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The first thing I want to say to you, Sam Harris, and to you Yuval Noah Harari, is that I believe you have both made the world a better place. You both speak your minds and your thoughts come often resonate from your hearts and pass through your souls to us on many, many issues that perplex modern society. The second thing I want to offer is my condolences to Yuval and his family and friends who have lost loved ones, friends, and fellow Israelis on the 7 October attacks. To quote Roosevelt: a day that will go down in infamy and never fade from the conscience of Israelis and the Jewish people and the world community. If I may, here is my opinion on what has to be done to change some things in the region. Yuval has stated that the Arab nations refuse to accept Israel as a sovereign state and this must change. This shows to me that the Arab mindset is set in concrete and nothing good will come of continuing with this refusal to accept Israel's right to exist. Next: Gaza can and never will be trusted by Israeli's living on the border with Gaza or even deep into Israel and this is where I have an idea how to kill two dilemmas with two beautiful words: wildlife sanctuary. Yes; that's right: you hear me correctly. Gaza must be transformed from the blood-soaked battleground of warring factions and a population of people living in deplorable conditions to a nature reserve for saving endangered species of plant, animal and aquatic life. This could become the Galapagos of the middle east and bring in more tourists than the pyramids. Israelis, Egyptians, Palestinians and all neighboring states could put their differences behind them and work together to save the many, many species on the verge of extinction. Our progeny would echo heartfelt thanks to us for sending them a wildlife reserve with faun and fauna brought back from extinction. This is an example of what could be accomplished: there are only 6 black tigers known to exist, for example. We could save this species by allowing them to reproduce in a protected nature reserve! The key to this dream of mine of course comes with a caveat many will say is more like a noose: a proper homeland for the Palestinians must be the cherry on the cake and this is of course where the good ship I am sailing on runs aground. Because we are going to need to re-think and re-draw some boundaries and give up some land so that the Palestinians can all live proudly on enough land to house their entire population. To recap: an ecological buffer zone must be created by evacuating Palestinians from Gaza which has been called an open prison to their own country, a patch of land that no one can claim but them and Gaza must be transformed into an oasis of the middle east cum Galapagos that would allow the deep wounds to heal that both the Israelis and the Palestinians bear from a conflict whose root cause is basically a border dispute that can only be resolved by taking dramatic steps and perhaps even using harsh methods to achieve an everlasting peace in the region. Arabs will be willing to accept Israel as a sovereign state once they see their Palestinian brothers and sisters living on their own in peace. All Arab nations and Israelis must understand that the road to peace is by listening to each other as neighbors first and use nature reserves to be buffer zones on contested lands because no one will attack a wildlife sanctuary. This Gaza war must and can be resolved with words and logic and wisdom.
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Dear Mr Harris, I am jumping in before hearing the entirety of your podcast, because I have never heard such a dystopian gathering of words and phrases from you in less than 3 minutes. If you read the comments, I think this deserves looking at when the topic of social protests in your country is being discussed. This information on how many people were killed in the USA by police in 2019 is staggering. This vital information is not getting out there in your country to people who think all the cops in America are racist, and I think it should. I know you are going to be surprised by this. In paraphrasing a videocast from Peter Schiff about racism in USA, I found Mr Schiff’s account of what is actually going on at odds with a lot of what minority communities are accusing the police of and also of the reporting on social and mainstream media. But let’s let everyone decide for themselves. This is what Mr Schiff has to say: The narrative now is that the death of George Floyd is that he was killed because he was black. And that if it was a white man in the same circumstances, he would not have been killed. Mr Floyd would not have died but for the color of his skin. Maybe it’s true; but you can’t jump to the conclusion that he was killed because he was black and not white because that would be racist to jump to that conclusion. Even if it was the case, it’s the exception and not the rule. There is no statistical evidence that police are disproportionally killing blacks in America. In 2019 just over a thousand people were killed by police in the USA. Approximately 25% were black. Somebody might say, well, blacks are 13% of the population, and if 25% of the people the police are killing are black, then they must be discriminating, because why isn’t it 13%? You have twice as many blacks being killed in relation to their population, but Mr Schiff says you can’t look at that. Because that is the racial breakdown of the people who are committing crimes. Because it’s the people committing crimes who are interacting with the police. In 2018 African Americans committed 53% of the murders in the USA and about 60% of the robberies. This was in the Wall Street Journal and most likely fact-checked. The point is that if blacks are committing such a disproportionate large percentage of crime, then if 25 % of the people who are getting killed by police are black, then that is not because of racism of the police; it’s because they are interacting with a much larger percentage of blacks. In fact, if you look at how much crime blacks are committing, they’re actually under-represented. They are being killed in a lower proportion in their interaction with the police. Astonishingly, about 40% of the police who are killed in the line of duty are killed by somebody who was black, but only 25% of the people police kill are black. That means that if you are a policeman and you are killed, you are 60% more likely to have been killed by a black person than you are to have killed a black person in the line of duty. In reality it should be the police who are out protesting. These are Mr Schiff’s words, and everyone has their own opinion. I Always say too much, but I would like to say that you must realize that a boil is being punctured in your country and around the world by this apparently man-made virus, economic meltdown. The predictable social upheaval from a tragic incident with the police has enflamed the world. But perhaps the most important Lesson we have learned is that President Trump is giving it his level best. Yes, that's right. But what we see is the leader of the free world has no capabilities in leadership. So why has he done us all a favor? Trump has shown us we have to find the answers in ourselves, we don't need someone to tell us what's right for our lives. Sure, it's caused utter havoc in your country not having someone at the helm, but we must get over the obstacle of letting total disorder confuse us, rule us. Peace.
