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March 13, 2022 - Viva & Barnes
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Ep. 104: Smollett, Baldwin, Facebook, Russia, Canada & MORE! Viva & Barnes LIVE!
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Repo fails have skyrocketed to the highest level since the pandemic.
And that was the number one cue that the whole financial crisis was about to blow up, was all of a sudden something as simple as big banks don't trust each other about their collateral.
Because trust is critical.
We have killed trust in the Western financial system.
And I don't think it's ever coming back.
I mean, the question is, where else do you go?
It's not like it's easy to trust either Russia or China or Brazil or these other societies or economies.
But what it's done is it's driven.
They know now, without doubt, they can't trust the West.
And if somebody's smart, like there is talk of, if the Russian, Chinese, and Indians got together and formed a currency that was based on gold that was independently accessible outside of those nations' vaults, if you will, it would be a mighty interesting economic world to live in.
If Putin decides to price oil in silver or gold rather than dollars, what might happen?
What happens to the petrodollar if the Saudis and the UAEs and the rest don't just...
They failed to return Biden's phone calls while they returned Putin's phone calls, but decided to move away from the dollar as the means of denominating the value of oil.
They've assumed, the reason why, my guess is why, while Putin has probably game planned every scenario under the sun in terms of anticipation, at least I presume so, if he hasn't, he may be in trouble.
But it's more likely that he has, given his history.
My guess is these Western—I mean, like, some people ask me why I am so skeptical of the intellectual competency of these people in terms of broadly.
They're good mathematicians.
They just don't understand the real world in terms of their logic and their thinking.
I mean, I went to school with all these kids at Yale, and I was shocked at their lack of basic competence in terms of understanding the world, understanding things in a broader context.
They lacked real-world intelligence.
You know, going back to William F. Buckley's joke, give me anybody out of the phone books rather than any student at Harvard.
It's the same dynamic.
And I don't think these people have game plan.
So I don't think they understand what they've done.
I don't think they've understood.
The fact that we went begging to Venezuela and it ran so fast in such a humiliating fashion was a sign that, oh my God, they hadn't thought this through at all.
Wow.
Can you...
Oh, hold on a second.
Can you believe that silence after Barnes drops Two and a half minutes of truth bombs.
Alex and Alex of the Duran, speechless.
There's no Winston tonight.
Winston has not followed me into the basement.
And I was running late, so I didn't go back up and get him.
I wasn't going to push my luck.
How's audio, people?
How was the video?
Just pat down.
Now, I read in the chat that someone said that we are not...
On Rumble, which is unacceptable because we should be simultaneously streaming there.
So let me go see what the dealio is.
No, no, we're...
Oh, come on, man.
We're live on Rumble.
We're featured on the main page of the Rumble.
Oh, okay.
It's showing the avatar for The Simpsons because that was my placeholder video.
But we are live on Rumble, people.
Good on YouTube.
Hey, I went bowling this weekend.
That might be my intro rant.
This was the first time I sat down in front of my camera, staring into that little black hole on my Vitaad camera.
I think I've done enough live streams in the last week that I don't think I have a rant this week, this weekend.
And that might not be a bad thing, but I have what to talk about.
Let's...
Breaking.
Turner Prize set to exhibit the collective works of Anonymous Blind Dog.
I don't know what that is, but we're going to see.
Before we even get into the opening discourse, because it won't be audio's low.
Let me see if everybody else feels the audio is low.
It might have it on...
No, the audio should be fine, so that might be your microphone, whoever said audio is low.
Johnny Harper.
I'll just do the...
I'll do the disclaimers now, everybody.
Thank you in advance for the Super Chats, the Rumble Rants.
Just so you know, YouTube takes 30% of Super Chats.
If you do not like that, we are simultaneously live streaming on Rumble.
Rumble has the equivalent.
It's called Rumble Rants.
They take 20%, so you can feel better supporting Rumble, supporting the creator, because more goes to the creator.
I will not get to all of the Rumble Rants, Super Chats, if you're going to feel miffed, rook, shilled, grifted, whatever.
If I do not get to it and bring it up like such...
Don't give it because I don't like people feeling bad.
I thank you all for the support.
If you want to support us on Locals, you can always find us at vivabarneslaw.locals.com where there's a lot more uncensored discussion.
Not in any bad way.
Just free discussion of ideas.
Hi, Winston.
Sadly, my Westie is needing surgery to fix a knee problem.
Wish her luck.
I wish you luck.
Surgery is never easy on dogs.
It's certainly never cheap.
And speedy recovery and may it not cost you an arm and a leg.
The things we do for our dogs.
No rant.
I want my super chat back.
I came here for the rants.
Well, here's the rant.
I was at a birthday party today for the kid and I stayed indoors without a face mask on.
Despite...
I don't know when the science changes officially for indoor non-face mask wearing.
But it's an amazing thing that the social pressure now, we've lived through two years of this.
We know as much of the science as we know.
We know what has been the outcome in provinces, in countries with the strictest, harshest, most unconstitutional lockdowns.
And we know the outcome that has occurred in states.
And countries without the draconian, unconstitutional lockdowns, despite everyone's warning.
And now we're, like, at the endgame of this pandemic.
We're at the...
Some might even say the endemic.
Although others have been saying we've been there for a while.
Where now the prospect is...
The panic is over.
The two years of what will probably go down as being the largest Milgram experiment in the history of humanity.
It's over.
People have gotten sufficiently fatigued with it.
We have seen how little of an impact man has when combating beyond human forces.
We've seen the impact that we've had.
If you follow the chart of Omicron variants spread in New Zealand and Australia, go look at that chart.
I mean, it looks phallic.
I guess maybe it's not phallic is the right word because I don't think it comes down as rapidly as it goes up.
But we have witnessed what happens when humans think they can control things that are beyond humans.
At least from the effect of the virus.
As far as everything else goes, we've seen the impact of what happens when humans try to play God.
Try to think that they can control nature.
And you can lock down a virus.
You can impose a curfew on a virus.
You can...
So I went to this birthday party.
And people have started not wearing masks indoors, and you still see people.
You know, I was once accused of mask shaming when I said, you know, like, when I observed that I saw people walking alone outside wearing a mask.
And at one point, I put up a video on Instagram where people were telling me, Viva, take off your damn mask, you're a fool.
And I said, look, I'm not wearing it.
Because of what I think, I'm wearing it because I don't want to start fights with everybody at shopping centers, etc.
And I was called a coward and yada, yada, yada.
And I was like, look, don't tell me what to do with my face any more than I'll tell you what to do with yours.
So when I comment on what I think is now a deeply rooted, deeply conditioned psychological phobia of being mask-free, I say it not to shame anybody and not to tell them what to do with their body, but rather just to highlight...
The conditioning that any human can go through and will go through over enough lengthy period of time.
When I read Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning in detention in high school, and one of the lines, I don't remember what the line was exactly, but basically, bottom line, humans can get used to anything, and they will get used to anything.
And then when you get used to something, you begin to fear that which was before you got used to what it was.
You get used to prison to the point where, Shawshank Redemption-ish, you actually fear freedom.
And when I see people walking outdoors on a brisk, beautiful winter day, alone, wearing a face mask, part of me says, okay, maybe they just came from somewhere, maybe they're going to somewhere and they don't want to have to fidget and put it on, so they want to be, you know, they actually want to be scientific about it, don't touch it any more than you have to.
But then the other part of me just realizes that people have been so terrorized into this mental framework where they feel not compelled.
They feel they are offering themselves some sort of supernatural, superstitious protection by being obedient even when they are alone outdoors.
Everyone is entitled to do what they want with their own bodies.
