August 19, 2025 • 54 mins
Episode 199 hosted by Kraig Delaney, recorded live in FEMA region 5 on August 19, 2025. This episode covers a variety of topics, beginning with a discussion of a recent peace summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the Ukraine conflict, including critiques of the meeting and the press's role. The podcast then shifts to the dire humanitarian crisis and famine in Gaza, providing details on starvation levels (IPC Phase 5) and the impact of aid blockages, framing it as a "man-made famine" enabled by U.S. support to Israel. Further segments discuss Kellogg Co.'s agreement to remove artificial food dyes from cereals, highlighting the pervasive influence of BlackRock as a major shareholder in numerous corporations, before touching on local news about solar farms and a farewell to AOL's dial-up internet service. The episode concludes with a quirky segment on the T-Rex World Championship Races and a "Sugar" segment discussing the missing Item #9, connecting it to assassination conspiracy theories.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Who ate all the pecan Sandy's.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is a Soapbox Champion podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hey everyone, It's Tuesday, August nineteenth, twenty twenty five. This
is episode one ninety nine of the Soapbox Champion podcast,
recorded live from FEMA Region five. My name's Craig Dulaney.
What a week and you won't hear very many people
say this, but we are closer to peace in Ukraine
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than we were a week ago. This past Friday, President
Trump and RUSSN President Vladimir Putin joint Base Elmerdorff, Richardson
and Anchorage, Alaska to address an ongoing conflict in Russia Ukraine.
This marked their first in person discussion since twenty nineteen,
and it lasted nearly three hours and included US Secretary
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of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Woodcough on
Trump's side, while the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and
Foreign and Policy Advisor Yuri Yushkov representing Flatter and Putin.
The purpose of course of the summit was to explore
just the possibility of a ceasefire or peace agreement in
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Russia Ukraine. Trump described their discussions as extremely productive, stating
there was great progress in alignment on many points, yet
he cautioned, there's no deal until there's a deal. Wise words.
Putin found the meeting to be quote timely and very
useful end quote, indicating that some understanding, you know, some
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kind of understanding was reached, but neither leader elaborated on
the details of what was resolved or not resolved or
still outstanding. Although Trump had previously stressed it the importance
of establishing a ceasefire, none was announced. Upon arrival. The
leaders exchanged greetings on the tarmac, shaking hands before traveling
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together in Trump's presidential vehicle. You know, it's known as
the Beast for private discussions ahead of the official meeting.
And what a baller move for just shortly after they
shake hands on the tarmac for a B two Spirit
bomber to fly over with full fighter escort right above. Putin,
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I'm sure you've seen the footage on the internet. What
a baller move right over, h reminder. B two is
the very same bomber that we sent seven of to
Iran across the world without anyone knowing they'd left the
ground and got back bombed, got back without anyone knowing. Uh.
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He flew on over Putin on purpose. I rest, I
just know, just know that he did. And what a
baller move. Ah pretty sweet. Uh. Putin kind of looked up,
made just for a second and made a face and
then he went back to normal, if you notice. Uh. Afterwards,
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after their meeting, there was a joint press conference where
both leaders opted not to answer questions from media, which
is fine. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski, who did not receive
an invitation, voiced his criticism, as did US Secretary Minority
leader Chuck Schumer, who labeled the meeting a mere theater
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and condemned Trump for granting Putin a worldwide platform without accountability.
Then you know, I say, what's your offering, Chuck? What
do you have to bring to the table, Chuck Schimmer?
What have you done? Like ever, what have you done?
What have you done? Put your damn glasses on straight
and compile a list of accomplishments for me to see, Chuck,
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for us all to see before you start a downplaying
what just happened. It's your parties fed up right now. Uh.
You're supposed to be the peace freaks, peace at all costs,
but you hate Trump so bad that you've turned into.
You've turned into what you hate, which is a war
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mongering thing. You hate peace. You can't even stand the
thought of peace being talked about if it involves Donald Trump.
Do you see? Uh, Chuck, Let's remind you that you
can't even grill a burger without putting your family in danger.
Remember that photo of him smiling like a goofball with
a spatulain his hand next to the grill, and there
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are raw burgers on the grill with pieces of cheese
on them. Remember that doesn't matter. I want to frame that.
Even some press griped about the meeting that didn't answer
any questions, even on Fox No Less, Jackie, I was surprised,
no questions. I was surprised.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, no details on what progress was made.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I think you and me, both Brian and everyone else
in this room was also surprised. We were told that
we were going to have an opportunity to put questions
to both leaders after a joint press conference in the
event that the meeting went well enough that they could
set the stage for a second meeting. And if and
the President Trump said, if that didn't happen, he was
likely to call off the joint presser and just address
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the media solo and then send Putin home.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Neither of those things happened. And what was really stunning
to me.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Is someone who's been in a lot of these press conferences,
is there were a few things that were very unusual.
You had Putin come out and address the press first,
we are on us well here, and that left the
GDS rambling to get their headsets in. Usually it is
the leader of the country, the host country of a
summit that speaks first and addresses the.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Room in their language.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
But Putin started right off in Russian and we all
had to get our headsets on and listen to him
rattle off this da tribe about the history of the
US Russia relationship, making some allusions to something that we
didn't get many details on, but also without knowing the
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full background of it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There was something that he said that was a little
bit alarming.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I thought that seemed like some of the things that
he has done in the past, setting up false flags
and that kind of thing. Saying that we hope that
Ukraine doesn't do anything to sabotage the progress that we
made today, knowing full well that Ukraine has agreed to
a ceasefire unconditionally for the last several months, and it
has been Russia that has not agreed to fire. That
was President Trump's made objective today. And when we did
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hear from the President, he said, we didn't get there,
but we think that we can.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So a lot of questions remaining.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Upset. Her last name was Heinrich or Heinrich, I'm not
sure of her first name. I didn't catch it. Upset
because it didn't go their way, you know, the way
the press wanted. You're the press. Your job and only
job is to report things as you see them before
your eyes. This wasn't about you and what you want.
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These stakes are as high as they get. You just
report things as they happen. And it was a crappy report.
They just went back and forth about how they didn't
understand this, didn't understand that, or why this didn't happen
she did. She didn't report anything. She just reported on
how how disappointed she was, so piss poor reporting. Fox News,
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You're fake. Just report that's all we want. Yeah, it
barely involved you press. You are the press the end.
And so what if Putin was given a few minutes
to speak, what did the US or Ukraine or whoever
get in return. You don't know. He wasn't given that
time because everyone loves him and wants to hear from him.
It's all part of the deal, or, as Trump would say,
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the art of the deal. I don't think any adult
actually thought that they would walk out and a ceasefire begins.
No one actually thought, not no sane human being thought
that would happen. But you know what, this was the
beginning of something bigger, and if the something bigger ends
up being a ceasefire or holy shit, peace over there,
then you should be all for it and just report
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what the hell happened. That's all. We want baby steps
until big steps. And think about this. Without Trump, there
had never been a meeting at all. Do you think
Joseph Biden would have walked down the tarmac with Putin
without tripping over the carpet? Could you imagine Kamala Harris.
Putin wouldn't even have taken the meeting with her. We
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didn't get an explanation, she said, because these are adults talking.
You are to report on it. The end. This was
and Trump told you the first of possibly more than
one meeting, So just report that We're tired of your opinions.
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All I want is trusted, non biased news reporting and
a non biased news source. Is there one out there anymore?
Not really believe it or not. Al Jazeer was pretty
close maybe, but what's left of them? On August tenth,
an Israeli airstrike targeted a tent housing journalist near Al
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Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing five Al Jazeer staff
members and one freelance journalist. The Al Jazer victims were
on us Al Shahref twenty eight, Mohammed Quirinkra pardon me,
don't mean to butcher these names of trying. He was
thirty three years old, Ibrahim Zahir twenty five, Mohammed Nafal,
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and Mohammed ali Wa his agent. Birthplace not specified. A
sixth journalist, Mohammed ah Karhlidi, a freelance reporter contributing to
Palestinian NGO Valan Stinnat and local platform Sehat, was killed
in the nearby tent. The Israeli military claims the strike
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targeted al Sharif, alleging he was a Hamas operative, but
provided no evidence for the other journalist's involvement. Al Jazeer
condemned the attack as a targeted assassination and premeditated attack
on press freedom, noting the journalists were among the last
voices reporting from Gaza, where international media are barred. The
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or CPJ called it a murder and a war crime,
emphasizing the journalists are civilians under international law. The UN
condemned the killings as a grave breach of international humanitarian law.
