1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,640 Hello everybody and welcome back to Rounding the News. 2 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:33,160 This is your weekly news roundup presented by Rounding the Earth and I am me. 3 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:35,040 And me is Liam Sturgis. 4 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,400 I'm coming at you live from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 5 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:44,260 I am a musician, singer, songwriter and person who likes to ask questions and think deeply 6 00:00:44,260 --> 00:00:47,520 about topics very relevant to me and the people I care about. 7 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,660 And that's what we're going to do once again today. 8 00:00:50,660 --> 00:00:57,600 Our topic is the one of my new favourite phrases, confession through projection. 9 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:03,320 And we've got a number of stories that have a bit of a through line, a bit of hypocrisy. 10 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,880 Just generally though, this has been a crazy couple of weeks. 11 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,960 In fact I was watching the Corbett Report. 12 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:14,600 It was, what do they call it? 13 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:15,920 New World Next Week. 14 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,200 Him and James Evans-Palato of Media Monarchy. 15 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,720 They do a show kind of like this one. 16 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:25,000 I sort of modelled this show after New World Next Week. 17 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,880 Anyway, their episode they did yesterday, James pointed out, you know, it used to be 18 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,320 that each year would have something crazy that happened. 19 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:41,200 You know, the 1918 Spanish Flu or the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy or 1969, 20 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,200 you know, going to the moon. 21 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:44,880 2001, you had 9-11. 22 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,800 2008, the financial crisis. 23 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,600 But now it's like almost every month or every week there's something. 24 00:01:51,600 --> 00:02:00,120 Like you remember the UFO space weather balloon China issue of early February 2023. 25 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,960 And it's like, oh kind of, I guess. 26 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:07,200 I basically stole everything I just said from New World Next Week. 27 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,080 But it's a very, very valid point. 28 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,320 We have a lot to cover. 29 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:11,840 So let's get right into it. 30 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:12,840 Just going to make sure. 31 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,560 It looks like we are good to go on Locals. 32 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,360 We're going to make sure we're streaming on Rumble as well. 33 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,040 And that is a reminder of course. 34 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:28,400 You can watch us on any of those platforms as well as directly on Locals at roundingtheearth.locals.com. 35 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,880 The other difference today is I'm going 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Okay and this past week, this past Wednesday we had a really fun Locals supporters only 47 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:27,880 live stream where we went back and listened to an album that I and my classmates at the 48 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:34,560 time put together in March of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was officially launched 49 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:42,920 as the trauma of the world going to heck really hit us in the musical creative spot. 50 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,520 Anyway we had a lovely listening session and wound up swapping music among us. 51 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,620 So I highly recommend becoming a member. 52 00:03:49,620 --> 00:03:53,160 Go back the recording is available for you there. 53 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,920 So let's jump into our show for today. 54 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,200 To those watching on Locals just give me a thumbs up make sure you can hear me over there. 55 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,560 Same thing on Rumble if you guys don't mind. 56 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,960 I'm just going to take a look at Rockfin. 57 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,040 We are good there as well. 58 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,180 Okay so let's do this. 59 00:04:12,180 --> 00:04:14,760 We got a thumbs up from Trevor Ovington. 60 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,760 Perfect. 61 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,640 Loud and clear from Tonica. 62 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,080 So here we go. 63 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,560 First of all those of you who have been around for a while may remember my friend Matthew 64 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:26,760 Evans Cockle. 65 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:32,480 He came on with Tessa Lena another frequent guest of Rounding the Earth to talk about 66 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,520 the red herring of communism. 67 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,400 Basically the idea of blaming all of our problems on any of these buzzword ideologies is you 68 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,240 know there may be elements of truth but you're going to always miss the point if you pin 69 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,640 it on just a singular one. 70 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,200 Anyway he's a good friend of mine and Matthew and I have been working on the conflicts of 71 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,120 interest work with the Canadian COVID Care Alliance along with Deanna McLeod for a while 72 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,560 and some other wonderful team members Claudia Chauvet. 73 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:08,240 Anyway Matthew has now come out and started his own rumble channel called Kermudgins Corner 74 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,420 and he's released three videos so far where he delivers many lectures. 75 00:05:12,420 --> 00:05:20,160 The first one being the University of British Columbia and his open letter to them to restore 76 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,160 ethical integrity at the University of British Columbia. 77 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:30,200 This right here was published in the Caribou Sentinel and the links to both Matthew's channel 78 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,880 and this Caribou Sentinel article will be in the show notes which will be coming out 79 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:38,160 shortly after the show on roundingtheearth.local.com. 80 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,000 Anyway so I recommend going there. 81 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,960 Now very interesting week. 82 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:48,600 You conspiracy theorists always spreading misinformation about elections. 