RCR with Paul Brennan, reality check radio. Friday morning, time for our political panel. Ghost that week goes quick, doesn't it? And I'd like to welcome in Olivia Pearson. Hi, Olivia. Hello, Paul. How are you? I'm good. With that sexy voice you've got today. Oh, yes, yes. How are you? Marty. Good day, Marty. Marty. Hi, Paul. How are you today? I'm good. And Cam. Hi, Cam. Good morning, Paul. How are you? I'm very good. Boy, a lot to choose from this week, right? Yes, just desire. Busy week. Busy week. On every front, tell you what really got me interested this week is Yevgeny. Is it Pregosin or Pregosin? Pregosin. Pregosin. Goption. I've been watching his videos over the time, mainly during that Bakhmut thing. He struck me as, how would you describe it? Quite well. He's obviously very hard. Well, he's a blowhard, but he looks like a tough man. Tough man. You'd have to be, wouldn't you? Well, you'd have to be tough to decide that you're going to take out the head of the Russian army in Moscow by de-camping from Ukraine, going back across the border into Russia, and then driving up the freeway. He's a toy. What's he used to freeway? It was Moscow, and nobody stopped him. That was, you know, that's what I found astonishing, that here he was essentially having an industrial dispute with his employer, and working to rule, and heading off to Moscow. Working to rule. He's kind of got away with it, because they said, oh, no, he's going to Belarus to go into retirement, and we're going to move a whole lot of his troops into the Russian army. But he's still alive. And Putin, from my viewing of it, someone might disagree with this, but he looks diminished as a result of this, because there was just no reply from the organs of the state in Russia against Progosian, as he marched up to within 200 miles of Moscow. He's too popular. Well, is he? I don't know. It was, you go, Marty, sorry. No, I was just going to say, de-camp to St. Petersburg, and I did hear rumblings that Stalin stayed even 28 miles from the German front lines. So there was the comparison made, I understand, in Russia. Yeah, it was made. But it was, it was shocking that he waltzed into Rostov. I mean, that's the HQ of where the war sport in the Ukraine, but he marched into Rostov with, what, 4,000 troops surrounding all the HQ buildings unblocked. I mean, I found that really odd, but maybe that's just trust. I mean, maybe nobody, you know, thought that he would do what he was going to do. But it wasn't a coup, nor was it a civil war as we watched the whole Western media lick its chops in anticipation that it might be, but it was certainly dramatic. He's a well-known loudmouth and has made noises that the war isn't being fought hard enough in the Ukraine and he's wanted decisive action to go hard and end it. But remember that in March 2022, only one month into the war, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators were discussing a 15 point peace deal that would have involved Kiev formally renouncing its ambition to join NATO and accepting limits on its armed forces in exchange for a ceasefire in the withdrawal of Moscow's troops and security guarantees from the West. But then Prime Minister at the time, Boris Johnson, went suddenly flying on the surprise visit into Kiev and talked Zelensky out of doing any peace deals, instead urging him to fight on. Boris made two points at that time, one that Putin was a war criminal and thus shouldn't be negotiated with, which I think was nuts. And the second that even if Ukraine were willing to sign agreements on guarantees with Putin, they, meaning the UK, Germany, France and NATO were not prepared for that. So there ended that potential for a peace negotiation over a year ago. How did he persuade him in one day? Probably flattered that giant ego, I would say, you know. Money. Well, he promised him full support with weapons. That's working out well. That's working out really well. So here, Progosian, who was, you know, is now disgruntled, sent 4,000 troops to go into, well, to march to Moscow from Rostov. You know, he claimed that helicopters were used to attack some of his men, I believe that's true when people did die, I don't know how many. But here's the thing, when Putin addressed the nation in that speech that evening, I have never seen him so incandescent with rage. Putin is always so cold and emotionless, but you could see his rage beneath his ever chilly exterior bubbling away. And Progosian called a halt to the Moscow march and the Wagner group are very popular with Russian people. They want an alpha dog, like Progosian on the ground in the theater of war and who could blame them. But there are other fighters in the Wagner group from Germany, from Serbia, other countries. Like the French foreign legion kind of thing, isn't it? Yeah, there's a French foreign legion. They're a private military contractor without their ears and graces of a black water or something like that. I mean, they're just brutal killers as well. Yeah, they're very, very hard men. And interesting that this whole deal has been done by Lukashenko, president of Belarus and Progosian. Apparently they've been friends for 20 years and Progosian and his fighters are in Belarus now in exchange for immunity. There's news coming out now that, well, first of all, let me say that there were huge rumors that the CIA were behind this whole thing. And I've seen a lot of Twitter with stories that really run the length of that whole narrative. But the thing that makes me mistrust that is, although I'm sure the CIA may have tried to have had a hand but you will never get past the Russian FSB. I mean, all their leaders are surrounded by FSB operatives. Anything to do with the CIA must be picked up by them first if they wanted to pull off some sort of coup, although I as I saw it was an industrial dispute.  But, you know, I mean, the Russians don't need to do that. I and it would be the other way round, surely. It was the other way round there are the hydroelectric dam, I think. Well, Zolensky's been saying that for a while as well. And if the Russians wanted to nuke anything, they just push a button. Yeah, this whole thing. No, they tried to attack that. They tried to attack that last year, I remember in September and even one of the UN guys from the Nuclear Inspection Agency said that actually it was in quite good hands with Russia and that the attack had come from the Ukrainian forces. There's just a lot of BS on both sides. But this whole thing with Progosian just remind reminded me of that that movie. Nobody with Bob Odinkirk is the main character. And he goes up against Julian Kuznetsov, the Russian mafia boss guarding the Obchak. You know, I don't know if you've seen it, it's hilarious.  And it just reminds me of Progosian because, of course, he's got a background in, you know, entertainment, restaurants and all of that sort of stuff before he got into the Wagner group and all of that. But it just all looks very comical. I mean, you know, the for years, the the United States quivered in fear about Russia and in some respects, they still do. But Russia's military is not as good as they've they've either pretended they are or the Americans assumed because it's been a meat grinder for a year. And yeah, only one way meat grinder, though. Yeah, but but it's not only only a one way meat grinder. I mean, it's verifiable the losses of tanks, for example. It's really obvious. People who are watching these things that, you know, there's a lot of stuff that's happened that we don't know about. But, you know, the truth in war just disappears as soon as the shooting starts. Yeah. And I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm not pro Russian or pro Ukrainian. I think I think there's a pox on both their houses and why we should care about this proxy war basically on behalf of NATO is is ridiculous. I mean, today it's been reported by the Moscow Times. Which has now run from inside Holland. They're they're a left leaning paper that's very anti-puting. But they were saying that Russian general Sergei Serovkin has now been arrested. No, so that yeah. And he was on Prugoshan's side and they're now claiming that there's a massive purge going on off the top military brass, which of course wouldn't be a surprise. Prugoshan demanded that the Sergei Shogu, the Russian Defense Minister, that he resign. Well, he hasn't resigned or he also wanted the general of staff Goromisov to resign. But what's happened is that Serovkin has been arrested. And he was, remember, he was the one who ran the whole war in Ukraine last year for three months and he was replaced by Goromisov. So it's a mess. But you won't detain you won't deter Russia without a proper peace deal that gives them exactly what they asked for at the beginning, and that's no NATO incursion. That goes back to Minsk. That goes back to what? No, it goes back to 2007. It actually goes back to Khrushchev. Yeah, yeah. Wasn't he drunk when he did the site that opposite? Well, I mean, it was something that the USA used to respect and NATO used to respect, but they don't respect it anymore. No one can blame Putin for being so antsy about it and starting a war in Ukraine. I'm sorry. I don't know if anybody's seen Taka's latest that came out yesterday. We played it yesterday morning. Oh, OK.  It's like they are not a defining pillar of democracy, the Ukraine. They never have been. That's that that talk really annoys me. All right. OK. Glad we're not there. Oh, but what about the six billion missing? What about the Pentagon admitting that they had an accounting error and they were missing six billion dollars last week? Where's that money gone? Yeah, I wonder. Ukraine or it's gone to Lockheed, Martin Skunkworks. Yeah, UFOs that we don't know exist. And they're already here, apparently. Yeah. OK. So anything more to say about that? No, it was an industrial dispute. That's an odd term to use, though, can. Yeah, I think it's a bit more than that. Actually, it was a bit upset about getting a few of his troops bombed as conditions. Yeah, it wasn't happy with the way things were running. So we'll just withdraw from here and we'll just have a little bit of that line that his troops were bombed. I mean, we have no idea whether that's true or not. But who keys? I don't know. Well, we care because it's a world war. You can't be that flat, my darling. You can't be that flat. Yeah, OK. Well, as I said before, I've drunk quite a lot of vodka with Russians and Ukrainians, and they're both well, the ones I was drinking vodka with decent people. Nice, learned, thoughtful people. And it's a shame when they've got the vodka in. Well, maybe maybe it sounded more so to me at the time as well. Yeah. Yeah. If they can quote Dostoevetsky, then they're a friend of mine. Yeah. Chippy and China, China. There you go, Olivia. Did anyone in New Zealand know that our Prime Minister was going up to China to a World Economic Forum meeting with the villainous Klaus Schwab? I thought New Zealand leadership having any relationship with Klaus Schwab was a crazy conspiracy theory. According to Grant Robertson and Sean Plunkett, it is. Yeah. How rude was he to Peter Williams over that, Grant Robertson? But the thing, I mean, of course, he's meeting with Cheeching Pin, just ping sheech and ping, I've got to say that properly as well. And that's happened.  I mean, he'd be eaten for breakfast. So all we can expect is more sycophancy. Well, what we saw, though, is the insult to Hipkins from the moment he landed in China because he was met by some low ranking official in in the regime, right, not even the foreign minister, not even the prime minister. Right. So they sent some low level functionary out to give him the glad hands as he walked down the stairs of the clapped out Boeing 757 with its backup sitting in the Philippines. You know, I think of it. Who was that? I mean, just to segue into that for a little bit. Who was the fool in Hipkins office who thought taking two 757s to China or at least one of the most of the way as a backup was ever going to have good optics?  