Reporting at least two hundred and forty two journalists killed
in Gaza since October of twenty twenty three. Since the
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war began, at least ten Al Jazeera staff and nine
freelancers working with the network have been killed. Notable cases
include Samir Abu Dakwa, a cameraman killed on December fourth
in twenty twenty four and an Israeli airstrike at a
school and he was just reporting, reporting on Gaza bureau
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chief there who was injured, Hasma dab Dao Waoul dob
Dow's son, and Aljira, a journalist killed on January twenty
twenty four a missile strike on his vehicle. I'm met
a lau killed on December in twenty twenty three, and
an air strike at a camp central Gaza. Ismaeo al
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Ghoul twenty seven, just a cameraman killed in July of
twenty twenty four and an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp,
and Hossam Shabbat twenty three, a freelancer working with Al Jazeera,
killed on March twenty fourth, twenty twenty five, in an
Israeli attack in northern Gaza. The Israeli military swift claim
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of responsibility for al Sharif's killing on August tenth was
unprecedented in the twenty two month conflict, raising questions about intent,
allegations of Hamas ties like independently verified evidence still no evidence,
and the targeting of journalists wearing press vests in marked
vehicles suggests deliberate attacks by israel I found for years
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that Al Jazeera simply reports what's happening ninety nine percent
of the time. I trust them. They don't put spin
on it like Fox or CNN does, and we all
know by now that both of them do. It strikes
me as an attempt to remove the press from Gaza entirely,
and I don't absolutely not the only one that thinks that. Absolutely,
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No one wants you and I to see what's happening there.
If you want to see what's happening there, get on TikTok. Now,
it won't just pop up magically on your algorithm. You
must go search for it. And that is fishy to
me because there are countless videos. There are live videos
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taking place at all times from Gaza. You can see
exactly what's happening. All the things I'm about to talk
about you can see before your eyes, but you have
to go look for them. Just like the Ukraine Russia conflict.
When's the last time you saw any footage from that?
How many years has that been going on? It's just odd. Okay,
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it's odd, but it exists. What we're going to talk
about exists. You can see it. Soon it will be
another war like Russia Ukraine. You hear about it from
time to time, but never actually see it, and eventually
it won't seem real and you won't care. Probably it's
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what they want. Starvation is present in Gaza, driven by
an ongoing the ongoing conflict. Situation is terrible. It's dire,
particularly in northern Gaza, with widespread reports of acute hunger,
famine conditions and malnutrition related deaths. Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
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IPC reported in June of twenty twenty four that over
four hundred and ninety five thousand people in Gaza, that's
about twenty two percent of the population face catastrophic levels
of acute food insecurity Phase five famine. The IPC is
a global standardized framework used to assess and classify this
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severity of food and security and malnutrition in a given region.
It provides a common and common methodology to analyze food
security crises. It enables governments, humanitarian organizations and policymakers to
prioritize interventions is what they do. By December of twenty
twenty four, the IPC can firm famine and Northern Gaza,
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with projections indicating one hundred and eighty two thousand people
in Phase five and six hundred and forty five thousand
in Phase four. Those are emergency situations across Gaza. The
UN World Food Program and Gaza's Health Ministry report rising malnutrition,
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particularly amongst children. At least thirty six children have died
from malnutrition or dehydration since October twenty twenty three, with
sixty percent of Gaza's two point two million people facing hunger.
In Northern Gaza where it's the worst and six children
under two suffers from acute malnutrition per UNISE reports site
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deaths from starvation, including infants and adults. Now, Israel's restrictions
on aid play a part of this, and they are
restricting the aid. They include delays, denials, and attacks on
aid convoys the crippled food and medicine deliveries. Since October
of twenty twenty three, only ten percent of Gaza's food
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needs have been met per the WFP. In Northern Gaza,
aid access has been nearly non existent since October of
twenty twenty four, with seventy four percent of humanitarian missions
denied or impeded by Israel per u in data. Over
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ninety percent of Gaza's population is displaced, living in overcrowded
shelters or tents with limited access to clean water, sanitation,
or cooking facilities. Bakeries, markets and farmland are largely destroyed
or inaccessible, forcing reliance on all that aid that's so scarce.
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Residents reporting eating animal feed, grass, or nothing for days.
In Northern Gaza, flower shortages have led to breadlines and
skyrocketing prices. A blag a bag of flower costs between
two and four hundred dollars US. UNICEF reports fifty thousand
children in Gaza require urgent treatment for acute malnutrition. Pregnant
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and breastfeeding women face severe risks, with ninety five percent
of bakries non functional starvation has led to increased miscarriages
and health complications. It's awful. Malnutrition weakens immunity, increases susceptibility
to diseases like heptized a polio. With a polio outbreak
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confirmed in August twenty twenty four, hospitals lack fuel and
they lack supplies to treat malnutrition related conditions per the
WHO in Northern Gaza. Since October twenty four, Israel's military
operations have cut off northern Gaza completely, trapping sixty five
thousand to seventy five thousand people with minimal aid. Residents
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report no food or water for weeks, with some resorting
to burning plastic for fuel. Israel's tightened blockade intensified after
Hamas's attack in October of twenty twenty three. Three of course,
they attack restrict food, fuel, and water. Military operations of
destroyed agriculture infrastructures was sixty eight percent of farmland damaged
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attacks on aid workers. Three hundred and fifty three killed,
including two hundred and thirty three un staff. Don't hear
about that, do you? And looting of convoys further dispute
disrupt supply chains. Gaza's economy has been death made. It
with ninety percent unemployment with no local food production. The UN,
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WFP and nngos like OXFAM warn of man made famine
due to aid restrictions. The International Criminal Court issued arrest
warrants for Israeli leaders in May of twenty twenty four,
citing starvation as a war crime. Another thing you don't
hear about in the mainstream media. The US and the
EU have pushed for more aid access, but Israel. Israeli's
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policies remain the barrier. Is this what the US is
supporting right now? This is where your tax dollars are going,
not to aid in the famine in Gaza, but to Israel,
who is enabling the famine, the man made famine. Latest
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reports say Gaza has reached Phase five starvation. Phase five
catastrophe famine the most severe level of food insecurity on
the IPC scale. It indicates extreme food shortages, widespread starvation,
and high mortality rates. Due to hunger or malnutrition related causes.
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The phase is declared when a population faces catastrophic conditions
threatening survival. Some of the key characterists to Pay five.
At least twenty percent of the population faces extreme food
shortages with little to no access to food, leading to starvation.
Thirty percent of children under five suffer from acute malnutrition.
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It leads to wasting measured by weight for height mortality.
The crude mortality rate exceeds two deaths per ten thousand
people per day due to starvation. Households exhaust coping mechanisms
like selling their assets or migrating to where the food
is and face near total loss of food is often
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due to conflict, displacement or economic collapse. Widespread starvation, irreversible
health damage as in organ failure, and increased deaths, especially
among children, pregnant women, and the elderly. Is this what
the US is supporting right now with our tax dollars?
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In Gaza? The IPC confirmed famine Phase five in northern
Gaza by December of twenty twenty four, with one hundred
and eighty two people in Phase five and six hundred
and forty five thousand in Phase four. This was driven
by all those Israeli blockades, all the farmland gone. Almost
ninety percent of Gaza people displaced. Thirty six children died
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from malnutrition and dehydration by August. It's just terrible. Is
this what the US is supporting? This is stuff that
it's not reported on mainstream media, you understand, because it
doesn't support the narrative. I don't, I just don't. I
can't understand this unless we admit that we're in World
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War three, right, don't you think? I mean, step back?
Russia's fighting Ukraine. They're kind of getting beat up on Russia,
so they enlist the help of North Korea there you go,
and China supporting them in other ways. Ukraine enlists the
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help of the United States proxy. You know, we're supplying
them stuff, but we don't pull the trigger, you understand. Ah,
it's just almost it's just World War three. It just
hasn't been declared. I don't think they want us to
think that. I don't know when you can't hardly name
a nation left on earth modern civilization. Ah, who isn't
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participating somehow in a war, whether it be proxy or
just some other so port or physically at war. I
don't know. I don't know, man, I don't know. But
Gaza is decimated. People are dying, and we're supporting. It's
almost too late to intervene now. When the body is
at phase five starvation, food can potentially and usually cause
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a shock to the body. When a person is in
phase five eats the body systems, all of them are malfunctioning.
When it receives food. The system doesn't know how to
process it anymore and begins to shut down, killing the
person right now. Even if all the aid drops were
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received by Gaza, it doesn't matter at this moment. They
don't need food. They need medical aid before they can
even eat food. Why does this matter. It's a humanitarian
emergency requiring urgent intervention. If this was anywhere else, nations
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around the world would be donating and making sure they're
taken care of. H And what is urgent intervision? I
don't know, ceasefire, unrestricted aid, it's simple. That's just that
modern nations like Israel and US are saying no, we're
not going to do that. Without action, mass mortality and
long term health impacts just escalate from here. Is that
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what Israel wants? Is that what the US is supporting.
I don't know. I mean when Israel's literal restricting of
the aid and their military actions are the causes of it.
I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't know.
But NGO's like Amnesty International, they've been around forever. They're
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labeling it potentially war crime. I can't see how it's not.
But you can put as many labels as it on
it as you want. You know, that doesn't help. Right now.
