080 in my opinion, than gold is. What's more appealing to you about Silver than 02:25:47.080 --> 02:25:51.880 gold? Gold seems more appealing to me, but it's also really expensive. 02:25:53.200 --> 02:26:00.220 Well, I don't know. I don't know that I could put my finger on it, but after having listened to 02:26:00.220 --> 02:26:06.460 a bunch of history specifically about money, 02:26:09.580 --> 02:26:15.380 the things that stuck out to me was how hard it was for the Western establishment to wrench Silver 02:26:15.380 --> 02:26:23.240 out of the hands of countries like Mexico and the Philippines. These guys just did not want 02:26:23.240 --> 02:26:27.420 to give up their Silver currencies, and in America had to put it to them hard to get them to 02:26:27.420 --> 02:26:35.000 do it. Whereas with gold currencies, that's fairly easy to ruin. You just cause an incentive 02:26:35.000 --> 02:26:41.360 for all the gold to flee the country, and there it goes. Like a terrible paper money will do it, 02:26:41.720 --> 02:26:50.980 if you get rid of all it. But for some reason with Silver, people seem to feel more of a 02:26:50.980 --> 02:26:56.620 conviction of that being worth something. Maybe it's just a perception of mine? 02:26:56.620 --> 02:27:05.420 I don't know. But to me, it seems like Silver is the people's money, whereas gold is the king's money. 02:27:08.740 --> 02:27:14.660 That may not be the best analogy either, but that was probably the best I can do to explain 02:27:14.660 --> 02:27:21.340 my feelings on the situation. Well, I think to some extent, I would agree with you. I like 02:27:21.340 --> 02:27:27.160 how gold is definitely the king's money, but there are things out there to make it more 02:27:28.600 --> 02:27:34.620 easy for me to get gold into my hands. Like, for instance, the gold back. The gold back has 02:27:34.620 --> 02:27:40.880 a revolutionary note, if you will. It's made of a polymer plastic that has gold embedded into 02:27:40.880 --> 02:27:46.380 it. And to me, that's really, really amazing that someone came up with this process of 02:27:46.380 --> 02:27:55.880 golden this piece of plastic that I can turn around and give to you, Stu, and maybe buy something from 02:27:55.880 --> 02:28:06.800 you. Yeah, gold backs are really cool. As far as holding actual gold coins or even gold jewelry, 02:28:07.320 --> 02:28:15.980 it seems too valuable for its weight to be a very safe thing to do because, 02:28:19.280 --> 02:28:26.100 so like the 10,000 silver pieces are pretty small. Small enough, they'd be pretty easy to lose. 02:28:27.280 --> 02:28:33.280 If you had one of those in gold, losing that would cost you a whole lot more. 02:28:33.280 --> 02:28:42.060 Oh, yeah. In fact, a 10,000 of gold would be, well, 500 bucks. Yeah. So still not cheap, 02:28:42.240 --> 02:28:45.680 you know what I mean? And that's why I love the gold backs. They even have them in 02:28:45.680 --> 02:28:50.680 one half of 1,000th of an ounce denominations now. Yep, now they're actually doing a quarter 02:28:50.680 --> 02:28:54.800 gold back. They're doing a quarter gold back now, huh? Oh man, that's awesome. 02:28:55.100 --> 02:29:01.760 I know. It's crazy. So that would be $2.50, right? $2.50 for a quote. 02:29:01.760 --> 02:29:08.500 Except they carry them at a, they sell them at a double spot, right? So I guess that'd be five bucks. 02:29:09.200 --> 02:29:12.520 It's probably where they would value it on the gold back site, 02:29:13.100 --> 02:29:18.900 which I think is justified. Some people don't think so. Give us a call. The phone number here 02:29:18.900 --> 02:29:26.600 is 603-283-6160. Let us know if you like gold or silver better. Let us know if you 02:29:26.600 --> 02:29:30.580 use the gold backs. This is Free Talk Live. 02:30:10.680 --> 02:30:16.360 You would think we scripted the whole thing, but it's real life. Go ahead and have a watch. And if 02:30:16.360 --> 02:30:22.020 it's been a while, have another look. I guarantee you'll notice things now that you didn't notice before. 02:30:22.520 --> 02:30:28.600 And the best part is that you're going to walk away feeling a renewed sense of your own power. 02:30:29.040 --> 02:30:35.780 You are the master of your destiny, and you will be free in your lifetime. 02:30:36.620 --> 02:30:43.920 Victimless crime spree. From Feature Story News in San Francisco, I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back 02:30:43.920 --> 02:30:49.160 at some of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince 02:30:49.160 --> 02:30:55.300 Andrew of the British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. 02:30:55.300 --> 02:31:01.220 It relates to his time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of confidential material 02:31:01.220 --> 02:31:06.880 with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has long denied any wrong 02:31:06.880 --> 02:31:13.020 doing. FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London. What police are further saying is that this is 02:31:13.020 --> 02:31:18.500 part of an investigation now they confirm. The reason that is significant is that previously 02:31:18.500 --> 02:31:21.960 Thames Valley Police had simply said they were assessing claims that had been 02:31:21.960 --> 02:31:26.620 made to them about the potential of misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a 02:31:26.620 --> 02:31:32.520 formal investigation is underway and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on 02:31:32.520 --> 02:31:36.800 suspicion of misconduct in public office, and they say they're also carrying out searches 02:31:36.800 --> 02:31:42.940 at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's 02:31:42.940 --> 02:31:48.020 sweeping tariffs on global trading partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court 02:31:48.020 --> 02:31:52.320 determined that the tariffs didn't have the proper authorization from Congress. 