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Who are these people? Who are these people?
Is this going to work? I don't know.
It's Sunday night. It's Inn.
It's Reef and Collin. And it's, no, it's not Reef and
Collin. Holy shit.
We have to cut that. It's Indian Reef and it's How do

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we miss that? That's what's going on Sunday
night. Holy shit, maybe no imposter I'm
I'm I'm really secretly calling everybody.
Imposter. Are you still on your other

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headset? No, I think you switched to the
Yeti. I think you're good.
No, yeah, I think I'm on this right.
This is should be what I'm on this right here.
That is buttery smooth. Yes, that is.
That is radio host buttery smooth.
There you go. Got it right up in there.
This is indie news network for we we normally are professional

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and do this right. So this is this is indie.
Hi, I'm me and that will not really know the truth.
And then, and then that's Reef and we're here to do some
horrifying fucking news because we do that every Sunday night
and welcome. We're live on 9 platforms like
we always are. Thankfully we're live to all of

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them because we had a little hiccup Thursday night with
Jesse, but we fixed it Friday night.
Everything went out fine and we're fixed and looks like we're
doing all the right things tonight.
So I'm glad everybody's here. Good to see Kamashwari Kate
here. Appreciate you being here.
Kieran Pine. How are you, Sir?
I see Angel Rivera go check out the handsome cynic.

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Angel's actually got a GoFundMe or not a GoFundMe, but he's
trying to raise some money for his new laptop.
So if you're able to, and it means there is a PayPal, there's
a Venmo, he's got a cash app. So if, if you have, if you see
his tweet, he he put out a tweetabout it earlier tonight that if

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you're able to help out, that would be awesome.
I actually checked in. I saw there was a photo on
Facebook of Yeti and he shaved off the beard straight to a porn
stash and cut his hair short. It looks really different.
So we'll we'll have to check in and and get him back out here

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soon. I know he he said he's working
on like better power sources outat at the property.
So everybody who doesn't know heand his wife bought a property
in Canada last year. They literally like built their
house from the ground up, like from laying a foundation, the
little shed that they live in tosolar and growing food for the

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land and everything like the unbelievable.
But yeah, it's, it's been, oh, the other thing I, you know,
last night we, we watched the UFC fight between Kamzat
Shamayev and Drakis Duplesi. I did.

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I didn't bring it as an article,but a couple of people were not
aware that this week the UFC made a major announcement about
TV and and what's happening going forward and that starting
next year they're going to eliminate the pay per views and
move exclusively to the Paramount Skydance app.
Paramount Brighton Who bought Who bought Paramount recently?

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That would be the Ellison's. We covered that two weeks, 3
weeks ago on this show, correct?That would be CIA, Larry,
Oracle, Ellison and his son David.
They also bought they own CBS and rights to a lot of other
things, including South Park. Now they've got the UFC and
apparently they're going to do stuff across all the different

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Paramount platforms from the power mount plus to Acbs show to
who knows what else. I'm guessing they'll be like a
like a Showtime version of of the behind the scenes thing to
compete with the Hard Knocks. There might be, you know, an up
and coming thing like like the next fighter they used to do I
think right at one point. Yeah, they're still going to do

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all that. That's all part of the UFC so.
Right. So that'll all be part of like
the new Paramount stuff. And they say they're not raising
the price. We'll see what happens.
Even if it's 1499 a month, that's a whole lot better than
charging 80 bucks a month for the pay per views.

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Plus you have to be a subscriberto ESPN.
Like no that you have to have ESPN plus.
Just to get a pay-per-view. Never paid brother.
Right, Russian link. Congrats to Congrats to Commsut,
who was dominant and they've gotanother, another Russian,

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another Russian champion. So that was fun to watch.
I mean, a lot of people were frustrated.
And technically. Ted Chechnya, you know he's not
Dagestani. That's right.
But you know, yes, Come see. Comes out.
Yeah. So thanks to one.
Thanks to one. But yeah, they'll raise the

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price for for sure. The shareholders aren't going to
want to pay that 7.7 billion. I don't know.
I think the advertisers won't mind.
Like collectively, you know. I don't know.
All right, we'll, we'll see, butthey will probably end up
raising the price because they're going to bring in other
properties and content as well. I, I read somewhere that the

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entire company right now was only worth about 6.7 billion,
but they committed to 7.7 billion / 7 years to the UFC.
They're like, how can you do that?
Well, you're only committing 1.1of that six and you're adding a
massive property on top of it. So that's how yeah, Sean, the
according. To you bro, pay-per-view model,

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more people watch the the thing that they're trying to deal with
is people are stealing the pay per views forever.
Russian link bro, just like whatwe're talking about.
Right. If people don't do that and
actually pay. So the story is that you've got
billionaires. Billionaires.

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And of course. And millionaires.
UFC is owned by a company calledEndeavour.
We talked about this recently onsome show, I don't remember if I
was on EM Wake up or something, but Endeavour.
Zufa, right? Endeavour owns TKO, which also
owns WWE and IMG Sports and a bunch of other properties.

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They're becoming a full service.I think it might be an
ownership, but it's a full service partnership.
They're they're becoming like anend to end distribution house
where they'll have the in house marketing and the agent and the
organizations and everything. And that's why you're seeing a
lot. Of this I forget.
I don't know, but that's why you're seeing a lot of cross

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promotions between UFC and WWE. It's because they're in the same
family. So you're going to see more of
that. You might see more of that.
But now WWE is going like ESPN plus a little Peacock stuff, and
they're spreading it out all over the place and they're
actually increasing what it's going to cost you to watch WWE.

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It's almost flipping it on a dime, which is really
interesting to see how it's all playing out and which model will
end up winning out will be interesting.
So I know you guys didn't come here to hear about flights and
television rights. Nobody cares.
We care because we watch this shit every weekend.
So it's it's interesting to see.I watch it and I still don't

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care. It's interesting to see how it
all is going to play out on top of the fact that you've got
Oracle massive Zionist buying. Especially when Trump is showing
up. Right, right.
And you've got a massive Zionistbuying into.
The Angels talking about WWE promoting the Canelo fight,
That's zoo for boxing. That's what I'm saying.

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That's putting that on. That's fucking.
Hussein is involved with that too, I think.
And they'll probably end up bringing slap fight into it too
for all we know. You know, he'll end up selling
that, selling that for a billiondollars too, just to shut him
up. They'll.
Behind, I've given Dana the freeidea to just do head kicks.
That's, you know, that's the show.

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We just trade head kicks and seewho gets knocked out.
It'll be the first one that lands.
A head kick is the one that'll win.
So, you know, whatever. Somebody needs to start a cunt
count. I love it.
Yes, that's a great idea. We need a cunt count there for
every time I say cunt. That's a great idea because
there's a lot of cons out there.What?

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What? That's not the question.
The question is why not? Why not?
All right, we, we don't ask why here, we ask why not.
All right, So, yeah, we're goingto talk about and I saw actually
JB covered it today. I'm happy that somebody else did
anywhere in the space because he's probably going to be the
only other one that I know of. VA terminates union contracts

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for nurses. That's bad.
You know, look, fuck, fuck the US military, but the soldiers
that come home that are fucked up, they, they are entitled to
healthcare for what they did, you know, serving wise and
putting their bodies and brains and lives on the line.
And they were offered a bargain.And we're not.

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Yeah, but we're not holding up our end of the bargain.
And that's the problem. And so we're going to talk about
that. We're going to talk about what
do we do every. Week.
This Fuck Israel. We're going to, of course, cover
a lot of fuck Israel this week. Then we're also going to talk
about the war crimes that were perpetrated by the US and UK in

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support of Israel's war crimes. No more fuck Israel there.
And then we're going to get to some of the authoritarianism and
the crazy shit that's happening here.
And I've got a long lightning round.
There's a bunch of stuff in the lightning round.
So I want to get going before weget started.
Eric Meyer, thank you so much. Like literally 10 minutes before

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Actually, I need to check on thechat.
Hi everybody that's there. Oh my goodness, look at all
those people over there. Oh my goodness, who are these
people? We got 17 over there over on who
are these people over on the substack right now?
So thank you for that. Good to see everyone over there
and all right, so we're going toget started with our, I'm not
going to, I'm not going to copy our brother kid.

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First segment of tonight, nurse.org, not a publication I
frequent, but this one's important.
VA just terminated most federal union contracts, including the
National Nurses United. That's bad.

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OK, so what's happening? In a significant shift affecting
approximately 360,000 healthcareworkers, the Department of
Veterans Affairs or the VA has severed ties with most federal
unions, including National Nurses Organizing Committee and
NNU, terminating existing collective bargaining agreements

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effective August 6th, 2025. What the fucked?
This unprecedented move voids union contracts for about 80% of
the V as 450,000 person workforce who were previously
represented by federal unions. This is an attempt to union

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bust. It may or may not work for VA
nurses. This decision eliminates long
standing protections that have governed working conditions,
staffing ratios, wage negotiations, workplace safety
protocols, and grievance procedures.
My guess is that because it had the letters DEI involved in it

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somewhere, that they terminated this.
So AFLCIO of government, Government employees, National
Association of Government Employees, the National
Federation of Federal Employees,the NNU Service Employees

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International Union, of course the SEIU, they're pretty famous,
all of them. The termination of union
contracts coincides with the VASplan to reduce its workforce by
approximately 30,000 positions by the end of fiscal year 2025.
I don't know who's going to be left.
According to the cited report, those reductions will occur

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primarily through attrition methods, including retirements,
voluntary slash quote, UN quote,forced resignations and
separation incentives rather than immediate mass layoffs.
So that basically they're going to take some of the more
veteran, experienced people and offer them buyouts to walk away,

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which of course will be a brain drain on the VA.
For VA nurses specifically, the combination of voided union
contracts and workforce reductions raises several
practical concerns, I would say.So first, patient to nurse
ratios may increase as positionsremain unfilled following

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attritions part of their plan. They tell you how much like Baga
loves the troops, right? Second, without you what?
I didn't hear that. What?
Nothing. Without without union advocacy,
compensation packages and benefits may stagnate or

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decline. Also part of the plan.
Third, workplace safety protocols, particularly
important in psychiatric and emergency settings.
Nothing to see here. They may be too difficult to
enforce. Oh, man.
So the VA has stated that these changes followed departmental

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reviews aimed at operating and improving operational
efficiency. That sounds very much like a
DOGE thing. Those specific details about how
nursing practice will be restructured remain unclear.
So wait a minute. You let all these people go, you
terminated the contracts, and you didn't even lay out what the

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future is going to be and how you're going to handle it.
Nice. Lawmakers and nursing
organizations have expressed concern that the combined impact
of contract terminations and staffing reductions could
compromise care for care qualityfor veterans.
Could. I think it almost assuredly

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will. What do you mean could?
What is with this namby pamby bullshit hedging language?
As this situation evolves, nurses working in VA facilities
should stay informed about how these changes affect their
specific roles and responsibilities.
You want to talk about clinical?Oh my God this is this is like

