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Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program with you,

but not without you. The point that we're making is that the invasion by Russia into Ukraine

marks the end of one era and the beginning of a new era in global politics. We played a couple times,

and we've played it again for tomorrow

morning show, the comments by Larry Fink, who is the CEO of Black Rock, a major, huge, $11 trillion

plus private equity firm in his comments that were made on Fox News on, I think, March 9th,

a couple of weeks after the invasion, where Fink also says this is the end of one stage of

globalization. So we want to, it's one thing for the left to talk about it. It's another thing

to hear principal spokespersons for the

capitalist class, and Larry Fink is certainly one of them. I think people all around the world

are trying to sort of make out what this new period is. But to do that, we have to also talk

about what's the era that we're leaving. What's the era that's ending or did end with the

Russian invasion? Before I do that, I do want to mention, though, that Elon Musk and Twitter have

come to an agreement that Musk, who's either the richest man in the world or one of the top

three, is now going to be the owner of Twitter.

And, you know, it's a perfect description of what Lenin talked about when he talked about the free press.

The first day of the Russian Revolution, Lenin made a speech about the free press because he made the point that it's really freedom for the bourgeoisie to own the

opinion molding instruments in society and that the purpose of the free press is to keep people

unfree to keep workers oppressed as workers or peasants oppressed as people working the land. And he makes the

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