Need to Know (8 March 2022) TEXAS TUESDAY with Joe Olson and Michael Ivey
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This is Jim Fetzer, Madison, Wisconsin, welcoming you to another Texas Tuesday with Joe Olson of Houston, Texas, Michael Ivey, formerly of Fort Worth, now residing in Asheville, North Carolina, a particularly beautiful part of the woods.
By the way, we have a breaking story here.
Germany is sticking with Putin and the Nord Stream Gas, which was the original, really the deep target here for all this Ukraine nonsense.
They're trying to demonize Putin.
The war was really about Germany and not really Russia-Ukraine.
Joe, give us a breaking story.
Yes, this is at Veterans Today.
Zelensky lost a big one today in his attempt to play master of the world by manipulating Europe into isolating Russia and not giving a crap about the inflation effects on the EU.
The drowning Zelensky hardly has any concern over the impact on the EU.
If sanctioning Russian gas helps him and screws Europe, it's still pop the champagne corks for Zel the dancing boy.
Little noticed has been Putin's continuing flow of Russian gas into and through the Ukraine into pipelines that go through countries that are now helping massive arms shipments supply the forward brought forward to the Ukraine border to support the Uke Nazis who are responsible for the May Day and coup atrocities and those that are happening now.
Putin let the past coup event slide because the new pending concern is not having Ukraine and NATO as key priorities and no brainer.
When the shooting stops in Ukraine and sensible people are running the government, it'll be time to dig Zelensky's shorts, starting with his $35 million mansion near Trump in Florida and his billion-dollar bank accounts that not even Trump has.
Yeah, he was caught in the Panama and the other one that starts with a P.
banking scandals that popped up recently where they found all these offshore bank accounts.
And I'll pull that up while we're talking about other subjects and give you the name of it.
But yeah, they've got his offshore accounts in two different places with a billion dollars of looted money that was U.S. foreign aid that was laundered through Ukraine and given back to the five congressional candidates that have siblings and children involved in this whole thing, which would they've got his offshore accounts in two different places with a billion dollars of looted money that was U.S. foreign Anyhow, it's all crooked.
Michael, your thoughts about Germany's decision, which I regard as absolutely critical. - Oh.
Well, it made me remember that terrific Mike Whitney piece that you covered earlier last week about this really being about the relationship between Germany and Russia.
It had some great geopolitical points in it.
If that's true and if Germany is really going off the Rothschild script here and doing what is obviously right for their people, that's got to have the Rothschild banking mafia shitting their pants.
I think so.
I think so, too.
I think this is really, really big.
It's Pandora and Panama Papers, the two disclosures of offshore financial secrets.
So I can put a link to that and send it to you.
We can talk about it Thursday.
Thanks, Joe.
Putin says sanctions over Ukraine are like a declaration of war.
And of course, this would be among them.
Thank God.
President Vladimir Putin has described sanctions imposed by Western nations over his invasion of Ukraine as akin to a declaration of war, but thank God it has not come to that, he added.
He also warned any attempt to impose a no-fly zone would be seen as participating in the conflict.
He rejected suggestions he'd introduce a state of emergency or martial law in Russia.
He made the remarks while speaking to a group of women flight attendants at an Aeroflot training center near Moscow.
Since the start of the invasion 10 years ago, the West has imposed a raft of sanctions, including freezing foreign assets in the exclusion of Russian banks from the SWIFT international payment system.
Many multinational firms have ceased operating.
Zara, PayPal, and Samsung became the latest to suspend trading there.
Economic measures have already caused the ruble to plunge in value and forced Russian Central Bank to double interest rates.
But they will recover.
Putin sought to justify the war, repeating he was seeking to defend Russian-speaking communities there through demilitarization and denazification.
Responding to Western allegations that the campaign was going less well than expected, he observed, our army will fulfill all the tasks.
I don't doubt that.
Everything is going to plan.
Putin has said he has no plan to declare martial law.
We don't have such a situation.
would be considered to be a step into the military conflict.
Ukrainian President Zelensky has condemned NATO for ruling out a no-fly zone.
Putin has said he has no plan to declare martial law.
We don't have such a situation.
I hope we won't have one.
There had been a rumor to that effect, but most of that is nonsense and propaganda.
Meanwhile, let them fly on broomsticks.
Russia stops rocket engine supply to the United States.
Very significant.
In retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, Russia has suspended delivering rocket engines to the U.S.
In a situation like this, we can't supply the U.S.
with our world's best rocket engines.
Let them fly in something else.
They're broomsticks.
I don't know what.
Since 1990s, Russia has supplied 122 RD-180 engines to the U.S., 98 of which were utilized to power Atlas launch vehicles.
Recosmos will also discontinue repairing rocket engines it earlier sold to the U.S.
The United States still has 24 engines that will now be left without Russian technical support.
Russia has already stated, too, that it would cease collaboration with Europe on space launches from the Spaceport in French Guiana because of Western sanctions.
Meanwhile, NATO has announced they will not fight for Ukraine on the ground or in the air, rejecting a no-fly zone—completely the right thing to do.
NATO allies rejected Ukraine's demand for no-fly zone Friday, saying they were increasing support but stepping in directly would lead to a broader, more brutal European war.
So far limited to Russia's assault on its neighbor.
We are not part of this conflict, NATO Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg told a news conference.
We have a responsibility to prevent the war from escalating beyond Ukraine, because that would be even more dangerous, more devastating, cause even more human suffering.
All totally appropriate.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, well, we've got a de facto no-fly zone as it's happening right now because Boeing and Airbus have said that they're going to quit sending parts to Russia and they're not going to send any new planes.
And Russia is saying, discussing nationalization of the Boeing and Airbus fleets.
This is an AeroTimes Hub from five days ago.
Yeah, they, turns out that most airlines, greater than 50% of the value of the planes is leased.
And so they don't actually own their fleets, they lease them.
And so he can really hurt the leasing companies, number one.
Number two, it's going to hurt the manufacturers.
And number three, this was part of the game plan all along to make sure that nobody was a jet setter except the World Economic Forum approved clowns.
So, you know, they're trying to shut down every form of travel possible.
Heard today that gasoline is over $6 a gallon now in the San Francisco area, and it's past $4 a gallon here in Houston.