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like right down the middle article right here.
Just this is the way it is not not angry at the people for
terminating it for no reason other than they want to save
money that isn't theirs. Professional nursing Nursing
organizations are monitoring developments closely and may
offer guidance for affected nurses navigating this new

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landscape of VA employment. Thanks so much for your help by
the way. This is the bullshit press
release that they put out on August 6th.
The move will ensure the VA stays focused on veterans
instead of spending millions of taxpayer dollars and

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approximately 3/4 of a million hours per year on union
activities. Union busting, yes, that's
protected. They're allowed to do that.
You can have organized workers at a mass level and they are
allowed to be paid to meet. Department of VA today announced

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termination of collective bargaining agreements for most
VA bargaining unit employees, a move that will make it easier
for VA leaders to promote high performing employees.
Yeah, because, you know, those are the ones that get work, work
to the bone, hold poor performers accountable.
All right, So that it's it's allthe people that are that are on
the bottom. They can't fire because they're

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union members and improve benefits and services to
America's veterans, which it's not going to do because it's
going to be a massive cut. The announcement comes in
response to President Trump's executive order that excludes
certain federal agencies from labor management relations
programs. It's not even really on them.
They're being ordered by executive order to terminate

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these contracts. In accordance with the same
executive order, VA on April 25th stopped withholding union
dues for most employees paychecks.
VA today notified the following unions that effective
immediately pursuant to the executive Order, their contracts
with the VA have been terminatedfor most bargaining unit

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employees. And we mentioned who they were.
Contracts covering the roughly 4000 VA cops, firefighters, or
security guards represented by these unions will remain in
place, of course, as those occupations were exempt from the
executive order. Because he loves the cops.

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He's a cop sucker. They're going to.
They're the Gestapo that are going to enforce his bullshit
authoritarianism. This decision is good news for
veterans, families, caregivers and survivors.
Everyone. Several reasons.
Yeah. Ask ask a VA nurse if it's going

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to be good news. All right.
VA staff will spend more time with veterans.
That's bullshit because in 2024 alone over 1900 VA bargaining
unit employees there are 360,000right 400 three 160,000

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employees. So 1900 of them spend hours
working on taxpayer funded uniontime.
Yes, because they had to make sure that all their workers
weren't getting screwed by you. The government fuckers hunts and
to the counter. Including some who are paid.

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Including some who are paid morethan $200,000 a year.
Yeah, I'm sure those people probably attended like 2 hours
worth of meetings over the entire lifetime of the thing,
but they pinned it on it's part of the 750,000 hours.
Dude, you sound like Pearl clutching little bitches.

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VA facilities can focus on treating veterans like they act
like they're holding powwow meetings instead of actually
treating patients. Guys, the backlog is how fucking
long already. They can't treat the ones they
got, but they have to be able toorganize and make sure they're
not getting screwed by their bosses.
Yeah. Yeah, Lollipop.

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Oh, here they go. More than 187,000 square feet of
VAS office in clinical space is being used by union
representatives because we don'thave enough office space in this
world, right. Free of charge, because it's for
the people who work there. Yeah.
This has cost the VA millions ofdollars.
OK, so make them privatize and go to another place.

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Great, that's that's only going to fuck over your employees who
now have to use the dues that they've already paid out of
pocket to their union. They now have to pay for office
space. Thanks.
Yep. Instead of using a structure
that's already there and office space that was already in
existence. But thanks.
Today's decision will ensure VA facilities are fully focused on

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helping veterans get the care and benefits they've earned
instead of serving as three regional offices.
For unions that oppose our efforts to improve VA, that's
what's happening. Unions are opposing their
efforts to quote UN quote, improve.
That's use of AI, that's use of digital HIPAA stuff.

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That's all kinds of crap that the nurses know what's coming.
They're smart. To be the Guinea pigs.
VA can manage its staff according to veterans needs.
Guess what? You could do that without and
and still work with union members, not union demands.
Uh huh. Labor contracts have restricted
managers ability to hire, promote and reward high

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performing employees. Yeah, they're not allowed to
vote to promote somebody who's aunion member.
Bullshit. I call bullshit.
Hold poor performers accountable.
Right. Holding poor performers
accountable. There's a process.
You write them up, you give thema talking to.
There's a process. They don't want to go through
the process, they want to be able to terminate poor workers

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of color. I must say it, they want to be
able to terminate poor workers of color anytime they want
without anybody saying otherwiseand any due process for that
employee. Fuck you cunts.
Today's decision frees VA managers to act in the best
interests of veterans rather than union bosses.

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All right, so blow me is what I would say here.
You're fired. Then we have the statement from
the National Nurses Union. All right, National Nurses
United. President Trump continues waging
class warfare against the working people of America.
Today's announcement to terminate our union contract,
along with the contracts of our union siblings, all right, is an

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attack on those who dedicate their lives in service of
others. We make this a little bigger.
This is just the latest salvo inthe battle to break the spirit
of working people in this country.
But we will not be broken. I don't think that that's really
what is going on here. It's trying to move towards AI
and not break the spirit. It's trying to literally replace

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us with machines. We will continue to fight for
and assert our constitutionally guaranteed collective bargaining
rights and to speak freely against policies that hurt
veterans and the public. That's our duty as nurses and I,
and we knew it. We have a friend of the show
who's a nurse here, several of them, and former.

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This is in spite of the Trump administration's unprecedented,
outrageous and irresponsible attacks.
That's at least somewhat inflammatory language.
NNU recognizes this effort to erase our collective bargaining
agreements is a blatant attempt to bust our unions and to
silence our nurses and workers who are standing on the front

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lines to protect our country's fundamental institutions.
We know this administration is hell bent on silencing nurses
and other VA workers to steamroll the destruction of the
VA. This administration is marching
toward the privatization of veteran care so they can move
billions of taxpayer money out of the VA system which is proven

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to provide excellent veteran centric care and into the
coffers of private health corporations run by billionaires
who don't give a fuck about veteran or veterans and won't
have specialists to deal with veterans specifically.
This president has made it clearthat he has no respect for the
Constitution, but we believe strongly that our right to join

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together to collectively bargainis constitutionally protected.
And they're right. It cannot be swept away through
an overreach of an executive order based on spurious claims.
We will continue to pursue legalaction with our fellow unions in
the seat in the in the case filed April 3rd in US District
Court for Northern District of California challenging President

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Trump's March 27th executive order, his EO removed collective
bargaining rights of nearly 1,000,000 federal workers.
That's making America great again, right?
The unions argue that the executive order was an
unconstitutional retaliation against the unions for engaging
in activity protected by the 1stAmendment.

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But we know he doesn't give a fuck about the Constitution
either. Cunt nurses never abandoned our
patients, and we will continue to our fight for funding and
safe staffing levels that our patients deserve.
As union nurses, we understand the collective bargaining rights
are fundamental to carrying out our critical role as patient

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advocates. It's because of VA nurses
ability to speak up about patient safety through our union
that our nation's veterans receive the highest level of
care. Studies have shown unionized
hospitals have better outcomes than non unionized hospitals
because nurses and other staff are able to speak up about their

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concerns and hold management accountable.
Because there's a process to getrid of people, they can't just
fire the one that speaks up. Veterans deserve nurses who are
free to advocate for their care without fear of retaliation,
discipline or losing their jobs.This is at least a strongly

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worded letter. The other one was disgraceful.
That's what I was going to say it was.
Well, yeah, except that it's it's accompanied by a lawsuit.
And that's what you have to do. You win this in the courts, you
make the courts undo this, the courts reinstate.
But that hurts veteran care. The courts reinstate veteran

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rights, OK, That they have to reinstate this and this is
removing rights from veterans. Like wouldn't the veterans want
to sue about this because it's going to reduce their quality of
care? Yeah, Nurses, nurses always
abandoned patients. It happens all the time.

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I I would say that the nurses that are in chat would would
certainly disagree with you there.
Right. Thank you, Kieran.
We're we're up to six on the cutcount.
Make it 7 all right. Don't encourage them, you
fucking animals. Well, God, what's your

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profanity? VA and Trump like again, the the
VA had no choice here. They were allegedly, you know,
bound by executive order to do this.
So it sucks the, you know, this is a Stephen Miller crafted
plan. This is a private healthcare

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insurance funded plan because they want those veterans in the
system paid by the US military for profit.
And that's what's going to end up happening.
There's one of the nurses right there.
Wait, I can abandoned my patients?
What the fuck? Why didn't somebody tell me
sooner? Let's up the center Bloom.

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Lady Alex was at work yesterday.OK, Hi, Lady Alex.
We'll say hi to her. We're saying hi to everybody.
Oh, I see Golden Monarchs in thechat.
I actually wanted to shout out and I'm going to shout out your
article later on tonight. I'm going to show it for a
second and tell everybody to go read it.
That's going to be in the lightning round because Golden
Monarch put out a new article that I thought was really

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important for everybody to look at, right?
Good. Now we have to close that and
close that. Nobody gets to look at my DMS.
Nobody gets to look at my DMS, OK?
Why fucking Twitter always turnsit back on you fucking piece of
shit ass. Stop.
Piece of shit. Stop.
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It's time everybody knows it's your favorite segment every
week. It's.
What? What was that?
Is that for boats later? That's what that.
Was is that for boats later? Oh, that's just OK.
It's everybody's favorite time. It's fuck Israel time.

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Elevator Music. Every day is Fuck Israel Day
when they're actually when they're committing genocide.
So I'm just going to. Start.
Nice with a Sky News and becauseyou know how how much we love
corporate media around here. Officials say that more than 100
people have been killed in Gaza in 24 hours, making it the

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deadliest day in a week. A.
Week. 100 people in 24 hours is the deadliest day in a week.
Fuck Israel. Yes, and Tiberius of course has
to point out Still less deadly than 10 minutes in Philippi.
I don't even know what that means.

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Yeah, OK. And then you've got all the all
the garbage clowns in the replies.
So not to be, not to be outdone,gross.
All right. Dave Dekamp at antiwar.com.
Israeli forces killed 50 Palestinians in Gaza over 24
hours and another 4 Palestiniansstarved to death due to the US

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backed Israeli blockade. Isn't that nice?
So this was, this was August 14th.
That was three days ago. So that was on Thursday.
Dozens. Health ministry said on Thursday
that Israeli forces killed 50 Palestinians over the previous
24 hour period. Relentless US backed Israeli

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attacks continue across the strip amid Israel's preparation
to escalate its genocide of war.Because they haven't murdered
enough yet. The Health Ministry said that
the bodies of another 4 Palestinians killed by previous
attacks were recovered. Quote a number of victims still
under the rubble and on the streets where ambulance and

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civil defense crews are unable to reach them at this time
because they've destroyed all the roads.
I didn't even know there were any ambulances left at this
point. On top of the violent deaths,
Palestinians continue to starve to death due to the Israeli
blockade and restrictions on aid.
The Health Ministry said that itrecorded 4 malnutrition deaths

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over 24 hours, which brings the total number of victims of
famine and malnutrition alone to239, including 106 children.
There's photo of 1 killed in an air strike.

