Hello everybody and welcome back to Rounding the News.
This is your weekly news roundup presented by Rounding the Earth and I am me.
And me is Liam Sturgis.
I'm coming at you live from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
I am a musician, singer, songwriter and person who likes to ask questions and think deeply
about topics very relevant to me and the people I care about.
And that's what we're going to do once again today.
Our topic is the one of my new favourite phrases, confession through projection.
And we've got a number of stories that have a bit of a through line, a bit of hypocrisy.
Just generally though, this has been a crazy couple of weeks.
In fact I was watching the Corbett Report.
It was, what do they call it?
New World Next Week.
Him and James Evans-Palato of Media Monarchy.
They do a show kind of like this one.
I sort of modelled this show after New World Next Week.
Anyway, their episode they did yesterday, James pointed out, you know, it used to be
that each year would have something crazy that happened.
You know, the 1918 Spanish Flu or the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy or 1969,
you know, going to the moon.
2001, you had 9-11.
2008, the financial crisis.
But now it's like almost every month or every week there's something.
Like you remember the UFO space weather balloon China issue of early February 2023.
And it's like, oh kind of, I guess.
I basically stole everything I just said from New World Next Week.
But it's a very, very valid point.
We have a lot to cover.
So let's get right into it.
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First of all those of you who have been around for a while may remember my friend Matthew
Evans Cockle.
He came on with Tessa Lena another frequent guest of Rounding the Earth to talk about
the red herring of communism.
Basically the idea of blaming all of our problems on any of these buzzword ideologies is you
know there may be elements of truth but you're going to always miss the point if you pin
it on just a singular one.
Anyway he's a good friend of mine and Matthew and I have been working on the conflicts of
interest work with the Canadian COVID Care Alliance along with Deanna McLeod for a while
and some other wonderful team members Claudia Chauvet.
Anyway Matthew has now come out and started his own rumble channel called Kermudgins Corner
and he's released three videos so far where he delivers many lectures.
The first one being the University of British Columbia and his open letter to them to restore
ethical integrity at the University of British Columbia.
This right here was published in the Caribou Sentinel and the links to both Matthew's channel
and this Caribou Sentinel article will be in the show notes which will be coming out
shortly after the show on roundingtheearth.local.com.
Anyway so I recommend going there.
Now very interesting week.
You conspiracy theorists always spreading misinformation about elections.
There's been a lot said about the integrity of US and frankly Canadian and worldwide election
systems over the last couple of years and you know what a lot of it was not based in
much.
However there have been some very interesting situations unfolding with a lot more factual
basis to ask some questions and one of those was what happened in the 2022 midterm elections
specifically in the state of Arizona and for those who have not been following Kerry Lake
was a candidate for governor and there were some questions about how signature verification
or signature match verification processes went down in that state and there were without
myself making any allegations there were questions that needed answering and a couple of different
courts told her nope you're wrong we're not even going to answer this we're not even going
to seek to try to answer this.
Well Kerry Lake has now been given a bit of a reprieve from the Arizona Supreme Court
who said no hold on a second the signature match verification issue does need to be looked
at closer.
So no matter what your perspective is Republican Democrat conservative liberal we should all
want to make sure that our election systems again across the world are working as they're
supposed to and if they're not it does not matter who gets put into office it's problematic.
So I consider this to be good news and no I have no stake in this political game.
I just think we should ask questions if there are questions to be asked.
Speaking of questions to be asked and lawsuits moving forward all of this talk of the banks
going through these financial issues in this global transformation that's all fine and
good but meanwhile we've got another thing going on which is the late Jeffrey Epstein
and his connections to various major banks around the world and further questions that
have not yet been answered.
Well JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank to face lawsuits over Jeffrey Epstein ties.
Manhattan judge allows central accusations that banks benefited from ties to sex trafficker
to proceed.
That may be a generous understatement and again they're not going to face lawsuits they're
already in the middle of them and this is a step where they will now have to go to discovery
and disclose a number of files that may suggest they knew more than they initially let on.
