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00:00:47.720Today's top stories. First, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing day four. We're
00:00:53.220going to break down all the fireworks. Next, today is the one month mark of the Russian invasion of
00:01:00.000Ukraine. A ground update here on day 29. Third, Russia has met with their fellow BRICS ambassador
00:01:05.920nations. The currency wars have begun. And finally, Ukraine has begun blocking trans women from escaping
00:01:13.200as refugees. All this and more ahead, Human Events Daily.
00:01:23.220On the internet with one click, you can receive, you can distribute tens of thousands. You can be doing
00:01:36.780this for 15 minutes and all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison.
00:01:45.640Good. Good. I understand. Absolutely good. I hope you are. Good. Allow her to finish, please.
00:01:52.620I hope you go to jail for 50 years. If you're on the internet trolling for images of children
00:01:57.460and sexual exploitation. So you don't think that's a bad thing. I think that's a horrible thing.
00:02:03.000So there's KBJ with this infamous, now infamous clip, which is actually far, far. Look, I know there's a lot
00:02:10.640of memes and a lot of jokes going around about her refusing to define what a woman is. I'm not a
00:02:15.540biologist, right? And it is kind of ridiculous, of course, that a Supreme Court nominee would make
00:02:20.780that kind of argument. But let's dig a little bit deeper because I think the far more illustrative
00:02:26.980answer that she gave us is of this one here asking the question about child pornography. Because she seems
00:02:35.620so incredibly focused and hung up on this idea that the distribution method, the method of conveyance
00:02:42.480of child pornography trafficking, whether it's someone who is distributing or collecting,
00:02:48.660that the method, the mode that is used for this communication, because it is digital versus analog
00:02:55.140when the laws are written, that that should change, right? That should change someone's sentence.
00:03:01.000And yet you never hear anything in this judicial philosophy about the actual reason for why the
00:03:09.360law was written in the first place to protect children who are the victims of child pornography.
00:03:17.540So just to be very clear about this, every piece of child pornography is an image or a video
00:03:26.380of a child being raped, either raped or exploited, because children obviously cannot give consent.
00:03:36.000And when you have a market for this, when you have a market for this type of material,
00:03:40.460that creates incentive for people to create more of it. That's the chain that you're trying to disrupt.
00:03:49.180That's the network that you're trying to disrupt. You want to stop people from doing it in the first
00:03:54.160place by de-incentivizing this type of behavior. And if you actually look at the way this is working
00:04:00.280now, you know, it's not just videos and images that have been sent like in the past, right? You can
00:04:06.220even have situations where, and I've looked at multiple federal cases like this, where they have
00:04:11.200centers where this is being done on live video in real time overseas. So they could be in Thailand,
00:04:17.840they could be in the Philippines, they could be somewhere in Eastern Europe, right? Obviously Bulgaria,
00:04:24.160Romania, Ukraine, areas where this is being done. And so the pedophile can be inside the United
00:04:30.580States or somewhere in Western Europe, and then is then sending messages or making requests of what's
00:04:36.500happening in live real time. I want people to understand this. This is the crime that we're
00:04:42.400trying to stop. This is the type of behavior that obviously any serious society would want to be
00:04:47.160trying to stop. But KBJ doesn't seem very interested in any of that when she's talking about judicial
00:04:53.140reform. And I'm going to set aside for a second here, the fact that this isn't the role of a judge,
00:04:57.760right? The judge is supposed to sentence the person, the judge isn't supposed to be making
00:05:01.600law from the bench. That's judicial activism, legislating for the bench, we're going to set
00:05:06.260that aside for a second, because I want to talk about her judicial philosophy. Her judicial philosophy
00:05:11.460is one where society is really the one at fault. And the criminal is actually the victim
00:05:19.140of society. And because she's a social reformer who believes in these ideas of criminal justice
00:05:24.880reform for pedophiles, she believes that if she can just set the right kind of deterrence program
00:05:31.080and set the right kind of, well, we're going to monitor their internet activity, and we're going to
00:05:36.000do this, and we're going to do that. And that will somehow cure them of their pedophilia.
