1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,480 Just because this is going to be nothing but starting articles, I thought we should still 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:10,320 get an intro article to kind of talk about this one that just came out of San Francisco 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:16,560 from the Associated Press AP News November 29 2022 article title San Francisco will allow 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:22,000 police to deploy robots that can kill. Oh no you stole one of my intros. Oh no. 5 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,480 Well I can give you another one. Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give police 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,120 the ability to use potentially lethal remote controlled robots in emergency situations 7 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:37,760 following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,880 board over support for law enforcement. The vote of eight to three with the majority agreeing to 9 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,280 grant the police the option despite strong objections from civil liberties and other 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,160 police oversight groups opponents said the authority would lead to further militarization 11 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,640 of a police force already too aggressive with poor minority. I think that's good enough for 12 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,080 right now. I don't think we ought to talk much more about it. Chelsea do you have anything to 13 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:05,120 say about it? Oh not other than robots are the future I guess. My one issue is that this was 14 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,520 supposed to happen in Detroit first and it was also supposed to be a cyborg that was of course 15 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,640 a police officer that was killed on the job and then reissued as a robot later on. What? 16 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:21,600 It's Robocop come to life. Yeah but in San Francisco and not a cyborg just a robo. 17 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:28,400 Oh eventually we'll all be robots. Yeah being killed by the Robo police. 18 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,800 Yep. Anyhow let's get to this episode. 19 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,280 From the unexplained to the mundane come join us on a journey to the fringe. 20 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:50,960 Hello and welcome to journey to the fringe a podcast more popular than Kanye West 21 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,200 although that has nothing of course to do with what we're doing. More so how shitty of a person 22 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:02,320 he turns out to be. We are your less shitty host because you know less about us Taylor and Chelsea 23 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:09,120 here today to review the year that was 2022. A lot of things happened this year some of them on this 24 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,680 podcast and of course those things that happened on this podcast continue to happen after we talked 25 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,320 about them and this is the time of the year we like to sit back and reflect on what was the year 26 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:23,680 of 2022 and we are of course going to take turns going through our episodes. I think it'll be good 27 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:29,200 fun. Chelsea what do you think? Well I hope so that's why I'm here for fun. That's why we do these episodes. 28 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:36,880 Exactly. It's not because we hate them but I think we got a lot to get through so I think we're just 29 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,000 gonna kind of start. Easiest way to do it is going to be a rotation system where I do one you do one 30 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,480 and we'll just go from there. To start off I'm gonna give you an update on Steven Donsiger. 31 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:51,280 Earliest time we talked about him is in the episode called the Ecuador case that was back in 2021. 32 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:56,800 That was a long time ago. It really was. Season one. Last time we heard he was sent to jail as far as I 33 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,040 can remember. He might have come up after but that's the last I kind of remember. Here's an 34 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,800 article titled Chevron adversary Steven Donsiger appeals conviction to US Supreme Court by Clark 35 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:14,480 Mindoch and it is on Reuters. It was published September 20th 2022. Donsiger told the US Supreme 36 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,880 Court that the court appointed lawyer who prosecuted him were acting without supervision from the 37 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:24,640 Department of Justice or other executive branch officers which violates principles of separation 38 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:29,120 of power. The Harvard law graduate who received six month jail sentence for misdemeanor contempt 39 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:35,520 in addition to over 900 days of house arrest said the case has broader implications beyond his 40 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:41,200 conviction. If left standing the rationale of the two lower courts would sow confusion about the 41 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,480 authority of judicially appointed prosecutors and create a constitutional moment land between 42 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:52,080 the branches. Kaplan said in his decision that Donsiger had secured that judgment after bribing 43 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,800 the judge ghostwriting a court opinion and environmental report tampering with witnesses 44 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,360 and extortion. That's of course his case in Ecuador against Chevron that they're talking about. 45 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,520 Chevron then sought to recoup the money from the attorney and Kaplan charged him with contempt in 46 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:11,120 2019 after he refused to turn over his electronic devices to the California based company Forensic 47 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:16,400 Experts Review. The US attorney in Manhattan declined to prosecute those charges setting a lack 48 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,640 of resources which prompted Kaplan to appoint a private lawyer. US district judge Loretta Preska 49 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:27,840 found Donsiger guilty in six misdemeanor contempt charges in July 2021 and sentenced the attorney 50 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:33,600 to six months in prison. Donsiger was released in April after a combined 993 days of house arrest 51 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,400 and 45 days in prison. A detainment that was decreed by human rights campaigners, 52 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,040 congressional progressive caucus and the united nations high commission on human rights. 53 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:49,120 993 that's like three years. Yeah that's three years in house arrest. Holy crap. Yeah he was 54 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,000 in there a long time and he's out of jail at this point but that was ridiculous. Yeah. And he just 55 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,800 kind of wants it expunged. A federal appeals court upheld the conviction in June and a split decision 56 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:03,520 with circuit judge Michael Park writing for the majority that the lower court had the authority 57 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,160 to appoint a prosecutor who are then subject to supervision by the US attorney general. 58 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,560 And then I do have one other article I just wanted to put to see what else he's doing right now. 59 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:19,200 Steven Donsiger says criminalize ecocide to help save the planet. An article from common dreams 60 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:25,600 it was published October 1st, November 22nd 2022 and it is written by Jessica Corbett. 61 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,920 Steven Donsiger the American human rights attorney targeted by big oil for his work in 62 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,960 support of indigenous people impacted by fossil fuel pollution on Tuesday presented five legal 63 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:40,240 solutions for the worsening climate emergency. The right combination of legal changes happening 64 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:46,080 quickly can catalyze progress. He stated it's all too easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless in the 65 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:51,280 face of such widespread catastrophe but we as citizens can do something right now. Donsiger 66 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:57,120 wrote in a Tuesday column for the Guardian on the heels of COP 27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, 67 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:03,760 Egypt. Together alongside increased citizen activism those ideas can begin to provide a 68 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:09,520 coherent and comprehensive legal framework for all of us to help save the planet. Donsiger argued. 69 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:14,560 His first proposal make ecocide an international crime. There has been growing global support for 70 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:19,600 doing just that. In July international lawyers published a legal definition of the term declaring 71 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,480 that ecocide means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a 72 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:29,440 substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment 73 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:34,560 being caused by those acts. The attorney's second solution is to enact a fossil fuels non-proliferation 74 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:39,760 treaty. International support for this idea has also grown in recent months. The lawyer further 75 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:45,360 argued that humanity must protect the Amazon headwaters noting that a quiet legal revolution 76 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:50,800 is being led by indigenous peoples in the Amazon countries of Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Peru. 77 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:57,440 And his final legal solution is a binding climate reparation. Specifically he proposed a treaty 78 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:03,200 requiring each wealthy country to pay a fixed amount proportionate to its gross domestic product 79 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:08,560 into a fund administered by a neutral party with actual representation from the small countries 80 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,680 most affected by warming temperatures and the negative impacts resulting from the climate crisis. 