So it was $2 last year.
Doesn't take too long to figure it out.
And then our brilliant leader of transportation, Mr. Buttplug, says that you wouldn't have to worry about gas prices if you had an electric vehicle.
And when Psaki was questioned about it, about the high gas prices, she said, well, Donald Trump wants to give nuclear weapons to Iran.
It's like this woman has gone complete loony.
She was loony before, but now she's complete loony.
I think the Democrats are so desperate and all the facts are against them that they've got to manufacture phony stories.
But of course we know high gas prices are supposed to promote the Green New Deal and buttplug is so ignorant he doesn't understand it consumes more energy to manufacture the electricity than it saves.
Michael, your thoughts?
I love that line that the Russian guy said about stopping missile engines being sent to the West.
He said, let them fly on their broomsticks.
What a brilliant characterization in a one-liner there of the U.S.
being a witch's coven.
Let's see, some names that come to mind.
It might be Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Victoria Nuland, Elena Kagan.
They all sound like witches to me.
And the story about Jim Stoltenberg, the head of NATO, backing down, or he didn't really make threats.
He just said, no, we're not going to do that.
We'll not fight in Ukraine.
That's an optimistic sign.
Although it, you know, it looks like they're giving up on the idea of stopping the Russians except to encourage other people to do things.
Love to see the best manhood of two white Christian nations killing each other.
And his statement, because it would entail US or NATO planes shooting down Russian military aircraft or attacking assets in Ukraine or inside Russia.
Basically, he's saying we do not want a huge escalation of a war with a nuclear armed country.
And what it Is apparently is that Putin has called their bluff and they don't really have the cards to play after all.
Yeah, and war games are showing that the NATO could only withstand five days of assault against Russia and would lose rapidly.
So this is a prudent decision that avoids massive damage to NATO.
Meanwhile, countries allowing Ukraine to use their airfields may be regarded as entering the conflict.
Russia's defense minister warned any country offering its airfields is going to be considered as having entered the conflict.
The use of airfield networks of these countries to base Ukrainian military aircraft and their subsequent use against the Russian armed forces may be regarded as involvement of these states in an armed conflict.
That's an appropriate observation and it should be taken to account.
Ukrainian combat plans that earlier flew to Romania or other neighboring countries are included here.
Ukrainian combat planes, which earlier flew to Romania and other neighboring countries, are encompassed here.
Fake news.
Unfortunately, you're hearing Poland's going to send fighter jets to Ukraine.
Malensky has repeatedly asked the United States to provide jets to enforce a no-fly zone But that wouldn't work.
A new fly zone would entail having U.S.
or NATO planes shoot down Russian military aircraft or attack assets in Ukraine and inside Russia.
The move would lead to a sharp escalation in the conflict, which has perhaps the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world.
Well, next to the United States.
Despite the danger, some harebrained members of Congress, like Adam Kinzlinger, have called for a no-fly zone anyway.
Marco Rubio said a no-fly zone would lead to another world war, however, making a more sober observation.
A no-fly zone has become a catchphrase.
I'm sure a lot of people fully understand what it means.
Flying AWACS 24 hours a day.
Willingness to shoot down and engage Russian airplanes in the sky.
I mean, frankly, you can't put those planes up there unless they're willing to knock out the anti-aircraft systems the Russians have deployed.
Not just in Ukraine, but in Russia and in Belarus.
And by the way, those Russian anti-aircraft systems are the best in the world.
Meanwhile, Poland is reportedly to have been given a green light.
This was from the 6th But it would be insane for this to happen.
We do have a lot of this.
Is it real or is it fake news?
Very, very serious.
Plans for Poland to send fighter jets have been given the green light by the U.S.
amid warnings from Russia that countries hosting Kiev's military aircraft Could end up being involved.
Secretary of State Blinken said today the country was in talks with Poland to orchestrate a deal that would allow it to happen.
It turns out the Poles have 28 Russian-made MiG-29, which would be replaced allegedly by a fresh set of F-16 from the United States.
The Ukrainians Uh, can't fly more sophisticated aircraft, so they like to have the older ones, but I believe this is not going to come to pass.
It's much too serious.
If those planes attack the Russian force from the territory of those nations, it would be considered engaging in the military conflict.
Here we have another report.
Russia warning European countries against hosting Ukrainian aircraft.
Here we see a map of relative progress, actually been much, much greater now.
I'd say more than half of Ukraine ought to be red.
Given the progress that's been made, these are the F-16s that would be given to Poland as replacements, but it's pretty clear I believe this is not going to happen.
The White House has revealed how Biden spoke with Zelensky Saturday night, thanking the U.S.
for weaponry but explaining they're inadequate because the Stingers were not able to reach the altitudes the Russian jets were flying.
I am pleased to hear that, by the way.
Biden told the Ukrainian leader security, humanitarian, and economic assistance was being worked on, and with Congress to get additional funds.
Now, here's a report I just got today from a foreign source that B-52s took off from their base in Fairfield, England, and entered the region via Germany, that strategic bombers are in Hungarian airspace.
Let me just observe that is not a B-52, and let me also say that would be an ominous development.
Russia is not going to put up with any of this happy horseshit, and the Allies and the United States had damn well better understand that.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, well, the Russians have also captured an enormous number of U.S.
made anti-tank weapons, and then also U.K.
supplied NLAW, which is a light tank anti-tank weapon cannon that is from the Sobs Bofors Company, which are supplied by the U.K.
So they've captured plenty of sophisticated weapons over there, which, you know, were supplied directly by the U.S.
and by Okay, so if we had a functional United Nations that actually was concerned about, you know, escalating violence in the world, maybe they'd sanction the United States.
And Putin has been under sanctions since the very first PPGate dossier came out.
It's like, we're going to sanction him because of the stuff that he did, you know.
So he's been under constant sanctions going back to the Obama administration, and they were never lifted Well, it's just a sign of good logic and strength on the part of the Russians to draw that line in the sand.
I think Putin's the only honest player on the whole world stage at this point.
So.
Yes, yes.
Michael, your thoughts?
Well, it's just a sign of good logic and strength on the part of the Russians to draw that line in the sand.
And in my opinion, it's their right to do so.
