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Who are these people? Who are these people?
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his stuff over there. He's he's over there.
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I see Golden Monarch is there. It's people.
Yes. It's that people I see.
What's green Green. Oh, OK, yes.
Then there's Reverend Joe Blank.We're going to we're going to
talk about Reverend Joe Blank atthe end of the show tonight.
He just shared it over on Twitter.

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Yeah. Show the share the screen.
How I are you? It's it's not.
Yes. Thanks, Greg.
It's Saturday. Very funny.
I I wish it were Saturday and that goes over over on Twitter X
Harps is everywhere in the chats.
Go say hi to Harps. He's down in Australia.
So it's early tomorrow morning. Say say hello to the Conte over

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there. I saw Sean the accord Lord
Miller is here. What's up brother Sean always
checking in. Appreciate you love you man.
It's been a it's been a good week.
It flew by I we had another one of those we lost the fucking
stream on on on Tuesday night with descent in bloom.

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Sorry for that. Hopefully we're going to get
another one done this week. It'll be.
I don't know if it'll be an AMA or just a one-on-one or she's
talking about doing her own one-on-one at this point.
Maybe I'll just engineer for we'll we'll see how it goes.
Joe Plank, what's up, dude? Good to see you, man, Glad to
see glad you're in the stream. I'm actually going to share.

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If you appreciate what you're seeing and you want to fund the
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These are the people that have hooked us up over the years, and
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We added Ralph Mejia, Ralph Mann.
Big stepped up big. Thank you so much.
Couple of Paypal's a Kofi. Man, I was amazing.
Thank you. We can use a couple more just
like that. Yeah.
And we're ready to go. We've got some stories.
I'm going to talk about the UAW.I haven't talked about labor in
a while. And so a story popped up because

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Mike from Payday Report sent it to me.
Now that's a whole other story, but so we're going to talk about
that. We're going to do another long
fuck Israel segment because of course they're in their final
stages of of ethnic cleansing and genocide and there's going
to be a lot of fuck Israel. We're also going to talk about

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an Alan McLeod piece that I havenot seen anybody talk about yet
about CIA websites that they used in different countries that
they set up. They got exposed over 800
websites exposed to, you know, that they were communicating
with spies in different countries.
Holy shit. And then we do.

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I did set up a small lightning round.
We'll see if we have time to getto that.
But before I get to even that, Ihad another, what was the other
fourth article is oh, the UK government targeting the age
stuff. That's insane also, and I just
hope I don't know what's alreadystarted to make its way here,
kinda, but you know, like that you can't get on certain

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websites unless you show your face.
And they're ending on online anonymity as usual.
That's what they're trying to do.
Greg Walker, you're up there. You will live in infamy.
You're definitely on the board. So you're right in the middle in
one of the middle columns. I definitely see you up there.
Yes, Harps. Harps is everywhere.

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He's on YouTube, he's on Twitter, he's over on Substack,
where we're live by right now, by the way, at
indymediatenay.com. Thank you to everybody who
subscribes over there as well. All right, so I want to get to
our first story, which is the crazy what about Sean fame?
All right, we we've talked aboutSean Fain in the past.
Sean Fain is the president of the UAW.

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He's actually an elected president, unlike another guy
that they were talking about this week that never really got
elected anywhere. OK anyway, Sean Fain, UAW
president, threatened to slit the throats of critics as he
pushed no bid contracts with DC firms.

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Now this article is actually from like 6 weeks ago at
paydayreport.com. I'm a big fan of Payday report.
They get a little Libby and theycheer on Democrats and think
that they're better than Republicans, which we I've
yelled at him 100 times that they're not, but.
He would never. Still, he's one of the better

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Labour reporters out there. And this story we started
covering last year from Mike, all right, where he talks about
how in late 2023, in a meeting with over 300 UAW staffers,
President present UAW President Sean Fain asked his half dozen
top staffers, including UAW Chief of Staff Chris Brooks and

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UAW Communications Director Jonah Furman, remember that name
to go to the front of the room. He then points at them and
declares that if anyone ever messes with them, I will slit
their fucking throats. Wait, what?
Yeah, if anyone ever messes withthose two guys, that's our chief

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of staff and. Our communications right there
going to the fucking Cuomo School of PR.
What? I will slit their fucking
throats, yeah. You're going to throw somebody
over the stairs, all right, Going to push you off this
fucking balcony. The.
Take your kneecaps. The shocking revelation came out

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as part of a 94 page status report provided by the Federal
monitor of the UAW, Neil Barofsky.
That's a guy we've also talked about on this show before
because he's been smeared by some as a Zionist and having
bias against the UAW in in the 1st place on behalf of the

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Zionist lobby, which has been debunked or at least has shown
over time to not have any factorin his work here whatsoever.
All right? Whether he is or is not is still
to be determined. He made it on a list of
influential people of influential Zionists, but that
doesn't mean that he actually is1, all right?

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Or actually, it was a Zionist list of influential Jews, if I
remember correctly. But let's getting back to this
article. In 2021, Boroski was appointed
to monitor the union as part of a federal consent decree.
After a dozen top UAW staffers were convicted of embezzling
money from the union. They did that.

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That wasn't Neil Boroski, that was the UAW heads.
And this guy was appointed by the Biden administration to
oversee the UAW and report on what their operations were.
The federal monitors report released yesterday raises
troubling concerns about UA WS approval of no bid contracts to

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DC political consulting firms inviolation of the federal consent
decree, which, by the way, requires the UAW to seek three
bids for each contract. So that's bad.
I don't know what the punishmentnecessarily is for that.
But in sworn testimony given to the federal monitor, dozens of

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UAW staffers, including Fain's allies, verified the disturbing
incident. Well, it was in the moment, you
know, you got to know him. They knew after the fact that
maybe he shouldn't have said it.However, the incident was just
one of many that have left many UAW staffers in fear.
All right. In one incident described in the

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report, all right, when the UA WS print shop was going to print
a flyer describing the details of a tentative agreement between
Stalantis and the union, Fain burst into the print shop to
yell at staffers. He berated A staffer because
they included a photo of the UA WS elected secretary Treasurer
Margaret Mock alongside Fain's photo on the flyer.

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Now, again, we talked about Margaret Mock before and he's
going to I think mention at the end of this article.
But Margaret Bach ended up like suing the union and getting
fired, you know, without 'cause it was a putative thing because
she wouldn't go along with some,you know, nepotism thing that
Paine was pulling. He wanted, he wanted to raise

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the price the the salaries of everybody that had a certain pay
grade, which happened to be the same pay grade as his retiring
girlfriend and her retiring sister.
Huh. How about that?
All right, He says. Who told you to put Mock's
motherfucking photo on there? This is my motherfucking
membership, all right? He sounds like Samuel L Jackson.

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These motherfucking snakes on these motherfucking planes.
Right motherfucking planes. Bain later admitted that he did
it, telling monitors that he felt bad getting shitty, quote
UN quote with the staffer. That's a direct quote.
He got shitty with a staffer? What?

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Are you fucking going to the fucking Ellen DeGeneres School
of Employee Relations? Can you put your ear?
Can I ask you in? Please brief I hear, I hear
myself. What thing?
No. Thank you.
That's better. So the 94 page Federal Monitors
report paints A troubling picture of how Fain and his top

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staffers have created a culture of fear within the UAW and
orchestrated show trials. The purge UAW officers who've
questioned Fain. What a surprise, right?
So what are we talking about on the show trials?
Well, last month Payday broke the news that UA WS assistant

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communications director had resigned over a culture of
intimidation. Quote.
I cannot lose my integrity by continuing to work in a place
where dissent is a termination worthy event.
This guy Gumpert went on to denounce UAW chief of staff
Chris Brooks. Interesting.

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And UAW Communications director Jonah Furman, again, remember
that name. Prior to their UAW top
positions, neither of them held any top labor leadership
positions within any union. Their role in the union had been
quite controversial among UAW leaders who had come up through

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the rank and file of the union itself.
Last summer. We did an hour and a half long
deep dive on the UAW and coveredfive stories, one of which was
this one about that the stafferswere upset that a larger
percentage of the communicationsstaff was non union and not UAW

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members. And where had they come from?
Mostly Labour notes and Brooklynand the Liberal, the neoliberal
class, which is where Jonah Furman comes from, by the way.
All right. And Jonah Furman's wife, and
we're going to find that out later.
Jonah Furman's wife works for a top position.
I think she's the CFO at Drop Site News.

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Yeah. Interesting.
SO the two there, there are two primary sycophants, outsiders
there for two years who never were members and never held
leadership roles at any union intheir lives prior, who've taken
the keys to the car from the elected president and hijacked
this amazing union for personal gain, attention and ego.

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And now they've driven it straight off a Cliff.
That doesn't surprise us at all because we've been calling this
out for two years. Look, we've been calling out
Jonah Ferman. We had Jonah Ferman's articles I
used to spotlight when he was like, quote UN quote
independent, and he had his sub stack at Who gets the bird?

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And he actually wrote some pretty decent stuff.
But the minute that he got into Labor Notes, Labor Notes was in
with the Teamsters for a Democratic union.
And he started getting very cozywith union leadership.
And instead of being a reporter,he became PR to mouthpiece to
the point that the team said that the UAW was just like,
shit, you come work for us. You're a great propagandist.

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Awesome. All right, so the Federal
Monitor describes in depth how Brooks and Furman in 2024
arranged a show trial without due process of Sector secretary
Treasurer Marker Bach. The show trial resulted in her
being demoted from her position overseeing 11 departments within

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the union like she was, and she was elected vice president.
The board also voted as one of the few black women on the
AFLCIOS 57 member executive board.
All right, although the only theAFLCIO Executive Council has the
power to top to remove members in between those conventions,

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right? And.
Just two years earlier, just remember that Fane won basically
because of mock. He tapped her because he he
wanted somebody of color alongside him.
He felt she should represent because, you know, he was going
against UAW President Ray Curry,who was black from North

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Carolina, and he made an issue of white, you know, Fane being
white. So he brought Mock on as a black
woman, which undoubtedly helped him win narrowly by a job by
less than 500 votes out of a total of 137,000, which was the
most votes ever in the history of the UAW, right?

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Which I also question. I question every vote now,
especially now knowing about thecounting machines and who counts
them and how they work. Fuck.
All right. Less than a year after serving
as Fain's running mate, boxed devotion shit shocked many,
particularly black union memberswho constitute approximately 25%

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of the UA WS membership. Right.
They work in a lot of the factories in the Midwest, and
last February at the EIIEB meeting of the UAW, we again, we
covered this. Board members accused her of
weaponizing the expenditure process and not approving
expenditures for political reasons, which was bullshit.

