Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of the Mark
Speaker 1: Moa Show, talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology,
Speaker 1: talking about bitcoin and talking about the decentralized revolution. Bringing
Speaker 1: you the latest education, information and breaking news so you
Speaker 1: stay up to date on what's going on. I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. It's difficult, it's hard to understand. But
Speaker 1: don't worry. I'm gonna make it very, very easy to understand.
Speaker 1: There's so much going on, so much you need to understand. Now,
Speaker 1: Bitcoin doesn't have a marketing department. There's no company, there's
Speaker 1: no president, there's no ceo, there's no no marketing department. Um.
Speaker 1: But that's okay because the governments around the world are
Speaker 1: doing their best job at doing marketing for us. And
Speaker 1: if you just are paying attention at all, you can
Speaker 1: see it all over the all over the place. UM.
Speaker 1: I got a lot coming up in the show that
Speaker 1: we're gonna cover. I want to talk about what's happening
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. I want to talk about the United States,
Speaker 1: the Biden dmunt actually stealing the people's money that maybe
Speaker 1: didn't know about that. We're gonna talk about that money,
Speaker 1: how that money gets stolen. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: what's going on in Ukraine, in Europe with Russia the
Speaker 1: rest of Europe, and how it may signal the end
Speaker 1: of the dollar as we know it. I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about what's going on up in Canada,
Speaker 1: and I even I'm going to bring on a special
Speaker 1: guest that's been boots on the ground in Canada since
Speaker 1: day one, and it's going to give us his own
Speaker 1: take on what is going on. A lot to cover,
Speaker 1: so let's go ahead and dig into it. Um. But
Speaker 1: right off the bat, I want to talk about something
Speaker 1: that has gotten almost no play at all. I talk
Speaker 1: to several people about it, and most people have just
Speaker 1: not even heard about it. And so UM, you know,
Speaker 1: most people, when I, if I say what's going on
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, you probably have flashbacks of the United States
Speaker 1: running away with its tail tucked between its legs, UM
Speaker 1: leaving so fast that people were like literally hanging onto
Speaker 1: the sides of airplanes trying to get out of there.
Speaker 1: It was a disaster, a complete disaster. Twenty years UM,
Speaker 1: twenty trillion dollars down the rain, um and probably left
Speaker 1: it worse off than when we went there in the
Speaker 1: first place. Dollars Where did that twenty trillion dollars go.
Speaker 1: By the way, well, that's how much the United States spent.
Speaker 1: But when they spent it, that means they gave it
Speaker 1: to someone. So who got it, well, that would most
Speaker 1: likely be the military industrial complex, the contractors and things
Speaker 1: like that. They all got super rich. Um. But like
Speaker 1: I said, it kind of left the country worse off
Speaker 1: than when they found it um. And not only did
Speaker 1: they leave it worse off, a lot of those people
Speaker 1: ended up in a really bad situations. We've been seeing
Speaker 1: lots of situations about that, and the people there have
Speaker 1: been having a really hard time, and we've been seeing
Speaker 1: how cryptocurrency and bitcoin has been helping those people out.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, there was an article that
Speaker 1: was rand and says impoverished Afghan women are receiving emergency
Speaker 1: aid in crypto as the tally band limits cast withdraws
Speaker 1: and millions go hungry, and so lots and lots of
Speaker 1: people in Afghanistan are going hungry. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: the lady that cuts my hair is from Afghanistan, and
Speaker 1: she was telling me how she talks to her friend
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan and how her friend can't even really say
Speaker 1: the things that she wants to stay on the phone
Speaker 1: because they're listening to all the phone calls and how
Speaker 1: they're like literally starving to death and and my haircut.
