The Mark Moss Show Feb 25, 2022

There's so much going on, so much you need to understand. Now, Bitcoin doesn't have a marketing department. There's no company, there's no president, there's no ceo, there's no no marketing department. Um. But that's okay because the governments around the world are doing their best job at doing marketing for us. And if you just are paying attention at all, you can see it all over the all over the place. UM. I got a lot coming up in the show that

we're gonna cover. I want to talk about what's happening in Afghanistan. I want to talk about the United States, the Biden dmunt actually stealing the people's money that maybe didn't know about that. We're gonna talk about that money, how that money gets stolen. I want to talk about what's going on in Ukraine, in Europe with Russia the rest of Europe, and how it may signal the end

of the dollar as we know it. I want to talk a little bit about what's going on up in Canada, and I even I'm going to bring on a special guest that's been boots on the ground in Canada since day one, and it's going to give us his own take on what is going on. A lot to cover, so let's go ahead and dig into it. Um. But right off the bat, I want to talk about something that has gotten almost no play at all. I talk to several people about it, and most people have just

not even heard about it. And so UM, you know, most people, when I, if I say what's going on in Afghanistan, you probably have flashbacks of the United States running away with its tail tucked between its legs, UM leaving so fast that people were like literally hanging onto the sides of airplanes trying to get out of there. It was a disaster, a complete disaster. Twenty years UM, twenty trillion dollars down the rain, um and probably left it worse off than when we went there in the

first place. Dollars Where did that twenty trillion dollars go. By the way, well, that's how much the United States spent. But when they spent it, that means they gave it to someone. So who got it, well, that would most likely be the military industrial complex, the contractors and things like that. They all got super rich. Um. But like I said, it kind of left the country worse off than when they found it um. And not only did they leave it worse off, a lot of those people

ended up in a really bad situations. We've been seeing lots of situations about that, and the people there have been having a really hard time, and we've been seeing how cryptocurrency and bitcoin has been helping those people out. As a matter of fact, there was an article that was rand and says impoverished Afghan women are receiving emergency aid in crypto as the tally band limits cast withdraws and millions go hungry, and so lots and lots of

people in Afghanistan are going hungry. As a matter of fact, the lady that cuts my hair is from Afghanistan, and she was telling me how she talks to her friend in Afghanistan and how her friend can't even really say the things that she wants to stay on the phone because they're listening to all the phone calls and how they're like literally starving to death and and my haircut. Lady UM just wants to send her money. But she didn't even have to send her money. And I'm like, well, Katie,

just send her bitcoin, right. It's like, oh, I didn't know about that, um and so. But that's what this headline is saying, that these impoverished African women millions are going hungry another receiving aid in cryptocurrency because the Taliban is not only listening to their phone calls, but they're

controlling the whole banking system. So they're limiting how much cash they can withdraw from the system, um and and a lot of it is due to the economic collapse because of the U S sanctions and a shortage of cash um that they have. So the Taliban is basically, like I said, limiting what can go in and out of the bank and bank withdraws and so, I mean millions of people just can't even buy food, they can't

even buy medicine, things like that. Now, um I had done an earlier segment we talked about, you know, bitcoin being used as a humanitarian aid. So here we have people that can't even buy food or medicine, and I can't just send the money because the Taliban will take it, but we can send them cryptocurrency, which is pretty amazing. According to the u n's World Food Program, they said nine eight percent of Afghans don't have enough to eat. Again,

that's prother you in. Nine percent of Afghans don't have enough to eat, and they say it's a it's it's not just about a lack of money. Um, it's it's about the way the Taliban has been doing it. But it's also because that the Afghan Central Bank had ten billion dollars frozen by the United States. So not only did the United States go in there and tear up the country, leave everybody stranded, and now the Talibans um basically ruined them through authoritarian iron fist, then the United

States went and froze the bank's money. Now, of course that bank, those deposits are made up of people, so you and I keep our money in the bank. If the United States froze that bank's assets, then you and I wouldn't be able to get our money out of the bank to go buy food and pay our bills.

