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anguish, wailing ship without killing whales in the Pacific. Nope
that sounds like a well ship from Wales
Captain John Fern spotted an island until then no european had ever seen he challenged
fern fern? Ok, he called it pleasant island.
sounds nice I'll. Tell you what I fear a good feeling about this since good. It was
but by eleven clans, ok
although now ruins way com
not gonna lie. That's ominous called the Ruins Maroon clan Missus gardener aliens. This is one way
people know ruin an island right, yeah. Thank you or one guy gets a kick. It's going to be the story of how they got there. Not what you got.
Now the EU is great,
I have so many questions. I should be in the regular custom right now laughter,
the public has over I'll. Tell you what's happening now and you curling no ball. They practice.
the Aqua farming and eight coconuts
and an fruit, and what pen dance proven Dennis Pontanus
expanding. I fear I bet you like pending fruit, that comes out of a pat ASEAN is, I think those are baby. Pandas, that's right there.
Maybe then you should not eat those, no no way. If they come out really, if they're fresh, you can kill off the yeah there, it is sweet middle
Narrow is a very green island. Captain affirmed was surprised by how many people he saw several hundred in canoes and more on the beach still
moved on without going ashore, so he was just like you said.
Did they are don't want to die a case that I was the vibe die.
I was full of festival, singing dancing, sports game storytelling and just being not a normal social island, good happy people,
Japan, two eggs or whatever they can pay and then the occasional panda bandanas. Aside from
drought. It was easy to take care of needs. They have normal disputes, some lead to conflict,
The little work that was needed was done by middle aged men, so that was kind of the only people who worked everyone else was just like you know: fucking kick kicking it didn't life either life before the white man
starting on eighteen, thirty Europeans began stopping at the island? Ok, it's going to be good. What it's a terrible start preserve
wailing, ships and traders came for supplies, especially freshwater. Some sailors with jumped ship and stay on narrow, ok, others escaped austrian penal colonies and made it all the way up to the island sounds good sense like that everything is good. So far, it's a good.
A good vibe, you haven't, we close to the end. What
It is the story almost done, because I'm worried that we're not going to find the heart of evil within this beast. Now I listen to the podcast before and it usually goes for much longer. Yeah yeah, they went really well, that's it now! That's it! That's the story. Let's go to the bar.
everyone- has engineers like. I wish that was a story
These are the guys who escaped and the guys who jumped ship recalled beach, commerce
Maria others are all over the island for metal detectors. They were combers, yet there
I see cool, but they they became value because they could help the trading ships and there's a lot of bartering
with the narrow ones and then were introduced the concept of money which they had never explained. Just the were it's just terrible
That to me, is the worst just be like nobody has value
this paper did me: don't you
Stan you giving you a hundred dollars. Okay, so you know I used to give me five cocoanuts I'd, give you a fish. Yes, we traded, it was there. Now I give you now. I give you five coconuts in, and you give me this piece of paper, but it is useless paper.
and I take that and I buy fruit
you ve been eating pandas yea, I Japan or fruit. It's almost like when, like Jack, went and got the magic beans, just like you traded it for what paper I have paper dammit, he was a sweet talk or I don't know what just happened so,
the money didn't really make sense to them. You know, why would you why doesn't make sense to me.
So over time the narrow as they traded, they became more aggressive and they started trading for guns and booze. Well,
is this: the story of America is a lot of parallels there
palm wine that they had made for thousands of years, but there is nothing like rum here.
I think we still all agree with that budget.
Look here by our colleague. Caring about our grave rum is made
fifty two they try to buy a cannon from a ship.
And I love other just like so that's the biggest gun Spock you get that,
I get one of those you it doesn't fit in my
felt so easily, though it really is taxing
the negotiation over the cannon went south, pretty quick, then
capturing the ship, killing the captain and several of the crew and then set the ship adrift who needs money when its cannons,
You don't find without a shirt. So then the island got a bad name and ships are two avoided, but their origin.
the guns and now and then they would drastically change the island. During
marriage festival in eighteen? Seventy eight there is discussion of etiquette, they became heated and then get shot. A chief is that
most ironic thing that can happen at an adequate, fast yeah, maybe and just get a new, an argument and then kill the person you're arguing with the play. You, gentlemen, we are not listening. We put this festival on for a reason: it's pretty
is the etiquette, the guy who shot. The chief was the guy who didn't understand etiquette here sure, but he knew the salad Fork tv, fair, thy. He shut out to the etiquette festival, so he came
in open heart yeah. He was ready, for he was ready for fucking
adequate all day, long
Anyone else want to discuss. What's polite added pocket, picks up.
So in and their culture
had to death. You had it. If someone got killed, you had to deal with that by killing back shirt and then you killed them
someone else's exe error. You killed that guy was there had been, there have been
there's an feuds before, but they never done. This with guns guns are actually
for an booze
Boozer. Just so like talk about a year in Yang I mean that's your tango in cash. For I know this is like a whole island like when pubs clothes
yeah
which an animated forbear
the
so so there are several shootings that lead to death and then more and then more and soon almost every neurons,
fighting junk
People were shooting other people accidentally or break
into an enemy's house and shooting everything that moved
children being killed. It was just on
I mean I'm desensitized than I am alarmed
I know from America, and this is like yeah. Yes, what you talk about a Thursday night
because they're football on more people are going to die from alcohol
in eighteen, eighty one, a british Navy, Squat Squadron stopped at the island and convict who escaped Norfolk Island in eighteen. Forty two came aboard the
His name was William Harris and he explained the situation of what was happening on narrow. After speaking, Harris the ship's crew was told to,
was told quote. Civil war on the island and escape convict is king. I think he threw that part in again on the king.
yes and religions, William
all hands, constantly drunk no fruit or vegetables to be obtained, nothing but pigs and cocoanuts. The president. Now that's a book title figure.
The present island king, wants a missionary. He is evidently hungry. That's the speech
it doesn't have a taste for coconuts and pork. No okay, you get pretty tired of coconuts and pork me. It's all. I ate Bro
So then, next german merchants came to the island and they set up plantations and they brought with them european diseases. That's goods
it was nice touch. We bring your illness.
You're gonna die here, got your fuckin import. Let's do this limit got ready mouse like that feeling.
the german of businesses, whose safety cannot be sure, because the war asked for Germany to take over running the island that, while this needs more Europeans
yeah. This is totally what we need in this situation, but I love that they're alive they got to an island or like this place, is fucked up. We need more of us yeah Germans, especially when, if we ever done bad, we deal with power properly chairman if Bush
you like? Stop we get it right. We are that we did our world, we need, as we did it, we did it, we did it. What do you stop enough?
the building like great metro drains. That's what we're
ok, that fucking asshole. Why did he do it? Did my shoes
the cook, you'll only drink what matches? I love that about you, like the cardi b of soft drinks,
so
Germany annexed Nehru on April six, eighteen, eighty eight k, but obviously just
just like one year, far away from something that's mine, if it's a forum,
robbery, sure
They immediately band.