But the...
This psychological phenomenon of seeing a great many more people now walking outdoors with a mask on, despite all common sense and logic, it's beyond that.
This is meandering.
I love the hair.
No, the hair rocks.
I'm rocking my hair in the same style after all these months, but I love it.
Gene Wilder.
I've been told I look like Gene Wilder.
Plexi shields coming down here in Michigan.
Yeah, I went to the bowling alley.
They had little...
They do it to be compliant.
And not because they think it's necessary, but they had cardboard dividers that were about four and a half feet above the ground, three feet long, only started at your hips to your neck, in between alley lanes for science.
But I went to a party today.
People have started taking them off, but there's going to be people who are not going to feel comfortable taking them off.
There's going to be children who are not going to feel comfortable taking these off.
There's going to be children who are going to feel like they're losing A safety blanket behind what they have been told that that face mask represents and provides to them.
And it's very sad.
And the question is, how do you possibly start healing from this trauma?
But, you know, the government doesn't waste time healing from the trauma they've induced, the trauma they've caused.
They just jump right onto the next trauma train.
And the Russia invasion of Ukraine, the war in Ukraine, is the next trauma train.
They've gone from you want granny to die to social isolation to cross the street when you see someone.
They've gone right from there to we're on the brink of nuclear war and you need to go out and do all sorts of other equally outlandish, outrageous, superstitious things to stave off this impending WW3.
Even if it means the Montreal Symphony Orchestra giving the boot to their 21-year-old prodigy of a pianist.
Because he's Russian.
It's gone from one fear factor, terror factor.
It's gone from one paranoia-inducing phobia to another.
But at the very least, people are starting to come out of this corona one and just move into something else entirely.
There were a bunch of us hanging out online.
We, you, Ottawa, Scotty, as we had a three-hour live music playing on his guitar, singing and chatting, your name came up.
Would be cool if you went and interviewed him.
Who was it?
Singing and chatting.
Let me know what the name was in the chat, Ray K. Don't give another super chat.
Just let me know what it was.
Oy.
So that's it.
The devastation that the government has caused.
And the amount of time it's going to take to heal from the trauma just of COVID and then wait until we start stepping into the next realm of the damage, the intangible damage that the government has caused that we're going to be seeing over the next decades.
People over the last two years having not gotten treatments.
Early diagnoses, psychological trauma, stresses, losing their jobs, lack of health.
Instead of telling people to get out there and exercise and be active and get sunlight, they've locked people down, told them to perpetually disinfect, stay at home, don't go outside.
We're stronger apart.
And we're going to see the generational impact of this.
And things that people don't even think about.
Kids not learning how to read lips.
And understand facial cues at a young age.
People having not gotten proper education.
Young kids from grade 3 to grade 12. Compromised education, which is going to show itself on the workforce in a generation.
The damage that has been done, it's not irreversible because it's not the type of damage that is reversible by its nature.
It's going to take a generation to heal from this.
And it's not a Milgram experiment.
It's Stockholm Syndrome.
Yeah.
Stop screen share.
It's both.
It's both.
See how much they can get people to do because someone in a white lab coat is telling them to do it.
And demonize the people who dare question it.
Oh, by the way, I want to share what I have in the glass.
It's my brother-in-law's new experiment.
It is called Pumpkin Brandy Cooked on Embers.
And the odd thing is, you can actually taste the pumpkin in this.
It actually has something like a burnt pumpkin flavor to it.
It's actually quite delicious.
Sorry to be off topic.
The State Bar lost, didn't score part of my exam, and have confirmed the missing part had enough points available to pass.
Jake the Doge.
Let me tell you one thing.
If it's anything like the Quebec Bar, it doesn't matter if they made a mistake.
You're living with the consequences of that mistake.
And there's nothing they can do to undo it.
I remember people appealed.
And even if they could identify the mistake, there was nothing anybody could do about it.
And I knew people who had to redo the bar.
And it cost them a year of their life back in the day.
Because back in the day, if you failed the bar the first time, they made you take this one semester course before the course to take the bar itself.
So that wasted a year of your life.
But my goodness, anyway, so that's it.
There's some optimism in this.
I went to the bowling alley.
The science has changed, so they no longer ask for the vaccine passport.
But the technology changed, and to facilitate resetting the pins on the big pins, the 10 pin, they put strings on the freaking pins.
So the pins, the action was pretty natural, pretty good, where I didn't know that there were strings on it until it reset the pins, and you just saw the pins go, and then come back down.
But I did notice a lot of these very slow, delayed, and the pin just fell over, and it did not have the bounce that a stringless pin has, and I hate it.
So that could have been one thing.
But I went bowling, and I went to a kid's birthday party today and did the go-kart, and it was awesome.
I saw your Smollett take on your stream the other morning.
Speaking from personal experiences, the more you internalize a lie, the harder it is to give up.
Juicy needs help.
There is no question Juicy needs help.
And that's on the menu for the evening.
Not the help part, but the sentencing to 150 days in jail.
And I don't think he has any time that's going to count towards that.
So he's doing 150 days.
Ukrainian refugee men are dressing as women attempting to escape from being conscripted.
Won't read that, but.
And sent to the front.
Well, there's some serious stuff going on there.
They've basically...
We have family friends who have family in Kiev.
And they're explaining it.
It's like...
You know, it may not be quite as bad as Western media is portraying it, according to them, and they're not pro-Russian, to say the least.
But men, I believe it's age 16 to 60, are not allowed leaving the country because they may be required to fight.
And so people are trying to flee, trying to move westward, trying to avoid the conscription.
Eric Dullion says, It's a part of life.
Salutations from Cajun, Louisiana.
Beautiful.
Eric, thank you very much.
And speaking of...
I was going to say something that had nothing to do with that last tweet.
I was going to loop it into the menu of the evening.
And it was going to be speaking of other unsavorly fellows, celebrities.
So on the menu tonight, people.
We're talking Ukraine-Russia because there's some discussion about the legality of the biolabs that Newland confirmed exists in Ukraine but won't confirm the existence of bioweapons, although how you go about having biolabs without bioweapons, we'll see.
There's some discussion on the legalities of that because there are treaties that in theory covered this type of potentially unlawful conduct.
We've got Smollett.
We've got Alec Baldwin, who, my goodness, he could have been the intro rant, but I want to talk about that with Barnes.
The man doesn't stop digging, just like Jussie.
What else we got?
Sidney Powell's in trouble.
There were some SCOTUS decisions on the Texas heartbeat law.
We've got a very jam-packed evening.
Barnes is now in the backdrop, so I'm going to just take a few more of these.
Candice Magnouse says, Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro had a great Sunday special talk.
You can still disagree but respect each other.
Yeah, except social media has taught us that respectful discourse does not get thumbs up or retweets.
Oh, there's the striper again.
Dude, Southern New Jersey.
No one has paid attention.
Mandates.
Well, this is the problem.
Canadians, at least in Quebec, it's become virtuous to be fearful.
Like, fear is the new virtue.
Speaking of which, stick around.
Next week, we got Five Times August who's going to break live on this channel his next release.
That was one of his...
Lyrics from God Help Us All.
Something along those lines.
Fear has become the new virtue.
The past Jews have just proven something I have thought for a long time.
People are sheep.
They'd rather be in a herd than take their own chances.
That's a funny thing.
I've learned something about myself over the last two years, and I just hope that our community has grown and has actually, in as much as possible, gotten something positive out of the last two years.
I hope so.
And with that said, I see Barnes in the backdrop.
He's looking good.
Robert, sir, how goes the battle?
Good, good.
