April 25, 2024 • 23 mins
Police arrest 93 people at USC amid Gaza war protests. Hamas and Iran throw support behind the college protests. Los Angeles makes progress but earns 25th straight F in air quality; nothing like the ‘smog sieges’ from the 1950’s to 1980’s. A settlement that will rewrite the way many real estate agents are paid in the U.S. has received approval from a federal judge.
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You're listening to k i AM sixforty the bill Handle Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. You are listeningto the bill Handle showfi AM six forty
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bill Handle. Here it is aThursday morning, April twenty five. Some
of the big news we are coveringis the long range miistles are on their
way to Ukraine from the US.Actually they have been on the way,
and there's some that are already there. It happening before the vote allowing allowing
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you to Ukraine and to Israel andto Taiwan. All Right, what's going
on around the country and going around? Going on here in southern Calif we
had we have demonstrations pro Palestini anddemonstrations in universities across the country. Sc
came in a little bit later,but there it is at USC and this
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one made the international news. Andthe LAPD had to arrive in riot gear
yesterday and arrested ninety three people ontrespassing charges as they cleared the encampment at
the center of campus, and thedemonstrators were chanting, shame on you,
shame on you, as the policetook away students and off campus activists.
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Although I don't know if that mattersor not. This is Alumni Park where
the commencement is scheduled to take placenext month. It went up for sunrise,
grew by afternoon and some students wearingcafeas and holding free Palestine Liberated Zone
signs. They were banging on drumsand chanting, and the protest was for
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the most part peaceful, but grewtends at times. Officers were detaining people,
moving people off campus. Some inthe cow crowd, we're throwing water
bottles. The police did not engagetoo much. What they did is say
get out of here, you're trespassing. A few stayed and they were arrested
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starting about four o'clock yesterday. Nowit went up at sunrise, but starting
at four o'clock that's when the LAPDcame in forming a line around the park.
The sc administration had closed the gatesto the campus, instituting an ID
check, and professors were given theoption which a lot of them took,
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of conducting classes online on Thursday.So these students protesting Israel and wearing the
kafias, and here is what alot of them were saying, chanting,
disclose, divest, we will notstop, we will not rest. I
wonder who comes up with that stuff? Are they ad? I just you
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know, like melts in your mouth, not in your hands. Same guy
who came up with that, Idon't know. I don't know. But
once they got it, they gotit and they started chanting. And now
what are the names some of thegroups members of the pro Palestinian groups,
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such as Trojans for Palestine. Lawsuithas been filed by Dwighton Church, the
manufacturer of Trojan condoms. They havefiled the cease and desist. You can't
say Trojans for Palestine, Students forJustice in Palestine, and my favorite,
the Jewish Voice for Peace. Theseare Jews, among them professors who are
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arguing that this is genocide going onin Gaza. It is not genocide.
Granted, tens of thousands of innocentcivilians have been killed, but genocide is
something where it is the planned eliminationof an entire people or an entire religion.
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That is not what's going on there. I mean, you can describe
it any way. You want peacefor Palestine, that Israel is in fact
keeping Palestine from becoming a state oppressionoccupation. You can say any of that.
Don't use the word genocide. Imean that really cheapens it. What
happened in genocide Nazi Germany, Armenianswere victims of genocide at the turn of
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the last century. Cambodians were victimsof genocide under Paul Pott. This is
not genocide by any stretch of theimagination. Now, my favorite story of
all of this is Hamas and IranSupreme Leader Ayatola Ali Hamani applauded the growing
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number of anti Gaza war protests andencampments or the anti Israel war in Gaza.