02:31:53.100 --> 02:31:58.840 FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington. This ruling is a tremendous blow for the US 02:31:58.840 --> 02:32:05.500 president and a rare rebuke of his presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying 02:32:05.500 --> 02:32:11.360 that they did not believe he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying 02:32:11.360 --> 02:32:16.620 that he must have congressional authorization. They said that he had tried to assert 02:32:16.620 --> 02:32:23.360 extra ordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. 02:32:23.880 --> 02:32:30.860 He has reacted by calling the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely 02:32:30.860 --> 02:32:37.580 the White House will look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs. India joined the US-led AI 02:32:37.580 --> 02:32:43.260 Infrastructure Initiative called Pax silica, which is widely seen as a countermeasure to 02:32:43.260 --> 02:32:48.820 China's dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. It came as top 02:32:48.820 --> 02:32:54.700 US companies pledged to invest billions of dollars in India during an AI Impact Summit. 02:32:55.300 --> 02:33:01.260 FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. India joined the Pax silica initiative on the 02:33:01.260 --> 02:33:05.960 sidelines of the AI Impact Summit, ending speculation over whether trade tensions 02:33:05.960 --> 02:33:10.740 were getting in the way of broader cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. According 02:33:10.740 --> 02:33:15.120 to the US State Department, Pax silica is aimed at bringing friendly countries together 02:33:15.120 --> 02:33:20.800 to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies. The initiative was launched in December last year 02:33:20.800 --> 02:33:25.720 with countries including the UK, Australia, South Korea and the UAE as its first few members. 02:33:26.380 --> 02:33:31.400 With India pitching itself as a key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the move 02:33:31.400 --> 02:33:35.360 not only highlights New Delhi's role on a global stage, but also signals 02:33:35.360 --> 02:33:38.860 talk in US-India ties from Bureau's Worldwide. 02:34:22.400 --> 02:34:26.460 Arizona? You're on Freetalk Live. What's on your mind? 02:34:27.380 --> 02:34:34.680 Actually, I'm in Mesa, but close enough. Yeah, your discussion on Goldbacks was right on point. 02:34:35.380 --> 02:34:42.640 Yeah, I think they're a great idea. I think that support for those who will only not only 02:34:42.640 --> 02:34:49.520 benefit the individual who uses them, but the general society, the more they are becoming 02:34:51.640 --> 02:35:02.920 more of the exchange unit of choice in the marketplace. I highly support them. 02:35:04.020 --> 02:35:04.900 Have you used any? 02:35:05.220 --> 02:35:13.380 They're gorgeous. I must admit, we haven't really done a whole lot of commerce with them. 02:35:14.180 --> 02:35:19.720 So the next step is to start collecting enough of them so that you can actually 02:35:19.720 --> 02:35:22.600 start exchanging with them rather than just hanging on to them and going, 02:35:22.620 --> 02:35:23.520 wow, these are really cute. 02:35:24.620 --> 02:35:29.820 I actually like doing commerce with the Goldbacks. I sell bread for one Goldback per loaf. 02:35:31.260 --> 02:35:38.180 I like to offer Goldbacks in the case where I'm going to tip. I'll offer, 02:35:38.480 --> 02:35:40.840 do you want a Goldback or do you want cash? 02:35:43.400 --> 02:35:52.840 That's a good thing for eating in restaurants. You offer them something like that. 02:35:53.220 --> 02:35:57.560 One thing Jay Nune likes to do is go to farmers markets and give his kids either 02:35:57.560 --> 02:36:03.060 a Goldback or some Silver and tell them, go ahead and whatever you can convince a vendor to give 02:36:03.060 --> 02:36:11.420 you for that. Go for it. His kids, I guess, have a great time because they have some concept 02:36:11.420 --> 02:36:16.920 of the difference between the value of dollars and the value of actual money like Gold or Silver. 02:36:17.140 --> 02:36:18.880 Yeah, that's going to be really fun for them. 02:36:19.880 --> 02:36:23.480 Yeah, I've always been tempted to, I know some of these fast food restaurants, 02:36:24.200 --> 02:36:31.840 like Carl's Jr., out here on the West Coast, they have these posters that show a menu from 02:36:31.840 --> 02:36:38.080 the 1950s where you can get a hamburger for 25 cents and a cheeseburger for 35 cents. 