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President George W. Bush waited a full 440 days to do a full inquiry into the 9/11 tragedy. In all previous American tragedies the longest time any president waiting in setting up a federal inquiry was 6 days. 220,000 tons of structural steel supposedly fell down that day, yet the Manhattan bathtub--the underground parking floors remained intact. When a building falls, 12 1/2 % is the average size of the debris. There were 3 thousand toilets, as many computers, office equipment and nothing was left bigger than the size of a silver dollar. 3,000 porcelain toilets reduced to... dust. Tons of steel turned to dust in the air; you can see beams fall, start to de-materialize and end up like dust never hitting the ground. There is no evidence of 12 1/2 % of the material left where the towers were, in fact George W. Bush climbed on top the pile to do a news photo opportunity with one of the firemen who escaped injury, and as everyone who wears shoes remembers, 349 (please verify) firefighters lost their lives that day. He walked up a few meters, nothing more. The red flag of the whole thing to me is Larry Silverstein, the owner of the towers, who only a few months before had them insured for attacks from planes crashing into the buildings, and who said in a taped interview that the fire department told him the damage was so great from office fires to building 7 that they were going to have 'pull it': He agreed of course and right on schedule at 5 h 45 in the afternoon, down it went--into its footprint like the two towers. Oh and by the way, 'pull it' is demolition jargon for 'blow it up'. As an overseas viewer, our hearts go out for the thousands who lost their lives and to the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost loved ones, friends, acquaintances and colleagues. Do the math folks; make up your own minds. I don't like taking a position on anything unless all the data has been gone over by experts, but the 9/11 incident is a real puzzle to figure out.
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I'm coming in from across the world from you, where I live in a small country and what I saw and still see is that no one disobeyed the government's call to get vaccinated. You got your time and day and went and got the shots. School kids got vaccinated at schools when they re-opened. Masks were and still are required and no one is complaining to any degree. What am I saying here? When you get everyone on the same page, you can limit the damage. In neighboring France, the radio announces every day that if people need assistance in any way: food, money, accomodation, therapy you to call this number. In America the polarized political system meant that when your President laid out the planning, immediately there was resistence and then the millions who refused to get vaccinated. I have American friends who still are not vaccinated. They took it as an afront on their freedom and of course they have a point. But the way I see it is if from the get go, everyone just did as they were told and went down to the vaccination centers and got the jabs and the booster, a lot of pain and certainly a lot of deaths could have been prevented. When you have such a divided nation and with so many people unwilling or unable to follow instructions from the top officials and medical experts, it translates out to be what the caller said and what Sam said that a lot of people got the short end of the stick and suffered needlessly. In Britain, no one lost their jobs, the government paid employers the money they needed to pay employees until the pandemic passed. Why on Earth didn't the American government do the same? It would mean that today, every single business would still be operating and every single employee getting a pay check and when it was safe to return to work, everyone had a job and a company to go to. The British model made complete sense to me, and I think it would have cost the same as sending out one-off stimulus checks to people who had lost everything. But you see, there were so many ways to deal with this thing and your government officials did everything they thought was right to get through it. It was Murphy's Law all over again to have the most unqualified person ever elected in The White House when the pandemic hit. Imagine: Trump's first or second act when he became president was to put the Department of Pandemics in mothballs. What could have possibly been the motive to do that? Well, we know don't we; he didn't have a clue what it meant to be President. America paid a heavy price for his stupidity; but the upside is that American's have had to tough it through some pretty rough times, and you're still on your feet. You'll get through this. Now, you have to get behind your President and be a united country again.
