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🔴69X: JFK Files, Mossad Extractions, Reality of Ukraine, & More
Recorded: March 23, 2025 Duration: 1:08:55Space Recording
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Welcome to 69 X Minutes.
I'm Erin Mollin.
It's great to have you company.
Thank you so much for joining us.
We are the media, but without the filters, the fluff and the BS we've been fed for decades.
Just the biggest headlines, the boldest investigations and the wildest stories straight from the X trenches.
It's real news, real fast, so let's get stuck in. Tonight a Russian soldier speaks from the front
lines and a journalist in Ukraine reports from the ruins. Two sides of a war that's reshaping
the world. What's real, what's not and what's been kept from you? Have you ever heard of the Silicon
Valley of Argentina? Well, we met up with their delegation to talk tech and the future in this
booming city. A former Mossad agent reveals a discovery so big it could shift alliances and
rewrite the next chapter of history. Kid Rock, yes, he joins Eric Boiling
to talk derangement syndromes.
No doubt Trump features prominently.
And a young AI startup called Perplexity
is challenging Google's stranglehold on search.
Is this the dawn of real unbiased search
or is this the next step further into the uncanny valley
where reality and digital are blurred
forever?
And in my take, the mainstream media designates terrorists as sources of reliable news.
Absolutely crazy.
This though is not.
No spin, no scripts, just the world as it really is.
This is 69X minutes. The JFK files have dropped, but what was really
inside them? For decades, the government kept key records locked away. Now, with new documents
finally unsealed, do we have the answers or just more questions? Joining us is Mike Benz breaking down what's inside,
what's missing and what it all means.
Many of the same institutions that are being penetrated
by the CIA in these files are alive and well today
and playing a major role in politics today,
which gets to the question of if the CIA had penetrated them
that deeply back in the 1960s,
how deeply are they still penetrated today? So when you see the CIA's penetration of teachers
and the teaching profession and the teachers unions, there's one document that goes through
the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession and how the CIA had created front companies
and shell groups in order to influence
all the different teachers unions.
These are the largest teachers unions
in the United States today.
And we know that, of course, based on these files,
that their entire senior leadership was CIA 60 years ago.
They too are trying to stop Trump's shutdown
of the Department of Education
and are on the front lines organizing protests
at the Department of Education building.
It was JFK who really fully transitioned the U.S.
into a so-called small wars model,
which is this idea that the U.S. has to transition from thinking about its
special operations in terms of tanks and fighter jets, but really thinking of it in terms of
paramilitaries and control over local governments and control over the local
indigenous populations in places that we operate to get the support of the local population.
The USAID can get into areas
that the State Department can't
because it's not formal US diplomacy.
It's simply a humanitarian group.
It also operates through multiple layers of NGOs
that themselves don't represent themselves
as government agents.
And so they have more credibility
with the local populations.
There's much less oversight, so they can fund dirty actors.
For example, if a local warlord is in control
of the territory or a narco gang is in charge
of the territory, it might be a diplomatic incident
to give them a State Department grant
because that's formal US diplomacy rewarding
in directly financing drug networks,
people committing genocide.
But if USAID is doing it as a distribution
of humanitarian funds to the local population,
and they just happen to be the senior leaders
over those local populations,
then USAID can get away with it.
And so that gets them on our payroll and establishes that favors for favors
relationship that if they want to keep getting the money, they'll do what USAID
wants, so they will follow the policy set forth by USAID.
Even if that's not the policy being recommended by the US State Department.
The problem with USAID is not that it has
the power to do what it does, but that it has the power to do what it does, but that it has the power
to do what it does without State Department approval,
without White House approval,
that they can fool the White House
by simply not reporting what they're doing.
In this document, the CIA sets out how they believed
at the time after the failure of the Bay of Pigs
that there was no direct immediate way to overthrow Castro in Cuba and that was
what was required instead was a massive commitment from Congress in terms of
money and manpower beyond these special operations being done in the form of Bay
of Pigs but the CIA was frustrated that that political will
from Congress did not exist.
What they're saying here is,
since we can't get Congress to take the action
we want them to, we don't have the authority
because the American people are not voting
for what we really want to do.
The other option we have is to just do mass immigration
of these exile communities of immigrants and refugees.
And over time, if we give unlimited support
to these exile groups, they will form enough of a lobby
on themselves to affect the internal politics of Congress,
with importing tens of thousands of Somalians into Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lo and behold,
that produces a congresswoman like Ilhan Omar, who then goes and advocates on behalf of the Obama
foreign policy for Somalia and Eritrea and Kenya and the whole region.
Seeing that in writing from the cloak and dagger central intelligence agency 60 years
ago and that we're dealing with the same issue right now as we take on the immigration issue
really is a sort of back to the future moment.
Dr Kirk Moore took a stand. He refused to comply with COVID mandates and now he's facing
decades in prison. His case has sparked outrage. Was he upholding medical freedom or breaking
the law? Is this about justice or control? Dr Moore shares his side of the story.
We're just on the heels of a major pandemic.
A lot of controversy with the way we treated that.
And I was hoping we could talk a little bit
about your background,
how you got involved in administering vaccines.
I'll let you tell us about it.
In 2020, I started treating people for COVID
and nobody else was treating them.
Then we had a lockdown here in Utah
for about five or six weeks and people getting sick.
And so they just didn't have anywhere to go.
And so through word of mouth, they found out about me.
So I started treating people with kind of the protocol
that was out at the time, hydroxychloroquine,
avirmectin, everything else.
The biggest thing for me was the treatment.
We don't have treatment for anybody.
We gotta wait till you're almost dead.
When you're blue in the face
and you can't even get to the hospital
and you have to call an ambulance, then that's the time you need to call us. There's nothing else in medicine that we wait
until the final days of somebody's life before we intervene and treat somebody. A vaccine comes out
and people are like, this isn't a vaccine. This isn't even a treatment. What is it? It was a
Psi-op on humanity. When you get somebody to do what it is
that you're asking them to do,
90% of those people will then take the next step.
And you get 90% of people in the United States
to wear a mask.
90% of those people will then in turn do whatever
is the next step that you're telling them to do.
And that next step was the vaccine.
You know, a coronavirus that we've known has been part of our milieu for, you know, hundreds, thousands of years.
We haven't been able to do it, but all of a sudden in nine months, we're going to come up with a vaccine that's going to solve a common coronavirus. You know, all the animals died and all the mRNA studies that they did. Now you can't even pull them up anymore. I didn't, you know, bookmark them, but you can't find them anymore.
I didn't, you know, bookmark them,
but you can't find them anymore.
And history is gonna look back on this
and look at Anthony Fauci as the single worst
kind of mass genocide physician ever in the history of mankind.