That story about the U.S.
giving permission to Poland to give their fighter jets to Ukrainian forces, that's along the lines of the principle, let's you and him fight, why don't you?
You know, we're not going to do it, but you guys go, here's your rifle, here's your yellow jumpsuit, anyway.
And in addition to what you mentioned earlier about Russia having great anti-aircraft weaponry, that reminded me of this incredible incident, I don't know how many years ago it was, five or six, seven years ago, where
The Russians used some sort of amazing technology like a pencil-shaped object that they apparently used to break apart a large meteorite that was headed for Russia a few years ago.
I've never heard a A solid piece of evidence about exactly what that was and exactly what that technology was, but the speed at which that meteor was traveling was way, way faster than any aircraft warplane.
So, if they've got things like that, The NATO forces would not have a chance.
I also think there are electronic weapons that have been developed by the Russians that could knock out the electronic systems of any airplanes that we or the West has right now.
Michael, you're 100% right on all counts.
It would be very simple to disable the entirety of the United States by means of the EMF electromagnetic pulse from a weapon just exploded over the United States.
It would take out all our computerized components, and the nation would grind to a halt.
Effortlessly by the Russians.
So the problem is we have morons running our government and they have no idea the capabilities of Russia to destroy the United States virtually overnight.
It's just shocking.
Meanwhile, Visa and Mastercard have announced they will stop all credit card transactions with Russian clients and financial institutions in the coming days.
We are compelled to act following Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the unacceptable events that we have witnessed.
I believe this is a violation of their contractual obligations.
We regret the impact this will have on our valued colleagues, clients, partners, merchants, cardholders we serve in Russia.
The credit card giant said it means effective immediately.
Visa will be working with clients and partners to stop all Visa transactions, including through merchants and ATMs.
The announcement came a day after MasterCard announced cards issued by Russian banks would no longer be supported.
MasterCard says it does not take this decision lightly or compel to act.
Once completed, all transactions issued will no longer work outside the country.
Cards issued will not work within the Russian Federation.
This is really, really embarrassing and bad.
MasterCard will take a hit.
Meanwhile, Russian banks have already switched to a Chinese card system after Visa and MasterCard suspended their operations.
Multiple Russian banks now plan to begin issuing cards used by Chinese card operators with Russia's Mer network after Visa and MasterCard pulled out.
Sir Bank, Alpha Bank, and Tinkoff all said they begin using the Chinese union pay system.
The announcement comes a day after.
They are to release within minutes of each other after U.S.
lawmakers held a private video call with Zelensky, who asked the lawmakers to turn off MasterCard and Visa.
Why in the hell he would even think of doing that?
This shows it's a Rothschild banking that are pulling all the strings here.
Russia accounts for 4% of visas net revenue and about 4% of MasterCard.
Meanwhile, this is a form of collective punishment, which is prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
I am rather astonished, but of course we have no leadership and no intelligence in the American government.
Article 50 of the 1899 Hague Regulations, for example, provides No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, pecuniary or otherwise, can be inflicted on the population on account of the acts of individuals for which it cannot be regarded as collectively responsible.
Hague, 1907.
No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, just as the same.
Geneva, POW.
Collecting penalties for individual acts are also prohibited.
Geneva Convention 3.
Collective disciplinary measures affecting food are prohibited.
Article 87 more.
Collecting punishment for individual acts is forbidden.
Convention 4.
Collecting penalties are prohibited.
Additional protocol.
The following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever, whether committed by civilian or by military agents.
Collect the punishment.
The following acts against persons referred to are and shall remain prohibited.
Collect the punishment.
Collective punishment is prohibited by treaty in both international and non-international armed conflicts, more specifically Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention and Additional Protocol 2.
When collective punishment has been imposed, it has resulted in atrocities.
This is very, very bad for MasterCard and Visa.
They're not supposed to be political.
They're supposed to be purely financial and not be taken into account for frivolous or irrelevant factors.
This is a disgrace.
Joe, yours.
Well, in addition to the 50% or 100%, whichever way you look at it, increase in fuel prices that we've had in the last year, we're also facing a 50% increase in food prices.
And Russia and Ukraine were both major exporters.
Russia, number one exporter of wheat.
Ukraine, number five exporter.
By shutting down the Ukraine ports, we're creating another massive food crisis.
And China has had a really wet winter, and their winter wheat crop is the lowest that they've ever had in their history, which It's hard to believe it could be worse than under Mao but apparently we're facing another critical shortage and when you have that supply and demand cycle which all economics actually revolve around next thing you know we're going to be having a hundred percent increase in food costs too so you know the whole
House of Cards has fallen down and if MasterCard and Visa want to be the leading edge of the collapse of this system, doesn't bother me at all.
I'm ready for BRICS, Union of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to set up a new financial system and then hopefully we can get the dollar and the euro sorted out so that in the yen and the What did the Japanese use?
Slipped my mind for a moment.
But anyhow, hopefully we can get all of those currencies to readjust and we can start having a functional world without having a dysfunctional government.
Listen, I've observed before, I believe part of the reason for provoking Russia-Ukraine is to wipe out food supply, the grain supply, and when you talk about this unbelievable bad harvest in Russia, I guarantee you that's manufactured by Rothschild.
They're probably using directed energy weapons to destroy the crops.
Mike Adams is already forecasting that worldwide famine is now inevitable and there's no stopping it.
It is coming, and coming soon.
Michael, your thoughts?
Yeah, the word that jumped out at me in that Visa MasterCard story was the words compelled to act following Russia's unprovoked, that's the word, invasion of Ukraine.
Of course, they're totally ignoring some 14,000 civilians that have been killed in the Donbass region over the last eight years from indiscriminate artillery fire from Ukrainian troops of the Kiev government.
This is another hint to be added to the one that just happened in Canada and how the planned all digital money system can and will be used to punish anyone who doesn't bend the knee to this international Rothschild banking mafia and the behavior that they dictate.
So, according to the entire history of international laws and treaties in that story that the concept of economic sanctions in general, should be interpreted as being collective punishment.
But those guys just don't care.
You know, it reminds me of that Henry Kissinger statement, something about, this is paraphrased, but he said, oh, yes, the illegal we do immediately.
The unconstitutional takes a little while longer.
That's right.
This is all grotesque.
