1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to another episode of The Markmas Show, 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: where we are talking about the decentralized revolution that we 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: are going through right now. We're talking about bitcoin. We're 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 1: talking about the intersection of politics, finance and technology. We're 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: talking about the intersection of those three things. That is 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: what driving is what's driving the world. If you look 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: back through thousands of years of history, as I like 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: to do, I love to go back and talk about history, um, 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: you'll see that it's always technology that changes the world. 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: It's the mega political factors that change the way that 11 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: we communicate, the way that we organize, and as the 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: way that we communicate, we organize the way that we 13 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: do business as that changes, the world changes. This isn't 14 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 1: necessarily about politics per se um, but it seems political 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: because it changes the organization structure of the world. Now, 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: there's plenty of people online talking about politics all day um, 17 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: and there's plenty of people talking about finance over there 18 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: as well. What I'm trying to do is bring to 19 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: you those three things together so you can understand them 20 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: in context of what's going on in the world today. 21 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: Not just understand what's going on in the world today 22 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: for your own peace of mind or just so for 23 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: you know, for your own curiosity, but so you can 24 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: navigate these things properly to protect yourself, your family, your future, 25 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: your legacy, and so much more. It starts with the money. 26 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: All money start or all a should say, all freedom 27 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: starts with the money. As we we've been finding out 28 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: lately and as we're going to dig into today. It 29 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: starts with the money. That's where your freedom, that's where 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: your options come from. Your freedom comes from um, and 31 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: then you can start to build on it from there 32 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: your health, your freedom, your family, et cetera. So we 33 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff to cover today. I try 34 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: to bring to you each and every week. I try 35 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: to bring to you some education to build your foundation 36 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: on so you can understand what's going on, so you 37 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: can learn how to navigate this. I want to bring 38 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: to you the latest breaking news of what's going on, 39 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: your up to date so you can see these play 40 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: by play as it's happening. Of course, then I try 41 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: to bring you some of the brightest people in the space, UM, 42 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: so you can hear some other perspectives. Then just for 43 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: me keep it kind of interesting. So you listen to 44 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: the Mark Moa show Um, like I said, talking about 45 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 1: the intersection of politics, finance, and technology, bringing it all 46 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: into context so you can understand today. And of course 47 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: the intersection of those things is smacking us right in 48 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: the face as we speak. UM. If you've been tuning 49 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: in with me each and every week, UM, First off, 50 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: I appreciate that. If you haven't been, then just go 51 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: ahead and take a second, right now, Why don't you 52 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: just pull out your phone. You can put yourself a 53 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: Calibram calendar reminder to join me each and every week 54 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: the same channel at the same time. If you're driving, 55 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: maybe well till you stop up. Otherwise put a reminder 56 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: joined me each and every week. UM. And so if 57 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: you've been joining me, then you know we've been talking about, um, 58 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: some of the stuff that's been going on in Canada 59 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: that's obviously been dominated the news headlines for the last 60 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: couple of weeks, UM, specifically the truck or convoy that happened. 61 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,839 Speaker 1: And again not talking about politics just for politics sake, UM, 62 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: But it's the intersection of those things. And so what 63 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: we found is that in a democracy, which you know 64 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: Canada as a democracy, which by the way, the US 65 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: is not a democracy. The US is a republic. If 66 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: you grew up saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school, 67 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: then you know that to the republic for which it stands. 68 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: And the difference of a democracy in a republic is 69 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,839 Speaker 1: that in a republic it's a representative government. And so, um, 70 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: that means that we elect representatives. So if you've voted, 71 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: then you know that we have representatives for each state 72 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: and we send those representatives to Washington to represent us there. 73 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: And so it's not democracy. Um. I'm not a big 74 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: fan of democracy, which maybe takes some people by surprise, 75 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: but if you understand, democracy is more like mob rule, 76 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: and so the majority wins. And the problem is when 77 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: the majority want more of your money, for example, that's 78 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: a problem. So it becomes the tyranny of the minority. 79 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: So for example, if there was like five or six 80 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: of us sitting there and uh, you know, you guys 81 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: that you guys made a lot of money. Uh, there's 82 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: a couple of bill that made money, and we voted that. 83 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: The majority of people said you know what, um, we 84 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: think that you should just give us some of your money. 85 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: And the you know, I'm like, wait a minute, I 86 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: earned this money. I worked really hard for it. Well, 87 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: we think you should just give us some and where 88 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: the majority. So that's just how it goes, and so 89 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: you could see really quickly how the minority can be affected. 