I thought that we were gonna get to the point
where when people died around them,
like, their eyes would open up.
The problem with that is, these people are so brainwashed
that they still listen to the experts
and the experts are baffled about what's happening.
There's been some allegations saying that you sold fake COVID vaccine cards
while destroying doses of the vaccine.
What's been your experience with the way the investigation
has been handled by federal prosecutors?
The vaccines were given to me for free.
You come to me and you ask me,
hey, you know, with my history,
with my medications, with my medical problems, what is your best recommendation for me and what
should I do? Based upon all the data that I have, all the information that you give me, I come up
with a plan and then you and I agree on it. That's informed consent. And so that's exactly what I did
with every single one of my patients. Has this attention impacted your career at all, your life at all, or?
My resume here says plastic surgery, right?
I'm supposed to be full of money and driving expensive cars,
going on expensive vacations.
And I'm broke.
It's not that I've lost my patient database.
My patients still come to me.
But with all the other expenses that I've
had, the time that I've spent in jail and lost revenue on that,
so it's significantly impacted my you know, my practice.
I still have a license.
The federal government doesn't have a licensing issue.
They can't control my license, but if I were to get convicted, then I would
probably lose my medical license to this day, colleagues of mine, plastic surgery,
friends of mine physically maimed from this injection and nobody's going after
any of those people, nothing probably will happen to them.
And yet, here, where I have no patient complaints,
you know, nobody turned me in saying,
hey, this guy is giving fake vaccines.
You need to go after him.
And the federal government decides on their own
that they are going to come after me for $28,800
in fraud for people that were indicted.
Two of us decided to try to challenge the jurisdiction of the
federal government against us.
They put me in jail and they didn't touch the other person.
I was in jail for 12 days.
I quote unquote barely got out according to the transcript and my match.
Straight judge says you barely meet the criteria for me to relook at your case
and allow you to come out with some different restrictions.
In November of 24, I got thrown back in jail for another 22 days. And there were two of
us that did the exact same thing that was supposedly against the rules. We texted each
other saying, Hey, we have a hearing tomorrow. It'd be nice to have make sure that you and
your attorneys are there because we have an opportunity to get the case dismissed.
So I got thrown in jail along with Chris Anderson.
They wanted to keep me in jail for nine months pending trial because I had shown that I was
you know, incapable following my pretrial release restrictions.
And the pretrial release restrictions that I specifically violated were talking about
the case.
So I guess talking about the case even means
texting somebody saying,
hey, you should come to a hearing tomorrow.
Why do you think it is that the medical profession
is so much focus of scrutiny in this COVID world?
We failed humanity.
And we failed in our ability to take care of our patients.
And anybody who injected any patient of theirs and we failed in our ability to take care of our patients.
And anybody who injected any patient of theirs
without knowing what was in the injection,
because we didn't know then and we don't know now,
we do not have a list of ingredients,
we do not know what it is,
we do not have any long-term studies,
everything's always been tested
against either a prior vaccine or a concoction that
they call a placebo, which is just all of the additives that they put in except for
the antigen that they're trying to inject you with.
And the whole vaccine system needs to be blown up and thrown away and start over.
I am so disillusioned and disconcerted with our profession right now that I have really
no desire to continue down this road.
I think I will always be somebody that speaks out
against misinformation, disinformation,
and I will do everything that I can to educate myself
on all the other aspects of medicine
that don't involve plastic surgery
that I think are crucial right now.
We have billions of patients out there
that are gonna suffer complications and consequences
from this bioweapon.
My biggest takeaway from this whole
thing is do not comply. Do your own research, educate yourself, don't trust what anybody tells
you and nobody out there has your best interests at heart. You might think that the government is
looking out for you, they're not. Here in Argentina, while President Millet keeps making it great
again, socialist Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillet keeps making it great again, socialist Buenos
Aires governor Axel Kicillof keeps making his province worst again.
After the flooding of Bahia Blanca City, Kicillof's district, after President Millet sent the
defense ministry and allocate more than $200 million in direct aid, after Elon Musk himself
helped out providing free internet access, 16 people died, more than 1,400 were evacuated.
Experts identified deficiencies in urban planning
as one of the determining factors.
However, take a listen to Kicillof's statement
and remember he's been governing the province
for five years now.
20 hours linked to the structural problem of water in Bahia.
The whole history of Bahia didn't face us because the works that have to do with water This is Argentina's Milaen News and that's your 69 seconds for 69 minutes.
Kid Rock says what he thinks, doesn't he just? No filter, no apologies. He's been cancelled,
banned and demonetised, but he's still standing louder than ever. With Eric Bowling, he takes
on a new crop of derangement syndromes, including EDS, Elon Derangement Syndrome, cancel culture,
free speech, and why he refuses to bow to the mob.
All right, let's bring in a good friend of mine, also an international rock star, superstar,
celebrity, friend of Trump, personal golf buddy of Trump, and Elon Musk, friend, kid
rock, kid, welcome to 69 Minutes.
Trump plus Elon, we haven't talked in a long time on tape.
Trump plus Elon, how does a wealthy New York billionaire president, 78 years old, end up becoming bros with Elon Musk,
a younger tech guru bro,
and then celebrities and rock stars like you.
How did he get the whole world behind him, Kid Rock?
Man.
I mean, I think Elon just got on board
because he wanted to help his country.
He saw the waste and the crap. I mean, what think Elon just got on board because he wanted to help his country. He saw the, you know, the waste and the crap.
I mean, what were you going to do?
What were your choices, you know,
to go for the Democratic Party, you know,
and they're disarrayed that they've been
in with Kamala Harris.
You know, Trump's, you know, proven himself
for the first four years to be the smartest guy
in the room, hands down.
And he's a lot of fun beyond that.
So, I mean, I just think it makes sense.
Somebody wanted to help the government,
didn't wanna get paid for it,
wanted to help their country.
So of course he's gonna come in.
I got to know Trump early on
and his administration was a big supporter
from when he came down the escalator.
And he's done nothing but prove me right.
No kid, how do you feel?
I think Bannon calls people like you
and I original gangster MAGA crew.
How do you feel about the newbies?
How do you feel like Bezos coming on board
or Mark Zuckerberg coming on board or the, you know
the lunatic Lindy Lee who used to be a Kamala Harris advisor
supporter, senior aid all of a sudden saying
I didn't really like them now, I'm pro Trump.
I know we want the bigger party when everyone on board,
but I feel a little offended by it, how about you?
I mean, I think they gotta prove themselves.
That's the bottom line.
They gotta, you can come in and people call it
kiss the ring or whatever.
But at the end of the day, it's kind of sleep
with one eye open with them and let them know, let them prove, you know, what they believe in
and who they support and what policies they get behind.
