August 8, 2025 • 47 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello everyone, My name is Specta Walsh. Welcome to today's show.
We have a good one for you. As always on
the show, today its official Israel is planning to occupy Gaza,
the whole entire strip, but starting first with Gaza City.
We'll take a look at their plan, why it reflects
the General's plan of past Gaza incursions by the IDF,
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and what net Yahoo has to say about it. Really
really dark but important information coming from Gaza on today's show. Also,
Donald Trump has launched a lawsuit against New York Attorney
General Tish James, making a grand jury, full power of
the Justice Department and all of that all because she's him,
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because he was grossly corrupt with his foundations. Also, Donald
Trump is sending the military to Mexico to fight the
drug cartels, but Claudia Scheimbob is saying no way. Jose.
And new charts on Twitter, I actually don't think they're new,
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they're just going really viral. They're saying a lot about
the home ownership rates, marriage rates, how they've declined in
America but only gone up in China. And A'll wigh
in on what exactly that says about the political economic
direction at least social direction of the two countries. It's
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gonna be a very interesting one at the end, so
stick around for that. We have a great show for
you here today. Consuce flash, ladies, gentlemen. It is been long, long,
long telegraph, but it has finally happened. Israel. They have
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reached their logical endpoint in this genocide and are moving
through with a full occupation of Gaza, starting with Gaza City.
This is headline here in Al Jazeera. Israeli military plans
to occupy Kadza City in major escalation of the war.
Got that right for sure, primes to Benjamin and niawho
suggested earlier than Israel's military will take control of all
(02:27):
of Gaza. And Mohammed Schahada is a palicy and researcher.
He has a great threat on this, he says, folks
who are asking what does Yahu's occupation plan mean since
Israel already occupies Gaza, And he talks about the general's
plan and what that meant for places that had received
it in the past. And for those of you who don't
know what the General's plan is, it's ethnic cleansing plan.
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Really admitted in the words of Israel in their kind
of private documents. That has really been used multiple times
throughout this this genocide ever since October seventh. One of
the it it's done traditionally, he says, in five steps.
Fully encircled and besieged a city, cut the food and water,
bomb incessantly by AirLand to see it, and owned by
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the way. You got to take the hospitals and cut
out all the other vital services, just making this place
really unlivable, invade gradually and forced people out at gunpoint,
and then of course flatten everything in your wake, bring
through those bulldozers. Those are a very big part of
the equation and it's kind of a big symbol for
a lot of the settlers, he says. Israel tested the
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General's plan at Northern Gaza in late twenty twenty four.
There are around one hundred and fifty thousand Gozas there
at the start, and by the time they were done,
they cut off all food and water by the way
for over one hundred days, gradually advanced from all directions
and force people out until they're only about twelve thousand
left here in northern Gaza. And you could see all these,
you know, various air strikes over just over the course
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of the of the month, and they moved in so
rapidly and so quickly that with a complete and total siege,
they were just forced to flee. Everyone who didn't leave
Javali bait and Hun and bit Lahire during the General's
plan was considered a potential terrorist. Wherever the idea of advanced,
they rounded up people, kidnapped hundreds at random, and put
the rest on death marches southwards. I remember standing with
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my family again on Christmas and seeing these horrific, horrific
marches of just shirtless Palestinian men just being humiliated, being beaten,
taking these camps, kidnapped on mass and it really has
been a horrifically dark, dark thing to witness. The cornerstone
of Israel's campaign and Northern Gods was flat and everything
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so Godsdans have nothing left to come back to. Once
the IDFD popularly the area, they brought in bulldozers to
demolish all of the homes left standing. Occupying Gadza City
now means that now means repeating the General's plan. Israel
is very open about what's next in circle of city.
Late total siege bomb in sesly advanced with troops and
forced people out. And they already did it to just
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north of Godza City. They are now going to move
in into it very ably, to the to the rest
of it and just go right in essentially and force
these people out really from all directions. They'll flatten everything,
just like Japaulia and in Rafa. And by the way,
what Israel did in northern Gaza and Rafa, you know,
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Uh was called I think it's important to say, I
think that I forget the name of the guy was uh.
The what is it? Mosha Y'allan, He was a former
defense minister. He called it understrained and brutal killing of civilians.
They repeatedly tried to pipulate Gaza for sixteen months, especially
Gaza City, with indiscriminate bombing, starvation and evasions. So the
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thing is they failed. Israel called it a cat and
mouse game. So now you know they're going to put
on maximum, maximum pressure in Gaza City and then force people,
concentrate people around the area, which will be inevitably a
staging ground for further expulsion uh and forced expulsion, no
matter how much they try and tell you, oh, it's
a volunteer it's voluntary. Gaza City is now sheltering over
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one million people. Over seventy percent of the city has
been destroyed, but it's not fully wiped out like Rafa
or Japalia. If Israel gets its way in Gaza City
and Darylbala, there would literally be nothing left of the
entire Gaza Strip Darobala in Gaza City, those two regions
kind of in the middle North and the dead center
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of Gaza are really the last two places left where
would a million gsms go real a concentration camp in Rafah,
Howa points out here Israel's finance minister quietly allocated three
billion nis this is the Israeli currency this week for
a Gaza security box to establish such a camp. And
that is you know, it's safe to say that is
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what we will see here in the future, just a
complete moving in concentration of the population towards the south
where they can go and build this camp. And that
is gonna be something, you know, on the on the
destroyed rubble of Rafa that they will look to do
as this invasion process continues. I do want to go
now to net Yahoo, who has been talking about it
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quite a bit here He is confirming his intention to
take control of our Rafa and you know, or all
of Gaza. Excuse me unless unless you believe like an idiot.
You know, frankly, you really are an idiot if you
believe that that it's just Gaza City for now. But
yet you don't even have to believe that, because here
he's saying, we're going to take control of all of Gaza.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You will go immediately into a meeting with your security cabinet.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, Israel take control of all.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Of Gaza, we intend to YEP, in order to assure
our security, remove Ramas there, enable the population to be
free of Gaza and to pass it to civilian governance
that is not Tramas and not anyone advocating the destruction
the visual. That's what we want to do. We want
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to liberate ourselves and liberate the people of from the
awful terror of Hamas.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And you will go, yeah, So, all the best, all
the best people were always viewed as liberators throughout history.
And to get it absolutely straight, and I hope that
everyone watching this or listening to this is smart enough
to realize this, but this is complete genocidal war crime behavior.
Here Everything that was described from this occupation of you know,
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just God's the city for now. But of course, as
Natya who literally just said, eventually the whole gods of
stript he forced people at all the actions the General's
plan in as Mohammed Shahada described, in terms of cutting
off the food and water, targeting civilian infrastructure, targeting civilians themselves,
all could not be more illegal under international law, any
any sort of kind of genocide convention or any sort
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of basic morality convention. Really, and it's so so important
to keep keep highloading that the criminal nature of the
Israeli actions here and really the entire route of this project,
which as from the start when the then Defense Minister
of Gant said that we're going to treat these people
like human animals and cut off electricity, food and water
things like that, you know that should have been clear
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from the start. But this is what they really were
trying to do all along. Here on October seventh, and
in case you're wondering, he has the complete green light
here from Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
President Trump given the green light for your plan to
take over the remaining twenty.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Five percent of Gaza and occupy all of it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, you know, he's he understands that it's Israel who's
going to do the fighting, it's not American soldiers. Did
he give you a yes, Well, he just says no,
Israel will do what it has to do, and we
haven't got into that kind of discussion.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
By the way, your nineteen year old staff sergeants couldn't
do jackshit without American weapons. Let's just be perfectly clear.
