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is literally making up scientific studies and inserting it into the conversation. Oh my goodness. So RFK Jr. signed a recommendation to remove a component called thimerosal from the regular flu vaccines, not from the COVID stuff, but from regular seasonal flu vaccines. Now, there's a little bit of a backstory to that. This thing called thimerosal, at one point RFK Jr. thought it was a cause of au…

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that's a new way to track people. Tracking by their disturbance to the WiFi system. Scary, huh?

Apparently the Israeli Knesset voted 71 to 13 in favor of a non-binding motion for the agenda in favor of annexing the West Bank. So all right. So I don't think that has any impact on anything. I may have written that down wrong too. So forget about that story. I don't have anything to say about it. The only thing I'm going to say about the two-state solution in Israel is that there's no way that's going to happen. There's just no way there's going to be a two-state solution. That's my prediction.

The largest teacher union in the United States, which is the NEA. All right. So it's the largest teachers association union. It's a union according to the Washington Free Beacon. This is hard to believe, but I'll tell you what the story is. That they want the materials that people are using to learn history to include that the Holocaust had 12 million victims instead of 6 million. 6 million would be the number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. But the NEA wants to expand what students think of the Holocaust to 12 million because that would include people from different faiths and that they would leave out from history the idea that Germany and Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jewish people. So they want to just leave that part out and say, well, it wasn't the Jewish people per se, but it was people of different faiths and that there were 12 million of them. So it's not really a story about what happened to the Jews. It's more of a story about 12 million people of different faiths.

Now on top of that they want to include lessons that say that would teach students that Israel was founded through quote forced violent displacement and dispossession. So it would go hard at Israel for the Nakba and kicking out the Palestinians who were in that location where Israel was formed. And they would try to redefine or reframe the Holocaust as not being specifically a Jewish problem. So I'm no historian, but let me just talk about it politically. How in the world can this teachers union survive that? Don't you feel that Israel and the ADL and certainly all the Jewish teachers who were part of that union, don't you think they're going to go as hard as you could possibly go at that union? I've got a feeling if you were hoping for the teachers unions to be somehow neutered that we're a lot closer to that than you thought. Because if you get the entire Jewish community, both domestic and internationally saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't take away the Holocaust from us. You can't take that away. It's too built into our entire narrative, our history, our understanding of who we are, our understanding of the risks of being in that situation and all that." So I feel like the NEA, the biggest teachers union, just declared war on domestic and international Jews by this. I mean, how do they survive that? We'll see. But it is certainly suggestive of a gigantic change where the Jewish Americans and Israel in particular have just had a reputational destruction in the past year, past year or so. So things are going to get frothy.

Russia apparently is doing some publicity on what they call the world's largest drone factory in Russia. So Wonderful Engineering is talking about this and it's the Alabuga factory in Tatarstan. And it's supposedly the biggest drone making facility in the world. But here's the part that interested me. Apparently for that factory 25,000 North Koreans, industrial workers were shipped in to do the work. Do you think that the only reason that they shipped in North Koreans to do that work is because they work cheaper? Do they work cheaper? Maybe. Is it possible that there just weren't enough Russians? Is Russia running out of people to do new stuff? I feel like the biggest story is that they didn't have domestic employees to run the most important factory in their country. They didn't have enough Russians. Are all the Russians that can walk and do things, have they already been shipped to the war? Have they already been killed? Why in the world do they need 25,000 North Koreans for their factory? Are you telling me that the employment situation in Russia is so good that people already had better jobs than this one? I don't know. I don't know. I have questions.

But I do think that Russia may have a population collapse problem that has not been discussed enough. I think they're running out of young people. And if you

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run out of young people, you're kind of in trouble. So we'll see. I also wonder, I didn't look on the map to figure out where Tatarstan is, but if it's within missile range of Ukraine, is it possible the Ukraine is going to use American weapons to destroy the biggest drone factory in Russia? And if they didn't try, why wouldn't they? Can you think of any reason why the Ukrainians would not use if…

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