We're talking about Iran and Hamas takingan official position saying that these students
are effectively heroes and stopping them.And here's the good one, okay,
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stopping the pro Palestinian press the protestersbecause the authorities are in violation of the
First Amendment right to assembly and speech. This is Iran and Hamas saying that
the government and the police are violatingthese students' First Amendment rights. Wow,
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the Grand Hancho, the Grand Vizier, the Grand Poopa of Iran arguing First
Amendment rights of these students are beingviolent. Fabulous, just terrific. I
would like anybody in Iran to arguethat Hamas shouldn't have engaged in that first
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October seventh massacre of Israel, ofIsraeli citizens, just say that, go
on social media and identify yourself andsee what happens. Or someone in Gaza
somehow either showing a placard a sign, going on the internet where you can
be identified saying return the hostages.How long do you think that person's going
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to last? First Amendment rights violated? Now it can be argued the First
Amendment rights are violated because they're notallowed to protest. Of course, they're
allowed to protest, they're just notallowed to block buildings, block entrances.
They're not allowed to be on thegrounds of the campus. Do it out
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on the street, because that's allowed. You come to my house on the
if you're in front of the sidewalk, you can protest. You come on
my land to protest. Now you'retrespassing, and I call the cops.
Do I stop you from TrustPower?Do I stop you from your protest?
Of course not. Just don't blockthe entrance to my house. That's all
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I want to come home. I'ma student. Don't block the entrance to
the campus. Protest all you wantand somehow that's being lost into translation.
I can't if i's Chris Adler wasat the demonstrations yesterday at SC and I
just spent the last segment talking aboutwhat went on on the big picture,
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the demonstrations, what happened, whythe Palestinian, the pro Palestinian thought philosophy.
Well, let's get down to Minutiaand talk about what actually happened there
physically. Chris Adler, you're reportingon this. What happened? What did
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you experience? Right? Bill?So, when I got on scene yesterday,
camps they had tents, these proPalacity and protesters had tents set up
in Alumni Park. As I goton scene, they were being taken down.
After LAPD came in. LAPD hada scuffle with one of the protesters,
put him in the car. Peoplestarted shouting to let him out,
and then he was released. That'swhen laped left the campus and then it
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was school campus police. There wasabout twenty of them lined up in the
line, just standing guard, justwatching the protesters. So what ended up
happening is all those protesters kind ofgot into a circle, started chanting,
marching, chanting things like from theRiver to the Sea, let Gaza live
and that went on for hours,and for the most part, Bill it
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was. It was very peaceful,it was very organized, it was orderly.
People were not getting into into fights. I never felt I never felt
a deep tension when I was there, and even the public safety officers they
didn't seem to be very tense.Everybody was kind of just watching, observing
and listening to the pro Palestinians andtheir supporters. Now, there were also
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Jewish students from USC Bill that wereout there in support of the protests.
There were also Jewish students who werenot in support of the protests. But
I just want to play a clipfor you this yere before you do,
yeah, Chris, before you do? What number are we talking about?
How many people were actually protesting andhow many people were out there watching the
protests in the earlier stages, Probablyin the afternoon, from about one to
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about four o'clock, it grew fromprobably just dozens to about three hundred.
I would say about three hundred people, okay, and that those were the
active protesters, correct, I wouldsay active what is probably about two hundred
people, and then there was aboutone hundred people kind of scattered around students
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onlookers, reporters just kind of watchingand observing. But I would say there
was about two hundred people who wereactively marching pro testing. There was even
USC faculty out there carrying signs thatwere also in support of a ceasefire.
So what was interesting was that therewere Jewish students from USC who were who
were out there in support of theprotest and supporting the pro Palestinian UH movement.
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And what was interesting though, wasthat the Jewish people who were opposed
to the protests were calling the Jewishpeople an embarrassment, the ones that were
supporting the protest and embarrassment calling themself loathing Jewish people. And this is
a Jewish woman that I was ableto speak with who is a student at
USC, and she says that Israelis weaponizing a past genocide to justify murdering
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children and innocent people in Gaza.Also, I think it's really fundamental and
the Jewish religion to to to seekto right the wrongs in the world,
to to speak up for the tothe for the underdog, and in this
case, the Palestinians are the thedog. The Palestinians are the people who
are being silenced who are being pushedout, who are being oppressed? Hey,
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Christ, before you go on,was there any mention at all about
the costs attack October seventh? Well? Yeah, well I brought that up,
and so as I was interviewing thePalestine, the Propoestinian protesters and the
Jewish people out there, I let'sgo to the pro Palestinians. When I
asked them, I said, well, if people were to say to you,
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you know, Hamas attacked Israel first, what would you say to that?