Alcohol and guns time to move islands?
gunboat arrived on October. First eighteen, eighty eight, the german flag was raised and then all of the tribal Chiefs were arrested for people for being
around you're under arrest and I'll, be a german first of all their trespassing on German. Germany
Have you not seen the flags? This is ours. Now? What are you doing? You look ridiculous. The flag is up your c'mon guys have the flag was down. You may have a case, but the flags raised. It's like figure out physics
you do them ass
so they were told,
I don't really like become assholes, since we
The flag, like you guys, are really big. Like ownership is not a single attractive. Aren't you
anyway you're under arrest and your eyes, and every six hours guy have some coconuts
support. Cocoanut combination come on each foods, gosh because it really is
sticks and mud, so
I mean it's like they don't know the flag was raised like we raise the flag, it's like what is a? What is that gripe, so good to have someone to talk to us like, like Emma best friend, you know what I mean like you're, like the only guy that, like I'm into talking to right now seriously? That's it it's like you and I and like against the,
Dinner
Three
so the clans were told that they did
turn over all the guns and ammunition. In one day the chiefs would be executed. This like attack against violence, is very bizarre.
because to violent guns. If you don't remember going to kill you where they work.
The next day, seven seven hundred and sixty five guns and fast,
His rounds and ammunition were turned. It.
the war was over. Nearly five hundred people died around a third of the population.
Over, but now the narrow and have no control over their island
missionaries arrived, always good and they set about.
changing the way the natives dressed and eradicating dancing, singing and other traditions say no guns neighbours, but no doubt
Seeing no northern no like smiling and as Germans around its basic,
I like if footloose were to invade yeah that'd, be no merriment anymore, also be been, smiling cavorting, no drinking or dancing guy. You guys.
Bags raised like what are you even doing any more like the flags up and you're being all I heard a fragment off like it's up like for real this. I'm ok, these people don't get it. It's like it's just you and me again. So there is a world roadmap. So crazy, weird, like you know,
this month amid like we are, we are where we are with us. Friends deal was oh, my god,
Annie,
like the back and forth is just like. Contagion was not going to want to be like you know of,
fly a wall while we do is like them.
Can we rally back and forth like we're, always talking and always like completing each others?
yeah yeah yeah, exactly soda
so they may get rid of all that stuff because its pagan right, that's what the sheriffs thing,
Then the clans learn the joy of paying taxes.
Dialogue rather Perry. I have received, says what I'm asking you: that's not a ride off their job. It's a fish is it is it
But like what am I supposed to do with it, do you,
a ten. What sort of tax documents do you have fish
do you have a receipt for it or any sort of I just got from the ocean,
So they did they, the ocean take any of it because you write off a commission, no
I just got efficient you're going to oh I'm going to be right up front with you right now. You will oh you're, not getting anything back.
ways of what we do. Is we take this spanish right to cut the head off right and then
cut the tail off and the governments can take us.
a part here which has just median juicy: that's arms, that's, but a government right.
And then we gotta hold onto this rigour. To put this in an hour every that's the fish tail, so here's what you get
Fischer who
I'll come to democracy, logo,
I don't know exactly. That means you did your taxes
so they pay tax in the form of cobra copper, which is the media, the cocoanut the way. So that's a good thing that they pay taxes by in the form of the white
part of the cook, that's how I pay taxes- and I don't really know is everyone- is doing here. You can do that anywhere in the Pacific
and then a missionary fuck, the wife of a chief and all the missionaries were deported
what kind of bullshit is that,
how they did it right,
The delegation is sorry about anal, they did anal, they did it ten Dana
the only position we do
there's not another one to do. I'm the egg seconds
It
but still over the time of the missionaries are banned there, that the damage was done to Ireland. Culture
in eighty ninety six, a cargo officer took a weird looking rock from the island and brought it back to Australia. He took a what rock weird looking rock okay. He thought it was a petrified tree was a kryptonite
Yes, this is nearly all of Europe. I knew where we were headed. Weren't is home planet right now another to get sent a Kansas,
at another guy, came to the office and asked about the rock thinking it was phosphate and he was
It was not, but then he had it tested and discovered it was, and now he was at phosphate. It was like a highly potent amazing like the best phosphate ever. Can I ask a question for Jan? Not for me: why don't you explain to
some people here. What the upside of phosphates phosphate is used
fertilizer since in an attack
and
anyway. I just want to make sure we are on the same page. Yes or no
time will you are expanding. You know you're colony, that's very important fact how agreements laugh and his island, but it will get dancer thing. Anyone so
his name this guy, who tested it s name, was Albert, fuller, Ellis. He was born in Queensland and raised in New Zealand. He worked for,
John T, our Rundle and company, where his father was a director, the company, a ban mining guano.
from Pacific Island. Since eighteen, sixty nine,
she's married shit, but those guys you dont know those batch bird not purchase your magic, crazy citizens, Batman story,
the remaining on Caroline Island Bake, rail and how that Ireland, Jarvis silent manner, island re in Ireland and several others, so they just digging up the whole Fuckin Pacific
discovered that narrow was the most was mostly phosphate rock, which he called quote a good fine
the red flag
and it's like ice has a good find watch it now.
Phosphate was created from they shit of birds who migrated across the Pacific for millions of years, since the bird should economy yet
It was an essential ingredient in fertilizer. I told you that already you did and I knew, but it's
that we all know- and thank you so much again again. I just couldn't have done it without you and me too, I'm here for sure the Pacific boss,
The company was form to mine, narrow and nearby bonanza or amber, but but
just island extort sounds like banana.
Contact with the banana bans, the nubbins
for the right to mine,
four nine hundred ninety nine years at fifty pounds a year that is deal
like the Scientology contract, but they don't like. I don't just go for the east
a year. It's like what someone charges like nine hundred ninety nine dollars, a ninety nine cents to do likewise, not a thousand so I mean I'd, be a form of words game, but a data.
Just like the neurons. They don't give a shit about money, so, like yeah, ok, give gives fifty bucks a year. What am I fucking? Can
so our narrow. The agreement was with Germany. Landowners would get half a penny for every tonne of phosphates MIKE.
it is kind a penny. A protocol
half of any. We created a currency that doesn't exist so low.
I gotta be saying where we came here. You gotta love. It get ready, but you know
the neurons refinement this because they did not see reason to acquire money again, whatever down so the mind.