Well, okay, now I see something behind your shoulder, and I've heard that name many times.
Robert, before we even get started, what's the book of the week?
Sure, Jean Le Carre, A Legacy of Spies, because much of the conflict we see today is a legacy of spies.
People are starting to figure out and put together, at least some people are, that Spygate...
Russiagate and Ukrainegate were all orchestrated in large part by the same people obsessed with getting us involved in a war in Ukraine.
And that their goal was to derail Trump's efforts to prevent this.
And had none of those three occurred, or even if just one of the three had not occurred, this war in Ukraine wouldn't be happening.
Alright, someone says, I came in late.
Is your camera crooked?
Son of a gun it is.
Hold on one second.
Which way do I go?
Like this?
Nope, that made it worse.
Okay.
All right.
That's better.
Thank you very much.
How did I not notice that with all of my obsessive behaviors?
And what do you have in your mouth, Robert, that you're not allowed lighting because of YouTube, people?
It's a cigar called the Tabernacle.
And I got my Christmas gift to myself was to get Tucker Carlson's tailor to make me some shirts.
And this is the first one just came in.
So I'm happy.
Really?
Okay.
And by the way, Tabernacle, people, out of Quebec, tabernacle is the ultimate swear word.
It's the F word in Quebec.
Because all of the Quebec swear words come from the church, compared to all the French swear words out of France, which relate to the body and prostitution.
All right, now, Robert, what we haven't done in a while, we have not talked about vaccine mandate lawsuit updates.
RFK Jr., any updates in his suits, the whistleblower?
What's going on on that front?
No updates.
No updates.
Okay.
The whistleblower lawsuit, what was the last status of that lawsuit?
It's been served, so it's now in the pleading stage.
Okay.
And let's just do some housekeeping for some other issues.
Not Jussie Smollett.
Dude who rubbed his hand down his pants.
Trial.
Don Lemon.
Don Lemon, a trial set for June.
Okay.
I might have to be there.
We're going to figure something out so we can live stream that.
What do we start with?
We're going to start with Ukraine, Russia.
And some recent developments.
First of all, everyone should watch the episode of the Durand that you were on on Friday.
I mean, that clip that I played at the beginning, I mean, it's jaw-dropping painfully.
It sounds obvious.
It sounds obvious when you have something of the insights, but it's like the lacking common sense from politicians.
But Robert, starting in Ukraine, Russia, you sent me a treaty which dealt with...
Someone's ringing the phone.
You sent me a treaty.
What was the treaty about in terms of destroying biological weapons and not producing them again?
So in 1925, the Biological Weapons Treaty was agreed to by all the major parties, and the U.S. has been a signatory ever since.
And the agreement after what happened in World War I was that not only would biological weapons not be used, they could not be stored, they could not be developed, they could not be transferred.
None of it.
You couldn't have anything that could be a biological agent that could be used for a hostile purpose.
It was prohibited across the board.
So people are wondering, how is it we have all these biological labs, research labs, quote-unquote, according to Victoria Newman, not only in Ukraine, but of course around the world?
And the way they have gone to avoid the treaty allows for biological research for purely peaceful purposes.
The reality, the way they've got it, and that's why they call them biosafety labs.
BS for short, by the way.
BS level 1, BS level 2, BS level 3, BS level 4. As Francis Boyle, a well-regarded law professor at the University of Illinois, has been documenting for now three decades, there has been routine flagrant violation of that around the world, but including by the United States.
Occasionally the U.S. gets caught in 2014.
The big issue is what's called gain of function.
And the problem is there's really no good explanation for gain of function that doesn't convert it into an illegal biological weapon for hostile purposes under the Biological Weapons Treaty.
And they pretend it doesn't.
Here's how they...
Do these things.
They experiment on various dangerous biological agents.
And gain of function means they create a biological agent that gains function in being either more lethal or more transmissible or both.
This is what the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing.
And so with funding and backing, by the way, by Fauci and Fauci-connected parties and participants.
The reason why it was being done in Wuhan is it was supposed to be shut down again in 2014, and we just shifted it over there in part.
And what the labs are, the only reasonable interpretation, like Alex Berenson, who's been good on the lockdowns but basically is bad on everything else as a source, his ivermectin.
His bashing and his Robert Malone bashing has not held up well.
His latest one is he just repeats whatever the New York Times writes on foreign policy.
And his pitch was, oh, this was just, we were helping, you know, after the Soviet Union, helping transition those labs.
30 years later?
I mean, come on.
What these labs are for...
I have no doubt they'll find that many of them are using gain-of-function research, which is to make a virus more transmissible and lethal.
And the legal excuse they get away with is they say, well, really, we're just doing this to develop vaccines.
We're doing this in order to figure out if somebody else made this virus more lethal or transmissible, what would be the vaccine for it?
The problem, of course, with that is what's the probability that some other country is developing gain-of-function in exactly the same way on exactly the same biological agent as we are?
That's always been an obvious pretext to get around the Biological Weapons Treaty.
And I think if a meaningful investigation was done, which is what was requested from the United Nations Security Council by the Russians, and then what's interesting is who joined it.
The fact that China joined it.
It's kind of ironic for some of our perspectives.
But what was interesting was India joined it, Brazil joined it, and unsurprisingly, Kenya joined it.
Kenya has been the victim.
You can go back and research, you know, Bill Gates, Kenya, certain vaccines that were used, what they thought was happening.
So not a surprise that their government was particularly sensitive to this subject.
So I have no doubt that the biological labs the U.S. defense industry has been backing, supporting, and funding in Ukraine are illegal biological weapons, as is alleged.
And the best evidence for that is Victoria Nuland's own statement that she was very scared if these labs fell into Russian hands.
Well, if it's for purely peaceful, it can't be used for hostile purposes.
Why are you worried about them falling into Russian hands?
Clearly, they were using it there.
Some people asked, why Ukraine?
Ukraine has been not only a center of grift, but a place...
We've treated it like a de facto Western colony, in fact.
The economy is propped up a grifter political class that just steals all the money.
That's the payoff to them to allow us to do these kind of things there and to use it as a proxy to try to poke the Russian bear into a confrontation that we're now witnessing.
Trump was opposed to it.
That's why they went to such great lengths.
An impeachment, a criminal investigation, an attempt to derail an election just to prevent it.
And that's what's happened.
This is my opinion.
Hypothetically, would the fact that Ukraine is not technically a NATO member, would that make it easier, potentially, to have certain bioweapons research facilities that presumably might otherwise be precluded from existing on NATO soil?
Well, the concern, it's really more the fact that they're a poorer country with a grifter political class governing it, because the concerns with these labs, of course, is what many people...
I think rightly believe happened with COVID-19, which is that it came out of that you could get leaks.
Now, some people say it wasn't a leak, so that's another argument for another day.
But even if you go with a leak argument, it led to a worldwide pandemic that locked down two-thirds of the world, or almost all the world, for almost two years at different levels, depending on where you were located.
So the concern would be a leak.
And particularly Ukraine, which is where Chernobyl was located, of course.
So, you know, developing dangerous means of power or weaponry is something that normally you wouldn't want a country that lacks a lot of political sophistication to be in charge of this.
But in fact, it's the inverse logic.
Same reason why African countries are targeted for drug experimentation.
You can get away with a lot more.
You can get away with a lot more in terms of what you're doing with the product.
You can get away with a lot more if it turns out if there's a leak and it hurts and harms local populations and whether or not they are experimenting on those populations.
You can't completely rule that out because the U.S. has a history of doing that repeatedly.
I'll do a hush-hush on the long history of biological experimentation on soldiers and citizens, usually the poor and the vulnerable in America.
