questions that have remained on onset so many years. watch on see the hi everybody. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact and this is what we're going to be talking about the. so here's the question. what are they finding about in taiwan this time? well, let's just say it's about china and it's important really important. i'm rick sanchez . this direct impact of do it. the . so we're hearing all the time. i'm sure you've heard this yourself, but china has no right to interfere in the politics of taiwan. but what is taiwan watched china to be a part of their decision making?

by the way, taiwan is arguably a province of china, where the legislature there have they have just passed some reforms that are pro china very different from what we hear in the united states. right. this is not a story you'll hear, well, what's your value? and they go against their recently elected president, by the way the legislature did de, happens to be pro west. he's also anti china, is also america. by the way, after this legislation, as is often the case in taiwan. historically, let's just say things got a little testy as the and there they are going after each other. so those are just some of the scuffles that apparently broke out after these legislators decided to make this decision.

taiwan nationalist party pushed through these measures that essentially what they do is they weaken the powers of the newly elected president, a guy named william lot by taking away from him. things like controlling defense spending there in taiwan. that is exactly what china was hoping they would do. now, why is this nationalist party important because well, the nationalist party is pro unification with china. and given this scenario, you can expect, in fact, you can take it to the bank at the united states, the state department here, the c i a, are not going to take this sitting down. another words expect the us to most likely interfere or at least consider interfering. not that they would ever do that or have done that in the past. manella. just saying right, well, you know, we're just stay in wreck. i mean, to put it simply, taiwan is new president, william ly, as you said, his legal name, by the way, lighting to his ruling party,

the d. p. p. the democratic progressive party has to deal with this coalition government that's also in parliament. yes. that other big party cam t, which advocates for closer relations to mainland china. so d p members physically sparred with pam team members on the parliament floor over what the p p says is that k m t had rushed several bills out of committee onto the floor boat without dissecting it, line by line. and the d p. p. begin mudslinging a tooth and came to have a outside influence. but this is the cattle calling the pot black rick, i'm not saying tam t did have any outside influence. i have no evidence of that. but what we do have evidence of what we can say with certainty is that the d p. p has absolutely has outside influence in the form of all us presidents and bi partisan collections. the members of congress, including congressman jimmy panetta of california, who rec,

son of leon panetta, the former secretary of defense, the former c. i a director. the younger panetta was among the us delegation, who went there to meet and greet with the new president in taipei last month. so here's the question. this, this, this province of china says, or free country as the us says, are they right off the coast of new jersey? no right there, but they off the coast of florida. no, right. so when you're looking at around a map, it's like next to china. most would argue it's been a part of china for the last 510000 years. so the, the fact that just common sense would tell you what the hell are we doing there? why are we telling taiwan what to do or what not to do? and then telling china what to do or what not to do with taiwan. we might be like china telling us what to do with, with mexico and worse, what to do with florida. i mean, it just, it boggles the mind. does it not?

puerto rico, puerto rico, that's a good example. puerto rico, right? they were telling us, here's what you can do or can't do with puerto rico that this is amazing. and the fact that the legislature has not come out and say, look, we don't trust china. i mean, i'm sorry, we don't trust the us, and there meddling in here, and we're going to go against the guy who's with china. that kind of creates a different uh, a different narrative that we've been following for some time. and we're going to follow this by the way. here's another story. something weird that's going on in the us, which is, and should bother americans, you know, weren't guaranteed in our constitution here in the united states in this country. some really wonderful things because we really do have a great constitution. the 4th and 5th, 5th amendments of our constitution. tell us, the government does not have the right to search for seizure property, unless they have a warrant where they suspect to incrementing a specific crime and they tell you what the crime is right then and there. the kid just come up. in other words, they can simply stop you in the street or in your car. they can show up at your

house, like like somebody out of nazi germany and make you answer questions or, or search your house or take your vehicle or search your vehicle just because they feel like it, they can not do that. or can see that's exactly what the federal agents are doing right now, a 100 miles from any border in the us. but you know that to which it covers it's almost 60 percent of the population of the united states is crazy, which is why these guys fight back. watch martinez, for the case law, for 2 acer states that any vehicle 100 nautical miles is expected for keeping and solve my problem or what's wrong with you. i do not need to keep my hands out of my pocket. there is no law that says that i am required to keep my hands out of my pocket. we don't want any problems. i don't want to take it off me go touch me. don't touch me. that's a so it's not a song. it is a song,

