Ep. 773 - Thieves Truckers And Tankers Oh My - American Perspective with Rick Thomas

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
A rare and balanced view on politics in today's world,
based on facts born of rationality, common sense, and logic,
providing context on today's events. This is American Perspective with
Rick Thomas.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello everyone, and welcome to American Perspective.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know, I got so distracted.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I forgot to bring my other my other feeds up here,
so bear with me for a second. But while I
do that, So last night before the show, the Whiskey
Warrior p ones that were in the chat were sitting
there and talking about math, and.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Miss t of Texas.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Popped up with a thing called the nines are multiplying
with nine. The rule of nines is what you called it.
And anyway, she went and she sent me a table,
you know, and explained it to me. Got me all
set up straight. And so me, being the smart arse,

(01:15):
oh the smart arts that I am. Me being the
smart arts that I am, I went and put a
put a test to my daughter. That's right, little miss Whiskey.
And little Miss Whiskey, I was like, hey, I go

(01:37):
the rules of the rule of nines when it comes
to comes to multiplication tables, I go, do you know that?
Because I thought, you know, hey, if I didn't know it,
and I didn't teach it to her, then maybe she
didn't learn it, because we all know how schools are nowadays.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, yeah, it turns out.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
That she actually schooled me yet again. So I got
schooled twice last night. Let me show you really really
quickly how she told me about this, and it easy.
It's it's it's even simpler than like the like the
whole table thing. So you take your hands, you put

(02:20):
them out in front of you. Okay, you have ten fingers.
You start on your left hand at the pinky that's
the one digit, and then you go two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Now what happens here is if you go nine times one,
so the times the multiplication of the one. You would
go and drop your one finger down and you count
what's left, and there's nine. There's nine fingers left. Then
you go put them back up. Then you go like

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nine times two. You put your two finger, which would
be your ring finger, on your left hand. You put
the number two down, and now everything that's on the
left is in the ten spot. Everything that's on the
right of where you put your finger down on is
the ones spot.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
So this is eighteen.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Same thing. If you do nine times three, you put
your three down. Now you've got twenty seven. There's your
two seven. Then you go and do the four. Okay,
and the fourth spot you take the four down, and
now you have thirty six.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Is what's left.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
So there you go. That's how that works. And you
work it all the way across. You work it all
the way across. And now I got to fix my
camera because my camera went and got all wonky because
I put my hands up, So let me move my
camera back across here.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
That's how that works.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
All right.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I think I got my camera back where it should be.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
All right.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I know it's it's amazing what you can do with math.
It's sorcery according to three Chevy. Anyway, she showed me
that and I was like, holy crap. And she goes, yeah,
when when we were sitting in in third grade or
fourth grade whatever it was, I think it was third
She goes, when we're sitting in third grade and we're
going through all that, you could see when when we
had the test on the multiplication tables for ninees, all

(04:23):
the kids were like putting their hands up and you
could see them moving their digits and everything else.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Anyway, that seems like it's pretty simple. So oh, but
there were so many things about it out last night.
You got to go and watch last night's episode at
least in the beginning to be able to have at
least some kind of an understanding what's going on.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
But anyway, I digress.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Tonight, we have Coco, Cam and Sean up for the
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Speaker 4 (05:13):
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
of America and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under in liberty and justice for all.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
All Right now, I normally explain that before I bring
it up, but I forgot to do it this time.
But uh, sorry, Sean. Sean is normally a nonverbal autistic individual, gentlemen,
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to a well, I won't say standard state, but back
to back to speaking again at the end there. Which, Hey,

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Well, folks, you.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Know it's pretty sad when Democrats make statements and then
they sit there and they're like, oh, well, that was
the wrong thing for me to say, and they try
to back backpedal. So there was a Democrat and of
course his democrats an idiot. But anyway, Benny Thompson, you
remember him, He was in charge supposedly of the January

(11:38):
sixth Unselect Committee. Yeah, they didn't find anything. They didn't
find any reality. They were trying to get something. But yeah, anyway,
so Democratic Mississippi Reped Bennie Thompson asserted today that he
made a mistake when he referred to the November twenty

(12:01):
sixth murder of the National guardsman as an unfortunate accident.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
His remarks were down playing the attack. Took place during
a Thursday House Homeland Security Committee meeting. He was going
up against Christine Nome, and Christy Nome was, let's just say,
schooling Benny Thompson on the reality of the situation with