The United States is enabling Israel to cause this man
made famine that is unacceptable. And as as we talk
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about food, I'm a shame to talk about food and
the abundance that we have of it here in the
United States, the embarrassing, embarrassing abundance of food. Kellogg, they
actually made a move. WK Kellogg Company has agreed to
eliminate artificial food dies from its breakfast cereals by the
close of twenty twenty seven as part of a legally
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binding deal with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. This deal,
revealed in August of this year, is known as the
Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, ensuring that Kellogg will phase out
artificial coloring agents such as red forty, yellow five and
blue one, which are derived from petroleum and associated with
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health risk like hyperactivity, obesity, and endocrine problems. Kellogg has
faced eighty five percent as I'm sorry, It's indicated that
eighty five percent of its cereal products currently do not
contain FD and C colors that it has avoid using
red number three for several years. Furthermore, the company committed
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to halting the introduction of new items containing these dyes
beginning in January of twenty twenty six, and it will
reformulate cereals available in schools to remove diyes by the
twenty twenty six twenty seven academic year. I'm all for it.
Good job kellog, Good job taxes getting them do that.
The action follows an investigation started by Paxton in February
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of this year, which discovered that while Kellogg's has stopped
using such dies in Canada and Europe, they were still
being used in the United States despite prior commitments to
eliminate them by twenty eighteen. The agreement highlights a reaction
to increased demands from consumers, advocacy groups, and regulatory bodies,
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including efforts from the FDA band synthetic dies and initiatives
led by Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
To reduce dangerous food out additives. Hey, good for them,
But to me, this means that they admit to using
all that junk in their food and reveals that no
other manufacturers committed to eliminating them. You know, I think
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this needs to be a bigger deal in the media,
if for no other reason than to put other food
manufacturers in the spotlight. So maybe they'd follow suit. And
by the way, good job RFK Jr. If there's any
indicator of how big of a deal this really is,
the little press that does get a you know that
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has to mention RFK Jr. And we know how the
press just refuses to acknowledge them. A lot of the
press is talking about this and mentioning RFK Junior's involvement.
That's how big of a deal it is and how
ridiculous the media is. So surprise surprise. Speaking of Kellogg,
one of the top three shareholders of Kellogg is Blackrock.
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How many of you think when I say that, I
who cares every time I bring up Blackrock? I know
there are some I get it. I get it. It's
because you don't pay attention. It's because you don't understand.
You See, the one thing a publicly traded company must
do is keep shareholders happy. They have to. That's their
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number one job. It's not to satisfy you or make
you happy, it's for shareholders. If they don't, let's say
the company predicts an eight percent increase of profit for
the third quarter this year, but at the end of
the third quarter of profits only when up four percent.
Then shareholders get nervous. And when shareholders get nervous, they
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typically do one or two things. First, they can sell
their shares, and when the top holders start selling, well,
that makes everyone nervous, so everyone sells in the company,
you know, their worth just takes a noseedive. Second, majority
shareholders could vote to oust current leadership, or if the
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company's poor performance stems from fraud, mismanagement, or breaches of
fiduciary duty, shareholders actually can file lawsuits such as derivative
suits you know on behalf of the company, or class
action suits for financial losses. All of these reactions can
be devastating to a company, so the company and its
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management must do everything in its power to keep them happy. Nope,
I hate to tell you it's not about providing a
better product to you. It's always about money and keeping
that money coming in for the shareholders. At twenty nineteen,
Harvard Business Review studies found that black Rock is among
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the largest shareholders and eighty eight percent of the S
and P five hundred companies. This suggests black Rock holds
shares and at least eighty eight percent of the five
hundred largest US publicly traded firms. It was reported in
twenty seventeen to Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively hold
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shares in forty percent of all listed US corporations. Given
Blackrock size, it likely contributes significantly to this figure, though
an exact percentage for Blackrock alone is not reported. Blackrocks
and investments extend beyond the US, with stakes and thousands
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of companies worldwide, including major tech firms like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon,
healthcare and energy companies. Its I shares ETFs managing three
point three trillion dollars across fourteen hundred funds cover a
broad range of global markets, implying ownership and a vast
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number of publicly traded globally. Blackrocks ownership and individual companies
typically range from five to seven percent, And you'll see
this if you look it up as seen in major
firms like Apple six point point five percent, Microsoft six percent,
Amazon five point eight Pheiser six point one percent. In
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other words, eighty eight percent of the five hundred largest
publicly traded companies are dedicated to keeping Blackrock happy. That's
four hundred and forty out of five hundred. Apple keeps
Blackrock happy, Microsoft keeps Blackrock happy, Amazon keeps Blackrock happy.
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Peiser keeps Blackrock happy. Everyone from your cell phone manufacturer,
your PC, the software manufacturer, your vaccine manufacturer does whatever
Blackrock tells them to do. And almost every single thing
you touched throughout the day is affected by Blackrock. And here,
I'm gonna blow your mind. At my desk right now.
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I made a list yesterday and I have not added
or removed anything from my desk right now. Okay, my
desk in front of me right now is loaded with
Blackrock companies and I did not load it up with
items for this episode. You have my word. This is
at my desk at all times. I have several Elgatto
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streaming devices Blackrock, my computer monitors, both of them made
by Acer Blackrock. The stream deck that are just go
look up stream Deck. That's by El Gatto. Blackrock. My phone,
it's a Google phone, black Rock. The software on it, Blackrock,
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the window software on this computer Blackrock. These earbuds by
Monster Audio. You can't see it there, It doesn't matter, Blackrock.
Here's an old go pro camera, Blackrock. This Echo show
that sits here, BlackRock's Amazon. This memory card by sand Disc, Blackrock.
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The magic eight ball that I've got out from time
to time for the show, it's owned by Mattel. That's Blackrock.
Remember the twenty Q game that I did an entire
segment on twenty questions game that was bought by Mattel
was owned by Radica and that was acquired by Mattel.
So the twenty Q game Blackrock. This Capitol one card
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right here, Capital one Blackrock. And that just on my
desk right now. That's not counting the other desk in
here and the giant filing cabinet over there, or the
this place is loaded. Just this office is loaded. Uh,
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that's just on my desk. It's a small desk. It's
enough for me to sit here. Broadcast have two big
monitors and all my stuff. It's not an L shaped desk.
It doesn't have shelves underneath, just on top of my desk.
It's Blackrock. All these companies and more all around you.
Every day you do things based on these items. These
items are all controlled by the largest shareholders, and that
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is almost always including Blackrock. Okay, I gotta go it
away from Blackrock. Let's go for a drive. We had
two Chevies and a Buick. Chevrolet is a GM product
GM Blackrock. Damn it, Buick is a GM product. Blackrock.
Oh well, I can't avoid it. Let's go anyway. I
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just need some gas and we'll be on the road.
Just clear our mind. The clo closest gas stations cases
down the highway from me. Shit, Blackrock, that's fine. There's
a marathon station just down the road, same sided road.
It's less than a mile. They were recently acquired by
Conico Phillips. Well, that's Blackrock. Okay, I give in. I
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have to get gas. I don't have a choice. But
while I'm in there, before we get on the road,
I'll get a Monster Energy. While i'm there Monster Energy Blackrock. Hey,
maybe I'll treat myself to some Reese's peanut butter cups
while I'm in. That's a good combo, right for a
road trip crap. They're owned by Hershey, Hershey, Blackrock point
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made right. Maybe you can go on forever. I bet
someone could make a drinking game out of this, go
around the table naming companies until you drink when you
name something that's not owned by Blackcrock. But that'd be
a good way to go sober, because you'd all be
sitting around the table completely sober and pissed off that
she came to this lame party. Anyway. Black rocks market capitalization,
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which represents the total value and of its outstanding shares,
is approximately one hundred and seventy nine point sixty five
billion United States dollars. That's August fourteenth figures, calculated by
multiplying the company share price by the number of outstanding shares.
And that's wild, but that's nothing. Blackrock manages twelve point
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five three trillion dollars in assets as of quarter two
this year, making it the world's largest asset manager. This
number reflects client investments in funds like ETFs and mutual funds,
not BlackRock's own value. But twelve point five three trillion
dollars is massive, So next time, you wonder why keep
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mentioning blackrock. Sit down, take a look around. You get
your computer out or your phone, and take a look
at all the things blackrock touches in your daily life.
It's alarming, and that's why I mention it all the time.
And that's why we need to stop talking about today.
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So how about a little how about a little low
news from Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Or tonight in Henderson, where a solar panel farm in
the southern part of the county reported multiple panels were
recently vandalized. Gabe Pontonis went to Henderson to learn more
sh rob.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
According to notes from Henderson County Fiscal Court, thirty two
solar panels were shot at a solar farm in the
town of Roberts. The vandalized panels were in the Unbridled
solar farm near State Road two thirty eight, some shot
multiple times. The solar farm went commercial in February and
could provide power to about fifteen thousand homes. The company
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that owns the farm, Geronimo Power, says that based on
what they saw from the bullet holes, they suspect this
happened about a month ago during the night.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
It was probably more around the evening timeframe, the way
that the holes were. We do have guys or new
work in the evening hours, so we're very likely that
no one will was injured at that time.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Solar panels have special components that keep them from being
simply thrown away. The damaged panels will be shipped to
Arizona to a recycling center to be discarded. This all
comes after the site took a substantial damage from a
hailstorm back in March, resulting in roughly four thousand panels
being replaced. Henderson County authorities say that the shootings are
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currently under investigation.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Why is there a dog panting in that audio? I
have no idea. You can't. You can edit that out, dude,
I can do that on my computer. Edit it out,
local news. You notice how they said can't These panels
can provide power to about fifteen thousand homes. Can They don't,
But they could if that power wasn't sold to the
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highest bidder across the country. As it goes right by
your house. You see the trick each and every time,
every single time I hear a story about some damn
solar farm, you hear that this farm can provide power. Blah,
blah blah. They don't help your community. These are put
up by companies who just want to make a profit
and they found some farmland that's going cheap, so they
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snatch it up. That's fine if you want to make
a profit, you know, I mean, why wouldn't you want
to make a profit. But don't be tricked into thinking.