And you have nothing but incompetence in Washington.
They are not even aware of these issues.
Meanwhile, Here we have a very good report from a kernel about what's going on here.
- Check it out.
- Putin attacks a nuclear power plant.
What's the strategy behind that?
Is it just to intimidate civilians?
- The strategy was not to attack any power plants or the power grid.
The Russians have very carefully avoided interrupting any power, no damage to communications, no damage to any of the things that are essential like the water supply.
What you're seeing is that the Russians have now driven what is left of the Ukrainian forces Who are taking refuge in population centers, cities, because they have no mobility, no air defense, no air cover, no logistical infrastructure.
They are now mingling with the population, much as we've seen in the Middle East, whenever we drove the Islamists out of business, they ran into cities, used people as shields, the civilian population, and tried to avoid being annihilated.
And I think that's essentially what's happening today with The population being used by the Ukrainian forces to avoid destruction.
Do you think Putin will pull what I would call a Grozny?
Grozny was the capital of this breakaway republic.
He flattened it when the civilians resisted.
I mean, is he going to flatten Ukraine?
No, absolutely not.
In fact, he's worked hard to capture most of it intact.
Surprisingly little damage, frankly, Stuart.
Much less damage than we inflicted on Iraq when we went into it either in 91 and again in 2003.
No, I think they're just surrounding the Ukrainian forces and they are annihilating them.
And this is inevitable.
And Mr. Zelensky, I think, is Postponing the inevitable in the hopes that we are going to rescue him and we are not coming.
President Biden has made that very clear.
You think the end is in sight?
Well, the end of this phase is still a few days away.
The first five days, Russian forces, I think, frankly, were too gentle.
They've now corrected that.
So I would say another 10 days, this should be completely over.
But the question is, what is it that Zelensky is going to do?
The Russians have made it very clear what they want is a neutral Ukraine.
This could have ended days ago if he accepted that.
And then they can adjust the borders.
But the eastern part of Ukraine is firmly in Russian hands.
But again, the Russians are not seizing territory, they're destroying Ukrainian forces.
That's their focus.
Colonel, it sounds like you don't approve of Zelensky's stand.
Oh, I think Zelensky is a puppet.
And he is putting huge numbers of his own population at unnecessary risk.
And quite frankly, most of what comes out of Ukraine is debunked as lies within 24 to 48 hours.
The notions of taking and retaking airfields, all of this is nonsense.
It hasn't happened.
He's not a hero?
When he's standing up for himself and his own people, you don't think he's a hero?
No, I do not.
I don't see anything heroic about the man.
And I think the most heroic thing that he can do right now is to come to terms with reality.
Neutralize Ukraine.
This is not a bad thing.
A neutral Ukraine would be good for us as well as for Russia.
It would create the buffer that, frankly, both sides want.
But he's, I think, being told to hang on and try to drag this out, which is tragic for the people that have to live through this.
I'm inclined to disagree with you, Colonel, but, you know, we'll see how this works out.
Colonel Douglas MacGregor.
Tough guy.
Thanks for being with us, sir.
We'll see you again soon.
Thank you.
He disagrees because he's a moron.
He's a stooge.
He's talking and doesn't know what's going on.
Colonel McGregor's calling it right.
And this guy's such, this anchor is such a shill.
He wants to make out Zelinsky to be a hero and can't believe it when McGregor sets him straight.
Joe, your comments.
Yeah, well, there's a great article at unz.com, Mike Whitney, the man who sold Ukraine.
That's a pretty good article.
And then there's also a great interview with a Russian scholar from the University of Kent named Richard Sakwa, S-A-K-W-A, at Germ Warfare.
I'll put a link to that, but he goes through the whole 25-year history of NATO's eastward expansion and encroachment.
And then he also makes a thing about the Empire of Lies speech that Putin gave, which was about two weeks ago.
It was absolutely a fabulous speech.
And he said that, you know, the precipitating factor was that Ukraine decided that they would violate the Minsk Protocol.
And then about two weeks before he made that Empire of Lies statement, they said that they were going to revoke their non-nuke status, which meant they were openly inviting positioning of nuclear weapons within hundreds of miles of major targets in Russia, which, you know, we got in a big beef with Khrushchev over placing missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from America.
Why wouldn't Putin being justified and being upset about that in his country.
It's absolutely insane.
The people that he's dealing with, they're the same ones that are doing the worldwide cootie plague and the vaccine extermination plan.
So why in the world would we let them continue to rule this planet?
It's absolutely insane.
Michael, your thoughts?
Joe, did you mention that guy?
Are you talking about that South African blogger who goes by?
Yeah.
Yes.
He has some great interviews.
I'd like to see that one that you're talking about.
I'll send it to you.
I very much enjoyed that short video of Colonel McGregor being interviewed right there because the interviewer at every turn was doing what would be in court called leading the witness.
But the answers that McGregor was giving was not at all what the interviewer's controllers wanted to be said.
So that's what I enjoyed about it.
And by the way, that Mike Whitney piece, which is excellent, has been on my blog for a number of days now at jamesfetzer.org.
Check it out.
Meanwhile, Russian forces switch off networks at Ukraine power plant.
Russian forces switched off mobile networks and the Internet at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine, reported the International Atomic Energy Agency.
It meant reliable information from the site cannot be obtained through normal channels.
The deteriorating situation regarding vital communication is a source of deep concern.
Days ago, fighting was reported there, one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world.
Erroneous reports from Ukrainian officials that the plant's reactors had caught fire, suggesting an imminent meltdown.
But Russian officials observed that Ukrainian forces had provoked troops into firing on the plant by firing rocket-propelled grenades out from it.
Ukraine later confirmed that the Russian troops took over the plant.
So here you have a description of what's going on here, the layout.
This is a series of six reactors.
Here's an image of bright flying objects, some of which was shown during that interview we just observed, by the way.
I'm extremely concerned about these developments.
A few days, several of them are already being compromised, aspects of nuclear safety, but I have no doubt that, on the contrary, Russia had to secure them rapidly So that the nutjobs in Ukraine couldn't set them off.
We already have reports that that was a plan of Zelensky to set off a small nuclear blast and blame it on Russia.
The IAEA also expressed alarm communications have been lost with facilities there.
