WEBVTT - The Mark Moss Show Feb 25, 2022 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.880 Hey, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of the Mark 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:06.399 Moa Show, talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology, 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.280 talking about bitcoin and talking about the decentralized revolution. Bringing 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.040 you the latest education, information and breaking news so you 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.040 stay up to date on what's going on. I get it. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.200 I get it. It's difficult, it's hard to understand. But 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.520 don't worry. I'm gonna make it very, very easy to understand. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.720 There's so much going on, so much you need to understand. Now, 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.920 Bitcoin doesn't have a marketing department. There's no company, there's 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.600 no president, there's no ceo, there's no no marketing department. Um. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.240 But that's okay because the governments around the world are 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.239 doing their best job at doing marketing for us. And 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.199 if you just are paying attention at all, you can 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.800 see it all over the all over the place. UM. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.400 I got a lot coming up in the show that 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.000 we're gonna cover. I want to talk about what's happening 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.920 in Afghanistan. I want to talk about the United States, 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.920 the Biden dmunt actually stealing the people's money that maybe 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.680 didn't know about that. We're gonna talk about that money, 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.800 how that money gets stolen. I want to talk about 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.440 what's going on in Ukraine, in Europe with Russia the 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.720 rest of Europe, and how it may signal the end 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.280 of the dollar as we know it. I want to 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.280 talk a little bit about what's going on up in Canada, 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.480 and I even I'm going to bring on a special 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.360 guest that's been boots on the ground in Canada since 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.280 day one, and it's going to give us his own 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.360 take on what is going on. A lot to cover, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.479 so let's go ahead and dig into it. Um. But 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.160 right off the bat, I want to talk about something 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.720 that has gotten almost no play at all. I talk 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.360 to several people about it, and most people have just 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.000 not even heard about it. And so UM, you know, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.120 most people, when I, if I say what's going on 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.640 in Afghanistan, you probably have flashbacks of the United States 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.960 running away with its tail tucked between its legs, UM 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.920 leaving so fast that people were like literally hanging onto 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:53.840 the sides of airplanes trying to get out of there. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.320 It was a disaster, a complete disaster. Twenty years UM, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.520 twenty trillion dollars down the rain, um and probably left 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.160 it worse off than when we went there in the 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.560 first place. Dollars Where did that twenty trillion dollars go. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.560 By the way, well, that's how much the United States spent. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.680 But when they spent it, that means they gave it 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.840 to someone. So who got it, well, that would most 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:24.359 likely be the military industrial complex, the contractors and things 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.120 like that. They all got super rich. Um. But like 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.440 I said, it kind of left the country worse off 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.200 than when they found it um. And not only did 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:34.800 they leave it worse off, a lot of those people 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.480 ended up in a really bad situations. We've been seeing 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.880 lots of situations about that, and the people there have 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.480 been having a really hard time, and we've been seeing 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.560 how cryptocurrency and bitcoin has been helping those people out. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:49.600 As a matter of fact, there was an article that 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.240 was rand and says impoverished Afghan women are receiving emergency 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.480 aid in crypto as the tally band limits cast withdraws 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.520 and millions go hungry, and so lots and lots of 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.440 people in Afghanistan are going hungry. As a matter of fact, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.320 the lady that cuts my hair is from Afghanistan, and 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.800 she was telling me how she talks to her friend 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.320 in Afghanistan and how her friend can't even really say 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:14.920 the things that she wants to stay on the phone 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.760 because they're listening to all the phone calls and how 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.640 they're like literally starving to death and and my haircut. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.480 Lady UM just wants to send her money. But she 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.720 didn't even have to send her money. And I'm like, well, Katie, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.520 just send her bitcoin, right. It's like, oh, I didn't 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.120 know about that, um and so. But that's what this 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.920 headline is saying, that these impoverished African women millions are 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.720 going hungry another receiving aid in cryptocurrency because the Taliban 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.080 is not only listening to their phone calls, but they're 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.080 controlling the whole banking system. So they're limiting how much 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.800 cash they can withdraw from the system, um and and 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.320 a lot of it is due to the economic collapse 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.080 because of the U S sanctions and a shortage of 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.880 cash um that they have. So the Taliban is basically, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.800 like I said, limiting what can go in and out 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.000 of the bank and bank withdraws and so, I mean 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.280 millions of people just can't even buy food, they can't 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.200 even buy medicine, things like that. Now, um I had 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.440 done an earlier segment we talked about, you know, bitcoin 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.440 being used as a humanitarian aid. So here we have 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.120 people that can't even buy food or medicine, and I 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.320 can't just send the money because the Taliban will take it, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.400 but we can send them cryptocurrency, which is pretty amazing. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.000 According to the u n's World Food Program, they said 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:27.640 nine eight percent of Afghans don't have enough to eat. Again, 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.240 that's prother you in. Nine percent of Afghans don't have 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.279 enough to eat, and they say it's a it's it's 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.839 not just about a lack of money. Um, it's it's 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.919 about the way the Taliban has been doing it. But 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:47.200 it's also because that the Afghan Central Bank had ten 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:52.840 billion dollars frozen by the United States. So not only 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.640 did the United States go in there and tear up 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.559 the country, leave everybody stranded, and now the Talibans um 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.440 basically ruined them through authoritarian iron fist, then the United 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.760 States went and froze the bank's money. Now, of course 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.080 that bank, those deposits are made up of people, so 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.800 you and I keep our money in the bank. If 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.480 the United States froze that bank's assets, then you and 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.400 I wouldn't be able to get our money out of 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.120 the bank to go buy food and pay our bills. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.240 And that's exactly what's happened. And so these people and 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.919 in Afghanistan are just desperate and uh, they've lost especially 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.120 the women specifically because they lost their jobs because the 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.160 Taliban policies, and a lot of them are soul breadwinners 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:35.919 of their families. Of course, it's been war torn for 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.679 twenty years, so there's a lot of you know, probably 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:42.440 single single families, single mothers there. Um, And now here 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.280 we are, we can't even send them humanitarian aid. We 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.200 can't even send them emergency payments because the JP, Morgan 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.839 Chase and Western Union have them all blocked because they're 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.000 afraid of going against the sanctions the United States has 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.320 put onto them, so they can't even get them money. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.880 But here we are, cryptocurrency Bitcoin is here to save 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.320 the day. And it's been amazing what's been going on 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.839 over there, and a lot of these women have actually 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:12.560 turned to UM learning how to use cryptocurrency, even learning 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:17.080 how to write code and even program on cryptocurrency to 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.800 earn money. That's pretty amazing. But things took a turn 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.200 for the worse this week. And when I say it 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.800 turned for the worse, UM, there's a headline that came 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.400 out just a couple of days ago in the New 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:32.720 York Times. Biden's decision on the frozen funds stokes anger 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.800 among Afghans. Quote it's a cruel act and a betrayal 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.520 end quote one shopkeeper set of the White House's move, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.160 which could effectively bankrupt the Afghan central banks. So what happened? 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.960 So as I said that the United States decided to 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.800 freeze the Afghan central banks money, and over the last 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.839 couple of days, the Biden administration decided to take it all. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.280 They're not gonna unfreeze it. As a matter of fact, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.880 they're gonna take it. They took their money. Um, and 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.160 so what does that mean? So the Biden administration froze 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.560 the roughly seven billion in central bank assets that the 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.560 now defunct Western BacT government had on deposit the Federal Reserve, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.760 and um, they decided to take it. They're gonna get 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.840 take half the money, three point five billion, and they're 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.160 going to somehow divided up between living relatives of the 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:28.640 victims of nine eleven terrorist attacks. Okay, well, were the 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.440 terrorist attacks found to be done by the Afghanistan people, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.200 And I'm talking about whoever these terrors are I'm talking 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.800 about the people like you and I we have our 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.000 money at the bank. Are the people responsible for that? 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.440 That was never found out to be a case as 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.960 a matter of fact. Um, the United States said, hey, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.000 you're aiding and embedding these terrorists, and um, we need 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.200 you to turn over Osama bun Laden And the Taliban 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.080 government said, we will, We will give you Osama bin 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.480 Ladden if you can give us proof that he was involved, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.520 which of course they never could and they never did. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.080 So here we are. The government took took their money. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.280 Seven half of it's going to go towards the whatever 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.720 the relatives of victims of nine eleven get that, and 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.200 then the other half of the money is going to 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:19.600 be given out to some sort of like humanitarian aid. Um. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.400 It's gonna be steered towards humanitarian aid for Afghanistan. Um. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.400 But who's gonna get it? How much of that money 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.200 is actually going to get to the people that need 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.000 it or the people that have the people that have 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.480 their money in the bank. Now, of course we're talking 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.400 about why you maybe don't want to have your money 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.240 in the bank because the government can take it at 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.240 any time, which is what bitcoin is here for Remember, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.920 bitcoin solved the oldest problem in history. I can store 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.360 my wealth in a way that cannot be taken, cannot 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.760 be seized, cannot be stolen, and if I want to 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.800 send it to you, nobody can stop it or block 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.440 it or prevent It's freedom money. Of course, that means 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.400 I have to custody it out my own, not trusted 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.319 in a bank, and in order to custody on my own, 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.160 that poses its own risks. I'm gonna be back with 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.079 more talking about how you need to worry about protecting 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.400 your wealth. Don't go away, all right, Welcome back. You 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.600 are listening to the Markma Show. We're talking about the 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.400 decentralized revolution that we are witnessing that we're living through. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.120 You know, times are times of change are scary because 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.520 they're uncertain, but I can also look and think that 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.960 it's pretty dang exciting because man, history books are gonna 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.559 be written about what is going on right now now. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.400 Before the break, I was talking about, um, what's going 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.559 on in Afghanistan? Um, And not because I just care 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.840 so much about Afghanistan, but more importantly, because, as I 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.400 was saying, the governments around the world are doing the 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.520 marketing for bitcoin. They are proving the use case why 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.120 we need it. A lot of people in the United States, 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.040 um still would ask me, Mark, why do we need 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.559 something like cryptocurrency? And makes no sense. Now, if you 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:59.160 live in Venezuela or Argentina, or Lebanon, or Iran or Afghanistan, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.120 you'd get it from the United States. You don't because 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.120 you know, we typically have a pretty good, you know, 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.480 financial system. I mean, you know, never mind the fact 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.040 that your money's lost nine percent of its purchasing power 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.080 in the last hundred years. But for the most part, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.160 you know, it's not so bad. But um, now the 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.640 governments are really trying to do bitcoins marketing for them. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.520 And I was talking about how the Biden administration this 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.200 week decided to I'm just gonna use the words steal. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.600 They use the word seized. Whatever steal. The Biden administration 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:33.520 decided to steal the people Afghanistan's money and to redistribute 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.040 as they see fit. And so all those people that 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.920 had their money in the bank now lost it now. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.760 Of course, the White House's decisions drew criticism from human 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.720 rights groups, lawyers, and financial experts, who warned that the 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.640 move could gut the country's central bank for years to come, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.120 crippling its ability to establish monetary policy and manage the 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:58.120 country's balance of payments. Um John Sifton, the Asia Asia 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.120 Advocacy director of Human Writes Watch, said quote the decision 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.520 would create a problematic precedent for commandeering sovereign wealth and 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.000 do little to address underlying factors driving Afghanistans a massive 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:14.160 humanitarian crisis. So they're already having a hard enough time, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.360 and now you've got the big bad United States just 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.640 coming and take their money, just redistribute it. And so 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.319 again the governments of the world, the United States, Canada, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:27.240 they're proving why we should um be able to custo 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.800 our own cones. Uh. Typically with investments or talking about 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.880 buying bitcoin, you'd say, only only invest what you can 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.160 afford to lose. I had some I had one friend 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.600 this morning text me and he said, Mark, I'm kind 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.440 of worried about my money in the banks. Um, what 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.600 should I do? I said, only keep the money in 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:48.920 the bank you can afford to lose. Which is pretty 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.280 crazy that you have to think about it that way, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.080 but that's the way it is. If you're in Canada 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.080 and you show any sympathy, including even commenting on social 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.040 media in favor of the Freedom Convent. Way, you could 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.320 have your bank accounts frozen or seized. If you went 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:09.520 to Washington d c UM during times of protest and 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.400 they flagged you there because used your credit card, you 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.040 could have had your bank accounts seized. If you happen 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.160 to be just a regular person in Afghanistan and had 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.119 your money in the bank account, you get your money seized. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.600 And so Um, it's it's becoming more and more important. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.040 I mean, like I said, they're doing the marketing for them. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.839 Like I told my friend this morning, I only keep 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.880 the money in the bank that you can't afford to lose. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.120 And it's crazy that we have to think about it 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.080 in the in those terms. But um, that's basically where 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.000 we're app now. As the United States continues to get 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.040 more and more um authoritarian, or I should say, UM, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.760 as they continue to weaponize the US dollar. Um, it's 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:51.359 really changed in the entire shape and outlook of the world. UM. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.600 I think we've obviously seen at this point, unless you've 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.080 again been asleeper in a coma, you've seen that we 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.920 are in an escalating conflict with the Ukraine and Russia. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.960 I guess we could say, and um, you know, not 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.520 to dig into the aspects of the war necessarily, but um, 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.520 what we can see is sort of the same thing 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.400 that's going on over there. The United States is weaponizing 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.199 the dollar. Um, you know, we're threatening Russia and putin 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.720 that if you go in there, we're going to slap 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:24.920 sanctions on you. What does that mean. Slap sanctions, Well, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.640 that means more economic sanctions. That means more freezing of accounts, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.200 That means more seizing money out of accounts. And so 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.640 if you happen to be in Russia and you happen 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.840 to be a Russian citizen, that probably has nothing to 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.720 do with a war or invasion. You probably don't even 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.240 want it, you don't even care about it, maybe you 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.520 don't even know about it. But your money happens to 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.840 be in a Russian bank because that's what you do 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.200 with your money, right, You put in a bank. And 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.080 now the United States wants to slap sanctions and now 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.160 freeze the assets of that bank. And you just happen 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.720 to be a citizen, Well, now sorry, your money is 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:03.800 now frozen. That's how that works, you know. Um, there's 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.520 a lot of bad things going on in the world today, 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.160 and I'm not advocating for those bad things. UM. Take 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.720 our take Iran for example. Not to dig into politics 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:17.839 of Iran, but you know there's obviously, um, the whole 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.400 thing that's going on there with them trying to you know, 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.760 come on with a nuclear program. And obviously you know, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.760 it seems kind of like as an American you probably 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.520 don't want them to have nuclear weapons. Um. For some reason, 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:36.560 the Biden Obama admin wants them to have nuclear weapons. Um. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.680 But because of the sanctions that we've had against them. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.800 If you if you're a thirteen or fifteen year old 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.760 kid from Iran, you can't get a bank account. You 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.960 probably have you probably don't know anything about what's going 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.720 on in there. You're just a kid. You don't care 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.680 about it, you're not sympathetic for it, but you're not 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.360 allowed to be in the banking system. And so while 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.480 I'm not advocating that they should have nuclear weapons, UM, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.040 it's too bad for that fifteen year old kid that 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.120 just wants to start an Instagram account and make some 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.960 money and he can't. You know, these uh, these games 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.560 that these politicians play, they affect all of US and um, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.240 you know a nation, you know, Russia, Ukraine, US want 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.200 to go to war. We don't care about that. I 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.120 don't care about the war. I don't hate Russians, I 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.880 don't hate Chinese. People don't hate any of those people, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.880 and they don't hate us either. It's these leaders that 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.920 want to start these conflicts and play these games that 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:30.560 drag US into it, and then unfortunately people people pay 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.760 the price. Right, the people in Afghanistan got their money seized, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.240 the people in in Russia get their money seized. That's 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.720 what's happening. But what happens is that as these governments 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.920 do that, and guess what happens. Well, Russia has been 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.160 the largest accumulator of gold in the world. Well, I'm sorry, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.160 China has been the largest accumulator, but Russia has been 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.440 trying to keep up pace pretty fast accumulating gold and um. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.480 Russia is providing the rest of Europe with energy. And 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.040 so if the United States says, okay, well now more 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.560 sanctions on Russia, then Russia could just cut Europe off 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.280 of energy, gas, oil, etcetera. Or they could say, well, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.080 you know, the United States locks US out of the 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.680 financial system, so now we have to transact with you 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.479 in something else like gold, for example, or like cryptocurrency, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.840 because the United States can't shut down cryptocurrency, and so 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.760 maybe we'll see Russia do that. Now, if I was 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.920 having a party and I started kicking people out of 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.200 the party, eventually I'm the only one left at the 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.240 party and everyone else is having their own parties somewhere else. 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.920 And so the more you see the United States trying 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:38.160 to slap sanctions and sees bank accounts, the more they'll 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.440 be kicking people out of the finance system. And really, 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.360 like I said, doing marketing as why people should be 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:50.640 using some cryptocurrencies UM and bitcoin, etcetera. And it's only 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:55.320 accelerating what is the inevitable right we should as people 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.240 have the right to control our own money UM, and 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.400 governments should not be using that to manipulate this or 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.840 bend us to their will. And the more they do that, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.320 the faster they are just going to speed this up. UM. 