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Among those violently killed by the IDF were desperate
Palestinians seeking food aid. We're going to cover more of
that. The Health Ministry said that 22
aid seekers were killed and another 269 were injured.
And of course, they don't have the medical capabilities to
really take care of those 269 bydesign since the US backed Gaza

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Humanitarian Foundation. Do you mean American mercenaries
began operating at the end of May?
The Health Ministry has recordedthe deaths of 18181 aid seekers
and the injuries of 13,860. Three starving people.

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Unbelievable. The God the Palestinian news
agency Wafa reported that at least 5 Palestinians were killed
by Israeli fire near an aid center north of the southern
city of Rafa. The news agency also reported
Israeli airstrikes and shelling in Khan Yunus and Gaza City.

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I think one of those shot by Israeli fire in the north were
was filed. At least 8 Palestinians were
killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in Gaza City's Zaitoun
neighborhood. Israel has significantly ramped
up its attacks on Gaza City as it's preparing to launch a new

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offensive to take it over a planthat involves forcibly
displacing 1.2 million civilianswith artillery fire.
The Health Ministry said that the latest violence has brought
its death toll since October 7th, 2023 to 61,776 officially.

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Number of wounded two, just over154,000, almost 155.
Studies have shown, of course, that the ministry's numbers are
likely a significant undercount.And that's I believe the Nader
article that says it's like halfa million.
So subscribe to antiwar.com. Dave Decamp, great writer, one

(35:55):
of the top indie media award honoree.
Support independent media like that part of the Libertarian
Institute too. Now, I haven't brought one of
these this guy's articles in a while.
Simplicious a simplicious is garden of something.
Simplicious the Thinker, I thinkthey used to call it as garden

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of something. I think they got rid of that,
but this was just laying it out.Israel announces the final plan
to occupy Gaza. It's not.
It sounds like a final solution.Solution.
Yeah, Netanyahu has announced plans for the final takeover of
Gaza, which he's announced as billing as liberation from Hamas

(36:40):
the way that they declared. Nothing justifies genocide.
The way they declared August 16th Liberation Day in DC,
right? It's unreal.
Same type of shit or whatever. Fifty.
I'm not going to play the RT video because I don't want to
get it knocked out by YouTube. Then there's a timeline

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refresher from 2023 above to thepresent time below.
Netanyahu says Israel doesn't seek to occupy Gaza.
That was November 9th, 2023. But now, August 4th, 2025,
they've just he's decided on full occupation of Gaza Strip.

(37:24):
All right, it's interesting how,given Netanyahu's above
infographic, yeah, fuck the helltoo.
Israel's objectives in Gaza can be super superficially compared
to the Russian SMO. The difference is Russia is
following international law whereas Israel is breaking it.
It was the UN itself which established a known precedent

(37:47):
that a people have the right to self determination when it came
to Serbia being pressured to recognize Kosovo's independence.
But in Donbass or even Gaza, no such right to self determination
and official recognition apparently exists.
In Ukraine, Russia's only enforcing the UN very own
standards on self determination,while in Gaza Israel is breaking

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it. Interesting dichotomy there.
To further highlight the hypocrisy, listen to JD Vance's
latest statement wherein he breezily describes taking
military control over Gaza as being up to Israel.
But the same privilege is for some reason not afforded to
Russia in taking over Donbas. Why is that?

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Well, I think it's because Donbas was technically part of
Ukraine, but they've separated. They've announced their
independence and asked to align with Russia.
There are. Nine years of bombing might
fucking make you feel a way about it.
You might. It might.
There are mounting issues for Bibi, who seeks as swift an

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operation as possible to mitigate growing disaster.
Echoes of brewing civil war haveerupted in Israeli society over
growing exhaustion and the issueof already military
exceptionalism, meaning that thethe ultra Orthodox don't have to
serve all right and you can't goto war.

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There was someone complaining about that too.
One of these rabbis over there was like, you know, they're not
sending, you know, they're sending our children or
whatever. Right.
This includes large ongoing general protests against the New
Gods occupation plan in Israel. Like they're pissed they don't

(39:38):
want to occupy it either. Next is the fact that multiple
world leaders have had enough ofBibi.
Yeah, right. That's all a show.
I'm not even blame it on a Bibi.Right.
Macron announced France would officially recognize Palestine
in September. Aha, bullshit.
Other major countries follows. Palestine already has an

(39:59):
official delegation at the UN. Like officially like, who gives
a shit? It's meaningless.
Yeah, all right. Germany will, until further
notice, authors no military equipment exports that can be
used in the Gaza Strip. Yeah, like they can fucking

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control it. Meanwhile.
Their companies are already deciding to do so anyway.
Right Yesterday, news broke thatTrump had allegedly yelled at
Baby on the phone. Enough of this bullshit.
This is all theater nonsense. They're all in cahoots.
They're all part of this. Of course, virtually all the
political reactions above are performative in nature.

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While every country secretly does its utmost in supporting
Israel's military machine, theseleaders are simply trying to sit
in both chairs, appease their growing domestic Muslim crowds
while still carrying out their secret pro Zionist directives.
Not even secret. This is accelerated recently

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with many other subversive developments taking place in
Lebanon. There are renewed threats of
civil war as the Lebanese government has raised pressure
on Hezbollah to to disarm, whichwould be insane because it just
means your country's totally going to be taken over by
Israel. In an interview with the
Lebanese defense minister apparently admitted to

(41:23):
coordinating with Israel in disarming Hezbollah South of the
Latani. Hezbollah insane Duge.
Insane. Then Al Jazeera fabricate this
interview. But the occupation?
That's a good one. Meanwhile, A cockamamie plan to
relocate Lebanese Shiites to Iraq is even being floated as

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Israel clamps down on its plans to entirely dominate the
surrounding region as total hegemon.
That's nuts. So now they not only want to
expel the Palestinians from Gaza, they want to expel the
Lebanese Shiites to Iraq with all the other Shiites that are
in Iraq. Great.
Greater Israel, anyone? Anybody.

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This is in service of Greater Israel, right?
So then we've got Lebanon Shia or a majority estimated at close
to 2 million. So you're going to drive 2
million people out of the country.
How are you going to do that? I have an idea.
It's the same way they did it toGaza.

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They're going to destroy it block by block.
Bomb the fuck out of it. Unfortunately that's in parallel
to a recent uptick in coincidental events like
Hezbollah ammo sites suddenly going up in flames here.
You had at least 4 Lebanese troops killed, 7 injured by an
ammo blast in the South of the country.

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Reports that they'd been taking down Hezbollah weapons depot.
Footage from Lebanese media of ambulances racing the site.
Right. But you don't get to see what
happened. So this again, we got maps, you
know, Azerbaijan, that's also. Yeah, part of this also.
That's why I wanted to bring this.

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US and Israel continue to push toward total hegemony over the
Middle East with an unprecedented urgency.
On one hand, the urgency is derived from known geopolitical
factors, IE I'm not being on Israel's side, but on another,
from the momentum of a series ofperceived successes which has
caused the US, Israeli hegemon to believe that they can put the

(43:37):
finishing blow on all remaining resistance in the region.
Because they've taken out Assad,they've taken out most of
Hezbollah's leadership. So now the only thing left
standing is Iran and Yemen, of course, the little thorn in the
side. Yeah.
This of course refers to the fall of Syria, like I said, a

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newly perceived upper hand of Azerbaijan over Armenia, which
has allowed the US Israeli hydrato begin maneuvering for a
stranglehold. This brought a recently narrowed
focus on the Zang Zangzer corridor.
Zangzer, yeah. Yeah, where Armenia just signed

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over a 99 year lease of rights to the United States.
I believe Vanessa Bailey wrote an article about this specific
agreement, so go follow her and subscribe at
vanessabailey.substack.com. Another Indie Media Award
honoree. I didn't bring that tonight.
The new corridor is glibly beingdesignated as the trip or the

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Trump route for international peace and prosperity.
Oh my God as they bomb the fuck out of Yemen and Lebanon and
Syria and soon to be Jordan and Egypt and Iraq, I mean greater
Israel. Well, the corridor links
mainland Azerbaijan to its Nach Nachkivian enclave, Nachkivian

(45:12):
Right, which is separated by a 32 kilometer stretch of Armenian
territory. While maintaining the
sovereignty of Armenia over the territory, the route will be
operated according to Armenian law and the US will sublease the
land to a consortium for infrastructure and management
for up to 99 years. I wonder who that consortium's

(45:33):
going to be run by. I wonder if there'll be any
Israeli influence in there. It will facilitate.
It will facilitate trade, energytransit and regional
connectivity, including rail lines, oil and gas pipelines,
fiber optic cables and roadways.Many hardline figures in Iran

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naturally reacted with scathing condemnation, as the deal
clearly implies the positioning of US assets directly on Iran's
northern border. They don't give a fuck.
Yep. No.
I mean, look, we supported Israel bombing them with air
support earlier this year and they didn't do shit really to

(46:17):
us, but they hit the thing in inQatar that everybody that they
warned them in advance they weregoing to do.
Keep in mind, Iran has already notably been attacked by Israel
using Azerbaijani corridors in the last series of exchanges
with attack flight paths chartedhere, right?
So simplicious has actually likedone the work here to chart all

(46:41):
this stuff out. As such, it's clear that the
deal opens up another potential Ave. to box Iran in from the
north, which obviously stands tobe a highly destabilizing
development as Iran will be forced to react.
I mean, what would what would wedo?
Is also go ahead. Also coincides with the David

(47:02):
corridor too, which is like the other part of this that you
know, essentially it's, it's we're doing 2 two things at once
to try to encroach and encircle essentially, you know, so.
Natalie Williams, happy birthdayto you.
Good to see you here. Sorry, it's been the middle of

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this awful segment, but I saw you there, right?
That being said, many have expressed justifiable doubts
about the extent of Trump's deal, Of course, because
everything Taco. But it's not Taco.
It it, it, it's actually Trump always collapses.
Is is more like it. The deals that he announces

(47:46):
always collapse. It can be directly compared to
Trump's superficial milestone for the development of Ukrainian
land, which everyone knows was nothing more than a political
performance and has no real chance of bearing fruit.
Similarly, here he prefers. Taco salads.
Anyway, right? Sure.

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Although he doesn't like the spice, we know that.
Similarly here, the deal puts points on Trump's scoreboard but
leaves huge questions as to how much it can actually tangibly
accomplish. Some have rightfully called into
question EU s s ability to even construct railways back home,

(48:30):
let alone build out such ambitious freight lines with a
into a new Silk Road S corridor in distant Eurasia, A feat that
requires a major suspension of disbelief.
The US is no China. We can't even get high speed
rail in California. Either way, the economic angle
of Trump's prosperity route deviously conceals the real

(48:53):
geopolitical motives, which as is always the case in Trump's
administration, are tried are are tied to benefiting Israel
first and foremost. EU s s involvement on Iran's
border can only be designed to put new pressures on Iran while
facilitating the long term Zionist plan to dismember or
destroy Israel's arch nemesis once and for all.

