Western Standard - October 12, 2023


CMS： Only Gazans can end the bloodshed


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The Middle East has exploded into war again, and it just never seems to come to an end. Today, we re going to talk about that, with a guest from the Western Standard, Dave Makachuk.

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00:00:30.760 Good day. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. This day isn't all that good. I mean, you
00:00:36.320 know, everybody's seen it. The news is dominated by it. The Middle East has exploded into war
00:00:41.900 again. The images are horrific. Israel and Gaza everywhere. It just never seems to come
00:00:48.260 to an end. So yeah, of course, we're going to talk predominantly about that today. It's
00:00:52.640 going to be a big story and it does impact us all, even if it is on the other side of
00:00:56.880 the world, particularly when we see some of the reactions coming from people over here in Canada
00:01:01.640 and overseas, a lot of very embarrassing reactions. And there's been some good ones. You know, I'll
00:01:06.740 talk a little later, but Justin Trudeau actually, I think has been some of the best leadership
00:01:11.300 demonstrated from him in his statements and things since he's been elected. So, I mean,
00:01:16.760 it's a refreshing change because Lord knows I spend enough time explaining why Justin Trudeau
00:01:21.000 is not a competent leader. I'm glad at least he found some strength this week.
00:01:26.880 as well, I'm going to have a guest on, of course, as always, Dave Makachuk's going to come on. He's
00:01:31.300 been on a number of times before. He writes for the Western Standard, and he's always specialized
00:01:35.460 in military things and that. And yeah, this was booked a while ago. Dave's down in Washington
00:01:39.820 actually at a show. It's the Association of the United States Army show. It's almost a military
00:01:45.200 trade show. And yeah, some people think, oh, of all times, you're going to talk about this. Yeah,
00:01:49.380 I know, but the show is on right now. And actually, there are some interesting things
00:01:51.780 to examine and talk about there. For one, something out of the Canadian booth we'll talk
00:01:56.200 about. But as well, I mean, with modern arms, believe it or not, if we aren't going to be able
00:02:02.120 to escape from military actions, perhaps at least with some newer, more modern means of killing
00:02:09.380 each other, we can try to reduce it to the combatants as much as possible. We haven't gotten
00:02:14.000 to that world without war yet. All right, let's talk though. I'll give my views on some of the
00:02:18.640 stuff that's going on and something that's got to happen. I want to talk about Gaza and I want to
00:02:24.420 about Hamas. And a lot of people don't, it is a complicated history over in the Middle East,
00:02:29.960 things of territory has come, it's gone. Gaza used to be a piece of Egypt, and then it was
00:02:35.620 taken by Israel in 67. And then Israel gave it kind of back independent to 18 years ago.
00:02:42.220 And it's just never been settled. Now, Hamas, it didn't emerge from a vacuum, you know, it was 0.66
00:02:48.200 popularly, it is a popularly supported organization in Gaza, it's their governing body, and it's been
00:02:54.140 running them for 18 years. It was selected by the citizens of Gaza that represented. They were
00:02:58.780 elected initially. Now they haven't had elections since, but they put them in there. Now it's time
00:03:03.740 for the citizens of Gaza to abandon Hamas, if only for their own sake. I mean, it's only when 0.78
00:03:08.860 locals stop supporting and shielding the terrorist efforts of Hamas will those terrorist efforts come
00:03:16.060 to an end. And when those terrorist efforts come to an end, Israel will stop retaliating. This is
00:03:20.940 the cycle of events that has to happen. I mean, the active participants within Hamas might be in
00:03:25.660 a minority, but it's looking like they still enjoy the support of most of the Gazans, if only
00:03:30.200 passively, and that support has to end. I know that not every citizen of Gaza supports the
00:03:35.060 terrorist act of Hamas, and I know that they're suffering under the retaliation. Innocent civilians
00:03:40.380 are going to suffer, and they're going to get killed. I know it's easy for me to sit safely in 0.90
00:03:45.020 Canada and tell people in Gaza to turn on their fellow Hamas members. I mean, these members are 0.99
00:03:49.700 often friends, family, community leaders. I can't imagine the punishment for a citizen caught
00:03:54.940 opposing Hamas and Gaza right now. But when the option is, having most of Gaza leveled in 0.80
00:04:01.620 airstrikes and shelling, the loyalties to the terrorists of Hamas has to start weakening.
00:04:07.820 They can't just sit back and keep blaming Israel. What's Israel expected to do?
00:04:11.800 The scumbags of Hamas slaughtered people at a music festival. They murdered babies,
00:04:16.520 raped women and tortured them. They shot down entire families and now they're holding hostages.
00:04:22.720 Is Israel supposed to just shrug and let bygones be bygones? Not going to happen, guys. Israel isn't
00:04:28.260 going to stop now until this threat is neutralized and that threat is Hamas. It's going to be a long 0.96
00:04:32.860 and bloody war if Hamas can continue hiding among the citizens of Gaza. The terrorists of Hamas and 0.53
00:04:39.120 Hezbollah, they're cowards. They love using their own people as human shields. Cowardice is a hallmark
00:04:43.600 of terrorism. I mean, they purposely put military installations in schools and hospitals and of
00:04:49.180 course play victim when the inevitable retaliation occurs. I mean, clearly Israel had a breakdown in 0.73
00:04:54.520 intelligence that allowed them to be caught so off guard when Hamas attacked last weekend.
00:04:58.340 And I'm sure they're working feverishly to figure out what went wrong and were going to prevent such
00:05:01.680 a lapse from happening again. But how many Gazan citizens knew this attack was in the works?
00:05:07.040 Tens of thousands of them must have known as the missiles were being stockpiled, the terrorists
00:05:11.840 were being trained and the plans were being made. None of them were in Israel. And all of them must
00:05:16.920 have known what retaliation was going to come. And that's because tens of thousands of Gazans
00:05:21.100 support the terrorists of Hamas, if not hundreds of thousands of them. But there are millions of
00:05:25.280 people there in Gaza. And they surely know the retribution is going to be swift and unforgiving.