Mariupol, and there are Category 1 through 3 radiation sources, But so far as I can tell, there's no elevated radiation levels anywhere in the country.
A report from the Financial Times quoted an anonymous White House official saying how the U.S.
is working with Poland to send jets to Ukraine, but the Polish government itself has even now disputed those as false.
I think this nuke stuff is just being used as a scare tactic.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, well, there's also an interview with Tucker Carlson and Colonel Doug McGregor at Conservative Treehouse.
I haven't watched that one yet, but he normally gives a more balanced report than the previous interviewer did.
Yeah, they're trying to set up every false flag possible.
It also had 14 U.S.-provided BSL-4 Bioweapons labs that have been seized by the Russians and they said they've got enormous amount of data about how those things were going to be released on the population as well.
So and then there's a whole lot of stuff.
There's an interview with Stu Peters and Dr. Jane Ruby Oh, that's the one that's with Lee Merritt, excuse me.
Yeah, that's on parasite eggs, but then there was one that you sent me this morning that's at your website on BitChute with Dr. Lee Merritt, and she said that these things are genetic specific toxins that are being produced in these BSL-4 labs, and she gives the evidence of all of the patents and the different It's at Bitshoot Channel, Jim Fetzer.
Anybody that's interested in that subject, it's an hour-long interview that's at jamesfetzer.com on BitChute.
And it was Lee Merritt, and it was put up this morning.
Great interview.
Thanks for posting it, Jim.
It's at BitChute channel, Jim Fetzer.
Michael, your thoughts?
Well, let's see.
I don't really know what the Russians have in mind there, but it seems logical.
If I was to guess that taking control of that huge nuclear power plant, anybody's guess as to how to pronounce Z-H-Z-H. -
It seems logical that it was probably getting control of a place like that, heading off a potentially devastating false flag by the Kiev government, which that would go hand in hand with their control of the bioweapons labs as well.
Very good, very good.
Meanwhile, American officials traveled to Venezuela to reestablish trade and further isolate Russia.
They're going there for oil.
Surprise, surprise.
Times reported the trip as the highest-level visit to Venezuela since 2019, when the U.S.
broke off diplomatic relations due to allegations of electoral fraud.
I think they were using Dominion voting machines.
The Trump admin closed the American embassy and issued sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports.
But now Biden needs their oil, so they go down and kiss ass and hope they can get a replacement for Russian gas from Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Venezuela was seeking economic relief from its counterparts in Russia, Iran, and China.
Russian energy companies have played a crucial role in allowing Venezuela to continue exporting.
Therefore, I think it's highly unlikely that Biden will be successful in siphoning off gas from Venezuela.
If sanctions from Western allies weaken the Russian economy, American leadership is lunging at opportunities to drive a wedge between Russia and its allies.
The Times alleges bipartisan support for re-establishing diplomatic relations with Venezuela in an attempt to undermine Russia.
I say good luck with that.
Scott Taylor, a former Republican congressman from Virginia, works alongside pro-Venezuelan lobbyists and said we should take this opportunity to achieve a diplomatic win in a wedge between Russia and Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Trish Reagan, a former Fox Business host, observes appropriately, Venezuela has the largest source of oil reserves yet.
We're handing that to the Chinese and the Russians.
In the past month, in a public speech, President of Venezuela said, here lies the oil of Venezuela, available for whomever wants to produce or buy it, be it an investor from Asia, Europe, or the United States.
So Venezuelan diplomats, interestingly, at the UN did not vote to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Well, Maybe they're going to be able to make up part of it.
There's also a suggestion of a reconciliation with Iran and benefiting from Iranian oil, but it just makes politics, you know, international policy here, inside out, upside down.
It's just ridiculous how they're scrambling to try to save themselves from what is going to be an absolute crushing, humiliating defeat at the midterm elections, Joe.
Yeah, well, gunboat diplomacy only works if you're the only gunboat.
Banana republics only work if the people don't realize they're in a banana republic.
So the Democrats got a real problem.
But we've got other problems, too.
Pompeo Says that military action is possible in Venezuela if Maduro doesn't step down.
May 1st, 2019.
So we haven't exactly had friendly relationships with Venezuela, but the amazing thing about the petroleum market is you put that stuff in boats and it's pretty easy to backfill.
So we could end up getting an increase in oil supplies from Nigeria, which are backfilled with supplies from Venezuela and going to make up the domestic market The Honest Crooks!
I love that show!
Michael!
actually going to turn around and supply us.
So at $120 a barrel, there's an enormous incentive to find every way around.
And trust me, there's more people that are honest crooks than there are the dishonest crooks.
And I think we're going to end up taking this whole puppet show away from these clowns in a pretty short order. - The honest crooks, I love that Joe!
Michael, Michael! - Is that an oxymoron?
No, that wouldn't be.
Anyway, yeah, that's an interesting thing that we're going hat in hand, as it were, to Venezuela to talk them into selling us oil when the very first action of the Biden, or among the first anyway, of the Biden regime was to stop the building of the XL pipeline, Keystone Pipeline from Canada.
Kind of an interesting move on Maduro's part, as well, to, on the one hand, be offering oil sales to the USA.
I guess, like Joe said, the price that it's going up to these days is hard to turn down, no matter who buys it, but at the same time, He's not exactly jumping on the bandwagon of the USA.
He's refusing to denounce Russian actions in the Ukraine.
So that's an interesting way to play that hand.
Mexico's also said they're not gonna, they're gonna stay neutral.
They're not gonna take a position on the Ukraine issue one way or the other.
They said we, you know, we need to trade with everybody.
So Mexico's a pretty big producer of oil and they're close to the United States and they got pipelines so they could be buying some expensive Venezuelan oil and selling us some even more expensive Mexican oil.
So it's crazy.
Yep, I think Biden has created quite a mess for himself.
Fiona Hill blames Trump for Putin's Ukraine invasion that political divisions are a sign of weakness.
Former National Security Council Senior Director Fiona Hill insisted former President Trump, despite being out of office for more than a year, played a role in Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine.
She argued Trump's request for a personal favor set the wheels in motion.
I think there's just the one point that sums everything up, you yourself touched on, is President Trump, at a pretty crucial period, withheld military assistance to Ukraine that was desperate at that particular junction, basically to get Zelensky to do him a personal favor.