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And they tried to smear her and the federal monitor again
because as part of the federal consent decree right, the union
was required to solicit bids from at least three vendors
before approving an expenditure.They were basically telling her
to railroad it through. Bain had repeatedly pressured
Mock to approve no bid contractsto politically connected DC

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consulting firms. I wonder if they're connected to
the Democrats. I would.
I would bet they are. Yeah.
Bad Wolf, that is so mafia. It really is.
I mean, it's mafia tactics that he was pulling.
You know, you got to, you got togive my friend the deal over
there and, and, and we, we can'tlet anybody else in on the
bidding. Be ashamed if something ever

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happened to the big bad. All right, Gabba Goo.
Well, not, not quite Gabba goo, but I don't even know.
I don't even know if Fain's Italian but but there's plenty
of. Yeah.
At an IEB meeting, a special compliance report was presented
that laid out the charges against Mock.

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The special compliance report was then presented by UAW Region
director who feigned then has tapped to be his running mate as
secretary treasurer when he runsnext year.
So literally the report is presented by the woman that's
that's going to replace him on the ticket, that's going to
replace Margaret on the ticket. That's fucked up.
Now, under the threat of federalperjury charges, he admitted to

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the federal monitor that she played no role in preparing the
special compliance report, but she delivered it.
Why? Because he wanted to make a show
of that. He's going to replace her with
this person and she's going to be the one to actually shoot,
you know, kind of fire the bullet that that takes the other
one out. According to the federal

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Monitors investigation, the report was primarily prepared by
Berman and Brooks. But since Dickerson is also a
Black woman, UAW President Sean Fain felt it best if she
presented the charges against Mock, who is also black.
Of course, I thought it would bebetter coming from her than me,

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a white guy, Fain told the federal monitor.
Dude, why would you ever tell them that the report completely?
Because he thinks it makes him look better.
Like this is the democratic identity politics playbook a lot
of times where it's just you endup being more racist at the end

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of the day. Like somehow like makes no sense
you know? It's all just optics.
Yep, that's all they give a shitabout.
But what's really interesting isthat the report completely
blindsided her, no surprise, whohad received no advance notice
that these allegations were to be levied against her at this

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meeting. He wasn't given an opportunity
to participate in the investigation into her that
resulted in the report, wrote the federal monitor.
This is an independent third party who's like literally
intervening on her behalf because nobody else has.
This is all, whoa, we flickered,we're still here.

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This is all a coordinated effortby a whole cabal of people loyal
to the Democratic Party to push out people that are trying to
hold the union to its no bid contract mandate and keep it out
of trouble. The report presents a detailed

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in depth report on decision making on expenditure approvals,
citing many UAW members and staffers that completely
discredits the special compliance report used to remove
mock in the 1st police. What a surprise.
No, no earthquake. But we did have a power loss and
I'm I'm running on generator butthat's OK.
We we should be good. I think it tested it and it

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dimmed it for a second but kept it going.
Again, the full 94 page report gets even gets into details
about instances where union staffers complain about taxi
rides not being reimbursed because they didn't present the
receipt. Well, why should you get
reimbursed if you didn't presenta receipt?
I mean, I worked in sales for 20years.

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I always had to put a receipt toget paid.
Although the special compliance report described this accusation
as a pattern of her trying to influence or current, you know,
current or future board decisions and that the
compliance department had received reports from many
members of the IEB, the monitorsinvestigation identified only

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two specific incidents. In both, the regional directors
in question explicitly denied that Mock had offered them a
quid pro quo or expressly conditioned the granting of
their expense requests in returnfor a favorable vote.
Like this is bullshit. An analysis by the federal
Monitor found that Mock had approved more than 2/3 of all

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expenditures presented to her. So if they had done it, like,
yeah. However, in December of 23, she
angered UAW communications Director Jonah Furman when she
refused to grant a $500,000 no bid contract to a politically

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connected DC consulting firm forbillboards and BA and media buys
to support union organizing at Volkswagen in Chattanooga.
Given that the no bid contract. Which one do we know?
That'd be nice to know. The Which consulting firm?
There's a few of those. It won't.
It's in. What's the one that Axelrod?

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The axe files I I this cup. Kleiner Perkins.
Media Group. Kleiner Perkins.
But those are law firms. Given that, OK, the no bid
contract was for half $1,000,000, which is a large
expenditure for any union. Mock denied the request until
more dialogue within the union could be had about whether the

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expenditure should be approved. Union organizers debated whether
spending half a million was an effective use of organizing
resources, especially given thatthe no bid contract was going to
a media firm called Connection. There you go Reef, which had
little experience with union organizing.
The firm was founded by Adrian Science, who led the White

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House's director of public engagement under President
Biden, and was staffed primarilyby the DC based Democratic
Party. So it was basically a handout to
an inexperienced firm because they were, well, politically
connected prior to to 2000, you know, And this was when in 2023,

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so Biden was still in the White House.
All right. This guy left the director of
public engagement, started his own firm, and Firman thought
he'd give him his first contractat a half, $1,000,000 for the
UAW. Berman also grew frustrated with
Mock after she refused to approve a no bid contract for
Feldman Strategies, a communication firm founded by DC

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political operative Andrew Feldman.
Federal consent decree had been very clear that the union should
solicit at least three bids before approving any contract,
unless the union found there wasa reason to grant a special
exception. Let me guess, there hadn't been
any granted eventually, after a six week debate within the

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union, both no bid contracts were approved in February.
OK, but that's when they smearedher with the federal and the
federal monitor for being a Zionist, creating a whole side
distraction aside from whether to approve this contract or not.
In late April, of course, the UAW would overwhelmingly win the

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union election at VW 73 to 27. Now, it's unclear whether the
delay in approving the expenditure by a few weeks had
any effect on union organizing, since they overwhelmingly won.
The guess would be no Mock insisted that she was merely
following her legal duty to comply with the federal consent

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decree requirements, doing her duty as the union selected
secretary Treasurer Right like she did her job.
However, of course her delete. And her did stuff for Kamala
Harris. They did stuff.
Gloria Johnson, Debbie Mercarisol.

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I mean, oh, there's Beto O'Rourke, you know, They're
definitely. Like DC Democratic Party
connected in a line all right now.
Oh, for sure. So her delays angered Furman and
Chris Brooks, who's a native of Chattanooga, TN, who had taken a

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lead role on the VW campaign. So basically, Brooks made this
promise possibly, and it made him look bad when they didn't
deliver on the half $1,000,000 contract right away and that
they hammed in hard and talked about it for six weeks.
Brooks makes $187,000 a year as the UAW chief of staff,
according to federal records. He had been angered that Mock

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refused to reimburse him for purchasing pizzas for Volkswagen
workers since Brooks couldn't present the receipt.
What? Why?
Why couldn't you present the receipt?
Call the fucking pizza place, man.
Brooks was also upset that he was not approved by Mock for an
enhanced corporate credit card that would have allowed him to

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charge up to $12,000 a month without union pre approval.
However, his position was not listed in federal guidelines as
one of the positions eligible for the enhanced corporate
credit card. If I remember correctly.
This motherfucker, if, if, if, if this guy I'm thinking of, he
worked for UPS way, way back andFain brought him in.

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If I'm thinking of the right guy, we did a whole story about
a guy that Fain brought in who was a known criminal.
All right? Brooks's position was not
listed, right? So Brooks and Furman had
garnered A reputation as hatchetmen in the labor movement
willing to smear union dissidents.
Court documents filed in Pittsburgh revealed that Brooks

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had been involved in an attempt to smear sexual assault whistle
blowers while employed by the News Guild in 2020.
Nice guy emails, text messages, and sworn statements obtained by
the federal monitor. And that's him.
That's that's Neil Barofsky, show that Furman and Brooks Yep,

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Furman and Brooks took a lead role in drafting that special
compliance report to oust Mock. However, given the controversial
nature of both Brooks and Furman, who are also happened to
be white, Fain got Region 1A director Laura Dickerson, a
Black woman, to present the report at the IEB meeting as an

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investigation that she personally undertook, even
though we know she didn't. Fain then attempted to hide his
role in Moxhouster from UAW members.
That's great, right? The UA WS Federal Monitor found
that Sean Fain intentionally tried to mislead the UA WS rank
and file about who authored the report because it would have

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been inconvenient to him to realize that it was somebody
close to him that was smearing her when he was trying to
replace her as VP for next year after he'd already demoted her.
Like this is really getting personal and punitive again.
As further evidence of retaliatory intent, Bain made

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statements to the monitor that confirmed his intent to
deliberately conceal his commanding role in the effort to
remove her departmental responsibilities.
That's fucking indicting as hell.
Further attempting to conceal what occurred, the UAW refused
to release the minutes of the executive board meeting to the
rank and file as required by their constitution.

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I think we reported on that lastyear.
People were freaking out like, why aren't they at least
releasing the minutes? What do they have to hide?
Well, this is what they have to hide.
So for more than a year, the UAWalso refused to release these
documents to the federal monitorrelating to her dismissal.

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Again, why? Because that's where Fain
admitted that he would slit the fucking throats anyone that came
at the guys that wrote up the dismissal letter.
Instead, Brooks and Furman went on the attack against the UAW
federal monitor Neil Borowski, who'd won praise from
progressives for taking on the Obama administration from the

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left in his role as special Inspector General from the
bailout program TARP. That was back in 2009 or 10.
And here's where we get dirty, all right.
And we go back into the what happened with, with autopilot
Ryan Grimm. All right, Ryan Grimm decides to
get involved and he writes an article smearing Neil Boroski,

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saying that he's got Zionist intent and Zionist agenda to
smear Sean Fain in the UAW. All right, Grimm of Drop Site
News, a publication run by UAW Communications Director Jonah
Furman's wife, Nausicaa Renner. Now, I don't know if she

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actually runs it. I know that she's a top
executive over there, but I don't know exactly what her role
is. At least she might be CFO,
right? Close enough.
Ryan Grimm ran a piece claiming that Barofsky was a secret
Zionist and that his investigation of the UAW was
retaliatory for their union support of a ceasefire in Gaza.

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The story relied on one anonymous source who claimed
that Boroski had berated fame over the UA WS support for a
ceasefire in Gaza. So again, here's the story.
Boroski was honored by the WorldJewish Congress for winning Back
Buddy for Holocaust survivors stolen by Credit Suisse, and

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he's publicly denied that he's aZionist.
He's the one who got those mother fuckers reparations, all
right. However, as evidence of
Boroski's Zionist connection drop, Site News pointed to a
legal threat against the UAW from the Zionist group ADL.
We can't stand those motherfuckers, all right?
That was initially sent to Boroski, which Boroski?

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Merely the. Anti defecation need.
Right, but he just forwarded it to the UAW because they sent it
to him first. Labor law experts, including one
anti Zionist, said Boroski had fulfilled his legal duty as
federal monitor by simply forwarding on the threat.
He said OK, we covered this again last year.
I think forwarding a letter fromthe ADL out of concern that the

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union risked violating an anti BDS law arguably fell within the
monitors legal ethical duty. Right.
Again, we talked about this extensively.
Nowhere in his story did Grim mention that his site's editor
was married to the UA WS communications director Jonah
Furman. Nor did Grim explain the nature

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of the charges brought by Mock against Bain, claiming that the
Barofsky's investigation was merely A Zionist witch hunt
without marry. But when he was pressed on his
wife's publication role in smearing the UAW federal
monitor, Furman refused to comment.
And I remember very clearly thatRyan Grimm said that it was

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publicly known that Furman's wife worked at drop site also.
OK. It's pretty goddamn obvious that
Jonah Furman was the source. The anonymous source to Ryan
Grimm. To me, it was either Jonah
Furman or or Brooks. Either one.