83 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:56,160 There's been a lot said about the integrity of US and frankly Canadian and worldwide election 84 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:01,520 systems over the last couple of years and you know what a lot of it was not based in 85 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,760 much. 86 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:09,520 However there have been some very interesting situations unfolding with a lot more factual 87 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:15,920 basis to ask some questions and one of those was what happened in the 2022 midterm elections 88 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:23,000 specifically in the state of Arizona and for those who have not been following Kerry Lake 89 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:30,600 was a candidate for governor and there were some questions about how signature verification 90 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:38,000 or signature match verification processes went down in that state and there were without 91 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,920 myself making any allegations there were questions that needed answering and a couple of different 92 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,560 courts told her nope you're wrong we're not even going to answer this we're not even going 93 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,320 to seek to try to answer this. 94 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:56,400 Well Kerry Lake has now been given a bit of a reprieve from the Arizona Supreme Court 95 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:01,800 who said no hold on a second the signature match verification issue does need to be looked 96 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:02,960 at closer. 97 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:08,600 So no matter what your perspective is Republican Democrat conservative liberal we should all 98 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:14,080 want to make sure that our election systems again across the world are working as they're 99 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:21,020 supposed to and if they're not it does not matter who gets put into office it's problematic. 100 00:07:21,020 --> 00:07:26,160 So I consider this to be good news and no I have no stake in this political game. 101 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:31,440 I just think we should ask questions if there are questions to be asked. 102 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:36,500 Speaking of questions to be asked and lawsuits moving forward all of this talk of the banks 103 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:41,240 going through these financial issues in this global transformation that's all fine and 104 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:48,180 good but meanwhile we've got another thing going on which is the late Jeffrey Epstein 105 00:07:48,180 --> 00:07:53,720 and his connections to various major banks around the world and further questions that 106 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,040 have not yet been answered. 107 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:01,840 Well JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank to face lawsuits over Jeffrey Epstein ties. 108 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:07,160 Manhattan judge allows central accusations that banks benefited from ties to sex trafficker 109 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,000 to proceed. 110 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,680 That may be a generous understatement and again they're not going to face lawsuits they're 111 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,640 already in the middle of them and this is a step where they will now have to go to discovery 112 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:24,800 and disclose a number of files that may suggest they knew more than they initially let on. 113 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,600 So that's interesting. 114 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,600 We'll see where that goes. 115 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:35,400 Moving ahead talk about another whirlwind of a story. 116 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,440 The former president of the United States Donald Trump has been indicted. 117 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:48,600 There was a week a week and a half of what's going on and you know kicked off with President 118 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:56,120 Trump on Truth Social saying that he had been informed he was going to be arrested as part 119 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:03,400 of this indictment this long case that's been litigated over hush money payments to Stormy 120 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:04,760 Daniels. 121 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:12,840 It's a complicated story but it really looked as though somebody was making something up 122 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,560 and it wasn't clear who it was. 123 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:21,080 At a certain point Trump was even being accused of himself misinterpreting or jumping the 124 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:22,360 gun on something. 125 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,840 Long story short he has been indicted. 126 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,120 He has been indicted. 127 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:32,640 He will have to do whatever happens when you get arrested but the version that happens 128 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,520 when you're rich presumably. 129 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:44,000 Now I thought at first the New York Times did a pretty good job of tempering expectations 130 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,480 at least this guy so this is Charlie Savage. 131 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,920 And yesterday when this news broke he said a caveat as a flood of commentary assessing 132 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:00,480 the weight and merits of the indictment fills cable television news and social media. 133 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,320 It is important to stress that we have not seen the charges. 134 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:11,160 Nobody talking in public right now knows oh sorry actually knows what Bragg's Bragg being 135 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,560 the district attorney who is pursuing the indictment. 136 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,360 Nobody actually knows what Bragg's theory of the case is. 137 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:24,000 Assuming it's correct that this is primarily a bookkeeping fraud case the crucial question 138 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,600 is what other intended crime does Bragg contend the falsification of Trump Organization records 139 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,520 was meant to conceal. 140 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:38,040 All the commentary about it being a campaign finance crime relies on guesswork. 141 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,680 That could prove correct but may also turn out to be entirely wrong or subject to some 142 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:47,320 important twist that we do not yet understand. 143 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:53,880 It would be wise to take all the legal analysis for now with a big grain of salt. 144 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:59,960 I agree look he's biased I'm biased we're all biased in various ways but I think this 145 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:01,440 is good advice. 146 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:10,040 Now of course conspiracy theorists online grasp for explanation behind indictment is 147 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:16,480 what came out today from that same New York Times live updates stream. 148 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:22,040 And I'd just like to go ahead and read a quick excerpt from that. 149 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:27,920 We have on social media channels associated with extremists and conspiracy theorists people 150 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:32,480 searched for an explanation behind former president Donald J. Trump's indictment on 151 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:37,640 Thursday with some calling him a victim of a democratic witch hunt to suppress his influence 152 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:44,760 and others describing him as a grand master playing political chess to reclaim the presidency. 153 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,840 The scattered response reflects the shift in Mr. Trump's power since a large group 154 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:53,640 of his supporters stormed the Capitol after he lost the 2020 election. 155 00:11:53,640 --> 00:12:00,040 In the years since Mr. Trump's political movement experienced multiple electoral defeats. 156 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,040 Some supporters were jailed after the attack on the Capitol. 