(12:28):
regards to the Afghan national who took the life of
one of the National guardsmen and the other and shot
the other one. He is still recovering. I believe he
is potentially in critical condition.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
But I know that he is still in the hospital.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
But anyway, so CNN News Central host Kate bold On
or Boldwan, however it's pronounced b Oldua n asked him
about the phrase he has used for it. She says,
Christy Nolm. In the back and forth with you, she

(13:06):
called you out when you were speaking and asking her
a question, and you called the shooting and killing of
the National Guard member that happened recently an unfortunate accident.
You then called it an unfortunate situation. Well, the Afghan
national who was let in by the Biden administration without vetting,

(13:30):
by the way, he's charged with first degree murder. She
asked him, congressman, do you believe it was an accident?
And he goes, oh, absolutely not. And obviously, let me
be clear, I was moving toward the discussion that she
should she could not blame former President Joe Biden on

(13:50):
the situation because she approved this person's asylum application. Okay,
So here's the real truth. Biden not pulled out of
Afghanistan the way that he did. Had Biden not brought
that individual, I'm trying to be nice here, that individual

(14:14):
into the country under that stupid asylum crap, he wouldn't
have been here in the first damn place to have
a asylum application. So yes, Benny Thompson, we are gonna
blame Biden on this.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Was it a mistake to approve his asylum application, Absolutely
it was, but that's not why he was here. He
was already here, and in fact, his original his original
reason for being here and his time for being here
actually expired.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Before before he.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Before he went and claimed asylum. So there, honestly, there
was a comedy of errors, but it all started with
the fact that Joe Biden, in his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal,
grabbed these people without vetting them and brought them over here.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
When they didn't want to be here.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Granted they were doing it out of essentially out of survival,
but if if Biden hadn't just like you know, pulled
the rug out from under him and done the draw
down the proper way, he wouldn't have had that problem.
So yes, I am going to go all the way
back to the first incident, the incident that brought the

(15:47):
idiot here, brought the criminal terrorist here as the primary incident,
because if he wasn't brought here, he wouldn't be asking
for asylum and he would didn't have gone and.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Done what he did.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
So, yes, Benny Thompson, you did misspeak and you were completely.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Wrong in it.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
The Nome during the committee hearing immediately pushed back on
Thompson when he used the phrase about it being an
unfortunate accident. Nome was like, hello, you think that was
an unfortunate accident. It was a terrorist attack. He shot
our National guardsman in the head.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Republican. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Republican Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles also expressed outrage. He goes,
that was a murder that took place in DC. It
was not an unfortunate incident. And those comments are effing disrespectful.
Yes they are, Yes, they are.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
So.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Anyway, Andrew Wolf staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf is still in
critical condition. There have been hopeful updates about his recovery
since the shooting. And of course, like I said, he
brought this Afghani national was brought here under Biden administration's
Operation Allies Welcome, which would not have been a thing

(17:28):
had Biden not pulled out of Afghanistan as bad as
he did. Anyway, speaking of Afghani nationals, Tulsey Gabbard says
at least two thousand Afghan refugees in the US currently
are linked to terrorism, she said, and confirmed on Friday

(17:56):
that at least two thousand of the more than one
hundred thousand than Afghan refugees who entered the United States
after the withdrawal from Afghanistan in twenty twenty one have
ties to terrorism or are known or suspected terrorists. So, yeah,
Benny Thompson, you moron, it is because of Joe Biden.

(18:19):
This is Joe Biden's fault. There were one hundred thousand
people who came into our country because of the disastrous withdrawal,
and the vast majority of them were not properly vetted
anywhere near the standard that we require under the Trump
administration of allowing people into our country. Tulsey Gebbart said, yeah.

(18:48):
And by the way, National counter Terrorism Center Director Joe Kent,
that's the name I haven't heard in a while, testified
that approximately eighteen thousand known or suspected terrorists were allowed
to enter the United States under the Biden administration. Kent said,
these are individuals who, under normal circumstances, would never be

(19:10):
allowed to enter our country because of the ties, sorry,
because of the ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and
al Kada, Yet the Biden administration let them into the country,
facilitated their entry into the country. So yeah, there you go,

(19:34):
freaking democrat stupid morons. Well, let's shift ourselves over to
the Somalis. Why don't we You know, I should have
put in the in the in the title, I should.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Have put terrorists, thieves, truckers.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
And tankers, but I kind of went back and forth
about this, But anyway, here's the thieves. Yeah, those Somali pirates.
There are some court documents that have been unearthed. So
Fox News hosts Jesse Waters detailed how's Samali scammers spent

