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From Feature Story News in San Francisco, I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back at some of the
week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British
Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It relates to
his time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of confidential material with the late sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has long denied any wrongdoing.
FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London.
What police are further saying is that this is part of an investigation now they confirm.
The reason that is significant is that previously Thames Valley Police had simply
said they were assessing claims that had been made to them about the potential of
misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a formal investigation is underway
and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on suspicion of misconduct in public
office and they say they're also carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's sweeping tariffs on global trading
partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that the tariffs
didn't have the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington.
This ruling is a tremendous blow for the U.S. President and a rare rebuke of his
presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe
he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have
congressional authorization to exercise this power. They said that he had tried to
assert extra ordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration,
and scope. He has reacted by calling the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan.
It is likely the White House will look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs using other means.
India joined the U.S.-led AI infrastructure initiative called Pax Silica, which is widely
seen as a countermeasure to China's dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry.
It came as top U.S. companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google pledged to invest billions
of dollars in India during an AI Impact Summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
India joined the Pax Silica initiative on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit
ending speculation over whether trade tensions were getting in the way of broader cooperation
between Washington and New Delhi. According to the U.S. State Department Pax,
Silica is aimed at bringing friendly countries together to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies.
The initiative was launched in December last year with countries including the UK,
Australia, South Korea, and the UAE as its first few members.
With India pitching itself as a key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the move
not only highlights New Delhi's role on a global stage, but also signals
thought in U.S.-India ties Ishan Garg, New Delhi.
From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN.
Eleven people were arrested in France over the recent killing of a far-right activist.
Conten Deronk died after sustaining a severe brain injury when he was attacked on the
sidelines of a far-right protest against a left-wing politician speaking in the city of Lyon.
FSN's Ross Cullen reports from Paris.
The 23-year-old was part of a group providing security for nationalist activists who were
demonstrating against the leftist gathering at a university in France's third biggest city of Lyon.
Video footage of the attack on the 12th of February shows a group of people
setting upon Conten Deronk who's kicked multiple times before being left lying on the sidewalk
while those involved in the attack fled on foot. The incident has fueled tension between
France's far-right and hard left ahead of local elections in March and next year's
presidential race in which the Nationalist Party is currently leading the polls. Ross Cullen, Paris.
There, when King was assassinated in 1968, he was in fact very close to him when that happened
physically, just a couple of feet away, but he is really seen as carrying on the fight for Black
Americans. He transformed American politics, particularly the Democratic Party, by empowering
these marginalized communities through his coalition, getting millions and millions of Black,
Latino and Asian Americans to register to vote and completely reshaping the face of the Democratic
Party. Those were some of the week's top stories. Iris Spitzer. It seems like we're constantly hearing
different fitness advice. Exercise two to three times a week for at least 30 minutes a day.
And don't forget cardio, but don't exercise too much or you'll get hurt. So how much
exercise should you be getting? Well actually not that much, since the human body is only
built to withstand walking a short distance before lying or sitting down again. In fact,
a group of biologists from Stanford found that walking more than five feet at a time
can cause joint pain, fatigue and even extreme hunger. The study concluded that the maximum
effort the human body can safely endure is reaching for an item high on a shelf.
Our bodies simply aren't built to stand up and move around, so maybe those high-intensity
spin classes and daily jogs aren't such a good idea. Instead of walking up the stairs
every day, try taking the elevator whenever possible. You can even use a fitness tracker
to let you know when you've been exerting too much energy. Your body will appreciate it.
For The Onion, I'm Jill Hooper.
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In the studio tonight you have Stu and Riley O'Bill.
Can I get some volume on my headphones producers? Yeah, you bet. How's everything going Riley?
Everything's going pretty good so far. Volume sounding good. Thank you producers.
Actually, it's just Stu and I right now, so no producers really, but everything's going good.
I've had a good week. It was nice and relaxing. Not too much drama that I can recall, but
that can change during a show. Life comes at you fast.
So for a guy who does his best to consume no news, all I know about is that Jesse Jackson
died. Yep, Reverend Jesse High Jackson has freshland values to like calm.
And so all I can think about whenever I hear his name is the South Park episode where
Stan's dad has to apologize to him. And if you know what I'm talking about you're probably
laughing right now because that was quite funny. Otherwise I don't really know a lot about the
guy. I don't think he was the hero that a lot of people paint him to be.
I don't know much about him either and I'm not really willing to pass judgment, but you know,
he's from what I know he seemed like kind of a leftist sort of.
Yeah, kind of a go along to get a long sort of attitude about things. And yeah,
yep. Okay, so that's enough of that. Maybe a pseudo Christian who knows. I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know. I really not that well studied on that.
I'm not either. One thing that came to my attention via Ernie Hancock's podcast
which is called Declare Your Independence and it's a good show. He interviewed a gentleman named
Joe Diawix or it goes by Joby. And Joby got harassed and detained by law enforcement officials
who demanded that he turn over the private keys to all this Bitcoin and a whole bunch of other things
threw him in a cage, kidnapped and wouldn't let him call his family. Why would they demand that he's
turning over the, that he should turn over the private keys to his wallets? Because he had a lot
of Bitcoin. Is that the only reason though? A lot of dollar value in Bitcoin and they wanted
it. Apparently that seems to be the only reason because they've had him on house arrest with
an ankle monitor for six years now and don't seem to be doing a whole lot. He hired some very
expensive lawyers that wanted him to take a plea deal and he said that's not good enough and
they said that's all we got and he said then you're fired. So now he's hoping he can get
some public attention on this thing and he's gone ahead and filed criminal complaints against
some of the judges and lawyers involved in this because I have no doubt that many of them are
acting illegally. That's kind of how this thing operates and they get lazy because nobody ever
calls them on their illegal actions. But there's a whole list of things that your average judge
or prosecutor might be doing that's totally against the law. Sure and there are definitely
corrupt judges and corrupt lawyers in the system. Most everybody knows about law enforcement
acting criminally from time to time or maybe more often than not depending on how you look at it.
But for some reason people just can't get past the mental hurdle of your judge might be
criminal as well. He might be acting criminally right now in your simple traffic case or
whatever it is. Well it just goes to show that a lot of people depend on the system to protect them.
But as we both know the Supreme Court has ruled time and time again that the place are not obligated
to protect you and people forget that. So they assume that the place are going to be there
to protect them when it matters most. But in reality they're just there to protect the bottom
line which is the government. Yeah kind of a sad city of affairs. So he's got a petition
I believe it's a change.org petition. It might help if you sign that. Somebody set up a fundraiser at
one of these fundraising sites but I don't think he's too concerned about that. He just he wants
some attention on this thing and he's tired of being locked in his house. He'd like to go
somewhere. He's kind of a thrill seeker. So that's sort of his thing. And I don't know if
if you look him up there will be plenty you can find that's negative against him but
most of us who have friends who have been framed this way are no strangers to the concept of them
just making stuff up on the spot or blowing things out of proportion or you know things
out of context. What are the negative things that are said about him do you know?
They said he failed the cocaine test. Oh no not cocaine. But he says he wasn't doing
cocaine and that he provided a hair sample. He paid a private lab to test his hair sample
to show that he wasn't on cocaine and that's I believe one of the criminal charges that he's
throwing at them. So they're you know falsifying evidence. Interesting.
Another thing a lot of it has to do with like he was into
he made his money through multi-level marketing things.
It's hard not to say the word scam after that. It just flows naturally right.
Oh yeah multi-level marketing is definitely a scam. It's something I'm not a fan of.
They're scammies anywhere from like extremely scammy to this is fair enough.
Yeah. You know what I mean. And I think he was in one of the ones that was kind of fair
enough because a lot of it had to do with you know the increasing price of bitcoin and stuff
like that. And what what I had to do with was I think mining hash rate in Iceland right. So it
was part of a mining like a mining pool kind of thing early on. So a lot of people made a
lot of money off of you know what he signed them up for. And I think they got upset at him
because he was just he was showing people. He was very vocal about the fact that bitcoin allowed
him to do whatever he wanted. He wanted the South Pole and he's like you know hey government
scientists open up I'm here I'm a taxpayer and I want in I want to look around and see what's
down here. And he was you know he's like all over the place making videos and just showing
people what it's like to live free outside of the banking system and outside of governmental
controls. And I think that's I think that's why they landed the hammer on him. Interesting. Like I
don't know enough about this guy to know if he's a good guy a bad guy. But if if what you're
saying is true then he definitely doesn't deserve to be imprisoned for having a ton of bitcoin.
Well even if he was a pretty like even if the worst case scenario is true and that he's
he's kind of a drug crazed scam artist. Let's say that if that's true still what business do they have
keep keeping on house arrest and not you know like what happened to speedy trial kind of a thing
for six years. He gets to hang out his house on an ankle monitor. Yeah. Yeah. They've given
themselves 33 continuances. I guess he's the the recent criminal filings that he's put in
cause have been causing a wave of lawyers to come in read the document decide that
they incriminate themselves if they go forward and so they have to quit right there on the spot.
And then new set comes in reads the paper and they quit. And so the government has failed to
you know drop the whole thing which is what they should have done quite some time ago because
they seem to be waffling hard on this one. Yeah. These the government lawyers that are quitting
or his lawyers that are quitting. Yeah. The government lawyers that I think he's now without
any lawyers. Okay. He's doing this on his own which is what I recommend. Lawyers are
lawyers are not there to help you. They're not on your team. I don't know about
how to pay them and proceedings to go without lawyers. So I would probably ask a lawyer for help
or something just to get through the system. Yeah. I guess they could be useful in that they know
when to say what and how to you know file a motion and whatever like but keep them in your
back pocket and don't let them run the show. Yeah. Anyway I think that covers pretty much
all I wanted to say about Joby Weeks. I wanted to bring some attention to that and if you feel
like going to sign the petition then I'm sure he would be very appreciative.
We definitely have a lot of crypto prisoners out there like Ian Freeman, Joby Weeks.
I know I'm pretty sure that Trump's alleged ending of the crypto war wasn't really an ending.
He just wanted his guys in power and his guys on the front line so he could be front and center
looking at crypto and pretending to love it while in fact wanting to you know use stolen crypto to
hoist his government and hoist his powerful people into power and make it look good on him
for being willing to end the crypto war but he's really not ending the crypto war at all.
He's just being a scumbag but then again Trump is a scumbag so there's that.
Yeah it's supposed to be all crypto freedom under Trump but you see about what we get you're just
going to get you're going to get CBDC in the form of in the form of what like the stable coins.
Something like that. Yeah well it's been going this way for a long time they just
they just uh they keep driving it in a more centralized sort of fashion nobody seems to care.
They're more mostly concerned about whether number go up or number go down which right now I guess it's
kind of down. Yep I think Bitcoin was last around like $70,000 I want to say. It sounds
so strange to say Bitcoin's down to 70,000. I know like I remember when Bitcoin was like
two to three hundred dollars of Bitcoin. I wish I could have held on to some more but
I know all of us too but we know but you know we make life choices and family things come up and
sure life life throws things at us and we just let the Bitcoin go. Yep um let's see here
Riley suggested this story uh found found a story from AP that is chat GPT maker open AI
considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago
in Toronto. Chat GPT maker open AI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police
about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in
the country's history. Open AI said last June the company identified the count of Jesse Van
Roos uh Roostelar by abused detection efforts for furtherance of violent activities. The San
Francisco tech company said it considered whether to refer the account to Royal Canadian
mounted police but determined at the time that the account activity did not meet a threshold
for referral to law enforcement. Open AI banned the account in June 2025 for violating its usage
policy. The 18 year old killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia last week and
died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound allegedly recording to the story. Open AI said
the threshold for referring a user to law enforcement is whether the case involves an imminent and
credible risk of serious physical harm to others. The company said it did not identify identify
credible or imminent planning. The Wall Street Journal first reported open AI's revelation.
Open AI said that after learning of the school shooting employees reached out to the RCMP
with information on the individual and their use of chat GPT.
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Tumblr Ridge tragedy and we proactively
reached out to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with information on the individual
and their use of chat GPT and will continue to support their investigation an open AI spokesperson
said. RCMP Staff Sergeant Chris Clark confirmed in an email statement Friday
that open AI contacted police after the shootings. Clark said a thorough review of the content
on electronic devices as well as social media and online activities of the shooter is taking
place. He said digital and physical evidence is being collected, prioritized and methodically
processed. RCMP said the shooter first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home
before attacking the nearby school. The shooter had a history of mental health contacts with police.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear. The town of 2700 people in the Canadian Rockies
is more than 1,000 kilometers 600 miles northeast of Vancouver near the provincial
border with Alberta. Police said the victims included a 39 year old teaching assistant and
five students ages 12 to 13. The attack was Canada's deadliest rampage since 2020 when a
gunman in Nova Scotia killed 13 people and set fires and left another nine dead.