The power is staying in the community. In the community.
So when the city council brings it up that somebody
is looking to do this, and they say, listen, before
you start hating on us, this thing can provide power
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to fifteen thousand homes, stand up and say, yes it can,
but will it provide power to fifteen thousand homes in
my community? And the answer is going to be different.
They don't help your community. Why do you think all
the neighbors hate them? Why do you think they get shot?
They're an eye sore and leech off the land all
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around them. But the media never addresses any of that.
They can just never understand why people would do this
type of thing to the panels. The true this is
why the truth about these farms is why people would
do these types of things to panels. Now, if and
I've never heard of one instant yet instance. Yet, if
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the farm would provide power to communities surrounding it, that
turns it into an entire different story. There's a direct benefit,
but that never happens. It's like if a brand new,
fancy ice cream shop opened right next door. Then they
spend a year and a half explaining what types of
flavors that they can do, and it could feed ten
(40:31):
thousand people. But the day the ribbon is cut and
it goes operational, you find out that you can't buy
ice cream from there. They won't let you get in
the door to buy ice cream. It all gets shipped
two states away, and now you can't see the sunset
because there's a fifty acre solar farm where you used
to see deer and the sunset. Also local news and
(40:53):
this bull crap. This if you heard it, it's.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
The company that owns the farm. Geronimo Power says that
based on what they saw from the bullet holes, they
suspect this happened about a month ago.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
During the night. Get the hell out of here. I
don't care if it's Geronimo Power or this dork doing
the local news. What do you mean they judged by
the bullet holes like onseene, you know, hey, what do
you think, boss? And the boss is knelt down looking
at the hole, and he looks up and said, oh,
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this had to have happened about a month ago and
a night judging by these holes, So you thought Geronimo
Power just thought they'd slip that in, and they were right.
It got slipped in. And then local news dumb is
a box of local rocks. They just repeated it. It's
just dumb, repeating dumb. What about a bullet hole tells
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you it was done about a month ago and during
the night, somebody leave me a voicemail tell me how
they came up with that number eight one two six
one zero nine zero zero five, or sending it an
email to dot soapbox Champion at gmail dot com. The
bullet hole told him it was, you know, a couple
months ago and at night. Well, that's clearly a nighttime
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bullet Shut up? What else? What else do they lie about?
If they're gonna lie about that, You know, all I'm
saying is pay attention to everything. Aol America Online, once
a pioneer of internet access, is discontinued continuing its dial
(42:29):
up services on September thirtieth, marking the end of a
thirty four year era. This decision announced in August of
twenty twenty five. This month reflects the obsolescence of dial
up technology, characterized by its iconic, high pitched modem handshake
noise and the You've got mail greeting which connected millions
(42:50):
to the Internet and the nineties and the early two thousands.
I had no idea that dial up still exists. I
honestly did not. I mean, I'm glad that it did,
you know, cool? I just had no idea. AOL stated
it quote routinely, routinely evaluates its products and services end quote,
and decided to discontinue dial up to focus on modern
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digital needs as broadband and wireless connections have largely replaced
a slow phone line based technology. If you even remember that, guys,
I turned fifty yesterday, so I remember it, yes Happy
birthday me. So that certain sound is going away, and
(43:33):
if you're old enough you remember it, and here it is,
so that it will always live here on this podcast
forever or until I quit doing this. And moments later,
(44:12):
a young Craig could be seen attempting to download some
bootleg LIMP biscuit songs or some newdie picks. The distinctive
dial up noise, often described as a series of high
pitched screeches, beeps, and static like sounds, was produced by
the modem as it established a connection to the Internet
over a telephone line. The noise was the audible result
(44:35):
of the modem's the modem quote unquote, handshaking with the
Internet service provider's modem. This process involved the modem's exchanging
signals to establish a connection, negotiate protocols like how does
this work? Back and forth, and set data transfer speeds. First,
you would dial The modem dialed the ISP's phone number,
(44:57):
producing initial tones as clicks as it connected to the
phone line. Then there'd be the signal exchange. The modems
sent test tones to detect line quality and agree on
a protocol as Internet service protocol for speeds up to
fifty six k oh my. The modems used specific frequencies,
(45:22):
as in sixteen fifty hertz or eighteen hundred hertz to communicate,
creating beeps, screeches, and the static as they tested compatibility
and they synchronized. The noise was the modem's internal speaker
broadcasting these analog signals which were otherwise otherwise in audible
electrical pulses, and now you know also it's time for sports.
(45:51):
One of the wildest sports stories of twenty twenty five
involves the t Rex World Championship Races, featuring during ESPN
Eights the OCHOS ninth annual event from July thirty first
August third this year at the ESPN Wide World of
Sports Complex in Florida. This quirky competition aired on ESPN
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two from eleven o'clock to eleven thirty pm on July
thirty five first, and saw men, women and children and
seniors racing while dressed in inflatable t Rex costumes, creating
a chaotic, prehistoric stupid spectacle. Competitors wobbling under the weight
of their oversized suits, sprinted or fell down to become
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the twenty twenty five t Rex World Champion, drawing laughter
and cheers from fans. The event was part of a
record breaking thirty new competitions introduced by the OCHO, alongside
other absurd sports like soap hockey, mail boat jump jumping. Okay,
I'm sure that's supposed to be mailbox and outhouse racing.
(47:00):
Do we need that stuff? I guess if we do,
it might as well be on the OHO. It's completely ridiculous.
And the t Rex thing tried to go viral on
platforms like x where users celebrated the whole spectacle. I
thought it was a standout moment in twenty twenty five
sports for better or worse, you know, but at least
(47:23):
it was a playful spirit, unconventional if nothing else, and
that we'll do it for this weekend sport. That was
the okay language, Wait the next thing? How the show works? Guys,
(47:47):
my ridiculous sports out And then you get Quote of
the Week. And I saw the quote before I knew
who it was. And I still don't know who this
guy was. I literally had to Google and find out
who he was. Uh, his name is Benjamin Lee Warf. Yeah,
I know. And the quote is quote. Language shapes the
(48:08):
way we think and determines what we can think about
end quote. Wharf developed the Sapper Wharf hypothesis that suggests
that the structure and vocabulary of a language influence how
its speakers think, perceive the world, and behave. And based
(48:29):
on my language, you're probably already predicting it's time for sugar.
This week's sugar is strange. I'll just say it. It's morbid,
it's curious, it's macabre, and it's missing. What is it?
It's Item number nine, removed during the autopsy of JFK
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and stored and a stainless deal container at the National Archives,
went missing by nineteen sixty six. It was initially preserved
for furthers thirty study, but vanished from a secure room
used by JFK Secretary Evelyn Lincoln. Theory suggests it was
stolen by Robert F. Kennedy to hide JFK's health issues
(49:16):
or to conceal evidence of a AF frontal shot. While
not explicitly numbered nine, it's a high profile missing item
and associated materials as in like tissue slides and photos
could be cataloged with such a number in internal records.
Its absence is central to conspiracy theories, as it could
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clarify bullet entry and exit points beyond item number nine.
Other autopsy materials like tissue slides and additional photos are missing.
A bullet fragment Warren Commission Exhibit CE number five sixty
seven and the nose portion from the limousine was analyzed,
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but other bullet evidence like a theorized missing bullet from
the Warrant Commission's findings remain unaccounted for Item number nine.
Search don't explicitly mentioned an item number nine and JFK's
assassination evidence. The autopsy photos are the closest matches they
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numbered them, and many are missing, potentially including number nine
without a clear catalog reference. The interpretation is speculative, but
most refer to this as item number nine. Missing items
like this and photos and documents fuel speculation of a
cover up. The nineteen ninety eight Assassination's Records Review Board
reported suggests photos of the brain might not be JFK's,
(50:46):
implying tampering of or replacement. Peterdale Scott's negative template theory
speculates that what's missing, like photos, insa records, military intelligence files,
and more, is more significant that what remains, potentially hiding
evidence of a broader conspiracy. The Warren Commission concluded Oswald
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acted alone, supported by autopsy findings of two shots from behind.
Missing items, especially photos of number nine and pictures of
number nine, could challenge this by revealing evidence of certain
types of shots versus others, As Parkland doctors suggested this
(51:28):
very thing. The FBI's dismissal of the of the camera
and it's called the Monox camera and the discrepantines and
discrepancies and photo evidence raises questions about evidence handling as
a whole. The National Archives released records on March eighteenth
of this year per Executive Order one four one seventy six,
(51:52):
but the uh these be good papers and other classified
documents may remain unreleased as their held by Congress, not
federal agencies. It suggests some missing items, such as item
number nine, might still exist but are withheld either way.