And that's exactly what's happened. And so these people and in Afghanistan are just desperate and uh, they've lost especially the women specifically because they lost their jobs because the Taliban policies, and a lot of them are soul breadwinners of their families. Of course, it's been war torn for twenty years, so there's a lot of you know, probably single single families, single mothers there. Um, And now here

we are, we can't even send them humanitarian aid. We can't even send them emergency payments because the JP, Morgan Chase and Western Union have them all blocked because they're afraid of going against the sanctions the United States has put onto them, so they can't even get them money. But here we are, cryptocurrency Bitcoin is here to save

the day. And it's been amazing what's been going on over there, and a lot of these women have actually turned to UM learning how to use cryptocurrency, even learning how to write code and even program on cryptocurrency to earn money. That's pretty amazing. But things took a turn for the worse this week. And when I say it turned for the worse, UM, there's a headline that came out just a couple of days ago in the New York Times. Biden's decision on the frozen funds stokes anger

among Afghans. Quote it's a cruel act and a betrayal end quote one shopkeeper set of the White House's move, which could effectively bankrupt the Afghan central banks. So what happened? So as I said that the United States decided to freeze the Afghan central banks money, and over the last couple of days, the Biden administration decided to take it all. They're not gonna unfreeze it. As a matter of fact, they're gonna take it. They took their money. Um, and

so what does that mean? So the Biden administration froze the roughly seven billion in central bank assets that the now defunct Western BacT government had on deposit the Federal Reserve, and um, they decided to take it. They're gonna get take half the money, three point five billion, and they're going to somehow divided up between living relatives of the

victims of nine eleven terrorist attacks. Okay, well, were the terrorist attacks found to be done by the Afghanistan people, And I'm talking about whoever these terrors are I'm talking about the people like you and I we have our money at the bank. Are the people responsible for that? That was never found out to be a case as

a matter of fact. Um, the United States said, hey, you're aiding and embedding these terrorists, and um, we need you to turn over Osama bun Laden And the Taliban government said, we will, We will give you Osama bin Ladden if you can give us proof that he was involved, which of course they never could and they never did. So here we are. The government took took their money.

Seven half of it's going to go towards the whatever the relatives of victims of nine eleven get that, and then the other half of the money is going to be given out to some sort of like humanitarian aid. Um. It's gonna be steered towards humanitarian aid for Afghanistan. Um. But who's gonna get it? How much of that money is actually going to get to the people that need it or the people that have the people that have

their money in the bank. Now, of course we're talking about why you maybe don't want to have your money in the bank because the government can take it at any time, which is what bitcoin is here for Remember, bitcoin solved the oldest problem in history. I can store my wealth in a way that cannot be taken, cannot be seized, cannot be stolen, and if I want to send it to you, nobody can stop it or block

it or prevent It's freedom money. Of course, that means I have to custody it out my own, not trusted in a bank, and in order to custody on my own, that poses its own risks. I'm gonna be back with more talking about how you need to worry about protecting your wealth. Don't go away, all right, Welcome back. You are listening to the Markma Show. We're talking about the decentralized revolution that we are witnessing that we're living through.

You know, times are times of change are scary because they're uncertain, but I can also look and think that it's pretty dang exciting because man, history books are gonna be written about what is going on right now now. Before the break, I was talking about, um, what's going on in Afghanistan? Um, And not because I just care so much about Afghanistan, but more importantly, because, as I was saying, the governments around the world are doing the

marketing for bitcoin. They are proving the use case why we need it. A lot of people in the United States, um still would ask me, Mark, why do we need something like cryptocurrency? And makes no sense. Now, if you live in Venezuela or Argentina, or Lebanon, or Iran or Afghanistan, you'd get it from the United States. You don't because you know, we typically have a pretty good, you know,

financial system. I mean, you know, never mind the fact that your money's lost nine percent of its purchasing power in the last hundred years. But for the most part, you know, it's not so bad. But um, now the governments are really trying to do bitcoins marketing for them. And I was talking about how the Biden administration this week decided to I'm just gonna use the words steal.