And their response was, well,this is years and years of oppression.
And you know when when when ahungry dog is not fed, they're
gonna bite, you can't blame themfor biting back. So basically they were
saying, this is years of oppression, genocide, apartheid, and and that
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was their justification of it. Okay, So yeah, it's you know,
I find it interesting. I don'twant to go into that. But when
you talked to these people and that'ssounded pretty calm. Was there anger that
you saw at the protests? Therewas a moment where a Palestinian student and
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a Jewish student got into I don'twant to say, and it wasn't I
would say it maybe an argument,a debate going back and forth about the
history of Jewish people and Palestinians andthe long running conflict between the two,
and so people kind of gathered ina circle as they were going back and
forth, and we were just kindof watching. But it never escalated,
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it never got it never got violent. Bill and I've covered these protests since
October seventh, and I've seen alot of violence at protests, but this
one was unique because it wasn't veryviolent, it wasn't very confrontational, and
there were Jewish students out there.There were Jewish people in support. Now
I have covered other protests where therewas a couple of Jewish there were a
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couple of Jewish people out, butthere were several Jewish students out there who
said that they were Jewish and werein support. So it wasn't very confrontational.
Like I said, it didn't getreally really tense. Even last night
when we watched the protesters in thecircle one by one get arrested by LAPD,
ninety three students. They took themone by one, put them in
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in zip ti handcuffs. It wasvery orderly. LAPD never looked tense.
It didn't It was never this,you know, where you were feeling on
edge. It was kind of justobserving Bill. Okay, I appreciate it.
Chris, thank you, you gotit all right. Always nice to
have a KFI reporter to give ussome inside baseball and inside scoop of what's
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going on. All right, Now, here's good news for us in southern
California. We got a report fromthe American Lung Association that Southern California failed
again twenty four out of twenty fivetimes, except San Berdino County failed at
twenty five out of twenty five times, two hundred and thirty days when ozone
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this is Greater LA experienced major ozoneissues exceeding federal health standards. Yep.
Now it used to be ozone today. Smog today is not much of an
issue relative to what it was whenI was growing up here in California,
in southern California. I came fromBrazil when I was five, so here
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I am in southern California, andthere were many days, especially those towards
summer May June, where it lookedlike a fog. It looked like a
London p fog, pea soup fog. It was that bad You couldn't see
one hundred yards in front of youbecause of the smog. That was dangerous
stuff. Today, because you havecatalytic converters in cars, because you have
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much cleaner fuel, the swog daysare nothing as bad as they were.
But we understand much more about whatsmog does, and so what are we
doing about it? Well, California'sgoing to a totally clean, clean state
by twenty thirty five, I think, or twenty forty where there are no
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fossil fuel emissions from cars, frompower plans, from industry. And is
that going to help? Sure,it's going to help. However, how
do we get there? Well,there's a lot of fight going on.
If former President Trump becomes current PresidentTrump, you'll see all those regulations disappearing
on a federal level, State ofCalifornia still going to be able to restrict.
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And so why is California, SouthernCalifornia particularly such a bastion of smog
Geography the La Basin, for example, You've got the air not flying out,
it is caught up in this basinand you have high pressure air pushing
it down. Also, cars andtrucks, which make up an enormous amount
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of fossil fuels being used and thereforecausing emissions. Well, the car culture
started in southern California. We becameat that time the world leader in cars.
We drive around and the emissions fromthose exhaust pipes were just you could
actually see the emissions coming out.Go down to Van Eyes Boulevard where I
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went as a teenager driving up anddown the boulevard about a mile mile and
a half. It would take twohours bumper to bumper with cars idling,
and you could actually see the smokepouring out. So I'm pleased to say
that we have gotten another f andSambardino County, which is and it doesn't
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have the basin like we do hereand for example, the valley we're part
of Valet basin. You got samBarandino, which has all of those trucks,
which has all of those warehouses,and it is a it's a problem.