And here they are taking two of the world's worst performing aircraft in terms of field efficiency. That's not true, by the way. But anyway, China. Well, it is it is true on our planes because they're old and they haven't got upgraded engines. And there are no upgraded engines for that aircraft. Now, there are. There are upgraded engines that you can stick on them. And a lot of the US things are doing them now with their saving 25 to 30 percent. There is there is no update for the 757s, either Pratt and Whitney's or Rolls Royce's, and they don't make them the model of the engine anymore. So, yeah, it's a good, very good aircraft. They're very good aircraft. They're good aircraft, but ours are old and clapped out. And they were old and clapped out when we bought them from the Dutch. Yeah, God knows why we bought those cheap. Yeah, well, they went that cheap. Did you notice that Carmel Sepuloni just basically countered the cost of fuel and justifying it, saying that it was cheaper? Yeah, and then she said it was nine years of neglect while the planes are breaking down all the time. Well, they've been in for six. So they wouldn't be allowed to fly them if they didn't meet Boeing certification standards. They wouldn't be allowed to fly. No, that's right. I mean, they're not a bad plane, but they're not. Then they're not in any way efficient or there's no way that you can explain it away politically. Why didn't they just go commercial? There's flights every day to China from New Zealand and and heaps of other airlines that fly backwards and forwards between doesn't make him look so important. Yeah, but then you get met at the at the airport by a low level functionary there. So they're always already treating you with contempt. Of course. And then all of the state sponsored media in China starts lauding up how great we are because we're basically chugging the great lengths of Chinese sausage and and and sucking up to these guys. And and they're using that to say to the Australians and Americans, well, this is how you conduct diplomacy, just like New Zealanders. Yeah, good, hard swallow here. And we really are proud of them for doing it. So that's that's disgusting. You know, the the sycophancy that we have to the Chinese government.  No, she didn't she was she was saying at that time as foreign minister that she was trying to signal to exporters that they needed to think about diversification and the buffering aspects of something significant happened in China, would they be able to withstand the impact? But this is just more locking more business for New Zealand. There's no decoupling going on, is what I'm trying to say. There's not even a there's not there's not a trace of that kind of speech anywhere, it's just further def genuflection to China in the name of free market. But there's no free market inside China. Everything is overseen by CCP managers and bureaucrats. And I want to say this, that for anyone out there who is under the delusion that somehow Vladimir Putin is taking on the globalists and the World Economic Forum goons to eliminate, eliminate work corruption in the class swabs of this world, lo and behold, I again make the argument that Xi Jinping is neck deep in the World Economic Forum and the surveillance, the eugenics, the big tech fascism, the totalitarianism. You know, central credit system, whole social currencies, everything. Fifteen minute city. Yeah, and the like and all this. China wants New Zealand to take off its take on its of its own accord. And it looks like we're going to and this is they are our overlords. They've locked us like wedlock into trade and it's all money, money, money, money. And at least Australia took at least a moral stance when they pushed back against China's hegemony into their economy. We are not anywhere near that. Nobody in New Zealand speaks that language and that frightens me. No, it's it's worse to when you consider that we went from, you know, labor that was heading in that direction then to John Key, who was really a absolute sycophant to the to the Chinese. You know, message. We've had, you know, essentially Chinese spies in both the National Party and the Labour Party, who are sitting there as MPs. We've still got the National Party receiving donations from CCP linked people in New Zealand, and they just they take the money. They never hand it back. They would just take it, you know, all that money that ended up in the court with a serious fraud office, you know, after the Jamie Lee Ross accusations, all that Chinese money. They never gave that back. It's still sitting there accounts.  And I keep saying, well, why is changing a red shirt to a blue shirt going to make things any different? Though the two major parties, their policy settings, especially on China, you can run a cigarette paper between them. They're just so similar and lurching from one big party to the next big party and back again is never going to get us ahead, especially in dealing with a totalitarian regimes like China. But can that's because any politician knows it would be suicide for them as a politician to bring that up, given how many business owners like their cushy deals with China. It's a moral lack of courage in queues themselves. I'll give you a personal example of that, right? Of how much the National Party has changed when my father was the president of the National Party and before that, the Auckland Regional Director, he would get phone calls regularly from the ambassador, Chinese ambassador ordering him to get on the phone to a cabinet minister or a senior official or whatever and tell them that then the regime, the National Party regime that was in charge didn't like what these people were saying about China. And they would do this on a regular occurrence and ring that up and say this. And my father would point out to them in very strong terms that we live in a democracy. People are entitled to their opinions about anything, including on China. And so with respect, Ambassador, take your orders in your directions and shove them. But there'd be nobody in the National Party today that would stand up to China. I mean, I can remember back in those days when it was Taiwan's national holiday. You know, there would be scores of National Party MPs going to the function put on by the Taiwanese ambassador. And John Key actually stopped them going to that. He told his caucus and you're no longer going to go to anything to do with Taiwan. That's how insidious the slip in the National Party from being freedom loving, respecting people's personal choices, those sorts of things. How far they've slipped from that ethos to being toadies to the Chinese government. I have seen Simon O'Connor say something in support of Taiwan. But he's the only one, but, you know, everyone ignores him. What would happen if we, you know, just started to disconnect and we could pay a very high price? Well, we could, but where else are they going to get protein from? I mean, we've got something they want, but they can stop taking it if they want, that's fine. That's that's the world of trade. But, you know, sometimes you've got to have principles. And it seems that neither the Labour Party nor the National Party have any principles when it comes to China, their principles of sale. Or, you know, a few CCP reninbi in the back pocket. Yeah.  And maybe it's always been this way. And but I've just woken up to it, but it's that everyone is viable. Everyone sells themselves so flipping cheaply. Yeah. For for for for things that are monumental and horrible and a lot far reaching, you know, like a social credit system. You're right, it is cheap because we just have seen the last week. James O'Keefe, formerly of Project Veritas, now doing his own thing. Yeah. Busting a BlackRock executive boasting about buying senators for $10,000. Ten grand. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the problem isn't isn't so much that you can buy someone for that. It's more that there's a process of elimination or selection in pro place to ensure that only viable people end up there. That's what bothers me. But that but that most people we've seen from the last few years. Most people are viable. Who would have thought all our doctors would not repair to their Hippocratic oath, but would repair to their contracts with pharmaceutical companies over and above our own welfare and threats and intimidation. Nobody had any principles. Yeah. Yeah. They just thought back to how long it took them to get their medical degree.  But it was, you know, about a week after she sent them a letter threatening doctors with deregistration, if they stepped out of line, Jacinda Ardern said, actually, you know, the people you should really talk to your GPs because they know you the best. So she should just threaten them and then she was recommended. Well, they'll they'll give you advice. I've just threatened them to give you the advice that and, yeah, it's it's quite confronting the level of corruption everywhere. So the bad optics, OK, the planes, but the bad optics really is that W.E.F. Partly image, right? And it's like they want to stick it in our face. Although I'm so unaware that people like us sit around not liking that. Well, I mean, and what does he what? What did he call them, the new champions? It's love. Yeah.  You have penetrated the cabinet. It is penetrated the cabinet. So I wonder what Chris Ipkins thinks about his penetration.  But what? I don't realize it from up a heart. He's seen it all from China, and he's also got it from class. But the new champions and and I had no idea that was actually going on until Chris Ipkins got there. There's no analysis. Just like, yeah, there is just is meeting with global leaders. That's kind of global eateries. I want to see somebody make class swabs, say with a vein. I want to see him do. There's a vein. There's a vein. There's a vein. I had a German friend once says this is the word in the English language. Says most difficult. There's a vein. There's a vein. There's a vein. What is a vein? You know, on the church's people. Oh, with a vein, you mean? Yes, there's a vein. The church's people to nail his accent. You've just got to learn to say a crisis crisis crisis. So, Cam, let me ask you while I've while I've got you here sitting right in front of me. What it would Winston Peters is stance be on China and the the big problem and all our trade. What have you talked to him about that at all? Briefly, I've had a couple of discussions with him about China, mainly, you know, as information would come up about the National Party and their donations and things like that. And Winston's got a couple of examples of when he was in China, negotiating things with them and trying to get things going. He says the trouble you've got is you actually don't. You can't actually believe a word that they say. You know, I've seen him say stuff also about the WF. He's not a big fan of them. And he's certainly starting to realize that the UN and the WHO and the WF in China are all pushing particular agendas that we are all supposed to tug our forelocks off our caps and agree with. And he's coming out more and more hostile to those globalist organizations and their intentions for control of governments and countries and everything else in between. It's worth actually talking about what their their aims are because you never see discussion of it. We talked about it on media matters the week before last. And I mean, the they're about seven. You break down to about seven points. They want to end national sovereignty. So nations submit to an arbitrary global rules based order, global governance, the ESG stuff. Yeah. Well, spending is dictated by central banks and technocrats. And the aim is no growth.  