00:05:41.480And yet, there's never any instance that you're hearing in any of these responses about what
00:05:50.320about justice for the victims of these crimes? What about justice for the people? And she said,
00:05:56.160oh, it's only 15 minutes. Okay, how long is that child's life ruined and scarred? Because that person
00:06:05.120spent 15 minutes viewing it. And because that was created, and also understand that every single
00:06:12.400time that image is viewed, that child is now re victimized. You don't hear any of that. If the
00:06:21.560conservatives were smart here, they would bring up victim advocates to explain all of this to the
00:06:28.360court, to explain it to the Senate. And then we'll see, we will actually see which side is the one
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00:07:48.740Assessment of what is going on, in my view, clearly indicates that what the American wants
00:07:59.480is a unipolar world. There are players who would never accept the global village under the American
00:08:07.000sheriff. And China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico. I am sure these countries do not want to be just in
00:08:18.160a position when Uncle Sam orders them something and they say, yes, sir. And of course, Russia is not
00:08:25.940in the category of countries who would be ready to do so.
00:08:31.600All right. So that's Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov breaking down that essentially Russia and the BRICS
00:08:39.500nations do not want the United States to be the world's sheriff, in his words, or the world police.
00:08:46.900You know, we used to hear that phrase again and again, the US is acting as the world police.
00:08:51.240And for some reason, we don't talk about that anymore. But it seems as though the rest of the
00:08:55.580world, I guess they're kind of responding to the way the United States has been acting for the last 30
00:09:01.160years. And they don't like it. Because it turns out that the rest of the world, Europe, Africa,
00:09:09.520South America, South America, the Middle East, they get a vote. You know, we used to say that
00:09:14.120in the military, that when you're conducting planning exercises, when you're conducting
00:09:17.860operations exercises, you know, what's your what's your plan going to be for the battle space? What's
00:09:22.660your you know, what's your your course of action? What's your co-op? What's you know, what what is
00:09:27.080your con op? Well, the enemy gets a vote, right? The other side gets a vote, too. And you think that
00:09:33.180you're just going to go and do all this stuff, you have to remember that human nature exists and human
00:09:38.380agency exists, and that the other side is going to respond. And a lot of this stuff that's been built
00:09:44.940up over the years now is coming, right? The debt is coming due. The bill is being paid. And it looks
00:09:53.360like unfortunately, this is all happening at the same time. So we're here one month in for the invasion
00:09:59.660of Ukraine. Today is the one month mark 29 days exactly. Of course, February is a short month.
00:10:05.460So we're going to get in this, of course, from the French Ministry of Defense. The pressure on the
00:10:10.840urban centers of the east and south of Ukraine is being retained in particular in Maripol, where the
00:10:15.960Russians are producing a highly and this is, of course, the French translation producing the effort.
00:10:21.980The general tactical situation remains fixed, but the Ukrainian forces have been leading some
00:10:26.660localized counterattacks on the northern front, Kiev. And the encirclement maneuver has not yet been
00:10:31.660completed. And then and they are constrained by the flooding of the European River, that dam that was
00:10:35.940blown up. The town of Makariv would have been recaptured after a Ukrainian counterattack. But again,
00:10:41.180this flooding is creating a huge issue for the battlefield on the eastern front in Kharkov.
00:10:45.900The Russian encirclement maneuver is continuing. The strikes are intensifying. On that key central city
00:10:51.480of Dinepro, the Russian advance towards the point is slowed down by the fighting. They're fighting
00:10:56.320in the field. Forces are being degraded on both sides. And in particular, for the troops arriving
00:11:01.360from the north and the east, they are really focusing on this key city. Now digging in the city of
00:11:06.400Mariupol, the rejection of the Russian ultimatum is the beginning of the start of the urban offensive
00:11:11.960supported by numerous strikes. Ukrainian forces are surrounded, period, in that southern key port city of
00:11:18.940Mariupol. On the southern front, Mikolaev, the shelling and fighting are still intense for
00:11:23.520control of the city and its surroundings. There are some Ukrainian counter offenses that have been
00:11:27.780let out. Strikes are blocking Russian progress. But as we've seen, the Russian forces march on.