90 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: But anyway, that's a different story for a different day. 91 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: Back to the democracy that we have in Canada. And 92 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: so in the democracy, the people are supposed to have 93 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: a voice. And one of the ways that people can 94 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: use that voice, obviously there's voting. UM. However, I think 95 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: we're starting to realize that voting doesn't do a whole lot. 96 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: Another way that we can use our voices by assembly. 97 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: In the United States, it's guaranteed to us by the 98 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: First Amendment, the freedom to assemble. UM, and so we 99 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: can assemble. And that's exactly what happened in Canada. UM. 100 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: The truckers were assembling to show their you know, outrage, 101 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: their protest, if you will, UM. And then it's what 102 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: happened after that. And again, not trying to get into 103 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: the political um discussion of what exactly happened in Canada. UM. 104 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: And I don't even want to make a claim whether 105 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: that was good or not. I think, uh, you know, 106 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: what's good is bad to someone else, and bad is 107 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: you know, vice versa, etcetera. But what was interesting about 108 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: it is what we're seeing happen in the world right now. 109 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: And remember, as I said, right, technology drives change in 110 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: the world because the changes the way that we work, 111 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: we organize with, communicate, etcetera. And so what's interesting is 112 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: that we have bitcoin, we have cryptocurrency. UM. As I've 113 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: been talking about. It's a technological revolution. It's different than 114 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,239 Speaker 1: a technology. A technology is a new technology, like the iPhone, 115 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: and you know, the iPhone is cool and it's you know, 116 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: it's it's kind of improves on the personal computer in 117 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: the phone and kind of merge them together. And so 118 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: that was an improvement and that was great and I 119 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: like it. But a technological revolution is something that changes 120 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: the course of humanity. What do I mean change the 121 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: course of humanity? I mean it changed literally changes the 122 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: direct And so for example, there's been five industrial revolution. 123 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: Um all of humanity. People were worked in farms, and 124 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: now we had cities and factories. And then we had 125 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: steam engines and railways. For all of humanity, we had horses, 126 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: and now we have steam engines moving stuff across railways 127 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: across the continents, um, automobiles, etcetera. I'm not gonna go 128 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: with thre each one, but you understand how those changed 129 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: the course of humanity for all of humanity. People walked 130 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: and rode horses, and then one day we had cars um, 131 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: and so it's really big. And so we're witnessing one today. 132 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: And this is the decentralized revolution that we're talking about. 133 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: And so back to bitcoin, the decentralized revolution in Canada. 134 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: So we have the we have the truckers. They're protesting. 135 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: They wanted an end to the mandates. Um. I think 136 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: you know, one thing you want to be careful of 137 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: is that they're really trying to pin this on you know, 138 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: vaccines and these are deniers and they don't want this, 139 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: but it wasn't really about that. What they want is 140 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: they don't want mandates. What they want is they don't 141 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: want to be told what they can and can't do. 142 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: What they wanted is they wanted to be able to 143 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: work and provide for their family. Imagine that, you know, uh, 144 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: as I study history, you can look back through just 145 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: never ending um stories of basically cycles repeating from freedom 146 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: and then you get oppressions. So then you get revolution, 147 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: and then you get freedom, and then you get depression, 148 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: you get revolution. It repeats over and over um. And 149 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: what they ultimately want is they just want more freedom. 150 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: They want to be left alone. But ultimately, what the 151 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: if you the proverbial straw that breaks the camel back, 152 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: if you will, or the spark that ignites the flame, 153 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: it's always when people can't provide for their family. So 154 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: it's typically around food. If we look at like the 155 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: Arab spring for example, right when prices get too high, 156 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: people can't eat. You know, I could go through a 157 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: lot of pain, but if it's my kids, my family, 158 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: then it's it's a different story. So you know, back 159 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: to these truckers not able to provide for their family. 160 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: But what what happened was is they were protesting and 161 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: then they raised go fund Me. I've talked about this extensively. 162 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: The go fund me account was frozen um. And then 163 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: there was money given through gives Them Go. That money 164 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: was frozen, and then anybody who donated to those campaigns 165 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: also got their accounts frozen. Literally they were unbanked. They 166 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: were banked and now they're unbanked um. And so then 167 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: what comes next, Well, how can we get the money 168 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: that the government's can't freeze? Can't stop. And of course, 169 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: inter stage right, if you will, enter bitcoin, and bitcoin 170 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: popped up and showed that this is a way to 171 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: send value, saying that as even money makes bitcoin sound 172 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: too small as a way to send value, to transfer 173 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: value to somebody in a way that the government couldn't stop. Now, 174 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 1: if that wasn't interesting enough, now we have the world 175 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: watching for what's happening in the Ukraine and Russia, and 176 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: so we have a war, not a world war at 177 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: this point, but a war. And we are seeing that 178 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 1: now Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in this decentralized revolution is taking 179 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: center stage. There's a lot to dig into. I want 180 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: to talk about that. I want to talk about how 181 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: finance is being weaponized. I want to talk about how 182 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: that's forcing people to build parallel structures. I want to 183 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: talk about how this affects individual people and not just nations, 184 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: and so much more. You're listening to the Mark Moa 185 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: show talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology. 