The Return 2 - Cuba Libre

0:00All right. I am back. Sorry about Wednesday. It was having some technical difficulties as they say. But it's all good now. I figured out the problem. That's the issue when you get a new computer and you got to figure out all its little quirks and everything and set up to record and audacity just didn't want to record. OBS didn't want to record. I was like okay maybe the default voice recorder app that comes with windows also didn't want to record for some reason.

1:02So I was like okay maybe it's a microphone. I was like uninstalled it, reinstalled it, and I did the whole thing and I was just like you know what if I get just not going to come on. All right so it's been a couple of weeks. How's everyone doing? How's Yamama name? Hopefully everything's pretty good in your world maybe. It's a little bit better than here I guess. All right so we got some stories to get into even an insane brunette with eyeglasses coming up later on. So absolutely crazy. But let's let's get started. So oil falls 13% after our ran declares the straight of hormones is open. This is a story out of Houston because why not? Oil prices plunged by about 13% on Friday after our ran's foreign minister said passage for all commercial vessels through the straight of hormones was open for the

2:02remaining ceasefire period. And US president Donald Trump said Iran has agreed to never close the straight again. I bet they have. Brent crude futures fell from a $12.87 to $86. Oh I'm sorry did I read that wrong? No they have a typo in here. They have a typo. It says US $12.87 but then it said it fell to $86.52. That's retarded. Why would you? Did you got to get better about writing stories? You got a spell check. You got to go back and check your math especially because then you don't get like a dumb newsreader like me. It's not going to be hip to the hip to the thing right? Okay so 12.95 percent plus $86.52. That gives me $97.72 and some fraction of a pace.

3:08But there you go. Anyways I digress. After failing to a session low of $86.09 US West Texas intermediate crude futures were down $13.50 or 14.26 percent at $8.119 a barrel after touching $80.56. Both contracts were trading after lowest since March the 10th. And set for their largest daily decline since April 8th. Iranian foreign minister Abbas Iraqi. I'm going to butcher your names. Okay this is how it goes. So the straight-of-four moves was open following the agreement of a cease fire in Lebanon. Comments from Iran's foreign minister indicate a de-escalation as long as the cease fire is in place. Now we need to see if the number of tankers crossing the strait increases substantially. UBS analysis. Giva Nistanvo. Every time I hear this thing of the straight-of-four moves being closed, it's I touched on it in the previous episode. It was never closed. It was just open for a fee.

4:18But here we are. So oil is already coming back down. Got reports the other day that gas prices were pretty high. I even filled up the exterra financial ruin at $3.56 a gallon for just regular unleaded gasoline. I think it was like close to four bucks for the ethanol free which I usually like to get. But it's a little bit crazy. And I heard somebody this morning talking about filling up gas and it was already back down to like 340 something. So I filled up a day too late. So we're going to go right into the UK independent. And this is their US edition I guess. Pentagon ramps up plans for military operation in Cuba in case Trump orders direct intervention. Mr. I'm not going to start any new wars. Seems to have gotten bit by the Neocon bug.

5:23So the Pentagon is quietly laying the planning groundwork for potential US military operations in Cuba even as the Iran war groans on according to the recent reports. Two sources familiar with the matter told USA today and one Wednesday that contingency plans are being developed in case President Donald Trump orders an intervention on the island nation. Trump has not announced plans to invade Cuba but has floated the idea. Sources also told Zateo earlier this week that the Pentagon was given a directive straight from the White House to prepare for a possible military action in the Caribbean. Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment because they always do on the matter instead referred to the independent to US Southern command. The body responsible for military operations in Latin America. The spokesman spokesperson spokesperson for Southern command told the independent that he didn't know anything about plans involving Cuba.

