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You have Andrew Tate taking more public Ls
with the Romanian judge now denying Tate's fourth appeal
to try and end his detention.
That of course, related to his December 29th arrest
with authorities acting on their suspicion
that he and three others were engaging
in human trafficking and organized crime.
And of course since then
his detention has been extended three times
with the main arguments from the judge being that
Tate poses a particular dangerousness,
and arguing that a free Tate could potentially start
publicly identifying the six women listed as victims.
So now he's behind bars until at least March 29th.
And a very key thing here is that
the authorities actually have the ability
to keep this tactic up for several more months, right?
Because they're allowed to detain suspects
in investigations for up to 180 days,
which could mean by the end of June.
Also a side question,
who did he give control of his Twitter account?
Like some of this stuff coming from that account
is just strange.
Like, what is this tweet?
"I was awoken last night by an icy chill
and identified a ghost in my prison cell.
He was terrified and begged me not to annihilate him.
I sent him back to hell with a message for the demons.
I am always ready."
Also, in addition to everything else,
the biggest hypocrite in the world.
Motherfucker tweeted,
"When you lie you make a very powerful enemy.
God."
Andrew and or the insane person
who's tweeting about fighting ghosts,
there's video of you on the internet
where you knowingly sat down in front of cameras
to speak on one of the biggest podcasts in the world
where not only did you admit,
you gloated about lying to and scamming guys
outta their life savings while posing as camgirls.
- So the chicks would sit there
and hit a keyboard that wasn't plugged in.
And me and my brother, eventually some staff I trained,
would do all the talking.
The girls were just pure just famoosers,
just laughing and doing this,
their titties out,
and they were talking to (bleep) ice cold hustlers.
- Talking about how you trick poor saps
into thinking that this camgirl loves them,
but it's just like a bunch of people running their account.
- I had these guys selling their houses,
life savings, loans, all of it.
- And you tricked these poor guys posing as women
saying you need money for this and that.
So eventually they can kind of see each other
and be together.
- She was famoosing when she was asleep.
We were bringing money for the (bleep) sky.
We're promising all these meetings,
all these pictures outside of embassies, all this (bleep).
- And then when you scam them outta their money
and they get mad,
you make them seem like they're the aggressive guy.
- Flip it on him.
And he'd get furious 'cause we were really good at-
- (bleep) sides.
- Yeah, poking him to the point where you go like
"You're a (bleep)scammer.
You (bleep) scammed me."
Get really mad.
"I can't believe you think I was a scammer
I was gonna come.
I went to the embassy.
You are a (bleep) liar.
Every man in my life has only lied to me.
I thought you were different."
Maybe I just got too mad when she had a headache.
Maybe I should have been a little bit more patient,
and she would've been my girlfriend,
and a hundred percent of the time
in less than three months with an apology,
a brand new pile of money, and the cycle would repeat.
We (bleep) killed the game.
Millions of dollars a week.
- Your life and lifestyle is built on a mountain of lies.
You can hide behind your adopted faith all you want now,
but you better hope there's not actually a God.
I just don't think it's gonna go well for you.
Then in huge online entertainment news
we gotta talk about Kai Cenat
because not only has he blown up over the past year
to become pretty much the biggest streamer in the world,
he is absolutely smashing subscriber records
over on Twitch right now.
He's nearly the end of a 30 day subathon
with his stream now having been live 24/7
since it started on February 1st.
Last week becoming the third Twitch streamer
to ever reach 200,000 concurrent subscribers.
Also reportedly the first Black streamer to ever do so.
With him now today beating out Ninja's previous peak
of 269,000 concurrents,
and as of recording reaching 274,000 subscribers
making him the second most subscribed creator
in the platform's history only behind Ludwig
who managed to hit 283,000 subs in 2021.
But I have a feeling Kai's gonna break this record
any minute now.
And then let's talk about the Take It Down project
and what it really says about the the moment, right?
Because this is a project that's built
as letting young people take back control
of their intimate images
by letting them proactively choose to have intimate images
and videos of themselves blocked from online platforms.
Right, so this would include full or partial nudity,
and even poses that are just too sexual.
Well, that's how it's being described,
it's also not just a platform for young people.
Reportedly a parent or a trusted adult
could do this process for someone
in addition to adults who are worried about
images from when they were under 18.
And when you hear that, you might think
what I also thought,
does that mean you're uploading your images
to Take It Down servers like on a database
where it's gonna get maintained?
Doesn't that just open up the door for hackers
to try and grab that data?
Well, they say they already thought of that.
So they say instead the system works by letting someone
choose the images they want to be blocked
and then Take It Down assigns a unique hash code,
kind of think of it as a a fingerprint for that exact image.