And you look at all this is playing out. You know, what it's talking about. Germany's power has gone up five hundred percent recently. So the UK where they've had to actually get the wind power is actually failing badly and they're having to fire up coal plants to to take the base load. Yeah, it's not an accident. They want dictatorship by corporate cartels. They want some and that's backed by global NATO, which will extend into the Pacific. They want total censorship directed by the media and social media cartels and the ultimate aims depopulation. They talk about a fair bit. So, you know, that all sounds great. Oh, and we need to use AI to rewrite the Bible. Well, there's no there's no discussion of it. No, no, no, no, no, no, creep, isn't it? Guy creep, the one who wants to what's his name? Arari, yeah, wants to rewrite the Bible. Yeah, it wants a sensitive to that can tell if you're gay, so it can decide what sort of billboard you see to sell your coke. But these these these people are actually evil. Oh, very actually evil. And, you know, not a lot was made of Jacinda Ardern's links to the W. E. F. But she was deeply embedded with them and still is. Didn't you you came out cam and said that didn't you at some point you said that she was evil Oh, yeah, I did. She used to believe that That was when that was when um, she finally turned the police on us That cam I remember came put out that piece that it was if you use your police force to attack your own citizens Although it was a threshold right here Again, that was the turning point.  He's kind of was in there working it, you know, he was Everything that he's the banal face of it, right?  I give him But the thing is is that jisinder Ardern for me and I've met I've met every prime minister From moldoon onwards Right, most of them are dead The ones that are left and retired and nobody cares about right. So I've met all of these people I've had dinners with them. I've had lunches with them They all try all have tried to do what they thought was best, right now moldoon Was ill equipped to deal with the ill winds and the economy that he was dealing with But he did do some really good things and ironically They're the very things that the green type people and the labor people oppose like You know, the think big projects That bill birch Brought in the the Clyde dam all of it.  She went and saw them She'd go and talk to them on the basis of that She basically destroyed all of that investment in gas and oil exploration in new zealand on a whim from some screaming naughty kids Yeah, I don't think that is just evil It the same things happen in in germany and it's it's it's in the line with those policies of wf to to make energy more and more expensive Yeah, she's she's a she's just a screen and a keyboard CPUs Offshore But like, you know, we've got huge resources of coal in new zealand We don't dig our own coal up and use it in power plants or or in We bring in the other we bring in dirty rubbishy indonesian coal And we sit there Virtue signaling to the world that we're cleaning green and it's bullshit So the only thing you can surmise from all that is that this is a progressive Planned control deconstruction Yeah, absolutely of us sabotage of the western way And then you can even take that down into the social upheaval that's occurring and the lack of social cohesion And this pushing of these agendas particularly around trans and all of this The chinese are funding all of this They are causing disquiet and Discohesion in society because it suits their global aims And the china we have a three-year election cycle and the chinese don't even think in three years three years is a blip they're thinking in thousands of years And so what they're trying to do is cause the west to implode upon itself So that they can then roll over the top of that with their promise on weaknesses I mean, there's no way um chinese society would allow all the time. No, they would never be tolerated No, they they allow us to be tripped up by our weaknesses. And aren't we stupid? Well, I've I've lunch every monday was a chinese mate of mine And I said to him that lunch is a group of us all get together about 10 or 12 And I said to him he said to us. Well, what's this what's this trans thing?  He goes, no, no, no not permitted not permitted He said I said what happens to them Uh They're not in china The chinese have a word by you I think it is which uh Is is the descriptor for the west people in the west pushing The agenda that's destroying us. They just they laugh at them I have a great admirer of of darwism and the eaching and just the the thinking in So much chinese culture is fascinating and Yeah, thousands of years old, right? Oh And most people have a sentences worth of knowledge of it and dismiss it on that basis. It's very foolish So so can we say that the wef in china are working hand in hand? They're all part of the same group Hand in hand and glove hand and glove. Well, I don't know about hand and glove. There's there's there's probably an alliance where their interests are Match, but I'd say chinese aspirations to Start a consumer led world order that overtakes the finance led world order is a big part of what the undercurrent of what's gone on Well, if you've got biden who thinks that um, budin's losing the war in iraq Which is what he said then I don't know if there's any hope for anyone No, anyway, okay, should we should we move on to the next topic nationals problem with maori? What is the problem who wants to talk about that? I'll talk about that because it's it's been I mean the deterioration of race relations in new zealand really bothers me because you know coming from the east coast te taira fiji I uh, you know 50 maori and so You know, I have a lot of friends there and family and just watching Luxon fumble the ball. He started out with the best of intentions, but you know, he got um I had her name, but he got he got a lady when when he first took over Are you here punga? Yeah invited her to to the national party conference and she was Impressed that uh, he'd done it then rather than six months before the election Sereti Dury said Intel maori peace depends on mutual respect of mana and I um I don't You know, there's a lot said about Like it's absolute bollocks Right. Well peace comes through superior firepower. That's not peace.  There's no mutual respect For national from maori at all All right, it doesn't matter how much the national party bends over backwards To resolve historical Grievances to do treaty settlements to do all of these things pour billions and billions of dollars into making things better for maori They get no votes. In fact, I know one ampere or former ampere He had a spreadsheet and a calculation Working out that the more money that nationals spent the less votes they got from maori And he'd worked out that it there was a mathematical calculation That if they just spent this amount of money and it wasn't that large Especially considering the covet fund and the billions spent there that if nationals spent that money, they could completely eradicate any vote for the national party by doing that And so I don't think that nationals got a problem with maori They've been over backwards trying to stand candidates and maori seats Have all sorts of woke policies start to you and you get you get these communists like simon wilson from the herald and avowed communists who's posing out loud about how the national party needs to you know, be more diverse and They do all of that and people don't vote for them. Maori just don't vote for national And the ones that do vote for national aren't on the maori role. They're in the general role So I don't know why Uh national bothers to actually chase that vote because they just don't get it They don't get the vote I think there's there's you know that when chris hipkins was going up to Auckland to I remember recently It was reported. He doesn't have any contacts in business. It was kind of like after all sorry doesn't have contacts in business But the uh reporter said well, it's not that he is hoping to convert these people But middle new zealand wants to think that he thinks about them And I think you know, there's a case to be made for a national doing a similar thing I think a lot of it though comes down to new zealand just needs to deal with its legacy as a slave-owning country I think a lot of it comes but maori owned owned slaves too. That's what I mean That's what I'm talking about in 1840 when the treaty was signed all the rights and privileges of The ownership class of maori were protected Including the ownership of slaves. Now you think about this, right? Britain emancipated slaves 20 years earlier than that Well, a lot of the slaves went and worked for white folks and that's why there's real sensitivity about But that's a thing right are on that side when the treaty was signed Great britain didn't have slavery They'd abolished it that they abolished it very early. Yeah very early to the 1850s.  So it's very similar to maori attitudes towards taxpayers Yeah, very similar. Okay. We need a great And it's not that new zealand is a racist I think they just don't like being treated like slaves And I think it's time, you know, we maybe broach the subject in a loving way Possibly It's like leis paderson. I say it with love. I say it with love. I don't like being treated like a slave I don't like you getting all herty feelings when someone says something to you and then you can say it to me It's not fair. No, that's the point. I was making about the eddy durick whether he meant it or not He said it.  Well, I mean, you know, what's his net worth Don't know but you know, I used to go on radio live with willy jackson and um You know, I used to get on all right with him But he's just been slagging me off left right and center on social media And he forgets all the things that he said and done in the past but I never forget but It's it just seems to be a willingness to accept racism as long as it comes out of the mouth of a Maori Well, that's marxism. That's marxist, right? That's what that up-facing fist is all about It means that whatever you do to the class above you. It's justifiable and that includes lying So we've got to stop expecting honesty. Yeah New zealand's productivity Well, yeah, and that's another another thing I've that's another thing And another thing. I've just been fretting about it because um I've you know, there's the um, I think it was You need to have your papers organized I'll get yourself organized there marty. I'll talk about I'll talk about productivity take Auckland council for example, right Auckland council has got a number It's not an inconsequential number of staff members Who are working from home where home is an overseas country What what they have a a reasonable number of staff At Auckland council that are working for home and have been doing so for a number of years Where home is an overseas country? And the furthest one away Lives in Spain In the villa by the pool Right, so there's your productivity. Did you know that More than half of Auckland council's staff Are still working from home And if you've been into the court system if you've been um, you know watching what's happening in the court system If you go and file anything or file a paper you get an automatic response back from from the person who You're emailing and it says are due to covid restrictions There are delays and this and then and you go into the court and everything is still on covid restrictions And half their staff aren't even in the office. They're all working from home and most government departments You know, they