Sunday Night with Allen Ray: Prep, Outage, and that thing in India-Pakistan

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Oh Yeah, chilling, Chilling on a Sunday evening. I am

(03:52):
your humble host, Alan Ray. This is Sunday Night with
Alan Ray. Some chill music. I wrote that myself. It's
called Fools Interlude. It was part of part of a
song that I wrote called twenty twenty. Pack wrote it
a long time ago, right after twenty twenty, and kind
of put it out there and we got about as
much traction as trying to skate with I don't know

(04:18):
bald tires. Oh well, can't all be winners, or sometimes
they can't be winners at all. Welcome. This is the
show where we look around this giant blue ghetto rock.
We're hurtling through space at unprecedented speed, and we asked
the eternal question, what the wide wide world of sportunes

(04:41):
are going on here? This show? It's gonna be a
little bit different because it started out I was gonna
do something totally different, and yesterday morning I was nerding
out a little bit. And first of all, guys, welcome
to the chat. We got already in the chat, We
got Steven in the chat, we got wrapped her. Guys,

(05:03):
thanks for jumping in. You just heard Jeff and man,
what a what a freaking great show. That was my gosh,
it really was. He is really really just come out
as a as a professional podcaster. Really great. Before that,
you had Corn with Corn's book corner. Did I actually

(05:26):
say that right? I don't want to get that wrong.
I wrote it down. Look at me. This is how
together I am Corn Corn's reading room. That's what it is. Sorry,
I'm focusing on like five things all the same time.
Am I put together? Heck no, So it's gonna be fun. Anyways,
yesterday morning, of course, you know, I have a routine
on Saturday mornings. I get up, get breakfast, I have

(05:50):
a forty meter net for the East Coast Reflector Team
on Ham Radio. And then after that, I was I
was gonna get start getting ready, you know, get things moving.
And I noticed I got a little notification on my
phone from doctor Tamotha SCoV. Doctor TAMOTHA SCoV is the
patron Saint s Saint of solar Weather. She is a

(06:16):
solar weather expert, very trusted, very popular in the Ham
radio community. And she was doing a live class, not
just a live you know show, not just a podcast,
not just doing space weather like she does about once
a week, which you know, I watched because it's really

(06:36):
kind of cool. Well, Jeff's in the chat hell Jeff.
But doctor SCoV was doing a class. It was a
four hour class. I got about an hour and a
half into it. I had to go, but I'm going
to watch the rest of it. Just just sit there
and pick over because she had some really good information.
The time that I was watching it, I learned a ton.

(06:57):
But something snapped in my brain about forty five minutes.
In fifty minutes, in fifty minutes in she was talking
about one of her colleagues who she has grown to
love as a friend, and how some of the things
that happened in their community, in the space science community,

(07:17):
gets left in the background, gets unnoticed. And you know,
you and I don't walk around thinking about well you
probably don't walk around thinking about what the Sun's doing
on any given day. If you are a ham radio
operator who works HF, you do because a lot of

(07:40):
things depend on solar weather. But she made a comment
about this guy and how she met him in Italy
and he's now a dear friend to hers, and it
led to her talking about his studies in some of
the atmospheric conditions and all that, and she aid the comment. Now,

(08:02):
I'm gonna paraphrase this just a little bit, but some
of this is her exact comment. She was talking about
how really basically renewable energy makes for a big problem
in the electric grid. And then she kind of looks
sheepish for a moment, like she goes, man, I'm gonna

(08:23):
you know, you get telling her in her mind, she
was saying, I'm gonna get into something here. It's probably
gonna trigger a lot of people, she said, and I'm
gonna paraphrase us renewables. This is actually what she said.
Renewables make for a big problem in the grid. As
she said, by the way, she mentioned, you know, you
just saw something in Portugal, you saw something in Spain.
She says, by the way, that was not space weather related,

(08:45):
not atmospheric related either, And she kind of stumbled a
little bit, and then she said, renewables don't have inertia.
They decouple from the grid when they need to be there.
So you take a lot of generators offline, and because
you have renewables, well you don't have any physical generators

(09:08):
that cause inertia. And my ears picked up. I went,
what and after everything was said and done later on,
you just ate away at me. Later on, I went
through there and I went back to that point right
around the fifty minute mark, and she was talking about
all that. I was like, did I hear her say
that right? Yes, she did, and she got into it.
She got a little little salty about some of the

(09:30):
things that you hear, some of the things that are
not correct, some of these doomsayers that are talking about
different things that aren't based in science, they're based in narrative.
And let me read this for you again. I'm gonna
read it real quick for you so you hear exactly.
I mean, this is like I said. Some of it's paraphrase,
most of it's right.

Speaker 8 (09:49):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
I skipped some of what she said because she kind
of hummed and hawed like humans do. That's how we talk.
We don't talk like a play. We have a lot
of ums and duhs and this, and we a little bit.
But she said, renewables make for big problems in the grid.
By the way, that was not space weather related. She's
talking about Portugal and Spain. That was not atmospheric related either.

