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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Markmas Show,

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Speaker 1: where we talk about the decentralized revolution. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: course we look at it through the lens of politics, finance,

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Speaker 1: And today I want to cover some of the latest

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Speaker 1: that you should be understanding what's going on. Now, we'll

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Speaker 1: start with the top. I mean, out of the three things, politics, finance, technology,

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Speaker 1: the thing that really drives the world, changes the world

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Speaker 1: witnessing the decentralized revolution and we're witnessing the decentralized technology

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Speaker 1: at the same time. And of course that is Bitcoin. Now.

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest drawbacks, or I shouldn't say drawbacks,

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest attack vectors by bitcoin's opponents is

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Speaker 1: that it uses is too much energy. It waste energy,

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Speaker 1: First of all, it wastes energy. What does that even mean? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, the amount of total energy that bitcoin

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Speaker 1: amount of energy used for other things like what like

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Speaker 1: clothes dryers, for example, use way more energy than the

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Speaker 1: So it waste energy, supposedly, is what they say. But

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Speaker 1: what is a waste? One's man's trash is another man's treasure.

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Speaker 1: You might find that you need to go stare out

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Speaker 1: total waste of your time in my opinion, But for you,

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Speaker 1: it's what keeps you mentally sane, for example, And so

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Speaker 1: what is waste? The one thing that I would argue

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Speaker 1: energy be created but not used. Well, there's lots of

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Speaker 1: wasted energy. And that's why places that California have the

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Speaker 1: we have to import energy, so prices go up supply demand, right.

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Speaker 1: But then there's areas around the country and around the

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin is only using a very small percentage of that energy.

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Speaker 1: It uses the energy that's being created but not used,

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Speaker 1: So the growth of the network. The miners not only

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Speaker 1: And so it uses the bitcoin blockchain, Bitcoin time chain

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Speaker 1: Of course, we're talking about the decentralized revolution. We're running

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Speaker 1: what it can do. Now, just real quickly, about eighty

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Speaker 1: even get it. So, for example, they give you stimulus.

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Speaker 1: have acknowledged the situation is disastrous in many ways. We

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Speaker 1: do know that we do know that the air quality

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Speaker 1: was not safe at some point. The EPA says it

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Speaker 1: is safe from now. But the problem is, like I said,

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Speaker 1: they're the ones that have sowed the seeds of distrust.

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Speaker 1: Now we can see that people that live in the

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Speaker 1: area are saying that they're getting rashes, they're getting headaches,

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Speaker 1: they're getting other symptoms that could be tied to that.

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Speaker 1: They've you know, some of them have returned to their

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Speaker 1: homes and now they're seeing these these types of things.

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Speaker 1: And so this is true, and we do know that

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Speaker 1: people should be taking this their their health way more

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Speaker 1: seriously than most people have. And so if I live

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Speaker 1: in an area, I maybe wouldn't want to move back home.

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Speaker 1: We also do know that other places like Cincinnati, for example,

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Speaker 1: has cut off its drinking water from the Ohio River

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Speaker 1: because of the trained development and the contamination. Now they

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Speaker 1: believe it says quote believe that low levels of beautile

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Speaker 1: accrelate seeped into the Ohio River through a small creek

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Speaker 1: about three hundred miles north of Cincinnati, and so they

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Speaker 1: have shut off water. Now, again, are we overblowing this,

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Speaker 1: We don't know. But if a town has literally cut

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Speaker 1: off their water because as they're afraid of this, well

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we're overblowing that, that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: big deal. Since then IAI's drinking water will be will

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Speaker 1: water intake will will be closed sometime before the contamination

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Speaker 1: is expected to reach the area of the river area.

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Speaker 1: So we do know that they're expecting to travel down

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Speaker 1: the river and they are going to shut that off. Now,

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Speaker 1: one thing I did learn, and so let me just

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Speaker 1: give you another perspective that maybe the right wing whoever

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Speaker 1: these right wing influences and commodators are. One thing I

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Speaker 1: looked up is that you know, while this train accident

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Speaker 1: appears to be very, very bad, I didn't know, but

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Speaker 1: I'm aware of now that we have lots of train

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Speaker 1: developments every day in the United States. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, we averaged three trained deveilments a day a day.