That's how the article ends. So it seems to me that there are a couple takeaways from
this article. Number one, your chats are being monitored somehow by employees of chat GPT or
whatever AI company you might be using. So yes, it's the pre-crime aspect of this story that stands
out to me. Yeah, it sounds like a set of a head galey and dialectic setup where they're like,
oh, look, this thing could have told us about that. And now, you know, so now we need to do
this all the time. And then pretty soon he got pre-crime just like in what was that
movie with Tom Cruise? I didn't watch it. I couldn't tell you a minority report. Yeah,
that's the one. Okay, it was all about pre-crime. And they like, what did they decided he was
he was a detective, right? And the thing decided that he was going to murder someone.
And he's like, oh, that can't be true. But it has to because the thing never is never wrong.
And so he's like, I don't know, that's what the movie's about. But anyways,
this is what it's going to be is like, you'll be sitting there, not really do much. Your search
history will trigger something weird in the AI algorithm. And a team of thuggish goons will show
up and break your door down and throw you in a van. But because of, you know, in six months from
now, you're going to do something horrific. And you had no such thoughts of doing any
anything like that. Or you might be searching health queries like, Oh, I might have some
some some health issues that I'm concerned about. And, you know, they might alert and somehow they
might alert a doctor and the doctor is gonna be like, we gotta medicate this guy or
prescribe things or do things beyond our scope, beyond beyond against his will right now to
prevent him from getting sick. I mean, that could look really good on the surface. But
like you said, you know, criminal activity could be detected with AI and it may not be
criminal activity at all, maybe just an innocent question to chat GBT or an in or just an innocent scenario.
Yeah, it seems a bad idea to leave security up to an AI program.
Just my opinion. So many things feel wrong with that.
I hear you. But you know, we live in a day and age where people want the AI to solve their
problems or or it's easy to use AI to come up with things to help you on your journey
of career or whatever. But the reality is we use we're going to use it too much and it's going to get
problematic because we won't be able to think for this for ourselves and be creative as
ourselves for ourselves. But I see AI as a tool to help benefit us if we use it wisely.
And we all know that once smartphones came into our hands that we're all addicted to these
things. Yeah. And so we're not wise people on the whole.
Yeah. Maybe people should put their devices down and go into the wilderness for a week.
I don't know if that would help anything. I don't know if it would either. But
you know, being in the wilderness for a week sounds really really daunting to me.
But I'm sure I benefit from it. Yeah, you have a couple of friends who know what they're
doing. You'll be fine. I know I feel better.
The longer I can leave my phone alone, I just it feels like it separates me from reality
to some degree. Yeah. A pretty small degree granted. Nothing like what I imagine some of
the VR sets are like now. I imagine those detach you from reality almost almost as
strongly as it, you know, like ketamine or something maybe. But I haven't tried any of
those. I'm not really interested. You're not really interested in ketamine or ARs or
yeah, virtual reality sets? Yeah, neither one. Okay. I'm not interested in either one either.
I like nature and I like real things. Yeah, I hear you. So there's that.
Um, what else going on? I guess Trump's going, going and tariffing things again.
Is it a tariff just like, like when they put sanctions on another country,
isn't tariffs just putting sanctions on yourself? Kind of. I think a tariff is basically
a tax in the sense that if you're, let's say that I'm selling a good to
you to Scotland or the UK and Scotland is going to make me pay a fee so I could sell
that good in Scotland and the US is doing the same thing where they're saying, oh,
if you want to sell a good here, you got to pay a fee for it and that fee is then
given and passed on to the consumer so that they can pay for the good and thus
bring up the price of the good. Now, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Trump's
tariffs were unconstitutional. He got upset and said, well, I'm going to do a tariff,
a 15% tariff globally across the board. So Trump's just throwing a fit. That's what Trump does.
Okay. Well, it seems like the rest of the world is not not playing his game so much.
So we'll see how this goes for him. Originally it was 10%. Now I think it's been updated to 15.
So that's what it looks like. And the latest updates are
since that he raised it to 15 from 10. So yeah, I don't know what that actually looks like is
things are just 15% more expensive, right? Yep, pretty much. We have inflation eating us. We have
taxes eating us and tariffs eating us. It's like, dude, when are people going to realize
that government is your enemy and they don't care about you as a consumer, they want to
enslave you. So you think, oh, the government's my savior. Please save me government from the
big bad bullies. But no, the big bad bullies, the government, they're stealing your lunch money
and you don't seem to care about it. Yeah, they're definitely not coming to save you. They do
not care at all about you. They'd rather that if you're not going to further their agenda in
some way that you just be dead. And they've provided plenty of plenty of ways for that to
happen as well. Right. Yeah, so many counts on which you can just look and see clearly that
they don't care at all for your health or your wellbeing or your mental stability,
any of that. In fact, they'd rather you not have any of those things in any kind of
order inside of your life. They'd rather have you chaotic and running all the time.
So that you don't even have time to sit down and think about what they're doing to you.
I know. It's terrible. Sure is. Give us a call. Let us know how you deal with the
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Hey, I'll Scott Horn here for offnow.org. Now, here's the deal. Do the Snowden revelations. We
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abuses for us. We've got to do it ourselves. How? We nullify it at the state level. It's
still not easy. The offnow project of the 10th Amendment Center has gotten off to a great
start. I mean it. There's real reason to be optimistic here. They've gotten their
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something important, something that can work if we do the work. Get started cutting off the
NSA support in your state. Go to offnow.org. From feature story news in San Francisco,
I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back at some of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,
formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of
misconduct in public office. It relates to his time as trade envoy and the alleged
sharing of confidential material with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged
and has long denied any wrongdoing. FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London.
What police are further saying is that this is part of an investigation now they confirm.
The reason that is significant is that previously, Thames Valley Police had simply
said they were assessing claims that had been made to them about the potential of
misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a formal investigation is underway
and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on suspicion of misconduct in public
office and they say they're also carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's sweeping tariffs on global trading
partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that the tariffs didn't have the
proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington.
This ruling is a tremendous blow for the U.S. President and a rare rebuke of his presidential
powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe he had the legal authority
to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional authorization.
They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs
of unlimited amount duration and scope. He has reacted by calling the ruling a disgrace,
but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House will look for other ways to
reimpose these tariffs. India joined the U.S.-led AI infrastructure initiative called Pax
Silica, which is widely seen as a countermeasure to China's dominance over the supply of key
materials used in the industry. It came as top U.S. companies pledged to invest billions of
dollars in India during an AI impact summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
India joined the Pax Silica initiative on the sidelines of the AI impact summit,
ending speculation over whether trade tensions were getting in the way of broader cooperation
between Washington and New Delhi. According to the U.S. State Department, Pax Silica
is aimed at bringing friendly countries together to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies.
The initiative was launched in December last year with countries including the U.K., Australia,
South Korea and the UAE as its first few members. With India pitching itself as a key AI power
during the AI summit, analysts say the move not only highlights New Delhi's role on a global
state but also signals thaw in U.S.-India ties from viewers worldwide.
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Riley O'Bill.
We were talking about Trump and his tariffs.
Yep, and him throwing a fit and doing a 15% tariff globally after the Supreme Court set up.
Tantrums. Let's read about this a little bit. I haven't caught any WWE for a little while.
All right, let's hear about it.
This from AP News.
A reputable news source, by the way.
Reputable if you like government propaganda.
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs in a 6-3
decision on Friday, handing him his stinging loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
Doesn't this read almost like a WWE thing?
Oh yeah.
Stinging loss.
Yep.
Crucial agenda.
Furious about the defeat, the president lashed out at the Supreme Court for striking down
much of his sweeping tariff infrastructure as an illegal use of emergency power.
Trump said he was absolutely ashamed of justices who voted to strike down his tariffs and called
the ruling deeply disappointing.
Of course he would be ashamed.
The president said on social media Friday night that he signed an executive order enabling
him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports around the world.
The new tariffs would come under a law that restricts them to 150 days.
So it sounds like this Trump guy is going to be like, oh well, I get to bypass Congress to do
tariffs whenever I want, all because I'm upset.
Yeah, it sounds like he's trying to be the king that he got accused of being.
Yeah, pretty much.
Okay.
He definitely likes wielding his power around like a, I don't know, but what kind of psychopaths
do people want ruling over them that will bypass Congress, bypass the Supreme Court and say,
well, I'm going to do what I want anyway?
It seems like all governments, it seems like all these people and the so-called leaders
have to do is declare that it's an emergency and they get whatever power they want to bypass the
Congress. But no, it shouldn't be that way. The executive power should not be this prevalent.
The executive branch, ladies and gentlemen, should be checked and balanced like everything
else in government. And if you don't like the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday,
then maybe you should look at yourself and realize that you're dumb.
Dumb enough to believe that there are people that have the right to rule you,
which they don't.
You know, what is the, I forgot, was it George Carlin or
one of those guys said, think about how stupid the average person is and they realize the,
you know, the half of them are dumber than that.
I'm not saying I'm smart either. I'm just suggesting that, you know,
I'm trying to be a little more alert and aware of,
hey, these people that claim the right to rule me are just people with titles.
Yeah, yeah, it's ridiculous to, that people are still
holding up this WWE show like it's really, like it's, like they have any, you know,
I guess I kind of get it, the sports, like the sports fanatic thing where you cheer for
the home team and you wear the jersey and you don't miss any games and like,
I guess I kind of get it. There's like a camaraderie going on there.
Oh yeah.
But, but that's even a little ridiculous because like,
you don't actually feel a camaraderie with the entirety of New England over the Patriots team.
You know, I'm like, nobody actually does.
And so it's false, right? And it's even more false when you find yourself in,
in a group of, you know, that calls itself MAGA, which is about one of the most Barnum statements
I've ever heard. If you don't know what that is, go, go watch Barnum World.
You can find it for free. It's an excellent film that'll show you how things are run.
Anyways, it is ridiculous. I keep hoping that people would just stop,
stop allowing it. All it takes is a little, a little courage and stand up for yourself.
I don't think a lot of people want that. I don't think a lot of people will actually do that because
they want to believe so wholeheartedly in the system. Like for example, you know, people have
this idea that America is built on this idea, which is that, you know, freedom is going to rain,
liberty and justice for all. But we all know how that worked out.
There wasn't liberty and justice for the blacks. There wasn't liberty and justice for
the Native Americans until slavery ended pretty much. But even then, you know,
the Native Americans are pushed under reservation, then enslaved by government money.
And is America really free? Well, compared to Venezuela, yeah, it's a free nation.
Was America built on Christian principles? Not really. I mean, definitely there are a lot
of Christian people in the government at the time, but it's not built on entirely,
it's not entirely built on Christian principles. So I don't know. I think believing in a system
so religiously and vociferously by claiming that this is God's promised land, and we've got to
keep preserving freedom by keeping America going, to me, it's a losing battle. Let's stop having
people rule over us. You know, learn to govern yourself, learn to let your neighbors be neighbors,
and if they harm your property, okay, deal with that. But at the same time, it's like, well,
people want people in D.C. to rule over somebody else. That's pretty sad.
I wonder how much of this, what they were just describing as far as
Christian values, freedom and liberty for all, all of that kind of stuff. I wonder how much of that
was just added later to the history books and said, oh, this is what it was all about, and
everybody at the time totally agreed. Oh, I'm sure it was. I'm sure a lot of it.
It may not have had. It had a definitely, definitely the 50s. I'm sure.
Most colonists, I bet, at the time had no idea what was going on as far as a revolution.
They just knew there was hiding activities between rebels and the Red Codes.
I don't think they had any idea. They didn't know when the Constitution was being signed because that
was done basically in secret. They just snuck off to do it. The Federal Reserve thing is
kind of a more modern example that we can look at. They did it on Christmas so that nobody knew
what was going on. It had already been shot down. They just renamed it and then passed it
when no one was looking. I wonder how much of that is exactly how it's gone for all of history.
I wonder if it was never about freedom and liberty. They just said it was and got people
to believe it, kind of a thing. I'm sure a lot of it was propaganda that came about
in the 1800s to keep America going. A lot of it was also done in the 1900s,
especially the 1950s during the Cold War because that's when under God was added into the
Pledge of Allegiance. That's when it was added to the money to unite Americans around this idea
that we believe in God and that Godless Communists do not, which is understandable for the time.
