Channel 51 Independent News Aug. 5th 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is WRIMI Global Radio broadcasting out of Okeechobee, Florida.

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Hello and welcome to Channel fifty one News for Tuesday,
August the fifth, twenty twenty five. And there is a
lot of news to get through both here in Australia
and overseas, so we'll get into it straight away and
in breaking news headline news. In fact, Labor has confirmed
that there will be an international student cap rise with

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the focus on Southeast Asia. That's right. The Albaneze government
has lifted a key migration cap meaning more migrants will
come to Australia with a pocus with a focus on
this particular region. So they've announced this week that there
will be two hundred and ninety five thousand places, up
from tow hundred and seventy thousand, and it will be
available after it was forced to limit enrollments in twenty

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twenty four due to record migration that some claim led
to a spike in home rental prices. Students from Southeast
Asia will be prioritized in ongoing efforts to boost engagement
with the region, a close strategic partner of Australia. The
aim appears to cash in on the US lowering its
international student intake. The coalition had argued during the federal

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election for a limit of two hundred and forty thousand
international student placements, thirty thousand less than Labour's policy. The
international education sector is one of Australia's top five exports,
worth fifty million dollars per year and a quarter of
a million jobs. So there it is. It's all about
the money. Meanwhile, in South Australia, a small town community

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is reeling with the murders of a couple forty one
year old Shafika Hussein in a husband's forty seven year
old Mrser. Their bodies were found by police inside their
home in Border Town, around two hundred seventy kilometers southeast
of Asia Adelaide, I should say during a welfare check
shortly after eleven pm on Sunday. The South Australian Police

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confirmed that the man murdered his wife before taking his
own life. Residents told the Adelaide Advertiser that the family
had moved to Australia from Afghanistan some fifteen years ago.
Family members will work at the nearby meat works. None
of their six adult children were home at the time.
A terrible shocking story there. Meanwhile, also in South Australia,

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and we've learned that Nurse Star has received a bailout
from the South Australian government. The metal producer will get
a one hundred and thirty five million dollar bailout from
a coalition of the federal government and the governments of
South Australia and Tasmania, which will support the company's Port
Pirie facility in SA. Nursed are setting during its lead
smelter in Port Pirie was losing tens of millions of

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dollars a month, saying the future of its zinc smelter
in Hobart was linked to the success of the one
in South Australia called an urgent government intervention according to
the ABC, and so the federal government will kick in
fifty seven million, the South Australian government fifty five and
the Tasmanian government twenty two million. And it's designed to
protect against Chinese competition. So there you go, a bet

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each way for the governments here in Australia. Meanwhile, Queensland
Premier David Christa Foley, well, he's under the attack now
because the first Nations Group to lodge legal action in
the Federal Court to halt development of an Olympic stadium
in the inner City part of Brisbane, so Victoria Park

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is slated to play host to both the twenty thirty
two opening and closing ceremonies at a brand new sixty
three thousand seed stadium, amongst other venues. The state government
recently passed legislation overruling a swathe of state laws to
get around a mooted legal challenge, including heritage, planning and
environmental acts. But the Ygara Maningen Aboriginal Corporation adversity groups

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say Victoria Park made an application under Section ten of
the Federal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act,
which will allow the Commonwealth to declare long term protection
of significant Aboriginal areas. Meanwhile, CHRISTA Foley has ruled out
a stadium in the park in the past, so this
is where the controversy seems to be coming from. Meanwhile,

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in mainstream news, finally we're seeing questions being asked about character.
This popped up from Channel seven asking the question or
making the statement. In fact, we are paying a sex
offender to represent us in parliament, making reference there to
Gareth Ward to form a Liberal now independent from Kyama
in New South Wales, who was last week convicted on

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a number of sex crimes there and waiting on sentencing
to coming up, so he's currently there on bail.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Meanwhile, there is a more news coming out of Australia,
of course, and we've learned that we have a new
Australian Federal Police Commissioner. Let's have a look this report.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Prime Minister Anthony Alberzi has announced the new Australian Federal
Police Commissioner, Chrissy Barrett, will be the first female to
lead the AFP. She is currently a Deputy Commissioner for
the agency and has experiencing counter terrorism. She received the
top job as outgoing Commissioner Rhes Kershaw retires approximately one

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year into his contract. Commissioner at Kershaw was in charge
of the AFP during the Dural Caravan fake Terra plot saga.
There is speculation the handling of the situation may have
strained his relationship with the federal government. A Chinese national
has appeared in court after being charged with reckless foreign interference.

