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Scott Jacobson

Scott Douglas Jacobsen is a Canadian journalist and publisher (In-Sight Publishing) reporting on human rights and LGBTQ+ issues, and a recurring guest on The Karel Show's "This Gay Week" segment, reporting from Ukraine.

Oct 15, 2026

KarelHOST
3:51
So if he removes this access, the warnings won't go out?
3:57
So it's a bit broader than your framing.
3:58
So it's both American intelligence and Starlink.
4:00
So American intelligence are the key for early warning systems, at least for ballistic missiles.
4:06
It appears to be that the Ukrainians can do it on the drones on their own.
4:10
There's still some speculation around that, but it seems to be the case.
4:14
the starlink is more around activity along the front line so there are a lot of operations that were halted slowed or reversed due to starlink stoppage in particular cases so it wasn't complete it was around traveling at certain speeds so that's when they would get sort of a choke on the amount of data they could get through these starlink systems which a lot of them are you know, hooked up to.

35 MINS LATER

KarelHOST
39:45
It appears they're prudes, does it not? I think this is more of a prude problem than a gay problem.
KarelHOST
4:42
Was it on anyone's mind? Or how was that acknowledged there in Ukraine?
4:48
Uh, so the...
4:49
If you follow, uh, like, the, the, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, uh, Moshe Azman, who was, uh, elected in 2005.
4:56
Uh, they have chief rabbi of Kiev, Yonatan Markovitch, and has, like, has, uh...
5:01
They all of them have large families and so... and many of those, uh, kids up being rabbis themselves.
5:05
And so one of them runs a thing called JCC Beit Menachem.
5:09
And so member were saying on that they did a commemoration of Bevin Yar.

9 MINS LATER

KarelHOST
13:44
And of the 128 recommendations that they did accept, none were for LGBTQI people.

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