81 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,240 So he's been up to a lot that I think is a good enough update for right now. I'm sure this is not 82 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,640 the last we'll hear of Stephen Donsinger. I just have a quick question and maybe this is answered 83 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:27,520 on the other question. So he was found in contempt of the court so this was something completely 84 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:34,400 different from the actual trial he was on. Is that trial gonna continue? I believe that trial is 85 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:40,000 done but I didn't actually look at that for this. I'm pretty sure it finished up though and he was 86 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,600 found guilty and that's part of this. The fact that the contempt was he was in house arrest for it 87 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:51,360 was outside of the fact that he was found guilty of basically masterminding the case in Ecuador. 88 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,080 What that's crazy. And it's more so the case in Ecuador that's actually being brought to the 89 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:01,280 higher courts right now. Okay. Like it was just a mess. That's what I was asking. If you want to 90 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,840 learn more about it please go listen to the Ecuador case. It explains a lot of what we're talking 91 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:10,640 about right now. Otherwise it wouldn't be an update. We'd be doing a whole new episode. Well we already did 92 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:18,640 that episode so yeah no episode to do. Here we are. Hey look at us. Okay that's me now right? Yes. 93 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,960 Okay you know what would have been helpful if I wrote down the episodes that were updating but 94 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,920 I'll leave that up to the listener to go find what one we did this on. Hopefully you remember so then 95 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:33,680 you don't have to do all that work. Maybe you just remember what episode it is. I have an update on 96 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:39,920 JFK. The JFK what were they doing like trying to get the records released or something like that? 97 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:46,160 Biden was hiding that shit in his attic. Yeah do I have any updates on that? No not really. November 98 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:53,840 2022 I found an article on politico.com says newly released internal correspondence from the national 99 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:59,760 archives and records administration reveals that behind the scenes there has been a fierce bureaucratic 100 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:05,040 war over the documents in recent years. These are the JFK documents just in case I lost you. 101 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:10,720 Hitting the archives against the CIA, FBI, and other agencies that want to keep them secret. 102 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:15,680 Correspondence obtained under the freedom of information act shows that the archives have 103 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:22,880 tried and often failed to insist that other agencies comply with the 1992 law by declassifying 104 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:29,600 more documents. Struggle was especially fierce in 2017 when then presidential Donald Trump sided with 105 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:36,240 the CIA and FBI and agreed to waive a supposedly concrete legal deadline that year to release all 106 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:42,560 classified documents related to the JFK assassination. Last year president Joe Biden ordered another 107 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:47,680 review on the documents to allow more to be made public this December. Officials involved in the 108 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:52,960 declassification process say they are optimistic that a large batch of documents will be made 109 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:58,080 public next month. Internal correspondence from the archives helps resolve one lingering mystery 110 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:03,360 about the documents. In their negotiations with the White House and the archives in recent years, 111 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:09,600 how have the CIA, FBI, and the Pentagon and other agencies justified keeping any secrets about a 112 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:14,880 turning point in American history that occurred decades ago? An event that has always inspired 113 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:21,200 corrosive conspiracy theories about government complicity. And so with that, that's no updates 114 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,080 really. That's the same information you already had. And that's it. Hey, look at that. 115 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:34,640 That update was there is no update. That was a long no update. Hey, you guys all remember this 116 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:39,040 guy named Julian Assange. I can't remember the episode we talked about him in, but the last time 117 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:44,800 we left off this fellow who was being extradited from Great Britain to the US for charges under 118 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:49,920 the espionage. Didn't he have a stroke or something? Was that the update? He had many medical issues 119 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:54,560 that were brought about basically for being over a decade in isolation. I think that would catch 120 00:10:54,560 --> 00:11:00,000 up with you. This article isn't necessarily an update on him specifically, but it is an update 121 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,920 on the situation. Is that the theme of this episode? We're giving no updates. Of course. 122 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:14,160 This article came out of the newspaper Le Monde that is a fairly famous French newspaper. It means 123 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:20,640 the world. I know that because I am fancy like that. That is how you like to say the world. 124 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:29,600 Yes, Le Monde. I shall take over Le Monde. You say that so much. I do. Picking the brain was all wrong. 125 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:35,280 Article title, media outlets call to end Julian Assange persecution for disclosing secrets. You 126 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,360 could have found this on many different websites. I chose Le Monde because it's one of the ones I 127 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:45,600 wouldn't usually use. This also includes New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais and Der Spiegel are 128 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:52,480 the five websites. This published on November 29th, 2022 with no specific author just because it's 129 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,520 all these websites. Cablegate, a set of 251,000 confidential cables from the US government 130 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,840 disclosed corruption, diplomatic scandals, spy affairs on international scale. In the words of 131 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,840 the New York Times, the documents told the unvarnished story of how the government makes 132 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:10,640 its biggest decisions, the decisions that cost the country the most heavily in lives and money. 133 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:15,520 Even now in 2022, journalists and historians continue to publish new revelations using the 134 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:20,320 unique trove of documents. For Julian Assange, publisher of WikiLeaks, the publication of 135 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:26,000 Cablegate and several other related leaks had the most severe consequence. On April 20th, 2022, 136 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,600 Assange was arrested in London on a US arrest warrant and has now been held for three and a half 137 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:36,960 years in a high security British prison, usually used for terrorists and members of organized crime 138 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:42,000 groups. He faces extradition to the US and a sentence of up to 175 years in an American 139 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,120 maximum security prison. This group of editors and publishers, all of whom had worked with Assange, 140 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:53,440 felt the need to publicly criticize his conduct in 2011 when unredacted copies of the cablegate 141 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:58,160 were released. And some of us are concerned about the allegations in the indictment that he attempted 142 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:04,160 to aid in the computer intrusion of a classified database. But we come together now to express our 143 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:09,360 grave concern about the continued prosecution of Julian Assange for obtaining and publishing 144 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:14,560 classified materials. The Obama-Biden administration in office during the WikiLeaks publication in 145 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:19,840 2010, refrained from indicting Assange, explaining that they would have had to indict journalists 146 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:25,440 from major news outlets too. Their position placed a premium on press freedom despite its 147 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,720 uncomfortable consequences. Under Donald Trump, however, the position changed. The DOJ relied on 148 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:36,320 an old law, the Espionage Act of 1917, which hilariously is what Donald Trump is now being 149 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:43,200 charged under because he gave it much more authority than it used to have, which has never 150 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:49,120 been used to prosecute a publisher or broadcaster. This indictment said that the DOJ would have to 151 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,280 be prosecuted for the use of the law. The indictment sets a dangerous precedent and threatens to 152 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,760 underline America's first amendment in the freedom of press, holding governments accountable as part 153 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,880 of the core mission of a free press inner democracy. Obtaining and disclosing sensitive information 154 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:08,800 when necessary and the public interest is a core part of the daily work of journalists. If that 155 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:13,760 work is criminalized, our public discourse and our democracies are made significantly weaker. 