It's one of the strangest things about the assassination. Something
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so critical, something so important and guarded, just goes missing.
Item number nine is out there somewhere. It may be
hidden somewhere behind something you know, they're just not finding it.
It could be out in the wild. It may have
been sold on the dark web. No one knows. And
that is this week's sh oh I forgot to tell you.
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Item number nine is JFK's brain. And that concludes episode
one of this Soapbox Champion podcast Episode Uh. Thanks for
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It's cool.
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Take care of yourself in one another, no matter what
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Understand, not depict the lads and the deput
Who ate all the pecan Sandy's.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is a Soapbox Champion podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hey everyone, It's Tuesday, August nineteenth, twenty twenty five. This
is episode one ninety nine of the Soapbox Champion podcast,
recorded live from FEMA Region five. My name's Craig Dulaney.
What a week and you won't hear very many people
say this, but we are closer to peace in Ukraine
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than we were a week ago. This past Friday, President
Trump and RUSSN President Vladimir Putin joint Base Elmerdorff, Richardson
and Anchorage, Alaska to address an ongoing conflict in Russia Ukraine.
This marked their first in person discussion since twenty nineteen,
and it lasted nearly three hours and included US Secretary
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of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Woodcough on
Trump's side, while the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and
Foreign and Policy Advisor Yuri Yushkov representing Flatter and Putin.
The purpose of course of the summit was to explore
just the possibility of a ceasefire or peace agreement in
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Russia Ukraine. Trump described their discussions as extremely productive, stating
there was great progress in alignment on many points, yet
he cautioned, there's no deal until there's a deal. Wise words.
Putin found the meeting to be quote timely and very
useful end quote, indicating that some understanding, you know, some
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kind of understanding was reached, but neither leader elaborated on
the details of what was resolved or not resolved or
still outstanding. Although Trump had previously stressed it the importance
of establishing a ceasefire, none was announced. Upon arrival. The
leaders exchanged greetings on the tarmac, shaking hands before traveling
(02:22):
together in Trump's presidential vehicle. You know, it's known as
the Beast for private discussions ahead of the official meeting.
And what a baller move for just shortly after they
shake hands on the tarmac for a B two Spirit
bomber to fly over with full fighter escort right above. Putin,
(02:47):
I'm sure you've seen the footage on the internet. What
a baller move right over, h reminder. B two is
the very same bomber that we sent seven of to
Iran across the world without anyone knowing they'd left the
ground and got back bombed, got back without anyone knowing. Uh.
(03:13):
He flew on over Putin on purpose. I rest, I
just know, just know that he did. And what a
baller move. Ah pretty sweet. Uh. Putin kind of looked up,
made just for a second and made a face and
then he went back to normal, if you notice. Uh. Afterwards,
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after their meeting, there was a joint press conference where
both leaders opted not to answer questions from media, which
is fine. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski, who did not receive
an invitation, voiced his criticism, as did US Secretary Minority
leader Chuck Schumer, who labeled the meeting a mere theater
(03:54):
and condemned Trump for granting Putin a worldwide platform without accountability.
Then you know, I say, what's your offering, Chuck? What
do you have to bring to the table, Chuck Schimmer?
What have you done? Like ever, what have you done?
What have you done? Put your damn glasses on straight
and compile a list of accomplishments for me to see, Chuck,
(04:15):
for us all to see before you start a downplaying
what just happened. It's your parties fed up right now. Uh.
You're supposed to be the peace freaks, peace at all costs,
but you hate Trump so bad that you've turned into.
You've turned into what you hate, which is a war
(04:38):
mongering thing. You hate peace. You can't even stand the
thought of peace being talked about if it involves Donald Trump.
Do you see? Uh, Chuck, Let's remind you that you
can't even grill a burger without putting your family in danger.
Remember that photo of him smiling like a goofball with
a spatulain his hand next to the grill, and there
(04:58):
are raw burgers on the grill with pieces of cheese
on them. Remember that doesn't matter. I want to frame that.
Even some press griped about the meeting that didn't answer
any questions, even on Fox No Less, Jackie, I was surprised,
no questions. I was surprised.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, no details on what progress was made.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I think you and me, both Brian and everyone else
in this room was also surprised. We were told that
we were going to have an opportunity to put questions
to both leaders after a joint press conference in the
event that the meeting went well enough that they could
set the stage for a second meeting. And if and
the President Trump said, if that didn't happen, he was
likely to call off the joint presser and just address
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the media solo and then send Putin home.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Neither of those things happened. And what was really stunning
to me.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Is someone who's been in a lot of these press conferences,
is there were a few things that were very unusual.
You had Putin come out and address the press first,
we are on us well here, and that left the
GDS rambling to get their headsets in. Usually it is
the leader of the country, the host country of a
summit that speaks first and addresses the.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Room in their language.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
But Putin started right off in Russian and we all
had to get our headsets on and listen to him
rattle off this da tribe about the history of the
US Russia relationship, making some allusions to something that we
didn't get many details on, but also without knowing the
(06:37):
full background of it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There was something that he said that was a little
bit alarming.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I thought that seemed like some of the things that
he has done in the past, setting up false flags
and that kind of thing. Saying that we hope that
Ukraine doesn't do anything to sabotage the progress that we
made today, knowing full well that Ukraine has agreed to
a ceasefire unconditionally for the last several months, and it
has been Russia that has not agreed to fire. That
was President Trump's made objective today. And when we did
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hear from the President, he said, we didn't get there,
but we think that we can.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So a lot of questions remaining.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Upset. Her last name was Heinrich or Heinrich, I'm not
sure of her first name. I didn't catch it. Upset
because it didn't go their way, you know, the way
the press wanted. You're the press. Your job and only
job is to report things as you see them before
your eyes. This wasn't about you and what you want.
(07:31):
These stakes are as high as they get. You just
report things as they happen. And it was a crappy report.
They just went back and forth about how they didn't
understand this, didn't understand that, or why this didn't happen
she did. She didn't report anything. She just reported on
how how disappointed she was, so piss poor reporting. Fox News,
(07:54):
You're fake. Just report that's all we want. Yeah, it
barely involved you press. You are the press the end.
And so what if Putin was given a few minutes
to speak, what did the US or Ukraine or whoever
get in return. You don't know. He wasn't given that
time because everyone loves him and wants to hear from him.
It's all part of the deal, or, as Trump would say,
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the art of the deal. I don't think any adult
actually thought that they would walk out and a ceasefire begins.
No one actually thought, not no sane human being thought
that would happen. But you know what, this was the
beginning of something bigger, and if the something bigger ends
up being a ceasefire or holy shit, peace over there,
then you should be all for it and just report
(08:39):
what the hell happened. That's all. We want baby steps
until big steps. And think about this. Without Trump, there
had never been a meeting at all. Do you think
Joseph Biden would have walked down the tarmac with Putin
without tripping over the carpet? Could you imagine Kamala Harris.
Putin wouldn't even have taken the meeting with her. We
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didn't get an explanation, she said, because these are adults talking.
You are to report on it. The end. This was
and Trump told you the first of possibly more than
one meeting, So just report that We're tired of your opinions.
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All I want is trusted, non biased news reporting and
a non biased news source. Is there one out there anymore?
Not really believe it or not. Al Jazeer was pretty
close maybe, but what's left of them? On August tenth,
an Israeli airstrike targeted a tent housing journalist near Al
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Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing five Al Jazeer staff
members and one freelance journalist. The Al Jazer victims were
on us Al Shahref twenty eight, Mohammed Quirinkra pardon me,
don't mean to butcher these names of trying. He was
thirty three years old, Ibrahim Zahir twenty five, Mohammed Nafal,
(10:07):
and Mohammed ali Wa his agent. Birthplace not specified. A
sixth journalist, Mohammed ah Karhlidi, a freelance reporter contributing to
Palestinian NGO Valan Stinnat and local platform Sehat, was killed
in the nearby tent. The Israeli military claims the strike
(10:31):
targeted al Sharif, alleging he was a Hamas operative, but
provided no evidence for the other journalist's involvement. Al Jazeer
condemned the attack as a targeted assassination and premeditated attack
on press freedom, noting the journalists were among the last
voices reporting from Gaza, where international media are barred. The
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or CPJ called it a murder and a war crime,
emphasizing the journalists are civilians under international law. The UN
condemned the killings as a grave breach of international humanitarian law.
Reporting at least two hundred and forty two journalists killed
in Gaza since October of twenty twenty three. Since the
(11:17):
war began, at least ten Al Jazeera staff and nine
freelancers working with the network have been killed. Notable cases
include Samir Abu Dakwa, a cameraman killed on December fourth
in twenty twenty four and an Israeli airstrike at a
school and he was just reporting, reporting on Gaza bureau
(11:39):
chief there who was injured, Hasma dab Dao Waoul dob
Dow's son, and Aljira, a journalist killed on January twenty
twenty four a missile strike on his vehicle. I'm met
a lau killed on December in twenty twenty three, and
an air strike at a camp central Gaza. Ismaeo al
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Ghoul twenty seven, just a cameraman killed in July of
twenty twenty four and an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp,
and Hossam Shabbat twenty three, a freelancer working with Al Jazeera,
killed on March twenty fourth, twenty twenty five, in an
Israeli attack in northern Gaza. The Israeli military swift claim
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of responsibility for al Sharif's killing on August tenth was
unprecedented in the twenty two month conflict, raising questions about intent,
allegations of Hamas ties like independently verified evidence still no evidence,
and the targeting of journalists wearing press vests in marked
vehicles suggests deliberate attacks by israel I found for years
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that Al Jazeera simply reports what's happening ninety nine percent
of the time. I trust them. They don't put spin
on it like Fox or CNN does, and we all
know by now that both of them do. It strikes
me as an attempt to remove the press from Gaza entirely,
and I don't absolutely not the only one that thinks that. Absolutely,
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No one wants you and I to see what's happening there.