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Right, so even Mark Ames says so.
The only problem is any gain forAzerbaijan is a gain for Turkey,
and a gain for Turkey is a loss for Israel.
Thus works the immutable balanceof powers of the region's 0 sum
game. Also, the action has potential

(49:38):
to create the unintended consequence of further
strategically uniting Iran and Russia over the unwelcome breach
in this shared critical region of theirs.
Recall the infamous 2019 Rand report on destabilizing Russia,
which lays out six possible US moves in the the current
geopolitical competition. Provide lethal arms to Ukraine,

(50:01):
which we did. Resume support to the Syrian
rebels, which we did. Promoting regime change in
Belarus, which we did. Exploiting Armenian and Azeri
tensions, which we did, intensifying attention to
Central Asia and isolating Transnistria, a Russian occupied

(50:23):
enclave within Moldova to watch this space.
The comeback, the comeback around Israel's new Gaza
operation is meant as a final solution, as literally outlined
by Israeli officials. And I'm not going to put that
douchebag up. Note the above Palestinians are

(50:45):
to be processed into central camps with anyone remaining in
the city. OK, Yep Yep.
Not concentrated into camps, IE those who refuse to be.
Forcibly and centralized. Central Camps.
They'll be designated as Hamas militants and appropriately
destroyed. This IDF plan is meant to bring

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Gaza under total Israeli control.
Keep an eye out for the the Zyklon B purchases from Israel.
I'm just saying. Seriously, this IDF Final 10 is
meant to bring Gaza under total Israeli control, but with
increasing mass casualty in incidents for the IDF of late,

(51:29):
it remains to be seen how successful this latest bumbling
foray can be. We can only expect more of the
same failure with Netanyahu again forced to drum up an
Iranian threat to extricate himself from another self-made
disaster in a few months time. The only question will be will
Trump reportedly experiencing declining popularity for the

(51:52):
first time, not this time owing to his die hard Zionism support,
will Trump support the inevitable future escalation
train against Iran? Or has he finally had enough and
will he find the backbone to stand up to his boss once and
for all? No.

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Like he had one to begin with. OK.
His boss isn't Bibby. It's Miriam Adelson.
It's the Mossad. Yeah, latest polls continue to
show a strong Democrat surge forthe 2026 midterms.
There's always blowback in the 2020 in the midterms after a
change over presidential election.
So I expect the Democrats are probably going to they've

(52:35):
elected the new vote. No, not a new Pope, a new, a new
Congress. There'll be a new Congress,
whatever, right? But of course, yeah, in the
incorrigibly corrupted AIPAC owned Republicans.
Guess what? The Democrats are AIPAC owned
too. Both sides, Both sides Johnson.

(52:58):
As a last related note, here's eminent economist Richard Wolff
being very direct about what comes next, and I'll let him say
it. Old Wolfie.
American Empire is over. We're done.
We peaked about 1215 years ago and we are on a down and it's
very hard for the American people, which I understand, I am

(53:20):
one. It's hard to get your head
around that. We've had a century of on the
way up, which is a lot more fun than on the way down.
But it does happen to every empire.
We're only the latest. Look at the British, how far
they've fallen. We're in that process.
If you take the United States together with the other G7

(53:41):
countries that used to be the dominant bloc of the world, like
the United States that just enumerate them so everybody know
Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Britain, OK, the G7.
Of war. I'm, I'm going to add up all
the, the GDP, gross domestic total output of goods and

(54:02):
services of all of those seven countries, US and its major
allies. And now I'm going to compare it
to the gross added up GDPS of China and its allies, known now
as the BRICS. OK, you add up the United States
about 28% of world output. You add up China and the bricks,

(54:23):
it's 35% of the world output. We aren't the wealthiest block
in the world. We're #2 and that's new, and
that changes everything. And if.
You first, you know, sabers all over the board.
You put the 7th Fleet in the South China Sea isn't going to
change that. You've got to come to terms with

(54:46):
that. But we are led by people who
don't want to do that because nobody wants to be the
politician who has to explain tothe people it's over.
OK. So just keep in mind bricks

(55:06):
modeled after the World Bank. Yes, Bricks is no better than
the United Nations. That's right, Britch is just
another behavior like NATO, right?
So fuck Israel for that journalist and scholar Asarad.
Fixed it for you. OK, it's not just bad coverage

(55:28):
of Gaza. Western media is also largely
ignoring what's happening in West Bank, which we have been
talking about because if they reported all of it accurately,
the public would see that Israel's real goal is stealing
all the land and erasing Palestinian existence.
What do you mean? Oh the West Bank is seeing a
creepy Nakba? Amazing a lot of stuff happens

(55:54):
that the news won't tell you butthat's all right that's even in
Israel they're they're telling everyone what's happening and as
us all reminds us we covered last week This is why Israel
murders journalists because theyI.
Brought this on Wednesday. Did you a good graphic from
this? Year it is.
It is a good graphic from this year, all right.

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And I think, I think that was all I had tonight for fuck
Israel. I think that was enough.
I like simplicious article that kind of sets a geopolitical kind
of landscape and touches on a bunch of different things.
Go give them a follow. I'll put that it's simplicious
76.substack.com. I'll drop the link in the

(56:39):
description and in the sub stackafterwards.
Oh no, I I did have more. Sorry.
No, not that. In Cowdery, Israel is wiping out
everything we ever had. All right, That's another one.

(57:01):
All right. And she's there.
I tweet what I see and feel. Oh, this was the other one I I
had to bring. This is another one from Indie
Media Award honoree Karen Jiang.All right, a truth out Israel
abducted a child near Gaza aid site and then tortured him for

(57:23):
nearly a month. Unreal Content warning This
report includes graphic descriptions of torture.
Israeli forces abducted A Palestinian child near an aid
site in Gaza in June and took him to a notorious prison camp

(57:44):
where they subjected him to severe torture for nearly a
month. A child rights groups was found
adding abduction and imprisonment to a growing list
of atrocities reported at Israel's aid sites on June 29th.
Israel had already killed nearly600 Palestinians near ear near
aid sites over the previous month. 16 year old Omar Nizar

(58:09):
Mahmoud Asfour was detained by Israeli forces and taken to
State Haman military prison, reports Defense for Children
International Palestine, or DCI P Omar was near an aid
distribution site in Gaza when Israeli forces apprehended and

(58:30):
abducted him. The Palestinian Center for Human
Rights reports that Omar was oneof ten children abducted near a
Gaza humanitarian foundation site that day and imprisoned.
Authorities allegedly held Omar for 26 days, subjecting him to
torture, starvation while he wasalready being starved, and

(58:53):
solitary confinement. Systemic abuse is commonly
inflicted on Palestinians and State Haman and other Israeli
torture camps. He was never charged with a
crime or allowed to meet with legal or humanitarian officials.
Sounds a lot like what the fuck is happening here.

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Yeah. Israeli forces have been
conducting near daily massacres near aid distribution sites
since Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operating in
Gaza on May 27th, killing over 1400 Palestinians this way.
As of August 1st, over 850 of these killings were near Gaza

(59:35):
GHF sites and hundreds of otherswere killed on route to the food
distribution hubs. It's gross.
These massacres have been widelyreported.
Less widely known is that Israeli forces have repeatedly
abducted Palestinians near age GHF sites.
Human rights groups have said some of the 10s of thousands of

(59:57):
Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank who've been
kidnapped and imprisoned since the beginning of Israel's
genocide, including at least hundreds of children.
At least hundreds of children. Imagine that were your kid.
Omar shared his experiences withDCIP.

(01:00:18):
He said he's still experiencing trauma from detent from his
detention, which he was releasedfrom on July 24th.
Thank goodness quote. The memories of my detention
plague my nights, and often I awaken to the sound of my own
screams as if I were still confined within those walls.
The nightmares are relentless, and every time I shut my eyes,

(01:00:40):
the same faces and interrogations replay in my
mind. This is not going away for him
for life, as long as his life continues until Israel decides
they want to murder him after imprisoning and torturing him.
I mean, it's just the worst. Fuck Israel.
These cots man Omar was alongside other aid seekers when

(01:01:04):
Israeli forces encircled them, held him at gunpoint and then
forced him and 34 others to strip to their underwear.
They were taken to an army site where soldiers allowed children
to leave, but then blocked Omar from going with them.
He was a child, but I guess he looked taller than the others,
so they stopped them. Officers interrogated Omar but

(01:01:26):
were unsatisfied by his answers,though they brought him to the
roof of the building, a hospitalin Rafa, now used by the Israel
by by the IDF as an Army base, per TCIP.
There they tied him to a rope and hung him upside down off the
side of the fucking building. Like fucking Batman.

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At one point, the person interrogating him released more
rope, causing Omar to plummet 5 floors his head, stopping about
1/2 meter just before he hit theground.
He said he was suspended this way for 20 minutes.
Imagine the blood rush into yourhead.
Then he struggled to breathe. It felt as though I was

(01:02:10):
teetering on the brink of death.These people are already being
tortured and starved. Omar was subject to other
torture before being taken to the torture prison state Haman,
where Israeli officers blindfolded him and put him in
A1 square meter cage for three day St.

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Then they took him to a part of the prison known to detainees as
the Hell section, as if the restof it wasn't where they
subjected him to yet more torture, including beatings,
electric shocks and sleep deprivation.
And later the Disco room, a cagelike room where officers play
extremely loud music for a week while detained Israeli officers.

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Have you seen that before? Gitmo.
One of sure, I was thinking of Abu Ghraib, but sure.
For a week, while detained, Israeli officers also
interrogated Omar about members of his family beating him when
the answers were unsatisfactory.Because you know that, you know,

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forced confessions under torturecertainly hold a lot of weight.
No, they don't at all. Since the moment I was released,
I've been waking up in a state of fear, he said.
My sleep is shallow and fragmented, leaving me
unfamiliar with the sensation oftrue rest.
Insomnia is a silent killer, andthe exhaustion I feel is not

(01:03:39):
merely physical. It penetrates my very soul, as
if the ordeal of detention has merely transformed rather than
concluding. Bach Israel most humane military
in the world, right? Only democracy in the Middle

(01:03:59):
East. Hag as hell and I'm not going to
take this anymore. Only democracy in the Middle
East, right everyone. These motherfuckers, these
motherfuckers, cunts as cure. Your continued existence is a
mockery of morality. You know, that's a great movie.

(01:04:24):
I think there was just the the anniversary of in the theaters.
Right after that right. I do.
I do. That's that's.
What I'm wanting? That's that's in the, that's in
the that's in the movie, The movie conference.
Room Go get Matt Damon. Matt Damon.
You didn't say God bless you. Yes, agreed, Kye.