So that's interesting.
We'll see where that goes.
Moving ahead talk about another whirlwind of a story.
The former president of the United States Donald Trump has been indicted.
There was a week a week and a half of what's going on and you know kicked off with President
Trump on Truth Social saying that he had been informed he was going to be arrested as part
of this indictment this long case that's been litigated over hush money payments to Stormy
Daniels.
It's a complicated story but it really looked as though somebody was making something up
and it wasn't clear who it was.
At a certain point Trump was even being accused of himself misinterpreting or jumping the
gun on something.
Long story short he has been indicted.
He has been indicted.
He will have to do whatever happens when you get arrested but the version that happens
when you're rich presumably.
Now I thought at first the New York Times did a pretty good job of tempering expectations
at least this guy so this is Charlie Savage.
And yesterday when this news broke he said a caveat as a flood of commentary assessing
the weight and merits of the indictment fills cable television news and social media.
It is important to stress that we have not seen the charges.
Nobody talking in public right now knows oh sorry actually knows what Bragg's Bragg being
the district attorney who is pursuing the indictment.
Nobody actually knows what Bragg's theory of the case is.
Assuming it's correct that this is primarily a bookkeeping fraud case the crucial question
is what other intended crime does Bragg contend the falsification of Trump Organization records
was meant to conceal.
All the commentary about it being a campaign finance crime relies on guesswork.
That could prove correct but may also turn out to be entirely wrong or subject to some
important twist that we do not yet understand.
It would be wise to take all the legal analysis for now with a big grain of salt.
I agree look he's biased I'm biased we're all biased in various ways but I think this
is good advice.
Now of course conspiracy theorists online grasp for explanation behind indictment is
what came out today from that same New York Times live updates stream.
And I'd just like to go ahead and read a quick excerpt from that.
We have on social media channels associated with extremists and conspiracy theorists people
searched for an explanation behind former president Donald J. Trump's indictment on
Thursday with some calling him a victim of a democratic witch hunt to suppress his influence
and others describing him as a grand master playing political chess to reclaim the presidency.
The scattered response reflects the shift in Mr. Trump's power since a large group
of his supporters stormed the Capitol after he lost the 2020 election.
In the years since Mr. Trump's political movement experienced multiple electoral defeats.
Some supporters were jailed after the attack on the Capitol.
The social media landscape shifted and Mr. Trump's digital reach remains limited by
an obligation that he first post on true social the social network he started last year.
I don't think that's true I don't think he started it but that's fine.
That has far fewer users than Twitter and Facebook.
I do think that is true.
Mr. Trump tried rallying his base as the expected indictment drew near and he earned widespread
support from Republicans.
Mr. Trump's recent calls for supporters to protest his potential arrest received a muted
response.
Now that's also not true it received an overwhelmingly panicked response from people saying he called
for violence which okay so that's happening.
I don't think it means that people think it means I think it's a huge deal because it
is the first time in history that a US president has been indicted and the first time in history
that a major contender for the presidency was indicted.
This will not stop him from running for president even if he were to be physically jailed but
it is notable nonetheless it's just unclear to what extent this matters.
Alright moving forward we've got this TikTok situation you see this bill S686 the restrict
act which has come in as we discussed on Tuesday in our roundtable with Gabe of Libre Network
Solutions no Libre Libre Solutions Network.
We talked about how TikTok is being used as cover for this this bill which is quite clearly
not what it seems and you know it's crazy when you've got Vice of all of all outlets
saying the insanely broad restrict act could ban much more than just TikTok and I've got
the article pulled up because I want to read this to you but first before we do just to
point out Vice is a partner organization of the World Economic Forum which you would assume
they might be kind of happy about this bill given their bias their desire to keep information
flow well managed and in the control of those who are the experts or whatever.