(10:12):
Renewables don't have enough inertia. They decouple from the grid
when they need to be there. So you take a
lot of generators offline, which is what Spain and Portugal did.
They are running eighty percent plus renewables. Renewables I mean
wind and solar power. You take a lot of these
generators offline, like nuke plants and coal plants and stuff

(10:34):
like that, and because you have renewables, well, you don't
have any physical generators that cause inertia. Now, what she
went on to say made more sense than anything I've
ever heard in my life. She said, like nuke plants
or coal plants or something like that, these have inertia.

(10:55):
By inertia, I mean they have physical things that are
moving physically, that are heating something, upturning things and spinning
or something and pushing power into the grid. Solar power
does not have that. So I went down the rabbit hole,
and this is what I came up with. Now, the

(11:16):
official story, official story, and you can get this on
any AI or any news story. Whatever. Is the exact
cause of the massive blackout that struck Spain and Portugal
on April twenty eight, twenty twenty five remains unclear. Sounds
to me like they want it to remain unclear. You
don't hear anybody else talking about the real problem. But

(11:37):
you can dig this out if you try, and investigations
are ongoing. However, available information points to a complex sequence
of events rather than a single definitive trigger, So you
know they're going to bring as much as they can
to dilute what the real problem was. The blackout began
at twelve thirty three ceest affecting nearly the entire Iberian Peninsula,

(11:58):
with minor impacts in and southwestern France. It disrupted power
for about fifty five million people, lasting up to eighteen
hours in some areas, and caused significant disruptions to transportation, telecommunications,
and essential services. At least eight deaths were linked to
outage related incidents, such as carbon monoxide poisoning from generators,
from people being dumb, and candle fires. Now here's some

(12:22):
key details about the incident. Now, as you know, this
is where I love some of the AI programs Rock
and Chat, Gubut and other things. It just pooped all
this out and gave you links, and he's like, oh, yeah,
there they are. Details about the incident include sudden power loss.
The blackgout was triggered by rapid loss approximately fifteen gigawatts

(12:43):
of electric city electricity generation in Spain within five seconds,
so all of a sudden, the grid dropped fifteen gigawatts.
It's huge, okay, equivalent to sixty percent of the country's
demand at the time. An additional five gigawatts was lost
in Portugal. This caused the grid frequency to drop from

(13:03):
fifty hertz to forty nine point eighty five hertz, leading
to automatic emergency protocols and a collapse of the Iberian
electricity network. Another detail grid instability data from Spain's grid
operator red Electricia d'aspanna Oree indicates that the grid was

(13:24):
stable before the outage, supplying thirty two gigawatts to me
to twenty five gigawatt demand, with excess power exported to Portugal,
France and Morocco at twelve thirty over half of the supply.
Over half the supply that's key, came from solar and
electricity prices were slightly negative. Lower frequency oscillations were observed
in the thirty minutes prior, followed by two critical events.

(13:47):
Three generators and the France interconnection decoupled and solar photobeltaic
output dropped sharply. Okay, put that in your head. Remember this,
this is important. Three generators and the France interconnection decoupled.
We just said she was talking about how that decouples
when they needed the most, and solar photovoltaic output dropped

(14:12):
sharply from eighteen thousand megawatts to eight thousand megawats. These
fluctuations likely overwhelm the grid's ability to maintain balance, possible
technical failure. OREE is another key detail. Ore EE identified

(14:32):
two incidents of the power generation loss, likely from solar
plants in Spain southwest, which caused instability and severed the
interconnection with France. Some experts, some experts, I put little
finger quotes there suggest poor grid management or inadequate integration
of solar facilities. Right, that's what they're gonna go with.
I guarantee you they're they're gonna go with the operator air.

(14:55):
Particularly the lack of mechanical inertia. Okay, there's that word again.
There's that work. This is important, particularly the lack of
mechanical inertia in renewable systems. That is key there, the
lack of mechanical inertia in renewable energy systems, solar wind, whatever,

(15:19):
which rely on electronic inverters rather than synchronous generators may
have exasperated the issue. Now see I think it caused
the issue. Weak interconnections with the broader European grid, particularly
in France, may have also limited the ability to stabilize
the system. So they are running eighty percent renewables, and

(15:47):
when they needed that energy the most, that energy decoupled itself.
Just like doctor Scott said, she made a very bold
and very you could tell she studied this very scientific
statement that goes against the narrative. I'm wondering if she's
going to face punishment for what she said because she

(16:11):
was very adamant. So this wasn't they I know, they
tried to say that, oh, it's an atmospheric thing. Okay,
another point, key point of the whole thing. And I've
told you this span of Portugal source about eighty percent
of their electricity from wind and solar, leading to the
speculation that the high penetration of renewables contributed to the blackouts.
Now they're going to have to argue. Critics argued that

(16:32):
the intermittency of the renewables and insufficient battery storage of
good updates or upgrades made the system vulnerable to sudden fluctuations. However,
Spanish officials, including Prime Minister Pedro sanchest Andree President Beatriz Corridor,
have denied that renewables were the primary cost. But of
course they are going to, they're going to, noting that

