April 7, 2026 • 26 mins
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‘Iran will be decimated’: Update as President Trump’s war deadline looms. What is considered a war crime? Families, union workers bracing for a crippling, historic LAUSD strike in exactly one week. Possible Super El Nino could bring extreme heat, drought and strong floods.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
See Bill Handle here. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
On a Tuesday, April seventh, quick ord about Friday coming
up at eight thirty right after Footy Friday at eight
o'clock with Neil. It's ask handle anything where you have
to be part of that because it's about you embarrassing me.
We've been playing with that for a while and it's
great fun. And here's how it works. You go to
(00:28):
the iHeartRadio app during the show and you'll click on KFI.
This show will be streaming, you'll be hearing it, and
then click on the microphone in the upper right hand corner.
You'll have ten or fifteen seconds to record your question
to embarrass me. And then Neil chooses the most embarrassing questions.
KNO puts it on the air and I answer and
(00:49):
I have no idea what the questions are. And also
if you miss that, can't listen to it, don't have
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So if for example, the news, we just did the
last hour and podcast that, and so we invite you
to do that. Okay, big day today because the president
(01:11):
has announced that at five o'clock our time, there will
be a massive attack on Iran's bridges and power plants
if the Strait of Hormuz does not open up. And
here we have rising gasoline prices, growing casualties, super concerns
(01:31):
that the strikes could be war crimes, which incidentally, if
the President goes on with his threat and in fact
does bomb power plants and destroy bridges, yeah, that's going
to be a war crime and then further damaging the
global economy. So this isn't just the president doing something
(01:52):
that affects us domestically.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The entire world is going to be affected by this.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So yesterday the presidential reporters quote, the entire country can
be taken out in one night, and that night might
be tomorrow night. Every bridge in Iran will be decimated
by twelve o'clock tomorrow night, every power plant in Iran
will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
To be used again. That's pretty big stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now, normally, you would never imagine a president of the
United States single handedly making the decision to go to
war or to do these kinds of attacks one of
the things, and you wouldn't have seen this during Trump's
first term where there were actually some guardrails. First time around,
(02:48):
he had advisors who would say, mister president, that's not
kind of a good idea. Now, that doesn't makes sense.
Now you don't want to do this.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
His advisors are all sick of fan Yes, mister president,
it's a great idea, mister president. Whatever you want, mister president.
And normal you can't even understand him most of the
time because they're speaking like this with their heads so
far up his rear end that you can barely understand
what is being said.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And so is he going to do it? You know?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I you know, he threatens at the same time, he
doesn't threaten. One of the things that he argues, and
maybe a good argument is if we don't know what
he's going to do next, then how do you deal
with someone like that? The advantage is his on behalf
of the United States and his opinion, because that's the
art of the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Always keep him guessing.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, he certainly has everybody guessing, that's for sure, and
so the countdown continues on. Now, keep in mind, the
gasoline prices have exploded, I mean, that've gone crazy, and
we'll see what happens. Have you actually have, for example,
in Georgia, in Marjorie Taylor Green's district, the Republican who
(04:05):
is running to replace Marjorie Taylor Green, as we said
during the news straight out, said that Donald Trump is
keeping America safe even though your gas prices are ridiculous.
And then you have the Democrats are saying and not
such a good idea. I mean, this is really screwing
us over. I mean, thousands of people already have been
(04:26):
killed in this war across the Middle East. You've got
tens of thousands of US troops deployed, thirteen members of
our military have been killed, and financial experts expect there's
going to be a slow down of.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The entire globe economy.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And so oh, there was a briefing that was scheduled
for this morning that didn't go forward. Pete Hegseth was
going to be there. General dan Kin, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, expected to be there. They just
can't outright, and so one of there's some several issues
(05:05):
going on. Legal issues, are is this a war crime?
Is this genocide? I'm going to talk about that at
seven twenty and a little bit of handle history. I
want to share with you because war crimes, genocide, crimes
against humanity which are being thrown about, those are legal
terms accepted by the international community. And I will share
(05:27):
with you what's going on. We tend to conflate all
this we do know or the experts telling and inflation
will rise, economic growth will slow down. I mean talking
about world economic growth as a result of the war.
And you know saying that the head of the IMF,
the International Monetary Fund, which is respected as the financial
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spokesperson for the world economy and Iran well, so far
Iran isn't even though it is losing massive amounts of
its infrastructure and has lost civilians, is holding the cards.
Why Because they're holding on to that Strait of Hormuz.
That's the end all, be all. And here is the problem.