02:36:38.620 --> 02:36:45.940 I've often been tempted to take a Silver Quarter and say, hey, I'll give me a cheeseburger for 02:36:45.940 --> 02:36:55.680 25 cents and see what conversation ensues. I'd put the dollars in the register and 02:36:55.680 --> 02:36:58.600 take your Silver Quarter and you'd get a cheeseburger if I was working there. 02:37:00.720 --> 02:37:06.260 Yeah, that's where people really need to become educated. It's like fuel prices 02:37:06.260 --> 02:37:12.420 have gotten incredibly cheap because they used to be 25 cents a gallon when I was younger. 02:37:13.680 --> 02:37:19.580 And gasoline denominated in Silver, especially the price it's gotten too lately. 02:37:22.400 --> 02:37:24.440 It's really cheap now. 02:37:26.920 --> 02:37:31.500 Yeah, I haven't looked it up for a minute what the value of a Silver Quarter is. 02:37:31.500 --> 02:37:40.200 It's over 70 bucks an ounce is the spot price. So you figure, okay, so you divide that by four and 02:37:40.200 --> 02:37:48.500 then you take 90% off of that. And that would be the actual Silver in the Quarter, from my 02:37:48.500 --> 02:37:57.260 understanding. So if it's somewhere around $7 in melt value, then with the premium on that, 02:37:57.260 --> 02:38:01.240 it's got to happen around 10 bucks. Easily worth a cheeseburger. 02:38:02.280 --> 02:38:07.360 Yeah. Well, I'm saying 10 bucks, how many gallons of gasoline will that buy you today? 02:38:07.960 --> 02:38:17.520 Out here in Arizona, about three. You could only get one gallon for a Quarter back in the 1960s. 02:38:19.640 --> 02:38:24.880 Things have gotten cheaper. It's just we haven't noticed because we've been being robbed all of 02:38:24.880 --> 02:38:29.440 our lives. Well, that's the problem with inflation is people don't think about how much it robs them 02:38:29.440 --> 02:38:35.940 until they're at the grocery store or even then they just look at the price of goods going up 02:38:35.940 --> 02:38:41.960 and say, oh, well, it's just greedy people doing greedy things. Yeah, well, I always like to 02:38:41.960 --> 02:38:47.780 explain it with a little ename, a little thing of saying, well, suppose you went into the 02:38:47.780 --> 02:38:53.180 grocery store and you picked up a half a gallon of milk and the container looks 02:38:53.180 --> 02:38:59.000 suspiciously small. Anyway, wait a minute. This says half a gallon. I don't try to believe them. 02:38:59.200 --> 02:39:03.580 Yeah. Walk up to the counter and you go, hey, what's the deal with this? You know, it doesn't 02:39:03.580 --> 02:39:11.240 look right. Oh, well, the gallons are smaller this month. Yeah. I mean, you instantly understand 02:39:11.240 --> 02:39:17.220 the fraud, right? Yeah, it's not really gallon. The word dollar is actually still 02:39:17.980 --> 02:39:23.060 defined in the United States code as a certain amount of standard silver. I think it's 02:39:23.060 --> 02:39:32.320 250 so grains, whatever a grain is, okay? But the word dollar is a unit of measure, 02:39:32.740 --> 02:39:38.800 okay? Like inch or pound or gallon, okay? Yeah, it used to basically mean an ounce of silver. 02:39:39.180 --> 02:39:41.460 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, 02:39:42.780 --> 02:39:48.480 especially toward the, like back in the colonial days, they usually meant Spanish silver. 02:39:49.160 --> 02:39:54.520 Right. Because that's what they could get, you know, or the dollar, I guess this ban. Well, 02:39:54.600 --> 02:39:58.860 I was actually, there was a gold dollar that was cut into eight pieces because, you know, 02:39:59.000 --> 02:40:04.460 you wanted to have to make change, right? If you didn't need to spend it all at once, 02:40:04.960 --> 02:40:09.060 that's where the term pieces of eight came from, from what I understand. 02:40:10.960 --> 02:40:12.260 Yep. I think that's right. 02:40:15.220 --> 02:40:20.420 So, well, I appreciate you guys holding the line on the air and, you know, 02:40:21.400 --> 02:40:29.960 wishing that more people were getting on board with the truth, but I appreciate you guys. 02:40:30.700 --> 02:40:34.160 Of course. Yeah. Hang in there. Yeah, we do our best. 02:40:34.920 --> 02:40:37.380 Yep. Is that all you had for us tonight? 02:40:38.660 --> 02:40:44.440 Yeah, I just, you know, you were talking about, you know, other politics and stuff and the 02:40:45.180 --> 02:40:51.900 problem of dealing with, you know, so many people are distracted by national, you know, 02:40:52.020 --> 02:40:57.540 stuff that they have absolutely no influence over whatsoever and they get there all 02:40:57.540 --> 02:41:02.040 upset about this and, you know, concerned about that and anxious about the other. 02:41:02.780 --> 02:41:07.640 And I mean, yes, it can affect them, but they have no influence over it. And yet, 02:41:07.660 --> 02:41:13.360 there are things in their life that they have a tremendous influence over, like how their families 02:41:13.360 --> 02:41:18.880 treat them, you know, how other people treat them, how they treat their kids, you know. 02:41:19.840 --> 02:41:27.600 That stuff, you know, it has a tremendous potential for creating a much more healthy 02:41:27.600 --> 02:41:35.740 society. And yet, so many people, you know, walk through life without paying a slight bit of 02:41:35.740 --> 02:41:40.060 attention to that and then have all their attention on, you know, who's president or, you know, 02:41:41.600 --> 02:41:48.100 all these celebrities and, you know, all the, all the, all the Prince of, you know, 02:41:48.220 --> 02:41:53.180 in England is now being arrested. Oh, isn't that exciting? You know, well, okay. But, 02:41:54.040 --> 02:41:56.880 what's happening in your life that you could improve, you know? 02:41:56.880 --> 02:42:00.560 Yeah. Yeah, that's right. So that's, that's always the challenge. 