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The Australian Federal Police alleges the woman was tasked by
a Public Security Bureau of China to gather information about
the Cabra branch of a Buddhist association. The woman could
face a maximum penalty of fifteen years in jail if
she's found guilty of foreign interfere Hearance. Coalition MP Andrew

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Wallacey is pushing for an oversight committee to supervise the
three hundred and sixty eight billion dollar orchestrale. Bipartisan support
for a Joint Committee on Defense fell over during the
last term of Parliament. Disagreements over the allowance of crossbenches
ended with the Coalition and the Greens voting against it.
The Albez government has responded to Wallace, claiming it remains

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committed to greater transparence there.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
It is more news coming out of Australia. Now, let's
hit over seas now and we're going to talk about Israel.
And we've just liked today that more than six hundred
former Israeli security chiefs urged Trump to end the Gaza war. Well,
it's not Trump's war, is it. But this is from
Al Jazeera. The group's letter says the Israeli army has
already achieved its objectives, and there's release of the Israeli

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captives can be achieved only through a deal, and so
it is that the appeal was made on. In the
letter written Sunday to President Trump, trees included former Mossad
chief Pado, former Shinbete Chief Army Alion, former Deputy Israeli
Army Chief mattan Vilnae. They call on to pressure Prime

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Minister Benjamin Netanya, who to end the nearly two year
conflict which has devastated Gaza. The letter was sent as
a feuwol grows over videos released by Palestinian groups showing
two emaciated Israeli captives held in Gaza, where more than
two million Palestinians are struggling to survive their crisis, their
starvation crisis. Everything that could be achieved by force has

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been achieved. The hostages can't wake any longer, the commanders
for Israeli security groups said in a post on x
where it shared shared the letter. The letter said the
Israeli Army has received two of its three objectives by
force dismantling hamasa's military formations and government governance, but the
third bringing back all Israeli captives, can only be achieved

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through a deal. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanya who has addressed the
public in statement.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
In the Middle Ages, all the massacres against Jews were
preceded by horrible vilifications. The lies that were leveled against
the Jews spread around the globe. We were poisoning the wells,
we were carriers of disease. We slaughtered Christian children in
order to drink their blood. And this spread from country

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to country and created massacre after massacre, culminating in the
worst massacre of them all, the Holocaust, in which six
million innocent Jews were led to the slaughter. Today the
Jewish state is facing similar vilifications. They lie about us.
They say that we are deliberately starving Palestinian children. That's

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a bare faced lie. Since the beginning of the war,
we have led in almost two million tons of food,
two million tons of food for Palestinian civilians, Palestinian children.
That's been our policy. But in the last few months,
this humanitarian aid has been interdicted by Hamas looting. They

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steal the food from their own people. But in the
last few months that food has not been reaching the
Palestinian civilians because Hamas is stealing it. So we've decided
to go around it. I've authorized the Israeli Air Force
to air drop humanitarian food and medical supplies to Palestinian civilians.
We invited other countries to join this air drops, and

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many have. We also designated safe corridors to which these
trucks can travel without being looted by hamas or endangered
by combat activity. And we're talking now to our American
friends about further steps to alleviate any possibility of hunger
or the appearance of hunger. We're committed to doing this,

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just as we're committing to freak Gaza from the tyranny
of these terrorists. Many Gazans come to us and they say,
help us be free, help us be kamask of the terror,
of their cruelty, of their charity, And that's what we
will do.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Them's fighting words, for sure. And this is a battle
between thousands who are starving and Israeli hostages still not there.
And the question really is, if you were one of
the hostages, would you want your country going in as
hard as they are or would you say stand back?
And so this is the great moral dilemma of our time. Meanwhile,
the Washington Post is reporting that Netnyahu vows to occupy

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Gaza as the US towns an all or nothing hostage plan,
Trump's on void for negotiations, Steve Whitcoff announced the end
of piecemeal cease fine negotiations as from US released hostage
video and Israel leader readies another military offensive. So here
we go, and following on from the rallies at the weekend,
Penny Wong has weighed in and said that there is

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a risk there will be no Palestine left to recognize
if the international community doesn't move to create that pathway
to a two state solution. She said, it's been my
long held position that there will be no peace and
security for the people of Israel unless we resolve to
a Palestinian state. That has been my view for decades.
She said. The comments come as Netnya, who prepares to