(20:12):
millions of dollars in taxpayer funds intended for hungry children,
citing court filings that outlined luxury purchases, overseas transfers and
lavish travel. Waters said, quote, we just found out what
the Somali pirates did with their loot. Millions in taxpayer
dollars meant for hungry kids. Went to island vacations like

(20:35):
front views and hot cars. Water said the money was
spent on an extravagant lifestyle funded by fraud. According to Waters,
court filings obtained by CBS News revealed details about how
the money was used. They're basically living like Mike Tyson,

(20:55):
according to Waters. Waters described one scammer's honeymoon trip as
an example. One went on a luxury honeymoon to the
Maldese a Ratison blue resort with water so clear you
can count the stripes on the fish. He continued by
describing the accommodations and activities at the resort. Quote, but

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they were at the private pool popping bottles, shipping his
champagne during the day, but at night the somolier leads
guests through the finest selection of vintagees. Waters stated that
the resort included extensive luxury amenities such as a thirty

(21:37):
five hundred bottle cellar filled with labels from around the world,
seven restaurants serving top tier cuisine, and don't worry, they're
JLAL certified.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
He said.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
The spending went beyond the Maldives. Waters said that the
scammers purchased waterfront properties in love vehicles. He's like these
guys had a taste for the good life an I
for waterfront properties and luxury cars like this twenty twenty
one Porsche.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Macan that's mc an.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, these guys were young and filthy rich because they
stole from you.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Waters said.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
One showed off his box full of cash and a
text quarter mill in.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Anyway, according to Waters, he also said that money was
transferred overseas, millions going to China and Kenya. And now
the pirates are getting what they deserved. One of them
is sentenced to thirty years. Another one got ten years
and was ordered to pay back the fifty million, which
they'll never get anyway. The investigation remains ongoing. And that's

(22:57):
just the tip of the iceberg.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Folks. This is this is horrible.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
What the Democrats and the Democrat Party have allowed this
country to become is absolutely an abomination, it really is.
And what they have steered this country to go do
is a complete abomination. Now, it's not only the people

(23:30):
who stole from us that are problems, but also the
people who came here and were able to gather work illegally,
gather things like commercial drivers' licenses illegally. And it's not
just California, by the way, it's not just Washington, it's
not just you know a few other states that have

(23:53):
been involved in this. Other than for an example, New
York New York got audited by the DOT. That's the
Department of Transportation for those that don't know. And the
DOT found that nearly half of the commercial trucking licenses
put out by New York went to illegal drivers. Illegal

(24:18):
alien drivers, folks, they were foreign born drivers.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
In the US illegally. Is where these things.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
This is more than half of the Empire state's commercial
trucking licenses. See what New York does and this is
according to Sean Duffy, the DOT secretary. What New York
does is if an applicant comes in and they have
a work authorization for thirty days, sixty days, one year, whatever,

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New York automatically issues them an eight year commercial drivers license,
which is contrary to law. He also added that they
found that New York many times won't even verify if
they have a work authorization, if they have a visa,

(25:16):
or if they're in the country legally, they won't even
look at it. Yeah, that's nothing, nothing short of normal
for leftist, lunatic run states, he says. So they're just
giving eight year commercial driver's licenses to people who are
coming through their DMV and sending them out on American roadways.

(25:39):
And again, they're endangering the lives of American families. So yeah, anyway,
keep in mind, of course, there was a or fifty
three percent failure rate of it's roughly thirty two thousand

(26:02):
CDLs that were issued by the New York Department of
Motor Vehicles. Yeah, one migrant applicant, according to the Post
back in September, one migrant applicant didn't even have to
put a first name down to receive one.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
We've all seen it.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
No name given, Yeah, no name given is everywhere. He's
got a big family. Let's just put it that way.
So the Transportation Secretary is giving HCl in her officials
thirty days to revoke all of the illegal CDLs, pause
any new licenses or learners permits from being issued, and

(26:42):
conduct their own comprehensive audit, or have their federal funding pulled.
The FMCSA administrator Derek Bars at the presser said, what
we uncovered in New York is not an administ oversight.
It is a system systematically, grossly unacceptable deviation from the