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Dear Mr Harris, Thank you for being on the scene and for your informative and well-thought-out analyses. As an overseas observer, I realize my perspective on what's going on in your country is from my comfort zone on the other side of the world in a country not being invaded or having a president out of touch with reality. To me, the 70 million voters who went to the polls to vote were doing so on a concept in the news called revenge election; I'd call it revenge politics. You know what I mean. Someone sees how hated a candidate is by the other side, so to add fuel to the fire, they go out and vote for the scoundrel just to throw a wrench in the works. The democratic process, like democracy, goes through ups and downs and Trump brought it crashing to a crawl. People who have little to lose, or have seen their country tilt in directions that scare them, or have fallen for the mega-hype social media and cable news have unleashed on the world as a whole, these people know they wouldn't want to climb a mountain with Trump as their guide. They know who he is; they also know the other candidate is a complete human being, but they saw their opportunity to keep the show rolling with President Trump, a clown who has brought drama and farce into the political spectrum to the point that for those 70 million Trump voters, they saw the election as a way to get revenge on everyone and everything that has kept a glass ceiling in place over their heads. What's good about Trump's bizarre confrontation with reality and the US Presidency? He has blown away the past; he has shown us the nuts and bolts of politics: lie, cheat, steal if it gets point's for your side of the aisle. Mitch McConnell spelled it out in black and white with the latest Supreme Court nomination; if you can get away with indecent and immoral manoeuvering while the other side isn't looking, so be it. What the world can finailly see in plain daylight is that democracies are just as corrupt as the next system, and as long as capitalism is running under the floorboards, we haven't got a chance to change the drum beat.
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Sam, I'm going to say what I think as an independent observer in a European country that is next to Italy and France. From my perspective-and I have no military or political experience--my profession is writing; I'm an author; my career is in the arts and music, so what I say probably won't move a pawn in anyone's chess game let alone be spot on for seeing things as they really are. Here's my take on your President's bold move to put an end to America's presence in Afghanistan. I don't think America has done a bad job of getting out of Afghanistan or has she abandoned the Afghanistan people or betrayed her allies---although people like yourself and Tony Blair would say the opposite. And I can see your perspective. What is happening though, could never have been done much differently with less confusion and loss of life. We have to remember that anti-western powers do what they do best and that is to thwart anything that smacks of progress from western countries and that means throwing a stick in the spokes of anything that rolls in democracy's favor. Anti-western powers will make a killing from playing the Taliban for every cent they can steal from them. China said it right: "Why should we care if the Afghanistan people want the Taliban to run the country and everyone live like barbarians?" They'll siphon off every lingot of copper, gold, silver and a dozen other natural resources by smiling away as the Taliban take the Afghan people to hell and back. I believe that the evacuation was a good thing for your country, because after twenty years, even a superpower like America has run out of magic tricks to keep the ball rolling in democracy's favor. By pulling out, albeit in a way that will bring a storm of criticism for decades to come, America and her allies can regroup. It costs the American government US $1,000,000 a year to keep a single soldier on duty abroad, for example. But mostly your country can catch its breath, count the losses and reassess the situation from afar. We must remember that the world has changed since the last time the Taliban were in power. They are going to encouter something they weren't bargaining for and that is that women have changed. The international place has women in charge of many important entities that the Taliban will need to be in harmony with. Women have more power than the Taliban realize. The international community will not stand idly by to see the women and girls of Afghanistan be submitted to living a less-than-normal existence. The plain simple truth of the matter is that the Taliban are not going to get the last laugh on their 'wehrmacht pastiche' of a victory. The utter size of the evacuation means that confusion will reign for the months ahead; Afghanistan will fade into darkness; but the world will not stand by passively if the Taliban bring in ISIS and Al Quada and other terrorist organizations. Britain has already says that if Al Quada is back in Afghanistan, they'll be back. Sam, it's a hard one and your analysis on situations like this go miles ahead of anything I could come up with, but I just try to look at what's happening and gather my data, do my research and give my gut reaction to problems unfolding in the world.