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While the smears against Boroskistuck, which is insane, the
monitors report validates the questions raised by Boroski at
the time about whether or not she was demoted due to her
refusal to approve no bid contracts to DC political
consultants, again in violation of that federal consent decree.
It's nuts, but yet the criminalsare the ones that got away with

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it in this case until now and they probably still have.
The report released today by thecourt appointed independent
monitor confirms what I said allalong.
There was no justification for action taken last year to remove
me from positions I held on behalf of UAW members.
That's Margaret Mock herself quote.
I was elected on a reform slate because our members want a fresh

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start for the previous scandals and bad practices which took
buddy out of our members pockets.
We need to operate with full transparency to restore the UA
WS reputation as a strong union that fights every day for our
members. Shit, I'd rather her run the
damn union than fucking Sean fame at this point.
And if I were Neil Barofsky, I would absolutely recommend to to

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the feds that they push to have the UA WS leadership ousted and
replaced with people like Margaret Bock.
And she's no St. either. But I know that she wouldn't
approve $500,000 no bid contracts for political purposes
to Biden connected DC firms. Roski's asked the UAW to

(34:31):
reinstate her to a previous roles.
I think not only should he do that, they should also demote
Sean Fein or at least give him some kind of a write up.
The monitors investigation foundthat Secretary Treasurer Mock
was falsely accused of misconduct and therefore there
was no basis for removing departments from her oversight

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or reassigning her board positions.
The Monitors investigation further found that President
Fain acted with illegitimate andretaliatory intent when he
removed Mock's departments and board assignments, and For these
reasons, Fain's actions should be immediately reversed, with
each of Mock's departments and assignments reinstated.

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Now here's the thing that fuckedme up.
Borowski also stated that he would not yet bring charges
against Fame, but may in the future.
Why? Yeah, why?
I'm right? You've got him committing
crimes, federal crimes, pushing to give out no bid contracts to

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DC connected political firms, consulting firms and and
advertising firms. That's a problem.
He violated federal statute of the federal Mandy.
He should have, he should be charged with that and maybe he
will be, but due to delay and not not only that, but he
stonewalled this investigation for a fucking year and wouldn't

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give up the documents, the minutes.
He wouldn't give Barofsky any doc anything at all.
I mean, he had to fight tooth and kneel.
That's the reason why this took so long to come out in the first
place. All right.
Due to delays caused by the union, the Monitor is still in
the process of investigating allthose allegations, including but
not limited to claims made by Vice President Boyer Rich Boyer

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that Fain also retaliated against him by removing the
Stalantis department from his oversight.
That's the guy that got fired because he didn't want to give a
raise to an entire group of employees that happened to also
include Fain's girlfriend and her sister who were retiring and
would have gotten a pension at ahigher rate permanently.

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Good article by Mike Elk from Payday Report.
Thanks for running us back down memory lane about just how
shitty this guy is. We're we're waiting for the end
of casino in the cornfield. That's what we're I guess we're
waiting on that. Well, they'll only replace him
with another clown just like him.

(37:08):
I mean sadly. Well, yeah.
But slit the throats, anybody messes with them, I will slit
their freaking their their fucking throat.
Like obviously he's not 100% serious.
He's not serious, but like he thinks he's a mafia dot.

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I really genuinely think so now,if you notice.
That Hoffa, you know, you're sure everyone wants well.
That wait, that's. The Teamster, like Hoffa.
That's the Teamsters. This is not.
This is the UAW. This is a little different all
right, but. And yeah, but it it's union had
like they a strive to that, you know.

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Coloradopeoplesnewsnoheisnotheheheselfpublishes@paintingreport.comHe's not on Sub Stack, He's on
Blue Cry and he's on Twitter, but he doesn't, he's not on
Twitter much. Oh, now Ryan Grimm is not
burning a whistleblower. No, he's just muddying the

(38:14):
waters. Yep, trying to look deep, right?
It's crazy, Greg, the way that all went down.
The soulless shark eyes makes mefeel all warm and fuzzy.
Very funny. I saw Belen's here.
Good to see you, Belen. How are you tonight?
Adam Mayers is in chat. Good to see Anna.
A lot of people over on the Rumble like to see ever like to

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see that happening. God damn man.
The UAW. So I've not.
If you look at Sean Fain's Twitter, he been awfully quiet
since last August when he was awfully tough with, you know,
talking tough about Trump. And I'm going to get really
tough on Trump. Dude has fucking disappeared,

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all right? Absolutely disappeared.
It's shameful. Wait, guys got no balls
whatsoever. And last I saw, he was kowtowing
a little bit to Trump because heknows which way the wind's going
to blow. He's never going to get anywhere
if he's going to really be in opposition to Trump.
And he might push Trump specifically to retaliate
against the UAW. So he's literally just hiding in
the corner going don't hit me, Daddy, don't hit me, please.

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And Sean O'Brien is doing the same thing at the Teamsters, by
the way. They're both powerless, gutless
motherfuckers. Sean O'Brien at least had the
guts to go to the to the to bothconventions and speak.
But Sean Fain didn't want to even speak to the Republicans,
you know? And he's got a lot of them in
his mix, So and and then he's got the Jonah Furman thing.

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That Jonah Furman thing, man, that really pisses me off
because that is shit Lib like labor notes, Jacobin media
trying to railroad and take overthe messaging of a fucking labor
union that doesn't want neoliberal messaging whatsoever.
They've made that very clear. All right, so.

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It's August. So thank you guys are amazing.
This is everyone that's already supported our network, not just
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Gregory Walker, you are smack inthe middle under Adam Mayers's

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I see cynic up there again. Ralph Mejia joined this week.
Thank you so much, Ralph for foryour contributions.
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Really appreciate you. Seb Applejack out there.
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for a monthly subscription. Again, so many great people out

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there. All right, well, we're running a
little bit long, but that's OK. This is our fuck Israel segment.
Let's do this. You know what I want to go to
this, this view. I like this view better.
Fuck Israel. No, the first story is and
Robert Inlekesh, Indie Media Award honoree Robert Inlekesh go

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to Indie Media Awards dot dot substack.com.
There is a page dedicated to each honoree with all of their
links and and we really worked hard to try to vet this list of
people that we have trusted to be consistent over the years.
Nobody gets it right all the time, but these people we trust

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the most and we rely on to tell us the story unfiltered without
a corporate spin. So this is Robert and Lakesh,
and he's doing this for Palestine Chronicle.
He's written for a couple of their publications, too.
But he talks about 22 months of complicity, why the media
suddenly changed its mind on Gaza.

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Pretty interesting. All right that he says that the
mask has fallen off of Western leadership and their corporate
media machinery. They aren't allowed to suddenly
pretend as if they weren't complicit in this genocide.
After 22 months of complicity insilence, Western news outlets
appear to have had an epiphany about the live stream genocide

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in the Gaza Strip. Yet, given that this change has
coincided with a similar rhetoric shift from Western
leadership, it's not been received the way that they had
hoped and shouldn't be. You may have noticed a near 180°
pivot in the way that Western media outlets have been
reporting on Israel's actions inthe Gaza Strip.

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Let me make this a little biggeryet, given that this change has
coincided with a similar rhetoric shift from OK, I get
that one in. So just months ago, the BBC, Sky
News, CNN, The Associated Press,and even popular commentators
like Piers Morgan, who's owned by Rupert Murdoch.

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Anyway, it's talk TV network or channel.
We're all framing the genocide. It's Israel's defensive war
against Hamas. Well, now that same media
machine is challenging Israeli officials standing up to Zionist
propaganda and in many cases calling out Tel Aviv's policies

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for what they are, in line with what human rights groups and UN
reports have been saying for months, years now.
On Thursday. It's really weird, Coordinated
BBC, Associated Press, AFP and Reuters even released a joint
statement expressing their concern for their journalist

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colleagues in the Gaza Strip reef.
How many stories have we got have we done about Gaza
journalists being murdered on this show and on INN news?
Too many. Like dozens it feels like.
Too many. Stating that the Gazan
journalists, and they're not gods and journalists, they're
Palestinian journalists that were trapped in Gaza are now

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facing the same dire circumstances that they are now
that those they are covering. Yeah.
While some have. He preys upon these media
outlets and personalities for suddenly standing up.
Many have seen right through it,as have we, so in light of this,
it's important to explain why this is in fact all performative

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and frankly, downright insultingto begin with.
The sudden shift appears to be justified across the Western
mainstream media spectrum on thebasis of Israel's three month
long total blockade of Gaza and recent statements of senior
officials, particularly Finance Minister Bazazal Smotrich

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Bazalo. Sorry, he's a douchebag.
Absolute. Like, that dude belongs in The
Hague, in prison right now. In order to assess whether this
acted as the straw that broke the camel's back and suddenly
caused an awakening, we have to look at how true it is that the
situation on the ground in Gaza even changed so dramatically

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because it really hadn't. All right, 147 days, I believe
we're up to right now. According to Paula ISL's graphic
that she shared this morning on Facebook on the point about the
statements coming from prominentmembers of Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Milikowski's government, it is blatantly

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false that there has been any kind of major rhetoric shift in
recent months. In fact, what only needs to go
back to South Africa's submission to the ICJ in late
December of 23 to get a full list of genocidal statements.
Again, that was 18 or 19 months ago when the ICJ genocide case

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hearings took place in January of 24, and I remember that Reef
and Colin were one of the few news shows that covered those in
detail. One of the most convincing
arguments presented by South Africa's legal team was the fact
that everyone from Israeli PrimeMinister, President, defense
minister to media personalities had made genocidal remarks which

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then were interpreted by soldiers on the ground as orders
to commit a genocide. On October 9th, 2023, two days
after October 7th, then Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
asserted that his military was fighting, quote, human animals,
UN quote, And that, quote, I have ordered a complete siege on

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the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no
food, no fuel, everything is closed, UN quote.
This leads us to the next major reasons cited for the alleged
collective epiphany across corporate media spectrum, which
is the Israeli policy of starvation.

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Yes, Israel did impose a complete siege of Gaza for over
80 days. Yet during that period, which
came after Israel decided to arbitrarily scrap its ceasefire
agreement, the media shift did not yet occur.
The number of people starving todeath in the Gaza Strip has
undoubtedly reached levels not seen before, although it should

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be noted that this is not actually the period in time when
the largest number of overall daily deaths have occurred.
That's also insane. Nor is it true that the
starvation policy is something new.
So now count now to counter this, some may push back by
claiming that this time it's clearly as a result of a much

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more deliberate approach. Well, yet this would in fact
ignore the fact that in April of2024, Israel's top rights group,
Bit Salem released a report entitled Manufacturing Famine in
which they accuse Israel of deliberately implementing
policies aimed at inflicting famine, which did actually begin

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to unfold before the Israelis were ultimately forced to allow
some aid to enter Gaza. Thanks guys.
So then we come to these statements appealing to Israel
to allow aid into Gaza and expressions of concern for
journalists. Let's address the statements of

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concerns such as the BBCAPAFP and Reuters statements.
Again. Let's reflect on the idea that
Gaza's journalists are now facing the same dire
circumstances as those they are covering, as if they hadn't been
before. Hadn't been right.
This would have been. True.

