The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1342

00:00:00.000 good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the lotus eaters episode 1342 i'm your host harry

00:00:06.680 joined today by brother stelios hello brother harry and brother luca afternoon brother hello

00:00:12.060 brothers and sisters that's dad to you oh yep you can see he's trying like am i grounded trying

00:00:17.460 to steal my style uh today we're going to be talking the um sure to be a grand success eu

00:00:25.040 india trade deal where we get hordes endless hordes of indians and they get to give us endless 1.00

00:00:32.620 hordes of indians emphasis on the endless yes there is an inexhaustible supply uh we're going 1.00

00:00:38.380 to be talking about the return of the most sinister agency in the u.s government and that's not just

00:00:44.200 the government itself that's a very specific one and so this is going to be taking us through the

00:00:48.160 recent spanish train disaster which i've not actually heard anything about it's very tragic

00:00:52.140 yeah so talk about it so a fun one today and uh with that um by islander and now let's talk about

00:01:00.560 the news thorough nice okay so obviously off the back of um uh trump's uh second term and all of the

00:01:09.400 madness and unpredictability surrounding tariffs right because every time another foreign country does

00:01:16.480 anything it sums to it seems to threaten a change in tariff rules from the american government and

00:01:23.100 it's brought a lot of unpredictability and i think in particular as well because of the ongoing uh

00:01:30.760 tensions that have been created between america and europe over greenland as well what's happened is

00:01:36.360 that the eu have accelerated uh plans that they've been working on for many years now but a trade deal

00:01:42.740 a free trade deal with india uh and this has all been signed it's been signed between both parties

00:01:49.860 it's not coming to effect just yet has to get ratified and everything but it's the eu right and

00:01:56.600 if there's one thing we know about the eu is that if they want something to go through they will make

00:02:01.400 sure that it goes through and if they don't want something to happen well uh you better not be one of

00:02:07.400 the poor unfortunate souls who's on the side of that the third thing as well is if they want something

00:02:12.400 to go through they will especially make sure it goes through if it just means more foreigners in europe 0.96

00:02:17.840 oh yes if it's treacherous they'll put double the effort into making sure that it happens uh and it

00:02:23.820 so often is uh this also comes off the back as well of the uh uh mcosa deal that the eu were recently

00:02:31.460 um in the midst of making with uh many of the south american countries as well which kicked up quite a

00:02:38.340 riot in brussels towards the end of last year where once again uh you know people looking out of their

00:02:44.220 office spaces in brussels uh would have seen tractors and shit uh all across the streets you know and the

00:02:52.140 farmers protesting because they saw that that deal was going to undercut uh european farmers and their

00:02:58.440 their labor is that a figure of speech or were they actually spreading manure it is it is both okay it

00:03:04.680 is both yes uh and so here we are we have this new eu india trade deal and i suppose we ought to talk

00:03:10.700 about some of the uh the raw numbers from it before we start talking about the other numbers that are

00:03:16.440 even more upsetting so uh india tariffs uh on 30 of goods traded with the eu are to fall to zero

00:03:23.900 immediately uh eu firms are going to save up to four billion euros a year in duties and it also says

00:03:31.340 that improved access for eu firms in financial and maritime services and basically it seems that

00:03:38.220 99.5 percent of all goods between them have had some sort of reduction of tariffs so it is it is

00:03:47.520 enormous it is obviously a very very comprehensive deal and you can tell how many years have been worked

00:03:53.040 on this um but from the other point of view uh benefits for india they're going to have zero

00:03:58.140 percent tariffs on 93 of their goods within seven years coming into europe and so what all of this

00:04:04.820 amounts to is that the eu is going to we're going to be sending india uh things like cars and wine

00:04:12.840 uh and in return we're going to be getting textiles and base materials and um you know uh jewelry and

00:04:20.900 gems but of course we're also going to be getting endless numbers of foreigners because as with any 0.98

00:04:27.800 trade deal that india seems to produce it cannot exist without attacking you have to bring the deal

00:04:34.800 right in yeah you've got it's like you've got all of the trade stuff and you've got the numbers of all

00:04:39.520 the goods and everything and then like modi just comes along with a stapler and just attaches a little

00:04:44.920 you know addendum to it saying also please import hundreds of millions of indians it is his main 0.99

00:04:50.060 form of diplomacy it is really is i'm going to send 50 million indians to your country 1.00

00:04:56.980 and this obviously creates a disastrous effect on us not only because of the fact that we don't want

00:05:05.100 these people here but also because it means that any time that we the more that we intertwine ourselves

00:05:12.300 with all of these foreign economies using india as an example it obviously means that if we

00:05:18.000 decide to do anything slightly antagonistic towards india or if we just decide actually we've had

00:05:24.160 enough and we'd like you to take your indians back well we've intertwined ourselves with their

00:05:30.500 economies and they have more economic leverage over us well this is the point of globalism yes is to

00:05:36.820 make us so codependent on one another absolutely that you have to accept all of these extra things

00:05:43.800 because you've essentially built yourself up a nice little fifth column in your own home through

00:05:48.740 the free trade of peoples yes i want to ask you if you know yet or if there is information yet about

00:05:56.060 the number of people who are going to be brought so is it endless or is it targeted specifically like

00:06:03.120 saying well we need an x amount of nurses modi will provide or we need x amount of doctors modi will

00:06:11.120 provide well the problem is that the there's a very general term which is high skilled workers

00:06:16.460 um we've heard all this before right we we know exactly what that means and also as well even if

00:06:22.960 that that even if that did hypothetically mean you know we get a hundred indians who are the most

00:06:28.760 intelligent indians in all of india it doesn't stop there does it because when they come in they 1.00

00:06:33.820 will want to bring their families over they'll want to bring more indians over and it creates this 1.00

00:06:38.700 compounding effect where whenever foreigners come into europe they always use it as a bridgehead for

00:06:44.900 bringing in more foreigners from their own country and so to some extent and obviously as we know the

00:06:51.080 eu um and england as well is very lax about these sorts of things right the civil service and the people

00:06:58.220 who are in charge of all these sorts of things and the visa applications they're complicit or they're

00:07:03.720 asleep at the wheel but mostly its complicity um and so we end up with a position as well where because

00:07:10.000 of this trade deal of course we can't also forget the fact that india is one of russia's key strategic

00:07:16.440 allies uh india is one of the world's biggest consumers for russian crude oil which makes up to

00:07:22.580 40 percent of its total imports and roughly 1.7 million barrels a day um which is quite a lot and some

00:07:31.420 estimates suggest that it's imported just under 125 billion pounds worth of crude oil second only to

00:07:37.900 china since the war has begun and so we're intertwining ourselves in the name of diversifying our trade and

00:07:45.340 you know trying to uh uncouple ourselves from america we're actually strengthening the economy of one of

00:07:53.840 the key strategic allies that we've been fighting in the war in ukraine in for several years and so all of

00:08:00.080 this seems to be just total madness um absolute comedy only no one's really laughing at it are they

00:08:07.260 uh i mean look at that you're not you know nowhere close to cracking a chuckle are you i think i've

00:08:11.780 forgotten how to laugh after all these years i'll i'll teach you later well i'll give you some lessons

00:08:17.760 i'm an old dog it won't work okay i give you six months i reckon i can do it in six months anyway

00:08:26.060 so we have here a sort of underlay and speaking about it all that uh so are you taking the peter

00:08:32.940 hitchens look he is see he laughed i broke already he laughed okay just a matter of seconds

00:08:40.640 uh just the comparison to peter hitchens is not one that i was expecting yeah thank god he had the

00:08:47.720 same plan as well speaking of someone else who never laughs let's listen to ursa vander ursa vander

00:08:54.140 we've got the sound happy there

00:08:58.060 of course she's doing something that hurts europeans of course she's happy 0.76

00:09:03.740 audience can you hear her or is our television simply muted well no that's not coming through

00:09:13.060 all right apologies mogging us so we have here this is a tweet from uh piosh goyal who is the union

00:09:19.720 minister of commerce and industry yes all right what a name i think it's a good name isn't it it's a

00:09:26.660 strong name if ever i saw one indian name yep uh and basically this means that as i say

00:09:33.520 it's not just a freedom of movement of goods it is of course people because india always attaches

00:09:39.340 free movement of people to its deals we've seen this uh recently in canada in the way that you know

00:09:45.760 the number of indians in canada has just risen dramatically in a very very short space of time

00:09:52.580 and so we have here an agreement of mobility with india facilitating the movement of students

00:09:59.480 researchers seasonal and highly skilled workers do we really need students from india do we really

00:10:07.820 need seasonal workers do we need indian strawberry pickers coming in well that's one of the main

00:10:13.800 i suppose avenues to try and combat this legitimately which is that if they felt inclined i doubt they do

00:10:23.800 but if they felt inclined uh unions across europe could complain that this is going to be competition

00:10:30.100 in the workforce and they should because really that's going to depress wages as this sort of stuff

00:10:36.040 always does now you're not only fighting for wages with the with a globalized market in general

00:10:43.320 you've had even greater openings to one of the largest labor markets and the single largest labor

00:10:51.620 market in the world if you're just talking about india the amount of indians that there are yeah

00:10:56.580 and i'm i'm going to be fair there are plenty of intelligent and high skilled indians but are they the 1.00