02:42:00.560 --> 02:42:05.560 It's easier to look at others and their lives and sort of looking at ourselves and being like, 02:42:05.580 --> 02:42:09.080 well, what can I improve in my life to make myself a better human being? 02:42:09.660 --> 02:42:15.140 You know, I, I'm struggling with this thing myself. I'm turning 40 this year. So, 02:42:15.660 --> 02:42:21.180 you know, I better get a move on and define the rest of my life. Otherwise, I'm going to be, 02:42:21.180 --> 02:42:23.420 you know, aimlessly wandering everywhere. 02:42:24.280 --> 02:42:30.200 Yeah. Well, when you hit 70, it becomes even more interesting. Although I do, 02:42:30.840 --> 02:42:36.440 I do have a lot of, a lot of things that I've accomplished. I still have all those, 02:42:36.440 --> 02:42:41.660 those YouTube videos that I put on for, that I was doing in, for pork vest and the free 02:42:41.660 --> 02:42:50.300 state project back in the, the, from 2010 to 26, 2014, I'm sure it was a 20, 02:42:50.300 --> 02:42:57.480 I guess the last time we were there was 2016. Anyway, but red pill recording on, on YouTube. 02:42:57.860 --> 02:43:02.140 I recorded a whole, a whole bunch of stuff up there. Nice. There you go. 02:43:04.000 --> 02:43:08.880 Anyway, I will let you go for today and you'd have a live show tomorrow. We do. 02:43:09.240 --> 02:43:12.700 Yep. Great. All right. Maybe I'll bend your ear about the income tax. 02:43:13.220 --> 02:43:16.640 That'll be fun. Sounds good. Please do. Thanks for the call. 02:43:17.980 --> 02:43:24.680 Yeah. I was looking at the, so like, for instance, the American Silver Eagle is still, 02:43:25.660 --> 02:43:32.120 is still manufactured in the US Mint. They started in 1986 and it still says one dollar 02:43:32.120 --> 02:43:42.440 face value. Yeah. It's an ounce of silver. I think 999 silver. Yep. And it's, 02:43:42.440 --> 02:43:54.280 so you can buy one from the US Mint right now for $169. Oh, wow. I wonder why the price difference 02:43:54.280 --> 02:44:02.340 there. You can buy them from J&Bullion for around $100. I don't know why the price difference, 02:44:02.500 --> 02:44:09.320 but I'd rather go with J&Bullion. Oh, absolutely. I bought some silver from J&Bullion for a few 02:44:09.320 --> 02:44:14.280 years and I think they're a reputable company. From what I've heard Costco sometimes sells 02:44:15.080 --> 02:44:21.900 tubes of 20 silver eagles at a discount price. Nice. Yep. I've never, never taken advantage of 02:44:21.900 --> 02:44:27.940 that, but that's the thing I've heard. Is there a Costco nearby? I think there's one in, like, 02:44:28.040 --> 02:44:31.360 Nashua or Manchester. Okay. 02:44:34.040 --> 02:44:39.560 Anyways, there you go. Silver's pretty cool. They still make it one ounce and call it one dollar. 02:44:40.420 --> 02:44:50.220 That is pretty strange. When they sell it for $169. Yeah. Yeah. All right, cool. 02:44:51.640 --> 02:44:58.860 The fun thing about life is that it throw surprises at you. You know, the silver market 02:44:58.860 --> 02:45:04.400 has gone up. I guess I'd hope to make some money off the silver a few years ago. 02:45:05.220 --> 02:45:11.060 During the COVID pandemic, we thought the world was coming to an end and, you know, 02:45:11.140 --> 02:45:15.580 silver's going to explode in price or value or whatever, but that didn't materialize. 02:45:16.300 --> 02:45:22.440 2026 rolls around silver explodes to over $120 an ounce, collapses down to like $70 an ounce. 02:45:22.440 --> 02:45:30.680 Last I looked today was around 85, 30, something like that. So precious metals are, you know, 02:45:30.720 --> 02:45:34.720 worth an investment. If you want to make a little money off of it, my attitude is, 02:45:34.960 --> 02:45:39.080 don't hold on to silver thinking you're going to make money off it. Hold on to it to preserve your 02:45:39.540 --> 02:45:45.680 wealth that you make. And if you have kids and grandkids, pass it on to them. So that's 02:45:45.680 --> 02:45:50.080 the way I look at it too. It's a windfall. And if it happens to be around and I never 02:45:50.080 --> 02:45:59.060 needed it, then the kids get it. Yeah. So it's definitely an easier thing to save in 02:45:59.060 --> 02:46:04.800 too than dollars because you can't, you know, you can't pay your bills in silver. You can't, 02:46:06.140 --> 02:46:09.780 most restaurants won't take it. Most gas stations aren't going to take it. 02:46:11.620 --> 02:46:17.800 So, you know, by that metric, it's easier to hold on to than it is to use his money. 02:46:19.020 --> 02:46:24.240 But the windfall is that one day that might change and US dollars will be worthless. And 02:46:24.240 --> 02:46:27.960 if you want to trade anything, you better have some silver or something useful. 