Including people who were promised cancer treatment that wasn't really cancer treatment.
Tuskegee was just the tip of the spear in terms of different kinds of biological experimentation on the population.
Tuskegee was not a biological weapon experimentation, but there are other aspects that were.
So that's why you would pick Ukraine.
You'd pick Ukraine because it's a poor country with a corrupt political class, so you can get away with a lot more.
And purely hypothetical calls for speculation, the likelihood that Fauci has any knowledge, any involvement in this, if it exists, would it be a virtual certainty because of his reign for the last three decades?
Yeah, and some of the same people he's connected to that were connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology appear to be showing up connected to the Ukrainian labs as well.
All right.
Okay, now, and getting to Victoria Nuland's answer, I forget that I mentioned this, but we haven't spoken since Nuland.
Where Marco Rubio, for everyone who doesn't know, I talked about it earlier last week and then put out an interesting side-by-side of her answer to Marco Rubio this time around compared to her answer to Dana Rohrenbacher back in 2015 about the existence of Yahtzee groups that were part of the Maidan protests.
Her answer was equally deceitful, or what's the word I'm looking for?
Diversionary.
It was equally...
Non-addressing of the question both times, except Dana did not give Nuland the free pass that Marco Rubio gave her, where Marco Rubio asked her, are there chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine?
And then she stops and goes, I can confirm that there are biological research facilities.
And then she moves into how she's scared about the Russians getting them.
She had a pause between the words biological and research.
That was a giveaway.
It's just...
It's egregiously telling.
So basically, she never said no because the answer is obviously yes and she's under oath before Congress.
The question is this, Robert.
Now, people are going to say, well, those facilities, they existed before the breakup of the Soviet Union.
They were already there.
Am I wrong in thinking that, yes, some of them were there and others were definitely not there, hence the 2005 treaty between Ukraine and America?
Yeah, I mean, they used to announce some of these back in the day.
So you can find some old announcements that you can find documents that they've tried to bury, but on the old Wayback Archive and others, including on U.S. government documents of what was going on.
So the idea that, oh, 30 years ago, all these labs are just sitting around from 30 years ago.
And what are we doing exactly?
We're maintaining them?
You know, why wouldn't you just shut them down?
So, you know, it's that excuse is...
Is an incredulous excuse.
I mean, it's pitiful that Berenson would actually repeat it, least of all by it.
But it shows that some people are very gullible when it comes to these kind of matters.
And Boyle is politically kind of aligned on the left, if anything.
But he's been documenting this now for three decades.
And he was the first...
Professional expert who came out and said that this likely came from the COVID-19, likely came from the lab in Wuhan before anybody.
Everybody was dismissive of him and the rest.
He turned out to be ahead of it.
It's because he's been tracking these, tracking unusual events in certain places that have signed where he has been tracking the existence of these labs.
So these labs were paid for by the U.S., developed by the U.S., and they have very little to do with the Soviet Union days.
Yeah, and just if anyone had any doubts, let me bring this up and make sure that we're seeing the same thing together.
This, Robert, are you...
Well, no, we're not seeing anything there.
Hold on one second.
See?
The one time I double-checked now...
I'm seeing it, but I'm only seeing a piece of it.
Yeah, here, let me go.
Now, Robert, do you see the whole thing now?
Yes.
Okay, there we go.
So we've got an agreement between the United States.
This is from state.gov, people.
Okay, so this is straight off the government website.
And a little tidbit here, a little historical context.
This was done after the orange...
Color revolution.
So it looked like the candidate that was considered less pro-Western actually won.
So they did a color revolution, said that couldn't be right.
There must have been election fraud, so on and so forth.
It was called the Orange Revolution.
And they forced another election.
And by forcing another election, they could gaslight enough people into switching their votes to allow the pro-Western candidate to win.
And within six months of him being inaugurated, this treaty is done.
And we'll read the agreement between the Department of Defense of the United States of America and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine concerning cooperation in the area of prevention.
It's funny, someone in the chat said, you know, the only difference between research and safety is the preamble or the mission statement.
This is for the prevention people of proliferation.
It's not for the proliferation or research.
It's for the prevention of proliferation of pathogens and expertise that could be used in the development of biological weapons.
Let me read that again.
In the area of prevention, of proliferation of technology, pathogens, and expertise.
So they're trying to prevent the proliferation of expertise that could be used in the development of biological weapons.
How do you do that?
You develop expertise in creating biological weapons.
I want to bring up the one paragraph where it was.
Article 4. The Ministry of Health of Ukraine shall assist the United States Department of Defense during the implementation of this agreement.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine shall coordinate with appropriate Ukrainian ministries and other government agencies and organizations in order to ensure that material provided under this agreement is afforded priority processing.
Is that the one I wanted to read?
Oh, bottom line, people.
I should have highlighted the section.
They provide logistics, communications, financing, training.
This is 2005.
Even what you're reading was even the biological agent itself.
So people, the information is out there.
It's out there in broad daylight.
For anyone who knows...
And it's great.
Someone who sent that to me thought that it proved the point that they were not financing biological...
Weapons research in Ukraine.
And so, look, you make what you make of it.
How do you have a treaty like that at the same time as the existence of the prior treaty, which says we're going to disband, disarm, and destroy these pathogens?
It's just operating under this illusion that developing biological weapons isn't really weapons because you're looking to develop the vaccine to it, though they often never get around to that vaccine part.
All right.
And what else out of Russia?
I mean, what else is news of the week?
Apparently, there's word that they've destroyed or that the Russians bombed.
Was it an embassy?
It was a training camp, a training camp where, you know, it was idiotic.
These people that are volunteering to go over there.
I mean, I've never really quite seen that.
But a place where the NATO is bringing in weapons and training people.
And so inside Ukraine, not far from Liev, I'm not sure how you pronounce it, as some would say.
But otherwise, the war goes on, the sanctions go on, and for the best discussion of that, it's the discussion with the Duran that you can find on the Duran's channel.
It's about a two-hour or so discussion about almost everything related to it from a geopolitical perspective.
And I'm going to read just one text that I just got from my wife.
Did Pudge eat?
Because she just ate her own poop.
Okay, people.
Marion, she did eat, but now I guess she ate twice.
And Japan Farm Maker is doing a study.
I'm not going to...
Robert, have you ever Googled licorice COVID-19?
No.
Apparently, an ingredient in licorice...
Just Google it, because apparently there's an ingredient in licorice that seems to be...
Proven effective.
No medical advice, no legal advice, people.
Just Google it.
There's some interesting studies out there that come from reputable sources from what I've been able to see.
So the war shall continue.
And whether or not, however you feel about it, call it an unwarranted, unlawful aggression from Russia to invade Ukraine.
I've never seen such a social media war.
Played out in real time at the rapidity of which we've seen this social media campaign play out.
It makes a lot more sense after having seen Ukraine on fire, where they, it's not new or news, but how they coordinate politics with money, with media, to craft a narrative in real time.
And by the time you find out all of these stories are false, well, you're then sold on the fact that you have to believe them because inspiration is meaningful, even if it means believing lies and propaganda.
Yeah, the latest version of that was just this morning, where a journalist who used to work for the New York Times was killed in a conflict zone, and the American media rushed to blame the Russians for it.
And of course, if anybody knew that where he was, knew that that couldn't have been the Russians, the Ukrainians were in complete control of that region, area.
And of course, it turned out it was the Ukrainians who did it.
They may not have done so deliberately, I mean, or deliberately in a sense of knowing he was a journalist.
But that, you know, it's where we're going to get bombarded.