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Speaker 1: And so when you hear about, oh my gosh, why

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Speaker 1: is there no one talking about this, well, there's three

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Speaker 1: a day. Are they talking about three a day? So

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Speaker 1: then I have to ask myself, well, is it because

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Speaker 1: of social media we just hear about it more often?

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Speaker 1: Obviously we have trained, trained romans. Or is it that

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Speaker 1: we're having more trained romans that are really bad? And

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Speaker 1: to answer that question, I saw this report that says

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Speaker 1: kinetic attacks on US power grids spiked seventy one percent

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. So what we're seeing is we

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Speaker 1: are having fires and refineries, we are having trains derailed,

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Speaker 1: We are having those things. But those types of things

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Speaker 1: happened quite often. But are we having more trained incidents

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Speaker 1: that have strategic or really bad stuff like we saw

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Speaker 1: another one overturned with coal? So are we seeing more

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Speaker 1: strategic stuff happening? And according to this that seems to

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Speaker 1: be the case. There's been US power grid attacks have

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Speaker 1: spiked almost doubled in the previous year. Duke Energy of

484
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Speaker 1: Florida experienced several substation intrusion events in September, sabotaging equipment

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Speaker 1: that resulted in a nine minute long outage. Central organ

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Speaker 1: Daily said one of their substations was attacked on November

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth. In December, vandals attacks ups in More County,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina with gunfire, leaving forty five thousand people without power.

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Speaker 1: Four substations in Washington were attacked on Christmas Day. Seventeen

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Speaker 1: thousand people lost power. Earlier this month, a Florida man

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Speaker 1: in a Maryland woman we're charged the conspiracy to attack

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Speaker 1: a Maryland power grid. There are at least one hundred

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Speaker 1: and eight human related events were reported during the first

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Speaker 1: eight months of twenty twenty two, and so we can

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Speaker 1: see that it does seem that there are attacks happening

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Speaker 1: this and so we do need to be aware of this,

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Speaker 1: and we should be able to trust our government with more.

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Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Mark

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Speaker 1: Moa Show talking about some of the latest breaking news

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Speaker 1: headlines that happened this week in regards to the decentralized Revolution.

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00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: I got more stories to run through that you don't

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Speaker 1: want to miss, So I'm gonna be back with more

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Speaker 1: in a minute. Don't go away, I'm gonna be right back.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back. If you just tune in, you

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Speaker 1: were listening to the Mark Moa Show talking about, of course,

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Speaker 1: the decentralized Revolution looking at through the lens of politics, finance,

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00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: and technology, and we're running through some of the latest

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Speaker 1: breaking news of this week. Now I discovered a story before.

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Speaker 1: If you just tune and you missed it, but don't worry,

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00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: you can catch me on the podcast on demand to

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Speaker 1: search The Mark Moss Show and your favorite podcast player,

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00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: or the Market Disruptors YouTube channel to search Market Disruptors

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. Now, I was talking about the train that

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Speaker 1: derailed in Ohio and of course that's not late breaking news,

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00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: but we're talking about the development of that. And I

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Speaker 1: also want to talk about another big story that continues

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Speaker 1: to be developed, and that is this Chinese spy balloons.

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Speaker 1: Now I've talked about this already, like I said before,

519
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: so it's not breaking news, but I wanted to talk

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00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: about it because we have more information coming in now.

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00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: There's a lot of fear mongering and more mongering going

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Speaker 1: on regarding the balloon I had talked about before, and

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Speaker 1: I kind of posed the question before, why do they

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Speaker 1: want us talking about the balloon? Like what is going

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Speaker 1: on there? What's this intention? What are they trying to

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Speaker 1: get from us? And so if we if we look

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Speaker 1: in this a little bit further, maybe this helps us

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Speaker 1: answer that question, which will come back to you. But

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Speaker 1: what it looks like is that there were four balloons

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Speaker 1: that were shot down, and the first one appears to

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Speaker 1: be a Chinese balloon. And we know that the balloon

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Speaker 1: supposedly lingered over, you know, or flew over a couple

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Speaker 1: of Air force bases. It flew over our air Force

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Speaker 1: bases that had our intercontinental ballistic missiles. It also passed