(06:13):
What do they do tonight five o'clock our time? Do
they open up the straits? Does Iran open up the
straits and give up all of its leverage or ninety
percent of it? Or does it just stand firm? And
the problem with this regime is I believe they would
rather go down burning then give up their power, much
(06:34):
like Hamas. Hamas would rather go down and watch its
own people be decimated and the country be wiped out.
Eighty percent of the infrastructure of Gaza has been destroyed,
and Hamas is still there. They still they're not gonna
let go if one hundred percent of the buildings where
(06:57):
everybody lives intents, except of course Hamas leadership, which you'll
have to live underground. And I think the regime is
in the same position in Iran. Well, how many thousands,
tens of thousands of people they murdered, I mean they
you know, you had these protesters. They didn't come out
and just occasionally shoot someone. They mowed them down. These
are Iranians killing Iranians at some point, is there a well,
(07:24):
you know, it's hard for us to believe that. For example,
with the US Army, would border patrol take out machine
guns and start mowing down protesters. Well, that's what they do.
And as long as the Revolutionary Guard, which is in
control of the country for the most part under the Moulahs,
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and the two are hand in hand, they you're gonna
see Iranians. You can see a regime that has taken over.
I'll bet you a lot of people, although not too
many are around, that are nineteen seventy nine, welcome the
new Ayatola and it became a theocracy where Iran gave
up its secular government under the shop because the corruption
(08:07):
was incredible under the show. And they brought in this
this regime by popular demand. By the way, it wasn't
a coup. It was not a coup that that military
might took over Iran. They were the the Iyatola came
in accepted by the people of Iran.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
How'd that work out that? Well? Very well?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I wonder what they are I wonder if they have
any kids out there who were protesting. Okay, tonight this
afternoon our time, five o'clock, the attack on Iran is
going to start if the Strait of Hormuz is not
opened up pursuant to President Trump's his decision and his threat.
(08:52):
And so a couple of things are going to happen.
First of all, the word war crimes is being thrown around,
and the experts actually not even experts. So people are
saying if the attack happens, and what the president is
threatening is the attack of all power plants and all
bridges in the country of Iran, all of them. Now,
(09:13):
does the I States have the capability of doing that? Well,
if not all of that pretty close to that? Is
that a war crime?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It is, why because it's going after civilian infrastructure. Taking
out power plants is something that civilians use as well
as the military. And a lot of people are arguing,
if it's a military target, it's legitimate. What if it's
both both military as well as civilian, is it a
war crime? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Possibly.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Now you're also hearing crimes against humanity, and there is
a huge difference because the war crime that would be
alleged against the people of Iran is not to decimate
the people of Iran. It's not to take out the citizenship,
is to make the regime as vulnerable as possible, as
(10:02):
a matter of fact, to overthrow the regime. It's the
purpose is not to eliminate the Iranian people. A crime
against humanity would go that far. Ethnic cleansing, for example,
any attack on a people, either by way of murder,
by way of well certainly torture, ethnic cleansing, just moving
(10:25):
them around. And here's the crimes against humanity. It's fascinating
because the history of this, the crimes against humanity really
came up at Nuremberg when the Nazis were tried after
World War Two, and one of the charges against those
Nazi leaders was the crime against humanity, which goes beyond
(10:48):
any crime, beyond any kind of statute passed by any country.
For example, Adolph Eikman, who was a kidnapped and he
was in charge of transporting the Jews six million him
to their death in Europe, was charged in nineteen sixty.
He was kidnapped out of Argentina, brought to Israel for
trial and he was charged with crimes against humanity.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now here was his defenses.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Number One, Israel didn't exist when he did those, So
how can a country that didn't even exist be able
to try him? That's for starters. And at that time Israel,
I don't think, had the death penalty. And when he
was convicted, he was hanged. So there was a jurisdictional question.
It was the issue of a country try him that
(11:34):
didn't exist at all, and the crimes were perpetrated. And
so here's what the judges said, where the prosecutor and
the judges ruled that a crime against humanity is so
extensive it goes beyond anything that any country can pass Jurisdictionally,
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it is a crime against the very essence of the
human race. It doesn't matter what time, doesn't matter when
or where, under what circumstances. It is accepted by the
international community that this goes beyond anything that is put
down in statute or on law. That's the crime against humanity.
(12:19):
Is that going to fly on this one? Probably not
war crime? Yeah, probably, because the issue is civilians being attacked.