They use the word seized. Whatever steal. The Biden administration decided to steal the people Afghanistan's money and to redistribute as they see fit. And so all those people that had their money in the bank now lost it now. Of course, the White House's decisions drew criticism from human rights groups, lawyers, and financial experts, who warned that the move could gut the country's central bank for years to come, crippling its ability to establish monetary policy and manage the

country's balance of payments. Um John Sifton, the Asia Asia Advocacy director of Human Writes Watch, said quote the decision would create a problematic precedent for commandeering sovereign wealth and do little to address underlying factors driving Afghanistans a massive humanitarian crisis. So they're already having a hard enough time, and now you've got the big bad United States just

coming and take their money, just redistribute it. And so again the governments of the world, the United States, Canada, they're proving why we should um be able to custo our own cones. Uh. Typically with investments or talking about buying bitcoin, you'd say, only only invest what you can afford to lose. I had some I had one friend this morning text me and he said, Mark, I'm kind of worried about my money in the banks. Um, what should I do? I said, only keep the money in

the bank you can afford to lose. Which is pretty crazy that you have to think about it that way, but that's the way it is. If you're in Canada and you show any sympathy, including even commenting on social media in favor of the Freedom Convent. Way, you could have your bank accounts frozen or seized. If you went to Washington d c UM during times of protest and they flagged you there because used your credit card, you

could have had your bank accounts seized. If you happen to be just a regular person in Afghanistan and had your money in the bank account, you get your money seized. And so Um, it's it's becoming more and more important. I mean, like I said, they're doing the marketing for them. Like I told my friend this morning, I only keep the money in the bank that you can't afford to lose. And it's crazy that we have to think about it in the in those terms. But um, that's basically where

we're app now. As the United States continues to get more and more um authoritarian, or I should say, UM, as they continue to weaponize the US dollar. Um, it's really changed in the entire shape and outlook of the world. UM. I think we've obviously seen at this point, unless you've again been asleeper in a coma, you've seen that we are in an escalating conflict with the Ukraine and Russia.

I guess we could say, and um, you know, not to dig into the aspects of the war necessarily, but um, what we can see is sort of the same thing that's going on over there. The United States is weaponizing the dollar. Um, you know, we're threatening Russia and putin that if you go in there, we're going to slap sanctions on you. What does that mean. Slap sanctions, Well, that means more economic sanctions. That means more freezing of accounts,

That means more seizing money out of accounts. And so if you happen to be in Russia and you happen to be a Russian citizen, that probably has nothing to do with a war or invasion. You probably don't even want it, you don't even care about it, maybe you don't even know about it. But your money happens to be in a Russian bank because that's what you do with your money, right, You put in a bank. And now the United States wants to slap sanctions and now

freeze the assets of that bank. And you just happen to be a citizen, Well, now sorry, your money is now frozen. That's how that works, you know. Um, there's a lot of bad things going on in the world today, and I'm not advocating for those bad things. UM. Take our take Iran for example. Not to dig into politics of Iran, but you know there's obviously, um, the whole thing that's going on there with them trying to you know,

come on with a nuclear program. And obviously you know, it seems kind of like as an American you probably don't want them to have nuclear weapons. Um. For some reason, the Biden Obama admin wants them to have nuclear weapons. Um. But because of the sanctions that we've had against them. If you if you're a thirteen or fifteen year old kid from Iran, you can't get a bank account. You probably have you probably don't know anything about what's going

on in there. You're just a kid. You don't care about it, you're not sympathetic for it, but you're not allowed to be in the banking system. And so while I'm not advocating that they should have nuclear weapons, UM, it's too bad for that fifteen year old kid that just wants to start an Instagram account and make some money and he can't. You know, these uh, these games that these politicians play, they affect all of US and um, you know a nation, you know, Russia, Ukraine, US want

to go to war. We don't care about that. I don't care about the war. I don't hate Russians, I don't hate Chinese. People don't hate any of those people, and they don't hate us either. It's these leaders that want to start these conflicts and play these games that drag US into it, and then unfortunately people people pay the price. Right, the people in Afghanistan got their money seized, the people in in Russia get their money seized. That's