With false propaganda.
Now, some people had asked about due process issues.
We talked about this briefly last week because the British, for example, have seized Roman Abramovich's assets and frozen his assets such that he cannot sell or do anything for his English Premier League club, Chelsea.
And Abramovich hasn't been close to Putin in years.
It just shows the scale and scope of it.
Now, in the U.S., if you do that, if you sanction an American's property in the United States, they do, in fact, have legal grounds.
You can challenge those on First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment grounds.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling some years ago.
That that kind of action requires probable cause under the Fourth Amendment, requires due process under the Fifth Amendment, and can't be targeted for speech reasons under the First Amendment.
And so in the United States, you do have remedy.
But what is in a lot of these other places, it's become increasingly apparent that you do not.
Now, some people have asked whether there's any correlation with this to transition to the second topic and Biden's order on cryptocurrencies.
It's quite clear that where Biden is, the ability to regulate that is still an open question, but it appears the real intention of the order isn't so much to constrict.
Cryptocurrencies as it is to develop a digital currency in the United States.
And it is probably a global effort for that.
And a digital currency, of course, could preclude you, you know, you did a bad tweet, combine it with a social credit score, and they can cut off your means of basically paying your own bills, doing on a micro scale what they've done on a macro scale or attempted to do to Russia.
And Russians, they're using this as a pretext because politically it's popular in the U.S. to attack Russia in the current media environment, but they're getting people accustomed to the idea that it's just fine to seize people's property, just fine to freeze people's property, and that maybe we need this digital system to make sure we can do sanctions effectively.
And anyone who doesn't think it will not extend or expand to the rest of us has not been paying too much attention, unfortunately.
And Robert, so Lightgiver says the journalist had not worked for the New York Times since 2015.
Brent Renault was a filmmaker and used his old ID for safety reasons.
That's not the issue that I find shocking.
I just, I knew that I had screenshotted.
I don't know if you can see this.
Let me see if I can get this.
Hold on.
There you go.
Updates.
American journalist killed by Russian forces near Kiev.
Two other correspondents injured.
This is from Fox News.
So if anybody says I don't give Fox News a hard time, I give...
Fox News has never met a war they didn't like.
Other than Tucker Carlson, everybody there is a war monger.
They're all beating the drums.
And I read that headline.
That was the headline.
I then went to watch the...
It was a 13-minute video.
The journalist in the video that was reporting on the incident said, we don't know who did this, but this was in an area that was seemingly controlled by the Ukrainians.
The journalist in the report...
Of that piece said that.
We don't know who did it, but it seems to have been in an area that was controlled, a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainians, or the Ukrainian army, not Ukrainian people, in the report.
And that's the headline that Fox News, these warmongering fake news propagandists ran with, killed by Russian forces.
I hadn't found, I hadn't heard anything more definitive since then, but just, just, you read the headline, and it is contradicted by the story itself that they ran, Fox News.
You might not be as bad as CNN, but you're very, very bad.
And it's just terrible.
Yeah, so the issue of whether or not he worked for the New York Times, whether or not he got himself there under dangerous means, whatever.
It's just, this is...
This is what happens in war, and the journalists, they want to get as close to the front line as they can, and it's a damn dangerous thing.
One last component on the Biological Weapons Treaty, the phrase weapons of mass destruction derives in substantial part from that treaty.
They use that language in the treaty.
So what this means is that there were actual weapons of mass destruction.
In Ukraine that could have been used for hostile purposes against Russia or others.
So unlike the war that really put Fox News ratings on the map, which was the Iraqi war that they...
Promoted like crazy and propagated like mad, which, of course, they've never...
I don't think...
Has anyone at Fox apologized yet for all the lies they spun for three years really late in the Iraqi war?
I don't think so.
I know Sean Hannity has, and he's busy wearing his little CIA pin whenever he gets the opportunity.
Robert, I think it was Posobiec who tweeted out, NATO, did you delete this tweet?
And it was seemingly a Ukrainian soldier with a black sun patch on her chest.
Had you seen that?
Yeah, they wear that all the time.
It used to be, up until a couple of weeks ago, you could buy ass-off t-shirts on Amazon that had the Black Sun symbol on it.
Now, once it became public, they took the Black Sun off.
They still kept other neo-Nazi signals.
You can look at it.
You can see what it is.
They can't help themselves.
I mean, actually, I think it was NATO itself tweeted out, way to go on Women's Day.
Way to go, Ukrainian women.
Had one Ukrainian female soldier.
And she had a nice little Nazi black sun in the front of her uniform.
So for those of us, including myself, who are not quite that familiar with Yahtzee iconography, I did not know what the black sun was.
I had to look it up afterwards, and then I found a chart of symbols which are apparently, for those who don't know, just as overtly Yahtzee as the Shmashrika itself.
And there's a bunch of...
So what is the origin?
Do you know anything of the origin of the black sun or other symbols that one associates with Yahtzeeism?
That's because the Nazis had a very peculiar, you know, supernatural, not supernatural, but spiritual belief.
It all relates to their Aryan ideology, which was religious and almost religious in orientation.
And so their symbols, some of which they borrowed from other places, I mean, the swastika predated the Nazis, they usurped for their own purposes.
But the Black Sun was one they really helped create and popularize in the Nazi world.
And it all relates to variations of their Aryan ideology, which when you dig into it, it makes Scientology look sane.
And so people, you can Google all of these images, icons that you might not have associated with Nazism.
The Black Sun was one of them.
My reflex, just to think whether or not the Black Sun itself had prior existence, like the swastika, which was an Indian symbol for peace, oddly enough, but inverted the other way around.
Black Sun is a new creation?
I mean, my recollection is from the Nazis.
And some people have asked, you know, why would a president that's part Jewish have anything to do with neo-Nazi regimes like the Assoff Battalion that's predominant in the eastern part of Ukraine now at the moment, being surrounded by Russians.
So good luck with that.
Is the same reason why white Christian Protestants would...
Well, the racial part probably isn't relevant, but the religious part is, you know, Protestants helped fund Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
The people tend to make, politics does indeed make strange bedfellows, and the most anti-verulently anti-Russian soldier unit types were the militia groups that were...
The key to the 2014 Maidan coup, and they were rewarded for their efforts by being incorporated in the National Guard and various military units, and many of them were put into the East in particular to suppress the various political protests that took place by Russian-heavy populations in the eastern part of Ukraine.
And so what may seem odd to people is not so odd if you understand political history, sadly.
I'm trying to find the article where they mentioned, not just to say that at one point in time, America actually financed, funded, and trained Osama bin Laden.
Why would they have done that?
Americans are tolerant, peace-loving, democratic people.
So the idea is, yeah, why would Zelensky ever associate with a group that might have some primordial issue with Zelensky, or at least Jewish people at large?
We helped finance and fund a bunch of Nazis to escape after the war to serve our own purposes.
People can research.
It goes way back with the WASP elite, particularly when they had dominant power over the CIA.
You can just Google Muslim Brotherhood Munich Mosque CIA and see what pops up.
We'll see how it goes.
Or maybe use Brave.
But whatever you use, you can skip using DuckDuckGo because DuckDuckGo is DuckDuckGone after it decided to virtue signal in favor of censorship this week.
Well, okay.
It's a good sign.
This one won't last too long.
I don't think anyone's going to have any claims against DuckDuckGo private company.
There was never an IPO.
I mean, I guess they solicited business on the pretext of...
No censorship.
No censorship in the search results.
It reflects the truth of what people are searching.
And then lo and behold, this war in Russia, sorry, I should say, the Russian war in Ukraine is so egregious and so over the top and so shocking that, what was his name, Weinberg?