156 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:18,880 That is where that one ends. So there has been multiple newspapers have kind of reached out and 157 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:23,600 said, he should not be prosecuted for it because we all technically would then be prosecuted for it. 158 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:28,160 So we'll see what happens. Well, that's doing him a solid. Yeah. And the fact that they're talking 159 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,880 about this, the fact that Trump is the one who pushed this forward, not Biden, and the fact that 160 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:38,480 Obama said we're not going to prosecute under this, it gives a good hope that Biden will actually come 161 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:43,120 to a good idea and say, no, we're not going to prosecute him any further. Well, that would make 162 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,600 sense. So fingers crossed this one gets sorted out, but that's where we are right now. That was a 163 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:52,960 good update. It might need further updated. It will need further update. It is for 20, 164 00:14:52,960 --> 00:15:02,160 it just somehow end here. Okay. My update, suffice to say, you might already be updated on this one 165 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:06,000 and I probably don't have to tell you, but I'm just going to give you a little update on this 166 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:11,520 one anyway, because it was a big one from our update last year. And we had a few updates 167 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,760 throughout the year on this. Probably the last update we're going to be doing on this one, 168 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:21,360 the Queen. Ed, what? Sorry if I'm the one to break that news to you. Spoiler alert. Yeah. 169 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,040 I mean, I could keep going unless we want to move on to the next one and keep the next update, 170 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:31,520 but I could keep going with Royal News. I feel like we did say this at one point on the podcast, 171 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:36,480 so that's not really an update per se at this point. I don't know if we actually said it, 172 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:42,640 said it. We alluded to it. He's dead. Okay. Next update we're looking for, British Andy, 173 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:52,560 alive. Much to the dismay of probably everyone. Except the Queen's Corgis. They seem to like the 174 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:59,200 guy. It's true. It's true. We all know it's true. The royalty wants him dead. Like they'd be much 175 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,480 better off if he was alive. No living human wants this guy around. No, nobody does. So I do have an 176 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:10,960 update on him from an article labeled or named, critical headline. Titled. Titled. Prince Andrew 177 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:17,280 furious as 3 million armed police protection to be scrapped in weeks. First of all, why is this guy 178 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:22,960 worth 3 million in armed police protection? First of all. Honestly, that's in his entire net worth 179 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:28,160 is just going into police protection during this time. Yeah. Why they would still pay for that. I 180 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:33,440 mean, they could get rid of them easily. Easily if they don't want him alive. Anyhow, that's a 181 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:38,800 different update. You gotta assume he knows some sort of secret. Oh yeah. Guess so. I mean, if he 182 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:44,720 even knows this. Oh yeah. And they think he would. Why not just off them? They've offed other people. 183 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:49,600 That's another update. Anyhow, I'm going to go on to the end. Who would take care of the Corgis? 184 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,240 That's true. That's true. Maybe nobody wants to take care of it. It's a really intricate. 185 00:16:54,240 --> 00:17:00,160 That's the cards they got going. Okay. Viewing Prince Andrew is seething with officials after 186 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:05,520 he was told they would no longer pay millions of pounds each year to fund his armed police 187 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:11,120 protection. It has been claimed. I don't know why the public isn't fuming that these are tax dollars 188 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:16,960 being paid for his protection. So are now all of his protective police officers armless? Yes. They 189 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:26,640 took their arms. Yes. It's so much cheaper. The Duke of York who stepped away from his royal duties 190 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:40,720 stepped away as if he was taking a break. It was. I thought I proofread this, but okay. So he stepped 191 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:50,000 away from his royal duties. I know he's taking a break. Amidst the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, 192 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:55,840 enjoys taxpayer funded guards whenever he leaves the grounds of Windsor. Okay. That is a great 193 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:02,880 sentence right there. That's been slashed together. Did they also say that he told his mother he no longer needs a birthday party because he's a big boy? 194 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:10,640 But this is expected to be removed by mid-December with ministers looking to 195 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,680 save the estimated three million pounds a year that goes towards his protection. Wait, what's 196 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:20,720 being removed? His protection or just British Yandy in general? We would hope it's British Yandy, but 197 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:25,600 much to the dismay of probably everyone in royalty right now, he's staying. They're removing his 198 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:32,480 protection. Okay. We'll see what happens to British Yandy. Sources said Andrew 62 demanded that he keep 199 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:39,280 his three million per year private security. However, his older brother, King Charles III, did not oblige. 200 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:47,280 I'd be interested to see what the taxpayers have to say. His older brother Chuck, who happens to be king, said no, you do not get that. 201 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:53,440 I'd be interested to hear what the taxpayers have to say. Who else will hang out with him other than 202 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:59,440 the armed guards who are required? God, what a guy. The seething royal is reportedly set to register an 203 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:04,720 official complaint in a bid to get the security back, as source told the paper. He is going to 204 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:10,720 write to the home office and the Met Police to complain about losing his taxpayer-funded security, 205 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:17,680 they said. Yeah, in lieu of his mom not being one he can complain to at this point. He went with more official routes. 206 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:22,880 She gave him everything. She was an enabler, if you remember. Prince Andrew, who saw his royal 207 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:29,840 reputation badly tarnished following a bombshell BBC interview that infamously saw him claim he 208 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:35,760 didn't sweat, was stripped of the title, his royal highness, and all his military honours. I thought he 209 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:42,400 stepped away. This is news to me. He is reported to have paid a whopping seven million to sex accuser 210 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:47,440 Virginia Dreyfri and an out-of-court settlement that saw her drop the case. I really think she 211 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:52,240 should have kept going. I would have been interested to see what happened there. Duke of York has always 212 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:57,760 strongly denied any allegation of wrongdoing that has been made against him. If we recall, in January 213 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:03,760 2022, Queen Elizabeth II made the decision to strip her son of his official duties after details of 214 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:09,120 his friendship with Epstein and Merge, etc. etc. Yeah, she always liked to downplay everything. It 215 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:14,480 was only a small relationship. It was only little girls that he was meeting. Yep, removing Prince 216 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:20,080 Andrew's royal duties meant the prince would not ascend to senior royal status. The king, that still 217 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:26,880 feels wrong to say. King Chuck, just call him King Chuck. Yeah. Has also made a new change to the pool 218 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:32,800 of councillors with whom the king can rely. Changing up the royal family roles, naming extra 219 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:38,960 councillors with Princess Anne and Prince Edward added to the pool, as the king himself noted, 220 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:44,800 would ensure continued efficiency of public business when I'm unavailable. This has effectively 221 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,160 removed Prince Andrew and Prince Harry from the role. I just have to make a side note. All these 222 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,360 articles that I read, they're comparing British Andy and Prince Harry. I just don't think that 223 00:20:55,360 --> 00:21:00,800 they should be held to the same level, just because both that like they both compared them to the same. 224 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:07,520 Like they both had their protection removed and they've both been taken down from the royal family 225 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:12,640 rules. Yeah, I feel like I don't think it's the same. I feel like they were for distinctly 226 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:20,400 different reasons that they had their protection removed. One's a not proven sex offender. Yeah. 227 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:25,520 And the other one moved to Canada because the family was very racist against his spouse. 