Matter of fact, it's such aproblem that San Bernardino County is by
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far the number one county in termsof smog in the country. Go figure
that one out. All right,here's what happened. This is a big,
big one. A settlement was reachedin March between a few plaintiffs,
homeowners who sold their house, andan organization, the National Association of Realtors,
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and why well, here's what theysaid. We the plaintiffs were basically
screwed out of money because you theNational Association of Realtors are an organization that
effectively controls every broker in the country, because every broker has to join the
NAR for the simple reason that thisis the method that we've had for one
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hundred years. And it'll I wasboth seller and buying agents to split the
commission, and the NAR is sopowerful that everybody caved in. You reach
a point where a trade organization sortof controls the entire market, and the
brokers fell in line and have forover one hundred years. So what is
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going on with this? Well,the first of all, a judge said,
I agree with the plaintiffs, andthere was a settlement that was made
now subject to a final court approval, which is going to happen. And
of course the NIAR said, wethink this is great. Remember they settled.
They settled for four hundred and eighteenmillion dollars, which means absolutely nothing
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because this goes back for years andyears, and it's four hundred and eighteen
million dollars over thousands of sales thathave occurred over the last few years,
and people have a right to makea claim right up until May of next
year. So what will end uphappening is if you sold a home,
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you basically can get no, Idon't know, thirty cents on the dollar.
No, no, not not thirtycents on the dollar. I'm sorry,
thirty cents. Because there are somany people who have sold homes over
the last I don't know how manyyears do they go back? It doesn't
say, but it's years and years. Now. The other thing which is
critically important here is the change that'sbeing made in the commission schedule. The
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argument the plaints have made made thiscosts us more money because whoever is selling
the house has to suck up thecommission on both sides. And that's sort
of a given. I've bought andsold homes before. Yeah, I get
to pay my six percent. Italk about that all the time. Well
no longer now. The NAR argues, of course, that this splitting of
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the commission helps consumers. Always thesame thing. You know that if you
save money, it somehow hurts you, don't You love that pharmaceutical companies are
saying that too. You know,the less you pay, the more you
hurt. For the same exact drugsdrives you crazy. So they're saying this
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is going to hurt. Well,I don't think it is, because now
you simply cut a deal. Yousay, no, I'm not going to
pay the other side. I'll payyou. I'll pay you your commission for
selling, but I'm not going topay the buyer's commission. Can you imagine
you go to buy a car andyou split the salary of the salesperson.
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Car agency says we'll pay half thesalary, you pay the other half.
You go to Walmart and there youare at the check stand. Walmart says,
we'll pay half of the salary ofthe checker, and you pay half.
That's exactly what's going on. Wellthat's blowing up. Now. Can
you say you'll pay half? Ofcourse you can. Can you negotiate a
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deal where you pay more than sixpercent? Of course you can. It
just opens it up to negotiations,and it says to the sellers, if
you think I'm going to pay acommission to the people who are buying my
property, you are out of yourmind. I've always thought that this was
a fairly stupid model that did costme more money because I had to cough
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up the commission on both sides.Obviously, it took it away from the
sales price. And if you don'thave to and if you're talking about an
expensive house, you're not going tohave to pay it, and you save
money, and God forbid. Abuyer pays his or her commission, by
the way, that doesn't stop themfrom splitting the commission. A seller can
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always do that. All it doesis stop the mandating, the forcing of
the splitting of the commission, andnot buy law simply by way of a
trade organization having such power over thesellers and the buyer's agents across the country
that they sort of just followed along. Now there's a trade group or two
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trade groups that are competing with theNAR and so this thing is blown wide
open. So if you're selling,you're not going to pay six percent or
five percent sometimes or five and ahalf percent, and you're not going to
be forced if you're selling a hometo pay for the buying broker, which
makes absolutely no sense. Anytime youhire someone to buy for you. For
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example, let's say you are ina corporation. You hire someone to go
out and buy gifts, right.Can you imagine the recipient is saying,
I want half of I don't wantto pay half the salary of the person
that's buying the gift. That's what'shappening or did have and then that's blown
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bill Handle. Here it is aThursday morning, April twenty five. Some
of the big news we are coveringis the long range miistles are on their
way to Ukraine from the US.Actually they have been on the way,
and there's some that are already there. It happening before the vote allowing allowing
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you to Ukraine and to Israel andto Taiwan. All Right, what's going
on around the country and going around? Going on here in southern Calif we
had we have demonstrations pro Palestini anddemonstrations in universities across the country. Sc
came in a little bit later,but there it is at USC and this
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one made the international news. Andthe LAPD had to arrive in riot gear
yesterday and arrested ninety three people ontrespassing charges as they cleared the encampment at
the center of campus, and thedemonstrators were chanting, shame on you,
shame on you, as the policetook away students and off campus activists.