(27:06):
federal safety regulation that's been on the books for a long.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Period of time. YEP.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
New York State DMV spokesperson Walter McClure responded in a statement,
Secretary Duffy is lying about New York State once again
in a desperate attempt to distract from the failing, chaotic
administration he represents.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh, but by the way, he actually agrees to this.
He's like, here's the truth. Commercial driver's licenses are regulated
by the federal government in New York State. DMV has
and will continue to comply with federal rules. He goes,
Every CDL WE issue is subject to a verification of
the applicants lawful status. H yeah, okay, but hm, let's

(27:56):
see wait, wait just a second here. Do you think
this guy has a lawful status and all no name given? Yeah,
I don't think so. He doesn't have a lawful status.
He probably he doesn't even he mold on them, more
than likely doesn't even speak English.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, folks, we've got a serious problem here, serious problem.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
I mean, this is just.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Anyway, This isn't this is a systemic problem. Well, the
Trump administration. According to this article in the Epic Times,
the Trump administration has pulled nine five hundred truck drivers
off the roads for failing English tests. So one thing

(28:51):
you need to understand is that anyone who acquires a
commercial driver's license must must must be able to keep
indicate in English, meaning that they need to be able
to read, they need to be able to understand, they
need to be able to speak English. If you hand
a commercial drug driver a book known as Doctor Zeus's

(29:17):
Cat in the Hat and they can't even read that.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yeah, they need to be off the road, off the road.
So yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy again said there's more than nine
five hundred truckers that have been taken out of service
for failing the English language proficiency check.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
So yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
He wrote this in a December tenth post on x
We've now knocked ninety five hundred truck drivers out of
service for failing to speak our national language English. This
administration will always put you and your family's safety first.
The tally reflects cumulative enforcement actions taken since May, when

(30:02):
the Department of Transportation reinstated out of service penalties for
drivers who cannot read or speak English well enough to
operate a commercial motor vehicle. So this is a good thing.
This is a good thing. And of course this crackdown
comes after Trump signed an executive order back in March

(30:25):
designate English as the official language of the United States.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
So there you go. This is the way that it's
supposed to go.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I mean, when you have fatal crashes, by the way,
you know, like the one in Florida, and there have
been apparently there's been several others that nobody ever really
thought about, one even here and in my own state
of Washington.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
So yeah, these guys, yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
They need to They need to get taken off the
road for sure. So in the states, of course, are
facing pressure and funding loss. They need to ramp up
that funding loss thing, they really do. They need to
get rid of it. They need to take out all
of that kind of stuff. In these sanctuary states, excuse me,

(31:20):
sanctuary states around the country. You've been issuing illegal aliens
commercial drivers' licenses. And by the way, how are they
getting their social Security number in order to be able
to get the job? It's a darn good question to ask. Hmm,

(31:42):
how are they getting their social Security number.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
To get the job?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh wait, I thought illegals couldn't get social Security numbers.
Huh ha, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, sure. Anyway, all right, folks,
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(34:58):
you saw the news the US has seized a Venezuelan
oil tanker. Now, most people would be like, way, well,
what We've seized a Venezuelan oil tanker.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
How is that legal?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Well, it actually is legal because the United States has
sanctions on Venezuelan oil. Now they seize this oil tanker
off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday. Okay, and Bloomberg,
by the way, first reported the tanker seizure, and until Wednesday,

(35:39):
the Trump administration's military efforts off the coast of Venezuela
have been limited to destroying drug boats and submarines, But
Wednesday's actions represent a significant escalation in the White House
pressure campaign targeting Venezuela's state owned oil industry and primary

(35:59):
source of funding. Now, most of Venezuela's oil is sold
to China. Chinese buyers are typically able to get Venezuelan
oil at a discount because of the risk of running
a foul of the US sanctions that are currently there,
and in fact, US based Chevron has some oil operations
within Venezuela. Chevron has received a waiver from the Treasury

(36:22):
Department to work with Venezuela's state owned oil giant PDVSA
to develop the country's massive oil reserves. Now to dru
In Venezuela, Chevron gives a portion of its oil back
to the government. And since September, the US military has
knocked out over twenty boats and submarines in the Caribbean

(36:44):
Sea and the Pacific Ocean in strikes targeting drugs and
narco terrorists. Now, these strikes are part of the Trump
administration's efforts to curb the flow of illicit drugs into
the United States as well as destroy operations that empower
cartels in Central South America and destabilize the region.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
And here's the thing is that.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
The drug boat, or it's not the drug boat, sorry,
the boat the tanker which is named the Skipper, according
to four people who are familiar with the operation, was
originally sanctioned by the US back in twenty twenty two.