The pathetic ADIF is only the AUDIF because it kills
children with American weapons. That's let's be one hundred percent
on that.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
But we have gotten into a discussion on two things.
One the humanitarian surge that we're going to do, which
will precede our final military action, because I want the
population to be in safe zones, to have food, water, sewage, electricity,
medical help.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All controlled by Israel, which are obviously you know, you
see how they told that stuff out, and he want
them to be in safe stones so they can be
rounded up for extermination.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I want to free two million gozzins from Hamas terrorism.
The second thing that we agree on is that the
day after has to have certain principles. I'm not talking
about a detailed plan yet because I think that'll be developed,
but the five principles, the key principles of these. One
Hamas has to lay down ITTs armes. Two Kaza has
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to be demlitarized. Three all the hostages have to be released.
And four Israel will be responsible for overall security. So
if there's an attempt to have a resurgent Hamas or
resurgent terrorism, you know, we're the ones who are going
to take care of it. And five lip be governed
by a civilian authority that is not Israel, because I
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don't want to I don't want to occupy Gaza forever.
I don't want to govern guys.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And that's yeah, to put in perspective, that's exactly what
the Israeli said and supporting to highlight there After the
West Bank, you know, they wanted to set up some
sort of a Palestinian authority for example, or an Arab authority.
But this time they don't even want it to be
the Palatin the authority which has already completely lost legitimacy
of the people in the West Bank and is a
complete and open collaborator with Israel. They want it to
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be now in Gaza, some sort of Arab group of
these Arab states that even command less respect in the
Gaza Strip actually, and that is what they're saying now.
And you notice the fourth one was security control. So
if anything starts to start to happen again, starts to
flare up, Israel's gonna be right there to tamp it
down again. And you know you can, you can bet
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your bottom dollar they would love to do that. So,
whether Israel has some sort of a West Bank plan
where they gradually take complete control and take sovereignty and
then pave the way for obviously Israeli settlements because they
don't have to govern the Arabs there they want to,
but they do want to put Jewish settlements there. They
want to put Israeli settlements there. If they do that
in the long kind of West Bank like process where
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they go slowly and they work with an Arab authority
that is completely under the control of Israel, that could
be one way. Or they could just start the process
of displacement the camps that they are already planning to do,
these kind of safe zones that are completely controlled by
Israel and their security control. Israel already says it wants
to have in the Strip. Will they try and do
that displacement process sow or fast. You know, that really
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ultimately seems to be the only question at this point.
But these speaking of these Arab states, they do have
a proposal eight p and I twenty four News report
that guitar in Egypt are advancing a new outline for
a Gaza deal. Sick. Listen to Ryan Graham explain.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It before we get the men Yaz. There's one other
piece from the negotiations that I think is actually complimentary
to all this, and I can I can put this up.
This is a this is an AP report that that
came out overnight which says that there's a new framework
for a long term ceasefire that is being kicked around
by Egypt and Cutter. Our reporting is that Hamas has
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not seen any of this, and that this is that
this is basically a wit Cough project. It's kind of
Witcough reviving this project. So what he's what he's proposing
is that all of the hostages would be would be
released at once in exchange for in his fullest rarely
withdrawal a version of a fullest Raeli withdrawal a plus
an end uh, you know, permanent end to the war.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And the way that they.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Would try to split this question of Hamas disarming is
they would quote unquote free have Hamas freeze its weapons,
though they would keep their weapons but not use them,
which seems actually fine from Hamas's perspective, because that's that's
what a ceasefire is. Anyway, you're gonna have your weapons,
but you're.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And then that would happen Ryan grim Is. They're saying
until a new Palicy and landed administration is formed in
a Palasing Arab committee with govern and oversee reconstruction, with
the new police force trained by two US allies. So
that could be essentially, if you're following the letter of it,
that could be pretty close to what Israel wants there.
Are they going to accept it? No, because you have
right wing and I hope I'm wrong. I would be
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absolutely shocked if they somehow accept this proposal. You know,
in two weeks from now, Wickhoff, who's supposedly planted this
idea in the first place, he's gonna be calling this
idea unacceptable. So you know, you wait and see, because
that's what's happened in the past, and it really is
a very unfortunate situation. But it seems to be the
thing that you know, this should be exactly what Israel want,
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but in the end they will deny it because they
want to have Jewish Israeli settlements on the or on
the gazas, on the Gaza Strip, just like in the
West Bank, and they will not stop. If they have
to take the long game. They'll take the long game,
but they'd rather do it fast until Palestinians are expelled,
forced out, killed, whatever, and the way can be paid
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for Jewish little on the Gaza Strip. I think that
is essentially the run of where things stand, very very
tough times for Gaza. Indeed, so Donald Trump's Department of
Justice is now going after the New York State Attorney
General Letitia James. Why because she just had the literal temerity,
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the unmitigated goal to do her job and actually sue
Donald Trump because he was grossly corrupt with charities and
his charitable donations. He would essentially be using them. And
this was the kind of the allegation from the James
at the time when she was suing him, and by
the way it is doing him successfully, was that he
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was using them as his and his adult children were
using them as their personal piggybanks. And just taking these
charitable funds and funneling them right back to their own accounts.
And this is how it played out on Fox News.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Some breaking news sources are telling us that New York
Attorney General Leticia James and her office are under investigation
by the Department of Justice in relation to her case
against President Trump. Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What do you know, David, Well, Hi, Dana too. Well
placed sources familiar with the probe tell Fox News that
New York.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And maybe this is a guy just has a resting,
smunk face, but I kind of feel like he looks
a little smunke. But anyway, this like the point is
with this, and you can you get a better sense
of that if you will watch on YouTube Spencer Walsh
YouTube channel. But if you are watching on YouTube, thanks
very much either way. This this really does mark I
think a pretty significant step up in the Trump mystration
(16:37):
because you say, you heard their Dana Prino or whoever
that is on Fox News coming out and saying yourself,
this is in relation to her case against President Trump.
It's not because of any corruption. They're not leading with
the fact that, oh, this was a politically motivated case,
and we have evidence that there was a reason why
or Trump issued by James on false pretenses because of corruption.
(17:01):
They they didn't even say that they had. Evan said
that they're subjecting Literitia James going after her with this
because she dared to take the action in the first place.
This is really and you know, we gotta there's a
I think a certain drive to kind of dismiss this.
And it's a lot easier for a lot of people
to dismissed it because it's America and we're not like,
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this is our country and we're not in you know,
in some kind of a foreign country where all this
crazy stuff would normally happen, and we can handwave it
a lot easier. Like, I think we are really reaching
a point where we are getting to these countries that
we've always and a lot of Americans have always looked
down on and said, oh, this will never happen here.