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oversee a meeting of the cabinet set to decide this
week whether they will intensify. So we now know that
this is where they're heading, and they are looking to
seek the return of approximately fifty remaining hostages, twenty still
believed to be alive. He said that he wanted to
achieve the country's three goals defeat of the enemy, the
release of the hostages, and to ensure that Gaza no

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longer poses a threat to the state of Israel. Israel
currently controls about seventy five percent of Gaza's territory, most
reduced to rubble. Some sixty thousand people, including scores of
women and children, have been killed in the conflict, and
of course, the international community has expressed outrage at the
deaths from starvation, as something DTNAHO has obviously denied taking place. Meanwhile,

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Australia's a Shadow Attorney General, Julian Lisa, said that the
recognition of a Palestinian state by Australia would reward her
Mus and send a bad signal around the world which
could be exploited by terrorist groups. Let me be clear,
he said, I want to see a two state solution
for Israel and Palestine, something I believed in for decades.
But we seem to be further away from that today

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than at any point in the past, and that is
largely because of the role that Hermas is playing in Gaza.
Now over to the US now and I'll tell you
what Pam Bondy, she has come out firing. She's ordered
a grand jury probe into the Russia Gate.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Now, good evening, Laura will sources tell our Justice Department
team that Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving to the
next step in her investigation into the intelligence surrounding the
twenty sixteen election during the Obama administration. Bondi has personally
ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to present evidence to a
grand jury relating to an alleged conspiracy to tie then

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twenty sixteen presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russia. Justice declined
to comment on the investigation. It's unclear where the grand
jury will meet, who will testify, or who specifically prosecutors
will try to indict. A week and a half ago,
the Justice Department announced it had created a strike force
to evaluate evidence that Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard

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had referred to DOJ. Last month, Gabert declassified intelligence that
she maintained shows that in twenty sixteen, Obama administration officials
manufactured and politicized intelligence to undercut then president elect Trump
and his incoming administration. Democrats contend that nothing Gabbert has
released counters the widely accepted conclusion that Russia medal to

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help the Trump campaign. They say Gabbard's allegations are just
a distraction the Justice Department is still early in the
process of securing any possible indictment. Prosecutors would take evidence
to a grand jury to determine if there's enough to indict.
Grand juries do meet in secret, so there is often
in presented there that the public will not have access to.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Meanwhile, John Solomon has weighed in suggesting where such a
grand jury might take place.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
This is a major development. We told you last week
that Pambondi, the Attorney General, had given permission for a
strike force to begin. That's a very specific tool the
Justice Department uses on major conspiracies, and we told you
then we would know it was getting serious when the
grand jury jumped into action. We now know that a
grand jury will be in paneled most likely. My sources

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are telling me it could be in Florida, where the
raid of President Trump's bar A Lago home help. And
so that is the very latest. You can check it
out at Justin News. We're going to have a whole
lot more of that over the course of the next.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Now, we've had a lot of coverage over the last
week since this was announced, with Tulsi Gabbart et cetera
coming out into announce these in public to the rest
of the world. But the mandstream lady has been avoiding
it up until this point, basically deflecting from it. Well,
today NBC has been forced to report and this is

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their coverage a couple.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
Of weeks ago, Hallie, when really the headlines were dominated
by the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, and then the President was
sort of trying to change the topic very obviously and
in many different venues, was trying to bring up these
unsubstantiated claims about the role he argues former President Obama
had in the twenty sixteen election, and trying to suppress

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some information that he says would have been damaging if
it had come to light. And so then you had
the Director of National Intelligence, Cholsey Gabbard, come to the
White House briefing room, come to the podium and try
to share some of this alleged new evidence. Well, now
you have the Attorney General saying that they're going to
try to take that information, which remember they had announced
a strike force to look into what they call this

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new evidence and try to evaluate it to see if
there could be any potential criminal indictments that they would follow.
And the thing that matters here is that this is
basically a grand jury investigation that's being launched, but that
will happen in secret. This is behind closed doors, and
it's completely unclear whether it will yield anything new. It's
unclear that we will ever learn anything new about it

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because it could be under seal. But it really does
bear repeating. This is looking into something for which there
is no evidence to back it up, and it's really
it seems a politically motivated move to keep the focus
on one of the presidents clear political foes, and talk
about basically anything else.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
All right, So what they're suggesting, of course, that Russia
gain is just a response to Epstein. We'll talk a
little bit more about that afterwards. In the meantime, Mike
Davis appeared on Laura Ingram and he was asked who
might be called as a witness of course, being that
there's no evidence, right.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
Who would be your first witness before this grand jury?