And so the other thing is our war crimes have
to be done during war, which is why they call
it a war crime. And if it's done during the
civilian when there is no war, it cannot be technically
(12:41):
a war crime. A crime against humanity that can happen
any place, war, not war, across any country lines, across
any geographical.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Lines, and it is.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And crimes against humanity don't even need to be targeted
against specific population group, and even if they are, it
is the ultimate crime as far as the international community
is concerned.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Okay. The other thing was kind of fun, by the way,
When Nadolph Eichmann was.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Kidnapped, one of his arguments was, you can't kidnap me
and bring me this to Israel because it was illegal.
You kidnap me to bring me here, And that was
the argument that was made by his defense and the
prosecution overrode that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And you know what, the.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Basis that they used for saying it doesn't matter how
you get here, as long as you get here, even
if you're kidnapped, came out of the United States during
the Civil War days.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They relied on Civil War.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Laws of the United States to justify that, which is accepted,
which is why bounty hunters can chase you down and
the court doesn't care kidnap not kidnap, Just get here
and we'll give you your will give you your rights.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Okay, Now, let's get local here for a moment.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
La Unified school district where I grew up and I
always joke about it, Well, three major unions are threatening
to strike next week, which would completely close down the schools.
Not partially, I mean completely three major unions where if
even two of them were to go on with a strike,
(14:25):
it would be impossible to keep the campuses open. And
that's three hundred and ninety thousand students that we're talking about,
and there would be Let me go on and explain
that it's not just the schools would be closed. I
mean keep in mind that over fifty percent of the students.
I believe in LA unified need help, need assistance, are
(14:49):
food insecure where breakfasts are served and lunches are served
at school. That all stops working parents who had their
kids in school, what do they do? School was taking
care of them. Do you know what child care costs?
They couldn't begin to afford it. What do they do?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
We were just talking about this bill, My wife and
I were just going over in our plans for next
week if this goes through, Because you're right, the only
person that will be there is custodial services.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, it's and by the way, they're and they are
unionized and they if they may not want to cross
the picket line.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Correct, So you've got nothing going on.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So the school districting identify local food distribution sites, figure
out where you can get food. You know, there may
maybe we'll have a backup for childcare. One elementary school
might serve as a hub from students from five to
ten elementary schools.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
But then again, who's going to work there.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Bus drivers will be on strike, so you can't take
a bus any place. And bus drivers are not employees
of the school district but still unionized, and they probably
will honor the picket line. The UTLA represents thirty seven
thousand teachers, counselor, nurses, middle and high school librariy, and
of course every one of them walking out.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And the issue is pay.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The union wants deep increases to the automatic races teachers
already received based on years of experience and education credits,
and the union wants to push the annual salary of
a starting teacher from sixty eight thousand dollars to seventy
seven thousand dollars a year. When you think about it,
go whoa, And that's for what nine months of work
(16:46):
and you're off for three months during the summer. The
district actually says we're okay with the pay races. It's
just we have to figure out if we can afford
it or not, and that's predicated on our ability to
pay for it. And there is something called a fact
(17:07):
finding process. It's almost like an arbitration clause where the
union and the school district they sit in front of
a three person board, one representative of the school district,
one represented by the union, and one independent, and the
three of them sit down and go through all the
issues and see if there's any room for compromise and
(17:31):
if not, onto the next step, the next step being
a strike. Well they're onto the next step, the next
step being a strike, and this will be a strike
we have not yet seen. It's the hat trick. It's
three of the major unions. The schools are going to
be completely shut down, transportation, food, I mean all of it,
(17:53):
and so parents are going to be on their own.
And since this is LA Unified, it's a lot of
pressure put on a lot of very poor people LA
Unified does. There's just not a whole lot of people
that have kids at LA Unified that have money. There
really doesn't kneel. For example, since he works here at iHeart,
of course, he can't afford daycare, so he has no choice.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We just put him in front of a homeless person
when he was a baby, just hope that they wouldn't
leave him.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That was our.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Here hang out with Helbo Kelly. You'll be fine now.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And maxis flying with that. We happen to have.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Really good teachers that I respect at Max's school and
they're very attentive. But I got to tell you, man,
going on you know these types of things where they
go on strike like this, it throws such a curveball
at parents. And we are now below Mississippi. You remember
(18:59):
how we used to say, well, yeah, we're not as
bad as Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Right now we're something's wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And when you're asking for more money and yet the
schools are tanking.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well, especially LA Unified, and uh, it's it's ungomftable. I
mean LA. And I've said this many many times about
LA Unified. It's almost it's beyond being able to be
administrated because of all the problems. And so when my
kids were bored, we're in LA Unified district. There was
no chance I was gonna let my kids go to
LA Unified. So I sent them to the super overpriced,
(19:34):
insanely expensive Jewish day school where it costs more money
to go to school than it costs to go to
medical school per semester.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We have some good schools, we do, and we have
some great No, there are some goods, really schools there are.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
It's asistent enough. That is absolutely correct. It's very inconsistent.
