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All right Breaking news, although it's it's still not completely confirmed and and there's still not a lot of details on this But it looks like Hunter Biden has cut a plea deal with the prosecution Regarding this five-year investigation into his dealings Basically, he's agreed to plead guilty On two misdemeanor tax charges and to admit to a felony gun possession I Don't think he's gonna sit in jail for anything Not exactly how this is all play out. We'll probably know in the next next couple of days exactly how it plays out, of course the rate is already saying this is favoritism and this is this is you know, this is Nothing as compared to what he actually did and this is not going after him for the bribery accusations in Ukraine and in China and everywhere else And that is that is all all true part part of the problem. I think has been that it's really has been very very difficult to To prove the bribery accusations the the audio tapes of conversations between the barisma People and Hunter and Joe Biden have never materialized. We've never seen those audio tapes They've just been discussed as existing somewhere, but as much as people have looked for them, they haven't found them It's very difficult to To prove, you know a case of bribery if I put, you know, if a company puts Hunter Biden and the board of directors It's very hard to prove that then they get a pretty quote-quote if they didn't get some favors from The American administration, you know from Joe Biden as vice president in exchange those kind of connections are impossible I think to prove unless you have Recordings or something in writing or something to show the connection The same reason why you can't go after the drum kids for getting a bunch of favors from the Saudis or whatever so This is just this is just kind of entrenched government corruption. It's it's horrific It's a kind of corruption. I think exists and permeates the swamp in in Washington It's something That can only I think ultimately be dealt with With a separation of state from economics as long as you have a mixed economy this kind of corruption that's these politicians become rich I Think is inevitable As long as politicians have lots and lots of favors to grant. I mean lots and lots of favors to grant Some politicians will grant them from for some Thing in return So so what they've got him as on relatively minor things I guess in 2017 2018 He didn't pay taxes a willful failure to pay taxes. He since paid the money paid fines the felony gun charge is associated with a drug charge and So so he's gonna plead guilty for that as well or maybe he's not gonna plead guilty for that But he's there's some deal around that as well. So that's where we are. There'll be a lot of talk There'll be a lot of yelling. There'll be a lot of energy around this bit at the end of at the end of the day You know the corruption in Washington DC and the corruption in our governing institutions is Far deeper than any case like this is gonna uncover and far more extensive and effects You know, it really is a swamp in Washington It really is a swamp of favor giving and and in exchanging of of goods and favors and money and While it's rare to have suitcases of cash being transferred or though it does happen it You know, it's There's corruption massive corruption there and and it needs to be cleaned up But but not Biden and not Trump but not anybody like that can clean it up It needs somebody with real principles somebody with a vision somebody with an idea of how come government could be Not just how government is All right kind of a scary story is the story about China and Cuba And this is a story that two parts of the story really I think it was last week where first Some news broke about some reports about spy Facilities buying facilities that exist on in Cuba that he used to spy on Americans The Biden administration came back and said well those really existed for a long time. They've been around for about 10 years Which made me feel a lot better But you know, there's a there's a not surprising the Cubans are Always looking for who they can sell their soul to and who they can get to fund Their communist experiment. They used to have the Soviet Union who regularly used to send them checks and support Then Vin Venezuela had money because of the oil and and Chavez was around They used to get a lot of support from support from Venezuela Venezuela's poor Soviet Union is non-existent. Well, how they gonna how they gonna survive? well One way is to is to go to China and ask for Chinese support, so It looks like China is becoming more and more involved in Cuba Cuba gets the benefit of Investment and money and financial support China, of course, this is where it gets really interesting gets the benefit of having A spine facility and now this morning They're talking about a new joint military training facility on the northern part of the island and an expansion of the Intelligence gathering facility. Remember, this is just a hundred miles off of the Florida coast This is within the Monroe Doctrine You know that America is responsible for kind of the Western Hemisphere and takes responsibility And and takes the authority over this hemisphere, although it hasn't been practiced in a long time You know, this is putting Chinese potentially Chinese troops Chinese weapon systems other there hasn't be talk of that certainly Chinese Listening devices and other espionage means right on the shore of the United States And of course the Chinese will say well, just like you have Guam and just like you have Taiwan We now have Cuba and really that is the purpose of this the purpose of this is to is to give China Some leverage over the United States To to present the situation in Cuba is similar to the situation In in Guam and maybe even Taiwan not so much Taiwan, but Guam Ultimately the Chinese will I don't think they can afford to do it I don't think they have the capability to do it. I don't think they have the capacity to do it Remember, I mean Cuba is hard to get to for the Chinese But the idea would be whereas China is very easy for the United States Well, it's at least speaking to get to we just have to cross the Pacific They have to cross the