But at the same time, it's still propaganda. It does seem that there was a belief in God was
kind of thematic to the construction of America, but it certainly wasn't built on Christian values.
Most of those guys were deists or something else, not Christians,
which is fine because Christianity is a big mess anyways. It's a hodgepodge of, you know,
like maybe something close to the original Christianity mixed in with a tiny bit of
Islam and a whole bunch of paganism. Yeah. So I wonder what original Christianity really,
really looked like. Me too. That would be fascinating to know. I'm sure it's,
it might be an undiscoverable thing at this point, completely lost to history.
Yeah. Well, Mormons claim that they have the original Christianity.
Yeah, we could spend the rest of the night talking about how that's not true,
but this is not. Well, they do have apostles and prophets and
in my mind, you know, if you're going to have a church and might as well have
some sort of authority structure. But whether it's original Christianity, I don't know.
I have no real way of knowing because I mean, the Bible we have now is
like, let's think of the Gospels, for instance, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, these texts were
written between 70 and 90, 80, I want to say, earliest. Like the Gospel Mark came first
and it was written pretty early on like 70 AD or so. And again, I could be completely wrong
on this. I'm just a talk show host here. I could be completely wrong. So if you have any.
The point is, though, all these writings came after. Right. And they're not
contemporary to Jesus. They're not really eyewitness accounts. Not only did they come
after, but then they were also like assembled and edited later by the Pharisees. Is that right?
I wouldn't say the Pharisees, but definitely some other groups definitely edited. I'm pretty
sure the Catholic Church had a huge hand in preparing the text for publication and editing
them here and there. So to claim the Bible is original to me is just absurd. Claiming it's
the infallible word of God is also absurd. But I will say this, I think the Bible has some
good things we can learn from it. Absolutely. And you know, our civilization, whether we like
or not, was based on biblical ideas. And I think we can really look and I think we should
really search this text and look at it and see what we can learn from it, rather than saying,
oh, well, it's all corrupt. We should dismiss it. I think there are definitely things we can
learn from it. No, I agree with that. And it's not. I disagree wholeheartedly that
that's what it was patterned on. And so if you look historically at the ancient mystery
traditions, there are many examples of a spiritual guru or leader or chosen one born of a virgin
lived for a certain amount of years, died and came back to life, right? Basically,
the Jesus story repeats out in at least seven different cultures under some different name
with different, slightly different details and stuff. All this is is it's a rehash of
it's a rehash of spiritual teachings that were meant to keep a society in line mixed in with
with astrological things. So like the Son of God is that's a metaphor for the sun that's in the sky.
And that goes on and on, right? So a lot of this is it's spiritual teachings that they just
keep trying to repackage in order to get either for people to behave right. That was the original
intention, right? But then somebody comes along and gets in charge of the thing and they
just use it to line their pockets with silver coins or whatever. Pretty much. And they use it to
make money or to have real estate holding so they can sell later. Or to engineer a society in such a
way that it's very obedient or whatever their agenda is. So it always gets hijacked. And I
think the aim of religion was a noble one and that I wish it could have succeeded. But
so far it seems to have failed in its aim at giving people a celebration of
treating each other decently, right? Which is what it really comes down to. Sure. And it's
really supposed to be designed to, hey, you got to take care of the poor, the fatherless,
the widows, rather than, hey, you're not wearing your certain clothing right or
you're not, or you're drinking a certain beverage that we prohibited. You're not,
you don't believe that this, you don't believe in the Trinity, or you believe in the Trinity,
or you don't believe in transubstantiation, or you believe in transubstantiation. It's just
become a religious war of who, who has the biggest Christianity? Who has the best Christianity?
We are the one true Christians. Yeah. It's just become absurd to me. Yeah. That was some
of the, some of the stuff that Mormons used to say when I, that made me most uncomfortable
back when I was a believing Mormon. There's all that about the, the great and abominable church,
and them being the chosen ones, and, and that, you know, and they had this like
special little place in their heart for God's other chosen people, which were the Jews. And
there's a whole lot of discomfort going on in those subjects in the Mormon church.
Well, I know, for me, I know that a lot of early members of the church either interpreted the great,
the quote unquote, great and abominable, abominable churches, Catholicism, which
other Christian groups also do, or they interpreted it as Christianity as a whole.
But nowadays, I've seen them walk back that statement quite a bit to interpreting people
say that, oh, it's people who are teaching you not to follow Christ or who would go against God.
So definitely walking that back. And, you know, the great, what, what Mormons call the great
apostasy, which is just, you know, apostasy is rebellion against God and rebellion against
his kingdom. Well, they claim it happened after the last apostle died or disappeared or
whatever happened. And the church, the early church wasn't kept together with its authority.
And so, yeah, people weren't good enough to have God's church on earth. And so he took it away from
them. Yeah. And this time, this time, he gave it back to Joseph Smith. Yeah, he gave it back
to Joseph Smith. And this time it's going to be around forever and keep your eye on the
prophet. The prophet will never be led astray. And guess what, ladies and gentlemen,
every offshoot of Mormonism has its leader that claims the same thing that God will
never lead me astray, or in just, for instance, Paul Kingston of the Kingston clan in northern Utah,
same thing. So it's just a story. It's just a story so you can follow the leader. Yeah.
And they take your money and claim that God needs the money. It's not for us. God needs it.
Well, yeah, because, you know, God's got bills to pay. God must owe a lot of people,
a lot of money. All right. I got one here kind of along the crypto lines. This is from Activist Post.
A lot more reputable than most news sources.
This is fugitive foreigner sentenced in the US to 20 years for 73 million crypto scam.
A judge sentenced Darren Lee to 20 years for a 73 million dollar crypto fraud. The scam used
Cambodia based compounds to target victims via social media and dating apps.
All right. Here we go. The story starts here. A federal judge in California sentenced in
absentia, a dual national of China and St. Kitts and Nevis, to 20 years in prison for his role in a 73
million dollar international crypto scam. Darren Lee, who was a fugitive after removing an ankle
electronic monitoring device in December, was also handed three years of supervised release
for his role in an international cryptocurrency investment conspiracy carried out
from scam centers in Cambodia, according to a court statement on Monday.
Cambodia has become a hub for pig butchering crypto scams, generating over 30 million daily
via forced labor compounds, according to a TRM Labs report. A separate TRM report
revealed how over 96 billion in crypto has flowed to Cambodia linked companies
since 2021, used heavily for money laundering and fraud. As part of an international cryptocurrency
investment scam, Darren Lee and his co-conspirators laundered over 73 million dollars stolen from
American victims. Assistant Attorney General A. Tyson Duva of the Justice Department criminal
division said in the statement. Duva said the court's criminal division is working with
global law enforcement officials to find, detain, and return Lee to the U.S. to serve his entire sentence.
Lee pleaded guilty on November 12, 2024 in the central district of California into conspiring
with others to launder funds obtained from victims through crypto scams and related fraud.
As part of his plea agreement, Lee said he and his cronies would contact
victims directly through unsolicited social media interactions, telephone calls and messages,
and online dating services. Their tactics entailed gaining victims trust by establishing
professional or romantic relationships with them, then luring them into using spoof platforms to
appear to invest in crypto. In other instances, the group posed as tech support
staff and induced victims to send funds via wire transfer or cryptocurrency training platforms
to purportedly remediate a non-existent virus or other false computer-related problem.
Social engineering scams such as fake investment offers and impersonation tactics were the leading
threat to crypto users according to accounting for losses in the billions of dollars and
representing nearly 41% of all crypto security incidents in 2025.
That's where the article ends. Huh. So, yep, there's another guy probably never was in America
just scamming Americans and the U.S. decides they can go and lock him up, but he cut his
ankle monitor off and ran away. I guess they're still looking for him too, so this shows you
that they're not all-knowing and all-seeing. You can't actually fly under the radar if you really
feel like you want to run away. You definitely can, and some people will.
It just goes to show that I think Ian Freeman is innocent and is not a criminal the way people
portray him, but there are also definitely criminals and people like, you know, the guy
referenced in this article that we just read that are criminals and definitely should be
put in a cage. However, I don't know if it's the U.S. government that should be
prosecuting everybody they think they should prosecute.
Right. Definitely. And you know, this kind of fraud, while I definitely don't condone it,
it's one of the least, one of the types of, you know, what libertarians would call aggression.
It's one of the least offensive forms, in my opinion, because
it's just don't get fooled. These things are not that sophisticated usually. They'll say,
this is a very sophisticated operation, but what it looks like is a text message from
some random number that you've never seen, and it's like, hey, I'm a 23-year-old college
student looking for whatever, whatever, and it's total bait, and I don't know
why anybody falls for this to put apparently billions of dollars, get funneled out that way,
and in the opinion of, you know, some people like John McAfee, they'd say good. Those people
deserve to get robbed. They paid to learn a lesson. Yeah. And I don't know if I go that far with
it. It's still fraud. It's still wrong, but at the same time, nobody's tricked me into
giving me, given any of my crypto to them ever. I've only ever sent it where I wanted to.
One time I tried to send a zero sat transaction fee transaction to see where we go, and I don't,
I still to this day don't know where that is. It was in BCH though, so I think, I don't know,
it's probably, I think it was in BCH in 2017. The price was like above a thousand.
I've never really been all that worried about it, but otherwise, you know, I've never,
I've never been scammed out of my crypto or anything else really. I don't think I've ever
run scammed out of my crypto either, that I can recall. And there's, there's been times where it's
like almost closed, but you hit a couple of checkpoints before you actually send the crypto
where a red flag comes up and you're like, Hey, something doesn't seem right. Yeah. And one
time I got, I got a message from, you know, one of the co-hosts on the show and it was like,
Hey, I need some crypto. And I entertained it for about, you know, five or six interactions back
and forth until I figured out that somebody just spoofed in an account to look like this
other one. And it was totally not even the person that I thought I was talking to. I was like,
Oh, I see. Nice try though. And, you know, they didn't get anything out of me.
Yeah. Which is the way it should go. 99.9% of the time with these things because they're not,
they're just not that clever. Oh, have a little self-awareness.
Right. And, you know, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
If some girl says, Oh, I'm so interested in you and blah, blah, blah. And it's so early
on in your first question should be, how'd you get my number? Yeah.
Who are you? People don't, people don't even go to that step.
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This is a calling show and we have a caller on the line, so we're going to go straight to the
phones. We have Sarah in New Mexico. You're on Free Talk Live. What's on your mind?
Oh, yes. We just finished the 30-day session this year and one of the bills was to add
three hours of vulnerable people on the road. It teaches that for you to stop for pedestrians
and cyclists. So, it's for all the new drivers.
Part of the driver's aid training. Right. Yeah, okay.
You think that's going to accomplish anything, Sarah?
I think it's better than nothing. You know, three hours of beating them into their heads,
like it's illegal to run over pedestrians at crosswalks and bicycles.
The people that don't forget their driver's aid training once they're done the driver's
aid, you do realize. Yeah, you know, it's an effort. I think it's not going to
really do much of much of anything except that, you know, it's a reminder. You know,
it has to, with a house bill, my representative Heather, what is it, a Bergman when she was
running, I actually called her and talked to her. I said, if I vote for you, will you help the
pedestrian safety? Because I'm a pedestrian. And it sounded like, you know, she wasn't
in favor of doing something. And she sponsored the bill. She's the one that wrote the bill,
came up with a bill and put it up for her and it made it to the governor's desk.
So I think it was kind of significant because, you know, if I, you know, when you get elected,
would you do something to make it safer? So, you know, something is better than nothing.
It's all, you know, happens by incremental things. So, you know, I think maybe we'll have
maybe a couple of pedestrians killed less. You know, just at the start of something,
you know, it's just all little things that eventually adds up to the big picture.
Well, I'm sure those couple of pedestrians will appreciate being killed less.
Yeah, I personally, I sympathize with this notion as well, though. I wish
there were a way to get it through young people's heads, particularly, you know,
young drivers are the worst about this. They just, they get in the car and they, they forget the
fact that it's, you know, 2000 pounds of whatever fiberglass or steel. Yeah. And it's going fast
enough to absolutely destroy human body. That is just the thought doesn't even occur to them.
And I wish there was a way to get it across. I just don't think three hours of extra training
is going to fix this. Well, unfortunately, they've already done up to this point, like 10,000 hours
of government indoctrination. They've learned the lesson well enough that they don't need to know
what the person in the front of the room is saying. They just have to satisfy,
you know, the standardized testing. Yeah. So they're absolutely incentivized to not pay
any attention. And most people, at least most people I know, maybe not everyone I know,
but a lot of people I know in school are just, I just want to know what I can do to get
through the test and survive this class. Whereas on a subject like that, they really
probably ought to be taken seriously. They've already been trained to not take any
subjects seriously because they know the bell is just going to ring in 15 minutes.