00:11:33.820And something that I just wanted to get into in terms of this situation, now we see that Biden,
00:11:38.980President Biden, is going to be heading to Europe. He's heading to Brussels. He's going to give
00:11:43.180a convocation speech, right, this commencement speech at, for the EU. He's going to be meeting with
00:11:48.740NATO. But here's one aspect that seems to have been completely forgotten about.
00:11:54.780Where is the call for the peace talks? Where is the call for the facilitation of this?
00:12:00.760Is Biden, is President Biden going to sit down and say, look, Zelensky, Putin, we need you to meet
00:12:07.740your foreign ministers. We need you to meet. Erdogan, right? Turkey, of course, right across the Black
00:12:12.900Sea from Ukraine, right across from Crimea, a direct role in a lot of this by selling by they
00:12:19.720purchase weapons from Russia, but they also sell weapons to Ukraine. So Turkey has always kind of
00:12:24.140played this wildcard role in the Middle East. Now, Turkey and Russia were also on opposite sides of
00:12:28.780the Syrian civil war. Turkey was trying to unseat Assad. Russia was trying to keep Assad in place.
00:12:34.280So the question then becomes, what will the role of Turkey be? But more to the point on a higher level,
00:12:40.480no one is even talking about peace talks, about ceasefire, about ending the shelling,
00:12:46.520getting families out of harm's way. And why is that? Is it just there's too much money to be made
00:12:52.400from war? Well, I guess that's what you get when you have a secretary of defense who comes directly
00:12:57.040from the board of Raytheon. Since you say you have listened to some of us speaking,
00:13:06.220you must have listened to us talking about a country called Libya, which from a country
00:13:11.740operating has been put into a very serious crisis. The Africans were there with a roadmap
00:13:18.500to solve the problem. They refused. They thought the best thing is to bomb Libya out of this world.
00:13:26.300And they bombed it continuously, knowing very well that we don't agree. That is using their
00:13:33.320colonial position against those that had colonized. And we now have ended up with that region
00:13:41.860totally undermined. And they are no longer there to solve the problems.
00:13:46.400Well, one of the most important meetings on the international stage took place yesterday in Moscow,
00:13:54.480Russia, headed by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. And yet, most of the world didn't pay attention to
00:14:02.600this. I didn't see headlines for this across mainstream media. You go and check CNN, even Fox,
00:14:09.700not there. What was this meeting? Why was it so important? Well, this was a meeting of the ambassadors
00:14:17.420of the BRICS nations. What are the BRICS nations? What is BRICS? The BRICS is Brazil, Russia, India,
00:14:27.080China, and South Africa. These are the five nations that are meeting together. Now, this group has been
00:14:33.100around for a long time. It's been around for years. But what they've always discussed is creating,
00:14:38.320essentially, a parallel economy, a parallel world order, an alternative world order, as the economist
00:14:45.420is talking about it. A way to get around U.S. sanctions, a way to get around U.S. economic
00:14:52.140interests, U.S. economic systems that are dominated by the West and dominated by the U.S. dollar.