00:11:05.080 ones that are going to be coming over why is modi so eager if it's about high skilled workers why is

00:11:11.000 he so eager to send all of these talented individuals over to improve our countries rather than put them to

00:11:17.440 work within the indian labor force there are there are many many questions that you could have i would expect

00:11:23.600 that i've read a number of reports on india itself being a multi-state country having interstate

00:11:31.220 immigration problems where some of the better off more prosperous states within india are experiencing

00:11:36.980 troubles where a lot of people from the lower the worse off states are trying to go from state to state and

00:11:43.240 immigrate and put pressure in that way so i would imagine this might be some kind of pressure release 0.95

00:11:48.720 valve for him well this state and our states aren't going to have to worry so much because a load of

00:11:53.360 the people from these states which aren't doing as well can just go to foreign countries yeah absolutely

00:11:57.860 uh and also as well as we say it just gives india a form of global soft power because it's building

00:12:05.520 up a diaspora all around the world absolutely um and so we get to the point as well though that

00:12:11.040 this is the european union and the european union as far as i know i've not really looked into it

00:12:18.600 uh is struggling with popularity a bit these days um we're in the these days only these days we're in

00:12:25.760 a position where there seems to be center right you know right wing whatever parties uh springing up all

00:12:33.220 across europe um the uh more liberal minded progressive view of europe uh that these people

00:12:40.740 insist on or striving towards is going to change i'm not suggesting that these new parties are going

00:12:46.620 to change it half as dramatically as it needs to or as we want it to but it will result in somewhat of

00:12:53.280 a pivot even if that pivot is to becoming more entrenched under america again because you can see here

00:13:01.180 them trying to diversify obviously their economy to get away from the hegemony of america but

00:13:08.400 ultimately we're in a position where it just seems that they will do absolutely anything the eu are more

00:13:14.480 than happy to ban political parties they're more than happy to ban political opponents they're more

00:13:19.060 than happy to cover up waves and waves and years and years of endless crimes and they will do anything

00:13:26.480 absolutely anything apart from stop importing foreigners which is well that's that's the that's 1.00

00:13:33.020 the interesting contradiction there are lots of reports obviously europe is trying to or at least

00:13:38.320 the elites in europe right now trying to decouple themselves from america um as a result of a lot

00:13:44.120 of the belligerence that's been coming from america as well as their own personal disagreements

00:13:47.580 with the trump administration over there right now sure but if you want to actually rise up and

00:13:55.160 become a superpower you don't just have to throw off the shackles of america and its bases and such

00:14:01.360 i've seen lots of reports of european european countries within the eu starting to try and build

00:14:07.180 up their own defensive capabilities they're starting to try and get projects to be able to replace things

00:14:12.820 like the stealth fighters and other armaments and technology that we have that we have to rely

00:14:17.600 on america for so that it can stand on its own but internally if you want europe and european

00:14:24.740 countries to be strong on their own you can't have these enormous fifth columns of foreign diasporas 1.00

00:14:30.040 in them you can't have it so that you are having to micromanage in the same way that america does and

00:14:35.800 has had to ever since really the 1960s we have to micromanage all of your internal affairs because

00:14:42.020 race war is basically constantly on the verge of breaking out because of all of the internal racial and

00:14:48.280 ethnic tensions within your countries so this is directly counter to their stated goals of

00:14:54.600 becoming a superpower this is how you prevent yourself from becoming a superpower and it just goes to show

00:14:59.580 how um thick-headed these these these eurocrats are they're trying to decouple from america whilst 0.99

00:15:08.260 also clinging desperately on to the multi-racial multicultural attitudes that america kind of helped to put

00:15:17.960 them on and that they adopted and took on wholesale yeah and uh they show no signs of wavering from it either

00:15:24.340 um you know more and more it just feels like you know the peoples of europe are just um something akin to

00:15:30.960 you know king leo just shouting and yelling you know f um into a storm but there's no effect to it

00:15:38.620 because ultimately the storm is stronger and i mean like obviously i personally want it all to come

00:15:44.160 crashing down because you can see the sorts of numbers put here by the brussels signal and they

00:15:49.660 are truly startling it goes on to make a point in the article saying the pre-existing trends show that

00:15:54.720 indian immigration to the eu is growing and as an example it says indian nationals in germany

00:16:00.540 rose from some 86 000 in 2015 to about 280 000 in 2025 uh driven by skilled stem roles students and

00:16:13.400 blue card schemes now obviously stem it and students and many of the things that they prioritize being

00:16:21.760 able to move about with this new mobility from the so we already have those things are you telling me

00:16:26.960 that the most autistic nation on earth germany does not have enough high quality human capital 1.00

00:16:33.320 to be able to fulfill to fill its own stem roles oh apparently so or if maybe not that it does seem

00:16:40.780 of course that and we know how this happens as well we saw it in silicon valley and we see it around the

00:16:45.700 west as the indians in particular who are very ethnically nepotistic you know as they start 1.00

00:16:51.620 obtaining roles in these systems they outsource all of the work to other indians as well

00:16:57.760 and you know it's uh it's a dangerous trajectory goes on to point out that by 2021 more than 600 000

00:17:06.380 indian citizens were legally residing in the eu and in 2022 alone eu member states issued more than 180 000

00:17:14.960 first resident permits to indian nationals making them one of the largest non-eu migrant groups

00:17:21.300 i remember also seeing in this mobility scheme there is a stipulation that for the indian students

00:17:29.620 who are coming to the united kingdom they will also be entitled to a one-year visa scheme after they

00:17:36.300 graduate so that they can try and find work in europe so not get the degree go back to india

00:17:42.120 and presumably do something with those skills to better your own country no it is designed in such a way

00:17:49.100 to encourage them to stay once they have come here come to europe um and on top of all of this we have

00:17:58.980 truly embarrassing uh speeches from von der leyen here if we've got sound back i'll play it

00:18:05.620 we do not have the sound oh the sound sounds sounds broken on our end i hope it's not the same on your

00:18:13.100 end all right friends well fortunately we've got um something of a quote there says from the earliest

00:18:17.720 discovery by indian astronomers to indian mathematicians who shaped european enlightenment

00:18:23.420 sorry i don't want to no no no and all modern voices like rabindranath tagori his poetry speaks

00:18:31.560 to us every day when india's national anthem is sung um stellios as a man who was um i'm led to

00:18:37.880 people who studied the enlightenment and its people and its ideas are you familiar with any

00:18:42.700 big name indian philosophers who contributed to the european enlightenment i mean not to the i don't

00:18:50.180 know about the european enlightenment i know some from you know classical india yeah like yeah it's

00:18:57.000 i don't remember about particular people being directly involved in the enlightenment it was a bit

00:19:03.520 afterwards schopenhauer was very much in love with uh the vedas and the hinduism generally speaking

00:19:10.040 i'm just gonna i'm gonna speak on your behalf calling out india like astronomers and mathematicians 0.94

00:19:14.940 this is this is greek erasure right here this is this is greek erasure what you don't understand is

00:19:21.020 europe could not have managed the enlightenment without india i mean it just it just makes sense so it

00:19:28.740 seems so it seems and so now there is obviously some she goes on to point out it's like oh well

00:19:34.680 you know india and europe have been connected for uh thousands of years so it's like yeah i mean if

00:19:40.100 we're going to talk about alexander the great then sure yeah i i get that but um i'm more interested in

00:19:45.940 the cultural exchange of the uh colonial era myself uh which is why i just wanted to say if you're

00:19:51.900 interested in a wonderful novel by rudyard kipling i did a episode of chronicles for the main website

00:19:59.340 all about kim which is a fantastic adventure novel for young children and boys growing into adulthood

00:20:06.560 and it's a fantastic one as well because in this kipling basically kim is a young irishman right he's

00:20:13.920 the son of irish parents but he grows up on the streets of lahore surrounded by indians and indian

00:20:19.160 identity and the sun even blackens his skin so he can basically pass for a native but as soon as he 0.98

00:20:25.580 becomes as soon as he finds the white men again as soon as he finds the english and the british all of 0.69

00:20:31.360 a sudden he's naturally because of who he is inside drawn to loyalty towards them and serving the british

00:20:39.240 and so it's a magnificent meditation all about identity and you know loyalty and all these sorts of

00:20:46.120 things uh as well as being you know written with kipling's signature eloquence so if you'd like

00:20:51.260 to hear me break that down it's all there for you um more than vanderley and no and the women who have

00:20:57.540 put this wonderful deal together there is also a man who has had something to do with it as well

00:21:02.680 and i don't like him either actually uh so we have here um the eu council president uh proudly

00:21:11.260 displaying his overseas citizen of india card why should this man be permitted to hold such a

00:21:17.640 such a position well he was before this he's uh he's really done very well for himself because

00:21:23.860 despite having both mozambique and goa indian ancestry he also was able to be prime minister

00:21:31.120 of portugal for about a decade and was i quote secretary general of their socialist party

00:21:38.220 uh and so he spent his entire political career basically subverting the portuguese identity

00:21:45.220 you know invoking more and more foreigners to come in because economics and da da da da but it and also

00:21:52.800 i will just say as well was not born in india but because of his ethnic ties automatically has this

00:22:00.760 piece of paper which means that he can go and have permanent residency in india whenever he wants

00:22:07.040 never chooses to do it oddly enough this is just a perfect example of what you were talking about