228 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:32,080 Basically the same thing. Yeah, I feel they're a little bit different. Yeah. There was another 229 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:36,320 article I didn't include in here, but I'm just going to give it a little shout out that his 230 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:41,680 daughter's Princess Beatrice, I believe. And she's left the country with her new husband, 231 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:48,480 just because there's a lot of shit happening with British Andy and her mom, which is his ex-wife, 232 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:53,360 who's divorced. Yeah. Don't they have to take care of the courties together? Yeah. But there's a lot 233 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:59,280 of weird things with her too. She was kind of outcast from the royal family when she was 234 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:06,560 photographed having her toes sucked by her financial advisor or something like that. Okay. 235 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:13,360 Yeah. It's super strange. So I mean, it kind of makes you be like, oh, that's why they were 236 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:18,240 married. Not sure why they're divorced now, British Andy and her. Because she has old toes. 237 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,720 But yeah, so Princess Beatrice kind of left because she was like, my parents are real 238 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:29,040 fucked up right now. And the new guy that the mom is seeing went to the media recently about 239 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,960 something. I didn't get into it, but I thought it was funny that she left the country because of all 240 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:38,560 this going on with her messed up family. And that's my update on that. I can also add to this point, 241 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:44,560 although kind of a totally useless human being, King Chuck, who cannot clear a desk to save his 242 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:49,280 life, did outlaw frogwa from being served at Buckingham Palace because it's cool down. I did 243 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:54,640 read that as well. I did. I was pleasantly surprised with that. But totally useless human being. I just 244 00:22:54,640 --> 00:23:00,960 need to add that. Like he cannot do human things. You watch him not giving proclamations. Like if 245 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,800 there's a pen on his desk that's not supposed to be there, he doesn't know what to do. He has to 246 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:11,440 get his assistant. It's bizarre. But as a royal, how would you know how to do that? That is true. 247 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:19,600 And to be perfectly honest, some of the decrees that he has made as a royal have been fairly good 248 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,320 because he does believe in climate change and he does believe in the ethical treatment of animals. 249 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:32,480 Overall, not terrible. Not my king, but I'm not in government so I don't have to give a oath to him. 250 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:37,680 So there we are. It's true. It's still a weird thing to say king. Yeah. King Chuck. That's the 251 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,880 royal update. Okay. Now we've all been talking about Gabriel Wortmann for a while, dating back 252 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,600 all the way to our first season with the episode titled, What are those horse boys up to? The 253 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:52,160 Gabriel Wortmann story. That means RCMP. What has been going on with this? Yes, the horse boys are 254 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:58,240 the RCMP and the Gabriel Wortmann story is super bizarre. It is the largest mass shooting in Canadian 255 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,600 history. There has been a commission going on for a long time. We gave an update on it as it was 256 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:09,360 going during this year. The commission has finally ended. The final written submissions for the mass 257 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:15,520 casualty commission are replete with suggestions, demands, and recriminations over how the events 258 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,920 of April 18th and April 19th, 2020 and their aftermath could have been handled differently. 259 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,880 The shooting rampage in rural Nova Scotia left 22 people dead as well as the gunman who was 260 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,360 eventually killed by police. The public hearings into the mass shooting, which began in February 261 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,720 and ran until September, have already heard many of the assertions raised in the written submissions. 262 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:40,000 Lawyers representing families of 21 of the victims used their final words to the commission to repeat 263 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,200 their concerns about issues like communication regarding the police response. There are two 264 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,240 recurring themes on that topic that the RCMP did a poor job of warning the public of the gunman, 265 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,240 Gabriel Wortmann, and that there wasn't enough information provided to the victim's families or 266 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,640 other members of the public in the immediate aftermath about whether their loved ones had 267 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,600 survived. Lawyers for the family of Gina Goulet, the gunman's last victim, went so far as to say 268 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,480 that had police done a better job of warning the public, she would have survived. The families 269 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:13,360 through their lawyer also voiced skepticism about whether any recommendations the commissions make 270 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:19,040 we implemented. They cite the failure to act on recommendations stemming from past mass casualty 271 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:24,320 events in Merithorpe, Alberta and Moncton, New Brunswick. In both of those cases, all the victims 272 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:29,280 were Mounties. Lawyers from Patterson Law, the firm that represent most of the families, were critical 273 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,320 of the commission itself. They said it sometimes appeared rudderless, delving into subjects that 274 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:40,480 were not directly related to the April 2020 rampage. They pointed out that the commission came about in 275 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,120 large part because of intense lobbying by the families, who later felt marginalized by some of 276 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:49,760 the proceedings. It is important to note that the victims and survivors of the crime must not be 277 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:55,920 infantilized by the police or protected from information in the guise of being trauma-informed, 278 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,320 Patterson Law wrote. Their submission says that the families questioned why some witnesses, 279 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:05,520 particularly Wortmann's spouse Lisa Bamfield and senior Mounties, including Staff Sergeant Brian 280 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:11,280 Rehale and Staff Sergeant Al Carroll, were accorded special treatment when they testified, which the 281 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:16,400 lawyers say precluded more effective questioning. By denying them the opportunity to question 282 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,360 Bamfield directly, some of the conspiracy theories surrounding her role that weekend got more traction, 283 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:26,800 the lawyers say. Our CMP Staff Sergeant, the families also feel trauma-informed lens was not 284 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:33,200 applied equally, the submission says, and in dissecting the Mounties' perceived shortcomings 285 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:38,320 that weekend, Patterson Law noted it cannot be forgotten that the perpetrator was ultimately 286 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:44,160 thwarted by an empty gas tank and coincidence, not by master strategy. The final report of the 287 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:49,440 commission will be out in March of 2023, so we'll have an update in early 2023, hopefully. 288 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,520 Well, probably at the year end update in 2023. Yeah, yeah, more likely than that, 289 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,080 depending on how interesting everything has been up until then. That's true, that's true. Okay, 290 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:03,520 is it already time for the next update? Yes. Okay, this one's on, I know this one's fresh in 291 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,080 everybody's mind, well, kind of, because by the time we get to this one, you know, it's not going 292 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:14,320 to be so fresh. This one's the Mothman, turneth againeth, Chicago O'Hare's airport as its very 293 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:20,400 own Mothman, if you recall. So here's an update on the most recent sighting of Chicago O'Hare Mothman. 