Speaker 1: Lady UM just wants to send her money. But she
Speaker 1: didn't even have to send her money. And I'm like, well, Katie,
Speaker 1: just send her bitcoin, right. It's like, oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: know about that, um and so. But that's what this
Speaker 1: headline is saying, that these impoverished African women millions are
Speaker 1: going hungry another receiving aid in cryptocurrency because the Taliban
Speaker 1: is not only listening to their phone calls, but they're
Speaker 1: controlling the whole banking system. So they're limiting how much
Speaker 1: cash they can withdraw from the system, um and and
Speaker 1: a lot of it is due to the economic collapse
Speaker 1: because of the U S sanctions and a shortage of
Speaker 1: cash um that they have. So the Taliban is basically,
Speaker 1: like I said, limiting what can go in and out
Speaker 1: of the bank and bank withdraws and so, I mean
Speaker 1: millions of people just can't even buy food, they can't
Speaker 1: even buy medicine, things like that. Now, um I had
Speaker 1: done an earlier segment we talked about, you know, bitcoin
Speaker 1: being used as a humanitarian aid. So here we have
Speaker 1: people that can't even buy food or medicine, and I
Speaker 1: can't just send the money because the Taliban will take it,
Speaker 1: but we can send them cryptocurrency, which is pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: According to the u n's World Food Program, they said
Speaker 1: nine eight percent of Afghans don't have enough to eat. Again,
Speaker 1: that's prother you in. Nine percent of Afghans don't have
Speaker 1: enough to eat, and they say it's a it's it's
Speaker 1: not just about a lack of money. Um, it's it's
Speaker 1: about the way the Taliban has been doing it. But
Speaker 1: it's also because that the Afghan Central Bank had ten
Speaker 1: billion dollars frozen by the United States. So not only
Speaker 1: did the United States go in there and tear up
Speaker 1: the country, leave everybody stranded, and now the Talibans um
Speaker 1: basically ruined them through authoritarian iron fist, then the United
Speaker 1: States went and froze the bank's money. Now, of course
Speaker 1: that bank, those deposits are made up of people, so
Speaker 1: you and I keep our money in the bank. If
Speaker 1: the United States froze that bank's assets, then you and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to get our money out of
Speaker 1: the bank to go buy food and pay our bills.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what's happened. And so these people and
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan are just desperate and uh, they've lost especially
Speaker 1: the women specifically because they lost their jobs because the
Speaker 1: Taliban policies, and a lot of them are soul breadwinners
Speaker 1: of their families. Of course, it's been war torn for
Speaker 1: twenty years, so there's a lot of you know, probably
Speaker 1: single single families, single mothers there. Um, And now here
Speaker 1: we are, we can't even send them humanitarian aid. We
Speaker 1: can't even send them emergency payments because the JP, Morgan
Speaker 1: Chase and Western Union have them all blocked because they're
Speaker 1: afraid of going against the sanctions the United States has
Speaker 1: put onto them, so they can't even get them money.
Speaker 1: But here we are, cryptocurrency Bitcoin is here to save
Speaker 1: the day. And it's been amazing what's been going on
Speaker 1: over there, and a lot of these women have actually
Speaker 1: turned to UM learning how to use cryptocurrency, even learning
Speaker 1: how to write code and even program on cryptocurrency to
Speaker 1: earn money. That's pretty amazing. But things took a turn
Speaker 1: for the worse this week. And when I say it
Speaker 1: turned for the worse, UM, there's a headline that came
Speaker 1: out just a couple of days ago in the New
Speaker 1: York Times. Biden's decision on the frozen funds stokes anger
Speaker 1: among Afghans. Quote it's a cruel act and a betrayal
Speaker 1: end quote one shopkeeper set of the White House's move,
Speaker 1: which could effectively bankrupt the Afghan central banks. So what happened?
Speaker 1: So as I said that the United States decided to
Speaker 1: freeze the Afghan central banks money, and over the last
Speaker 1: couple of days, the Biden administration decided to take it all.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna unfreeze it. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take it. They took their money. Um, and
Speaker 1: so what does that mean? So the Biden administration froze
Speaker 1: the roughly seven billion in central bank assets that the
Speaker 1: now defunct Western BacT government had on deposit the Federal Reserve,
Speaker 1: and um, they decided to take it. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: take half the money, three point five billion, and they're
Speaker 1: going to somehow divided up between living relatives of the
Speaker 1: victims of nine eleven terrorist attacks. Okay, well, were the
Speaker 1: terrorist attacks found to be done by the Afghanistan people,
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about whoever these terrors are I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the people like you and I we have our
Speaker 1: money at the bank. Are the people responsible for that?
Speaker 1: That was never found out to be a case as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact. Um, the United States said, hey,
Speaker 1: you're aiding and embedding these terrorists, and um, we need
Speaker 1: you to turn over Osama bun Laden And the Taliban
Speaker 1: government said, we will, We will give you Osama bin
Speaker 1: Ladden if you can give us proof that he was involved,
Speaker 1: which of course they never could and they never did.
Speaker 1: So here we are. The government took took their money.
Speaker 1: Seven half of it's going to go towards the whatever
Speaker 1: the relatives of victims of nine eleven get that, and
Speaker 1: then the other half of the money is going to
Speaker 1: be given out to some sort of like humanitarian aid. Um.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be steered towards humanitarian aid for Afghanistan. Um.
Speaker 1: But who's gonna get it? How much of that money
Speaker 1: is actually going to get to the people that need
Speaker 1: it or the people that have the people that have
Speaker 1: their money in the bank. Now, of course we're talking
Speaker 1: about why you maybe don't want to have your money
Speaker 1: in the bank because the government can take it at
Speaker 1: any time, which is what bitcoin is here for Remember,
Speaker 1: bitcoin solved the oldest problem in history. I can store
Speaker 1: my wealth in a way that cannot be taken, cannot
Speaker 1: be seized, cannot be stolen, and if I want to
Speaker 1: send it to you, nobody can stop it or block
Speaker 1: it or prevent It's freedom money. Of course, that means
Speaker 1: I have to custody it out my own, not trusted
Speaker 1: in a bank, and in order to custody on my own,
Speaker 1: that poses its own risks. I'm gonna be back with
Speaker 1: more talking about how you need to worry about protecting
Speaker 1: your wealth. Don't go away, all right, Welcome back. You
Speaker 1: are listening to the Markma Show. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: decentralized revolution that we are witnessing that we're living through.