So when a copy of that image
is uploaded to participating platforms,
it's checked for unique markers assigned to that hash
and blocked if it matches.
Right, so they're saying that the actual image
never leaves the user's device,
and no one but the person who uploaded
ever has access to what the image looks like.
They're saying that the data is essentially completely open.
It's just a bunch of numbers.
And also if the uploader wants,
they don't even have to give
any identifying information about themselves.
Now, currently, the system's only available
from takeitdown.ncmec.org,
but pretty soon Facebook and Instagram
are gonna have integration within their apps
to make the process easier for people
with even PornHub and OnlyFans
being major partners in this project
meaning that they'll actively block and remove content
that matches any hashes that people have uploaded
into the database.
With that expected that more platforms are going to join
the project as well.
And then Crosley Green is going back to prison.
Right, so if you don't know,
he was the man who was in prison for decades
due to a 1989 murder,
but he was released in 2018 after it was revealed
that there were major issues with his case,
namely that evidence that could have possibly helped him
was withheld from his team.
We're talking about things like notes from first responders
saying that they thought he was innocent
and that officers on the scene thought
someone else was responsible.
However, that decision was sent to
the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
and Green was placed under house arrest in April of 2021
pending their decision,
which came last year when they ruled that
while the evidence should have been handed over
to the defense, it was ultimately immaterial to the case.
Although Green's defense attorney at the time disagreed
saying that if he had known that this evidence existed
he would've handled Green's defense differently.
But either way, what this meant was that
this was headed to the US Supreme Court
and Green was allowed to be free
until they made their decision,
which we now know is that they've decided
not to hear the case at all.
Meaning he's heading back to prison
with his attorney telling reporters,
"Mr. Green and his family were devastated by the news today,
yet they are a family of remarkable faith,
and they're clinging to one remaining hope,
that the state of Florida will grant clemency or parole.
There is still time for the state to do the right thing."
But there granting parole, probably not going to happen.
He's reportedly been eligible for a while
as a model prisoner who's never committed
an offense behind bars,
but has refused to do so as it requires admitting guilt.
And since he's vowed to never do that
it means that his only real option is to pray that
Governor Ron DeSantis grants him clemency,
which, I mean, that's a completely up in the air thing.
Green's case is in some like random unknown thing.
It was actually a very big deal for a while.
The prosecution is increasingly left
doubt in people's minds.
His fingerprints were never found at the scene.
Witnesses recanted their testimony
also saying the police coerced them.
And that's just some of the issues.
But at the same time, DeSantis has been on the record
like many Republican politicians
of wanting to be tough on crime.
Although notably there,
he does have a record of granting at least some clemencies
and pardons during his time in office.
But for now, we'll have to wait and see.
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And then more than 650 school girls
have been poisoned in Iran.
That's the latest figure since November
when 18 students from a technical school were hospitalized.
Reportedly they smelled something like tangerine
or rotten fish, and then they fell ill with symptoms like
respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness, and fatigue.
And while fortunately nobody appears to have died thus far,
the poisonings just keep coming
with more than 10 girls schools getting targeted
in the surrounding province since the first incident,
as well as at least 194 girls in the past week alone.
And as for who's behind this, we currently don't know.
I mean, some suspect the government.
Others allege that it's an extremist group.
But on Sunday the country's deputy health minister
apparently confirmed that the poisonings were intentional
saying, "It became evident that some people
wanted all schools,
especially girls' schools, to be closed down."
Though we later saw him backpedaling on that saying that
he was misunderstood.
But this as a member of the Parliament's Health Commission
also confirmed they were intentional.
And now the government says that
they're investigating the incidents,
and in the meantime, several schools have shuttered.
And for those that haven't,
girls are just refusing to return.
With one teacher, for example,
saying out of 250 students, only 50 attended classes.
And the response to this has been utter frustration
with parents protesting outside of the governor's office
in the city where most of these cases are being reported,
with one father shouting,
"I have two daughters, two daughters,
and all I can do is not let them go to school."
And another woman adding, "This is war.
They want girls to stay at home."
And a key thing with all this is this is coming
as protests over the killing of Mahsa Amini last September
still rock the country,
with one human rights group counting over 20,000 arrests
and at least 500 deaths.
But the protests there have become
more rare in recent weeks.
And that's in no small part because of repression,
right, the crackdown from the government,
but also because people are more worried right now
about their livelihoods rather than political activism.
Because the economy there continues to crumble
with inflation at 53% last month, up from 41% two years ago.
And the local currency's rapidly losing value
plummeting to a record low on Sunday,
leading people to line up outside of exchange offices
to grab as many dollars as they can
before their life savings evaporate.