any unwanted touching is a so i do not want to be touched by you or any of you in officers. why are you pointing taser at me? do i appear to be scammed? my hands in my pockets so that i'm not a threat. i don't know what's in your keep your hands off me. why are you touching me? why are you touching me? why are you touching me? those guys did absolutely nothing wrong. they were driving on the street a road in texas, a 100 miles when the banner with mexico. when i of sudden these agents come up and say, get out of your car, we want to search your car. where are you going? what are you doing? what are your plans for tonight? what are we doing in the last 24 and they're like going, what is nazi germany? i don't have to answer any of your questions. i mean, their constitutional rights are being initiated by this policy that allows agents and police to search question to obtain a ras,

even arrest us citizens without any reasonable suspicion. as defined in the bill of rights. i mean, constitution. what constitution manila encourage me to watch this? i think i don't know. i a rick as they say, that escalated quickly. a few points to make here. cvp does. * operate emigration sharp points along the interior of the united spa hot uh, those are a 100 moment to permanent checkpoints, or secondary roads. they call these tech the pack tactical check points as part of their enforcement strategies. so congress did give wide latitude to immigration agents. course the in the 1946 immigration and nationality act, that grants them permission to interrogate any person believe to be. and this is the term that they use back then an alien to the us initially that was a 25 mile radius. it's now a 100 miles. now, just for perspective, rick, the entire state of florida, for example, is subject to this regulation. yeah,

because it's peninsula surrounded by coastline. governor abbot of texas, last year in 2023 further expanded, what cvp can do in his state. but according to the a, c, o. use review of these new board or laws. what cvp agents did to these 2 brothers couldn't be caused for escalation in the judicial system. but then rick, this puts us back into that debate of who looks american, who gives take our cause and cares. yeah. you're, you're not even supposed to ask that question. you're not supposed to ask any question, i'm a citizen of the united states. my constitution is, if you want me to do anything, you have to suspect me of a crime. this is not nazi germany. you can't just come up to somebody and say to them where you big, where you're going, where is your wife at right now? how old are your kids? what are your plans tonight? i mean, you can't do that and no less. but get out of your car,

i want to look around in your cart. why do you want to look at my car? i just feel like it because i can because there's a viewing role in 1976. the gutierrez rule that says that i can. i'm sorry, that is not the united states that we go around. think about. it's just not, it's crazy. these guys are absolutely in the right, i believe. and, and you know, i agree that this is why yes, you and i become more libertarian every single day. because i know it's in many ways easily. libertarians are right about these things all. anyway, there i go, getting past several liberties, civil liberties rick. yeah. what civil liberties as you're saying? well, congress says it's okay. the governor of count of texas says it's okay, was that the cause of the constitution supercede both of those idiots. i would. all right, so here we go. i want to show you another image. now that you can't, that can't be seen enough. you know how we're always being told that we have to stop russia because look what they're doing, a new crane. their expansion is before you know what they're going to be trying to take over the world. those commies, by the way,

russians aren't coming to see any more but but, but hey, when you are in old us politician, you're 90 years old. you probably still think that they are, i digress. russia as opposed to be encroaching. right. they, they are taking over are wanting to take over europe. okay. all right, let's see who's really encroaching on who this is nato, which should have been disbanded when the soviet union dissolved. but instead, look at what nato has been doing over the past 25 years. watch this map. there's russia, you see russia encroaching on europe, or do you see europe encroaching on russia? look at all those countries being gobbled up by the country by the countries that say they're being encroached on. everybody has dark blue, by the way, is nato. the ones who are the different shades of blue are about to become a or b, or a considering they know or being forced to consider their though, and that you know why there's a war and ukraine because of this. because of this, i mean, by the way, that settlement, that nato should have been disbanded,

has been echoed by many prominent western historians, but now rushing for administer lab rob is waiting. and with his comment that he made this week, he says this. he says, when the warsaw pact seems to exist when this, the union extended his hand for unification with europe. the us on the west as a whole should have pulled back on the basis of equality mutual benefits and respect. but no one did that. no one decided to dissolve nato. in fact, they have increased data. you know, he may be an old boring guy with big cheeks, but he's got a point, a break. i actually really likes 3rd day last off. i find them to have a lot of time. and he's usually the only adult in the room among, you know, his peer cohort. but look what's happening now in the way of nato expansion has to give big new brzezinski and george cannon. it's got to be turning them in their graves. even the architects of the soviet containment knew their limitations and