Speaker 1: You know, times are times of change are scary because
Speaker 1: they're uncertain, but I can also look and think that
Speaker 1: it's pretty dang exciting because man, history books are gonna
Speaker 1: be written about what is going on right now now.
Speaker 1: Before the break, I was talking about, um, what's going
Speaker 1: on in Afghanistan? Um, And not because I just care
Speaker 1: so much about Afghanistan, but more importantly, because, as I
Speaker 1: was saying, the governments around the world are doing the
Speaker 1: marketing for bitcoin. They are proving the use case why
Speaker 1: we need it. A lot of people in the United States,
Speaker 1: um still would ask me, Mark, why do we need
Speaker 1: something like cryptocurrency? And makes no sense. Now, if you
Speaker 1: live in Venezuela or Argentina, or Lebanon, or Iran or Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: you'd get it from the United States. You don't because
Speaker 1: you know, we typically have a pretty good, you know,
Speaker 1: financial system. I mean, you know, never mind the fact
Speaker 1: that your money's lost nine percent of its purchasing power
Speaker 1: in the last hundred years. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not so bad. But um, now the
Speaker 1: governments are really trying to do bitcoins marketing for them.
Speaker 1: And I was talking about how the Biden administration this
Speaker 1: week decided to I'm just gonna use the words steal.
Speaker 1: They use the word seized. Whatever steal. The Biden administration
Speaker 1: decided to steal the people Afghanistan's money and to redistribute
Speaker 1: as they see fit. And so all those people that
Speaker 1: had their money in the bank now lost it now.
Speaker 1: Of course, the White House's decisions drew criticism from human
Speaker 1: rights groups, lawyers, and financial experts, who warned that the
Speaker 1: move could gut the country's central bank for years to come,
Speaker 1: crippling its ability to establish monetary policy and manage the
Speaker 1: country's balance of payments. Um John Sifton, the Asia Asia
Speaker 1: Advocacy director of Human Writes Watch, said quote the decision
Speaker 1: would create a problematic precedent for commandeering sovereign wealth and
Speaker 1: do little to address underlying factors driving Afghanistans a massive
Speaker 1: humanitarian crisis. So they're already having a hard enough time,
Speaker 1: and now you've got the big bad United States just
Speaker 1: coming and take their money, just redistribute it. And so
Speaker 1: again the governments of the world, the United States, Canada,
Speaker 1: they're proving why we should um be able to custo
Speaker 1: our own cones. Uh. Typically with investments or talking about
Speaker 1: buying bitcoin, you'd say, only only invest what you can
Speaker 1: afford to lose. I had some I had one friend
Speaker 1: this morning text me and he said, Mark, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of worried about my money in the banks. Um, what
Speaker 1: should I do? I said, only keep the money in
Speaker 1: the bank you can afford to lose. Which is pretty
Speaker 1: crazy that you have to think about it that way,
Speaker 1: but that's the way it is. If you're in Canada
Speaker 1: and you show any sympathy, including even commenting on social
Speaker 1: media in favor of the Freedom Convent. Way, you could
Speaker 1: have your bank accounts frozen or seized. If you went
Speaker 1: to Washington d c UM during times of protest and
Speaker 1: they flagged you there because used your credit card, you
Speaker 1: could have had your bank accounts seized. If you happen
Speaker 1: to be just a regular person in Afghanistan and had
Speaker 1: your money in the bank account, you get your money seized.
Speaker 1: And so Um, it's it's becoming more and more important.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, they're doing the marketing for them.
Speaker 1: Like I told my friend this morning, I only keep
Speaker 1: the money in the bank that you can't afford to lose.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy that we have to think about it
Speaker 1: in the in those terms. But um, that's basically where
Speaker 1: we're app now. As the United States continues to get
Speaker 1: more and more um authoritarian, or I should say, UM,
Speaker 1: as they continue to weaponize the US dollar. Um, it's
Speaker 1: really changed in the entire shape and outlook of the world. UM.
Speaker 1: I think we've obviously seen at this point, unless you've
Speaker 1: again been asleeper in a coma, you've seen that we
Speaker 1: are in an escalating conflict with the Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 1: I guess we could say, and um, you know, not
Speaker 1: to dig into the aspects of the war necessarily, but um,
Speaker 1: what we can see is sort of the same thing
Speaker 1: that's going on over there. The United States is weaponizing
Speaker 1: the dollar. Um, you know, we're threatening Russia and putin
Speaker 1: that if you go in there, we're going to slap
Speaker 1: sanctions on you. What does that mean. Slap sanctions, Well,
Speaker 1: that means more economic sanctions. That means more freezing of accounts,
Speaker 1: That means more seizing money out of accounts. And so
Speaker 1: if you happen to be in Russia and you happen
Speaker 1: to be a Russian citizen, that probably has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with a war or invasion. You probably don't even
Speaker 1: want it, you don't even care about it, maybe you
Speaker 1: don't even know about it. But your money happens to
Speaker 1: be in a Russian bank because that's what you do
Speaker 1: with your money, right, You put in a bank. And
Speaker 1: now the United States wants to slap sanctions and now
Speaker 1: freeze the assets of that bank. And you just happen
Speaker 1: to be a citizen, Well, now sorry, your money is
Speaker 1: now frozen. That's how that works, you know. Um, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of bad things going on in the world today,
Speaker 1: and I'm not advocating for those bad things. UM. Take
Speaker 1: our take Iran for example. Not to dig into politics
Speaker 1: of Iran, but you know there's obviously, um, the whole
Speaker 1: thing that's going on there with them trying to you know,
Speaker 1: come on with a nuclear program. And obviously you know,
Speaker 1: it seems kind of like as an American you probably
Speaker 1: don't want them to have nuclear weapons. Um. For some reason,
Speaker 1: the Biden Obama admin wants them to have nuclear weapons. Um.
