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Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we're covering various topics of the week including the names of all celebrities and politicans in the Epstein files, The Trump Administration decision to end the rule that CO2 is a danger to human health, effectively ending its regulation and how the Biden administration hid the horrors of Gaza amidst the annexation of the West Bank and the new UAE administration of Gaza.
We also talk about the Mark Kelly lawsuit against Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Department of War (Defense). We also talked about a story about how President Trump removed a story that possibly shows that domestic terrorism comes from right-wing-minded people rather than left-wing-minded people (I have questions).
We also talk about the Mark Kelly lawsuit against Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Department of War (Defense). We also talked about a story about how President Trump removed a story that possibly shows that domestic terrorism comes from right-wing-minded people rather than left-wing-minded people (I have questions).
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00:01:52So much for stopping by.
00:01:55I will admit I'm a little low energy this evening.
00:01:59We have the headphones on because we've got some videos coming up.
00:02:01Um, headphones that disconnected when I started Ecamm Live and just now got them reconnected.
00:02:12Anyway.
00:02:14Um, yeah, so happy President's Day, everyone.
00:02:18It is President's Day.
00:02:19We used to celebrate Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday, and they were both in February.
00:02:24So we said, well, let's be efficient.
00:02:28Um, let's mush those together and have one holiday on the third Monday of February.
00:02:36So a lot of people going off work today.
00:02:37Government's closed today.
00:02:38No postal mail today.
00:02:40All this type of thing.
00:02:41Um, and, uh, I, I will admit I took the opportunity to catch up on a bunch of stuff on
00:02:48the business side of things and to, um, and to get some rest and rest and relaxation.
00:02:54People kind of forget I'm a one-man show for now.
00:02:57I have an editor that edits some of my interviews and things like that, but everything else I do myself.
00:03:02And I also work for Soup Media, um, as part of the Cameron Journal and everything.
00:03:08And so I'm running my, basically, two media companies at once.
00:03:13I book two shows for myself.
00:03:15I book shows for three to four other people, depending.
00:03:21I have help with some of the stuff on the Soup side, of course, because we have staff over there
00:03:24and everything.
00:03:25But I'm still a one-man show, which is why sometimes I roll in here and I'm kind of like,
00:03:29ooh, ooh, I long day.
00:03:30Because usually my day starts about 8.30 in the morning when I wake up.
00:03:34And so I usually work a full day and then do the news hour in the evening.
00:03:40So, um, Mondays are always a very, a very full, full day.
00:03:44And, uh, sometimes I have recordings before this.
00:03:47And, um, that was not the case today because Calendly, um, lets you put off federal holidays.
00:03:55And so I have all the federal holidays put off.
00:03:57I almost canceled this evening because I was kind of like, well, it's a holiday.
00:04:01How many people are going to show up?
00:04:03And, and, and so far, not many.
00:04:06Um, but I'm like, it's a holiday, you know.
00:04:07You know, people probably took a vacation or whatever have you.
00:04:10And I'm like, well, I could always, you know, you know, cancel this evening and everything.
00:04:15But there's a lot of news stories coming out right now.
00:04:18There's a lot of things happening.
00:04:20And, um, and which gets into, um, which gets into Epstein and Gaza and just, just everything.
00:04:29So, I figured since the new, the week of news was a little slow that, last week and everybody was
00:04:36off today, we could use this time to catch up on some of the stories I haven't had a chance
00:04:42to talk about in a while.
00:04:44Um, so, uh, we'll definitely do that.
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00:05:44That is the place to, um, that's the place to be.
00:05:49So, uh, let's dive into the news, shall we?
00:05:53So, let me do that.
00:05:55And let me do that.
00:05:58There we go.
00:05:59Um, and this overlay is for the wrong, is the wrong segment and the wrong color for the wrong show.
00:06:08So, we're going to start right in with, um, trade deals.
00:06:18So, as we know, Trump has been trying to reset the global, um, course of trade.
00:06:27And he has been trying to reset the system of globalization we have had for about 25 years since the
00:06:34end of the 90s and the early 2000s with China's ascension to the WTO after closing out NAFTA and CAFTA.
00:06:41So, um, obviously there have been advantages and disadvantages to both systems, but Trump has really tried to overturn the
00:06:49whole chessboard on, on this.
00:06:50And unfortunately, in the worst, most costly way possible.
00:06:54And there is fallout from it, and, um, one of the big fallout is people learning how to form trade
00:07:03deals without the United States involved.
00:07:05And here is one such case.
00:07:07The EU and a 12-nation Indo-Pacific bloc are opening talks to form one of the largest economic alliances
00:07:13in the world per Politico.
00:07:16Canada's Mark Carney is leading it.
00:07:18Why?
00:07:18Because Trump blew up U.S. credibility with tariffs, chaos, and isolationism.
00:07:22So the world is reorganizing without us.
00:07:24Didn't Trump make America strong?
00:07:26He made America irrelevant.
00:07:31Um, there is, uh, and then of course someone points out, you know, all the, you know, um, all the
00:07:37deals Canada has been, uh, um, you know, has been going through.
00:07:42And, and the way Canada's been reaching out in, in trade and all this type of thing.
00:07:47Um, and so, uh, yeah, it's, um, uh, it's, uh, you know, it's a, it's an interesting dynamic.
00:07:59Um, the, since World War II, as we all know, um, there has been a very, uh, kind of organized
00:08:10way global trade has, has gone.
00:08:13And when we first had the Bretton Woods system and then the Petrodollar system and then the, which was, which
00:08:19also became the GATT, Journal Agreement on Trade and Tariff System, the Da Vinci rules run into the WTO, the
00:08:23World Trade Organization.
00:08:27And the World Trade Organization's job was to solve disputes and control the exact thing Trump is doing, which is
00:08:33predatory and penalizing tariffs.
00:08:36Obviously Trump does not care one little bit about the opinion of the World Trade Organization.
00:08:40Um, I'm surprised no one has told him that we should leave the World Trade Organization or something.
00:08:44Um, but, uh, he has, he has said his own way in terms of a policy and the world is
00:08:52organizing without it.
00:08:54The, the multipolar trade block world of the European Union, the United States, Asia is starting to form in its
00:09:04earliest days.
00:09:05And this means that trade between the trade, trade within the trading blocks will be very easy.
00:09:11Trade between them could be quite hard.
00:09:13Um, I saw one thread, I didn't save it off, but someone that says, someone said reciprocal tariffs.
00:09:18Why were they charging tariffs to protect their markets from us?
00:09:23And they said, well, in the case of the European Union is to protect the integrity of the European Union,
00:09:28as in the case of a lot of other countries to protect local industry, because we are the bigger player,
00:09:32and American companies could come in and drive out local industry.
00:09:35It's entirely, we've seen this time and again with Africa.
00:09:38Um, and, uh, and this, and this, and that's, that's why I'm not saying it's fair.
00:09:42I'm just saying that that was, that was the situation, bearing in mind the global economic system has made this
00:09:50country very, very rich of being the financial center of the world.
00:09:54And the unfortunate, I think, reality, um, is that we are, we are setting ourselves up for a very awkward,
00:10:06awkward position where the world is trading and growing and new technologies developing.
00:10:12And we're just on the outside sitting, we're just sitting on the outside looking in.
00:10:16And we, we've been here before as, as a country.
00:10:20Um, I think we have a natural aversion to too much foreign influence.