what's happening. But what happens is that as these governments do that, and guess what happens. Well, Russia has been the largest accumulator of gold in the world. Well, I'm sorry, China has been the largest accumulator, but Russia has been trying to keep up pace pretty fast accumulating gold and um. Russia is providing the rest of Europe with energy. And so if the United States says, okay, well now more sanctions on Russia, then Russia could just cut Europe off

of energy, gas, oil, etcetera. Or they could say, well, you know, the United States locks US out of the financial system, so now we have to transact with you in something else like gold, for example, or like cryptocurrency, because the United States can't shut down cryptocurrency, and so

maybe we'll see Russia do that. Now, if I was having a party and I started kicking people out of the party, eventually I'm the only one left at the party and everyone else is having their own parties somewhere else. And so the more you see the United States trying to slap sanctions and sees bank accounts, the more they'll be kicking people out of the finance system. And really, like I said, doing marketing as why people should be

using some cryptocurrencies UM and bitcoin, etcetera. And it's only accelerating what is the inevitable right we should as people have the right to control our own money UM, and governments should not be using that to manipulate this or bend us to their will. And the more they do that, the faster they are just going to speed this up. UM. And right now the pressure is on Russia and UM, like I said, they have a massive gold stash. Will they go back to gold, will they go back to cryptocurrency?

I don't know, But what I do know is that it is going to speed up the inevitable decline of the use of the dollar UM in in the United States and globally as well. UM. You're listening to the Mark Moa Show. We're talking about the decentralized revolution that's happening. We're talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology. We're talking about bitcoin. What's going on so you can understand it in the broader context of what's going on.

I have a lot more that I want to dig into, UM, what the Federal Reserve the United States has been doing, what's going on up in Canada. So much more to talk about. I'll be back in a second. Don't go away, Hey, everyone, welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moss Show. We're talking about the decentralized revolution that's happening. Now. Before the break, we've covered a lot of ground hopefully didn't miss.

But really what we're showing today is that UM as I've been saying that the oldest problem that mankind has had is how do I secure my wealth in a way that can't be stolen from me? UM. For the first UM humans alive, it was how do I secure my you know, maybe my food, uh, from my food not getting stolen my chickens and my goats. Um, then it was gold. You know, we formed a village and then a kingdom and then a country. UM. And we're

still having that problem today. And while a lot of people don't understand why bitcoin and cryptocurrency is important, especially if you're in the United States, if you're in other countries where they're inflating away your currency or seizing your currency or stopping you or blocking you from either sending it or receiving it from somebody else, you get it.

But the United States, Canada, it's been pretty hard for some people to see that because they're just they're so focused on their own life they don't see the problems that the rest of the world has. But today we're seeing the governments of the world really rallying hard to try to promote cryptocurrency as strong as they can. And so we talked about how UM the Biden admin decided this week they were going to steal UM the Afghanistans

people's funds and redistribute them as they see fit. So if you had your money, and if you're an Afghanistan you your money in the bank, Sorry, we just lost it all because the government decided to take it. Not the government of Afghanistan, the United States government de stided to take it. Um. We talked about what's going on in Russia and Ukraine and how um, pretty much whatever is going to happen in the United States is gonna

slap more sanctions on um Russia. And if you're a Russian citizen and you happen to have your money in the bank, it's gonna be bad for you, right UM. And so they're just doing more and more marketing UM as to why we need these types of things. And of course our neighbors in the North and Canada are

also seeing the exact same thing. And while while Canada and these other countries have really proven the case what we need it, um, we're also seen that at the same time, at the exact same time, our leaders in

the United States are proving even more reasons. And not because they're se easing it, which as I said, they already are, but like we saw this week, Uh, well, we've been covering for quite a while now that the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of the United States, the one that prints the money out of thin air, the one that pumps the money into the markets. The one that knows what what companies or bonds they're going to prop up has been doing insider trading on that information.

So they were buying these stocks, these companies, investing this money before they were passing these financial policies. Seems kind of like a conflict of interest. Now, if you or I did that, that of course gets us a nice pair of handcuffs and we get aware of probably a nice orange jumpsuit for a really long time, like like Martha Stewart had to go to some time. But of course if the government, politicians and the central bankers do it, no big deal. That's a problem, right, rules for the

not for me. Now, we saw this week that the Federal Reserve refused to release sixty pages of correspondents on pandemic trades scandal. So what does that mean? So, um, the Federal Reserve, as I said, was doing insider trading on this. They did some investigation. Um, three top Federal Reserve officials lost their jobs, including the Dallas and Boston Fed presidents, as well as that of the vice chair Clarita.