Speaker 1: But because of the sanctions that we've had against them.
Speaker 1: If you if you're a thirteen or fifteen year old
Speaker 1: kid from Iran, you can't get a bank account. You
Speaker 1: probably have you probably don't know anything about what's going
Speaker 1: on in there. You're just a kid. You don't care
Speaker 1: about it, you're not sympathetic for it, but you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to be in the banking system. And so while
Speaker 1: I'm not advocating that they should have nuclear weapons, UM,
Speaker 1: it's too bad for that fifteen year old kid that
Speaker 1: just wants to start an Instagram account and make some
Speaker 1: money and he can't. You know, these uh, these games
Speaker 1: that these politicians play, they affect all of US and um,
Speaker 1: you know a nation, you know, Russia, Ukraine, US want
Speaker 1: to go to war. We don't care about that. I
Speaker 1: don't care about the war. I don't hate Russians, I
Speaker 1: don't hate Chinese. People don't hate any of those people,
Speaker 1: and they don't hate us either. It's these leaders that
Speaker 1: want to start these conflicts and play these games that
Speaker 1: drag US into it, and then unfortunately people people pay
Speaker 1: the price. Right, the people in Afghanistan got their money seized,
Speaker 1: the people in in Russia get their money seized. That's
Speaker 1: what's happening. But what happens is that as these governments
Speaker 1: do that, and guess what happens. Well, Russia has been
Speaker 1: the largest accumulator of gold in the world. Well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: China has been the largest accumulator, but Russia has been
Speaker 1: trying to keep up pace pretty fast accumulating gold and um.
Speaker 1: Russia is providing the rest of Europe with energy. And
Speaker 1: so if the United States says, okay, well now more
Speaker 1: sanctions on Russia, then Russia could just cut Europe off
Speaker 1: of energy, gas, oil, etcetera. Or they could say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the United States locks US out of the
Speaker 1: financial system, so now we have to transact with you
Speaker 1: in something else like gold, for example, or like cryptocurrency,
Speaker 1: because the United States can't shut down cryptocurrency, and so
Speaker 1: maybe we'll see Russia do that. Now, if I was
Speaker 1: having a party and I started kicking people out of
Speaker 1: the party, eventually I'm the only one left at the
Speaker 1: party and everyone else is having their own parties somewhere else.
Speaker 1: And so the more you see the United States trying
Speaker 1: to slap sanctions and sees bank accounts, the more they'll
Speaker 1: be kicking people out of the finance system. And really,
Speaker 1: like I said, doing marketing as why people should be
Speaker 1: using some cryptocurrencies UM and bitcoin, etcetera. And it's only
Speaker 1: accelerating what is the inevitable right we should as people
Speaker 1: have the right to control our own money UM, and
Speaker 1: governments should not be using that to manipulate this or
Speaker 1: bend us to their will. And the more they do that,
Speaker 1: the faster they are just going to speed this up. UM.
Speaker 1: And right now the pressure is on Russia and UM,
Speaker 1: like I said, they have a massive gold stash. Will
Speaker 1: they go back to gold, will they go back to cryptocurrency?
Speaker 1: I don't know, But what I do know is that
Speaker 1: it is going to speed up the inevitable decline of
Speaker 1: the use of the dollar UM in in the United
Speaker 1: States and globally as well. UM. You're listening to the
Speaker 1: Mark Moa Show. We're talking about the decentralized revolution that's happening.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology.
Speaker 1: We're talking about bitcoin. What's going on so you can
Speaker 1: understand it in the broader context of what's going on.
Speaker 1: I have a lot more that I want to dig into, UM,
Speaker 1: what the Federal Reserve the United States has been doing,
Speaker 1: what's going on up in Canada. So much more to
Speaker 1: talk about. I'll be back in a second. Don't go away, Hey, everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moss Show.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the decentralized revolution that's happening. Now. Before
Speaker 1: the break, we've covered a lot of ground hopefully didn't miss.