Started and went on for a few years than World war, one came narrow was captured by Australia S job
now we shouldn't we shouldn't
away that I read it doesn't work out later on
the wrong Lou time. We did it finally
after the war, the UK, Australia, New Zealand split control of the island and agreed to take a worse yea yea that led as if people,
lived. It is if there's a lot like people are already there like. What's going on of storage
Where does the disaster? Who has everything got? Give us a minute job Jones, chill out my back off or on back off
Do you really like his attitude? I haven't marked it's a whole times. This guy's been such assholes Libya for five years,
You should have heard them pushing back on this half a penny stops are like that's that's like, oh, my god. With
victims. Here night
The three countries agreed to take all take phosphate at production cost. So
it's really cool of Seattle. Denied internet is very nice. It's pretty great merit.
Still do not see reason to join the whole work thing in nineteen thirty, three fewer than fifty out of five hundred adult man we're working for money after
these years. The locals we're still isolated from the mining business,
so there's still around the edge of the island. The mining is happening in the middle there, just like whenever there definitely pie like what are they doing is very busy constant, almost worth more to came. If you
now. There was a big one heard of it and most of history based in
August, nineteen, forty two, the Japanese invaded and they built in airfield some.
This is just kind of being set up like the new you and headquarters, essentially slowly but surely in the middle of the island,
and then that was bombed all the time by the allies and then they built.
Bob Wire around the whole island and dug deep
it is in the reef
but machine gun bunkers everywhere. Did they serve that Canada?
I think it's time we use the big waiting we to really
after that it stuck in my belt. I just can't brought my hip is just killing me: they deported twelve
under the narrowest to slave labour on another island worded, it's my kidnaps deported
probably layer just eat airs yea, I so they took some people
sorry old, chap eaters. There now have the cap we lock on our island. Well, if the Japanese, well
go in there.
We're slowly learning about all the minefields. Where did they get deported to
They took him to another Ireland where they had. We not make an I'm workin for ammunition or some shit class there there
they had a solution to the forty nine and their owners who are suffering from leprosy on the island of the Japanese, put them on a boat,
see and sunk it
That's it
of sorts. So that's
going to see.
Well,
You put it out there, I get it in September. Nineteen, forty
by the Japanese, surrendered to know what's going on
the narrow and who had been taken away. Slave labour were returned, one out of three died, so they can overturn.
There are fewer than six hundred narrow ones left to live on the island. Now they can fix that yea people you're thing in a lady
my one
operation its back on it's only. They only do it. It's a special one of their special things. They lay on each other,
you have a child Johnny. I did it
it's a little guano to me. First, you give your wife a pot brownie and she relaxes
they made a deal
I
You could use a true story,
you're lucky she doesn't listen to the pod gets you ve got a secret identity that urges like. I was the one. What are you some day I'll tell him that he was made a pink Floyd
it was the thought. Nauru would be the worst part of this whole thing. The
it's certainly a new visual. I can't shake yeah, hello, hello. Is there anybody in there? Oh yeah, the is for another ninety seconds. The
so
so the island was battle. Scarred villages were raised, the entire social fabric is torn up by the Japanese. Welcome.
so their way of life is destroyed.
Narrow and suddenly had to get jobs and work. This is such a nightmare. I mean this is essentially like the condensed history of White yup wrong. I mean this is colonialism, and it's
most pure. We bring you money. Oh there's taxes. You've got to work for money. It's like. We were really happy when we danced and sang yeah, bullshit yeah. How fucking lazy are you we could set around the coconuts and pigs and then we'd dance? You don't know how to do it. What about getting
factory for about twelve hours a day we ve been
Where did misery?
so their way of life is over. They get jobs before them.
for ten percent of men worked after eighty eight percent, where work
for a great economy. That's an unbelievably booming account. Eighty eight percent had ever seen. Numbers like this from everybody else, come on serious. So now
Working for the british phosphate commissioners now they're digging up their island and sending pieces of it away.
The UK, Australia, New Zealand were made trustees of Nehru under a League of Nations mandate. That was nice. It was nice of them regulation.
administrative power went Austria. Do you guys got his wings which,
while, because we only been a country like twenty years. At this point,
he thought it I've been doing. This is fine.
Time. Yet we deserve this.
Two percent revenues went to the Islanders, that's a little and then
and then Austria charge them one percent for administering the island
This is
like when you look at the back of a pay, stop when you're, just like where's it all ongoing and on how does one fifty percent good administration, you gotta help
We we're we'd we're funding a lot of important businesses.
SAW Australia is supposed to be getting narrow to a place where it can be self governing. That's why they're put in charge of the island, the council achieved then put
request to self governing eighteen, forty, eight, but Australia, Canada.
Them to withdraw. It
Austria, went to the U N and explained that the phosphate industry was helping the near ruins. It was progress for humanity; they gave them jobs and profit, as God intended
they didn't have before before this. They didn't have jobs, so
up their island is helping them
Why is this was a capitalist? Yes, he the phosphates business,
was caring for the Islanders, but the Australians said they really needed to remain in charge because the narrow ones couldn't manage their own affairs. Wasn't the island taking care of the new ruins before everybody came there, but I'm sorry. What did you hear me? Okay,.
No, they didn't have jobs before
any white boys it hot air but wasn't their job to just sort of thrive.
Working. They were just dancing all day yeah. I know that's kind of what I'm like in. Unlike I like, if you guys do dance
no new worlds, one with joy, I've heard of it
say I didn't know you were so lazy. Ok,
Australia, said they could manage their own affairs,
sadly, they couldn't be educated or train to govern their own country thoughts, a fuckin total catch. My two situation:
guess view and where to buy your colonialism is really all Britain Britain started this
Britain made us and America, the Fuckin assholes
yeah. They rarely are. They really are and I'm them and they really are terrible, doing get pushing sir get out what scary have him deported
so. The current cap put what push for independence all the time, but it was always be defeated. One region
was that Australia would not give up any of the information on the phosphate mining finances.
So no one knew if they can actually run their own. I cause they didn't how much money was.
I'm sure this had nothing to do with the fact that austrian farmers we're getting phosphate and half the international right now, but by
did. Sixty six, two thirds of the phosphate had been mind from the island.
with each year it became more expensive to dig up.
And then behind it you'll leave a path that destruction so the entire set
the island, which is the sound like anything going on nowadays it? Oh, yes, the good
I know the island once Green was now a giant pit.
It basically opened a hell mouth.
I opened his mouth on this I opened a home office about right.
the island is twenty one square, kilometers and phosphate is not.