(16:53):
the nuclear power stations also failed to restart promptly, indicating
no inherent resilience advantage advantage over renewables. Okay, that's what
you call that's what you call a story, a narrative.
This is what they're going to go with the narrative.
So initial reports retracted, later retracted, the suggestion that rare

(17:14):
atmospheric phenomenon might have caused oscillations and overhead cables due
to extreme temperature variations. No unusual weather was reported, and
as doctor Scott went on to point out in her
that little ranch she was going on, those of you
who are Ham radio operators, there was two big QSO
parties going on at the time. Did you experience any problems? No,

(17:40):
on Saturdays started out kind of rough, that sad. I
remember that Saturday, the twenty It started out kind of rough,
but went on to be a really good day, really
good weekend for contexts. So no, there was nothing in
the atmosphere and the final point was management issues. Some

(18:01):
analysis highlights systemic challenges such as the grid reliance on
computer systems that may not be equipped to handle extreme scenarios,
especially with high renewable penetration than negative electricity prices. The
practice of using an excess power for a hydro pumping
story energy and reservoirs was nearing capacity potentially limited flexibility.

(18:21):
So I took that and I said, Okay, let's do
some research. Let's let's let's let AI do its work.
Let's ask, you know, find some links, do what we can,
and see what it says about renewable energy into the

(18:45):
grid our grid. Folks, you have to believe me. There
have been advocates going on for years, years trying to
get Congress's head out of its collective backside, fight off
very very financially backed forces, and tell Congress that our

(19:13):
electric grid is in imminent danger from chronal mass ejections,
electromagnetic pulses, all kinds oft. We are sitting on an archaic,
horrible power grid. And if you're in the state of Michigan,
you know this. We have some of the worst power
grid failures in the country, to the point where even

(19:39):
our Democrat governor. Miss hey, let's shut down all of
the natural gas and nuke plants and everything else and
go one solar and wind. Even she went to the
power companies and said, you gotta do something about all
these blackouts. I will give her that credit. She hammered,
hammered on the two biggies here can Zumer's Energy and

(20:00):
Detroit Energy DTE hammered on them. So you are this
is way way too many blackouts and it's taking way
too long to get people back in business. I'm gonna
give her that credit. So I went in and I said,
our solar and wind power incompatible with the Kern electric grid,

(20:24):
and this is what an AI program, and then gave
me some backup things to check too. We went back
and forth for a bit, and it said solar and
wind power are not inherently incompatible with the Kernel electric grid,
but their integration poses significant challenges due to their intermittent nature,

(20:49):
lack of mechanical inertia there's that word again, and the
limitations of existed existing grid infrastructure. And it goes right
on this Spain portrait. Blackout is it's a it's a
smack in the face, a wake up call. It goes
on to say the Spain Portugal blackout on April twenty eight,
twenty twenty five, where rapid loss of fifteen gigawatts mostly solar.

(21:12):
It put that right in there, fifteen gigawatts mostly solar
triggered a grid collapse highlights these issues. However, with targeted
upgrades and management strategies, grids can support high levels renewable. Okay. However,
with targeted upgrades and management strategies, okay, what have these
advocates been trying to get Congress to do for the

(21:34):
past forty years? Upgrade the grid? They literally went, they
practically went to them with a book called One Second
After about an electromagnetic pulse strike, handed that book out
to everybody in Congress and said, here's your future if
you don't do something about this grid, if you don't
harden the grid, if you don't make it modernized. The

(22:02):
problem is you have very very very powerful lobbyists in
the electric industry who don't want to spend that kind
of money. They like their profits a lot, and they
make really good profits, and they've just run I don't
know about your state, but they'ven't just run to our governor.
Twice in the past year. The first raise in your
bill went through, and they immediately went back and said,

(22:24):
we need more money. The first money hadn't even come
in yet. Now it goes through. It gave me a
concise analysis of compatibility issues, drawing on the blackout and
broader European grid context, followed by solutions to ensure compatibility.

(22:47):
Now I want to I want to throw a caveat
in there. I want to throw something in here that
I'm gonna come right out with. I'm not anti solar,
I'm not anti when if we can do it right.
What I am thoroughly against, one hundred percent against is
tearing down thousands of acres of ecosystem, ripping up thousands

(23:11):
of acres of woodlands, tearing up nature, farmland, places where
people live in the country and farm and try to
have an existence outside of superheated pavement hellscapes of these
giant cities. I'm against that. I am against our government,

(23:37):
state governments, i should say, trying to force us onto
solar and win systems that are at their very very peak,
barely efficient enough to be an enhancement to the grid already.
And we just saw this personally, every parking structure. Every

(24:03):
building in a city with a flat roof along the freeways,
put your solar panels up. Enhance the grid. Why not
not hurt anything. It's already got pavement, and it's already
got it's already a highway. Wouldn't you like to park
in a big mall parking lot that's completely covered with
solar panels so you don't get wet when it's raining.