It's to authoritarian, this is not who we are. You know,
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this is a completely motive, politically motivated, you know, lawsuit
against an opposition party elected official with literally no evidence
behind it, and we'll see where it goes. Grand jury's
could very often a lot of times be a fishing
expedition where you start with one thing and you go
until you find anything corrupt, and you you hype that
up as much as humanly possible and try and get
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some sort of charge up with it. And I think,
you know, you could you could point to that in
a lot of ways with the flaws of the Alvin bradcase,
even against Donald Trump. You know, it wasn't the strongest
case to go after someone who's so manifestly corrupt, but
this case was. This was an open and shutcase of
some real mismanagement, and there's no evidence that James or
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anyone in her office mishandled this in any way. It
is a clear sign of Trump just doing this because
he can, and also because he wants to create fear
among other people, in just some annoyance or some sort
of deterrence against other people in the kind of broader oppositions,
fear to trump Ism and to the Republican Party. If
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you want to do anything to hold Trump accountable on
his blatant corruption inside of training whatever you name it,
go down the list of the things that you know,
corrupt things that he's done in this administration, things that
he's done before he was liked and things that he
did in his first administration. You now because of this,
this is this is their goal. You know, you're now
I'm gonna take a step back and say, oh, wait
a minute, is it really worth it? Should I really
(19:12):
be doing this? And you know you may very well,
It's very possible you could reconsidered, and that is exactly
what Donald Trump wants to do. Here, let's take a
look at the rest of this report.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
General Letitia James and her office is under investigation by
the DOJ here in Washington. We're told that Attorney General
Pambondi signed off on the probe. Subpoenas were sent to
James's office, and there is a grand jury investigation underway
in the New York State capital of all but the
specific investigation my colleague Jay Gibson, Ashley Oliver and myself
(19:45):
are being told involves deprivation of rights, which in plain
language means someone in a position of legal authority violating
someone else's constitution or legal rights. Those sources tell Fox
News the DJ is.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I mean, I would love to have a lawyer to
like to talk to about this, because it's just like,
how are you getting that how are you getting that
as a charge when there is literally no evidence of
any sort of deprivation of rights or missaidling other than
the fact that James, as a Democratic elected official, said
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some spicy stuff, I'm sure on the campaign trail when
she was trying to run for office back whenever it
was she got elected, that oh, you know, I'm gonna
hold Donald Trump accountable. I'm gonna go after him, you
know whatever. We're gonna go after his corruption. And the
good way to go after just to stop that, if
you're Donald Trump, to stop being having to pay a settlement,
a civil settiment for corruption that is literally unrelated to
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anything you're doing in office, is to not be corrupts,
to not do those things, and then it'll be much
harder for her to make those allegations and for a
judge to approve them and make you pay that settlement.
It's pretty simple. It's how a little thing called the
law tends to operate, you know, in this country. And
it really is a complete and utter disrespect for a
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law for something that we have never seen any other president. Too.
It's very important to say even the shady Republican ones is.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Going after James because she took then former president and then.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Again it's self enriching corruption, completely, self enriching corruption.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Donald Trump to court quote simply because she didn't like
him and campaigned on getting him doj led by BONDI
believes she violated his First Amendment rights dealing with free speech.
James has said before she believed Trump inflated his net
worth to get good deals on loans from lenders and
other financial benefits. Miss James won in a court judgment
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of over four hundred and fifty million dollars against.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The Yeah, again, Miss James won there, so kind of
an important point, kind of an important point. I just
have to.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Say Trump organization, Trump is appealing and it's pending. The
entire scope of the grand jury probe in Albany. Data
is unclear. Grand juries are secretive, but we've learned from
these wealth placed sources it stems from a recent strikeforce
set up inside the Justice Department to investigate an alleged
plot to tie Trump to Russia in twenty sixteen. Sources
(22:05):
say that strike force has expanded to other topics now
to recap the Justice Department has initiated great It's.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
This is this is really laying it red on the table.
This strikeforce that, oh, it was started to deal with
the Russia Russia Russia hoax, that is completely a dead
weight in politics right now, and all of a sudden,
it's expanding to other topics. It's expanding to oh, I
don't know, every bad thing or every kind of oppositional
action that anyone has ever done to Trump. Now they're
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gonna get sued for it. Like this is again, I
don't know. I hate being along. It goes against my
nature to kind of constantly be alarmist in this way.
I want to be like, oh, you know, because I
think people were alarmist in the first term. But this
is exactly how you know. You see Airdwana or Putin
or name your autocratic dictator of choice in anywhere around
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the world, this is how they do it. This is
how they do it terms of these kind of legal
vignier task forces that are going against going for corruption
allegations against every single one of their political opponents, over
every single other.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Situation, against the empire, State Attorney General Letitia James. But
remember this is important. A grand jury simply decides if
there's enough evidence to indict. To be clear, we are
told This is very early in the process, and no one,
as I speak to you right now, is facing any
charges at this time.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah. So yeah, there you have it. No one is
facing any charges at this time. Let's take a look
at some of these Chile allegations. Here it's a New
York Attorney general calling the Trump Foundation a personal piggybank
for Trump and his businesses and his using it for
his adult family as adult children as well. This is
a really good one here. This is a Google AI
(23:48):
always sketchy, but you know this has been reported in
other places as well. One specific instance of corruption involved
the Trump Foundation, his charitable organization paying a political group.
First of all, you're paying political group as a charitable
like terrible foundation, you know it is. It is completely ridiculous.
There's no possible charitable purpose for that, but you're paying that.
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Not only is that corrupt, but you're paying it to Pambondy,
this political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondy, who
at the time was considering investigating the Trump The Trump
University is another one of Trump's scam outfits. So he
with the Trump Foundation pays off Pam Bondi, who is
then the Florida Attorney General that so she won't investigate
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Trump University, which is another complete not a corrupt scam.
And what not. Only by the way, does she take
this twenty five thousand and not investigate but the Trump University.
But then down the line, Trump remembers that and puts
her an attorney general, and she launches this very same
attack on le Tricia James for her daring to go
(24:56):
after Trump and his ties to charities, like you can
not get a better encapsulation of the Trump ministration corruption
than that. And the best part is Trump is only
twenty five hundred dollars by the irs for this violation.
You know, you can't get more quintessentially corrupt in this
personal enrichment way, just in this blatant way that that
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Trump has done it. It really is the classic example
of a brand of corruption that really Trump has perfected,
I would say, over the years. And you can go
for a bunch of other different crazy cases. That was
just one I thought was particularly pertinent because of the
Pam Bondi connection there. But you know there is crazy
allegations against Trump and the charities, just them blatantly stealing money.
(25:41):
I think your child's cancer outfit was involved in terms
of them taking money at a child's cancer fundraiser and
putting it in the Trump Foundation, which again they use
as their little own personal piggybank, but and again paying
off the future Attorney General Pam Bondy. But you know,
now Trump is expanding it even further, and Pam Bondi
has tapped and Martin, the ex interrom US Attorney General
(26:03):
for US Attorney for washingt DDC, as special attorney probing
New York Comtornity General Letitia James. Two administration officials told
NBC News Martin will also be involved in a Justice
Department probe against Senator Adam Schiff over alleged mortgage fraud
later to the ownership of his homes in California and Maryland.
The administration officials, they're just digging up dirt on every
(26:23):
single possible person that ever dared to investigate Trump. You know,
I don't think Shift is a particularly you know, good, fair,
you know, and honest politician. I think he's completely corrupt.