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Speaker 1: by some nuclear capable bomber fleets things like that, and

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Speaker 1: they say that this path suggests that China's gathering intelligence

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Speaker 1: for either maybe a first or second strike of America's

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. We can also see that, so maybe they're

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Speaker 1: trying to spy on us, but is that really what

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Speaker 1: they're doing. So we can see that now they're saying

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Speaker 1: that the spy balloon is now beginning of a nuclear

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Speaker 1: fear campaign from China. So they're saying that maybe they're

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Speaker 1: trying to scare us that there's going to be this

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Speaker 1: nuclear attack and they can you know, now they have

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Speaker 1: access to all this information. Now we need to you know,

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Speaker 1: be prepared to go to war with China and things

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Speaker 1: like that. But if we look at there's a there's

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Speaker 1: some other stuff that shows that maybe that first balloon

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Speaker 1: was China's, maybe it was a weather balloon, maybe it

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Speaker 1: was a spy balloon, but the other three that were

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Speaker 1: shot down were not. And as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: the other three that were shot down appeared to not

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Speaker 1: be Chinese and might have even been from the United

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Speaker 1: States itself, and they were just weather balloons. Edward Snowden,

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Speaker 1: who is the you know, kind of infamous whistle blower

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Speaker 1: NSA whistleblower. He says, the hysteria over these balloons being

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Speaker 1: shot down over America and Canada is a distraction from

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Speaker 1: the story that Seymour or Hirsch broke about the US

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Speaker 1: being responsible for blowing up the nord Stream pipeline. So again,

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Speaker 1: why do they want us focusing on these balloons? One

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Speaker 1: of them might have been a Chinese balloon, maybe it

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Speaker 1: was a spy balloon, maybe it was a weather balloon.

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Speaker 1: We know the other three most likely weren't, and they

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Speaker 1: might have even been American weather balloons. So why do

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Speaker 1: they want us focused on that? And so it's sort

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Speaker 1: of like this magic trick, you know, slide of hand,

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Speaker 1: look over here while we do something over there. And

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Speaker 1: so what was going on that they don't want us

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Speaker 1: to look at? That's one question to ask, you know.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg reported the US government has assessed that three unidentified

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Speaker 1: objects down since last Friday were likely for commercial use

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Speaker 1: and not foreign intelligence gathering. Now, as best as I

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Speaker 1: can tell through the research that I've done trying to

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Speaker 1: make sense of this situation, China has over three hundred

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Speaker 1: satellites in orbit, and with those satellites, they could read

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Speaker 1: the text on a gravestone, they can listen to conversations.

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Speaker 1: They might be listening to me recording this conversation right now.

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00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: And so if they have three hundred satellites, they're already

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Speaker 1: capable of reading text on a tombstone and listening to conversations.

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Speaker 1: Why do they need to fly a weather balloon? Hm,

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Speaker 1: that'd be a good question. Why would they need to

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Speaker 1: use a weather balloon if they already have everything they

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Speaker 1: need now? There could be maybe it was a test run.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they want to try to put you know, some

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Speaker 1: sort of like an EMP into a weather balloon and

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Speaker 1: detonated or you know, some some chemicals and detonate and

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Speaker 1: let it let it rain down across. I mean, maybe,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe that's the case. I don't know the answer,

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Speaker 1: But what I do think about is why does the

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Speaker 1: government all want us thinking about this balloon? So, like

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Speaker 1: I said, Edward Snowden says, maybe to cover up for

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Speaker 1: the story that said that US is responsible for the

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Speaker 1: North Stream pipeline. As a matter of fact, there's more

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Speaker 1: information coming out. I saw a story today saying that

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Speaker 1: I believe it was this Swedeen released report that basically

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Speaker 1: says that they've kind of come to the same conclusion

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Speaker 1: as well. Of course, anybody with a critical rational mind

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Speaker 1: might draw that conclusion themselves as well. So maybe that

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Speaker 1: was it, or maybe it's because they want us thinking

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Speaker 1: that China is spying on us, that China is trying

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Speaker 1: to attack us, or get ready for an attack, so

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Speaker 1: that they can get the people or the American people

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Speaker 1: sentiment to shift towards China not like China, and so

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Speaker 1: that the government, the US government could then get ready