00:05:30.740 They remain silent. If Gazans want the violence to end, they have to stop supporting Hamas. They 0.77
00:05:35.560 have to stop feeding them, stop housing them, and stop donating to them. They need to stop hiding
00:05:39.520 them and remaining silent when they know the terrorist acts are pending. No approach is going
00:05:44.840 to stop all the violence that's surely coming and that we're going to be watching over the coming
00:05:47.640 weeks, possibly months. But this violence isn't going to end until Hamas is gone. That's the way 0.79
00:05:52.180 it is now. The world's not going to defend Hamas. Sure, there's some sympathetic left-wing journalists 0.98
00:05:57.520 and union heads and academics, but when it comes to developed nations, civilized people, Hamas is 0.78
00:06:02.360 on their own. They've been condemned roundly by nations in sympathy for their plight as their
00:06:06.920 Israeli retaliation ramps up is going to be muted, to say the least. Hamas didn't even pretend to
00:06:12.900 make their actions look like a military strike. They targeted civilians with the intent of being
00:06:16.520 as inhuman and cruel as possible. They dug their own graves as they went so far over the line of
00:06:21.800 humanity that no civilization can offer them sympathy. Hamas is a dead organization, even if 0.86
00:06:27.060 they don't know it yet, and they're going to be brought down. The only question is by whom and
00:06:30.480 how long it's going to take. If Gazans shed themselves at Hamas, the violence will end at 0.68
00:06:35.100 least more quickly and then leave them, you know, if they leave the task to Israel, it's going to 0.52
00:06:39.740 take a long time and it's going to be rough. They can only play victims for so long when they've 0.84
00:06:43.240 been clearly supporting this horrific terror organization. However, the reign of Hamas comes 0.85
00:06:48.760 to an end. It's coming to an end. Now, whenever it ends and Gazans start rebuilding, hopefully
00:06:52.780 their new leadership can focus on the needs of their citizens rather than spending 18 years 0.79
00:06:55.920 building bombs and fostering hate as Hamas did. Israel pulled out of Gaza nearly 20 years ago.
00:07:00.960 How long can they still be blamed for the mess there? Like I said, Egypt used to occupy that 0.97
00:07:04.540 land. Can they be blamed too? And again, Egypt isn't in any hurry to have it back. That's for 0.84
00:07:08.680 sure. Only Gazans can determine what's going to happen once this conflict settles down.
00:07:13.520 Hopefully they're ready to look at ways of improving their state of affairs rather than 0.61
00:07:17.040 just fostering more hate and tearing down their neighbors. All right. Well, that's what I've got
00:07:23.680 this morning to start things off. Let's get on to our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what else
00:07:28.280 is going on out there. Hey, Dave, how you doing? Yeah, good afternoon, Corey. Holy cow, what a
00:07:33.500 over there. I can just bring you up to date now with the latest news that's happening a minute
00:07:39.700 by minute. Israeli government spokesman has confirmed that Canadians are in fact being held
00:07:46.080 hostage. So far we've got a total of three Canadians killed. Not sure how many are being
00:07:52.860 held hostage but some Canadian citizens are being held hostage. The U.S. State Department today
00:08:00.620 confirmed 22 dead Americans so far and obviously there'll be likely some Americans held hostage
00:08:07.260 and the U.S. has dispatched another aircraft carrier to the region to join the one that's
00:08:14.520 already there and some news out of from the bombings in Gaza where 11 United Nations workers
00:08:24.140 have been killed and five Red Crescent workers, similar to the Red Cross, workers have been
00:08:32.880 killed. And apparently 30 kids were killed when a bomb hit their school. Why they were going to
00:08:40.480 school, I have no idea. But yeah, it certainly changes minute by minute, doesn't it, Corey?
00:08:47.420 And unfortunately, we're just going to be seeing a lot of terrible images for weeks to come,
00:08:51.920 As I said, I mean, you know, the more we have social media to be able to share these things, I guess we're getting faster news, but it isn't pretty.
00:08:57.380 Yeah. On the site right now, we've got a story that's absolutely going crazy viral.
00:09:06.020 Former Hamas leader Marshall has called for a global jihad on Friday, calling on Muslims around the world to to rise up.
00:09:16.780 Tory MP Mark Strahl from Chilliwack Hope has called for Air Canada to fire that pilot who was photographed yesterday wearing a Palestinian scarf and also tweeting stuff about Israel going to hell and how Adolf Hitler would be applauding Israel and their movements now.
00:09:40.100 And just coming up, we've got a story on an Alberta NDP candidate.
00:09:46.220 No, sorry, not a candidate.
00:09:47.680 She's a serving MLA, Calgary Klein MLA Lizette Teja,
00:09:52.320 going on a rant about Israel committing genocide and barbaric acts.
00:10:01.320 If you want a break from all the Israeli coverage, 0.66
00:10:04.020 Our columnist Barry Cooper has got a story on Canada being ruled by ignoramuses, and you can see the blackface picture of Trudeau there, so it doesn't take much to figure out who he's talking about. 0.85
00:10:19.240 And our columnist Barber is making an argument for limiting the number of immigrants that the Liberals plan to bring into the country. 0.66
00:10:31.100 And OPEC sort of stating the bleeding obvious as they are concerned with all these moves to the net zero movement.
00:10:39.700 And I'm basically saying the demand for oil is not going to go down for decades to come.
00:10:47.180 So extremely busy news day, Corey, and lots more to come.
00:10:52.220 We were just putting up a story on a Mount Royal University professor who has written some interesting things, shall we say, about Israel and Palestine.
00:11:03.540 And I know Mount Royal is set to put out a statement on it.
00:11:06.800 So we'll have that for you as soon as possible.
00:11:10.920 All right, Dave, thanks.
00:11:12.220 Well, we'll let you get back to keeping up with all those updates and see how things unfold.
00:11:19.600 Yeah, if anything big happens, Corey, I'll come back in and tell the viewers about it.