294 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:27,680 Manuel Nevarate, a UFO clearinghouse recently received the following report from a woman who 295 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:32,640 claimed that she and her friend encountered a creature with bright red eyes and a big black 296 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:38,160 body while parked at a construction site near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport around 10 297 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,480 PM, March 2022. Well, that's kind of racist. This is the most recent I could find. Yeah. 298 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,600 I was out driving around with a guy I had just started talking to, so already we're, 299 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,600 we're at it, we're starting the article, just go. Yeah, we're reading the article. We were out by 300 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:00,240 the airport, just cruising around, listening to music and getting to know one another. Decided 301 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:05,760 to park to smoke some bud and one thing led to another. These stories, these kids, we were in 302 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:13,040 the back seat when he looked up and started screaming. What the fuck? Over and over again. 303 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:19,920 Over the window, we got to talk to this guy. Yeah. It was then that we felt like something bumped into 304 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:25,040 the side of the car, like when someone slammed up against the side of your ride. This report, 305 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,920 I wish I could have find a more recent report. I sat up and saw a pair of bright red eyes and 306 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:35,520 a big black body looking into the driver's side window into the back seat. I also like how she was 307 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:41,760 so honest about how this was a guy she had just started talking to and then they're in the back. 308 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,080 They got really high and they went to the back seat. Yeah. 309 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,320 It scared the hell out of both of us and we both started screaming out loud. This thing kept looking 310 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:55,520 into the car and then it just disappeared. A security guard shows up, then two more show up. 311 00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:00,000 They made us get out of the car and started asking us why we were there. After looking at us, 312 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,120 they start asking about what we had seen. Told them and they screamed at us to get dressed and 313 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:10,640 leave. Navarrette said after some convincing, he was able to speak with the witness over the phone. 314 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,840 Quote, I contacted the witness via email and after much assurance, she agreed to an interview over 315 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,480 the phone, he said. Investigator called and spoke with the woman. He described as a 20-year-old 316 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:26,080 Hispanic woman. Her companion that evening, he said, was a 26-year-old man and also Hispanic. 317 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,320 No one was around at the site giving the late hour and the couple decided to park near the 318 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,880 entrance but still out of the way to avoid law enforcement. That's the update. And you know, 319 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,960 the other thing that I came across when I was reading these articles, I don't know that I 320 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:45,040 actually included in the Chicago O'Hare sightings all the reports of pilots seeing Mothman, but those 321 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:51,920 were too old. So I was giving an update. This is the most recent and the pilot eyewitness accounts 322 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,280 are from a couple years ago. So I wasn't about to put those in the update episode. No, that might 323 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:04,080 actually be its own episode in 2023. Yeah, there you have it. There's my update on the Mothman and 324 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:10,480 it's just another one. We had one of those in the most recent Mothman episode. The Mothman may also 325 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:16,960 be a sexual predator who knows Jeffrey Epstein. More likely than not. It may in fact be a British 326 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:23,600 Andy that the jury is still out on that. We can't rule that out. We cannot confirm nor deny that one. 327 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:29,360 We cannot. No. And if we brought it up, we might get beat up. Or nobody has seen the Mothman sweats. 328 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:37,520 That would settle it. Okay, moving on. You guys all remember the James Webb Space Telescope, right? 329 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:43,600 We talked about it in the second of the What Are Those Horseboys Up To? The Mr. Big Saga. It is 330 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:48,080 to replace the Hubble Space Telescope. I found an interesting article I thought would give us a good 331 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:53,280 update on it. This one came from space.com. Artemis One moon mission squeezing communications with 332 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:58,320 James Webb Space Telescope. Two major NASA missions that have launched in the past year are revealing 333 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:03,600 a communication weakness in space. NASA communicates with all of its distant spacecrafts from the 334 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:09,680 Orion capsule to the James Webb Space Telescope to Voyager 1 through the Deep Space Network, 335 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:15,600 a collection of 14 antennas located at three sites in California, Spain, and Australia. But the network 336 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:21,040 is busy and ensuring that every mission beyond Earth orbit has the communication time it needs 337 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,760 can be tricky. An issue with Artemis One mission has exacerbated. And I don't know, have you been 338 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:30,160 following Artemis One, Chelsea? No. Basically, they're thinking they're going to go back to the 339 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,480 moon in a couple of years. So this was a rocket they launched to kind of test the capsule and 340 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:39,440 everything else with the parts of that. It went successful. It's coming back right now. But this 341 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,320 is something that's come from it. We were told over the summer that when the Artemis Space Mission 342 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,880 launched, the Deep Space Network was going to be basically fully taken by Artemis because they 343 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:54,160 needed to keep track of the spaceship. Mercedes Lopez Morales, an astrophysicist at the Harvard 344 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:59,680 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the chair of the James Webb Space Telescope Users Committee, 345 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,960 told a meeting of the US National Academies of Sciences Board of Physics and Astronomy on 346 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:10,320 Wednesday, November 30th. Wow, that was a lot of words to not really explain a lot. So many titles. 347 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:15,920 The time came on November 16th when NASA launched Artemis One, a test flight to kick off the agency's 348 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:21,600 return to the moon. 25 day mission sent an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit and is scheduled to 349 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,720 splash down on Earth on December 11th. While Orion is in flight and beyond low Earth orbit, 350 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:32,240 it's in near constant contact with Deep Space Network, a major drain that has put the James 351 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:37,440 Webb Space Telescope and other missions in the back seat. NASA has known Artemis would strain 352 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,720 the Deep Space Network. The agency arranged upgrades to some antennas and added new ones 353 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:49,120 in January 2021 and March 2022 in preparation. But communications time is still scarce. It could 354 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:54,320 be up to 80 hours. That's about three and a half days of no contact with James Webb Space Telescope 355 00:32:54,320 --> 00:33:00,640 at all. James Webb Space Telescope scientists usually send commands to the $10 billion observatory 356 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:05,840 about once a week, she told the board. So infrequent communications doesn't affect the observatory 357 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,720 getting its instructions. But for astronomers to actually enjoy Webb's power, the telescope needs 358 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:16,240 to be able to beam home its data and do so before its computer fills up. The big issue is that you 359 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:22,000 cannot download data for that long. For Artemis One, she said the Space Telescope Science Institute 360 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,680 in Maryland, which operates both James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, rejiggered 361 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:33,440 James Webb observing schedule and scientists prioritize shorter observations, which creates 362 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:38,880 smaller batches of data to reduce the chances of the telescope computer filling up before the Deep 363 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:44,880 Space Network can accept the next batch of data. But because NASA plans additional Artemis launches, 364 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:50,400 and these with humans aboard in 2024 and beyond, scientists want a different solution to the 365 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,440 communications logjam. Final quote and end of the article, we are desperately asking NASA to come 366 00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:01,280 up with a plan to somehow have more access to antennas, Lopez Morales said. So there may be an 367 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:07,200 