(37:35):
Back in twenty twenty two, so under the Biden administration
it was sanctioned.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Trump's just keeping it going.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Well. There was an ABC News analysis of some satellite
imagery and some tracking data that shows that this thing,
they're doing some things that are nefarious because the tanker
apparently manipulated its transponder, so the digital broadcast signals emitted

(38:11):
from the vessel's transponder and tracked by the analytics company
called Kipler placed the skipper near Guyana's offshore between November
and December. However, more than a dozen satellite images verified
by NBA sorry ABC News confirmed that the skipper was

(38:32):
actually in fact operating in waters off the coast of Barcelona, Venezuela.
It's about five hundred and fifty miles away from where
it was supposedly the transponder was supposedly occurring during the
same period. So this is a pattern of deliberate obfuscation,

(38:57):
according to Dimitri and I'm not going to try it
last name, who's a senior risk and compliance manager at
Kipler or Kpler kp l e R. He told ABC News.
The allegedly spoofed signals indicate a broader pattern of sanctions
evasion logistics. Now, the satellite imagery captured by two providers

(39:23):
appears to show the skipper loading barrels of crude at
Venezuela's Jose Oil Terminal on November fourteenth, followed by a
third siding there by Planet Labs on November eighteenth. Imagery
or in an image taken by Tanker Trackers dot Com,

(39:44):
an organization that monitors global oil shipping, also shows the
skipper at the Jose Oil Terminal in a similar time period.
So this thing is going in like transporting oil when
it shouldn't be. And I'm also hearing from oh, by

(40:07):
the way, in a statement from ABC News, I'll get
to you know second there through Chevy. In a statement
to ABC News, Matt Smith, who is an analyst at
KP L L E R.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
I'm gonna say kipler but.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Anyway, confirmed in mid November that the vessel covertly loaded
eleven million or sorry, one point one million barrels of
heavy sour mary crude without its transponders switched on. Smith
noted the skipper had previously engaged in what he said
was dark activity, which is a reference to ships operating

(40:42):
without their transponder turned on.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
So yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
The site estimates that the skipper carried one point eight
seven million barrels of oil from Iran to China in
Februaryruary of this year, and one point another one point
nine to five million barrels again from Iran to China
in July of this year. Tanker was spotted off the
coast of Madagascar in October before making its way across

(41:15):
the Atlantic Ocean. It was spotted again north of Trinidad
and approaching Venezuela on October twenty ninth, before spending over
a month off the coast of Barcelona. According to Marine
Marine Traffic, a vessel tracking platform that is owned by Kipler,
the skipper's registered owner is Triton Navigation Corporation. Its beneficial

(41:40):
owner is listed as tom Rose Global Ventures. Triton Navigation,
along with the skipper, then known as Adisia or Adisa.
Adisa was the subject of US sanctions in twenty twenty
two for alleged ties to Hesblah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps Quad's force. So who the hell knows who

(42:04):
owns this thing?

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Why?

Speaker 2 (42:06):
It's even out there, why it's doing what it's doing,
and realistically, where the hell it is going.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
With all of this.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Oil, and my wonderful Whiskey warriors who are very well informed,
the smartest listening audience in all of the Internet ethosphere.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Three.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Chevy points out that the ship itself was uninsured, which
is another indication of illicit intent, no kidding. Yeah, what
you do when you're trying to do something that is untoward,
you hide, You find ways to hide, and you don't

(42:47):
bother with insurance because then that proves that the thing existed.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Anyway. In response to all of this. Oh and also two, it.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Was not flying in national flag at the time, so
seizure was seizure was justified.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
So there you go. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
By the way, the US is beginning, according to the
New York Post, here I'll give you so you're not
always looking at me, the US is preparing to seize
more tankers off the coast off of Venezuela's coast after
the first ship had been taken. The US is preparing
to intercept more ships transporting Venezuelan oil following the seizure

(43:32):
of the tanker this week, as it increases pressure on
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. Six sources familiar with the matters
said on Thursday, the seizure was the first interdiction of
an oil cargo of an oil cargo tanker from Venezuela,
which has been under US sanctions since twenty nineteen.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
The action came.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
As the US escalates a large scale military build up
in the Southern and Caribbean, and as US President Donald
Trump campaigns for Maduro's ouster. The seizure has put ship
owners operators in maritime agencies involved in transporting Venezuelan crude
oil on alert, with many reconsidering whether to sail from