That said Vice so I read now the restrict act a proposed piece of legislation which
provides one way the government that's the US government might ban TikTok contains insanely
broad language and could lead to other apps or communication services with connections
to foreign countries which is all of them being banned in the US multiple digital rights
experts told motherboard the bill could have implications not just for social networks
but potentially security tools such as virtual private networks VPNs that consumers use to
encrypt and route their traffic one said although the intention of the bill is to target apps
or services that pose a threat to national security these critics worry it may have reach
sorry it may have much wider implications for the First Amendment you don't say the
restrict act is a concerning distraction with insanely broad language that raises serious
human and civil rights concerns.
Bill Murray Escoto US policy analyst for digital rights organization access now told motherboard
in an email statement we talk about access now go to the campfire wiki that is campfire
dot wiki and look up access now we've got some some info on them but it's it's true
you know you can even feel a little bit of spin here but let's look at another take this
is a video Gabriel suggested so let's just listen to the first minute.
Criminal penalties in general a person who willfully commits willfully attempts to commit
or willfully conspires to commit or aids and abets in the commission of an unlawful act
described in subsection a shall upon conviction be fined not more than one million dollars
or if a natural person may be in prison for not more than 20 years or both you know what
that means not more than one million means up to one million right you realize that not
in prison for more than 20 years means in prison for up to 20 years right inapplicability
of FOIA any information submitted to the federal government by a party to a covered transaction
in accordance with this act as well as any information the federal government may create
relating to review of the covered transaction is exempt from disclosure under section 552
of title 5 united states code commonly referred to as the freedom of information act to advise
the secretary in carrying out the responsibilities chapter 10 of part one of title five of united
states code shall not apply to any meeting of such advisory committee the entire purpose
of that is to reduce the undue influence of special interests and lobbyists that's not
going to get abused at all any restricted data is defined in section 11 of the atomic
energy act of 1954 we're citing the atomic energy act of 1954 in a banned tick tock bill
the committee on foreign investment in the united states cleared the transaction and
notified the parties to the transaction or a broader transaction that included the transaction
that the committee on foreign investment in the united states completed all action with
respect to the transaction or a broader transaction that included the transaction who is this
doctor sues everybody how's it going i hope you're having a lovely day i want to start
at the transaction will transact with the transact or transactionally speaking says
transact okay so um that's crazy yeah it's a lot um i wonder if anyone's going to read
the bill in full i hear it's over a thousand pages i'm not sure if that's true but again
the links to all these resources and videos will be in the show notes which will be on
rounding mirror dot logon dot com in a couple of hours okay so that's that um it is bipartisan
support in congress and if i were an american right now i would be trying to gather bipartisan
support against this because this has nothing to do with keeping kids safe online this has
nothing to do with china it has nothing to do with tick tock it has to do with a lot
of the same stuff that we're dealing with in other contexts like look transaction uh
transaction of information transaction of currency i believe this is all included in
there speaking of transactions of currency uh we talked about james o'keefe and project
veritas before it's what got us kicked off youtube it would seem sorry well we're back
and so is james o'keefe he left project veritas and has started omg o'keefe media group and
he's come out with a story this is a headline from timcast uh james o'keefe exposes potential
money laundering scheme by democrat fundraising group act blue thousands of donations are
being made in the names of people who say they didn't send them uh there's a good video
that i watched just a couple of clips of and it's very interesting and it looks as though
indeed people's names and you can search this on the election federal fec federal elections
commission there's a database a database where you can search individual donors and if you
do that you find well hold on this person in the middle of nowhere sort of suburban
neighborhood with no employment listed is donating two hundred thousand dollars to this
candidate who is in the democratic party anyway it all centers around act blue um and so i
realized i'd heard that name before so i did two things the first thing i did was i looked
up act blue on influence watch which is a right-leaning to be clear uh wiki type page
that uh again right-leaning so uh and i found act blue technical services act blue llc act
blue pack act blue civics act blue charities and this is starting to feel like yet another
ftx situation where you have a bunch of companies each set up to do slightly different things
uh that are hard to keep track of if you look on wikipedia act blue is listed as a not-for-profit
charitable organization but if you look here you see this this group has wings that are
so non-profit political organization the for-profit arm of the left of center political organization
the 527 political action committee a 501c4 arm and uh something there at the bottom a