this was it. brzezinski was already out of his official capacity after bush juniors term and office when nato saw biggest expansion, 7 countries near or around the russian border joined the block in 2004. we saw them on the map there when just 2 years earlier, rick in 2002 bush junior, led the formation of the nato russia council to help natal members and russia work together on security issues. but then 2 years later, he flipped so i don't know who's approaching on who right? yeah, it's, well i know the, the, the, the pictures tell the story. yeah. it's that we keep big, the old rush. oh my god, they're gonna overtake your up. all the countries that used to be a part of the soviet union had been overtaken by european countries or really by the united states and by washington. so, i mean sometimes just trust your eyes. trust your eyes. what great stuff on a scale to come, how modern warfare is turning into a video game,

and how concerned should we be about that? we're going to talk to our guest about just that. he has written multiple books on this topic and he's got to join us with lots of fascinating facts on this fascinating topic. don't go away. the, the, we're told the by the ministration won't change its support for israel, even in light of the recent rock. the massacre, there are no red lines, only empty words. the international community is rallying to the palestinian cause . meanwhile, us stands alone in isolation. is a lot. it's can be started by line. please can be started by a true importance of wiki links name of the kind of a station. so that transparency is extraordinary. john mystic,

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right welcome back. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct. in fact, i'm in chris not as professor security studies at e. c. u. eastern carolina university, the proud pirates. good football team every year. by the way, he's written a lot of books including this one is book is called the killer robots legality, and s a calorie of a ton of most weapons. this is a fascinating subject that we need to attack. pardon upon right now. i've been crushed on, joins us now live professor, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate your time. thank you for having the i'm excited to be on your show. it's fascinating to think with what's going on in the world right now. you know, the situation between the united states and china and taiwan that i was just talking about, which scares me and should scare everybody. the situation in ukraine, the situation is going on in the middle east with gaza and is real. i mean, if ever there's been a time to fear,

the escalation of war and fear that the procedures and processes being used and those boards are getting highly technical and more difficult to control. it's now, and this is what you're writing about, what, what do we need to fear or not fear? let's start there. well, great to see what needs to be the avoidance of nuclear war. that is the biggest threats to humanity at this point. apart from that, there are other threats such as artificial intelligence. i'm just a use of i'm m systems and uh, yeah, do you use about technology for the genetic modification of human, some other living organisms. so a lot for both. there could also be a possibility in the near future. did you do the future? i just heard your say something that made me say, well, did he just say that? did you just say the genetic modification of humans to be used in warfare?

that sounds scary to what does that mean? it means that we have to technology to genetically edit human beings and other organisms. so we can modify soon is genetically, uh, be good to synthetically, insert other dna from other organisms. so we could create a ton of yours. so we put the mix, human dna, have animal dna in order to create a new schuman species. oh, my god, there are lots of possibilities in terms about technology. so your question, you're, you're talking about creating like a, a super soldier. well, if you talk about super soldiers, what do you mean is truman performance enhancement? as human performance enhancement, and what is not a new say, no, that has been done forever. and so there are different ways of achieving no does

that who, who has done that in the past, the us, the russians, a chinese who, who, who is enhancing soldiers biologically or whatever a well, the easiest form of an asthma is nutritional, and pharmacological enhancement. and obviously, so those have used drugs for performance enhancement. so alcohol has been frequently used in moore, as well as other drug, select ok or veterans. so during the vietnam war, the us military was. ready handing out impediment of soldiers for performance enhancement, because of have soldiers to stay awake for longer and you have to do you advocate for performance longer. so that is nothing new to the metrics of students using the various kinds of drugs in order to have better performance. we read about that during the iraq war were soldiers were given being given drugs. so

they can stay up longer, especially the ones who are using flying the drones and taking people out and stuff which is scary and of itself, which also makes me sick. now, of the other thing that i fear, which is decisions being made perhaps by some of those drones without somebody telling them what to do. that is i, i look at it this way, professor, when the soul is taken out of a decision. i fear what the outcome might be. you get my drift, but it's the form of automation. so we're just entrusting certain decisions to computers, a certainty, and it's just software that is making a determination of what to do or not to do or to make recommendations through human disorders. so that is also nothing new about obviously, but we're moving closer to the point where what's on the spectrum systems are being