(44:18):
Venezuelan waters in the coming days as planned. According to
shipping sources, further direct interventions by the US are expected
in the coming weeks, targeting ships carrying Venezuelan oil that
may have also transported oil from other countries that are
targeted by US sanctions, such as Iran, according to sources

(44:40):
familiar with the matter, who declined to be named due
to the sensitivity.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Of the issue.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah so anyway, obviously. The Venezuelan government said that the
US seizure.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Is constituted as theft yeap, So there you go. Anyway,
that's uh.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Quite the story, quite the story. And the idea, of
course is to put a reduction or halt into Venezuelan
oil exports, which is the main generator of revenue for
the Venezuelan government, and it would it would strain the

(45:24):
Maduro government's finances. Yeah, put the squeeze on the guy man.
Put the squeeze on him, which makes sense.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
So yeah, anyway, Uh, let's.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
See what else here.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Oh, they've been watching, they're watching. Let's see, they're watching
other tankers that see some vessels in Venezuelan ports, waiting
for them to sail into international waters where they can
take action there. So yeah, there's just a lot more
opportunity that they are going to do here for this.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
All right, let me take a quick drink, get my
vocal cords a little, a little lubrication.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Anyway, Okay, so shifting a little bit.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
You know, I had mentioned.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Here earlier, I think it was maybe late last week,
where the Department of Health and Human Services and the
FDA were investigating the deaths of children potentially related to
the COVID vaccines. Well, now apparently they've expanded that to

(46:58):
where it's now not only children, it's across multiple age groups,
so they're actually looking and doing a thorough investigation about
these deaths. So the inquiry initially, like I said, centered
on possible fatalities among children, but is now expanded after

(47:21):
a leak to memo from a senior FDA official claim
the vaccines had also been associated with at least ten
infant deaths, even though that memo didn't reportedly include any
evidence to substantiate that allegation. The investigation itself is now

(47:42):
broadened to examine reports involving other age groups as well.
Keep in mind, most of the vaccine side effects are
relatively mild and temporary, such as fatigue, fever, arm soreness. However,
serious reactions, including myocarditis, periocarditis, and severe peer allergic responses
have also been observed so and by the way, in

(48:14):
twenty twenty five, the FDA required manufacturers of the mRNA
vaccines used in the United States to update their product
labeling with refined risk at risk estimates for mile myocarditis
and perrycarditis. The updated data indicate that these conditions occur
in only a small number of vaccinated individuals, with higher

(48:36):
rates among adolescent and young adult males, and according to
the agency, these safety updates do not alter their overall
assessment that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks for
most people. However, Oh and by the way, before I

(48:59):
move on to the next story, at this stage, the
FDA has not confirmed any causal connection between COVID nineteen
vaccines and the death Under review. Officials say that they
will assess all available evidence before drawing conclusions and will
release findings when the investigation is complete. That's kind of

(49:20):
interesting that the FDA says that, because this next story
is quite apropos here in the Epic Times. A Stanford
study pinpoints the cause of vaccine linked myocarditis as well
as a possible fix. So there's some new research that

(49:45):
has uncovered the immune reactions behind the rare heart inflammation
cases following the COVID nineteen our mRNA vaccinations. That's kind
of interesting. You can't sit here and say, oh, yeah,
it doesn't cause it, but yet now there is a

(50:06):
link in a possible fix that researchers have found.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Anyway, myocarditis from COVID nineteen vaccines is caused by two
separate chemicals acting together, according to a new Stanford study
that was published this Wednesday. So doctor Joseph Wu, the
study's lead author and director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute,

(50:33):
told the Epic Times. As a cardiologist, we get asked
all the time, how exactly does the vaccine cause myocarditis?
He says, we thought it was a very important scientific
and clinical question to spend resources on and tackle. So apparently,
when an mRNA vaccine is given, immune cells release a

(50:53):
surge of cytokines called cxcl ten and IFN gamma. Both
of those happen to damage heart muscles and cause immune
cells to enter the injury site.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
So the study itself was done in human cells and
in mice.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Previous studies have also shown that these two chemicals to
be high in people who have been injured by the
mRNA vaccine. So myocarditis from the vaccine is caused through
two step process, the study authors wrote. When administering them
Adviser and Maderna of vaccines to human cells, the first