Speaker 1: But really what we're showing today is that UM as
Speaker 1: I've been saying that the oldest problem that mankind has
Speaker 1: had is how do I secure my wealth in a
Speaker 1: way that can't be stolen from me? UM. For the
Speaker 1: first UM humans alive, it was how do I secure
Speaker 1: my you know, maybe my food, uh, from my food
Speaker 1: not getting stolen my chickens and my goats. Um, then
Speaker 1: it was gold. You know, we formed a village and
Speaker 1: then a kingdom and then a country. UM. And we're
Speaker 1: still having that problem today. And while a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't understand why bitcoin and cryptocurrency is important, especially
Speaker 1: if you're in the United States, if you're in other
Speaker 1: countries where they're inflating away your currency or seizing your
Speaker 1: currency or stopping you or blocking you from either sending
Speaker 1: it or receiving it from somebody else, you get it.
Speaker 1: But the United States, Canada, it's been pretty hard for
Speaker 1: some people to see that because they're just they're so
Speaker 1: focused on their own life they don't see the problems
Speaker 1: that the rest of the world has. But today we're
Speaker 1: seeing the governments of the world really rallying hard to
Speaker 1: try to promote cryptocurrency as strong as they can. And
Speaker 1: so we talked about how UM the Biden admin decided
Speaker 1: this week they were going to steal UM the Afghanistans
Speaker 1: people's funds and redistribute them as they see fit. So
Speaker 1: if you had your money, and if you're an Afghanistan
Speaker 1: you your money in the bank, Sorry, we just lost
Speaker 1: it all because the government decided to take it. Not
Speaker 1: the government of Afghanistan, the United States government de stided
Speaker 1: to take it. Um. We talked about what's going on
Speaker 1: in Russia and Ukraine and how um, pretty much whatever
Speaker 1: is going to happen in the United States is gonna
Speaker 1: slap more sanctions on um Russia. And if you're a
Speaker 1: Russian citizen and you happen to have your money in
Speaker 1: the bank, it's gonna be bad for you, right UM.
Speaker 1: And so they're just doing more and more marketing UM
Speaker 1: as to why we need these types of things. And
Speaker 1: of course our neighbors in the North and Canada are
Speaker 1: also seeing the exact same thing. And while while Canada
Speaker 1: and these other countries have really proven the case what
Speaker 1: we need it, um, we're also seen that at the
Speaker 1: same time, at the exact same time, our leaders in
Speaker 1: the United States are proving even more reasons. And not
Speaker 1: because they're se easing it, which as I said, they
Speaker 1: already are, but like we saw this week, Uh, well,
Speaker 1: we've been covering for quite a while now that the
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of the United States, the
Speaker 1: one that prints the money out of thin air, the
Speaker 1: one that pumps the money into the markets. The one
Speaker 1: that knows what what companies or bonds they're going to
Speaker 1: prop up has been doing insider trading on that information.
Speaker 1: So they were buying these stocks, these companies, investing this
Speaker 1: money before they were passing these financial policies. Seems kind
Speaker 1: of like a conflict of interest. Now, if you or
Speaker 1: I did that, that of course gets us a nice
Speaker 1: pair of handcuffs and we get aware of probably a
Speaker 1: nice orange jumpsuit for a really long time, like like
Speaker 1: Martha Stewart had to go to some time. But of
Speaker 1: course if the government, politicians and the central bankers do it,
Speaker 1: no big deal. That's a problem, right, rules for the
Speaker 1: not for me. Now, we saw this week that the
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve refused to release sixty pages of correspondents on
Speaker 1: pandemic trades scandal. So what does that mean? So, um,
Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve, as I said, was doing insider trading
Speaker 1: on this. They did some investigation. Um, three top Federal
Speaker 1: Reserve officials lost their jobs, including the Dallas and Boston
Speaker 1: Fed presidents, as well as that of the vice chair Clarita.
Speaker 1: And you would think that, um, something this big, this
Speaker 1: big of a matter, this public um, you would think
Speaker 1: it would be fully in the public domain. But of course,
Speaker 1: you know you'd be wrong. They don't want to even
Speaker 1: know about this um and so Reuters had to do
Speaker 1: what's called the Freedom of Information Act, the FOIA request
Speaker 1: to get the information, and the FEDS that there was
Speaker 1: about sixty pages of correspondence between ethics officials and policymakers
Speaker 1: recording regarding financial transactions conducted during the pandemic year, which
Speaker 1: have become an extremely sore spot for the FED and
Speaker 1: members of Congress who are demanding full transparency as to
Speaker 1: who knew and who did what and when. The only
Speaker 1: problem is no one's allowed to see them, as the
Speaker 1: FED quote unquote denied in full to release the documents,
Speaker 1: citing exemptions under the Information Next. So under the Freedom
Speaker 1: of Information Act, they're supposed to release this. Congress is
Speaker 1: demanding full transparency, and the FED denied it. Nope, you
Speaker 1: don't get it, uh, it says, uh. Well, so they
Speaker 1: cited an exemption under the Information Act, and it said
Speaker 1: it applied in this case. Uh. Now, typically, traditionally an
Speaker 1: exemption would only be used in a matter of national security.