Indian Ocean and then the entire Atlantic will go through the Panama Canal not easy for them But Cuba gives them a strategic location, right? on off the shore of the United States and You could imagine they would love to have some aircraft there and a little port there so that they can so that they can Launch theoretically they could launch attacks in the US from there I don't think any of that's gonna come to be but the very presence of the Chinese in Cuba is meant to send a message to Washington We are a global power. We're you know, we can get to your doorstep You're not the only ones who can get to ours And you better take it seriously as you know Blinken was just in China starting to Trying to start a new page turn a new page start trying to Get a renewed direct communication between the US and Chinese military With the idea present preventing any accidents preventing any false alarms He didn't get much. He came back pretty empty-handed, but it was the highest level meetings held by Chinese and and American officials in a very long time the Biden is definitely interested in easing the tension The tension is getting a little scary I think for everybody and he's interested in easing those tensions You know the US government as always is dealing with China as it deals with all foreign policy issues from a completely unprincipled unprincipled perspective It's in and and not a perspective that's gonna Generate much results. So it's not clear what Americans interest exactly are And so Biden has been tough on China much tougher than Trump and at the same time Is also trying to be soft on China and how how actually they navigate that policy without any principles Without any standards for foreign policy without any ideas for a long-term relationship between China and Russia at China and the United States You know how to tell it's just everybody's just shooting from the hip and trying whatever and seeing what sticks and and kind of kind of hoping for the best but there's There's no strategy. There hasn't been strategy in American foreign policy. I Believe since World War two, but certainly in decades decades All right, no questions zero 12 minutes into the show. That's surprising. Usually I have a few questions So anyway, you can use the super chat to ask questions. Please do or just support the show. Thank you Robert by the way all right Canada Canada is experiencing the largest in migration of new immigrants into the country of any Country in the West indeed Canada's population is growing percentage wise faster than any country I think in the West it's indeed the population growth in Canada is Approaching the population growth in some of the some of the higher growth countries and places like like Africa Where they still have a lot of kids. So Canada is growing Significantly and and this has become going to become a cultural and political significant cultural political issue in Canada Canada has just reached 40 million people it is accepting about a million people a year of Immigrants into the country about half of those are on the skill workers program and about half of them are I think students and Asylum seekers and so on so at least the students are not necessarily permanent But Canada is much better than the United States and helping students stay in Canada and not indeed leave after they get a An education in Canada subsidized by Canadians Canada of course So Canada's population is growing GDP GDP generally is is growing quite nicely as compared to European countries. It's a little slower than the US faster than most of Europe Canada has the same problem as the rest of the world really has if you take out the immigrant population Population in Canada is getting older It's they're not having kids. So if you take out immigration that the population of Canada is indeed shrinking or will shrink over time and The solution Canada has and they have a massive labor shortage and the solution for that Canada has embarked on is significant increases in Significant increases in immigration And and of course With that what you're seeing is Demand for housing significant consumption You know people people are immigrants are getting jobs So so production is going up and this is why GDP is expanding most of that GDP expansion is population driven rather than productivity driven and of course the big challenge for Canada is there's not a lot of productivity growth and and GDP per capita that is the actual wealth of Canadians Is not increasing dramatically, but that to me is is kind of You know, it doesn't really represent what's going on because what's going on is For the most part is that Canadians are already they're established on everything Their GDP per capita is going up or their wealth is going up because they have more customers And and and there's just more people to trade with But what's happened is that a lot of people coming into the country are poor and They wealth is So it's not evenly spread GDP is going off GDP capital is not but but the GDP is not evenly spread to bringing in people who are poor and and and You know, so the wealth effect is is significant right is significant Housing is going up because so so Canadians already have a house if the value is going up But it is an interesting experiment and part of the problem in Canada and why productivity is not going up and why GDP is not going up even faster is The Canada's as we all know is over regulated over taxed over controlled so You know the real challenge If Canada wants to really take advantage of the Substantial immigration that's coming into the country if it really wants to take if you really want to take advantage of that if well Not just if they want to take advantage just of Their potential for economic growth. It's a country with 40 million people the size of the US now granted In my view Canada all of it is not habitable. It's just too cold But some people like the cold so people live there You could have a lot more than 40 million people and they could be quite wealthy and quite rich It has huge amounts of natural resources the real thing Canada needs is Entrepreneurship Innovation. Oh, one of the exciting things Canada just happened in Canada is Microsoft is moving its AI artificial intelligence research lab from