02:46:30.460 --> 02:46:38.960 I kind of like big lighters as a backup hodl for, you know, for a things collapse type of 02:46:38.960 --> 02:46:43.320 situation. I hear a lot of people say that things are going to collapse. I've been hearing that 02:46:43.320 --> 02:46:49.340 most of my life listening to talk radio, but I don't know. I guess I'm more doubtful that things 02:46:49.340 --> 02:46:55.020 are going to collapse and that they're going to morph and I'm more, I guess I believe more 02:46:55.020 --> 02:47:00.340 that they're going to change in such a way that our world will not make sense or feel like it's 02:47:00.340 --> 02:47:06.300 collapsing. Maybe there'll be collapse. I don't know. I know past civilizations have gone 02:47:06.300 --> 02:47:11.460 through a collapse, but maybe things will be different for us. Collapses can look different 02:47:11.460 --> 02:47:17.720 too. Your money couldn't collapse and your civilization holds, you know, different things 02:47:17.720 --> 02:47:21.860 can collapse. I think mostly that's what we talk about though when we talk about things 02:47:21.860 --> 02:47:27.160 falling apart is like the US dollar, losing all of its value going to absolute zero. 02:47:28.740 --> 02:47:32.960 That would create serious waves throughout the... Oh, it would. I don't think that's 02:47:32.960 --> 02:47:36.400 ever going to happen though. If I'm being honest, I don't think that'll ever happen unless 02:47:36.400 --> 02:47:39.520 there's something really severe in all the countries are like, no, we don't want to put 02:47:39.520 --> 02:47:45.380 faith in your stupid paper anymore. See ya. Yeah. To me it seems like the... 02:47:47.200 --> 02:47:53.280 I don't know. Maybe it could go to zero, but it really is up to the bankers. They could 02:47:53.280 --> 02:47:58.860 stretch it out as long as they want to. They could just, you know, they could even admit that, 02:47:59.000 --> 02:48:03.060 oh no, the US dollar has failed, but don't worry. Just turn in your dollars and we'll 02:48:03.480 --> 02:48:08.520 reimburse you in the CBDC that's totally worth a lot, we promise. 02:48:08.520 --> 02:48:13.480 Yep, it's programmable. Well, we'll be able to read out the criminals much easier this time. 02:48:13.860 --> 02:48:15.580 No one will be able to defraud anybody. 02:48:16.120 --> 02:48:20.280 No, but instead of, you know, backed by the full faith and credit of the US government, 02:48:20.440 --> 02:48:24.440 it would be backed by the full faith and credit of the United Nations or the, 02:48:24.460 --> 02:48:30.880 you know, Global Council or the Bank of International Settlements or whatever. 02:48:32.160 --> 02:48:33.280 It's going to be the global bank. 02:48:33.640 --> 02:48:37.040 As long as they can get you to feel warm and fuzzy about it, 02:48:37.040 --> 02:48:39.000 start using it, they're happy. 02:48:43.080 --> 02:48:46.620 I don't know if we got enough time to get all the way through this one, but 02:48:48.560 --> 02:48:53.200 seems interesting to me. So let's take a crack at it. This is 02:48:57.560 --> 02:49:02.440 Grooming the Gulf, How Epstein Forged Emirati Elites Into Tools for Israel. 02:49:04.980 --> 02:49:10.340 In the last 48 hours, the US Department of Justice has begun dumping what 02:49:10.340 --> 02:49:15.280 officials say amounts to more than 30 million pages of material tied to Jeffrey Epstein. 02:49:15.800 --> 02:49:20.300 An archive so vast it includes thousands of videos and hundreds of thousands of images. 02:49:20.940 --> 02:49:25.700 The tranche is only a fraction of what exists. Officials acknowledge that millions 02:49:25.700 --> 02:49:30.980 of additional documents remain under review, meaning the public has seen just a sliver 02:49:30.980 --> 02:49:35.620 of the government's total Epstein archive. What is being unloaded into the public domain 02:49:35.620 --> 02:49:42.120 is not just evidence of private depravity. It is an inadvertent blueprint of how power 02:49:42.120 --> 02:49:44.340 really works when no one is supposed to be washing. 02:49:48.020 --> 02:49:54.040 An industrial scale influence machine whose files casually braid together billionaires, 02:49:54.520 --> 02:49:59.760 cabinet level officials and strategic infrastructure from New York to the Horn of Africa, 02:49:59.760 --> 02:50:04.820 and even now the public is being allowed to see only what officials deem manageable, 02:50:05.300 --> 02:50:10.200 with redactions still shielding some of the most sensitive names and millions of pages 02:50:10.200 --> 02:50:16.540 kept out of sight. Hidden within those documents leaked screenshots and email excerpts now 02:50:16.540 --> 02:50:21.480 circulating online are connections that stretch far beyond Manhattan, Palm Beach or even Paris. 