Episode 114 – BREAKING： Joe Biden Directly Implicated in Corruption Scandal. Trump Administration Makes Big Pharma Pay. San Francisco Goes Full CAREN.
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It's debate night in America, and the mute button is making an appearance for the first time in a presidential debate. Matt talks about the Joy Reid hack, and why Joe Biden should have been fired for it. Plus, a new 9-1-1 law that makes it illegal to make a racially charged 911 call.
Transcript
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You all were not telling the truth and you should not be trusted.
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Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.
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Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.
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Welcome to Hot Takes, I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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It's debate night in America, the second and final debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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And the mute button makes an appearance for the first time.
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Presidential Debate Commission instituting the mute button as a tool for the moderator.
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And it's worth noting what a complete joke NBC News is.
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Like these are the folks who give two hours of primetime programming every night to hosts who have admitted to lying to their viewers.
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In Brian Williams' case, he lied about being part of some combat-related encounter in Iraq.
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And then you have the curious case of Joy Reid.
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Some awful, homophobic, transphobic content ends up on her blog.
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You can't even claim you're hacked and keep a job at C-SPAN if you're caught lying.
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But Joy Reid, getting the Chris Matthews 7 o'clock hour.
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This is the network that is curating the questions.
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And speaking of the topics, I just think it's quite something that, you know, the American recovery,
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the juxtaposition of the lockdowns, to the openness that I think is really central to the Trump strategy.
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You know, that seems to be something that the president's going to have to pull out of this debate.
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In the last debate, I gave advice to both candidates.
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And it largely turned into a recrimination session between two boomers over the worst parts of the status quo
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and their personal grievances with one another.
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I'll be seeing the president before the debate.
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You're going to want to press Joe Biden on these latest revelations indicating not just Hunter Biden's corruption,
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but Joe Biden's corruption with international business people who we were investigating as a consequence of their misdeeds.
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But you also have to let Joe Biden face his biggest challenge in this debate.
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And that is the completion of a thought or a sentence or a paragraph.
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If Joe Biden is continuously pressed by the president or even the moderator, though that's rather unlikely,
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Joe Biden won't have to complete the thoughts that I think he really struggles with.
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I think Joe Biden sometimes gets going on a paragraph and then kind of surrenders on it.
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He did that in the debates with the other Democrats.
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And I think it's one reason why they put a lid on his day pretty early.
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The less is more strategy is alive and well in the Biden campaign.
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And so let's try to tease out some responses that indicate that this is a guy who has pretty much embraced the radical left agenda
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by virtue of his common cause with Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris and the Woketopians that animate that movement.
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San Francisco, California, Nancy Pelosi's home, sees the Board of Supervisors pass the Karen Act.
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Accessing the popular meme of upper middle class white women with racial prejudice,
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the Karen Act in San Francisco, California, renders it illegal to make a racially charged 9-1-1 call.
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I guess it's a 9-1-1 call where you're concerned about the conduct of anyone who doesn't share your race.
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But the penalty isn't just one of a municipal fine.
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No, actually, under the Karen Act, if someone is aggrieved because you've called 9-1-1 on them,
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they have a special statutory right to sue you and expose you to civil liability.
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See, the Woketopians don't just want to alter your conduct.
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And that's one element of this new radical wave of legislation.
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You would think that in San Francisco, California, they might want to worry about getting the human excrement off their street
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before telling people that their prejudices are what motivate their concerns over their safety or the safety of their families.
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So if you call 9-1-1 in California, make sure you're calling on someone who has your same race or you could be subject to the Karen Act.
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ESPN reporting the good news that legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden is out of the hospital, recovered from coronavirus.
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And Bobby Bowden put out a statement saying he was really hoping he was going to beat this one
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because he wanted to be around to vote for President Trump in the upcoming election.