Is it a get out? Phosphate lies between two cone shape pillars of fossilized.
coral up to five metres high, and it can't be my mind without
uneven, unformable, nightmarish, impassable huge chunks of white stone, pinnacles. Well, these that's white stone,
let us move
so the other was so fuckin ruined that Austria declared narrow, uninhabitable and offered to resettle the entire population to an island of Queensland how they offered to reset the puppy
patient every every narrow- and they said now, you guys can move to an island off of Queen queens that doesn't sound like us.
that doesn't sound like something we do
at all
only catches, is that they would have to give up their sovereignty sure,
they were moved. You not Ireland, but then all the Australians
Sir Ill timed.
you're. So the
the people a narrower like now. I don't want to do that so that
We are powers, we're not just going. Let that be the end of it. They needed one. More final act of sweet, sweet exploitation,
All the money they made in all the phosphate
at insanely low prices. I do not like what about their hear, Australia
New Zealand and Britain forced narrow,
to borrow against future mining earnings to buy out the phosphates. They enron them in this year. It's not their got but you're taking it. I like you, can you know what you can buy your own island
you ruined our whole island Gilbert? Now you can have
we don't want it anymore. It's totally ruined by you idiots, keep it up double the price we pay keep talking. I triple.
Can I say one thing yet quadruple deal
Well, I got a pretty good deal. I talked to the whites again. They were
impossible as usual, but every time I talked he kept doubling the price. So I stopped talking so good better.
So narrow bought the company using dead,
control their minds was, for the first time under narrow control, but David TAT
totally out of running the companies that they had no idea about what to do management, the phosphate market, anything
Even the Austrians refused to tell them anything about a cool nice
as they knew as soon as the narrow and found out. They realize just how much the big getting fact all those years.
The narrow became independent nineteen sixty eight
now totally dependent on the outside world and money based economy, not not a coconut based economy.
The government plan to put aside some mining revenue to rehabilitate the land, public services, economic development and investment to provide for future generations, and it's an island of Adam optimism, they're all very optimistic right now and see me at this point in its train history, original people were still not recognised.
humans, sire leisurely, geyser
pretty great right. There are fauna, it's just tremendous,
Actually, I need a drink,
but they so now they no longer have to sell to colonial powers and they find new buyers like Japan and South Korea and they start fuckin making money hand over fist. We, who does the neurons
now. Maybe a works within
under ten years in ten years, nineteen. Seventy five they had amassed today. What will be two point: five billion
dollars in profits. They get sport there in time
air population for generations are you up to?
opera is celebrating
at the right time,
for the other side of the coin on those units going to great nope. Thank you so much
nineteen, seventy six, a journalist for National Geographic, visited and wrote an article quote. This is the world's richest nation, the quote government,
offers free or low cost everything for everybody. People had modern homes, motor boats, motorcycles, jeeps, cars image it everything that had wheels. There are super into cars and motorcycles. If there had been jet skis, then there are the fuckin going off.
This is the story of the jet skis nice twists David. There is only one paper: road around the entire island scrape
but everybody had a car
boy I mean what it s, just like a boy, one
broke down we're not leaving today if it it's over, we live here now we live here. We will re settle on the side of the road.
only Saudi Arabia and more wealth than narrow. At this point, diamonds per capita gdp was fifty thousand
First, you wanna be compared to Saudi Arabia. Right now for sure yeah, that's a good place to place.
Many got education's paid for in Australia in a
nineteen. Eighty nine narrow filed a suit against Australia in International court to pay for real
the of one third of the island
strode by mining. Fair one that well, let's
Get ready to stop clapping
Austria sell that a court for seventy five million dollars
I'm just happy to hear the millions attach than I was expecting. Seventy five dollars
when pretty well, we didn't lose money for once, which is good,
and they gave us a pizza and sixty dollars, so
Hmm,
So be ten years room there, so they still
foreigners on the island austrian.
The serving as managers, doctors and engineers
Chinese ran restaurants and shops. Other Pacific Islanders did the shit work at the mines and then phosphate production peaked in the eighteen. Ninety
so they invest start investing all in the eighty. Nine is at nineteen, oh get right,
These are investing other money, ok on they bought property and invest.
other businesses around the pacific rim. There was the
Error, Pacific shipping lines Nehru House in Melbourne, which at the time was the tallest building in Melbourne,
does in Hawaii Washington, DC, Guam, Houston, the Marshall Islands, data brewery and the Solomon Islands even on the forest near Portland. Well,
Investments were estimated at over one billion dollars in the early nineteen nineties. Just take that other
Buff whenever been talking about this, is all ending great. These guys know this story and dropped that shoe. There's a lot of sighing and and wondering if this is their penguin episode.
but they also had a national debt of six hundred million dollars,
had a revenue coming in of sixty million a year, but expenditures of a hundred million. That's not
good or bad margins and there's no taxes.
the government employed ninety five percent of working neurons,
electricity, telephones, housing or subsidized islanders.
got used to being paid for jobs? They didn't even have to go to.
I going to the office was optional, like you'd be like now
but that's also how was before so that back to their back to the thing or they get to dance sort of, but now they like no about like capitalism,
But if you have the option to not go into work picture taken going, what.
Nobody Eliza that everybody is talking about. We only
I can yeah. Well, I know the best world possible is when we're doing goes to work, yeah and so the hard way.
The phosphate plant was done by workers from China, India, the Philippines and other Pacific islands,
Islanders enjoyed a way of life,
and he would envy the golf course three par space like
so not a really, not a beautiful girls. In that field.
The last green space on the island. Even though money was set aside for schools, the teachers said they felt lot MIKE Solicitors, solicitors, these.
most of the time trying to get kids to come to school. Why did the teachers even show up if it's
they will pay, is the most popular
Ass time was slowly driving the twenty minute road around the island, while drinking imported Victoria bitter beer,
that
a hot bears, a very has not had any sense at all, and so their favorite
I became drug Dr Raising and they are welcome island and then they throw the empty cans out the window with the captain,
early learning, maybe that's why they kids were coming this school cause. I was getting pelted weekends, whether China work there,
I mean somehow we turn them into people from Arkansas yeah. I mean how long until they have southern accent. I'll tell you the problem. With this hour traffic nightmare, I blackout when I drive
So there is I dunno if our drive to drink or drink to drive. You know what I mean brother bow your head dear Lord,
You are so gracious. Thank you for inviting beer.
We are natives of this island.
We're man. Thank you.
so there is a huge costs,
per person ratio is everyone?
garlic and epizootic ribs,
didn't cause take over the island. This river joint actions aimed at removing
exercises basically wiped out of the lifestyle.
The old ways of eating were gone. The island
biggest star was capacities. These three
more shelf space was devoted to biscuits, then for
there vegetables
so I would run workable,
skip Greece.