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Although I don't know if that mattersor not. This is Alumni Park where
the commencement is scheduled to take placenext month. It went up for sunrise,
grew by afternoon and some students wearingcafeas and holding free Palestine Liberated Zone
signs. They were banging on drumsand chanting, and the protest was for
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the most part peaceful, but grewtends at times. Officers were detaining people,
moving people off campus. Some inthe cow crowd, we're throwing water
bottles. The police did not engagetoo much. What they did is say
get out of here, you're trespassing. A few stayed and they were arrested
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starting about four o'clock yesterday. Nowit went up at sunrise, but starting
at four o'clock that's when the LAPDcame in forming a line around the park.
The sc administration had closed the gatesto the campus, instituting an ID
check, and professors were given theoption which a lot of them took,
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of conducting classes online on Thursday.So these students protesting Israel and wearing the
kafias, and here is what alot of them were saying, chanting,
disclose, divest, we will notstop, we will not rest. I
wonder who comes up with that stuff? Are they ad? I just you
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know, like melts in your mouth, not in your hands. Same guy
who came up with that, Idon't know. I don't know. But
once they got it, they gotit and they started chanting. And now
what are the names some of thegroups members of the pro Palestinian groups,
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such as Trojans for Palestine. Lawsuithas been filed by Dwighton Church, the
manufacturer of Trojan condoms. They havefiled the cease and desist. You can't
say Trojans for Palestine, Students forJustice in Palestine, and my favorite,
the Jewish Voice for Peace. Theseare Jews, among them professors who are
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arguing that this is genocide going onin Gaza. It is not genocide.
Granted, tens of thousands of innocentcivilians have been killed, but genocide is
something where it is the planned eliminationof an entire people or an entire religion.
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That is not what's going on there. I mean, you can describe
it any way. You want peacefor Palestine, that Israel is in fact
keeping Palestine from becoming a state oppressionoccupation. You can say any of that.
Don't use the word genocide. Imean that really cheapens it. What
happened in genocide Nazi Germany, Armenianswere victims of genocide at the turn of
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the last century. Cambodians were victimsof genocide under Paul Pott. This is
not genocide by any stretch of theimagination. Now, my favorite story of
all of this is Hamas and IranSupreme Leader Ayatola Ali Hamani applauded the growing
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number of anti Gaza war protests andencampments or the anti Israel war in Gaza.
We're talking about Iran and Hamas takingan official position saying that these students
are effectively heroes and stopping them.And here's the good one, okay,
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stopping the pro Palestinian press the protestersbecause the authorities are in violation of the
First Amendment right to assembly and speech. This is Iran and Hamas saying that
the government and the police are violatingthese students' First Amendment rights. Wow,
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the Grand Hancho, the Grand Vizier, the Grand Poopa of Iran arguing First
Amendment rights of these students are beingviolent. Fabulous, just terrific. I
would like anybody in Iran to arguethat Hamas shouldn't have engaged in that first
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October seventh massacre of Israel, ofIsraeli citizens, just say that, go
on social media and identify yourself andsee what happens. Or someone in Gaza
somehow either showing a placard a sign, going on the internet where you can
be identified saying return the hostages.How long do you think that person's going
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to last? First Amendment rights violated? Now it can be argued the First
Amendment rights are violated because they're notallowed to protest. Of course, they're
allowed to protest, they're just notallowed to block buildings, block entrances.