Speaker 1: So how does allegations of insider trading by a bunch
Speaker 1: of millionaires that control the money. How does that threaten
Speaker 1: the US democracy? I'd like to know. But the point
Speaker 1: here is that there's absolutely no transparency with the people
Speaker 1: that create the money. No transparency, no accountability. We know
Speaker 1: that they did these things, we know that they enriched
Speaker 1: themselves before they passed these financial policies using the legal
Speaker 1: ramification is that we have we've requested the information and
Speaker 1: they said no, and then what, no big deal. They
Speaker 1: can do whatever they want, right And so the problem is,
Speaker 1: while on one hand they're completely manipulated system, completely enriching
Speaker 1: themselves at our expense, at the same time they expect
Speaker 1: a hundred transparency from you. I probably talked about earlier
Speaker 1: a few months ago, where the I R s now
Speaker 1: wants to regulate every bank account that has more than
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars of transaction. So, if your account has
Speaker 1: more than six hundred dollars, the IRIS wants to know
Speaker 1: every single transaction that you do in your bank account. Oh,
Speaker 1: but you know there are trillions of dollars. No, no
Speaker 1: big deal, we don't need to know that. You have
Speaker 1: no right to know what they're doing. And that's the problems.
Speaker 1: The bitcoin is an open source network it's good and bad. Right,
Speaker 1: it's open source, so everybody can see this full countability.
Speaker 1: We don't have to trust that the Fed isn't doing
Speaker 1: something shady, because we already know they are. If there
Speaker 1: wasn't something shady, they would have released the documents. Um Bitcoin,
Speaker 1: you don't trust, you verify. The network's open. We know
Speaker 1: that nobody can create more money. If somebody was doing
Speaker 1: something shady, that we we would see that. And so
Speaker 1: while on one hand they're fighting this trying to hide this,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, they're saying that we want to
Speaker 1: examine with a magnifying glass every single transaction you do
Speaker 1: with six hundred bucks, because you know you know terrorism, right,
Speaker 1: You're six hundred dollars could be funding terrorism. Never mind
Speaker 1: the billions of dollars that we left behind for them
Speaker 1: in afghanist and never mind that you're six hundred dollars
Speaker 1: could be leading to terrorism. So I just I cite
Speaker 1: this just because of the contrast that we're seeing here. Right,
Speaker 1: the government wants to seize your money. The Biden administration
Speaker 1: says they're going to pass executive actions to regulate cryptocurrencies
Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve. I'm sorry that the Treasury, Janet Yellen
Speaker 1: says that she wants the ability to freeze any accounts
Speaker 1: that she thinks need to be frozen for whatever reason
Speaker 1: she thinks they need to be. Of course, they don't
Speaker 1: tell us that. But at the same time, they're using
Speaker 1: insider trading and printing currency, basically stealing money from us
Speaker 1: to enrich themselves, and we have no we have no
Speaker 1: ac countability to that. That's the problem, you see. That's
Speaker 1: the thing with bitcoin versus cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is trying to
Speaker 1: change the system. Bitcoin puts the system in place that
Speaker 1: nobody can control. Instead of a instead of twelve board
Speaker 1: governors and the FED that can just create more money,
Speaker 1: no one can control it. No one can control bitcoin.
Speaker 1: The difference with cryptocurrency is that people can so ethereum
Speaker 1: number two cryptocurrency. One of the big problems is we
Speaker 1: don't know how many ethereum there will be one day.
Speaker 1: There's no there's no fixed supply cap like with bitcoin.
Speaker 1: Twenty one million and so Ittalic Buterin and boys that
Speaker 1: that that uh developed ethereum got together a few months
Speaker 1: ago and they changed that, and they changed it. But
Speaker 1: the very fact that people can change that at will
Speaker 1: is the same as the system that we have today,
Speaker 1: the same as the system that we don't have um
Speaker 1: and then, like I said, then we have the problem
Speaker 1: where they can basically freeze our assets. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what's happening up in Canada. Justin should go invoke this
Speaker 1: Emergency's Act for the first time since it was past
Speaker 1: in not for nine eleven bombing, you know, not for pandemic,
Speaker 1: but because some truckers parked their trucks. It's an urgent,
Speaker 1: critical situation and using this Emergency Act, they can freeze
Speaker 1: people's accounts and sees people's money for nothing, for no reason.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring somebody on in a second, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna hear some boots on the ground. What is going
Speaker 1: on up in Canada. You don't want to miss this.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of misinformation going on on on online.
Speaker 1: So I thought, let's hear from somebody who's been there
Speaker 1: since day one. Don't go away. Hey, everyone, welcome back.
Speaker 1: You are listening to the Mark Moa Show, and we
Speaker 1: are talking about bitcoin. We're talking about the decentralized revolution
Speaker 1: that is happening around the world. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things happening as the world become decentralized,
Speaker 1: as bitcoin is solving the money and one of the
Speaker 1: many things that we have been talking about is you know,
Speaker 1: humanitarian aid that bitcoin is able to do. And of
Speaker 1: course we have this situation in Canada we've been talking
Speaker 1: about extensively, and I was able to get somebody that's
Speaker 1: boots on the ground down there since day one in
Speaker 1: Ottawa in Canada, and I wanted to just bring some
Speaker 1: perspective of what's really going on down there. So I
Speaker 1: have Colin ross A k A Big Bear. He's with me,
Speaker 1: big Bear, Thanks for joining me. Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: So I've been covering what's going on down in Canada
Speaker 1: for quite a while. Um. I like to look at
Speaker 1: things in context, so you know, the political, financial technology
Speaker 1: side that's happening, and it's pretty amazing what's happening. It's
Speaker 1: it's sad, it's amazing, but I wanted to bring some perspective.