00:22:11.920 there with this ethnic nepotism and this ethnic narcissism uh which is that the the experiment of 0.71

00:22:19.060 the purely civic identity has completely failed yes and this is a perfect example of how it has

00:22:26.500 completely failed you can take this man who was born outside of this country raised in foreign 1.00

00:22:31.460 countries cultures around their people and still holds deep personal affection to his homelands and

00:22:38.360 wants to bring the people over from his homeland right that's couldn't be clearer right congratulations

00:22:44.340 civic identity doesn't exist and we're just supposed to sit here and pretend that there is no conflict of

00:22:50.740 interest in this whatsoever the people of europe is supposed to look at this look at the fact that

00:22:55.380 this man just has an obvious loyalty to india and then you get put in jail or you know or sentenced or

00:23:03.200 getting the door kicked down if you dare to suggest that you might have a similar sentiment for your own

00:23:09.140 people here in europe uh and so the entire thing is a total farce and we're in a position now where i have

00:23:18.180 to agree with morgoth of course as i usually do which is that it's like the greenland debacle saw a brief and

00:23:23.860 rare occasion where the views of the european people aligned with the leaders and the leaders

00:23:28.980 immediately felt compelled to rectify the situation by flooding europe with indians um which seems to be 1.00

00:23:36.140 the case it seems to be the case um it's total civilizational suicide as i say it's not merely a

00:23:44.500 matter of whatever the stipulations of this trade agreement are as well because as the demographics

00:23:50.700 shift more and more giving indians more cultural power in these european countries and throughout

00:23:58.360 the rest of the west it will only strengthen the hand of their motherland in negotiating these sorts

00:24:05.020 of deals into the future with us as well um and so the sooner that the eu is frankly just you know

00:24:13.200 uh collapses and the sooner that these european nations can revert back to nation states

00:24:19.380 is my own personal feeling the stronger they'll feel a sense of actual ethnic identity again and

00:24:25.660 that has to be the rule book and the governing principle going forward for european nations because

00:24:31.640 it's one that the rest of the old world plays by and if you're not going to do it either they are going

00:24:37.700 to dominate us all right i'll just go through these rumble rants it's feeling like no matter

00:24:45.160 yeah all right all right technology is mugging us yeah we're not going to go offline are we

00:24:52.400 no that's all right okay well i i just had a thought then like given that this is such modi's go-to

00:25:00.320 in every situation i get the feeling like no matter where in life modi ended up no matter which station

00:25:07.780 in life he ended up this would still be his go-to thing that he would try and do in every business

00:25:13.800 deal like he could be a a merchant in a in a big market right and you go over and you're like oh this

00:25:21.660 is some lovely fabric here can i get this fabric and he's like yes sir i do you great deal sir and then

00:25:26.820 you you know you hand over the money and he goes i have extra for you so you will be very happy with

00:25:31.000 this and then he tries to fob off like half a dozen of his cousins on you and before you know it

00:25:35.520 you're there in your little single bed one room apartment you know that's exalted surrounded by

00:25:40.680 mojins wondering how you got here like it's it's so it just like that tactic that sounds like it has

00:25:48.600 radicalized you somewhat i mean it would it's not a situation that i would relish

00:25:54.380 all right um i'll go through these rumble ransom seeing as we've got the screens back

00:26:00.460 uh ryan rumble 1993 says once you let uh these people in you won't get rid of them i'm tired boss

00:26:08.160 yeah me too ryan uh sigil stone says europe has samson's steam account is just popping up i i can't

00:26:15.520 read what disgusting games you've been playing samson no right behave um they'll avoid europe due to an 0.93

00:26:22.920 overabundance of their yeah i guess there's some of these that i can't read guys you'll just have to

00:26:27.640 accept that that's a random name says i suppose if the eu cannot be a superpower in their own right

00:26:33.060 they'll try and become a yeah there's a lot of um yeah references to certain festivals i have in

00:26:39.620 india also i couldn't hear ursula because when a woman's sleep speaks i just tune out that's quite 0.98

00:26:45.360 funny yeah it is yeah you got us there um ten dollars uh from a name that i can't read you'll

00:26:51.700 have to forgive me saying be honest guys didn't you think these somalians were capable of winning 0.99

00:26:56.380 the oscars best international feature then they go and release ilhan omar he just happened to be

00:27:02.800 sitting in front of i'm not familiar with this but um it wouldn't surprise me if they've made a film

00:27:08.460 um yeah i'm pretty sure that whole thing was a joke but i don't know what it's referencing i'm not

00:27:13.780 sure either i just saw another one that apparently is a magania film now as well so i'm i don't know

00:27:19.660 what to believe anymore one could say that the eu cannot be redeemed he makes good point and sigil

00:27:26.180 stone for two dollars thank you says what if the enlightenment they speak of doesn't refer to an

00:27:30.760 event that happened but to the new enlightenment that seeks to annihilate uh europeans well maybe

00:27:37.920 will have time will tell won't it i know she's trying to like bow down and kneel before modi and

00:27:44.820 be really nice and it's like it's very it's very cringe can i have the mouse please but also like

00:27:49.740 come on man even even when i've heard the arguments of astronomy and mathematicians influencing europe and

00:27:56.300 everything it's like all the arguments i've ever heard about that have been like arabs carrying that 1.00

00:28:01.420 over here not indians so it's so strange to just be like we're just we just make stuff up now

00:28:07.340 like nothing is real history doesn't exist no nothing that you can read but you can be trusted

00:28:13.540 it's all just made up we'll say whatever we need to in that very moment and uh you just got to deal

00:28:19.500 with it anyway what audio let's see if we can hear the silky tones of uncle jared

00:28:27.240 harley the cincinnati woman we can yay how delightful i'm gonna take that image off the screen because

00:28:36.560 it's kind of um disturbing to look at there we go that's better he looks so angry

00:28:42.540 jared that's every reason calm down jared please anyway so in the past couple of years there's been

00:28:52.340 a lot of attention brought on to an agency within the u.s government specifically the department of

00:28:57.860 justice that not many people knew about and that was entirely on purpose this agency was intended

00:29:05.620 from the start to operate in the shadows and and behave with a certain level of confidentiality

00:29:12.680 to the point where its own agents could be fined up to one thousand dollars amongst other punishments

00:29:21.240 if they were to ever reveal without authorization exactly what they were doing this is the community

00:29:28.080 relations service otherwise known as america's peacemakers and in those past two years there has

00:29:34.880 been more and more spoken about and revealed about them and people started talking about them

00:29:39.600 mainly i saw this uh around mid last year i remember raw egg nationalist came on to do a segment

00:29:47.900 on them because people were starting to realize just how sinister the activities the community

00:29:53.560 relations service the crs got up to were so for some context here there's this video by american

00:30:01.980 renaissance saying do the doj keep victims quiet about black crime the truth about community relations

00:30:08.600 service i won't play any of this but i have drawn out some information from this and also from this

00:30:14.420 official history of them called america's peacemakers community relations service and civil rights

00:30:20.520 written by bertram levin a man who had been in the organization for about 25 years

00:30:26.720 and grandlum i think i might be pronouncing his name incorrectly there who was a director of the

00:30:34.420 organization for about five years giving the mission statement and filling in a lot of the details on

00:30:40.420 what exactly they do whilst also keeping a lot still in the shadows it's one of those books that

00:30:46.280 operates on orwellian doublespeak and has a certain moral arrogance to it where the authors automatically

00:30:54.400 presume that what they are pursuing is truth and justice despite the fact that within the first few

00:31:01.380 pages you already get a number of hoaxes spouted back at you and that includes things like the idea

00:31:07.600 that uh trayvon martin and the shooting of trayvon martin was completely unjustified and that george

00:31:14.460 zimmerman his shooter had gone out to try and provoke a confrontation rather than shot in self-defense

00:31:20.460 you have things like the very fine people hoax that donald trump supposedly said about the white

00:31:27.380 supremacists at charlottesville which anybody who can go back and watch the footage of what donald trump

00:31:32.600 actually said knows is a lie the book is absolutely full to the brim with incidents like this it was

00:31:39.980 written around the second edition was written around the time of the george floyd riots and as such again

00:31:44.840 was promoting this idea that george floyd had been unnecessarily murdered by derek chauvin rather than

00:31:51.340 simply overdosed whilst in police custody but here's some more information about them that i got from this

00:31:58.120 book and from this video so they started in 1964 and were authorized and and uh constituted under title

00:32:06.180 10 of the civil rights act it was one of those titles that wasn't really spoken about much at the time

00:32:13.340 because the organization the actual act was not promoted as having the ability to start this large

00:32:20.120 shadowy agency in the government to manipulate people's behaviors and to essentially astroturf

00:32:27.640 protests as i'll get on to they work discreetly to mediate disputes and employees again can be

00:32:34.140 fined about one thousand dollars for revealing exactly what they do they are they have reports

00:32:39.540 yearly reports which are incredibly difficult to track down if you're not in the u.s government they

00:32:44.120 i think you are supposed to be able to access these but if you are a civilian you can't their track

00:32:51.340 record includes behaving in such ways as acting immediately after 9 11 which is something they

00:32:58.100 talk about in this book to diffuse tensions community tensions that could lead to hate crimes