issue actually getting use of the space telescopes just because of the other priorities NASA has going 368 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:12,240 forward. But this is something that they spent billions of dollars on, they really need to make 369 00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:17,840 sure it can actually be used for what it needs to be for. Yeah, I was just thinking it seems like both 370 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:24,160 should be prioritized in their own right and not one over the other. NASA falls victim to 371 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:28,560 budgetary issues specifically with whoever's president at the time. So whoever's president 372 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,960 at the time wants to make sure that their use of money actually makes sure it's being used, 373 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,120 which is unfortunate. So whoever's president at the time, they'll want to make sure like they 374 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,440 prioritize whatever thing they're trying to put forward, say somebody going to the moon. Super 375 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:46,720 bizarre. Yeah, I just want to get this out of the way. I found a couple articles on this, but most 376 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:51,280 of them said that they're technically copyrighted. So I shouldn't just read them word for word. Those 377 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:57,280 assholes who does that. We talked about the collapsing of the apartment building in Miami, 378 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:04,160 and I believe it was November of 2021, might have been October of 2021. No, that one would have been 379 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:10,800 in the summer because we talked about that when I was on vacation. Oh, okay. Yeah, I did find a few 380 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,760 articles on this. It's not necessarily update on that, but it's an update on the insurance issues 381 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:21,200 in Florida in general. And that is, is that people are seeing significant hikes in their insurance 382 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:27,200 premiums up to tens of thousands of dollars per year, because basically they're finding that 383 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:33,520 climate change is leading to more climate issues that are affecting Florida, which is only about 384 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:39,440 three inches above the ocean on average. So that's a joke, but only slightly. Basically they're 385 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:43,840 realizing that the entire state is going to sink into the ocean. They don't want to pay for it. So 386 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:48,000 they're making it almost impossible to actually get insurance in the state. That is not the only 387 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,040 reason that insurance getting untenable in the state. It's also insurance fraud and lawsuits. 388 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,960 If you want to learn more about it, there are some interesting articles on it. I couldn't find one. 389 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,720 I could actually read to you. That's where that one is. Chelsea, it is your turn. Damn it. They're 390 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:06,240 all copyrighted. Yeah, I know it was ridiculous. Okay. Next up, I'm about to depress everyone. So 391 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:13,200 I'm hoping that Taylor and my timing also makes for a nice and cheerful update on the next one 392 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:20,400 on his turn. I have the never satisfying update on climate change headlines, and these are all 393 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:26,640 very recent articles. We'll read half of them right now. Then we'll take a break from the 394 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:32,000 depressiveness, because let me tell you, putting these all together, not fun. And then we'll come 395 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:37,200 back after a brief break and then I'll read you the rest just so that you don't forget the 396 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:43,600 depressiveness of what's going on. And no, I didn't put anything nice happening to offset this. 397 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:49,920 And these are all from like the last couple of weeks. FYI. So let's begin. This one, officials 398 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:56,560 fear complete doomsday scenario for drought stricken Colorado River. Next one, global news 399 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:03,360 says 20% of species in Canada are at risk of extinction. XC levels are expected to rise 400 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:10,720 around the contiguous us faster than previously thought a new NASA study finds by 2050 sea levels 401 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:16,400 along the coastlines of the contiguous us could rise as much as 12 inches to just as right, right? 402 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:24,720 Contiguous. Same thing. Tiguous. Okay. contiguous. It's the same thing. You can say it either way. 403 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:29,840 Next one, global floods and droughts will intensify sooner than expected studies show 404 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:36,960 this one synthetic fibers discovered in Antarctica samples show the pristine continent is now a sink 405 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:42,800 for plastic pollution. Next regime shift in the Arctic marine ecosystem that's likely to 406 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:49,360 become permanent. Next one, Sudan experiences worse dengue fever outbreak for more than a decade. 407 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:56,880 It's one world still on the brink of climate catastrophe after the COP 27 deal. And I think 408 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:03,200 still is the key word there. And this article is quickly followed by another article blind. 409 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:09,360 DOP 27 continues the climate summit ritual of words without action. With that, 410 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,160 let's take a little break for another update. And then we'll be back to finish this depressing 411 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:19,920 headlines off. I just want to add one thing and it's something I heard that I don't think most 412 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:27,520 people know. I think most people heard about COP 27 happening, but COP 27 had the most oil and gas 413 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:34,000 lobbyists of any of the COP meetings to date. It in fact outnumbered almost every national delegation. 414 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:40,880 What? It's crazy. So more than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists swarmed COP 27, more delegates than 415 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:47,520 the combined total of 10 countries most impacted by climate change. 636 oil and gas lobbyists is 416 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:55,520 registered to attend COP 27 event in Egypt, a 25% jump on the number of last year's conference. 417 00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,240 What? Why? So that was the highest because they want to make sure that whatever's negotiated, 418 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:04,080 they're involved in and they got everybody there to make sure that their 419 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:09,120 prioritizations are taken into account. Yeah. Also an important update. Okay. Do you remember 420 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:14,320 that time that India accidentally bombed Pakistan? Yeah. Remember from that one episode. 421 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,240 Yeah, that one episode. I can't remember what it was. I meant to write it down, but Bernie ate the 422 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:23,840 paper I put it on. So here we are. But damn it. I hate it when dogs do that, especially the one 423 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,560 I don't have. This actually only came a couple of days after the bombing happened and we reported 424 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:34,480 on it, but I wanted to make sure it was included. The India defense, because we said Pakistan said 425 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,080 their response to it, but India was still waiting for that. We were still waiting for India's 426 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:43,280 response. Here it is. The Indian defense minister told parliament that a review of India's maintenance 427 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:48,320 and safety procedures was underway along with an inquiry into the causes of the launch. Luckily, 428 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:53,360 the apparently accidental launch occurred during a boring Wednesday evening. Sometimes accidents 429 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:58,480 happen despite the best protocol and training. Gus Sagan has argued famously that there are 430 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:03,680 limits of safety, both because of the sheer randomness of existence and because of organizational 431 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:08,880 pathologies that manifest even in military units that prize safety as a mission. The new 432 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:15,280 US nuclear weapons and missile safety track record is hardly inspiring. Yet even grading on a curve, 433 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:20,560 India's inadvertent launch stands out. While deadly military accidents were disturbingly 434 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:25,360 common during the Cold War, last week's episode may be the first inadvertent launch of a cruise 435 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,640 or ballistic missile by one nuclear power unto the territory of another nuclear power. Additionally, 436 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:35,360 while accidental launches often occurred during exercises, their occurrence during routine 437 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:40,240 maintenance is less common. If for no other reason than typically there are numerous physical 438 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:46,320 safeguards to prevent a missile flight in such circumstances. Thus, when a Pershing II misfire 439 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,920 during maintenance in Germany in 1985, the missile remained stationary and clamped to its launcher 440 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:57,120 because it was not in a firing configuration. The other disturbing characteristic of this episode is 441 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,240 India's apparent lack of haste in communicating with Pakistan about the accident. No state would 442 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:06,720 like for its advanced technology to land in the territory of an opponent, in part because of the 443 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:12,240 potential compromise of technology that exploitation of the crash site would offer. Perhaps India hoped 444 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:17,120 Pakistan would simply not notice, or that it wouldn't find it a pre-alternative leak. Perhaps 445 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,960 India was uncertain as to the missile's trajectory. That is not an update at all. You know what, 446 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:26,000 let's pretend it's never happened. Continue with your update. Okay. Because there is no update in 447 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,400 there at all. I thought there was. I highlighted that because I thought there was something in 448 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:37,280 there and I skimmed it, but I was clearly wrong. Skimming never goes well. We should know that by 449 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:44,000 now. Okay, here we go. Measles is now an imminent global threat, who would CDC say in a new report. 