00:14:58.120This is all about the five nations of BRICS coming after King dollar. They are tired of being pushed
00:15:05.720around. They are tired of being told what to do. And you got countries now, like Brazil, which you'd think
00:15:12.960would ostensibly be a U.S. ally. India, which is now caught in the middle. They're no friend of China,
00:15:18.140of course, but they are close to Russia. And the United States has been pushing and pushing and
00:15:24.760pushing India, threatening sanctions, going after them, when India should be a huge partner with the
00:15:34.180United States against China. But of course, our leaders are idiots. And so now not only did we
00:15:41.700drive Russia and China into each other's open arms, right, two countries that should by rights
00:15:48.440be natural competitors, we're now even driving India closer towards the axis, this alliance between
00:15:56.640Russia and China. Why do we do this? Why do we fall into these same patterns that have felled so many
00:16:05.420hegemons, so many others that held the world reserve currency before us? Wasn't always the U.S. dollar
00:16:13.260that was a world reserve currency, right? Prior to that, it was British pound. Prior to that, it was the
00:16:18.880Danes. It was Denmark that had the world reserve currency because of their trade empire. So understand
00:16:25.760these sorts of things, these levels of prosperity that the American people have held in the era since
00:16:34.000the fall of the Soviet Union, and even prior to that, since the end of the Cold War, or since the
00:16:39.940end of World War II, right? That isn't something that's going to last forever, that level of prosperity,
00:16:47.640the ability for us to spend ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper into debt. What happens
00:16:54.160if the U.S. dollar, if the U.S. dollar, doesn't become the world reserve currency anymore? You're
00:17:00.580already seeing the Saudis work to set up deals, oil deals with China that are going to be done
00:17:09.040using the U.N. So instead of the petrodollar, you might have the petroyuan, Chinese currency.
00:17:16.660What does this mean? That means the value of the dollar is going to drop on the world stage. Go talk
00:17:25.440to any currency trader you know, if you know anybody out there. They're going to tell you that
00:17:29.560the U.S. dollar is looking shaky right now, that there's a lot going on and a lot of chatter
00:17:36.980about where the U.S. dollar will be in a year, in five years, in 10 years. Mark my words, we are now
00:17:45.600in the midst of currency wars. And Lavrov talked about this. He came out at this meeting and said,
00:17:54.080we didn't expect the U.S. to go after our currency like this. They didn't expect the U.S. to use their
00:18:00.780sanctions to go after their foreign reserve holdings in Western banks. Probably should have,
00:18:06.880seeing as though the U.S. has done that to Iran, to Afghanistan. That's why there's millions of
00:18:11.340people starving in Afghanistan right now, because the U.S. has frozen Afghan assets. Same type of
00:18:17.600sanctions regime, by the way, that Madeleine Albright used to talk about in Iraq, where over
00:18:22.980500,000 children died because of U.S. siege tactics and sanction tactics. But she said that was a price
00:18:30.120that she was worth, right? She was worth paying. She was willing to pay that price.
00:18:36.920Why do we act like this? We act like a global bully, and we expect the rest of the world to fall
00:18:44.800in line. And now you got people like the BRICS nations that are meeting together and saying, you
00:18:50.380know what? Maybe we don't want to be under the thumb of the United States anymore. So everybody out
00:18:57.660there, you better wake up, and you better wake up fast, because this is the way the world is moving.
00:19:06.960Before crossing into Poland, Joanne never actually thought she'd be able to leave Ukraine.
00:19:11.920That's because she's a trans woman who was in the beginning stages of legally changing her gender
00:19:16.380marker before the war started. And she had only been able to update her birth certificate. Though she was
00:19:22.620eventually able to cross, many other members of the trans community have not been as lucky. Many of
00:19:28.480the trans women trying to flee Ukraine are being stopped by a ban on military-aged men from leaving
00:19:33.860the country. And while LGBTQ plus activists in Ukraine have made strides over the past couple of
00:19:40.760years, there are still many barriers for trans people. For example, people still need an outpatient
00:19:47.200psychiatric examination to change their gender markers, which can lead to inpatient hospitalization,
00:19:53.500meaning there are still many trans women with male markers on their IDs.
00:19:57.060Well, this certainly creates a dilemma for the left. Now, from Zero Hedge, the Ukrainian government
00:20:03.360is refusing to allow transgender women to leave the country, along with millions of women and children.
00:20:08.940Refugees who have left have been streaming into Poland and other European nations. Instead,
00:20:13.200Ukrainian border guards are turning them back and forcing them to return home to join the fight.
00:20:18.580This is under martial law. Their reasoning might sour some trans activists in the West.