And then I got to be off to the next thing. Yeah. So yeah, just extra three hours.
So I was told that, I mean, they teach you how to be careful with bicyclists, pedestrians
already as it is. I remember that part in the training. I remember them talking about that,
like be extra careful about pedestrians and bicyclists. They had a big focus on that.
Right. That's New Hampshire. No, that was Utah, actually.
Oh, that was Utah? Yeah. Well, this is New Mexico. I wonder if that three hours the person
teach the people here that it's actually against the law to hit them and keep on going.
You know, it's, I don't know what it takes to get a driver's license in New Mexico.
You know, obviously they, they don't think it's a crime to, you know, run over
red lights and just hit people and keep on going. I think that's what it is that
different laws when this state is not considered like any kind of anything illegal.
I think maybe that actually just, it makes the situation worse when you try to frame it as
this is so illegal, you should never do it. That's not, that's not the way I look at it. It's,
it's something that consciously I would have a very hard time living with if I struck somebody
with a vehicle. And that's why I'm careful about it. Not because I think, you know, the law
is going to come down on me for it has nothing to do with that. And I'll run a red light if
nobody's around and, you know, like I'm waiting on nothing. Why am I going to wait for that
light? Well, you know, this class, it sounds good, but it, there has to be consequences.
Like as a matter of you sit there and they ramble on about another three hours of class,
if you do hit a pedestrian, they have to be sentencing or liability or
it's not going to have consequences like jail time. If it's not backed up by that,
there's nothing behind it. Or then you sit there and waste three more hours acting like you're
learning something, you know? A better social deterrent, in my opinion, would be
some kind of a public shaming toward, you know, everybody knows that you are irresponsible
when behind the wheel of a vehicle. In British where the scarlet ladder. Yeah.
Hey, I have a joke. You know, New Mexico, we're ranked out worst drivers by accidental data.
They actually keep a record. Okay. You know, with me, I don't need a data. All I have to do is look at
all the, you know, banged up fences, railings and apartments demolished. They're just all
these walls are knocked over everywhere, you know, just self-explanatory. You know,
like we are the worst drivers. Just looking at how much things they ran into.
So where's the joke?
Well, don't you think that's funny? I don't need a data to tell me this. I could just
see by looking at whatever they've demolished, ran into and destroyed.
Hmm. Yeah, that's funny. There's a whole list of things that
government does with data that would just, it'd be funny if it wasn't so
phase palmingly, just sad. Yeah. The kind of government. You know, it's like, this is
done by auto insurance companies. It's capitalist into entity. There's many involved in it.
See the auto, the insurance companies, they have to pay out. So they, they're the one that keeps
track of who did what and how many people it where, did Rex and that's who keeps track of it.
The government doesn't. I don't know if they hand over the data to the government later, but
So where, where did they post the rankings of worst drivers that you found?
Um, it's, it's classified auto insurance. It's, there's a one that keeps track of it.
Okay. I think, don't they have to, every time there's a wreck,
they have to analyze who did why, who was at fault, and then they have to pay out.
That makes sense. They would be doing that for their own interest. Yeah.
Right. There you go.
Keep track of all that. So yeah, they would know who's the least safe driving state.
Right. That was them. Yeah. It's not, it's not a, I mean, the government agency wouldn't, would not,
I think they, they would take data from them after they analyze it,
but they're the one that would keep track of that really detailed data. And then they came out with
apple cookie drivers and the Mexico drivers were the worst drivers.
You know, I guess. Have you thought about moving, Sarah?
There are other places.
It's horrible. You know, I, I like the weather here. My,
that's the only thing I don't like about New Mexico and I'm here. So I'm trying to improve
all of it. Okay. Well, that's a decent attitude. There are things I liked quite a bit about
Albuquerque. The, um, I forgot what the name of that mountain range is. I think it's out.
Yeah. Yeah. Those are some nice mountains.
And the air always just kind of spells nice and deserty there.
Plenty of sagebrush and the weather's nice. So there are things to like about Albuquerque.
That's one thing I miss about the desert is the smell.
Yeah.
Anyways, you got anything else for her, Sarah?
On reality, you know, some people say all the politicians are the same. To me, they're different.
And you, a lot of people feel that they're worse. The worst of the other, the other ones.
But to me, I feel like there is a difference between the president and the less
worth president, you know, what is the difference between Obama and Bush?
Obama and Bush and what about Trump? Well, you know, I, I tell you something,
when we have those awful presidents, if you're an American living a broader, traveling a broader
embassy, you're like, the foreign policy is so horrible, like they want you to get out of there.
You know, like, you know, Ron, if you're in a military base now, they'll tell you to escape.
Yeah, but that didn't get, that didn't get better after Bush when Obama took over and got worse.
Well, I don't know. I don't, I don't think we had all that, um, controversy as Reagan.
Absolutely. You had the Bengali thing. You had, uh, let's see, you had, um, is that when they
overthrew Libya? I think so, yeah. And Gaddafi. Yep. And, uh, Obama is famous for being the
drone strike in his president in history. And, um, like he definitely didn't make the, uh, the
public perception of America better. He made it worse. And that's what, that's what we mean by
that. Uh-huh. Well, the prince, wasn't he a capitalist, um, in cahoots with the American
oil companies and they booted him out. But basically Iran is a communist country. It
has turned into communist country. And then his son is still alive, but he's not welcome. I think
that's what's going on. And that's why they shut up the missile to Ukraine to help them out.
Um, so they're, they're basically socialist communists fighting with Russians.
And that's why they want to have a fight with Iran. So there you have it. I,
what I noticed is that most of the, um, Middle Eastern countries are socialist communist,
um, countries, they don't have turned that way. And, uh, most of the South American countries
are socialist, um, communist countries leaning. And, um, it's no surprise that
they even have a poison that killed that, that guy in prison that anti in Russia,
it was a South American frog poison. You know, isn't that kind of ironic? You know,
because I think the Russians are there to establish a communist system in South America.
They would know a poisonous rock from South America. So I just put that together.
Well, yeah, kind of accepted. So communist is the label that the, um, the Western regime will
slap on any country that it wants to pick a fight with. Um, communist is not, it's not
really an ideology that holds strongly in a lot of places where they claim that it does.
Maybe it does in China, maybe it does in Russia, probably not so much in Iran. I would guess they're
just, you know, they're just a place that wants to be left alone to do their own thing for the
most part. And well, the U.S. has been meddling with Iran since the 1950s, as far as I'm aware.
Yeah. Yep. And, uh, wasn't he living high off the hog from the travel shows that I have seen?
He was like living in mansions and stuff like that because he wasn't, he was in the bed with,
um, American oil companies, you know, like, so he got all the money.
You're talking about the son of the shawl oil,
Gaddafi or whatever that Prince that got exiled. Oh, Gaddafi. He started making a gold currency
and they didn't like that. That seemed to be the final straw with that.
Is that what happened? That and he was gonna, he was actually doing some things that we're gonna
bring prosperity to that part, that part of Africa. And they couldn't have that could be,
because once you have an African country show that it could be prosperous,
you know, pretty soon they're all gonna do it and then they're uncontrollable.
And Africa is a major hub of, you know, like international trade for resources of all kinds.
That's why China is doing the, what do they, they call it the Belt and Road, right? This
basically their highway to get all the minerals out of Africa.
Well, Venezuela, when they were in the States, they were Chinese. So it gets that to when
the, go back to China because they were doing business in Venezuela. They were there to
their communists, to their allies. And, uh, Chinese are developing a lot of
African countries too, before what I was told. Yeah, China is pretty much one Africa and America is
is not even looking at that with any interest anymore. They used to run, the Westerners used
to run a big portion of Africa. Now they're just kind of giving up on it, letting China have it.
Trump now wants Greenland, which he occasionally calls Iceland. Yeah. And,
um, and Venezuela, right? But that's only because this has been set out by like
Council on Foreign Relation, UN type agendas where, uh, where they have this notion of
blocking up the world into anywhere from three to five power blocks, right? So the Western
one, they have envisioned as being Greenland, Canada, Mexico and the United States and some
of South America. And they call that the, um, the American Technique or the, or the
Homeland America, American Technique, Technique Homeland or something like that. So,
Well, I don't know. I think Mexico is communist because I think if you want to go to
Communist Cuba, you could actually travel back and forth from Mexico. They've always,
it was not, it was never an embargo. Mexico is just doing whatever they can under the thumb of
CIA. They're, um, they're, they're scattered because, you know, the corruption that runs
through that place and the corruption is all sponsored by, you know, the Western establishment.
And so they basically operate as much in the gray and black markets as they can and it
works out well for them. Uh, things seem pretty decent in Mexico most of the time. It's like,
obviously Mexico City is going to be a little rough and things like that. But, um,
Mexico is a decent place to live.
You know, Kroski or whatever that guy that was, they're going to kill him in Russia,
Kroski or whatever, he ran into Mexico City because it's a communist country at the time.
They welcome them, right? Kroski? Yeah, Kroski, yeah. Why did he out of all the countries to hide,
he went to Mexico to hide? I don't know, there seems to be some kind of a weird, um,
it was like a weird espionage pipeline that goes between Russia and Mexico or definitely was around
that time because you have a whole Oswald, um, Lehar v. Oswald being in Russia for a long time
at a time when no America was really allowed to just hang out in Russia.
And, you know, that's because he was all hooked up in the intelligence community and like their
side business of, what, fomenting coups and running drugs and weapons and all the stuff that they
said about who the, the Oswald, what is this guy? Is he the one that, the Oklahoma bomber?
No, that's the one they said killed JFK. Allegedly. Yeah, the uh, the Patsy that they put up as being
the JFK killer. And he was hanging down in Mexico? Yeah, he was in Mexico City, um, and he was in
Russia, he was in Moscow. And, uh, there were, yeah, there's a lot to his story. So there's
Trotsky, Trotsky was funded by the Westerners in the first place.
I don't know if you know about that, but that was all like rockerfeller money and, um,
a large part of it was, uh, Ross child money as well.
Oh, is that why he was fighting and picking fights with all the Communist parties to
break them up? Is that, and then he got took bribe for it? Is that what his job was?
I'm not sure. All I know is he was in New York and got loaded up with a whole bunch of cash
before he went over to Russia and did his thing there. Interesting. Oh boy. Interesting.
Oh my goodness. I never heard that. I just, I just thought he liked to pick. I wasn't
he like a founder of a Communist party and, and so in the Russia, but I never heard that he,
he took bribe. Yeah. Well, I never knew that. I don't know if it was bribes exactly, but he
was funded by people with an agenda and they have the same agenda as they do all over
the world. It's a very small global club that kind of does, um, what do they call it?
What would the big new Brzezinski call it? Uh, the grand chess board, right? Uh, that,
I think that was his book and they, it's, it's all about geopolitical strategy and whatever,
but it's not, it's never what they tell you it is that it's always, um, a very small
group of people with a whole bunch of money that decide what's going to happen and then
what story they're going to make up to tell the rest of us about it.
Well, so just like I applied to make sure everyone's paying attention and falling in line.
You know, history is a strange thing when you start looking into it. Yeah.
Yeah. But did you believe in 1988 the one that Berlin wall fell that communism fell to?
I, I thought if that was a major con job, you know, because the worships were so
strong just overnight are the collapse. I, I thought that was always fishy. I, I never believed it.
Yeah. I don't know a whole lot about that one. And it wasn't real impactful on me at that time.
Thanks for the call tonight, Sarah. I was only eight years old when that happened.
I was too. I was two years old when that happened.
But yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of fishy stuff about it, as well as in the early 90s when the
Soviet Union had split apart. Yeah. That was all. I'm sure there was a whole bunch of fishy
goings on in that. I just haven't looked at the end of that part. Give us a call. The phone
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And Riley O'Bill. In the last segment, we had a conversation with Sarah.
All about how New Mexico, she started her call out off with talking about how New Mexico
was adding three extra hours of training to their driver's app program or something like that to
say, oh, it's against a lot of kill pedestrians. Well, I don't know how much good that's going to
do because whether it's against a law or not, it's still a terrible idea to drive a car
and kill people. So I don't know how good the training's actually going to be.
Maybe it's just three extra hours that a student has to deal with a class.
Yeah, I don't think it'll be very effective. The kids aren't paying attention to that.
They're just waiting until they can play with their phone again.
Let's see. She's talking a little bit about the geopolitical situation as well.
Yep. So kind of along those lines, I think we could read this story here.
This is from, I found this also at Activist Post. This is from Max Blumenthal.