00:10:23I think we have a natural aversion to getting too integrated into international systems.
00:10:29Um, I don't necessarily think that's a good thing.
00:10:32It, it, it's a mixed bag.
00:10:33It sometimes saves us from a lot of the other stuff people deal with, but it also leaves us on
00:10:38the outside looking in.
00:10:39And I think this is another situation where we're going to be on the outside looking in of a whole
00:10:44new trading system that we previously controlled, ran, and adjusted to our benefit, and we're now going to be sitting
00:10:51on the outside looking in.
00:10:52And the reality is, even if we get a different administration in three years, these changes are permanent, basically, and
00:11:00will take decades to change and decades to undo.
00:11:08And I don't think anybody's really ready to have that conversation yet.
00:11:11So, anyway, we have a lot of stories.
00:11:13Let's move on quickly.
00:11:17Um, this one, this kind of starts us into Epstein, Epstein stuff.
00:11:22Yeah, this is all, um, well, not all Epstein stuff.
00:11:27Some Epstein stuff.
00:11:29Um, today, uh, or yesterday, rather.
00:11:33Um, oh no, I'm sorry.
00:11:35It was actually on the 14th.
00:11:36Um, Attorney General Pam Bondi released all Epstein files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
00:11:42including justified redactions and a list of high-profile names appearing in the documents.
00:11:47And there are multiple names.
00:11:52Um, a lot of people we don't know.
00:11:53Some people we do, including BeyoncĂŠ, although they didn't bother to put that her last name was Knowles or Carter,
00:11:59which they just put BeyoncĂŠ, which I think is funny.
00:12:01Um, Hunter Biden, although I have not seen any mention of him in the files.
00:12:05Um, Pam Boddy put herself.
00:12:08Good job.
00:12:09Um, George W. Bush.
00:12:11George Bush Jr., um, Richard Branson, Bono.
00:12:15They didn't even put his legal names, but Bono.
00:12:18Uh, Joe Biden, um, Melinda Gates, Mark Foley, Sarah Ferguson, um, Diana, Princess of Wales, um, made it in here.
00:12:31Uh, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Huckabee is in here.
00:12:34Eric Holder's in here.
00:12:36Jay-Z, didn't put his government name, just Jay-Z.
00:12:38It's Denny Hoyer, former congressperson.
00:12:40Kamala Harris, we also know who she is.
00:12:43Um, let's see.
00:12:45Dan Bongino is in here.
00:12:46Jill Biden is in here.
00:12:48Ehud Barak, Alec Baldwin, Miriam Adelson, the head of the big media empire.
00:12:54Bill Clinton, obviously.
00:12:55George Clooney.
00:12:57Um, Bill Cosby.
00:13:00Uh, who else is in here.
00:13:01That's important.
00:13:02John McCain, Jelaine Maxwell, Howard Lachnick, Monica Lewinsky, um, John Kerry, John Kasich, former governor of Ohio.
00:13:12Janis Joplin, the musician, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Carl Klein, uh, Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:13:21Michelle Obama, Mehmet Oz, Cash Patel, Nancy Pelosi, uh, Tony Podesta, Pope John Paul II, Elvis Presley, Dan Quayle, of
00:13:31all people.
00:13:32Um, Mitt Romney.
00:13:35Uh, Amy Schumer, uh, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, uh, Bruce Springsteen, George Soros, Ben Shapiro, uh, Marco Rubio, Karl Rove,
00:13:50Ronald Reagan, doesn't matter, he's dead, uh, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Mike Pompeo, uh, Rosie O'Donnell, Barack Obama.
00:13:59Uh, um, I'm not quite sure why they put Barack Obama next to Donald Trump and over here with Michelle.
00:14:05This is only somewhat in alphabetical order.
00:14:08Unless they're going left, right, left.
00:14:10I guess they'd be going left, right, left, right.
00:14:11Um, and, Ro Khanna, Larry Kudlow, Alex Jones, uh, who else?
00:14:20Susan Rice, Obama official person.
00:14:22Um, Paul Ryan is in here.
00:14:26And J.D. Vance, Ivanka Trump, Peter Thiel, uh, Mark Zuckerberg, uh, Abigail Wexner, Les Wexner's in here somewhere, um,
00:14:36Melania Trump, uh, Stanley Woodward, oh, there's Les Wexner, um, Donald Trump, of course, and Margaret Thatcher.
00:14:46Um, that's kind of the, uh, the who's who they were required to, uh, list high-profile names of political
00:14:51exposure.
00:14:53And so, um, yeah, it's, uh, yeah, there's, uh, a whole, a whole list here.
00:15:03Um, and, uh, obviously, just because your name is mentioned does not mean anything.
00:15:09Jeffrey Epstein liked to email back and forth with his friends about a lot of things.
00:15:13Some of it had to do with, you know, his crimes.
00:15:16Um, a lot of it did not.
00:15:17So, just merely having your name in here does not mean anything.
00:15:21It, also, a lot of these things could be simply tangentially mentioned in the emails, um, as, as well.
00:15:28Um, I'm not quite sure what John Bolton got up to, or Joe Biden got up to, or Bono got
00:15:34up to.
00:15:35Um, or, obviously, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Cher, even.
00:15:41Um, that does not necessarily mean that they were involved in any crimes.
00:15:46It just means they were mentioned, and they're a public person.
00:15:50So, I thought that was interesting.
00:15:52It is, it's, everyone's calling it a who's who of who's famous.
00:15:55I'm like, actually, there's a lot of people that aren't in here.
00:15:57A lot of people.
00:15:58There's very specific people that are in here.
00:16:01It's also very America-Britain sort of thing.
00:16:08Um, and, uh, and I think that is interesting.
00:16:12Julian Assange made it in here.
00:16:14Uh, Woody Allen.
00:16:16Um, definitely a list I don't think anyone necessarily wants to be on.
00:16:20And a lot of these people will probably wish that they weren't.
00:16:24Um, and, obviously, there's a ton of other people who are much less famous who did not make this official
00:16:28list of, you know, people, um, uh, people, you know, without political exposure sort of thing.
00:16:34So, um, I wanted to go over kind of that.
00:16:37If you've seen this list floating around, um, and just kind of go over who's, who all is here.
00:16:43Um, we now have a list of people who are associated some way, somehow, with the Epstein files, by mention,
00:16:51or whatever have you.
00:16:53Um, including, even including people, uh, like, uh, uh, Prince Philip, uh, his past, that was Queen Elizabeth's husband.
00:17:02Um, I did read somewhere that Queen Elizabeth herself was in here, but I didn't see, let's go back to
00:17:08the E's.
00:17:08I didn't see if they put her, yes, Elizabeth II, there we go, missed that one.
00:17:14Um, so, that, um, yeah, it's a lot of, you know, Orrin Hatch, a lot of American political figures, a
00:17:22lot of British political figures.
00:17:23Tony Blair is in here.
00:17:24Um, obviously, British royalty, um, both former and past, um, Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, which I thought was rather funny,
00:17:35uh, Bill Barr, former Attorney General, under two different administrations.
00:17:39Uh, yeah, so, just a, a very, a very interesting collection of characters.
00:17:43Obviously, these are the ones that are required to release the people that have political exposure to it.
00:17:48Um, lots of other people have been tangentially mentioned, or directly mentioned, and people are just resigning jobs and things
00:17:55like that.
00:17:56This is so toxic.
00:17:58And rightly so.