Speaker 8 (16:56):
Well, I don't know if they're going to participate, they'll
probably the Fifth Amendment, but you'd have someone like Brennan Clapper, Comy.
There are a lot of people Hillary Clinton's campaign, Hillary herself,
there is evidence that a lot of President Obama's top officials,
maybe even President Obama himself politicized and weaponized law enforcement

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and intel agencies to harm President Trump's campaign and help
Hillary Clinton's campaign, and they continued this conspiracy to this day.
They hobbled his presidency, and they have continued this conspiracy.
There are a lot of potential witnesses.

Speaker 7 (17:40):
Now CNN has a big story tonight essentially saying what
Richardson just related that nothing that was released by Gabbard
in these documents indicate anything contrary to the idea that
Russia was trying to help Donald Trump and her Hillary Clinton.

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That's what they're maintaining throughout this entire thing, basically shrugging
off the DNI as just you know, this is just
political hot air to try to help Trump. Now your
reaction to that.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
I think that is a distraction by these lawfare democrats.
They know they face serious legal jeopardy, the most serious
legal jeopardy you can face, including a criminal indictment. So
I would say to these lawfair democrats, if you have
nothing to worry about, why are you lawyering up? You're
going to see Attorney General. Pam Bondie, a Deputy Attorney General,

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Todd Blanche, FBI director Cash Patel, maybe har Meat Dillen,
the head of the Civil Rights Division, working with a
US Attorney's office or several US attorneys' offices. We have
to step back and remember this. This is the greatest
scandal in American history. You had one administration politicize and

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weaponize intellegencies and law enforcement to go after his political opponents,
including and continued when he was the president of the
United States. It doesn't get more serious than this. This
is a criminal conspiracy. The evidence is clear. There's a
criminal conspiracy here. And nobody is above the law.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
That's right, the Magna Carta twelve oh five. Nobody is
above the law? Or are they? And that's the great
question that many of us have got.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Trump went to great lengths before he was re elected
to explain presidential immunity, to which now could backfire maybe
against Obama. And that's one of these great questions that
comes up. And I have spoken to John Eastman, constitutional lawyer,
himself indicted for challenging the results of the twenty twenty
election and was the one who actually told Mike Pence

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that he didn't need to certify at the time, and
You can check that interview out at Channel fifty one
com or Jasonqsitizen dot substack dot com. Well, let's continue now,
because Scott Bessett, who is the Secretary of Treasury, met
with Miranda Devine to explain against what people are saying
that the economy is not doing very well. Well, there

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was percent to explain exactly how well things are going
and where the new jobs are going to come from
in US manufacturing.

Speaker 9 (20:23):
And I assume that I will walk out of the
building in January of twenty twenty nine that what are
the three to five things that I would have liked
to have done? So stabilize the US finances and put
that on a good trajectory that will make sure that

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we have another great two hundred and fifty years, bring
back and make sure that Main Street and Wall Street
have both done well. So Wall Street has had a
great run, and now it's Main Street's turn to also participate.
And Ball Street Journal accuse me of populist remarks what's

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wrong with both doing now? And then the third is
I think to lock in the US dollar as the
reserve currency for many more generations. And I got lots
of ideas that we're working on how to do that.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
And you've got some other good news, haven't you about
blue collar wage growth?

Speaker 9 (21:30):
Blue collar wage growth. The only other time it's been
this high, wait for it, was during President Trump's first term.
So we've seen real wages for hourly workers, non supervisory
workers rise almost two percent in the first five months.
That no president has done that before.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
And why is that?

Speaker 9 (21:53):
It's a president's emphasis on manufacturing. I think there's also
likely a component of whether it's twelve or twenty million
illegal aliens coming out of the workforce, and Joe Biden
opened the border and it was flooded, and that for

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working Americans, that's a disaster because it's pressure on their wages.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
And so blue collar wage growth went down during Biden,
it did, and it's back up again just in a
few months.

Speaker 9 (22:27):
In five months, five months, five months. That's amazing nine
percent of the workforces in manufacturing. And it's a fact
that we get much stronger wage growth for the workers
in manufacturing jobs in the service economy. So sorry, the
steel plant, the auto plant, the ball bearing plant has closed.