put on the bench field and the song stamps. this has already happened. so we have now not to relations so they can be operated by humans, but there is a terminal guidance phase where the computer takes over and turns out the final attack. it is that it's frightening to think that the computer would take over and make the final attack or make those decisions, as you say, because if we're dealing with the mass of weapon, maybe even something atomic, for example. i mean, the outcome could be the next world war? no. so yes, there's a concern that the defense crisis stability. so if they have more autonomous weapon systems that are deployed and that may be patrol of the space and operate and auto space. and they can make a mistake,

so they might use the web. i'm so against another system like in other satellites or another aircraft by accident, and then go to trigger events that could lead to a major war. so that means accidental war. so neither side really intended to go to war, but because of all tomatoes, decision making, it could happen cause everything it would be happening so fast that humans would have a difficulty to intervene in time in order to stop that. so it sounds to me like somebody should give some serious thought to getting together with other nations and deciding that we're going to put a freeze on this stuff that we're not going to allow this to pull up right. as we did or tried to do with nuclear weapons in the past, my fear. after i make that suggestion in my brain, i'm thinking to myself. yeah. try doing that. rick sanchez out of time when people

make money on these weapons and who is going to say, i don't want that a 100000000 dollar project where i'm going to take home 5000000 of that and stick it in my pocket right now. because i feel bad that some people might get hurt in the process and there might be some irrational decisions make. i don't trust people or politicians in any country to make that kind of decision. that's what scares me . am i wrong? but i think it's not just about money, it's arguably already. and then yeah, i'm surprised between the united states, russia and china. so this 3 countries are developing mercury a i to, they're planning to develop and a field economists weapon systems. so they have different ideas of how that could be utilized. but generally speaking, it's a major trend. and there's the perception, if we don't do it, the other side will do it. so that is uh so think about that so on and you don't

and you right in your book that there probably is not an adult who is adult enough or has maybe we're turning to my word, the proper soul to pick up the phone and call the kremlin, or called beijing, or, or call beijing to washington and have a conversation and say guys, we've got to be careful with this for the sake of the world, or do they not care or is this just part of the process that we live in a world where everybody wants to outdo each other with these, with these, with this type of weaponry. the way that has been ad towards to have some arms control agreements in the area. i thought deficient intelligence problems. luckily, systems as a dozen international about governmental exports but has met so times in geneva. and they have tried to establish some ground was for the use of autonomy has left them systems. and the main problem that has existed for getting any kind of

agreement in place is that there is no agreement of what constitutes autonomy. and that is your terms define of what you want to regulate down regulated. but autonomy is easy, don't just, i can tell you what autonomy is when you take a human decision out of the process that's autonomy. it's being done by itself. the machine is deciding not me. right. i'm, it's not quite as simple as some depends on how intelligent the machine has to be in order to constitute autonomy. there is a distinction between automated systems and to thomas systems. so automation is very simple. so that's a just flipping a southwest switch and autonomy would suggest that the machine has not claps when like intelligence, but has the ability to distinguish between legitimate and the targets. and

can also decide on courses of action so that they can turn it out and mission autonomously. so without much human supervision, and at this time as always, some extent of shooting supervision. so that is also a question of judgment. the said, but point or should, because something autonomous, a window are still assuming somewhere on the it's not in the, as off the radically could have a machine that has some autonomous functions. a, but it is the control inputs human. and then flip a switch. and then it becomes totally autonomous, that it seems so tricky, so confusing. so worry some, but i'm so glad that someone like you is out there. looking through these details

of these facts and, and writing a book about it, which we ok. and then hopefully learn from i think we've just touched the iceberg here. i hope to be able to get you back is this really is a fascinating and really important conversation that has to do with worn piece in our time. again, the book is called killer robots legality and at the county of autonomy as weapons . dr. ahmad christian on is a professor at e. c. u. thank you, professor for taking time to talk to us today about this important topic. it has been a pleasure and that's our show. remember, always look outside your own boxes. there's all kinds of truths out there and they don't live in boxes. that's what we believe. i'm rick sanchez and see you next to the

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