They're not allowed to be on thegrounds of the campus. Do it out
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on the street, because that's allowed. You come to my house on the
if you're in front of the sidewalk, you can protest. You come on
my land to protest. Now you'retrespassing, and I call the cops.
Do I stop you from TrustPower?Do I stop you from your protest?
Of course not. Just don't blockthe entrance to my house. That's all
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I want to come home. I'ma student. Don't block the entrance to
the campus. Protest all you wantand somehow that's being lost into translation.
I can't if i's Chris Adler wasat the demonstrations yesterday at SC and I
just spent the last segment talking aboutwhat went on on the big picture,
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the demonstrations, what happened, whythe Palestinian, the pro Palestinian thought philosophy.
Well, let's get down to Minutiaand talk about what actually happened there
physically. Chris Adler, you're reportingon this. What happened? What did
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you experience? Right? Bill?So, when I got on scene yesterday,
camps they had tents, these proPalacity and protesters had tents set up
in Alumni Park. As I goton scene, they were being taken down.
After LAPD came in. LAPD hada scuffle with one of the protesters,
put him in the car. Peoplestarted shouting to let him out,
and then he was released. That'swhen laped left the campus and then it
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was school campus police. There wasabout twenty of them lined up in the
line, just standing guard, justwatching the protesters. So what ended up
happening is all those protesters kind ofgot into a circle, started chanting,
marching, chanting things like from theRiver to the Sea, let Gaza live
and that went on for hours,and for the most part, Bill it
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was. It was very peaceful,it was very organized, it was orderly.
People were not getting into into fights. I never felt I never felt
a deep tension when I was there, and even the public safety officers they
didn't seem to be very tense.Everybody was kind of just watching, observing
and listening to the pro Palestinians andtheir supporters. Now, there were also
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Jewish students from USC Bill that wereout there in support of the protests.
There were also Jewish students who werenot in support of the protests. But
I just want to play a clipfor you this yere before you do,
yeah, Chris, before you do? What number are we talking about?
How many people were actually protesting andhow many people were out there watching the
protests in the earlier stages, Probablyin the afternoon, from about one to
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about four o'clock, it grew fromprobably just dozens to about three hundred.
I would say about three hundred people, okay, and that those were the
active protesters, correct, I wouldsay active what is probably about two hundred
people, and then there was aboutone hundred people kind of scattered around students
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onlookers, reporters just kind of watchingand observing. But I would say there
was about two hundred people who wereactively marching pro testing. There was even
USC faculty out there carrying signs thatwere also in support of a ceasefire.
So what was interesting was that therewere Jewish students from USC who were who
were out there in support of theprotest and supporting the pro Palestinian UH movement.
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And what was interesting though, wasthat the Jewish people who were opposed
to the protests were calling the Jewishpeople an embarrassment, the ones that were
supporting the protest and embarrassment calling themself loathing Jewish people. And this is
a Jewish woman that I was ableto speak with who is a student at
USC, and she says that Israelis weaponizing a past genocide to justify murdering
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children and innocent people in Gaza.Also, I think it's really fundamental and
the Jewish religion to to to seekto right the wrongs in the world,
to to speak up for the tothe for the underdog, and in this
case, the Palestinians are the thedog. The Palestinians are the people who
are being silenced who are being pushedout, who are being oppressed? Hey,
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Christ, before you go on,was there any mention at all about
the costs attack October seventh? Well? Yeah, well I brought that up,
and so as I was interviewing thePalestine, the Propoestinian protesters and the
Jewish people out there, I let'sgo to the pro Palestinians. When I
asked them, I said, well, if people were to say to you,
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you know, Hamas attacked Israel first, what would you say to that?