A U.S. funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment
of Venezuela's acting president to hold it over her head and will execute it if she derails.
The Trump administration is using a secret indictment to assert leverage over Venezuela's
acting president, Delcey Rodriguez, according to the editor-in-chief of the U.S.
government-funded outlet Armando.info. One of the information we manage is that the U.S.
is holding an indictment against Rodriguez to make it public just in case she derails.
Valentina Lariz-Martiz revealed during a February 6,
2026 webinar hosted by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project,
the OCCRP, an outlet also sponsored by the U.S. government.
Just hold it over her head. Oh, just hold it over her head, asked OCCRP Deputy Editor Julia Wallace.
Yeah, so I think she and her brother, Jorge Rodriguez, are in this survival mode and they
will have the capacity to move the pieces as long as the U.S. backs her up. Armando.info's
Lariz-Martiz affirmed. A January 17, 2026 report by the Associated Press revealed
that the Drug Enforcement Administration classified acting president Rodriguez as a
priority target almost as soon as she was appointed as Vice President in 2018.
David Smilde, an academic who crusades for regime change in Venezuela at the U.S.
government and Exxon Mobile-funded Atlantic Council, described the DEA investigations
of Rodriguez as logical. Smilde explained to the AP that the investigation gives the U.S.
government leverage over her. She may fear that if she does not do as the Trump administration demands,
she could end up with an indictment like Maduro. During the OCCRP webinar, Stephen Dudley of the
State Department-funded Insight Crime Outlet remarked that, this isn't without precedent
in terms of the U.S. government hanging an indictment over somebody
to control them into doing their bidding.
That seems like dirty dealings.
Yeah, the United States government-
They just say all about now, too.
The United States government lately has been dealing in dirty dealings for a long time,
so I'm not surprised.
Yeah, it's been going on for a long time, but they'd like, for the most part,
you had to really be paying attention to hear them say it. Now they just say it.
Oh yeah, they just want to make it front and center.
Yeah, Dudley added, they don't need an indictment to cajole people.
They have a giant military and they've shown that they're willing to use that military.
That is the biggest stick.
Jesus, horrible things to say.
Confronting a military aggression unprecedented in our history,
Delcy Rodriguez stepped in as acting president following a deadly U.S. military raid on Caracas
this January 3rd, which left over 100 dead, including 32 Cuban military officers,
and resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife,
Celia Flores. In an interview with the Atlantic the following day, U.S. President Donald Trump
recognized Rodriguez as the new leader, but warned if she doesn't do what's right,
she's going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.
Since then, Rodriguez has presided over the passage of an organic law on hydrocarbons,
which rolled back the socialist reforms to the late President Hugo Chavez,
made to the country's state oil company, PDVSA.
In a January 16 speech to Venezuela's National Council of Economic Productivity,
Rodriguez explained the impetus for the new law.
Enough time has passed and Venezuela has been subjected to an unprecedented economic blockade.
Well, recently there has been a military aggression unprecedented in our history,
and Venezuela must move forward without compromising historical principles or compromising
Venezuelan dignity, and in that direction we have made the decision,
seeing the successful results of the business models contemplated in the organic anti-blockade law,
to take the models that are there and incorporate them into the organic law on hydrocarbons.
While the law allows Venezuela to draw new revenue streams from an oil sector that has
administration has assumed custody of Venezuela's oil revenue at the point of a gun,
holding the profits in a private account in Qatar, which is not accountable to Congress.
That's not good.
Rodriguez and her older brother Jorge have both served in influential roles under Maduro,
with Delcey Rodriguez operating as vice president while overseeing hydrocarbon policy.
In 2018, she initiated a project to survive Trump's maximum pressure policy successfully
guiding an organic anti-blockade law through the constituent assembly, which reformed PDVSA.
Since Maduro's abduction, the Rodriguez siblings have been undermounting pressure
to accommodate onerous demands from Washington in order to prevent a destabilizing process
of regime change. Do you remember the videos of Donald Trump talking about regime change and
like how American needed to stop with the regime change and-
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I remember hearing about that. Well, I guess he's furthering the U.S.
agenda of regime change.
Putting out things quick, how quick things change.
Yeah. Just like he was saying a long time ago that Obama would use a war with Iran
to get her elected. Well, guess what, ladies and gentlemen, Trump is weighing options
to go to war with Iran.
Yeah, and I knew this was coming. And it's okay if you got tricked. You shouldn't feel too bad.
I mean, he did say the right things. Just, you know, I knew he wasn't-
Trust not their words. Trust their actions.
Yeah, trust that guy did not regime change a country. Sure.
Let's see. Looming behind every move is the memory of their father Jorge Antonio Rodriguez,
a leftist militant who was tortured to death in prison by CIA-trained interrogators under a
pro-U.S. government in 1976. In the past, the U.S. Department of Justice has used sealed
indictments to deny targets of its global lawfare regime to change the chance to preempt investigations.
As the gray zone revealed, Trump's DOJ secretly intited WikiLeaks co-founder Julie Assange
on December 21, 2017, just one day after CIA spies learned that Assange was planning to
leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he had been given sanctuary.
On April 11, 2019, British police stormed the embassy on U.S. orders and arrested Assange
in a blatant violation of diplomatic sovereignty. Colombian-born Venezuelan official Alex Saab
was also the target of a secret U.S. indictment that was only publicized after he was abducted
from an airport in Cape Verde while on an official diplomatic mission in 2020.
During the OCCRP webinar, Armando de Info's Laris Martiz noted that the U.S. slapped
sanctions on Delce Rodriguez in 2017, however she doesn't have an open and formal investigation
against her. But that could all change, she insisted, if the acting president defies
the Trump administration's paternalistic instructions.
Pro-transparency Armando de Info based at a Delaware mailbox funded by Washington.
Laris Martiz is in a prime position to know if the U.S. is preparing a secret indictment of
Rodriguez as the publication she edits Armando de Info functions at the center of a network
of U.S. government funded journalistic outlets which exist to shop dirt on the Latin American
leaders targeted by Washington. You hear what they're doing with your tax money?
I do.
Let me read this again. Laris Martiz is in a prime position to know if the U.S. is preparing
a secret indictment of Rodriguez as the publication she edits Armando de Info functions
at the center of a network of U.S. government funded journalistic outlets
which exist only to stop, only to shop dirt on Latin American leaders targeted by Washington.
Yeah, I guess, I mean, Norm is just going to go, yeah, that's what
national intelligence and security is. But I don't know, that's just plain dirty.
Though its staff operates from Bogota, Colombia, Armando de Info is registered in a post office
box in Newark, Delaware, where it is listed by Delaware's division of corporation as not in
good standing. Interesting. It's a, yeah, they've even gone ahead and posted the information
right from, right from that website showing that it's a corporation not in good standing.
One of Armando de Info's top donors is the National Endowment for Democracy. Those guys
are not good. A CIA spinoff which channels U.S. money into opposition parties and media
promoting regime change. The outlet is also listed as a member of the global network
of OCCRP, which has received most of its budget from the U.S. agency for international development,
USAID. A 2024-25 frontline documentary series about Armando de Info's work in Venezuela,
a dangerous assignment, made it clear the outlet's staff were dedicated anti-Chavista
operatives seemingly coordinating their work with the U.S. government.
The documentary chronicled the investigation by Laris Martiz and her colleague Roberto
Deniz of the Colombian-born Venezuelan official, Alex Saab, who had spearheaded a food importation
program known as CLAP that claimed that aimed to prevent widespread hunger amid crushing
American sanctions by providing food at below market value to the Venezuelan public. Published
by the U.S. government's public broadcasting service, a dangerous assignment, received investment
support from Luminate, a NGO founded by U.S. intelligence adjacent billionaire Pierre Omidar.
In 2020, Saab was abducted under orders from U.S. authorities following a series of Armando
de Info reports accusing him of using the CLAP program as an avenue for corruption.
He was released from U.S. federal prison through a December 2023 prisoner swap.
By this point, Armando de Info's leadership had left Venezuela following lawsuits by
attorney general Tarik William Saab. In the aftermath of Maduro's abduction,
the Armando de Info team is homing in on Saab once again and apparently working to whip up
a dossier on the newly inaugurated president. But during the OCCRP webinar, Laris Martiz
conceded that she lacks compromising information on Delce Rodriguez and her brother Jorge.
They are hardly in any cases of corruption that I have written about or in Armando de Info or even
OCCRP has investigated. Sounds like they're squeaky clean. But she suggested that U.S.
intelligence is actively investigating Venezuela's state oil company in search of dirt on
Venezuela's new president. Everything is related to corruption in PDVSA, she remarked. I think
it's going to be looked up very carefully. On January 16, Rodriguez met in her office with CIA
director John Ratcliffe. Later that month, CNN reported that the CIA is poised to help
actively manage the Trump administration's dealings with Venezuela's new leadership.
In other words, the CIA is poised to run Venezuela.
And Trump's going to let them. Of course he has. He wants to be the big dog in the neighborhood by
keeping peace. So the summary of that story is that the CIA is using a reporting agency,
like a news agency, to gather intelligence and build a dossier or any kind of criminal
things they could point at for the new president of Venezuela who was previously the vice president
in order to keep her in line. This is Blackmail. That's the way everything's run. That's the
main point of the Epstein stuff in my opinion. I know a lot of that is people think it's just about
weird sex stuff or child victims or cannibalism or whatever. But that is an aspect of what it's
really about, which is control through Blackmail. Everybody who gets to make big decisions on the
world stage has some amount of Blackmail on them keeping them under control. That's the
main takeaway from all this Epstein stuff. Yeah. They basically want to have enough dirt on you
that if they find you doing something that is out of line with their agenda, they'll release
the dirt they have on you to the public. So fall in line or incur the wrath? Pretty much.
Let's see. What else is going on?
Well, there are a lot of things going on that we could talk about. Silver is going up and down.
Bitcoins going up and down. Not that these things matter, but...
The metals market things also kind of a geopolitical global thing going on.
Price of silver in China right now is 10 to 20 percent higher than it is over here.
I think so, yeah. And that's for various reasons that are complicated, but worth looking into if
you're interested in that stuff. If not, maybe just buy a little silver. Silver Dave I think has
the best prices on fractional silver anywhere if I heard that right. So maybe you don't want to
buy a whole bunch. Maybe you just want like a little bit. You can buy these gorgeous little
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Silver Dave's operation. He does really good work. Highly recommend them.
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Definitely check out his work. Definitely check him out. Local silver mint.
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Let's see. One of the big goings on in the libertarian community is the debacle of pork
fest slash fork fest for this year. Yeah. It sounds like there may not be a pork fest at all
this year. I don't know if that's an official announcement, but that's the word that I've
heard floating around. I've heard that word too. I've also heard rumors that they're going to announce
a real location for pork fest at Liberty Forum this year, which is March 5th through the 8th
in what is it, Concord? And then they're holding it in Concord this year.
That's getting a little close to the deadline. It seems like if they have something worked
out, they might want to say it now. Yeah, definitely. But definitely if they don't
have anything set by the 8th, I'm going to say it's not happening this year,
because I don't know. They're running out of time, definitely. Oh yeah. And people like to plan for
these things. So fork fest is still a thing since it has no leaders and is dependent on
people behaving themselves and having a good time. And it's decentralized, so there's no
one organizing it and saying we're going to do this at this time, get a sign up here to do
a speech, or you get a sign up here to provide your vending. You show up, you do your vending,
you give a speech. If people want to show up for your speech, then perfect. If people don't, perfect.
Yeah, should be a good time if the attendees make it so.
And it's going to entirely depend on you. Like if you go to fork fest expecting to be
entertained and you're not providing entertainment, well, you're not learning
why fork fest is a thing. You're learning that, hey, I should provide, I should rely on others
to do the work for me. Well, you got to do the work yourselves on, as they would say. So
go to forkfest.party to learn more about fork, about fork fest and come attend. It's going
to be a fun event. Now, the reason we should probably get into a bit of the history about fork
fest fork fest is a spin off of the porcupine freedom festival. Some people were upset with
the way the Free State project was handling pork fest. And so it was like, ah, well, let's do
our own thing either before or after the porcupine freedom festival. And so fork fest became a
thing entirely entirely decentralized. You show up for your own thing, provide your goods, provide
your services, whatever. And that was that it was a way to get back to the original porcupine
freedom festival. So that's what I remember as a history of fork fest. Yep. And sometimes
historically it has preceded pork fest. Sometimes it has come after. This year it might just run the
week that pork fest normally would have and there's not going to be a pork fest, but we'll see how
all this boils out. Yeah, we will. Only time will tell. I just find it interesting that,
you know, libertarians, libertarians seem to love to argue and, you know, we've conditioned
ourselves as libertarians to love arguing so much that we argue amongst ourselves
a little too much. So, you know,
Sam Bingman Fried is back in the news. Oh, the fraudster himself, huh? Yeah. He wants a new trial.