(01:04:52):
Yes, they did, Steve Gill. I didn't want to bring that.
They blew up a water girl, a little girl heaving a water jug.
I know. I couldn't, I couldn't.
Fantastic fucks. Yes, they are.
Good to see Ryan Bradley. That's fucking wild.
But that's their MO when it comes to the prisons they have.

(01:05:12):
As fucked as it is to say, I'm sure they assaulted him in other
ways. Yeah, they probably did man.
Well, we're certainly not going to be re monetized by YouTube
for that one. You better, Although there is a
channel that is monetized over there.
You go to youtube.com slash at Indy at INN, but don't do that.

(01:05:37):
No, do it over here. Don't go do it at Cash App
Dollar sign Indy News Network over at co-fee.com/indy News
Network money please at PayPal dot me slash Indy News Network.
OK, you've got Indy news.now.comwhere we have a website where
you can check out the news and watch this show live, all the
INN shows and then at substack@innnewsletter.com and

(01:06:01):
at indymediatoday.com, both. All right, Uncount is now noof
the genocidal swine. Yes, that's that's nice 999.
That's right. We 9/9.
Oh man. All right, Well, this one, it's
not going to get much better, sadly.

(01:06:23):
This one's on another unbelievable story and
unbelievable. We're going to go to another
Indie Media Award honoree at Declassified UK.
You can't really see it there. Their logo is darked out because
we're in a dark thing. That's Declassified uk.org.
All right, Indie Media Award honoree initial class, which is
Ian Overton. The US flew spy flights for UK

(01:06:47):
months before the Ministry of Defence admitted it, which
again, we've known for a while. Matt Canard.
Matt Canard has been reporting on this for quite a while,
Matthew, and declassified as continuing his work of tracking
this. So he said so this one, Ian

(01:07:08):
says. AUS military contractor hired by
Britain to conduct surveillance over Gaza operated above Nusrat
refugee camp the night before anIsraeli bombing killed over 30
Palestinians in December of 2024.
First question why is the UK hiring AUS military contractor

(01:07:32):
to conduct this surveillance? They don't have enough of their
own equipment, planes, I can't tell you that.
Planes and pilots. And this literally is the flight
path of a plane. AUS Beechcraft surveillance
aircraft. You know what a Beechcraft is?
That's like a little 2 seater, like a prop engine plane

(01:07:54):
circling Nusrat refugee camp in Gaza less than 24 hours before
Israel's deadly airstrike. On the evening of December 12th
of last year 2024, Israel bombedthe Nusrat refugee camp in
central Gaza without warning. A post office sheltering
displaced families was hit. Nearby houses were shredded.

(01:08:16):
More than 30 Palestinians were killed and over 50 were wounded.
Entire families died, their names posted online within
minutes. Declassified can now reveal that
a spy plane owned by AUS contractor to whom the RAF is
outsourcing its spy flights, circled over Nusrat refugee camp

(01:08:37):
the night before the bombing. How do we know this?
Publicly available flight tracking data show that in the
hours before the blast and againafterwards, 2 surveillance
aircraft operating from RAF Akrotiri.
We've reported on that base before.
Britain's military base on Cyprus, where a lot of Israelis

(01:08:59):
are escaping to before Bibi closed the the borders, all
right, circled close to or directly over Gaza.
One of these was ARAF shadow R1,all right, literally has the
registration number there. That's a surveillance plane that
flew towards Gaza in mid afternoon before vanishing from

(01:09:22):
public tracking near the territory.
Amazeballs how they could just turn off their transponders.
They're not supposed to be able to do that, by the way.
But the other belong to StraightFlight Nevada Commercial Leasing
LLC, a subsidiary of America's Sierra Nevada Corporation.

(01:09:44):
This was a Beechcraft Super KingAir 350 with the registration
tale of N6125 and the call sign Brook 11.
I think that if you looked into the registry of that plane, you
might find an Adelson somewhere connected because they have a
lot of stuff in Las Vegas. That would be my guess, a total

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speculation and maybe. Super King Air.
Maybe. Is what it was, right?
Yes, and maybe, just maybe, Declassified will mention that
here. The presence of this US aircraft
alongside Royal Air Force spy planes raises uncomfortable
questions about whether British intelligence directly or

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indirectly assisted Israel's targeting of the camp.
Of course they did. Are you fucking kidding me?
Come on. Further, the presence of the US
contractor over Gaza. And who is that contractor?
We know who the plane owner is, right?
That's the leasing company that owns the plane.

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But we don't know who the contractor was.
The presence of the where He's uncomfortable questions about
whether they assisted the targeting.
There's Reef putting the plane up on his screen, Captain.
Yeah, it's tiny. It's A2 engine.
It's a it's A2 engine prop. All right.

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Further, the presence of the US contractor over Gaza as early as
December of 2024 appears to contradict the Ministry of
Defence's claim that the companywas only hired to take over the
missions in recent weeks due to strain on the RAF's Shadow R
Wunched fleet. Bullshit.

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The Ministry of Defence insists the flights were unarmed.
Yes, they were just surveillanceflights and solely related to
hostage rescue. Again, surveillance flights that
they can claim they were lookingfor.
Hamas and denies aiding Israel'sprosecution of the war, which is
bullshit. But there is no known mechanism

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to ensure that data shared with the Israeli authorities is not
repurposed for attacks in serious violation of
international humanitarian law. How about that?
On December 11th, 2024, Crook 11left Akrotiri AT814U T CP/M,

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arriving in Gaza at around 910. Takes about an hour to fly that
little thing. It orbited above Nusrat for
around 20 minutes. It's fixed track consisted with
detailed optical or signal surveillance before heading back
to Cyprus, switching off its transponder and route at 10:17
PM UTC, and landing shortly after.

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Cam right, that's exactly what it is.
It's the cops turning off their body cams, which you should not
be allowed to do. The following day, the RAF
Shadow ZZ 419 left Aquateria at 3 O 5:00 PM, went dark near Gaza
and reappeared less than an hourbefore the bombing.

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Go figure. Crook, 11 then on the 12th took
off at 7 O 8:00 PM and. Then.
Right, which social media reports suggest coincided with
the time Israel began to bomb Nusrat.
The plane then held its positionjust off Gaza's coast for around
half an hour and was circling near Gaza less than an hour

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after the bombing. They were surveying the damage
on behalf of Israel. Such timing lends weight to
concerns that surveillance may have been shared with Israel,
may have been, and used for target selection may have been.
Under Article 16 of the International Law Commissions

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draft articles on state responsibility, which they don't
give a shit about. Providing intelligence of clear
military utility that's employedin an unlawful attack could
expose Britain to liability as aparty to the conflict.
Yeah, that's the, that's the needle hole that you need to go
through the eye of that needle that you need to thread.

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You violated the law. Because we don't have enough
support yet, right? Enough violations of
international law to prosecute them.
Right. EU KS Investigatory Powers
Commission's office. That sounds draconian as shit.
Which overseas UK public authorities such as the
intelligence agencies refused totell declassified whether it had

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even reviewed intelligence sharing from these missions,
siding its exemption from such disclosures under the FOIA.
How convenient. Britain has now conducted more
than 600 surveillance flights over Gaza since October of 2023,
according to analysis by the London-based research charity

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Action on Armed Violence. The Ministry of Defense admits
that by mid 2025, the RAF's small shadow fleet of
surveillance aircraft was strained, prompting the hiring
of Straight Flight Nevada to provide an equivalent platform.
Straight Flight Nevada has got to be CIA or Mossad connected

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100%. You think?
The planes are owned and crewed by the contractor but operated
from Akrotiri and perform the same Recon rolls as the RAF's
own aircraft. It gives them plausible
deniability over anything that happens to.

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The arrangement first became public last month after a mishap
spotted by journalists at Palestine Deep Dive.
A Beechcraft with a call sign ofCrook, 12, failed to disable its
transponder while circling over Con Yunus.
I'm going to have that with MattDennard in a second.
This showed for the first time that contractor flown aircraft

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were operating over Gaza. Senior British military figures
confirmed the US hiring US contractors for the Gaza
flights. I don't understand how that can
in any way be legal. Declassified finding shows that
the arrangement has been of muchlonger standing than and that
the Ministry of Defence hired the contractor months before

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previously believed. Flight tracking data show that a
Beech CRAP belonging to the US contractor with a different
registration arrived at Akrotirion December 5th of 2024, having
flown from Hagerstown, MD via St.
John's, Reykjavik and Palermo, Sicily.

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This was at a time when four of the RES 5 Shadows were
operational, a fact that cast doubt on the Ministry of Defense
claimed that the outsourcing waspurely to cover for aircraft
undergoing maintenance. No, they were providing some
kind of support as well and theywere allowing Israel to now

(01:16:58):
monitor via that contractor directly and not have to go
through the British Ministry of Defence that may not have wanted
to share all of the overflight information.
This was again, at a time when so Ministry of Defence also
refuses to disclose the cost or duration of its contract with

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Straight Flight Nevada, citing operational sensitivity.
What what? How does it matter how much it
costs having to do with operational sensitivity, except
that when you find out how much they're paying, you're going to
want to shut it the fuck down. The December 12th bombing was
not the only lethal incident preceded by British Link

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surveillance flights. Of course not.
On June 8th of last year, Israeli forces attacked Nusrat
in a raid to free 4 hostages, killing more than 270
Palestinians and injuring hundreds.
In the two weeks prior to that, the RAF had flown 24 missions
over or near Gaza. The office of the UN High

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Commissioner for Human Rights later concluded the raid may
amount to a war crime. May Defense Minister Luke
Pollard later confirmed that theUK had shared intelligence with
relevant authorities in relationto hostage rescue, but declined
to say whether this information had been used the Nusrat raid,

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citing operational security and desire to cover his own ass from
being charged with war crimes. Foreign Secretary douchebag
David Lammy has come under fire for obfuscating the role of the
spy planes which or for which the Ministry of Defence had

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previously confirmed informationrelating to hostage rescue is
passed to the relevant Israeli authorities.
Aha bro, they have hacked all ofyour shit and they're seeing it
before your guys do. I hate to tell you, fuckers
cunts. What Lammy of course has not
addressed is how intelligence sharing carries inherent risks.

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As Parliament's Intelligence andSecurity Committee has noted,
data can be repurposed for entirely different ends,
sometimes unlawful ones. And that would make David Lammy
personally liable. I hope he's brought up on
charges at The Hague. We know he won't be, but he
should be once handed over. Britain can't dictate or monitor

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the use of intelligence. The government insists it takes
careful steps to control what information is shared with
Israel, but without further elaboration while being
questioned over the flights in July 2025 on BBC Radio.
You know, that's of course propaganda for Israel, Lammy

(01:19:58):
said. Quote, it would be quite wrong
for the British government to assist in the prosecution of
this war in Gaza. We are not doing that.
I would never do that. You're a fucking liar.
You're a fucking liar. Still, the spy flights have
prompted our criticism. Really.