She insisted the request, which would later play a role in Trump's first impeachment, was a sign of weakness to Putin.
Well, that sent a signal to Putin that Ukraine is a plaything for him and for himself as well, and for the United States, and that nobody's really serious about protecting Ukraine.
And that was ultimately a sign of weakness.
It's our political divisions, our parties are infighting, which was on full display there, that put Putin, I think, is quite shocked now that we've got some collective action together.
She's a total loser.
Meanwhile, Peter Doocy calls out Psaki for blaming the record high gas prices on Putin.
The national average is top $4 a gallon in California, and $6, even up to $7.
White House read the Psaki comments from people.
One woman said, I just never imagined to see the cost of gas this high.
It's a huge stress to my financial situation.
What is the White House?
What's the President's message to Americans who are going to the gas station today and seeing prices so high, a reporter asked.
She responded by blaming, guess who, Vladimir Putin.
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy called Opossum out for blaming the prices on Putin.
It sounds like you're blaming Mutant for the increase in gas prices recently, but weren't gas prices going up anyway because of post-pandemic supply chain issues, Ducey said?
But Pisaki doubled down.
There's no question that the increase is a direct result of the invasion of Ukraine.
It sounds like you're blaming Putin.
She is really having a trouble.
Her nose is growing.
It's getting longer and longer and longer.
I think blaming Trump and blaming Putin isn't going to play with the American people.
No one's buying it.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, well, I got no use for the little red lying hood who's always doubling down and circling back, man.
She's an absolute clown, and I'm ready to get rid of all of them, including Fiona Hill.
They all belong in orange jumpsuits for a real long period of time.
But surprisingly, this just popped up on Zero Hedge.
Zelensky, ready to discuss and find compromise on Crimea, no longer insists on NATO.
So he says he's cooled down on the question involving NATO since they won't accept him.
Yeah, now he's starting to see the bodies pile up and he's starting to see the war crimes trials coming after him.
And he knows that Putin is capable of exerting some enormous pressure.
And he's not going to be able to hide in his $35 billion Florida mansion.
He's not going to be able to hide very many places without the long reach of the Russian army being able to get to him.
So he's a marked man, and he deserves to be.
He's been a total Zionist puppet since day one.
I believe he deserves to be hung by the neck until dead, Michael.
What can you say about this woman, Fiona Hills, blaming Trump for high gas prices?
Sounds like a serious case of Trump derangement syndrome that's not going to go away for years.
She must wake up every day and think, what can I blame Donald Trump for today?
And according to Jim Fetzer, Psaki gets 14 Pinocchios.
He's blaming Putins for high gas prices.
And like I said a minute ago, the first thing that administration did was to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline between the U.S.
and Canada.
And that is projected, I believe, I can't remember what the figures were, but it seems like it was The same amount that we get from Russia plus another like 60% of oil that was going to come through that pipeline, but they just shut that down.
Now they're blaming Putin for the loss of oil and high gas prices.
It should be obvious to anybody who hasn't been Totally brainwashed by the climate change narrative that the controllers of this world want to reduce drastically energy use for the population of the entire Western world, the USA and Europe.
They talk about wanting to have a carbon zero economy, which, speaking of oxymorons, it's impossible to do that, actually.
It would be genocidal, and it's not scientifically supported as being necessary, in the least.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, all this is based on pseudoscience, false beliefs, mythology, really, and it's driving a political agenda to the destruction of the United States.
It's lunatic!
Unless, of course, you want to bring about the destruction of the United States, in which case it makes perfect sense.
Meanwhile, get this.
Radical Wisconsin judge attacks special counsel investigating election.
Rules election investigators misspelled a word in an email.
Actually, it was a typo.
Deserving of punitive damages.
This guy is the same judge who handled my case.
Last year, the Wisconsin State Assembly sanctioned an investigation into the 2020 election fraud.
The special counsel team has been attacked with lawfare ever since.
They faced nine different lawsuits from the left to derail or impede their investigation.
Some involve record requests, others efforts by the Radical Democrat Attorney General Josh Kraler to block election investigation subpoenas.
Here's an example.
To regular Americans, the Office of Special Counsel response to the December 4th to a record request is fine and professional.
It even includes PDF files.
Fulfilling the requested records in part, but to Judge Frank Remington, the OSC email was too short, only three sentences.
The more egregious offense was the misspelling, really, mistyping of one word.
So on Feb.
2, Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington found the Wisconsin Office of Special Counsel team to be unconsidered in having irrational conduct over this email response.
Notice the word should be continue to be held, and it came out continue to be held.
This email was just too egregious for Judge Remington.
This is a sort of unconsidered and irrational conduct deserving of punitive damages.
In a 52-page ruling, he condescendingly called the communication the misspelled email, tarred to refer to him as a judge at this point, and I'm quoting.
This two-tiered example of justice was fast-tracked for the left.
It was five months from the original request for records.
The timeline is actually unheard of when involving records about an active investigation.
So the list of Remington's punishments start on page 50 and include financial fines as well.
The OSC told the court disclosing information can seriously jeopardize the entire case.
Point out that laws specifically prevent doing that.
They explained that this must remain secret until the investigation is over.
It's well known they are short-staffed.
They have evidence yet to be followed up.
Frank Remington doesn't care, demands the office cough up anything the lefties want, where the Wisconsin Office of Special Counsel is appealing the ruling.
Similar tactics used in Arizona are being used against the Wisconsin State Assembly, where Michael Gableman was on Tucker last night.
He's a totally responsible guy.
He's a former member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
He's doing a very good job.
But the leftists don't like it.
They don't want it.
This is just about Remington's decision in my case, denying a defendant a defense, where Remington would not allow me to introduce all the evidence I had that nobody had died at Sandy Hook, which he claimed was irrelevant.
Listen to this.
During the pre-trial conference, the judge, Frank Remington, declared he would not permit the defense that Sandy Hook had been a FEMA drill, stating, Whether or not Sandy Hook ever happened or not is not relevant to this.
The truthfulness or the accuracy of the death certificate now I understand the defendant's overall theory in believing that it never happened.
And I'm not going to take the bait and let this case go down that rabbit hole.
The death certificate itself, however, plainly states the defendant died on 14 December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School from multiple gunshot wounds.