186 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: We're talking about bitcoin and the decentralized revolution. We're talking 187 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: about how what's going on in the world today is 188 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: really pushing this into the world stage. And you need 189 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: to understand this. So do not go away. I'm gonna 190 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: be right back with more in just a second. Everyone, 191 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Ma Show 192 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 1: and we are talking about what's going on in the 193 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: world today, and I'm trying to bring some context to 194 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: you so you can understand it, and not just understand 195 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: it just so you understand it, but so you can 196 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: understand it so you can navigate it properly. Of course, 197 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: we're talking about bitcoin, the decentralized revolution. We are talking 198 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology. As I 199 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: was making the case before we went on the break, 200 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: that it's technology that is the driving force of change 201 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: in the world that you is the way we communicate, change, 202 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: the way that we interact, change the way that we organize. 203 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: And politics maybe don't like it because it disrupts their 204 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: old ways, their old monopoly and it just creates new ways, 205 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: and it's something to be mad about. It's not about uh, 206 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: it shouldn't be politicized as far as left or right 207 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: or red or blue or whatever you want to call it. 208 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: It's just this technology. So for example, if I wanted 209 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: to listen to Beethoven in the past, I had to 210 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: have a hundred person orchestra, and then it went on 211 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: to a record, and then it went onto a CD. 212 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: And today I just stream it from my phone. And 213 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: it wasn't anything against the orchestra. I mean, those guys 214 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: are great playing those instruments, and I like people playing instruments. 215 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: I play instruments and people should. But today we just 216 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: stream music. And uh. We used to take pictures, and 217 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: we used to have film. I remember having out by 218 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,599 Speaker 1: disposal cameras. We go out for the weekend, take a 219 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,319 Speaker 1: bunch of pictures, I go drop them off, get them developed. Um, 220 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: we had books and books and books of developed photos everywhere, 221 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: mostly in boxes, never never to be looked at again. 222 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: And now we just take digital pictures. And there's nothing 223 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: against code AC or film or pictures. It's just that's 224 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: the way it is. And so today money is being 225 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: digitized and it's not you know, some sides of the 226 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: political ideology don't like it, but it's not anything against them. 227 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: It's just we're just softwares heating the world. That's just 228 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:14,599 Speaker 1: the way it works. So let's talk about this a 229 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: little bit so so you can understand it. So what 230 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: we obviously we have the rush of Ukraine situation going on. 231 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: That's no surprise unless you've been living under a rock. 232 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: But if you listen to me, then I'm sure you're 233 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: not living under rock. Um. So we have that situation 234 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: going on, and what's interesting is, of course, you know, 235 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: the world condemns it rightfully, So I'm not I'm definitely 236 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: not for that. I'm not for violence of any kind. Um. 237 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,719 Speaker 1: I hate to see violence, oppression, or murder. So I'm 238 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: definitely not trying to speak out for it in any way. 239 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: But what's interesting about it is that the world has, 240 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: like I said, come out and condemned it. And what 241 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: they've really done is they've moved into sanctions. Right. So sanctions, 242 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: so this is where politics and finance come together. And 243 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 1: so sanctions are a way that they could basically, um, 244 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: you know, try to de escalate the situation or try 245 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: to control the situation without going to war, which is good. 246 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: You know, I prefer to be done diplomatically then going 247 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,719 Speaker 1: to war for sure. Um. And so these sanctions are 248 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: ways where they can, like I said, force people to 249 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: two things. By it's kind of the carrot or the stick, 250 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: if you will. Right, So you have the carrot, which 251 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: is um trying to entice people to do something. And 252 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: the stick is obviously punishment. As humans were very we're 253 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: very simple creatures. Um, if you're if you're in business, 254 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: or if you have studied any type of marketing, then 255 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: you probably know this. But as humans were very basic, 256 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: we're motivated by only two things. And now that you 257 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: know these things, you'll start to notice that as you 258 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: watch like marketing messages. But we're only only motivated by 259 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: two things. One humans we want to we're motivated to 260 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: move towards pleasure. We want things that bring us pleasure. Oh, 261 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna look so good. Oh, people are gonna love 262 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: you so much, or you're gonna feel so great. Right, 263 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: that's marketing. And then we're also motivated to move away 264 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: from pain. Um, don't let this happen to you. Watch 265 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: out for this, right. So that's that's the carrot and 266 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: the stick, if you will. And so back to the 267 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: sanctions and so, um, the world has been basically sanctioning 268 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: Russia and the United States, which has the dollar, which 269 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: is the reserve currency of the world, and it controls 270 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: what's known as the swift banking system. And if you've 271 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: ever sent a bank wire before, then you know what 272 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: Swift is. It's the it's the messaging system that sends 273 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: these payments around the world. I think it sends like uh, 274 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: I looked it up the other day. It was like 275 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: fifty billion financial messages a day or something like or 276 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: something like that a lot. And so the money moves 277 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: around through the Swift system. And so what the United 278 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: States can do is they can just say, hey, we'll 279 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: just take away your ability to transfer money. Easy enough, right, 280 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: But the problem is it's it's it's never that easy, 281 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: and it's actually it's actually a very messy problem, and 282 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: it has unintended consequences. Everything in a complex system will 283 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: always have unintended consequences. So complex system like your body, 284 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: for example, your body is very complex and everything hangs 285 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: on a razor then marge in and so unfortunately, what 286 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: most doctors do today is, uh, they you come in 287 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: and say you have heartburn, and they give you a 288 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: prescription for heartburn medication. But they could tell you to 289 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: change your diet and eat eat more vegetables and have 290 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: more alkaline in your body. But instead they'll give you 291 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: a prescription. The problem is that that prescription now has 292 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: unintended consequences. So of course, if you've watched any type 293 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: of pharmaceutical add on TV, at the end they go 294 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: through all the side effects that it could potentially have, right, um, 295 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: and those are unintended consequences. The famous story is the 296 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: is the cobra effect. The cobra effect is interesting. Um, 297 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: it's basically a story. I'll give you the brief version 298 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: from India. And in India they have cobra's right, cobra 299 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: snakes and and those are I've never come face to 300 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: face with unluckily, but they're not a very friendly stake. 301 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: They're they're a very deadly snake. And so they had 302 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: they had a problem. There was too many of these 303 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: cobras running around, and so the government had a bright idea. 304 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: Government always has a bright idea. They just don't think 305 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: about the unintended consequences. Ah. I'm not a big fan 306 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: of government intervention, if you might notice. I think free 307 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: markets will figure this out. So let's talk about this 308 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: the cobra effect and understand the consequences. So basically, uh, 309 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: India says, hey, we have a big problem. We should 310 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: do something. Right. Here's what we'll do. We're gonna pay 311 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: people to go get a cobra. If they kill it 312 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: and bring the cobra in, we'll pay them, you know 313 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: for that. And that way we'll you know, would let 314 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: everybody go kill all the cobras. We don't have to 315 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: worry about anymore. I'll pay it a little bit of money. 316 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: Everything's good, right, Well not necessarily. So what happens is 317 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: everybody starts going and getting the cobras and bringing them in, 318 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: and they starting to make a lot of money. And then, 319 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: you know, people are smart and they're like, I got 320 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: a better idea. Let's just raise cobras. Now, we can 321 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: bring twenty fifty hundreds of cobras at a time. And 322 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: they did so. Now everybody's raising cobras and they're bringing 323 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: them in and getting getting paid. And the government finally said, 324 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute, this is ridiculous, like no, no, now, 325 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: you guys are just raising them this defeat while purpose. 326 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: Let's end the program. So they canceled the program. And 327 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: when they canceled the program, what happened, Well, all those 328 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: people that were raising cobras, that will they're worthless to 329 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: us now and they just let them all go, and 330 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: India ended up with more cobras than they had at 331 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: the beginning. That's unintended consequences, and that's exactly what's happening 332 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: with these Russian sanctions. Back to the story. So the 333 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: Russian sanctions, so, um, they shouldn't be able to transact, 334 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: they shouldn't be able to buy things, they shouldn't be 335 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: able to do all these things. And a couple of 336 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: couple of things to note before we really dig into 337 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: the meat of this and how Bitcoin of the decentralized 338 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: Revolution is really taken off because of this. A couple 339 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: of things is that what you may not know is 340 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: that the world is very dependent on each other, al right, 341 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: not just Russia and the US, but everybody is depending 342 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: on each other. So for example, um, the United States 343 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: is heavily dependent on energy, um oil from Russia. Europe 344 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: is very very heavily dependent on energy from Russia, both 345 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: oil and natural gas. So already you know, the Biden 346 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: administration said, well, we're gonna sanction Russia, but we're not 347 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: gonna sanction energy. Okay, well, what good does that do 348 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: because their main export is energy, So you're gonna you're 349 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: gonna sanction but not their energy. But that's that's what 350 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: they have, so right, off the bat. Sanctions aren't very 351 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: effective because we're not going to do that. But then 352 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 1: it goes even further. Right, So let's say, for example, 353 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: what Biden did announce is that what we're going to 354 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: do is we're going to sanction UM their technology. That's 355 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: what we'll do. We'll we'll we'll prevent them from getting 356 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: to technology. It's gonna hold them back. That's gonna be 357 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: a big problem. So we're gonna cut them off from 358 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: microchips UM and Taiwan says, yes, we stand with Ukraine 359 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: will also cut them off from microchips. The problem is 360 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: is that we need the elements that come from China 361 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,479 Speaker 1: from Russia to make them. Anyway, I'm gonna dig more 362 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: into that story. I want to tell you the unintended 363 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 1: consequence of now that Russia has been sanctioned, the new 364 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: parallel market that's opening up with cryptocurrency. This is fascinating 365 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to talk about, talk about this 366 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: weaponization of finance, and I want to talk to you 367 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: about how the origin of this whole Russia situation came 368 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: into play. A lot to cover. I'm gonna try and 369 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: getrough it pretty quickly. You're listening to the Mark Moss Show, 370 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: talking about Bitcoin, the decentralized revolution, the intersection of these subjects. 