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The doctors and the aid workers and and to and.
Right. This would have been true if it
had been published 22 months. And the hostages.
Oh yeah, the hostages. Right, right.
Yep, Don't forget them. This would have been true if it
had been published 22 months agoand only now are they suffering
the circumstances of those they cover.

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No. They've been suffering exactly
as the rest of the population has since the beginning of the
genocide. These journalists don't need
statements of concern. They deserve an apology from
BBC, Reuters, Associated Press and AFP for the atrocious
reports they put out throughout the genocide that have worked in

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many cases to whitewash and justify Israel's actions.
And I'll never forget the press conference we put where Abu
Baker Abed spoke for 5 minutes eloquently berating the Western
press. How dare you?
At least 217 Palestinian journalists have been murdered

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by Israel since October 7th, 2023, making this war in Gaza.
It's not a war, it's a massacre inflicted by the Israelis on the
Palestinian people, who have no tanks, who have no helicopters,
who have no military. The deadliest for journalists in

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human history. No big deal.
That's more journalists who've been killed covering the
genocide than died in all of World War 2 and Vietnam
combined. Yes, World War 2 and Vietnam
combined. That spans what, from 1939 to

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1945? So that's six years, and Vietnam
was another 1965 through 1970. Three another eight years.
So you're talking about 14 yearsworth of actual war where they
were shooting on both sides and journalists embedded with
troops. All of that combined, every

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journalist that died isn't as much as the 217 that were killed
already in the last 18 months byIsrael themselves.
Every other country on earth canadd up to what fucking Israel
did again. 217 Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel
since October 7th. How many times 217?

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Fuck Israel's for that for sure.Yeah, 2. 117,000,000 Fuck
Israel's for that. If we pair the shift in coverage
from these media outlets with the change in rhetoric from
their respective governments, orat least major political parties
they align with, it begins to make sense.

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What's truly happening here? Well, what is happening here,
Robert? Hillary Clinton was one of the
proponents of the systematic Hamas rape campaign hoax, which
worked to justify the continued slaughter of civilians in the
name of going after Hamas, despite there being no evidence

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to support this claim. And now she calls for
humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. Fuck off Hillary.
UK Prime Minister Kid Starver, oh, I mean Keir Starmer also
delivered remarks calling for anend to the suffering in Gaza and
urging Israel to allow the free flow of aid into the besieged

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coastal territory. At the same time, however, he
continues to sell weapons components to the Israeli
military and punishes activists domestically for standing in the
way of the weapons industry's role in genocide.
Oh, also, he's sending spy flights.
He's sending fucking spy flightsdaily from in Searlik base in

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Cyprus to oversee and monitor Gaza for the AI drones to be
able to come and murder everybody that's in the area.
Yeah, thanks Kid. Starver, It suffices to say that
this is not authentic. It's all performative.
Why, Why? Why?
It comes down to a few differentreasons.

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The 1st is that the scale of thestarvation inflicted in Gaza was
becoming a bad look for Israel'sallies.
Unlike the case with bombing, there's literally no excuse that
works to justify stopping food from reaching A civilian
population. And then there's the aspect that
this of this that the western governments and media are

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putting on a show as they sense that the genocide is in its
final stages. The governments make empty
statements without any real action to follow it up, and
while western media gets to try and salvage their tarnished
image the whole war, the whole world has watched every outlet

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once held up as the gold standard of journalism lies so
blatantly and work as stenographers for the Israeli
Foreign ministry. So now in order to enter
relevancy on the topic, they have to put up a front that
they're holding the Israelis to account.
This also opens the door for them to begin shaping the

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confines of what the acceptable discourse on the issue should be
after it has clearly gotten out of their control.
From right to left. The politically non affiliated,
all major social media influencers and independent
reporters are now comparing Israel to the Nazis and they
call what's happening in Gaza A genocide, as do we.

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These comparisons just a year ago were viewed as socially
unacceptable and now it's normalfor people to liken Netanyahu to
Hitler. Although shit, libs are still
calling Trump Hitler. And which would I guess track
because Trump is sending the weapons to Netanyahu so in that
case they're in cahoots. I mean, Trump is literally

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opening the. United States government, we
don't do that sort of thing. Well, that's what you would say,
except that he pulls out Bebe's chair for him.
Literally. But can I sit you down, Sir?
The mask has fallen off Western leadership in their corporate
media machinery. They aren't allowed to suddenly
pretend as if they weren't complicit in the in the Gaza

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genocide. At the very least, they need to
apologize. Apologize not to their own
public that they failed and liedto, but also to the Palestinians
who've managed to survive this Holocaust.
I don't think that I'm sorry that we whitewashed your
genocide really is going to happen, nor would it have the

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effect that Robert thinks it would.
But it's a nice sentiment. All right.
We're sorry. That's right.
We're sorry. We're so sorry.
We're sorry. Sorry.
That's that's BP. That's the BP.
Oh, dude, it's so good. All right, Well, fuck Israel for

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that. Fuck Israel also for still
imprisoning Dr. Hossam Abu Safia.
It's now been more than 100 and more than 200 days that he's
been in prison, tortured. We don't even know exactly where
at this point. All right, really bad.
And we, we, we said in solidarity.

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Even Amnesty International is calling for his release.
All right, of course we. Also wanted to bring this
article where I've never really heard of this guy before but I
thought this was a good one. It is morally wrong to support
the two state solution for Israel.
Palestine politicians do it because they want to hide the

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fact that they support Zionist ethnic cleansing.
France and the UK and other nations are now saying they will
or might recognize the Palestinian state as if that
were a courageous act of justice.
It is not right. So calling violent ethnic

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cleansing the creation of two separate states is like calling
decapitation by guillotine a cure for acid reflux.
Many people who to their credit want to support justice in
Israel, Palestine and want to support human rights for
Palestinians and want to end theunjust oppression of
Palestinians that's inflicted upon them by Israel's occupation

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of the West Bank, wrongly think that the way to do this is to
support the two state solution. This is a terrible mistake and
here's why. So this is a somewhat long and
historical article. That's actually not that long.
OK, so here we go. 1st, The number one grievance.

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The number one grievance of Palestinians is that the Israeli
government has for many decades been carrying out violent ethnic
cleansing to remove them from the 78% of Palestine that is now
called Israel just because they're not Jews.
The number one demand of Palestinians, a totally
righteous demand, is to end the ethnic cleansing by allowing the

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Palestinian refugees to exercisetheir right of return to freely
live anywhere in Palestine, including the part called
Israel, where they once lived until they violently were driven
out by Zionist leaders in 19478 and again in 1967, and are
driven out even today by unjust oppression such as the

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demolition of their homes, whichIsrael has been doing both by
bomb and by bulldozer. This ethnic cleansing serves
only the rich and harms ordinaryIsraeli Jews as well as
Palestinians. This ethnic cleansing, contrary
to what Israeli leaders claim, is not at all for the purpose of

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making Israeli Jews safe. It's for the purpose of
annaling, enabling the billionaire Israeli ruling
class. And yes, Israel has one just
like the US does. And in some cases they're dual
citizens like the Adelson's. To make Palestinians A boogeyman
enemy with which to frighten Israeli working class Jews into

(59:21):
obedience to the Israeli upper class that pretends to protect
them from this quote UN quote enemy.
Note that the Israeli governmenthas and still does fund Hamas,
at least partially. And he's got receipts for that
from pdrboston.org. All right, Israel's government

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attacks ordinary Jews as well asPalestinians.
OK, so that's that's also in another article.
Again, far from the far from ending the terrible ethnic
cleansing, it makes it permanent.
The two state solution is by definition to end the conflict
by having the Palestinians agreeto forfeit forever their right

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of return to the 78% of Palestine now called Israel in
exchange for having a tiny pieceof Palestine.
It would actually be even less than 22% because much of the
West Bank, where there are lots of Jewish settlers living, would
be added to and now be card become part of what is now
Israel in any actual settlement.OK.

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It would be nominally only a quote, UN quote, Palestinian
state. I've been saying that forever.
This Palestinian state would be no more independent of the
Israeli government than is the nominally independent region of
Gaza independent of the Israeli government.
Same thing. Gaza is a place in which
residents can't even leave and into which residents cannot

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import anything without the permission of the Israeli
government. They also can have a military,
they can have a government, theycan have a lot of things.
Because the two state solution, quote UN quote is simply a way
to make the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians permanent.
All Israeli prime ministers havesupported it in principle and

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some, such as Ehud Olmert, have declared it to be essential to
the survival of Israel as a Jewish state, AKA as a state
based on the ethnic cleansing ofnon Jews.
He admits that he comes out right, right, right in print.
Not only is the ethnic cleansingof non Jews from Palestine a
terrible injustice to the Palestinians, it is also part of

(01:01:32):
an attack on the welfare of ordinary Jews living in Israel.
As I discussed in some detail inthis other article that he
wrote, the two state solution isonly good for the billionaire
upper class people who rule Israel and the United States.
Bill Ackman's another one, the existence of Israel as a Jewish

(01:01:54):
state. It is actually no more a state
than the benefit of ordinary Jews than the United States as a
state for the benefit of ordinary Americans, right?
The existence of a Jewish state is part of a ruling class
strategy to control and dominateAmericans as well as Jews living
in Israel, as discussed in this leaflet I co-authored and in

(01:02:16):
this article I wrote here. When a politician cites his or
her support for the two state solution as a way of claiming to
be for justice in Israel, Palestine, it's a lie.
The two state solution is an oppressive and unjust attack on
both Palestinians and ordinary Jews living in Israel.

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Politicians know this. We should know it too.
All right. And then, yeah, here it goes.
This was from a Hood Olmert in 2007 and I thought that was
interesting. And again, what?
Go back in. Go ahead, read that.
Yeah. So the day comes when the two

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state solution collapses and we face the South African style
struggle for equal voting rights.
Then as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished,
Prime Minister Ahud Almer told Haare.
It's Wednesday, the day the Annapolis conference ended in an
agreement to try and reach a Middle East settlement by the
end of the. 2008. The US organizations, which were

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our power bases in America will be the first to come out against
us, Olman said. Because they will say they
cannot support a state that doesnot support democracy and equal
voting rights. All for us.
OK, sure. Yes, and he's not wrong about
any of that. So why did it take 20 fucking

(01:03:39):
years? Yeah.
All right, now this one was my God camera for bread.
Gaza journalists are now sellingtheir equipment in the hunger
market. In a time when photography has

(01:04:02):
shifted from a means of revealing the truth to a
lifeline for survival, Gaza's journalists stand at the fragile
boundary between their proficient profession and
staying alive. OK, these guys are now selling
their cameras because they literally have nothing left to
give to sell and they feel like they've already done all the

(01:04:23):
reporting there is to report. If you can't figure it out by
now, guys, what the fuck? Like, how much more do they have
to give? If the price is saving my
children from death, then I'm atpeace with my decision.
With these words, Palestinian journalist Bashir Abu Al Shair
summed up the most difficult choice of his life, trading his

(01:04:44):
camera, the one he carried into the most dangerous places to
document years of war and what he called his third eye and
companion through every path of coverage and documentation for a
sack of flour. It wasn't an easy decision, but
at a time genocide it became onenecessary first survival.