157 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:07,960 The social media landscape shifted and Mr. Trump's digital reach remains limited by 158 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:13,400 an obligation that he first post on true social the social network he started last year. 159 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,800 I don't think that's true I don't think he started it but that's fine. 160 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,560 That has far fewer users than Twitter and Facebook. 161 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,720 I do think that is true. 162 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:26,960 Mr. Trump tried rallying his base as the expected indictment drew near and he earned widespread 163 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,840 support from Republicans. 164 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,200 Mr. Trump's recent calls for supporters to protest his potential arrest received a muted 165 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,200 response. 166 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,280 Now that's also not true it received an overwhelmingly panicked response from people saying he called 167 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:45,640 for violence which okay so that's happening. 168 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:50,040 I don't think it means that people think it means I think it's a huge deal because it 169 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:55,920 is the first time in history that a US president has been indicted and the first time in history 170 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:01,060 that a major contender for the presidency was indicted. 171 00:13:01,060 --> 00:13:05,900 This will not stop him from running for president even if he were to be physically jailed but 172 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:10,360 it is notable nonetheless it's just unclear to what extent this matters. 173 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:21,320 Alright moving forward we've got this TikTok situation you see this bill S686 the restrict 174 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:27,520 act which has come in as we discussed on Tuesday in our roundtable with Gabe of Libre Network 175 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,580 Solutions no Libre Libre Solutions Network. 176 00:13:32,580 --> 00:13:38,120 We talked about how TikTok is being used as cover for this this bill which is quite clearly 177 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:45,840 not what it seems and you know it's crazy when you've got Vice of all of all outlets 178 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:52,920 saying the insanely broad restrict act could ban much more than just TikTok and I've got 179 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:58,460 the article pulled up because I want to read this to you but first before we do just to 180 00:13:58,460 --> 00:14:09,080 point out Vice is a partner organization of the World Economic Forum which you would assume 181 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:14,400 they might be kind of happy about this bill given their bias their desire to keep information 182 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:19,880 flow well managed and in the control of those who are the experts or whatever. 183 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:25,980 That said Vice so I read now the restrict act a proposed piece of legislation which 184 00:14:25,980 --> 00:14:31,360 provides one way the government that's the US government might ban TikTok contains insanely 185 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:36,280 broad language and could lead to other apps or communication services with connections 186 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,960 to foreign countries which is all of them being banned in the US multiple digital rights 187 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:47,320 experts told motherboard the bill could have implications not just for social networks 188 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:53,560 but potentially security tools such as virtual private networks VPNs that consumers use to 189 00:14:53,560 --> 00:15:01,100 encrypt and route their traffic one said although the intention of the bill is to target apps 190 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:06,160 or services that pose a threat to national security these critics worry it may have reach 191 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:11,840 sorry it may have much wider implications for the First Amendment you don't say the 192 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:18,080 restrict act is a concerning distraction with insanely broad language that raises serious 193 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,440 human and civil rights concerns. 194 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:25,680 Bill Murray Escoto US policy analyst for digital rights organization access now told motherboard 195 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:31,960 in an email statement we talk about access now go to the campfire wiki that is campfire 196 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:39,480 dot wiki and look up access now we've got some some info on them but it's it's true 197 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:45,000 you know you can even feel a little bit of spin here but let's look at another take this 198 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,520 is a video Gabriel suggested so let's just listen to the first minute. 199 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:54,120 Criminal penalties in general a person who willfully commits willfully attempts to commit 200 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,760 or willfully conspires to commit or aids and abets in the commission of an unlawful act 201 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:04,080 described in subsection a shall upon conviction be fined not more than one million dollars 202 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,640 or if a natural person may be in prison for not more than 20 years or both you know what 203 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:13,400 that means not more than one million means up to one million right you realize that not 204 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:18,160 in prison for more than 20 years means in prison for up to 20 years right inapplicability 205 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:22,720 of FOIA any information submitted to the federal government by a party to a covered transaction 206 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,520 in accordance with this act as well as any information the federal government may create 207 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,200 relating to review of the covered transaction is exempt from disclosure under section 552 208 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,640 of title 5 united states code commonly referred to as the freedom of information act to advise 209 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,440 the secretary in carrying out the responsibilities chapter 10 of part one of title five of united 210 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,920 states code shall not apply to any meeting of such advisory committee the entire purpose 211 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:47,800 of that is to reduce the undue influence of special interests and lobbyists that's not 212 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,960 going to get abused at all any restricted data is defined in section 11 of the atomic 213 00:16:51,960 --> 00:17:00,640 energy act of 1954 we're citing the atomic energy act of 1954 in a banned tick tock bill 214 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,280 the committee on foreign investment in the united states cleared the transaction and 215 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,680 notified the parties to the transaction or a broader transaction that included the transaction 216 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,520 that the committee on foreign investment in the united states completed all action with 217 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,920 respect to the transaction or a broader transaction that included the transaction who is this 218 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:17,960 doctor sues everybody how's it going i hope you're having a lovely day i want to start 219 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:23,320 at the transaction will transact with the transact or transactionally speaking says 220 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:28,720 transact okay so um that's crazy yeah it's a lot um i wonder if anyone's going to read 221 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:33,280 the bill in full i hear it's over a thousand pages i'm not sure if that's true but again 