00:33:05.340 against muslims and people of middle eastern descent and many of the employees come from civil rights

00:33:12.380 backgrounds the second director himself said that the organization was the extension of civil rights

00:33:18.360 activism into the government so this is a government permitted penetration of civil rights activism and

00:33:26.660 civil rights morality into the u.s government as reconstituted by the civil rights act which has

00:33:33.220 has been discussed many times before essentially overwrites a large section of the constitution of the

00:33:39.560 united states of america and of course is all taxpayer funded something interesting was that people have

00:33:46.180 been speaking about this for a little bit longer than i realized initially but it never made all that

00:33:52.120 much lee leeway in public discourse there's this article all the way back from 2013 by the daily mail

00:34:01.080 of all places talking about how taxpayers paid for justice department units to support protests after

00:34:06.660 killing of trayvon martin now they say here in this article that documents published online on the wednesday

00:34:12.000 prior to this article being released by a conservative watchdog group show that the community relations

00:34:17.440 service and arm of the u.s justice department spent taxpayer dollars to help organize and implement plans

00:34:23.280 for the initial string of rallies in sanford florida following the 2012 shooting death of trayvon martin the

00:34:29.860 doj's community relations service first entered the trayvon martin controversy march 25th and 27th

00:34:36.000 2012 when according to the documents its personnel were deployed to sanford florida to work marches

00:34:42.380 demonstrations and rallies related to the shooting and death of an african-american teen by a neighborhood

00:34:48.460 watch captain days later from march 30th through to the april uh the first of april the agency reported

00:34:54.500 that it quote provided support for protest deployment in florida now that's all very interesting because as

00:35:01.920 well there's more information here in this book on that very incident within sanford florida and their

00:35:08.900 own involvement in the protests that went on there so they say for this event and many other rallies and

00:35:14.400 protests in sanford a crs team member was assigned to train protest groups in self-martialing which helps

00:35:21.700 the group stay safe while it protests self-martialing involves designating and training individuals to be

00:35:27.380 chaperones for the group and to be responsible for keeping the group together remaining alert to

00:35:33.140 individuals who might be using the event to cause violence or trouble and learning steps to take in

00:35:38.160 case of medical and other emergencies the goal of such training is to keep everyone safe and to prevent

00:35:43.100 protests from escalating into dangerous situations and to ensure that free speech remains prevented they

00:35:48.420 also make mention here that one of the big differences with these particular protests the trayvon

00:35:54.600 martin protests was that the city of sanford invited the protesters in the second the shooting happened

00:36:01.960 and people started to talk about it online as detailed here and in this article the government officials

00:36:07.980 the local government officials both invited the protesters in and then immediately got in touch with

00:36:14.120 this shadowy spook organization within the doj to make sure that these protesters that they invited in 0.84

00:36:20.840 did not cause too much trouble and only protested peacefully so what they essentially did was

00:36:26.980 manufacture these protests to go as smoothly as possible to ensure that it looked as good to the

00:36:33.280 media as possible giving all of these protests a big boost of legitimacy because it made them look

00:36:40.860 very good on the national and international stage and given that the killing of trayvon martin the shooting of

00:36:48.200 him and his acquittal in court is seen as the inciting incident for the start of the black lives matter

00:36:56.500 movement later growing into black lives matter there is a pretty decent case to be made with the evidence 0.99

00:37:04.100 that this astroturfing of the protests as supported by the u.s government and local government officials

00:37:10.240 is one of the things that led to black lives matter starting in the first place making it even more of an 1.00

00:37:16.320 astroturfed organization than it already was come around 2020 the other things that it did was it

00:37:23.260 helped to train activist groups and how to challenge fcc licenses of radio and tv stations they use this

00:37:30.200 to force stations to hire minorities and produce more minority programming because again while even with

00:37:36.420 a book of this length it can be a little bit difficult to ascertain exactly what the crs does in

00:37:43.120 every situation discussions over the past year or two have focused on the reactive side of the crs

00:37:51.560 this idea that they are supposed to show up when tensions have already inflamed and make sure that

00:37:58.400 they don't escalate any further into violence by mediating both sides which some may say is a very noble

00:38:06.780 endeavor you know you don't want these things to blow up into riots you don't want these things to turn

00:38:11.280 into violence where people could die unnecessarily but also they are a proactive organization they do

00:38:20.200 things like this where they train activists local activists to challenge fcc licenses they expanded

00:38:27.760 following 2009 under the first year of obama they expanded their remit with the 2009 hate crime

00:38:35.440 legislation to not only cover racial and religious issues but to cover gay rights lgbt activism and

00:38:43.880 issues related to that and as such in 2014 as well as in the chronology here of things that they got

00:38:50.320 involved in they said that following the shooting of michael brown by police officer in ferguson missouri

00:38:54.520 they convened dialogue sessions established a coalition and provided on-site conciliation but they

00:39:00.460 also say here they released a video law enforcement and the transgender community the first federal

00:39:07.200 agency video of its kind and created a training program so they are a they are an uh a one-size-fits-all

00:39:16.400 one-stop shop for civil rights activism there goes my bookmark for civil rights activism being promoted

00:39:24.160 and pushed by the federal government of the united states and teaching other departments within the

00:39:29.900 federal government how to be better allies and more progressive more left-wing in their politics

00:39:36.680 because as they say in the in the uh introduction this is one of the orwellian things about it they

00:39:42.600 want to promote themselves as being neutral neutral actors a neutral third party that can step into any

00:39:49.320 situation and mediate it and get to a conflict resolution point that leaves everybody happy and causes the

00:39:56.840 least damage but they are also whilst simultaneously calling themselves neutral a proactive force for

00:40:04.880 social equity social justice they speak in the introduction about how one of the things that they

00:40:10.080 wanted to do was turn outcome sorry uh let me find let me find a little bit here at the beginning it must

00:40:17.400 have been very difficult for them all to be the resistance while having access to the united states treasury

00:40:23.060 millions of dollars of government money yes uh about 24 million dollars per year also i'm sure

00:40:31.760 several ngos are being funded by all sorts of people whose rhetoric they claim to do yeah so so

00:40:38.120 obviously it was started under lyndon johnson but they say here uh that their mission remit was

00:40:44.380 essentially stated by lyndon johnson on the night of june 4th 1965 when he spoke to the nation by radio from

00:40:52.220 howard university concluding by pronouncing a new civil rights goal and this is the thing that people

00:40:58.020 don't really talk about very much with the civil rights act in 1964 because on paper the civil rights

00:41:04.100 act just aims to even out all of the legal standards when it comes to people of different races and

00:41:11.900 religious backgrounds so they want to say it was just this leveling out of the legal process but no there

00:41:16.740 was a definite ideological goal attached to it which is one of the reasons that with organizations

00:41:22.000 like the crs essentially changed the entire way the u.s government behaved towards issues that involved

00:41:29.160 racial ethnic religious and now sexual conflicts johnson said freedom is not enough you do not wipe

00:41:37.520 away the scars of centuries by saying now you are free to go where you want do as you desire and choose

00:41:43.000 the lead as you please it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity all of our citizens

00:41:47.820 must have the ability to walk through those gates this is the next and more profound stage of the battle

00:41:53.880 for civil rights we seek not just freedom but opportunity not just legal equity but human ability

00:41:59.640 not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result and while there was

00:42:07.180 mention of opportunity there there has often been this discussion of the um difference between

00:42:13.560 equality of opportunity and equality of outcome what he is laying out there is a goal of equality of

00:42:19.280 outcome yes and this is a part and parcel of what equity is in practice because what this organization

00:42:26.720 was constituted to manufacture exactly and one thing to say here which i find very eye-opening is that

00:42:35.300 frequently these people will pay lip service to the distinction between equality of opportunity and

00:42:40.660 equality of outcome and as concepts they are distinct but they are doing a sneaky trick from the back

00:42:49.040 door if you know what i mean they are saying that the criterion for whether equal opportunities were

00:42:56.140 present is equality of outcome so if you have unequal outcome they will straightforwardly move to say

00:43:03.420 therefore there weren't equal opportunities that's the logic that's there there there thereby erasing

00:43:10.520 the the substance when it comes to they start from the conclusion the conclusion that they assume

00:43:16.460 is that if there is equality of opportunity there will be equality of outcome so if there isn't equality

00:43:21.740 of outcome there mustn't be equality of opportunity so we're going to have to socially engineer more

00:43:27.560 opportunity and disadvantage others to ensure that and gold and discrimination and if this

00:43:33.420 creates a um you know um a feeling of a grudge amongst you know actual americans and uh

00:43:40.520 well you know obviously this sort of policy as well as you were describing it at the beginning i

00:43:44.700 couldn't help but think of of course the way that the state reacted to south park uh and the way that

00:43:49.580 they said you know oh there's going to be far right process protests everywhere all the newspapers all the

00:43:54.200 same headlines all the same pictures um and obviously the way that all the placards from the protesters just all

00:44:00.220 looked the same such an obvious state-funded um objective well i mean there are two things about it one which is

00:44:09.460 that it naturally assumes that with ethnic tensions and ethnic disparities there is going to be conflict and that

00:44:20.360 instead of actually actually resolving the conflicts and getting rid of those conflicts

00:44:29.600 well exactly all you basically need to do is show up and tell for instance white victims of black crime yeah