00:20:24.060Ukraine's martial law requires that all biological males between the ages of 18 and 60 remain in the
00:20:31.620country and fight. It makes no exceptions for trans women. An Italian paper quoted a trans woman who
00:20:39.260shared her experience at the hands of guards and reported that they said they are men. They must turn
00:20:45.700back and fight. This certainly creates a dilemma for the left and certainly creates a dilemma for the alphabet
00:20:52.520groups, the trans rights groups across the West. But we've also got another story on this very same
00:20:59.320situation, but dealing with what's going on when the refugees arrive in Germany. This is out of the
00:21:05.920the magazine Redux. A sex work advocacy organization is utilizing social media to solicit Ukrainian refugee
00:21:15.020women for information on entering the legal German sex trade. Berlin-based Trans Sex Works, which describes
00:21:23.580itself as a peer-to-peer support network and structure for made up of trans and non-binary sex workers,
00:21:31.180has posted advertisements for counseling services targeting Ukrainian women who need support and info on how to begin
00:21:38.680sex work in Germany. We are now offering peer counseling and support in Ukrainian, Russian and English for all sex
00:21:46.920workers fleeing the war in Ukraine, reads one post shared to their Instagram. This offer is open to all sex workers
00:21:53.540regardless of gender identity, since we do not see any other offer in cisgender sex workers arriving
00:22:00.040in Berlin. Isn't that nice? Isn't that so nice? So in Ukraine, according to these reports, biological men who
00:22:09.240identify as trans women are kept behind to participate in the war under martial law. But the women who arrived to
00:22:19.020Germany, of course, you know, do they have any money? Can they access their money? We just talked about all the
00:22:24.060sanctions, crazy stuff that's going on with currency. Well, now they're at risk. And you've got the German
00:22:29.920trans sex work community is going to recruit these women and saying, look, we know you're in dire situations.
00:22:37.960We know you're refugees. We know you're at risk. But don't worry. There's an exciting new opportunity for you as a sex
00:22:46.020worker. And that's, of course, by the way, you know, making sure that you avoid all of those other
00:22:51.000refugees, because we've already heard reports from a German hotel ship of Ukrainian women being raped by
00:22:58.260other refugees that were already there prior. We're idiots. This entire situation is insane.
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00:23:21.640podcast. What did we talk about today? Judge KBJ, her confirmation hearing day for me talked about
00:23:27.760her crazy judicial philosophy. Next, we gave you the ground update one month in day 29, the invasion
00:23:34.360of Ukraine. Third, Russia meeting with the fellow BRICS ambassadors. What does this mean going
00:23:40.240forward? And finally, Ukraine blocking trans women escaping as refugees. And then now in Germany,
00:23:46.020these brothels recruiting Ukrainian refugees and at risk women into the sex trade. Today's history
00:23:53.160break, the New York subway was struck ground today in 1900. That is how old our infrastructure and our
00:24:00.920subways and our systems are here in the United States. Maybe we could do something to actually
00:24:04.940update that. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
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00:24:15.620Turning Point USA. Today's top stories. First, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing
00:24:21.160day four. We're going to break down all the fireworks. Next, today is the one month mark of the Russian
00:24:27.960invasion of Ukraine, a ground update here on day 29. Third, Russia has met with their fellow BRICS
00:24:34.120ambassador nations. The currency wars have begun. And finally, Ukraine has begun
00:24:39.500blocking trans women from escaping as refugees. All of this and more ahead, Human Events Daily.
00:24:44.620On the internet, with one click, you can receive, you can distribute tens of thousands. You can be
00:25:05.180doing this for 15 minutes. And all of a sudden, you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison.
00:25:14.400Good. Good. I understand, Senator. I hope you are. Good. Allow her to finish, please. I hope you go to jail for 50 years. If you're on the internet trolling for images of children and sexual exploitation. See, you don't think that's a bad thing. I think that's a horrible thing.