they were talking about the Wellington protests and how is affecting business And all of that down in Wellington these terrible unwashed people Um, you know super spreaders, um causing harm to the business in Wellington. It's bullshit The the harm that was being caused to the businesses in Wellington Was all the civil servants staying at home and drinking their coffees and thawnden And corori and candala rather than in the cbd Because they're all working from home and still are in many instances Well, how could that be tolerated now in the same way as the 28 percent increase in the public sector over the past Five years is tolerated and the increase in the You know in the minimum wage for no increase in productivity As a result, you know, I can remember back when I used to run a security company and we had $8 guards and $10 guards in our and The difference was whether or not they had a qualification But two bucks, but now those same security guards Doing the same job with no discernible change and And in in the operations of the jobs, they're all being paid 27 30 dollars an hour Well, they're not worth that much. Yeah, but that's what you need just to be able to buy groceries now Yeah, but but but the job isn't worth that much It was it was pushing it at $10 an hour a few years ago But but the reality is about that on media watch, you know, you sort of have you can't pay Your best work is what they're worth because you're having to pay your worst work is what they're not worth and You know And then they've got you know The young people today, you know, we go are the young people. Well, they have mental health days Yeah, oh, no, I wasn't feeling too good. Um, I needed a mental health day I took that off Do you need it every Friday or every Monday? What do people do on mental health days? What do they actually do? I wonder don't ask Kerry Ellen.  Well, there's a phrase. I'll clue you guys in on some of the lingo because you know, uh, there's a phrase apparently used among Zoomers called bed rotting Yeah Right, and it just means I Presumably lying in your bed with no aspirations for anything more. Okay.  What we're now going to witness From Kerry Ellen is gaslighting on her behalf and I'd put her up as a nomination for Gaslighter of the week because She's saying she's saying there have never been any formal allegations put to me which You hear that coming from a politician. You think okay. Were there any informal ones? You know, what how does this work?      Yeah combined those things and doesn't look very good doesn't doesn't look pretty So this is all a legacy of the dictator the the tyrant Jacinda Ardern she let all of this rubbish Percolate along and hipkins is having to come along and clean it up But you know, you look at his roles. He was the leader of the house He was you know chief whip. He knows about all of these things covered guy, right? He but he was He was the enforcer Of Ardern so he wouldn't have known about all of these the whips would report to him They've known about all this stuff socialist bosses, man. They're the worst Speaking of bullying, um Paul I really liked your interview with Winston Peters. Oh, yeah Yeah, not not that you bullied him, but I felt that you were trying to get to you were trying to get to the social media posts, right Um where he was gunning really hard for vaccination during 2021 and Bullying the unvaccinated really heavily, but I felt that he derailed you or he didn't want You to get to them and you didn't actually Name any of them, but I made a note here of Some of the things that he actually did say At that time when he was bullying the unvaccinated in this country. I'm aware of what he said Yeah, everybody was bullying in in who was in parliament at the time the key thing is with Winston Is that he's realized that he he got it wrong? And that that's why he's starting to talk about we need to be having investigations into Uh, you know that died suddenly Start the the the things that have been yeah the death rates and and and that I I saw that I saw his thing yesterday done in Dunedin and I'm glad that that went viral I get on to your question though. I haven't heard an apology though from him Vaccination that's what I want. You'll never hear an apology. He said he owned it. He said he owned it Was all very well to say you own But this is a work of progress and um, I was prepared to fire out those lines But this is a very delicate time at the moment. Yeah, well, let's just let's just remind people Of one of those lines of one of those lines all people are seeing right now Are the unvaccinated holding the vast majority of Kiwis and the economy to ransom at immense cost That was one of that line one of those lines in 2021. Yep. You have to remember to um, Olivia that when that line was delivered He was a minister of the crown in 2021 Oh, not in 2021, but prior to that he was so he had to go along with what cabinet had decided No, he went along with it off his own free will in 2021. We're talking quite late. So But I want I want to get this out because Yo, what's the next one? Well, it's that, you know, he constantly made this push that it was the vaccinated that were holding the country to ransom when it came to lockdowns Which everybody and everybody who was in power and in contra were saying that From Biden to everything. So not everybody's running again in this current election So what I'm saying to you is that that was that that's what 95 percent of our population thought to Remember, yeah, I don't care if people are morons um What I hear about is that he needs to apologize. He needs to apologize. What he needs to do is not apologize You can't you can't apologize for things that you said in the past like that. That's the sort of thing You can that that leftist. I think what I still apologize for things that happened in colonial times, right? No, no, that's a really important person can it's a really poor comparison. We're talking about what's more important than an apology Olivia What's more important than an apology is actually putting it right I'm telling all I all I'm saying is anyone can say sorry. I could say sorry No, no, but I'm telling you you will not get he will not get the votes from the freedom movement Which he seems to be gunning for Unless he is prepared to say look. I really got that wrong You unvaccinated people actually held a line that needed to be held And he was not a government then I would be patient, Olivia But anyway, let's hear what else he said because that's fair enough that we hear them This one really I find disturbing We urge everyone to get out this Saturday to get your vaccination We need to get these rates up to get out of these lockdown restrictions But at 1 p.m. We need the prime minister to give us the plan out of this once we hit that target He was a desperately needing certainty for their businesses livelihoods and their families But you know that this is the thing is that Remember how hard that was to hold that line. We were getting blamed Neighbors friends family and all the rest of it that we were holding the country to ransom Through not violating our own bodily autonomy. It's that that Winston needs to address very directly Like in the interview with youth pool. I noticed that he kind of washed it away and said that You know, he'd owned it. He'd owned it, but he's not owning it That's I'm pretending to own it because I don't really want these things read out on on media But it needs to be addressed in a much more head-on way And I mean, maybe you could encourage him to do that can because I think people were really really Hurt the country was hurt by that. You gotta wake it up slowly, right? That's right.  I don't understand that It's not a red pill. It's a pink pill, but it ends up being a red pill. Yeah, you've like a lot of us I mean, he just would have clammed up if I started going on like that You know, that was that was first base and there are another two bases at home A lot of us have given up talking to people who were locked into the vaccine the whole narrative And then we just go from whatever not listening to you. It's just static But there are people who have realized that was some terrible things That went wrong in decision-making and went wrong when in policy and all of those And they are actually in a position to help undo some of the harms that went on with that And a sorry doesn't undo the harms actions undo the harm harms And so that's sorry We all want to hear hear a politician apologize, right? We all do. I mean, it's like watching It's like going to the I know it's as rare as a unicorn. It's as rare as hell, right? It's why we go but it's why we go to motor racing because we want to see the crashes, right?  I believe that the information that we got from Pfizer Fire and also that doesn't quite rub actually because we already knew Well, well, we did a lot of us. We suspected a lot of stuff But it's only now that the documentation Of the fraud that went on in the testing from Pfizer And getting all of these governments around the world with these locked in You know agreed things that they would say and do It's only now that's a lot of that stuff is actually getting out for the majority of people to actually see Sure, sure, but but at the the reason I bought that up on the back of the other thing was the bullying It's like winston was appalling Um in his bullying of the unvaccinated people who were protecting their own autonomy And he should apologize for that and I won't vote for him unless he does you won't gonna vote for him Anyway, I love you. No, but I'm look, I'm I'm either gonna vote for winston peters Or I'm gonna sit it out entirely small steps and you got to lead them to the water to make the horse No, we need big steps. We need That's what I was trying to do just to make a start of it chip away a bit And then more and more the guy gets more confidence in talking about it and you end up with something Like the wellington Hard attacks up 83 percent and strokes up 25 percent. That's a thing. Yeah. Yeah, but okay. What do you say to that? Then you're starting out about the people dying each week in New Zealand. I know all about that I've had friend a friend died. So I I'm across that. Yeah, but but in the end What is the alternative? Liz gun a lovely lovely beautiful woman. I spent the the the political party thing is delusional Completely delusion. I mean, she's got 500 people to sign up To say that they're members so that she can register this new political party, which is called. I think nz loyal or Something I mean, it looks like they used an etch etch a sketch to design the logo. It's very amateurish I would have thought she would go for Winston Peters because she has a relationship with them and did that very good interview with him Yeah, it's it's strange. I mean, she's very genuine The problem is is that They deluded into thinking that they've got support because they signed up 500 members in in the well, is she actually deluded? Yeah, I think she what she is having a go at something But then there's thinking that it's going to be a winner. I mean the two different things Well, having a go all credit She's having a go. She's putting a name out there and anyone who stands for public office Get should get a pat on the back for that for giving it a go But giving it a go and actually making a success of it two different things Well, you tell me about success though cam. I mean, you know my guess and I'll get elected would be a start That her view of success in this is going to be getting on to the hustings and talking about things and Maybe getting some funding because she's got members to do advertising I would Be surprised if she thought she was going to win But I think she wants to get a bigger audience the point of standing for parliament so you can mouth off Well, that's that's pointless It's literally all right. Yeah, but I get paid for it Right Well, you can someone does it and then they get shot down Well, no, they don't get shot down and you have to be realistic here It lives gun needs to answer answer the same two questions that I've put to mat king and not got an answer from That I put to leighton baker and won't get an answer from to any of these third parties that are out there The foot if they cannot answer a cogent response to these two questions one How are you going to get 150 000 votes? Or two How are you going to win an electorate seat? Because those are the only two things that matter and if they don't have a cogent answer to those two questions Then all they're doing is living on hope And they will won't will not succeed They will split the vote and when you split the vote like that And there's all these little parties that are hoovering up 10 000 votes here 4 000 votes there 3 000 votes there none of them add up to a hundred thousand 150 000 votes combined But those all become wasted votes and every time you waste a vote That basically gets split 50 50 between the labor party and the national party When they do the recalculations on the on the thresholds That's why winston peters needs to apologize and clean up all that get those votes Well a great great statement. I don't want to fix that on winston, but Cameron you seem to know a bit about this. Will you see that unfolding Of being upfront about it addressing it front on to the level where someone like Olivia would go okay I don't know.  