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Have added at Madonald's. We haven't had a recession. As
a matter of fact, the economy is very strong. Household
income growth was point sellar point eight percent in April
for one month. That's out of the park, impressiof.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
But of course there's two sides to every story. And
now we're going to cross to self appointed coin of
the Democrats, Jasmine Crockett explaining exactly what's really going on.

Speaker 10 (23:17):
Listen, Donald Trump is a piece. Hey, we know that, Yes,
yes he is, he is he is. But in a
functioning democracy he still will not be able to get
away with this. But he's been able to get away
with this because the House Republicans are complicit. He's been
able to get away with this because Senate Republicans are complicit.

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But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit.
And so I think one of the places that.

Speaker 11 (23:51):
We have to start is we are absolutely they are
the highest court in the lands and they have no
ethics guard rails. Now you go down the law courts
and they do, how much does that make Well, we
know that they're taking wheney, we have the paper trail,
and they refuse the briguarbreels on themselves.

Speaker 10 (24:10):
So it's time for us to do it.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
For well, thanks Jasmine, she's gone full cooker. There you go,
let's use that word against them for once. It doesn't
get much crazier than that. Meanwhile, over in Texas, the
attorney General and the governor have ordered for the arrests.
Would you believe of Democrats who have gone a wall
in a publicity stump to prevent a quorum in what
is a protest over a potential gerrymander there that would

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make it even more difficult for Democrats to gain power
back in the midterms of next year. But where are
we going to be in the midterms of next year? So,
putting my Jason Q citizen hat on for a moment,
I'm watching what's happening on social media, particularly a few
or over the expectation that Donald Trump has been protected

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from being in the Epstein files. The people that are
doing a quite astonishing really, like, how is it now
that you're only paying attention? Did pizzagate not mean anything?
Did Adrinachrome didn't count? When we heard that one? What
about Frazzle Drip? Remember Frazzle Drip? And we all got

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excited about it because we thought of how nasty this
was and it was pointing to a very prominent figure
at the time. Then, of course there was the Anthony
Weena laptop and we heard of multiple New York policemen
who had committed suicide after seeing its contents. Where were
the Democrats then? Where were they when Meghan Kelly gave

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that horrific softball interview to James Aliphantis, and all of
these so called right wing nut jobs were at Meghan
Kelly saying what kind of interview was that? When you said, oh, James,
you don't have a basement in your pizza shop, do you,
to which he said no, despite the fact that earlier
had given an interview in Rolling Stone magazine talking about
how he canned tomatoes in his basement Comet pizza. You

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can't make any of this stuff up. Meanwhile, we also
want to know where is your film reviews of The
Sound of Freedom? Democrats? Did you watch that movie? Did
you understand what it was about? How children are sold
and stolen into these horrific situations around the world? Where
were you then? No, there wasn't anything like that. Of course,

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where were you when Laura Silsby was arrested with dozens
of undocumented Haitian children after the earthquake there? And why
did President Bill Clinton get on a plane to go
down to the border and pick up Silsby and get
her out of the charges. Why would he do that?
And how do you get access to a former president

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when you are arrested with undocumented children at the border?
How does that work? And what about Clay Higgins and
the thirty five thousand kids that he said were connected
to mngos in the United States. It's all the eight
hundred thousand kids that go missing according to Tom Homean.
Let's see your posts about your disgust and defense of

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Virginia ju Fray And why don't you talk about the
relationship between King Charles and Jimmy Saville or why don't
you mention Ricky Gervais's speech at the Golden Globes? And
where's you discussed for Harvey Weinstein, for Bill Cosby, for
Kevin Spacey and all of those witnesses that suddenly died

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before his trial. Where is all of the disgust and
where is the recognition that mka optra is real in
the Australian government's apologies to victims of ritual abuse? How
come that doesn't come into it? Nothing? In fact, there
is never nothing in anything. There is only the belief

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that Donald Trump is the only bad man in history.
And that's why we know that you're wrong. And that's
why we know that Trump hasn't kicked an own goal.
But he's using this specifically for a great reason because
these already said it, the same people involved in the
Epstein lists and the manipulation, the same people involved in
Russia Gate, and all he wants to do is to

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protect people from getting hurt. And if you follow those
Q posts way back, it did say that they would
put people in hospital it is too sick, and that
they will limit it. But the question is if they
want the information. Oh, it'll come, but be careful what
you wish for. Thank you for watching Channel fifty one News.
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