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Liberal Democrat defense spokesperson Helen McGuire has
urged ministers to explain what safeguards prevent UK sourced
intelligence from being abused in Israeli operations.
Absolutely nothing. Nothing, folks.
I've got nothing. Jeremy Corbyn.
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn has called flights utterly indefensible

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during a live stream genocide around the world, one senior
military source told the Times. Instead of sending a message to
Israel that we aren't going to do surveillance for you, we're
happy to hire an American company and pay for it so that
we don't have access to the dataand we can claim that we didn't

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do it. We'll just let you use our bases
and provide all kinds of supportso that you can do it.
In December of 2024, an Amnesty International report urged
states such as the UK to halt military and Security Assistance
to Israel in light of the clear risk of enabling serious

(01:21:28):
violations of international law.And the UK summarily wipe their
ass with that report, or wipe their arse, actually, despite
such warnings. That same month, Prime Minister
Kid Starver AKA Keir Sarmer toldpersonnel at Akrotiri that,
quote, quite a bit of what goes on here can't necessarily be

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talked about. We can't tell the world what
you're doing here, UN quote. Because they would charge us all
with war crimes and send us to The Hague for life.
He should be in The Hague because of what he did to
fucking Julian Assange, tearing up his notes.
Secrecy and suspicion. So for those in Nusrata on

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December 12th, the sequence was brutally simple.
The home of an aircraft. Hours later, the shockwave of
bombs. Then the digging.
For survivors. Far from afar, the picture is
less clear, but equally troubling.
The government maintains that noBritish citizens remain among
the hostages in Gaza, raising further doubts over the stated

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rationale for the flights. Why is the UK supporting this
then? Civil society groups argue that
the missions should be suspendeduntil Israel ends its campaign
of mass bombardment siege into starvation, which it never will.
Declassified asked the Ministry of Defence whether the

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Beechcraft flights in December were directed or coordinated by
the UK. The department didn't deny it
and told Declassified that the flights are unarmed solely for
locating the hostages, which again is a lie, and that the UK
controls what intelligence is shared with Israel.
Except when it's coming from a private US contractor limiting

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it to hostage rescue information, which of course is
also bullshit. You can guarantee that they were
targeting cell signals for journalists that they were
executing. No further details could be
given for operational security reasons because everyone wanted
to cover their own ass. Campaigners are now calling for
a full public inquiry into Britain's military collaboration

(01:23:38):
with Israel. Which you will never get.
The Gaza tribunal convened by Corbin's team promises to,
quote, uncover the truth about the UK's role and potentially
potential complicity in genocide.
They've done these tribunals before.
Any investigation by international courts into
alleged war crimes will likely examine the part played by

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contractor flown aircraft like those of Straight Flight Nevada.
In the meantime, the transponders have been turned
off. The flight paths have been made
invisible in Britain's role in Gaza's in in Gaza skies and
perhaps its ruins remains hiddenbehind officialdom.

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Except for this. Where's the one from from that?
All right, here. Starmer secretly privatized UK
spy flights over going over Gazato Israel.
He got busted, but now he's refusing to say how much the
contract is costing the British taxpayer.

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We're paying AUS company to participate in genocide and
we're not even allowed to know how much.
There's the flight path of the guy who fucked up.
But there's another tweet I've got here and I guess it's inside
this electronic Intifada section, which I know you're
watching. The hold on starts at starts at

(01:25:02):
10 minutes and 17 seconds. Let's watch this Matt in our
talk to ASA Winstanley and Nora Barrows Friedman of EI.
OK. 20 months of these flights, every single time, look at them
online, they turn their transponder off over the sea on

(01:25:23):
their way to Gaza. So we never have known what
they're doing over Gaza. So this was the first evidence
we have of what they were doing.And I think it's important
evidence that should be part of a legal case, to be totally
honest with you. Yeah, it's up on the screen now.
So they were over and, and, and it was over Carn Eunice for
three hours. In the Carn Eunice area there

(01:25:44):
was a there was a air strike which killed civilians the
following day. This is a real breakthrough in
the story because, you know, I mean, you know, you mentioned
these gifts you've been of the flight paths you've been posting
over the last, you know, nearly two years to your Twitter about
this. But they until now, they always
stop just short of Gaza. That's correct, right?

(01:26:05):
Yeah, this is this is the first time due to this kind of
effective privatization of thesespy flights to a US contractor.
Exactly. It seems they accidentally left
their transponder on over the act over Gaza itself.
Yeah, exactly. So the the story developed
because obviously we, we contacted the Ministry of
Defense and said what's going on?
Why is there a contracted plane?They didn't give even on the

(01:26:27):
record statement, they gave no information.
I contacted the US Department ofDefence, they've referred me to
the UK Ministry of Defence and Icontacted the company who didn't
respond. So we had very little
information about who was operating and what what happened
to the program, but we had noticed it.
We tracked where this plane, thenew US spy plane had been and we
saw that it had left the US airport called Hagerstown

(01:26:52):
Regional Airport in in Maryland on the 12th of July.
It had gone to Iceland, then Northern Ireland, oh and Canada
and then Sicily. And then at criteria it took, it
was a three day trip and then wesaw from the 20th of July to the
25th of July that it actually went on its missions over Gaza

(01:27:13):
with the RAF plane. So it was obviously a training
exercise. So, but, but in the article, we
didn't, we, we speculated about who could be operating.
We thought, I thought it might be the Americans or the Israelis
or even the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Anyone can, can be these clients.
But anyway, it, it became a big story because I tweeted that
video on Monday. It got over 3 million views on

(01:27:34):
Twitter, over a million on Instagram.
And for the first time, a mainstream journalist got
interested in the story. And there was an article in the
Times yesterday. There's been 2 this week. 2 very
big breakthrough articles. Well, let me take you through
some of that because I've got some of the quotes from that
lined up. So, you know, as you mentioned,

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you published this information on Twitter and then, you know,
you published your full article,your scoop for Palace on Deep
Dive on Monday. And this appears, as you've
said, to have finally hammered acrack in this kind of wall of
silence that the British media has really erected since these
surveillance missions over Gaza first started flying in December

(01:28:20):
2023, right? Yeah.
Exactly. Yeah, So on Tuesday then we we
we saw finally a mainstream newspaper in Britain, the Times,
the Times of London. And they reported on on your
story effectively without reallycrediting you at 1st.
And they wrote, quote, the British military is continuing

(01:28:41):
to fly spy planes over Gaza to help Israel find missing
hostages as Palestinian civilians are starved and
killed, government sources have confirmed to the time.
So they're back, you know, they're confirming your
reporting. It continues.
Intelligence gathered by undisclosed RAF aircraft and

(01:29:01):
other British assets in the region is being handed over to
the Israeli military. So it has real time information
on the movement of captured Israelis.
End of quote. So, you know, I know that when
you asked them for comment, Matt, the Ministry of Defence
refused to comment. So it's highly significant, I

(01:29:22):
think that the mainstream media sources finally and belatedly
confirm this. Can I just say something about
that quote as well? Because there's two major
breakthroughs in that line that you read out.
Like so as I mentioned, up till now, the government has said we
only give them to it's only hostage rescue and we only give
them to relevant authorities. They would never say what it is.

(01:29:43):
Government sources told the Times in that fast article.
Number one, that they're handingit to the Israeli military #2
that they're doing it in real time because the shadow R1 spy
plane can do that. One of its capabilities is it
can send the intelligence to, tothe ground while it's in the
sky. So that's, this is, this should
be evidence in a war crimes trial because that they, they,

(01:30:07):
they purposefully not told us it's the Israeli military,
although we, we obviously knew that it would be.
But but the fact they're doing it in real time and then and the
point they always say, which is that it's hostage rescue, right,
is insane. Because if you're handing this
intelligence in real time to theIsraeli military, how can you
then say to them, well, you can't use it for anything else

(01:30:27):
apart from hostage rescue? They, they don't know where it's
going when it's in Israel. It's like as if Israel is a
trusted party in anything, let alone using intelligence in the
way they're telling the British.So it's but, but as I say, the
whole program is unravelling, which is beautiful to see
because it's only been upheld bysecrecy and the fact there's

(01:30:48):
been no scrutiny by the mainstream media.
And now both those things have been smashed.
And, and, and, and that article was, was, was very important
because, and that article was kind of a reaction to our piece
in a way, because we left open the question of who were
operating these flights. And actually the, the fact that
it was the UK that would be subcontracted out was low down

(01:31:08):
my list of possibilities becauseit still doesn't make sense to
me. Why would you?
Need. You've got, they've got eight of
these shadow 01 planes, right? And they've been doing it for 20
months and then suddenly they decide, oh, we're going to
subcontract it out to AUS company.
My hunch is now knowing now thatthey they did do that, is that
they, they did it to conceal theprogram more because they were

(01:31:29):
coming under increasing heat. The first time a minister has
ever been asked about them, which is insane by by a
mainstream journalist, was a couple of weeks ago when David
Lammy, the foreign secretary, was asked on BBC Radio about
them. He was asked, he said are we
handing intelligence to the Israeli military?
And he said no. So straight line, straight line.

(01:31:49):
Yeah. Well, we're going to come on to
that, but I'd like to talk about.
So dude, that's again admitted war crimes.
It looks like things are moving and progressing toward that.
Again, talking about we're paying AU, they're paying AUS
contractor. My guess is that they're paying
the US contractor because they want, they don't want to see

(01:32:13):
what's happening in the spy flights.
They want to provide, they'll provide support, but they don't
really want to get their hands dirty with this if they don't
have to now, well. This is we share all our
information anyway so. Now we've talked about Palestine
Action and of course they no longer exist, but people are
still getting arrested for saying they support them, right?

(01:32:35):
The reason Yvette Cooper has proscribed Palestine Action is
that she's a member of Labour Friends of Israel and received
£215,000 from the Zionist lobby,which incidentally is £215,000
more than Palestine Action ever received on behalf of a foreign
power. Government ministers are lying

(01:32:57):
to you. So I wanted to point that out
about the UK. Fuck the UK, fuck Israel, fuck
all these lies and nonsense smears to support genocide.
So yeah, that was the long spy flight segment.
So I, I did want to get to some of the Trump administration

(01:33:18):
stuff. We are going to going to do
boats, but I'm probably running a little long here.
I, I actually set boats to startat 12:15 because I was expecting
it's going to take a little longer.
We could talk a little bit aboutwhat Trump administration's up
to and I'll whip through these quicker.
But First off, Florida International workers were

(01:33:38):
directed to secretly deliver equipment to Alligator Alcatraz,
at least one operations trailer.But huh, who authorized that?
Yeah, they're doing another one too.
All right, they were extracted to covertly deliver it.
University owned equipment, right?