222 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,960 the links to all these resources and videos will be in the show notes which will be on 223 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:42,480 rounding mirror dot logon dot com in a couple of hours okay so that's that um it is bipartisan 224 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:48,080 support in congress and if i were an american right now i would be trying to gather bipartisan 225 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,480 support against this because this has nothing to do with keeping kids safe online this has 226 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,120 nothing to do with china it has nothing to do with tick tock it has to do with a lot 227 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:02,840 of the same stuff that we're dealing with in other contexts like look transaction uh 228 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:07,240 transaction of information transaction of currency i believe this is all included in 229 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:14,160 there speaking of transactions of currency uh we talked about james o'keefe and project 230 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:19,000 veritas before it's what got us kicked off youtube it would seem sorry well we're back 231 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:28,320 and so is james o'keefe he left project veritas and has started omg o'keefe media group and 232 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:36,520 he's come out with a story this is a headline from timcast uh james o'keefe exposes potential 233 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:42,200 money laundering scheme by democrat fundraising group act blue thousands of donations are 234 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,920 being made in the names of people who say they didn't send them uh there's a good video 235 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:53,400 that i watched just a couple of clips of and it's very interesting and it looks as though 236 00:18:53,400 --> 00:19:03,800 indeed people's names and you can search this on the election federal fec federal elections 237 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:09,320 commission there's a database a database where you can search individual donors and if you 238 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:15,840 do that you find well hold on this person in the middle of nowhere sort of suburban 239 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:22,040 neighborhood with no employment listed is donating two hundred thousand dollars to this 240 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:29,200 candidate who is in the democratic party anyway it all centers around act blue um and so i 241 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,840 realized i'd heard that name before so i did two things the first thing i did was i looked 242 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:41,320 up act blue on influence watch which is a right-leaning to be clear uh wiki type page 243 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:50,120 that uh again right-leaning so uh and i found act blue technical services act blue llc act 244 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:55,600 blue pack act blue civics act blue charities and this is starting to feel like yet another 245 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:02,480 ftx situation where you have a bunch of companies each set up to do slightly different things 246 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:09,080 uh that are hard to keep track of if you look on wikipedia act blue is listed as a not-for-profit 247 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:15,520 charitable organization but if you look here you see this this group has wings that are 248 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:22,040 so non-profit political organization the for-profit arm of the left of center political organization 249 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:30,760 the 527 political action committee a 501c4 arm and uh something there at the bottom a 250 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:36,800 pass-through organization so this is just nuts um so i i didn't have time to go and 251 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,600 do the dive i wanted to because this is clearly um not intended to be easy to track but i 252 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:49,040 also went into our campfire wiki and did a backlink search for uh act blue and these 253 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:55,040 are the pages that list act blue in there uh meaning i've previously or someone else 254 00:20:55,040 --> 00:21:00,680 has previously included them in research on these pages the analyst institute the cdc 255 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:07,040 foundation community change guarding against pandemics and mind the gap mind the gap is 256 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:13,440 barbara freed's political action committee barbara being the mother of sam bankman freed 257 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:18,240 uh and the analyst institute is one of the companies that had been hired by mind the 258 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:25,840 gap to work on this and work on the uh political activities over the last couple of years the 259 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:31,360 cdc foundation that's the center for disease control uh foundation community changes and 260 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:36,560 it's also associated with mind the gap and finally guarding against pandemics apart from 261 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:42,960 the obvious within its name it's also uh notable as being run by gabe bankman freed the brother 262 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:53,800 of sam so um that's notable okay moving swiftly along you may recall that uh a couple of my 263 00:21:53,800 --> 00:22:00,560 goodness a month maybe it's been two months i think since east palestine ohio suffered 264 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:08,720 a catastrophic environmental and public health emergency in the derailing of a norfolk southern 265 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:14,560 train that carried a whole bunch of uh poorly documented toxic chemicals that they then 266 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:23,060 after like a week maybe i think 10 days decided to uncontrollably burn okay fast forward um 267 00:22:23,060 --> 00:22:29,280 that's still going on that is a story that has not gone away um there's some weird narrative 268 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:34,360 control feel to this where uh there's just a lot of things that don't make sense so once 269 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:40,880 again continuing to ask questions what is going on here well what's going on as very 270 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:47,380 well documented by ryan christian of the last american vagabond is the toxic waste that 271 00:22:47,380 --> 00:22:54,840 continues to be in the soil in the water in the air is being picked up and shipped across 272 00:22:54,840 --> 00:23:02,680 the united states to different states uh where oklahoma for example is saying you stay away 273 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:10,320 we under no circumstances want your toxic waste because very little is known about the 274 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:16,560 full extent of the damage caused by not just the dioxin which has now been confirmed in 275 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:22,000 uh independent testing um but all the other chemicals which are surely still there that 276 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:28,680 ongoing testing is showing need further testing and the facilities even the states that are 277 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:35,760 accepting them are not set up to receive or to process this material there's specific 278 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:42,440 uh procedures and techniques and equipment required uh to destroy or to get rid of or 279 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:48,000 otherwise successfully process dioxin and a number of other chemicals and facilities 280 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,880 that this toxic waste is going to cannot do that and they know that so i highly recommend 281 00:23:53,880 --> 00:24:00,960 the last american vagabond uh who as always is doing a tremendous job of articulating 282 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:09,840 in concise multi-hour shows the details of the situation okay on the culture side look 283 