02:50:22.040 --> 02:50:26.480 They reach deep into the Persian Gulf into Dubai's executive suites and into the 02:50:26.480 --> 02:50:33.440 personal inboxes of officials in the United Arab Emirates. These emails offer a unique glimpse 02:50:33.440 --> 02:50:40.000 behind the opulent shadows of Dubai's towers where untraceable billions flow like oil. In that world, 02:50:40.720 --> 02:50:48.020 a convicted pedophile whispers ministerial appointments to a UAE diplomat while discussing 02:50:48.020 --> 02:50:54.600 port deals that could move cargo and secrets across continents. According to persistent 02:50:54.600 --> 02:51:00.140 intelligence linked information surrounding his operations, Jeffrey Epstein was not acting alone 02:51:00.140 --> 02:51:06.280 or merely chasing thrills. He was allegedly operating as a geopolitical asset, cultivating 02:51:06.280 --> 02:51:12.300 leverage over gulf elites with places like Somaliland emerging as potential ponds in a larger 02:51:12.300 --> 02:51:18.760 strategic game. It is in such an environment the figures like Epstein thrive best because 02:51:18.760 --> 02:51:26.380 their private perversions double as statecraft. Emails unearthed from the DOJ Epstein Library 02:51:26.380 --> 02:51:33.900 reveal troubling facts about Jeffrey Epstein's exchanges with Hindie L. Owais, a young ambitious 02:51:33.900 --> 02:51:40.440 Emirati woman navigating the opulent halls of UAE diplomacy. With her polished LinkedIn profile 02:51:40.440 --> 02:51:45.900 and lofty titles, she appears at first glance to be a symbol of progress. As director of the 02:51:45.900 --> 02:51:53.500 UAE's permanent committee for human rights and a UN advisor since 2015, she has publicly 02:51:53.500 --> 02:51:59.640 championed women's empowerment declaring it both a moral and strategic imperative. On paper, 02:52:00.520 --> 02:52:08.040 Hind L. Owais is the face of a modern UAE, a diplomat UN advisor and later a senior 02:52:08.040 --> 02:52:13.560 human rights official fronting panels on women's rights and regional mechanisms. 02:52:15.900 --> 02:52:20.300 In press releases, she speaks of dignity and gender equality while 02:52:20.940 --> 02:52:26.300 chairing events under the banner of the permanent committee for human rights in Abu Dhabi. 02:52:26.940 --> 02:52:31.300 In the emails, the tone is very different. The same woman who would later open high-level 02:52:31.300 --> 02:52:35.560 human rights dialogues is trading easy banter with a convicted sex offender, 02:52:35.980 --> 02:52:40.460 eagerly accepting his career advice and bringing family into his orbit. 02:52:40.460 --> 02:52:48.480 The contrast is not just personal hypocrisy. It looks like the textbook use of a polished 02:52:48.480 --> 02:52:54.840 progressive female diplomat as a shield for an authoritarian system willing to outsource leverage 02:52:54.840 --> 02:53:00.980 work to a man like Epstein while selling the world a satirized narrative at the UN. 02:53:02.040 --> 02:53:06.980 The correspondence begins in 2011 during Epstein's post-prison resurgence. 02:53:07.660 --> 02:53:13.560 Al Owais, then a rising figure in UAE foreign affairs, began emailing the financier. 02:53:14.160 --> 02:53:19.120 Their communications suggest the exchanges were part of a broader effort to compromise UAE elites 02:53:19.120 --> 02:53:28.660 for Israeli leverage. Numerous emails linked to Hind Al Owais and Jeffrey Epstein from January 02:53:28.660 --> 02:53:34.140 2012 are currently the subject of extensive scrutiny, prompting unsettling questions 02:53:34.140 --> 02:53:37.820 regarding the nature of their relationship. One email states, 02:53:38.780 --> 02:53:42.780 Getting one girl ready is difficult enough. Two girls, you can certainly call a challenge. 02:53:43.300 --> 02:53:49.520 Another conversation is said to mention introducing her sister to Epstein. In one message, Epstein 02:53:50.440 --> 02:53:56.460 positioned her as a future UAE minister of culture declaring there would be no competition. 02:53:57.420 --> 02:54:07.820 One email from January 2012 stands out. Al Owais expresses excitement about introducing 02:54:07.820 --> 02:54:14.360 her sister, Hala, allegedly just 13 at the time to Epstein, a man infamous for preying on underage 02:54:14.360 --> 02:54:21.280 girls. Epstein's reply is suggestive, promising more time with both. Another message jokes about 02:54:21.280 --> 02:54:26.460 the challenge of preparing two girls. Critics online have seized on these exchanges, 02:54:26.720 --> 02:54:32.780 arguing that Al Owais is not just a passive contact, but an active facilitator, a kind 02:54:32.780 --> 02:54:37.660 of soft power handler who normalized Epstein's access to young Emirati women. 02:54:38.380 --> 02:54:42.700 So it sounds like Epstein wasn't just going after white girls, she was going after everybody. 02:54:44.620 --> 02:54:51.980 Right, but well, anybody, but in this case, it doubled his 02:54:54.580 --> 02:54:59.720 statecraft manipulation, particularly on behalf of Israel. 02:55:00.240 --> 02:55:01.320 It doesn't surprise me. 02:55:02.080 --> 02:55:06.920 The DOJ emails that have surfaced so far do not explicitly spell out sexual transactions 02:55:06.920 --> 02:55:13.880 or list ages, which conveniently allows defenders to hide behind literalism. But in the real world, 02:55:13.980 --> 02:55:19.640 context matters, a senior diplomat working in New York repeatedly arranging access for girls to 02:55:19.640 --> 02:55:27.160 a man already notorious for abusing minors is not a neutral act. It is complicit to 02:55:27.160 --> 02:55:35.520 dressed up as networking. Online backlash was immediate. Critics claimed Al Owais worked as 02:55:35.520 --> 02:55:42.300 procurer supplying minors, including her own sister to Epstein. Viral posts branded her as a pimp and 02:55:42.300 --> 02:55:48.040 Satan worshipper, drawing thousands of retweets amid outrage over her UN role. 02:55:48.660 --> 02:55:53.900 Although no direct proof of underage involvement appears in the emails themselves, 02:55:54.120 --> 02:55:59.360 it can be argued that the pattern fits Epstein's methods, which rest on compromising officials 02:55:59.360 --> 02:56:05.540 feeding a machine design not only for pleasure, but for leverage. emails from 2017 show him 02:56:05.540 --> 02:56:14.280 lobbying against Qatar, accusing Doha of terrorism, financing in line with UAE Israel strategies, 02:56:14.940 --> 02:56:20.620 underscoring that his communications with Gulf elites were deeply political, not merely social. 