If you want to see what's happening there, get on TikTok. Now,
it won't just pop up magically on your algorithm. You
must go search for it. And that is fishy to
me because there are countless videos. There are live videos
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taking place at all times from Gaza. You can see
exactly what's happening. All the things I'm about to talk
about you can see before your eyes, but you have
to go look for them. Just like the Ukraine Russia conflict.
When's the last time you saw any footage from that?
How many years has that been going on? It's just odd. Okay,
(13:54):
it's odd, but it exists. What we're going to talk
about exists. You can see it. Soon it will be
another war like Russia Ukraine. You hear about it from
time to time, but never actually see it, and eventually
it won't seem real and you won't care. Probably it's
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what they want. Starvation is present in Gaza, driven by
an ongoing the ongoing conflict. Situation is terrible. It's dire,
particularly in northern Gaza, with widespread reports of acute hunger,
famine conditions and malnutrition related deaths. Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
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IPC reported in June of twenty twenty four that over
four hundred and ninety five thousand people in Gaza, that's
about twenty two percent of the population face catastrophic levels
of acute food insecurity Phase five famine. The IPC is
a global standardized framework used to assess and classify this
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severity of food and security and malnutrition in a given region.
It provides a common and common methodology to analyze food
security crises. It enables governments, humanitarian organizations and policymakers to
prioritize interventions is what they do. By December of twenty
twenty four, the IPC can firm famine and Northern Gaza,
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with projections indicating one hundred and eighty two thousand people
in Phase five and six hundred and forty five thousand
in Phase four. Those are emergency situations across Gaza. The
UN World Food Program and Gaza's Health Ministry report rising malnutrition,
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particularly amongst children. At least thirty six children have died
from malnutrition or dehydration since October twenty twenty three, with
sixty percent of Gaza's two point two million people facing hunger.
In Northern Gaza where it's the worst and six children
under two suffers from acute malnutrition per UNISE reports site
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deaths from starvation, including infants and adults. Now, Israel's restrictions
on aid play a part of this, and they are
restricting the aid. They include delays, denials, and attacks on
aid convoys the crippled food and medicine deliveries. Since October
of twenty twenty three, only ten percent of Gaza's food
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needs have been met per the WFP. In Northern Gaza,
aid access has been nearly non existent since October of
twenty twenty four, with seventy four percent of humanitarian missions
denied or impeded by Israel per u in data. Over
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ninety percent of Gaza's population is displaced, living in overcrowded
shelters or tents with limited access to clean water, sanitation,
or cooking facilities. Bakeries, markets and farmland are largely destroyed
or inaccessible, forcing reliance on all that aid that's so scarce.
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Residents reporting eating animal feed, grass, or nothing for days.
In Northern Gaza, flower shortages have led to breadlines and
skyrocketing prices. A blag a bag of flower costs between
two and four hundred dollars US. UNICEF reports fifty thousand
children in Gaza require urgent treatment for acute malnutrition. Pregnant
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and breastfeeding women face severe risks, with ninety five percent
of bakries non functional starvation has led to increased miscarriages
and health complications. It's awful. Malnutrition weakens immunity, increases susceptibility
to diseases like heptized a polio. With a polio outbreak
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confirmed in August twenty twenty four, hospitals lack fuel and
they lack supplies to treat malnutrition related conditions per the
WHO in Northern Gaza. Since October twenty four, Israel's military
operations have cut off northern Gaza completely, trapping sixty five
thousand to seventy five thousand people with minimal aid. Residents
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report no food or water for weeks, with some resorting
to burning plastic for fuel. Israel's tightened blockade intensified after
Hamas's attack in October of twenty twenty three. Three of course,
they attack restrict food, fuel, and water. Military operations of
destroyed agriculture infrastructures was sixty eight percent of farmland damaged
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attacks on aid workers. Three hundred and fifty three killed,
including two hundred and thirty three un staff. Don't hear
about that, do you? And looting of convoys further dispute
disrupt supply chains. Gaza's economy has been death made. It
with ninety percent unemployment with no local food production. The UN,
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WFP and nngos like OXFAM warn of man made famine
due to aid restrictions. The International Criminal Court issued arrest
warrants for Israeli leaders in May of twenty twenty four,
citing starvation as a war crime. Another thing you don't
hear about in the mainstream media. The US and the
EU have pushed for more aid access, but Israel. Israeli's
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policies remain the barrier. Is this what the US is
supporting right now? This is where your tax dollars are going,
not to aid in the famine in Gaza, but to Israel,
who is enabling the famine, the man made famine. Latest
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reports say Gaza has reached Phase five starvation. Phase five
catastrophe famine the most severe level of food insecurity on
the IPC scale. It indicates extreme food shortages, widespread starvation,
and high mortality rates. Due to hunger or malnutrition related causes.
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The phase is declared when a population faces catastrophic conditions
threatening survival. Some of the key characterists to Pay five.
At least twenty percent of the population faces extreme food
shortages with little to no access to food, leading to starvation.
Thirty percent of children under five suffer from acute malnutrition.
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It leads to wasting measured by weight for height mortality.
The crude mortality rate exceeds two deaths per ten thousand
people per day due to starvation. Households exhaust coping mechanisms
like selling their assets or migrating to where the food
is and face near total loss of food is often
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due to conflict, displacement or economic collapse. Widespread starvation, irreversible
health damage as in organ failure, and increased deaths, especially
among children, pregnant women, and the elderly. Is this what
the US is supporting right now with our tax dollars?
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In Gaza? The IPC confirmed famine Phase five in northern
Gaza by December of twenty twenty four, with one hundred
and eighty two people in Phase five and six hundred
and forty five thousand in Phase four. This was driven
by all those Israeli blockades, all the farmland gone. Almost
ninety percent of Gaza people displaced. Thirty six children died
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from malnutrition and dehydration by August. It's just terrible. Is
this what the US is supporting? This is stuff that
it's not reported on mainstream media, you understand, because it
doesn't support the narrative. I don't, I just don't. I
can't understand this unless we admit that we're in World
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War three, right, don't you think? I mean, step back?
Russia's fighting Ukraine. They're kind of getting beat up on Russia,
so they enlist the help of North Korea there you go,
and China supporting them in other ways. Ukraine enlists the
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help of the United States proxy. You know, we're supplying
them stuff, but we don't pull the trigger, you understand. Ah,
it's just almost it's just World War three. It just
hasn't been declared. I don't think they want us to
think that. I don't know when you can't hardly name
a nation left on earth modern civilization. Ah, who isn't
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participating somehow in a war, whether it be proxy or
just some other so port or physically at war. I
don't know. I don't know, man, I don't know. But
Gaza is decimated. People are dying, and we're supporting. It's
almost too late to intervene now. When the body is
at phase five starvation, food can potentially and usually cause
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a shock to the body. When a person is in
phase five eats the body systems, all of them are malfunctioning.
When it receives food. The system doesn't know how to
process it anymore and begins to shut down, killing the
person right now. Even if all the aid drops were
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received by Gaza, it doesn't matter at this moment. They
don't need food. They need medical aid before they can
even eat food. Why does this matter. It's a humanitarian
emergency requiring urgent intervention. If this was anywhere else, nations
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around the world would be donating and making sure they're
taken care of. H And what is urgent intervision? I
don't know, ceasefire, unrestricted aid, it's simple. That's just that
modern nations like Israel and US are saying no, we're
not going to do that. Without action, mass mortality and
long term health impacts just escalate from here. Is that
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what Israel wants? Is that what the US is supporting.
I don't know. I mean when Israel's literal restricting of
the aid and their military actions are the causes of it.
I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't know.
But NGO's like Amnesty International, they've been around forever. They're
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labeling it potentially war crime. I can't see how it's not.
But you can put as many labels as it on
it as you want. You know, that doesn't help. Right now.
The United States is enabling Israel to cause this man
made famine that is unacceptable. And as as we talk
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about food, I'm a shame to talk about food and
the abundance that we have of it here in the
United States, the embarrassing, embarrassing abundance of food. Kellogg, they
actually made a move. WK Kellogg Company has agreed to
eliminate artificial food dies from its breakfast cereals by the
close of twenty twenty seven as part of a legally
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binding deal with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. This deal,
revealed in August of this year, is known as the
Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, ensuring that Kellogg will phase out
artificial coloring agents such as red forty, yellow five and
blue one, which are derived from petroleum and associated with
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health risk like hyperactivity, obesity, and endocrine problems. Kellogg has
faced eighty five percent as I'm sorry, It's indicated that
eighty five percent of its cereal products currently do not
contain FD and C colors that it has avoid using
red number three for several years. Furthermore, the company committed
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to halting the introduction of new items containing these dyes
beginning in January of twenty twenty six, and it will
reformulate cereals available in schools to remove diyes by the
twenty twenty six twenty seven academic year. I'm all for it.