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.640 And right now the pressure is on Russia and UM, 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.000 like I said, they have a massive gold stash. Will 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.879 they go back to gold, will they go back to cryptocurrency? 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.480 I don't know, But what I do know is that 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.959 it is going to speed up the inevitable decline of 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.880 the use of the dollar UM in in the United 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.840 States and globally as well. UM. You're listening to the 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.000 Mark Moa Show. We're talking about the decentralized revolution that's happening. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.840 We're talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.199 We're talking about bitcoin. What's going on so you can 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.480 understand it in the broader context of what's going on. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.840 I have a lot more that I want to dig into, UM, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.640 what the Federal Reserve the United States has been doing, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.879 what's going on up in Canada. So much more to 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.440 talk about. I'll be back in a second. Don't go away, Hey, everyone, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.520 welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moss Show. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.440 We're talking about the decentralized revolution that's happening. Now. Before 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.800 the break, we've covered a lot of ground hopefully didn't miss. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.480 But really what we're showing today is that UM as 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.520 I've been saying that the oldest problem that mankind has 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.800 had is how do I secure my wealth in a 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.639 way that can't be stolen from me? UM. For the 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.359 first UM humans alive, it was how do I secure 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.800 my you know, maybe my food, uh, from my food 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.840 not getting stolen my chickens and my goats. Um, then 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.439 it was gold. You know, we formed a village and 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.320 then a kingdom and then a country. UM. And we're 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.920 still having that problem today. And while a lot of 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.840 people don't understand why bitcoin and cryptocurrency is important, especially 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.560 if you're in the United States, if you're in other 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.399 countries where they're inflating away your currency or seizing your 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.320 currency or stopping you or blocking you from either sending 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.560 it or receiving it from somebody else, you get it. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.479 But the United States, Canada, it's been pretty hard for 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.639 some people to see that because they're just they're so 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.159 focused on their own life they don't see the problems 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.320 that the rest of the world has. But today we're 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.720 seeing the governments of the world really rallying hard to 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.280 try to promote cryptocurrency as strong as they can. And 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.119 so we talked about how UM the Biden admin decided 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.080 this week they were going to steal UM the Afghanistans 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.439 people's funds and redistribute them as they see fit. So 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.040 if you had your money, and if you're an Afghanistan 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.840 you your money in the bank, Sorry, we just lost 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:13.280 it all because the government decided to take it. Not 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.320 the government of Afghanistan, the United States government de stided 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.679 to take it. Um. We talked about what's going on 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:23.800 in Russia and Ukraine and how um, pretty much whatever 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.400 is going to happen in the United States is gonna 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:29.320 slap more sanctions on um Russia. And if you're a 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.600 Russian citizen and you happen to have your money in 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.640 the bank, it's gonna be bad for you, right UM. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.120 And so they're just doing more and more marketing UM 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.520 as to why we need these types of things. And 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.919 of course our neighbors in the North and Canada are 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.360 also seeing the exact same thing. And while while Canada 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.320 and these other countries have really proven the case what 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.720 we need it, um, we're also seen that at the 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.480 same time, at the exact same time, our leaders in 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.320 the United States are proving even more reasons. And not 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.280 because they're se easing it, which as I said, they 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.160 already are, but like we saw this week, Uh, well, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.720 we've been covering for quite a while now that the 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.119 Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of the United States, the 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.399 one that prints the money out of thin air, the 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.920 one that pumps the money into the markets. The one 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:19.240 that knows what what companies or bonds they're going to 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.760 prop up has been doing insider trading on that information. 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.720 So they were buying these stocks, these companies, investing this 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:33.239 money before they were passing these financial policies. Seems kind 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.680 of like a conflict of interest. Now, if you or 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.640 I did that, that of course gets us a nice 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.680 pair of handcuffs and we get aware of probably a 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.399 nice orange jumpsuit for a really long time, like like 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.719 Martha Stewart had to go to some time. But of 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.240 course if the government, politicians and the central bankers do it, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.480 no big deal. That's a problem, right, rules for the 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.840 not for me. Now, we saw this week that the 0:20:55.880 --> 0:21:01.320