02:56:21.760 --> 02:56:27.820 Photos circulating online show Al Owais beside Epstein, her diplomatic poise clashing with his 02:56:27.820 --> 02:56:34.200 predatory grin. Critics highlight the contradiction. How can someone linked to Epstein lead human 02:56:34.200 --> 02:56:41.460 rights initiatives in a country notorious for the kafala system? The kafala regime has long 02:56:41.460 --> 02:56:47.120 been described by rights groups as a system of modern servitude, binding migrant workers to 02:56:47.120 --> 02:56:52.720 employers in conditions ripe for abuse, placing an Epstein-linked diplomat at the helm of 02:56:52.720 --> 02:56:57.720 human rights in such a state as less reform than reputation laundering. 02:56:59.670 --> 02:57:05.420 Adding another layer, discussions online claim Ghislaine Maxwell received girls supplied through 02:57:05.420 --> 02:57:13.660 the same network. Ex by Ari Ben Manash alleges the pair ran Mossad honey traps together, 02:57:14.000 --> 02:57:21.200 building on older reports that Maxwell's father Robert Maxwell had served as a Mossad agent. 02:57:22.820 --> 02:57:29.080 These accounts are contested and not fully documented, but the emerging patterns in the 02:57:29.080 --> 02:57:35.300 Epstein UAE files sit uncomfortably close to what one would expect from an intelligence-linked 02:57:35.300 --> 02:57:43.980 Compromat operation targeting Gulf elites. Even as those revelations spread across social 02:57:43.980 --> 02:57:48.800 media, Abu Dhabi appears to have kept Al Owais anchored in its human rights machinery, 02:57:48.800 --> 02:57:55.160 letting her continue to front events and initiatives in the UAE's name. The message is 02:57:56.180 --> 02:58:00.220 unmistakable. Whatever passed between her and Epstein does not qualify her, 02:58:00.720 --> 02:58:05.940 does not disqualify her from helping launder the regime's image on the international stage. 02:58:08.500 --> 02:58:13.500 I think that illustrates pretty well what I was saying about the Epstein thing being 02:58:13.500 --> 02:58:19.060 in, you know, Compromat and it runs the world. It definitely does. All right, this has been 02:58:19.060 --> 02:58:24.040 Free Talk Live. Thanks for listening. There will be more tonight. Give us your call. Peace. 02:58:49.530 --> 02:58:54.490 From a technical standpoint, Dash transactions are irreversible and its network is protected 02:58:54.490 --> 02:59:00.190 from 51% attacks by their chain locks technology. There's no need to wait for a confirmation before 02:59:00.190 --> 02:59:05.270 considering a Dash transaction complete, so it's great for merchants. 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He has not been charged and has long denied any wrongdoing. FSN's Ollie Barrett 03:01:08.760 --> 03:01:13.920 has more from London. What police are further saying is that this is part of an investigation 03:01:13.920 --> 03:01:19.560 now they confirm. The reason that is significant is that previously Thames Valley police had simply 03:01:19.560 --> 03:01:24.340 said they were assessing claims that had been made to them about the potential of misconduct 03:01:24.340 --> 03:01:29.060 in a public office. They've now confirmed a formal investigation is underway and an arrest 03:01:29.060 --> 03:01:34.020 has been made. They say the arrest was made on suspicion of misconduct in public office 03:01:34.020 --> 03:01:39.660 and they say they're also carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. 03:01:40.000 --> 03:01:44.460 The US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's sweeping tariffs on global trading 03:01:44.460 --> 03:01:49.660 partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that the tariffs didn't have 03:01:49.660 --> 03:01:55.300 the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington. 03:01:55.300 --> 03:02:01.540 This ruling is a tremendous blow for the US President and a rare rebuke of his presidential 03:02:01.540 --> 03:02:08.260 powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe he had the legal authority 03:02:08.260 --> 03:02:14.020 to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional authorization 03:02:14.020 --> 03:02:20.060 to exercise this power. They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power to 03:02:20.060 --> 03:02:27.280 unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope. He has reacted by calling 03:02:27.280 --> 03:02:33.540 the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House will 03:02:33.540 --> 03:02:40.860 look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs using other means. India joined the US-led AI 03:02:40.860 --> 03:02:46.320 Infrastructure Initiative called Pax silica, which is widely seen as a countermeasure 03:02:46.320 --> 03:02:52.080 to China's dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. It came as top 03:02:52.080 --> 03:02:58.700 US companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google pledged to invest billions of dollars in India 03:02:58.700 --> 03:03:04.140 during an AI Impact Summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. 