He's tied to Defense and you know, the national security
state in a really ridiculous way. But he was talking
oppositionally towards Trump and he gets investigated like this is
(26:44):
a really insane situation, and I think there is no
denying that. It's gonna be very interesting to see how
far and how hard these investigations go over time. So
Donald Trump is now going to be sending troops to Mexico,
or at least he's gonna try, in the name of
supposedly stamping out drug cartel activity. Here is the headline
(27:07):
in the New York Times, Trump tracts military to target
foreign drug cartels. The President has ordered the Pentagon to
use the armed forces to carry out what in the
past was considered law enforcement. And I think the biggest
issue here is that he seems to forget that Mexico
is a sovereign country and they're not going to like
they're probably gonna view this just a thought that they
(27:29):
may view this as a little bit of an incursion
on their sovereignty, not to mention the I think the
effectiveness can be very easily and very fairly questioned. Trump
has apparently secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to
begin using foreign military force or American military force against
Latin American drug cartels that his administration was deemed has
(27:51):
deemed terrorist organizations. According to people familiar with the matter,
the decision to bring the American military into the fight
is the most aggressive step so far. The order provides
an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations
at sea and on foreign soil against cartels. The US
military officials have started up drawing up oxytions for having
(28:13):
the military can go after the groups, The people familiar said,
so still very much in the planning stages, but directing
the military to crack down on illicit trade could raise
legal issues, including whether it would count as murder if
US forces acting outside of congressionly authorized armed conflict were
to kill civilians, even criminal suspects who pose no imminent threat.
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It is unclear what White House, Pentagon, and State Department
lawyers have said about the new directive, or whether Justice
Department's Office of Legal Counsel has produced an authoritative opinion
assessing the legal issues. Already this year, Trump has deployed
the National Guard and active duty troops to the southwest
border to choke off the flow of drugs as well
as immigrants, and has increased surveillance and drug interdiction efforts.
(29:00):
And this was something that you know, the Republicans out
of the debate states that Trump wasn't even on promise
to do to great fanfare, and we'll play some of
eclips in the moment, but let's just say here, I
think this is this is really the perfect way for this,
and supporting anything with regard to Gaza is really the
perfect way for more American troops to die as soon
(29:22):
as possible, all for a mission that we know is
not going to be that effective in all likelihood. You know,
you're asking US troops to go through the jungle to
root out these cartels that could very easily just completely
regenerate and completely return. They have all this money off
of totally offshore accounts. And if you talk to any expert,
(29:43):
any even law enforcement expert who are traditionally really quite
gung ho to go in this that isn't, you know,
obviously completely allied with the Trump administration, they would say,
of course, this is a bad idea. Of course this
is going to get a lot of people in the
military put in harm's way. It remains to be seen
if he's actually gonna follow through on this, because you know,
(30:03):
the Trump always chickens out phenomenon in the fact that
Trump also doesn't does have a lot of other forces
in his ear that could try and alter the course
of his action at the very last minute. So you know,
those two factors mean that it's not necessarily guaranteed whether
anything too certain could happen on any any one direction
(30:27):
or on any one policy with regards to what exactly
the military is going to do to try and root
out these these cartels here. But it certainly does seem
like they are really trying to push the envelope when
it comes to this military usage and expanding the use
of the military in Latin America. And this has come,
(30:49):
of course with a very dark history. You know, if
you've looked in the past of Guatemala, Nicaragua, the Conscios
and the Sandinistas. You know, when you have US troops
on the ground and they're really never has been direct
US military on the ground except for very sparse, sparse circumstances,
mostly a very long time ago. You know, when that happens,
(31:09):
it is really an excuse to wield political power in
these countries and oftentimes does not really go after the
cartels you've seen at one time, you know, the CIA,
if you read a lot of the documents and believe
a lot of the kind of history that maybe is
a little bit hidden, isn't really fully acknowledged. But essentially
all that evidence is there to prove is that when
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other parts of kind of lower level parts of the
US government were working to snuff out the cartels in
the war on drugs in the eighties, you know, the
good people that you saw in you know, Narcos on
Netflix and things like that, you had other parts of
the government that were working with the cartels to sell
crack to funnel cocaine for weapons, and you know, there's
(31:54):
a lot of people that believe they were selling it
in la and places like that so that they could
you know, fund these the contra military and also sell
weapons to Iran in the Iran Iraq War. So that
that is what happened the last time we really fully
delved into trying to you know, stop the war on
drugs and trying to wield political power with armed force
(32:17):
in the middle in Central America. You know, it really
is a place where a lot of violence and a
lot of corruption it happens, you know, not just among
the native politicians, but among our politicians as well. Here,
let's go to Donald Trump explaining this an any press conference,
(32:38):
we're talking about sending military forces to fight against the
drug cartels in Latin America. Do you think it's it's
worth sending our forces or US forces there to take
this on cartels where central Latin America.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Latin America's got a lot of cartels, They've got a
lot of drugs flowing. So you know, we want to
protect our country. We have to protect our country. We
have been doing it for four years. And we love
this country like they love their countries. We have to
protect our country.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And you could see that that got a really quite
fiery response, a pretty corresponse from one of my personal
favorite world leaders who even Trump has had to him.
It is pretty strong. There's a reason why Mexico has
a ninety day tarriff truce right now and uh Mark
Carney and Canada are still slapped with some pretty high
tariffs like twenty five thirty five percent, because Claudia Seinbaum,
(33:29):
Mexico's president, does not play around. Here is what she
said about this offer, This quote unquote offer to deploy
the US army in Mexico. What a what a great offer.
You know the fact that the US only the US
would phrase putting your troops their troops on your territory
as an offer, you know, a positive offer. Let's take
(33:49):
a look at what Claudia Sheimauer to say. I want
to confirm that this is in some of the protos,
though not as says he said, what can we do
to help in the fight against narco trafficking? Preferring the Trump,
I propose for the US Army to go into help.
(34:11):
And you know what I said, No, President Trump, Our
territory is inviable. Sovereignty is inviable. Sovereignty is not for sale.
Sovereignty is loved and defended. There is no need. We
(34:32):
can collaborate and work together, but you do it in
your territory and we do it in ours. We can
share information, but we will never accept the presence of
the U. S Army in our territory. So damn straight
there from Claudia shan Lam. You can see the Mexican
(34:55):
her supporters there in this speech, the dental persy, Denta,
that's what they're saying there, and you can tell they
are don't want any part of American troops on the ground.
And it's very very fair because if you invite these
troops on the ground. What's to stop them from leaving?