00:44:36.600 to go up on stage in front of a camera and say let's not make this as a racial issue they want to just get white

00:44:43.960 people to not be angry about it because with the issues of sanford it seems that the assumption was

00:44:50.020 okay we're going to invite all of these black protest groups in and obviously being black protest groups

00:44:56.140 they're going to want to start riots we know how the 60s went they're going to want to hurt people for

00:45:01.240 no reason so therefore we need to give them a glow up give them training so that they look as good as

00:45:08.600 possible for the media so that we have a reason to say to the media and so the media can parrot back

00:45:15.080 that these are peaceful protesters and they're just looking for justice the other thing is that sadly

00:45:21.340 when you decide to reconstitute your entire country under the something as as far-reaching as the civil

00:45:27.640 rights act and then the year after under the same administration open up mass immigration from the

00:45:33.840 third world by changing the way that your immigration quotas work this is kind of a logical 1.00

00:45:39.940 approach to it if you genuinely want to change the entire racial demographic makeup of your country 0.69

00:45:48.460 because yeah the majority population population isn't going to be happy about it yeah the majority

00:45:54.580 population is going to fight back against it and the population's coming in they're going to want a 0.99

00:46:00.480 bigger piece of the pie than they initially get when they come in and they're going to potentially

00:46:04.940 cause trouble mainly through extra crime community tensions stress on the job market etc so when those

00:46:13.240 tensions end up blowing up well it does make sense to have a department like this waiting to try to

00:46:20.780 smooth everything over yeah this is engineered conflict yeah you've got taxpayer funded government spooks

00:46:27.820 showing up who you're not allowed to know exactly what they do they're not allowed to divulge exactly

00:46:33.620 what they do they just tell you here's how you make sure that this looks as good as possible for the

00:46:38.620 sake of the media essentially that's what they do and as such i think it was right for many people to

00:46:44.580 chafe a little bit at the idea that they've been paying their tax money for the sake of funding the

00:46:49.860 service which disadvantages them which is why one of the things that was actually good under the first

00:46:55.780 year of the second trump administration was that there was these big announcements that the crs was

00:47:02.560 going to be defunded they at the time had a total of 56 positions and it was announced that the

00:47:07.820 department will eliminate this is the justice department the community relations service and

00:47:12.680 its functions a total of 56 positions stating the crs mission does not comport with attorney general

00:47:18.140 and administration law enforcement and litigating priorities and there was more reports on this this is one

00:47:24.400 from two weeks ago talking about it saying that in a june 2025 report the trump administration said

00:47:29.860 the community relations service mission does not comport with attorney general and administration

00:47:33.900 law enforcement and litigating priorities an agency budget requested for 2026 which you can see down here

00:47:41.120 showed the justice department plans to reduce the office's staffing from 56 to zero the justice

00:47:48.820 department estimates the cuts would save 24 million dollars this year so 24 million dollars of american

00:47:56.860 taxpayer money potentially going to disadvantage heritage americans and to ensure that any conflicts that

00:48:05.000 flare up don't go too far because let's be honest the real reasons is it would make the minority 0.94

00:48:10.880 communities look bad a justice department spokesman told cbs news the portfolio and functions of the former

00:48:16.940 community relations service have been shifted into federal prosecutors offices nationwide now that's a little bit of a catch

00:48:24.040 if you ask me the initial intention was to yes shut down the actual agency but then just shift its functions

00:48:32.520 and many of its staff members into federal prosecutors offices nationwide which seems to me to be more

00:48:40.060 sweeping it under the rug yes and kind of making it more efficient if anything the spokesperson said the

00:48:47.920 transition will save the department over 11 million dollars and further president trump's mission of having a

00:48:52.920 federal government that's more efficient and effective for the american people so again it's not actually

00:48:57.800 getting rid of the process and the goals of this department it might be downsizing it a bit but the

00:49:05.160 government's overall goal is still situated in the same direction cbs news has learned that approximately

00:49:12.140 30 laid-off justice department employees have been called back to work for the agency these employees

00:49:18.460 include some work who worked for the community relations service according to one of the impacted employees

00:49:23.500 the workers have been reassigned to work for federal prosecutors and that was the situation two weeks ago

00:49:28.540 but still you know the department had been shut down it had been defunded this was something good

00:49:35.960 that donald trump and his administration was doing for the sake of benefiting the american people

00:49:42.180 heritage americans and the american taxpayer are no longer paying for a shadowy agency that wants to

00:49:48.380 lie to them and feed them lies so that they get a misunderstanding of the world so that they can endanger them 0.58

00:49:56.060 yeah so that they can organize protests in the wake of these these shootings these shootings like

00:50:03.540 trayvon martin which if you actually look into the case was a case of self-defense by george zimmerman did

00:50:09.720 the american government under barack obama come out to defend george zimmerman in that situation no

00:50:16.460 they organized protests against what happened which ended up with george zimmerman going to trial and then

00:50:23.500 when he was rightfully acquitted blm pops up out of nowhere that's how the government was behaving

00:50:30.880 and this seemed among a few other measures to signal a change of direction of the american government but

00:50:36.520 sadly i have some bad news for you folks in a new government bill which has passed as i'll show you in a moment

00:50:45.500 they're back the crs is back and they have been refunded to the tune of an annual budget of 20

00:50:54.380 million dollars under the same remit now this was under the commerce justice science energy and water

00:51:03.200 development and interior and environmental appropriations act 2026 which has been signed into

00:51:09.920 law you can follow this and find it is hr 6938 and you can scroll down i won't scroll down but you can

00:51:17.640 basically find exactly what is screenshot here this refunding of the community relations service

00:51:23.840 for 20 million dollars now this was a bill sponsored by chairman tom cole who is the republican

00:51:31.760 candidate representative of oklahoma so it's even more shocking to me that a republican after one of the

00:51:39.900 the successes of the republican administration last year would come in and refund this organization

00:51:48.180 refund this agency with american taxpayer money for reasons that have not been made clear in all of the

00:51:55.440 reporting that i've seen to do with this nobody even mentions that this is in here but it is in here

00:52:03.740 they're refunding well if anything the organization hidden it haven't they behind science energy and

00:52:08.960 water and things yeah it seems so because the name of the bill commerce justice science energy and water

00:52:13.820 development interior environmental appropriations act does not suggest anywhere that this clause is in

00:52:18.720 here giving these people your money to disadvantage you and make your lives worse again the only report

00:52:25.900 that i've seen really talking about this was that uh this one saying the trump administration

00:52:30.640 reinstates fired employees of doj race relations agency the justice department in a filing on tuesday

00:52:38.060 in a federal court in boston disclosed that it had on friday rescinded layoff notices it issued in

00:52:44.420 september to 13 of the community relations services employees as part of a quote reduction in force

00:52:50.420 those job cuts would have eliminated almost all of its employees in fact civil rights groups cited in a

00:52:56.860 lawsuit arguing the firings were part of an unlawful effort by trump's administration to dismantle the

00:53:02.800 community relations service in tuesday's filing the justice department said it decided to reinstate

00:53:08.060 the employees as a matter of administrative discretion but it did not say if they would be resuming work

00:53:14.220 on community relations service functions a fact the plaintiffs noted in a separate filing well

00:53:18.800 it seems most likely to me given the organization is being refunded again that all of these people who have

00:53:25.000 had their layoffs rescinded are probably going to go back to doing the exact same thing that they

00:53:29.920 were doing and i don't know why this is exactly there's been no reason given for this perhaps it's

00:53:36.060 because of a lot of the problems that have come about as a result of all of the bad publicity ice has been

00:53:41.820 getting recently maybe the administration has decided actually we do need this organization to try to

00:53:48.500 mediate these conflicts because now we've got footage of ice going out and dragging people through the

00:53:54.240 streets and shooting people it's causing massive protests in places like minneapolis is this a case

00:53:59.880 of you know trump always chickens out that taco phrase that people have been using recently was

00:54:05.260 this a fake victory in the first place that they always intended to rescind when they thought the eyes

00:54:10.620 were off of this because they did a big thing about promoting that they were taking the money away

00:54:14.920 from this whereas this has kind of been snuck under the rug a little bit either way i do not think it is

00:54:21.280 fair i do not think it is justice that american taxpayers should be paying for an organization

00:54:26.700 like this which goes out of its way not only to hide the truth about these situations when racial

00:54:34.060 tensions and community tensions do flare up but go out of the way also to push the country in a more

00:54:40.600 left-wing multicultural progressive direction because that doesn't benefit anybody 0.58

00:54:45.800 let's go through the rumble rents i understand your anger harry with this segment in mind could

00:54:53.580 you do a segment about hollywood keeps black washing ginger characters it does keep happening

00:54:59.420 raising your people harry yeah clearly sigil stone sends two in saying nothing says diversity is our

00:55:05.440 strength like an entire bureau dedicated to silencing victims of diversity and also he says all of

00:55:10.960 history is just made up oh he's close he almost gets it i'm sure i get a lot more than i let on on

00:55:17.040 this podcast but let's get on to your segment now right so my segment is going to be what's going on

00:55:24.320 there i think he's just making sure all of the links are loaded

00:55:28.500 right we're going to talk about a very sad topic the disasters that have happened in spanish railways

00:55:39.420 we have had around 45 people who are dead and we'll have hundreds of of injured people