00:25:31.180So there's KBJ with this infamous, now infamous clip, which is actually far, far, look, I know there's a lot of memes and a lot of jokes going around about her refusing to define what a woman is. I'm not a biologist, right? And it is kind of ridiculous, of course, that a Supreme Court nominee would make that kind of argument. But let's dig a little bit deeper, because I think the far more illustrative answer that she gave us is of this one here, asking the question,
00:26:01.080about child pornography, because she seems so incredibly focused and hung up on this idea, that the distribution method, the method of conveyance of child pornography trafficking, whether it's someone who is distributing or collecting, that the method, the mode that is used for this communication, because it is digital versus analog when the laws are written, that that should change, right? That should change someone's sentence.
00:26:29.740And yet you never hear anything in this judicial philosophy about the actual reason for why the law was written in the first place to protect children who are the victims of child pornography.
00:26:45.820So just to be very clear about this, every piece of child pornography is an image or a video of a child being raped, either raped or exploited, because children obviously cannot give consent.
00:27:04.060And when you have a market for this type of material, that creates incentive for people to create more of it. That's the chain that you're trying to disrupt. That's the network that you're trying to disrupt. You want to stop people from doing it in the first place by de-incentivizing this type of behavior.
00:27:26.680And if you actually look at the way this is working now, you know, it's not just videos and images that have been sent like in the past, right? You can even have situations where and I've looked at multiple federal cases like this, where they have centers where this is being done on live video in real time, overseas.
00:27:45.420So they could be in Thailand, they could be in the Philippines, they could be somewhere in Eastern Europe, right? Obviously, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, areas where this is being done.
00:27:55.820And so the pedophile can be inside the United States or somewhere in Western Europe, and that is then sending messages or making requests of what's happening in live real time.
00:28:07.120I want people to understand this. This is the crime that we're trying to stop. This is the type of behavior that obviously any serious society would want to be trying to stop.
00:28:16.600But KBJ doesn't seem very interested in any of that when she's talking about judicial reform.
00:28:22.300And I'm going to set aside for a second here the fact that this isn't the role of a judge, right?
00:28:26.640The judge is supposed to sentence the person. The judge isn't supposed to be making law from the bench.
00:28:31.660That's judicial activism legislating for the bench. We're going to set that aside for a second because I want to talk about her judicial philosophy.
00:28:38.640Her judicial philosophy is one where society is really the one at fault and the criminal is actually the victim of society.
00:28:48.980And because she's a social reformer who believes in these ideas of criminal justice reform for pedophiles, she believes that if she can just set the right kind of deterrence program and set the right kind of, well, we're going to monitor their Internet activity and we're going to do this and we're going to do that.
00:29:06.400And that will somehow cure them of their pedophilia. And yet there's never any instance that you're hearing in any of these responses about what about justice for the victims of these crimes?
00:29:22.980What about justice for the people? And she said, oh, it's only 15 minutes.
00:29:26.040Okay, how long is that child's life ruined and scarred because that person spent 15 minutes viewing it and because that was created and also understand that every single time that image is viewed, that child is now re-victimized.
00:29:47.000You don't hear any of that. If the conservatives were smart here, they would bring up victim advocates to explain all of this to the court, to explain it to the Senate.
00:29:59.720And then we'll see, we will actually see which side is the one that prevails.
00:30:04.820Assessment of what is going on, in my view, clearly indicates that what the American wants is a unipolar world.
00:30:18.600There are players who would never accept the global village under the American sheriff.
00:30:24.740And China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico. I am sure these countries do not want to be just in a position when Uncle Sam orders them something and they say, yes, sir.
00:30:40.300And of course, Russia is not in the category of countries who would be ready to do so.
00:30:48.800All right, so that's Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov breaking down that essentially Russia and the BRICS nations do not want the United States to be the world's sheriff, in his words, or the world police.
00:31:04.500You know, we used to hear that phrase again and again, the U.S. is acting as the world police.
00:31:08.220And for some reason, we don't talk about that anymore, but it seems as though the rest of the world, I guess they're kind of responding to the way the United States has been acting for the last 30 years.
00:31:19.280And they don't like it because it turns out that the rest of the world, Europe, Africa, South America, the Middle East, they get a vote.
00:31:30.200You know, we used to say that in the military, that when you're conducting planning exercises, when you're conducting operations exercises, you know, what's your what's your plan going to be for the battle space?