(24:25):
But to try to rely on this energy as a
primary source of energy is stupid. It's a fool's game.
Challenges of solar and win integration. Here's your lesson for
the day. You're gonna be a little smarter when you're
done here. Intermittency and variability solar and wind depend on whether,
of course, causing unpredictable output fluctuations. During the Spain Portugal whackout,

(24:50):
solar output drop from eighteen thousand millas to eight thousand
millar lots in seconds, destabilizing the grid. We know that
it says, unlike fossil fuel or nuclear plants, renewables cannot
provide consistent base loads of power without storage or backup.
So what you would need exactly raptor it can only
serve as a supplement what you would need, and of

(25:13):
all people, Elon Musk has it right. You need giant, huge,
giant battery facilities storing this power. The footprint between thousands
of acres of solar panels and a giant battery farm
is unbelievably huge if you're trying to power a city,

(25:33):
unbelievably huge. And yes, Raptor, my university that I work
for is going to have the same thing. They're going
to have canvas, you know, gonna have just like covers
over the top of all the parking lots and on
the parking structures and everything with solar pot Go ahead,
do it, you might as well. It's not gonna hurt anything.
The problem is is what are you gonna do with

(25:54):
them solar panels in twenty thirty years when they go
bad and you can't do anything with them except bury
him in the ground somewhere and let the toxic crap
leak all over the place. Anyways, lack of mechanical inertia again,
to summarize, traditional generators, coal gas, nuclear, whatever provide inertia
via spinning turbines stabilizing the grid frequencies fifty hertz in

(26:18):
Europe is their stabilization point. Solar and wind use electronic
converters which lack this inertia, making grids more vulnerable to
frequency drops, which is why the blackout. High renewable penetration
sixty six percent in Spain during the blackout reduces system inertia,
increasing blackout risks. So it was directly solar and wind

(26:43):
that caused that blackout. They're not going to be able
to get away with this. They're not going to be
able to say it something else. They know the truth,
and the truth needs it to get out and again.
Aging grid infrastructure. Over forty percent of Europe's grid, including Spain's,
is over forty years old. Think about this in America, guys,
think about this in the United States. Designed for centralized

(27:06):
synchronous generation, not distributed renewables. This limits flexibility to handle
rapid output changes. Okay, it's forty percent in Europe. What
is it in America? We have an ancient grid structure
and they don't want to do anything with It's just yeah,
once in a while they'll call through and maybe change

(27:27):
a few lines and put up a couple of telephone poles,
just enough to get you to shut up for a while.
Insufficient storage. Batteries and other storage systems are critical to
balance renewable intermittency, but capacity is limited. Spain has five
gigawatts of battery storage, far below the two hundred gigawatts

(27:48):
needed EU wide by twenty thirty. That's what they were wanting,
two hundred gigawats by e twenty thirty. They got a
long way to go and a short time to get there.
I doubt it's gonna happen With out storage access, renewable
output is curtailed, and deficit requires fossil fuel backups. They
cannot get away from fossil fuels, but they're going to

(28:11):
try because they're idiots. Grid management challenges high renewables share
or high renewable shares require advanced forecasting in real time control.
The blackout suggests possible mismanagement, as low frequency oscillation preceded
the collapse. Negative electricity prices common with high solar wind

(28:32):
output constrained grid economics and operations. So we have to
look at what happened in Spain and Portugal. Spain's grid
out of sixty six percent renewables fifty five percent solar
when it lost fifteen gigawatts, likely from a solar plant
disconnections in the Southwest. Now, I know the Spanish officials,

(28:59):
which probably urged on by their WEF overlords United Nation overlords,
are going to argue that renewables weren't the sole cause. Oh,
he was a combination of things. However, the high renewables
share amplified vulnerabilities due to low inertia and weak interconnections.
You wouldn't have had this if you are running nuke. Sorry,
that's just the facts. Blackout rebuild, broader issues, insufficient storage,

(29:26):
outdated infrastructure, and reliance on inverters which struggled to maintain stabilities. Now,
I'm not going to go through the rest of so
I got a whole bunch of stuff in here, man,
I went down a rabbit hole. Who trab a hole?
The suffice it to say, if if we want to
even have a chance at tearing down all the trees

(29:49):
and the farm land of the grass and putting up
all these toxic soilar panels and make them work, we
have to have a complete new grid. Do you think
the power companies who have highly paid lobbyists in DC
and in your state, in your county, do you think
they are going to allow the government to look at
them and say, you know what, you have to update everything.

(30:12):
You have to upgrade everything, or don't come back here. No,
we've been trying to get them to do this for years, decades,
based on everything I just told you. Here's the therefore,
here's the therefore part. Therefore you need backup. My friends,

(30:35):
if you're living in a state that is at this
point overrun with neo socialists, they're not tree huggers anymore.
They're basically paved the planets with solar panels. Now, neo socialists,
green energy morons, the cult, the cult of green energy.

(30:58):
If and if they're seeping into your government, seeping into
your state, local county government, whatever, you need backup, you
need at least twenty four to forty eight hours of backup.
I suggest a combination of things. Now, I know in
California you can't buy a gas generator anymore stupid, But

(31:20):
you can't. I predict it's coming here to you know,
Missipfeornia pretty soon. If we can't get these moronic left
wing nutballs out of our state government, it'll be here
before long. I'm hanging on to my gas generator. Screw them.
I'll just make sure it's well maintained, keep it underground.