00:17:59This is the big, this is the biggest scandal of our time, and, and the details of it just get
00:18:04worse and worse and worse.
00:18:05What with the, well, I won't mention all those things on YouTube, because I don't want this video to go
00:18:08down.
00:18:09But all of the things that you've heard about, all the terrible, awful, inhumane things that you've heard about.
00:18:16Anyway, we'll move on.
00:18:20Um, this was, this was a story I've been trying to get to for a little bit, and I thought
00:18:25was very interesting, because it has to do with the Russia, Russia, Russia, um, thing that, it turns out, as
00:18:30we now know from the Epstein files, was a lot more than just a hoax.
00:18:34It says here, on October 7th, 2016, an emergency meeting was set by infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, with Palantir founder
00:18:40Peter Thiel, and Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Cherkin.
00:18:44Later that day, the Access Hollywood tape came out, followed by Russian hacked emails being released on WikiLeaks, which were
00:18:50systematically painted by alt-right online trolls paid by Thiel's PAC, MAGA 3X, to mean that Hillary Clinton was involved
00:18:56in child sex trafficking.
00:18:57Mike Flowne and Eric Prince both worked to amplify these false, traumatic narratives about Podesta and a cabal of satanic
00:19:04pedophiles run by Hillary.
00:19:05This was done significantly through Breitbart, which was run by Epstein's close friend Steve Bannon, and funded by Rebecca Mercer.
00:19:10Additional firepower for these psychological operations were provided by Waggoner, chief of Genni Prigozian's Internet Research Agency, later charged by
00:19:18Robert Mueller.
00:19:19Up to 600 Russians were dedicated to the 2016 election on Twitter and Facebook.
00:19:23The smearing of Hillary Clinton, which mirrored Epstein and Trump's own documented child rape, was later branded as Pizzagate, and
00:19:28extended by QAnon.
00:19:29It was all systemic, large-scale projection designed to swing a presidential election through psychological warfare.
00:19:36Teal was the only major donor who supported Trump in the wake of Trump's comments about grabbing women by the
00:19:40genitals on video.
00:19:42Palantir had previously been caught planning to run a covert influence operation on WikiLeaks.
00:19:46A month after Trump's inauguration, Vitelli Cherkin suddenly died.
00:19:49We were looking for quote-unquote Russian collusion in the wrong place.
00:19:55I don't necessarily know that that proves the whole Russian collusion idea, but it does add on.
00:20:00Here's why I like this.
00:20:01It adds on to things we already know were true and have been decided in a court of law.
00:20:05We already know about the Russian influence operation because of Cambridge Analytica.
00:20:09That's where the problem always has been.
00:20:11So this bit about 600 Russians dedicated to the 2016 election on Twitter and Facebook, that we know.
00:20:16And that we know from court.
00:20:17We also know that the Internet Research Agency is part of the FSB from Wagner and Evgeny Prigozian.
00:20:24That we already know.
00:20:25That's been known for 10 years now.
00:20:29Obviously, if you are a high Russian official, the chances of you falling out of a balcony in Moscow are
00:20:34pretty good.
00:20:35If I were them, I'd start putting up nets.
00:20:36Because all these people just seem to start falling out of windows.
00:20:38It's just a terrible thing.
00:20:40I blame the ICE.
00:20:42Well, that also imputes the society to get rid of people.
00:20:44But ICE as well, you know, sort of thing.
00:20:52And I think for me the part that is so troubling is how so much of what we have been
00:21:01dealing with over the last several years
00:21:05was the brainchild of a small group of people who are trying to push their own agenda
00:21:10and we're doing it through the most nefarious means possible.
00:21:16I know I will have to say one of the things I did not do and I should have done
00:21:21is I should have gone back and reviewed the Podesta emails.
00:21:25It's been too many years since they...
00:21:26That was 10 years ago almost.
00:21:27Too many years since they came out.
00:21:29So I'm fuzzy on the details.
00:21:31To cross-check all of this, it would be interesting to go back to the reporting on the Podesta emails
00:21:36at the time
00:21:37and look to see what was being said and why, if there was anything to it.
00:21:41As far as I know, Podesta was never charged with anything.
00:21:45And look through all of that and then go from there to see what's there.
00:21:52But I think it's interesting that based on the list we just read, I didn't see John Podesta's name on
00:21:57it.
00:21:58And interestingly enough, nothing ever came of any of that with Podesta under two different presidents.
00:22:02So that's, you know, a thing.
00:22:05But this was a very interesting thing looking at, you know, the emails and these appointments
00:22:14and the reporting at the time and what Palantir wanted to do.
00:22:24I thought this was a very interesting concept because, like I said, it builds on something we already know to
00:22:28be true.
00:22:29And who knew that the Russian influence operation from the 2016 election was tied rather directly to Jeffrey Epstein?
00:22:39I think that is just...
00:22:43It's impressive, I will say.
00:22:45It's quite impressive.
00:22:46I would have never, ever thought in a million years that those two things would be linked together in the
00:22:53same way that they are.
00:22:54Anyway, let's move on.
00:22:56This one is very interesting.
00:23:00Mostly because it's in an area of research I used to do.
00:23:05But this one, Donald Trump isn't just trying to rewrite history.
00:23:09He's trying to rewrite reality itself.
00:23:10And the paper trail is damning.
00:23:12Days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Trump-controlled Department of Justice quietly deleted a federally funded study
00:23:18showing that far-right extremists are responsible for the overwhelming majority of domestic terrorism deaths in the U.S.
00:23:23I would have been interested to read that because that used to not be true.
00:23:26I did research on this.
00:23:28Anyway, we'll go on.
00:23:29The timing wasn't subtle.
00:23:30The motive wasn't complicated.
00:23:32Trump immediately blamed the, quote, radical left, unquote, for the killing
00:23:34before investigators had identified a suspect or motive,
00:23:37then doubled down in speeches insisting left-wing violence is the real threat.
00:23:41That claim flatly contradicts every serious data set of unnoticed terrorism,
00:23:44including studies from the DOJ itself, the Libertarian Cato Institute, CSIS, PNAS, and the University of Maryland.
00:23:50So instead of changing the rhetoric, the administration changed the record.
00:23:53This is not messaging a state-sponsored narrative laundering.
00:23:56The DOJ offered no real explanation, just a vague notice about reviewing websites to comply with unnamed executive orders.
00:24:02Translation, the facts weren't convenient, so they disappeared.
00:24:04Hmm, that's a stretch.
00:24:05This is how authoritarianism actually works.
00:24:07Not with one dramatic lie, but with quiet deletions, buried data,
00:24:10and an audience told to trust the man yelling loud as little evidence sitting right in front of them.
00:24:14Trump didn't challenge the conclusions.
00:24:15He removed them.
00:24:16That's not governance.
00:24:18That's reality control.
00:24:19Every presidential administration has done that, though.
00:24:21So, I mean, it just has.
00:24:25Everybody, one of the first rules of government, especially on the Democratic side, is you have to control the narrative.
00:24:29If you don't control the narrative, someone else will control it for you.
00:24:32By the way, Democratic National Committee, are you listening about controlling narratives and controlling your brand
00:24:39and controlling how things are framed?
00:24:40Anyway, that's another whole story.
00:24:42But, um, I was hoping to get a look at this study, but the link is not, is not, not
00:24:49working.
00:24:50This Washington Post graphic, I thought, was very interesting.