pass-through organization so this is just nuts um so i i didn't have time to go and
do the dive i wanted to because this is clearly um not intended to be easy to track but i
also went into our campfire wiki and did a backlink search for uh act blue and these
are the pages that list act blue in there uh meaning i've previously or someone else
has previously included them in research on these pages the analyst institute the cdc
foundation community change guarding against pandemics and mind the gap mind the gap is
barbara freed's political action committee barbara being the mother of sam bankman freed
uh and the analyst institute is one of the companies that had been hired by mind the
gap to work on this and work on the uh political activities over the last couple of years the
cdc foundation that's the center for disease control uh foundation community changes and
it's also associated with mind the gap and finally guarding against pandemics apart from
the obvious within its name it's also uh notable as being run by gabe bankman freed the brother
of sam so um that's notable okay moving swiftly along you may recall that uh a couple of my
goodness a month maybe it's been two months i think since east palestine ohio suffered
a catastrophic environmental and public health emergency in the derailing of a norfolk southern
train that carried a whole bunch of uh poorly documented toxic chemicals that they then
after like a week maybe i think 10 days decided to uncontrollably burn okay fast forward um
that's still going on that is a story that has not gone away um there's some weird narrative
control feel to this where uh there's just a lot of things that don't make sense so once
again continuing to ask questions what is going on here well what's going on as very
well documented by ryan christian of the last american vagabond is the toxic waste that
continues to be in the soil in the water in the air is being picked up and shipped across
the united states to different states uh where oklahoma for example is saying you stay away
we under no circumstances want your toxic waste because very little is known about the
full extent of the damage caused by not just the dioxin which has now been confirmed in
uh independent testing um but all the other chemicals which are surely still there that
ongoing testing is showing need further testing and the facilities even the states that are
accepting them are not set up to receive or to process this material there's specific
uh procedures and techniques and equipment required uh to destroy or to get rid of or
otherwise successfully process dioxin and a number of other chemicals and facilities
that this toxic waste is going to cannot do that and they know that so i highly recommend
the last american vagabond uh who as always is doing a tremendous job of articulating
in concise multi-hour shows the details of the situation okay on the culture side look
this is getting a little out of hand maybe it's always been out of hand here's a roider's
story uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as lgbtq now this i i i will admit
um i i'm starting to be suspicious of how much attention is being paid to certain aspects
of the the you could call it the culture war related to sexuality related to non-heterosexuality
um there are genuine concerns in how children are being exposed to sexualized material in
some cases maybe in a lot of cases um and we could talk later about the conflation of
non-heterosexuality and sexualization of children we that's a that's a nuanced discussion that
we can have another day what is clear is this is a very hot area for societal uh debate
and action and that includes from very powerful um uh powerful lobbying interests people who
for for one reason or another would like to see society move in one direction or another
and especially when something is contentious like this you get a back and forth and you
get people tired and perhaps you get entire nations deciding they're just done and i think
that's what's happened here um the details of the law are are not i'm not entirely familiar
with but it is my understanding indeed that uganda has made it illegal to be non-heterosexual
which in my opinion makes no sense and is a probably probably an international human
rights issue um and further there are nuanced conversations to be had about to what extent
that matters if you're talking about a sovereign nation making laws uh for its own citizens
let's let's let's just focus on the aspect of this didn't just happen uh and i i i found
this video by the podcast of the lotus eaters uh very very well thought out and very well
articulated um this is another conservative uh you know self-described conservative platform
um but they said in their words look to clarify it's not being gay that is that that people
are being up you know people are getting up in arms about um it's the activism it is this
sort of plus one ideology of you know you take someone but then you add an entire world
of politics and and sort of forced culture onto it and then take that and force it on
other countries and their thesis in this episode of their podcast is that well western interference
has consequences so it poses a good question is the intended result of all of this activism
one way or the other for governments to start cracking down on what individuals can can
can do as far as their own lives go um you know i'll leave that one for there you know
there for now it's it's a tremendously interesting topic um one last thing before we get into
our main story which is this uh the epoch times reported the federal government of canada
requested removal of online content document shows twitter files canada version i'm gonna
read a little bit from this article here multiple federal departments and agencies have interacted