6:28spokesperson highlighted on a March congressional testimony by General Francis Dunnevin, the head of Southern command who denied the US was actively rehearsing or planning for a takeover of Cuba. Yeah, we're not doing it. We just tell the troops they're going to be doing this thing or the other thing and it's totally not for Cuba, not at all. So Mr. No New Wars is now going to start his second. Almost third because the thing in Venezuela was a little bit touch and go. But here we go. And all of this stuff with Trump, all of this you have to understand is all done for another foreign power and it's not really his doing. I mean, yes, he's the president of the United States and he's you know, signing his name to stuff. But you have to understand his son-in-law is there.

7:34The real estate lawyer, Whitcough, is also there and their advising Trump and they are not working for the American people, not even a little bit. The US foreign policy and the people of the United States are a distant afterthought when it comes to these people. So just anytime you hear Trump negotiating team or anything like that, you know, just think it's going to happen every single time. It's not even close. Keeping all the stories with Donald Trump. I saw this one in Politico and you just kind of will Trump pardon Galein Maxwell. Her lawyer thinks so. Her lawyer David Oscar Marcus. Every fucking time. Penn House office, the wall is lined with framed images of the fictional box or rocky Bernini Statue of David. Jackie Robinson sliding into home plate and Yoda.

8:40All in an homage to the lawyer's affinity for the underdog. Oh, I bet. He counts Galein Maxwell, the accomplice of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Marcus's client among them. So that I'm automatically going to take issue with Politico. Everything that I have read and watched like videos of Jeffrey Epstein, this guy was not the brains of the outfit. He kind of talked like an idiot or just would kind of fumble his way through something and trying to sound smart the entire time. So it is my personal belief that Galein Maxwell was not the accomplice. She was the handler. Dare I say the boss, the brains of the operation. Because, you know, reading through the through the emails and seeing how Jeffrey responded to Steve Bannon's questions, you know, because Steve Bannon was trying us whole,

9:43oh, we got a rehab your image tour. I don't think she was the accomplice at all. I think in fact, she was the boss. I think she's a scapegoat. He's had an extended interview last month. She would never have prosecuted had Jeffrey Epstein not committed suicide or whatever, how he died. Every fucking time. So this guy thinks he that she's the scapegoat of all people. She's the scapegoat and it doesn't matter. You have witness testimony saying that she was the one setting up the girls, getting them to come to the island. You know, I've already kind of debunked her little picture that she had with Elon Musk and I was it looks like she photobombed him out of party because he's not like paying active attention to her and everything, but she was the boss trying to say that she was a scapegoat. I think she's the one that you really want in prison. So Marcus, a career criminal defense attorney,

10:49because of course he is, and a disciple of lightning, rod, lawyer, Alan Dershowitz is that the center of an ever growing and inescapable political scandal over the Epstein files, which has distracted Congress for months and served as a perennial cudgel against President Donald Trump's White House. It's because he was involved. Perhaps no one has as much knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell as his longtime girlfriend and one time British socialite. A few people at this point have much knowledge of Maxwell and Marcus. Maxwell, the only convicted co-conspirator of Epstein, who allegedly trafficked children to nobody. Yeah, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022 on several sex crime charges, including sex trafficking of a minor to to nobody. She had no clients apparently. She is seeking clemency from Trump because of course she is, whose relationship with Epstein has become the subject of much scrutiny and intrigue,

11:53and Marcus is playing a key role in her communication with senior justice department leadership. By-partisan pressure, the Trump administration and Congress to deliver further accountability in the Epstein case, which they will never do, don't count on anybody staying another moment in prison or getting the death penalty that's just not going to happen, including potentially more prosecutions like who? Who are they going to prosecute? You can make some several cases there. Bill Clinton is on the plane more than 20 times. Bill Gates is all these bills. Bill Richardson. All of them are there. Elon Musk was even trying to get in on the party. Prosecution of who? You said you had a client list and then all of a sudden you don't. They said, oh, we don't know. There's never anything such as a client list. I was like, okay, well, you have forensic accountants. You can look at all of the stuff. See, where all the money was