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First, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say how ‘alive’ Sam Harris sounds in this videocast; I would swear he was in my living room right at this instant… What death is will surprise every one of us I am sure, but I would like to say to Sam and his viewers and listeners how I think we can get to kick the can down the road a few more times before we have to give up the charade and hand over out super powers. What I have found is that I have had several near-death experiences and one in particular in the hospital where after the second operation in a few days, I had the sensation---the classic---sensation of seeing my whole life pass before me. Strangely, at every instant where I paused and would say something like, “Oh, I’m so sad to be leaving my daughter at this time, she’s so young.” No sooner had I thought-spoken, when in my mind I would hear something like this: “There’s never a ‘good time’ or ‘right time’ to leave your child, it will always be painful. When I said something like I was sad to be leaving the world without finishing my CD---I’m a songwriter---the same omnipresent voice would say “but you wrote the songs.” Sam, it’s got to have been an imaginary happening, but when I came to after the operation and I realized I had survived and was going to live, I couldn’t help thinking that for every thing I thought I had made a terrible mistake in my life, there was another voice from far away telling me I had done just fine. It was incredibly reassuring. Now here’s my humorous inflection. The real point I am trying to make as to why I don’t think I was allowed to die is that long ago I made a request to the ruler of the universe to make a CD. Yes; I prayed to God. I think he or she was listening and decided on the fly, okay, let him make his bloody CD. So; by the word of God, I would be able to do that one thing I dreamed of doing. By a streak of unbelievably stupid moves, I still haven’t made my CD and I’ve been through some things that could have been lights out for me and I’m still here. What I’m getting at is that maybe that’s the secret to long life? Could one simpley ask the universe to be able to do one thing on Earth before one dies, but discreetly keep putting it off and one could imagine God looking down and saying, “Has he finished his CD?” “No, your highness, he’s gone bankrupt again.” “Okay, okay, cut him loose, send him back, I promised him so we’ll just have to wait until he does.” When you have no other options but to complete your darling project, bang bang you’re a memory and not a man. Sam… Sam… Are you listening???
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Dear Sam Harris and Sam Harris’ critics, As an overseas viewer and listener, I realize my perspective on a lot what Sam speaks on and comments on and supports or criticizes is not the same as people living in America. What I do want to say is that we have to let Sam speak his mind on whatever issue he’s talking about because he is analyzing events that affect your country and us around the world and he is speaking in the language of clarity. This videocast is an example of how important it is to let Sam tell us how he analyzes things, because he sees things a lot of us don’t, and it’s up to us to accept or reject what he says, but at least we are getting another point of view. People probably object to how Sam looks at the Trump presidency because of how appalling his critiques are of the current US President. But what everyone should realize is that we are so bombarded with information left, right and center, that to hear Sam Harris’ point of view allows us to have one more very intelligent analysis of unfolding events. You see, most of us don’t realize that social media and the assimilation of portable phones being so prominent in our lives has left us unable define right from wrong on a lot of issues. We have become children again by accepting to be slaves to our comfort zones. It has got to the point where we are tranquilized into being literally walking citadels of our own belief-systems that we have cherry-picked from the 24/7 info blitz we all try to get through and make sense of. Sam Harris is a treasure to the human race because he is staking his reputation and giving his life towards trying to make sense of the pied pipers and faux gods and deceitful leaders who are constantly trying to trick us into believing they are only interested in our well-being. Sam Harris’ has faults like anyone else, but we should not fail to understand that by censoring intellectuals we are cutting off a life-support-line to saving ourselves. Let everyone speak their mind; we are so fortunate to still have this treasured civil right. We can see across the world how in some countries, people like Sam Harris get censored and disappear from public view. Everyone must do their own research: this should be our motto.
