bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. it is not another world. so given that given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all and they weren t. this summer, germans begin clearcutting ancient forests to heat their homes. in poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal just did one hundred and fifty years ago in the uk, the government projected that more than ten thousand britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack of heating fuel. freeze to death in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high speed and it s not clear where it will end. so the question is why is this happening? and the answer for once is a very simple one to warm ukraine. that s why it s happening. a huge percentage of europe s energy came from russia. those imports h
all of those services that we sr use, they re all surveillance platforms down here athe the business side. this is a surveillance company that makes almost all of itsg us money by tricking us into giving up personal informationee about ourselves. hours a d twenty four hours a day and our kidsay and then monetizes it,it sells it. i mean, aggressively. and they re makingbillio one hundred and $50 billion a year now by doing this.and and most people have no ideabusi what that business model is . and they learned over the yearsa that the more information they had about, the more easily they could control us . and they have very very , very g values which are like my values actually . and more and more they hav, anet you ve beeion using contr the information they have to controoll us , control our kids, indoctrinate our kids and affect the outcome of elections.
sometimes you see a nip it. but the informationee i share yu don t never see that. when you watch this given the position you re in, given your sort of public figure. and you see how you re basically censored from some newsrooms or what you say is not really accurately or fully reported and then you watch your protagonist aoc or get enormous amount of time attacking i.c.e., attacking you, attacking immigration, attacking the country and so forth. soat you serve 34 years in all f these other folk who is serve too web and hundreds ofs thousands when you consider over 34-year feared people come and people go. you think the american people are getting an honest objective perspective of what s taking place? from the media? absolutely not.
with respect to trying to really put it right. and that s what we are trying to do. it s enormously frustrating. it does not mean i have any knowledge of anyone intentionally misleading me in the company, i don t. which makes it doubly frustrating, but it is we are where we are. new informationee merged through the legit nat process of a civil trial. the company acted on it as fast as possibly could be expected. and still new information, or allegations are emerging that, you know, the company and we are trying to deal with in as right a way as we can and the best way possible. thank you. finally. i am the last questioner i have a few very specific questions that i d like to ask you. starting with you mr. james murdoch, i know we ve been over at length the differences in the
frustrating, but it is we are where we are. new informationee merged through the legit nat process of a civil trial. the company acted on it as fast as possibly could be expected. and still new information, or allegations are emerging that, you know, the company and we are trying to deal with in as right a way as we can and the best way possible. thank you. finally. i am the last questioner i have a few very specific questions that i d like to ask you. starting with you mr. james murdoch, i know we ve been over at length the differences in the size of settlements, the paid settlements. can you tell me whether or not the taylor settlements included a confidentiality clause and maybe the other settlements did