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OK, he said it came as a result of a tragic reality I've never
experienced before. 42 year old father of seven.
He affirmed that in Israeli imposed starvation has stripped
everyone of their dignity and choices.
There used to be a saying that no one dies of hunger, but that
proverb collapsed and causes borders.

(01:05:29):
Everything that once pulsed withlife has died of hunger here.
Those who remain alive or battling death just to survive.
All right. The markets are nearly empty of
food supplies. 140 days I would guess.
So all the stocks are gone. The famine is growing more
brutal by the day, claiming the lives of those already worn down

(01:05:50):
by pain and hunger. It spares no one.
Siege, starvation, displacement,and killing all our tools the
occupation uses against us. His children hadn't even eaten
bread in days. They cry out from hunger and I'm
powerless to help. We're watching our children die
before our eyes while the world does nothing.

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Despite these harsh conditions, journalists in Gaza continue to
document what's happening aroundthem.
Every day we step out on shaky legs from hunger to capture the
suffering of others, even thoughwe're living the same pain.
For more than a year and eight months, he has not stopped
covering massacres, displacementand tragedies, despite being

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injured twice and his home getting bombed.
Of course he did because the Israelis targeted his home, I'm
sure. I'm just wondering how many
family members he's had killed, he said.
I'm a foul. I'm a Palestinian journalist who
survived death multiple times, survived, suffered injuries, had
my home bombed. But I'm not alone.

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My federal, my fellow journalists are also starving.
Nearly 2 million people in Gaza are dying of hunger.
Save us before it's too late. The Gaza government media
office, which is a joke of a name itself, announced that the
severity and spread of famine are worsening across all
governance following the Israelioccupations.

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Complete closure of crossings for now 147 days and the
blockade on the entry of infant formula and humanitarian aid and
water. That's the other thing that A2
state solution does not allow for, by the way, was water and
electricity rights. The office stated in a press

(01:07:43):
release that Gaza requires at least half a million bags of
flour weekly to prevent a total humanitarian collapse.
It emphasized that the continuedsiege and blockade of food and
medical supplies will acceleratethe impending disaster.
Again, completely intentional byIsrael.

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In the latest statistics available at the time of
publication, the Gaza Health Ministry announced that famine
related deaths have now risen to154 cases, the majority being
children in the elderly. We've seen the pictures, man I
It's heartbreaking. Amid a complete absence of any
politically binding or serious international response,

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journalist Abdel Ahmed Abdel Aziz is no better off.
Again, the situation, he says the situation in Gaza is
unbelievable. People are collapsing in the
streets from hunger. There's no cash liquidity and
even if there is, prices in the markets are astronomical and
unaffordable. He described the US and Israeli

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run a distribution points as death traps.
Again, we've covered that before, quote.
Those who go to fetch a sack of flour sometimes return his body
parts inside that very sack. Like Al Shair, Aziz also had to
make the difficult decision to sell his equipment for food.

(01:09:07):
I sold one of my microphones. I used to document the war since
its start, but the money only lasted me two days.
Now, with great pain, I say I'llhave to sell my professional
camera. Before the war, a sack of flour
cost $15. Today, a kilogram cost 30.
A loaf of bread is 3, and each person needs at least two loaves

(01:09:31):
per per meal. We're talking about prices that
no one can afford. Here's another photojournalist
spent over 20 years documenting life in Gaza through his lens.
Fadi Tibet, from rare moments ofjoy to daily tragedies, now
finds himself forced to part with his entire archive to feed

(01:09:54):
his children. This archive spans decades and
contains thousands of images andvideos that capture Palestinians
suffering and resilience. We carry cameras to convey the
truth. Then we return home empty handed
except for the world's abandonment.
How do we film death and then live it?

(01:10:16):
He had apologized for initially postponing his interview due to
exhaustion from severe hunger. We are not only enduring hunger
in our stomachs, but also the oppression of dignity and
stripping of humanity. Again, totally the intent and
point of what Israel is doing. There is a systematic policy to

(01:10:37):
starve the Palestinian people inGaza amid this genocide, a war
to break their will. He said the event also described
the dire circumstances that forced him to sell a year's
worth of visual memory for a single sack of flour.
We're now in the fifth stage of famine.

(01:10:58):
People's faces are pale, their eyes hollow, see nothing but
fear and hunger. There's no longer such a thing
as hope. The world wears a cloak of shame
before images of mothers and children dying of hunger.
Quebec concluded that the battlein Gaza it's now no longer just

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against extermination, but also against a hunger that devours
humanity. Families who survived rockets
and bombings now find themselvesfighting for a piece of bread.
It's so fucking cruel and the scarce aid, if it arrives, turns
into a threat to life or an unattainable dream, he said.

(01:11:39):
With every sale of equipment andphoto archive for survival, the
world loses another set of eyes that bear witness to the truth
in Gaza. Again, Israel's intent.
Amid these testimonies of starvation, the cries of Gaza's
journalists coalesce into a single message.
Save us before the voice is buried along with the image.

(01:12:01):
Again, that's from PRISM Magazine, PRISM Reports, PRISM
reports.org. But I got more.
I'm not going to go through thisone.
There's a long one from Sam Husseini, 12 points on the
Zionist occupied territory. And Epstein Democrats suddenly
pretending to call out Epstein and talk about a billionaire

(01:12:23):
cabal. They won't mention let left Lex
Wexner, the two deadly arms of empire manipulate their bases to
ensure genocide. So go read that one.
I'm going to put that in the description, all right.
And then the ones I did want to show was this one.
Oh my God. So we got Trina Parsi put this
one about Anthony Anthony Aguilar.

(01:12:46):
And I don't know if you've seen this, but this is a Green Beret
who testified and and went on British TV or Israeli TV and
literally was saying that he sawa 5 year old Palestinian boy
kiss his hands to thank him for the food he gave him.

(01:13:06):
Seconds later, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a starving
child. ISIS prisoners were treated with
more dignity than these kids. He said, all right, and there's
a minute 11 video. I guess we'll we'll show that.
And he put down his the little food he has.
You notice he doesn't have a box.
He doesn't have a box of food. He has half of a bag of rice

(01:13:27):
that he found on the ground, a broken bag, half a bag of
lentils that he found on the ground.
And he was thanking us, thank you.
This little boy, from where he came from, walked 12 kilometers
to get there, just to get there,12 kilometers.
Look at this boy. And when he got there, he
thanked us for the remnants and the small crumbs that he got.

(01:13:49):
And he sets them down on the ground because I was kneeling at
this point. And he sets his food down.
And he places his hands on my face, on the side of my face, on
my cheeks, these frail, skeleton, emaciated hands,
dirty. And he puts them on my face.
And he kissed me. He kissed me.
And he said thank you in English, thank you.

(01:14:10):
And he collected his items and he walked back to the group.
And then he was shot at with pepper spray and tear gas and
stun grenades and bullets shot at his feet and in the air.
And he runs away scared. And the IDF.
We're we're. Shooting at the crowd.
So they're shooting to control the population that's along the

(01:14:31):
Moran corridor. And as they're doing that,
they're shooting into this crowd, shooting into this crowd
and Palestinians, civilians, human beings are dropping to the
ground, getting shot. And Amir was a one of them.
Amir walked 12 kilometers to getfood, got nothing but scraps,
thanked us for it and died. Yeah, so Trita Parsi again put

(01:14:58):
that video up as well as the pictures the.
Army for 25 years. I I've been shot three times in
combat. I'm pretty tough.
Just get me. Every time, because to what
you're saying, the dehumanization and what I want
to say to the American people and to the people of Israel,
I've been there. I have touched them, I have
talked to them. These the, the civilians in Gaza

(01:15:20):
that are getting the food, they are starving.
They are not animals. They're human beings and they're
being treated like animals. We treat these civilians in Gaza
worse, with less dignity than wetreated the ISIS fighters that
surrendered and Bagus Fagani in Syria in 2018.
This young boy, This is on May, excuse me, May 28th on secure

(01:15:47):
distribution site #2 the, the aid had been distributed.
A lot of people had left. You see behind, there's a crowd
of people still with their boxeskind of getting ready to leave.
And this little boy, his name isAmir.
And he was standing, you know, he's with, he was with the
crowd, but he walks over and yousee that first picture on the
top right, He kind of walks overto me and he, and he puts out

(01:16:09):
his hand. And at first I thought like that
he, that he wanted more food or something.
And I felt bad because I didn't have anything, but I was like,
oh, I have, I have nothing. And he, and he puts out his
hand. And so I, I beckoned him to come
to me. I said, you know, come here.
And he reaches out and he holds my hand and he kisses my hand.
He kisses me, he kisses my hand.And he says, Shukran, you can
see in this picture that this little boy is not wearing shoes.

(01:16:31):
His clothes are falling off of him because he's so skinny.
He walked 12 kilometers. I put my hand on his on his left
shoulder and I and I and I looked at him and he's looking
at me. We're looking at each other in
the eyes. And I say to him, people care.
You're a human being and people care about you.
The. World.
That's not Hamas. That's not a Hamas fighter.

(01:16:54):
And I looked at him and I said the world cares.
And then Israel fucking killed him like minutes later.
Sarah continues a mere walk, 12 kilometers barefoot to get food.
He kissed the hand of an American soldier, thanking him

(01:17:16):
for a bag of rice and lentils. Then Israel killed Amir right in
front of the soldier, a child grateful for lentils executed in
broad daylight. Amir was five years old and the
person who murdered him nothing will happen to.
Nope. Fuck Israel.

(01:17:39):
The soldiers name that testifiedthere is Anthony Aguilar.
He's come out as a whistleblower.
He's not the only one. There's now another one, an IDF
soldier now coming out whistleblowing saying that they
were called off their posts on October 7th for the three hours
that the raid, you know, the attack happened.

(01:18:00):
How about that? But finally, I wanted to bring
this. This is the last drone footage
that we've seen that Israel doesnot want getting out.
An aerial view of what Gaza Cityarea looked like this week,
taken from a Jordanian military aircraft by our colleague at

(01:18:20):
Heidi Photos. Those are hollowed out
buildings. There is nothing left.
Somebody also noted that there is not one bit of green anywhere
in this photograph. Yeah.