And you would think that, um, something this big, this big of a matter, this public um, you would think it would be fully in the public domain. But of course,

you know you'd be wrong. They don't want to even know about this um and so Reuters had to do what's called the Freedom of Information Act, the FOIA request to get the information, and the FEDS that there was about sixty pages of correspondence between ethics officials and policymakers recording regarding financial transactions conducted during the pandemic year, which have become an extremely sore spot for the FED and members of Congress who are demanding full transparency as to

who knew and who did what and when. The only problem is no one's allowed to see them, as the FED quote unquote denied in full to release the documents, citing exemptions under the Information Next. So under the Freedom of Information Act, they're supposed to release this. Congress is demanding full transparency, and the FED denied it. Nope, you don't get it, uh, it says, uh. Well, so they cited an exemption under the Information Act, and it said

it applied in this case. Uh. Now, typically, traditionally an exemption would only be used in a matter of national security. So how does allegations of insider trading by a bunch of millionaires that control the money. How does that threaten the US democracy? I'd like to know. But the point here is that there's absolutely no transparency with the people

that create the money. No transparency, no accountability. We know that they did these things, we know that they enriched themselves before they passed these financial policies using the legal ramification is that we have we've requested the information and they said no, and then what, no big deal. They can do whatever they want, right And so the problem is, while on one hand they're completely manipulated system, completely enriching themselves at our expense, at the same time they expect

a hundred transparency from you. I probably talked about earlier a few months ago, where the I R s now wants to regulate every bank account that has more than six hundred dollars of transaction. So, if your account has more than six hundred dollars, the IRIS wants to know every single transaction that you do in your bank account. Oh, but you know there are trillions of dollars. No, no big deal, we don't need to know that. You have no right to know what they're doing. And that's the problems.

The bitcoin is an open source network it's good and bad. Right, it's open source, so everybody can see this full countability. We don't have to trust that the Fed isn't doing something shady, because we already know they are. If there wasn't something shady, they would have released the documents. Um Bitcoin, you don't trust, you verify. The network's open. We know that nobody can create more money. If somebody was doing

something shady, that we we would see that. And so while on one hand they're fighting this trying to hide this, on the other hand, they're saying that we want to examine with a magnifying glass every single transaction you do with six hundred bucks, because you know you know terrorism, right, You're six hundred dollars could be funding terrorism. Never mind the billions of dollars that we left behind for them in afghanist and never mind that you're six hundred dollars

could be leading to terrorism. So I just I cite this just because of the contrast that we're seeing here. Right, the government wants to seize your money. The Biden administration says they're going to pass executive actions to regulate cryptocurrencies the Federal Reserve. I'm sorry that the Treasury, Janet Yellen says that she wants the ability to freeze any accounts that she thinks need to be frozen for whatever reason she thinks they need to be. Of course, they don't

tell us that. But at the same time, they're using insider trading and printing currency, basically stealing money from us to enrich themselves, and we have no we have no ac countability to that. That's the problem, you see. That's the thing with bitcoin versus cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is trying to change the system. Bitcoin puts the system in place that nobody can control. Instead of a instead of twelve board governors and the FED that can just create more money,

no one can control it. No one can control bitcoin. The difference with cryptocurrency is that people can so ethereum number two cryptocurrency. One of the big problems is we don't know how many ethereum there will be one day. There's no there's no fixed supply cap like with bitcoin. Twenty one million and so Ittalic Buterin and boys that that that uh developed ethereum got together a few months

ago and they changed that, and they changed it. But the very fact that people can change that at will is the same as the system that we have today, the same as the system that we don't have um and then, like I said, then we have the problem where they can basically freeze our assets. And that's exactly what's happening up in Canada. Justin should go invoke this Emergency's Act for the first time since it was past in not for nine eleven bombing, you know, not for pandemic,