450 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:51,600 Flip point. Here's the Sydney water restrictions as only 25% of Warragamba Dam catchment deemed 451 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:58,080 safe to drink from the Australian news and the Guardian. Extensive inland thinning and speed up 452 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:05,120 of Northeast Greenland ice stream from nature. Buffalo snow. Western New York digs out from up 453 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:11,840 to six feet of accumulation of snow from CNN. Next bullet point. Over 20,000 died in Western 454 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:18,480 Europe summer heat waves figure show. The climate crisis, the Guardian. Next one. Still from the EU. 455 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:26,400 238,000 early deaths due to air pollution in 2020 in a study from GW. I don't know what that is. 456 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:33,920 Next one. Coal emissions on pace for record setting in 2022 from E&D news. Oh, that's fine. 457 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:40,320 Yeah, I'll actually have an opener that has to do with coal, which I stumbled upon. I got a lot of 458 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:46,720 good openers. It's not Nat King Coal, right? No, no, that would be, yeah, that would be a good 459 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:52,880 update, but this is depressing update. Next one. Record heat over Great Barrier Reef raises fears 460 00:42:52,880 --> 00:43:00,400 of second summer of coral bleaching. So those are my most recent climate change 461 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:06,080 headlines for you to think about. Okay. In our episode below deck on the cruise industry, 462 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:12,480 in the intro, we talked about the coming protests in Kazakhstan about clear protests about the 463 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:18,800 government in place due to gas prices that had exceeded 40 cents per liter. Oh, right. American. 464 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,680 At that point, you just have to protest and try to get changes in the government. And there have 465 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:28,320 been government reforms since then. I found the most recent thing I could talk about was a 466 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:33,200 statement from the current president of Kazakhstan that came out, I believe it was in November of 467 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:40,320 2022. So this is directly from the mouth of Kassim Jumart Tarkayev, who is president of Kazakhstan. 468 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,480 In a state of the nation address earlier this month, I announced I would seek a democratic 469 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:49,680 mandate to implement a vision of a fairer, more open Kazakhstan. And as my country heads to the 470 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,800 polls in the coming months, I believe we must resist the instinct towards inwards amid these 471 00:43:54,800 --> 00:44:00,320 turbulent global times. There are simply no viable alternative to globalization, interdependence, 472 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:05,440 and the international rules based order. And while efforts to reduce dependence and approve 473 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:11,600 resilience are wholly understandable, and in many cases sensible, there's a delicate line to tread 474 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:18,400 as this mustn't lead to a broader reversal of all that has enabled global prosperity in past 475 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:24,720 decades. We have a duty to mitigate risk and reduce fragility in the global system, and we 476 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:29,600 must seek to achieve this by strengthening cooperation, not rejecting it. I say this as 477 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:34,800 a leader of a country that finds itself on the front lines of the threats posed by global 478 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:39,840 fragmentation. Kazakhstan has always been a bridge between East and West, lying at the heart of the 479 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:45,360 Silk Road. We have a 7,600 kilometer border with Russia, an 1800 kilometer border with China, 480 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,200 an extensive trade link with Europe and the rest of the world. Throughout our history, 481 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:54,640 and particularly since our independence, we've always taken the view that disagreements with 482 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:59,760 neighbors must be approached constructively, and they need not lead to a breakdown in communication, 483 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:05,680 cooperation, or trust. As a result, Kazakhstan and Central Asia more widely provide a strong case 484 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:11,600 study of major powers' ability to work in alignment in pursuit of their interests that are to the 485 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:16,560 benefit of their region's people. Moreover, we believe that such principles of openness and 486 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,880 cooperation are just as valuable as the international sphere as they are domestically. Indeed, 487 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:25,520 their sphere has defined the path of internal reform that my administration has set out. 488 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:30,160 I'm skipping ahead a little bit just because this is all flowery words. Two weeks ago, I put forward 489 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:35,760 a plan to parliament for a just and fair Kazakhstan. The plan aims to decentralize decision making, 490 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:41,200 strengthen rule of law, increase international competitiveness, and ensure equal opportunities 491 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:47,520 for every citizen. It aims to fundamentally reshape our political order and leave behind the 492 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:53,200 super presidential system, which is no longer the most effective governance model for our nation's 493 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,920 ambitions. Instead, we are decentralizing and distributing power throughout the nation, 494 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,560 strengthening the rule of parliament and local authorities. We are ushering in a new era of 495 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:08,080 pluralism by abolishing constraints on the registration and formulation of political 496 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:14,240 parties. And I have also initiated a single seven-year presidential term, as I believe this is a real 497 00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:19,440 breakthrough in developing democracy in Kazakhstan and modernizing it as an advanced country. To date, 498 00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:23,920 no state in our part of the world has taken this bold step. All of these changes are helping us 499 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:29,920 move forward toward a new model, a model of a presidential republic with a stronger parliament 500 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:35,520 and more accountable government. This is nothing less than a full transformation of our national 501 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:41,040 politics. Therefore, to move forward with this reform, a strong mandate is needed. That is why 502 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:46,560 I've decided to call a presidential election this autumn and to introduce legislation preventing all 503 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:51,520 future presidents from serving more than one term. There is more to it than that, but I feel like 504 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:56,160 that actually explains most of what they're doing. It actually seems like these protests have been 505 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:01,840 successful. This guy has changed it so that it is not president heavy, what the government does, 506 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:06,720 and that the president can only serve one term. Cool. Yeah, it actually seems like- Protests on 507 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:11,840 rape. Yeah, these protests have actually done what they want to. Good on them. We'll see what's going 508 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:16,000 on in Kazakhstan in the coming years, but yeah, it actually seems like this was successful and what 509 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:22,160 it needed to do. That's awesome. Yeah, go ahead, Chels. My update is on the gavel goat, which is, 510 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,760 I don't know how to fucking say anything but anything in English. Let's be honest, but this 511 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:35,040 is the Swedish resistibly flammable goat, Christmas goat. That's tradition by this point. It just has 512 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:40,640 to get set on fire. Even if it's illegal. Yeah, they don't like it. Like, who can resist it? 513 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:45,600 They're putting it there to be set on fire, let's be honest. So first update, he's getting a new 514 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,960 location and you know what? Maybe this will help him not get burned this year. Maybe with a new 515 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:56,160 temporary location, it won't get burned this year. I don't know why they don't just put a live camera 516 00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:01,040 on it so we can always check on it and then we can see who burned it down. They did, did they not? 517 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:07,120 There's no live camera. All I can find is the inauguration when he got to the new square. So 518 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:12,320 the giant straw goat erected every year in the Swedish city of gavel is moving away from the 519 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:19,120 city's slots, Torget square to a new temporary location for the next three years to allow a new 520 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:25,760 cultural center to be built. So that's his first adventure of the year and he is still standing. 