And, you know, if they want to keep, you know,
speaking of, you know, meta and all that,
they want to keep, what do they call it?
Shadow boxing or shadow banning people like me
and Joe Rogan and, you know, certain outspoken people,
I'm sure yourself.
So, and I just say sleep with one eye open, but welcome aboard, but, you know, outspoken people I'm sure yourself so and I just
say sleep with one eye open but welcome aboard but you know what was it trust
but verify. Trust but verify Ronald Reagan also beware the Trojan horse I
agree with that that one kid so Trump tends to kind of piss off the rest of
the world let's be honest I mean Gulf of America what a great idea I so
logical made so much sense Gulf of America, what a great idea. It's so logical, it made so much sense. Gulf of America, Greenland, Canada, 51st state.
This one created a bit of an international incident, I think.
So there's a guy named Rafael Gluckman.
He's an MEP, which is a member of European Parliament,
who said we want our Statue of Liberty back.
We're from France.
We want our Statue of Liberty back.
Listen to Caroline Levitt's response to that.
So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back
to France?
Absolutely not.
And my advice to that unnamed low-level French politician
would be to remind them that it's only because
of the United States of America that the French are not
speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful to our great country. What's what's Kid Rocks
response to the French? Oh, mic drop. Mic chop. That young lady is something else. She is a boss.
She is a boss. I mean, if they really want it back, I'd say just let's weld a big gold middle
finger on it, send it back. I was thinking someone could make one of those memes
of the helicopter picking up the Statue of Liberty
and like banging, clanging around the Eiffel Tower
and drop it back.
You really want it?
Take it, it's yours.
I think we got to remember, you know, when these,
like she said, these low level, no name politicians
come in and say this stuff.
We shouldn't let it divide us from this.
There's, you know, I know several French people
who run companies over there in Paris and stuff,
good friends with them, they are huge Trump fans,
huge, you know, the pro-America agenda,
and they wish they had more of that in their country.
So, you know, we gotta remember,
there's still good people in these countries,
even though you got these knucklehead,
left-wing lunatic politicians always, you know,
spewing off this crazy stuff.
So we got to remember, we got some good people over there,
but yeah, France has got to definitely turn around
some other country.
Yeah, and how many Canadians do we have right here
in America who will come up to me and say,
you know, 51st state, not a bad idea.
A lot of Canadians would actually enjoy being part
of the United States.
I think so.
I mean, I know, you know, we're actually on our Rock
Country Tour taking Nickelback's headlining
the Friday night with us.
And I remember them telling me years ago,
I was asking them about, you know, socialized medicine.
And I hope I'm not speaking out of turn,
but at the time it was like, we're not,
and I've talked to plenty of other Canadians.
I mean, I'm from Detroit.
We're the only place in America
where you can drive south to Canada.
So we spent a lot of time there as kids,
and especially touring, doing other things.
And there's some great people in Canada.
I'd say the majority when you get outside like, you know.
Kid, what about these Canadian,
this Canadian knucklehead,
you know, one of those parliament people who said,
we're gonna shut off electricity, power and gas service
to people in Detroit and in America,
if you don't stop with the tariff things,
what's your message to them?
Good luck defending yourself if something bad goes down.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We are, we are fortunate. We are in there lucky.
Just the proximity to the United States. You know, I'm,
they're basically going to try the, you know, the bigger,
the bigger penis game with Trump and they're not going to win.
Like, yeah, I have no background to comment on whether that's an accurate or not accurate statement.
I digress.
Metaphor, Eric.
Metaphor.
I digress.
I digress.
Rock, appreciate your time.
Very, very busy man.
I know your rehearsals for your upcoming tours and appreciate you making a few minutes for
bowling and 69 minutes.
Thank you so much, Kid Rock.
Thanks, Eric and man.
See you soon.
It's the kind of interview that almost never happens, a frontline Russian soldier speaking openly
from inside the war.
Dmitri Simez Jr. from New Rules podcast sits down
with Ivan, a motor rifle platoon commander
in the Russian army for a rare look inside the devastation, the combat,
and the reality of life on the front lines.
Raw, unfiltered, straight from the battlefield.
You won't hear this anywhere else.
FPV drones are frightening
in that they keep you on edge all the time.
You can't relax, you can't step out for a smoke
during the day
because something could come zooming in at any moment, you hear a buzzing sound and that's it.
It's not just that you might not have time to hide, if you hear the sound of cluster munitions
bam bam bam, you most likely won't be able to escape because of UAVs. They fly 24x7, they fly,
they see, they have thermal images, night vision, satellite photos. We also have satellite photos.
We have drones flying.
We see each other from 20, 25 kilometers.
We see what's going on with us and where we are.
There's a moment in the day from four to six in the morning
when it's hard for a night bird
with a thermal imager to see anything.
And with an ordinary camera, it's still bad.
So it's only twilight.
And during that twilight, you can move around somehow.
Usually all logistics movement happens from four to six
until no bird has flown, not even one.
And it works that way for both them and us.
We know this, but we can't do anything about it
because we simply can't see each other.
Infantry moves like that,
and the assault troops begin the assault.
If we had bombed it every day,
we could have already been storming Zaporozhye,
but we can't.
Because of the political decision that Russia won't bomb.
Political humanitarian and universal human considerations.
After all, we came to fight the regime, not the people.
I fully support this stance,
and so do most of my friends,
that we came to fight
against the Zelensky regime, his neo-Nazis and the Ukrainian nationalists who harbour
a deep-seated hatred against us, Russia, as a nation. We are fighting against them, not
the general population. In fact, many cities in Zaporozhye where I've been show considerable
support for the changes occurring because they are now part of Russia.
They would come out from the other side of our positions. That is, they'd go through the first trenches and
start advancing in the rear and we would give up and retreat. That's what they thought. If you look at the situation,
it's exactly like Kharkov. They gathered in the same columns and went.
They thought they'd get out with the Bradleys, drive through with the Hummers, and shoot at the bushes.
And we would say, oh no, it's American equipment.
We've got to surrender.
And that's the main failure.
They completely overlooked that the Russian army,
as it turns out, can adapt, improve, and all that.
They believed that they were the good guys,
and we, the Russians, were the bad orcs
who don't learn anything and can only lose.
They believed it themselves.
They made it up and believed in it.
I ran into a pole once, specifically a pole, and we encountered some Cubans.
They're not Western stop.
No, excuse me.
They were Colombians.
I almost mistook them for Cubans, our brothers.
They were Colombians.
Colombians are quite dangerous guys.
Well, they are battle hardened since they're always in combat in their neck of the woods.
So they shoot well.
So yes, these mercenaries turned out to be dangerous.