He must have seen the response But he is um to to that he is very you know adept and finely tuned political antenna and so He will He will be watching what happens. He reads what happens on social media. He reads what happens on webs websites Do the more thing of finding an angry crowd and agreeing with them Well, you know, he's he's the consummate politician.  I'm sorry. It's not that we are we are 14 weeks away from an election As everyone keeps saying it's an incredibly important election as we sleepwalk Well, he said it was the most important one. He said that Yeah, I exactly Okay, so it's not early days Hang on. Let me address that And this doesn't apply just to Winston. It applies to every politician, right? But but in particular to Winston So if he did come out and apologize like you said I can see right now all of the Blue rinse gnats with their blinkers on What they'll say is our head say anything for votes, you know He's got all these bottom lines and he never delivers anything he betrayed us in 2017 So it doesn't matter that he's apologized. These are the lines that my readers Say about Winston Peters They are not ever going to open their ears to that it is locked in inside the national party that Winston Peters is An evil, you know person that we mustn't even want to deal with and we must try and destroy him at every opportunity And the same goes for inside the Labor Party ask worry nons parents what they would like to hear. Yeah Hopefully we'll get there baby steps Exactly. All right folks. All right. That's that's us for another week. Thank you cam. Thank you. Thank you all Thank you, Olivia. Thank you You're welcome RCR with Paul Brennan Reality check radio


Dylan's a great pitcher. One of the elite relievers in the league. So, you know, there's no question that that's a blow. You know, he's important to what we do. But in the meantime, we got to make sure we're working really hard to make sure we get our couple of guys that have really strong track records on track. And we still have the guys capable of getting it done at a high level down there. And then, you know, we'll look forward to obviously when when Dylan comes back, but we need to we need to get, you know, get our guys going in the right direction guys that are really capable. The bullpen was supposed to be a major strength for you guys coming into the season. Why do you think guys have not performed like they're capable of?  Obviously, Greeny kind of working through some mechanical things that are that are getting them in a little bit of trouble. So we got to correct it. We got to we got to work hard with them to correct those things because obviously when he's right, he's he's an impact reliever feel really good about where a few guys are. Jonathan Holder, I feel like is throwing the ball really well has got hurt with a couple of hits, but I feel like is in a pretty good place throwing the ball auto.  And then we got to find a way to start getting the ball to chappy, you know, with with a lead there and get it to him in the end. So we have the guys capable doing it and they will. And we just got to keep fighting through this. Happ is not look like the same picture as he was last year. What are you seeing from him right now? You know, it looked like tonight just, you know, having a hard time. He's so good in that lane to righties where he drives the ball in kind of up the ability elevated looks like just, you know, too often maybe he's missing back where it's tailing back over the heart of the plate or kind of missing leaking out over the plate. You know, I think he's just got to really get to where he's confident and comfortable and convicted on driving that ball to that lane that he's so good with. So I think it's just a little bit of a, you know, not having that elite command that he's he's kind of known for and and it's so long with we just got to get him on track and, you know, that lane sets up a lot of things for him. Andy. So what when Haps not locating with that kind of precision, you said, I think you said word confidence or is it about him just having the mentality to pound the zone or is it about little tweaks that would mechanically or whatever that would. I mean, I think it's something that we all got to try and wrap ourselves around and trying to get him into a really good place and then the confidence that high confidence follows when you're starting to really pound it and own your command. I think the results will follow because I think that stuff wise he's fine. I think it's coming out correct. We just got to get him where, you know, he's he's really confident that he can drive pitches where he needs to get him. Joe. Erin with the strong possibility that heavy rain was coming and you might not get this whole game in. Did you think at all about treating the fifth inning like it was like the seventh, eighth or ninth and using your pen in a completely different way tonight? Well, a little bit. I felt like we were, you know, and talking to Ted Barrett, the crew chief, he felt like it was letting up and we had, you know, considerable more time. So there was some consideration to that. But I also feel like we've got to start getting some innings from our pitcher from our starters. You know, it's it's just you run those guys into the ground if you constantly go into the whip in the fourth and the fifth inning, which which we've had to do a little more than we've liked. Obviously, to this point, we got to start getting some some in through the middle innings with some of our starting pitchers and Jay, you know, with a lead there, just wasn't able to get it done. But was there some consideration? Yes. But felt like we need to get over the hump with some of these guys too. Last one right here in the middle. Aaron Jimenez, obviously a highly touted prospect. What did you see from him today that he was able to have success? Yeah, heard us heard us with balls, you know, in the middle of the plate, you know, showed showed showed his power. Couple pitches look like they're right down the middle and he didn't miss them into the big part of the field. And he just just mistakes that he was able to capitalize on. Okay, thank you.


ship every 1000 here and I got we're gonna open this up this is my birthday present yep that monkey got for me so all right we're gonna go ahead and open this up and see what's in here hey guys so let's get this open I can open this with no blade watch so easy that was now the reason why that was so easy was yeah I already opened it and I already had this out I was already looking at it and I was telling you guys all about it and then something happened my camera shut off and it wiped out the file so we packed it all up and we're doing it again at least we don't have to do the tape part alright so here we go and yes this was tape closed too don't get this open I don't know if you read that but monkey bought me a new chainsaw some electric ones just cheap one but we just needed something for like just quick jobs like the other day was outside cleaning up around the tree this would have been perfect we do have gas one in there it's her dad's it's a good one it's a still but for for a five minute job I don't want to dig it out put gas in it put oil in it start and chain all that five or ten minute job I can just plug this in it's ready to go of course it does take a little oil for the bar but so here we go alright does have a nice little guard on here it's cheap what was it 85 bucks 85 bucks on me I'm going to show you this if I don't have issues again and I know it's recording but it's a zombie look at that paint scheme well plastic it's not paint I don't think I think it's in the plastic it's a zombie and monkey would you take it off for me please and what I like about is the 16 inch I don't know why the 16 is upside down but low kickback double guard it's the organ it's the organ bar and it's got an organ chain on it so I gotta do just put oil in this right here it's good to go here's the information on the engine or not engine some motor there's a difference yes gasoline anything like that some engine if it's electric it's a motor but zombie power tools never heard of them so I think that's pretty cool and I waited till monkey got off work to open this because I wanted her to be be in my movie so my movie so because she bought it for me so I think it's pretty cool and like I said I will be doing a a review on this this is how you adjust your chain take your chain off and everything right here you don't have to use tools just take it right off new tools you loosen this unscrew this this will pop off but the chain was already on it I did adjust it but like you can loosen us here and then turn that back and that can adjust it or turn it forward to tighten it up and just give it a little lock down there and there we have it there we go so I don't want that screening up so anyway there's my soul thanks monkey appreciate it that my birthday present for monkey yeah but we have something special coming up we do yes tomorrow tomorrow yeah well she won't tell me she just said made sure all my stuff was charged so yeah it must be youtube worthy yeah okay all right guys thanks for for watching show you bear the myth man legend gone for now monkey so bye y'all thanks for watching guys bye stay tuned


Everybody forced here, ripping a box of 21-22, top spinist UEFA Champions League soccer hobby for Richard P. Thanks, Richard. Good luck. Refractor of Sergio Ramos and a Raywave Koke, 1-44 of 1-99. Refractor Otto. Nice, Henrik Larson. Nice legend hit there. And Refractor Iker Casillas. Prize footballer as Erling Holland. Kyle Jorge, rookie refractor. And a gold refractor. Eli Moriba, rookie. Moriba, 17 of 50. Good box so far. Finest Futures, Patri. Prize footballer's rookie Yusuf Demir. Alright, second mini box now. Rookie Shola Shortyre. Or Shortyre. Rookie refractor Otto Edward Michoud. Michoud Michoud. A yellow prism, 2-99-250, Kai Havertz. Prize footballer's Ryan Gravenberge. Refractor Tony Cruz. Legend Tony Cruz. Finest Futures, rookie Gavi. Winner of the Copa. And Speckle Jadon Sancho, 29 of 175. And prize footballer's Christian Pulisic. Pretty good box there. Thanks again, Richard. We'll get those cards right out to you.