(01:34:01):
FI US collaboration with ICE comes after the Miami New Times
reported last month that the detention facility was built in
part by a company whose president is chair of FI US
Board of Trustees. It also comes as U.S.
District Judge Kathleen Williamson August 7th ordered a two week
temporary halt to construction at the site, ruling that no

(01:34:25):
additional industrial lighting, paving, filling, excavating,
fencing or other new structures could be added.
So this is an important article about, you know, now that you've
got FIU providing support from aprivate university because their

(01:34:45):
on their board of trustees is iswho who was that again?
Let me go back. Board of trustees Kathleen
Williams. No, no.
Is the president of the company that built the facility would
probably be GEO Group or one of the, you know, private prison

(01:35:12):
organizations. Public records obtained by PRISM
confirm that senior leadership of FI US Operations and Security
Operations and Safety coordinated directly with FDEM
Division of Emergency Management.
I can't speak to deliver specialized university equipment

(01:35:32):
to the to the detention site. What is that specialized
equipment? I don't even want to know.
Actually, I do. All right, So that's number one,
is that they're getting university local support.
Number two, I brought another Truth Out article, which was

(01:35:53):
that immigration, you know, Yeah, not a surprise.
Descent and Bloom has been talking about this too.
Private prison giants now hold 90% of detained immigrants and
aim to triple capacity, which will generate a billion and a
half dollars in revenue for them.
So shareholders of Core Civic and GEO Group love all this

(01:36:16):
stuff, all right. And this was again out of truth
out. Amid escalating anti immigrant
rhetoric and legislative crackdowns at the state and
federal levels, private prison corporations are once again
expanding their grip on US detention policy.
In fact, today again, roughly 90% of detained immigrants are
held in privately operated facilities, the highest share in

(01:36:40):
history. Again, nothing to see here
folks, right? This industry exists despite
years of promises to phase out for profit incarceration that
started in 2016 with Obama and were renewed by Biden when he
took office. Unfortunately, these promises
focused exclusively on the Bureau of Prisons and excluded

(01:37:04):
immigration detention. Again, how convenient.
As such, through their presidencies, most federal
contracts with private prison corporations remained untouched
in the immigration detention space.
How convenient again, now with another Trump presidency, the
industry is again is instead preparing for explosive growth.

(01:37:27):
You can look at what their stockdid the day after Election Day
when it was announced that Trumpwon.
On recent earnings calls, core civic executives announced plans
to triple the number of beds in their facilities within a few
months. That would mean an additional
billion and 1/2 in revenue for that corporation, more than
doubling its annual earnings. Meanwhile, at the Hall of

(01:37:52):
Injustice, growing scrutiny of immigration detention practices
has led to reports of abuse, medical neglect, and deaths in
custody. Privatization, with the cost
cutting practices that define it, is the structural driver of
human rights violations at thesefacilities.
Again, no surprise. So this is a longer article that

(01:38:17):
again, I will link to in the description.
Jax page shared another one. This is horrible.
ICE arrests a high school student who has a special visa
reserved for families that help the US military in Afghanistan.

(01:38:39):
It was a very, very difficult visa.
Again, it was a very, very difficult visa to get, explained
the lawyer. It's reserved for people who, at
their own peril, assisted American military in our
operations. Armand Moment Armand Moment was
detained by agents at a court hearing related to a December

(01:39:00):
2024 driving incident. The case resolution was a minor
misdemeanor, which should have allowed him to continue his
permanent residency with the rest of his family.
Instead, ICE is rushing to deport him just days before he
was set to start ICE to start school at Jr.
Tucker High School in Henrico, Virginia.

(01:39:22):
So let's watch this There still be a news report?
Just days before he was set to start the school year at Jr.
Tucker High School, 19 year old Armand Mamand was arrested by
ICE officers at the Henrico Courthouse this past Friday.
This experience has been very traumatic for everybody
associated with the family. According to his immigration

(01:39:44):
attorney, Miriam Arrington Fisher, the arrest was made
despite Mamond having a special visa that was granted to him
because of his families help to the United States military in
Afghanistan. It's a very, very difficult visa
to get. It's reserved for people who are
nationals of Afghanistan or Iraqwho at their own peril assisted

(01:40:08):
American military in our operations in those countries.
Fisher says Mamond was at court for charges related to a
December 2024 driving incident. He faced multiple charges,
including a felony. 2 were resolved and three were set
aside. Ultimately, he was found guilty
of misdemeanor reckless driving and disorderly conduct, neither

(01:40:28):
of which he was given additionaljail time for.
Because the vast majority of thecharges were dropped and the
ultimate resolution was a minor misdemeanor that he would be
released and be able to pick up and resume with his permanent
residency case with the rest of his family.
But instead, ICE decided to execute the detainer, pick him

(01:40:48):
up, put him in immigration detention and is now attempting
to deport him. Fischer says this incident
differs than those previously executed at local courthouses,
explaining ice targeted Maman specifically.
In my view, it's a waste of it'sinappropriate legally, and it's
also a waste of government resources.

(01:41:09):
Yes, it is. Of course it is again, part of
the point. The punishment is the point.
And finally, I wanted to cut to call note to all that's going on
in DCI, Didn't want to ignore it.
Of course, we know that there's been like a federal takeover of
the DC police. The attorney general of DC is

(01:41:29):
suing to try to undo that. But we don't know what's going
to happen there. OK.
There was a traffic stop last night in DC right near Collins
House, he said. This is literally happening down
the street from where I live. Fortunately I don't have a car,
but I'm still worried I might get stopped or questioned just
because I'm black. It's happened to me before and

(01:41:49):
I'm sure it'll happen again. And Buck Ice, Buck Trump, fuck
the police, Buck 12A cab. Coming straight from the
underground. 1312 right? All right, so that was our Buck
Trump. And here's some of the stuff

(01:42:10):
that's going on around the Trumpadministration and all the
horrors that they're trying to inflict on immigrants, on poor
and working people, and now on all the residents of DC.
Thanks a lot for that, Trump. Fuck off.
So we're certainly, you know, YouTube may like that segment, I

(01:42:31):
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(01:42:55):
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OK, I've got lightning round, lightning round.
And then we will get the boats. That wasn't too bad.
Next Boeing strike. I'm I'm guessing you haven't

(01:43:18):
heard of this unless you live inthe Midwest because people don't
talk about worker strikes. But it's important and we need
to because there's a couple of them here.
There's there's a worker strike Boeing.
So here's what happened. It's in Saint Louis.
More than 3200 Boeing workers inMissouri and Illinois walked out
Monday in a powerful strike against the weapons manufacture

(01:43:41):
and decades of union backed concessions.
The strike had shut down production at 3 factories in the
Saint Louis area that build critical components for American
imperialism's global war machine, including F15 warplanes
and the next generation F-47 stealth fighter.
Workers voted by a 2 to 1 marginon Sunday.

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That was last week to reject Boeing's best and final offer,
which was backed by, of course, a union, the IAM Local 37.
Under mounting pressure from rank and file workers who had
already rejected a previous IAM backed deal, on July 27th, the
union was forced to call the strike the first strike at the

(01:44:25):
plant since 1996. We're going to get into what
they want and basically they want to peel back stuff.
They want to get rid of the two tier wage they want, they want
restoration of company paid pensions.
They have demands. They also said that the 20%
raise over 4 years would hardly put a dent in what they've lost
due to inflation and what would in any case affect only a small

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number of workers because of seniority.
So that's World Social's website.
Not a big fan of Jerry White, but he brought a good one there.
But I wanted to call attention to Boeing striking.
This was the Golden Monarch article I wanted to share.
He wrote about and we've been talking about getting together
for another one-on-one soon to talk about crypto Ripple Labs.

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I think I might have mentioned this couple of weeks ago they
settled A lawsuit with the Seca long time suit and now their
floor is clear to go after agreements and be treated as a
commodity that will be dealt with on the commodities
exchange. So Ripple still lurks around on
top of the recent 4O1K executiveorder, which again we covered

(01:45:37):
last week. That's going to allow hedge
fund, private hedge funds and four O 1 KS to invest in crypto,
but not just four O 1 KS and hedge funds.
MasterCard is now embedded with Ripple.
So SEC and Ripple filed joint dismissal of appeals.
You've got a crypto tracker there, all right, but where's

(01:46:00):
the other thing? Ripple's role in all this
madness? All right, The SEC is basically
dead. Ripple.
That's XRP, by the way, is the symbol for ripple when eventual
news breaks out about which. Go ahead, Sanford and Son, enjoy
on a Saturday. No, not at all.

(01:46:20):
Not Ripple. Because what Ripple is going to
do, Ripple and Bank of America and MasterCard are all in bed
together now. Like Ripple is going to issue a
stable coin. As you would.
Right. Ripple is amongst one of several
crypto related scandals that's gone unscathed no thanks to the
Trump administration effectivelykilling the SEC.

(01:46:42):
Notable dishonorable mentions include Justin, son of Tron,
Open C, Robin Hood, Kraken Right, Coinbase, and Binance.
They've all been under investigation by the SEC.
Gotcha. Justin's son of Tron, not Justin
son of Tron, right? Son of Tron, is that like Son of

(01:47:04):
Tron? Is that like Son of Godzilla?
Something like that, yeah. Besides Ripple's own token of
XRP, this is important. Ripple has an emerging stable
coin called Ripple U.S. dollar You or RLUSD, much like Tethers
namesake token and circles, USDCRLUSD is another stable coin

(01:47:27):
that's purposely pegged to the US dollar.
Remember that Eric Trump also has one of these for World
Liberty Financial. Yeah, as Ripple effectively buys
up companies to have greater influence within the crypto
industry, Ripple, if left unchecked, may eventually rival
against the monstrous Tether. So you're going to end up with

(01:47:47):
another stable coin crypto Ponzibased upon everything else that
you're playing with pegged to the dollar, right?
Ripple's CEO has discussed possibilities.
No, not really. For Ripple to pursue an IPO if
their strategy were to expand and evolve per capital.

(01:48:08):
Yeah, that'll happen. They'll go.
They'll go public like Circle did, and then Tether will go
public and Howard Lutnick will be worth $5 billion, or however
much he's going to be worth. Yeah, it's real bad.
Read this article. This is a good 1 then.
This is a long article that I I wanted to bring a lot more of,

(01:48:29):
but I'm just going to show a couple of things that are
important. Really funny.
It's about the ensitification ofSubstack, which hurts me
personally a lot. I've invested a lot of time in
making that platform work for me.
Coming to a Substack newsletter near you.

(01:48:49):
Thank you. Substack is your boss and he's
dissatisfied with your performance.
And what he's talking about is that sub Stacks business model
has now got to change because they've got to now start to show
profitability, which means focusing on paid subscribers and
purging out the free ones. So people like me specifically
will be directly affected by this because they don't like my

(01:49:12):
freeloading off their platform. They only make money when a paid
subscriber subscribes to a publication.
Otherwise, and as they mentionedhere, they're providing all of
this infrastructure for free, right?
Yep, that's what happened with Reddit.
Eventually they just kowtowed toadvertisers because they needed

(01:49:37):
money. Right.
On the red since the beginning. Right.
And shitification is the term coined by essayist Cory Doctorow
to describe the seemingly inevitable process through which
Internet social platforms thrive, decay, and then die.
Basically because there's no wayfor this type of thing to exist
long term. It's temporary.