00:24:53And the thing, what I was kind of interested is, when I was researching domestic terrorism back in 2011,
00:25:00it was quite obvious that the most active groups, not just in the United States, but around the world,
00:25:05definitely had more left-wing ideology than right-wing ideology.
00:25:08For the simple fact, most right-wing people are trying to reinforce the system and the status quo.
00:25:15That's the definition of being conservative.
00:25:16And so, this Washington Post graphic is interesting.
00:25:20From 2013 to 2022, this obviously took place after my research completed.
00:25:24We had a domestic Islamist extremist, right-wing extremist, left-wing extremist,
00:25:30and you have incidences, right-wing, Islamic, left-wing, and then killings.
00:25:35It's a pretty dramatic, dramatic sort of thing.
00:25:38Um, ah, yes.
00:25:40And, oh, and this is the, this is the announcement from, yes.
00:25:43Uh, oh, this is, this is a file from someone's story about, uh, about it, which makes, makes sense.
00:25:50Um, yeah, it's, uh, yeah, that's an interesting, the Hill has, oh, yes.
00:26:00Here is the actual, the actual story as it was.
00:26:04It's been saved on Scribd by someone.
00:26:07Good job on them.
00:26:09Um, yeah, that is one of the more common conclusions of recent research on radicalization
00:26:15is that no single profile accurately captures the characteristics of the individual committed extremist hate crimes.
00:26:20True.
00:26:22Um, has been true.
00:26:23Um, then here's the, the initial study and sort of thing.
00:26:27So, um, might, uh, might go read more about that, do a video about that later on.
00:26:35Um, but I wanted to kind of review this to show how when we don't know something and when data
00:26:42changes,
00:26:43it shifts narrative, it shifts ideas, it shifts what we think about it.
00:26:48And one of the jobs of journalism that is being performed very poorly by the mainstream media
00:26:54is to talk about things like this.
00:26:57to mention things like this.
00:26:59And so, yeah.
00:27:00I need to save this away so I can dig more into it as time goes on.
00:27:05But it was a very interesting, interesting thing.
00:27:07I, I want to review it and do kind of a more in-depth video on, um, on where domestic
00:27:13terrorism now.
00:27:14I have long argued, and I did so recently in a new piece, um, in a new piece on, uh,
00:27:22on, in my collection,
00:27:23What the Hell is Going On?
00:27:24And I talked about how we really needed a domestic surveillance agency to start rooting these things out.
00:27:30That was before Trump won in 2024, when I wrote that.
00:27:33Um, I think we're getting one whether we like it or not, thanks to Palantir.
00:27:38I am still nominally in favor of that, but much like our British, French, and Canadian cousins who have such
00:27:48agencies,
00:27:48there needs to be guardrails and a lot of them.
00:27:52So, let's move on.
00:27:54Um, oh yes, Mr. Tallarico.
00:27:56So, James Tallarico is running for Congress in Texas.
00:28:01And, um, I wanted to, uh, to watch this video because it's very emblematic of, I think, a lot of
00:28:13the problems with the media.
00:28:14And some of the, the issues that we, um, that we now, we now have and we now, and we
00:28:21now face.
00:28:21So, let's just listen, listen in.
00:28:23Here we go.
00:28:25Well, yeah, I think it's interesting.
00:28:26I've been in this race for five days, and I've had a lot of interviews with national media.
00:28:31No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing.
00:28:34No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs.
00:28:36No one's asked me about the cost of child care.
00:28:38The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
00:28:42And so, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.
00:28:49Trans people are 1% of the population.
00:28:51Undocumented people are 1% of the population.
00:28:54Muslims are 1% of the population.
00:28:56We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
00:28:59Trans people aren't taking away our health care.
00:29:02Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools.
00:29:05Muslims aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
00:29:08It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians.
00:29:11And so, we need not only the media, but all of us, to focus on the real problem at hand.
00:29:19And now, my dear students of the Cambridge Journal News Hour,
00:29:23why does the media only focus on divisive identity politics issues and never the actual real issues?
00:29:30Because, say it with me now, the billionaires own the media.
00:29:34Very good class. Bravo, bravo.
00:29:38When you have billionaire-controlled media, you get a media who is deeply unserious.
00:29:43And that is one of the problems of journalism in this country.
00:29:46And I'm glad someone like James Tallarico is pointing it out for what it is.
00:29:49Finally, someone's saying something.
00:29:53And I have said this since I started this in 2014.
00:30:00It's one of the reasons I started, you know, this show.
00:30:09I have always felt like journalism and media has underserved this country, underserved the population,
00:30:17and it has allowed the corporate takeover of government without hardly a protest being really, really registered.
00:30:25And the fact that all of this has gone on, and the media has not been pounding the same drum,
00:30:31saying the same thing he's talking about, all day, every day, for at least the last 25 years,
00:30:36shows us how ineffective modern journalism and modern media is.
00:30:40So if you're sitting here watching this, all two of you, because it's a holiday,
00:30:44if you're sitting here watching this, you are already more informed than the average cable news viewer.
00:30:50So, and this is also why, and I tell you about this, I don't watch cable news outside of clips.
00:30:55I don't watch a lot of mainstream media for this exact reason.
00:30:59And they're not covering the stories that are really important.
00:31:02But here's the great news about the internet.
00:31:05There's now wonderful independent journalists like myself and Aaron Farnas and Under the Desk News
00:31:09and David Pakman and a lot of other people who are actually doing the job the mainstream media should be
00:31:15doing.
00:31:16And I just love this video because Tellurico is telling you how it is in taking the media to task
00:31:21for their complicity in what's happened to make our society not function.
00:31:25And it's about time someone says it out loud and actually gets them back to doing what they do best,
00:31:31which is their actual job, rather than just merely being lackeys for the billionaire class.
00:31:36Anyway, enough of that.
00:31:38I'm going, I'm getting ranty now.
00:31:39I can't do that.
00:31:40All right.
00:31:44This story we probably all forgot about, but I'll bring you up to speed.
00:31:48So Senator Mark Kelly made a video several months ago reminding America's troops
00:31:52that they did not have to follow unlawful orders.
00:31:54And the administration has had a hard on for him ever since.
00:31:58And it says here now that Judge temporarily blocks Hegseth from punishing Kelly for video.
00:32:02Judge Richard J. Leon found that attempts to discipline Mark Kelly for a video
00:32:05that warned against following unlawful orders would violate the Senator's First Amendment rights.
00:32:09It says here,
00:32:10A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
00:32:13from punishing Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona,
00:32:15for participating in a video that warned Activity Service members not to follow unlawful orders.
00:32:19Judge Richard J. Leon of the District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in a 29-page opinion
00:32:24that the Defense Department's move on to this one,
00:32:26Mr. Kelly, retired Navy captain and former astronaut,
00:32:28ran roughshod over his freedom of speech.
00:32:30Judge Leon barred Mr. Hegseth from the Pentagon
00:32:32from taking any steps to reduce the Senator's retirement rank and pay
00:32:35or using the findings against Mr. Kelly in a criminal proceeding.
00:32:39Quote,
00:32:39Rather than trying to shrink the First Amendment liberties of retired Service members,
00:32:42Secretary Hegseth and his fellow defendants might reflect and be grateful for the wisdom and expertise
00:32:47the retired Service members have brought to public discussions and debate on military matters in our nation
00:32:51over the past 250 years, he wrote.