00:31:39.660What's your you know, what's your your course of action?
00:31:42.520What's your co-op? What's you know, what what is your con op?
00:32:22.760So we're going to get in this, of course, from the French Ministry of Defense.
00:32:27.520The pressure on the urban centers of the east and south of Ukraine is being retained, in particular in Maripol, where the Russians are producing a highly.
00:32:35.360And this is, of course, the French translation producing the effort.
00:32:39.180The general tactical situation remains fixed, but the Ukrainian forces have been leading some localized counterattacks on the northern front, Kiev.
00:32:46.860And the encirclement maneuver has not yet been completed.
00:32:49.320And they are constrained by the flooding of the European River, that dam that was blown up.
00:32:53.640The town of Makariv would have been recaptured after a Ukrainian counterattack.
00:32:57.880But again, this flooding is creating a huge issue for the battlefield on the eastern front in Kharkov.
00:33:03.100The Russian encirclement maneuver is continuing.
00:34:49.400Russia was trying to keep Assad in place.
00:34:51.480So the question then becomes, what will the role of Turkey be?
00:34:55.740But more to the point, on a higher level, no one is even talking about peace talks, about ceasefire, about ending the shelling, getting families out of harm's way.
00:35:07.040Is it just there's too much money to be made from war?
00:35:10.580Well, I guess that's what you get when you have a secretary of defense who comes directly from the board of Raytheon.
00:35:15.760Since you say you have listened to some of us speaking, you must have listened to us talking about a country called Libya, which from a country operating has been put into a very serious crisis.
00:35:33.820The Africans were there with a road map to solve the problem.
00:35:38.540They thought the best thing is to bomb Libya out of this world.
00:35:43.500And they bombed it continuously, knowing very well that we don't agree that is using their colonial position against those that had colonized.
00:35:55.900And we now have ended up with that region totally undermined.
00:36:01.140And they are no longer there to solve the problems.
00:36:03.600Well, one of the most important meetings on the international stage took place yesterday in Moscow, Russia, headed by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
00:36:16.500And yet most of the world didn't pay attention to this.
00:36:20.820I didn't see headlines for this across mainstream media.
00:36:51.940But what they've always discussed is creating, essentially, a parallel economy, a parallel world order, an alternative world order, as The Economist is talking about it.
00:37:04.040A way to get around U.S. sanctions, a way to get around U.S. economic interests, U.S. economic systems that are dominated by the West and dominated by the U.S. dollar.
00:37:14.920This is all about the five nations of BRICS coming after King Dollar.
00:37:21.500They are tired of being pushed around.
00:37:23.640They are tired of being told what to do.
00:37:26.080And you've got countries now, like Brazil, which you'd think would ostensibly be a U.S. ally.
00:37:32.480India, which is now caught in the middle.
00:37:34.360They're no friend of China, of course, but they are close to Russia.
00:37:37.680And the United States has been pushing and pushing and pushing India, threatening sanctions, going after them, when India should be a huge partner with the United States against China.
00:37:53.240But, of course, our leaders are idiots.
00:37:55.240And so now, not only did we drive Russia and China into each other's open arms, right, two countries that should, by right, be natural competitors, we're now even driving India closer towards the axis, this alliance between Russia and China.
00:38:14.840Why do we fall into these same patterns that have felled so many hegemons, so many others that held the world reserve currency before us?
00:38:29.060It wasn't always the U.S. dollar that was the world reserve currency, right?
00:38:32.400Prior to that, it was the British pound.
00:38:36.860It was Denmark that had the world reserve currency because of their trade empire.
00:38:41.220So understand, these sorts of things, these levels of prosperity that the American people have held in the era since the fall of the Soviet Union, and even prior to that, since the end of World War II, right?
00:39:00.980That isn't something that's going to last forever, that level of prosperity, the ability for us to spend ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper into debt.
00:39:09.720But what happens if the U.S. dollar, if the U.S. dollar, doesn't become the world reserve currency anymore?