(01:49:59):
It has a life cycle, one that isfrustratingly brief in Doctor
Row cycle quote. First they're good to their
users, then they abuse their users to make things better for
their business customers, which is where we are now.
Then finally they abuse those business customers that claw
back all the value for themselves, and then they die on

(01:50:21):
sub stack. If you, like most writers, are
someone who produces anything higher than 0 free content, then
your huge list of free subscribers is great for both
you and your subscribers. You get an audience for your
work and they get to read it. But this arrangement is terrible
for Substack. They maintain and pay for the
staffing, the cloud storage, thee-mail infrastructure that

(01:50:43):
facilitates an exponentially growing number of users, most of
whom don't pay or earn anything through the platform and are
therefore, from a business pointof view, reloading.
To mitigate this and pivot toward profitability, Substack
desperately needs to stem the flow of free subscribers and low

(01:51:04):
activity subscribers and limit to the point they can get away
with it the gratis usage of their platform, focusing their
attention instead on the high rollers and top bestsellers like
Barry Weiss and the Free Press, like Ana Kasparian, like Don
Lemon, like Jim Acosta. Like like like like like coming
to aid Substack newsletter near you.

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Joanne Reid. They do this in ways that aren't
always visible to the closed Substack ecosystem.
For example, did you know that Substack will unilaterally and
without notice terminate free publications that they that they
deemed to be low engagement? Never heard of that.
If you didn't know this, then you're probably not on the

(01:51:48):
Substack subreddit, which is easy to fly under the radar when
you forget that other social platforms exist between people.
Between people trying to slip self promotion past the mods in
defiance of the sub's rules, andthe feudal begging for the
secret to growth, you see a lot of stories of their of users
who've had their publication or entire account locked.

(01:52:11):
The reasons they can't get straight answers about from a
customer support team whose supportiveness is sharply graded
on how valuable a customer you are.
This really pisses me off and I've been flipping out and
raising the alarm about this. Substack support, which was
barely ever a thing to begin with, has really gone downhill,

(01:52:34):
especially since they delegated it almost entirely to a chat bot
that's barely more sophisticatedthan Clippy.
Accurate. Search for support related key
keywords and you'll find legionsof people braying in frustration
that they can't get help with anything.
And it's very common for accounts to be terminated

(01:52:54):
without explanation or possibility of appeal.
Not for breaking any apparent rules, but seemingly for being
just kind of unpopular. Wow, that's Marc Andreessen.
He's a lizard person girdle, right?
Famously, they won't suspend youfor using the platform to spread
open Nazism, and they also won'ttake on action on plagiarism,

(01:53:19):
which is also a serious problem going on on sub stack.
Their number one sub stacker, Heather, whatever her name is
feat, plagiarized a straight up article and they're not doing
anything about it, right? The situation will get worse as
time goes on and the people who believe in Substack as an idea

(01:53:41):
will continue to try and find ways to justify everything,
right? Sarah Faye, she runs a Substack
called Substack Writers at Work,right?
She's admitting that she's had a90% drop in subscribers.
He's the writing coach, right? To that end, in her post, she
tries to cushion her clients concerns by characterizing free

(01:54:04):
subscriber growth as a harmful distraction from the work, a
counterproductive dopamine that's hit, that's bad for your
mental health. Now, I wanted to mention that
above because they do say that they are throttling.
Yeah, here Fay's post detailing her interaction with Substack is

(01:54:25):
paywalled. All right, but it's important to
say that they are basically throttling free Subs.
The goal is that they're changing their focus away from
helping people grow their subscriber lists and more toward
improving the ratio of paid subscriptions.
So thank you very much to Eric, who who subscribed tonight at

(01:54:46):
INN newsletter. All right, it's, it really
pisses me off. Our fates are now in the hands
once again of the almighty algorithm.
As readers, we are trusting it not to show us anything we would
love enough to pay for it. It's just fucking pissed.
It really pisses me off. Which is why we're working on

(01:55:06):
setting up shop elsewhere. And because you might think
about going to get a job. US based companies announce
record number of impending layoffs and the number one
reason given douche actions. So they're literally using the
Elon Musk bullshit to justify getting rid of workers even

(01:55:29):
though profits are at record highs.
This is another good truth that article.
I would recommend reading this one.
All right, then we also have Robert Inelkesh, another Indy
Media Award honoree. Google just disabled my account
right after YouTube was deleted with right after my YouTube was

(01:55:52):
deleted without reason. Now here's what's weird.
On my YouTube, I had no strikes.My new account was removed
simply because of my name. I hadn't even made a video.
I believe that's a concerted campaign to censor my journalism
about Gaza. And I can only imagine what a
skeptic says because he's a fool.

(01:56:14):
The highlighted video violates YouTube standards.
That you say that you're a journalist is what?
He's a douchebag, A skeptic. Next antiwar report US deploys.

(01:56:34):
And this is another thing Dave Dekamp said.
Who else is talking about like troops in the South in the
global South in in like South America, the US deploys air and
naval forces, not even Somalia to southern Caribbean to address
quote, threats from cartels. Basically he's sending the CIA

(01:56:56):
in to destabilize Maduro. So read this article out of Dave
Decamp at antiwar.com. Then we also have this one and
somebody I'm sure we might coverthis next week on in the Fuck
Israel segment. It was a pedo working for for
Bibi Netanyahu who was in Las Vegas and caught up in a sting

(01:57:19):
operation. He got arrested, failed, but
somehow he got out on bail and then hopped on a flight, flew
back to Israel where he will face no prosecution.
A top Israeli intelligence official go ahead.
Heard some pray tell he might bepart of Grok too.
What a shock. What a shock.

(01:57:39):
He's part of Grok, a top Israeliintelligence official, according
to the Jerusalem Post, who's close personal friends with
Satan, Yahoo was just arrested in a sting operation targeting
pedophile rapists in Las Vegas. And of course, the Israeli
embassy told the FBI to release him and they immediately
complied. Because they work for who again,

(01:58:01):
zero Western media is covering this, at least corporate media
we are. And finally, we'll get to the
Gofundmes. Anthony Malecki, sister-in-law
Natalia still could use help with her GoFundMe.
We talked about this couple of last week in detail with the

(01:58:21):
Descent and Bloom article about what's happening in Ohio.
All right, good evening to Big Tom as well over at over on
Rumble working mother taken by ICE.
Please help. So again, her story goes that
she was illegally detained for aregistration thing which was not
expired working paying taxes taken into cut ICE custody

(01:58:46):
illegally stopped over and not expired registration.
So anything anybody can do thereto help raise some money there
will drop the GoFundMe in the description after the show.
Also, I wanted to give shout to our brother Andrew Sigmund Smith
and his daughter Anna Marie. We've been talking about Anna
Marie and her battle with brain tumors for a while, how they had

(01:59:09):
to go to Cincinnati and spend weeks undergoing daily therapy
treatment to teach her how to read Braille.
And there was another treatment that went along with that,
apparently. He said that she'll be going
back in for surgery this week toclean and reseal part of her
incision. And then he mentioned that they

(01:59:30):
were not yet home. And that was on Friday.
So if we can get prayers and, ofcourse, support for their
GoFundMe for her as well. They've raised almost $8000
toward helping her and helping the family pay its bills.
But this has been going on for months.
Family has to eat. You know, I don't know how much

(01:59:53):
Andrew can work and, and what's going on with the situation with
Ernie. Anything anybody can do, please,
really, really would appreciate any help there.
I mentioned in the news now earlier, this is our news
website where again you'll be able to see I and to see this
show live as well as boat smashing into other boats.

(02:00:14):
But not just INN articles, George Hazim and Azra Dale and
antiwar.com just at the top right now there's more articles
from a skeptic with all their breakdown of the situation going
on at the front lines in Russia,Ukraine, and then you can just
keep scrolling and. Scrolling Where'd you find this?
An infinite scroll of content and news to pay attention to.

(02:00:38):
So that's indie news now. And if you want to pick up some
merch, the way to do that is at indynewsshop.itemorder.com.
And there are less expensive shirts here through Big Frog.
I'm going to put that in the chat, but these are that helps.

(02:01:00):
But yeah, I actually reached out.
There was somebody who did not get their stickers through the
spring store. So I reached out to Ryan and
we're working on getting her a set of stickers.
That's Lisa over on sub stack. Again, thank you so much for
supporting independent media man.
All she wanted to do is go ordera couple stickers and it's been
like 2 months. She never got them.
Spring says they did deliver them, but they really didn't not

(02:01:22):
yet. I don't know.
Anyway, I'm I'm spend everyone, it's it's after midnight.
Oh, it's not too bad after midnight, but that's good.
Before we head out real quickly.Thank you everyone.
These are our INN supporters wall of fame.
These are the people that have already.
Thank you very much. Yeah.
Cash App, Dollar sign, Indy NewsNetwork, co-v.com/indy News

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Network, you go to PayPal dot B slash Indy News Network, you go
to that website I just showed you Indy news.now.com or at the
sub stacks at INN newsletter.comwhere we will be live for boats
smashing into other boats in a few minutes.
Or at indymediatoday.com where we have been live for the past
two plus hours doing this show. So, and thank you everyone for

(02:02:08):
hanging out and for going through all this stuff with me
and letting me kind of vent and get through it.
The cops had the the nerve to say he was compassionate because
he left the baby alive on a stranger's doorstep in 100°
temps. Oh my God.
Another crazy story. Godzooki is Godzilla's kid.

(02:02:28):
I saw that rad Angel. I used to live where the
checkpoints are now in DC. I'm about 15 miles away.
Glad I moved. Yeah, me too.
ICBP are asking paid for papers like the s s Yep, we got we got
Nazis within our midst. Unreal, unreal folks.

(02:02:50):
So yeah, we'll be over on INN 8,the Ocho 4 boats smashing into
other boats. So let me drop the link to that
as well. The rumble link 4 boats.
We'll be here in the chats so you guys, so everyone can go
over and check that out again. We'll be at
live@innnewsletter.com. We will also be live at

(02:03:13):
indynews.now.com and on the the kick twitch twitters everywhere
else that we normally are. All right everyone, I love you
all. Take care of each other, support
independent media because we really need it more than ever
and I'll see you soon. Love you all have a good night
everyone. Ciao baby.

(02:03:40):
No, we just fucking lost the stream.
I think I liked it better being blind when I couldn't read

(02:04:01):
between the lions and when I 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 suspended disbelief and
swallow in pride. I thought I knew the difference
in the red from the blue, but they both bleed us so dry.

(02:04:24):
They 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
blaze. It's that what you want me to

(02:04:45):
say? You prove it's possible to sleep
for days and they still think you're right here away.
The cost of living isn't much tome but got it.
So hard to say. And when they told you
everything was safe, were you safe?

(02:05:15):
Were you safe?

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