Hi, this is Nate Adams with Energy Smart Home Performance, and I want to show you a problem that I found in a spray foam job, pretty typical, and you just have to check after the fact to find out. So this is a client house. This is an addition here, and you can see everything's gotten foamed. Even a wall that's in the middle here, this is open cell for sound absorption. But this wall right here is the wall in between the old house and this addition. And if you take a look at the top there, that is where it connects to the attic over the old house. So I didn't have much time to be here. I didn't catch this, which is kind of typical. If you only have a little bit of time, things like this are going to get missed. And this is a big miss. In doing blow door testing, this room was about half connected to the outdoors, so it's really a very problematic room. And this space right here is going to be most of it. I'll find out soon, but I know that's the biggest piece of the puzzle. So I'll get that foamed up and we'll get it taken care of.  This will be all taken care of.


Good morning. After tumultuous midterm election night, I'm Jackie Contreras with the wrap up. The Democratic Party gained control of the House of Representatives and claimed 220 seats. This one will make it more difficult for President Trump to advance his agenda. Republicans remain in control of the Senate. CNN's Karen Keifa has more. Democrats projected to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years. And they did it by winning in key suburban districts in states like Pennsylvania and Virginia. Change is coming to America and change is coming to Virginia 10. And after focusing their final days less on President Trump and more on health care and the character of the country. Thanks to you, we owned the ground. Thanks to you, tomorrow will be a new day in America. Republicans holding on to the U.S. Senate boosted by flipping three seats away from vulnerable Democrats in red states, Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota. But it was a surprisingly close race in Texas that pushed Republicans to that Senate majority. Ted Cruz besting Democrat Beto O'Rourke. This election was a battle of ideas. It was a contest for who we are and what we believe. President Trump's first reaction to the results a tweet saying tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway telling reporters the president had a successful midterm stretch. One big lesson you just can't get around it is that he made a difference in so many of these races. And the president called Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell on election night the first step toward a new dynamic with a new Congress starting in January. Several key races are still too close to call. Arizona's Senate race has not been called as only 15,000 votes separate the two opponents. Republican Rick Scott claimed victory in Florida's Senate race last night, but opponent Bill Nelson has not conceded. Nelson was nearly 35,000 votes behind Scott. The race is headed for a recount. Georgia governor hopeful Stacey Abrams has also yet to concede in a very close race with Republican Brian Kemp. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is looking forward to a second term and a continuing battle with President Trump. The Democrat conquered with a double digit victory last night beating Republican Jeff Deal. The potential presidential candidate blasted what she called President Trump's corrupt administration during her victory speech last night. A woman led a parade of victories for Democrats, including the unopposed election of former BU student Ayanna Presley, who will become the first African American woman to represent the base state in Congress. Another BU affiliated candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a resounding victory in New York's 14th congressional district. Governor Charlie Baker got a strong mandate from voters to stay in office for a second term. The Republican, who notably opposed President Trump, won handily over his Democratic challenger, Jay Gonzalez.  BU reporters Alyssa Riddell and Denny Hackett report on the victory celebration. Despite a contentious election season across the country, Charlie Baker won at a 35 percent margin in Massachusetts. Support us from both sides of the aisle came out to Heinz Convention Center to celebrate his victory. But we are all Americans, and here we are the sons and daughters of the great people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And when we make progress, we do it by working together. Baker and Polito created their win on their relationship with the people of Massachusetts. Over the past four years, the two of them have combined to visit each of the 351 towns and cities in the state. You know, Charlie Baker is, to me, he's a bridge builder. He's a uniter. And he really shows by his actions, by the things that he does, that he loves his state and he loves all the people in it. And today, today the voters have spoken. And it seems like they like what we're doing and the way we go about it. I think that it's been an excellent four years here in Mass. I think he's been a really solid governor. He's a moderate voice, kind of focused on bipartisan leadership, which is what we'd love to see. With Baker set for another four years in office, the expectation among voters is that he will continue his moderate approach to policies. He said that he and his team will continue to look at issues such as climate change and the opioid crisis. Reporting for Butte News Service, I'm Denny Hackett. Jay Gonzalez says he doesn't have a single regret from his campaign despite losing to incumbent Governor Charlie Baker. Gonzalez conceded after just 20 percent of the vote had been counted. BUNU Services Alejandro Rosa has more from Copley last night. People, thank you all for being here. Well, it's not exactly the result we were hoping for, but we gave it one hell of a run, didn't we? Although disappointed, the majority of the attendees are not surprised, and the mood here continues exciting and upbeat. I think he tried really hard to opponent. I think a lot of people in Massachusetts were very moderate on this particular race, and they chose the current governor. It seems like the people at Mass. In his concession speech, Jay Gonzalez took the opportunity to appreciate the work that Governor Baker has done for Massachusetts during the past four years. Governor Baker also deserves credit and our thanks for the civil respectful and collaborative approach he has taken to governing. I'm here at the Democratic campaign headquarters at the Fairmont Plaza Copley, where Jay Gonzalez just gave his concession speech, although only 20 percent of the polls were in at the time. For Boston University, I'm Alejandro Rosa. Gonzalez won Boston with just over 3,000 votes. Massachusetts residents voted overwhelmingly to reject ballot question one. Voters decided if hospitals should be forced to set lower patient to nurse ratios. No on one received 70 percent of the vote rejecting the measure. Supporters of the measure said it would prevent nurses from being overworked, and opponents said it could force hospitals to turn patients away. BUNU's service reporter Crystal Boyajian has our report. The young Democrats of Massachusetts watched at 9.22 p.m. as the Massachusetts Nurses Association conceded with a no vote on question one. Question one proved to be a point of confusion for voters across the state with some questioning whether it was an appropriate ballot question in the first place. What the ballot question is doing is it's putting in front of voters who are not nurses, not in healthcare, you know, who aren't really informed to make decisions on this kind of a complex labor issue. Representatives for Yas on Safe Patient Limits attributed the confusion to hospital executive funded ads. The other side though has spent a lot of money, and this is the thing that I want people to know most of all. They've spent, I think the official count now is around $23 million. Despite losing the ballot measure, the problem of understaffed nurses still exists in the state, and voters are optimistic that there are other ways to solve the problem. You know, I will say that I'm hopeful that this ballot question fails, but I'm hopeful that this conversation keeps going. I guess I don't know what happens, but I'm much more optimistic than I was, you know, four months ago when it felt like nobody was listening. This is never going to be over tonight, whether we win or whether we lose. So we're going to be keeping fighting either way to hold these hospitals accountable. We're at Club Cafe where the young Democrats of Massachusetts had their election party tonight. After a 20-year push from the MNA, question one finally appeared on the ballot, and despite its loss, Massachusetts voters don't expect it to go away anytime soon. I'm Crystal Boyajian for BU News Service. A state law guaranteeing transgender protections remains after being upheld by Massachusetts voters. A large majority of voters supported the current law protecting transgender people from discrimination and public places. Critics of the law claimed it allowed sexual predators to invade private spaces for women by claiming a female gender identity. Voters in Massachusetts celebrated last night as question three passed on the ballot. BU News Services Matt Nixon gives us an inside look into the festivities. Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly voted to retain a 2016 state law that protects transgender people from discrimination and public places, sparking celebration among supporters of the law, and the Fairmont Coffee Paws on Tuesday evening. It will send a signal and a message to the entire country that transgender people are no longer going to be forgotten about or put in the shadows and that we are a state that accepts and welcomes and honors them here. I think it will really set the standard for the entire country and hopefully for the world to ensure that people are discriminated against simply because of the gender with which they identify. Victory comes as the Trump administration is considering defining sex as binary, which would remove transgender people's protections under Title IX, a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination. We understand what our opposition was going to do in trying to scare people and so we really wanted to help them understand that transgender people are actions of the people who are vulnerable and not the people who are putting anyone at risk. The No On 3 campaign did not respond to numerous requests for interview. Debbie Dugan, chairwoman of Key Mass Tuesdays Safe, the ballot committee behind No On 3, wrote in a Boston Globe article in August that the transgender rights law's definition of gender identity makes it ripe for abuse by criminals and convicted sex offenders. Attendees of the Yes On 3 viewing party, who continue to celebrate behind me, say they hope that their victory sends a powerful message that everyone in Massachusetts is welcomed and valued, including transgender people. In Boston, I'm Matthew Nexa, BU News Service. Coming up next on BU TV, analysis on the midterm election results. College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler joins Adrian Thomas to review whether social media posts could predict the results in key senate races. Dare you.  Dare you. Getting that college education. I dare you to be somebody important. Like be a teacher. Or a reality TV star. I dare you to stand up here. To call the shops. To be a role model. An inspiration. An innovator. To be a teacher.  