371 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: Like I said, I got a lot more to go over, 372 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: so don't go away. I'll be right back. All right, 373 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: Welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moa Show, 374 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: and we are talking about bitcoin, the decentralized Revolution, and 375 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: we're talking about how it's changing the world, um through politics, 376 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: finance and technology together really the three of those things 377 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: merging at the same time. I've talked a lot about 378 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: the thesis there's three revolutionary cycles, a two fifty year 379 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: political cycle, h fifty year technological revolution cycle, and an 380 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: eighty year financial revolution cycle. That are all three converging 381 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: right now. And that's why the world seems like it's 382 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: going so crazy. You've gotta understand these things. And of 383 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: course we're talking about that right now. Specifically, we're talking 384 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: about what happened in Canada and the and the sanctions 385 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: where um anybody that donated to the Canadians or the 386 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: Canadians were involved, about the bank accounts frozen. And we're 387 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: talking about Russia and obviously they're taking over Ukraine or 388 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: are right invading Ukraine. We'll call it that, UM and 389 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: how now there's all these sanctions imposed against them, and 390 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: you know, so what's happening is is now they said 391 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: they want to UM sanction them. Now a couple of 392 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: a couple of things to talk about here, well sorry, 393 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: not a couple of things. I got a lot of 394 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: things talk about, but UM specifically. The first thing that's 395 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: interesting to understand is you saw in Canada front and 396 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: center that UM the go fund me, the gifts and 397 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: go anybody who donated to those things, anybody that was 398 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: involved in those things got their bank accounts frozen and 399 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 1: even shut down. And so what that what that showed 400 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: to the world is that your money in your bank 401 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: isn't actually your money. So when we think of things 402 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: in terms of censorship today, we think in things in 403 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: terms of like, you know, my YouTube channel, which if 404 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: you don't watch it, you should go to Mark Moss 405 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: and check it out. But I think about things in 406 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: terms of my YouTube channel, where if I say the 407 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: wrong things, I'll be censored, right if I if I 408 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: post the wrong things on Instagram or Twitter, which by 409 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: the way, you follow me there too, it's at number 410 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: one Mark Moss. But if I post the wrong thing 411 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: on Instagram, or Twitter, I get censored, but you don't 412 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: think about things in terms of censorship in terms of 413 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 1: your money. And that's exactly what happened in Canada, all right, 414 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: So they censored people. They said, you don't have the 415 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 1: right to use that money. You don't have the right 416 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: to send it to these people. You can't use it 417 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: in that way. And now in Canada. Now what's interesting 418 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: is Okay, that happened to people in Canada. That happened 419 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: a little old single mothers donated fifty bucks or truckers. Okay, 420 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: that's one thing. But there's three global superpowers in the 421 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: world that have nuclear weapons, United States, Russia, and China. 422 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: All the other countries are like tier two three global 423 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: superpowers with nukes. And we just found out that even 424 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: a global superpower with nukes, talking about Russia, got their 425 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: bank accounts frozen. What I get it. I mean that 426 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: happens to people in Canada, right, Like little old ladies 427 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: are like single people who donated the money, but like 428 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: a sovereign nation with nucle your weapons, we just froze 429 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: their accounts. It's pretty insane, right, And and that's because 430 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: the financial system has been weaponized. What Russia found out 431 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: real quickly. Is the same thing that you should have 432 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: figured out by now as well, that if you don't 433 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: hold the actual asset itself, you don't have in in 434 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: a code word would be root access to the database. 435 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: You don't have control over that, which is pretty insane, 436 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: right um. And of course, like I said, these unintended consequences. 437 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: Then when you kick people out of the financial system, 438 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: they don't just go away and die. They find another 439 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 1: way to live, into work, and to get along just 440 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: outside of the financial system. And that's exactly what is happening. 441 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: So a couple of things. So One, Russia has been 442 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: ready for this. They've been de dollarizing for a long 443 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: time their dollars, they've been dumping dollars and adding gold reserves. 444 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: So it was about six hundred fifty billion dollars was 445 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: frozen in their bank accounts, but they have another six 446 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: billion in gold sitting in their bank and in their vaults. 447 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: And the US can't do anything, or the Europe or 448 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 1: whoever wants to sanction, they can't do anything about the gold. Now, 449 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: Russia exports energy, so think natural gas and oil. That's 450 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: also assets. We can't do anything to stop that. And 451 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: China just entered into a thirty year deal to buy 452 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: all their natural gas outside of the dollar, outside of sanctions. 