And the funniest thing is, sometimes they, how should I put it, these Colombians serve
as human shields for cover.
There have been cases when we arrive at positions and two Colombians lying dead there with gunshot
wounds to their heads.
No way.
How did that happen?
We didn't shoot?
No one did.
So I think these conjectures are likely true.
Perhaps they were shot by their own Ukrainian comrades to ensure a calm retreat.
They had this notion that if they attacked conscripts and captured a couple of cities,
Russia would be scared and everyone would run away.
I don't know why.
They seem to have conjured up these hypothetical conditions for themselves and took that as gospel.
They didn't invest enough into this attack.
They didn't bring in sufficient forces.
They thought it would go well.
Why didn't they know that on the Kursk front near Kursk, near Belgorod, there was a whole
grouping from battle group Sever, a whole grouping where people are in every grove?
Didn't they know about this?
I don't know how it happened.
Maybe the US is still not providing satellite images of Russia.
So they tried, failed and just clung to it with all their might. My division's 30th regiment fought them every day.
For show, the Ukrainians wanted a reason to say, look, we've invaded Russia as a counterpoint to the Russian army's successes in Donbass, the LPR and even Zaporozhye. They wanted to pat themselves on the back and claim, but look, we still have Suja. That's the
crux of the matter. Why didn't they succeed? Because our Russian command
didn't fall for this provocation. They didn't go and pull everything toward
Kursk to retake it as quickly as possible. Not Kursk itself, but the Kursk
front. They didn't fall for it. They just worked methodically, quietly, bit by bit,
squeezing the enemy.
Politically, they don't understand us. I can't comprehend this, honestly.
Like, we've lived next to each other as brothers. We were one country for a long time.
It's a deep-rooted history. Well, we've basically been one people throughout history.
So, Ukraine and Russia are single totality, and yet they don't understand us.
It feels like they're not planning these operations,
but someone in the West in the Pentagon is. Because how do they not understand us and that
we're not going anywhere, we're not going to run, we're not going to fall for provocations. It's
odd. Each time one of their big operations, it feels like the Americans are planning their
offensive in Iraq. That's the feeling. Discipline is always a tricky thing. You have to sit in the
barracks, get to know each other for a long time, and then there will be some
discipline. You have to stay in barracks mode with the group, all that. But in every other
aspect, command, tactics, and technological support, it has improved a lot. And don't
look at the fact that they're walking around in Chinese helmets. They've got more equipment
on their backs than the entire command post had in 2022. They've got six radios, cables with satellites, Starlink and Gazprom's satellite internet.
You said Starlink?
Of course.
But wait.
We only use it to watch pornography.
Don't worry.
We don't use it for military purposes.
It doesn't block us.
I hope the Americans will understand in these negotiations that it's not them who are like,
we finished everything with peace, but simply we defeated you.
NATO, Americans, we defeated you.
And what Donald Trump says, he's just subtly admitting that America lost this war.
That's it. I want to say this because it's true.
You gave Ukrainians everything you could, trained them how to act,
but nothing worked.
And Russia achieved everything it wanted and continues
to achieve. For over two years Joe Linsley reported daily from Ukraine bringing the war to life for
Chicago radio listeners. Now he's going deeper beyond the headlines, beyond the front lines,
to the raw reality of living under relentless Russian bombardment. What does it mean to wake up every day to air raid sirens, to build a life in
the shadow of war, to resist even when the world stops watching? From behind the
lines Joe shares with us the truth of life in Ukraine, of survival, defiance and
the real cost of this war.
Hello from Kyiv. I am the one independent American voice who's been reporting from Ukraine every single weekday since 2022. Previously, I was a war correspondent on Chicago's WGN radio.
And after three years of witnessing the Biden administration's strange restrictions upon Ukraine,
I started to wonder
if I was missing something.
And so when Trump returned to office, key pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place,
from Burisma to the Steele dossier.
President Trump, among other things, is right now questioning Joe Biden's pardons.
And one of those pardons was for Hunter Biden.
Curiously, it dates back to 2014. The exact year Hunter was hired by a company called Burisma. Now, everyone
talks about Burisma, but after reporting here in the ground in Ukraine, I've realized that
nearly everyone gets one key detail wrong. A detail that might flip your entire understanding
of the situation here in Ukraine.
Many Americans, rightly frustrated with the Washington elite and the war machine,
assume that any support as long as it takes that Joe Biden gave to Ukraine was tied to money his
son made from Burisma. But the real story? Burisma was a Russian front to control Ukraine.
Let's take a look.
Burisma was an oil and gas company co-founded and run by Mikhail Zolchevsky, an oligarch
who was Ukraine's minister of ecology from 2010 to 2012.
So he was regulating the very industry from which he profited.
And then from 2012 until Ukraine's 2014 revolution, Zolchevsky, while still CEO of Burisma,
was deputy secretary of Ukraine's National Security
and Defense Council.
In other words, he was a member of the Yanukovych cabinet.
In 2014, Ukrainians, after centuries under Moscow's yoke,
refused to leave the streets,
rejecting a deal pushed by both the European Union
and by the Obama administration refused to leave the streets, rejecting a deal pushed by both the European Union and
by the Obama administration that would have kept the Kremlin-backed leader Yanukovych
in power.
The Ukrainian people said no, and so President Yanukovych fled the country, his cabinet collapsed,
and the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovych.
Burisma's CEO, Zolachevsky, fled, along with the rest of
the Yanukovych cabinet, to Russia. The protest had turned into a revolution. The Ottawa truckers
times a thousand, at least. In the days and weeks following Ukraine's 2014 revolution,
the Soviet-era state institutions were abandoned. This was the dream of what we see right now in
America with Doge.
Barakout police had vanished,
even the national police had disappeared.
And for a brief moment, the people were truly in charge.
But into this power vacuum,
the Kremlin moved quickly to gain control.
And it seems Moscow found a nice insurance policy
in the person of the son of the sitting
United States vice president. And here's where we get to one of the bombshells.
In 2023, Hunter Biden's former business partner, Devin Archer, testified before the United
States Congress that in March 2014, at the same time that Putin was seizing Crimea from
Ukraine, fugitive CEO Mikhail Zolchevsky of Burisma was in Moscow meeting with Devon Archer.
So the CEO of Burisma in March 2014 was in Moscow meeting with Hunter Biden's business
partner weeks after Ukraine's revolution and right as Putin was taking the Crimean
Peninsula from Ukraine.
Weeks later, as the New York Times would later confirm in reporting in May of 2019, Hunter
Biden joined Burisma's payroll at more than $50,000 per month.
But this was not a deal with Kiev.
It was a deal with people in Moscow.