Make me excited about science like you. Have a career that really means something. Then do it. I dare you. Here's to the things that can keep us safe. Those we use all the time with hardly a thought. Those that are silently standing by to save our lives. And now, those that we carry with us everywhere we go. Any mobile devices will now bring you wireless emergency alerts. Real-time information directly from local sources you know and trust. With the unique sound and vibration, you'll be in the know wherever you are. Do social media posts reflect what voters are thinking? Or does social media predict election results? BUTV reporter Adrian Thomas joins our election analyst Dean Tom Fiedler with a look at an innovative tracking software. Jackie, I'm joined by BU College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler. And we're going to be reviewing some of the election results from last night and comparing those with trends on social media. Last night for the BU News Service we were utilizing Crimson Hexagon software which basically tracks how people are feeling about candidates and some of the biggest senate races across the country. Dean Fiedler thank you for being here this morning. So let's get right into it. One of the biggest races of the night was in Texas between Democrat Beto O'Rourke and incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz won last night with 51% of the vote. But let's get right into analyzing some of the social media trends and comparing those with some of the election results. So we'll start with Beto O'Rourke and what are some of the significant details right here? Well I think one of the things that pops up right away and you mentioned that I think what we see here with social media is measurement of feelings. Our question going into this is whether the feelings of the way people express them on social media, Twitter in this particular case would actually be a proxy for how people might vote. I think based on the results here you may say that doesn't quite fit but what we saw with Beto O'Rourke which I do think was interesting was the intensity of the support for him. There hasn't been a Democrat elected to a statewide office in Texas since 1988 so 30 years have gone by. But if you look at social media, if you look at the posts during the course of that campaign, Beto O'Rourke had significantly more social media postings than Cruz did in his victory. As we can see since September 1st all the way up until election day 4.7 million posts and we're looking at, this is kind of the emotional gauge right here, 26% of those posts were positive but then you mentioned how Ted Cruz had significantly less than O'Rourke so here are Cruz's numbers. So what are we seeing right here? I think one of the things that the software enables us to do is you get what's called a sentiment analysis. You look at whatever words are used as a positive or a negative view at the candidate and again almost in a contradiction we see that Ted Cruz even as the winner had a more negative posting. I think what this probably tells us is that Beto O'Rourke's followers are much more engaged on social media. Perhaps much more positive in their view toward him and in fact there's another measure in there on the emotional response and he had a very high area of what we call joy and Ted Cruz was seen negatively by many of those people but clearly the number of people who were active on social media did not translate into votes. Maybe put another way, a lot of people who were voting for Ted Cruz probably were not active on social media so that sense of using social media as a proxy I think is probably a questionable one right now. Another thing that you just mentioned how it's very likely that Beto O'Rourke supporters were more active on social media could make sense. Beto O'Rourke raised nearly double the amount of money that Ted Cruz did. Another thing to mention too that the Crimson Hexagon software tracks the geography and where all these tweets are coming in from. So if we zoom in on Texas we can zoom in on the United States we can see that the majority of those tweets about Ted Cruz are coming in from Texas and that there was a significant percentage that was negative. So clearly this social media data wasn't necessarily corresponding to the turnout. I do think what that would be if I was in the Beto O'Rourke camp I would say there's a lot here to take away in a positive sense whether that sets up Beto O'Rourke for a future campaign maybe even for a place in the national discussion in 2020. I don't know but clearly this election captivated people in Texas probably in a way that we have not seen many in decades. And we move right on now to the next big Senate race. Republican Rick Scott against Democrat incumbent Bill Nelson in Florida. Over the past two months Scott rather had nearly 751,000 posts on Twitter and Nelson had 413,000. So clearly there's a lot more interest generated about Scott but one of the things you mentioned last night during our live streams was some of the significant events that have happened in Florida over the last two months Hurricane Michael being the big one. Hurricane Michael certainly when you're the governor of a state that's undergoing or facing a situation like a natural disaster as Hurricane Michael clearly was there's a lot of television time, a lot of time in the media there and we saw that bump that he enjoyed. Also President Trump made two trips to Florida in the really the closing days of the campaign that stimulated it. If I would look at the social media going back and this race by the way is still in that almost too close to call category I think the likelihood of Bill Nelson winning a challenge is probably very small but the one thing that you would see in the social media commentary about Bill Nelson is not a lot of high emotion. There was again one of the factors that the crimson hexagon software measures is that sense the positive and the negative but also neutral and the great majority of voters for Senator Nelson almost three quarters of them were in a neutral phase that isn't a place a candidate wants to be if you're trying to drive turnout. The neutral numbers are significantly much higher than for Nelson than Scott. One more quick thing to mention with the Florida Senate race that race could potentially head into a recount but the big detail there is that the only person who can authorize the recount is the Secretary of State in Florida Ken Detsner who was appointed by the governor. So this could be something that everyone's going to be closely following over the next day or two. But we're going to toss back to Jackie now. That's it for BUTV News social media analysis of the midterm elections. As always stay tuned to the BU News Service and BUTV 10 on election night for all the latest coverage. Jackie back to you. And that's it for the special midterm election wrap up. I'm Jackie Contreras. Thanks for watching and have a great day.


So, thank you again. Hi again. So, in this talk I will show you how to improve the efficiency of private circuits by recycling some of the randomness inside. So, I thought it would be exemplary, starting with a really concrete example of recycling, which is the recycle of some of my previous slides. So, indeed we are again in the context of state channel attacks, and we are again in the context of the T-probe model. So, T-probe model, for the ones who were not here before, means that you need to be adverse so you can access up to three values in a circuit. And the required property is the existence of a simulator, which can simulate adversely view without accessing to the circuit. And the important control measure against such an attack is masking, which consists in randomizing the circuit, by splitting it into and random shares. And, yeah, so during this talk I will just mention, I will just talk about the Boolean masking, where the encoding and the decoding are represented here in these blocks. So, private circuits will have an encoder and a decoder, and they will be at the end of the execution, which will split and people will close the circuit. And internally we will have some linear gadget, which operates concurrent wise and don't use randomness, and some non-linear gadgets, like the multiplication, which actually makes a really heavy use of randomness. And the current multiplications can use o of n square random bits, where n is the number of the shares. So generating randomness is one of the most low tasks in the execution of a circuit. And one of the, indeed, a lot of research has been done recently in order to improve the number of randomness needed. And all this research so far focused on improving the randomness needing one single multiplication scheme. But, of course, we need to refresh every time the randomness for each execution of a different multiplication scheme. So there are some theoretic lower bound to the number of randomness needed for anti-privacy in the multiplication scheme. So we tried to open up a new research approach, which is to reduce our randomness between different gadgets. So in this talk we start with a new security designation, that will be this T LCR, so T security with common randomness. I will give you some examples of a big new result about this probability. And I will show you a new multiplication scheme, which would be this probability. And then we will say, again, I can start on the S box of the S. And a particular case for order one. So I'll give you more details on the ground about the T probing model. So in particular, two are the main probabilities that we should satisfy. So one is the TNI. So in the TNI probability, so T non-interference, we know that the adversary cannot serve up to T probes, so observations, on a gadget. And in order to show that a gadget is TNI, we have to show the existence of a simulator, which simulates the adversaries view, with only up to T shares of its input. So the drawback of this definition is that this doesn't give any security, any guarantee on the security, on a secure composition of this gadget. So this means in some cases, it can be secure-composable, but in some cases, maybe it cannot be. So a stronger definition is that TSNI, T Stronger Interference, where this is actually guarantee secure-composability between TSNI gadgets. So this means that the output of a gadget, TSNI, can be input of a second gadget that is TSNI. So the probability that we acquire is the following. So we have T1 probes on the internal wires and T2 probes on the output wires. And we have to guarantee that the simulation of the probes either on the internal and on the external, on the output wires, can be done by using at most T1 of the input shares. So this gives a kind of independence between the number of output probes and the number of input shares need. And that's why then the output can be used as inputs next. So our security definition is a bit more, is a bit different from the previous one because it actually involves a number of gadgets. Because we will give a kind of global simulation, global simulation requirement on some gadgets. So here I have an example for just two, which internally use exactly the same randomness. So let's consider two gadgets, which internally use the randomness R, and T probes, where T1 are on the first gadget and T2 are on the second gadget. So saying that this set of gadgets is TSER, means requiring an existential simulator, which can simulate adversity view on G1 by using at most N-1 of A and B, and N-2, N-2 inputs shares to A prime and B prime. So a composition result, we can see here a composition result. So if we group the gadgets in some blocks of gadgets or in some regions, and consequently these blocks share the same randomness. So here in the picture, whenever we use the same color, it means that internally they use the same vector randomness. In this case, we cannot film that the entire blocks are each other TSER. So this means that we can take a circle C, where each of the gadgets has fresh randomness. That is how it happens now. And we can divide it in some blocks that internally we use the same randomness. And this should be still secure. So if these blocks are TSER and TSNI, because also we want that they are composable. So far it was pretty easy, but we need to see if actually it exists a multiplication scheme and a refresh scheme that uses this probability. So I'll show you now how we design our multiplication scheme and which of the probabilities that we think are needed in order to grant TSER. So the first probability is that T of non-competence without fresh randomness. So we saw before this concept from the threshold implementation. This is slightly different. So we will require that any combination up to T of the output values without considering the randomness inside is independent of at least one of the output shares. So the intuition behind this requirement is that the worst case, which is actually the best case for the target, is to target only two gadgets.  