00:11:25.480 Great. Thanks, Dave.
00:11:26.720 So that was our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:11:28.480 This is what I like to remind everybody, you guys watching on cable or you guys on our social media channels,
00:11:32.880 the way we're hanging in there, guys, the way we can make it through this world when it's fallen to the wayside,
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00:12:07.300 So, you know, before I get to Dave, I see him getting set there from the show, Mr. McIntyre.
00:12:11.800 I just also want to point out, Canada has a problem being taken seriously on the world stage.
00:12:16.580 It sounds like Mr. Cooper and his column there is covering a bit of that.
00:12:21.060 And, you know, I have been complimentary.
00:12:24.260 Prime Minister Trudeau has actually said the right things.
00:12:26.940 The two things that the hard left have trouble talking about when it comes to this Middle Eastern thing,
00:12:31.400 Justin Trudeau was very clear for a change and definitive on them.
00:12:36.060 He called the actions of Hamas what they are.
00:12:38.440 He called them terrorism, and he called them terrorists. 0.98
00:12:41.840 Again, our CBC is afraid to use that word, but that's what they are, of course.
00:12:45.240 I mean, what can you, what else could you call it? So kudos to Prime Minister Trudeau for saying
00:12:49.720 that. And the other second part, which is very important, was him saying that Israel has the
00:12:54.960 right to defend itself, which it does. And I know some people keep getting upset about what's going
00:12:59.400 on in Gaza. Well, what do you expect them to do? But then as we start at least sounding like we're
00:13:04.440 thinking things out, and we are, you know, taking a ration approach to things, we have our foreign
00:13:10.100 Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie popping up at a news conference. And she's decked out, she's cut
00:13:15.640 her hair short, and she's wearing a military style blazer. She's following the liberal tradition of
00:13:21.160 playing dress up. She's now a wartime leader. She wants to look like the president of Ukraine and
00:13:27.800 sit there in her nice green uniform with the new pretty haircut. And you've lost every bit of ground
00:13:33.100 where you started to sound like serious leaders. You clown in one stupid move. How vacuous can you
00:13:39.960 get. And let's not pretend that was an error in fashion. I mean, I don't expect her to come out
00:13:45.340 dressed poorly, but you don't sit there and act as if you may come under assault in Ottawa at some
00:13:50.840 point. You don't need to wear camouflage, Ms. Jolie. You just need to come across as a competent
00:13:57.480 minister. And again, Canada starts looking just not serious. That's the problem we have. People
00:14:03.600 don't take us seriously. How can you? All right. Thanks, Melanie. You know, carry on with your
00:14:09.680 cosplay and uh maybe somebody uh will enjoy the fetish play a little later with that okay so let's
00:14:15.920 get on to dave makachuk he's out there in washington dc he's at the association of the
00:14:21.260 united states army show and he's been uh covering some of the displays there hey there dave how's
00:14:28.080 it going hello hello how are you very good thank you so uh and you've got someone with you i'll
00:14:34.940 to introduce him, Mr. Makachuk. Yes, yes. He is Mr. Carl Landrum, and he's Vice President of
00:14:42.300 Civilian Programs and Strategy at D-Drone. He's a drone expert, and he's going to explain
00:14:48.060 some of the products that his company is providing. They are partners with a huge company called
00:14:54.300 Axon, which is right here. By the way, if you hear explosions, they have a theater here, and there's
00:14:59.340 also a taser people are getting a chance to fire tasers here too because axon makes tasers as well
00:15:06.940 and uh and they're they're they're a huge company and they're atypical they're atypical of the kind
00:15:12.860 of company that will come to a usa and uh carl will explain that but i just wanted to say about
00:15:19.740 the uh our minister who is wearing army clothes dress up the military people walking around this
00:15:27.500 show are real military and they proudly wear their uniforms and they wear their uniforms for a reason
00:15:34.940 they don't play army they are army and thank god that there are allies okay so i just wanted to get
00:15:43.840 that no problem it floored me when i saw it this morning like holy cow oh that's ridiculous that's
00:15:50.460 ridiculous i i just learned of it so i'm kind of shocked in any case um uh mr uh landrum is going
00:15:57.300 explain about uh he has some they've got some real exciting projects to show here and and uh
00:16:04.980 he can explain to you uh better than i can well obviously exactly what it's about so go ahead uh
00:16:13.460 all right all right thank you dave appreciate that and thanks everybody for uh listening in
00:16:18.180 so i work for a company called d drone and what we do is we are in the smart airspace security
00:16:24.740 business. We are a global company. We're operating at 500 different sites around the world and in 30
00:16:31.440 countries around the world right now, providing smart airspace security around the world.
00:16:38.720 And here at D-Drone, we work on what we really are is we really are a software company. So we
00:16:47.620 have a large robust C2, a large sensor fusion engine, and we bring in all of that capability
00:16:56.360 through utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning. We have a very large machine
00:17:01.760 learning team here that builds these models and these frameworks and allows these detections of
00:17:08.840 drones in the area to be identified. And then if, depending upon where this is occurring around the
00:17:16.480 world if the operator whether it's a soldier an agent an officer whatever they actually are
00:17:22.120 if they have mitigation authority then we actually will provide the ability for them to mitigate
00:17:27.980 a drone that has been determined to be illicit or a threat and by mitigate they mean take it out
00:17:35.320 get rid of it and i'm we're standing actually right next to uh their a mobile device which
00:17:42.520 uses RF, correct, to detect it, and then it switches to a radar, and then it switches to a
00:17:49.160 camera that can detect, what was the distance? Was it 20 kilometers? We have a very robust layered
00:17:56.020 solution, so a lot of people will count on one of those. They'll count on RF, radar, or camera.
00:18:02.080 Through our artificial intelligence, the system will utilize all three of those types of sensors
00:18:06.540 and will identify the location, localize that particular object while it's in the air.
00:18:12.860 It's very, very good.
00:18:14.480 It'll weed out birds, airplanes, the things that it's not supposed to find.