00:39:17.220You're already seeing the Saudis work to set up deals, oil deals with China that are going to be done using the U.N.
00:39:28.880So instead of the petrodollar, you might have the petroyuan, Chinese currency.
00:40:08.800He came out at this meeting and said, we didn't expect the U.S. to go after our currency like this.
00:40:15.540They didn't expect the U.S. to use their sanctions to go after their foreign reserve holdings in Western banks.
00:40:22.240They probably should have, seeing as though the U.S. has done that to Iran, to Afghanistan.
00:40:27.580That's why there's millions of people starving in Afghanistan right now, because the U.S. has frozen Afghan assets.
00:40:34.120Same type of sanctions regime, by the way, that Madeleine Albright used to talk about in Iraq, where over 500,000 children died because of U.S. siege tactics and sanction tactics.
00:40:45.140But she said, that was a price that she was worth, right?
00:40:56.200We act like a global bully and we expect the rest of the world to fall in line.
00:41:02.940And now you got people like the BRICS nations that are meeting together and saying, you know what?
00:41:08.640Maybe we don't want to be under the thumb of the United States anymore.
00:41:13.040So everybody out there, you better wake up and you better wake up fast, because this is the way the world is moving.
00:41:24.100Before crossing into Poland, Joanne never actually thought she'd be able to leave Ukraine.
00:41:29.260That's because she's a trans woman who was in the beginning stages of legally changing her gender marker before the war started.
00:41:35.580And she had only been able to update her birth certificate.
00:41:39.400Though she was eventually able to cross, many other members of the trans community have not been as lucky.
00:41:45.420Many of the trans women trying to flee Ukraine are being stopped by a ban on military-aged men from leaving the country.
00:41:51.520And while LGBTQ plus activists in Ukraine have made strides over the past couple of years, there are still many barriers for trans people.
00:42:01.700For example, people still need an outpatient psychiatric examination to change their gender markers, which can lead to inpatient hospitalization.
00:42:10.500Meaning there are still many trans women with male markers on their IDs.
00:42:13.980Well, this certainly creates a dilemma for the left.
00:42:18.080Now, from Zero Hedge, the Ukrainian government is refusing to allow transgender women to leave the country.
00:42:24.440Along with millions of women and children, refugees who have left have been streaming into Poland and other European nations.
00:42:29.980Instead, Ukrainian border guards are turning them back and forcing them to return home to join the fight.
00:43:04.160This certainly creates a dilemma for the left and certainly creates a dilemma for the alphabet groups, the trans rights groups across the West.
00:43:13.120But we've also got another story on this very same situation, but dealing with what's going on when the refugees arrive in Germany.
00:43:22.140This is out of the magazine Redux, a sex work advocacy organization is utilizing social media to solicit Ukrainian refugee women for information on entering the legal German sex trade.
00:43:36.520Berlin-based trans sex work, which describes itself as a peer-to-peer support network and structure for made up of trans and non-binary sex workers, has posted advertisements for counseling services targeting Ukrainian women who need support and info on how to begin sex work in Germany.
00:43:57.040We are now offering peer counseling and support in Ukrainian, Russian and English for all sex workers fleeing the war in Ukraine, reads one post shared to their Instagram.
00:44:08.520This offer is open to all sex workers, regardless of gender identity, since we do not see any other offer in cisgender sex workers arriving in Berlin.
00:44:20.980So in Ukraine, according to these reports, biological men who identify as trans women are kept behind to participate in the war under martial law.
00:44:34.080But the women who arrive to Germany, of course, you know, do they have any money?
00:44:40.540We just talked about all the sanctions, crazy stuff that's going on with currency.
00:44:43.140Well, now they're at risk and you've got the German trans sex work community is going to recruit these women and saying, look, we know you're in dire situations.
00:44:59.020There's an exciting new opportunity for you as a sex worker.
00:45:03.640And that's, of course, by the way, you know, making sure that you avoid all of those other refugees, because we've already heard reports from a German hotel ship of Ukrainian women being raped by other refugees that were already there prior.