So he can have much more blocks with common randomness. And so, yeah, the best case is if it put half of them on one and half of them on the second one. And of course, even if he can cancel out all the randomness inside, since we have this T of non-competence, it still cannot recover entirely the same way. So the second probability, ah, so actually this T of non-competence needs to have a bit improvement when we go to order T of. Because in this case we have T of probes on one gadget and T of probes plus one on the other gadget. So we need that this plus one probe still don't break the non-competence in two words. The second probability that we want to achieve is the TSNI. So we want that our schemes are composable. So this is reached by putting in a strategic way a randomness. And one of these ways is to ensure that for each of the output bits, so here we have an example for T equal to two, for each of the output shares, we have T random bits, so here we have R1 and R2, and each of these random bits appear a second time on a different output share. So here we have for example R1 on C3 and R2 on C2. And this trick is useful because in this way we can simulate at random each of the output shares. And lastly, we require independence of the inputs. So this means that we want that the inputs of two gadgets, of multiple gadgets sharing the same randomness are mutually independent encodings. In this way, indeed when we probe some wires, the information that we get about the input shares is independent from the one that we get from the other gadget. So here we have an example for T equal to four. So I know it's a lot of letters, a lot of numbers, but I really wanted to take this case because it's really extraordinary. It did actually guarantee no completeness without randomness, it's not such a triggered task. So up to order three, we can achieve it with T plus one shares, but from order up to order three, from order four on, we have to increase the number of shares. So for example for order four we need to have up to seven shares. And now we'll show you now briefly why the problem is as I showed you before works. So let's consider two gadgets where we have two blocks on the first one and two blocks on the same one one. And for example, let's take adversity, which observes C1 and C3 on the first one and C1 prime, C3 prime on the same one one. So these are the values of the gadget. So in this way we have here exactly the same random values. So a smart thing to do now for adversity is to sum up these props that he has. These are on the first gadget and these are on the second gadget. So in this way now he has a view completely independent of any randomness. He doesn't have any randomness anymore to hide a secret. But thanks to this judgment completeness, we can actually simulate the view with only five up to n shares meeting. So it cannot record the secret. An interesting but particular case is the one of parallel multiplications. So let's consider for example a circuit which is only composed by parallel multiplications with independent inputs. So we can reuse the randomness inside always. So with this method we can actually mask the entire circuit with only a fixed amount of randomness independently on the sides of this circuit. But this is of course a really particular case. In particular it is not so common to have some multiplication scheme with independent inputs. So what happens if actually two multiplications can only see independent inputs. So this probably was actually we actually overlooked a bit about this property in some of our previous works on this paper we thought it was actually sufficient to have just outputs that were outputs of a TSCR gadget. But we figured out that actually it is not sufficient so we need to create independence. And unfortunately the only way we found but probably there are others is to put some randomness. So with this trick we have a gadget creating independence. Here you see an example for t equal to 2 which actually uses less randomness than the normal. So this used actually n minus 1 random means for n. But this is a dangerous gadget because it's TNI so we cannot always compose it. So we have to be really careful when we use it. But what we have is that if before the output of a multiplication scheme would be independent now after this gadget they are independent. So we can use this output as input of a multiplication and in this way this input would be independent. Let's see now how to build a reflation scheme which is TSCR. It's much easier than for a multiplication because we saw before the reflation only operates component-wise. So for each output we will only have one component. So the TS non-completeness is widely satisfied it's really easily satisfied and for the TSNI we can just take the same distribution of the multiplication scheme of the randomness in the multiplication scheme and we will still achieve TSNI. We need an example for t equal to 4 is this one. So probably you don't remember accepting these numbers but they accept the same randomness that were before in the same position of before. And it requires t times n random elements or of t times n random elements. So let's see now how can we apply this to AES as box. So we chose to study this case because we have 200 of these box in the AES because we have around 20 parallel computation per 10 rounds. So we also have to remember that all of these output of the round will be input of another round afterwards. And the idea is to use for all these 200 blocks always the same randomness in this gadget, in this block. So it seems that by step what can we do with the tools that we have so far? So first of all we have to check the dependence in order to see if we can use or not the randomness. And I remind you another time that I will use the same color for gadgets using the same randomness. So for the refreshing we saw it was really easy. We don't need independence because they are really powerful. We just have one share so we can easily reuse randomness here. And for the first round we have that the inputs are independent. So we can reuse a randomness between this multiplication. But now, as we are using we make all the other wires dependent between these blocks. So we need now to use our tree to put this independent gadget and to check actually that this is possible. So that this is actually composable. And in this case it is. Now we can reuse randomness among these multiplications. But still we have a problem because here we want again an independent output because this will be the input of the next round. So for the first round the inputs here are normally independent but for the second one we need independence. And this time we cannot use our tree because if we put here this independent gadget we will not have any more composable gadget. So unfortunately the only way in order to have this is to put totally fresh randomness to put multiplications in case that don't share randomness anymore. And of course we don't need here the independent gadget anymore. But in this way we have blocks that are TACR and they are TSNI so composable and secure with common randomness. And we can use exactly this randomness for all of these 200 blocks that we have in the same input. So especially a case for first order so I don't have much time to show you the algorithm for these ones also we will learn and learn a lot. So by the idea is to use alternatively for first order so in the case when we have only one observation possible two random bits. So we can map any circuit from any side with only two random bits. And the idea is to modify all the algorithms even the linear ones the refashion and the multiplication such a way that every time they inject only one random bit and they will cancel out the previous randomness. And in this way all these values of those wires in the circuit will depend only on one random bit. And yeah, only on one random bit and they have always a fix form. And this is an example for these oranges R1 and these greens R2 and we use alternatively R1 and R2 and we still learn T-brides. So here is some performance evaluation so here on the left column for the case so these are the cost to the 10 random generator without reusing common randomness. And these are the ones we use in common randomness. And this is the end so this is how the number of shares increase with the order. So yeah, we can see that we have pretty much an increase in the O of T-square. And we always at this T-order 11 that we show here, we always have less cost to the random generator. So we have this improvement but of course there is a big balance because we also have more computations sometimes. So in conclusion I showed that we were using randomness among gadgets. It can be possible under central conditions and this can open up to a new direction approach in order to limitating one of the drawbacks of masking schemes. And still a lot of work can be done in this direction. So for example we can find a more efficient T-square multiplication scheme in different techniques in order to produce independence. Thank you for your attention.


The real big issue right now is that so many kids are suffering, they're suffering from under nutrition, they don't get enough to eat, they don't get enough micronutrients, they don't get enough calories and at the same time we have a rapidly increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases. Now more recently what we are seeing is an increasing attention to emergencies because we have many more emergencies, failed states of various kinds. Climate change is resulting in extreme weather events. You have droughts, you have floods, you have strong winds and every time something like this happens in a low income area, people are suffering. There are some very severe consequences. This is not just a matter of maybe eating a little less today and a little more tomorrow. This is a matter of survival for many of these people. Because the news media is paying attention to that as they should, there is a tendency to take money from the long-term development assistance and long-term investment by the countries themselves, the developing countries themselves and put it into emergency relief. The money can be found to solve those problems that they would have to be taken from somewhere else like military expenditures. But of course if we say we are only going to invest this much on improving the well-being of people and the environment, then of course it becomes an economic problem because then the question is are we allocating enough to solving these problems? And the ethical question of course is are we going to avoid that children die today and tomorrow or are we going to invest in future generations and making sure that the environment is going to be sufficient to feed future generations. It's an ethical problem.  I cannot do that. We have to do both. The real policy message is to prioritize good nutrition and to alleviate poverty and to protect the environment today and in the future. And the policy message therefore is to allocate the necessary funds to make that happen and take that funds from something that's less important because it is definitely possible to do both. Absolutely it is.