(01:18:41):
Destroyed all of it, all right. Not only that, but note that
this image had to be smuggled out of that military aircraft
against Israeli orders, like theMaladi de Famine photos smuggled
out of Warsaw in 1942 that documented what was going on at

(01:19:02):
Auschwitz. And then I brought this.
Israel does not want the world to see the aerial footage of
Gaza. But Al Arabi TV journalist Dalal
Mawad got it. The world must see this
destruction and the tent cities.Here we go. 28 seconds.

(01:19:25):
I got sound. There's a tent cities on the
beach. There's.

(01:19:57):
Nothing left. There's nothing left except the
people that have survived, managed to survive. 18/19/20
months of it's 22 months now of destruction and famine and the
healthcare system being completely destroyed and the

(01:20:21):
water for 3 1/2 months etcetera etcetera since March 2nd.
Disgraceful. Fuck Israel and fuck the United
States government for funding arming this.
Fuck you everybody. They all, including the
corporate press, they all need to be brought on charges.
I want a Nuremberg too, for all of this.

(01:20:42):
We need to have some kind of reckoning for this.
Yes, Greg. Almost like an inside job.
Fog of war, right? Fog of war, that's what they'd
say. Something 15 years ago was a
sci-fi horror. Except that they did this 15
years ago too and they got allowed to do it again.

(01:21:06):
People ask how did it happen? Because our people are as stupid
as the Germans were in World WarTwo.
We got people right now that arecheering this shit on.
Look at fucking Twitter. All the Trumpers that they now
turned into genocide defenders. Because he's arming and funding
it. Well, that was a long fuck
Israel. And for that, you know, we're

(01:21:27):
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Soul Nuremberg was held because of the degree of sadism of the
atrocities there. You think there ain't a similar

(01:22:12):
degree of sadism here? We've got rape and torture
prisons that are there. The Israelis are fighting for,
like to, to do more of. Yeah, no, Yeah.
Gross. All right.
The spy thing was is crazy. So this one is a crazy fucking

(01:22:32):
story. The CIA built hundreds of covert
websites. Here's what they were hiding.
What a surprise, right? This is Alan McLeod, Mint Press
news Indy Media Award honoree CIA that didn't just infiltrate

(01:22:55):
governments and infiltrated the Internet itself.
For over a decade, Langley operated A sprawling network of
covert websites that served as global spy terminals disguised
as harmless blogs and news hubs and fan pages.
Beginning in 2004, CIA established a vast network of at

(01:23:16):
least 885 websites, ranging fromJohnny Carson and Star Wars fan
pages to online message boards about Rastafari, spanning 29
languages and targeting at least36 countries directly.
These websites were aimed not only at adversaries such as
China, Venezuela and Russia, butalso at allied nations including

(01:23:40):
France, Italy and Spain, showingthat the United States treats
its friends much like its foes. What a surprise.
Go to my website. So a Golama Reza Husseini is a
former CIA informant. In 2007, the Tehran based

(01:24:01):
industrial engineer contacted the agency and offered to pass
them information about Iran's nuclear energy program.
His CIA handlers showed him how to use Iranian goals.com to
communicate with them. Iranian Goals was a Farsi
language website that appeared to be a dedicated to local

(01:24:23):
soccer news. However, what appeared to be a
search bar at the bottom of the homepage was actually a password
field. Typing the correct word in would
trigger a login process, revealing a secret messaging
interface. Each informant had their own web
page designed specifically for them.

(01:24:43):
Insulate them from others in thenetwork.
Compartmentalized. It seemed like an ingenious
idea. However, Hosseini and other
spies were soon detected thanks to sloppy mistakes.
In DC, an Iranian double agent revealed to the authorities
their unique website and some basic detective work led to the

(01:25:07):
uncovering of the entire network.
CIA purchased the hosting space for dozens, perhaps hundreds of
these websites in bulk, often from the same Internet providers
or the same server space. That meant that the IP addresses
of these websites were consecutive again to housing

(01:25:30):
each informant in adjacent properties on the same St.
Thus, and this is what's funny, if you looked at neighboring IP
addresses, you would see similarly designed websites and
could easily put two and two together.
Even with some relatively basic online searches, Iranian
authorities were able to identify dozens of CIA read

(01:25:54):
websites. From there, they simply waited
to see who would access them. The Iranian Intelligence
Ministry channel. The Iranian Intelligence
Ministry claimed that 30 individuals were arrested and a
further 42 CIA operatives were identified.
Oops. Some websites such as Iranian

(01:26:17):
Gold, kings.com, First News, source.com and Farsi Dash,
newsandweather.com and still be accessed through the Internet.
Wayback Machine. A complete list of known CIA web
pages can be found at this link here.
Hosseini spent more than nine years in prison and was released

(01:26:39):
in 2019. He's received no support from
American officials, even though they were responsible for him
being in jail for nine years, who haven't even contacted him
since his arrest. What a shock they disavowed any
knowledge. the US, however, continues to attempt to
overthrow the Iranian government, sponsoring high

(01:26:59):
profile opposition figures and hijacking domestic protest
movements. We remember that color
revolution they tried to implement 3 years ago, right?
Right reef. Yep.
I think they covered you guys covered that.
That Lady running it? Yep, in June, right?

(01:27:21):
In June, it also carried out airstrikes on nuclear facilities
across the country, allegedly. That didn't really have much
impact on their nuclear capabilities.
Allegedly. So a network of websites span a
wide range of topics. Again, you would guess that
Rasta Direct, a website dedicated to the relatively
niche religion of Rastafari and anything to do with U.S.

(01:27:44):
intelligence. CIA also created Star Wars Web
fan page for the sci-fi franchise and all Johnny a page
dedicated to Johnny Carson sports, gaming new sports.
Yes, it's a platmon sports and gaming news blogs, however, were

(01:28:07):
the most common topics for fake websites.
Because there's so many of them,these websites serves as cover.
EA Sports, it's in the game, right?
These websites served as cover for informants, offering some
level of plausible deniability if casually examined.
But upon close inspection, few of these pages provided any

(01:28:30):
unique content and simply rehosted news and blogs from
elsewhere, linking to already available resources.
There's nothing wrong with aggregate websites, but when
they're run by the CIA in order to hide.
There's anything wrong with that?
Do I run one called any news now?
But that's not what we're doing there.
And I don't have a lot of secretlogin for the CIA to be able to

(01:28:50):
communicate with anybody do. You ever work for the CIA?
Informants and enemy nations such as Venezuela used sites
like Noticias Caracas or El Carrero de Noticias to
communicate with Langley, while Russian moles.

(01:29:12):
Nice, nice little fucking you. You put the Castilian on there.
You've been listening to the Antonio Bandera a little bit.
You put that. My online game source was used
My online game source and again today's news and weather-ru.com
were used by Russia and similar other platforms, however.

(01:29:35):
Allegedly. A vast network of informants in
allied countries again such as France and Spain and Italy, was
also uncovered. The bunga bunga guy.
How do you think Rachel Maddow found out about that?
Was also uncovered using financial news, mountaineering
and running website and running websites?
Because we needed a running website to pass on vital

(01:29:56):
information in the CIA. Yeah, dude, put tape on your
nipples or else the. That'll burn.
The shirts will burn. They're gonna come.
They're gonna find you, dude. That's like, that's exactly,
that's the Phil Dunphy advice. Here, CIA polo's chafe, dude.
You know, Modern Family is definitely CIA aligned in some

(01:30:16):
way. All right.
However, a vast network of informants in allied countries
like we said, such as France, Spain and Italy, was also
uncovered. Germany was also another country
Walk Washington actively targeted.
In 2013, it was revealed that UShad been bugging the cell phone

(01:30:36):
of Chancellor Angela Merkel for over a decade, sparking a major
diplomatic rift. I would say thanks Obama, but
that went way back before Obama.That was under W.
One year later, in 2014, Germanydetained one of its own
intelligence officials after catching him spying for the
United States. Oops.

(01:31:01):
So then we have the CIA's China Network, right?
China, however, remains a top, Atop target.
Yeah, they're them. They remain a top target for CIA
because they can't penetrate it.The organization maintains an
extensive network of informants across the country allegedly

(01:31:22):
who, when the network was active, used platforms such as E
Chest news.com and Sports newsfinder.com to transmit
information. Ironic they also use the fucking
chess guy as a fucking CIA OP himself, right?
You know which one is that? Someone will tell me.

(01:31:45):
Dwell Thomas in the chat. Probably will.
Was it? Was it Bobby Fischer?
Yeah, I think it's the other one.
I think Jimmy called him out. Yeah, he and and he was in that
Taibbi letter also. I can't think of his name now.
Anyway, fuck him, he's also a Zionist.

(01:32:05):
Yeah. But as in Iran, Chinese
authorities began to dismantle the network starting in late
2010. So again, this has been gone for
a while. The spying networks, It was
systematically dismantled by officials, likely using similar
tactics to those of the Iranians.
I'll bet the Iranians told the Chinese.
Unlike Iran, however, China, simply Iran didn't fuck around.

(01:32:28):
Oh yes, Garry Kasparov. That's right.
Thank you, Cookies. Good to see you man.
Fucking mook you fucking chest nerd.
Yeah, but he, they got they, they got him out and he's now
like flipped and he's, you know,neoliberal and on the side of
rah rah. America.
Sure. All right, sure.
But unlike Iran, however, China simply executed the operatives.

(01:32:53):
They didn't fuck around. Fuck around, find out.
It's believed that the CIA lost around 30 informants in the
purge. This affair is considered one of
the worst intelligence failures in the 8 Agency's nearly 80 year
history, and I believe it was also covered in Vault 7.
That's going to be a pretty highbar.

(01:33:13):
There's been a lot of failures over there.
Yeah, but 30 agents lost in a country like that is real bad.
Since then, the US spy network in China has been severely
diminished. That's that's being kind, Alan.
Earlier this year, the CIA changed tack, publicly releasing
2 videos encouraging disaffectedCommunist Party party officials

(01:33:37):
who spy for them in exchange formoney and the prospect of a new
life in America. We played those videos on AM.
Wake up. They're hilarious.
As I rise within the party, I watch those above me being
discarded like ward out shoes. But now I realize that my fate
was just as precarious as theirs, says the narrator.

(01:33:58):
In one our leaders failure to fulfill repeated promises of
prosperity has become a well known secret.
It's time to build my own dream,he says.
In another meanwhile, China's eliminated like poverty and
hunger, and they've built high speed rail and done all the
things that we can't seem to getdone here.

(01:34:21):
CIA instructs would be traders to download the Tor browser and
contact CIA via its website. While Tor is marketed in the
West as a privacy tool, a previous mid Press news
investigation revealed that it was created with funding from
the US government by a company with ties to Ciai believe that

(01:34:42):
company is called Brave. Last year Washington passed a
$1.6 billion bill to finance anti China propaganda worldwide,
$1.6 billion while healthcare billion dollars for propaganda

(01:35:04):
against China. This isn't the only time the US
national security state has created fake web platforms in
order to stoke regime change around the world.
No, you don't say. In 2010, USAID ACIA front
organization. Again, let's repeat that.
USAID is a CIA front organization, or at least was

(01:35:28):
until Trump dismantled it and brought it in house in house and
made it more covert. They secretly created the Cuban
social media app Zunzuneo, oftendescribed as Cuba's Twitter
Zunzuneo rocket into prominence.The app had been designed to
offer a reliable and affordable service, undercutting the

(01:35:50):
competition before gaining dominance and slowly
disseminating anti government messages to the island.
Then, at a given time, Zuneo would urge users to join
protests coordinated by the US. Color Revolution, anyone?
In an effort to foment a color revolution on the island?