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He's one of those figures that really was transformational in terms of the program at Florida State,
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but also widely, widely regarded for his work in the faith community, his development of young men,
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and all that he did to put back into the Tallahassee community to a number of the communities in South Florida
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If Bobby Bowden, at age 92, can whip coronavirus, and if Chris Christie, who I don't think is exactly winning the sit-up competitions at the local gym,
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can whip coronavirus, he's out of the hospital now too as well,
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obviously we need to wear masks where appropriate.
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We need to wash our hands and use sanitizer frequently.
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But if these guys can beat coronavirus, I just don't think coronavirus is the basis to lock down the economy
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and negatively impact so many people's lives and development and interactions with one another
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that we know are critically important to healthy humans and a healthy society.
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Breaking news from Mike Emanuel at Fox News, who's obtained text messages that appear to directly implicate
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The text exchange comes on May 20th, 2017, and it comes from Tony Bobulinski.
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We're told this is a reference to Joe Biden, and again, this would be unique
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in that it would directly implicate the former vice president, not just his family.
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If these guys were running a shakedown routine, a corruption racket in Ukraine,
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I honestly think that the biggest problems Joe Biden has regarding international corruption
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China, remember, gave enormous fees to the firm that Hunter Biden was involved in to manage
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And this without Hunter Biden demonstrating the capability or the background where that
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So if it's happening in Ukraine, it's probably happening in China.
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We will send out the Mike Emanuel text messages that are very damning.
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Congressman Jim Jordan was on Fox and Friends giving the American people a full update.
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We now know beyond a shadow of doubt the laptop is, in fact, Hunter Biden's.
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The big guy referenced in one of the emails is, in fact, Joe Biden.
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We know Hunter Biden had deals with communist China.
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Ukraine deals with his company, Burisma, that even the State Department said was a concern.
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And he was getting cash from the mayor of Moscow's wife.
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But what I also hope really comes up is the president stresses what he did for the American
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The fact that he said he would cut taxes and did, said he would reduce regulations and
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did, said we'd have a roaring economy and we did, said he'd get out of the Iran deal
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and we did, said he would put the embassy in Jerusalem and he did, said he would build
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the wall and he did, said he would do a new USMCA, new NAFTA agreement and he did, said
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he would put out a list and choose from that list to put on the highest court in our country
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and he picked from that list Mr. Gorsuch, Mr. Kavanaugh, they're on the court, put out
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another list, selected from that list, Amy Coney Barrett, and she's going on the court in
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No president, no president has done more of what they said they would do than this guy.
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That should come out tonight loudly and clearly.
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Republican lead of the Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, was on Shannon Bream's television
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show last night discussing the latest revelations regarding Hunter Biden's laptop.
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They may have had knowledge that it contained information that would be highly relevant during
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But you see, a lot of the folks at the head shed over there at the FBI, they wanted to see
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They didn't want evidence before the American people regarding the very legitimate concerns
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the president had about corruption and illegal acts regarding the Bidens in Ukraine.
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In August of 2019, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there was this new Ukraine hoax where it was
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a leak of the president talking to the new president of Ukraine, talking about corruption.
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And we started dealing with this all through the end of 2019.
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Well, the computer technician came forward because he thought that he might have relevant information
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that the Congress should have if you, in fact, are investigating Ukraine.
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And we ended up actually impeaching the president of the United States over this.
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So the fact that the FBI didn't take what that American's concern was, you know, the reason
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he took that to the FBI was kind of twofold, troubling pornographic images and also because
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And the fact that the FBI did not bring that to the United States Congress during the impeachment
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of the president of the United States is appalling.
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And somebody needs to answer why that wasn't brought to the Congress.
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Because remember, this would have been in December of 19, the very time that the president
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And then it was remember, it was delayed by Nancy Pelosi for like 45 days.
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The FBI had plenty of time to get that to the United States Senate to say, hey, here are
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some emails involving Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, money moving around.