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:15,000 this is getting a little out of hand maybe it's always been out of hand here's a roider's 284 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:25,240 story uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as lgbtq now this i i i will admit 285 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:32,720 um i i'm starting to be suspicious of how much attention is being paid to certain aspects 286 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:41,840 of the the you could call it the culture war related to sexuality related to non-heterosexuality 287 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:50,440 um there are genuine concerns in how children are being exposed to sexualized material in 288 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:56,200 some cases maybe in a lot of cases um and we could talk later about the conflation of 289 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:03,320 non-heterosexuality and sexualization of children we that's a that's a nuanced discussion that 290 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:10,580 we can have another day what is clear is this is a very hot area for societal uh debate 291 00:25:10,580 --> 00:25:17,640 and action and that includes from very powerful um uh powerful lobbying interests people who 292 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:22,880 for for one reason or another would like to see society move in one direction or another 293 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:28,600 and especially when something is contentious like this you get a back and forth and you 294 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:35,040 get people tired and perhaps you get entire nations deciding they're just done and i think 295 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:42,420 that's what's happened here um the details of the law are are not i'm not entirely familiar 296 00:25:42,420 --> 00:25:48,360 with but it is my understanding indeed that uganda has made it illegal to be non-heterosexual 297 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:57,320 which in my opinion makes no sense and is a probably probably an international human 298 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:06,400 rights issue um and further there are nuanced conversations to be had about to what extent 299 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:16,400 that matters if you're talking about a sovereign nation making laws uh for its own citizens 300 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:27,920 let's let's let's just focus on the aspect of this didn't just happen uh and i i i found 301 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:35,480 this video by the podcast of the lotus eaters uh very very well thought out and very well 302 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:43,680 articulated um this is another conservative uh you know self-described conservative platform 303 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:53,160 um but they said in their words look to clarify it's not being gay that is that that people 304 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,820 are being up you know people are getting up in arms about um it's the activism it is this 305 00:26:58,820 --> 00:27:05,160 sort of plus one ideology of you know you take someone but then you add an entire world 306 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,740 of politics and and sort of forced culture onto it and then take that and force it on 307 00:27:09,740 --> 00:27:16,520 other countries and their thesis in this episode of their podcast is that well western interference 308 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:24,360 has consequences so it poses a good question is the intended result of all of this activism 309 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:32,520 one way or the other for governments to start cracking down on what individuals can can 310 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:39,800 can do as far as their own lives go um you know i'll leave that one for there you know 311 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,600 there for now it's it's a tremendously interesting topic um one last thing before we get into 312 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:52,800 our main story which is this uh the epoch times reported the federal government of canada 313 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:59,340 requested removal of online content document shows twitter files canada version i'm gonna 314 00:27:59,340 --> 00:28:04,640 read a little bit from this article here multiple federal departments and agencies have interacted 315 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:10,280 with social media companies to request online content be taken down oftentimes to have impersonating 316 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:16,880 accounts removed but also to purge posts they deemed offensive the canadian government provided 317 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:22,080 the information on march 27th in an inquiry of ministry following an order paper submitted 318 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:28,520 by conservative mp dean allison allison asked for an account from each governmental organization 319 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:34,560 on efforts to take down edit ban or change in any other way social media content posts 320 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:43,040 or accounts since january 1 2020 the most serious case involves uh employees of the 321 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:49,360 canada revenue agency cra sharing private taxpayer information in a facebook messenger 322 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:55,120 chat group cra requested the information be taken down but says it didn't receive confirmation 323 00:28:55,120 --> 00:29:02,920 it had been very interesting stuff um no one's surprised okay our main story for the day 324 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:10,460 speaking of controversial uh contradictory hypocritical government actions confession 325 00:29:10,460 --> 00:29:19,200 through projection so keep in mind some of the issues we've touched on uh you know election 326 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:27,360 stuff uh cyber security um foreign influence using technology misinformation this or that 327 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:36,160 well here's what happened and here's where i turned to my script all right it appears 328 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:44,720 we have yet another addition to our growing insert noun here files collection yesterday 329 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,000 the guardian british newspaper the guardian published an article detailing what they called 330 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:55,360 the vulcan files describing the cyber warfare and disinformation tools and techniques developed 331 00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:05,600 by a russian company called ntc vulcan the story is allegedly based on a leak of thousands 332 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,920 of internal documents provided by an anonymous whistleblower about whom no information is 333 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:18,080 provided despite the implication written into the headline vulcan files leak reveals putin's 334 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:24,200 global and domestic cyber warfare tactics the article does not actually assert that 335 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:29,600 these tools are being used by the russian government uh either in the context of the 336 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:35,000 current ukraine crisis or otherwise or that there's any reason in particular to believe 337 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:41,240 that they were even developed with guidance from president putin or his government in 338 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:47,180 short while the article seems to contain a compelling story there's not a lot of true 339 00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:55,880 value provided such as you know the documents themselves for for for example to be clear 340 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:02,320 i have no reason to doubt that russia has secret undisclosed cyber warfare and information 341 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:09,320 management programs i imagine these would be happily deployed on canadians and americans 342 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:17,400 at the drop of a hat and likely are currently underway to be quick don't take this this 343 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:23,640 this story as me dismissing that premise still i'd like to learn a bit