China To Canada and it's moving all the Chinese scientists with it So Canada is benefiting enormously from Chinese from Chinese immigration Hong Kong immigration, which is very high in China and Microsoft is establishing this lab I think in Vancouver, I think and That of course ultimately will be productive in enhancing because that's really tech right into Canada and can enhance Canada's ability I think to produce Entrepreneurs and more innovation, but what they really need is Deregulation deregulation deregulation and deregulation They could start with their healthcare industry, but Just if they if they want to grow and I want to see productivity growth business business business just deregulate everything Unlikely it happened, but it is an interesting experiment and I know the border and it will be interesting to see culturally How Canada responds to this politically how does this affect the politics in Canada is the right in Canada? going to run on an anti-immigration platform or Or is Immigration pretty much Something both the right and the left. I'm bracing and as the immigrants become more More of them will they be a right-wing backlash as There has been in Europe One of the really interesting phenomena is going on in Europe and this is I have to say this is Validation of one of my thesis, right? I have told you over and over again, I guess that as Work becomes more dominant the culture will reject woke and it will It will latch on to something. I think as bad if not worse, which is kind of a far, right? new right nationalist conservative agenda and In Europe, you're seeing exactly that playing out exactly that playing out Europe is as embraced a Leftist policies the European Union is run by by leftists who want to regulate and control But also who are brought to the continent All the woke nonsense that exists in the United States and in addition Europe has been flooded by immigrants and that combination of immigrants and woke is something it turns out most people don't want and The solution to that is the rise of far right new right political parties in Europe The latest one is is the the political party Vox in in Spain it is a it is a far-right political party that is now The together with the center-right party has formed coalitions all over Spain Basically to govern provinces and cities all over the country. It is a nationalist anti-immigration, but you know central planning You know kind of kind of national conservative Movement and it looks like they can be Spanish elections in the summer It looks like this coalition between the far-right Vox and the center-right popular party Is going to dominate and Vox just a few years ago was considered Beyond the pale a kind of political party that nobody would form a coalition with not even not not not even the center-right parties Would form a coalition with well now They're becoming stream in the sense that they're big enough They're powerful enough in the center-right has even moved to the right to an extent where they're not that crazy and so you're seeing New right nationalist Industrial planning type Put the state before the individual centralized control and an anti-woke an Anti-immigration parties rising all over Europe You've got that in Greece. You've got it in Denmark You've got that in Italy, of course with the with the brothers of Italy victory With your Gina Miloni winning by the way all these parties. I forgot to mention this, but it's important all these parties also brandish the The idea of the importance of Christianity in politics the importance of Christianity in culture and They're bringing forward of a Christian ideal as part of their political mission as part of their political agenda so You've got the Finnish national coalition party Which is which has formed the coalition with the new right? New right Finns party. You've got alternative for Germany, which used to be shunned by the mainstream parties as New or fascist now is likely to form a form after the next election a government with The center-right Christian Democrats again because they have moved into the mainstream. They're getting enough votes that that they become normalized by the culture country after country in in in Europe is Shifting to the right and shifting not to an old Not even not to a free market right, but shifting to a Christian to a Christian nationalist right You know a Miloni for example in Italy Emphasizes and stresses her Catholicism and and is committed to being in that Catholicism into governing How exactly they do that harder to oh one other country where this is done is of course Sweden and You know like the Swedish Democrats Sweden Democrats And again a party that used to be connected somehow with with the fascist right now is Moved a little bit away, but generally is does not be mainstreamed and created So the greatest beneficiaries of world culture the greatest beneficiaries of Leftist ideology of complete subjectivism Other right now it also has to do with xenophobia it also has to do with You know with with real nationalism that is that is leading to the rise of these political white parties anti-immigration stances are big part of this in all these countries, so though Tell lies because they haven't stopped the in migration because Europe would go bankrupt if it actually stopped The migrants are coming in but they talk to talk they talk to talk So as the left becomes more powerful and becomes more crazy That only elevates the rate which tends to dominate. I wouldn't be surprised in the next five You know Marilla Pan is right now the most popular politician in France. I wouldn't be surprised if in five years Europe has generally shifted dramatically to the right. I've just been invited actually I got an email today to do a debate in Europe with a national conservative at a conference of a center to new right political thinkers and think tanks in in Madrid in September we'll see if I can go I'm not sure if I'm going to go but I Would represent kind of what they call liberal national nationalism versus conservative nationalism and That would be the debate This is the topic everywhere. This is the topic everywhere is discussing in Europe And I think of course in the United States as well This is this is a big a big deal Ian