To recap, just weeks after Ukraine's revolution, one of the oligarchs who had lost power to
the people in Ukraine started paying the son
of the United States Vice President Joe Biden.
That same Vice President Biden was overseeing Ukraine policy for President Obama.
And Biden in 2014 did nothing to help Ukraine fight back against Russia's invasion.
When the Ukrainians came here two weeks ago, they went to the Pentagon, they asked for weapons.
And we said no, but we offered them MREs, rations, baguettes.
So was the fugitive CEO of Burisma
hoping to influence Joe Biden
in order to help restore a pro-criminal regime in Kiev?
Fast forward to 2024,
and in the waning days of his presidency, Joe Biden gave a pardon
to his son Hunter, dating back to 2014. Now, why reach back to that particular year unless
there was something to erase about Burisma and the deal that Hunter made with people in Moscow?
with people in Moscow.
Hours after Putin and Trump spoke last Tuesday,
the air raid sirens screamed across Kiev
as Russia launched yet another one of its intense drone attacks.
A day later, on Wednesday, March 19,
Trump spoke with President Zelensky,
and not long after that phone call,
Russia bombed a central Ukrainian city,
while Ukraine also struck back at Russia's Ingolsk
Air Force Base with its own drones.
At the same time, wildfires were raging near Odessa.
Putin rejected the 30-day ceasefire that Ukraine and the US had tentatively agreed to.
Instead, he offered two different ceasefires, one on energy infrastructure and another
in the Black Sea.
But here's the catch.
Those two ceasefires are in areas where Russia is actually already weak and already losing.
Since 2023, Ukrainian sea drones have crippled Russia's Black Sea fleet, allowing Ukraine
to export more grain than it did when you had the United Nations brokerage deal.
And so right now there is actually a de facto ceasefire in the Black Sea because it has been pacified. Meanwhile, Russia's attempts to plunge Ukraine into darkness
this winter have failed. It's now springtime here in Kyiv. This is Joe Linsley reporting
from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Hello and welcome back to your weekly crypto update on 69X. Bitcoin's price took a hit
this week, dropping 1.6% to $83,132.
That's a 31% slide from its mid-January peak, as investor optimism fades amid economic uncertainty
and tariff concerns.
President Donald Trump vowed to make the US the undisputed Bitcoin superpower and crypto
capital of the world.
Speaking at a digital asset summit, he promised to remove regulatory barriers and called on
Congress to clarify rules for stable
coins and market structures. In legal news, the SEC dropped its four-year long case against Ripple.
The suit, which began in 2020, accused Ripple of raising over a billion dollars through unregistered
XRP sales. XRP jumped 8% after that announcement. Meanwhile, Masterstrategy's stock fell 6.8%
after Bitcoin's dip. Still, the company bought another 130 Bitcoin
for $11 million, doubling down amid the volatility.
And finally, investor Kevin O'Leary says crypto
is moving out of its cowboy era.
He believes stronger regulations are bringing digital assets
into the mainstream as both a payment method
and investment tool.
And that's it for this week's recap on 69X.
I'm Adel the host, thanks for watching,
and I'll see you next time.
Mossad moves in the shadows but its impact is felt across the world. Israel's elite intelligence
agency has uncovered something big, a secret with the power to either shift alliances,
ignite conflicts or change the course of history, maybe all three. Who's involved? What's the real
threat? And how far will they go to keep it hidden?
Visegrad investigates. Here's a sneak peek of their story.
The Israeli state was officially established on May 14th 1948. Crowds gathered in the streets and greeted the birth of their state with traditional dances.
On May 15th Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq declared war.
The call for a holy war against the Jews went out from Cairo.
It was clear, literally from day one, that if it were to survive, Israel would have to
draw on the immense chutzpah of its people at home in the North.
Trained by the Polish in the 1930s and British intelligence during the Second World War,
dedicated Zionists knew that the best. By the 1950s Israel
had established the intelligence agency to end all intelligence agencies and named it the Institute
or in Hebrew Mossad. Today Lieutenant Colonel Avner Abraham tells us about five of the most daring,
impressive, audacious and perilous Mossad operations. Hi my name is Avner Avahama and I'm a former Mossad agent.
Hi, my name is Avner Avahama and I'm a former Mossad agent.
Argentina, 1960. As Israel's neighbors laid siege from all sides,
it was vital that the besieged Jewish state set an example for its enemies by rounding up and bringing to justice war criminals.
Operation Finale was the first big Mossad operation.
The most notorious of these was Adolf Eichmann, an unrepentant Nazi who had been allowed to go free at the end of World War II.
Eichmann was a lieutenant colonel, Nazi, and he was the architect of the Holocaust.
He was in charge of the schedule. He was in charge of all the trains.
He was responsible for the death of six million people.
After escaping justice in Europe, Eichmann had moved to South America.
By 1960, he was managing a Mercedes car factory in Argentina.
But with multilingual Mossad agents from all over the world,
Eichmann's days of freedom were numbered.
Mossad agents came from all over the world.
They can speak different languages.
And for us, languages are like weapons.
When he came back from work, seven Mossad agents with two cars,
they captured him and they brought him to a safe house.
Once captured, Mossad had to somehow smuggle Eichmann
to Israel.
The Israeli airline didn't have flights to Argentina,
so they made up a cover story
that they were considering a new route to Buenos Aires
and arranged a special inaugural flight, but there
was to be an extra crew member on its return.
The idea was to bring Eichmann dressed like a navigator, but very sick.
Eichmann was drugged, forced into an al-al flight crew uniform and driven to the airport.
They smuggled Eichmann to the plane as a fake navigator.
The capture of Eichmann was conducted on Argentine soil without the consent of the Argentine
government. As is often the case, it only became clear after the mission was completed
that its means were justified by its ends. One slip, one collateral death, one abusive
process and this triumph of international justice would have been remembered as gross
violation of international law.
The operation showed why Mossad must remain up to the task of outwitting not just Israel's enemies
but sometimes even Israel's friends. Eichmann stood trial for his war crimes in Jerusalem
and became one of just two people to be sentenced to death and executed in Israel.
I'm an Iraqi Jew. I was born in Israel, but my parents came from Iraq.
And the Mossad smuggled them in a special operation called
Ezra and Nehemiah operation.
Growing up to join the elite force which
had rescued his parents and brought them home to Israel,
he recalls that for Mossad, even the capture of a Soviet jet
fighter can be a sensitive family matter.
In 1966, the Iraqi Air Force acquired a fleet of lethal combat aircraft from the Soviet Union.
MiG-21, the Russian aircraft, no one in the West got any information about this new killing machine.
The Middle East wouldn't be safe until Israel and the USA could get a look at one of these lethal machines. So Mossad
hatched a plan to help an Iraqi MiG-21 pilot to defect.