more about the people 344 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:29,520 in the organizations behind this story because i don't know it seems odd the timing of the 345 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:38,080 story the lack of real actual controversy in the story and of course i especially given 346 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:44,460 the fact that the uh the the vulcan files already have a wikipedia page which if you recall was 347 00:31:44,460 --> 00:31:51,240 one of the things that made me immediately suspicious of the lockdown files now first 348 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:57,200 let's look at this company so let's look at this promo video which was included in the 349 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:03,320 guardian article this is uh ntc vulcan's promotional video 350 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:10,240 what is our it company doing every day develops software 351 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:21,920 shares important knowledge and experience provides information security to customers 352 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:40,160 develops a solution for the safety of devices and does reverse engineering 353 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:55,240 develops corporate tasks perfectly rests stop why exactly the vulcan team yes yes it is you 354 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:22,200 everyone comfortable working environment and most importantly the desire to change this 355 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:34,800 world for good 356 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:42,420 is at one point in the video that was a that was an Oculus VR headset which is a 357 00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:49,280 Facebook or a meta company I don't know if that means they worked on Oculus and 358 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:56,280 therefore worked with meta or it was just a random example just for a good 359 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:04,200 shot or they're reverse engineering it anyway so that's the company let's start 360 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,520 off then at this point by looking into the organizations responsible for the 361 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:13,640 story itself who's the source here beyond this anonymous whistleblower so 362 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,400 according to the article the anonymous source approached the German newspaper 363 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:23,880 so Deutsche Zeitung I pronounce that they approached them with the leak days 364 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:31,320 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 after a weird delay the 365 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,480 whistleblower subsequently went to a company called paper trail media 366 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,760 kick-starting a collaborative investigation that roped in 11 media 367 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:48,000 outlets total including the Guardian the Washington Post and Le Monde from France 368 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:54,760 so paper trail media that's interesting so who's paper trail media they are 369 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,720 described as a Munich based investigative startup the company's 370 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:05,960 website boasts its prior work as the journalists behind the Panama papers the 371 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:12,720 Paradise papers Swiss secrets Xinjiang police files and now the Vulcan files 372 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:17,320 alongside its partners the company also claimed credit for the Pegasus project 373 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:24,000 the China cables the Russian asset tracker and more if you're like me some 374 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,680 of those were familiar even if I wasn't initially quite sure what they were I 375 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:33,000 had at least heard the names of some of these stories before so I went in and I 376 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,400 identified each one to make sure I knew what I was talking about here they all 377 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,120 are so I'm gonna go through and just list what each one is Panama papers 378 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:46,040 refer to the 11.5 million leaked encrypted confidential documents that 379 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:51,520 were the property of Panama based law firm Mossack Fonseca the documents were 380 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:56,360 released on April 3rd 2016 by the German newspaper Sudachet Zaitung dubbing them 381 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:01,400 the Panama papers the document exposed the network of more than 214,000 tax 382 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,760 havens involving people and entities from 200 different nations the Paradise 383 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:12,440 papers refers to a leak of 13.4 million files most of the documents relate to a 384 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,920 law firm and corporate services provider that operated together in ten 385 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:24,640 jurisdictions under the name Applebee okay Swiss secrets was a cache of leaked 386 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,880 data from a cornerstone of the global banking industry which by the way has 387 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:35,320 just been bought out by UBS anyway which reveals how the rich the powerful and 388 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,600 the corrupt use secret Swiss accounts to move millions and final sum of it into 389 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:50,360 Florida real estate hmm who is a rich guy who lived in Florida okay now Xinjiang 390 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:55,640 police files are a major cache of speeches images documents and spreadsheets 391 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,480 obtained by a third party from confidential internal police numbers they 392 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,640 provide a groundbreaking inside view of the nature and scale of Beijing's 393 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:09,680 secretive campaign of interning between 1 to 2 million Uighurs and other ethnic 394 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:15,920 citizens in China's northwest Xinjiang region the Pegasus project was an 395 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,960 unprecedented leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected for surveillance 396 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:26,240 by the customers of the Israeli company NSO group which shows how this 397 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:31,800 technology has been systematically abused for years the China cables is an 398 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,680 investigation into the surveillance and mass internment without charge or trial 399 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,640 of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang similar to the other one and 400 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,380 finally Russian asset tracker is a project to track down and catalog the 401 00:37:44,380 --> 00:37:49,040 vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to 402 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:55,160 Russian President Vladimir Putin as you can see this is a wide variety of 403 00:37:55,160 --> 00:38:00,480 investigative subjects that revolve though around organized corruption among 404 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:05,740 the super wealthy corporations hostile nations you know Russia and China banks 405 00:38:05,740 --> 00:38:11,880 law firms the Vulcan files is the next in this multi-year series of 406 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:21,920 investigations it would seem so who are their partners paper trail media worked 407 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,800 on some of these projects as they mentioned with partner organizations 408 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:31,080 with four of them prominently identified you have the organized crime and 409 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,120 corruption reporting project the International Consortium of 410 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,240 