00:18:18.380 It'll actually categorize a drone and then bring in that picture of it,
00:18:23.020 which is really important, especially if you're in a battle space somewhere,
00:18:26.180 because you can determine whether or not that drone is carrying a payload by what you see on the screen.
00:18:31.020 and then that will also elevate your decision-making process and trying to mitigate that
00:18:38.020 whether or not you're going to do it and or how you're going to do it and apparently that camera
00:18:42.540 is so powerful all it needs is what two or three pixels at three kilometers it picks up the drone
00:18:49.320 with four pixels only so with the human eye we still can't even see it on the screen yet
00:18:53.880 it still has to get closer about two kilometers out before we start seeing it on the screen
00:18:58.440 but the camera will actually detect it a kilometer out and you can see that positive detection
00:19:03.200 lighten up. And this, we're talking about a mobile system. It's mobile. You can, and what
00:19:10.060 you said, it packs into a bunch of cases? The newest system that we showed you a little while
00:19:17.400 ago, that particular system is in, it sits on two towers. So we call it two stacks. One of them is
00:19:23.340 all different RF capabilities. There's three different RF capabilities on that particular
00:19:27.640 stack the other one holds radar and camera all of those all of that system is called d drone tactical
00:19:34.520 and that was done as a you know a rapid adaptation because the customer needed a way to be mobile
00:19:42.280 and be able to move that product quickly set it up quick quickly and break it down quickly
00:19:48.520 so what it does that entire system you saw breaks down into 11 pelican cases so you can move it in
00:19:54.040 and out of vehicles easily airplanes easily up and down stairwells easily in order to get it set up
00:19:59.960 in a rapid way and like i said that was really a company-wide rapid adaptation to what customers
00:20:06.520 needed in the field and this is predominantly a defensive system though right it's mostly there
00:20:12.760 for the protection of you know people it's it's not an offensive sort of system though it has
00:20:16.680 capabilities mitigation this is defensive yes yes yeah go ahead sorry it sets up and it does as
00:20:23.160 it'll set up a defensive bubble around you. And then also, if you as long as you have the
00:20:28.840 authority to mitigate, then it can actually mitigate and be somewhat offensive in that
00:20:33.560 respect. So in other words, there was a case I think last year in South America, where a South
00:20:39.000 American leader came out on the stage to welcome people who had voted for him. And then all of a
00:20:45.700 sudden the drone attacked. This system would would eliminate that entirely. It would take care of
00:20:52.400 that you'd be able to, you know, it's also for base security, full base security.
00:20:57.340 And Apsom has all kinds of, they do police cameras.
00:21:03.160 They do toss-in robots where you throw it in, and it has a camera, and it'll drive around.
00:21:11.300 And they have all kinds of security equipment like that.
00:21:15.560 So it's really interesting.
00:21:17.600 It's all cutting edge.
00:21:19.360 And you were talking about AI.
00:21:20.660 How does AI get that? Because everybody's talking AI. How does that affect your product?
00:21:26.960 So the way it works, I was explaining at the beginning. So we are a very robust software company.
00:21:33.140 That's what we are. We do make product and we do integrate with products from other companies.
00:21:39.840 We're integrated right now with 45 other companies.
00:21:43.400 What's really key about that is that if somebody over the past several years,
00:21:47.640 A lot of people that have been investing in this type of technology, they have spent millions of dollars in different types of sensors and bringing those capabilities.
00:21:57.080 And if they engage with D-Drone and utilize our particular products, we would not only bring them all the futuristic stuff, everything that is new to market right now, but I can also integrate all of their existing products as well so they don't lose their investment that they've already put in over the past several years.
00:22:16.840 And then with all that, with our machine learning team, what those guys do is they're actually building machine learning models.
00:22:27.180 And then those models are what's loaded up and what become the artificial intelligence.
00:22:31.940 So that's machine learning.
00:22:33.320 We're talking about machine learning for these devices, which is absolutely amazing.
00:22:39.480 They can learn on their own.
00:22:41.160 So this entire system, in the end, because of the AI, because of the artificial intelligence, this entire system will be able to operate autonomously.
00:22:50.300 And the only part of it and what we call it is we no longer say like a man or woman in the loop.
00:22:55.800 Now we say on the loop.
00:22:57.540 And what that is is that everything about this can be automated except for the actual hitting the mitigation button because that requires authority to do it in most places.
00:23:07.700 so that you need a human involved to make the decision to hit the button to
00:23:12.420 take that thing out of the sky and by taking it out it's it's it's not they
00:23:17.900 don't crash into it they take it down with RF right we just take it we just
00:23:21.560 take it down right and take it down right yeah appreciate this thank you
00:23:28.460 for taking time for uh talk to uh western standard readers and uh so yeah okay thank you you can
00:23:39.000 appreciate it thank you so much thanks carol so anyway i i just wanted to uh quickly tell you
00:23:45.360 a little bit about a usa um uh there it is uh 700 different companies come here every year
00:23:54.120 from 80 countries. And there are visitors from, well, basically about 35,000 people attend
00:24:04.180 over a week. And it involves media like myself, industry company workers, strictly company and
00:24:16.460 military from all over the world. I've seen soldiers from Germany. I've seen from Egypt.
00:24:24.120 I've seen every and everybody is here company wise, except for China and Russia and Turkey decided not to come this year because they're doing better in the Mideast and they're having a hard time breaking into the American markets.
00:24:41.500 But, I mean, we're talking, the U.S. has billions of dollars to spend, and they're all vying, these companies come here to present their products and talk to industry or military people in the U.S. Army.
00:24:59.720 And also there's meetings, there's roundtables with U.S. generals, there's demonstrations.
00:25:07.360 Like I say, the Axon here has a, they have a theater, they actually have a theater where they've made a film about their products.
00:25:21.400 And it's just really incredible.
00:25:23.800 We're talking millions of dollars just to be here.
00:25:26.340 Yeah, so they're obviously displaying some of the top-of-the-line modern technology there.
