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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
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Absolutely zero, zero perspective at all anywhere, mainstream media, anywhere
when it comes to the pager attack that took place
in Lebanon. I when I saw, when I saw what
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took place, when I saw it took place, and I
watched it, and I've been trying to follow as closely
as I can what's going on. You know what, What
immediately came to mind was Oppenheimer. That's right, Oppenheimer when
he had used that line from the Gida, I have
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become death. But I don't remember exactly what the quote is,
but that popped into my mind immediately. I don't think
in the media is most certainly not letting it and
letting everyone in on this. Pandora's box has been opened
once again. And if you're not familiar with the Greek
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mythology the story of Pandora, Pandora was given this gift,
this box, the box, and she was told never never, never,
never opened up the box, and she was tempted again,
similar creation myth, other creation myths. She opens up the
box and all of the bad things, the terrible things
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in the world come out of the box. At that
point in time, we use it all the time. You've
opened up Pandora's Box, you can't close it. The only
good thing about happened with Pandora's Box, and the thing
that came out was hope as well. But anyway, let's
let's take that. Let's let's put that aside right now.
There's no going back from what took place. This opens
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up a whole another level of warfare, much like the
you know, the dropping of a nuclear bomb. The and again,
I tried my best. I'm, you know, thinking about various
different military winds, intelligence wins. You know. I love my history,
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and the closest thing I could think to this, I
think the Israelis I think they beat the Greeks out
I do. I think they beat the Greeks. I mean,
the Greeks had a great operation with the Trojan Horse.
That was that was genius. I think they won uped
on this. But the world I'm just telling you, like
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talking about Pando's Box, it's not gonna be the same.
Said the world is not the same after this, And no,
I'm not This is not hyperbole. People, Okay, listen to
what I'm telling you. Listen what I'm telling you. Every device,
every device that is hooked remotely, could be susceptible to
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something like this. Now, a guy that I bring up
all the time here on the program, in my opinion,
one of the brightest guys out there today, philosopher risk
management expert Nicholas Nassim talib I, saw he put out there.
He said the same exact basically saying the same thing
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that I am saying. That the feeling the same way
that I have. You have. You know, people haven't fully
recognized it. So you've got to bring a whole nother
level of fear of technology. Now, supposedly we're being told
we're being told that in these pagers there was a
trace amount of an explosive, trace amount of an explosive,
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and there was a small detonator in it, and you know,
they could communicate to these devices, set off the denonators,
set off the explosive. I don't necessarily believe that. I
just don't. I don't necessarily believe that because that again,
that makes makes the operation a lot more risky. One
one would assume. One would assume that the members of
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hes blah that they, I'm sure when they have shipments
coming in from overseas, they must have bomb sniffing dogs
and are on alert for any sort of uh, you know,
device or something that could come in there planted by
the Israelis. Maybe he was too small. Maybe maybe it
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was too small, But I don't know. Those dogs, those
those those you know, bomb sniffing dogs are are pretty good.
I've a friend of mine, a friend of mine got
stopped by one of the dogs because his son gave
him a gift. And his son goes, he's in the
US Naval Academy and it was shooting weapons. Gave him
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a gift. We've made it out of some things and
it's set the thing off. So I don't know if
I necessarily believe them, but you need to understand malware.
Malware can be placed in This is weird and it's
gonna be spooking people. But this is not hyperbole. This
is real. This is why the media is not delving
into this any further. I don't want to freak out
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the entire country. The reality is is that you can
overheat a battery. Everybody see what happens when an electric
car catches fire. You see what we have on an electric car,
the amount of water it takes when one of those
liftium batteries overheats or one of the reasons why you
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know they talk about batteries, well, you know what happens.
You see them all the time. Now people don't properly
charge batteries and the electric scooters and you get massive
fires happening all the time in New York City that
the fire department has to respond to. Well, you don't
think that they can put malware in devices and overheat
a battery and make it explode. They can. They can.
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And when I talk about Pandora's box being opened, it's
been opened. It's been open, and it was a piece
today in the Wall Street Journal, you know. And again
this is one of the tech guys from Mike Gallagher,
and this is not the same Mike Galleries from Pallanteer
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Technologies and the tech race with China, and now this
is a whole another front that you've got to get
involved with where we're going to be building this up.
China's going to be building this up from you know,
from supposedly you know, you see what China is trying
to do. They're trying to eliminate a lot of American
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tech over there, which would inevitably give them beverage. Okay,
in any sort of negotiation. We've got malware. We've got
malware on your devices over the United States. Don't make
us slip a switch. You know, we've talked about we
can shut this down, we can turn this off. But
now what they can also do is blow stuff up.
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That's that's where we're at. Hey, I don't think people
fully realize what took place. There's plenty of stories out there,
you know, people defending Israel's right to do this. Again,
I'm not going to even weigh in on that. You know,
stories out there talking about how bad has Boleye is
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and the things that they've done the past. There's no
denying that. There's no that that's not part of the argument.
What I'm talking about here today, what I'm telling you
and what the media is not telling you, talk about
brave New world. Yeah, yeah, we're all walking around. I'm
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speaking right now into a device, my laptop that's got
a lithium battery that. You know what, if they could
get in and install some sort of malware and they
could overheat my laptop, they can blow the whole thing up.
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