Investigative Journalists forbidden stories and further down the page you 411 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:44,560 have the anti data corruption or anti corruption data collected not anti data 412 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:51,200 corruption collective though that could be accurate so who is behind those 413 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:55,920 groups because the funding for paper trail media is is not listed it's just 414 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:00,080 not there and they say if you'd like to fund them they direct you towards these 415 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,720 partners and some of the other media outlets they work with so this is the 416 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:08,360 the most obvious way we can start to identify this network around them so 417 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:13,280 let's conduct our own investigation the OCC RP is a project of the US based 418 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:19,480 journalism development network and its primary funding sources are get ready 419 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:25,100 the United States government through the National Endowment for Democracy the 420 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:29,900 United States Agency for International Development or USAID and the United 421 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:36,560 States Department of State well other donors from 2012 all the way to today 422 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:42,400 include George Soros's Open Societies foundations the Rockefeller Brothers 423 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:47,720 Fund the Ford Foundation Skoll Foundation Pierre Omidyar founder of 424 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:53,480 eBay illuminate and Google through the Google News Initiative and their think 425 00:39:53,480 --> 00:40:00,040 tank jigsaw not creepy at all what a nice collection of logos we see on 426 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:05,120 screen there all right now okay so that's the first one what about the 427 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,280 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists why look at 428 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:15,920 that the ICI J is also funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and 429 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:21,640 the Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation and you've also got the 430 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:27,640 Hollywood Foreign Press Association footing the bill very interesting okay 431 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:32,000 forbidden stories shares many of these same funding sources including the 432 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,040 National Endowment for Democracy Open Society Foundations that's three for 433 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:42,680 three so far on those two and the skull foundation you've also here got the 434 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:47,680 United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO as 435 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:53,980 well as on the right on the screen you see the Pulitzer Center which just so 436 00:40:53,980 --> 00:40:58,680 you know is itself funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the Carnegie 437 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,960 Corporation of New York Conrad and Hilton Foundation Planned Parenthood 438 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,160 International the Nuclear Threat Initiative the Rockefeller Foundation 439 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:12,960 and the United Nations Foundation and you're telling me these groups are 440 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:19,080 speaking truth to power huh and finally there was a fourth one called the 441 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:24,400 anti-corruption data collective which is funded by illuminate by Pierre Omidyar 442 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:29,840 and George Soros is open society foundation so all of them are funded by 443 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:37,680 George Soros so this this is the crowd that paper trail media runs with while 444 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:43,440 some of those investigations okay are surely done in earnest and the resulting 445 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:48,640 revelations have brought international international attention to serious and 446 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,740 real human rights crises such as the case with the oppression of the Uighur 447 00:41:52,740 --> 00:41:59,920 Muslims in China it's still vital to not lose sight of who benefits from the 448 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:07,600 selective publication of these exposés now for example just because he's the 449 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:13,040 one common thread between all of them George Soros is a major player on the 450 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:19,200 international geopolitical stage and his funding of all four of paper trail 451 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:25,480 media's closest collaborators suggest his own geopolitical goals are advanced by 452 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,760 this investment let's just watch a video to remind us of his position for example 453 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:34,600 given that this is a story about Russia in the context of its invasion of Ukraine 454 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:40,840 let's hear what mr. Soros has to say about it the invasion of Ukraine didn't 455 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:47,760 come out of the blue the world has been increasingly engaged in a struggle 456 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:55,440 between two systems of governance that are diametrically opposed to each other 457 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:06,600 open society and closed society let me define the difference as simply as I can 458 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:16,360 in an open society the rule of the state is to protect the freedom of the 459 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:26,080 individual in a closed society the role of the individual is to serve the rulers 460 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:36,240 of the state other issues concerning all of humanity fighting pandemics and 461 00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:43,640 climate change avoiding nuclear war maintaining global institutions have 462 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:52,240 had to take a backseat to that struggle that's why I say our civilization may 463 00:43:52,240 --> 00:44:00,320 not survive that sounds like a threat mr. Soros but look it's not just mr. 464 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:05,720 Soros of course by now the foundations bearing the names Rockefeller Ford and 465 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:10,880 skull should all be immediately recognizable as powerful influences on 466 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:18,000 whichever story is being sold even if you agree with the story by the way but 467 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,720 let's give those guys these technically private citizens and their private 468 00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:28,080 foundations let's give them the benefit of the doubt for a second and face the 469 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:33,080 biggest elephant in the room the fact that the United States government 470 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:40,120 itself is engaged with these groups in large part through these super spooky 471 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:47,560 organizations that were set up to do just this kind of propagandistic work USAID 472 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:54,880 and the National Endowment for a Democracy this is also if you look back 473 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,440 these these funding arrangements did not start this year they go back to the 474 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,280 beginning of most of these organizations these are significant and long-term 475 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:09,740 relationships it would seem okay look in good scientific spirit the article 476 00:45:09,740 --> 00:45:15,320 doesn't simply say trust us we wouldn't lie to you no instead