453 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: I say that because now I want to talk to 454 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: you about cryptocurrency and sanctions. And uh, it's not a mute. 455 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: It's not an exclusive problem to crypto, right if you 456 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: think about it. The usum can censor people to use 457 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 1: their banking system, but if somebody moves outside of the 458 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: banking system, regardless of what they use out of there, 459 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: they can't censor that. So for example, myself personally, let's 460 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: say the US shuts off my bank accounts, which I 461 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: hope doesn't happen, but they shut off my bank accounts. Um, well, 462 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 1: I can't transact in dollars now, but if I had cash, 463 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: so I could still transact in dollars if I had cash, 464 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: but I could you know, I could trade you my 465 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: labor for something. I could trade you some item I 466 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: have for another item you have. Right, So they can't 467 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: really stop that per se um. They can just stop 468 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: me from using dollars. And that's exactly what happened. But 469 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: back to these unintended consequences, is it now forces me 470 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: to find a way to live without the dollars. Now 471 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: the dollars the reserve currency of the world, reserve asset 472 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 1: of the world. UM. But if we it's like if 473 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 1: I had a party and I started kicking everyone out 474 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: of the party. They're too noisy, they did this wrong, 475 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: and they did that rong, etcetera. Eventually I find myself 476 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: I'm the only one. I'm the only one left at 477 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 1: the party. I'm by myself, and I have no control 478 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: over anyone because they're not at my party anymore. As 479 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: a matter of fac, they wouldn't started their own party, 480 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: and I have no control. I'm on the outside of 481 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: that party. And that's basically what's happened. But you know, 482 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 1: back to kind of the big story I want to 483 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 1: talk about is that Russia has been finding out that cryptocurrency, 484 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: just like Canada found out UM could be a tool 485 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: that they could use UM to get around these types 486 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: of the sanctions, right it UM. And so we're seeing 487 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: UM what I'm calling the rise of the authoritarians and 488 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 1: the authoritarians what do I mean by that? These are 489 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: people who just want to tell you what to do. 490 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:11,959 Speaker 1: They always want to tell you what to do, as 491 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: opposed to giving you freedom to to to work on 492 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: your own and so now, um, they're calling for cryptocurrency 493 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,479 Speaker 1: exchanges to quote should be shut down end quote if 494 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 1: they don't suspend Russian accounts. So we saw, Yeah, who finances? 495 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: Cryptocurrency exchanges should be closed if they do not suspend 496 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: accounts by Russians. Um Routers, the CEO of Hermitage Capital, 497 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: said that cryptocurrency exchanges should face severe repercussions from governments 498 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: worldwide if they continue to reject a blanket freeze of 499 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: Russian accounts. Um, but think about that for a second. 500 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: They want to shut that down. They want to shut 501 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: down people's ability to transact, take away their ability to transact. 502 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: But I don't condone what Russia is doing Ukraine at all. 503 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: I don't condone any type of violence. I made that 504 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: clear already. But I don't hate anybody in Russia. And 505 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: I bet you who the Russian people don't hate people 506 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: in Ukraine either. It's the leaders, it's the government. They're 507 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: the ones that are causing the problem, right the Vladimir 508 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: Putin in Russia, he's bad and he's doing something bad 509 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: to Ukraine. But I doubt that all the Russian people 510 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: want to do that. I doubt the Russian people all 511 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: hate that the United States has been engaged in war 512 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: in the Middle East for twenty years, dropping bombs. I 513 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 1: don't hate anybody in the Middle East, and I'm sure 514 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: you don't either, see what I'm saying. And so now 515 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna penalize all of the people in Russia because 516 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: they live there. So now they can't transact. So the 517 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: Russian ruble, which is their local currency, is crashing. They're 518 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: losing purchasing power, and uh, if you if your if 519 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: your currency is crashing like we've seen happen in Venezuela 520 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 1: or Argentina or Lebanon, are trying to get out of 521 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: that currency as past you can before it comes worthless 522 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: and you don't have a lot of options. And so 523 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: those people are trying to get out to protect their 524 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 1: assets so they don't die, so they can still buy 525 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: food for their families later. And so one way to 526 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: do that is with bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. And now they're 527 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: calling to shut that down, suspend the accounts of all 528 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: the Russians, they say, but it really impacts all these 529 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: people that are just trying to um, you know, save 530 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: their own lives, save their family lives, if you will. 531 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: But it's really putting bitcoin and cryptocurrency on their center 532 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 1: stage and showing that they can do this. But like 533 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: I said, I wanted to just kind of build that 534 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: case up because it's not cryptocurrency that enables this, it's 535 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: anything that's outside the financial system. So if they have gold, 536 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: which they do, they have massive amounts of gold, well, 537 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: that also helps them circumvent And if they now make 538 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: this deal with China which they did to sell natural 539 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: gas um that also circumvent sanctions. So it's not it's 540 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: not bitcoin or cryptocurrency's fault. It's not bitcoin and cryptocurren 541 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: to that enables this. They could sell their oil outside 542 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: of the system. They could sell their natural gas house system. 