but because some truckers parked their trucks. It's an urgent, critical situation and using this Emergency Act, they can freeze people's accounts and sees people's money for nothing, for no reason. I'm gonna bring somebody on in a second, and we're gonna hear some boots on the ground. What is going on up in Canada. You don't want to miss this. There's a lot of misinformation going on on on online. So I thought, let's hear from somebody who's been there

since day one. Don't go away. Hey, everyone, welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moa Show, and we are talking about bitcoin. We're talking about the decentralized revolution that is happening around the world. And you know, there's a lot of things happening as the world become decentralized, as bitcoin is solving the money and one of the many things that we have been talking about is you know,

humanitarian aid that bitcoin is able to do. And of course we have this situation in Canada we've been talking about extensively, and I was able to get somebody that's boots on the ground down there since day one in Ottawa in Canada, and I wanted to just bring some perspective of what's really going on down there. So I have Colin ross A k A Big Bear. He's with me, big Bear, Thanks for joining me. Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah. Man, So I've been covering what's going on down in Canada

for quite a while. Um. I like to look at things in context, so you know, the political, financial technology side that's happening, and it's pretty amazing what's happening. It's it's sad, it's amazing, but I wanted to bring some perspective. You're kind of the first person I've talked to boots on the ground now. Um. First off, I would say, there seems to be a lot of misinformation. So everything that I've seen on Twitter, um, it seems like it's people that are happy people that are have lots of

love for each other. I see dancing and I see Canadian flags everywhere. But then the media is trying to tell us that it's a racist and misogynists and it's it's a violent. Um you've you've been there since day one on the ground. Give us an overview of what it's like being down there and what the what the you know, the moods like and so forth. Um So, the atmosphere here and Ottawa has been absolutely amazing. I've honestly never seen anything like it in my entire life.

Like we've been calling it the love Revolution because there's so many people giving hugs and just showing love to one another. There's so much there's food going around everywhere, there's people you know, giving t shirts out, you name it. Um, it's absolutely incredible. What's happening in Ottawa right now? Yeah, that's awesome. UM Now it seems like, um, I is it growing? I mean it seems like I saw like one of the bridges got clear, but now it looks

like a couple more bridges are getting filled up. So is the is the is the freedom Convoy? I don't know exactly what you're calling it is it is it seems to be growing or is it like losing steam or picking up steam? The momentum is growing across the world right now. Okay, so we planted the seed in Canada right now, the Americans are about to get wrapped up. They're starting their convoy on DC in the next couple

of weeks. And no, it is not slowing down. There's people pouring into Ottawa more and more by the day. Some people are getting tired and going home, you know, they have jobs to go to, they have families to take care of, so that's expected. But has any of the truckers left. Absolutely not. They're holding their ground there.

They're here for the long run. Yeah. Now, I've been talking about this a lot of just in a sense where we're kind of at this stage where there's this revolution that's happening, and it happens about every two or fifty years, and the more that the leadership seems to want to squeeze it off, the more that people push back. And that's kind of what it seems like to me that to the point, the more that they're trying to

squeeze in, it's almost attracting more people to it. I was just curious as of whatever it was a day or two ago, a couple of days ago. Um, I guess Trudeau kind of pulled the nuclear um weapon out and said that, you know, now he's got these Emergencies Act and he's going to start seizing bank accounts and trucks and things like that. And so I just doesn't seem like people are being discouraged by that. Uh No, Actually, if anything, it's pissing more people off because they see

the lies for what they are clear as day. Now. You know, even the people that weren't believers are believers. Now. There's a big shift happening right now. It's there's a there's an information war going on. Like I become like my own news anchor literally just on TikTok. I grew up following of you know, thirty thousand people in two weeks, and we are out there spreading the real news, not this propaganda machine that's paid off by the government to go off scripts and just lie to our people and

demonize what this movement is actually about. Yeah, now, um, go ahead and shout out what your TikTok is. Uh it's at the Big Bear movement. But I actually just had to start a new one because that account got blocked last night. So it's culling big bear Roth now. Um. One thing that I've been focused on is, like I said, with bitcoin and the humanitarian Aide. So obviously the big news was about ten million dollars was raised via go fund me, and that money got frozen, got kind of