He fried rice from chinese restaurants became a staple.
In the traditional diet of fish and vegetables was out. Now it was spam, canned corn, beef, potato chips and beer. Oh my god that sounds.
their drinking a lot traffic can mean that diet, but so too,
There are people who do genetically
their eating, come about eating fish going through periods
drought, because whenever there is a menu, there's a drought. So it's it's not eat much.
Society, we all were
I mean we all we're just. It was basically like you used to have to go out and like the disparity between being like a red. If we move over there, we can slowly, perhaps Tramp Buffalo and that'll, give us two weeks of sustenance.
We are now you're like they were much for. The extra large
I'm, not an idiot but I'll. Take that and let me get to sprites and what's what the wing being dish dinner with me,
here. The seven base
is over yam,
The burgers come in a bucket here.
Yes, of course, you Fergus come with a bucket, absolutely beyond a bucket of burgers
your bucket a burger get a burger, patties and a tape, and if you want a biscuit today, yup you want to support a bunch of gravy in it. Yup do you want to serve it in a bathtub, but you could suck it through a fucking straw. You animal. I didn't know that. What point are you going to wake up and realize what you're doing is not sustainable? I want to. I want
bathtub. We got one tab and that they want a pocketful, a pie.
It's back in the past, we've got a bathtub full of bullshit. The bucketful pie you ready for that
recognizing sustainable cores.
May I please Colorado second, one to the
oh Mary, who turn into a case study for obesity in diabetes around
He percent became diabetic.
in Amerika. We call a dream. Imagine
that's America after one gets healthy
they had one of the world's most obese populations. Cancer heart disease in disease became common mail,
Life expectancy fell to fifty five years, which is twenty years less the New Zealand
This also means they were now flying more and more
to Us J for Healthcare, which is costing a million dollars a year
the money that was not going to keep up their own health facilities.
In the mid nineteen nineties phosphate was running out and in ninety. Ninety three
a man brought into running narrow trust resigned after two months saying it was
the brink of insolvency from mismanagement. Here, therefore, obviously, what
nothing the price of phosphates,
dropping reducing revenues. So the government just kept running up huge debts, but there are
another way to make money,
investments. My friends, what is it investments? This is just I mean this is
It is evidently accelerated. History is every episode of this. Progress is filled with intense anxiety in terror.
Yeah you're, supposed to sort of echo. I one is especially filled with the younger than others, but in general exposed to feel uncomfortable. Did you do it right?
and this is not alcoholic is no, but you can
My water just grape juice from the grape people, it's the great barrier,
Ok, so one investment came in the form of Duke Minks of what Duke Minks Duke
inks. Am I an k S deep, mink, stick minks he's a man born in Liverpool. He had been a roadmap for the one hit wonder pop group unit for plus two did when this,
started. If you who are you going to tell me, I really hear about a manager of a pop group that have been like what are you talking about? It's Duke MIDS, Minx, Minx, okay,
They had a song concrete and clay which took over the need to tell us the catalogue of one of the greatest bands. That's ever exist. Did I met the Beatles of the nineties jerk off. Ok, I've got the teddy like
I mean it isn't.
Their song together. The number one spot from the rolling stones and nineteen sixty five, as we all know, makes
left the world of music, though, and gone in the banking, and it is now an executive at Citibank, Australia, my city.
The island of narrow was a client duke developed,
a musical.
Knowing the music is still in his blood. He can't let go of sugar.
He had developed a musical about the life of Leonardo Da Vinci.
This is very
If Broadway right, you ve done it done.
The ex lead singer of unit for plus two ok,
and the lead singer said they should approach the narrow and government to fund the musical. What how who was what like? How much cocaine must one due to Kenya, this inclusion?
They were just like and I think the could funded boom. That's what I'm talking about! That's what I'd say it exactly drew on the musical it'll be about Leonardo Da Vinci. I'm glad
did this good to see you man,
the idea that someone saw the tallest building in Melbourne, and I like these should fund my musical?
This makes sense to give this is gonna. Work quote,
yeah,
Ok, it's delicious rights, Lily
says they should approach the government and he says quote:
because narrow was famous for bird droppings, I thought they'd like to brighten up their profile, the musical about one of the great
sprains of all time, Leonardo Da Vinci's. So this is cocaine base. I thought that was going to end with their famous verge of being so they'll buy into any old shit yeah. These people love shit, bird, bat dog whatever so
Two keys got turned on this concept. Another
It was like yes
two. We will approach them to fund it exactly like you said, because they have a history of bird flu.
Matching being the actors auditioning for that, as well like where we doing it will be doing it at the new Ruth leader which redress are now you're, gonna love it so dogma
What the president of narrow
and played him songs. Musical. You, like a lad, see it's a lotta that stuff we see them do and there you like that.
Da Da Da Vinci, was an unbelievable guy and really looked him up, but I don't think you need to for something like this.
I love them. Love them
is what we need to be doing. Yes, I think
people will understand why we're making this move to me
It was called Leonardo, the musical, a portrait of love.
and it was about a love affair between divinity and the Mona LISA. More like the Mona LISA. Moreover, that says: I'm
going to be able to shake the cocaine was done
motor lease him. He could bear yeah,
You know that the final song is, God, motorways, smile smile quote. I came up with a sort of peace.
that might have been in his life
Why wouldn't eventually have had a bit of a fair with Mona LISA,
People ask why I was there
calling at history fuck it
The
so anyway, narrow was. I need a minute David, come on. Let's at my rules on board.
Anyone narrow was in there like this
like an awesome. This is a great investment
I liked it so much evil in the world can be traced back to musical theatre or Shuker everybody there's always a guy. That wants to be a musical, but
This is after the guy who came and around the trust and balancing there are tons of mismanagement. So at this point
a lot of Ireland is or pissed about what
The money is weird son
Ninety, ninety three,
over one hundred and narrow and vips flew to London for opening night. What is going on?
but the almost didn't make it off the island, because so many islanders were furious. Protesters flooded the tarmac to try to stop the playing people don't get
musicals, I mean they never yeah,
walk around Manhattan. There's a lot of people out there, not happy. This exact same thing happened with cats, yet they say thank you David.
Fifty women sat in front of the plane, the cops,
a common, clear, the runway and then after vips went
to be fair. The runway was also the one right around the entire and it was you're lucky you a lot of traffic other really just for emergency services that the leads
I quote we had a party at the word, the Waldorf and it was very nice. To be honest, I don't think the narrow
cared very much. They were just happy to be in England,
somehow LEO
although the musical was a massive flop, but what
Oh sorry, Leonardo, the musical them yet
apparently we are Mona,
you didn't yeah amazing
I would say there is do anything there is actually do what it shows watching
documentary there's footage.