12:55going and coming from. And you can put together a list of names. Less Wexner. House oversight committee probe would testify freely if she were granted clemency. This is a terrible idea. And I really hope Trump doesn't do it. But you never know. He wished her well. I'm more than one occasion. So this and the type of balls you have to have to say, oh, well, you know, she was a victim in all of this. I called this, by the way. The moment I started seeing news stories about how she's being treated in prison and everything, it was like, oh, they're going to paint her as the victim. You know, just another one of Jeffery's victims. So dumb. So dumb. All right. So let's get into some weird news. And this came from a story where another one of these high profile scientists,

14:00you know, nuclear physicists and all this, they've showed up dead or have gone missing over the years. So when I was sitting there doing a search for this, like, obviously this can't be coincidence. It just can't. So going into the search engine and just, you know, typing in nuclear scientist missing, now all the search engines have their like their little AIs, like try to break down articles and stuff for you. So brave. The brave search was pretty good in this one. It gave me a pretty good list. At least 10 US scientists and defense researchers linked to nuclear aerospace infusion programs have gone missing or died under suspicious circumstances since 2023. It's working national security concerns and prompting the White House to acknowledge the issue. And if you do this on brave search, it's going to give you a little link where I got that information from. Among the most recent cases is Stephen Garcia, a 48-year-old government

15:02contractor with top security clearance at the Kansas City National Security Campus, who vanished on August 28th, 2025, after leaving his Albuquerque home on foot carrying a handgun. Authorities initially warned he might be a danger to kill himself, but sources dispute mental health concerns. So they also have a list of key individuals that have also gone missing or died suspiciously. Michael David Hicks, NASA JPL research scientist, died July 30th, 2023, no cause of death disclosed. Frank Mywald, NASA JPL principal researcher, died July 4th, 2024, no autopsy performed. Monica Reza, NASA JPL director of materials processing, disappeared June 22nd, 2025, during a hike in California. Carl Grill, mayor, astrophysicist, lengthen, NASA JPL was shot dead at his home on February 16th, 2026. William Neal McCastlin, retired Air Force major general, went missing February 27th, 2026,

16:07after leaving his home on foot. Nuno Loro, MIT professor and head of plasma science and fusion center, died December 25th after a reported attack. The clustering of cases around high security institutions like Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA JPL and MIT's fusion center has led experts including former FBI official Chris Swicker to suggest espionage or targeted abductions cannot be ruled out. The White House responding to pressing queries stated it would look into the matter with press secretary Caroline Levitt saying if true that is definitely something the government would deem worth looking into. By guy number three, one guy here you're saying the very first one just died no calls of death disclosed you're like okay that's kind of weird. Maybe something happened. But you know guy number two you know dies like a year later and then a chick and another JPL person.

17:09Obviously something's going on and do I trust the FBI to actually solve the case? Absolutely not. I don't trust government and it just bear minimum. I don't trust them. The only thing I can trust them on is doing the wrong thing even for the stupidest reasons. So dumb. Oh, I did miss this one. I did miss this one. Elon Musk tweeted out yesterday, April 16th. Universal high income via checks issued by the federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI slash robotics will produce goods and services far in excess of the increase in the money supply so there will not be inflation. Mr. Technocrat has no fucking idea what he just tweeted out tweeted on the platform Twitter.

18:12Universal basic income or universal high income as he's like trying to sell it is not going to work. The government is already 39 trillion dollars in debt, trillion with a T. It has no money. It ran out of money 39 trillion dollars ago. There is no way to fix that. And as much as I will use AI for little stuff, jobs here and there, even doing my little thing here, it's not going to replace an industry. I work in civil design. We've got little AI tools in civil 3D now. They don't work. I'm constantly. The times that I have used it, I've constantly had to go back in there and

19:13fix it. It's not ready for prime time. Now, yeah, it'll be great if I can just sit at a computer and say, hey, I am running five miles of 42 inch water pipe. Run a plan and profile for me based on this survey data. And it just spits out planning profile sheets. Oh, I would love it. But it can't do that. It's like some of the stuff it can set up and kind of get maybe 60% of the way there. But it's not going to replace a whole bunch of people's jobs. It'll replace newsreaders jobs for sure. Because I can program all this stuff up in 11 labs and just have it spit out a podcast episode. I'm not going to do that, of course. But universal high income checks from the government. That's the dumb idea of all dumb ideas.