00:32:53If so, they will more fully appreciate why the Founding Fathers made free speech to the First Amendment
00:32:58and the Bill of Rights.
00:32:58The blunt ruling came after a grand jury in Washington rejected an extraordinary attempt
00:33:02by federal prosecutors in Washington to secure a criminal indictment against Mr. Kelly
00:33:06and five of the Democratic lawmakers who together released a video in November
00:33:11directed at members of the military and intelligence community.
00:33:13Our laws are cleared, Mr. Kelly said in the video.
00:33:15You can refuse illegal orders.
00:33:17The message enraged President Trump who accused Democrats of seditious behavior punishable by death.
00:33:22The decision on Thursday came after Mr. Kelly sued Mr. Hegseth and the Defense Department
00:33:26for censoring him and initiating a military review of the senator's public statements
00:33:29that could result in a reduction of his retirement rank and pension.
00:33:33The Justice Department had argued that the video in public statements by Mr. Kelly
00:33:36criticized Mr. Hegseth for firing admirals and generals and serving himself with yes-men
00:33:39undermined military discipline.
00:33:41But Judge Leon, a nominee of President George W. Bush,
00:33:44wrote that Mr. Kelly was acting within his role as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
00:33:47exiging oversight authority over the Defense Secretary
00:33:49and that attempts to penalize him through military channels appeared to be a tactic to script review
00:33:53by the courts.
00:33:57So, um, it's a temporary block.
00:34:00I'm sure this is going to continue on.
00:34:02I'm sure Hegseth and co.
00:34:04are going to appeal.
00:34:07Um, but, uh, this, this story will continue.
00:34:10I thought it was interesting.
00:34:12I like the judge's opinion, so I wanted to read it.
00:34:14Um, because it, it shows, it gives some clarity and some ideas of the intersection between what
00:34:21people can say and how that interacts with, um, that, how that interacts with, with the law and other, uh,
00:34:30and, and, and other things, including First Amendment and all, all this type of thing.
00:34:35Um, so, um, it, it's a very interesting, like I said, it was a very interesting, uh, very interesting take.
00:34:45Interestingly enough, what I think is kind of funny about the five people in, in that, in that video, um,
00:34:54was that, uh, the other five supporters didn't have any real way they could go after them.
00:35:01But Mark Kelly being ex-military, they had a way to, to do this and, and go in on all,
00:35:08all, all of this.
00:35:09Um, and, uh, and that, uh, and that, uh, and that, I think was a rather very interesting, uh, interesting
00:35:18tack they, they took.
00:35:20I think it also shows that, I think they realized it would be very hard to go after the rest
00:35:27of them, the, all five Democrat senators, because the laws around a lot of this stuff are very narrow.
00:35:35The definition of treason is very narrow, the definition of sedition is very narrow, um, and that, uh, and so
00:35:43they went after Mark Kelly on the one channel if they could.
00:35:45And that was Department of Defense and the Military Review, um, and now the judge has temporarily, um, temporarily, uh,
00:35:54um, blocked it.
00:35:56We have a comment that disagrees, so we'll talk about it, because we always love a good debate.
00:36:01So, um, 100% was, was sedition.
00:36:06Um, I think it's a very good and easy way to view it that way.
00:36:10Legally speaking, that is not the case.
00:36:13Although, if you remember, on this show, I had called, as I have a lot of ex-military buddies, and
00:36:19I called one of them, and I said,
00:36:21how does the soldier on the ground even understand this esoteric legal foolishness?
00:36:29Like, how is the average soldier to make this decision?
00:36:33And, uh, on illegal orders, it seems, you know, mm, how do you do that sort of thing?
00:36:37Um, and he said, he said, he said, the reality is it has a lot more to do with what
00:36:45happens afterwards than it was, than it does, like, in the moment in terms of if you get an illegal
00:36:53order and it was wrong, you are not in legal trouble for doing it because the order was illegal.
00:36:59He's like, but it's very hard in the field to make that decision.
00:37:02He was in Iraq in the desert, um, sort of thing.
00:37:07And so, um, and so I was kind of, like, we, we couldn't talk long because I had to do
00:37:12work and he had to do stuff and I called him, like, right before the news, I was sort of
00:37:15thing.
00:37:16But, um, it was, it was kind of a very odd, odd, odd thing.
00:37:20Um, when it, when it comes to, you know, whether this was, um, uh, seditious behavior or, or, or not,
00:37:29I, I don't, I don't view it that way legally.
00:37:33I don't perceive it that way.
00:37:35I realize that's my own, that's my own, own view of things.
00:37:40Um, and, uh, and so obviously how you feel about the context of what that video was made in, um,
00:37:55and it was after boats had been bombed in the Caribbean without an authorization of Congress for war, didn't really
00:38:03know who a lot of these, you know, boats, boats were sort of thing.
00:38:06Um, one comment is, like, and it turned out to be a Russian, a Russian-marked, marked sub.
00:38:12Um, yes, there were Russian subs in the Caribbean, including the tanker that got turned around and escorted full of
00:38:19oil by a Russian sub.
00:38:20There was also cartel boats and people that drowned and all this sort of thing.
00:38:25And all of this without any authorization from, from Congress.
00:38:29Um, I would also argue if there's a Russian sub and we're shooting at it that can cause a war,
00:38:36I would advise care and carefulness.
00:38:38Um, obviously, and this gets to the other comment of improving intent, obviously one of the issues here is you
00:38:46would have to prove the fact that they were trying, that the, that video by those senators had intent to
00:38:53undermine military discipline.
00:38:55I think one of the things the judge here is arguing is that it was not, it was free speech
00:39:00in his capacity as a politician.
00:39:02He was acting as a politician.
00:39:04And therefore, if they want to sue him under other laws, they're welcome to try.
00:39:09But trying to go after his military rank and pension, which is really all they've got, because he's the only
00:39:14one they're going after, would be, would be very, would be very difficult.
00:39:18Obviously, everyone's going to have their own opinion on whether that video should or should not have been made.
00:39:23Personally speaking, I think it's a lot of burden to ask the everyday soldier, sailor, airman in the plane, in
00:39:29the boat, on the ground, to be making these sorts of sophisticated legal decisions that JAG officers spend time dealing
00:39:36with and that judges in court spend time dealing with.
00:39:38Your average, you know, mortarman, gunman, artillery person is not going to be familiar with such esoteric things.
00:39:46So in that way, it may not have been helpful from the military's perspective.
00:39:49But I think politically, it was, I think politically, it made sense for Mark Kelly to do as a senator.
00:39:58I think that was where the judge was, that the judge was, was, was coming from.
00:40:03Um, um, do you think the media knows better than Pete Hexon as to where that boat came from?
00:40:08It's not like they just found it randomly, they've been washing it back and forth in Venezuela.
00:40:11Oh, no, I have no doubt that those boats were carrying drugs.
00:40:15I'm not, no doubt.
00:40:17All I'm saying is that care should be required, one, because you don't want to be shooting other countries' equipment
00:40:22that might cause a war.
00:40:23And for two, um, there are actually laws and regulations around how this stuff is supposed to be dealt with
00:40:29in terms of boarding and preserving human life and, and arresting people, you know, most importantly, and charging them with,
00:40:35with, with crimes.
00:40:36There's a, it's not a matter of should we be going after drug votes?
00:40:39I think we should.
00:40:39I think it's a matter of, of process and authorization, which is an important part of a democratic and, and,
00:40:46and free society.