03:03:04.500 --> 03:03:09.020 India joined the Pax silica initiative on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 03:03:09.020 --> 03:03:12.900 ending speculation over whether trade tensions were getting in the way of 03:03:12.900 --> 03:03:18.140 broader cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. According to the US State Department Pax, 03:03:18.360 --> 03:03:23.760 silica is aimed at bringing friendly countries together to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies. 03:03:24.340 --> 03:03:28.140 The initiative was launched in December last year with countries including the UK, 03:03:28.440 --> 03:03:33.880 Australia, South Korea and the UAE as its first few members. With India pitching itself as a 03:03:33.880 --> 03:03:39.120 key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the move not only highlights New Delhi's role 03:03:39.120 --> 03:03:44.480 on a global stage, but also signals thaw in US-India ties Ishan Garg, New Delhi. 03:03:45.020 --> 03:03:51.840 From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN. 11 people were arrested in France over the recent killing 03:03:51.840 --> 03:03:58.040 of a far-right activist. Kanton Deronk died after sustaining a severe brain injury when 03:03:58.040 --> 03:04:03.540 he was attacked on the sidelines of a far-right protest against a left-wing politician speaking 03:04:03.540 --> 03:04:07.880 in the city of Lyon. FSN's Ross Cullen reports from Paris. 03:04:07.880 --> 03:04:13.480 The 23-year-old was part of a group providing security for nationalist activists who were 03:04:13.480 --> 03:04:18.480 demonstrating against the leftist gathering at a university in France's third biggest city of Lyon. 03:04:18.820 --> 03:04:24.400 Video footage of the attack on 12 February shows a group of people setting upon Kanton Deronk 03:04:24.400 --> 03:04:29.300 who's kicked multiple times before being left lying on the sidewalk while those involved 03:04:29.300 --> 03:04:34.200 in the attack fled on foot. The incident has fueled tension between France's far-right and 03:04:34.200 --> 03:04:39.700 hard left ahead of local elections in March and next year's presidential race in which the 03:04:39.700 --> 03:04:43.800 nationalist party is currently leading the polls. Ross Cullen, Paris. 03:04:44.780 --> 03:04:51.320 US civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died at the age of 84. He was one of America's 03:04:51.320 --> 03:04:57.180 most influential black figures and twice ran for president. FSN's Tony Waterman has more. 03:04:57.600 --> 03:05:01.960 He was this towering figure. He was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. 03:05:01.960 --> 03:05:08.400 He was there when King was assassinated in 1968. He was, in fact, very close to him when that 03:05:08.400 --> 03:05:14.260 happened physically, just a couple of feet away. But he is really seen as carrying on the fight 03:05:14.260 --> 03:05:20.840 for black Americans. He transformed American politics, particularly the Democratic Party, 03:05:20.940 --> 03:05:27.300 by empowering these marginalized communities through his coalition, getting millions and 03:05:27.300 --> 03:05:33.640 millions of black, Latino and Asian Americans to register to vote and completely reshaping the 03:05:33.640 --> 03:05:39.040 face of the Democratic Party. Those were some of the week's top stories. Iris Spitzer reports. 03:05:40.920 --> 03:05:45.800 It's the story that's stunning the tech world. Despite his age, six-year-old data entry prodigy 03:05:45.800 --> 03:05:51.040 Jeffrey Peters is already entertaining offers from dozens of major temp agencies. Experts say 03:05:51.040 --> 03:05:55.840 Jeffrey's ability to sit still and perform mind-numbing tasks in Excel and Word for hours on 03:05:55.840 --> 03:06:00.460 and ranked with a freelance worker three times his age. But Jeffrey's mom says that she knew 03:06:00.460 --> 03:06:05.260 he was special from early on. I've always thought that Jeffrey was different from the other kids. 03:06:05.520 --> 03:06:09.220 He started wearing glasses for computer strain when he was just three and a half, 03:06:09.340 --> 03:06:14.280 and he already has some pretty significant tendonitis. I've always wanted to work at 03:06:14.280 --> 03:06:18.820 medical recruiting. The data entry wiz is at the center of a bidding war between industry 03:06:18.820 --> 03:06:23.580 titans like workforce solutions and metropolitan staffing, both offering lavish perks like 03:06:23.580 --> 03:06:28.440 starting salaries of up to $15,000 and a cramped cubicle shared with only two other temps. 03:06:28.800 --> 03:06:32.080 Jeffrey's parents say that given the generous offers he's already received, 03:06:32.320 --> 03:06:35.500 he could be well on the way to affording a dingy rundown apartment of his own.