The Mossad knew that there is a pilot in Iraq that he is a Christian pilot. It's not a secret
that the Christian people suffer in the Arab countries.
Captain Munir Redfo was a hero of the Iraqi Air Force, but as a Haldane Catholic, the
31-year-old flying ace sought a better life outside Iraq.
There was just one catch.
He would not leave his young family behind.
He decided that he wanted to escape from Iraq with his wife, with his two kids.
Mossad instructed Captain Redfer to listen to Israel's Arabic language radio channel
and wait for a very specific signal.
You have to listen carefully after 7am, after the news, if you hear this song you have a
green light to take off and the song is welcome welcome in Arabic is Marhabten Marhabten.
The song was played, the coast was clear and Captain Redford took off.
And he took off and led them to Israel.
But Captain Redford had entrusted more than his own life to the care of Mossad.
The Mossad smuggled the whole family from Iraq to Europe and from Europe to Israel.
Captain Redford's MiG-21 was a treasure trove of Cold War engineering expertise.
Today it sits on display outside the Israeli Air Force Museum,
a relic of dead ideologies
and fallen regimes.
But Mossad never forgot their promise to Captain Reckless's family.
After two years, Mossad gave them a fake identity and they flew and they got a new life far
away from Iraq, far away from Israel.
The pilot and his wife passed away,
but the two kids, until today, we support them.
Operation Diamond became the basis for Steal the Sky.
In 1988, Thriller, whose storyline is not nearly
as accurate as the real event.
In 1972, the Munich hostage crisis
tested Israel's diplomatic nerve to its limits.
In the midst of the Summer Olympics,
eight Palestinian terrorists captured Israeli athletes and held them hostage in the middle of the
Olympic village under the glare of the world's television cameras.
They took 11 hostages, they killed two of them, and they start to negotiate with the
state of Israel. The guerrillas are demanding the release of
250 Arabs held prisoner in Israel and have set noon as the deadline for their release.
The terrorists belonged to the Black September Group
and demanded the release of 250 terrorists and Palestinian activists from Israeli prisons.
And Prime Minister Golda Meir said,
we are not going to negotiate with you.
If Israel were to negotiate with terrorists offering a life for a life,
no Israeli would be safe at home or abroad.
Despite Israel's offers of military assistance, the hostage situation was entrusted to the
German police and ended in a bloodbath in which the hostages were killed.
Our worst fears have been realized tonight.
They're all gone.
But that wasn't the end of the story.
Golda Meir decided that she's going to send the Mossad agents to kill all the people that end of the telephone.
And when he answered the phone, then they pressed the button and boom.
Israel's refusal to negotiate with terrorists leads to a standoff,
which forces Mossad to strike with a level of surgical precision hitherto unimaginable in warfare,
while Israel's enemies do everything they can to trip the Israeli state into committing an
atrocity in the eyes of the international community. You are sending agents and they are killing someone
in your capital and in the meantime you have diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Paris.
This is the reason why in the most of the cases the state of Israel and Mossad didn't take any responsibility.
Like many Mossad operations, including that which saved Colonel Abraham's own parents,
Operation Moses sought to evacuate 8,000 African Jews from war, famine and persecution.
In 1984, a war between Ethiopia and Sudan led to a devastating famine, yet the Ethiopian
government refused to let the Jewish population leave because they were
useful as pawns in diplomatic negotiations with Israel. A plan was hatched to enable Mossad
operatives to enter under fake identities and set up an operations base in Ethiopia.
It was an enemy country and we couldn't enter like Israelis.
Their decoy was a massive hotel.
This hotel was unique.
It was a hotel in the desert, near the sea.
Now think about all the managers are Mossad agents.
And in the beginning they didn't have any guests.
So Mossad agents came, retired Mossad agents, couples, came for a vacation in Sudan as a
guest. It was a real hotel and in the Christmas,
all the Israeli agents needed to dance
with the guests in the hotel
and they made for them a Christmas party.
Think about Jewish people agents doing a Christmas party.
Mossad intermingled Ethiopian Jews among the guests
and used the hotel to bring them to safety in Israel.
There is a harbour there and they came with the Israeli Navy and they took them. Efforts to rescue Ethiopian Jews continued into the 1990s with the Operation Joshua
Airlift of 1991 cramming at least 1,088 Ethiopian Jews onto one single flight,
a record for the number of passengers on one flight, which
stands to this very day.
Following the October 7th attack on Israel last year, Israel once again enters into a
game of cat and mouse with the terrorists who threaten Israel's national existence.
And once again, Israel's enemies surround themselves with human shields.
The leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, Ismail Khaniia, cowered in the heart of an almost perfect fortress in Tehran, far from water on Gaza,
under the protection of the Islamic regime in Iran and its military.
It was in the private residency that belonged to the Iranian government, actually the people that guard the president.
But no one who terrorizes Israel is safe. On July 31st, 2024, Chania was killed by a bomb,
planted by someone posing as his own bodyguard.
Maybe the Iranian killed him.
Maybe the Iranian killed him.
I don't know.
Nobody knows who assassinated Chania,
but such a clean, deadly, surgical strike
in a crowded city at the heart of a hostile state
calls to mind the same ethos of
Mossad's many military and intelligence operations and this verse from the biblical book of proverbs
Which inspires their motto by way of deception thou shalt do war
I'm buzz decentralized finance and ai founder
Imagine this an ai accuses you of murdering your own kids
and publishes that information.
Well, that nightmare struck Arv Holman in Norway
when ChatGPT cooked up a lie,
a hallucination of him drowning his sons
and spending 21 years in prison following a conviction.
It even blended in real details about his family and hometown.
Well, this week, privacy group Noave filed a complaint with Norway's Data Protection Authority,
and demanded that OpenAI erase
the false data and fix the model under EU law.
I'm all for AI as a technologist.
It's a game changer,
has the potential to move humanity forward.
But when it hallucinates,
lives can be burnt,
and that is where we need to protect humanity.
Globally, the biggest AI firms are racing to win these AI wars,
but privatization and speed should not overlook humanity's benefit.
From California to China,
these AI companies are scaling and raising private capital fast.
But errors like this highlight failing safeguards.
This case could force a rethink on AI privacy worldwide,
and the next steps might hit us all.
This is Buzz and this is your 69 seconds within 69 minutes.
Silicon Valley has a new challenger.
Watch out. And it's in Argentina.
Cordoba is rising as a global tech hub filled by, crypto, and a wave of ambitious startups.
With top talent, low costs and a government led by Miele, cutting red tape and pushing
innovation, could this be the next big tech powerhouse?
The future of Argentina's Silicon Valley inside the boom that's turning heads worldwide.