Good job kellog, Good job taxes getting them do that.
The action follows an investigation started by Paxton in February
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of this year, which discovered that while Kellogg's has stopped
using such dies in Canada and Europe, they were still
being used in the United States despite prior commitments to
eliminate them by twenty eighteen. The agreement highlights a reaction
to increased demands from consumers, advocacy groups, and regulatory bodies,
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including efforts from the FDA band synthetic dies and initiatives
led by Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
To reduce dangerous food out additives. Hey, good for them,
But to me, this means that they admit to using
all that junk in their food and reveals that no
other manufacturers committed to eliminating them. You know, I think
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this needs to be a bigger deal in the media,
if for no other reason than to put other food
manufacturers in the spotlight. So maybe they'd follow suit. And
by the way, good job RFK Jr. If there's any
indicator of how big of a deal this really is,
the little press that does get a you know that
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has to mention RFK Jr. And we know how the
press just refuses to acknowledge them. A lot of the
press is talking about this and mentioning RFK Junior's involvement.
That's how big of a deal it is and how
ridiculous the media is. So surprise surprise. Speaking of Kellogg,
one of the top three shareholders of Kellogg is Blackrock.
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How many of you think when I say that, I
who cares every time I bring up Blackrock? I know
there are some I get it. I get it. It's
because you don't pay attention. It's because you don't understand.
You See, the one thing a publicly traded company must
do is keep shareholders happy. They have to. That's their
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number one job. It's not to satisfy you or make
you happy, it's for shareholders. If they don't, let's say
the company predicts an eight percent increase of profit for
the third quarter this year, but at the end of
the third quarter of profits only when up four percent.
Then shareholders get nervous. And when shareholders get nervous, they
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typically do one or two things. First, they can sell
their shares, and when the top holders start selling, well,
that makes everyone nervous, so everyone sells in the company,
you know, their worth just takes a noseedive. Second, majority
shareholders could vote to oust current leadership, or if the
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company's poor performance stems from fraud, mismanagement, or breaches of
fiduciary duty, shareholders actually can file lawsuits such as derivative
suits you know on behalf of the company, or class
action suits for financial losses. All of these reactions can
be devastating to a company, so the company and its
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management must do everything in its power to keep them happy. Nope,
I hate to tell you it's not about providing a
better product to you. It's always about money and keeping
that money coming in for the shareholders. At twenty nineteen,
Harvard Business Review studies found that black Rock is among
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the largest shareholders and eighty eight percent of the S
and P five hundred companies. This suggests black Rock holds
shares and at least eighty eight percent of the five
hundred largest US publicly traded firms. It was reported in
twenty seventeen to Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively hold
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shares in forty percent of all listed US corporations. Given
Blackrock size, it likely contributes significantly to this figure, though
an exact percentage for Blackrock alone is not reported. Blackrocks
and investments extend beyond the US, with stakes and thousands
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of companies worldwide, including major tech firms like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon,
healthcare and energy companies. Its I shares ETFs managing three
point three trillion dollars across fourteen hundred funds cover a
broad range of global markets, implying ownership and a vast
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number of publicly traded globally. Blackrocks ownership and individual companies
typically range from five to seven percent, And you'll see
this if you look it up as seen in major
firms like Apple six point point five percent, Microsoft six percent,
Amazon five point eight Pheiser six point one percent. In
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other words, eighty eight percent of the five hundred largest
publicly traded companies are dedicated to keeping Blackrock happy. That's
four hundred and forty out of five hundred. Apple keeps
Blackrock happy, Microsoft keeps Blackrock happy, Amazon keeps Blackrock happy.
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Peiser keeps Blackrock happy. Everyone from your cell phone manufacturer,
your PC, the software manufacturer, your vaccine manufacturer does whatever
Blackrock tells them to do. And almost every single thing
you touched throughout the day is affected by Blackrock. And here,
I'm gonna blow your mind. At my desk right now.
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I made a list yesterday and I have not added
or removed anything from my desk right now. Okay, my
desk in front of me right now is loaded with
Blackrock companies and I did not load it up with
items for this episode. You have my word. This is
at my desk at all times. I have several Elgatto
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streaming devices Blackrock, my computer monitors, both of them made
by Acer Blackrock. The stream deck that are just go
look up stream Deck. That's by El Gatto. Blackrock. My phone,
it's a Google phone, black Rock. The software on it, Blackrock,
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the window software on this computer Blackrock. These earbuds by
Monster Audio. You can't see it there, It doesn't matter, Blackrock.
Here's an old go pro camera, Blackrock. This Echo show
that sits here, BlackRock's Amazon. This memory card by sand Disc, Blackrock.
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The magic eight ball that I've got out from time
to time for the show, it's owned by Mattel. That's Blackrock.
Remember the twenty Q game that I did an entire
segment on twenty questions game that was bought by Mattel
was owned by Radica and that was acquired by Mattel.
So the twenty Q game Blackrock. This Capitol one card
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right here, Capital one Blackrock. And that just on my
desk right now. That's not counting the other desk in
here and the giant filing cabinet over there, or the
this place is loaded. Just this office is loaded. Uh,
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that's just on my desk. It's a small desk. It's
enough for me to sit here. Broadcast have two big
monitors and all my stuff. It's not an L shaped desk.
It doesn't have shelves underneath, just on top of my desk.
It's Blackrock. All these companies and more all around you.
Every day you do things based on these items. These
items are all controlled by the largest shareholders, and that
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is almost always including Blackrock. Okay, I gotta go it
away from Blackrock. Let's go for a drive. We had
two Chevies and a Buick. Chevrolet is a GM product
GM Blackrock. Damn it, Buick is a GM product. Blackrock.
Oh well, I can't avoid it. Let's go anyway. I
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just need some gas and we'll be on the road.
Just clear our mind. The clo closest gas stations cases
down the highway from me. Shit, Blackrock, that's fine. There's
a marathon station just down the road, same sided road.
It's less than a mile. They were recently acquired by
Conico Phillips. Well, that's Blackrock. Okay, I give in. I
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have to get gas. I don't have a choice. But
while I'm in there, before we get on the road,
I'll get a Monster Energy. While i'm there Monster Energy Blackrock. Hey,
maybe I'll treat myself to some Reese's peanut butter cups
while I'm in. That's a good combo, right for a
road trip crap. They're owned by Hershey, Hershey, Blackrock point
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made right. Maybe you can go on forever. I bet
someone could make a drinking game out of this, go
around the table naming companies until you drink when you
name something that's not owned by Blackcrock. But that'd be
a good way to go sober, because you'd all be
sitting around the table completely sober and pissed off that
she came to this lame party. Anyway. Black rocks market capitalization,
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which represents the total value and of its outstanding shares,
is approximately one hundred and seventy nine point sixty five
billion United States dollars. That's August fourteenth figures, calculated by
multiplying the company share price by the number of outstanding shares.
And that's wild, but that's nothing. Blackrock manages twelve point
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five three trillion dollars in assets as of quarter two
this year, making it the world's largest asset manager. This
number reflects client investments in funds like ETFs and mutual funds,
not BlackRock's own value. But twelve point five three trillion
dollars is massive, So next time, you wonder why keep
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mentioning blackrock. Sit down, take a look around. You get
your computer out or your phone, and take a look
at all the things blackrock touches in your daily life.
It's alarming, and that's why I mention it all the time.
And that's why we need to stop talking about today.
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So how about a little how about a little low
news from Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Or tonight in Henderson, where a solar panel farm in
the southern part of the county reported multiple panels were
recently vandalized. Gabe Pontonis went to Henderson to learn more
sh rob.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
According to notes from Henderson County Fiscal Court, thirty two
solar panels were shot at a solar farm in the
town of Roberts. The vandalized panels were in the Unbridled
solar farm near State Road two thirty eight, some shot
multiple times. The solar farm went commercial in February and
could provide power to about fifteen thousand homes. The company
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that owns the farm, Geronimo Power, says that based on
what they saw from the bullet holes, they suspect this
happened about a month ago during the night.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
It was probably more around the evening timeframe, the way
that the holes were. We do have guys or new
work in the evening hours, so we're very likely that
no one will was injured at that time.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Solar panels have special components that keep them from being
simply thrown away. The damaged panels will be shipped to
Arizona to a recycling center to be discarded. This all
comes after the site took a substantial damage from a
hailstorm back in March, resulting in roughly four thousand panels
being replaced. Henderson County authorities say that the shootings are
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currently under investigation.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Why is there a dog panting in that audio? I
have no idea. You can't. You can edit that out, dude,
I can do that on my computer. Edit it out,
local news. You notice how they said can't These panels
can provide power to about fifteen thousand homes. Can They don't,
But they could if that power wasn't sold to the
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highest bidder across the country. As it goes right by
your house. You see the trick each and every time,
every single time I hear a story about some damn
solar farm, you hear that this farm can provide power. Blah,
blah blah. They don't help your community. These are put
up by companies who just want to make a profit
and they found some farmland that's going cheap, so they
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snatch it up. That's fine if you want to make
a profit, you know, I mean, why wouldn't you want
to make a profit. But don't be tricked into thinking.