(35:16):
What are the bounds that you set? And you're essentially
admitting as a country like Mexico that wants to assert
itself more and more on the global stage, that wants
to be sarmon, wants to be independent. Saying emitting defeat
and saying we need the US Army to put their
own troops on the ground sees an incredible amount of
implicit control and also a fair share of their own
explicit control. If you got your own boots on the ground,
(35:38):
the most powerful army in the country, that is a
huge sacrifice of control. And all of that really does
go against Mexican sovereignty in a way that a lot
of people in Mexico, even if you don't support Claudia
shim Mount, which to be clear, like sixty percent of
the country is hardcore Claudia Shamboum supporters, you know, eighty
percent approve of the job that she's doing. So she's
gonna have a pretty darn United Front closer you can
(36:00):
get to United Front in democratic politics against this. They
are not going to take this lying down. So it'd
be very interesting to see how Trump decides to handle
this going forward, Let's take a look at what the
rest of Shinebomb's remarks here. I said, Mexico is great
and his people are very brave. Such is our country,
(36:25):
such as Mexico. And I said, one more thing, if
you want to help us, President Trump, help us to
stop weapons from coming into the US, coming from the
US into Mexico. Great way to flip that around, by
the way, because tons of the US is pumping out guns,
vegan going illegally into Mexico. And she says, and look
(36:49):
how things turn out. Yesterday President Trump gave an order
for there to be everything necessary to stop weapons from
coming into our country from the US. So cooperation is possible,
is what she's saying. She could be reasonable, she could
be rational, meaning she says, oh, and I just lost it.
(37:10):
I want to apologize for that. We'll go back to
it here, meaning we can collaborate, We can cooperate. Yes
to collaboration, Yes to cooperation, No to subordination, she says,
always the defense of Mexico's sovereignty. Mexico is a free,
(37:31):
independent and sovereign country. That is what the people in
Mexico want, and that is what the President of the
Republic will always defend that is the greatness of Mexico.
So that is a real leader. That's someone who's going
to stand up to Trump. And it's gonna be very
(37:52):
very interesting to see how this all unfolds, because if
you have real, straight up US Army troops, not d A,
not National Guard, not anything like that, US Army troops
on the ground in Mexico, it is going to be
really held to pay for the civilians in Mexico, for
the sovereignty, and for the government of Mexico, but also
I suspect for the US Army and all of the
(38:15):
people within it, including the commander in chief. There's a
series of charts that have really been going quite viral
on American social media that really speaks to the awful
situation that pretty much anyone under thirty five is. And
you know, it comes to a lot of different things. Right,
are you richer in the sense that you can afford
(38:36):
these kind of cheap consumer goods at a much higher
rate and just get them much easier through Amazon or
through whatever shipping service. You can get your DoorDash, you
get your burrito delivered to you, Like there's a lot
of conveniences that have been more widely available than a
lot of pretty much anyone would have expected the twenty
thirty years ago to people of the middle class. You
(38:57):
know that pretty much everyone in America knows about. But
as we take a look at this chart here, this
is from Nathan Halberstaff, but it was a lot of
people were talking about this. It was going kind of
viral and left wing and right wing circles and all
kind of get out of the way here so you
get to see it better on the video. This is
estimated percentage of thirty year olds who are both married
(39:18):
and homeowners. And you know, I bet the pure home
ownership chart kind of tracks quite similarly similarly to this,
and it really is a plummeting directly after the year
nineteen ninety. It goes down a little bit from the
sixties to the eighties to a certain extent, as we
see the kind of breaking away of labor and the
(39:39):
sapping of the mass production of housing just being how
it completely gets out of pace with both wage growth
and with the rising population in the country, and it's
just completely not keeping pace the housing stock with the
rising population in the well, the population that is increasing
in wealth and in riches but you also have this
(40:05):
real big drop coming in the nineteen nineties, which is
where we see even more financialization of the economy and
a huge loss of economic security that you may have
had even in the sixties, seventies and the eighties when
it comes to NAFTA and a huge bunch of offshoring jobs.
This is in the nineteen nineties. The two thousands decade
of ten year time period is when it really starts
(40:28):
to pick up the kind of destruction of the middle
class through all these jobs going to China, manufacturing going down,
the American dream becoming completely unattainable, and from you know,
you could see that drop nineteen nineties, two thousands, and
then you got the tail end of the two thousands,
the financial crisis. The homeowners are completely left out to
(40:48):
dry well. The banks get obviously a bailout, everyone knows
that story, and you have home prices now in the
twenty tens and twenty twenties are continuing to skyrocket as
that bubble. When you bail out the banks and you
bail out all the big kind of financial players that
lost money in the two thousand and eight crisis, all
(41:10):
of a sudden you get a complete soaring right back
again in housing prices, and the wages have not kept up.
Nothing about the economy has kept up. And you get
a situation like this, This is put out by Bernie Sanders,
real weekly wages and the medium home price, and you
get this all the way down, barely fluctuating whatsoever. And
(41:34):
you could say, oh, the scale is bad.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
There.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
We'll get to the actual percentages in a minute. But
look at the surge in median home price again, up, up, up, up,
all the way from nineteen sixty seven to twenty twenty one.
And this is Warren Gunnolds, who is the kind of
policy man behind Bernie Sanders. He says, real median home
prices have gone up ninety two percent from two one
hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in nineteen seventy three
(41:57):
to four hundred and twenty eight thou six hundred dollars
in twenty twenty three. Real wages for average workers have
gone down by thirty one dollars and twenty two cents
a week since Aetia's every three. And apparently that post
was community noted and he disagreed with it. But those
are the simple facts there. Like there, it is in
(42:18):
really incredible to see from a bunch of different factors.
You're talking about financialization of the economy. You're talking about
a huge effort in cities and in suburbs, especially to
stop building of new housing for whatever reason. You know,
a huge policies over the years for the rich to
essentially buy off our politics, shut down labor unions, which
(42:41):
are engines of the middle class. That's been absolutely huge,
and then make sure that their taxes either stay the
same as inflation goes higher or in a lot of
cases go down so that they're contributing less of the
pie if you're in the top one percent, And what
do you get? Increasing income inequality, huge difference between a
(43:01):
vast lawer middle class and a top one percent or
even top tenth of one percent that has really so
so much, and that leads to insane amounts of friction
in the country. It leads to people student loans, abt
not working. It leads to really increased political radicalization and
a demand for change. And that's what we're seeing in
the form of everyone from Donald Trump in some quarters
(43:24):
activating some people to zoron mom nanny, and I think
a big reason why you saw you know, the liberal,
the upper middle class, supposedly liberal part of New York
City voting for Zoron is because you don't have your
student loans paid. If you're in that situation, you're in
a bad economic position. Even if you're making you know,
in a city like New York north of one hundred
and fifty thousand, but you know, in a normal place,
(43:47):
you know, one hundred thousand, eighty one twenty K a year,
you're kind of in a bad place, especially if you
have student loans, because you know, your your housing costs
as we see here, are skyrocketing, your wages aren't really
that promising, they're not going to skyrocket anytime soon to
keep pace with the housing, and you have a student
(44:08):
loan problem to worry about. So you're really one paycheck
away from being in an incredibly dire situation a lot
of the times, and that has an insane amount of
friction on a lot of different people and ends up
leading to a lot of different types of political radicalization
if you don't want to take a look at the other side.
(44:28):
This is in the BBC here a country where seventy
percent of millennials are homeowners, And the answer is China.