And their response was, well,this is years and years of oppression.
And you know when when when ahungry dog is not fed, they're
gonna bite, you can't blame themfor biting back. So basically they were
saying, this is years of oppression, genocide, apartheid, and and that
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was their justification of it. Okay, So yeah, it's you know,
I find it interesting. I don'twant to go into that. But when
you talked to these people and that'ssounded pretty calm. Was there anger that
you saw at the protests? Therewas a moment where a Palestinian student and
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a Jewish student got into I don'twant to say, and it wasn't I
would say it maybe an argument,a debate going back and forth about the
history of Jewish people and Palestinians andthe long running conflict between the two,
and so people kind of gathered ina circle as they were going back and
forth, and we were just kindof watching. But it never escalated,
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it never got it never got violent. Bill and I've covered these protests since
October seventh, and I've seen alot of violence at protests, but this
one was unique because it wasn't veryviolent, it wasn't very confrontational, and
there were Jewish students out there.There were Jewish people in support. Now
I have covered other protests where therewas a couple of Jewish there were a
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couple of Jewish people out, butthere were several Jewish students out there who
said that they were Jewish and werein support. So it wasn't very confrontational.
Like I said, it didn't getreally really tense. Even last night
when we watched the protesters in thecircle one by one get arrested by LAPD,
ninety three students. They took themone by one, put them in
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in zip ti handcuffs. It wasvery orderly. LAPD never looked tense.
It didn't It was never this,you know, where you were feeling on
edge. It was kind of justobserving Bill. Okay, I appreciate it.
Chris, thank you, you gotit all right. Always nice to
have a KFI reporter to give ussome inside baseball and inside scoop of what's
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going on. All right, Now, here's good news for us in southern
California. We got a report fromthe American Lung Association that Southern California failed
again twenty four out of twenty fivetimes, except San Berdino County failed at
twenty five out of twenty five times, two hundred and thirty days when ozone
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this is Greater LA experienced major ozoneissues exceeding federal health standards. Yep.
Now it used to be ozone today. Smog today is not much of an
issue relative to what it was whenI was growing up here in California,
in southern California. I came fromBrazil when I was five, so here
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I am in southern California, andthere were many days, especially those towards
summer May June, where it lookedlike a fog. It looked like a
London p fog, pea soup fog. It was that bad You couldn't see
one hundred yards in front of youbecause of the smog. That was dangerous
stuff. Today, because you havecatalytic converters in cars, because you have
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much cleaner fuel, the swog daysare nothing as bad as they were.
But we understand much more about whatsmog does, and so what are we
doing about it? Well, California'sgoing to a totally clean, clean state
by twenty thirty five, I think, or twenty forty where there are no
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fossil fuel emissions from cars, frompower plans, from industry. And is
that going to help? Sure,it's going to help. However, how
do we get there? Well,there's a lot of fight going on.
If former President Trump becomes current PresidentTrump, you'll see all those regulations disappearing
on a federal level, State ofCalifornia still going to be able to restrict.
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And so why is California, SouthernCalifornia particularly such a bastion of smog
Geography the La Basin, for example, You've got the air not flying out,
it is caught up in this basinand you have high pressure air pushing
it down. Also, cars andtrucks, which make up an enormous amount
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of fossil fuels being used and thereforecausing emissions. Well, the car culture
started in southern California. We becameat that time the world leader in cars.
We drive around and the emissions fromthose exhaust pipes were just you could
actually see the emissions coming out.Go down to Van Eyes Boulevard where I
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went as a teenager driving up anddown the boulevard about a mile mile and
a half. It would take twohours bumper to bumper with cars idling,
and you could actually see the smokepouring out. So I'm pleased to say
that we have gotten another f andSambardino County, which is and it doesn't
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have the basin like we do hereand for example, the valley we're part
of Valet basin. You got samBarandino, which has all of those trucks,
which has all of those warehouses,and it is a it's a problem.