20:17Dude, fucking go to Mars and leave us all alone down here. Okay, it's time. Brunette with eyeglasses, danger, danger. All right, so our Brunette with eyeglasses alert came last week, April the 9th, 2026. The EFF had tweeted out almost after 20 years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we've made. Lightly, but it might be overdue. Twitter was never a utopia. We criticized the platform for about as long as it has been around. Still, Twitter did not deserve recognition from time to time for there are sifferously fighting for the user's rights that changed. EFF exists to protect people's digital rights, not just the people who already value our work. I've opted out of surveillance or have already migrated to the Fediverse.

21:19The people who need us most are often the ones embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream. Our continued presence on other platforms like Facebook and TikTok is not an endorsement. We stay because the people there deserve access to the info too. We stay because the fewer steps between you and the resources you need protect yourself, the better. When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where that fight is happening. EFF takes on big fights and we win by putting our time skills and members support where they'll have the most impact. Right now, that means Blue Sky, Mastodon, and LinkedIn. So, after what you just heard, do you want to take a guess? Nicole Ozer. Burnett, IGlass's creepy smile. I'm EFF's executive director. So proud to take the torch from Cindy Cone and lead at eff.org.

22:23Forward to this next chapter. Here's the link to EFF announcement. Let's address this point by point. Okay. The type of stuff that safeguarding users from data mining and other things, that's admirable. Okay. Your online privacy should be private, or at least as private as the user will make it. If you're willingly signing up to get cookies and filling out information and online forums, you kind of shot yourself in the foot. But, you know, Facebook, when you log off of Facebook, is tracking the other websites you're visiting. It shouldn't be allowed to do that. Okay. Twitter was never a utopia. Absolutely agree. It's not there are some things in Twitter that I love. There's a whole bunch of shit on there that I don't like. You criticize the platform.

23:26So, you're now saying I'm throwing in the towel. I'm not going to be on Twitter anymore. That's the place where you have to fight. If it's not sticking up for the user's rights, and your whole organization is based on online and digital rights for the average consumer, then, bro, what are we even talking about? You're getting off the platform? And you're opting out to go to the Fediverse. So, that's like mastodon. There ain't nobody on fucking mastodon. And the only people that are on mastodon are just like the blue sky weirdos. It's just a bunch of leftists just complaining about free speech. All they talk about is free speech, but we know that's violence because speech is violence. That's the type of shit you find on

24:27mastodon. There's a reason why I'm not on it. Like, I have a log in and everything I get on it, and I can see it's on time that I'm like, man, you'll need a fucking hobby. That's not this. But you're going to continue presence on Facebook, which is terrible. Just anybody, like COVID taught you nothing. The censorship was worse on Facebook by far. TikTok now, that's owned by one of the Ellisons. I've already got a like device band, everything else kind of band on TikTok. Like, I cannot set up a new account. And I've even tried it like using a different phone number and everything. It just will not let me do it. I don't know what they used to. To gauge how they could tell I am who I am. Even if I'm using like fake names, fake phone numbers and all that, it just will not let me create an account over there. So I'm off. I'm not on TikTok anymore. They deserve access to the info, but not Twitter users. Weird.

25:38And if Twitter or what the nerds call X isn't a place where fighting for your digital freedoms is not happening, I don't know what you've been fucking looking at. So that just calls into question everything that you stand for because it's all happening on Twitter too. And if you think that Twitter is the worst out of the bunch, you, you stay on Twitter and you tag Mr. Technocrat on every single post. That's what you do. It's so crazy. All right guys, I think that's going to do it for this time. I'll come back in a couple of weeks this time. Hopefully you'll pay on Wednesday and I can get everything figured out.

26:38Another that guys, take it easy. I'll see you around.