(51:38):
immune cells to encounter the vaccine, called the macroplages, release
cxcl ten to recruit more immune cells to the area.
Then the second phase, which has more specialized cells come
into the area, releasing the IFN gamma in response, and

(51:59):
the two chemicals together directly injure heart cells. This damage
encourages more inflammatory cells to enter the heart, causing myocardidis.
So now they know how myocardidis happens with the COVID
nineteen vaccine. So, by the way, Wu pointed out that

(52:21):
the immune cells are likely releasing these two chemicals because
they detect the foreign mRNA from the vaccines. Oh so
our body is responding in a way that injures us
because of the fact that we're trying to do something
to our body that we're.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Not supposed to be doing. Is that basically it?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
I think so so, And of course he also he
mentions that the two cytokines cause inflammation to the blood vessels.
They could cause inflammation to the heart. He also added
that these can also cause inflammation in other areas like

(53:07):
muscles and joints, which may be why some people experience
joint and muscle pains after this thing. Yeah, he said
that myocarditis from COVID nineteen vaccinations is rare and that
the viral infection is of greater concern. I don't see
how that could be possible given that it's been around

(53:28):
for a few years now and is obviously dropped off
in its uh in its uh.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
What do you call it? Its threat to you?

Speaker 2 (53:40):
But anyway, so they actually have found that giving a
mice or giving a mice a dost of genus steen
ge n I s t e i N, a natural
plant compound that comes from soybeans ahead of vac nations,

(54:01):
actually blocked the heart damage from happening while still allowing
the vaccine to do its job. So the mice that
we're given this thing continue to release antivirus anti viral
signals in their body when given the vaccine, which indicates
that their immune system recognized the vaccine. Genustine is an

(54:21):
anti inflammatory and acts like estrogen inside the body. Since
milecardidis primarily affects young men, Wu said that they thought estrogen,
a female hormone, may be protective against milecarditis, and he goes,
but we can't be giving estrogen to boys, right, So

(54:42):
here we give ginstine, which is a weak phytoestrogen plant
based estrogen.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Very weak.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Doctor Joseph Arron, a president sorry a professor of the
the University of Houston's College of medicine and president of
the Independent Medical Alliance told The Epic Times that the
study allows for a medical option when damage from the
vaccine can be prevented, or where damage can be prevented. Now,

(55:17):
they're still searching for a root cause. The study only
explored one potential case or cause of myocarditis from COVID
nineteen vaccinations, which is myocarditis caused by an inflammatory response
to the vaccine. Other studies have also speculated on other
causes of myocarditis from vaccination. One potential reason is autoimmunity,

(55:41):
which occurs when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks itself
Because the spike protein produced by the COVID nineteen mr
ANDA vaccine has certain features that are the same as
those in human proteins. When the immune system attacks the
spike proteins, some of the antibodies it produces may also
attack the body's own tissues. This can lead to attacks

(56:04):
on the heart and result in myocarditis.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
See.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
I know I've been reading a lot out of this article,
but I want you to understand something. If we had
taken the time to understand what the COVID nineteen mRNA
vaccines were actually going to do, in fact, if we
had done longitudinal studies, which used to be required and

(56:36):
are required for regular vaccines, where this one in particular
was you know, and again I fault President Trump for
this operation warp Speed was a mistake. It was one
that he never should have taken. But he was listening
to people who he thought were experts. And so what

(57:00):
ended up happening is they cut down the time that
it took to bring a vaccine to market. See if
we'd had the opportunity to do these longitudinal studies, meaning
studies over the course of time. Average time for a
vaccine is like ten years of studies. If we'd have

(57:20):
had time to do that, we may have found that, hey,
prior to getting the COVID nineteen mRNA vaccine, maybe you
should have an injection of this soybean gene or weak
estrogen stuff or whatever.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
But no, we couldn't.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
We didn't, and because of that people are now hurt.
But what really sucks about all that is the fact
that now they can't hold the vaccine manufacturers accountable because
they've been given legal immunity over this. So what do
you have. You now have potentially millions of people with

(57:59):
all kinds of side effect side effect conditions that are
now affecting their lives for the rest of their lives.
Some of these, some of these millions of people are children,
young men who are now having to deal with this
milady or malady.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
And they can't do anything about it.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Basically, folks, COVID nineteen mRNA vaccines were an experiment done
on the public. And that's the tragedy in and of itself.
All right, folks, that is it for me for this evening.

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