00:55:47.940 right and let me just um show you some pictures here and we are going to discuss about what happened

00:55:54.780 and who is responsible because it points out it points towards a the view that the government is to

00:56:03.880 blame and the state-owned company that is entrusted with guarding the railways

00:56:09.040 and the railway tracks they didn't do their job despite the fact that the fund they received

00:56:15.160 increased funding and the minister of transportation of the spanish government who is i believe a

00:56:22.100 coalitional it's a socialist party that is governing at the moment and they were saying that the tracks

00:56:30.000 were investigated a few weeks ago i think on the 7th of january and everything was perfect and they had

00:56:37.580 increased funding for the tracks but it looks like reality is very different to what than what this

00:56:45.680 minister has been saying let's let's look at this some of these pictures it looks horrific

00:56:51.080 and i will say that this is a topic that makes me particularly sad because i have been covering train

00:57:01.180 disasters before and it's really tragic because very frequently if you're in a train or or and something

00:57:10.660 like this happens there's nothing you can do you could say arguably this applies to planes this applies

00:57:16.300 to all sorts of transportation but it's it's just tragic let us see what happened right we have here the

00:57:23.660 bbc article it says what happened on the day after this particular accident the first one happened on

00:57:33.680 the 18th of january but more have happened and there are more we are going to talk about them there was

00:57:40.640 one also on the 20th of january and then other two minor incidents in cartagena and in the morisme coast

00:57:49.520 close to catalonia right let's talk about what happened here they're saying that at least this

00:57:55.280 has been updated on the 23rd of january at least 45 people have died and dozens more have been injured

00:58:02.280 after two high-speed trains collided in southern spain and they say that the crash took place at

00:58:08.840 adamos near cordoba and it's one of the worst it's the worst rail disaster in spain in more than a decade

00:58:16.420 oh so it wasn't that the tracks were faulty and it got derailed two trains crashed into one another

00:58:22.180 because in this case because most probably because the the tracks were right had some gaps in them

00:58:29.460 right so it you see here there are two trains that collided one went from malaga to madrid the other

00:58:37.220 from madrid to huelva and as it says here um one had four carriages the other had eight carriages

00:58:48.180 and there was a problem here in the tracks most probably there is investigation but they're saying

00:58:54.340 this is the most likely the most likely reason you see here the the last three carriages

00:59:02.820 uh literally were derailed and went to the other track out yeah yes and they hit the first carriage

00:59:13.060 of the other train right then they say the trains front carriages leave the track falling into an

00:59:18.500 embankment and um yeah you are you have the you have reports by the by the survivors you have here the

00:59:28.580 image images here they're saying the president of the local andalusian government is saying that they

00:59:35.860 are trying to uh you know fix the situation they say the problem is that carriages are twisted so that

00:59:42.900 the metal is twisted with the people inside and they are trying to they try to take them to take them to

00:59:50.340 safety and there is speculation about what caused the crash and they have said that it isn't sabotage

00:59:58.580 the the authorities one of the said that there is it isn't sabotage i don't know how much people can

01:00:04.100 trust them but the more i read into this the more it looks like this was just not maintained funds were

01:00:11.700 increased for the state-owned company that is supposed to maintain the the rail tracks but they were just

01:00:20.900 it looks like they just did anything but maintain the rail tracks and this is a case where

01:00:27.380 you have also workers union saying repeatedly that the tracks aren't maintained and they need more

01:00:34.580 funding for safety reasons but also you have people from another side saying that well you have

01:00:42.100 massive state corruption and this was always going to be just a sort of uh scheme increased funding where

01:00:51.140 it wasn't going to go to maintenance and it was going to be disseminated to people within that company

01:00:57.620 but also some of the syndicalists of the workers unions because if you see in several other cases and

01:01:04.260 and several other trained disasters you constantly see certainly one that happened in greece a few years

01:01:10.740 ago in tebi you you always have the union of workers saying that we need more and more and more money

01:01:18.660 for maintenance and them issuing warnings but on the other hand they very frequently in a typical

01:01:24.660 leftist fashion try to obstruct almost every attempt to make the railway a bit more let's say smooth

01:01:33.940 running and a bit more up-to-date technologically speaking i don't know if that's the case here it

01:01:39.540 remains to be seen but it's definitely something that people from a more conservative perspective

01:01:46.740 believe and they say here the precise cause of the derailment remains under investigation but the

01:01:51.620 preliminary report suggests the rail was already damaged before the crash spain's rail accident

01:01:59.460 investigation body said that there is evidence that a fracture in the rail occurred before

01:02:05.060 one of the trains got derailed and they found notches on the wheels of several lyra carriages that's

01:02:12.180 one of the train the kind of the train including some that did not derail which were consistent with the

01:02:18.980 wheels striking a broken section of the rail and they say that earlier this week the transport minister

01:02:26.100 oscar puento we will have lots to say against him confirmed grooves the size of a coin were found on the

01:02:32.660 wheels of the first five carriages of the idio train which passed safely over the track before the final

01:02:40.740 three carriages derail two or three trains that had gone over the tracks surely before had had similar

01:02:47.860 notches as the he added right so let me just show you a picture here that was uploaded on the 19th so

01:02:56.100 this is the first this is the first uh railway rail accident we're talking train accident we're talking

01:03:03.300 about you see a gap here that is being investigated this seems a bit poorly maintained and the gap's not

01:03:10.820 a result of the crash and it's been torn away it already had that gap in before this this is the

01:03:16.660 consensus view at the moment right investigations are still going on but this seems to be the

01:03:21.460 consensus view right and here we have another accident that happened two days afterwards

01:03:29.300 speaking about a whole whole country let's say um f up so they said commuter train gets derailed near

01:03:37.460 barcelona the driver died four people were badly injured and 37 people were injured and what happened

01:03:44.340 here there was a containment wall that got destroyed and the the train hit the containment wall and

01:03:52.980 they're saying that this happened uh because of primarily because of the heavy rain there was heavy

01:03:58.980 rainfall in that region and it led to the containment wall wall being this being uh corrupt right and um

01:04:09.460 um falling into the tracks and the train hit those tracks but i don't understand because

01:04:17.780 you can have heavy rainfall but a company that is especially state owned but any company it's not just

01:04:27.700 an issue of whether it's stained or owned or not but in state-owned companies there are more incentives

01:04:33.060 for corruption you have to take into account the possibility of heavy rainfall you can't have

01:04:40.180 containment walls that are just falling into the tracks because rain rain was a bit heavier this time

01:04:47.700 rather we are talking about people dying right and here we had a very a trainee driver who died and as we

01:04:55.460 said 37 people who were injured and four of them very badly injured and there were two more incidents

01:05:03.380 that happened afterwards let me just give you um the so if i go spin again i'm not taking the train is

01:05:09.940 what i'm learning you should be careful it's over a swat over i don't say that as a joke i mean that

01:05:15.780 this is genuinely dangerous to go on by the sounds of yeah it looks like like the the tracks are maintained

01:05:23.780 and it says here in uh mercia in cartagena um a commuter train collided with the arm of a crane that

01:05:33.780 encroached on the tracks the arm of a crane yes causing injuries to several passengers and then in the

01:05:43.620 maresme coast i hope i pronounced it correctly a train struck a rock on the tracks caused by some storm

01:05:50.980 affecting catalonia that no serious injuries were reported

01:05:57.540 so you you see that when we're talking about four incidents yes it isn't just an accident it's a

01:06:03.940 pattern even with fewer than four it's a pattern it seems that something has got is really wrong here

01:06:11.460 you see here pictures from the train afterwards that hit the containment wall that was destroyed

01:06:21.780 and also you can see that all these trains have graffiti on them which means that yeah they aren't

01:06:26.580 maintained or at least they aren't maintained as they should be i know that several carriages especially

01:06:32.900 in the of the underground are frequently painted but this is just not a the the image of a railway that

01:06:40.980 is of a rail company or a railway that is maintained or at least this isn't the image of people who are

01:06:48.740 taking the safety of passengers seriously and uh let's this is a thread if you if people want to go

01:06:57.140 and check it out i'm conscious about time if people want to go out and and check out a thread that

01:07:04.100 is criticizing the spanish uh transport minister check it out from our links we have to move on a

01:07:10.740 bit due to insufficient time right so here we have the guardian it says spain's rail network under

01:07:17.300 scrutiny after second deadly crash in three days trainee driver killed an accident near barcelona just

01:07:23.540 days after 43 died in collision between two high-speed trains and here the guardians is of course here you see

01:07:31.140 it's where the accident happened and of course the guardian is going to

01:07:37.140 to to put forward a more let's say worker union friendly perspective and it says that the incidents

01:07:47.140 have prompted spain's biggest train drivers union to call for an indefinite strike to demand assurances

01:07:53.460 for the profession's safety they say that they are going to demand criminal liability for those

01:07:58.820 responsible for ensuring safety in the railway infrastructure i mean fair this is fair and i i

01:08:05.940 because because as a driver that i mean obviously it's it's all it's it's awful that a trainee driver

01:08:12.420 died as well but as a driver your responsibility is also the safety of all of the passengers

01:08:16.980 as well so you don't want to be in danger you don't want to be liable for everybody else on

01:08:21.940 the train being in danger and ultimately you just want to get them there safely and that's a horrible

01:08:26.420 position to be put in that now i can't even trust the rails the trains are driving and i want to say