543 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: It's basically like I said, if you keep kicking people out, 544 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: you're the only one left. But if you and but 545 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,679 Speaker 1: and the point is like with Russia, as long as 546 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: they have those assets in their custody, they can always 547 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: trade them. And that's the key peaces having assets in 548 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: your custody. We saw in Canada, we see in Russia. 549 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: If you don't have the access, whether you're a sovereign 550 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: nation or an individual, they can take your money from you, 551 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 1: which is why bitcoin is a revolution because it's the 552 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: first time in history I can hold custody of my 553 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 1: own asset in a way that nobody can take it 554 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 1: from me. You're listening to the markma Show. I got 555 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: a lot more coming up. Do not go away, I'll 556 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: be right back, all right, Welcome back. You are listening 557 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: to the Mark Moa Show, and we are talking about 558 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: the intersection of politics, technology and finance, how they're all 559 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: coming together right now in what we're calling the decentralized revolution. 560 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 1: Of course we're talking about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. We're talking 561 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: about specifically Russia and how you know they're moving on 562 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: you careering has been met with massive amounts of sanctions, 563 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 1: and the sanctions, Um, it's kind of funny because, like 564 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: I said, the sanctions aren't super effective on Russia because 565 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: we're so dependent on them for energy, I think oil 566 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: and gas. We're so depending on them that we said 567 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: we're not going to sanction those things, um. And so 568 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,439 Speaker 1: really what we're trying to do is kick them out 569 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 1: of the financial system. But we're really impacting all of 570 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: the people because now what are the people going to do? 571 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: And it's not their fault, um, But this is the 572 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: point that we're trying to I'm trying to make here 573 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: is that if if your if your money is not 574 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: safe in Canada and as a as a sovereign nation 575 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: with nuclear weapons, your your money is not safe, then 576 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: your money whoevers listening to this, your money is not safe. 577 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: If if if Russia with nukes can't keep their money safe 578 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: from the U. S seaz in it, then neither can you. 579 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: And it's not just Russia. We also saw a few 580 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: weeks ago, I mean it actually happened a while ago, 581 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: but we saw that the United States sees Afghanian, the 582 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: Afghanistan central banks money. There's about seven billion dollars in 583 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: the Afghanistan Central Bank and the US just decided to 584 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: take it. We're gonna take all your money now. Um 585 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: that I guess you know that sounds good, right, I mean, uh, 586 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 1: you know the Taliban, they're they're supporting terrorism and the 587 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: Taliban and you know whatever. But like, if you live 588 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan and you put your money in the bank, 589 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: that means all your money just got taken from you. 590 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: Just stop and think about that for a second. So, 591 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: whether you're in Canada, or whether you're in Russia, or 592 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: whether you're in Afghanistan, your money was taken out. You 593 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: don't think it happens in the United States. Uh, don't 594 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: do it right now. But when I'm done, go google 595 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: civil asset forfeiture. Just google that for a second and 596 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: just see what happens to people's money here in the US. 597 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: And so, um, what's happening right now is we're witnessing 598 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: this new technology come front and center. And as I 599 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: kind of made the case before, if I start kicking 600 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: so many people out of the party, eventually I'm the 601 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: only one left. And we if we kick enough people 602 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: out of the financial system, eventually we're the only people 603 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: left in this old legacy financial system and they've all 604 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: gone on to make their own new financial system. All right, 605 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: now about sanctions real quickly. Um. I talked about this 606 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: on my YouTube channel, and people like, oh, Mark, you 607 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: must be pro Russia, you must be a Russian asset, right. No, Look, 608 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: sanctions are fine, right. I believe that we vote with 609 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: our money. So if I don't like you or what 610 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: you do or what you stand for, then I would 611 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: choose not to give you my money. Um, And that's 612 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: how I would vote. So if the United States doesn't 613 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: want to do business with Russia anymore. Great, don't buy 614 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: their oil, don't buy their wheat, don't buy what up? Sure, 615 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: no problem, right, that's how we should do it. Um. 616 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: But when you start trying to talk about like limiting 617 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: what they can do, restricting like I said, the people there, 618 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: that's when it starts getting a little bit more dangerous 619 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, all you're doing 620 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: is going to build this parallel economy. All those people 621 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: that were unbanked in Canada, all the Russians that are 622 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: now unbanked, all the people in Afghanistan, they're unbanked. They're 623 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: just gonna find a new system. And that system is 624 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: going to be bitcoin, and it's gonna be cryptocurrencies, which 625 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: of course the leaders do not like. As a matter 626 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: of fact, like I said, they were calling for regulations 627 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: on cryptocurrency exchanges. We saw that they're saying that bitcoin 628 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: sanctions could be next. Um apparently, Um again, it's a tool, right, 629 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: Should they also ban gold? Should they also ban oil? 630 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: And on and on? But one thing I want to 631 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: talk about real quick, that most people haven't really thought 632 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: about this is that when you start asking about what 633 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: shouldn't we be sanctioning people UM. Eric Swalwell, he's one 634 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: of our US leaders representatives. He calls for all Russian 635 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: students to be kicked out of American universities. I mean, 636 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: these Russian students, they didn't have anything to do with this, 637 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: and now we're going to kick them out of universities. 