It looks like his mom went and filed a request to have a new trial.
Okay. So we can get into that article. Let's do it. Especially if we don't get any callers.
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I'm not interested in supporting the killing of people around the world. I'm not interested in
supporting the imprisoning of people within this country. So that should make it pretty clear
what my position is. What's yours, Frankie? Oh, I have an inclination from what's going on
and, you know, the media, how the media plays into it and how they're popping up with
different areas in the world, like Somalia. Who's popping up with different areas of the world?
Hell no. Who's popping up? You said someone's popping up. They are popping up. Who is they?
Yeah, I don't watch television. I don't even have television. Do you guys watch the news?
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I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back at some of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten-Winzer,
formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of
misconduct in public office. It relates to his time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of
confidential material with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has
long denied any wrongdoing. FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London. What police are further
saying is that this is part of an investigation now they confirm. The reason that is significant
is that previously Thames Valley Police had simply said they were assessing claims that had been
made to them about the potential of misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a
formal investigation is underway and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on
suspicion of misconduct in public office and they say they're also carrying out searches
at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's
sweeping tariffs on global trading partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined
that the tariffs didn't have the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from
Washington. This ruling is a tremendous blow for the US President and a rare rebuke of his
presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe
he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional
authorization to exercise this power. They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power to
unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. He has reacted by calling
the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House will
look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs using other means. India joined the US-led
infrastructure initiative called PAX-SILICA, which is widely seen as a countermeasure to China's
dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. It came as top US companies like
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google pledged to invest billions of dollars in India during an AI Impact
Summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. India joined the PAX-SILICA initiative
on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit, ending speculation over whether trade tensions were
getting in the way of broader cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. According to the US
State Department, PAX-SILICA is aimed at bringing friendly countries together
to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies. The initiative was launched in December last
year with countries including the UK, Australia, South Korea, and the UAE as its first few
members. With India pitching itself as a key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the
move not only highlights New Delhi's role on a global stage, but also signals
thaw in US-India ties. Ishan Garg, New Delhi. From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN. 11 people
were arrested in France over the recent killing of a far-right activist. Conten Deronk died
after sustaining a severe brain injury when he was attacked on the sidelines of a far-right
protest against a left-wing politician speaking in the city of Lyon. FSN's Ross Cullen reports from Paris.
The 23-year-old was part of a group providing security for nationalist activists who were
demonstrating against the leftist gathering at a university in France's third biggest city of
Lyon. Video footage of the attack on the 12th of February shows a group of people setting
upon Conten Deronk who's kicked multiple times before being left lying on the sidewalk while
those involved in the attack fled on foot. The incident has fueled tension between France's
far-right and hard-left ahead of local elections in March and next year's presidential race
in which the Nationalist Party is currently leading the polls. Ross Cullen, Paris.
US civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died at the age of 84. He was one
of America's most influential black figures and twice ran for president. FSN's Tony Waterman
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He was there when King was assassinated in 1968. He was in fact very close to him when that happened
physically, just a couple of feet away. But he is really seen as carrying on the fight for
black Americans. He transformed American politics, particularly the Democratic Party,
by empowering these marginalized communities through his coalition, getting millions and millions of
black Latino and Asian Americans to register to vote and completely reshaping the face of the
Democratic Party. Those were some of the week's top stories. Iris Spitzer wrote.
They started with Google Glass and now the engineers behind Google have created a new
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So we were about to talk about Sam Bankman Freed again. You know, just a side note,
Sam Bankman Freed was coming on to the new cycle when Ian Freeman was put on trial. So
I wonder if that had anything to do with this conviction.
Um, let's get into this story here. Sam Bankman Freed, the former CEO of Collapsed Crypto Exchange
FTX, is seeking a new trial according to a request filed in a New York federal court by his mother.
Since being convicted and imprisoned on a 25 year sentence, SPF has been continually
challenging his situation in court. The latest motion for a new trial first reported
on Tuesday by inner city press was filed by his mother Barbara Freed, claiming new evidence in the
case would justify a reset. The filing noted the initial absence of testimony from figures,
including FTX's Ryan Salome, who who fought his own separate legal battle.
The former FTX executive Salome was also convicted on federal charges, but had
claimed he made an arrangement to cooperate with prosecutors that should have protected his wife,
Michelle Bond, from legal pursuit. She was later charged with allegedly
taking illegal campaign contributions in her congressional bid.
SPF's 35 page document arrived at the court as a pro se request,
meaning the defendant is representing himself. How does one represent themselves? Don't you just
present yourself because it's yourself? I think so. I don't know how you represent yourself.
Earlier efforts by SPF to argue he didn't get a fair initial trial, which came to a
head in November, were met with some skepticism by appellate judges.
SPF's defense in seeking a retrial through appeal focused attention on the later solvency
of FTX and his account on the social media site X continues to make the argument that the company
wasn't bankrupt when it collapsed. However, judges contended in November that solvency
didn't seem to be the primary issue. Part of the government's theory of the case is that
the defendant misrepresented to investors that their money was safe, was not being used in the way
that it was, the government claims, and the jury convicted it was, in fact, used.
Said Circuit Judge Maria Arruho Khan, referring to the misappropriation of customer
money at the heart of his conviction. Shutting down another potential path to freedom,
President Donald Trump recently said he wouldn't consider clemency for SPF.
However, the former FTX CEO is still campaigning for himself via his account on X, arguing he's
victim of former President Joe Biden's lawfare machine, accelerating convergence between traditional
and on-chain finance in 2026. So, Bankman Fried is going after a new trial. I wonder what the
courts are going to decide on this one, because it sounds like to me he may not get
another trial based on what we know about him. I think it's just a last ditch effort to try and
get a new trial, so we'll see. It's funny he claims that he's a victim of the Biden regime's
lawfare machine, because wasn't he, wasn't part of his misappropriation of customer funds that
he was giving it to like the Democratic Party? I have no idea. Maybe I'm remembering that wrong,
but... If it was, it's kind of strange. Yeah, I think he was just absolutely backfilling the
coffers of the Democrats. Right, and now that they're not in power, his friends can't bail him
out of jail. I don't know if he was surprised that his quote-unquote friends threw him under
the bus, but whether you hang out with those types of people and call them your friends,
that's what's going to happen to you. Right. So, I don't know. SBF might be even a decent person
for all I know. I really don't know all that much about him. I doubt it. He's probably
pretty scummy, but you hang out with those guys. That's how you get to end up,
whether you like it or not. Whether you're a good person or not,
doesn't really matter. Yeah. Hang out with evil people, they're going to rub off on you.
I've got one here about further destruction to the economy at the hands of Trump.
This is Google Expans in India to avoid Trump's $100,000 H1B visa fee.
On Friday, September 19, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation
restriction on entry of certain non-immigrant workers that took an important initial and
incremental step to reform the H1B visa program to curb abuses and protect American workers.
This proclamation requires a $100,000 payment to accompany any new H1B visa petitions
submitted after 12.01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 21, 2025. This includes the
2026 lottery and any other H1B petition submitted after 12.01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on
September 21, 2025, authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of
State to coordinate to take all necessary and appropriate action to implement this proclamation.
Alphabetting gives plotting to dramatically expand its presidents in India with the
possibility of taking millions of square feet of new office space in Bangalore,
India's tech hub. Google's parent company has leased one office tower and purchased options
on two others in Alembic City, a development in the Whitefield Tech Corridor totaling 2.4
million square feet, according to people familiar with the deal. The first tower is expected
to open to employees in the coming months while construction on the remaining two is set to
conclude next year. Options in the real estate industry give would-be tenants the exclusive
right to rent or in some cases buy a property at a pre-determined price with a specific timeframe.
It's also possible Alphabet will not exercise the option to use the additional towers.
If it does take all the space, the complex could accommodate as many as 20,000 additional
staff which could more than double the company's footprint in India, said the people asking not
to be identified because the plans aren't public. Alphabet currently employs around
14,000 in the country out of a global workforce of roughly 190,000.
Google rivals, including OpenAI and Anthropic PVC, have recently set up shop in the country
with Anthropic appointing former Microsoft Corp executive Irenek Goz to lead its India
operations in January. India has a real opportunity to shape how AI is built and deployed at scale,
Goz said at the time. For U.S. tech giants, India offers a strategic workaround to Washington's
tightening immigration regime. The Trump administration has moved to sharply hike
the fees for H1B work visas potentially to $100,000 per application,
making it harder for companies to bring Indian engineers to the U.S.
The shift is feeling the growth of so-called global capability centers or technology hubs
operated by multinational corporations across sectors from software and retail to finance.
Many of these centers are now focused on building AI products and infrastructure.
NASCARM, India's IT industry trade group, estimates such centers will employ 2.5 million
people by 2030 up from 1.9 million today. Google has already a major player in this shift.
Last year it opened its largest campus in Bangalore, complete with an indoor mini golf,
pickleball courts, and cafeterias serving cardamom tea.
For AI giants like Alphabet, India's appeal is not just its talent pool, tens of millions of new
internet users come online annually, becoming potential customers for chatbots and AI assistants,
as well as trying out new AI coding tools. The India headcount for the U.S.
tech giants Facebook, Amazon.com, Inc., Apple, Inc., Microsoft Core,
Netflix, Inc., and Google collectively grew by 16 percent over the last 12 months,
the biggest jump in a three-year period, according to
talent solutions and staffing company Zeno, Zeno PVT.
So it sounds like Google and Alphabet are expanding to India,
not just because of the talent pool, as they said, that because new users are going to be available,
people are coming online. I think it's going to be interesting to watch how India and Asia
are going to dominate the AI space in coming years. They're going to be online more.
The third world's going to come online more. It's going to be really interesting to see what happens.
Yeah, it does seem there's a tech race going on for that.
Trump's solution was to throw $500 billion at it, calling it Operation Warp Speed,
one of the first things he did, and then China was like,
dude, we can make what you're trying to make for less than a million bucks.
And they just laughed at him. But I don't know, Trump didn't pull back his $500 billion to his
tech bro buddies. This article concludes by saying, congratulations to Trump.
Congratulations to Trump for creating as many as 600,000 jobs. Well, sort of. Those jobs are
India. In October, Google had said it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up
an artificial intelligence data center in India's southern state of Andhra, Pradesh,
its biggest ever investment in the nation. That's $15 billion there, not here.
It says the question, what do we call this? Answer, winning, silly.
It's not like we need workers here spending money in the US. That's why it ends.
I'm torn on this. I don't know. You work where the incentive is.
You really do. You can only go where the work goes and there's no work in your
town or whatever. You got to go somewhere else.
Yeah. And I've always found it distasteful when economists and social planners start talking
about my incentives and what I'm going to do. You know what I mean? You guys can't actually
make anything. I can make super high quality stuff. You can't do any of it. Here you are.
You're making the lion's share of the money just planning what I'm going to do
when you can't actually do any of it. How does that make any sense?
That was a big reason I quit being a machinist.
Oh, and by the way, without me as a machinist, America, you can't win a war.
You're going to need me building your missiles or they weren't just not going to work very well.
You don't think they can automate the process?
Well, they would need me to maintain those robots. I know how the automation robots
work too. They definitely need human oversight.
Yeah. I've been listening to a few videos on YouTube from an airline pilot who
talks about his opinion is that automation can be good for the aviation industry,
but it will never replace an experienced pilot in the cockpit because
if you have an experienced pilot, they can make better decisions than a computer.
That's true and it isn't true. Targeting software by AI is going to be way
more accurate and fast than a human ever could be. Sure.
So there's that aspect of it, but also split second decisions
probably still go to the human at this point because the AI is going to misinterpret data.
Yeah. Whereas the human mind is,
it's incredibly good at calculating a whole bunch of data real fast in situations like that
where it's like, you know, you got to make a muscle response in order to save your life.
Human brains are incredibly good at that real fast.
Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. Good job, Trump.
I know, right?
$100,000 H1B visas. I wonder, I don't know. It'll be interesting to look at how many
of those are applied for and granted and then where that money came from and
I'll bet there's a whole bunch of corruption that ensues there.
Well, we live in a time of corruption and everything is coming out right now.
Yeah. What else we got? We were talking about the metals markets earlier.
You know who Peter Schiff is?
I've heard of the name. I know he's a huge proponent of metals.