00:25:32.640 Going a little further, though, I'd heard, so Popeye Canada has a table there,
00:25:36.420 and getting to more conventional things, you asked about the acquisition of the SIG handguns.
00:25:43.720 Well, yes, because the SIG, oh, yeah, we bought, apparently, I didn't even know this,
00:25:49.240 but we got a big contract from SIG Sauer for these new handguns,
00:25:54.200 which they call Canada handguns.
00:25:56.320 And they're really impressive devices.
00:25:58.800 I think something like 12,000 of them.
00:26:02.420 And I went to the Canadian booth here.
00:26:05.560 There we have a booth.
00:26:07.020 And there was a gentleman there at the table,
00:26:09.320 the reception table.
00:26:11.080 And I asked him, I said,
00:26:12.380 so do you know anything about this?
00:26:13.880 He said, no, I'm an expert in climate change.
00:26:18.760 Well, did he give you his attention?
00:26:20.520 So we have somebody there who's an expert in climate change?
00:26:27.740 Duh.
00:26:29.260 Again, that comes back to how Canada just can't be taken seriously anymore.
00:26:33.280 Exactly.
00:26:34.020 It goes back to your point.
00:26:35.460 I mean, why aren't we trying to sell Canadian products, military products?
00:26:42.060 apparently we have some kind of new machine or arctic machine that that can haul things and uh
00:26:51.020 it's it's a company that i just discovered believe it or not this thing can if it falls through the
00:26:57.980 ice it shoots out a hook and winches itself back up and that's made in canada and that's something
00:27:05.820 i'm going to write on as soon as i find out more about it i just discovered here at the show which
00:27:11.580 which I thought was really interesting.
00:27:13.140 Another thing I just wanted to say, I won't hold you too much longer,
00:27:16.900 but basically the warfighting is changing dynamically.
00:27:24.740 Look at what's going on in Israel.
00:27:27.080 Warfighting is just changing dynamically.
00:27:30.940 And basically what it's doing is taking the warfighter away from the front.
00:27:36.540 He doesn't have to be near the front.
00:27:38.480 Everything is autonomous now.
00:27:40.560 There's a D8 bulldozer upstairs, massive thing, and it can work autonomously.
00:27:47.680 It can do work and take all the bullets and nothing's going to happen to it.
00:27:52.320 The same with trucks, same with unmanned weapons.
00:27:56.880 The warfighter doesn't have to be on the front anymore.
00:27:59.360 It's pulling the warfighter back and letting machines with AI take over.
00:28:06.840 It's fascinating, and we're on the cusp of it, and it's huge here.
00:28:10.100 It's really huge.
00:28:11.380 Yeah, well, it sounds like something out of a science fiction novel.
00:28:14.080 I would hope, I guess, the only thing we can hope for is this will eventually mitigate civilian casualties in these conflicts.
00:28:21.440 You find ways to get more accurate.
00:28:23.660 The wars aren't going away as much as we'd like them to, but if we could try to keep them between the combatants, it would be, I guess, less horrible.
00:28:32.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:28:33.320 And, I mean, it's just terrible what's happened to Israel.
00:28:36.060 And that's, I don't know.
00:28:38.000 Not a lot of people want to comment about that here.
00:28:41.540 Their companies don't really want them to say much.
00:28:44.260 But basically, from what I was talking to the regular soldiers,
00:28:50.460 they say it's back to, as far as that situation, it's conventional warfare.
00:28:56.000 It's going to be guerrilla warfare, conventional warfare,
00:28:59.700 and it's going to be really nasty, very nasty.
00:29:02.460 And I really feel tremendous sympathy for all those victims.
00:29:10.460 And it's just like Dave said, it's a mess.
00:29:14.460 It's just a terrible mess.
00:29:15.800 And it's, you know, unfortunately, this is the reality of 2023.
00:29:23.680 And our prime minister, you know, is clueless, clueless.
00:29:30.080 She's cutting the military at a time when we need to stand strong.
00:29:34.760 We need to stand strong and support our military, and we should have a stronger position here.
00:29:40.540 We really should.
00:29:41.480 We should be working because there's technologies here that could really help us.
00:29:47.100 There really is.
00:29:47.760 I mean, I even saw a new detection system that they're selling to schools, detection, you know, for weapons and knives.
00:29:58.200 They're two towers that cost $15,000.
00:30:00.780 They're made by Chea in Italy, and the U.S. schools are buying them.
00:30:05.880 And you put them at the entrance to anywhere, schools anywhere,
00:30:10.080 and they can detect weapons and knives.
00:30:13.160 And that's a technology that we could use.
00:30:16.280 We might because someday we may need that.
00:30:19.120 Hopefully not soon, but someday we might.
00:30:22.720 Anyway, I just wanted to give you an idea of what's going on here,
00:30:25.780 and it's pretty exciting.
00:30:27.300 there's lots going on well i appreciate it well thanks for for checking in with us from down there
00:30:32.020 david i'll uh let you carry on i know there's a lot to cover and uh forward to your columns and
00:30:37.060 talking to you when you get back yes yes and i'm i'm uh i'm gonna file something on on the show
00:30:43.380 and it's uh i'll send it in to dave very soon and then i'm gonna head to the west end bar
00:30:49.620 right on it's been a long week okay it certainly has thanks dave i'll talk to you again soon okay
00:30:55.700 take care so that is our our dave makichuk coming live yeah from the association of the united
00:31:01.700 states army show and yeah you know again we're talking about an arms dealing show uh when we're
00:31:07.220 in the midst of seeing you know the the terrible things happening in israel right now but as that's
00:31:12.580 what i wanted to focus on that was interesting was listening to the defensive aspects like we still
00:31:16.900 need the technology uh some of the people talked about how did israel get hit so hard
00:31:21.300 how were their pants down? And I mean, there was definitely an intelligence breakdown. But when
00:31:26.020 you think of, when you hear some of the numbers, initially they launched something like 2,000
00:31:29.760 missiles, 2,000 into Israel. And yeah, it managed to cause thousands of injuries and hundreds of
00:31:37.080 deaths. But you look at those numbers, thousands of missiles. You see, there is that iron dome
00:31:41.600 system that can only manage so much, but clearly it stopped a lot of those missiles. Not enough,
00:31:49.280 quite a lot. So, I mean, it wasn't a total failure as far as that goes. When we're talking
00:31:53.700 again, the term is mitigate. You can't eliminate, unfortunately, in these situations.
