Welcome back. Our guest is Steve Banta. He's a publisher of the New American. It's a magazine from the John

Burr Society. And we were just talking off air. And he's lived in Argentina. So he can tell us a little bit

about that. He's also most recently lived in China as well.

He's the author of a book Inside the United Nations, and a lot of articles for the New

Americans.

As a matter of fact, there was one that I wanted to get to today before he came on that I

didn't have a chance to, and we'll talk about that.

And that is the UN trying to establish a tax, a global tax on shipping in the name

of the climate McGuffin. And so we'll talk about that as well. But he also contact me because

he wanted to talk about gold and money. That's also very topical right now. So thank you for

joining us, Steve. Happy to be here. Thank you. Let's talk a little bit since I was just talking about

Argentina and beef and things like that. Give us your take on what's, having lived in Argentina.

Give us your take on what's going on. Yeah, I mean, the thing about Argentina, I lived there

as a teenager way back before the Falklands War and the military junta days. Oh, wow.

Argentina is not like, well, the whole southern cone, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile in particular,

is really quite different from what most Americans think Latin America is like.

Most people think of Latin America.

They think of, you know, men with sombreros and

donkeys and, you know, tortillas and that kind of thing. We think in terms of Mexican and maybe

Caribbean-American stuff, Puerto Rico. And Southern South America, Argentina in particular, is a lot

more like Europe. In fact, Argentina, culturally, is more Italian than

Spanish. There are more people of Italian ancestry than Spanish ancestry. And the current president

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