Whatever, the CEO or the founder of DuckDuckGo put out a tweet and says, we're going to downrank Russian misinformation.
Didn't do anything with China, with the Uyghurs, didn't do anything with other egregious human rights violations out there.
This was the one.
Robert, I mean, people are hypothesizing that he had to have been compromised, someone had to have reached him, etc., etc.
What can motivate such conduct in someone like the founder of DuckDuckGo?
Is it virtue?
Is it corruption?
Is it intimidation?
Or you have no thought on it?
Twofold.
One, there was evidence that over the last year they had been doing this.
In fact, you could even go back to the election.
About a couple of months before the election, DuckDuckGo was not getting, in my view, the same kind of authentic responses and results that it had been throughout its entire time leading up to that point.
So I think that this compromise happened a long time ago.
And the political, if you had followed the political bias of the founder...
It was clear which side he was on.
And so he was on the virtue signaling side, so it was only a matter of time.
He's not like Chris Pavlosky, the founder of Rumble, who has an instinctive free speech, libertarian-leaning political preference.
This guy was eager to virtue signal.
And you note the contrast between it and Rumble.
Anybody getting kicked off of YouTube, Rumble is openly inviting and promoting, including when YouTube tried to remove the Oliver Stone film.
There was the first one, which is the Ukraine on Fire, and then this follow-up one, Ukraine Revealed, I think it is, because of its surge in popularity as people were trying to get a perspective on Ukraine.
Rumble immediately promoted them publicly and kept them, of course, on there.
Same with RT.
RT's been banned from YouTube, including not just RT America, but RT itself.
And Rumble immediately said that they will remain on Rumble.
There were some anti-war voices that had all their videos removed from the anti-war left.
That appeared to be the first target of a lot of this big tech censorship.
And Rumble again invited them to put up anything they wanted on Rumble.
Odyssey had this weird...
Whoever runs Odyssey's Twitter account needs to quit.
Because, you know, look, you're nowhere near the scale and size of Rumble.
You probably never will be.
I hope you succeed.
God bless you.
But continuing to attack Rumble makes zero sense.
And they made these false...
They defamed Rumble again.
It's like, come on.
I mean, I guess you really, really want to be sued or something?
They said that Rumble doesn't allow criticism of Trump and doesn't allow criticism of Israel.
Glenn Greenwald is one of the most prominent people on Rumble, and he's happy and eager to criticize Israel and happy and eager to criticize Trump.
They apparently confused Rumble with truth social media, which truth may or may not do that.
That's unclear that the new Trump.
Or the Trump-branded platform.
How much he's involved is far from clear.
But good for Rumble to continue to promote a free speech platform against this massive media hysteria that is driving people like DuckDuckGo to do and say things that are self-destructive to his business model.
And that's what I said when he puts out the tweet.
He's like, okay, we're going to implement a new software to downrank Russian misinformation.
First of all, if you're saying this now, chances are you've done it in the past.
And in which case, it will cause everyone to question everything you've ever done in the past, even if it is, in fact, only as of this moment going forward.
But I guess someone in the chat, let me know what his name is.
I don't want to mangle it for no reason, but I think it's Weinberg.
I mean, I guess he's okay with some genocide.
In certain places, against certain groups.
But he's not okay with regional wars against others in other groups.
There were a lot of people.
It was on...
Oh, what's his name?
The Daily Show.
Who's the new host of The Daily Show?
Trevor Noah.
Trevor Noah.
He posted a montage of reporters saying, what's going on in Europe?
This isn't some third-world country.
This isn't Africa.
As if to say, like, our collective outrage as to what's going on in Eastern Europe is justified somehow because it's not like some third-world country.
And it was a very damning montage, although I've been watching a lot of news.
I hadn't actually seen anybody make those egregiously offensive statements in real time, but apparently enough people did to justify a montage.
Is that what's going on with DuckDuckGo?
This war, this is offensive to us because it's like Europe.
But China, the Uyghurs, we don't care, but we'll continue doing business with them because the money's too good there.
This is a financial hit we can take because we think we're going to gain more from the virtue signaling than from the actual censorship itself.
But I'd like to see what happens to their business.
Yeah, social media enhances the ability of war propaganda because social media's AIs were designed for emotional manipulation, and so you maximize that.
That's why you have the White House meeting with 30 TikTok influencers to make sure that they're on message about the war.
I have not seen this many fake news stories debunked this quickly.
In the history, and I've followed this for many years, since I was a kid.
It's been extraordinary.
And they just keep putting it out, putting it out, putting it out, putting it out.
Next day, another fake one.
Next day, another fake one.
It tells you that the company has to be resorting to fake news.
It justifies them as if to say, people, we need the faith.
The New York Times wrote a front page piece on it.
It said, this is necessary in these current circumstances.
The New York Times done that a lot over its history.
I follow Tom DeLonge, who used to be with Blink-182, and now he's with Angels and Airwaves.
For whatever the reason, I mean, he might have family, he might have personal connection to the Ukraine, which explains his position.
But he retweeted a story, allegedly, that came from Facebook, as to how a Ukrainian village armed with only two Ukrainian flags took out four Russian tanks.
And the story goes along the lines that...
Four Russian tanks come in.
Two run out of gas.
So the other two go out of town to get gas.
And when they're gone, the Ukrainians put two flags on the Russian tanks.
Such that when the Russians come back, they think they're Ukrainian tanks.
They take out their own tanks.
Then one of the tanks crossing a bridge collapses and goes into the water.
I forget what happened to the fourth one.
Whatever.
And like, I'm not calling anybody a liar.
I'm not cynical.
I might be a little jaded.
That sounds like how you would script it in a movie that no one would believe.
You have a lot of bad screenwriters.
You go through the chat and everyone's like, there's enough true stories of heroism that you don't have to recycle fake garbage.
I've never seen it.
I've never seen social media weaponized or mobilized, I should say, in such rapid force, save and accept for 2020 when, lo and behold, governments were hiring influencers to push out COVID promotions.
I think they had planned on launching a lot of this in 2016, and it went AWOL when Trump won.
So they've tried to weaponize it against Trump, and now they're just trying to...
This was their first sort of global...
Well, it's not really a global conflict, but they want it to be, that social media could get meaningfully involved in.
And we're seeing how it can be manipulated.
Extraordinarily so.
And anybody, there was some other, like there was some independent military reporters that have been really good, you know, on Twitter and other social media sites for years.
I mean, and nobody saw them as that political.
But because they were reporting accurate information out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, they were kicked off of Twitter.
One of the top ones actually was kicked off of Twitter.
So it's extraordinary.
We do indeed live in interesting times.
It's a little scary.
Now we had one rumble rant which says, Barnes, do you think they'll even allow Trump to run for president in 2024?
How could they stop him?
How are they going to prevent it?
I mean, I get that the current theory, there's another lawsuit filed against Senator Ron Johnson trying to prevent him from being on the ballot in Wisconsin under their ridiculous 14th Amendment theory.
Already been kicked out by one federal court in the Cawthorn case.
It has no merit, and it's not going to be upheld, and that's just not going to happen.
I get where people come from, but it's like the problem with election fortification.
Their ability to do another round of mass mail-in voting and getting away with everything, very low, especially that there are likely to be Republican governors in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania before 2024.
That was a one-off.
That was not something that's easy to repeat, especially if people get active and people did get active.
I think Rasmussen noted election fortification issues are in the top three of issues in the public, and even more so amongst Republican voters, clearly.
Democrats are not going to be able to get through their attempts to federalize elections through Congress.
