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#207 - Whitney Webb Returns | The Tim Dillon Show

All right, so we have a new sponsor on the show. We don't usually start off
with an ad,
but I'm kind of very excited about this. We got the sponsorship late last night.
I am a big fan of the natural world. Ben knows this. I love nature. I love to
swim.
I love pools, but even more importantly, I love lakes and I love oceans. These
are things that I
am invested in. And I mean, I've never been a hysteric about global warming on
either side.
Climate change is probably real, you know, and maybe we could do something
positive about it.
I don't know, but I love swimming. I grew up around the ocean and I grew up
swimming as a kid with my
mother. These are the things I'll always remember about my childhood, the smell
of salt water and the
sand under your feet running around. I mean, this is, so when we destroy the
oceans, we're destroying
not only our habitat, but we're destroying all these great experiences. So we're
very happy to kind
of, we're this new project that we're backing right now. And we're trying to
involve a lot of our people
in it as well. And just a few minutes of it to just kind of tell you what it,
what it's about.
The weather is very, very important to us. It actually affects every single
aspect of our lives.
She's right.
Before I came to Iceland, I checked the weather. I'm super happy that I did. My
umbrella was handy last night.
I'm sure it was for many of you. Farmers are, it's essential for farming, when
to plant the crops,
when to take, and when to harvest the crops. So I'm delighted today for the
first time to be able to
have the Weather Channel have a look at what's happening for the first time in
history, actually,
in the high seas.
Thank you so much, Gillian. And we've got wonderful new technology here at the
Weather Channel. And we are able to deliver
a point forecast for the Arctic high seas. And we'll take one location that is
north of the northernmost part of Canada,
near the Mian Islands. And as you might expect, it's going to be very chilly
indeed here. Temperatures will, for the most part,
only get up into the negative 20s Celsius through the entire week. So you want
to take an extra pair of knickers,
should you be here any time soon. And we'll take you to another spot on the
other side of the Arctic Ocean,
and that is north of Russia, northeast of the Anzu Islands. And similarly, it's
going to be quite cold.
Temperatures in the negative numbers all across the board right through the end
of the week,
getting a little bit warmer going into Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Now back
to you in Iceland.
Thank you.
That's clever, because what she did, I don't know who this woman is, but what
she's doing is she's trying
to get people into supporting the oceans, but she's using things they know,
like the Weather Channel.
I like this a lot. I don't know who she is, but she's got a bright future.
Today, because that is a first for the Arctic. It is a first for the high seas.
And it's a first for the weather channel.
So what's this focus on the weather? It's really exciting, of course, that now
for the first time in history,
we have the weather for the high seas in the Arctic. That's about 1% of the
high seas in total. But what that really means is that almost
half the planet, we have no weather for. Think about that for a second.
Fucking crazy.
That's almost half the planet that we don't have full data for the weather.
Jesus fucking, really?
And as we know with our friends from Google and our friends from the fisheries,
data is key, especially in today's world.
Data is key, isn't it? Isn't data key?
So, as exciting as that is, I just want to talk a little bit about exploration.
Yes, I like going away places.
Space exploration budget is about 250 times more than that of our ocean
exploration budget.
I like what she does here because she's bringing it into space.
That might explain some of the reasons for the holes in our ocean exploration.
To put this into perspective, on the right-hand side, that's a picture of James
Cameron going down to the bottom of the ocean at about 36,000 feet.
Yeah, fuck yeah.
Of which only three people in the history of our planet have ever gone down to
the bottom of the ocean.
By contrast, the very good-looking chap on the left is our space moonwalker,
and we've had 12 people who have walked on the moon.
She makes it fun, which I like because you want to, the environment should be
fun, the ocean and space.
Because she seems unfocused here a little bit, but her style is to just be in
and out.
You don't really know what's going on, but I think it's good.
But just to put that into perspective for you, you map the moon to about
between 7 meters and 100 meters, which is crazy when you think of that.
Nuts.
And also what's odd is that since in the last 40 years since we've been to the
moon,
we've brought back about 850 pounds of moon rocks.
Again, by contrast, we take out between 100 and about 130 billion worth of fish,
tons of fish, a year.
Now, the variable, as many of you will know, is because we don't really know
what the value is on the illegal fishing department,
because boats, as we know, not all boats attract.
There are about 15% only of boats.
People have no idea how much of a problem illegal fishing is.
It's one of the biggest problems in the country, in the world, is illegal
fishing.
People fishing when they shouldn't without a permit and stuff.
So much of it goes on, and it's, I don't know who this woman is, but the fact
that she has the guts and the balls to kind of call out the illegal fishermen,
to me, is huge.
Let's let her go for another few minutes.
...that are tracked, for instance, in the high seas.
Yeah.
And just, I would like you to think about this for a second.
Okay.
I'd like to know how many of you would like to fly on a plane if only 15% of
planes were talking to air traffic control.
I don't want to.