(01:36:11):
Just pause for a second. Be my guest.
Yes. You know, you know, you know how
they like, we're going to accuseTikTok in China, right?
It's like every accusation America has is just a confession
because here they are in Cuba fucking doing worse.

(01:36:33):
They're outright like, hey, go protest your government and
here's, you know, names and dates and like, let's have a
revolution. Like, OK, you know, just fucking
telling themselves all the time.Well, yes, but they also do like

(01:36:55):
foment that revolution and arm that revolution because the
people that run it will end up. Oh yeah.
Succumbing to whatever US wants them to do in the in the end.
And that's the whole reason for submitting the color revolution
in the first place. Oh God no.
This is not the part where Indy mentions their weaponizing

(01:37:16):
crypto monarch. That's going to be later.
Hey, they might have crypto donations on Star Wars Beyond
the Unknown. You know they would have like a
a Darth Maul NFTI don't know. Again and getting back to Zune,
Zuneo, that was the Color Revolution app.
Zune, Zuneo. I love saying that it's just a

(01:37:38):
fun thing to say. In an effort to hide its
ownership of the project, the USgovernment had a sold held a
secret meeting with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to endure to
encourage him to take over. Now, it's unclear to what
extent, if at all, Dorsey contributed to the project.
He's declined to comment on the matter.

(01:37:59):
In 2012, Zunjuneo was abruptly shut down.
This is the Star Wars bulletin board site all right now.
While the 885 fake websites werenot established to influence
public opinion, today the US government sponsors thousands of
journalists worldwide for precisely this purpose.

(01:38:21):
Crime Group Earlier this year, the Trump administration's
decision to pause funding to USAID inadvertently exposed a
network of more than 6200 reporters working at nearly 1000
news outlets or journalism organizations who were all
quietly paid to promote US messaging on in their countries.

(01:38:44):
Also belling crap, Oksana Romanyuk, director of the
Ukrainian Institute for Mass Information or for Mass
Propaganda, warned that nearly 90 percent, 90% of her country.
Misinformation. That's right, Nina Jankowicz
would fit in perfectly over there. 9090% of her country's

(01:39:08):
media outlets relied on funding from USAID to survive.
I wonder if they were going to this Ukrainian getting billions.
No. So let's skate.
I wonder if they were propagandizing on behalf of the
US and Zelensky. I just wonder what's up.
Oz the boomer. Good to see you, brother.
You would. Think.
All right, a survey of over. 20.20 leading media organizations

(01:39:29):
in Belarus revealed that 60% of their budget came from
Washington. In Iran, more than 30 anti
government groups came together for a crisis response meeting
while in Cuba. In Nicaragua, anti government
press resorted to soliciting donations from readers.

(01:39:50):
CIA has also successfully infiltrated the largest and most
popular social media networks, giving the Agency substantial
control over what the world seesand does not see in their news
feeds. Facebook has hired for dozens of
former CIA officials to run its most sensitive operations.

(01:40:11):
Perhaps the most notable of these individuals is Aaron
Berman. As the platform senior
misinformation manager, Berman ultimately has the final say
over what content is promoted and what is demoted or deleted
from Facebook. Yet in 2019, Berman was a
high-ranking CIA officer responsible for writing the

(01:40:33):
President's daily security brief.
It was at that time he jumped ship from Langley to Facebook,
despite having little relevant professional experience.
Google, if anything, is even more saturated with former
spies. And again, a Mid Press news
investigation revealed dozens offormer CIA agents who hold top

(01:40:56):
jobs at the Silicon Valley giant.
Among these is Jacqueline Lepore, who spent more than 10
years at the agency working on Middle East affairs before being
recruited to become Google's senior intelligence, trust and
safety manager. The role gives her considerable
influence on the direction of the company.

(01:41:19):
This form of state censorship ishow the agency prefers to shape
the Internet today. CIA continues to maintain a vast
worldwide network of informants.Today they use custom built apps
such as Tor or Signal to communicate.
Can you hear me? Everyone that uses Signal,
that's what the CIA uses. If they're caught by their own

(01:41:42):
countries, they'll likely to be left left to their own fate like
Hosseini was. More like the people in China
were. Being a spy or a stool pigeon
for CIA is as perilous as ever. Fucking such a good one by Alan
McLeod. Go support Alan McLeod at Mid
Press news OK? They got to see only one McLeod.

(01:42:04):
He's. He's as good as it gets, man.
He's, I would put him, you know,in, in a top five list.
You know, I don't want to use the, the, the monument that
everybody uses that that puts heads on there and everything
because it is insulting to Native Americans.
But if there were a monument to the best journalists in the
world, I would put Alan Mcleod'shead on there, no question.

(01:42:28):
All right. He's as good as it gets and he's
exposed so many different thingsand I appreciate him.
And Menor Adly from Mint Press news, who not only found and
platformed Alan McLeod, but he also, she also platformed and
found Whitney Webb. So she's 2 for two in my book.
You know, I give Menor a wide berth even though I know one

(01:42:49):
time Mint Press kind of ripped off our stuff and covered over
our logo. You know, we still love them
even though they never apologized, but Alan does
amazing work and please support them they.
Kind of half assed it but I'll take it.
Yeah, they sort of published a link underneath it the day later
after getting called out. But anyway, we are user funded

(01:43:13):
like like mid press. We're under attack from
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annual basis. All right, so I also had one
more and this is a funny one, but it's it's dystopian and we
have to laugh at dystopia at this point.
All right, Normal Island News isanother Indymedia award honoree
2024. Love Laura Kay or whoever writes
as Laura Kay because Laura is actually a shit lip that's on

(01:44:22):
like board Sunday morning TV in Britain.
Laura Kuzenberg. That's not her.
She is this is not the real Laura Kay.
No, yes, Bellin says. We are the crypto.
Wednesday, by the way. You read this?
I did. Oh I did.
I did not go check out my nanny state Internet clip that.

(01:44:44):
Troubles today, yeah, UK government celebrates ruining
the entire Internet for the whole world to save zero
children from harm. So then go read Reef, because
that's good. We're running late and it's
short and sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger
man's clothes. So we'll just move to lighting
round. That's that makes it easy.

(01:45:04):
OK, so I don't know if she's in chat Dissent in Bloom.
I did not bring one of her articles this week yet, but she
wrote a hell of a killer one Tuesday before we had our
one-on-one. She published it like an hour
before we went live. And this is deep.
This has a lot of shit in it that you need to know about.
All right, this defense bill that passed the House, now, it's

(01:45:26):
not the final bill that's going to end up on Trump's desk, but
it's going to be close. The Senate's going to add their
pork to it, send it back, and then they'll end up on Trump's
desk, all right. But the shit that they put in
here is real bad. Real bad.
Like another 500 million for Israel real bad.
But that's just the least of it.Oh nice.
All right, 600 million explicitly labeled as classified

(01:45:51):
confidential or open-ended with 0 transparency, OK, even though
the Pentagon hasn't passed the single audit since in 2018, as
in, you know, ever, but since they began in 2018, All right, I
can't tell you that it's classified.

(01:46:13):
Again, 500 million mark for reforming national security
systems with no explanation and a clause that lets military
officials spend it in secret, noquestions asked, as long as they
sign the right form. What exactly are national
security systems that they're reforming?
They don't exactly say. There's no definition list or

(01:46:33):
programs or even examples listed.
They left it vague and they justwrote themselves a massive
check, a blank one relatively. So go read this one.
There's a lot in here. All right, so that's the first
one. Second one is World Social's

(01:46:56):
website and this is where Monarch Monarch was talking
earlier about crypto is that crime is now legal apparently.
Everything else that you're playing with.
Yes, that too. So crime is now legal.
And it looks like thanks to the Trump administration and other
governments and central banks, everybody's on board this crypto

(01:47:18):
train and nobody is trying to stop it.
And that's scary as shit becausewe know that it's not going to
last long term. It's designed to crash the
worldwide, you know, financial markets.
So what Nick beams over at WorldSocial's website says is that

(01:47:39):
official backing for crypto is creating conditions for
financial crisis. All right, That retail investors
have been pouring money into thelow priced stock of low profit
and even loss making companies such as Krispy Kreme and GoPro
and Open Door Technologies. Those were the meme stocks,

(01:47:59):
right? You remember that NVIDIA just
hit a $4 trillion market cap. That company is now worth $4
trillion and their order books are full as far as the eye can
see. They're only going to print
money. They're going to be a $10
trillion company at one point. The companies targeted or lose.

(01:48:21):
OK. The companies buy for meme
stocks are targeted are those which have been heavily shorted.
Shorting is a process which investors borrow shares which
they sell to them and then buy back at the lower price to honor
the loans and pocket. The difference is profit.
It's parasitic, but if enough retail investors buy the stock,

(01:48:41):
pushing the price up, the short sellers can be forced to buy the
shares in order to meet their commitments and exit a losing
trade. Right?
The that was the game stock thing.
The return of the meme stock phenomenon is an expression of
the market frenzy which has sentindexes to record highs.
This followed the fall in April on the back of Trump's unveiling

(01:49:04):
his reciprocal tariff agenda, which he continues to kick down
the road. By the way, every time it gets
close, he either puts out a new set, which is, ah, we'll just 90
day delay. We're going to keep working on
that. In a note issued last week,
analysts at Deutsche Bank considered whether the rise in
borrowing to fund stock purchases was a sign of the

(01:49:25):
hottest euphoria since 1999 and 2007.
Both of those events came beforea significant collapse, the
so-called tech wreck of 2000 and2001 and the global financial
crisis of 2008. On top of this present round of
speculation, the passage of the Genius Act has prompted warnings

(01:49:49):
that a major crisis is in the making.
The ACT purportedly sets up the regulation of stable coins,
providing a path for big money to enter the market for crypto
coins. Stable coins are a crypto asset,
quote UN quote. But unlike the myriad of crypto
coins that have been created, ofwhich Bitcoin is the most

(01:50:09):
prominent with its price recently passing $120,000,
they're supposedly backed by an asset, either dollars or U.S.
government bonds. Their chief function is to
provide the link between the financial system and the crypto
world by providing easier and anonymous access outside the

(01:50:30):
regular banking system. Except we know it's not
anonymous because no wallets arereally anonymous that they don't
want to be. Unless it's a cold wallet on a
USB storage drive, most of the stuff is going through
exchanges. There's an unusual feature of
the passage of the Genius Act which reveals is essential
function. Normally the so-called

(01:50:52):
libertarians who promote crypto rail against any regulation, but
on this occasion they pressed for its passage, spending
hundreds of millions on lobbyingcampaigns directed at both sides
of the congressional aisle to secure legislative support for
crypto. They wanted government approval
for crypto stable coins in the guise of regulation to reassure

(01:51:15):
major companies, banks, financial institutions and small
investors that it's safe, thus ensuring the inflow of more
money. And we're going to show even
more in a second for crypto. It's an an existential question.
Having no intrinsic value, the price of coins can only increase
and profits made provided new investors and their money are

(01:51:40):
pulled into the market. Same mechanism as any other
Ponzi scheme. Yep, at the same time, the
related Clarity Act is being sent through Congress to ensure
the regulation passes out of thehands of the SEC and to the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is regarded as

(01:52:00):
more crypto friendly or more bought by the crypto industry.
The new legislation opens the way for banks and major
corporations to issue their own stable coins.
Herein lie the seeds of a major financial crisis.
Wait till Visa and MasterCard start issuing their own dollars,
and it's not just going to be governments issuing money, but

(01:52:22):
corporations. And you'll end up with Visa
bucks and Disney bucks and this dollars and a whole wallet full
of money that can only be used in certain places at certain
times, if at all. And like that, will my Chuck E
Cheese bucks still work? Basically it's baseball cards
all right, so there's there's a lot more to this article.

(01:52:46):
I encourage everyone to go to, I'll put the, the link in the
description. All right, Similarly, this lady,
Tiffany Sianci, I don't know her, but she talks about,
there's, there's a 15 minute video about the Papa Seer Trump
is issuing a $12 billion bailoutto every private equity firm in

(01:53:07):
America. And what she's talking about is
them opening up crypto to private equity and pension 4 O1
KS. So now 4 O1 KS are going to be
able to dabble and buy crypto intheir portfolio mix.
And that opens a $12 trillion market to buying crypto.

(01:53:29):
For the past several months, I have been warning everyone that
the private equity industry was creating a massive bubble in our
economy that was about to pop. Well, it just went.
And right now they have sent allof their lobbyists to
Washington, DC to beg the government for a bailout.
And it's happening. Donald Trump and his
administration are issuing an executive order that will take

(01:53:50):
$12 trillion of your retirement savings, not taxpayer money,
your money. And it will bail out not only
the private equity industry, buttheir biggest investors.
They're going to bail out Harvard and Yale and every
billionaire investor. Private equity is about to
grift. Let's get into it.
That's right, everybody. Trump is set to issue an
executive order that will open the floodgates and allow private

(01:54:12):
equity funds to access and tap $12 trillion dollars in four O
1K holdings in America. And the same people that control
your four O 1 KS have debt that is stuck with private equity
right now, giving them poor returns and in desperate need of
a capital infusion. No conflict of interest here
everybody. Just look the other way.
Private equity is in big trouble.

(01:54:34):
They need to bail out fast and you are their only hope.
But don't worry, don't worry, it's going to be good for you.
It's going to be the deal of a lifetime for you.
All right I'm not going to show the whole thing you go watch
that she's good all right so real quick I mentioned early in
the show our friend Joe blank all right the at the Rev Joe

(01:54:55):
blank go follow him on Twitter, go support him.
I told him to pin this. I'll also put it in the
description. And when I cut this is a small
clip. You'll be able to to see the
link there too. But he asked me if I would be
willing to share this and I saidfuck yeah.
Dude, of course you've been a big supporter.
Joe's a hell of an artist. He draws with pencil and his

(01:55:17):
drawings are amazing. He's he sent Misty several.
I actually saw one hand drawn inNew York City at the New
dissidence show. Janice Countess brought one as a
gift for Jose Vega. And it was a drawing that Joe
had done of Jose Vega. So I saw it up close and
beautiful drawings. So Joe wrote this article about

(01:55:40):
how he really needs some help, how he's down almost out, all
right, and he wouldn't be writing this unless he really
needed help. He used to work on Wall Street
as a back office guy, all right.Now he'll be honest.
He doesn't have a high school degree, never wanted one, all
right. Worked in restaurants.
He's in the rural S, all right. He said somewhere around 2017 I

(01:56:03):
had a heart attack. I'd already been dealing with
several relatively debilitating autoimmune disorders.
He was already a type 1 diabetic, managed OK, walked
with a limp because of arthritissince childhood.
All right, so basically he was he tells me that he's living out
with his mom and that it became like really untenable.

(01:56:25):
He said I had a desperate option.
I Co own a small farmhouse with my estranged mom, left to us by
my grandpa who was like my dad. My mom and I never got along.
My youth was spent being either physically abused or neglected,
abandoned here on the farm for years at a time.
Then she was more interested in cocaine, alcohol in men.

(01:56:47):
We hadn't seen each other for almost 15 years.
But it begun speaking again and I felt comfortable enough giving
it a shot. I couldn't be a burden on anyone
else. I didn't want to be a burden on
anyone ever. So I came back home.
Social Security again denied me and closed my case.
I was at least making a few 100 bucks a month with the art and
figured it was the only way to survive and have a little peace.

(01:57:10):
So things were cordial until oldhabits started again being held
as a captive audience. My mother, who has now had a lot
of psychological issues and possibly a good helping of
dementia, now in her early 60s, started speaking to me and
treating me just like she did asa kid, but worse.
Now I was faced with someone whowas venting all their
frustrations on me, telling me how I never amounted to

(01:57:33):
anything, what a sorry motherfucker I was.
If I had to spend all, if I had to spend a day in bed, I was
lazy, that sort of stuff. He has no socialization and I
was a convenient punching bag because I was here.
So he wants to get out effectively.
All right, here I am. I can't live like this.
I can't. Literally.

(01:57:54):
He's already shot off 2 of her 4husbands, she's shot two of her
4 husbands, and she's literally made thinly veiled threats to me
in the past. She's got guns stashed away and
I don't know where, and I can't guarantee one night I might just
not get shot myself. So I asked once a few months
back with a little help getting my car repaired just so I can
get away from here if I needed to and cut it off once I had the

(01:58:16):
bare minimum to get it roadworthy.
But this escalation has me way more worried and strung out than
I ever was. What's to stop her from putting
a bullet in me and just using the story that I came at her?
Nothing. So rather than take it to a
darker place, I figured I would just throw it out there, humble
myself again, and ask for help that I don't deserve from random

(01:58:37):
people who might be willing and able.
He knows a place locally, an apartment complex and ghetto
with studio apartments with evenout without even a fridge or a
stove that he can get possibly barely a Ford.
He just needs some help, right? He does.
It's that or he doesn't know what without a place to keep his
insulin cold. If he were to just sleep in his
car, it would spoil. Georgia doesn't allow a single

(01:59:00):
man to have Medicaid. That's fucking nuts.
Maybe he can find somewhere to move where he could.
He doesn't know. But again, there's Venmo, Cash
App, or they're on buymeacoffee.com.
I just want to live a quiet lifeand draw cool people.
Put something into the beautifulin the world.

(01:59:22):
Until he crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
All right, so if you can help our friend Joe, that would that
would be awesome. I'll put that link out there in
the in the chats now for everyone but that that's Joe.
And then the other person that Iwanted to mention is is Anthony

(01:59:42):
Malecki, who was probably in chat tonight.
A lot of people know Cowboy Kitty all right, but he put out
a fundraiser for his sister-in-law and dissent in
Bloom is actually looking into the case and finding a bunch of
more stuff. But she's going to need a
lawyer, going to need some help.She was illegally detained by

(02:00:05):
ICE and I, I believe she still is at this point, But share it.
Every dollar counts. Anything you can do, you can go
to the GoFundMe and read about it.
Anthony's talked about it here in chat before.
But, yeah, if you can, if you can help help them out, that
would be amazing, right? Working mother taken by ICE.

(02:00:28):
All right, in defense of NataliaBletchkova, she's been here nine
years legally, currently in the process of applying for a green
card, working and paying taxes as a box truck driver, taking
care of her daughter. She had been taken into ICE to
custody after being illegally stopped over a registration that
was not expired. All funds will go to her legal

(02:00:51):
defense and to help her get her life back together after this is
resolved. And as it turns out, the law
that, you know, the rule that allows cops to work on Ice's
behalf is not in effect in theircounty.
So what they did was illegal. But of course, crime is legal
now. So everything's off the book.

(02:01:11):
Everything's, you know, all betsare off, but that doesn't mean
we don't stop fighting and then we stop fighting.
Yes, she's still in custody. Thank you, Anthony, for letting
us know. Sorry about that, Vletshkova.
Appreciate that. Sorry for butchering the name,
but I did want to share this andget people seeing this and share
the fundraiser, anything that anybody can do.

(02:01:31):
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Solidarity with Anthony and his family.
Solidarity with Joe Blank and his struggles and really
appreciate anything that anybodyin this community can do to
help, to help our friends and family.
These are the people that have stepped up for us over the years
and provided us with support andjoy and friendship and
camaraderie. And This is why we're here for

(02:03:18):
everyone, you know? So what else we got going on
here? Yeah.
You're welcome. We love, we love you, brother
Anthony. You know, we of course we're
going to do that. At least we can do.
And thank you, Natalie. Natalie's a trooper.
She's AG. She she she supports everybody.
We love Natalie and Kamashwari, Kate.
I'm sure she'll help out. Oz the boomer.

(02:03:40):
So many people are going to stepup.
You watch. All right, Yeah.
We're going to do boats. We are.
I'm excited to do some boats anddo some eye bleaching to forget
some of the shit that we talked about.
But man, fuck Israel for all theshit that they're putting us
through. Good Alan MacLeod article, I
wanted to read that Laura Kay thing but if you read it there

(02:04:00):
was no point to me double dipping.
But man, the UK is doing some crazy shit.
You know, with their age restriction stuff.
Those in the UK, not that I would advise you to do so, but
if you hold up a picture of a cartoon character of an adult
you can get past the sensor blocking.
But that's just my word of advice.

(02:04:21):
So until next week, if we're here next week, we'll see you,
but we'll try to be here next week.
I love you all. Thank you for coming.
And keep independent media, keepfunding independent media,
support independent media because we need it more than
ever. And I'll see you soon, folks.
Love you. Bye.

(02:04:47):
Ciao baby. No, we just fucking lost the
stream. I think I liked it better being
blind when I couldn't read between the lions and when I

(02:05:12):
couldn't see the cracks in the structure that lay bare before
me the whole time. I think I liked it better back
when I had suspended disbelief and swallowed pride.
I thought I knew the difference in the red from the blue, but
they both bleed us so dry. They.

(02:05:32):
Both bleed us so dry. My favorite songs don't hit the
same way. I get to the end of a 4 minute
track and I'm only looking back thinking what did they actually
say? I guess this isn't such an awful
place. Got what you want me to say?

(02:05:53):
Hey, you'll prove it's possible to sleep for days and they still
think you're right here away. The cost of living isn't much to
me, but God, it's so hard to sayHey, and we're meant to do
everything I said. Were you safe?

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