00:31:58.340 As Dave talked about in the end, the next phase, we're seeing that coming along
00:32:01.700 and what's happening over there. Israel's called up over 300,000 reservists. They're getting ready.
00:32:08.240 They're going to go in on the ground. They're going to go door to door. They're going to root
00:32:11.960 out the Hamas terrorists. They're going to clean them out and it's going to take a while. 0.86
00:32:16.540 It's going to be street to street.
00:32:18.120 It's going to be awful.
00:32:19.240 We're just seeing the beginning of this.
00:32:21.080 I've seen some of the statements
00:32:22.340 from some of the other folks.
00:32:23.220 It's just a fair comment, absolutely.
00:32:25.000 Langdon Industries saying the Middle East
00:32:26.300 is the Middle East's problem.
00:32:28.640 Other folks have said things along the lines of it's their issue,
00:32:31.920 but guys, it's not.
00:32:32.820 It's bigger than that.
00:32:34.040 It's bigger than that.
00:32:34.680 They got Canadian hostages there.
00:32:36.160 They got American hostages there.
00:32:37.960 We have citizens there.
00:32:39.040 It impacts things all around.
00:32:42.260 Unfortunately, whether you want to look at it like that or not,
00:32:45.700 we can't just turn our backs on this. And there's part of, you know, you, people are wondering, I
00:32:49.680 mean, Hamas, they're crazy, they're bloodthirsty, they're vicious, but they're not stupid. I wish
00:32:54.940 they were. They're not typically stupid. They know, they knew the hornet's nest they were poking. So
00:33:00.340 what was their intent? I think for the true believers, the hardcores, they really do want 1.00
00:33:04.680 to bring about the big Middle Eastern war. They want to bring about the end times. They want this 1.00
00:33:09.700 battle to spread. They want it to go to Iran, to Saudi Arabia. They want the Middle East to come
00:33:15.340 in and try to wipe Israel off the map. And that could spread even farther into other areas. 0.98
00:33:20.140 And remember that terrorism comes across the ocean over here at times too. You know, this stuff,
00:33:26.060 this mess in the Middle East, it was certainly an integral part of the World Trade Center bombing 0.99
00:33:31.880 and a lot of other terrorist acts in other parts of the world. So we can't totally ignore it. We 0.99
00:33:37.280 don't want to immerse ourselves in it. I'm not saying we should start sending what's left of
00:33:40.660 our Canadian military into that mess or anything like that. I'm just saying this is a big problem.
00:33:44.580 is going to impact us whether we want a part of it or not. So we're hearing about the United States
00:33:50.700 has been sending a great number of warships and carriers over there. The United Kingdom's been
00:33:54.640 doing so. I think Germany sent somebody over there too. They're moving in on the area.
00:33:58.820 I don't think it's because they're eager to dive in. I'm sure it's because they don't want to,
00:34:03.280 but it's the show of force to tell Iran, to tell Lebanon, to tell the others, guys,
00:34:09.140 don't escalate this because it's going to end poorly. Let's not spread it out further. It's
00:34:15.280 going to get a heck of a lot worse for you guys if you jump in on this mess. And that's what that
00:34:21.640 show of force is about. Let's hope this doesn't spread further. And yeah, there's no AI or other
00:34:28.280 things that are going to stop the door-to-door terrible aspects of this war as it's going to
00:34:33.500 unfold and continue. So some of the commentary, some of the idiocy, some of the crap out there
00:34:39.280 that's been going on over this already, you know, anti-Semitism. I understand this. People say
00:34:46.180 opposing Israel's policies isn't necessarily anti-Semitism. No, it absolutely isn't.
00:34:51.700 But when you get a lot of the criticism of Israel, you don't have to scratch that hard
00:34:55.960 quite often. Usually you do find a Jew hater underneath. And we're seeing them, guys. We're
00:34:59.840 seeing them in spades. I'm seeing them on the extreme right and on the extreme left. It's
00:35:02.900 actually a good mark of the extreme. It just seems to be the thing they'll always embrace when they
00:35:06.900 hit the extremes, whether it's left or right, is let's blame the Jews. It's always been a favorite, 1.00
00:35:12.280 hasn't it? So here's a beauty of a tweet. This was out this morning or yesterday. This is from
00:35:20.480 Trudy Crow. She identifies herself as a proud liberal supporter of human rights, women's rights, 0.65
00:35:25.140 and the LGBTQ community lover of animals. Okay. But she was correcting a story that talked about
00:35:31.700 the beheading of babies. And apparently it seems to have happened. I know some people are denying
00:35:34.740 it, but yes, it sounds like it's happening. She corrected it though. She said they did not behead
00:35:37.840 40 babies. They only killed 40 and some were beheaded. That's literally what she said.
00:35:44.480 Oh, oh, well, if they didn't behead all of them, that's not so bad, right?
00:35:51.420 Like this is the idiocy. This is the level. This is where they're coming in to try and soft sell
00:35:58.920 what these monsters from Hamas did. 0.97
00:36:01.480 Guys, the images that are coming out on the internet 0.99
00:36:03.360 that we're seeing,
00:36:05.460 I know a lot of us are trying to tear our eyes away
00:36:07.220 from those images.
00:36:08.280 They aren't coming from the IDF.
00:36:09.880 They aren't coming from Israel. 0.93
00:36:11.440 They're coming from Hamas themselves. 0.95
00:36:13.740 These guys are showing off the atrocities 0.99
00:36:15.840 they've been doing.
00:36:17.980 This is not fake stuff, guys.
00:36:19.820 It's not a false flag.