What agenda musical, which I'll try to find? But it looks really great.
well, the finale were cancelled was a bad omen. Whereof.
We're done it's over. Reviews were brutal.
the musical closed within a month
considered to be one of the biggest flops in the history of London Theatre.
Well, they haven't the island it also.
The title invites criticism like a story of love. It's like a story of shit right leg.
as you know, some really happy right, it could have really had
it was like any three people are probably like. Oh I thought was about the ninja turtles. This is
that's different than there
Own government in today's money would have. It would have been seven million dollars that they lost on this musical
The investment above all angered the narrow and people because it was so ridiculous
and it was a symptom of how the country is being run.
But there were many more. The government spent sixty million on Quote Prime Bank notes, which is a sort of derivative the turn out to be dodgy
austrian lawyer was behind that one
Many investments have nothing to do with economics. The islanders-
are too remote to be an air travel hub, so the government created AIR Nehru and bought five, seven, thirty, seven any games,
clogging up that main roads,
is this. I fucking disguise waiting for and gave me forever
It's such a small island? What is happening? I mean these
Our big swings answer: they don't take risks
a clear out of the story of Motorways and Leonardo Affair that work so we're going to live.
I've, huge planes, you have no faith in us with its is.
Presidents would just take the plains and use them for their own holidays and leave paying customers sitting on the tarmac. This is just not on
and also all their meals were either coconut or PA. Like they're trying who so you you ve got.
generation of people who just grew up,
with tons of money. Doing nothing.
so now there in charge
have no sort of sense of how to run stuff or be yeah economically, so they just want to dance and say that you want to dance
like the another debate and that they take music. It's terrible retorted.
know how to dance and sing it properly, so
The investments are not working out some investments that are even decent, like property, sorry to fail due to a lack of management, interests, fees, rates, taxes, royalty payments, evaporated worker,
we're being paid suddenly and neither
suppliers of food when fresh food showed
but stores mobs would rush to the store ahead of us,
as was seven dollars, and the lady in the biscuit stores cycle,
yeah.
Still: seven members gets world payments, pick them up.
I was becoming a nightmarish helpful of people with no employable skills, and it was worse
environmentally farming it stop decades.
and now there was no land left to farm environmental, etc.
Unlikely: the land whenever priest produce enough food to feed the population until they put a k c on
I eat up the new farming
I do not provide. The island was a case study for environmentalists and anthropologists on how easy it is to destroy a tropical ecosystem and crushing native culture. You can't tell them why you're there, then what what's the article?
he's a lifestyle, peace, it's it's called: you're, fucked and yet
That sums it up for a well give way. Did congratulations
happy for you, yet
we sought four fifths,
the island had been mind out. New York Times quote Inch french narrow is them
environmentally ravage nation on earth. Some,
Of the island has been devoured by Strip mining begun ninety years ago that narrow and face the prospect they may have to abandon their bleak depleted
The mining was so extreme. It affected the weather uncle,
It's almost like this is a small micro Congo. It is almost like. It is rather than exact micro, something
forget what to do. I don't know what it is way.
Some of heat rise from the mind out Plateau David and drive away rain clouds David,
thing is sunbaked island that is now plagued by constant drought. Dave come on.
There's a happy ending
I've gotten what everyone dies.
we die, hit us before the end of this.
Taps, were running dry more than half the day in eighteen. Ninety five, the Reverend James and Jimmy
Minister of the narrow congressional congressional church said quote. I wish we'd never discovered that
phosphate. When I was a boy it was so beautiful. There were trees,
setting up. I tell us the story of trees. Again, I gather our children gather
hungry Jack's used to be. There used to be a bunch of green monsters, things
scary. Why knows that they provided us with air that we breathe.
now what now we drink smog with our lungs downward
trays, though my grandma,
the
It was green everywhere and we get the fresh cocoanuts and breadfruit. Now I see what happened here and I want to cry, and I was there
out of water is, he has turned into state.
Face drought, but that's also the reverend. So
the thing that also destroyed their culture, religion. They gave up the past. How much did religion play incident
you why? Because it was just sort of like they're like we're on amid the blues brother at their own emission from God, and that's why they need to take the first day. Will they they just? Then there was the point it worth.
It made them stop dancing and doing all of their traditional stuff. That was all religion. I feel like somebody right, so heaps of my family are in like Hillsong and stuff like that, and I feel like it's a thing of like
oh, like you guys have community and you weren't like be mean to us about our community like we can just
go exists in a place. I feel like. The Reverend outbreak is what I'm saying
if you're, really playing to this church crowd in front of right now, you just say I think it's cool you're, just upset. We made it to the cameras, affixing Berg hanger. I didn't know there'll be preaching here tonight, so.
Now now only a handful of elderly
in the have the slightest recollection of how sacred dances should be performed because they were seen as peg. It in an all stopped a narrow neurons.
it requires quote. Our cultural traditions have been basically wiped out, lighted out. Why did out
in nineteen? Ninety eight? They got the Asian Development Bank to lend them five million to help overhaul the public sector just even here in the public sector. It's just like why I like that. It's like
You will european our way out of this animal debt away out of
use the tactics that never work are stare
He had finally arrived.
Because the loan the government had to fire,
and are being one third of civil servants. It was time, deprived
ties telecommunications, water and power, because that's how you get out
the situation, prayers and we all know
Mary resorted to desperate money right
inventors, including a favourite of cash, hungry third world countries becoming friends with Taiwan. I didn't know this, but but it
If, if you become friends, Taiwan they'll give you money and then you fly their flag at an embassy and they feel like we did it.
So now the taiwanese flag is flying outside of the city, just like those people who have like ads on their cars are just like. Alright, I guess it's like yeah, it's like in their mind. It gives them legitimacy because their country is is backing them. Okay, so in return
Taiwan. Let narrow money! Bargain rates!
China Counter offered
and gave a one million dollar grant to revive phosphate production,
Why
the devil wants to renegotiate, and I think I'm open do and I really do at this point.
like the plant that they use to refine. The phosphate is, is not
urban Nino kept up and maintains its all falling apart. So the idea is to fix that get back on again
so the President Renee Harris took the money and with it he got killed
Advances bought furniture and reimbursed as ministers
one dollar of the one million went to the desperately needed updating of phosphate plant. So what they're just gonna run a non when the opera?
manage to complain of the maintenance failures, Renee Harris fired him, nice furniture
Rene Harris gave her a wealthy family was educated. Australia entered parliament in nineteen. Seventy seven.