01:08:31.940 something to add to what i was saying before when i criticized workers unions that i won't say that

01:08:39.220 in this case i think it is totally understandable and justified to call for responsibility frequently

01:08:45.860 what i meant to say before is that people especially in the upper echelons of unions the major syndicalists

01:08:52.580 are usually striking deals under the table with government officials and there's corruption there that

01:08:59.460 doesn't flow to the average let's say member of the union but it definitely happens in the upper

01:09:06.180 echelons of of these unions right and here they're saying that basically

01:09:17.620 let me just sorry yeah right so what i wanted to to tell you here is that there is a

01:09:24.820 a question as to who is responsible and there is a where are i minutes sorry we'll have to small to do

01:09:33.700 a small yeah yeah there is a question as to who is responsible for maintaining the tracks and the

01:09:40.740 answer is it is the a company called adif administrador de infrastructuras ferroviarias and it's a spanish

01:09:50.980 state-owned company in charge of railway infrastructure they say that several uh companies operate on it but

01:09:57.780 the railway maintenance falls on them and that what happens is that the got they recently got 700 million euros

01:10:08.820 the transport minister's fund in order to renovate the the the tracks and the transport minister of spain

01:10:20.420 went out and said that they did a great job and that they invested in that company and that they ensured

01:10:28.420 that the everything works well this transport minister is called oscar puente he stated that a track had passed a

01:10:37.700 geometric inspection on the 7th of january 2026 11 days before the before the accident and here you see

01:10:46.580 they say spanish railway infrastructure manager adif has assured that it carried out a comprehensive

01:10:52.500 inspection of the adam's section of the railway line 11 days before the serious accident on january 18th so

01:11:00.260 we have the same company that the minister of transport said is a great company and received

01:11:09.300 additional funding and they recently got 700 million euros for railway maintenance they said that they

01:11:16.980 conducted a high quality investigation on the safety of that specific region of the tracks where the accident

01:11:26.340 happened happened so you can sort of get an idea of what is going on and that this is yet another

01:11:34.500 case of corruption of the spanish government i'm sure that there is an ongoing investigation i'm sure that

01:11:41.940 who's doing the investigation doing the investigation is of course another question but it definitely

01:11:49.220 speaks volumes when you have the government saying we want to take care of you we want to invest in railway

01:11:56.580 safety we want to make workers safer borrow so people are commuting safer and we are in taxing you more

01:12:06.340 in order to fund this company more that is going to maintain the tracks and then something happened in the

01:12:15.940 region where uh the this company conducted an investigation 11 days before the accident happened

01:12:24.260 so this in and of itself says all you need to know and the spanish government is let's say right now is

01:12:32.900 micromanaging decline as you'd expect they're saying that they're imposing temporary speed limits on

01:12:38.900 sections of high-speed railway in madrid obviously they know which sections they are because they know which

01:12:45.140 sections they haven't maintained despite the fact that they had to maintain them so they i think that

01:12:50.820 it was inspections great renovations exactly they knew exactly where to impose this uh impose these

01:12:57.780 speed limits and uh there are questions about the spanish government and how corrupt it is and uh well it's a

01:13:07.140 socialist party that is governing and recently it's behind the polls the conservatives are ahead yeah and they're

01:13:14.500 saying that if there were elections to happen tomorrow a right-wing coalition would easily achieve

01:13:21.060 majority and here is what the spanish uh government is consider considering doing they have just agreed to

01:13:30.100 launch an extraordinary regularization process that ca that could grant legal residence and work permits to

01:13:37.700 over half a million undocumented migrants now i have spanish friends their royal decree um i don't think

01:13:46.180 that the king of spain is against this but it has been a i think it's a policy of the spanish government

01:13:54.740 what were you about to say before that's sorry so you've got what sorry um sorry yeah i i i sort of

01:14:00.820 forgot have you got family in spain no i have friends in spain and they frequently tell me that this happens that

01:14:07.940 when that there is precious time lost when it's uh stained owned um duties because instead of them doing

01:14:18.420 their job they're wasting time in sort of endless assembly discussions it's always the process people

01:14:26.340 are talking are just express voicing concerns about the process whether it's fair for this or that interested

01:14:33.300 party and the job isn't done and there is just uh decline but they can all give a massive amnesty to

01:14:40.660 half a million illegal immigrants they can always make sure to do that nice and quickly yes and brilliant

01:14:46.180 and here's an article by the telegraph it says spain gives half a million migrants legal status to

01:14:52.100 defeat the far right applicants will be allowed to work in any sector to help curb institutional racism

01:14:59.060 that only fuels exploitation and racist hatred so they are framing it in terms of this anti-racist policy

01:15:05.860 now one thing to that i was told also is that when people talk about immigration in spain it isn't

01:15:13.940 exactly the same composure of migration flows such as it is in other countries frequently it's too much

01:15:21.700 from latin america but one thing to note and in in this case there may be a bit more of a cultural

01:15:28.500 continuity or a bit less friction that you could say there are in cases that we are dealing with on a

01:15:36.100 daily basis and um yeah it it's but what we are talking about undocumented people here and they're saying

01:15:44.100 that right now they are giving them working permit and legal residency but it's what we were talking

01:15:51.620 about before when you are importing on mass populations even if you don't give them voting

01:15:58.340 rights straight away you are increasing the the number of people who may who will function as a

01:16:08.500 pressure group maybe it isn't half a half a million you know people of one particular background maybe it's

01:16:15.300 many backgrounds most probably it's several backgrounds but the number of people who are

01:16:20.900 able to exert pressure upon the government rises and at some point this will translate into voting

01:16:28.020 rights yeah and then you get government policies explicitly aimed at buying those votes yes so it

01:16:34.900 looks like this is something incredibly corrupt this is yet another occasion where statism really corrupts

01:16:43.460 society and we have in infrastructural collapse and they are trying to micromanage decline and in

01:16:51.220 micromanaging decline they're making things worse some matters are just you either do them or not

01:16:57.620 you shouldn't just spend endless time talking about how you're going to fix the tracks and whether

01:17:03.460 the ego of this or that syndicalist or a state official has been hurt by a process you fix the track and

01:17:12.820 no one cares about the other the rest fix the track because it's about safety and this is the number one

01:17:19.700 priority of a state it needs to ensure safety simple as yes right we've got one rumble rant uh saying

01:17:28.660 regarding the first segment the eu was a communist power structure similar to the ussr and the ccp it's

01:17:34.740 in our faces but most people don't see it or refuse to admit it one thing i will say is like the ussr and

01:17:41.860 ccp it does seem to be a labyrinth of different committees and bureaucratic structures which don't

01:17:49.460 always interface well with one another do we have any video comments we do not have any video comments

01:17:57.220 so it looks like we're going through the video the uh website comments yep and thank you to everybody

01:18:02.660 who sends money in and thank you to everybody who subscribes to the website uh we always appreciate

01:18:07.620 all of your support uh omar awad from my segment says even steel steel manning the elite human capital

01:18:14.180 position there are innumerable examples of mercenary or foreign interests resulting in espionage

01:18:20.500 the incentive to bring any of them over in the first place is through self-interest not some noble

01:18:25.940 goal to help or improve the west well i mean just to think of like the indians as one one example

01:18:31.780 obviously tartar being an indian company uh only steel manufacturing of port talbot uh and one of

01:18:39.060 the things that they the tartar were saying at the time was that well we can't manufacture it under

01:18:44.980 these economic conditions whilst we're being suppressed by net zero regulations and green regulations but

01:18:51.220 obviously india is they don't care no and so don't care about that um and so ultimately quite

01:18:57.700 sensibly sure if um after all these generations and generations of steel workers in port talbot or

01:19:04.500 scunthorpe you know which being owned as it was by the chinese if all of these generations just 0.90

01:19:09.940 suddenly have to dry up and the entire life blood of that town has to go because some chinese guy over 1.00

01:19:16.900 in beijing has looked at a you know a mass sheet and said well the numbers it's not a good investment we'll

01:19:22.100 just we'll let that go uh yeah that that is going to be an easier decision than if it is owned by a

01:19:29.140 local businessman or even just a british businessman obviously who has um is going to be penalized for

01:19:36.180 it more or actually has some sense of ties to that community i mean with the net zero thing the funny

01:19:41.940 thing is we talk about how your europe's trying to separate from america yeah uh become its own

01:19:46.820 superpower lots of talk regarding this but they're just such uh silly bastards uh that they uh

01:19:53.940 cheese yeah numpties and in what was it euro news i saw the other day there was this uh report on how

01:20:00.260 a number of european countries and the uk because of course the uk always has to get involved in this

01:20:05.460 kind of rubbish have decided that they're going to one of the ways that they're going to invest in

01:20:09.780 their infrastructure you ready for this guys 9.5 billion euros in north sea wind

01:20:23.620 i could probably generate enough wind for them if they wanted through all the sighing that i have

01:20:27.620 to do whenever they wheel oh don't don't you worry the european parliament already produces enough wind

01:20:32.820 to power the world to be honest it's impressive they don't just hook up a load of generators to them

01:20:37.060 uh ed milliband harnessing enoch's spinning grave and my god won't it be spinning by this point

01:20:43.620 bless him uh there was nothing more demoralizing than exploring the most deepest darkest depths of