00:36:21.100 And I tell you, if you want to get quickly blocked
00:36:22.800 by me on Twitter, by all means,
00:36:24.820 start down that crackpot road.
00:36:27.340 Israel didn't bring it on themselves.
00:36:28.920 Israel, are they the nicest player out there? Not by a long shot. No, no, they aren't. But they are
00:36:35.720 the closest thing in the whole Middle East to a bastion of freedom. And that's just something
00:36:41.700 that I can never understand out of the left. You've only got one spot, the giant Middle East, 1.00
00:36:47.020 theocracies, human rights crap holes, terrible, terrible respect for human rights throughout 1.00
00:36:54.380 over there. No elections. They tend to be always dictatorships. And one spot, Israel, where you've
00:37:04.440 got democracy, where it's legal to be gay, where they had a female leader decades ago. Yet the 0.93
00:37:13.400 left hates them. They want Israel gone. They want the entire Middle East to be, I guess, a human
00:37:18.820 writes, dump. I listen to the 1.00
00:37:20.480 idiot leader, Fred
00:37:22.740 Hahn. He's from the Canadian Union 0.99
00:37:24.800 of Public Employees. He's their Ontario
00:37:26.540 leader. He's been going
00:37:28.700 on about the evils of Israel and nasty
00:37:30.560 on and on. He has been outright. And we're
00:37:32.740 not talking about somebody just criticizing
00:37:34.220 Israel. There's people celebrating
00:37:36.840 Hamas. Big difference between the two.
00:37:38.700 And they are. They're celebrating Hamas. 1.00
00:37:41.080 They're saying it's great what they're doing. 0.99
00:37:43.420 Keep up the good work. Now this Fred
00:37:44.660 Hahn is openly gay. 0.85
00:37:47.500 Fine.
00:37:48.820 But how? How can you, Mr. Han, as a gay man, support the end of Israel? 0.93
00:37:56.380 Because you know what? That's the only spot in that entire region for a thousand kilometers in every direction 0.99
00:38:02.180 where a man like you won't be killed.
00:38:06.460 You can go to Tel Aviv, hit the nightclubs, have a good time, do some cruising.
00:38:10.700 Do that anywhere outside of there, and you'll be thrown off a building.
00:38:13.720 You'll be thrown into a prison. You'll be tortured. You'll be charged.
00:38:17.160 Yet you oppose that one country that allows people to live who they are and be all right with it.
00:38:23.040 Why? I don't understand. I really don't.
00:38:27.340 The tax-funded Canadian anti-hate network.
00:38:29.820 Yeah, this is a neat one. They got a bunch of money.
00:38:31.760 There's a bunch of jerks.
00:38:33.160 Anti-hate network.
00:38:34.140 See, they cloaked themselves in these words.
00:38:36.400 We are anti-hate, thus we must be good.
00:38:38.300 Really?
00:38:39.140 Most of what that anti-hate network has gone on about was the convoy.
00:38:43.960 You know, the trucker's convoy in Ottawa.
00:38:45.320 that was the terrible big odious thing going on and then they uh you know went on about uh recently
00:38:52.520 about the uh march for uh children you know for the rights of parents that was a big anti-hate
00:38:58.200 issue for them to get on to they haven't said a single thing in a week now they won't touch this
00:39:03.720 they won't touch a bunch of people who were chanting gas the jews at some protests people
00:39:08.360 who are waving hamas flags at some of these protests no silent on that why i mean aren't
00:39:16.760 you opposed to all hate no no you aren't you're only opposed to the hate that apparently is
00:39:22.520 acceptable uh you know to oppose with the left wing i don't understand this weird cognitive
00:39:28.680 dissonance of you people i really don't and get sick of it uh yeah it's happening all over so
00:39:36.680 So we're seeing the union heads doing that.
00:39:37.940 The QP accounts, again, have been celebrating.
00:39:40.280 And again, they are not talking about being critical of Israel.
00:39:42.040 They're celebrating the murderous slaughter of, again, slaughter of people who went to a music festival.
00:39:50.960 The slaughter of people who were peacefully sitting on a kibbutz just trying to live their lives.
00:39:55.620 They didn't go after military targets, these cowards.
00:39:58.000 No, they went after civilians.
00:39:59.740 And we have unions saying it was good.
00:40:02.580 Disgusting.
00:40:03.960 Disgusting is what it is.
00:40:05.680 And then they call themselves anti-hate people.
00:40:08.500 Figure that one out.
00:40:11.100 Either way, we're going to be hearing about this for quite a while.
00:40:13.700 And it's going to be, you know, a big issue.
00:40:16.120 It's unavoidable.
00:40:17.260 So I don't know.
00:40:19.000 Let's hope to see things settle as easily, I guess, as rationally possible.
00:40:24.100 But again, I keep asking people.
00:40:25.380 There's a screaming about the response to Israel in Gaza right now.
00:40:29.020 Israel's warning them, at least.
00:40:30.320 They're saying, get out of this section.
00:40:32.200 get away from these buildings because we are going to bomb it. And they bomb it
00:40:36.160 because that's what they have to do. They've just been attacked.
00:40:40.740 Did Hamas give Israel any warning? Hey, by the way,
00:40:44.440 we're going to pop down and grab some women from the festival and rape and torture them and murder them 0.99
00:40:48.300 and then go into the kibbutzes and murder babies. I don't think they gave any warning. 0.99
00:40:52.660 Why are you expecting that? Israel, again, as a 0.85
00:40:56.460 wartime nation, is being as nice. They've got the power to turn
00:41:00.360 all of Gaza into dust. They could. They could in a minute. They could bomb that area completely 1.00
00:41:06.080 level and then just build on top of it. They aren't doing that. There's going to be some
00:41:11.620 civilians killed in Gaza who were perfectly innocent, and it's horrible. It's terrible.
00:41:16.620 But the ones at fault are the terrorists who started this. Do not blame Israel. What do you 0.82
00:41:22.840 expect them to do? That's the question I keep asking. What do you expect them to do? Just sit
00:41:26.040 there then and let them keep fostering and creating these terrorists to keep attacking
00:41:30.880 them? I mean, would you, if you were in a house and you had neighbors who kept coming over and
00:41:35.880 raping your daughters and murdering your neighbors, you're just going to sit there?