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Speaker 1: for a war with China, could use that to sanction

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Speaker 1: more against China. So, for example, we saw more sanctions

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Speaker 1: going through today or this week that could potentially limit

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Speaker 1: all investments into China. And so if you're invested into China,

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Speaker 1: you may have trouble getting your money back out. If

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Speaker 1: you have money in China, I'd probably be pulling that

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Speaker 1: money out of China. But it also in retaliation. Now

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Speaker 1: China is now sort of financially attacking the United States,

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Speaker 1: and so now they're saying no Chinese corporations can use

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Speaker 1: the Big four accounting firms anymore, which could be billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars of economic loss. And so maybe they're trying

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Speaker 1: to get the American sentiment behind this. So we can

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Speaker 1: get behind that. We don't know. But the question is,

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Speaker 1: why are we shooting down our own balloons? Why are

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Speaker 1: we making this big deal about this now? Why are

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Speaker 1: we making a big deal about one balloon when they

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Speaker 1: have the satellites to already see everything. Why are we

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Speaker 1: making a big deal about one balloon when they have

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Speaker 1: bought up all our farmland, when they've bought land next

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Speaker 1: to our strategic military bases, when they continue to flood

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Speaker 1: our borders with fentnol, which is a mass casualty attack, Like,

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Speaker 1: why are we worried? Why are we not worried about that?

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Speaker 1: But now all of a sudden, we want to be

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Speaker 1: worried about a balloon. It's an interesting point to make.

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Speaker 1: And again, we need to be where they want us

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Speaker 1: to be geared up for this war with China, because

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Speaker 1: China is actively attacking the United States. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, they're attacking us from many ways in including

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Speaker 1: with the dollar. And so what we can see is

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Speaker 1: that China has gone around trying to crush the dollars

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Speaker 1: demand they're now using their yuan in trade with Iraq.

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Speaker 1: The Iraqi Central Bank announced Wednesday that for the first

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Speaker 1: time it plans to allow trade with China to be

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Speaker 1: settled directly in yuan instead of the US dollar. M

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Speaker 1: we know that Chinese currency would boost the balances of

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Speaker 1: Iraqi banks with accounts with Chinese banks. We see that

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Speaker 1: China has also done this with Iran, They've done it

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Speaker 1: with India, they're doing it with Russia, and so we

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Speaker 1: can see that now Russia has now has now basically

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Speaker 1: moved their foreign reserves to the yuan. I believe seventeen

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Speaker 1: percent of their central bank holdings are now in yuan,

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Speaker 1: and so we can see that there's this attack that's happening,

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Speaker 1: and it's coming from all sides. They've gone around and

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Speaker 1: made long term strategic buys on all the core commodities,

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Speaker 1: so they've been locked up natural gas and long term contracts,

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Speaker 1: oil and long term contracts, minerals, metals and long term

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Speaker 1: contracts gold, nickel, palladium, etc. And they're basically taking all

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Speaker 1: of this off of the market, cornering the market, if

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Speaker 1: you will, and then working with these countries to take

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Speaker 1: oil and stuff in yuan and then starting to switch

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Speaker 1: all these other currencies or governments of the world to

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Speaker 1: move into a digital yuan, or not a digital but

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Speaker 1: into a Juan denominated system. Now what comes next is

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Speaker 1: a digital Yuan system or CBDC system that then could

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Speaker 1: bypass the entire FED banking, fedwire and swift monetary system

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Speaker 1: the dollar. The dollar at its core is a payment network,

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Speaker 1: and they can set up their own payment network. And

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Speaker 1: so maybe, just maybe all of this stuff about the

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Speaker 1: balloon is a big distraction to get not a distraction,

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Speaker 1: but is used to get our sentiment to ready be

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Speaker 1: ready to go to war with But that's just maybe

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Speaker 1: my own assumption. I'd love to hear what you have

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Speaker 1: to say. Hit me up on social media at one

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Speaker 1: Mark Moss. If you just tuned in, you're listening to

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Speaker 1: the Mark Moss Show running through some of the latest

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Speaker 1: breaking news headlines this week for the decentralized revolution. And

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Speaker 1: that's what we got. Thanks so much for listening. Until

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Speaker 1: next time,