Where when you say we have some good schools, take
out your hand and count on the fingers, even teacher's fingers,
how many of those schools you're talking about Okay, el
Nino is upon us, but it's more than al nino.
It's a super el nino, a super duper el nino.
(20:11):
By the way, that is the climological change. This is
the scientific term for this kind of El Nino, a
super duper el nino. And what is that about. Well,
it's a warming patch of water in equatorial Pacific Ocean
and that influences which regions across the world have droughts
(20:36):
and floods and extreme heat and hurricanes, declining sea ice.
And this is a super el Nino. This happens once
every ten to fifteen years, and the effects are even stronger,
they are more persistent, they are more wide spread because
sea temperatures in that key region.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Exciseman about the.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Sneeze, Okay, yeah, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Look at the light at Okay, there we go. That
was a sneeze.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Okay, where wise I super duper el nino before the sneeze,
and so sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, in Pacific Ocean,
key regions warm by more than two degrees celsius three
point six degrees fahrenheit above average, which means there is
a strong, stronger atmospheric response and that peaks in December
(21:31):
or January. So we're not going to be seeing this
for another nine ten months. And in fact, most of
it is going to happen next year. The western US,
that's US guys, parts of Africa, Europe, India are going
to be facing hotter than average summers. Can you imagine
a hotter than average summer. Some tropical countries in the Caribbean,
(21:53):
Indonesia will have worse drought and extreme heat, more tropical
sitc clones in the Pacific, fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic,
and we are going to get some more storms than
we usually get. And so this super El Nino is
(22:14):
going to be pushing global temperatures to record levels, particularly
in twenty twenty seven. According to Paul round, the profession
of atmospheric science at State University of New York who
studies this stuff, real potential for the strongest al Nino
event in one hundred and forty years. We're looking at
some real storm. And when we talk about global warming
(22:38):
climate change, and we hear the scientists say, oh, we
can still do something about it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
The only thing we can do is slow it down
a bit.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I mean critical mass has already hit I mean, it's there,
and now it's the question of what the weather is
going to be. Like have you noticed maybe I'm just
being crazy here. Well, I'm not being crazy, but maybe
I'm off base. And Amy reports on this all the
time that winter storms.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Winter, it was every single night on the news, the
news outlet, outlets were reporting this insane weather, between storms,
ice storms, blizzards on the East coast, floods in the
mid West.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean, it's just been Amy. Is that y Amy's
working on her news?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Have those storms been more and in more intensity and
more in numbers over the.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Past good question, because I've asked that question before. Are
there more storms and more intense storms? Or do we
just report on it more like when you blizzard comes
through Colorado?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Is like I lived in Colorado. We had that all
the time. I went I went.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
On a little deep dive some weeks ago, and it
the information I saw was we really don't have more
storms than we had before, but the intensity was greater.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
When you look at these lights, I say, over this
past winter, and I don't even remember the last time
the news was reporting life threatening storms. That word's not
bandied about very often.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yeah, and the.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Big huge storms, like when they say, you know, one
hundred million people across the US, it's one band of storms,
but it's a huge storm and it affects, you know,
hundreds of millions of people.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, the entire eastern seaboard, for example, from the Carolina's
up through Maine. Yeah, for example. I mean, just crazy stuff.
We're in the Midwest, all the way across the Midwest
heading north east. It's I'm happy that I am not
being just being born right now. I think it's gonna
be a very tough world to live in. You know,
(24:54):
I don't envy my kids. Well I do envy my
kids because I never had dad who had credit cards,
so I you know, okay, but in terms of what
the world's going to be like between global warming and
it is going to get warmer, and cyber wars and
water wars, I mean, it's not going to be fun
(25:14):
at all.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And no credit cards. Girls, do you understand this?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
No credit cards?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
No, there will be no credit cards.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Generation has a greater technological and every generation we continue
to be pushed up against new unexpected things, except.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
That this is the first generation that it has been
established will be worse off than their parents. We've never
seen that before, and it's always it's tough, it's not easy.
It's fine for me because I don't care. You know,
I'm going to be gone, so you know, God bless you.