got season. There was another um, I don't know was it five million or so that was in the gifts and go that got blocked. And now there's all this money, um that's being raised through bitcoin. Um have you seen some of that money getting dispersed out or how? How has that been working? This this fundraising effort, like with the cryptocurrency, have I seen it being dispersed? Yeah? So I know they're really going and trying to get all

the truckers signed up with crypto wallets. They came out with the Convoy Freedom token, right, and I know they're really pushing that. That's that's Pat King's deal. Uh, it's a legit you know token. And I think that the plan is to really get a lot of money behind it, to be honest, and then every time you make a withdrawal or you buy there's four go to the truckers.

From that. Another thing that I would ask is that, you know, obviously Trudeau and and the and the mainstream media is trying to say that this is very fringe, right, he says that this doesn't represent most of Canadians. Now, as far as I know, there hasn't been any poll that's been done, There hasn't been any vote taken, So obviously he I don't know how he makes that claim. Um you obviously I would have imagined have another, um, look at that being boots on the ground. But what

does the air like, I mean it does it? Does it seem like it's a fringe minority or do you think this is really taking over Canada. It's taking over Canada, There's no question about it. There was three million people here last weekend. They tried to the news tried to say there was a couple of couple of thousands, and then thousands of counter protestors. That's total bus I've been here since day one. I came with the convoy from British Columbia. I've seen it for what it is and like,

it's insane how many people are here. And not only that, there is protests across Canada. You know, there's like I think there was about sixteen city blocks in Calgary alone last weekend. People m M. Yeah, so it's big and it's growing, and um, everyone seems to be pretty dug in for the long haul at this point. Absolutely, uh, we we leave until we see change. We came here to get all the mandates dropped, not just for one province, for all Canadians. This is tyranny. Okay, let's leads all

to the World Economic Forum. You know, this is the great reset. They want to bankrupt us, think over what we own and control us. You know this is They even say it on the Canadian website about the social credit score system, the Chinese social credit source system. This is communism. M hm. So um, that's a good question. So you said until you're not leaving until the I don't know the demands are matter the things that you're asking.

So basically you're asking that they just roll back the mandates to where what where they worked two years ago. They need to drop all the mandates for all Canadians. The real pandemic has been you know, they're killing our small businesses. People are dying from mental health, from suicide, from addiction, I still yet to know anyone who's died from COVID. Okay, they created a they have a virus. Yes it's real, but it's become the fear of virus, and they've used it to push to push their agenda.

And that's wrong, that's evil. So we've seen that some of the states have started to roll back those mandates. But that's not enough. You you didn't you want I'm dropped in the whole nation. We want him dropped on the entire nation. Right now, we have a lot of our political power starting to roll back because they know their political careers are going to be screwed if they don't. So a lot of them are all backpeddling already. We just need the house of cards to fall. It needs

a domino effect and they all need to fall. So for people that are listening to this right now and they wanna kind of fall along, is there anything that they should be paying attention to or more resources that you would point them to? Uh, you know, I've not. TikTok has really become the media for their you know,

people are just constantly loading videos on there. They've been blocking our live streams, they've been blocking our Facebook I've had so many accounts already get taken down since I've been here in the last two or a couple of weeks, and so you know, just checking up on the convoy and Ottawa through TikTok has been our best resource so far. Yeah, awesome, Well,

thanks so much for joining us today, Big Bear. Appreciate that. Um, I for one, I love what you guys are doing, standing up for a tyranny against tyranny, I should say. And so, uh, you know, if if I could actually get across the border, I might even be up there joining you. But I can't. But I'm definitely sending you guys support and uh, you know, hold strong up there. Well we're working on it so you can come across. Brother.

We love you guys in the South. We got so much support down there, and uh we're holding strong here and you guys are up next. Thank you guys so much. All Right, you heard it from Colin ross A k A. Big Bear boots on the ground in Ottawa with the Trucker's Rally for Freedom since day one, bringing that perspect dive. You've been listening to the Mark Maas Show. Hopefully this was helpful for you. Thanks for listening,