If you're aged nineteen thirty six and you don't own
a home, you're probably not reading this in China, the
BBC says, And what do you have there? You have
a whole bunch of people in America absolutely bamboozling themselves,
completely unable to understand why in the world that you know,
(44:52):
people are aren't standing up and rising up against the
Chinese authoritarian government. It's because they all have homes, they
all have families, they all have they're all doing fine,
and they're much more economically secure then they're supposedly democratic
and free counterparts in the beautiful utopia that is the
United States of America. So I think it's it's a
very very important thing to look at here as we
(45:14):
see the kind of the charts going viral this week,
if you want to understand, you know, the link between
political radicalization that we're seeing in many different forms across
many different facets of American political society. And you wonder
why nobody seems that interested in kind of upsetting the
apple cart in China. It's because these levels of economic
(45:36):
security and the ability to be secure and not be
one paycheck away from doing any losing everything and being
out on the street. That exists much much more right
now in a place like China, where you know, we're
going to you know, going to war against the mantariffs
in Vietnam, and you know, culturally and all these other
different things. But we are completely completely neglecting our own
(45:58):
situation where we have you know, go back to the
stats you got, you know, young people unable to get married,
unable to own a home. Housing prices are soaring, wages
are staying absolutely flat, are really going down for the
average worker by thirty one dollars twenty two cents a
week here according to Warren Gunnells. And that sets up
(46:21):
a real for at least people down a different paths
of radicalization. But it really sets up a perception of like, hey,
I did everything right. I went to college. I did
you know, I got learned to trade whatever the case
may be. But I have a job, I'm a functioning
member of society. Why is life so hard for me?
And I think when you see that happen, it really
(46:41):
starts to make people ask. And you're seeing more and
more in America start to ask tough questions and really
questions that their their leadership. For a lot of different
reasons may not like And what I say is, if
you look at these starts, if you look these numbers,
it's about damn time the leadership got some tough quest
questions from the American people. And that's all we have
(47:03):
for you today. Thank you so much for listening to Newsflash.
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Thank you very much and we'll see you next week.
Hello everyone, My name is Specta Walsh. Welcome to today's show.
We have a good one for you. As always on
the show, today its official Israel is planning to occupy Gaza,
the whole entire strip, but starting first with Gaza City.
We'll take a look at their plan, why it reflects
the General's plan of past Gaza incursions by the IDF,
(00:37):
and what net Yahoo has to say about it. Really
really dark but important information coming from Gaza on today's show. Also,
Donald Trump has launched a lawsuit against New York Attorney
General Tish James, making a grand jury, full power of
the Justice Department and all of that all because she's him,
(01:00):
because he was grossly corrupt with his foundations. Also, Donald
Trump is sending the military to Mexico to fight the
drug cartels, but Claudia Scheimbob is saying no way. Jose.
And new charts on Twitter, I actually don't think they're new,
(01:22):
they're just going really viral. They're saying a lot about
the home ownership rates, marriage rates, how they've declined in
America but only gone up in China. And A'll wigh
in on what exactly that says about the political economic
direction at least social direction of the two countries. It's
(01:42):
gonna be a very interesting one at the end, so
stick around for that. We have a great show for
you here today. Consuce flash, ladies, gentlemen. It is been long, long,
long telegraph, but it has finally happened. Israel. They have
(02:06):
reached their logical endpoint in this genocide and are moving
through with a full occupation of Gaza, starting with Gaza City.
This is headline here in Al Jazeera. Israeli military plans
to occupy Kadza City in major escalation of the war.
Got that right for sure, primes to Benjamin and niawho
suggested earlier than Israel's military will take control of all
(02:27):
of Gaza. And Mohammed Schahada is a palicy and researcher.
He has a great threat on this, he says, folks
who are asking what does Yahu's occupation plan mean since
Israel already occupies Gaza, And he talks about the general's
plan and what that meant for places that had received
it in the past. And for those of you who don't
know what the General's plan is, it's ethnic cleansing plan.
(02:49):
Really admitted in the words of Israel in their kind
of private documents. That has really been used multiple times
throughout this this genocide ever since October seventh. One of
the it it's done traditionally, he says, in five steps.
Fully encircled and besieged a city, cut the food and water,
bomb incessantly by AirLand to see it, and owned by
(03:09):
the way. You got to take the hospitals and cut
out all the other vital services, just making this place
really unlivable, invade gradually and forced people out at gunpoint,
and then of course flatten everything in your wake, bring
through those bulldozers. Those are a very big part of
the equation and it's kind of a big symbol for
a lot of the settlers, he says. Israel tested the
(03:30):
General's plan at Northern Gaza in late twenty twenty four.
There are around one hundred and fifty thousand Gozas there
at the start, and by the time they were done,
they cut off all food and water by the way
for over one hundred days, gradually advanced from all directions
and force people out until they're only about twelve thousand
left here in northern Gaza. And you could see all these,
you know, various air strikes over just over the course
(03:51):
of the of the month, and they moved in so
rapidly and so quickly that with a complete and total siege,
they were just forced to flee. Everyone who didn't leave
Javali bait and Hun and bit Lahire during the General's
plan was considered a potential terrorist. Wherever the idea of advanced,
they rounded up people, kidnapped hundreds at random, and put
the rest on death marches southwards. I remember standing with
(04:14):
my family again on Christmas and seeing these horrific, horrific
marches of just shirtless Palestinian men just being humiliated, being beaten,
taking these camps, kidnapped on mass and it really has
been a horrifically dark, dark thing to witness. The cornerstone
of Israel's campaign and Northern Gods was flat and everything
(04:34):
so Godsdans have nothing left to come back to. Once
the IDFD popularly the area, they brought in bulldozers to
demolish all of the homes left standing. Occupying Gadza City
now means that now means repeating the General's plan. Israel
is very open about what's next in circle of city.
Late total siege bomb in sesly advanced with troops and
forced people out. And they already did it to just
(04:57):
north of Godza City. They are now going to move
in into it very ably, to the to the rest
of it and just go right in essentially and force
these people out really from all directions. They'll flatten everything,
just like Japaulia and in Rafa. And by the way,
what Israel did in northern Gaza and Rafa, you know,
(05:18):
Uh was called I think it's important to say, I
think that I forget the name of the guy was uh.
The what is it? Mosha Y'allan, He was a former
defense minister. He called it understrained and brutal killing of civilians.
They repeatedly tried to pipulate Gaza for sixteen months, especially
Gaza City, with indiscriminate bombing, starvation and evasions. So the
(05:41):
thing is they failed. Israel called it a cat and
mouse game. So now you know they're going to put
on maximum, maximum pressure in Gaza City and then force people,
concentrate people around the area, which will be inevitably a
staging ground for further expulsion uh and forced expulsion, no
matter how much they try and tell you, oh, it's
a volunteer it's voluntary. Gaza City is now sheltering over
(06:03):
one million people. Over seventy percent of the city has
been destroyed, but it's not fully wiped out like Rafa
or Japalia. If Israel gets its way in Gaza City
and Darylbala, there would literally be nothing left of the
entire Gaza Strip Darobala in Gaza City, those two regions
kind of in the middle North and the dead center
(06:24):
of Gaza are really the last two places left where
would a million gsms go real a concentration camp in Rafah,
Howa points out here Israel's finance minister quietly allocated three
billion nis this is the Israeli currency this week for
a Gaza security box to establish such a camp. And
that is you know, it's safe to say that is
(06:45):
what we will see here in the future, just a
complete moving in concentration of the population towards the south
where they can go and build this camp. And that
is gonna be something, you know, on the on the
destroyed rubble of Rafa that they will look to do
as this invasion process continues. I do want to go
now to net Yahoo, who has been talking about it
(07:07):
quite a bit here He is confirming his intention to
take control of our Rafa and you know, or all
of Gaza. Excuse me unless unless you believe like an idiot.