It's just not going to happen, especially as Biden's approval rating just continues to drop into the cellar and wait until people...
We'll start to feel the economic consequences.
In the name of punishing Putin, we're punishing Americans.
You're punishing Americans while running to Saudi Arabia.
We're going to punish one.
Or Iran, which was busy reminding everybody they have missiles that can bomb us on occasion.
And they may have been targeting an Israeli training camp that was connected to the U.S. embassy there, or the U.S. facility there.
Why we have this many facilities all over Iraq still open question.
They're just open targets at this point as, as the person that's been the best on this politically, JD Vance has been very good.
Joe Kent has been one of the best.
He's been fearless at pointing out all the problems with, I mean, well, this is a good bridge.
In Europe, the country that's taking the most hits that the U.S. tried to drag into this, make it a global war, just got sanctioned by the European Union for simply wanting to control its own judiciary.
So the irony is, if you read through the opinion, it's long and it's in that European international court, EU court style.
It reminded me of Trudeau.
It has all this language about the importance of transparency and honesty and independent judiciary that protects human rights and human liberties.
And it's like, in the name of doing, this is the same EU court that turned a blind eye to all the violations that have taken place for now two years in Europe concerning all the COVID lockdowns.
And here they are on their high horse with this fake pretextual pretense speech about how they have to punish Hungary and Poland for daring to have things like A retirement age for judges because that would interfere with the independence of the judiciary and the independent judiciary, like our independent central banks that just got politicized and stole a bunch of money from the Russians' central bank, or at least tried.
How much they succeeded is an open question.
But it's extraordinary.
The hypocrisy is just off the charts.
And here you have Poland taking in about a million to two million refugees anticipated, maybe more.
In the end, because the Ukrainians finally did go along with the Russian request for a humanitarian corridor to allow people to leave Kiev.
Over half of them have now left Kiev and many other parts of Ukraine and are flooding into Poland.
And they get rewarded for that.
They have to take in the refugees under various immigration policies the EU has set.
And they get rewarded for it by economic sanctions against their country.
Because they want to have control over their own domestic judiciary.
Why does this not just result in the dissolution of the European Union?
Why is there not a pull exit, a hunger exit?
I don't know who else is going to embarrass myself.
Why is there not the dissolution from the European Union?
What's preventing these countries from saying we want out in as much as the UK got out?
I mean, they really should.
We're seeing what a bureaucratic, clerical, elite-governed universe looks like, and it disproportionately punishes the working-class countries and the working-class peoples of Europe, as Greece found out.
But they are so tied in financially that their ability to exit is more difficult than the UK's ability to exit.
And that ends up being a big part of the restraint.
Another part is there's still this sort of hagiography surrounding the European identity.
I mean, the Poles, I mean, I think sometimes they think it's just the Polish-Lithuanian Empire brought back, but they have that sort of attachment.
They have a deep fear and dislike of Russia that goes back centuries.
A lot of legitimate fears in that, though it's different.
People don't forget that kind of thing in Europe.
That's why some old dispute from 700 years ago somehow percolates up again.
It's just the nature of the animal because of the stories that are told to your ancestors.
That's a part of it.
Anybody who stands up to the EU, like Hungary and Orban has, particularly aggressively, gets targeted.
Targeted for political sanctions, targeted for political interference.
Hungary went so far as to...
Do what Russia did, which was kick out most of the George Soros organizations that have disparate influence.
But George Soros is very strong in Ukraine, of course, and very strong in Poland.
So that, I think, is what the hindrance is.
But I agree that logically, continuing to hang around the EU when they're going to continue to violate your national sovereignty, it doesn't make sense in the long term because it's not a net economic benefit that's worth the trade-off for most of these countries.
All right.
Fascinating.
We were talking about EU.
Was there anything interesting out of Canada?
I mean, other than Trudeau just being the overt hypocrite that he is and talking about the slide towards authoritarianism.
What's your name getting bail?
Oh, Tamara Lisch.
When did that happen?
Monday, I think, didn't it?
My goodness.
Did last week feel like three weeks in one?
Robert, I mean, so you're an American.
I mean, we've seen, and I'm not trying to smile about this, we've seen what happened with January 6th and the Jan 6th defendants who were also accused not of saving except for Rhodes for, I think his was conspiracy to commit sedition.
The people that have been detained for over a year are being detained on non-violent trespass charges and other charges.
Detained.
Pre-trial detention for over a year for their charges.
In Canada, we had our own Tamara Lich, Pat King, who I believe is still detained because he didn't get a favorable rehearing on his bail rejection.
Tamara Lich was one of the organizers of the protest, the convoy fundraiser.
She raised the funds.
She orchestrated this thing, registered the federally incorporated not-for-profit, raised the money.
When she told people to hold the line, you know, she got arrested for, it was mischief charges and mischief-related charges, two and a half weeks before she was finally released.
And her initial bail was denied.
The initial officer of the piece said, can't trust that she's not going to run back out there and tell people to hold the line, encourage protests, yada, yada.
It got to a rehearing on the non-granting of bail.
And the judge...
Other than my own immediate, my life flashing before my eyes, I was live streaming it by listening to the audio in my ear silently with an earbud and then summarizing it in real time, not knowing other people were actually rebroadcasting the entire hearing itself, which I specified don't do because it's probably not lawful.
But at some point in the hearing, the judge said, people are live streaming this.
Unacceptable.
Recess.
And I was like, he's coming for me.
I panicked.
So bottom line.
What I did was fine.
Other people were rebroadcasting it unlawfully, whatever.
The judge in that hearing came to the right conclusion in a way.
Said that, you know, the foregone conclusion that Tamara Litch was going to do long jail time for her mischief charge, because it could be a summary conviction or it can be an indictable offense.
The foregone conclusion that she was going to do long, hard time was a wrong foregone conclusion.
And ultimately that the administration of justice is brought more into disrepute by the continued detention than the release.
And the judge granted her release and the bail terms were a $20,000 certee from a trustworthy certee, $5,000 bond that Tamara Litch herself had to put up.
A total social media blackout.
She cannot go on any social media.
She can't make any public statements supporting the protest.
And she can't attend the protest anywhere in Canada.
And she had to leave Ottawa within, it was either 24 or 72 hours.
That's justice in today's day and age.
Robert, you looking at that from the States, I mean, what is your impression of what you saw go on in Canada in terms of justice or a violation of the fundamental rules of justice?
Well, I mean, the right to bail goes back to a certain degree, all the way back to the Magna Carta.
And so the idea that, including the presumption of innocence and other similar comparable doctrines, and apparently, well, it didn't seem to be on the tip of the tongue of the Canadian court.
So you start with the presumption that the mere criminal accusation is insufficient to deprive someone of their freedom.
And that you have to, at least in the United States, which you're supposed to, they've watered it down in terms of enforcement.
But what the constitutional Eighth Amendment provision is all about is that you presume that unless you can show by clear and convincing evidence that the person will not show up for trial, then they're supposed to get bail.
Now, we changed that in 1984.
We added a provision that said if you're charged with certain crimes, if you're a threat to the community, then bail can be denied.
The Supreme Court very narrowly affirmed that in a completely bogus case because there was nobody arguing for the other side at the time, five to four.
And in my view, wrongly.
My view, flight is the only basis, not anything else.
But even if you added the danger to the community, Provision of being charged with certain crimes.
None of that, with clear and convincing evidence, that wasn't supposed to be participating in First Amendment protected activities, which is what, granted, you kind of have that in Canada.
People are figuring out how much the kind of applies.
Nothing like public health issues and war issues to start to show people how the government really works when the Constitution is most needed.