00:40:47I don't like the news media trying to pass judgment on things any better or faster than anybody else.
00:40:54And I, myself, try to avoid doing this myself.
00:40:57Um, uh, but, but we do, we do have to, I think it is important to follow a structure and
00:41:05a process for a lot of this stuff, because it can quickly get out of control.
00:41:09That's, I think, the important thing, important, important thing here.
00:41:15Um, it's, uh, oh, this is not as good.
00:41:17It's just because they want, they want to control the narrative.
00:41:20It, it certainly can be perceived that way.
00:41:23Um, trying to control a narrative and, and speak out is not legally in that very narrow definition of what
00:41:30sedition is, which I think was covered by the Security Act 1947 a little bit.
00:41:35Um, and, and so that, yes, like I said, is it necessarily a good thing to burden the military with?
00:41:41No.
00:41:41Did it make political sense in the moment for them to do that?
00:41:45Yes.
00:41:46Um, good politics does not automatically mean that you've broken the law.
00:41:50And I think that's the, one of the judges' points here.
00:41:52It's a temporary block.
00:41:54This case will go on.
00:41:55We will find out more.
00:41:57I am sure the government will continue to appeal and, and all, and all this type of thing.
00:42:02Um, two drones versus a battle on the sea that could cost more lives.
00:42:05I mean, yes, I'm not saying let's not go after drug votes and let's not, you know, reduce cartels' activity
00:42:12and all this type of thing.
00:42:13I think we should, I think it's important to be careful and have a process.
00:42:17That's what I think is, is the most, um, uh, the most important, I think, part of all of this
00:42:25is understanding the, the process.
00:42:27I think it's definitely something where I don't know, um, I don't know that I would have necessarily done that,
00:42:37uh, done that video myself or participated in myself, but I understood the politics at the moment.
00:42:43So, um, we're getting late and we have a lot of stories to go through, so let's move on quickly.
00:42:46But thank you for commenting.
00:42:48Um, this one is a very important story, because it will change the health of everyone listening to this.
00:42:59All three of you.
00:43:01Um, the general administration erases the government's power to fight climate change.
00:43:06The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well-being.
00:43:11It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
00:43:14This is great news if you own a factory with smokestacks.
00:43:18President Trump on Thursday, the last Thursday, announced it was erasing the scientific finding of that climate change endangers human
00:43:24health and the environment,
00:43:25ending the federal government's legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.
00:43:29I think that was in the Clean Air Act, by the way.
00:43:32Anyway.
00:43:33The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane, and four other greenhouse gases that scientists
00:43:38say are supercharging heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and other extreme weather.
00:43:41Led by a president who refers to climate change as a hoax,
00:43:44The administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong,
00:43:48and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be.
00:43:52It's a rejection letter of the fact that it had been accepted for decades by presidents of both parties,
00:43:57including Richard Nixon, whose top advisor warned of the dangers of climate change,
00:44:00and the first President Bush, who signed an international climate treaty.
00:44:04It is a knockout punch in the years-long fight by a small group of conservative activists,
00:44:08as well as oil, gas, and coal interests,
00:44:10to stop the country from transitioning away from fossil fuels and towards solar wind and other non-floating energy.
00:44:15This is about as big as it gets, President Trump said at the White House,
00:44:18as smiling Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, stood by.
00:44:22We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding,
00:44:24a disastrous Obama-era policy, he said.
00:44:26Mr. Trump called it a radical rule that became the basis for the Green News scam,
00:44:30a label the president gives to any effort to curb emissions or develop renewable energy.
00:44:34Mr. Zeldin called it the single largest regulatory action in the history of the United States.
00:44:37He accused Democrats of having launched an ideological crusade on climate change
00:44:41that strangled entire sectors of the United States economy through the auto industry.
00:44:45The administration claimed it would save the auto manufacturers and other businesses
00:44:48over at $1 trillion, although it has declined to explain how it survived, I would estimate.
00:44:52At issue is what's known as the endangerment finding,
00:44:54a 2009 scientific conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions posed a danger to American self and welfare.
00:45:00The finding was based on more than 200 pages of research and evidence.
00:45:02Oh, so it's new, good.
00:45:04Mr. Trump also has called climate scientists' stupid people,
00:45:07claimed on Thursday that the finding had no basis in fact.
00:45:10For nearly 17 years, the EPA had relied on the bedrock finding to justify regulations
00:45:15that limit carbon dioxide, methane, and other pollution from oil and gas wells,
00:45:18tailpipes, smokestacks, and other sources that burn fossil fuels.
00:45:21The repeal of the endangerment finding is expected to increase the country's greenhouse gas emissions
00:45:24by 10% over the next 30 years, according to the Environmental Defense Fund and advocacy group.
00:45:29The added pollution could lead to as many as 58,000 premature deaths,
00:45:33and an increase of 37 million asthma attacks between now and 2055.
00:45:38On Fox Business Wednesday, Doug Burgum, the Interior Secretary, revived a debunked myth
00:45:42to solve how the Trump administration used carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.
00:45:46CO2 was never a pollutant, he said.
00:45:47When we breathe, we emit CO2.
00:45:49Plants need CO2 to survive and grow.
00:45:50They thrive with more CO2.
00:45:52While carbon dioxide can help plants grow, the extraordinary high levels in the atmosphere
00:45:56are overwhelming natural processes, an increase in the frequency and severity of drought,
00:46:00waves, and other damaging events, according to scientists.
00:46:02President Barack Obama wrote on social media that the repeal of the endangerment finding
00:46:05means, quote, will be less safe, less healthy, and less able to fight climate change,
00:46:09so all the fossil fuel industry can make even more money, unquote.
00:46:13Governor Gavin Newsom of California promised a court challenge.
00:46:16Of course, if this reckless decision survives legal challenges, it will lead to more deadly
00:46:20wildfires, more extreme heat deaths, more climate-driven floods and droughts, and greater
00:46:23threats to communities nationwide.
00:46:25He said California will, quote, will sue to challenge this illegal action and will continue
00:46:28to regulate greenhouse gases, he said.
00:46:31We will see them in court, and we will win, said Manish Bhatna, the president of the National
00:46:35Resources Defense Council.
00:46:36The science and the law are crystal clear, and EPA is issuing a rush, sloppy, and unsignificant
00:46:40discrimination that has no legal basis.
00:46:44And it goes on about climate change.
00:46:46As long-time readers and listeners know, I've always been a bit questioning of climate
00:46:51science.
00:46:53In the 10-plus years since I wrote my initial essay on climate change, I've definitely seen
00:46:59more evidence in favor of it than I have against it.
00:47:04But one thing has also become clear.
00:47:05I don't think we fully understand climate systems.
00:47:08They're too big.
00:47:09Because, you know, between 2010 and 2020, we were supposed to see an unprecedented increase
00:47:14in hurricanes.
00:47:14We did not.
00:47:16We're supposed to see increases in severe weather.
00:47:19Some places we have.
00:47:20Some places we haven't.
00:47:21There's definitely a lot of questioning around that.
00:47:24But I think overall, just from a public health perspective, reducing emissions is always a
00:47:32good thing.
00:47:33Anytime you can clean that up and deal with that another way is a good thing.
00:47:36And I think this is a loss for enforcing clean air and clean water and continues a pattern in this
00:47:42administration of not allowing the federal government to regulate these things in favor
00:47:47of industry.