You know, frankly, you really are an idiot if you
believe that that it's just Gaza City for now. But
yet you don't even have to believe that, because here
he's saying, we're going to take control of all of Gaza.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You will go immediately into a meeting with your security cabinet.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, Israel take control of all.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Of Gaza, we intend to YEP, in order to assure
our security, remove Ramas there, enable the population to be
free of Gaza and to pass it to civilian governance
that is not Tramas and not anyone advocating the destruction
the visual. That's what we want to do. We want
(07:57):
to liberate ourselves and liberate the people of from the
awful terror of Hamas.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And you will go, yeah, So, all the best, all
the best people were always viewed as liberators throughout history.
And to get it absolutely straight, and I hope that
everyone watching this or listening to this is smart enough
to realize this, but this is complete genocidal war crime behavior.
Here Everything that was described from this occupation of you know,
(08:23):
just God's the city for now. But of course, as
Natya who literally just said, eventually the whole gods of
stript he forced people at all the actions the General's
plan in as Mohammed Shahada described, in terms of cutting
off the food and water, targeting civilian infrastructure, targeting civilians themselves,
all could not be more illegal under international law, any
any sort of kind of genocide convention or any sort
(08:45):
of basic morality convention. Really, and it's so so important
to keep keep highloading that the criminal nature of the
Israeli actions here and really the entire route of this project,
which as from the start when the then Defense Minister
of Gant said that we're going to treat these people
like human animals and cut off electricity, food and water
things like that, you know that should have been clear
(09:07):
from the start. But this is what they really were
trying to do all along. Here on October seventh, and
in case you're wondering, he has the complete green light
here from Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
President Trump given the green light for your plan to
take over the remaining twenty.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Five percent of Gaza and occupy all of it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, you know, he's he understands that it's Israel who's
going to do the fighting, it's not American soldiers. Did
he give you a yes, Well, he just says no,
Israel will do what it has to do, and we
haven't got into that kind of discussion.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
By the way, your nineteen year old staff sergeants couldn't
do jackshit without American weapons. Let's just be perfectly clear.
The pathetic ADIF is only the AUDIF because it kills
children with American weapons. That's let's be one hundred percent
on that.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
But we have gotten into a discussion on two things.
One the humanitarian surge that we're going to do, which
will precede our final military action, because I want the
population to be in safe zones, to have food, water, sewage, electricity,
medical help.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All controlled by Israel, which are obviously you know, you
see how they told that stuff out, and he want
them to be in safe stones so they can be
rounded up for extermination.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I want to free two million gozzins from Hamas terrorism.
The second thing that we agree on is that the
day after has to have certain principles. I'm not talking
about a detailed plan yet because I think that'll be developed,
but the five principles, the key principles of these. One
Hamas has to lay down ITTs armes. Two Kaza has
(10:42):
to be demlitarized. Three all the hostages have to be released.
And four Israel will be responsible for overall security. So
if there's an attempt to have a resurgent Hamas or
resurgent terrorism, you know, we're the ones who are going
to take care of it. And five lip be governed
by a civilian authority that is not Israel, because I
(11:05):
don't want to I don't want to occupy Gaza forever.
I don't want to govern guys.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And that's yeah, to put in perspective, that's exactly what
the Israeli said and supporting to highlight there After the
West Bank, you know, they wanted to set up some
sort of a Palestinian authority for example, or an Arab authority.
But this time they don't even want it to be
the Palatin the authority which has already completely lost legitimacy
of the people in the West Bank and is a
complete and open collaborator with Israel. They want it to
(11:33):
be now in Gaza, some sort of Arab group of
these Arab states that even command less respect in the
Gaza Strip actually, and that is what they're saying now.
And you notice the fourth one was security control. So
if anything starts to start to happen again, starts to
flare up, Israel's gonna be right there to tamp it
down again. And you know you can, you can bet
(11:55):
your bottom dollar they would love to do that. So,
whether Israel has some sort of a West Bank plan
where they gradually take complete control and take sovereignty and
then pave the way for obviously Israeli settlements because they
don't have to govern the Arabs there they want to,
but they do want to put Jewish settlements there. They
want to put Israeli settlements there. If they do that
in the long kind of West Bank like process where
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they go slowly and they work with an Arab authority
that is completely under the control of Israel, that could
be one way. Or they could just start the process
of displacement the camps that they are already planning to do,
these kind of safe zones that are completely controlled by
Israel and their security control. Israel already says it wants
to have in the Strip. Will they try and do
that displacement process sow or fast. You know, that really
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ultimately seems to be the only question at this point.
But these speaking of these Arab states, they do have
a proposal eight p and I twenty four News report
that guitar in Egypt are advancing a new outline for
a Gaza deal. Sick. Listen to Ryan Graham explain.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It before we get the men Yaz. There's one other
piece from the negotiations that I think is actually complimentary
to all this, and I can I can put this up.
This is a this is an AP report that that
came out overnight which says that there's a new framework
for a long term ceasefire that is being kicked around
by Egypt and Cutter. Our reporting is that Hamas has
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not seen any of this, and that this is that
this is basically a wit Cough project. It's kind of
Witcough reviving this project. So what he's what he's proposing
is that all of the hostages would be would be
released at once in exchange for in his fullest rarely
withdrawal a version of a fullest Raeli withdrawal a plus
an end uh, you know, permanent end to the war.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And the way that they.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Would try to split this question of Hamas disarming is
they would quote unquote free have Hamas freeze its weapons,
though they would keep their weapons but not use them,
which seems actually fine from Hamas's perspective, because that's that's
what a ceasefire is. Anyway, you're gonna have your weapons,
but you're.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And then that would happen Ryan grim Is. They're saying
until a new Palicy and landed administration is formed in
a Palasing Arab committee with govern and oversee reconstruction, with
the new police force trained by two US allies. So
that could be essentially, if you're following the letter of it,
that could be pretty close to what Israel wants there.
Are they going to accept it? No, because you have
right wing and I hope I'm wrong. I would be
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absolutely shocked if they somehow accept this proposal. You know,
in two weeks from now, Wickhoff, who's supposedly planted this
idea in the first place, he's gonna be calling this
idea unacceptable. So you know, you wait and see, because
that's what's happened in the past, and it really is
a very unfortunate situation. But it seems to be the
thing that you know, this should be exactly what Israel want,
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but in the end they will deny it because they
want to have Jewish Israeli settlements on the or on
the gazas, on the Gaza Strip, just like in the
West Bank, and they will not stop. If they have
to take the long game. They'll take the long game,
but they'd rather do it fast until Palestinians are expelled,
forced out, killed, whatever, and the way can be paid
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for Jewish little on the Gaza Strip. I think that
is essentially the run of where things stand, very very
tough times for Gaza. Indeed, so Donald Trump's Department of
Justice is now going after the New York State Attorney
General Letitia James. Why because she just had the literal temerity,
(15:21):
the unmitigated goal to do her job and actually sue
Donald Trump because he was grossly corrupt with charities and
his charitable donations. He would essentially be using them. And
this was the kind of the allegation from the James
at the time when she was suing him, and by
the way it is doing him successfully, was that he
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was using them as his and his adult children were
using them as their personal piggybanks. And just taking these
charitable funds and funneling them right back to their own accounts.