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They wanted their politically motivated impeachment, not just the Democrats, but even some of the
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Why are Democrats so insistent on having mail-in ballots sent to people who haven't asked for
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Well, it's because they want to create a universe of ballots that haven't been voted yet, that may
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still be voted in the future, that they will be able to harvest between the election and
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when they hope to get the results that they desire, even if that is not the result of the
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democratic process that we cherish in this country, where each person has a vote and an opportunity
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to cast their ballot and make a choice as to what leaders will govern our country and our
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NationalPulse.com has a breaking story from Natalie Winters regarding 12,000 ballots just
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in the New Jersey shore area that have been returned undeliverable.
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And these, of course, are ballots for people who've moved, died, gotten divorced, who've changed
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Now, there's an elections official quoted in the story saying there's a tremendous cost
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associated with the printing and the postage and the sending and the sorting.
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But the bigger issue is that in many places, these ballots that are undeliverable won't be
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sent back to an elections office, but will be hanging out at an apartment complex that will
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be available for some harvester who knows that there isn't a person there to lawfully cast
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the ballot, but that the ballot is there and that they can illegally get it, fill it out
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My hope is that we continue to observe and report these circumstances of bizarre behavior.
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We're grateful for the National Pulse reporting this story.
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The makers of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, have pled guilty to three federal charges.
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The total fines and fees that they will pay accumulate up to about $8 billion.
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Several hundred million of that will be paid by the Slacker family, who has had substantial
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involvement in the control and operations of Purdue Pharma.
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And it's nice to see the Trump administration getting tough on these purveyors of opioids that
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One disagreement I have with many politicians in Washington is how to measure our response
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It seems more and more Republicans and Democrats are willing to measure how well we've done
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by how much money we've spent, how many billions, how many hundreds of millions do we put into
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And we never seem to understand what really works, what gets people out of the cycle of
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I certainly think that enforcement actions like we see from the Department of Justice announced
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today do a great deal to ensure that we don't have the type of corporate greed that preyed
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on our people through the pushing of these prescriptions, through the utilization of these drugs, oftentimes
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And it's just tragic to see the stories in every single town in this great country where
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you have somebody that goes in for a surgery and comes out a drug addict.
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We want to make sure that we do have services available for those that are eager to break
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But at the same time, we shouldn't just throw money at a problem acting like that is an adequate
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Enforcement, prosecution, consequences for those involved, that seems to do a lot more than
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Congratulations to the Trump administration and the Department of Justice.
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They say age is just a number, but in Noah Smith's Bloomberg opinion piece that we'll
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be sending out, it also may be the next sign of global economic threat.
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It may be a critically important feature of a nation's economy.
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And in Noah Smith's Bloomberg piece, we see the median ages of the world's major economies.
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And in fact, Japan has the oldest population for a major economy in the world.
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And the consequence is deflation in their currency and a constriction of their economic
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So Japan's the oldest at 48.6 years, median age.
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And then you've got Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Canada, France, the United Kingdom,
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The four youngest countries in terms of median age for the major economies, India, Mexico,
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And so we see the extent to which a young population can coincide with tremendous periods of economic
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I mean, the Indian economy, the Mexican economy, the Brazilian economy, they're growing a great
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And I think it's a sign of the challenges to come for countries like Russia and the United
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Kingdom, and hopefully not the United States, but maybe regarding an aging population, a workforce
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that is aging, skill sets that are evolving and needed in the global marketplace, and consumers
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having the purchasing power at different stages of their life in different increments that allow
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them to be able to participate in the economy and benefit from the work that has been done
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So while we can do a lot of things to slow the aging process, we might not be able to slow
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Saga van Eck, eight-year-old girl from Sweden, finds a 1,500-year-old sword that she is able
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The sword had been there for a thousand years, and it's just not every day that you see this
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The young lady seems to be quite impressed, and I'm pretty sure this makes her the queen
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I mean, if you find an ancient sword and pull it out of the bottom of the lake, it seems
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as good a measure as any to make you the ruler of the country.
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Sudan has apparently forked over enough cash to get themselves off of the list of state
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Is this the precursor to yet another peace deal in the Middle East with Sudan and Israel
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You couldn't have a peace deal with Israel if you still had Sudan on the state sponsor
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So this could be good cleanup, good work, and always we're grateful to see Americans who've
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