Speaker 1: You're kind of the first person I've talked to boots
Speaker 1: on the ground now. Um. First off, I would say,
Speaker 1: there seems to be a lot of misinformation. So everything
Speaker 1: that I've seen on Twitter, um, it seems like it's
Speaker 1: people that are happy people that are have lots of
Speaker 1: love for each other. I see dancing and I see
Speaker 1: Canadian flags everywhere. But then the media is trying to
Speaker 1: tell us that it's a racist and misogynists and it's
Speaker 1: it's a violent. Um you've you've been there since day
Speaker 1: one on the ground. Give us an overview of what
Speaker 1: it's like being down there and what the what the
Speaker 1: you know, the moods like and so forth. Um So,
Speaker 1: the atmosphere here and Ottawa has been absolutely amazing. I've
Speaker 1: honestly never seen anything like it in my entire life.
Speaker 1: Like we've been calling it the love Revolution because there's
Speaker 1: so many people giving hugs and just showing love to
Speaker 1: one another. There's so much there's food going around everywhere,
Speaker 1: there's people you know, giving t shirts out, you name it. Um,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely incredible. What's happening in Ottawa right now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. UM Now it seems like, um, I is
Speaker 1: it growing? I mean it seems like I saw like
Speaker 1: one of the bridges got clear, but now it looks
Speaker 1: like a couple more bridges are getting filled up. So
Speaker 1: is the is the is the freedom Convoy? I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what you're calling it is it is it
Speaker 1: seems to be growing or is it like losing steam
Speaker 1: or picking up steam? The momentum is growing across the
Speaker 1: world right now. Okay, so we planted the seed in
Speaker 1: Canada right now, the Americans are about to get wrapped up.
Speaker 1: They're starting their convoy on DC in the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. And no, it is not slowing down. There's
Speaker 1: people pouring into Ottawa more and more by the day.
Speaker 1: Some people are getting tired and going home, you know,
Speaker 1: they have jobs to go to, they have families to
Speaker 1: take care of, so that's expected. But has any of
Speaker 1: the truckers left. Absolutely not. They're holding their ground there.
Speaker 1: They're here for the long run. Yeah. Now, I've been
Speaker 1: talking about this a lot of just in a sense
Speaker 1: where we're kind of at this stage where there's this
Speaker 1: revolution that's happening, and it happens about every two or
Speaker 1: fifty years, and the more that the leadership seems to
Speaker 1: want to squeeze it off, the more that people push back.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what it seems like to me
Speaker 1: that to the point, the more that they're trying to
Speaker 1: squeeze in, it's almost attracting more people to it. I
Speaker 1: was just curious as of whatever it was a day
Speaker 1: or two ago, a couple of days ago. Um, I
Speaker 1: guess Trudeau kind of pulled the nuclear um weapon out
Speaker 1: and said that, you know, now he's got these Emergencies
Speaker 1: Act and he's going to start seizing bank accounts and
Speaker 1: trucks and things like that. And so I just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like people are being discouraged by that. Uh No, Actually,
Speaker 1: if anything, it's pissing more people off because they see
Speaker 1: the lies for what they are clear as day. Now.
Speaker 1: You know, even the people that weren't believers are believers. Now.
Speaker 1: There's a big shift happening right now. It's there's a
Speaker 1: there's an information war going on. Like I become like
Speaker 1: my own news anchor literally just on TikTok. I grew
Speaker 1: up following of you know, thirty thousand people in two weeks,
Speaker 1: and we are out there spreading the real news, not
Speaker 1: this propaganda machine that's paid off by the government to
Speaker 1: go off scripts and just lie to our people and
Speaker 1: demonize what this movement is actually about. Yeah, now, um,
Speaker 1: go ahead and shout out what your TikTok is. Uh
Speaker 1: it's at the Big Bear movement. But I actually just
Speaker 1: had to start a new one because that account got
Speaker 1: blocked last night. So it's culling big bear Roth now. Um.
Speaker 1: One thing that I've been focused on is, like I said,
Speaker 1: with bitcoin and the humanitarian Aide. So obviously the big
Speaker 1: news was about ten million dollars was raised via go
Speaker 1: fund me, and that money got frozen, got kind of
Speaker 1: got season. There was another um, I don't know was
Speaker 1: it five million or so that was in the gifts
Speaker 1: and go that got blocked. And now there's all this money,
Speaker 1: um that's being raised through bitcoin. Um have you seen
Speaker 1: some of that money getting dispersed out or how? How
Speaker 1: has that been working? This this fundraising effort, like with
Speaker 1: the cryptocurrency, have I seen it being dispersed? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: I know they're really going and trying to get all
Speaker 1: the truckers signed up with crypto wallets. They came out
Speaker 1: with the Convoy Freedom token, right, and I know they're
Speaker 1: really pushing that. That's that's Pat King's deal. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a legit you know token. And I think that the
Speaker 1: plan is to really get a lot of money behind it,
Speaker 1: to be honest, and then every time you make a
Speaker 1: withdrawal or you buy there's four go to the truckers.