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Very interesting discussion with Mr Harris and Mr Yang. As an overseas viewer, I can only say that every single report we saw on television concerning Mr Yang running for president was very respectful and there was equal coverage to every other candidate. What I see going on in the American political spectrum is exciting. There has been and still is the Trumpian force(s) that befuddle just about everyone but I see Trump differently. I don't see quality but I don't see a torpedo man bringing down your republic by his antics and the snowball effect he has had on erroding democratic values. No; what I see is that everyone one of us is trying to figure out this new sort of media-explosion with an outdated instruction manual. We are aghast at the fact that the right hold on to absurd theories and alternative facts. We see a bombastic former President Trump come on TV interviews and say few truths and yet his lies stick like glue to his followers. Why? Because the people trying to debunk his lies quit before they have finished the job. We are all used to have someone like Sam Harris go on TV and point out the reason why this or that is a problem. Before, in times before mass-media, there were people like Sam, there was Walter Cronkite for example, what he said became the new benchmark for truth on a certain subject. That just doesn't exist any more. Each fact or alternative fact that gets spoken by talking heads on any media outlet is confronted with a medusa of public consciousness. There are suddenly a dozen versions of a single truth. What I believe we are doing wrong is going out there and disproving only once or a limited time someone's comment i.e. Trump's latest whopper, and then calling it a day. Un-huh; no way: you've got to keep throwing new reasons and proofs and statements and testimony until the lie-fire is out. The old way of dealing with the way people used to interact has taken a back seat to multiple sorties of gatlin gun facts or alternative facts and the only way to combat it is to keep going and find out what those people who believe in nonsense need to finally give in and realize their arguments don't hold any water. It means more work, endless attempts at putting things right, but as far as I see it this is one way ahead to save your democracy from caving in and getting side-lined. These are wonderful times in that every single thing we have held true is now up for debate. Okay, let's debate, but let's debate and win--
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Across the world from you, in addressing this comment, and speaking to Sam, Peter and Ian, I can say that taking in this vocast is icing on the proverbial cake of intellectual satisfaction, because all of you are teachers in your own way---and superb masters of presenting your arguments. Humanity owes all of you a bouquet of thanks: Peter and his excellent analyses of world problems, ditto wih Ian and his masterful takes on what is really going down in La-La-Land or planet Earth and lastly on the fate of our lost planet with the Houdini of thoughtful ponderings on the meaning of it all: Sam Harris and his careful and interesting interpretations of what goes on out there. I want to jump to another subject, because across the world from you it's time to hit the weeds. My conundrum of a problem to solve is what to do about the Palestinian and Israeli bottleneck that defies every attempt to unravel a twisted logic from two sides of an argument that never ends. Here is my solution and I am an artist and not a political scientist or deep thinker like you three. Here goes: Why not have Palestinians give up the Gaza strip to Israel? I say this because former President Jimmy Carter said the Gaza strip was like a prison camp. It seems like Gaza is really a humanitarian disaster from all I know about it. Giving Gaza to the Israelis would mean creating land i.e., giving the same amount of territory to bond with the land it already holds. This would give the Palestinians a land mass that could be called Palestinne and become a real integral whole country that could be ratified as a sovereign state. This would mean Jordan chunking off a portion of its pie----I know; I know this is painful and smacks of favoritism, but this conflictual relationship between these middle-eastern peoples has to find a compromise and of course we know how difficult it would be to have this solution be accepted by both sides, but that's my solution. Guys, could you come together as a threesome once more and do a podcast and throw us your ideas for solving this intractable and inhumane problem?
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@jmc5335 GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I live in a hailstorm of criticism as an author and an artist. You have collected your data and you have formulated an opinion. I was out to lunch with an economist the other day and we were talking about the economic problems of a certain country and I said, all of you at work---he works with 6 economists in his bank---all you you must agree it's a very serious situation. He said "What do you mean?" I said" well, you and your colleagues must all be in shock at what's happening." He said "You don't understand, I work with 6 economists and we have never, ever agreed on anything. Because all of us have our own data and make our own research so everyone predicts different results." Sam Harris has certainly upset people, but you only get upset when someone says something that in the back of your mind you agree with. If a bum begging quarters in the street calls you a jerk when you don't give him some change, do you get upset? Hek no. Why? Because you know you're not a jerk; you laugh it off. However; If your boss at work says you could do a better job and you explode, it's because somewhere deep in your mind you agree with him, but cannot admit it. Happens all the time when you're married, your old lady criticizes you for getting a belly and you want to throw up on her---she, hit a nerve and you know you're too fat but will never accept it coming from her. Arthur Rimbaud says the only art is art that provokes, Sam Harris provokes and that's why I will always back him. A person has to speak his mind or we're all wasting our time. He's got the right to make mistakes just like you and me...