So how could the defense that nobody died at Sandy Hook not be relevant to the truthfulness or accuracy of the death certificate?
I submitted four versions of the death certificate and the reports of two forensic document experts who testified all four versions were fake.
The judge consulted with the plaintiff's lead counsel and explained that excluding them would be grounds for an appeal, so he would simply set them aside as someone else's opinion.
The most basic fact, the authenticity of the death certificate remained a dispute and negligence was never addressed, but I was found guilty of defamation nonetheless.
A trial for damage is awarded $450,000.
As a retired professor of philosophy, I can usually detect mistakes in arguments, can avoid being played for a sucker and a sap.
In this case, however, I was misled by my naive confidence in the rule of law, of which I have now been thoroughly disabused.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, well, that Frank is a real piece of work.
I had an interview last week with a guy on election fraud here in Texas, and that was posted at jamesfetzer.com, also at BitChute, and it's a pretty good interview.
And I mentioned this stuff that was brought out in the Mike Lindell Symposium.
There was a lot of really good material, but particularly this stuff by the Ph.D.
physicist, Dr. Frank.
And then there was an interview with a guy at STT on Wednesday of last week, and his name is Robert Beatles, B-E-A-D-L-E-S.
And I'll put a link to that down in the show notes.
And he's investigated the Reno racketeering on voting.
And he said they were able to swing 200,000 fake votes.
And he explained exactly how they did it.
He's completely investigated it.
And I've been in contact with True the Votes local office, which is where its home office is located.
And their movie, 2,000 Mules, has a terabyte worth of data on people, hundreds of 2,000 mules to be closer to the real number, number in five different states going in at three o'clock in the morning and dumping hundreds of ballots in the various drop boxes that were illegally set up through the Zucky Burke funding and $400 million worth.
And so we've had enormous voter fraud that's been suppressed.
And In the movie, 2000 Mules, the trailer's out.
It's two minutes long.
It'll definitely whet your appetite, but they said that the movie will be released sometime in April, so I don't know if it's going to be released as a Netflix or if they can get theater distribution, but if it's available anywhere near you, you need to go see it because Kathleen Englebright is the bravest woman that I've ever met, and the show is narrated by Just for clarity, the videos are on my BitChute channel, Jim Fetzer.
My blog is jamesfetzer.org.
So what Joe is talking about is BitChute channel, Jim Fetzer.
to put a complete spike in the vampire's heart on the 2020 elections.
Just for clarity, the videos are on my BitChute channel, Jim Fetzer.
My blog is jamesfetzer.org.
So what Joe is talking about is BitChute channel, Jim Fetzer.
Michael.
So Joe, what does, do you know what the title of that movie "2,000 Mules" relates to?
Yeah, it's the 2,000 people that were paid, you know, like several dollars each.
To stuff the drop boxes, Michael!
They'd go to drop houses and pick up hundreds of ballots, and then they were assigned locations, and they had to take their cell phone and do a selfie.
They had to wear rubber gloves so they wouldn't leave any fingerprints, take selfies while they were dropping off at the dot box that were time stamped, and all of that data was put into a Megadatabase that Kathleen Inglebright purchased from the telephone supply companies.
Plus, they had CCTV cameras at a lot of locations, particularly in Georgia.
They had passed a state law that required it, so they had the exact automobiles that they drove, the people that were in the automobiles, the amount of ballots that they dropped off, the time that they dropped off,
The places they picked the ballots up from, the money that was exchanged in return for hundreds of ballots being dropped off, they got these people 100% and all it would take is an honest Justice Department or an honest AG in any state in the nation and they could prosecute these people.
So it's stunning.
So the term mules relates to their carrying of contraband, like you would say, drug mules coming across the border.
That's it.
That's it.
You got to see the trailer.
It's great.
Is that is that movie specific to one state or is this nationwide?
Nationwide.
Five states?
Yeah, the five key states.
But then I think she's going to touch on some stuff that is nationwide.
And that's the Dr. Frank material.
He said that in Texas, all 254 counties had used the 2010 census to backfill available blank voters on the registration rolls so they could come back and fill them in with what looked like legitimate votes.
And that's how they rigged every county in the state of Texas.
And nobody caught them until Dr. Frank did.
It's going to be stunning.
Trust me.
Yeah.
So, Jim, this guy, Frank Remington, he's the guy who presided over your defamation case?
Yes.
Wow.
So this story is he tossed a request for information for people investigating the 2020 election fraud on the basis of a typo in the request.
Yeah.
Another compromised trader that belongs in an orange jumpsuit.
I must say, it's a bit scary when I see stuff like that, that the judiciary is being controlled and compromised to such a degree, even down at that level.
What's dumbfounding is that the Court of Appeals for the 4th District and the Wisconsin Supreme Court both let it stand.
I mean, the blatant violations of my rights here was so grotesque that a first-year law student would be appalled, and yet the appellate court for the 4th District and the Wisconsin Supreme Court stood pat with Frank Remington on his absurd rulings and abuse.
Of summary judgment, he was depriving me of my constitutional rights under color of law.
This is as bad as it gets in the judicial arena.
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By the way, I can't emphasize enough, the lead Sandy Hook plaintiff, Donna Soto, who poses as the mother of a schoolteacher, Victoria Soto, who's said to have died there, is the same woman who played the role of Donna So, of Susan Brough, the mother of Heather Heyer, who's supposed to have died in Charlottesville.
They're using the same crisis actor.
She is the lead plaintiff in the action against Remington.
A total fraud!
A total fraud!
Consider now.
Amazon banned my book, so you wouldn't learn what really happened at Sandy Hook.
It was a FEMA drill presented as mass murder to promote gun control.
Then they sued to shut me up, and the Wisconsin courts played along.
I have the proof and the law on my side.
What I don't have is the money.
They want to do to us what they've already done to Canada.
Take guns, impose tyranny.
And it's on the way with Remington's help.
First insurance, then registration, then confiscation.
I'm asking SCOTUS to stop it.
GiveSendGo.com slash FundingFetzer.
Check it out.
This is for all of the marbles.
And if you go there, you'll see I'm seeking to raise—my target is $100,000, and the attorney who's carrying the case for me just gave me his estimate today, and it's a very close approximation to $100,000.