You know you can rot. Okay, coming up, it's rich tomorrow.
(25:57):
We got a lot of stuff to talk about on
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On a Tuesday, April seventh, quick ord about Friday coming
up at eight thirty right after Footy Friday at eight
o'clock with Neil. It's ask handle anything where you have
to be part of that because it's about you embarrassing me.
We've been playing with that for a while and it's
great fun. And here's how it works. You go to
(00:28):
the iHeartRadio app during the show and you'll click on KFI.
This show will be streaming, you'll be hearing it, and
then click on the microphone in the upper right hand corner.
You'll have ten or fifteen seconds to record your question
to embarrass me. And then Neil chooses the most embarrassing questions.
KNO puts it on the air and I answer and
(00:49):
I have no idea what the questions are. And also
if you miss that, can't listen to it, don't have
the opportunity. We podcast. We podcast every segment of the show.
So if for example, the news, we just did the
last hour and podcast that, and so we invite you
to do that. Okay, big day today because the president
(01:11):
has announced that at five o'clock our time, there will
be a massive attack on Iran's bridges and power plants
if the Strait of Hormuz does not open up. And
here we have rising gasoline prices, growing casualties, super concerns
(01:31):
that the strikes could be war crimes, which incidentally, if
the President goes on with his threat and in fact
does bomb power plants and destroy bridges, yeah, that's going
to be a war crime and then further damaging the
global economy. So this isn't just the president doing something
(01:52):
that affects us domestically.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The entire world is going to be affected by this.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So yesterday the presidential reporters quote, the entire country can
be taken out in one night, and that night might
be tomorrow night. Every bridge in Iran will be decimated
by twelve o'clock tomorrow night, every power plant in Iran
will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
To be used again. That's pretty big stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now, normally, you would never imagine a president of the
United States single handedly making the decision to go to
war or to do these kinds of attacks one of
the things, and you wouldn't have seen this during Trump's
first term where there were actually some guardrails. First time around,
(02:48):
he had advisors who would say, mister president, that's not
kind of a good idea. Now, that doesn't makes sense.
Now you don't want to do this.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
His advisors are all sick of fan Yes, mister president,
it's a great idea, mister president. Whatever you want, mister president.
And normal you can't even understand him most of the
time because they're speaking like this with their heads so
far up his rear end that you can barely understand
what is being said.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And so is he going to do it? You know?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I you know, he threatens at the same time, he
doesn't threaten. One of the things that he argues, and
maybe a good argument is if we don't know what
he's going to do next, then how do you deal
with someone like that? The advantage is his on behalf
of the United States and his opinion, because that's the
art of the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Always keep him guessing.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, he certainly has everybody guessing, that's for sure, and
so the countdown continues on. Now, keep in mind, the
gasoline prices have exploded, I mean, that've gone crazy, and
we'll see what happens. Have you actually have, for example,
in Georgia, in Marjorie Taylor Green's district, the Republican who
(04:05):
is running to replace Marjorie Taylor Green, as we said
during the news straight out, said that Donald Trump is
keeping America safe even though your gas prices are ridiculous.
And then you have the Democrats are saying and not
such a good idea. I mean, this is really screwing
us over. I mean, thousands of people already have been
(04:26):
killed in this war across the Middle East. You've got
tens of thousands of US troops deployed, thirteen members of
our military have been killed, and financial experts expect there's
going to be a slow down of.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The entire globe economy.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And so oh, there was a briefing that was scheduled
for this morning that didn't go forward. Pete Hegseth was
going to be there. General dan Kin, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, expected to be there. They just
can't outright, and so one of there's some several issues
(05:05):
going on. Legal issues, are is this a war crime?
Is this genocide? I'm going to talk about that at
seven twenty and a little bit of handle history. I
want to share with you because war crimes, genocide, crimes
against humanity which are being thrown about, those are legal
terms accepted by the international community. And I will share
(05:27):
with you what's going on. We tend to conflate all
this we do know or the experts telling and inflation
will rise, economic growth will slow down. I mean talking
about world economic growth as a result of the war.
And you know saying that the head of the IMF,
the International Monetary Fund, which is respected as the financial
(05:50):
spokesperson for the world economy and Iran well, so far
Iran isn't even though it is losing massive amounts of
its infrastructure and has lost civilians, is holding the cards.
Why Because they're holding on to that Strait of Hormuz.
That's the end all, be all. And here is the problem.