It is most ignored.
I mean, similar things have happened.
Like in the United States, you can't put unconstitutional conditions on someone.
So you can't condition their release on suppression of their First Amendment rights, for example.
So judges get away with it too frequently, but you're not supposed to be able to do that.
And so that's similar, continuous.
It shows how problematic this power is in the wrong hands.
And it was a reminder that...
Canada doesn't seem to have the most robust civil liberties protections, at least that we have on paper in the United States.
Now, Robert, okay, so first things first, we're at 16,000 watching here and over 4,500 on Rumble.
Hit the thumbs up if you're so inclined.
And I was going to ask a question that I would see in the chat, but I don't want to do that until I bring this one up.
And Robert, either you or I or both of us will respond to this before moving on to the next subject.
Azalea Moonkey, and I know that this person's been around, so this is not a troll.
This is a person with a legitimate point of view.
If I understand you right, Putin is totally justified in what he's doing in Ukraine because things, you guys are horrible people.
Now, let me just back this up, and I'm going to channel little Scott Adams.
If I understand things right, guaranteed when you have to preface a statement with that, it's not going to be understanding it right.
Putin is totally justified.
Let's stop it there.
Because, Robert, unless I'm mistaken, neither you nor I have ever said that Putin is totally justified in anything.
But maybe I'm putting words in your mouth, Robert, and you'll tell me.
That's one thing.
So, mischaracterization there.
Because, in what he's doing in Ukraine, because of things.
Which is a strawman oversimplification of the reasons which we have discussed, which might not justify it, but might explain it.
You guys are horrible people, ad hominem.
Now, with that said, Robert, would you like to, in...
A two and a half minute or two, whatever, in a statement, leave everyone in the chat in as much of speechlessness as you left the Duran as to why this statement is not exactly accurate.
It's fascinating.
If you find yourself making an argument that has no facts in it and has very little argument in it and resorts to straw man and ad hominem, it's a self-confession you've lost.
Because if you write on the facts...
It's the old law statement, right?
If you're right on the facts, you hammer the facts.
If you're right on the law, you hammer the law.
If you're right on neither, you hammer the table.
And I see a lot of table hammering by a lot of these critics.
And so as to the justification Russia gave for their intervention, there's multiple levels of analysis.
One is legal and the other is policy.
Those are two different analyses.
On the legal side of the equation, I think that amongst neutral arbiters, The Russian side would likely prevail, even though I don't agree with the intervention.
I'm just instinctively opposed to war.
But that's just realistic.
I mean, when you go to what the actual evidence is, you can find lots of reasons they can cite as to why they were concerned about Ukraine being a threat to their society, civilization, and people.
As to the policy behind it, I personally am skeptical that you can achieve through military and martial means the political objective that they're seeking, at least the scale or scope of what they're seeking.
So for that reason, the number one reason I've opposed almost every military, people get confused.
I'll justify why I think something was legally correct or could be legally correct under international legal standards or legal standards of war, whatever you want to refer to them as.
That's separate from whether I think something is a good policy.
I don't think any military intervention by almost anywhere in the world after World War II has turned out to be good policy.
There's very few examples I think people can cite to say, yeah, that turned out the way World War II turned out, where the bad guys lost.
Well, some of the good guys won.
I don't know if you call Stalin a good guy, but people forget Stalin was a big winner in World War II, too.
So I think the people confuse those concepts, but it shows how much they have been infected by the emotional hysteria.
As Alexander with the Duran was pointing out, he said it's fascinating when he reviews and reads China, India.
Latin, Brazilian, Eastern European, Central European, Russian sources.
He gets one.
It's a lot of facts and law and other policies, arguments mixed in.
He goes to the British or the American press, and it's all anecdotal, and it's all meant to create emotional reactions and responses.
The best version of this was the debate and the dialogue between the British reporter, who was the same reporter that Jordan Peterson humiliated years ago, interviewing Lavrov, the foreign minister for Russia.
And her whole argument was, a little girl died.
That ends the story.
Lavrov should be in prison tomorrow.
And it's like, you know, that's not really an argument.
If that was an argument, then we couldn't go into World War II.
We definitely couldn't firebomb Dresden or drop nukes on Japan.
And, you know, I surprised some of my friends on the left.
I still think the nuclear bomb decision was the correct decision.
If you look at the realpolitik consequences.
Now, it would be today.
An international law violation, because it is an indiscriminate weapon that will kill non-combatants.
80,000 people in a day, I think.
Exactly.
But if you dig in, it's like, how many people would have died if we had not used them?
And there's a lot better evidence that many more people on both sides would have died, particularly on its understanding of the Japanese military.
I mean, those are aspects of the Japanese military that tried to take out the emperor from announcing the surrender.
I mean, that's how I'm committed.
My only issue with that, and this will be maybe a discussion in front of the day, is Japan is an island nation.
So once Germany surrendered unconditionally, yeah, an invasion of Japan would have cost X amount and, you know, follow the math.
Who needed to invade Japan?
Let them exist as an island unless they came out.
But setting that aside, I do want to bring up...
They had part of China at that time.
Horrific treatment of the Chinese.
It was clear they weren't going anywhere soon.
And whether...
You can watch a hush-hush for what FDR knew or didn't know about Pearl Harbor.
They still bombed us.
But that gives an example.
People get caught up.
If you find yourself making very emotional arguments, ad hominem arguments, straw man arguments, you should check yourself because that should be a sign.
Hold on a second.
Why don't I have good facts to point out?
Why don't I have good policy to point out?
Rather than, I'm going to call you horrible.
I mean, to give an example, we were going to do a sidebar with Matthew Millerman, who in Canada does political science, and his whole point is the importance of strategic empathy.
He's done great studies of the Eurasian mindset involving Alexander Dugan and others.
He backed out of doing it now because he's seen the reaction.
And here's a guy that just wants to discuss intellectual diplomacy and political science, political philosophy, and has decided this context is so inflammatory, so impossible for rational discourse to occur that he's going to back down from doing an interview at this time, which is too bad because he's got a great mind and a lot of great ideas.
He probably will come on sometime later once.
This has calmed down.
But this is a mindset.
But if you study war hysteria, this is always the case.
Go back and look at how we portrayed the Germans.
We're doing not the same scale, but we're doing on a smaller scale to Russians right now throughout the West what we did to the Japanese.
If anybody wants to know and wonder, how did that happen?
How did the Supreme Court go along with it?
They went along with it because of the hysteria.
How do we say, well, your great-granddaddy was born in Japan, so we have to take away everything you ever had, even though you've been an American for three generations?
How do we do that?
The same way Russians are going to people with their kid to a picnic, and the Russian mother is apologizing for being Russian at the beginning of it.
This is morally horrendous, horrific conduct by people who have allowed the bloodlust of war and the bugles.
I mean, I always remember Hunter Thompson's great statement.
Before the second Iraq war.
Because whenever the bugles of war sound, I go out to my back porch and I put on a little Wagner and I get out my.45 and I fire into the darkness and I hope I hit something evil so that I will feel no guilt.
That is the mindset mentality of many of these people.
And they should watch and check themselves because they're repeating some of the most horrific things in history.
Well, I brought up a follow-up chat from the same individual.
We've all read it.
He said he actually likes us.
So I don't want to put that individual on blast, but everyone should be...
Ad hominem is an indication you've already lost the argument.
And Strawman...
If you start off with a...
A version of so or if.
That's usually a tell that your argument's not good.
So, you know, I apply this to my own argument.
If I find myself, I'll read the argument and be like, you know, that has all the flaws of a bad argument in it.
I better go back and re-examine.
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