They became the head of the narrow, phosphate corporation.
ninety ninety eight he was convicted of assault and gel breaking after forcibly releasing three relatives from narrow prison, presents us forcibly, yeah
A year later he was elected president sure
well, listen, let the people know you're, one of them cheeses. Every story needs a trump.
Harrison has ministers active as if the golden era had never ended, it was hard to find
from the government on the island there always away with their families shopping in Hong Kong Sidney and the Ark sometimes
error, narrows now only plain whenever they live.
To sell them or they were repossessed their car traffic? There will be a clear
repelling seven. Thirty seven. As a farmer, I don't have to fly. That's what we're here. Let's just do it you're fucking repo guy right yeah, let's do it
Ok,
and
Do it
Rene Harris, maintain a penthouse apartment in number. You have to u gotta reward yourself. I mean you're so exhausted from running it into the ground, yet tiring
money was getting tight. Prime pieces of property
The government owned languished for decades, Fiji,
repossessed hotel. In their capital that narrow had bought and then left to rot
down the Marshall Islands, was under construction for more than twenty years old
Fifty million was spent on a site in Melbourne. There was later sold for less than twenty million profit
They do it, how we do it
whereas the negotiated, a two hundred and thirty six million dollar loan from General Electric
on the one hand and the army, you wanted
Charity corporations tiny one. If you ever heard of
The collateral was the island's property around the piss.
the grim. What worried
now this loan was needed to pay off all
bunch of other little loans.
rental money was now being swallowed up by loan payments.
And the narrow and property Visor Angus Red australian
He helped put together this deal. He just got a million dollars for doing it.
G was also given a management fee, nine percent interest a year and a bonus of eighteen million for appreciation of property by some dude. That's awesome! That's awesome! Finally, a win for some and finally someone to root for a hero in this story, because I've been a little lost, but now I know we like Erez.
Yeah
in two thousand. The government would not pay civil servants wages and had to limit withdrawals from the state owned bank of narrow
want to take the
one plain left
we'll give you a wing and then shut up
government turned to offshore banking for just twenty five
I anyone could set up a bank on merit
I have to go to the island. What's it at now, I'd love to set one up. What do you mean? I want,
I own bank, you now things have changed.
back then
you get on your own bank for twenty five grand a great one outside of the capitalist gadgets
by two thousand one, there were four hundred banks on narrow sure sugar is that a problem? Do you think it, but they're all housed in one building up? It's like a shack
So you need a bank to store all the banks.
They are all
registered to one government mailbox.
There is no regulation whatsoever. The banks,
required to keep records and that's a problem for banks,
or used to be dismayed,
sing transactions impossible,
and then narrow, started, selling citizenship, so Crow
could avoid. Extradition.
Who doesn't want to move their at this point, I made this point its humming. It's a humming economy. You ve got a bunch of convicts losing their chance in life. In a year they ve made a little Australia. Essentially,
we were all convicts. Locality shook out
in it,
the russian central banks, early, two thousand seven hundred billion,
taken out of russian banks and put into narrow and accounts and was never seen again. They
The russian mob took all of their money and a russian ex today,
just throw it into the hole in the middle of nowhere.
No I'm fine. It's called launder
Special launder first, for it is pushing
so the group of seven in other, the economic for leaders,
Lay the winners are dead
I'd marrow as an uncooperative country in fighting money laundering and large western banks would no longer handle transactions involving narrow. It is their fault Frazier.
Let narrow to a more heinous money, making scheme boy more heinous than having Russians put money into phosphate holes, which I'm just I know we're at it, enjoy the visual Harris.
Rene Harris, if you remained want Renee Harris
a great your house, Austria's unwanted asylum seekers in exchange for millions of dollars
Now your billing, what took so long! It was
the pacific solution.
internationally reviled.
So people are trying to get
Austria in rights are now being put on rice, narrow got
eight months. For this deal they got eight months worth of free.
if you two new,
generators and tat
scholarships for students and australian universe of whose signing this dotted line over there? Who is like deal for sure
I think we negotiate any further. I think this is pretty good. Ten scholarships, some fuel
eight months come on guys
already Harris. Did this deal so right? Okay, where was this
it is this. This is, I think, two thousand two thousand and one
so the people a narrow like this, because the fuel man they now have electricity around the clock again for an ape man,
it was being rationed yeah, but at this point they were getting it for a couple hours a day, so now they got it and they're pulling every car back onto the road. Like finally say traffic went back move it.
it also brought tons of high spending government contract, which the oven islanders.
The refugees with songs and flowers. In a beautiful example of,
Capitalism, competition popped up on
There are poor pacific nation, Pacific
nation islands ball than to Australia like Papua New Guinea and Kiribati
The airlines did notice that the deed detainees have been did. Notice of the detainees have been had had better housing,
One thing is for certain: they eat better than us, we're going by on one meal a day, it's a fucking,
Tourism, a love story, guys really is.
Really quiet what happened
two thousand and two the Eu S impose sanctions on the islands begging practices.
which were as harsh as those in it just slap than I rack.
Sanctions, usually just do the most damage to the poor and we failed
health care and bad diets. Narrow is said to now be one of the sickest nations in the world.
Rene Harris was voted out as president for
a man named Bernard the logo. Then too
and the two men would swap the presidency several times during one month in two thousand and three, both men,
the office of President twice what it's not a fan.
it's almost like, during times of economic,
crisis people vote in crazy,
people and do weird things sites like a bunch.
Rapid leadership changes will do stable. Some
and of countries. Well, it's weird who wish there were other examples of this.
There are God, dammit
serve wrung out you'll, be beautiful hotel. The really you gotta leather double
well go died in two thousand and three and they are eating money. From listening to the history of our working methods
Harris was in
Harris was re elected,
and to remain president until two thousand and four
I was the you
the year narrow, defaulted on its loans to General Electric
The devaluation of the austrian dollar against Eu Us dollar blew out the debt and g took control of all narrow, throb louse. We ever country of g
yeah
every single investment they had around the Pacific rim and they had tons of fuckin but Energy slogan, raise we bring good things to life and and
You poor people, yeah, there's two slogans, one: they its internal
they use and on emails,
in two thousand and four with no other options. Nehru past anti money,
in laundering laws, their offshore banking sector vanished
the Minister of finance from two thousand and two to two thousand and three was asked if he qualified to be the man Minister of Finance, and he said no, ok, normally that there's more to a quote like that,
but that's just I was there was, but it was just more. No! No! No next question I dont want to do it now
dumping money into a country for the detention centres? Austria was back as a colonial power. Austrians led the narrow
these force US officials to
key positions in narrow government departments in finance, police utilities and planning austerity and pushing for privatisation that it started and ninety ninety nine was full on narrows public works Department was gone, replaced big quasi private sector body operating under a business plan prepared by
Australia, but all the banks are closed. Privatisation without banks is apparently difficult. There.