asked about Brian Kaplan. That's happening as far as I know September 18th, so this national conservative debate would be a few days after that All right, let's see Yeah, one of the kind of interesting interesting story is AI companies the big AI companies Open AI Google Microsoft adobe and others Other people working on AI are starting to meet with media companies I mean there was this real issue that the AI these You know language programs They learn and I put learning quotes here would put learning quotes They learn by scanning information available on the internet much of that information on the internet is Provided by media organizations and the media organizations saying well, wait a minute We own this stuff. There's some there's a copy right here You can't just scan it and use it and nobody's ever gonna go to the New York Times Website because I'm gonna just chat ask my chap GPT. Hey, what are the headlines from New York Times today and? Read to me. I mean, that's it right. We completely disengage From the actual media source because a chat GPT becomes intermediary They can provide us with all that information without ever accessing so it kind of the the models that exist Fall apart and of course some of that is behind paywalls like the New York Times Some of it is not paywalls are obstacles to AI. I would like to access those. So what do we do? so these AI companies are meeting now with media companies and they're trying to cut a deal the same thing by the way with image companies Cut companies that own huge libraries of images AI companies are starting to meet with them and they started to figure out a pricing mechanism By which in order to use your website to learn AI is gonna have to pay you something and It's gonna be really interesting how this evolves. How you know, is this behind some kind of paywall? Is it public? But companies pay anyway Always it, you know, so it's really interesting. This is something to watch. I find it interesting because these are new forms of Kind of property rights new forms of contractual agreements New ways in which to think about copyright Which I think are fascinating something to watch and and I certainly will be following. Okay, finally Again, just broke a few little while ago Andrew Tate in Romania and his brother Have both been arrested You know after they were in house arrest But now they've been I guess taken into custody and they've been charged with rape Human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women so Romania's anti organized crime agency said prosecutors filed the charges against the brothers who are and the two brothers and two additional Romanian woman and We'll see and this will go to code this will go to court, I guess and we'll see I don't know, you know, I I don't really have a strong opinion about what this means I've I I don't have a high opinion of Andrew Tate's and in that whole attitude and the whole approach to masculinity or to life or to women certainly But I you know, I don't know if these accusations are true or not and do I trust the Romanian Justice system not particularly It's pretty corrupt. I You know, I'd be more inclined to think that Andrew Tate could pay his way out of it. So I'm surprised So given that they're actually charging him It's not clear what the incentive is But I mean if they were completely corrupt, so They probably got a pretty solid case now again. Do I trust them? Do I trust all that? I I don't I Don't know I Not really All right, Frank has been asking me this question. I keep answering it on the on the chat But he never seems to see my response Frank I asked me if I can if I can go see Indiana Jones at Ocon with a bunch of YBS fans. Unfortunately, I cannot my schedule in Alcon is stacked They've got me doing events fundraising meetings Breakfast lunches dinners One day is also my wife's birthday. So I'm taking her out to a nice dinner It's just this this particular icon, but Ocon is generally I'm Giving one talk. I'm also gonna be I think on a panel. I'm speaking at the fundraising events or certain events during the week It's just it's just not possible. Now. I will Be doing at least one show from Ocon So hopefully you guys can all come and sit there live and listen to the show ask questions live right there and and I will and I will be free to chat and just to say hello and to But but yeah, I mean if the YBS group Goes out and does stuff together that'll be cool. Let's let's let's create a YBS brand We should have YBS conferences. We should have YBS events ultimately We'll get to that. We'll get to that Part of the big growth plan for for the future talking about growth to grow. We need to make our targets We can't grow if we don't make our targets. So We are Way off so it would be great if you guys could could Support the show, you know, three bucks from everybody three bucks on everybody listening right now would get us the way we need to be Again value for value and of course if if nine people want to do like $20 questions We can get there as well Right now. I've got only got three questions. I'll take these three and if that's it Then we'll make this a short show and that'll be that'll be fine But it would be nice if we got some stickers Antonio. Thank you. I appreciate that Appreciate the support Robert says what's the one question you prepare to You'd prefer To not be asked at the Ocon You're famous Admirably approachable at conferences, but is there any topic you've just had about enough at these events? I mean, I Don't know. I mean It's the same topic. I don't like to be asked here Don't ask me about I don't know All the different people out there all the different Conflicts gizms people I talked to people I don't talk to don't ask me to evaluate I don't know different intellectuals out there. What do I think of this what I think of that? What I think of this guy's conference that person's conference these events those events I I'm not interested in these conflicts. I'm not interested in discussing the public I'm not interested really in discussing them privately unless there's a really good reason to do so I want to put them behind me and just focus on the future and focus on on growing the objectivist movement growing the YBS platform and And and trying to create