Or, again, perhaps, if, who'd like to go driving, especially in Manhattan,
where I'm from, it seems a little bit more comfortable here in Iceland,
if only 15% of the drivers had license plates.
No good.
We all know. I mean, I'm a bit of a speed demon, so I'd be whipping through
those red lights as long as I knew that no one was tracking me.
But what that means on the high seas is that we don't really know what all
those fishing vessels are doing.
Get on the plane.
At any given time, there are literally hundreds of boats out there that are
fishing, and that allows them to blow through the quotas.
It allows them to fish for endangered species.
Use a drone and kill them!
Chances that they'll be captured are frankly less.
And so that's a problem, because it's putting a little pressure on fishing.
All right, well, anyway, this is the Terramar Project, is what we're, we've
just entered into a partnership with on this show.
It's called the Terramar Project.
I don't know what that means.
I think water and land or something.
And both are very necessary.
And this woman is fucking bright.
And I don't know who she is, but I like, I like the cut of her jib.
And I just enjoy it.
And so if you, like me, think illegal fishing is the biggest problem in America
and the world,
you will get involved with this Terramar Project to really kind of fucking go
and get those illegal boats,
because we need to know who's fishing.
That's the biggest issue.
That's the biggest issue on the, on the high seas right now, on the water.
Who is fishing where they shouldn't be fishing?
So if there's any way that we can find those people, I think so many other
problems are, are linked into this illegal fishing.
It almost seems like illegal fishing is the way that the world is run.
You see, there's all these fishermen fishing illegally for fish that they
shouldn't have,
that they should have thrown back into the water.
And one fisherman knows that the other fisherman's doing this with the illegal
fish.
She doesn't know.
And so there's this weird Omerta-like silence around the idea of illegal
fishing.
None of the illegal fishermen tell on any of the other illegal fishermen.
And nobody has a fucking license.
Everybody just says, we're just going out for a fun, you know, yacht day.
But it's not.
They're illegally fishing, taking fish they shouldn't have, and doing God only
knows what to it on a boat.
And they all have each other's back.
And it's a code of silence.
And they bribe each other, and they blackmail each other with these illegal
fish.
And this woman has the balls to call it out.
I don't know how he pronounced her name, just something.
But God bless her, and God bless the Tara Marr Project.
Whitney Webb coming right up.
All right, returning favorite Whitney Webb back on the show.
She is a writer.
Her articles appear at The Last American Vagabond, amongst other publications.
She has a Patreon that you should support.
We're going to put the link in the description of this episode.
And I believe she is in the process of writing a book on the topic that we are
going to discuss today.
So, Whitney Webb, thank you for coming back.
You're a fan favorite here.
You were tweeting that you don't buy the Ghislaine arrest, or you think it's a
little convenient or a little sus, which means suspect, as people on the
internet say.
What about it strikes you as fishy?
All right, where to start?
First of all, just before Ghislaine was arrested, Virginia Roberts' attorneys
were ordered by a U.S. federal judge to destroy evidence that pertained
directly to Ghislaine Maxwell, claiming that they had obtained that evidence
illegally, and thus it has to be destroyed.
And then they arrest her, like, the next day, right?
What evidence?
It was evidence, well, it hasn't been made public, right?
But they claimed that it had been sealed.
Evidence apparently acquired through some sort of FBI stuff that was never made
public and never turned into an indictment, right?
And Alan Dershowitz was actually suing to try and get access to that
information and was also denied access to it, right?
So, even people that are, you know, representing the victims and people that
were associates of Epstein have been denied access to this.
But the lawyers who obtained it were trying to use it in court, and they said,
no, you can't have this, and you have to destroy it.
And then Ghislaine is, you know, arrested a day later in New Hampshire.
But, you know, that's just, like, one thing that preceded this.
There's a couple other things that are interesting that preceded this, too.
But, you know, just to start off, I think it's good to start with just talking
about the indictment itself, which I really recommend people that are
interested in this case actually take the time to read the indictment against
Ghislaine Maxwell.
It's only, like, 18 pages, so it's not very long.
And that, for me, is the main basis of why I am very suspect of what is going
on here.
What they charge her with, they charge her with, I think it's four counts.
One of them is perjury.
The other three only relate to enticing minors to travel across state lines for
the purpose of engaging in illegal sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein.
But the indictment itself says that Ghislaine Maxwell was also involved in
those sex acts and is basically, you know, basically saying that she sexually
assaulted these minors also.
But she's not charged for that.
She's charged with enticing three girls between 1994 and 1997 to travel across
state lines to engage in sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein, in which she was also
involved.
And the indictment even says things like it was Ghislaine that ordered these
girls to take off their clothes and to touch Epstein and that she would also
become involved in, like, you know, a threesome or something.
But she's not charged with anything related to that, right?
Which is just like, why would you admit that and then be like, well, you know,
it's fine that you're a pedophile, but you made them travel for it.
Right.
Right.
So why are they not charging her with the actual molestation?
You know, that's an interesting, you know, I 