01:20:49.380 new zealand only to find a public toilet where is this going that had diagrams showing not to squat

01:20:55.460 on it because of indian tourists breaking them well they were getting on the toilet seats and

01:21:01.620 on the toilet bowls and squatting down

01:21:08.260 new zealand come on guys um i want i want better for you uh the white rider says here's something

01:21:15.060 terrifying for you oh god the total population of the eu and the uk together is about 520

01:21:22.020 uh million yeah million thank you uh if free movement was allowed india could send enough indians to 0.80

01:21:28.100 every country in the eu and the uk to make each of the countries 50% ethnically indian and india would

01:21:34.740 still have yeah 950 million almost a billion people left over and our leadership will be foolish enough

01:21:41.780 to allow it well yeah that's that's the thing is that you know i've i've met plenty i know that indians

01:21:50.100 on the internet can be an absolute menace and they do swarm you but personally i've met plenty of

01:21:57.780 very kind very nice indians right i've not got any problem with those people individually the problem

01:22:03.940 is that yeah india is full of those ones that you see on the internet who are just awful and also just 1.00

01:22:09.220 in sheer numbers they will they can flood you they could flood most of the rest of the entire world

01:22:15.300 because unlike china there isn't any real questions on the population of india where

01:22:20.500 people like is china lying about how many people they have no people see india and they go no there's

01:22:26.580 there's they're probably hiding indians to be honest there's probably more of them than we know

01:22:31.300 uh uh anomaly says indians are already discussing going to ireland with this and the settling in the

01:22:37.460 united kingdom after three years oh i wouldn't worry ireland's got a population of four million

01:22:43.060 people yeah i know literally nobody but irishmen should be moving to ireland if anybody's going to

01:22:48.340 be moving there if anything all those irish americans should be going back to ireland that's 0.98

01:22:53.140 and that's one of the problems with ireland all of the best of irish tended to become americans

01:22:58.020 george happ says for an empire to thrive you need your citizens to feel like they are valued rather

01:23:02.420 than being replaceable uh by yeah foreigners at the drop of a hat this is a problem in both the united

01:23:08.740 states and the eu yeah exactly how does europe expect to you know break away from the yoke of

01:23:15.300 america if everything in every single country its elites are actively hated because as well and this

01:23:23.060 is a part that i've never truly understood they you know as what you were saying stelios for um

01:23:29.460 your segment with the trains sure you can legalize 500 uh thousand illegals you can do that but and they 0.93

01:23:36.900 will vote for you in the short term but if you think that this is going to solidify your hold on

01:23:42.100 power indefinitely for decades it's not obviously won't happen and you you see that because when they

01:23:49.220 the number exceeds a particular amount then people start forming their own parties yes and i think we've

01:23:56.980 seen this in the uk as well we absolutely have what i don't get is why they keep doing the elites

01:24:02.820 keep doing it knowing that it is going to ultimately result in their loss of power as well um it's just

01:24:09.140 the thing i can't square i'll go through some of um some of the other comments on mine and stelios's

01:24:14.500 segments and also we got a rumble rant in from that's a ramble random name harry when's the next

01:24:19.140 journey to the east going with uh sorry when's the next journey to the east with your magnificent

01:24:24.100 strawberry blonde co-host the samson you've got a the now you're a definitive article samson i hope

01:24:29.940 you're proud of yourself yeah um thank you well i applaud i i am in favor of this we should all be

01:24:36.660 the the stelios the samson the luca so people can know they're not they're not just speaking to like

01:24:43.540 a luca they're not just speaking to a sound this is the luke this is the original this is the og the

01:24:49.460 definitive article you should all be honored uh and to answer your question as well it should be soon

01:24:55.620 because return to silent hill the film has come out now samson's not watched it yet but i did

01:25:02.180 on monday got some thoughts about it was it good no was it bad oh

01:25:13.220 i like the first one i like the first one no well that's the

01:25:17.140 by comparison i need to just spit it out man i i like i thought the first one was all right it

01:25:24.420 changed a few things from the game that i wasn't hugely a fan of like turning it from just being a

01:25:30.100 pagan cult into being like a weird sect of christianity because the director wanted it to be like oh i hate

01:25:35.780 christians the second this return to silent hill though yeah but it destroys the story yeah when

01:25:45.620 you watch a movie do you just sit back and enjoy it trying to have a good hour are you one of those

01:25:51.540 people who are trying to find i went in trying to enjoy it i i it's an adaptation of one of the best

01:25:57.700 games ever silent hill 2 and i was just thinking listen all i need i don't even need it to be like

01:26:04.580 the best thing ever all i need is mediocre at best right and i'm happy it wasn't even

01:26:12.580 mediocre i wouldn't give you that it was genuinely terrible the decision the creative decisions that

01:26:18.660 they made throughout were bizarre absolutely bizarre pointless characters pointless plots scenes that go

01:26:27.860 nowhere confusing confusing character actions uh trying to tie it into the plot of the first film

01:26:35.700 when the story it's adapting has nothing to do it was i will have more to say about it when we do

01:26:41.300 journey to the east i think you've got your dollars worth there let's get off your chest omar awad the

01:26:46.340 ministry of fairness isn't exactly what you'd expect from a demonic 1984 inspired government service i know

01:26:51.780 right ed milliband the chaos is the point divide and conquer henry ashman the other slimy tactic used

01:26:57.380 to morph equality of opportunity into a quality of outcome is you fundamentally cannot have true equality

01:27:01.700 of opportunity there are limited resources available at specific times for example someone born in

01:27:07.540 september is almost a year older than classmates born in august and is often bigger and stronger until

01:27:11.540 puberty is that a fair opportunity not really but is it something the government can realistically

01:27:15.700 legislate around also not really what may have originally meant will remove race gender sexuality from

01:27:21.700 the decision making process now ends up assuming that some sort of utopian world will be created

01:27:26.660 where everyone has infinite access to infinite resources all of the time yet at the massive

01:27:31.140 disadvantage of some people all of that comes with the asteroid at the massive disadvantage of white 0.72

01:27:35.780 people because you can remove race gender and sexuality from the decision making process consciously

01:27:42.180 but it will always crop up in the results that you get from it and that's what they're fighting

01:27:46.500 against they're fighting against the harsh cold reality of differences between people that always

01:27:53.220 rears its head which is why white people always have to be punished for the reality that we live in 0.84

01:27:58.260 uh do you want to read some of yours stelios yep

01:28:04.740 michael drebelbis hi michael this is the key problem in socialism slash communism everyone wants the free

01:28:12.260 ride nobody wants to do the actual work yep and they're incentivized they're incentivizing people

01:28:18.500 who don't work omar awad the eight scariest word in the spanish language yeah i can't pronounce this

01:28:27.700 luckily the government will solve government problems by implementing more government translation

01:28:32.660 was yeah yeah that's the reagan quote to hell yeah uh again michael drebelbis who is responsible for

01:28:38.580 this room full of people each appoint pointing at the other person he is yeah that's how they're doing

01:28:46.580 it yeah henry ashman ultimately i doubt there will be any real responsibility taken on a personal level

01:28:52.740 by anyone involved it's likely to be a massive fine on the operator and maybe the ceo slash minister will

01:28:59.940 lose the job with a golden parachute safety inspectors railway operation teams etc need to face prison in

01:29:07.780 the event of them being culpable or negligent on high-speed trains it can take over a mile to bring

01:29:13.300 a train to a complete stop so there's no way a driver can be expected to stop in time if there's a

01:29:18.980 fault on the track absolutely from an observer the right could have easy majorities in most of europe

01:29:25.140 if the conservatives within quotation marks then always side with the left to contain the far right

01:29:31.700 that's literally what the system was set up to do post world war ii that's what that's that

01:29:35.780 that was the point of it and now it's just morphed into this hellscape clown world that we live in one

01:29:40.660 last rumble rant sent through by kalergi harry i don't need it to be bananas and rice i need it to

01:29:45.540 be bananas and rice listen man on its own terms it was a awful awful film you don't need to be like a 0.94

01:29:55.140 super fan of the game like i was to be disappointed by it i was worried by the terrible reviews going in

01:30:01.380 but thought you know i'll give it a chance but no it was shit and on that happy note no there there is 0.63

01:30:08.020 an honorable mention that must be read uh where it says from sneeder chuck says karl needs to be more

01:30:14.100 extremist with the lotusy code short on it it's it's cleaner uh only luca is maintaining the high

01:30:22.100 standards no tie on harry and stelios before only dan couldn't afford a tie sad typhoon i i will say

01:30:29.780 that there was a moment of weakness last week stelios nearly got i took the tie off for med maxing

01:30:34.500 but uh i'm going to make things like well solidarity with my european brothers and sisters well if you if

01:30:40.980 you really want to help me be able to afford a tie i need my typhoon buy an islander buy an islander

01:30:48.980 and then maybe stelios and i can finally drag ourselves out of the gutter and afford the nice

01:30:54.500 clothes that you also obviously want us to wear it can be like me so uh pick one of these up while

01:30:59.300 it's still available it is still available isn't it samson you've got to buy it from the worldwide

01:31:06.980 score americans so uh yeah get one while you still can or else you'll be paying through the nose on ebay

01:31:13.220 and with that thank you very much for joining us today and we'll see you again tomorrow

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 28, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1342

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