We know competition. This met, the privatisation of services was just a
of two private monopolies to get us aid, let's get asset,
I say it give aid to other places that needed
At this point, I assume it's just importing AIDS
That's where we're
We will give you so much money. If you let us bring Asia Le Loup, radio, Australia will give us AIDS for fifty dollars a month. I say we go: let's do it
This
community resistance to user pays systems will be difficult to overcome. Political will is necessary to pursue this critical element of utilities reform. So US aid was pushing privatisation, which is awesome. That's what we call aid, then the detention camps were closed down in two thousand and two
most of the people resettled in Australia, Renee Harris lost his seat in parliament in April two thousand and eight. This was the first time he had not
in government in thirty years,
a couple of months Renee was stirring up anger over talk of restarting phosphate mining. This was called secondary mining, which would come from phosphate left over from previous less affair.
Mining and already work people up a protest or Nero Riot in euros.
in police station was burned down. Oh my god, he's trunk
yeah. I mean really like little from the recklessness is just crazy. The ability to just be able to be like. I don't give a shit about
happens tomorrow. It's a small island right and that its been there for thirty years like
fucking, everything on, and people still like. Let's hear about what,
talking about now, but there's no other better option. So maybe
two candidates. I think we both Renee the top cop austrian federal police officer, Robert Lemon swore in a hundred civilians, to suppress the right. It was reported. This included high schools,
that's what you want. It's like twenty to jump straight at the angle, just for sure get in there like that
that was later tonight, but people so crews,
in their cars. Now driving on potholes filled rose rose, they drive to the
Evans Baron Interior, which is called topside mining, is rendered the inner eighty
percent of narrow uninhabitable
still want to know what happened in the money. One woman quote: we need to account for the lost money for our
and understand why we have such a big hole.
In the middle of the island. Amidst the Vatican,
sure. You want to know where the big pit came from like you're a kid. A new growing up in this essential, essentially
at Darna, yeah you'd. Ask your parents like: why are we here frame it to where God's donut honey, don't tell them the truth? Do not ever tell the kids the truth, we're a donut yeah eat it yeah like a jelly filled. Donut that someone can
men and sucked all the jelly out of an cut. The middle out dimension
made us pay for it made us pay five times what it would have actually cost approaches
in two thousand and two, the liberal government of Australia, reopen the detention centres again money
coming into narrow foreign journalists are forbidden from entering information is restricted with laws against leaks, one refugee.
From Baghdad said he came quote from Hell to Hell,
with the election of the wagon government in two thousand thirteen narrow, went about cleaning up their financial reputation,
you announced the island was fully compliant and off its grey list
the same year, refugee detention return for the US giants.
Only one bank left Benda GO bank which open in two thousand and fifteen,
is that a bank here than austrian detention is responsible for two thirds of narrows revenue, narrow canoes to decay. The government has been
forced to russian electricity and water the petrol
apply regularly runs out. Many people live in cinder block
while housing quote at the moment, narrows main industry could perhaps
He described as misery and suffering that I say: that's not an industry
but it's booming,
never been out to have to be in the misery business.
Rare visits from international dignitaries are disrupted by protesters demanding to know where their money is gone.
Buying and other island, and starting afresh is again under discussion. This is such an earth, microcosm, Mars
you gotTa Mars will be better. However, some hours we bury its Matt Damon Planet
Potatoes it'll work out. Fine, oh my god. Here we're moving. Let's leave earth. We had a good party. Let's go to the news by something you about.
potatoes
the ideas here now the martian? What a fun rob com
between Matt Mars,
You, like it's a waterless pet, where you can go outside the margin. Wanna go make. We ve gone from hell they're how
but the refugees have begun to be sent away as other nations take them. The detentions,
It's been shut down, but the people are still there.
Means the initiative caging humans is still running its course again. What is left of the
phosphate. Mining brings in twenty two million dollars a year, but
twenty seven million to mine. It is it clean
Us Fate or just the old dirty the deficit to mind the fight.
Is covered by a loan from Taiwan is just happy to be at the party so
in September, and article appeared in the guardian, explaining narrows newest hope, Superman, deep,
deep sea mining.
No, why
ABC mining venture by a company called deep Green, which is run by an austrian entrepreneur and backed by mining, Giant Glencore,
shipping company mergers. It's called deep green
you're here on the floor of the ocean around the island, our fields of potatoes, size, smooth Brown rocks rich in nickel, cobalt and magnesium
essential for the clean energy industry.
the minerals, are needed to build electric vehicles, solar panels and renewable energy storage.
Jewels will be vacuumed up the company.
begin mining and twenty twenty five. They plan to employ narrow ones and pay quote ten
millions a year and royalties,
the narrow and believe that colonialism damaged, if not destroyed what had been one of the most advanced cultures of the Pacific. Dear thing
not at all. Until the Doktor Karen K cases quote Doktor Karen K K,
so her initials or K K K were first of all.
His initials dialing care. I'm sorry, I've doctor
and how are you you're, not gonna, be like
call me doctor KKK browser. Do it I'm here to do a lot of the racism here here,
cases quote that big, what could have
then feeling lingers through everything we look at
We did it you guys. We destroy the human race of people, there are people on an island and we we we we took
inside out, and we sucked on em
but now you guys have tons of farmland.
If you could go back in time, would you knew Britain
yeah,
yeah.
That's what happens when the sun never sets in the british Empire
later will tell you not onstage, but what's happening on that island. Now I gotta give stealing
two years on want me running. Ok, so.
They closed the detention centre, but the kids, the people are still there the refugees and they can't go anywhere, and so some kids have been essentially to prison just in there for years, and there are some of them arches
their stopping to live there is direct bodies are shutting down and their dying. Well, it's just good that that doesn't sound so crazy, because I live at America, Magna that something now that is the norm. The tenant, detaining children
this is the first part of the shit where you kind of get to deal with it and process
I feel like I've. Gotta provide like the case for Australia.
Listen, I'm just good to fair. We gave it a guy
and isn't that these trailing way.
The canal. Singer said just from a I mean you know: okay, so Australia is doing that, but from a worldwide perspective, why has no one else taken these people,
neither other fuckin country. Why aren't they wherever they go and New Zealand wants them? Yet so nice
Government has asked to take them and
Australia and not like now,
paying money, because it's a fucking psycho its its money. This is capitalism and the product is human lives like that's where the profit comes.
And then I think the american government we're gonna take some. We are forced to right, because Obama made the deal. Tromp was furious but still took them.
but not from here
yeah,
The great is the hard line guns out. My my Donald thank you.
So much for coming out. We appreciate a truly.
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