with social media companies to request online content be taken down oftentimes to have impersonating
accounts removed but also to purge posts they deemed offensive the canadian government provided
the information on march 27th in an inquiry of ministry following an order paper submitted
by conservative mp dean allison allison asked for an account from each governmental organization
on efforts to take down edit ban or change in any other way social media content posts
or accounts since january 1 2020 the most serious case involves uh employees of the
canada revenue agency cra sharing private taxpayer information in a facebook messenger
chat group cra requested the information be taken down but says it didn't receive confirmation
it had been very interesting stuff um no one's surprised okay our main story for the day
speaking of controversial uh contradictory hypocritical government actions confession
through projection so keep in mind some of the issues we've touched on uh you know election
stuff uh cyber security um foreign influence using technology misinformation this or that
well here's what happened and here's where i turned to my script all right it appears
we have yet another addition to our growing insert noun here files collection yesterday
the guardian british newspaper the guardian published an article detailing what they called
the vulcan files describing the cyber warfare and disinformation tools and techniques developed
by a russian company called ntc vulcan the story is allegedly based on a leak of thousands
of internal documents provided by an anonymous whistleblower about whom no information is
provided despite the implication written into the headline vulcan files leak reveals putin's
global and domestic cyber warfare tactics the article does not actually assert that
these tools are being used by the russian government uh either in the context of the
current ukraine crisis or otherwise or that there's any reason in particular to believe
that they were even developed with guidance from president putin or his government in
short while the article seems to contain a compelling story there's not a lot of true
value provided such as you know the documents themselves for for for example to be clear
i have no reason to doubt that russia has secret undisclosed cyber warfare and information
management programs i imagine these would be happily deployed on canadians and americans
at the drop of a hat and likely are currently underway to be quick don't take this this
this story as me dismissing that premise still i'd like to learn a bit more about the people
in the organizations behind this story because i don't know it seems odd the timing of the
story the lack of real actual controversy in the story and of course i especially given
the fact that the uh the the vulcan files already have a wikipedia page which if you recall was
one of the things that made me immediately suspicious of the lockdown files now first
let's look at this company so let's look at this promo video which was included in the
guardian article this is uh ntc vulcan's promotional video
what is our it company doing every day develops software
shares important knowledge and experience provides information security to customers
develops a solution for the safety of devices and does reverse engineering
develops corporate tasks perfectly rests stop why exactly the vulcan team yes yes it is you
everyone comfortable working environment and most importantly the desire to change this
world for good
is at one point in the video that was a that was an Oculus VR headset which is a
Facebook or a meta company I don't know if that means they worked on Oculus and
therefore worked with meta or it was just a random example just for a good
shot or they're reverse engineering it anyway so that's the company let's start
off then at this point by looking into the organizations responsible for the
story itself who's the source here beyond this anonymous whistleblower so
according to the article the anonymous source approached the German newspaper
so Deutsche Zeitung I pronounce that they approached them with the leak days
after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 after a weird delay the
whistleblower subsequently went to a company called paper trail media
kick-starting a collaborative investigation that roped in 11 media
outlets total including the Guardian the Washington Post and Le Monde from France
so paper trail media that's interesting so who's paper trail media they are
described as a Munich based investigative startup the company's
website boasts its prior work as the journalists behind the Panama papers the
Paradise papers Swiss secrets Xinjiang police files and now the Vulcan files
alongside its partners the company also claimed credit for the Pegasus project
the China cables the Russian asset tracker and more if you're like me some
of those were familiar even if I wasn't initially quite sure what they were I
had at least heard the names of some of these stories before so I went in and I
identified each one to make sure I knew what I was talking about here they all
are so I'm gonna go through and just list what each one is Panama papers
refer to the 11.5 million leaked encrypted confidential documents that
were the property of Panama based law firm Mossack Fonseca the documents were
released on April 3rd 2016 by the German newspaper Sudachet Zaitung dubbing them
the Panama papers the document exposed the network of more than 214,000 tax
havens involving people and entities from 200 different nations the Paradise
papers refers to a leak of 13.4 million files most of the documents relate to a
law firm and corporate services provider that operated together in ten
jurisdictions under the name Applebee okay Swiss secrets was a cache of leaked
data from a cornerstone of the global banking industry which by the way has