(06:13):
What do they do tonight five o'clock our time? Do
they open up the straits? Does Iran open up the
straits and give up all of its leverage or ninety
percent of it? Or does it just stand firm? And
the problem with this regime is I believe they would
rather go down burning then give up their power, much
(06:34):
like Hamas. Hamas would rather go down and watch its
own people be decimated and the country be wiped out.
Eighty percent of the infrastructure of Gaza has been destroyed,
and Hamas is still there. They still they're not gonna
let go if one hundred percent of the buildings where
(06:57):
everybody lives intents, except of course Hamas leadership, which you'll
have to live underground. And I think the regime is
in the same position in Iran. Well, how many thousands,
tens of thousands of people they murdered, I mean they
you know, you had these protesters. They didn't come out
and just occasionally shoot someone. They mowed them down. These
are Iranians killing Iranians at some point, is there a well,
(07:24):
you know, it's hard for us to believe that. For example,
with the US Army, would border patrol take out machine
guns and start mowing down protesters. Well, that's what they do.
And as long as the Revolutionary Guard, which is in
control of the country for the most part under the Moulahs,
(07:44):
and the two are hand in hand, they you're gonna
see Iranians. You can see a regime that has taken over.
I'll bet you a lot of people, although not too
many are around, that are nineteen seventy nine, welcome the
new Ayatola and it became a theocracy where Iran gave
up its secular government under the shop because the corruption
(08:07):
was incredible under the show. And they brought in this
this regime by popular demand. By the way, it wasn't
a coup. It was not a coup that that military
might took over Iran. They were the the Iyatola came
in accepted by the people of Iran.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
How'd that work out that? Well? Very well?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I wonder what they are I wonder if they have
any kids out there who were protesting. Okay, tonight this
afternoon our time, five o'clock, the attack on Iran is
going to start if the Strait of Hormuz is not
opened up pursuant to President Trump's his decision and his threat.
(08:52):
And so a couple of things are going to happen.
First of all, the word war crimes is being thrown around,
and the experts actually not even experts. So people are
saying if the attack happens, and what the president is
threatening is the attack of all power plants and all
bridges in the country of Iran, all of them. Now,
(09:13):
does the I States have the capability of doing that? Well,
if not all of that pretty close to that? Is
that a war crime?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It is, why because it's going after civilian infrastructure. Taking
out power plants is something that civilians use as well
as the military. And a lot of people are arguing,
if it's a military target, it's legitimate. What if it's
both both military as well as civilian, is it a
war crime? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Possibly.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Now you're also hearing crimes against humanity, and there is
a huge difference because the war crime that would be
alleged against the people of Iran is not to decimate
the people of Iran. It's not to take out the citizenship,
is to make the regime as vulnerable as possible, as
(10:02):
a matter of fact, to overthrow the regime. It's the
purpose is not to eliminate the Iranian people. A crime
against humanity would go that far. Ethnic cleansing, for example,
any attack on a people, either by way of murder,
by way of well certainly torture, ethnic cleansing, just moving
(10:25):
them around. And here's the crimes against humanity. It's fascinating
because the history of this, the crimes against humanity really
came up at Nuremberg when the Nazis were tried after
World War Two, and one of the charges against those
Nazi leaders was the crime against humanity, which goes beyond
(10:48):
any crime, beyond any kind of statute passed by any country.
For example, Adolph Eikman, who was a kidnapped and he
was in charge of transporting the Jews six million him
to their death in Europe, was charged in nineteen sixty.
He was kidnapped out of Argentina, brought to Israel for
trial and he was charged with crimes against humanity.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now here was his defenses.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Number One, Israel didn't exist when he did those, So
how can a country that didn't even exist be able
to try him? That's for starters. And at that time Israel,
I don't think, had the death penalty. And when he
was convicted, he was hanged. So there was a jurisdictional question.
It was the issue of a country try him that
(11:34):
didn't exist at all, and the crimes were perpetrated. And
so here's what the judges said, where the prosecutor and
the judges ruled that a crime against humanity is so
extensive it goes beyond anything that any country can pass Jurisdictionally,
(11:56):
it is a crime against the very essence of the
human race. It doesn't matter what time, doesn't matter when
or where, under what circumstances. It is accepted by the
international community that this goes beyond anything that is put
down in statute or on law. That's the crime against humanity.
(12:19):
Is that going to fly on this one? Probably not
war crime? Yeah, probably, because the issue is civilians being attacked.
And so the other thing is our war crimes have
to be done during war, which is why they call
it a war crime. And if it's done during the
civilian when there is no war, it cannot be technically
(12:41):
a war crime. A crime against humanity that can happen
any place, war, not war, across any country lines, across
any geographical.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Lines, and it is.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And crimes against humanity don't even need to be targeted
against specific population group, and even if they are, it
is the ultimate crime as far as the international community
is concerned.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Okay. The other thing was kind of fun, by the way,
When Nadolph Eichmann was.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Kidnapped, one of his arguments was, you can't kidnap me
and bring me this to Israel because it was illegal.
You kidnap me to bring me here, And that was
the argument that was made by his defense and the
prosecution overrode that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And you know what, the.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Basis that they used for saying it doesn't matter how
you get here, as long as you get here, even
if you're kidnapped, came out of the United States during
the Civil War days.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They relied on Civil War.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Laws of the United States to justify that, which is accepted,
which is why bounty hunters can chase you down and
the court doesn't care kidnap not kidnap, Just get here
and we'll give you your will give you your rights.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Okay, Now, let's get local here for a moment.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
La Unified school district where I grew up and I
always joke about it, Well, three major unions are threatening
to strike next week, which would completely close down the schools.
Not partially, I mean completely three major unions where if
even two of them were to go on with a strike,
(14:25):
it would be impossible to keep the campuses open. And
that's three hundred and ninety thousand students that we're talking about,
and there would be Let me go on and explain
that it's not just the schools would be closed. I
mean keep in mind that over fifty percent of the students.
I believe in LA unified need help, need assistance, are
(14:49):
food insecure where breakfasts are served and lunches are served
at school. That all stops working parents who had their
kids in school, what do they do? School was taking
care of them. Do you know what child care costs?
They couldn't begin to afford it. What do they do?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
We were just talking about this bill, My wife and
I were just going over in our plans for next
week if this goes through, Because you're right, the only
person that will be there is custodial services.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, it's and by the way, they're and they are
unionized and they if they may not want to cross
the picket line.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Correct, So you've got nothing going on.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So the school districting identify local food distribution sites, figure
out where you can get food. You know, there may
maybe we'll have a backup for childcare. One elementary school
might serve as a hub from students from five to
ten elementary schools.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
But then again, who's going to work there.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Bus drivers will be on strike, so you can't take
a bus any place. And bus drivers are not employees
of the school district but still unionized, and they probably
will honor the picket line. The UTLA represents thirty seven
thousand teachers, counselor, nurses, middle and high school librariy, and
of course every one of them walking out.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And the issue is pay.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The union wants deep increases to the automatic races teachers
already received based on years of experience and education credits,
and the union wants to push the annual salary of
a starting teacher from sixty eight thousand dollars to seventy
seven thousand dollars a year. When you think about it,
go whoa, And that's for what nine months of work
(16:46):
and you're off for three months during the summer. The
district actually says we're okay with the pay races. It's
just we have to figure out if we can afford
it or not, and that's predicated on our ability to
pay for it. And there is something called a fact
(17:07):
finding process. It's almost like an arbitration clause where the
union and the school district they sit in front of
a three person board, one representative of the school district,
one represented by the union, and one independent, and the
three of them sit down and go through all the
issues and see if there's any room for compromise and
(17:31):
if not, onto the next step, the next step being
a strike. Well they're onto the next step, the next
step being a strike, and this will be a strike
we have not yet seen. It's the hat trick. It's
three of the major unions. The schools are going to
be completely shut down, transportation, food, I mean all of it,
(17:53):
and so parents are going to be on their own.
And since this is LA Unified, it's a lot of
pressure put on a lot of very poor people LA
Unified does. There's just not a whole lot of people
that have kids at LA Unified that have money. There
really doesn't kneel. For example, since he works here at iHeart,
of course, he can't afford daycare, so he has no choice.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We just put him in front of a homeless person
when he was a baby, just hope that they wouldn't
leave him.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That was our.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Here hang out with Helbo Kelly. You'll be fine now.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And maxis flying with that. We happen to have.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Really good teachers that I respect at Max's school and
they're very attentive. But I got to tell you, man,
going on you know these types of things where they
go on strike like this, it throws such a curveball
at parents. And we are now below Mississippi. You remember
(18:59):
how we used to say, well, yeah, we're not as
bad as Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Right now we're something's wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And when you're asking for more money and yet the
schools are tanking.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well, especially LA Unified, and uh, it's it's ungomftable. I
mean LA. And I've said this many many times about
LA Unified. It's almost it's beyond being able to be
administrated because of all the problems. And so when my
kids were bored, we're in LA Unified district. There was
no chance I was gonna let my kids go to
LA Unified. So I sent them to the super overpriced,
(19:34):
insanely expensive Jewish day school where it costs more money
to go to school than it costs to go to
medical school per semester.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We have some good schools, we do, and we have
some great No, there are some goods, really schools there are.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
It's asistent enough. That is absolutely correct. It's very inconsistent.