00:41:40.000 Please stop doing that. No, eventually you're going to fight back. And that's what's happening.
00:41:47.440 We'll see what comes out of it. Other ancillary, I guess, effects, you know, from this whole thing.
00:41:54.020 oil prices. Yeah. They're going to be shooting through the roof. I guess in, in, in Western
00:41:59.500 Canada, that it'll be a benefit to us. I mean, we don't want to benefit on, on, on wartime things,
00:42:03.780 but whenever the Middle East gets into, and it just never seems to end, right? It's every 10 0.98
00:42:07.480 years or so, there's another big conflict. So the oil prices are going to shoot through the roof.
00:42:12.360 Um, Hey, I think we're possibly maybe a year and some away from having the Trans Mountain
00:42:19.460 pipeline expansion finished though. I won't believe it until this time, uh, you know,
00:42:22.900 Canada really could be supplying the world with safe, clean energy, but we just seem to be too
00:42:27.000 busy stopping ourselves virtue signaling. As Dave pointed out, you know, he's at a trade show for
00:42:32.160 military hardware, and the Canadian booth is manned by a person who doesn't even know about the
00:42:36.020 purchase of handguns for Canadian soldiers, but he was there to talk about climate change.
00:42:42.260 We got our priorities right. So yeah, when the government's that ideological, when the
00:42:46.880 government's that myopic and stupid, it's not that shocking, I guess, that we're not allowing
00:42:52.360 ourselves to be positioned to at least financially, you know, maximize our returns on being an energy
00:42:59.720 producing nation. No, we're shutting in our oil and gas. I know people are saying it's, it's still
00:43:04.600 been rising. Yes, it is. But we're capped. And I mean, Western Canadian oil, you got to understand
00:43:08.400 we get nailed on the premium, we don't get as much per barrel for hours, as other nations do,
00:43:14.660 we don't get the West Texas price, we get the Western Canadian one, because we only have one
00:43:19.100 customer and we get knocked down on our price dramatically. And this should have been resolved
00:43:24.040 years and years ago, but we're still dragging our butts on it. So as the oil spikes up through the
00:43:27.920 roof, yet again, we won't be able to fill that void very effectively. Yeah, carry on, I guess
00:43:35.700 we'll fill as much as we can. If the other big story in the news is the hockey season strikes
00:43:42.280 off and gets going, let's talk about virtue signaling. Why not? Right. So I guess the
00:43:47.380 rainbow pride tape the nhl has said uh no more not doing it nobody can have it this these stupid 0.87
00:43:56.700 games you're right they're freaking hockey players i just want them watching play hockey i don't care
00:44:00.780 about the rest of this stuff but fine it has become an issue the problem is they always the
00:44:07.420 virtue signalers make everybody else virtue signal with them and on their behalf if you know those
00:44:12.400 remembering the old seinfeld episode with kramer you don't want to wear the ribbon you don't want
00:44:16.140 the ribbon you only get on his case but that's the truth of it i of course i want to put it out on x
00:44:21.500 i said why don't we try it because right now you're banning everybody from showing anything
00:44:25.420 now and before you were forcing everybody you were forcing every player to wear pride stuff
00:44:29.900 even if they didn't agree with it how about just letting the players choose for themselves
00:44:34.540 how about that this player wants to put rainbow tape on his hockey stick let him this one doesn't
00:44:40.060 want to leave him alone he doesn't want to is it really that complicated but it is when it's the
00:44:46.300 mob and that's what it is social justice mobs virtue signaling clowns they don't want to reason
00:44:53.660 with people they want to force people guess what you force somebody to wear pride stuff what you
00:44:58.940 probably end up doing is making them more bitter if they had an issue with lgbtq people that issue's
00:45:04.940 only gonna get worse leave them alone but they can't they can't you didn't wear the ribbon you
00:45:10.420 didn't wear the ribbon let's see other stuff we got going on i mean in alberta there's an activist
00:45:16.760 named taylor mcnally she's crazier than all get out uh she's uh on trial right now so i'm sure
00:45:22.440 the standard report whenever that comes about i think it's getting to the point of sentencing
00:45:26.320 as she assaulted a police officer she has a long long history of assaulting people she's a very
00:45:30.980 violent person. But it's funny, again, the left is silent on her because she's an activist for
00:45:35.640 their causes. But it's no less dangerous. Assault is assault. Either way, they're saying that she
00:45:43.020 shouldn't be sentenced that harshly because she was protesting against a police officer who had
00:45:46.620 misbehaved. She didn't assault the police officer who had assaulted somebody. She assaulted a
00:45:52.040 different police officer. But this is lefty logic. So if that officer misbehaved, I have the right to
00:45:56.240 assault that officer over there. Doesn't work that way, Taylor. I hope they find her some help
00:46:01.060 and get her medicated. I've run across her at a couple of events before in Calgary and area. And
00:46:06.220 I tell you, we're going to see her in the news and it's going to be really bad one of these times
00:46:10.340 soon. She seems to be getting more and more violent every time she springs up. So watch for 0.54
00:46:15.240 that. Watch for other things, guys. As I said to Dave, we're, you know, covering things as fast and
00:46:20.520 as hard as we can. There's lots breaking. It's constantly going on out there. We're in a crazy
00:46:26.080 world right now. And we've got to stay on top of things. And that's what we're about here at
00:46:30.880 The Standard. We do write about these. I hope we find some lighter stuff to write about and for me
00:46:34.660 to rant about in the future as well. But today, yeah, it had to be dominated by this terrible
00:46:39.560 war going on now in Israel and area. Either way, hope you all had a good Thanksgiving, guys.
00:46:45.740 Thank you for tuning in today. Be sure to tune into the pipeline a little later. That's going
00:46:50.800 to be on the same channels that this show airs on. And I will see you all again next week at this time.
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