521 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:30,400 Okay. That's my update. But he does still technically have like a whole month for us. 522 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:36,080 He does. He still has a lot. So it's not a great update. And if anything changes between now and 523 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,960 when we post this episode, we will make a change. Oh, that's true. We can just record over this. 524 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:45,840 And that's the end of my update. This next update, there's a lot to this update and it's not 525 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:50,160 necessarily just one article. So I'm just going to get to it. We did an episode called the power 526 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:55,200 grid and the power plants are fucked. They were two separate episodes and we specifically talked 527 00:48:55,200 --> 00:49:01,760 about one thing in specific. And that is that the U S military will target power plants and power 528 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:07,920 grids when they are in war with other cities, countries, militaries. Chelsea, do you remember 529 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,640 that? Yes. Yeah. It is in fact, one thing the U S military specifically says they will target 530 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:17,760 power plants if they are at war with some of them. I just wanted to bring up, I didn't put a specific 531 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:23,440 article for this. The Russian military has specifically targeted power plants and the power 532 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:29,040 grid in Ukraine. It is a very cold winter in Ukraine because there is no heat and there's no 533 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,800 electricity in most of the country. So they're trying to put up with it. Just so you know, 534 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:37,440 this is not something that would be out of the ordinary for any country being at war with another 535 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:42,160 country. That's just something that will happen. Even if it was the U S invading somebody else, 536 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:47,600 say Canada or Mexico, they would have targeted the power plants so that energy could not have 537 00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,600 gotten out. Yeah, we talked about that on that episode. I feel like it's something that we 538 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:56,480 should explain at least with what's going on in those countries right now. Now the article I did 539 00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:02,480 find that definitely has to do with that episode. North Carolina County announces curfews as nearly 540 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:08,640 40,000 customers remain without power after two substantial transformers are damaged by gunfire. 541 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:13,760 This is an article by Tina Burnside posted on December 4th, 2022. Authorities have announced 542 00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:19,360 a mandatory curfew in North Carolina and North Carolina County where around 40,000 customers 543 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:24,880 lost power after two power substations were damaged by gunfire Saturday night. The county 544 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:30,000 will implement a mandatory curfew after 5 p.m. until 5 a.m. starting Sunday night. More County 545 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,960 Sheriff Ronnie Field said at a news conference on Sunday, municipalities and county officials 546 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:40,720 have formed a plan for the night and the next few nights that we may be out of power. It's a very 547 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:46,160 serious situation, Field said. So we've come to an agreement to best protect our citizens and to 548 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:51,040 protect the businesses of our county. We're going to implement a curfew tonight. A state of emergency 549 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:55,440 went into effect at 4 p.m. Sunday as law enforcement, city and energy officials were 550 00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:00,880 investigating the incident and working to restore the two substations, authorities said. Law 551 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:05,680 enforcement has also been providing security for the stations, according to the sheriff's. 552 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:10,880 The power outage is being investigated as a criminal occurrence after crews found signs of 553 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:16,480 potential vandalism at several locations, CNN previously reported. Field said multiple rounds 554 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:22,240 were fired at the two substations. It was targeted. It wasn't random, he said. No suspects have been 555 00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:27,040 identified in connection with the incident and Fields would not say if the criminal activity was 556 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:32,720 domestic terrorism. The person or persons who did this knew exactly what they were doing, Field said. 557 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:38,480 We do not have a clue why More County. Fields acknowledged a woman who posted on Facebook Sunday 558 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,640 morning indicated she had been questioned by law enforcement in connection with the incident and 559 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:48,160 Fields did not name the woman, but said she posted false information on social media claiming to have 560 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:52,400 information about the incident. We don't have anything, Fields said. When asked about a possible 561 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:58,400 motive, no motivation nor group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept they're the ones who did it. 562 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:04,400 A gate at one of the locations also appears to have been taken off its hinges. What happened, 563 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:09,680 as far as I can tell, it was not in this article, but I just want to put it forward. If it's not true, 564 00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:15,120 I will take it back later on. There were drag brunches happening in the area. So it was domestic 565 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:21,840 terrorism who was taking the energy grid off so that these could not take place. Yeah. So these 566 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:27,520 domestic terrorists have now identified that they can just simply take the power grid off to stop 567 00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:33,840 these things from happening. So that's fun. If that is not true, I will definitely redact it later on, 568 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:39,040 but that is how I understand it at this point. Again, super easy to take the power grid out of 569 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:44,560 commission. Do not fucking do it though. I am not telling you to do it at all. Yeah, it shouldn't be 570 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:50,880 that easy. It really shouldn't be, but here we are. Oh, you're going to read stories to my kid in 571 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:55,680 a dress here. I'm going to just shoot this power station and it'll die and 40,000 people will be 572 00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:02,160 without power for days. So here we are. Editors note between the recording and the release of 573 00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:09,040 this episode, there were four substation attacks in the Tacoma, Washington area on Christmas day 574 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:14,160 that left thousands without power. Yeah. Chelsea, do you have one more article then to finish off 575 00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:19,200 this year? One more to finish off the year. And then I think that'll do it. The American Airlines 576 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:28,320 Phantom Voice. Oh, sorry. I mean, Ooh. Yeah. That one. We all remember it then. No update. Not a 577 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:33,120 single thing has changed since we covered the story. Okay. Good update. And that's it. That's 578 00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:39,440 the last update for the year. And with that, we have been Journey to the Fringe. Taylor and Chelsea 579 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:44,960 here, not making antisemitic views very clearly known to the world and therefore still ahead of 580 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:51,760 Kanye West. This might be less relevant when this is actually posted, but it's hilarious at this 581 00:53:51,760 --> 00:54:00,320 point. Thank you all for listening and we will see you next week. Thank you for listening to 582 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:06,480 Journey to the Fringe. If you have liked what you have listened to, please like, share, subscribe, 583 00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:12,240 or follow depending on what venue you are listening to us through. Also, please, if possible, 584 00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:18,240 leave a five star review as that really helps us in the algorithms. Should you wish to interact 585 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:24,000 with us, please check us out on your social media of choice. I bet you we are there. 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