00:47:49If you look at the history of industry in this country, just in the 20th century, it is a
00:47:53history of environmental degradation where these things are.
00:47:56I think if we want to re-industrialize and we want to do these things, we have to do it
00:48:00smarter
00:48:01than we did in the past and not just dump the waste everywhere, not just pollute the air,
00:48:05the rivers, the lakes, the streams, and be mindful of how these things fit into a greater
00:48:12ecosystem.
00:48:13That's not the narrative in climate change.
00:48:14It probably should be.
00:48:16Um, but this is, I think this is not a good, a good thing.
00:48:21So that's some editorialism for you.
00:48:23Um, moving right along.
00:48:25Um, speaking of shutdowns, we have a partial government shutdown right now.
00:48:30Senate Democrats have refused to move ahead with the spending bill, needed to keep the
00:48:33Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal,
00:48:37uh, immigration agents.
00:48:40Um, I'm not changing graphics fast enough because I'm the only one here.
00:48:45And it's hard for me to produce and speak at the same time, but we'll, we'll try to catch
00:48:52up.
00:48:52There we go.
00:48:52All right.
00:48:54Um, it says here, members of Congress departed Washington on Thursday without funding the
00:48:57Department of Homeland Security, putting it on a near certain path to shut down this weekend
00:49:00amid a deep partisan divide over Democrats' demands to place new restrictions on federal
00:49:04immigration agents.
00:49:05Senate Democrats blocked a spending bill that would have funded the Department of Passed Friday
00:49:08night shutdown deadline without adding any new curbs on immigration enforcement.
00:49:12That makes sense to the outcome.
00:49:14After bipartisan talks on limiting President Trump's crackdown deadlocked, with the funding
00:49:18deadline less than 36 hours away, Republicans tried to advance a bill that the House approved
00:49:22last month to fund the Department through September, which Democrats blocked two weeks
00:49:26ago as they insisted on new measures to rein in federal immigration agents.
00:49:29As expected, the proposal, which contained a modest guardrails for far short of Democrats'
00:49:33demands, failed to draw the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster, though it was 52
00:49:37to 47 with nearly all Democrats opposed.
00:49:39As they prepared to block the legislation, Democrats said that Thursday's announcement
00:49:43by Tom Holman, the Borders are, that the administration would pull immigration agents from Minnesota
00:49:47and end its crackdown there was not sufficient to get them to back down on their demands.
00:49:50Quote,
00:50:02With Democrats and Republicans still far apart on their demands and little progress show from
00:50:06days of negotiations, the House and Senate both dismiss lawmakers who are scheduled for a week-long
00:50:10recess, all but guaranteeing a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.
00:50:14And it's Monday, so you'll guess what happened.
00:50:17Should funding lapse on Saturday morning, it would be the third time in five months that parts of the
00:50:20government would have come to a halt because of congressional standoff.
00:50:23Given the scheduled recess, the shutdown would last at least through the week, although leaders
00:50:26advised their rank and file to be ready to return to watch out the event of a deal
00:50:30that still appeared far off.
00:50:31Senator John Thune, a Republican of South Dakota, and another majority leader pushed for
00:50:36another stopgap bill that would keep funds flowing.
00:50:38Mr. Thune said on Thursday that Democrats should support interim funding since the administration
00:50:42has submitted a, quote, reasonable good-faith offer, unquote, for guardrails and immigration
00:50:46enforcement, and he pointed to the announcement by Mr. Homan.
00:50:49Quote,
00:50:50Maybe there's some more ground the White House could give on a couple of fronts, Mr. Thune
00:50:53said.
00:50:53I don't know, but I think right now at least there ought to be an understanding that these
00:50:56discussions need to continue, and that the solution is at least insight, and we ought to
00:50:59keep the government open.
00:51:01But Democrats have said that they will not even allow a temporary funding measure to proceed
00:51:05without measures to curb the tactics of federal agents carrying out the Trump administration's
00:51:08deportation campaign.
00:51:09Just one of them, Senator John Fenneman of Pennsylvania, voted with Republicans in favor
00:51:13of the spending measure on Thursday.
00:51:16And it goes on to some other details and all this type of thing, and we don't need to read
00:51:20all that right now.
00:51:21But, um, so the Department of Homeland Security is rather shut down right now, um, over ICE funding.
00:51:27Um, this is one where, for people that want to see government functioning and never a shutdown
00:51:34and all this type of thing, this obviously is a, you know, not a great moment.
00:51:38Um, it's great politics to Democrats right now.
00:51:41Um, it does not, it does not mean it makes for a function of government or a society, but
00:51:45it makes for good politics.
00:51:46These things are often not coterminous.
00:51:49And, um, and I, I understand why they are doing it in the wake of recent events.
00:51:56Um, I don't necessarily know that this hill is the one to die on right now.
00:52:02I mean, I, I think, I think it's something where with Tom Holman saying they're pulling
00:52:06out of Minneapolis and Minnesota and all this type of thing, it seemed, it seems to me you
00:52:09could deliver this funding as a good faith way of saying, you know, we, we've got this
00:52:17shutdown here.
00:52:18We have some, some guardrails sort of thing and, and going on, but obviously the Democrats
00:52:24are trying to do much, much more than that and have much more, have many more curves on,
00:52:29uh, on what is, uh, on what is happening.
00:52:32So, um, yeah, like I said, bad policy, good politics.
00:52:39Um, in our next story, uh, we are, oh yeah, this is the Gaza stuff and we want 110%
00:52:46you
00:52:47to talk about it because it's kind of fallen off the news radar and it shouldn't.
00:52:54Um, and we'll probably stop here and get to some of the stories later.
00:52:58Um, let's, uh, actually let's listen to Senator Sanders for a moment because he'll say it faster
00:53:05then I can read it to you.
00:53:07Here we go.
00:53:08Uh, Senator Van Hollen, uh, said that he worries that the meeting today indicates that the
00:53:14Trump administration is sort of coming around on, or at least not going to enforce, uh, any
00:53:20parameters to stop the annexation of the West Bank by Israel.
00:53:25I want to know your thoughts.
00:53:26Well, obviously I think everybody knows that the intention of a good part of the Israeli
00:53:31government is to impact the next, uh, West Bank.
00:53:35Yeah.
00:53:36And do away with any hope for a two-state solution.
00:53:39Yeah.
00:53:39Do I share that concern?
00:53:40Absolutely.
00:53:41I do.
00:53:41And with regards to LaCaw Cordia, you signed onto that letter to say she needs to be released
00:53:46from ICE detention.
00:53:47Um, what type of precedent does that set when an American resident is taken into detention
00:53:52for protesting Palestine?
00:53:55Look, uh, we have a government today under Trump, uh, that is moving us into an authoritarian
00:54:03society, a government that does not respect the constitution or the rule of law.
00:54:08And the American people are going to fight back and say, yeah, we can have our disagreements.
00:54:14That's democracy.
00:54:14But we are going to obey the constitution and the rule of law.
00:54:20So, um, the story here obviously is that, uh, Israel has been taking more and more land
00:54:29in the West Bank over the last several years.
00:54:32Most Palestinian areas are almost gone.
00:54:35There's tiny pockets throughout.
00:54:37The annexation is, is almost, uh, almost complete.
00:54:41And Israel with their new laws will basically complete the annexation of the West Bank to
00:54:45make sure there's no land for a two-state solution to ever happen.
