01:00 FT: Shadow banks could yet cause trouble, https://www.ft.com/content/c6406773-087e-4fde-81af-28d41dcfe660
04:00 FT: US regional banks reduced cash buffers ahead of run on deposits, https://www.ft.com/content/89994a64-42af-4549-b915-faa417009f9f
18:00 Prager: Ends justify the means, https://www.youtube.com/@thedennispragershow2017
21:00 Stephen J James: Talking about Luke Ford with Claire Khaw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJB3YRY9dU
26:00 Tucker: In the Alvin Bragg-George Soros justice system, criminals are a protected class
32:00 CNN has lost 60% of its viewers since Trump left office
36:00 How come politicians didn’t tell George Floyd protesters to control themselves? Only Trump supporters?
39:00 NYTimes: Trump’s Prosecution Has Set a Dangerous Precedent, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/opinion/trump-prosecution-precedent.html
41:00 NYT: The Solution to Israel’s Crisis, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/opinion/israel-protests-united-states-constitution.html
45:00 WSJ: U.S. Research Scientists Are Blind to China’s Threat: Eager for collaboration, the NIH and NIAID won’t acknowledge concerns about national security, https://www.wsj.com/articles/research-scientists-cant-be-trusted-with-national-security-biosecurity-energy-department-nih-china-gene-editing-wuhan-covid-efa30391
52:00 Rising oil prices
56:00 Wignats vs Jews
1:08:50 John Fetterman’s depression
1:11:00 Media ignore black homicide
1:20:00 WSJ: The Cost of Biden’s ‘Democracy’ Fixation, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cost-of-bidens-democracy-fixation-autocracy-summit-freedom-house-ideology-foreign-policy-middle-east-86638fc5
1:42:00 Luke: 90% chance that Biden will beat Trump in 2024
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