So he does shift gold and he has, for a long time,
hovered around the crypto community and has been shouting at them about how gold is better than
crypto. And recently, he has really made his statement well. And his whole point is,
you know, Bitcoin's not backed by anything. I could give you a crypto that's actually backed
by gold. And so that's like the best of both worlds, right? The sound money people want
return to the gold standard. And the crypto people want, you know, easy to use, cheap
transactions, send it anywhere in the world, digital, magic internet money.
So if you had a gold backed one of those, that's the best of both worlds.
And you're in good shape. Well, I think he's now offering just that.
So we'll see how that goes. I'm kind of excited about that.
It'll be interesting to see how it goes for sure. I wish there was a way for me to audit
everything. If there were a gold backed crypto, I wish there was a way, a simple way,
for me as a layman to audit, that's the crypto to see, okay, well, they're able to back my
transactions up with gold. They have the gold, they'd store it somewhere. So I don't know, it would
be nice. It would be nice. The other thing along those similar lines that I heard,
and we were speaking of earlier, Silver Dave, he is now offering, I'm not exactly sure what
the details on it are, but he's offering precious metal banking, essentially, to where you'll get
an interest return paid in Silver on Silver deposits with him.
Interesting.
I think I'm going to look into that. Silver is definitely a more appealing currency,
in my opinion, than gold is. What's more appealing to you about Silver than
gold? Gold seems more appealing to me, but it's also really expensive.
Well, I don't know. I don't know that I could put my finger on it, but after having listened to
a bunch of history specifically about money,
the things that stuck out to me was how hard it was for the Western establishment to wrench Silver
out of the hands of countries like Mexico and the Philippines. These guys just did not want
to give up their Silver currencies, and in America had to put it to them hard to get them to
do it. Whereas with gold currencies, that's fairly easy to ruin. You just cause an incentive
for all the gold to flee the country, and there it goes. Like a terrible paper money will do it,
if you get rid of all it. But for some reason with Silver, people seem to feel more of a
conviction of that being worth something. Maybe it's just a perception of mine?
I don't know. But to me, it seems like Silver is the people's money, whereas gold is the king's money.
That may not be the best analogy either, but that was probably the best I can do to explain
my feelings on the situation. Well, I think to some extent, I would agree with you. I like
how gold is definitely the king's money, but there are things out there to make it more
easy for me to get gold into my hands. Like, for instance, the gold back. The gold back has
a revolutionary note, if you will. It's made of a polymer plastic that has gold embedded into
it. And to me, that's really, really amazing that someone came up with this process of
golden this piece of plastic that I can turn around and give to you, Stu, and maybe buy something from
you. Yeah, gold backs are really cool. As far as holding actual gold coins or even gold jewelry,
it seems too valuable for its weight to be a very safe thing to do because,
so like the 10,000 silver pieces are pretty small. Small enough, they'd be pretty easy to lose.
If you had one of those in gold, losing that would cost you a whole lot more.
Oh, yeah. In fact, a 10,000 of gold would be, well, 500 bucks. Yeah. So still not cheap,
you know what I mean? And that's why I love the gold backs. They even have them in
one half of 1,000th of an ounce denominations now. Yep, now they're actually doing a quarter
gold back. They're doing a quarter gold back now, huh? Oh man, that's awesome.
I know. It's crazy. So that would be $2.50, right? $2.50 for a quote.
Except they carry them at a, they sell them at a double spot, right? So I guess that'd be five bucks.
It's probably where they would value it on the gold back site,
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Victimless crime spree. From Feature Story News in San Francisco, I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back
at some of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince
Andrew of the British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
It relates to his time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of confidential material
with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has long denied any wrong
doing. FSN's Ollie Barrett has more from London. What police are further saying is that this is
part of an investigation now they confirm. The reason that is significant is that previously
Thames Valley Police had simply said they were assessing claims that had been
made to them about the potential of misconduct in a public office. They've now confirmed a
formal investigation is underway and an arrest has been made. They say the arrest was made on
suspicion of misconduct in public office, and they say they're also carrying out searches
at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's
sweeping tariffs on global trading partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court
determined that the tariffs didn't have the proper authorization from Congress.
FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington. This ruling is a tremendous blow for the US
president and a rare rebuke of his presidential powers. Six out of the nine justices saying
that they did not believe he had the legal authority to impose tariffs, instead saying
that he must have congressional authorization. They said that he had tried to assert
extra ordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope.
He has reacted by calling the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely
the White House will look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs. India joined the US-led AI
Infrastructure Initiative called Pax silica, which is widely seen as a countermeasure to
China's dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. It came as top
US companies pledged to invest billions of dollars in India during an AI Impact Summit.
FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi. India joined the Pax silica initiative on the
sidelines of the AI Impact Summit, ending speculation over whether trade tensions
were getting in the way of broader cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. According
to the US State Department, Pax silica is aimed at bringing friendly countries together
to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies. The initiative was launched in December last year
with countries including the UK, Australia, South Korea and the UAE as its first few members.
With India pitching itself as a key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the move
not only highlights New Delhi's role on a global stage, but also signals
talk in US-India ties from Bureau's Worldwide.
Arizona? You're on Freetalk Live. What's on your mind?
Actually, I'm in Mesa, but close enough. Yeah, your discussion on Goldbacks was right on point.
Yeah, I think they're a great idea. I think that support for those who will only not only
benefit the individual who uses them, but the general society, the more they are becoming
more of the exchange unit of choice in the marketplace. I highly support them.
Have you used any?
They're gorgeous. I must admit, we haven't really done a whole lot of commerce with them.
So the next step is to start collecting enough of them so that you can actually
start exchanging with them rather than just hanging on to them and going,
wow, these are really cute.
I actually like doing commerce with the Goldbacks. I sell bread for one Goldback per loaf.
I like to offer Goldbacks in the case where I'm going to tip. I'll offer,
do you want a Goldback or do you want cash?
That's a good thing for eating in restaurants. You offer them something like that.
One thing Jay Nune likes to do is go to farmers markets and give his kids either
a Goldback or some Silver and tell them, go ahead and whatever you can convince a vendor to give
you for that. Go for it. His kids, I guess, have a great time because they have some concept
of the difference between the value of dollars and the value of actual money like Gold or Silver.
Yeah, that's going to be really fun for them.
Yeah, I've always been tempted to, I know some of these fast food restaurants,
like Carl's Jr., out here on the West Coast, they have these posters that show a menu from
the 1950s where you can get a hamburger for 25 cents and a cheeseburger for 35 cents.
I've often been tempted to take a Silver Quarter and say, hey, I'll give me a cheeseburger for
25 cents and see what conversation ensues. I'd put the dollars in the register and
take your Silver Quarter and you'd get a cheeseburger if I was working there.
Yeah, that's where people really need to become educated. It's like fuel prices
have gotten incredibly cheap because they used to be 25 cents a gallon when I was younger.
And gasoline denominated in Silver, especially the price it's gotten too lately.
It's really cheap now.
Yeah, I haven't looked it up for a minute what the value of a Silver Quarter is.
It's over 70 bucks an ounce is the spot price. So you figure, okay, so you divide that by four and
then you take 90% off of that. And that would be the actual Silver in the Quarter, from my
understanding. So if it's somewhere around $7 in melt value, then with the premium on that,
it's got to happen around 10 bucks. Easily worth a cheeseburger.
Yeah. Well, I'm saying 10 bucks, how many gallons of gasoline will that buy you today?
Out here in Arizona, about three. You could only get one gallon for a Quarter back in the 1960s.
Things have gotten cheaper. It's just we haven't noticed because we've been being robbed all of
our lives. Well, that's the problem with inflation is people don't think about how much it robs them
until they're at the grocery store or even then they just look at the price of goods going up
and say, oh, well, it's just greedy people doing greedy things. Yeah, well, I always like to
explain it with a little ename, a little thing of saying, well, suppose you went into the
grocery store and you picked up a half a gallon of milk and the container looks
suspiciously small. Anyway, wait a minute. This says half a gallon. I don't try to believe them.
Yeah. Walk up to the counter and you go, hey, what's the deal with this? You know, it doesn't
look right. Oh, well, the gallons are smaller this month. Yeah. I mean, you instantly understand
the fraud, right? Yeah, it's not really gallon. The word dollar is actually still
defined in the United States code as a certain amount of standard silver. I think it's
250 so grains, whatever a grain is, okay? But the word dollar is a unit of measure,
okay? Like inch or pound or gallon, okay? Yeah, it used to basically mean an ounce of silver.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So,
especially toward the, like back in the colonial days, they usually meant Spanish silver.
Right. Because that's what they could get, you know, or the dollar, I guess this ban. Well,
I was actually, there was a gold dollar that was cut into eight pieces because, you know,
you wanted to have to make change, right? If you didn't need to spend it all at once,
that's where the term pieces of eight came from, from what I understand.
Yep. I think that's right.
So, well, I appreciate you guys holding the line on the air and, you know,
wishing that more people were getting on board with the truth, but I appreciate you guys.
Of course. Yeah. Hang in there. Yeah, we do our best.
Yep. Is that all you had for us tonight?
Yeah, I just, you know, you were talking about, you know, other politics and stuff and the
problem of dealing with, you know, so many people are distracted by national, you know,
stuff that they have absolutely no influence over whatsoever and they get there all
upset about this and, you know, concerned about that and anxious about the other.
And I mean, yes, it can affect them, but they have no influence over it. And yet,
there are things in their life that they have a tremendous influence over, like how their families
treat them, you know, how other people treat them, how they treat their kids, you know.
That stuff, you know, it has a tremendous potential for creating a much more healthy
society. And yet, so many people, you know, walk through life without paying a slight bit of
attention to that and then have all their attention on, you know, who's president or, you know,
all these celebrities and, you know, all the, all the, all the Prince of, you know,
in England is now being arrested. Oh, isn't that exciting? You know, well, okay. But,
what's happening in your life that you could improve, you know?
Yeah. Yeah, that's right. So that's, that's always the challenge.
It's easier to look at others and their lives and sort of looking at ourselves and being like,
well, what can I improve in my life to make myself a better human being?
You know, I, I'm struggling with this thing myself. I'm turning 40 this year. So,
you know, I better get a move on and define the rest of my life. Otherwise, I'm going to be,
you know, aimlessly wandering everywhere.
Yeah. Well, when you hit 70, it becomes even more interesting. Although I do,
I do have a lot of, a lot of things that I've accomplished. I still have all those,
those YouTube videos that I put on for, that I was doing in, for pork vest and the free
state project back in the, the, from 2010 to 26, 2014, I'm sure it was a 20,
I guess the last time we were there was 2016. Anyway, but red pill recording on, on YouTube.
I recorded a whole, a whole bunch of stuff up there. Nice. There you go.
Anyway, I will let you go for today and you'd have a live show tomorrow. We do.
Yep. Great. All right. Maybe I'll bend your ear about the income tax.
That'll be fun. Sounds good. Please do. Thanks for the call.
Yeah. I was looking at the, so like, for instance, the American Silver Eagle is still,
is still manufactured in the US Mint. They started in 1986 and it still says one dollar
face value. Yeah. It's an ounce of silver. I think 999 silver. Yep. And it's,
so you can buy one from the US Mint right now for $169. Oh, wow. I wonder why the price difference
there. You can buy them from J&Bullion for around $100. I don't know why the price difference,
but I'd rather go with J&Bullion. Oh, absolutely. I bought some silver from J&Bullion for a few
years and I think they're a reputable company. From what I've heard Costco sometimes sells
tubes of 20 silver eagles at a discount price. Nice. Yep. I've never, never taken advantage of
that, but that's the thing I've heard. Is there a Costco nearby? I think there's one in, like,
Nashua or Manchester. Okay.
Anyways, there you go. Silver's pretty cool. They still make it one ounce and call it one dollar.
That is pretty strange. When they sell it for $169. Yeah. Yeah. All right, cool.
The fun thing about life is that it throw surprises at you. You know, the silver market
has gone up. I guess I'd hope to make some money off the silver a few years ago.
During the COVID pandemic, we thought the world was coming to an end and, you know,
silver's going to explode in price or value or whatever, but that didn't materialize.
2026 rolls around silver explodes to over $120 an ounce, collapses down to like $70 an ounce.
Last I looked today was around 85, 30, something like that. So precious metals are, you know,
worth an investment. If you want to make a little money off of it, my attitude is,
don't hold on to silver thinking you're going to make money off it. Hold on to it to preserve your
wealth that you make. And if you have kids and grandkids, pass it on to them. So that's
the way I look at it too. It's a windfall. And if it happens to be around and I never
needed it, then the kids get it. Yeah. So it's definitely an easier thing to save in
too than dollars because you can't, you know, you can't pay your bills in silver. You can't,
most restaurants won't take it. Most gas stations aren't going to take it.