00:54:49Which also gets into, is it the next tab?
00:54:52It is.
00:54:53Is, bridge that over to the United Arab Emirates is taking on Gaza's civilian system, um, in
00:55:02a plan, in a plan backed by Israel and coordinated with the United States.
00:55:05According to officials familiar with the talks, Abu Dhabi has proposed assuming full responsibility
00:55:09for Gaza's civilian management, backed by a multi-billion dollar investment.
00:55:13Negotiations in recent days have included the exchange of draft agreements among the three
00:55:17parties.
00:55:17Under the plan, the UAE would oversee all markets and trade in Gaza.
00:55:22Deploy armed security forces to protect logistics centers across the territory and operate alongside
00:55:27American private security firms.
00:55:29All goods entering Gaza would be purchased from Israel with Israeli contractors hired for
00:55:33implementation.
00:55:34Existing distribution points would be transformed into centralized logistics hubs feeding Gaza's
00:55:39private sector.
00:55:40Senior Israeli officials described this proposal as a comprehensive Emirati takeover of civilian
00:55:45responsibility saying the UAE is prepared to enter Gaza at full scale and act as the territory's
00:55:49civilian sponsor.
00:55:55So, what is, you have two things happening here.
00:55:59You have the first story, which is the completion of the annexation of the West Bank.
00:56:04You now have the UAE saying, well, we'll run Gaza for you while we figure everything out.
00:56:11And this, and with buying everything from Israel and using Israeli contractors for implementation, you
00:56:18basically now have a soft annexation of Gaza.
00:56:22One could argue, and I will make the argument right now, and then we'll talk about the horrors
00:56:28of Gaza.
00:56:29So, this amounts to an annexation by proxy.
00:56:33This amounts to a soft annexation of Gaza, in so much as the West Bank is a hard annexation.
00:56:39The annexation of Gaza is a soft one, because now if Israel is running everything with the
00:56:43UAE kind of nominally footing the bill and paying for some of the security and all this
00:56:50type of thing, it amounts to nothing more than a soft annexation of Gaza.
00:56:53Which means, their plan to turn Gaza into the Monaco of the Eastern Mediterranean, the
00:57:00Macau of the Mediterranean, if you will, makes it almost nearly complete.
00:57:07And that is a very sad turning point for Palestinians.
00:57:14They have almost been fully displaced now.
00:57:17It's taken 80, almost 80 years, but the full displacement of the Palestinian people is nearly
00:57:23complete.
00:57:24And that's a very sad moment for Palestinians, who happened to live in the wrong land at
00:57:30the wrong time.
00:57:31Speaking of that, Raiders has confirmed in early 2024, U.S. diplomats blocked internal
00:57:37cables describing northern Gaza as, quote, apocalyptic wasteland.
00:57:41The reports included harrowing details, human bones scattered in the streets, bodies left abandoned
00:57:45in cars, and a total collapse of access to food, clean water, and medical aid.
00:57:49These cables were not speculation.
00:57:50They were based on first-hand field observations from U.N. agencies and humanitarian workers
00:57:54on the ground.
00:57:55So why were they blocked?
00:57:57Because they were considered too graphic, and lacked balance, and might make Israel look
00:58:02bad.
00:58:02Senior officials at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, including Ambassador Jack Lew and Deputy Chief
00:58:07Stephanie Hallett, stopped reports from reaching higher levels of the U.S. government.
00:58:10They feared the cables would contradict the administration's public narrative and disrupt
00:58:14ongoing political cover for Israel's actions in Gaza.
00:58:17According to former officials, humanitarian experts were sidelined, ignored, and outright
00:58:20dismissed.
00:58:21Inside meetings, the question from officials was not how to respond to starvation, but
00:58:25reportedly, where are all the skinny kids?
00:58:26This was not merely policy misjudgment, but a complicity on a grand scale.
00:58:30The Biden administration had access to concrete evidence of mass death, starvation, and social
00:58:34collapse, and instead of sending the alarm, it chose to suppress the truth and preserve
00:58:37its political position.
00:58:38They did not just ignore the warnings, they buried them.
00:58:42And it mentions the, there's a writer's story on the person who wrote it.
00:58:48Regardless of the who, and this is not great on behalf of the Biden administration, by the
00:58:54way.
00:58:56Regardless of the who, the why, and the where, it's very clear that they were trying to block
00:59:04further outrage about what was happening in Gaza, which is outrageous enough just from what
00:59:08we were getting from the ground via live streams, and other things like that.
00:59:13This is, again, another situation where, when you try to protect the narrative, it always
00:59:18comes back to bite you in the ass.
00:59:20And the fact that things were so bad on the ground that diplomats felt like they needed
00:59:23to protect, you know, upper levels of government to protect the narrative is just as bad.
00:59:29And the fact that it was happening under a Democrat doesn't matter.
00:59:31It's just as bad either way, either which way.
00:59:35However, again, if we had a functioning media, this would have come out anyway.
00:59:40We would have needed to wait on government cables to confirm it.
00:59:43We would have had people on the ground talking about it.
00:59:45And to some degree we did because people were live streaming, it was on social media.
00:59:48That was part of the outrage in why people were calling on the Biden administration to stop
00:59:54it, do something, don't enable it.
00:59:56And as we later found out, not only did that, you know, consideration never really ever happen,
01:00:04the Biden administration never considered it and they never called Tel Aviv to tell them
01:00:07to stop.
01:00:09They kept on going with it.
01:00:11And now we know behind the scenes when things were getting bad, rather than let people know
01:00:18and at least pick up the phone to call Tel Aviv to stop, the Biden administration let
01:00:22this tragedy continue and continue and continue and continue.
01:00:29And that is a tragedy of the first degree for the Palestinian people.
01:00:33It shows the complicity that our government, regardless of party, has with the government
01:00:38of Israel.
01:00:39And I think most importantly, it shows why we need a functioning media and journalism system
01:00:44and we do not have it.
01:00:45If one of these days I should become wealthy and I have a news gathering organization, we'll
01:00:49gather all sorts of news.
01:00:50We'll be all over things.
01:00:52But in the meanwhile, this is a sad moment for us all.
01:00:58And a sad state that the narrative was more important than anything else.
01:01:05So I'm going to stop there because it's a holiday and I'm tired.
01:01:09We have more stories, but I will cover them in the newsletter or cover them next week or
01:01:12whatever have you.
01:01:14Um, so thank you for all the great, uh, um, great discussion tonight.
01:01:19I really appreciate it.
01:01:21Thank you all for coming, coming by.
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01:01:46And then, um, I'll be back here on Monday at, uh, at seven.
01:01:51Um, this week we have a couple of great interviews for you.
01:01:55Um, we have, uh, right now out, we have Art is Activism in the Age of Trump with David
01:02:00Dayton.
01:02:01We have, um, uh, David Pospalone from, uh, Remarkable People talking about the letters
01:02:08of extraordinary achievers.
01:02:09And today we also have The Last American Editor by Ken Tingley.
01:02:14Later this week we're also going to talk about, with Barry Ma, we're going to talk about, um,
01:02:18his new book, The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon.
01:02:21And, uh, and go from there.
01:02:24So, it's, uh, it's fun times.
01:02:26Uh, we have a great week of content for you.
01:02:28Um, so I will see you next Monday, everyone.
01:02:30Have a wonderful night.
01:02:32Bye-bye now.
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