Take a look. In terms of the technological ecosystem in Argentina,
it's pretty strong. So it has been 20 or 30 years of, you know, growing this industry.
And we had a lot of support from the government, for example, in Cordoba. Even in the national
government, in the past, we had, for example, a law that was a
software law, the software companies, tech companies, have some tax incentives to grow. So
last year has been a little bit good. Of course, cost of living in Argentina has been increasing,
so it makes you be a little bit less competitive. The economy, I'm not an expert in economy or politics,
but it looks like economy is recovering, of course.
But, you know, inflation is stable, you can plan other things.
But technology is a kind of bubble, and has been several years of good growth.
We are a service company.
Service companies often are pretty stable.
So you can grow with your own investments.
We have a plan for the next three or four years.
We want to double our size and markets.
And the markets, for example, we are here in Barcelona.
We want to grow our Barcelona office.
Córdoba is in the middle of Argentina,
surrounded by mountains, surrounded by lakes.
It's pretty nice.
But we have a lot of an ecosystem that makes,
you know, the environment easy or, you know,
a good for tech companies.
For example, we have a lot of universities there,
public universities that we have several, you know,
tech careers.
We have FAMAS that's creating as a career for data engineers
and machine learning engineers.
Yes, it's one of the largest in Argentina.
We have UTN, which I study there,
like a public university, system engineering.
And you have a lot of programmers and software engineers
getting graduated every year.
So it's good for companies like us
to get that engineers and train them.
And also there is a good English level in Argentina.
So you can work with the US directly
and other countries of course.
So in Cordoba, we have good universities.
We have been in the last 20 years receiving good companies.
The first one that I remember, of course, was Motorola in the early 2000s.
Actually, there is one of the guys here that tell the story that Bluetooth was part discovered
in the in Cordoba.
There is a patent there within the US, of course, but there is a story about the part
of the Bluetooth was discovered in Cordoba, as I say, in the past, a lot of incentives from the government
for getting me a tech business.
Software law, latest software was one of them.
If you, if you were certified in certain quality certification,
uh, one of them was the ISO 9001. A lot of companies in
Cordoba are certified on that. There is was CMMI, which was, you know,
in front of the US Department of Defense. And with all of those US
companies coming to Cordoba, he level up the level of engineers there.
In Argentina, we have several companies that we are proud of. There
are examples for us. One of them is Mercado Libre, which is like the Amazon for South
America. They are huge in Brazil, huge in Argentina. Actually, I order everything from
Mercado Libre and they are great. We have Globant, which is a software company. It's
huge. It's one of the models because we have a similar company with EXO Mindset. One of
the Globant is one is the model that we want to follow in terms of growth. They are more
than 3,000 employees around the world. They have bought a lot of companies for Argentinian entrepreneurs and their public company in the US.
Marcao Libre, you have also Despegar, which is an airline tourist and you can buy tickets there.
So we have several companies that have been put in Argentina in international view.
And another example for us. No, as I say, you know, we have been growing stable
last 20 years, depending on the government.
So I don't think so that that will impact.
And you have a lot of Argentina's companies
that work with several countries.
So it's largely only one country.
So I have good, you know, vibes about what's going on.
Today, Argentina is a good place to outsource and to, you know, to think about it because
we have a balance between cost and quality, really good quality with good cost.
If you're thinking in the U.S., we are in the same time zone, pretty similar culture.
So it's a good moment for companies in the US,
for example, to reach to Argentinian companies.
So mindset five years around the end of the market,
we do mainly AI and data.
Today we are focusing a lot in AI agents.
We want to bring the automation for companies.
We also do digital products.
We have Tupperware as clients, for example.
We are bringing e-commerce for them.
Hi, I'm Mary Delgado and welcome to 69 Seconds.
So strap in for a wild ride through the finance markets for the past week because it's been a circus and I'm your caffeinated ringmaster
Stocks kicked things off with a face plant. The Fed? Oh they just sat there twiddling their thumbs
leaving rates untouched like a kid who won't share the remote. Thanks for the
suspense guys. Meanwhile gold, dazzling gold, is shredded to a record because
when chaos reigns everyone wants that sparkly security blanket. It's flexing
above 3,000 like it's auditioning for a heist blanket. It's flexing above 3000 like it's
auditioning for a heist movie. Oil's riding high too, hitting new peaks. Supply worries
are the hot gossip now. So stocks are freaking, gold's gleaming and oil's grinning. Here's hoping
we don't all end up bartering with shiny rocks and gasoline by next month. I'm Mary Dalgado, and that's your 69 Seconds for 69 Minutes.
Is this the Google killer?
Perplexity AI is rewriting the rules.
Real-time search, no bias, supposedly.
But as AI takes over search, does it shape your reality
or just reflect it?
Who holds the keys to knowledge if algorithms decide what's true?
When AI anticipates your questions before you ask, are you searching or just being shown?
Dr. Dornish sits down with Perplexity's founder to explore how AI will reshape not just search,
but reality itself. Here's a sneak peek from our original series,
Uncanny Valley, which airs Fridays only on X.
It seems like we're living decades
in like span of two or three years.
And I'm not saying this just
because everybody else is saying it.
That's how it really feels to me.
I personally feel like I've lived way longer the last two
three years. You're actually only 18 years old. So this is what you look like.
Like it seems like where the world's going is not answering questions but
doing things. Yeah. Like it seems like are we gonna see perplexity or I mean
let's talk more general. Like people want answers so they can do something with it.
Yeah exactly. I think about it in two ways. One is doing things in the context Or I mean, let's talk more general like people want answers so they can do something with it. Yeah, exactly
I think about it in two ways one is doing things in the context of an answer
that's the
Number one low-hanging fruit. So when you're researching what are the best microphones?
I should buy for sounding really well on a you know, world-class podcast
I'll go and ask this question perplexity gives me a great answer
it reads the reviews but what if you get the products also right there in the answer in line
uh with a buy button and you just click on it and the action is done and the agent actually takes
care of going to the merchant side and like filling up your credit card details uh it can
generate a new credit card on the fly that's tied to your you know perplexity pro
subscription credit card and then all your shipping address all of that is like this one time detail
you give and it remembers that right um and then once it gets a sense of what you like it can also
like tune the results better to your preferences you don't have to keep saying it again and again
i want this i want that so i think that is like already kind of beginning to do things for you.
You just don't notice it.
The problem is we're not seeing this happen in a general unified way.
I think we are at the point now where we can all admit that mobile was the
perfect OS for the internet.
Yeah.
That the desktop was the wrong OS for the internet.
I think most people believe that. I don't know. But I think
where we needed laptops and notebooks and, and cell phones
that was the right OS. And I feel like if you're going to
try to retrofit AI to an old infrastructure and OS, it's
always going to be outside the uncanny valley. Yeah, I agree.
And so who builds that AI native OS? Nobody has the incentive to do it. So I think we're going to
start from these basic steps, basic steps this year, and eventually get to a point where you
feel like Warren Buffett. That's the idea. So there's a joke I made on Twitter a while ago, which is like, what is the Warren Buffett phone?
So Warren Buffett famously never used a smartphone.
And so like the reason he said is because the two things
I do on my phone are messaging people and taking phone calls
and hardly even do messages.
And I don't need a iPhone for that, which has made me think, okay, if you want to live
like a billionaire, all you need, your phone should essentially converge to messages and calls.
Billionaires just do phone calls there because they don't schedule things that they are
assistant schedule stuff for them. The assistants put them on the phone, they don't even, you know,
need to call the person. They don't need to have contacts.
Their assistants take care of that.
And then text messages are so easy to respond to, right?
The Warren Buffett phone feels like utopia
because I feel like I spend way too much time on my phone.
So I feel like this is the ultimate future of AI.
Like AI should deprecate the front end of the phone.
Like apps will still be there,
but they're all gonna feel like hidden tabs on the browser.
They're all hidden apps.
Uber, Doordash and all that.
They'll have some front end too
that comes part of your assistant.
But like, yeah, once the car is ready waiting,
like you get a call and the assistant will tell you,
move left, right,
whatever, right, and you just go there.
Everyone's like, the world's gonna end,
AGI's gonna come, you're gonna become useless.
And I feel like I haven't noted that with you.
Like you haven't, I don't think you buy into that at all.
No, I don't buy into that.
I mean, we have to adapt.
It's very obvious.
I think we are adapting.
If hundreds of minutes people are using these as on a weekly basis
Then we are adapting
I don't think a GI is gonna come for us
I think it's just gonna feel like a paradigm shift that
Except the only changes from the internet and the mobile is happening way faster. So the speed is higher
But the risk is not like higher the the same the risk that exists with the internet were like crazy.
Spams and child porn and like scams and like blackmailing. We came through all that shit. So we'll be fine.
Maybe not completely unscathed. Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, like overall, but like, yeah, like are deep fakes gonna fuck shit up sure
are yes like are we gonna struggle with but that's why there are things like verified identities
like who like look uh a lot of people made fun for elon for selling blue marks and so someone
could just have a new twitter account with a blue mark and a fake handle but like they can change
your name to elon musk and make a code and no one sure maybe for the first few impressions, people
are going to get fooled. But then after that, they're going to
be like, Oh, this is fake. The real Elon Musk has the Twitter
ID. And then there's gonna be algorithms that detect such
activity and then shadow ban or like ban these accounts. You
got you can only build the defenses when the attacks
happen sometimes. And as long as they're not fatal, we should be
able to fix a
lot of these things. One thing I still a lot of people who come and ask me, which businesses are
worth investing in now, if AI keeps taking office like social, because social, I think this real
human to human connection is going to become even more important in a world where AI is going to be
able to pretend to be humans. And so that's why I think X like people will still spend time on X
people who still watch like funny videos.
I think people will spend more time on X.
Exactly.
People will have more time to spend.
Exactly.
Yeah.
They'll have more time because work got easier.
Now it's time for my take on something that really got X talking this week.
Could the mainstream media, potentially, and I don't want to put them out here, maybe dig
a little deeper into the sources they quote verbatim.
Blindly republishing any information that you haven't verified is unethical and lazy. But when that information comes directly from
terrorists, well, it's downright dangerous. War resumed in the Middle East this week,
and yes, people will die. Plenty of terrorists, hopefully, and good riddance. But also women
and children. And that is utterly tragic. But it happens, particularly when you are
dealing with Hamas, who either hide in tunnels or behind families. So when they, these same people
who filmed themselves slaughtering over 1200 innocent people on October 7, while simultaneously
taking hostages, including two babies, they then killed when they released
numbers of those killed in the demographic before it would be humanly possible to know,
then maybe exercise a little scepticism.
I don't want to throw you here.
All I'm saying is maybe, just maybe, the same group of savages who burnt three children
alive in a room and laughed don't necessarily value nor tell the truth.
More media outlets than I could count this week reported, as fact, numbers of those killed
directly from Hamas. Some even repeating again as fact that it was,
and I quote, mostly women and children. Urban warfare expert John Spencer with the following
take. And poof, international media returns to reporting civilian casualty numbers provided
by the Hamas Gaza Health Ministry, who can determine casualty numbers in minutes and hours
with no caveats of sources, descriptions of methods
of counting, distinction of combatant versus noncombatant,
or context of cause of death, et cetera, et cetera.
Now Reuters, whose job it is, by the way,
to feed thousands of media outlets and millions
of consumers around the world their information, a trusted source apparently, sent this alert.
Israeli strikes kill 326 in Gaza, collapsing ceasefire with Hamas. Not even
a caveat like according to Hamas in this alert. And collapsing the ceasefire? That
was collapsed by the terrorists when,
and I quote acting US ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea says, the brutal terrorist
organisation refused every proposal and deadline they've been presented with over the past weeks.
The blame for the resumption of hostilities lies solely with Hamas.
Now I myself would go further.
The blame for this entire sorry saga lies solely with Hamas.
The blame for every single child killed in Gaza lies solely with Hamas.
Can we all please stop pretending like there are two legitimate sides in this war who are
maybe having a fight or a dispute over land?
That is not the case.
Hamas are sadistic murderers who hand their own people a death sentence through their
very existence.
If those who purport to care about children dying in Gaza, and that should be every single
human being, could wake up and realise who their real enemy is, then that would go a
long way towards saving them.
The same day the initial ceasefire was reached, Hamas leadership went on global television
and promised to repeat the atrocities of October 7 at the first chance they got.
And the Ceasefire Now Brigade, well, they were silent.
Their children will continue to tragically die
as long as they value killing Israeli Jews
more than the lives of their own loved ones.
There are still 59 hostages in Gaza.
They aren't just a number, not a fake one either.
They are real people with mothers and fathers and children
who haven't breathed fully since they capture.
And Hamas are refusing to engage.
This isn't rocket science.
Now, no one expects the media to be fair or to be thorough or accurate.
Most of us have completely given up on most of you by now.
But at the very least, please, when terrorists are your main source, exercise just a little
bit of caution, a lot if you can possibly muster it it and stop doing their dirty work for them.
It only hurts those children you pretend to care about and a hell of a lot of other people
too.
That's it for 69X minutes where the real stories always get told.
I'm Erin Mullen.
Thank you so much for joining us.
No spin, no censorship,
just the truth. Stay on X, you know that's where it's at. See you next time.