So, you know, by that metric, it's easier to hold on to than it is to use his money.
But the windfall is that one day that might change and US dollars will be worthless. And
if you want to trade anything, you better have some silver or something useful.
I kind of like big lighters as a backup hodl for, you know, for a things collapse type of
situation. I hear a lot of people say that things are going to collapse. I've been hearing that
most of my life listening to talk radio, but I don't know. I guess I'm more doubtful that things
are going to collapse and that they're going to morph and I'm more, I guess I believe more
that they're going to change in such a way that our world will not make sense or feel like it's
collapsing. Maybe there'll be collapse. I don't know. I know past civilizations have gone
through a collapse, but maybe things will be different for us. Collapses can look different
too. Your money couldn't collapse and your civilization holds, you know, different things
can collapse. I think mostly that's what we talk about though when we talk about things
falling apart is like the US dollar, losing all of its value going to absolute zero.
That would create serious waves throughout the... Oh, it would. I don't think that's
ever going to happen though. If I'm being honest, I don't think that'll ever happen unless
there's something really severe in all the countries are like, no, we don't want to put
faith in your stupid paper anymore. See ya. Yeah. To me it seems like the...
I don't know. Maybe it could go to zero, but it really is up to the bankers. They could
stretch it out as long as they want to. They could just, you know, they could even admit that,
oh no, the US dollar has failed, but don't worry. Just turn in your dollars and we'll
reimburse you in the CBDC that's totally worth a lot, we promise.
Yep, it's programmable. Well, we'll be able to read out the criminals much easier this time.
No one will be able to defraud anybody.
No, but instead of, you know, backed by the full faith and credit of the US government,
it would be backed by the full faith and credit of the United Nations or the,
you know, Global Council or the Bank of International Settlements or whatever.
It's going to be the global bank.
As long as they can get you to feel warm and fuzzy about it,
start using it, they're happy.
I don't know if we got enough time to get all the way through this one, but
seems interesting to me. So let's take a crack at it. This is
Grooming the Gulf, How Epstein Forged Emirati Elites Into Tools for Israel.
In the last 48 hours, the US Department of Justice has begun dumping what
officials say amounts to more than 30 million pages of material tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
An archive so vast it includes thousands of videos and hundreds of thousands of images.
The tranche is only a fraction of what exists. Officials acknowledge that millions
of additional documents remain under review, meaning the public has seen just a sliver
of the government's total Epstein archive. What is being unloaded into the public domain
is not just evidence of private depravity. It is an inadvertent blueprint of how power
really works when no one is supposed to be washing.
An industrial scale influence machine whose files casually braid together billionaires,
cabinet level officials and strategic infrastructure from New York to the Horn of Africa,
and even now the public is being allowed to see only what officials deem manageable,
with redactions still shielding some of the most sensitive names and millions of pages
kept out of sight. Hidden within those documents leaked screenshots and email excerpts now
circulating online are connections that stretch far beyond Manhattan, Palm Beach or even Paris.
They reach deep into the Persian Gulf into Dubai's executive suites and into the
personal inboxes of officials in the United Arab Emirates. These emails offer a unique glimpse
behind the opulent shadows of Dubai's towers where untraceable billions flow like oil. In that world,
a convicted pedophile whispers ministerial appointments to a UAE diplomat while discussing
port deals that could move cargo and secrets across continents. According to persistent
intelligence linked information surrounding his operations, Jeffrey Epstein was not acting alone
or merely chasing thrills. He was allegedly operating as a geopolitical asset, cultivating
leverage over gulf elites with places like Somaliland emerging as potential ponds in a larger
strategic game. It is in such an environment the figures like Epstein thrive best because
their private perversions double as statecraft. Emails unearthed from the DOJ Epstein Library
reveal troubling facts about Jeffrey Epstein's exchanges with Hindie L. Owais, a young ambitious
Emirati woman navigating the opulent halls of UAE diplomacy. With her polished LinkedIn profile
and lofty titles, she appears at first glance to be a symbol of progress. As director of the
UAE's permanent committee for human rights and a UN advisor since 2015, she has publicly
championed women's empowerment declaring it both a moral and strategic imperative. On paper,
Hind L. Owais is the face of a modern UAE, a diplomat UN advisor and later a senior
human rights official fronting panels on women's rights and regional mechanisms.
In press releases, she speaks of dignity and gender equality while
chairing events under the banner of the permanent committee for human rights in Abu Dhabi.
In the emails, the tone is very different. The same woman who would later open high-level
human rights dialogues is trading easy banter with a convicted sex offender,
eagerly accepting his career advice and bringing family into his orbit.
The contrast is not just personal hypocrisy. It looks like the textbook use of a polished
progressive female diplomat as a shield for an authoritarian system willing to outsource leverage
work to a man like Epstein while selling the world a satirized narrative at the UN.
The correspondence begins in 2011 during Epstein's post-prison resurgence.
Al Owais, then a rising figure in UAE foreign affairs, began emailing the financier.
Their communications suggest the exchanges were part of a broader effort to compromise UAE elites
for Israeli leverage. Numerous emails linked to Hind Al Owais and Jeffrey Epstein from January
2012 are currently the subject of extensive scrutiny, prompting unsettling questions
regarding the nature of their relationship. One email states,
Getting one girl ready is difficult enough. Two girls, you can certainly call a challenge.
Another conversation is said to mention introducing her sister to Epstein. In one message, Epstein
positioned her as a future UAE minister of culture declaring there would be no competition.
One email from January 2012 stands out. Al Owais expresses excitement about introducing
her sister, Hala, allegedly just 13 at the time to Epstein, a man infamous for preying on underage
girls. Epstein's reply is suggestive, promising more time with both. Another message jokes about
the challenge of preparing two girls. Critics online have seized on these exchanges,
arguing that Al Owais is not just a passive contact, but an active facilitator, a kind
of soft power handler who normalized Epstein's access to young Emirati women.
So it sounds like Epstein wasn't just going after white girls, she was going after everybody.
Right, but well, anybody, but in this case, it doubled his
statecraft manipulation, particularly on behalf of Israel.
It doesn't surprise me.
The DOJ emails that have surfaced so far do not explicitly spell out sexual transactions
or list ages, which conveniently allows defenders to hide behind literalism. But in the real world,
context matters, a senior diplomat working in New York repeatedly arranging access for girls to
a man already notorious for abusing minors is not a neutral act. It is complicit to
dressed up as networking. Online backlash was immediate. Critics claimed Al Owais worked as
procurer supplying minors, including her own sister to Epstein. Viral posts branded her as a pimp and
Satan worshipper, drawing thousands of retweets amid outrage over her UN role.
Although no direct proof of underage involvement appears in the emails themselves,
it can be argued that the pattern fits Epstein's methods, which rest on compromising officials
feeding a machine design not only for pleasure, but for leverage. emails from 2017 show him
lobbying against Qatar, accusing Doha of terrorism, financing in line with UAE Israel strategies,
underscoring that his communications with Gulf elites were deeply political, not merely social.
Photos circulating online show Al Owais beside Epstein, her diplomatic poise clashing with his
predatory grin. Critics highlight the contradiction. How can someone linked to Epstein lead human
rights initiatives in a country notorious for the kafala system? The kafala regime has long
been described by rights groups as a system of modern servitude, binding migrant workers to
employers in conditions ripe for abuse, placing an Epstein-linked diplomat at the helm of
human rights in such a state as less reform than reputation laundering.
Adding another layer, discussions online claim Ghislaine Maxwell received girls supplied through
the same network. Ex by Ari Ben Manash alleges the pair ran Mossad honey traps together,
building on older reports that Maxwell's father Robert Maxwell had served as a Mossad agent.
These accounts are contested and not fully documented, but the emerging patterns in the
Epstein UAE files sit uncomfortably close to what one would expect from an intelligence-linked
Compromat operation targeting Gulf elites. Even as those revelations spread across social
media, Abu Dhabi appears to have kept Al Owais anchored in its human rights machinery,
letting her continue to front events and initiatives in the UAE's name. The message is
unmistakable. Whatever passed between her and Epstein does not qualify her,
does not disqualify her from helping launder the regime's image on the international stage.
I think that illustrates pretty well what I was saying about the Epstein thing being
in, you know, Compromat and it runs the world. It definitely does. All right, this has been
Free Talk Live. Thanks for listening. There will be more tonight. Give us your call. Peace.
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listen.freetalklive.com. From Feature Story News in San Francisco, I'm Iris Spitzer with a look back
at some of the week's top stories. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew of the
British Royal Family, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It relates to his
time as trade envoy and the alleged sharing of confidential material with the late sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein. He has not been charged and has long denied any wrongdoing. FSN's Ollie Barrett
has more from London. What police are further saying is that this is part of an investigation
now they confirm. The reason that is significant is that previously Thames Valley police had simply
said they were assessing claims that had been made to them about the potential of misconduct
in a public office. They've now confirmed a formal investigation is underway and an arrest
has been made. They say the arrest was made on suspicion of misconduct in public office
and they say they're also carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.
The US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's sweeping tariffs on global trading
partners are illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that the tariffs didn't have
the proper authorization from Congress. FSN's Nick Harper has more from Washington.
This ruling is a tremendous blow for the US President and a rare rebuke of his presidential
powers. Six out of the nine justices saying that they did not believe he had the legal authority
to impose tariffs, instead saying that he must have congressional authorization
to exercise this power. They said that he had tried to assert extra ordinary power to
unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope. He has reacted by calling
the ruling a disgrace, but also saying he has a backup plan. It is likely the White House will
look for other ways to reimpose these tariffs using other means. India joined the US-led AI
Infrastructure Initiative called Pax silica, which is widely seen as a countermeasure
to China's dominance over the supply of key materials used in the industry. It came as top
US companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google pledged to invest billions of dollars in India
during an AI Impact Summit. FSN's Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
India joined the Pax silica initiative on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit
ending speculation over whether trade tensions were getting in the way of
broader cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. According to the US State Department Pax,
silica is aimed at bringing friendly countries together to reduce what it calls coercive dependencies.
The initiative was launched in December last year with countries including the UK,
Australia, South Korea and the UAE as its first few members. With India pitching itself as a
key AI power during the AI Summit, analysts say the move not only highlights New Delhi's role
on a global stage, but also signals thaw in US-India ties Ishan Garg, New Delhi.
From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN. 11 people were arrested in France over the recent killing
of a far-right activist. Kanton Deronk died after sustaining a severe brain injury when
he was attacked on the sidelines of a far-right protest against a left-wing politician speaking
in the city of Lyon. FSN's Ross Cullen reports from Paris.
The 23-year-old was part of a group providing security for nationalist activists who were
demonstrating against the leftist gathering at a university in France's third biggest city of Lyon.
Video footage of the attack on 12 February shows a group of people setting upon Kanton Deronk
who's kicked multiple times before being left lying on the sidewalk while those involved
in the attack fled on foot. The incident has fueled tension between France's far-right and
hard left ahead of local elections in March and next year's presidential race in which the
nationalist party is currently leading the polls. Ross Cullen, Paris.
US civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died at the age of 84. He was one of America's
most influential black figures and twice ran for president. FSN's Tony Waterman has more.
He was this towering figure. He was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr.
He was there when King was assassinated in 1968. He was, in fact, very close to him when that
happened physically, just a couple of feet away. But he is really seen as carrying on the fight
for black Americans. He transformed American politics, particularly the Democratic Party,
by empowering these marginalized communities through his coalition, getting millions and
millions of black, Latino and Asian Americans to register to vote and completely reshaping the
face of the Democratic Party. Those were some of the week's top stories. Iris Spitzer reports.
It's the story that's stunning the tech world. Despite his age, six-year-old data entry prodigy
Jeffrey Peters is already entertaining offers from dozens of major temp agencies. Experts say
Jeffrey's ability to sit still and perform mind-numbing tasks in Excel and Word for hours on
and ranked with a freelance worker three times his age. But Jeffrey's mom says that she knew
he was special from early on. I've always thought that Jeffrey was different from the other kids.
He started wearing glasses for computer strain when he was just three and a half,
and he already has some pretty significant tendonitis. I've always wanted to work at
medical recruiting. The data entry wiz is at the center of a bidding war between industry
titans like workforce solutions and metropolitan staffing, both offering lavish perks like
starting salaries of up to $15,000 and a cramped cubicle shared with only two other temps.
Jeffrey's parents say that given the generous offers he's already received,
he could be well on the way to affording a dingy rundown apartment of his own.