I need the money.
This case is absolutely crucial.
It affects not only the First and the Second Amendments, but the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees that no citizen will be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, of which I have been deprived.
This one is for all of us.
Don't miss the opportunity.
Speak up now!
Otherwise, your rights will be in jeopardy.
And if this were to stand, any judge could abuse summary judgment by making up his own facts and convict anyone of any crime he might prefer.
Meanwhile, remember, 1% control the world, 4% are their puppets, 90% are asleep.
5% know and try to wake the 90%.
are asleep.
5% know and try to wake the 90%.
The 1% use the 4% to prevent the 5% from waking up the 90%.
Final thoughts.
Joe, yours.
Yeah, another article that's at Veterans Today.
It was linked from a site called Common Dreams.
EPA must stop this experimental billions of genetically engineered mosquitoes set for release.
They did that down in Brazil with the claim that the male mosquitoes would produce defective offspring and that they would be able to exterminate a type of mosquito that they claimed was involved with Zika down in Brazil.
Turns out the hybrid mosquitoes that result from them Females mating with these males turned out to be stronger and more aggressive than the mosquitoes that they had in the native population, and they still managed to get the goofy EPA in Florida to approve release in Florida.
Now they're trying to do it in more states along the Gulf Coast and four counties in California, and the people in California are like, we don't have any of the disease vectors from the mosquitoes that you're planning on releasing in our counties.
Why are you bringing these mosquitoes out here and releasing them?
The EPA is absolutely nuts, and this is all by a British company, in name only, called Oxitec, O-X-I-T-E-C.
Dig deep, you'll find out that Bill Gates is a major investor in that, quote, fake biocompany.
Surprise, surprise.
Michael, yours.
Yeah, I'm going to take a couple of minutes here, if you'll allow me.
The first thing I want to talk about is the brainwashing technique of focusing public attention on primarily one certain thing.
It's the prescient thing that Orwell talked about in 1984, using his character, Emanuel Goldstein, for the two minutes of hate ritual for the enslaved Masses.
And in our current situation, John Rapoport, early on, made a point about this brainwashing technique that he recognized earlier for naming the deadly virus, in our case, COVID-19, and blaming everything on that one thing, using that one term.
And that led me to think back just in recent history.
In the 90s, it was after the demise of the Soviet Union.
In the 90s, we did it with Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia to justify The bombing of that country.
Then it was Osama bin Laden after 9-11.
One guy.
Focus the hate on one guy.
Then it was Saddam Hussein.
Then it was Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
Then it was Bashar al-Assad.
All in sequence with each other.
And then we went through four years of doing the same thing with Donald Trump.
And then the last two years, it's been the imaginary virus.
COVID-19, and now we just switched to Vladimir Putin.
It's an endless chain of telling us, this is evil, this is who you must hate.
So, if we're going to take the concept of hate speech seriously, I submit that the entire Western mainstream media should be arrested and held for trial.
And the other thing is something that plays right into that, the latest article from the great C.J.
Hopkins.
He lives in Berlin, so he can't say anything related to Jews at all, or he'll be in prison lickety-split.
So he names, he doesn't say Zionist or Rothschild or anything, he names the ruling And the quote goes like this.
They tell us that if we're ever going to defeat these Putin Nazis and the imaginary apocalyptic plague and Trump,
And terrorism, and domestic extremism, and climate change, and racism, and whatever, we need to keep the Western masses whipped up into a perpetual state of utterly mindless, hate-drunk hysteria, like an eternal episode of the Two Minutes of Hate from Orwell's 1984.
It doesn't really matter who the masses are being told to hate this week.
The Russians, the unvaccinated, the terrorists, the populists, the Assad apologists, the conspiracy theories, whoever.
In the end, there is only one enemy.
The enemy of the unaccountable, supranational, globalist, capitalist empire, as I like to call it.
Globocap, as I like to call it.
Globocap has no external enemies.
It dominates the entire planet.
It's one big global capitalist world.
Most of us can't quite get our heads around that bit of reality yet, so we still see the world as a competition between sovereign nation-states, but it is not.
There are still nation-states, and they compete with each other, but the fundamental conflict of our age is a global counterinsurgency operation.
What we've been experiencing for the last 30 years, in many forms, is a globally hegemonic power system carrying out a clear and hold operation.
For those not familiar with that term clear and hold.
That means it's a counter insurgency strategy in which military personnel clear an area of gorillas or insurgents, and then keep keep the area clear of insurgents, while winning the support of the populace for the government and its policies.
Think about the last 30 years.
Imagine GloboCap as an occupying army and the entire world as the territory it is occupying.
The occupying empire couldn't care less what the insurgents believe in or why they're resisting.
The objective of the operation is to control the territory and get the populace on board with the new reality.
Last section.
Welcome to the new reality.
A reality in which history has stopped and nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.
Yeah, I know you're sick of me quoting Orwell, but given the circumstances, I can't help it.
Just reflect on how seamlessly it segued from the apocalyptic pandemic narrative back to the Putin-Nazi narrative, which in turn had seamlessly replaced the war on terror narrative.
In the summer of 2016, and how easily and quickly the normals, the new normals switched from hating the unvaccinated to hating the Russians.
And then scold me for quoting Orwell.
End of quote.
Wonderful stuff, Michael.
Wonderful stuff.
Very thoughtful and very appropriate.
I can't thank Joe Olson from Houston and Michael Ivey formerly of Fort Worth enough for another wonderful Texas Tuesday.
Michael stole the words out of my mouth.
We've had the transition from the endless COVID narrative to now what will be the new endless Putin-hate-Russia narrative.
The Democrats are going to play it for all it's worth right up to the midterm.
Alas, for them, it's not going to work.
Germany's decision to put the interests of the German people ahead of the U.S.
political paranoia over Russia signals the failure of this onslaught.
And the fact is, it has had multiple objectives to distract from Reinhart Fulmich's ongoing international criminal complaint of exposing the Vax as a weapon of war designed to maim and kill, and from revelations that are going to be ongoing about the theft of the election of 2020.
Stand by.
We ain't seen nothing yet.
Meanwhile, spend all the time you can with your friends, your family, your loved ones, because we still do not know how much time we have left.