just been bought out by UBS anyway which reveals how the rich the powerful and
the corrupt use secret Swiss accounts to move millions and final sum of it into
Florida real estate hmm who is a rich guy who lived in Florida okay now Xinjiang
police files are a major cache of speeches images documents and spreadsheets
obtained by a third party from confidential internal police numbers they
provide a groundbreaking inside view of the nature and scale of Beijing's
secretive campaign of interning between 1 to 2 million Uighurs and other ethnic
citizens in China's northwest Xinjiang region the Pegasus project was an
unprecedented leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected for surveillance
by the customers of the Israeli company NSO group which shows how this
technology has been systematically abused for years the China cables is an
investigation into the surveillance and mass internment without charge or trial
of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang similar to the other one and
finally Russian asset tracker is a project to track down and catalog the
vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to
Russian President Vladimir Putin as you can see this is a wide variety of
investigative subjects that revolve though around organized corruption among
the super wealthy corporations hostile nations you know Russia and China banks
law firms the Vulcan files is the next in this multi-year series of
investigations it would seem so who are their partners paper trail media worked
on some of these projects as they mentioned with partner organizations
with four of them prominently identified you have the organized crime and
corruption reporting project the International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists forbidden stories and further down the page you
have the anti data corruption or anti corruption data collected not anti data
corruption collective though that could be accurate so who is behind those
groups because the funding for paper trail media is is not listed it's just
not there and they say if you'd like to fund them they direct you towards these
partners and some of the other media outlets they work with so this is the
the most obvious way we can start to identify this network around them so
let's conduct our own investigation the OCC RP is a project of the US based
journalism development network and its primary funding sources are get ready
the United States government through the National Endowment for Democracy the
United States Agency for International Development or USAID and the United
States Department of State well other donors from 2012 all the way to today
include George Soros's Open Societies foundations the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund the Ford Foundation Skoll Foundation Pierre Omidyar founder of
eBay illuminate and Google through the Google News Initiative and their think
tank jigsaw not creepy at all what a nice collection of logos we see on
screen there all right now okay so that's the first one what about the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists why look at
that the ICI J is also funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and
the Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation and you've also got the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association footing the bill very interesting okay
forbidden stories shares many of these same funding sources including the
National Endowment for Democracy Open Society Foundations that's three for
three so far on those two and the skull foundation you've also here got the
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO as
well as on the right on the screen you see the Pulitzer Center which just so
you know is itself funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the Carnegie
Corporation of New York Conrad and Hilton Foundation Planned Parenthood
International the Nuclear Threat Initiative the Rockefeller Foundation
and the United Nations Foundation and you're telling me these groups are
speaking truth to power huh and finally there was a fourth one called the
anti-corruption data collective which is funded by illuminate by Pierre Omidyar
and George Soros is open society foundation so all of them are funded by
George Soros so this this is the crowd that paper trail media runs with while
some of those investigations okay are surely done in earnest and the resulting
revelations have brought international international attention to serious and
real human rights crises such as the case with the oppression of the Uighur
Muslims in China it's still vital to not lose sight of who benefits from the
selective publication of these exposés now for example just because he's the
one common thread between all of them George Soros is a major player on the
international geopolitical stage and his funding of all four of paper trail
media's closest collaborators suggest his own geopolitical goals are advanced by
this investment let's just watch a video to remind us of his position for example
given that this is a story about Russia in the context of its invasion of Ukraine
let's hear what mr. Soros has to say about it the invasion of Ukraine didn't
come out of the blue the world has been increasingly engaged in a struggle
between two systems of governance that are diametrically opposed to each other
open society and closed society let me define the difference as simply as I can
in an open society the rule of the state is to protect the freedom of the
individual in a closed society the role of the individual is to serve the rulers
of the state other issues concerning all of humanity fighting pandemics and
climate change avoiding nuclear war maintaining global institutions have
had to take a backseat to that struggle that's why I say our civilization may
not survive that sounds like a threat mr. Soros but look it's not just mr.