the authors tapped 477 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:19,920 a cybersecurity firm to review the so-called leak and provide their input 478 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:25,720 the article cites the comments of John Holtquist and Gabby Roncone both 479 00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:32,160 employees of mandiant mandiant is a subsidiary of Google having been 480 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:36,800 acquired by the Internet giant and fully integrated into Google Cloud in March 481 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:42,760 2022 funny the year after the invasion or sorry the month after the invasion 482 00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:48,600 it's long list of partners that I skimmed through include a Lyons Amazon 483 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:54,120 Web Services AT&T Bell Cloudflare CrowdStrike hmm we're gonna have to look 484 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:59,880 into that one later IBM Microsoft and tell us Canadians and 485 00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:04,040 Americans alike will know all of these this is the entirety of our internet and 486 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:09,760 phone and television infrastructure and many many others a lot of law firms in 487 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:14,600 there a lot of insurance companies so with that in mind this Google company are 488 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:19,800 we really supposed to find this company credible on the topic of protecting the 489 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:24,760 civil rights and the internet security of the citizens of each sovereign nation 490 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:31,120 and their global counterparts Google keep in mind is perfectly happy in their 491 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:37,000 position as the world's gatekeeper on cyber infrastructure and the idea that 492 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:43,080 Google is spying on us is ubiquitous and we treat it as a fact of life 493 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:47,640 especially people my generation and under we've grown up with that is the 494 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,960 fact we grew up under the Patriot Act which yes involves not just the states 495 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:59,040 it involves the five eyes countries furthermore the governor the company has 496 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,960 been all too happy working with government with military and intelligence 497 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:08,800 agencies to control the flow of information and target civilians when so 498 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:15,160 desired for example removal from YouTube for coming down the wrong path with this 499 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:23,120 project Veritas story okay just for those listening on screen we have a 500 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:28,040 Guardian article Google's earth how the tech giant is helping the state spy on 501 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:35,000 us we knew that being connected had a price our data but we didn't care did we 502 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:40,520 not then it turned out that Google's main clients included the military and 503 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:48,800 intelligence agencies so rounding the earth speaking of Google's earth rounding 504 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:54,560 the earth is an educational platform and Matthew Crawford founder of rounding 505 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,360 the earth told me when I started this weekly news roundup that each show 506 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:04,080 should teach one key educational tool with this brief overview we attempted to 507 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,960 evaluate the credibility of the source of this story in particular as it 508 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:15,640 relates excuse me as it relates to the topic at hand given that in true insert 509 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:20,720 noun here files fashion the underlying leaked documents were not provided in 510 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:26,960 meaningful form at all so we're required to decide whether or not to rely on the 511 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:32,440 source itself as the exclusive method of deciding if this is a credible story for 512 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:38,680 me I can't help but see the activities and the tools that are briefly described 513 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:44,360 in scary fashion in this Guardian article as being much more than a mirror 514 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:50,080 image of exactly the same tools and activities used by our own governments 515 00:48:50,080 --> 00:49:00,680 and domestic corporations used on us this my friends is confession through 516 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:08,200 projection accuse the enemy of doing that which you are doing pretty genius 517 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,600 now this is not a paid sponsorship but it is a good picture of a t-shirt 518 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,960 confession through projection viva Barnes law and sure viva Barnes law dot 519 00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,720 locals dot com go check them out viva fry dot com I think it's where you can 520 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:28,520 buy the shirt anyway confession through projection whether it is Russia or the 521 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:36,520 United States or China or Israel Uganda or a Myanmar instant well intrusion into 522 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:43,200 privacy and the mass manipulation of public flows of information is always 523 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:51,280 problematic it's never not problematic so I ask you the listener are you happy 524 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,280 with this as the status quo 525 00:49:55,920 --> 00:50:02,480 well this has been fun and this has been rounding the earth go to www. 526 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,160 random year at all locals calm where we have a wonderful discussion going on in 527 00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:12,680 the chat shout out to Rebecca and to mr. Joshua to control group and Trevor and 528 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,960 Tonica and everybody else who has been hanging out over there you guys are 529 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:20,360 fantastic so if you want to join them then you can do that running your 530 00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:25,880 local calm use promo code RTE March 2023 this is the last day where you can get a 531 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:31,520 free month of premium support access our supporters only weekly locals exclusive 532 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,240 live streams or sign up for free and just hang out and keep up to date with 533 00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:38,680 what we're doing you can also as always go to rounding your thought sub stack 534 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,800 calm which is the flagship publication that started this whole rounding the 535 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:47,560 earth globe spinning where Matthew continues to write fantastic work my 536 00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:51,760 name is Liam Sturgis I'm a musician and I'm gonna start talking about that more 537 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:56,360 we're gonna have some fun cultural development hanging out community growth 538 00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:01,620 type stuff using music sitting around the campfire making the world just a 539 00:51:01,620 --> 00:51:06,640 little bit brighter and in the meantime you can find me at Liam Sturgis dot com 540 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:12,360 thank you so much everybody for watching and we will see you on Monday where we 541 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:18,280 will be talking to none other than journalist George Webb this will be fun 542 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:46,080 see you guys later 543 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,460 you