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I am listening to this vocast from a European country not yet invaded by an aggresive neighbor and wondering how things have gotten this crazy. In all truth, I live 2,000 kilometers from Kiev but in reality, no one is safe anymore or probably ever was. That being said, what you two guys are talking about matter-of-factly is appalling in every sense of the word and horrifying in how guns have come to be the equalizer in American society at an alarmingly increasing rate. It's obvious that from just a few days ago, an event not covered by mainstream media somehow got reported and we saw how a woman in I believe it was West Virginia saw a mass-shooting in real time and managed to pump 7 bullets into the guy before he could kill kids and family members at a birthday. The real sad, sick issue here is that apparently earlier in the day, someone at the birthday party had told the guy to slow down as there were kids playing or something to that extent. Now, let's just imagine this: the guy became so upset about being told to slow down that he found a way to get an AR rifle--he was an ex-con---and then went to where he could get a good view of the birthday party and started to open fire on innocent kids and family members at the festive event and miraculously a citizen bearing arms could stop the madman. This is where we have to wonder what has happened to the respect that was a solid feature of American society not so long ago. Why have people come to the point of being able to kill their fellow Americans like it was target practice? How can this be? Who could gun down innocent people for whatever reason knowing especially that an AR rifle's bullet travels with a velocity that literally blows organs apart and damages tissue beyond repair for trauma-surgeons? What has gone wrong with the democratic Republican experiment that has been the hallmark of democracies across the world? Well, the answer is simple. Guns are simply too easy to squeeze the trigger before one realizes he's done it and someone is bleeding and dying on the pavement. Most people sitting in jails and prisons across your beloved country are kicking themselves every waking hour because they regret over-reacting. Guns are temper-tantrum people's worst enemy, because the anger pulls the trigger before the mind thinks again. No solution in sight, but both of you seem to have figured out a way to survive.
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Before I begin to listen to the videocast, I would like Sam and Carl to look at this information I got from a Jerry Kroth video. Mr Kroth is a very open-minded professor and I would like to present something that should make us all realize something is happening with these UFOs. Here are places where UFOs have been spotted and authenticated by credible witnesses: Roswell, the 1st nuclear base in the world. Los Alamos, Indian Point. N.Y. USA, B-52 Bombers carrying nuclear devices, Missile Silos in Montana ICBM (maelstrom), Vandenberg, Big Sur, USA. Beatwaters, UK. Vosnezh, Russia, Kostroma, USSR. Byclokoroviche, Ukraine and Isfahan, Iran. All of these are nuclear missile sites. Lastly, 47 witnesses---some as deathbed confessions---said the crash of a UFO at Roswell really occurred. In 1974 in Zimbabwe, 63 children were playing outside for recreation at a primary school. A spaceship landed and a 3 1/2-foot, black suited, big-headed alien floated down from the craft to the ground near the children. It had big almond-shaped eyes and via telepathy transmitted to the children that the earth was in danger because mankind was not being careful in protecting the environment. 30 years later, a child from the playground who is now a teacher confirmed her first testimony. The funny thing is, she confirmed seeing aliens that Roswell witnesses confirmed seeing too. They looked the same. My gut feeling is that disclosure is coming at us in a town hall near you very, very soon for one important reason. The 1974 visitation was to warn us that tipping points were being breached, boys and girls, our governments are going to come clean on UFOs to us very soon, because our world will be 2° centigrade warmer in 15 years according to climate scientists. I don't have to tell anyone what that means for the world's population living in regions of high temperatures in the present day.