Soros of course by now the foundations bearing the names Rockefeller Ford and
skull should all be immediately recognizable as powerful influences on
whichever story is being sold even if you agree with the story by the way but
let's give those guys these technically private citizens and their private
foundations let's give them the benefit of the doubt for a second and face the
biggest elephant in the room the fact that the United States government
itself is engaged with these groups in large part through these super spooky
organizations that were set up to do just this kind of propagandistic work USAID
and the National Endowment for a Democracy this is also if you look back
these these funding arrangements did not start this year they go back to the
beginning of most of these organizations these are significant and long-term
relationships it would seem okay look in good scientific spirit the article
doesn't simply say trust us we wouldn't lie to you no instead the authors tapped
a cybersecurity firm to review the so-called leak and provide their input
the article cites the comments of John Holtquist and Gabby Roncone both
employees of mandiant mandiant is a subsidiary of Google having been
acquired by the Internet giant and fully integrated into Google Cloud in March
2022 funny the year after the invasion or sorry the month after the invasion
it's long list of partners that I skimmed through include a Lyons Amazon
Web Services AT&T Bell Cloudflare CrowdStrike hmm we're gonna have to look
into that one later IBM Microsoft and tell us Canadians and
Americans alike will know all of these this is the entirety of our internet and
phone and television infrastructure and many many others a lot of law firms in
there a lot of insurance companies so with that in mind this Google company are
we really supposed to find this company credible on the topic of protecting the
civil rights and the internet security of the citizens of each sovereign nation
and their global counterparts Google keep in mind is perfectly happy in their
position as the world's gatekeeper on cyber infrastructure and the idea that
Google is spying on us is ubiquitous and we treat it as a fact of life
especially people my generation and under we've grown up with that is the
fact we grew up under the Patriot Act which yes involves not just the states
it involves the five eyes countries furthermore the governor the company has
been all too happy working with government with military and intelligence
agencies to control the flow of information and target civilians when so
desired for example removal from YouTube for coming down the wrong path with this
project Veritas story okay just for those listening on screen we have a
Guardian article Google's earth how the tech giant is helping the state spy on
us we knew that being connected had a price our data but we didn't care did we
not then it turned out that Google's main clients included the military and
intelligence agencies so rounding the earth speaking of Google's earth rounding
the earth is an educational platform and Matthew Crawford founder of rounding
the earth told me when I started this weekly news roundup that each show
should teach one key educational tool with this brief overview we attempted to
evaluate the credibility of the source of this story in particular as it
relates excuse me as it relates to the topic at hand given that in true insert
noun here files fashion the underlying leaked documents were not provided in
meaningful form at all so we're required to decide whether or not to rely on the
source itself as the exclusive method of deciding if this is a credible story for
me I can't help but see the activities and the tools that are briefly described
in scary fashion in this Guardian article as being much more than a mirror
image of exactly the same tools and activities used by our own governments
and domestic corporations used on us this my friends is confession through
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United States or China or Israel Uganda or a Myanmar instant well intrusion into
privacy and the mass manipulation of public flows of information is always
problematic it's never not problematic so I ask you the listener are you happy
with this as the status quo
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earth globe spinning where Matthew continues to write fantastic work my
name is Liam Sturgis I'm a musician and I'm gonna start talking about that more
we're gonna have some fun cultural development hanging out community growth
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little bit brighter and in the meantime you can find me at Liam Sturgis dot com
thank you so much everybody for watching and we will see you on Monday where we
will be talking to none other than journalist George Webb this will be fun
see you guys later
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