(31:43):
I'll have it. They're not gonna take it away. I'll
use it too. But if you can at all, I
suggest at least a gas generator, one possibly two battery
storage units like the Blue Eddy AC or larger, and one,
if not two, alternate heat sources. If you're like here

(32:05):
in Michigan where it gets really, really cold and having
a power out can kill you. These climate morons are
leading us right off a cliff. This is insanity, folks,
And you cannot convince me that they're not aware of

(32:26):
what really happened in Spain and Portugal. They know, Oh
they know. Every one of them have a report on
their desk. They don't want us little people to know
because if we lose faith and their god, the green agenda,
it's over for them. But folks, it's over for them.

(32:48):
This prooves, this should prove beyond shadow of doubt that
we cannot switch to one hundred percent what they call
green energy. It's not green. It's very harmful to the planet,
and it's going to be very harmful to you. Start
preparing now, you're going the more they put solar out

(33:09):
there and win power out there, the more they put
that on your grid, the more the likelihood is that
you are going to have rolling blackouts. Twenty four forty
eight hour blackouts. This is just beginning, and if these
idiots have their way, people are going to die from this.

(33:31):
We're gonna take a short break. We come back. We're
going to continue the fun and frivolity that is Sunday
Night with Elan Ray.

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Welcome back to Sunday Night with Alan Ray. It's your
weekly supply of doom food. Yes, god, it's beautiful.

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We've got power grids going down. Well, you know, it's
been kind of a bad week for our friends on
the left side of politics. There's been some successes that
I'm sure they don't want to talk about. They're gonna
have to do something really major to get to get
people's minds off things like a potential Chinese settlement with
the trade war that's going on and the sudden India

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Pakistan ceasefire. Now, let me give you a backstory. Last
year in June, I went on a cruise. Actually, I
went to the East coast in North Carolina, took it
all the way down to Miami, and then jumped a
ship with some of my wife's classmates. While we were
on the ship, one night at dinner, we're all sitting
around the same table, and a friend of hers was

(37:26):
talking about a book. She was reading, a series of
books she was reading that I found very interesting. I
was like, I want to read those, and my wife,
being the wife that she is, Oh my God, bless
her heart. It wasn't a week later that Amazon rolled up,
threw out a package and on behold, I had all
three books. This is what I'm married to. She is

(37:47):
such a great woman, and she knows. She's like, if
he said that he wants to read it, he wants
to read it. But let me first of all before
I tell you what the book is. This is published
in twenty fifteen. The first time I think of a
paperback was in twenty sixteen. I want to read an
excerpt from this book. India and Pakistan can agree on

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one thing, neither wants the other one around. This is
somewhat problematic given that they share a oney nine hundred
mile long border. Each country fairly bristles with antagonism and
nuclear weapons. So how they manage this unwanted relationship is
a matter of life and death on a scale of
tens of millions. India has a population of one point

(38:31):
three billion people, while Pakistan is about two hundred million. Impoverished, volatile,
and splintering. Pakistan appears to define itself by its opposition
to India, while India, despite obsessing about Pakistan, defines itself
in many ways, including that of being an emerging world
power with growing an economy and an expanding middle class.

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From this vantage point, it looks across at Pakistan and
sees how it outperforms it on almost all economic and
democratic indicators. They have fought four major wars and many skirmishes.
Emotions run hot. An oft quoted remark by a Pakistani
officer that Pakistan would make India bleed by one thousand

(39:12):
cuts was addressed in late twenty fourteen by a military analyst,
doctor amar Amarjit Singh, writing in the Indian Defense Review.
What others may believe and this is his quote, what
others may believe, My opinion is simply that it is
better for India to brave a costly nuclear attack by
Pakistan and get it over with, even at the cost

(39:32):
of tens of millions of deaths, than suffering ignomity and
pain day in and day out through one thousand cuts
and wasted energy and unrealized potential. That may not reflect
official government policy, but it is an indication of the
depth of feeling at many levels in both societies. Modern
Pakistan and India were born in fire. Next time the

(39:54):
fire could kill them. Okay, this book was written in
twenty fifteen. This is the second time that things have happened,
the Russia Ukraine War. He addresses that in this book.
When it started up, I went, my god, the guy

(40:14):
was right. When this started happening, I went in my
mind just immediately went back to this book and I was like,
explains a lot. This book is called Prisoners of Geography.
It's written by Tim Marshall. I don't know Tim Marshall's politics.
I don't frankly care. This book is just absolutely chalk

(40:36):
full of very good reasoning of why we see some
of the things we do in this world in regards
to politics, borders, wars, whatever. Now I am on book
two of this series, called The Power of Geography. I

(40:58):
haven't gotten too far into it, but I need to
just put more effort into sitting down with this book
and just going through it because it's very interesting. The
problem is I chase squirrels. I get up in the morning,
I don't take have time and I need to just
sit and drink my coffee and read a book instead
of doing anything else I do. Anyways, that said again,

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Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall. Get the whole series.
There's three books in it, very very informative stuff if
you want to know why some of the volatility exists
around the world. And he has gone in depth about China, Taiwan, Japan,
the whole Asian area there and explains why the it's