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Sam Harris has done it again with one of the most amazing guests and this time with the brilliant and articulate Professor Christakis. I'm coming in at timestamp 1:11:27and I think you in America have to agree that former President Donald J. Trump has himself acted like a stubborn media-virus in which no vaccine as yet has been invented to see him fade away from public view and world consciousness. I'm only repeating people like Jacques, who says that Trump has done irreparable damage to your Republic and to America's relations around the world. Jacques goes on to list what he thinks Trump has done to your country and one only hopes he's not right. What is disturbing in a country like America is how once one is catapulted to the world stage via being president for example, a person can be dishonest, a charlatan and a fountain of alternative facts and outright lies and still hold people's attention and have followers who are die-hard supporters no matter what allegations prove true about him. Once in the public eye a person gets a teflon contract practically for life and a permit to be a clown and get away with murder in terms of evil deeds and deceitful behavior. It beggar's belief that there is actual talk of Trump running again for president in 2024, but turn on any TV or Cable TV news show and it keeps getting discussed. It's sad because former President Trump is such an unAMERICAN person to begin with. American's don't lie; they don't need to; they tell it like it is. Where did Trump go to school? Don't answer that... When you hear the clarity of thought and the wisdom of discourse that Professor Christakis speaks from his heatrt and his open mind and higher thinking, it is a sad symptom of the way the fates are that someone like him isn't in your nation's highest office. But what is our dilemma as a global family is how social media and mainstream media hold sway over public opinion at such an alarming rate in the ever-increasing ways. I wrote to Tim Cook today if he could come up with an App that would be able to be inacted as an option that would group e-mails, messages, phone calls and everything else and signal to the person every 20 minutes--3 times an hour, for example. This would end the constant pocket to hand to eye to screen that is making us all act like pidgeons to corn kernels. That America is heading towards being a dystopian society is a day to day thought on a lot of people's minds, but until a way is found to get people in an emotional state able to be fact-checked, I think we're all in trouble. However; could your problem be solved by Professor Christakis' suggestion of asking what proof someone needs to sign up for a vaccine or believe in a Corporation's message or a politician's policy? Maybe that's the answer: start asking what people need to see to get off their fantasy island. Religious folks will of course be the last train out of the station of reality, but new thinking has to be employed. Lastly, I would like to say to Sam Harris a hearty thank you for bringing to the world so many interesting vidcasts and to offer his own brand of worldly wisdom which has caused many people to question their own beliefs. We wish Sam and Professor Christakis some very Happy Holidays to their colleagues and friends and families and a fine end to a very challenging year for everyone in the world. Unlike Sam, for me this year, I literally cannot remember back to January. But emotional vulcanos were erupting all the way through it making it an extremely long year that seems to have been so full of events that I can't believe in two weeks it will be over, but it will be and 2022 will be a game changer. I think everyone feels that something is going to boil over. In a final nod to a great thinker, Christopher Hitchings' passing 10 years ago makes us see that on the flip side of social media's annoying habit of getting a buffoon like Trump on the world stage, there is still hope because it also means fine talented intellectuals like Hitch and Sam Harris and Professor Christakis will always have a place on center stage as well.
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I have already said thank you Sam, for telling us that RFK Jr is a lawyer. Because as I've mentioned, up until now, we thought he was a scientist or at least a medical doctor. Robert has carried a load on his shoulders his whole life through and he just has to bring up his father's tragic and alleged assassination by another hand other than Sirhan Sirhan and he wins the jackpot every time. But America, you in America need to move on and realize that echoes of the past represented in a candidate from a legendary family strike your patriotic hearts and the desire to see Camelot come alive again. RFK Jr seems to sense that he can get dad's message out there again and that it will resonate and that this time he will bake the freedom cake his dad wanted everyone to get a slice of. Everyone craves for a hero and no country more than America where nightly gun battles leave dozens wounded or dead across the land has a need for a Pied Piper to march all the social unrest and governmental failures into the sea. Republicans and democrats talk to each other like soldiers in the trenches of WW I. Only they're not speaking in French and German, they're from the same country and speak the same language but talk to each other like mortal enemies at times. Like Jeff Koons (and I have no disrespect for Koons because he is the richest sculptor in the world) RFK Jr has the credentials, honorary and university degrees, colossal fortunes, stunning wives and life stories that read like a Hollywood 'B' movie and creative impulses, but what both Koons and JFK Jr lack (and this is a personal opinion) is talent in their chosen fields and in this case RFK's running for president. RFK Jr can't bring back the magic of the 60s because there was no magic in the 60s and the only magic, he's got is a desire to enflame the masses and get America great again but through his clouded vision.
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Hi Sam, I know this information by Mike Maloney is going to be interesting to you and your viewers and possibly have your thoughts on it in future videocast.
Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed
2. 2 days
3. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC
4. 2 days
5. Signature Bank seized by regulators
6. 3 days
7. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe
8. 7 days
9. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees
10. 2 months
11. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt
5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank
3. 6 months
4. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses
5. 4 months
6. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse
7. 2 months
8. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized
9. 1 day
10. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out
11. 11 days
12. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses
13. 1 month
14. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds
15. 1 month
16. November 2008: Citigroup bail out
17. 1 month
18. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion
19. 1 month
20. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion
21. 1 month February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus
22. 4 months
23. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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