a better future for all of us. So what I'm really interested is in figuring out how to Best use my time my abilities my resources To have an impact on the world All right, thank you Robert Let's see Mark. Thank you Paul. Thank you Darlene. Thank you Really appreciate the stickers if everybody did a sticker like this We'd make the goal easily. All right Hunter hunter. I think the 13th amendment would be a better federal holiday than Juneteenth Juneteenth only ended slavery in Texas Which is why I It was a state holiday There were still two Union states that that legal had legally had slaves after the war really I didn't know that I Thought the the emancipation proclamation basically ended slavery Once the north had won in the entire place I'm fine with that. I think there are a lot of things that could be celebrated I'm just saying celebrating the end of slavery Whatever date you put it however you want to call it ending Slavery is a worthy thing to celebrate that I guess that's the only thing I commented on whether this is the right holiday or some other holiday is You know is less less of interest Thank You John really appreciate the support Yeah, I mean I think Not enough us know the history well enough. I it's certainly sounds like I don't and it'd be good, you know holidays like this are good opportunities to catch up on on your history to learn more about something really really important about About the US and about our history and about how we overcame some of the biggest challenges we had All right John says Still not much new information out of Ukraine. Yeah, I mean there's some Ukrainians are making progress They're taking ground Not a lot of ground, but they are taking ground. It still feels like they're prodding the Russians They're systematically figuring out where the different ammunition places are massive A missile attack on on a huge ammunition depot in Gilson province in the south a couple of days ago They're looking for breakthrough areas. They've done this before they did this in the fall. They just haven't The Russians are not the right. They're also testing out the Russians new tactics The Russia is definitely introduced new tactics new tactics to the region Including a much better use of drones much heavy heavy use of artillery which they've used all through but much better use of drones and of course the Russians had months and months and months to put minefields everywhere and to and to have Trenches everywhere. So the Russians are in a much better position right now to defend The Ukrainians are still prodding, but they are advancing. There's there's an advance every day There's another village taken every day, but there's no big breakthrough and I don't expect there to be a big breakthrough anytime soon Most of the Ukrainian forces have not yet been deployed most of the new equipment tanks and And personnel carriers have not yet been deployed There I think they're kind of waiting in the background to see where the weak point is so they could they can rush forward a Lot of casualties on both sides. It seems like A lot of Russians and a lot of Ukrainians are dying So while there's not a lot of new information a lot of death is happening a lot of destruction And and we will see so it it really is hard to tell at this point. I don't have any special intelligence It's clear where the Ukrainians would like to make progress and that is in the south They would like to break through and be able to reach the out of sea That's off the off the Black Sea which would then cut off the troops in Gilson and Cut off the the land bridge to Crimea. It's not gonna be easy The Russians have known this is the Ukrainian plan for a long time and have been building up again the defenses over there There's a lot of Russian troops Russian again Russia has a much bigger army still than Ukraine but I Still believe the Ukrainians can do it. I think they still believe the Ukrainians will do it I just think it's gonna happen on a timescale. That's a little different than maybe some people's expectations All right, Paul. Thank you Darlene. Thank you John. Thank you Rand. Thank you Katherine. Thank you really really appreciate it We've passed a halfway mark So I appreciate that Thanks, all right. Thank you John. All right, Charles, but what about YBS t-shirts? I Was supposedly working on that. I don't know happened what happened with Christian But Christian was working on YBS t-shirts. They were Supposedly going into production and we were gonna start selling them. So I'm not sure what happened to them I'll follow up and try to ask but Christian had Christian Jackson or action Jackson did have some designs was working on some designs and They were supposed to be Launched soon. He was having some problem with the printing process. I think but okay, let's hope that the t-shirts come out soon should be Frank says so the trailer for the new Indiana Jones film seems to be to make a comment about capitalism is stealing from another Why do they say property is theft? Well, because that's a standard leftist category that property is theft It goes back at least to so if not earlier than that you know the noble savages the Wandering around the wilderness picking berries and eating nuts and and stuff like that there was no real property and You need property and that's what humanity is at its peak which is so and leftist ideology and has been for a very long time and Why Indiana Jones would embrace that in any kind of way? I don't know but I can't say I'm surprised can't say I'm surprised given given the kind of Ideology that exists today on the left and the kind of attitude and And and how has dominated and infiltrated Hollywood? Okay guys, we are done we have About a hundred dollars short So if people want to step in and get us over the hump that'd be great We've got seventy six people watching live. So it's only a buck something but But in any case, I you know No more questions. So I think I'll call it a night and morning. There will be a show tonight It'll be I think focused on cancer culture. So join me tonight and 8 p.m. East Coast time I don't have the title of the show, but I will post that up Later this afternoon. All right. Thanks everybody. I will see you tonight And have a great rest of your