With a lot of these problems unfortunately made even worse
by the crippling sanctions gripping the country,
which have yet to ease since talks
to revive the nuclear deal have stalled for months,
with Iran having now enriched enough uranium
for several atomic weapons should it choose to develop them
according to the UN's nuclear watchdog.
And then this is one of the worst accidental tragedies
Europe has seen in a while now.
It's believed that four days ago
a boat carrying up to 200 people departed from Turkey
seeking to unload near a seaside Italian resort.
But this boat, while traveling through stormy seas
in the black of night crashed into some rocks
and broke apart while trying to land.
So it's sank with many passengers swimming safely to shore,
but also dozens more washing up dead alongside debris.
The disaster killing a confirmed 63 people so far,
though some fear that number could rise to 100,
with among the dead, at least 12 children.
And as of recording,
the Coast Guard has rescued 80 survivors,
also arresting three they believe to be human traffickers.
The bodies of those who died being blessed by a priest
before being removed,
the survivors also given blankets on the beach
before being sheltered.
But the trauma wrought from this is immeasurable.
You've had families crying out for one another,
parents screaming for their children,
a man whose wife and three children died
holding onto his only surviving son.
And with all this one rescue worker saying,
"It reminds us all that the Mediterranean
is a giant mass grave with tens of thousands of souls in it.
And it continues to widen."
Because while over 105,000 migrants
have successfully crossed the sea into Italy last year,
some 1,300 are dead or missing,
and is believed in 2023 12,000 have already made the journey
with them usually fleeing from poverty,
violence, and instability in
third world countries to the East,
in this case coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Iran according to media reports.
And as far as the response we've seen,
you had recently elected Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni,
the far right leader of what some call
Italy's neo-fascist party
saying the only solution is to stop migrant boat departures
and blaming the human traffickers who organized them.
But also connected to this,
her government passed a decree last week
that requires charity ships to return to port
immediately after a rescue.
So unlike before,
where they would spend several days at a time
out in the open water completing rescues before coming back,
and any captain that disobeys
because they're trying to save lives,
they risk fines of up to $53,000
as well as their vessel getting impounded.
And in fact, we're already seeing that happening.
A few days ago, authorities detained
and fined a ship from Doctors without Borders.
And then if you've watched my show for a while,
you know that in my twenties
I had an irrational fear of black holes.
But as it turns out the thing
that I should have been scared of
is the thing that's closer to this floating rock,
and that is the sun.
And that's because every 11 years or so,
the sun goes through a solar cycle,
solar minimum to solar maximum.
And we're in the Solar Cycle 25
with the peak of the solar maximum
expected some time next year or in 2025.
But in the meantime, that means that this year
may be one of the most powerful years
for the sun in a decade.
And this is happening because the magnetic poles
on the star abruptly flip,
which messes with the sun's polarity
and that instability causing more activity
on the surface of the sun, which causes issues for us.
We're talking about things like it could ground planes,
kill astronauts, and cause power outages.
As far far as grounding planes,
we're looking at a situation where
the sun's magnetic fields are getting all messed up.
They could crash into each other and explode.
When that happens, energy and charge particles
are thrown into space messing with
the ionosphere here on Earth.
And fun fact or potential "Jeopardy" question,
both satellite and radio communications
rely on the ionosphere,
which are kind of key things when it comes to flights.
And so the FAA would ground flights.
Also as far as power outages,
as the sun's explosions mess with the ionosphere,
it can create currents which interact
which particles on the ground.
And that could theoretically flood infrastructure
here on Earth to the point that it blows up transformers.
Not those, those.
Though, notably, it would have to be
an absolutely massive geomagnetic storm hitting Earth
to put multiple transformers outta commission.
And then as far as the killing astronauts,
I think that's just the, you know,
I feel like that's the the most straightforward one.
I mean, I'm gonna give you the specifics,
but I think you can fill in the blanks.
You're like, "Yeah, sun explosions.
Probably bad to be out there."
But the sun, it let's off radioactive material
that people here on Earth are mostly protected from
thanks to the atmosphere.
But hey, not all doom and gloom.
As the sun becomes more active, like we talked about,
it interacts with the ionosphere
and that's what causes auroras like the Northern Lights.
And so when the geomagnetic storms hit Earth's ionosphere
the auroras become brighter and larger.
So the auroras actually end up being visible
further south than expected.
Some even reportedly visible in the southern UK
over the weekend.
And ultimately for me, this situation feels like,
it feels like the sun is my wife,
fun for me to look at,
but also potentially deadly in certain situations.
And that's where today's show ends.
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