Where when you say we have some good schools, take
out your hand and count on the fingers, even teacher's fingers,
how many of those schools you're talking about Okay, el
Nino is upon us, but it's more than al nino.
It's a super el nino, a super duper el nino.
(20:11):
By the way, that is the climological change. This is
the scientific term for this kind of El Nino, a
super duper el nino. And what is that about. Well,
it's a warming patch of water in equatorial Pacific Ocean
and that influences which regions across the world have droughts
(20:36):
and floods and extreme heat and hurricanes, declining sea ice.
And this is a super el Nino. This happens once
every ten to fifteen years, and the effects are even stronger,
they are more persistent, they are more wide spread because
sea temperatures in that key region.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Exciseman about the.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Sneeze, Okay, yeah, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Look at the light at Okay, there we go. That
was a sneeze.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Okay, where wise I super duper el nino before the sneeze,
and so sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, in Pacific Ocean,
key regions warm by more than two degrees celsius three
point six degrees fahrenheit above average, which means there is
a strong, stronger atmospheric response and that peaks in December
(21:31):
or January. So we're not going to be seeing this
for another nine ten months. And in fact, most of
it is going to happen next year. The western US,
that's US guys, parts of Africa, Europe, India are going
to be facing hotter than average summers. Can you imagine
a hotter than average summer. Some tropical countries in the Caribbean,
(21:53):
Indonesia will have worse drought and extreme heat, more tropical
sitc clones in the Pacific, fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic,
and we are going to get some more storms than
we usually get. And so this super El Nino is
(22:14):
going to be pushing global temperatures to record levels, particularly
in twenty twenty seven. According to Paul round, the profession
of atmospheric science at State University of New York who
studies this stuff, real potential for the strongest al Nino
event in one hundred and forty years. We're looking at
some real storm. And when we talk about global warming
(22:38):
climate change, and we hear the scientists say, oh, we
can still do something about it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
The only thing we can do is slow it down
a bit.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I mean critical mass has already hit I mean, it's there,
and now it's the question of what the weather is
going to be. Like have you noticed maybe I'm just
being crazy here. Well, I'm not being crazy, but maybe
I'm off base. And Amy reports on this all the
time that winter storms.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Winter, it was every single night on the news, the
news outlet, outlets were reporting this insane weather, between storms,
ice storms, blizzards on the East coast, floods in the
mid West.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean, it's just been Amy. Is that y Amy's
working on her news?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Have those storms been more and in more intensity and
more in numbers over the.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Past good question, because I've asked that question before. Are
there more storms and more intense storms? Or do we
just report on it more like when you blizzard comes
through Colorado?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Is like I lived in Colorado. We had that all
the time. I went I went.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
On a little deep dive some weeks ago, and it
the information I saw was we really don't have more
storms than we had before, but the intensity was greater.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
When you look at these lights, I say, over this
past winter, and I don't even remember the last time
the news was reporting life threatening storms. That word's not
bandied about very often.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yeah, and the.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Big huge storms, like when they say, you know, one
hundred million people across the US, it's one band of storms,
but it's a huge storm and it affects, you know,
hundreds of millions of people.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, the entire eastern seaboard, for example, from the Carolina's
up through Maine. Yeah, for example. I mean, just crazy stuff.
We're in the Midwest, all the way across the Midwest
heading north east. It's I'm happy that I am not
being just being born right now. I think it's gonna
be a very tough world to live in. You know,
(24:54):
I don't envy my kids. Well I do envy my
kids because I never had dad who had credit cards,
so I you know, okay, but in terms of what
the world's going to be like between global warming and
it is going to get warmer, and cyber wars and
water wars, I mean, it's not going to be fun
(25:14):
at all.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And no credit cards. Girls, do you understand this?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
No credit cards?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
No, there will be no credit cards.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Generation has a greater technological and every generation we continue
to be pushed up against new unexpected things, except.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
That this is the first generation that it has been
established will be worse off than their parents. We've never
seen that before, and it's always it's tough, it's not easy.
It's fine for me because I don't care. You know,
I'm going to be gone, so you know, God bless you.
You know you can rot. Okay, coming up, it's rich tomorrow.
(25:57):
We got a lot of stuff to talk about on
a tech Twonesday. KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
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