The power is staying in the community. In the community.
So when the city council brings it up that somebody
is looking to do this, and they say, listen, before
you start hating on us, this thing can provide power
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to fifteen thousand homes, stand up and say, yes it can,
but will it provide power to fifteen thousand homes in
my community? And the answer is going to be different.
They don't help your community. Why do you think all
the neighbors hate them? Why do you think they get shot?
They're an eye sore and leech off the land all
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around them. But the media never addresses any of that.
They can just never understand why people would do this
type of thing to the panels. The true this is
why the truth about these farms is why people would
do these types of things to panels. Now, if and
I've never heard of one instant yet instance. Yet, if
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the farm would provide power to communities surrounding it, that
turns it into an entire different story. There's a direct benefit,
but that never happens. It's like if a brand new,
fancy ice cream shop opened right next door. Then they
spend a year and a half explaining what types of
flavors that they can do, and it could feed ten
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thousand people. But the day the ribbon is cut and
it goes operational, you find out that you can't buy
ice cream from there. They won't let you get in
the door to buy ice cream. It all gets shipped
two states away, and now you can't see the sunset
because there's a fifty acre solar farm where you used
to see deer and the sunset. Also local news and
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this bull crap. This if you heard it, it's.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
The company that owns the farm. Geronimo Power says that
based on what they saw from the bullet holes, they
suspect this happened about a month ago.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
During the night. Get the hell out of here. I
don't care if it's Geronimo Power or this dork doing
the local news. What do you mean they judged by
the bullet holes like onseene, you know, hey, what do
you think, boss? And the boss is knelt down looking
at the hole, and he looks up and said, oh,
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this had to have happened about a month ago and
a night judging by these holes, So you thought Geronimo
Power just thought they'd slip that in, and they were right.
It got slipped in. And then local news dumb is
a box of local rocks. They just repeated it. It's
just dumb, repeating dumb. What about a bullet hole tells
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you it was done about a month ago and during
the night, somebody leave me a voicemail tell me how
they came up with that number eight one two six
one zero nine zero zero five, or sending it an
email to dot soapbox Champion at gmail dot com. The
bullet hole told him it was, you know, a couple
months ago and at night. Well, that's clearly a nighttime
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bullet Shut up? What else? What else do they lie about?
If they're gonna lie about that, You know, all I'm
saying is pay attention to everything. Aol America Online, once
a pioneer of internet access, is discontinued continuing its dial
(42:29):
up services on September thirtieth, marking the end of a
thirty four year era. This decision announced in August of
twenty twenty five. This month reflects the obsolescence of dial
up technology, characterized by its iconic, high pitched modem handshake
noise and the You've got mail greeting which connected millions
(42:50):
to the Internet and the nineties and the early two thousands.
I had no idea that dial up still exists. I
honestly did not. I mean, I'm glad that it did,
you know, cool? I just had no idea. AOL stated
it quote routinely, routinely evaluates its products and services end quote,
and decided to discontinue dial up to focus on modern
(43:12):
digital needs as broadband and wireless connections have largely replaced
a slow phone line based technology. If you even remember that, guys,
I turned fifty yesterday, so I remember it, yes Happy
birthday me. So that certain sound is going away, and
(43:33):
if you're old enough you remember it, and here it is,
so that it will always live here on this podcast
forever or until I quit doing this. And moments later,
(44:12):
a young Craig could be seen attempting to download some
bootleg LIMP biscuit songs or some newdie picks. The distinctive
dial up noise, often described as a series of high
pitched screeches, beeps, and static like sounds, was produced by
the modem as it established a connection to the Internet
over a telephone line. The noise was the audible result
(44:35):
of the modem's the modem quote unquote, handshaking with the
Internet service provider's modem. This process involved the modem's exchanging
signals to establish a connection, negotiate protocols like how does
this work? Back and forth, and set data transfer speeds. First,
you would dial The modem dialed the ISP's phone number,
(44:57):
producing initial tones as clicks as it connected to the
phone line. Then there'd be the signal exchange. The modems
sent test tones to detect line quality and agree on
a protocol as Internet service protocol for speeds up to
fifty six k oh my. The modems used specific frequencies,
(45:22):
as in sixteen fifty hertz or eighteen hundred hertz to communicate,
creating beeps, screeches, and the static as they tested compatibility
and they synchronized. The noise was the modem's internal speaker
broadcasting these analog signals which were otherwise otherwise in audible
electrical pulses, and now you know also it's time for sports.
(45:51):
One of the wildest sports stories of twenty twenty five
involves the t Rex World Championship Races, featuring during ESPN
Eights the OCHOS ninth annual event from July thirty first
August third this year at the ESPN Wide World of
Sports Complex in Florida. This quirky competition aired on ESPN
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two from eleven o'clock to eleven thirty pm on July
thirty five first, and saw men, women and children and
seniors racing while dressed in inflatable t Rex costumes, creating
a chaotic, prehistoric stupid spectacle. Competitors wobbling under the weight
of their oversized suits, sprinted or fell down to become
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the twenty twenty five t Rex World Champion, drawing laughter
and cheers from fans. The event was part of a
record breaking thirty new competitions introduced by the OCHO, alongside
other absurd sports like soap hockey, mail boat jump jumping. Okay,
I'm sure that's supposed to be mailbox and outhouse racing.
(47:00):
Do we need that stuff? I guess if we do,
it might as well be on the OHO. It's completely ridiculous.
And the t Rex thing tried to go viral on
platforms like x where users celebrated the whole spectacle. I
thought it was a standout moment in twenty twenty five
sports for better or worse, you know, but at least
(47:23):
it was a playful spirit, unconventional if nothing else, and
that we'll do it for this weekend sport. That was
the okay language, Wait the next thing? How the show works? Guys,
(47:47):
my ridiculous sports out And then you get Quote of
the Week. And I saw the quote before I knew
who it was. And I still don't know who this
guy was. I literally had to Google and find out
who he was. Uh, his name is Benjamin Lee Warf. Yeah,
I know. And the quote is quote. Language shapes the
(48:08):
way we think and determines what we can think about
end quote. Wharf developed the Sapper Wharf hypothesis that suggests
that the structure and vocabulary of a language influence how
its speakers think, perceive the world, and behave. And based
(48:29):
on my language, you're probably already predicting it's time for sugar.
This week's sugar is strange. I'll just say it. It's morbid,
it's curious, it's macabre, and it's missing. What is it?
It's Item number nine, removed during the autopsy of JFK
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and stored and a stainless deal container at the National Archives,
went missing by nineteen sixty six. It was initially preserved
for furthers thirty study, but vanished from a secure room
used by JFK Secretary Evelyn Lincoln. Theory suggests it was
stolen by Robert F. Kennedy to hide JFK's health issues
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or to conceal evidence of a AF frontal shot. While
not explicitly numbered nine, it's a high profile missing item
and associated materials as in like tissue slides and photos
could be cataloged with such a number in internal records.
Its absence is central to conspiracy theories, as it could
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clarify bullet entry and exit points beyond item number nine.
Other autopsy materials like tissue slides and additional photos are missing.
A bullet fragment Warren Commission Exhibit CE number five sixty
seven and the nose portion from the limousine was analyzed,
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but other bullet evidence like a theorized missing bullet from
the Warrant Commission's findings remain unaccounted for Item number nine.
Search don't explicitly mentioned an item number nine and JFK's
assassination evidence. The autopsy photos are the closest matches they
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numbered them, and many are missing, potentially including number nine
without a clear catalog reference. The interpretation is speculative, but
most refer to this as item number nine. Missing items
like this and photos and documents fuel speculation of a
cover up. The nineteen ninety eight Assassination's Records Review Board
reported suggests photos of the brain might not be JFK's,
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implying tampering of or replacement. Peterdale Scott's negative template theory
speculates that what's missing, like photos, insa records, military intelligence files,
and more, is more significant that what remains, potentially hiding
evidence of a broader conspiracy. The Warren Commission concluded Oswald
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acted alone, supported by autopsy findings of two shots from behind.
Missing items, especially photos of number nine and pictures of
number nine, could challenge this by revealing evidence of certain
types of shots versus others, As Parkland doctors suggested this
(51:28):
very thing. The FBI's dismissal of the of the camera
and it's called the Monox camera and the discrepantines and
discrepancies and photo evidence raises questions about evidence handling as
a whole. The National Archives released records on March eighteenth
of this year per Executive Order one four one seventy six,
(51:52):
but the uh these be good papers and other classified
documents may remain unreleased as their held by Congress, not
federal agencies. It suggests some missing items, such as item
number nine, might still exist but are withheld either way.
It's one of the strangest things about the assassination. Something
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so critical, something so important and guarded, just goes missing.
Item number nine is out there somewhere. It may be
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It could be out in the wild. It may have
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