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a powder keg just waiting for one wrong move. So
let's jump back to the Guardian come out and said
India and Pakistan have both claimed victory after a ceasefire
was declared over the weekend, which brought the two nuclear
nations back from the brink of war after days of
escalating clashes that culminated in both sides launching missiles and

(42:11):
drowne strikes on each other's major military basis. The closest
they had come to a full scale war in decades.
The ceasefire between India and Pakistan was declared by US
President Donald Trump on Saturday evening today. Trump further congratulated
the two countries on having the strength, wisdom, and fortitude
to fully know and understand that it was time to
stop the current aggression that could have led to the

(42:34):
death and destruction of so many and so much. Now,
if you remember, right, Trump's administration's first basically their first
take on this was it's not our problem. The problem
with that is it is our problem because these are
both nuclear nations and all it takes is one happy
trigger finger and the entire world is in a nuclear war.

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So somebody in that administration got to him and said, hey, dude,
it is really it needs to be a problem, and
we need to do something. And this is where it's
going to get really dicey for the Democrats, the neo
socialist Democrats, because both sides are our claiming victory. You know, hey,

(43:19):
we did it, We're the champions, and they're throwing parties
and everything, but they're also kind of acknowledging that if
not for Donald Trump. And let me see, let me
jump down to that rajah Faruk Hydrich Khan, former leader
of Pakistan controlled Kashmir, led a celebratory rally near the
disputed Kashmir border. We are celebrating the bravery, of our

(43:42):
bravery of our armed forces who defend us, he said.
He offered his gratitude to Trump for helping to resolve
the conflict. This time we were so close to war.
So his involvement was very welcome. But we have to
say that without resolving the Kashmir issue, long term piece
can't prevail in the region. So ah, so the media
is going to have to do something here because these

(44:03):
guys are saying, hey, Trump, help brokeer this piece. We
can't have that. Oh my gosh, this is horrible. And
if that doesn't make it worse, today it came out
that there may be there may be an end to

(44:24):
the China economic issue, that we've reached an economic agreement
with China. This is horrible for these guys, This is
terrible for the left, horrible. They can't have Trump having victories.
They're going to have to bury it. They're going to
have to do something highly idiotic in order to make

(44:49):
it fall flat on its space. And folks, trust me,
trust me, these people are not beyond anything. They're not
above doing anything personally. It wouldn't surprise me if you
have paid aggressors in Pakistan and India right now, funded

(45:13):
by the Sorels Foundation, Democrat Party, their backdoor issues. Thank
god USAID is pretty much disbanded now. Thank god it's
being under a microscope and all the money, because you
know darn well, they'd be just struggling money towards both
countries trying to get that thing stoked up. They're not

(45:34):
beyond this, folks. They cannot have make America Great Again succeed.
If it does, they don't just lose power, they lose
their entire plan for decades. What's happening right now, And
it's not just Trump, it's Italy's prime minister, it's I mean,

(45:57):
it's several things that people country are starting to vote in,
people with more right wing ideologies, and not just right
ring wing ideologies, but actually non globalist, non World Economic Forum,
non Soros Foundation, non United Nations stupidity. They're voting these

(46:21):
people in and they are defiantly thumbing their nose at
the World Economic Forum, at these globalists, these elites that
we were told it's just a crazy conspiracy theory that
they even exist. But now we know they're running everything,
running everything from finances all the way down to your
local government. Everything. They cannot have these people succeed. They

(46:46):
will lose everything if they do. If everything starts turning around,
if we start if we start smoothing things out, if
people find out they don't have to be taxed half
of the income and still have hospitals and roads and
things like that. Folks, they just can't have it. You

(47:10):
should expect anything. They're not beyond. They're not above even
provoking a nuclear war. These people think that they cannot
be that they have the only way. They're insane. Now

(47:32):
moving on, this is one thing that I may not
agree with Donald Trump on, but I also get it.
And I love it that ABC News came out with
this headline because it makes me laugh. ABC News, NBC News,
they all make me laugh these days. They're so biased

(47:54):
that they don't even try to hide it anymore. This
is the dramatic title of this this. Uh, this is
a dramatic title of this article. Beacon of Freedom dims
as US initiatives that promote democracy abroad. Whither oh oh, oh,
my gosh, Actually, what they're talking about a shutting down

(48:19):
Voice of America. My thoughts. And first of all, let's
let's just read an excerpt of this dribble, this garbage
from ABC. It pains me just to even do it
because they start out with one example, and it's not
a bad example. It's not a bad example. And I'll
tell you why in a minute. Growing up in the

(48:40):
former Soviet Union, Pedro Spickobowski, there's a Pedro Spilikowski Gonzalez,
So a Mexican Russian. That's obviously a Mexican Russian, a
Russian Mexican. Anyways, Pedro Gonzalez's father and grandparents would listen
to Voice from America with their ear pressed to the radio.

(49:01):
Oh yes, press to the radio, trying to catch words
through the government's radio jamming. The US funded news service
was instrumental in helping them understand what was happening on
the other side of the Iron Curtain before they moved
to the United States in the nineteen seventies. Oh, without
radio Free America, there's nothing we can hear. Anyways, When

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Spivakowski's Gonzales and his family heard of President Donald Trump's
attempt to dismantle the US Agency for Global Media, the
agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe at
Radio Free Asia. He said it was a gut punch. Well,
I'm just gonna stop right there because you get just
only it's ABC. You can only imagine. I mean, this
is the end of the world. People are gonna die, YadA, YadA,

(49:46):
add nauseum. All of their articles are basically the same.
I'm gonna give it to you straight. Do I think
he can shut it down? No, I don't think he should.
I I don't think he should shut down Voice of America,
Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia. I really don't. What

(50:07):
he needs to do is revamp it like he's done
everything else. I understand why he's going to do it.
I mean, your tax dollars going to what they're spreading
right now, I've heard Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia,
Voice of America. It has been turned into a leftist ideology,

(50:30):
loud mouth short wave broadcasting of leftist ideology. It's not
really about democracy, it's about global socialism. Now imagine NPR
being broadcast around the entire world on short wave. It's
kind of what it's become. Okay, However, there were aspects

(50:57):
of it that were actually valuable, just general news. When
they stuck to the news story and that interjected it
with you know, their green agenda and polar bears are
dying because they don't have ice, YadA YadA. If they
stuck to their normal broadcasting, they're pretty good. However, like NPR,

(51:20):
like AP, like all the government funded news agencies, they
were promoting leftism. They were puking out, spitting out, spewing
their globalist agenda all over the world. I don't agree
with Donald Trump that he should shut it down, and
I will openly say that to anyone. I don't care

(51:41):
what you say. What he needs to do is actually
start talking about broadcasting on these airwaves. What's really going
on with places like the United States right now, the
internal battle we're fighting between global socialism and freedom americanism.

(52:07):
What's going on in Italy right now, Whether a prime
minister is upsetting the apple cart because she refuses to
go along with the European Union, she refuses to go
along with Germany's little, you know, bow to us, little
nazist state they've got there, but they're disguising as socialism. Argentina,
places like that all these places that are turning against leftism,

(52:30):
start reporting on them, start showing the world that neo socialism,
that globalism, that World Economic Forum, Sorol's Foundation, Clinton Foundation,
Gates Foundation, billionaire idiots are passe. They're over, they're done.
We are going to take freedom back. You're going to

(52:53):
be an individual again. You're not going to have to
eat bugs, you're not going to have to live in
a shipping crate and just podcast set out on shortwave.
There's estimates that six hundred million homes still have a
short wave radio across the world, and that estimate has
been it's a iffy. They don't really know. They think
it could even be as high as two point five

(53:14):
billion people still have shortwave radios. Or it could be
like me and have one house that's got what like ten, fifteen,
twenty shortwave radios. Hey, either one. But all I'm saying
is that I don't agree that he should shut that down.
It's we've we've learned, and you've heard it on this

(53:36):
show time after time again, we've learned from the tragedies
in North Carolina, Hawaii, California, there is still a place
for long range communications. EFFIM Radio can only go so far.
AM radio at night, it can go a lot farther
in the day it don't. Short wave radio can travel

(54:00):
long distances very efficiently. This is why I tell people
you want an emergency radio, make sure you have shortwave
in it, shortwave AM, shortwave, single sideband, both upper and lower.
Have all of those in your radio. You stand a
better chance of figuring out what's going on. Learn how

(54:21):
to connect a wire to it, a nice sixty foot
wire to it, and throw it up in a tree somewhere,
and you'll get things in that you've never even knew existed. No,
Donald Trump, I don't think you should shut all this down.
I think you need to revamp it, revamp it and
start sending out to the entire world. We used to

(54:42):
just like aim it at communist countries China, Russia, places
like that, so they can hear what's going on because
they're blacked out. What we need to do is we
need to aim it everywhere, and especially to these places
that have been taken over by neo socialist butt heads,
and tell them what living free is about. Getting off

(55:04):
of the government teat is all about what this government
actually has planned for your What you're a government actually
has planned for you. If you continue down the road
of global socialism, you will own nothing and you will
enjoy yourself because of it. You will just be a
mindless robot. All you're every indulgent will be met and

(55:29):
you'll live a shallow, empty, meaningless life. Congratulations, you are
a ward of the state and if you don't bow
to us, well you're going to be ostracized. Put that
mark of the beast on your head. Yeah, that's what
you gotta do. Gotta have one ex Joel's imitation in there,

(55:50):
So there you go. There you have it. Yeah, it's
one thing I don't agree with. He needs to just
revamp it. California a couple of years ago came out
and said they were gonna shut down all of their
short wave transmitters, all of their emergency broadcast stuff, and
I was like, that is the dumbest That is the
stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. What else

(56:15):
we got here? Oh yeah, Operations have returned to normal
in Newark Airport after the equipment outage. And what's funny
is the usual players. The Chuck Schumer's the the who's
the guy that banged the Chinese spy, swallowell, all the
usual suspect you see, Donald Trump did Donald Trump? He
caused this. Really, we just came off of four years

(56:38):
and Joe Biden. That equipment's a lot older than four years.
You could have fixed it. Oh you didn't. Oh okay,
some of the equipment's even older than Barack Obama. Yeah,
Barack Obama for eight years. Did you fix it? Then?

Speaker 8 (56:53):
Oh you didn't?

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Oh darn Yeah. Some of those craps are some of
this money that were basically saving in the government, this
bureaucracy stuff. Maybe we should update some of the stuff
that Act he matters. I'd like to have it all

(57:15):
back in my bank account. But if they have to
keep some of it, I don't know, update some of
our infrastructure. Maybe that's what we need to do. I
think the most of it needs to go back in
my bank account, though. What a fun and happy thing.

(57:37):
All right, I'm gonna end on this one. I finally
I locked into this, and I don't know why I did.
And this is more of a front porch forensics thing
than anything. And The Independent last week they had a
cold case of a missing Wisconsin mother that was solved
after more than sixty years. The cold case of a

(57:58):
young Wisconsin woman who went missing for more than sixty
years ago was finally has finally been solved after she
was found alive and well. Audrey and Backberg, a mother
of two, vanished from the city of Reedsburg in July
nineteen sixty two when she was twenty years old. According
to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, the family babysitter claimed
that she and Backenberg hitchhike to Madison, Wisconsin, and said

(58:22):
that she last saw her walking around the corner away
from the bus stop. Backerberg never returned home. Over the years,
investigators had pursued numerous leads in an effort to determine
where her whereabouts. None were successful in the case, eventually McCole. However,
last week, the South County Sheriff's Office announced that Backerberg

(58:44):
had been found alive and simply living out of state.
She's now eighty two years old. Further investigation is revealed
that her disappearance was by her own choice and not
the result of any crimical, criminal activity or foul play.
According to the Charlie Product, which files missing persons in
cold cases. Backerberg married Ronald Backberg when she was about

(59:05):
fifteen years old. Their marriage was troubled and there was
allegations of abuse. The case was looked into again earlier
this year after it was assigned to Sheriff's Office detective
for comprehensive review as part of an ongoing examination of
cold case files. The investigation included a thorough reevaluation of
all case files and evidence, combined with reinterviewing witnesses and
uncovering new insights. The Sheriff's Office would like to acknowledge

(59:29):
the work of investigators both past and presence. County Sheriff
chip Meister said in a statement, Now as that chip Meister,
or is that Chipmeister, because you know the Chipmeister, meister Chipper. Anyways,
despite the significant challenges that many cold cases present, this
resolution underscores both the importance of continued work in the
dedication of Sheriff's office to provoke providing answers to family

(59:51):
and community. So there you have it, now, for give up,
never surrounder, sixty year old cold case. Come to find out,
she just split. That's all I was. I'm Ellen Ray.
This is Sunday Night with Ellen Ray. I'm glad you

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joined in. Good Lord three hundred and sixty three views,
probably more than that. On the other this is just Twitter.
I'm here every Sunday night, Lord Willing, I might take
Memorial Day Sunday off thinking about it, thinking very very
hard about it. Probably will because you know, life short,

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three day weekend. You gotta do a little bit of
a fun and frivolity, and I'm thinking that might be
what I do. But other than that, I'm here every
Sunday night, same bat time, same bat place, nine o'clock
eastern Satday time, which is, as we know, the only
time that matters here on klr and radio. And by
the way, keep it locked on KLRN Radio all week long.

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CAD Sunday nights have just gotten really good. I mean
we usually have the Bencent Charles project was he was
a wall today he had things. You know, life gets
in the way. Sometimes we have Corn Mimick Corns reading room.
God's he's doing good and of course he's got a corky,
he's got a pup, so we love him. Yep, Corn,
welcome to the family. Really like have him around. You

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got into Crease right now with Jeff right before me,
and of course you got me Alan Ray Sunday night
with Alan Ray wrapping it all up. You're a weekly
dose of doom food. Have a great week. Stay off

(01:01:40):
of social media. It's all fake anyways, not all fake.
There's just got the doom. He's got that doom sign
up there. I love it. It's not all fake. The
people I interact with they're good. But there's just a
so many bots, so much fake crap on here. Take

(01:02:01):
a big deep breath and pause and maybe look into
who's saying what when you scroll through social media and
see if it's a bot. Some little Chinese girl over
thousands of miles away is pressing buttons and just to
get your goat, just to get you going. It's all

(01:02:22):
fake and gay. You're exactly right already, it's all fake
and gay. Dead Internet theory, dead Twitter theory. But always research, always,
always look into it before you start getting mad getting
an attitude going off research things. Be smart, Be smarter

(01:02:42):
than the idiots that want to rule over you, lord
over you, because when you're smarter than I mean, let's
face it, guys, it used to be you had to
be fairly on the ball to get elected to a position.
You don't have to be anymore. Look at some of
the people that are that are in Congress right now. Wow,
look at who just kicked out of the White House
as a president didn't even have a brain. It was gone, gone,

(01:03:05):
And when it functioned for the last forty five years,
it was barely functioning anyway, to mention the fact that
it was probably functioning on white powdery substance. Oh be smarter,
I'll be back. God bless we'll talk again soon.