Speaker 1: From that. Another thing that I would ask is that,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Trudeau and and the and the mainstream
Speaker 1: media is trying to say that this is very fringe, right,
Speaker 1: he says that this doesn't represent most of Canadians. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, there hasn't been any poll
Speaker 1: that's been done, There hasn't been any vote taken, So
Speaker 1: obviously he I don't know how he makes that claim.
Speaker 1: Um you obviously I would have imagined have another, um,
Speaker 1: look at that being boots on the ground. But what
Speaker 1: does the air like, I mean it does it? Does
Speaker 1: it seem like it's a fringe minority or do you
Speaker 1: think this is really taking over Canada. It's taking over Canada,
Speaker 1: There's no question about it. There was three million people
Speaker 1: here last weekend. They tried to the news tried to
Speaker 1: say there was a couple of couple of thousands, and
Speaker 1: then thousands of counter protestors. That's total bus I've been
Speaker 1: here since day one. I came with the convoy from
Speaker 1: British Columbia. I've seen it for what it is and like,
Speaker 1: it's insane how many people are here. And not only that,
Speaker 1: there is protests across Canada. You know, there's like I
Speaker 1: think there was about sixteen city blocks in Calgary alone
Speaker 1: last weekend. People m M. Yeah, so it's big and
Speaker 1: it's growing, and um, everyone seems to be pretty dug
Speaker 1: in for the long haul at this point. Absolutely, uh,
Speaker 1: we we leave until we see change. We came here
Speaker 1: to get all the mandates dropped, not just for one province,
Speaker 1: for all Canadians. This is tyranny. Okay, let's leads all
Speaker 1: to the World Economic Forum. You know, this is the
Speaker 1: great reset. They want to bankrupt us, think over what
Speaker 1: we own and control us. You know this is They
Speaker 1: even say it on the Canadian website about the social
Speaker 1: credit score system, the Chinese social credit source system. This
Speaker 1: is communism. M hm. So um, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: So you said until you're not leaving until the I
Speaker 1: don't know the demands are matter the things that you're asking.
Speaker 1: So basically you're asking that they just roll back the
Speaker 1: mandates to where what where they worked two years ago.
Speaker 1: They need to drop all the mandates for all Canadians.
Speaker 1: The real pandemic has been you know, they're killing our
Speaker 1: small businesses. People are dying from mental health, from suicide,
Speaker 1: from addiction, I still yet to know anyone who's died
Speaker 1: from COVID. Okay, they created a they have a virus.
Speaker 1: Yes it's real, but it's become the fear of virus,
Speaker 1: and they've used it to push to push their agenda.
Speaker 1: And that's wrong, that's evil. So we've seen that some
Speaker 1: of the states have started to roll back those mandates.
Speaker 1: But that's not enough. You you didn't you want I'm
Speaker 1: dropped in the whole nation. We want him dropped on
Speaker 1: the entire nation. Right now, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: our political power starting to roll back because they know
Speaker 1: their political careers are going to be screwed if they don't.
Speaker 1: So a lot of them are all backpeddling already. We
Speaker 1: just need the house of cards to fall. It needs
Speaker 1: a domino effect and they all need to fall. So
Speaker 1: for people that are listening to this right now and
Speaker 1: they wanna kind of fall along, is there anything that
Speaker 1: they should be paying attention to or more resources that
Speaker 1: you would point them to? Uh, you know, I've not.
Speaker 1: TikTok has really become the media for their you know,
Speaker 1: people are just constantly loading videos on there. They've been
Speaker 1: blocking our live streams, they've been blocking our Facebook I've
Speaker 1: had so many accounts already get taken down since I've
Speaker 1: been here in the last two or a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and so you know, just checking up on the convoy
Speaker 1: and Ottawa through TikTok has been our best resource so far. Yeah, awesome, Well,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us today, Big Bear. Appreciate that. Um,
Speaker 1: I for one, I love what you guys are doing,
Speaker 1: standing up for a tyranny against tyranny, I should say.
Speaker 1: And so, uh, you know, if if I could actually
Speaker 1: get across the border, I might even be up there
Speaker 1: joining you. But I can't. But I'm definitely sending you
Speaker 1: guys support and uh, you know, hold strong up there.
Speaker 1: Well we're working on it so you can come across. Brother.
Speaker 1: We love you guys in the South. We got so
Speaker 1: much support down there, and uh we're holding strong here
Speaker 1: and you guys are up next. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: All Right, you heard it from Colin ross A k A.
Speaker 1: Big Bear boots on the ground in Ottawa with the
Speaker 1: Trucker's Rally for Freedom since day one, bringing that perspect dive.
Speaker 1: You've been listening to the Mark Maas Show. Hopefully this
Speaker 1: was helpful for you. Thanks for listening,