638 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: You can see how now now they're they're actually even 639 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: calling for UM to ban all athletes. Russian and Belarus 640 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: athletes banned, tennis players avoid tour exclusion. I mean, it's 641 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: it's getting pretty crazy, UM. But let's talk about where 642 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: this all started. Because when you start asking me, should 643 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: we allow sanctions, maybe that's even the wrong conversation to have. 644 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: Maybe we would have never gotten to this point to 645 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: even make this decision if we had done things differently. 646 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: So what do I mean by that? Well, you might 647 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: remember about six years ago, before President Donald Trump took office, 648 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we it was Russia, Russia, Russia, 649 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: Russian collusion, Russia interfering with the UM election, Russia is 650 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: or Donald Trump's an asset of UM, Russia, et cetera. Right, 651 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: We've heard all about this, and it was it was 652 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: started through what was known as the Steele dossier. And 653 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: the Steel dossier is something that the that the Hillary 654 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: Clinton campaign came up with and supposedly it was the 655 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: smoking gun, and it proved that Trump was a Russian asset, 656 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: and it proved that Russia was meddling in our democratic process, 657 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 1: you know, kind of like the U s LS and 658 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: everybody else's um democratic process. But um, what we know 659 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: now is through massive amounts of investigations, we know that 660 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: that was all fake. So here we have a New 661 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: York Times, which I'm no family New York Times. They 662 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 1: are very um sided to one side, we'll call it that. 663 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: But the New York Times admits that anti Trump steal 664 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: dossier was a fake. So the New York Times was 665 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: a major promoter of the now debunk conspiracy theory that 666 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: President Trump colluded with Russia to win the election. In 667 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go on to read the whole thing, 668 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: but what happened is because the Clinton campaign and the 669 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 1: establishment hated Trump so bad, they made up a whole 670 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: fake narrative and they've ran with it for years and 671 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 1: years and years. Even today they're still running with it. 672 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, just a few days ago, um, 673 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: as I was skimming through the headlines of a lot 674 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: of these night, late night talk shows. That's all you 675 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: hear is a matter of fact. I'm gonna play two 676 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: clips from Jimmy Kimmel. So I think we have one 677 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: clip from Jimmy Kimmel. Qut up, Let's go ahead and 678 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,959 Speaker 1: play that first clip. According to a new poll done 679 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: by Harvard University of Americans believe that Russia would not 680 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,879 Speaker 1: have invaded Ukraine if Trump was still president, which kind 681 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: of misses the point. Trump as president was a Russian 682 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 1: invasion of us. All right, So there you have it. 683 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: I mean, it's dominating news as a matter of fact. 684 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: Kimmel went on to talk about Trump and Russia multiple 685 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 1: times throughout that presentation, but a couple of things. He said. 686 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,640 Speaker 1: There one, Um, people believe that if Trump was still president, 687 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: there would be no Russia Ukraine invasion. I think it's 688 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Um that that just proved that Biden has 689 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: just made things worse. But most importantly, he said that 690 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: you don't understand Trump was a Russian invasion. So here 691 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: we are, six years later. Here we are after we 692 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: already know and have proof that it was all made 693 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 1: up in fake even after New York Times has come 694 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,319 Speaker 1: out and even admitted it. There's still pedaling this. And 695 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: here's the key piece here. This is why I bring 696 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: this up, be because of this fake dossier that Hillary 697 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: Clinton put out and the media still running with it 698 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: like today with Jimmy Kimmel. Um, we made Russia the 699 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: bad guy, the demon We demonized them, and the Trump 700 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,720 Speaker 1: administration couldn't have any communication with them, and so that 701 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 1: that put Russia out in the cold. And so the 702 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: US was trying to work Russia against China, work China 703 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: against Russia. And now for six years we've pushed Russia 704 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,839 Speaker 1: out on their own. We've demonized them and the administration 705 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: could have no contact with them at all, which has 706 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: put them in the cold and now put them on 707 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 1: the side of China. If we had never done this 708 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 1: Steel dossier, if the Hillary Clinton campaign never faked that, 709 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,359 Speaker 1: we probably never would have found ourselves in this situation 710 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: in the first place. Um. But you know, being a 711 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: bitcoin advocate and a proponent, I guess the silver lining 712 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,960 Speaker 1: is that at least we have bitcoin out in the 713 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: open um now for a lot of people that don't understand. 714 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 1: You know, you can buy bitcoin obviously on exchanges and 715 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: you can, um, you can buy it. Typically you have 716 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 1: to go through this whole k y C process. Now 717 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 1: I talked about how they want to start regulating these changes. Um, 718 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 1: they want to start censoring them. Um, these representatives are 719 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 1: actually calling for these um, these bitcoin exchanges to you know, 720 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,200 Speaker 1: freeze accounts and things like that. You listen to the 721 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: Mark Moss Show talking about bitcoin and the decentralized Revolution. 722 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening.