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on on the US soil. We are also gonna be kind of branching out to talk about some of the more interesting things about what's going on around the world, some of them being the two thousand percent increase in HIV cases in Russian soldiers ever since the start of the Ukrainian offensive. We are also gonna be talking about how in Sudan right now they are claiming that the UAE Dubai is funding Colombian mercenaries to come and fight with the Sudanese rebel groups. And that's just it's a

whole cluster in and of itself. We're gonna be talking a little bit about China just for a split second. We're gonna be talking more about nat as far as that's concerned. A couple of things going on in DC, couple of things going on in and around Texas for reasons,

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On the Cult of Conspiracy Live, we talked about the four radioactive wasp nests that were found in South Carolina's around a nuclear facility, and I had heard just a little thing about it. I didn't find out too much about how they became radioactive or what the potential blowback could be from this, so I decided to do some

research into it. This is from art Stechnia art Arstecnia. Yeah, that's a thing our Stechnia and let's go into it now for radioactive WASP nests found in South Carolina's nuclear facility. Wasps living around a Cold War era nuclear facility in South Carolina had built at least four radioactive nests, raising questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent

of environmental contamination. According to a report by The New York Times last week, news broke the officials, I'm sorry at the officials at the site in Savannah River Site SRS near ak in South Carolina have found one radioactive nest on July third. The discovery was documented in a July twenty second report by the US Department of Energy,

which of course owns the site. The report said that the nest was on a post near a tank used to store a nuclear waste and that it quote was probing one hundred thousand dBm per centimeter squared beta gamma. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know if that's hell a little bit or a lot of bit or whatever the case was. But basically, this old tank that was used to store nuclear waste was at least giving some

some readings on the Geiger counter. This contamination level is greater than ten times the total contamination values listed in federal regulations for areas that require contamination posting and monitoring. The report said, oh, well, there you have it. Then, okay, wow, still in it concluded that the radioactivity of the nest was considered to be from on site legacy radioactive contamination, not related to a loss of contamination control. I mean, okay,

that makes sense. It's not like they had unaccounted for radio active waste or anything like that. But even still, the fact that a WASP nest was able to be built in form around a known radioactive source of waste. This is again that we kind of brought it up on the Cult of Conspiracy Live. But this is kind of the beginning of a comic book series. It sounds like, I don't know what would happen if one of these stung you. I hope the report kind of talks about

it here, honestly. But The Times uncovered that three additional radioactive nests had been found since July third discovery. The US Department of Energy is managing the discovery for WASP nests with very low levels of radioactive contamination. Edward DeShong, Yeah, Edwin DeShong, manager of the Department of Energy Savannah River Operations Office, said in an email statement to The Times, the nests do not oppose a health risk to SRS workers,

the community or the environment. Well that and that just make you feel better, okay. The SRS is a three hundred ten square mile facility built in the nineteen fifties to produce material for nuclear weapons, including plutonium and tritium okay, a component of hydrogen bombs. The Times noted activity at the SRS, which is located near the border with Georgia,

declined at the end of the Cold War. The Department of Energy began cleaning up the site in nineteen ninety six, a slow process that is currently estimated to be completed by twenty sixty five. Wow, so they stopped using it. I mean, like I said, it was I don't even know what they really said when they made the site like inactive by any means. But they started cleaning up in ninety six, and they were expecting that it was already going to take till twenty sixty five to complete

the cleanup. WHOA, that's crazy. According to the Department of Energy, the site produced one hundred and sixty five million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, which has been evaporated to thirty four million gallons. The site has of fifty one waist tanks, eight of which have been operationally closed, with the remaining forty three in various states of closure or of the

closure process. Outside experts have been quick to point out critical information missing from the Department of Aryangy's next report, including the absolute level of radioactivity found in the nest, the specific isotopes that were found, and the type of wasps that built the nest. Some wasps build their nests from mud, while others might use chewed up pulp from wood. Now, yeah, okay,

it's fair enough. I about to say the ones that use mud, I know, like dirt dabbers, for instance, And I don't know if that's like the official name of them. They look like wasps, but they're black and they don't sting. They just make like mud huts on your wall and they're painting the butt to clean off. But yeah, most of the ones that sting that I know have kind of used chewed up pulp wood or something like that.

But anyway, all right. Timothy Musso, a biologist at the University of South Carolina who studied organism and ecosystems in radioactivity or radioactive regions, told The Times that the Department of Energies explanation that the WASP gathering legacy contamination for their homes is not unreasonable. There's some legacy radioactive contamination sitting around in the mud, in the bottom of the legs,

or you know, here and there, he said. The main concern relates to whether or not there are large areas of significant contamination that have escaped surveillance in the past. Musso said alternatively, this could indicate that there is some new or old radioactive radioactive contamination that is coming to the surface that was unexpected. The Department of Energy report of the first WASP nests said that the nest was sprayed to kill wasps, then bagged as radioactive waste. Okay,

that's I think that's fair. The ground and area around where the nests had been did not have any further contamination. That's at least what they said, we don't know, Okay, fair enough. The DO report's first wasps, oh, I'm sorry in a statement to the Aiken Standard, and that's the local publication. Officials worked at the Department of energy site noted that the wasps themselves pose little risk to the community.

They likely have lower contamination on them and generally don't stray more than a few hundred yards from their nests. That's also very fair. However, The Times pointed out a report from twenty seventeen when officials at SRS found radioactive bird droppings on the roof of a building at the site. Birds can carry radioactive materials long distances. Muso said, Okay, so according to the report, they pose no threat. However, again,

they didn't really specify the type of wasps. They didn't specify the type of isotopes, they didn't specify levels of contamination. They just said that it was negligible and it wasn't anything to worry about. I feel like we need a little more detail to feel more at ease about it. But that being said, like there is a greater than zero percent chance that somebody in South Carolina is gonna

get stung by a radioactive wasp. And this is how Spider Man started, essentially, And I thought that was crazy when that joke was made on the Cult Live. That's also not like the craziest thing now knowing that this is a real insect contamination. But anyway, Raven, you said that there was also before we started shooting, you said that there was also a little bit of precedence for radioactive insects being used by humans for other purposes. So there may be a little bit more of a correlation here.

got with Panama and made the Wall of Flesh. And what that is is they have a nuclear facility that that breeds these flies that are alive, but they're dead inside. So they're the males that can't reproduce with the females because they've used radioactive nuclear waste and stuff to pretty

much sterilize them. And that was the one thing that they could find that would be able to let them fly, get dropped out of the planes, be able to like mate quote unquote with females, and then essentially they die off. So it's like a super slow process that took like decades to eradicate. The first time, the wall of flesh is failing because they only have one facility that's open,

and so it's that max capacity or right now. And so the last like since twenty twenty three, I think it is, is when it started to spread across UH Central America again, and so Mexico and the US have decided that they're going to make a facility, another nuclear facility on the Texas Mexico border to try and reproduce as many flies as possible, because at one point they were using for one facility, it was seventy tons of meat and it was like one hundred it was twelve

million gallons of blood to produce like two hundred million flies because it has they have to be like living in flesh, and so they've created like different stuff now, but they all are nuclear radioactive flies that are flying around, and it's like a slow process that happens.

between Mexico and the US have like stalled. It wasn't until like I think a month or two ago is when they finally open it up again for them to trade. But they have like a seven day quarantine now, so it's it's still an issue and still gaining more of an issue. But this kind of all ties in with the conversation of Bill Gates's bugs as well and that other company that they created what seven now seven types

of bioengineered bugs. So if this is like a radioactive bug, like, I'm sure it's going to somehow be exploited or used in some regard, because it seems to be for right now, it seems to be like their positive net positives to try and control things. But who knows at this point, because then you get the super bugs like the ones over in Africa, the mosquitoes that are now like even more deadly.

right female excuse the one's a bite. So their theory was if we could make it to where genetically they are more prone to produce male larva, then we would have a lot less mosquito bites, And that overall sounds great, but that kind of backfired in a sense because you just had more what's the way I'm looking, more more prolific breeding happening within the mosquito population. It didn't drastically increase or decrease. It kind of was seen as a net wash, not mistaken.

or failure either way. But that company has also made several other bugs that they've used in South America that has been seen as a success in Brazil, if I remember, it is the first location that they dropped them all, and that's how they got approved to drop them here in the US. It's trying to combat malaria is the

big game. The thing about the malaria talk is though, so they have the malaria vaccine that they've come out with, the two levels, the two different vaccines that Gates has his hand in both, and that's a whole nother ordeal. But it's like one of the number one killers in the world. So why would they realistically, if they're in game is to keep people sick and keep people in the cycle of needing things and all that, then why would they technically cure or kill off the mosquito population.

What they did was is they sprayed chemicals before the bioengineers. They sprayed certain chemicals and as they mutated to the chemicals, they became superbugs. So now we have the superbug population

and now we have the bioengineered ones. The bioengineer makes more sense because they are they're actually taking out sequencing of the like pretty much a Jurassic Park, which like you know, some people don't know about, but they take out the sequencing and then that way they can mutate what they actually are passing on to the next party.

So like they say they have like ten boys and they two girls, the next time they'll have only they won't be able to reproduce or they'll have broken genes, and so they'll end up being sterilized and then it kind of like goes down the cheam like that.

lay its eggs in there. Their thought was that these radioactive flies would come and kind of kill those and then since they're radioactive, they're not gonna produce and die and whatever else. But if a bird eats that fly, or if a frog eats that fly, or whatever the case is, the thought process was that the radioactivity of these insects were so low and so negligible that we wouldn't see the effects down the road in the ecosystem. Personally, I don't agree with that. I don't know. Yes, they've

had it's been decades. They started doing this with the New World screw worm in the fifties, and they've had decades of testing to show that, like at least if it is having some sort of a secondhand effect, it's not something that we are seeing, at least not on our end. I don't mean just in America, but like right here, it's shown that Panama, Costa Rica, Nick Garagua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, these countries had outbreaks of this, but we

haven't really seen an outbreak in twenty years. So I'm with you. I don't think that it is something that you could just say, oh, well, so the frogs might get a little radioactive, but it's no big deal. It's like, no, that's kind of a biggie because there's something else that's gonna come and eat the frog, right, And there's something else that's gonna come and eat that the circle of

life happens. I don't believe that introducing radioactive waste into the circle of life and into the food chain is a inherently okay thing to do. Raven, I know you know a thing or two about this, so please weigh in.

not pose a danger to animals. Or humans. But since the female flies only mate one time in their short twenty days lifespan, once populations are exposed to sterile males, the population dies out over the course of months or years, depending on the size of the outbreak. While it is unclear how the dispersal would work in the US, it is in the event of an outbreak let's see blah blah blah. So pretty much what they're saying is is like, it's not enough to actually impact us because they die.

So the screw worms, for example, they only mate for one male. They don't go and mate a whole bunch like mosquitoes do. They only mate one male and then they die within thirteen to twenty days, so that life cycle is dead. Then the male will die too, so

they're continuously dying off. So the broken sperm, the broken sperm or whatever you want to call it, the you know, is not able to actually fertilize any eggs, So then that is going to be completely avoid of all radiation gamma stuff, so they are not actually nothing is consuming them unless they're consuming the ones the males that are exposed.

But it's so small it really shouldn't actually impact anything unless they're eating, like unless they're a bat that's eating like massive amounts, then potentially there probably could be a conversation of this being a real issue.

or what's going to be the fallout. I should say, as of this moment, they're saying that it is localized, it is nothing for anybody to worry about. But I do find it to be interesting. We talked about on another recent episode that there is a new type of fungus that is eating radioactivity in Chernobyl as we speak, and it's actually helping to repair the affected area. Now, if nature finds a way, which it always does, and we now have a real life potential for radioactive insects

to become a thing. Now, I'm not saying this is the spark of something new. I'm not saying that either. So what's to say that some other insect or some other type of reptile whatever will be exposed to some radioactive waste from one of these Cold War era sites and we don't have bigger problems to worry about. So I see this as kind of a potential microcosm for

something that we really do need to pay more attention towards. Anyway, moving on, and we're still sticking in the Nation of America, there are some things going on with Texas Democrats who have decided to leave the state to avoid voting on a certain thing, and they're facing some issues where they have decided to take up residency for their little extended vacation. Let's listen in here. This is NBC News for some Texas Democrats in Illinois.

like a imbecile or an invalid. I don't know one of those words. He's he's really dumb. But anyway, so these Texas Democrats, which that sounds like a weird misnomer in and of itself, but a lot of them have decided to flee the state and they are taking up residents in very heavily democratically ran cities, and that got me thinking, wait, why what is making all of these Democrats from Texas decide to like all take vacation at the exact same time. WHOA, there's some things going on.

But let's listen in a little bit more.

officials who would be voting on this will get it approved. Now, rezoning it means that it will become an even heavily or a more heavy red state. They're basically trying to topple the Democrat vote in the state as of this moment, putting them to different zones, different counties, different cities, all

these things, different jurisdictions and precincts. So instead of voting for this and trying to rally the people around them, they decided to just up and leave the state for fourteen days until the vote is no longer up for vote. And what they don't understand is that what's about to happen, they are about to be subpoenaed, and if and when they do come home, they may be facing jail time for evading their jobs. But let's watch a little bit more here. This is from NBC ten in Boston, another

heavily blue city where Texas Democrats have fled to. Now, I don't know anything about the bomb threat that was called in. I don't know for a fact that that had anything to do with the fact that the Democrats are staying this specific ozell or if that was a random act that just so happened to be at this place. I'm not big on coincidences. That being said, I don't think that that was being done as a scare tactic to make these dudes and ladies come back home. I

don't see that. But then whenever you see with this video, things start to come a little bit more into focus.

I would feel the same way if it was a bunch of Republicans that decide to just up and leave instead of vote, even though they're in a Democrat ran state. Like so, if you're not gonna stand and do the one thing that you were elected to do, you don't need that job anymore. That's just my opinion. I know I only speak on behalf of myself, But then the other one saying that what happens in Texas matters to Massachusetts.

I think that might be the first time that that sentence has ever been uttered by a human being ever. I just it's funny to watch how these people rally around the cause that they actually don't care about. What do the people of Massachusetts care if Texas remains a red state? But all right, yeah, that's let's keep going.

another vote. Given another month or six or whatever the case, like, this isn't going to go away by any means. So for a bunch of Texas lawmakers to abandon their post rather than you know, do the one job that they were elected to do, I find that to be cowardice,

just speaking on behalf of myself. And again, if this was the roles were reversed and it was a bunch of Republicans that were fleeing instead of voting and doing the thing that they were elected to do, I would have the same kind of critique That is, that is ridiculous, And now they may be facing legal action if they return home.

So could that be a reason why they're doing it? So not necessarily just for this case, but call it in this case democrats, you know, countrywide.

It could be anything, could be anything. So if you have a faction of the elected officials that know that their voice won't be heard, instead of going in and voting, they will just not show up as a way to prevent the vote from happening. And if that's the case, and if this goes on unchecked, how will any laws get passed in this country moving forward from this point on?

See that's the other thing. In America, we do have the freedom of travel, and you can just pick up all of your belongings and move to another state and claim a new home of address, right, a new home of residency, and run for an elected official position in that spot. You don't have to stay in Texas. This is this is mind blowing that this has actually happened

by grown adults. And I think you're right. If this does happen unchecked, this will set a very bad precedence because I could see this going even to a federal level. How do we know that we won't have half of Congress not show up because they know that they're gonna

lose on whatever vote is about to be proposed. So instead of trying to make deals happen and have a little give and take and come to a common ground and do what's better for the for the good of the American people, which I understand that no political official cares about the American people. I get that, but just out loud on a hypothetical what's supposed to be versus

what is right. If that's the case, they could just not show up for however long until the vote is supposed to pass, and if they're not there to vote for it, the vote can't pass and boom, mission mission accomplished. That that's mind blowing, Raven, what you got.

to be something that's happening at all? Like this is not how any of this works, Like think about Rome, think about all the arguments, Like look at the Vatican, for example, when they have to vote in a new pope, how many days they deliberate and fight and argue and you know, kiss each other's ass to try to find who they want. I don't understand how this is even how things are gotten to this point, and how it's just allowed to keep happening.

a large, very important scale. I really do hope that Governor Abbott stands by wow, Okay, bad phrasing, but for lack of a better word, stands by his word and has these people see jail time for abandoning their posts. That's that's negligence, which is a criminal offense when done to this scale. So we will see how it shakes out.

I don't know, they'll probably return. I hope that they return and vote on this and just face the music, and that this whole show of action of these people just gets blown under the rug of like, well, that was really dumb. You had, you had your moment, you had your little hissy fit there, blue boy, all right, time to come home and do your job. I know, it's a wild concept to do the job that you were hired to do. It's it's mind blowing these days, Royce. Please.

be listened to. So therefore, even though they are currently in the minority of what America wants, for example, they are like, all right, well, we really don't give a shit because you guys oppose us, and we we have our desires and wants and what we say goes and you just have to deal with it.

legislation to belittle and undermine the minority. I understand this one hundred percent and I get that, but that's not the case here as far as that conversation goes, the quote unquote minority groups that might have a conversation like this in Texas, all these elected officials were of the Caucasian persuasion, and they were all they weren't a part of any of the alphabet people minority groups, the LGBTQ, ELEMENTO P plus exclamation point, asterist community. So it's not

like they're even representing those minority groups. From what I can tell here, it is Democrats that are afraid of losing whatever foothold they have developed in Texas, and so rather than trying to fight for their turf, so to speak, they decided to avoid the problem altogether and just leave until the vote is over, which is mind blowing. Still, it's yeah, Tony, you, being the Texas resident of the conversation, please weigh in.

surreptitiously and override a majority opinion. So this whole quorum idea goes back pretty far in history, and like farther back than the Declaration of Independence. And I think even at the Declaration of Independence, they really wanted to get it at least fifty six or fifty eight legislators together, and they felt like they had a critical number and it couldn't be less than that, otherwise it would not

be legitimate. But that also reminds me that there's lots of other ways for minorities to subvert the democratic process. And by minorities, I mean of my minority in a legislature. So Philip bustering is one way to pulld up votes and just prevent anything from getting passed. And another way, this isn't so much to prevent stuff from getting it passed,

but yeah it is. But the House Speaker, for example, can assign a law to a committee where it's just gonna take forever to get the law written, and then it never gets passed because it's not the speaker's priority. And another thing, now this isn't so much about preventing laws from getting passed, but Congressmen often avoid responsibility for their votes by you know, voting according to acclamation or voting on something called tellers where they don't even record

their votes. They just say, oh, well the eyes have.

for role call. So yeah, one hundred percent. There's there's other ways that you can go about doing this without looking like spoiled brats about it. And again, out out of Texas, of all places, you wouldn't expect people to be so spineless and afraid of what's inevitably to come. I don't know. We will see what happens. As of now, they're saying that they may face legal action when they get home unless they come home quickly. I don't know.

in federal elections and things like that. It's looking more and more like it's going to become a swing state here in the next definitely, I would say the next three presidential elections, if not the very next one. We will see what happens. But that's the thing. If this rezoning law happens, the redistricting law happens, maybe not. They're trying to do what they can to prevent that. But like you said, California traditionally was a red state up

until two thousand and four. Mistaken it's kind of when it went hard to the other direction. I mean, yeah, you've always had your your big cities, right, La is always going to be blue, Sacramento, name your whatever state you currently reside in, the big city thereof is going to be blue. That's pretty much a mathematical certainty, with some very few exceptions. But the state overall isn't ran by a big city or two or three or four. But they're trying to make it so. And yeah, we

will see. Right now, they've only been gone for a few days. This vote has fourteen days to pass, and as of this moment, the Texas political officials are all acting like they're willing to stay out of the state for two weeks as a way to prevent the vote from passing. And even if they are successful with that, and even if they don't face legal retribution, there is literally nothing preventing this vote for coming up again in six months or next month for that matter. There's nothing

stopping that at all. Yeah, they'll have to restart the process of submitting it and getting it to the floor and all these things, but it's also prolonging the inevitable if the people really do want this. So anyway, I will keep everybody posted as more things about that transpire. Now as we're talking about the United States and political conversations, I thought it was interesting that Superman star Dean Kin has now said that he has joined ICE. This is

a Newsweek article, but it's interesting. Nonetheless, let's talk about it here. Actor Dean Kin, known for his role as Clark Kent in Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman, says he has joined the Immigration and Customs Enforcement AKA ICE. But some critics are saying he is above the maximum recruitment age. Yes, that's what we need to be critiquing about this, not the fact that Superman, a well known Hollywood guy, is becoming an ICE agent that we need

to get mad about his age. But all right, dope, why it matters? Cane start alongside Terry Hatcher, we talked about that the show Lewis and Clark New avengerans a Superman in the nineteen nineties. He was also the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not. I used to love that show. Last week, Trump the Yeah, President Donald Trump's administration launched an ICE campaign to help carry out its

detention and deportation of migrants. The program promised a robust package of incentives, including a fifty thousand dollars signing bonus and retirement benefits. Not bad, your country is calling you to serve at ICE, Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nome said in a press release on July twenty ninth, continuing the quote, your country needs dedicated men and women of ICE to get the worst of the worst criminals out of our country. This is a defining moment in our

nation's history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have no ever been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland. And again, I'm not anti ICE by any means, but the campaign promises that we were told was that he was going to be going after the hardened criminals, not the people actually working at a job that were punching a clock that we're gonna get picked up from their job. As a matter of fact, he said he was gonna

specifically not do that, but whatever. Anyway. On Tuesday, Kane said on x and Instagram that he joined ICE and encouraged his followers to do the same. I wonder if he, like you know, forwent the fifty thousand dollars signing bonus. I don't know his financial standings, but I just had this weird feeling that fifty k wasn't like that much

of an incentive for him. I'm also wondering if because he's a I don't know, if you want to call him a B tier, C tier or even D or E tier celebrity, maybe he's getting some sort of like endorsement deal out of it. Will he actually be like, you know, carrying a badge and going through the academy and all of these things, or is it going to be more like a Steven Sagall being a New Orleans police police officer thing, which, for the record, is a

real thing. It wasn't just for TV. They actually deputized Stephen Segall and followed him with cameras as he did police things in the city of New Orleans. But I don't know. Maybe Dean Kin is like actually trying to become a legitimate field agent. I don't know. Let's see, this is a direct quote from his X and Instagram.

Hey everybody, Dean Kin here For those who don't know, I am a sworn law enforcement officer as well as being a filmmaker, and I felt it was important to join with our first responders to help secure the safety of all Americans, not just talk about it. The fifty nine year old began his one minute and thirty two second video, so I joined up. He's fifty nine and

he's deciding to strap up for the cause. Wow. Since President Trump took the office, ICE has arrested hundreds of thousands of criminals, including terrorists, murderers, pedophiles, MS thirteen, gang members, drug traffickers, you name it. Very dangerous people who are no longer on the streets. Cain added that people who sign up will receive great benefits and can get to work right away. If you want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing

them from america streets. He concluded the clip I like that, I voted for that, okay. At the time of the publication, the actors expost racked up over eighty two thousand views, five thousand likes, and three hundred and fourteen comments on Instagram. The views are hidden, though it had an additional two thousand likes and three hundred and eight comments. I think this might be the video. Let's see if we could play it.

field operations and law enforcement roles. I don't get that special pay, but you also don't need an undergraduate degree. You can get to work right away. So if you want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing them from America's streets.

just thought it was worthy to bring up here. Dean Kine, former Superman and former Ripley's Believe It or Not host, is now an ICE agent. Like you say, he doesn't get the special field pay though, so you know, hey, take that for what it's worth. Okay, moving on. While we were talking about legal things, I thought it was a good time to bring up the fact that Army soldiers tackled a sergeant accused of opening fire at Fort Stewart.

Five were wounded. This is a speech, or at least a statement that was given by Brigadier General John Loubas from the third Infantry Commanding General. Yeah, long story short, this guy opened fire and an army base. The dude was a logistics guy at that and he just lost his mind, I suppose, and decided he wanted to just take some guys out. He didn't actually kill anybody. Five were wounded, but they're all expected to make full recoveries.

And that insert or joke about army shooting being dog shit, you know whatever, whatever. Now may not be the time for jokes, but I mean dark humors how we make through the hard times. Anyway, let's hear straight from the General himself about this tragedy and the events that unfolded.

brave soldiers who immediately intervened and subdued the shooter. These soldiers, without a doubt, prevented further casualties. Our wounded soldiers were initially evacuated to Win Army Community Hospital right here on Fort Stewart. All arrived in stable condition, and three of the five required surgical intervention. Two have been transported to Memorial Hospital in Savannah, Georgia for additional care. We have identified the alleged shooter as Sergeant Cornelius Radford, an automated

logistics sergeant assigned to second Brigade Combat Team. Sergeant Radford has not previously deployed to combat. Sergeant Radford has been interviewed by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and is currently in pre trial confinement awaiting a charging decision by the Office of the Special Trial Council. Right now, our primary focus is first on caring for our injured soldiers and their families, and also supporting the soldiers of the Spartan Brigade.

All of the families of the victims have been notified and we're wrapping our arms around them and ensuring we provide them all the support that we can. Before I take questions, I want to remind you that this is an ongoing investigation and we're still gathering questions. Ladies and gentlemen on now take your questions.

find more reports. Are still conducting their investigation, but essentially, homeboy walked in open fire. He got at least five rounds and five individuals before someone else in the office came up and tackled him. I did not see any pictures of him after the fact. I personally would like to believe that hopefully he had a broken jaw and a couple of broken ribs when they finally got cuffs

on him. I don't know that for a fact, but old Cornelius spelled with a Q, I might add, Yeah, anyway, let's see here, there's at least Cornelius Radford, excuse me. The suspect has been identified as twenty eight year old Cornelius Radford, a US Army active duty automated logistics sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida, who was assigned to the installation. Army officials said Radford allegedly used a personal handgun in the shooting and was tackled by soldiers before being taken into custody.

He has not deployed to combat, So before anybody gives some crazy PTSD situation as to what happened here, that is obviously not what took Now, I understand that that doesn't Combat is not the only place where PTSD comes from. I understand that, However, I also have a hard time believe that he's going to get the insanity case from this in any way shape and form. I mean, look at this guy, he was clearly the turd of his unit, right, I mean, without any other knowing anything else about him.

Just looking at this guy and saying that he was active duty army, I could tell that he was obviously the shit bag of his group, you know, before hearing anything else. But yep, So anyway, more information about that is going to be coming out in the upcoming days. I am sure that every news publication is going to be speaking on it. Thankfully, none of the five victims of this atrocity were in any kind of critical care.

The surgery was probably to just remove the bullets and stop the bleeding, but all of them are expected to make full recoveries at this time, and I thought it was worth bringing up here on the cage night now to put things on to a slightly lighter note. Is it a Rolling Stone article? I don't know if anybody's heard this yet or not. I just discovered this today my damn self, But apparently we now have the first

derogatory term for an AI driven robot. Because we needed that, the public needed some type of a slur to call Tesla's new robotics and things clanker is the term the old dirty clankers are gonna take over and things like that. So the Rolling Stone is speaking on it. How clanker became the Internet's new favorite slur. New derogatory phrases are popping up online thanks to a cultural pushback against AI. Praise be to Jesus am I right, So clanker, wireback, cogsucker,

I like that one too. People are feeling the escapable inevitability of AI developments, the encrow of the digital into everything from entertainment to work, and their answer slurs. Now, I understand that the robots are not going to be offended by these slurs being thrown out in things. However, I think that's just great. Clanker or wireback, that's a good one. Cogsucker might be my other favorite. Honestly, I

think that one goes harder than clanker personally. But yeah, no, clanker is about the most non ominous, g rated one that you can come up with. However, if any of you have slurs that you would like to start calling the AI robots, I would love to hear them. I would love to hear them, and I think that there's no shortage of inspiration when it comes to this, right, So yeah, just everyone's clear here, clanker.

for AI robots. And it's okay because they're not living entities, right, they don't have sentients allegedly, right, so it's okay to call them bad things. I'm good with this, all right. And for anybody out there listening, it's gonna say, well, how do you know that's mean? The robots have feelings. That's kind of the point then, So I like it. I like this a lot. We're gonna we're gonna I'm

actually gonna put that out on the Culture Conspiracy as well. Uh, we're gonna do that probably the next live I want to hear people's AI robotics slurs. I love this, okay. Now, sticking on the American Conversation and the Tech Conversation, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, where China and Russia had plans to build a nuclear power station

on the Moon and it was planned for twenty thirty five. Right, the nuclear reactor, word power rese an exploration of the Moon's South Pole as part of the International Lunar Research Station Project. Now, because America can simply not be outdone by anyone ever, because that's just preposterous, NASA is aiming to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by twenty thirty, five years before China and Russia's plans are to come through to fruition. Interim NASA Chief Sean Duffy will announce

the ambitious goal this week. According to Politico, NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the Moon. For several years now, the agency has been working to get a forty kilowatt fission system ready for launch on the Moon or to the Moon by the early twenty thirties, but Interim NASA Chief Sean Duffy is about to announce a more ambitious path via a directive set to be

released this week. According to Politica, the reactor directive orders the agency to solicit industry proposals for a one hundred kilowatt nuclear reactor to launch by twenty thirty, a key consideration for astronauts return to the lunar surface. Political report on this Monday, August fourth, so all right, I'm still not in grants that I am not an expert in engineering or nuclear or anything like this. Okay, although I

understand the concept of how nuclear fission produces power. Right, this thing gets really really hot, you make steam with that heat. The steam pushes through turbans, which spins them, creating electricity. Like, I know, I'm oversimplifying by a large spectrum, but that is the over under of how this takes place. I can put these pieces together in my mind. I got you, So I guess my question is how are you supposed to create steam in a vacuum? That doesn't

make sense to me. Now, perhaps it is a completely enclosed system, right, But the only time I've seen an enclosed system like that be effective is like you could say, like the radiator in your car, But you're not producing steam, right, that's a coolant and it's okay to maintain its fluidity because of our atmosphere in our environment in space, how are you supposed to create enough heat? Because heat has to pass through a medium in order to be effective.

The medium that we have on Earth would be our air. Steam has to be produced at a certain pressure point. Right, Water boils off at two hundred and twelve degrees fahrenheit, and depending on what your atmospheric pressure is, depending on how far away you are from sea level, depends on how much that fahrenheit has to be. How many jewels of energy is needed to heat the water to a point of going through the phase change from its liquid to gaseous state. How are you doing that in a

vacuum with no air. I don't know, Raven, I saw your hand raised. Please weigh in.

everyone else. So I'm just confused as how they're going to beat them, considering we haven't even been able to stabilize long enough here on Earth to just it doesn't make any sense to me, because they've been struggling to be beating them quote unquote anyways, because China stepped away from everybody because Germany and it's like twenty five countries are working together, and was like nope, I'm doing it on my own, and then we are the first and have done it longer than anyone else so far.

nine or something like that. It was when they were doing the fusion reactor, they were like creating the energy, you know, trying to stabilize it long enough to generate massive amounts of power, and so they weren't. They still haven't been able to get it to actually go very long without it like trying to melt down everything.

on for like seven or eight years now. They've been like actively working towards trying to get it because if they can get it to stabilize long enough, it can actually generated enough power for the entire world. And so that was the whole fight to the race of the energy war.

steam on the moon. That sounds preposterous to me. And again I'm not a fit. I don't know. Maybe maybe the people in the International Space Station can totally boil water in the vacuum of space. I don't know, but it just I don't understand how any of this is actually supposed to happen, or is this just international flexing on something that's impossible. I don't know, Tony. I see you unmuted brother. You know way more about nuclear things than I do. Please weigh in.

So they're using the heat from the nuclear fission to transfer the heat from one side of the thermal couple to the other, which is then going to produce enough voltage to power a lab.

wildest thing. But you need that temperature difference and you need to maintain it so the fission reactor will stay it. I think two hundred or three hundred celsius or something, and then the cold side is gonna be cold, which on the Moon could be you know, really really cold, negative one hundred c or something and a bing bout of boom, you got some volts and ams.

the components to repair this on the moon. So they are now going to have to fund hypothetically, and even if America was to do this, China, Russia, America, doesn't matter a name. Country that's trying to make this happen on the Moon is going to, if not every six months every year, send up a repair team just to maintain and bring materials to make these repairs so that they could run a lab on the dark side of the Moon. That just doesn't sound feasible.

thirty eight are the only isotopes found on Earth. Uh, you know, all the other less stable ones cracked and disappeared eons ago. But somehow there's this other isotope on the Moon that shouldn't be there. I wonder if it got there through meteor or something.

Why are they so iron rich as a planet. I haven't heard about the xenon that if not mistaken as a noble gas and You're right, that doesn't just that doesn't just happen in nature on its own, however, I mean we're talking about on Earth, maybe another planet that happens natrally. I don't know that that I've heard the conversation,

and I don't inherently disagree or agree with it. It's more just into the realm of hypotheticals to say that Mars had a civilization and they nuke themselves to oblivion. But yeah, no, I'm with you on that though. If Mars or not Mars, I'm sorry. If the Moon has this abundantly readily available radioactive isotope, that's not the source of Like where would they get the radiation from? How would they have a reactor? Like they could source that

one locally. I get that. The expensive metals that are gonna try to withstand that type of heat and that type of strain for any actual amount of time. Anybody who works in metal urge you'll know. I mean, yeah, you can find ink and nel, you can find monail, you can find even the high grade, super expensive metals

to work those thermal couples. It's gonna have to be a yearly, if not every six months, maybe even more frequent than that to go up there and bring the materials just to make repairs on one of ten thousand thermal couples that are in series with each other. That I mean, yes, that's a better that's a more of a reasonable explanation than making steam on the moon. That's fascinating, But oh my god, that sounds like a logistical nightmare and a drain on whatever country is the guy the

people to do it. Their tax dollars are going to be like solely wrapped up in this raven. Please weigh in.

Approximately one and forty times the massive our Sun combined together to form a new black hole that's two hundred and twenty five times more mass than the Sun. And apparently when these two converge together, why it's so different is because the black holes appear to be spinning very rapidly near the limit that allowed is pretty much surpassing Einstein's theory of general relativity, and there is like the really really smart people you know are going over this

and pretty much just like questioning. It's put these two black holes merging has put everything we thought we knew about black holes into like just we just don't understand it now at this point, like they're questioning so many different things. It's because the biggest black hole you can get from a supernova super nova is maybe a few dozen times the mass of the Sun, but this is

one hundred one and forty times solar masses. Of the two of them is above the limit both of them before they converged, and so this is like it's it's a whole new record, and people are trying to understand what it means and why they're moving and flattening. They're flattening down when they converge. They're like changing time and space in and of itself. Because we know that black holes the time is different from the beginning to the

middle to the end. Time ceases to exist the way that we understand, and so now that two of them have converged together, it's a huge issue pretty.

least where we can actually observe what's going on. It's the most massive black hole binary we've observed through gravitational waves, and it represents a challenge to our understanding what black hole formation means. So we can observe it, and like you can actually watch the videos of it and what they were able to see, and it's it's really kind of mind blowing to see the two of them come together.

And then the other thing about we're talking about planets is the girl that's like twenty two twenty five, I can't remember exactly she's going to be the first person to go to Mars and never leave.

be able to observe with a telescope. They are all talking about doing this on the opposite side, and we have no idea how many times the Moon gets hit by outside things. We see all the craters and it gets hit all the time. I don't know if the dark side gets hit more often than the light side.

I kind of think so. But that even being said, you're one piece of space trash away from potentially having either a a nuclear explosion on the Moon or b ruining the nuclear reactor and the entire planet being so for lack of better words, infected or as I say, contaminated by a nuclear radioactive waste, that nobody will be able to go there again. Which I know that some people think that humans haven't been back to the Moon, and maybe there's more reasons to that than we originally thought.

But yeah, I don't I don't see any of this as a positive. I think it's like a cool science experiment. But man, they are going about it with some fervor behind it, and the Moon by twenty thirty that's even assuming the next administration will continue the funding for this price. Now, China and Russia, their administrations as of this moment, are at no risk of losing their power, so them having a goal set for twenty thirty five, it's a very viable talking point to say that Ji and Putin will

both be in charge in twenty thirty five. I don't necessarily think that so, but I don't also necessarily think false either. It's that it could go either way. But I know for a fact that the Trump administration won't be there in twenty thirty or even five years from now. So well, yeah, it's twenty thirty, I should say the next election, if the Democrats win, they could pull the funding for this and all of these this funding and science and all that was for nothing, go ahead, Raven.

there and account for it. Like we're like, you know, simpletons when it comes to this stuff, compared to these genius people like I don't understand how they're going to have the material to be able to withstand this long term and everything else, Like, why not try to at least establish fusion here to support all of the world instead of building more of those massive nuclear because like China right now is like really pushing for condominance over

energy because they're building that massive reactor, that nuclear program that they have going on to so they're just dumping billions and billions into into fusion, into the into nuclear and now into this. Like, I just don't understand why they need to feel the need to do it on the dark side of the moon when it has no real effect here on us, considering we could build it here and actually have fusion for everyone here.

they turn to plasma. Thereafter, magnetic fields are arranged so the plasma is confined long enough so that the two nuclei as the particles collide, will fuse and create energy. This is a very difficult job to achieve with machine building, and that's where ITER proves to be an absolutely important mission. The ITER tokomag is the largest and most complex fusion device ever designed and built. More than a million pieces and ten million different components must fit together with the

tightest tolerances. Clearly, it shows ITER to be an international venture. Components come from several parts of the world. In total, thirty five nations are involved with building and running ITER, so it is one of the most significant international collaborations of countries acting together in history. The idea for building ITER began in the nineteen eighties when Mikhail Gorbachev, representing the Soviet Union, and US President Ronald Reagan proposed an

international fusion initiative. In this era, as the Cold War was coming to a close, the two leaders saw new energy for all of humanity in nineteen eighty six. The counterpart to the formal launch of the ITER project was those subsequent years, as more states joined in, including members of the European Union, Japan, China, India, South Korea, and of course Russia. It is at this moment that ITER, with the choice of the best location in France and

the necessary infrastructure, began construction in twenty ten. Since then, thousands of scientists, engineers and construction workers have applied their efforts to implement the project. The very technicality of a Tokomac meant it was designed to overawe the user. The sum of its parts, from the superconducting magnets to the cooling system, calls for sophistical to technology and fine engineering.

For example, the cryostats, the largest thing less steel vacuum chamber ever built in the world, was fabricated in India, pre assembled and then shipped to France, where it was finally assembled.

be enclosed. I understand this, But that's interesting. I wonder if the Moon might provide a better environment to make newer forms of fission or fusion work in that regard. That's very interesting. Okay. I mean I do want to watch this later on, but I don't want to spend ten minutes of this episode watching this video. But wow, Okay, Raven, thank you for bringing that to our attention. Okay, Well, speaking of international things, Trump has now imposed another twenty

five percent tariff on India. We're not going to spend too much time on it, but we do have a quick clip to talk about it.

don't have an issue buying Russian oil. They're going to do what's best for their people, regardless of America's opinion on it. So I have a feeling that we're gonna see those tariffs climb even higher in the following weeks. I don't know that for a fact. It just wouldn't shock me. But moving on here, we do have something else that's going on in DC, and Trump gave a statement that honestly kinda makes me uneasy. Let me know

what y'all think about this. I'm gonna turn the volume down because there's not a lot of talking until the very end here. So for anybody who doesn't know, doose employee was assaulted and fueled Trump's threats to federalize DC. Word Coorchristine, also known as quote unquote big Balls Online that's his online alias, was nearly carjacked by a group of teens, according to a Washington Metro police report. Yeah, he was getting into his car and like ten teenagers

basically surrounded him. Beat the absolute dog shit out of this boy. Look at him. This is the guy. This is an old big balls himself here. After the incident, President Donald Trump posted a photo reportedly of a bloodied courtisine Chorstein. I don't know what you mean. Reportedly, you can look at it and see that, Yeah, he's bleeding like crazy. And this is when Trump made the claim that he wants to federalize DC.

is kind of breaking news. It only happened a few hours ago as of time recording, so I don't know if this attack was because your boy is a member of the Doge Committee, or more than likely because DC is a cesspool of underprivileged youths doing gang violence. I remember when I lived in southeast d C, which is at the time not a nice area of the city. That's where I was stationed. You couldn't go three blocks away from our barracks to the local store without the

possibility of getting jumped. As a matter of fact, me and a buddy of mine almost did one day. We almost got robbed. Now, thankfully the uh, the youths for lack of better words, thought better of their actions before they did it. But yeah, it was a little bit of a situation. We even laughed about it, like, I don't know how they thought that was gonna go, but like we were ready or so, we thought these dudes

probably had guns or something like that. We weren't armed at the moment, you know, we we were Marines, but we were also in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC. You can't just carry a weapon there. So yeah, it's crazy how the places with the strictest gun laws also have very high crime rates. But that's taught for another day anyway. Yeah, I don't know if this had anything to do with the fact that he is a Doze employee.

I don't think so. Off the rip, however, it's not a good look for DC, and now it's got Trump talking about federalizing the city. It's not a good sign. Not a good sign at all all. Right, Now, as we're kind of getting towards the end of the episode, let's shift gears a little bit to something that is a little bit more comical. Here. This is a report from the Moscow Times. Now I understand there is going to be some that say that this is or is

not credible sources. There was another one from the Ukrainian Times. This report comes from multiple outside sources that are not involved in the Russia Ukraine conflict. But apparently Russia's war against Ukraine has seen an explosion in HIV rates. Let's talk about it here. Russia's HIV statistics and dynamics were far from encouraging long before the full scale invasion of Ukraine,

but the war has dramatically worse in the situation. In the first year of the war, according to Defense Ministry data, the recorded incident of HIV among military personnel soared by more than forty times. The demographic and economic losses Russia will suffer as a result of this outbreak will have repercussions for decades and may ultimately even exceed the damage it has sustained from its invasion of Ukraine. The number of people living with HIV in Russia passed the one

million mark back in twenty sixteen. That's almost one percent of the population to or about one point five to two percent of working age people, and does not include those who simply did not get tested. Even at that stage the epidemic could still have been brought under control. There is a vast accumulated experience of fighting HIV around

the world. Had there been the political will, it would have been enough to increase the Health Ministry's budget for tackling the bread of HIV and to introduce proven methods of prevention instead of relying on outdated and harmful ideas about family life and quote unquote moral staples. Now don't I don't know what the Russian ideas of family life and moral staples are, but I don't necessarily think that

those are harmful. They might be again, maybe they're telling their people to do some horrendous things to themselves and calling it moral. I just have a hard time seeing that. They're probably talking about like abstinence or things like that. I don't know. I don't know. But the HIV spread is not just from intercourse or things like that. It's also being fueled by a lot of drug use as a matter of fact, on the front which and it's not just on the Russian side. I understand the Ukrainians

are doing a lot of this as well. But you'll have that whenever you have people who didn't want to fight that are forced to the front. Look at Vietnam.

How many of our soldiers came back from Vietnam after being drafted to go there, came back strung out on all types of drugs because you find yourself in hell that you didn't volunteer yourself to go to, and you're willing to do whatever it takes to get your mind off it for a bit, including injecting or shooting up or smoking or whatever the case would be, of some

sort of a list substance. And not all conditions in the trench warfare that the Russians and Ukrainians have found themselves in are the most hygienic, So needle sharing has become more of the reason for this epidemic, but let's keep talking about it here. Modern antra anti retrovenal retroviral Jesus therapy ART, which is prescribed to every person newly diagnosed with the HIV for the rest of their life,

is not cheap. Even before the war, only a few wealthy regions could afford to fully finance it for all who needed it. The health ministry tried to switch to cheaper domestic generics of Western drugs to cut costs but HIV organizations were already reporting disruptions in the availability of essential drugs even before the war. Now, wartime priorities have exacerbated the problem. The proportion of HIV patients receiving treatment has now fallen below fifty percent in Russia for the

first time in many years. The wartime wave of repression against civil society proved to be the final nail in the coffin of Russia's already weak system of assistance for people living with HIV. The Elton John Foundation, the world's largest sponsor of NGO's working in the field of HIV, was declared and quote unquote undesirable organization, forcing Russian organizations to stop any cooperation with it. Yeah, Russia decided that

the Elton John found Nation was one of those undesirable organizations. Fair, okay. This The designation of LGBTQ plus element of PQRSTUV Excavation point Asterisk people as an extremist movement quote unquote has further increased the cross stigma around both the gay community and the issue of HIV. Yeah, HIV is no longer just a gay thing, by the way, I know. It

was seen as that in the eighties. But that is way more often than not these days really got nothing to do with the gay community, and it hasn't for the better part of two decades, I might add. But all right, However, the greatest impact has been caused by the war itself. Epidemiologists say that the risk of HIV spreading at the front increased with blood transfusions and the reusing of syringes infield hospitals. Right, that's that's what it is.

Syringe and bad blood transfusions at the front. Clearly, that's the dirty needles that we're talking about. Sure, people who take ART every day are no longer infectious, but when soldiers are living in trenches in conditions of round the clock shelling, the uninterrupted supply of administration of ART is hardly realistic. Meanwhile, irregular treatment is even worse than no treatment at all, since it can cause the virus to become drug resistant and get passed on in that new mutation.

The problem is so grave that it has been officially acknowledged even by Defense Ministry doctors. The number of new HIV cases detected in the armed forces grew fivefold from the first quarter of twenty twenty two to the fall of the same year. By the end of twenty twenty two, it increased by thirteen times, and by the beginning of twenty twenty three, peak growth was recorded at more than fortyfold.

By the end of the same year, the HIV detection rate among military personnel was about twenty times higher than before the war. Y'all that was in twenty twenty three. The statistics right now are exponentially worse. Such high transmission rates can be explained by the fact that HIV is not just passed on in war through wounds and their treatment. The two more traditional transmission transmission channels unprotecting sexual contact including sex with workers or with sex workers, I should say,

and sharing needles to inject drugs have not disappeared. On the contrary, according to independent journalists, both are thriving in an army of men who are earning decent money and live every day as if it was their last. And I get that, you know you're going to have You're going to have sex, work and drugs anywhere where that type of warfare is being done again, we only need look at Vietnam. But anyway, despite the surge of HIV

cases in the Russian armed forces. Testing positive for the disease is still officially cause for being declared unfit to serve in the military. At the conscription stage, this rule is generally followed. There have been reports of draftees buying fake certificates for positive HIV and hepatitis tests in order to avoid being sent to the front. Yeah, I'll bet there have been at the front itself. However, these rules

are no longer so closely observed. Independent media and social media are full of stories of commanders on the ground refusing to let soldiers leave the front no matter what conditions they are in, because manpower is in short supply. Yeah, that's happening on both sides. By the way, that's not just a Russian problem by any means. Worst of all, no epidemiologists is prepared to say that the explosion of new HIV cases is confined to the military and that

it is caused by army specific factors. The dynamics among the rest of the population could be just as bad. The rise may have been spotted because military personnel, along with pregnant women, migrants, and professionals including pilots and chefs, who are subject to mandatory HIV testing. One Russian publication reported that in fourteen Russian regions, the proportion of pregnant women testing positive for HIV is now regularly more than

one percent. That, according to the World Health Organization standards, is another symptom of the transition to a generalized HIV epidemic when there is no longer any point in talking about at risk groups quote unquote in that particular country. Wow, just so we're clear here, here's some other statistics for people. Russia has been among the top five countries in terms of HIV cases since twenty twenty two, accounting for a three point nine percent of the one point five million

new infections worldwide. Only South Africa, which is fourteen percent of all new cases, Mozambique six point five percent of all new cases, Nigeria at fourteen point nine percent, in India at four point two percent have more new cases, and the latter two have significantly larger populations than Russia. That is that is pretty pretty insane. So, yeah, there's things going on at the Ukrainian Russian front, and I know that people are hearing right now that they may

be coming to the table for a ceasefire conversation. This might be the final thing. I just I don't see it. I don't see it as of this moment. Realistically, Russia is still making their forward advance into a few regions as we speak. They just launched a massive three prong offensive in the past two weeks. They gained some ground,

not a lot, but they are still gaining ground. So and it was at the cost of a lot of lives and a lot of equipment, thousands of pieces of equipment, I might add, And we don't even want to talk about the death toll, or we should just say the Kia not well, I guess for lack of Let's call them casualties, because a lot of these guys are not going to return to the front, but they still have their lives. Some reports are saying that it's even over a million for the Russian side, and it's not like

the Ukrainian side is much better. It's but not by leaps and bounds. So now we have HIV that is making people battlefield casualties, allegedly if they're allowed to lead the front. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to bring up this one was actually dropped by raven STI epidemic slows as new syphilis gonerhea cases fall in the United States, the CDC says, well, hey, that makes me happy. Rates of sexually transmitted infections appear to be leveling off after

decades of growth in the United States. According to the latest statistic from the CDC, STIs remain at record levels, but new cases of chamytee and sephius could finally be stabilizing, while cases of goneriea have declined for two years in a row. Large discrepancies in STIs persist for certain populations, with adolescents, gay men, and black individuals bearing much of the burden. Well, that doesn't make me happy, but the fact that these levels are leveling off and are reducing

in certain cases, that really does make me happy. Let's see. Overall, the total number of STIs decreased by one point eight percent between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. We can read this one here. It says more than two point four million cases of chlamydia, goneriea, and syphalis were reported last year, the vast majority one point six million, where chlamydia followed by gonnoia six hundred thousand and syphilis

a little over two hundred thousand. Wow, there's a direct quote from Bradley Stoner, a doctor and the director of the Division of STD Prevention at the National Center for HIV Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention at the CDC. Good God, the moniker on that guy's door. We are at the infection point in the epidemic. This report is encouraging in a number of areas, but it also shows that we have a lot of work to do. We still have a lot of STIs in the United States,

and they're not equally distributed. Okay, the way that word it was weird. Does he want them equally distributed or he wants them just eradicated as a whole. Okay, the data confirms discrepancies and disease burdens. Stoner noted rates of SCIS are not equally distributed, with certain groups including gay and bisexual men, black people, and young adults age fifteen to twenty four disproportionately affected. That's not new. I don't

like that. But that's also not like new information. But anyway, all right, now, let's kind of take things to a lighter note, shall we, as are still talking about crazy things in the sexual realm. This is an article from the BBC. A tie woman was arrested for blackmailing monks with thousands of videos after sex. Yeah, so that's a thing with Buddhist monks. A lot of them are supposed to abstain from sex, but there was more than a handful of them, about a thousand that were hiring a

tie lady of the evening. I'm gonna try to keep it as respectful as I can. She was then black mailing these dudes and extorting millions from them. Let's read it in here, ty. Police have arrested a woman who allegedly had sexual relations with monks and then use photos in videos of the acts to extort money from them. The woman, who police are calling Miss Golf, had sex

with at least nine months. Police said at a press conference on Tuesday, they believe she received around three hundred and eighty five million bot which is almost twelve million dollars over the past three years. Investigators who searched her house found more than eighty thousand photos in videos used to blackmail the monks. The police spokesperson said this scandal is the latest to rock Thailand's much revered Buddhist institution, which in recent years has been plagued with allegations of

monks engaging in sexual offenses and drug trafficking. Police said the first case sorry the case first came to their attention in mid June when they learned that an abbot in Bangkok had suddenly left the monk hood after being extorted by a woman.

of it had been used for online gambling. Bro if that is, oh man, oh, the jokes right themselves. That's hilarious. When investigators searched Miss Golf's house earlier this month, they seized her phones and found more than eighty thousand photos and videos that she had used to blackmail the monks. She was facing multiple charges including extortion, money laundering, and receiving stolen goods. Police have also opened a hotline for

people to report misbehaving monks quote unquote, uh wow. The scandal has prompted the Sunga Supreme Council, the governing body for Thai Buddhism, to say it will form a special committee to review monastic regulations. The government is also pushing for harsher penalties, including fines in jail time, for monks who breached the monastic code. Whoa can you imagine if

they did that? For just religious leaders around the world, if you were to step outside of the oath that you took as a religious figure, you could face actual jail time. Now, I'm not talking about for things that are obviously illegal, like you know, pedophilia or something horrible like that, but that is a crazy precedence to set.

I'm not against it, but damn okay. This week, Thailand's King vijar longcorn v Jai raw Longcorn Yeah, revoked a royal command he had issued in June conferring higher titles to eighty one monks. He cited the recent cases of misconduct, which he said have quote caused Buddhists to suffer greatly in their minds end quote. Yeah. In Thailand, there where more than ninety percent of the population identify as Buddhists. Monks are highly revered. Many time men also choose to

temporarily ordain as monks to accumulate good karma. Okay, but the Buddhist institution has been plagued by scandals in the recent past. You'll have that with people who temporarily do things, you know, instead of taking a lifelong goal and take the discipline to achieve that lifelong goal, and they just do it for a season of their life. You'll you'll have some scandals that will come up as a portion

of that. Where a Paul Suk Paul, I'm sure I'm butchering that pronunciation, a jet setting monk known for his lavish lifestyle, made international headlines in twenty seventeen when he was charged with sex offenses, fraud, and money laundering. And in twenty twenty two, a temple in the northern province of Pechabun was left without any monks after all four of its monks were arrested in a drug raid and were disrobed.

These services are increasingly collaborating with international criminal organizations to target journalists, descend dissidents, Jewish citizens, and current and former officials, the US State Department said in a joint statement with European countries. They include the United Kingdom, Albania, Australia or I'm sorry Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,

the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. The governments called on Iranian authorities to immediately halt the activities and pledged to work together to prevent further threats. On Monday, of Belgian lawmaker of Iranian descent, Daria Safai, said the European Countries police warned her of an Iranian plot to abduct her via Turkey after she backed labeling the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group. Wow, and this is not without its precedents, right, we just

talked about this a couple of weeks ago. They found Iranian spies in Cyprus that we're also trying to We don't know if they were just gaining intelligence for a military operation or if they were trying to plan and attack. Last we heard they were still trying to ascertain the over under on the details. That being said, we know that Iran Iran has spies all over the earth. That's not a secret to anybody. But all these countries are basically saying, yo, we know what you're doing and you

need to stop. And for the record, this isn't un terroristic of them. To the links to the international criminal networks, Yeah, I think you can only find and Tony, you brought this up last time. There's only like one or two Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organizations that are not directly connected to Iran. So to say that these terrorist organizations are involved with the targeting of journalists, dissidents, Jewish citizens, and former and

current officials, that's not new. That's kind of terrorist one oh one. So with all of that, these countries are coming together and telling Iran to stop. Now that being said, this is an article from Al Jazeera. A man was arrested for spying for Iran before possible attacks in Germany.

Iran's embassy in Berlin swiftly rejects allegations. After a man is arrested in a neighbor in neighboring Denmark, a danish Man has been arrested on suspicion of spying in Germany on behalf of Iran, on an allegation swiftly denied by the embassy. German prosecutors on Tuesday said the man, identified only as Ali s under German privacy laws, was suspected of conducting the surveillance in preparation of further intelligence activities

in Germany, possibly including terrorist attacks on Jewish targets. I'm not you know, Germany doesn't have like a really big Jewish population, right, like they have some, but there's not a lot of them anymore, for you know, reasons, you know, read a history book at some point. But okay, for intelligence activities in Germany, and yes, possibly an attack, probably just spy operations. I don't know, Tony your thoughts.

of terrorist cells. That's a breakdown of the Islamic religion as a whole, from the Sunni and the si I, to the to the Kurds, to the Drus, to the Alawad, to the the Basque to you there, there's I'm with you there. There's levels to that for sure. But most of the terrorist organizations that are going after Israel anyway, I think have pretty decent connections to Iran.

nuclear secrets to Moussad so. Iran said it has executed a man caught working as a spy for Israel's Mussad intelligence agency, accusing him of passing one secrets, including information about an Iranian nuclear scientist who was killed in Israel's recent attacks. This is from Newsweek, by the way, long story short, why it matters here. The reported execution reflects Iran's intensifying efforts to root out suspected espionage following the

twelve Day War in June. If we're gonna really call it a war, wow, twelve day bombing, but all right, which saw Israel and US strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Amir Hatami, the commander in chief of Iran's military, warned on Sunday that threats from Israel persisted in that Iranian forces were ready for operations. Iranian state media reported Iran executed three men charged with spying for Israel on June twenty fourth,

as part of a sweeping crackdown. Human rights groups have condemned a wave of hundreds of arrests and warned that the government is using the June conflict as a pretext to escalate repression. Rights groups have also cited concerns over confessions. I mean again, you'll kind of have that what to know.

The Iranian news agency s n N or Student News Network That's yeah Okay, reported that a man named ruseb Vedi had been found guilty of espionage and intelligence cooperation in favor of the Zionist regime and was hanged on August fifth. According to the case documents of rusbe Vedi's statements, the man was fully aware of his cooperation with Mussad spy terrorist service and deliberately collaborated with the Zionist enemy.

The S and M reported, according to an unofficial translation of its report, I love that the defendant was an act was active in one of the country's important and sensitive organizations, and given the level of access he had had become an attractive subject for the Zionist regime's spy service.

It said. This is the report. By the way. The news agency did not elaborate on which organization he was working for, but said he had traveled to Vienna five times, including for training where he met Mussad agents in the course of his extensive cooperation with the Zionist regime. Quote unquote, the man quote provided information to Mussad spy service about one of our country's nuclear scientists who was martyred in the recent Israel Israeli aggressions and m reported, So is

that what they hung him for? For acknowledging that Israel in fact did kill a nuclear scientist of one of the bombs. Because I thought that we kind of knew that, we knew that it wasn't a massive loss of life when the bombs were hitting the nuclear sites. There were some there were some like scientists that were on site that day that died and things like that. So if this guy just confirmed the name of one of the scientists that died, was that enough for him to be

publicly hung. I don't know. I don't know. I know Roan does things a little on some might say the extremist side. Vadi had been placed under surveillance after he returned from one of his trips abroad and was arrested quote when his connections and cooperation with the Zionist enemy were discovered. As an In said, they love just throwing out that Z word, don't they. That's a whole thing. Anyway, Moving on, here we could go to the next topic

of conversation. Sudan accuses the UAE of funding Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the RSF in a civil war. This is kind of an interesting one here, so this is from Cayo Sorry, Cairo Associated Press. Sudan has accused the UAE of sending Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the Parliamentary Rapid Support Forces against the military in the country's civil war.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday that the Sudanese government has irrefutable evidence confirming mercenaries from Colombia and some neighboring African countries were sponsored and financed by Maraudi authorities. The statement didn't share the evidence or name the neighboring countries. So they got the proof. We're not going to talk about the proof, but we got it anyway. Is a

direct quote here from the Foreign Ministry. This unprecedented phenomenon poses a serious threat to peace and security in the region and across the continent. The Foreign Ministry set asserting that hundreds of thousands of mercenaries were hired from across the African continent, and an email statement to the Associated Press. The UAE's Foreign Ministry said the government categorically rejects the allegations and denied involvement in the war by backing armed groups.

The UAE emphasizes that these claims are merely attempts to derail the peace process and evade moral, legal and humanitarian obligations to end the conflict and paid the way for a transitional process that reflects the aspirations of the Sudanese people for security, stability and development. There is no immediate response by Colombia. The four of the civil war in Sudan erupted in April and twenty twenty three in the Khartoum in Khartoum, rather before spreading across the country following

simmering tensions between RSF and the army. The fighting has killed over forty thousand people, displaced as many as twelve million, and pushed many to the brink of famine, which is nothing new for Sudan. Let's be honest. They use hunger as a weapon, and they have for a very long time, you know, anyone Sudan has long accused the UAE of being involved in the war by supplying the RSF with weapons,

but the Gulf country has denied that claim. In November, an Amnesty International report armored vehicle manufactured by the UAE and equipped with French defense systems had been captured by the Sudanese military. A spokesperson for the Imorati government said at the time that the UAE was the target of a coordinated disinformation campaign aimed at undermining our foreign policy,

regional role, and humanitarian efforts. Sudan's army and the RSF both have been accused of committing atrocities like ethnic cleansing, extra judicial killings, and sexual violence against civilians, including children. Once again, this is nothing new for Sudan. That's kind of how they have done war for quite some time. It's disgusting, but okay, that's the thing that's happening right now. So while that was a very dark conversation, let's try

to end this on a lighter note, shall we. And this is also gonna kind of be dark in another regard, but I think it's also kind of funny and also kind of dark. Let's go dark humor, can we do that? Everybody? Let's go a little dark humor. This are from ABC News Denmark. Zoo is asking people to donate their pets to feed their predators. Yeah, Denmark Zoo is asking the public to donate their pets, particularly chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs, so that they can feed them to the zoo's predators.

Is a direct quote here. In zoos, we have a responsibility to imitate the natural food chain of the animals in terms of both animal welfare and professional integrity, the Alborg Zoo said in a statement last Thursday. The request created a backlash online, with many disagreeing with the practice, but the zoo said the purpose of the program is to make sure nothing goes to waste and to ensure

natural behavior, nutrition and wellbeing of our predators. According to the zoo's website, the zoo also said they would accept horses which they euthanize and slaughter for the food, though they said that the zoo needs The zoo's needs vary throughout the year and there might be a waiting list. There might be a waiting list, so listen. They're talking about rabbits, guinea pigs and chickens and depending on the predator.

I can at least understand the thought process here. But while you're in, if you got any horse laying around that you just need to get put down, bro, donate it to the zoo. They got a spot for it, but you may need to hold off for a bit. They may be a waiting list for people trying to offload their old horses. Good God. The zoo also said they would have said that one okay. So for horses.

Alboorg Zoos said it receives the horses as a donation and the owner of the horse can obtain a tax deduction for the value of the horse, according to the zoo's website. The zoo also said that they will accept chickens, rabbits and guinea pig on weekdays between ten am and one pm, but no more than four at a time. Bro, What there's that many people in Denmark that have chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs that they only can donate four of them at a time. And then also are they

getting tax right offs for this? I mean bunny farms themselves. You have a turnaround time because whenever I was looking into doing subsistence farming, rabbits are the number one best bang for buck as far as the amount of feed and care and water they require versus the amount of protein that you can get on a repeatable timeframe. I want to say it's like six to eight weeks from the time that the rabbits are born to the time

you can harvest them for their meat. So you get a good few breeding stock rabbits and you can slaughter the rest and you can feed yourself pretty decently off of them. Although they don't have a high fat content, it's very lean meat. I personally love the taste of rabbit. But anyway, I don't know about guinea pigs, and I don't know about the chickens and the gestation period for them, but no more than four animals at a time, and you can donate them week days between ten am and one pm.

against him. So they were bringing in a new male and they knew that these four lions and two cubs weren't gonna be able to like defend themselves, and this male lion was gonna just destroy them, so they just took them out early. You know, it's more humane that way, I suppose. So you made room for one lion by killing four. Okay, that's a that's a thing in Copenhagen.

conversations tonight. We stuck primarily in the Nation of America, but then we went international. There's a lot of things going on, and I think we all kind of learned a little something tonight, and I appreciate everybody for joining in the conversation and adding in your own flavor to it. Again, for anybody who is listening to this, anytime that you

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