Matter of fact, it's such aproblem that San Bernardino County is by
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far the number one county in termsof smog in the country. Go figure
that one out. All right,here's what happened. This is a big,
big one. A settlement was reachedin March between a few plaintiffs,
homeowners who sold their house, andan organization, the National Association of Realtors,
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and why well, here's what theysaid. We the plaintiffs were basically
screwed out of money because you theNational Association of Realtors are an organization that
effectively controls every broker in the country, because every broker has to join the
NAR for the simple reason that thisis the method that we've had for one
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hundred years. And it'll I wasboth seller and buying agents to split the
commission, and the NAR is sopowerful that everybody caved in. You reach
a point where a trade organization sortof controls the entire market, and the
brokers fell in line and have forover one hundred years. So what is
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going on with this? Well,the first of all, a judge said,
I agree with the plaintiffs, andthere was a settlement that was made
now subject to a final court approval, which is going to happen. And
of course the NIAR said, wethink this is great. Remember they settled.
They settled for four hundred and eighteenmillion dollars, which means absolutely nothing
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because this goes back for years andyears, and it's four hundred and eighteen
million dollars over thousands of sales thathave occurred over the last few years,
and people have a right to makea claim right up until May of next
year. So what will end uphappening is if you sold a home,
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you basically can get no, Idon't know, thirty cents on the dollar.
No, no, not not thirtycents on the dollar. I'm sorry,
thirty cents. Because there are somany people who have sold homes over
the last I don't know how manyyears do they go back? It doesn't
say, but it's years and years. Now. The other thing which is
critically important here is the change that'sbeing made in the commission schedule. The
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argument the plaints have made made thiscosts us more money because whoever is selling
the house has to suck up thecommission on both sides. And that's sort
of a given. I've bought andsold homes before. Yeah, I get
to pay my six percent. Italk about that all the time. Well
no longer now. The NAR argues, of course, that this splitting of
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the commission helps consumers. Always thesame thing. You know that if you
save money, it somehow hurts you, don't You love that pharmaceutical companies are
saying that too. You know,the less you pay, the more you
hurt. For the same exact drugsdrives you crazy. So they're saying this
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is going to hurt. Well,I don't think it is, because now
you simply cut a deal. Yousay, no, I'm not going to
pay the other side. I'll payyou. I'll pay you your commission for
selling, but I'm not going topay the buyer's commission. Can you imagine
you go to buy a car andyou split the salary of the salesperson.
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Car agency says we'll pay half thesalary, you pay the other half.
You go to Walmart and there youare at the check stand. Walmart says,
we'll pay half of the salary ofthe checker, and you pay half.
That's exactly what's going on. Wellthat's blowing up. Now. Can
you say you'll pay half? Ofcourse you can. Can you negotiate a
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deal where you pay more than sixpercent? Of course you can. It
just opens it up to negotiations,and it says to the sellers, if
you think I'm going to pay acommission to the people who are buying my
property, you are out of yourmind. I've always thought that this was
a fairly stupid model that did costme more money because I had to cough
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up the commission on both sides.Obviously, it took it away from the
sales price. And if you don'thave to and if you're talking about an
expensive house, you're not going tohave to pay it, and you save
money, and God forbid. Abuyer pays his or her commission, by
the way, that doesn't stop themfrom splitting the commission. A seller can
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always do that. All it doesis stop the mandating, the forcing of
the splitting of the commission, andnot buy law simply by way of a
trade organization having such power over thesellers and the buyer's agents across the country
that they sort of just followed along. Now there's a trade group or two
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trade groups that are competing with theNAR and so this thing is blown wide
open. So if you're selling,you're not going to pay six percent or
five percent sometimes or five and ahalf percent, and you're not going to
be forced if you're selling a hometo pay for the buying broker, which
makes absolutely no sense. Anytime youhire someone to buy for you. For
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example, let's say you are ina corporation. You hire someone to go
out and buy gifts, right.Can you imagine the recipient is saying,
I want half of I don't wantto pay half the salary of the person
that's buying the gift. That's what'shappening or did have and then that's blown
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