And this is how it played out on Fox News.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Some breaking news sources are telling us that New York
Attorney General Leticia James and her office are under investigation
by the Department of Justice in relation to her case
against President Trump. Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What do you know, David, Well, Hi, Dana too. Well
placed sources familiar with the probe tell Fox News that
New York.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And maybe this is a guy just has a resting,
smunk face, but I kind of feel like he looks
a little smunke. But anyway, this like the point is
with this, and you can you get a better sense
of that if you will watch on YouTube Spencer Walsh
YouTube channel. But if you are watching on YouTube, thanks
very much either way. This this really does mark I
think a pretty significant step up in the Trump mystration
(16:37):
because you say, you heard their Dana Prino or whoever
that is on Fox News coming out and saying yourself,
this is in relation to her case against President Trump.
It's not because of any corruption. They're not leading with
the fact that, oh, this was a politically motivated case,
and we have evidence that there was a reason why
or Trump issued by James on false pretenses because of corruption.
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They they didn't even say that they had. Evan said
that they're subjecting Literitia James going after her with this
because she dared to take the action in the first place.
This is really and you know, we gotta there's a
I think a certain drive to kind of dismiss this.
And it's a lot easier for a lot of people
to dismissed it because it's America and we're not like,
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this is our country and we're not in you know,
in some kind of a foreign country where all this
crazy stuff would normally happen, and we can handwave it
a lot easier. Like, I think we are really reaching
a point where we are getting to these countries that
we've always and a lot of Americans have always looked
down on and said, oh, this will never happen here.
It's to authoritarian, this is not who we are. You know,
(17:45):
this is a completely motive, politically motivated, you know, lawsuit
against an opposition party elected official with literally no evidence
behind it, and we'll see where it goes. Grand jury's
could very often a lot of times be a fishing
expedition where you start with one thing and you go
until you find anything corrupt, and you you hype that
up as much as humanly possible and try and get
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some sort of charge up with it. And I think,
you know, you could you could point to that in
a lot of ways with the flaws of the Alvin bradcase,
even against Donald Trump. You know, it wasn't the strongest
case to go after someone who's so manifestly corrupt, but
this case was. This was an open and shutcase of
some real mismanagement, and there's no evidence that James or
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anyone in her office mishandled this in any way. It
is a clear sign of Trump just doing this because
he can, and also because he wants to create fear
among other people, in just some annoyance or some sort
of deterrence against other people in the kind of broader oppositions,
fear to trump Ism and to the Republican Party. If
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you want to do anything to hold Trump accountable on
his blatant corruption inside of training whatever you name it,
go down the list of the things that you know,
corrupt things that he's done in this administration, things that
he's done before he was liked and things that he
did in his first administration. You now because of this,
this is this is their goal. You know, you're now
I'm gonna take a step back and say, oh, wait
a minute, is it really worth it? Should I really
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be doing this? And you know you may very well,
It's very possible you could reconsidered, and that is exactly
what Donald Trump wants to do. Here, let's take a
look at the rest of this report.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
General Letitia James and her office is under investigation by
the DOJ here in Washington. We're told that Attorney General
Pambondi signed off on the probe. Subpoenas were sent to
James's office, and there is a grand jury investigation underway
in the New York State capital of all but the
specific investigation my colleague Jay Gibson, Ashley Oliver and myself
(19:45):
are being told involves deprivation of rights, which in plain
language means someone in a position of legal authority violating
someone else's constitution or legal rights. Those sources tell Fox
News the DJ is.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I mean, I would love to have a lawyer to
like to talk to about this, because it's just like,
how are you getting that how are you getting that
as a charge when there is literally no evidence of
any sort of deprivation of rights or missaidling other than
the fact that James, as a Democratic elected official, said
(20:16):
some spicy stuff, I'm sure on the campaign trail when
she was trying to run for office back whenever it
was she got elected, that oh, you know, I'm gonna
hold Donald Trump accountable. I'm gonna go after him, you
know whatever. We're gonna go after his corruption. And the
good way to go after just to stop that, if
you're Donald Trump, to stop being having to pay a settlement,
a civil settiment for corruption that is literally unrelated to
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anything you're doing in office, is to not be corrupts,
to not do those things, and then it'll be much
harder for her to make those allegations and for a
judge to approve them and make you pay that settlement.
It's pretty simple. It's how a little thing called the
law tends to operate, you know, in this country. And
it really is a complete and utter disrespect for a
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law for something that we have never seen any other president. Too.
It's very important to say even the shady Republican ones is.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Going after James because she took then former president and then.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Again it's self enriching corruption, completely, self enriching corruption.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Donald Trump to court quote simply because she didn't like
him and campaigned on getting him doj led by BONDI
believes she violated his First Amendment rights dealing with free speech.
James has said before she believed Trump inflated his net
worth to get good deals on loans from lenders and
other financial benefits. Miss James won in a court judgment
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of over four hundred and fifty million dollars against.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The Yeah, again, Miss James won there, so kind of
an important point, kind of an important point. I just
have to.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Say Trump organization, Trump is appealing and it's pending. The
entire scope of the grand jury probe in Albany. Data
is unclear. Grand juries are secretive, but we've learned from
these wealth placed sources it stems from a recent strikeforce
set up inside the Justice Department to investigate an alleged
plot to tie Trump to Russia in twenty sixteen. Sources
(22:05):
say that strike force has expanded to other topics now
to recap the Justice Department has initiated great It's.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
This is this is really laying it red on the table.
This strikeforce that, oh, it was started to deal with
the Russia Russia Russia hoax, that is completely a dead
weight in politics right now, and all of a sudden,
it's expanding to other topics. It's expanding to oh, I
don't know, every bad thing or every kind of oppositional
action that anyone has ever done to Trump. Now they're
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gonna get sued for it. Like this is again, I
don't know. I hate being along. It goes against my
nature to kind of constantly be alarmist in this way.
I want to be like, oh, you know, because I
think people were alarmist in the first term. But this
is exactly how you know. You see Airdwana or Putin
or name your autocratic dictator of choice in anywhere around
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the world, this is how they do it. This is
how they do it terms of these kind of legal
vignier task forces that are going against going for corruption
allegations against every single one of their political opponents, over
every single other.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Situation, against the empire, State Attorney General Letitia James. But
remember this is important. A grand jury simply decides if
there's enough evidence to indict. To be clear, we are
told This is very early in the process, and no one,
as I speak to you right now, is facing any
charges at this time.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah. So yeah, there you have it. No one is
facing any charges at this time. Let's take a look
at some of these Chile allegations. Here it's a New
York Attorney general calling the Trump Foundation a personal piggybank
for Trump and his businesses and his using it for
his adult family as adult children as well. This is
a really good one here. This is a Google AI
(23:48):
always sketchy, but you know this has been reported in
other places as well. One specific instance of corruption involved
the Trump Foundation, his charitable organization paying a political group.
First of all, you're paying political group as a charitable
like terrible foundation, you know it is. It is completely ridiculous.
There's no possible charitable purpose for that, but you're paying that.
(24:11):
Not only is that corrupt, but you're paying it to Pambondy,
this political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondy, who
at the time was considering investigating the Trump The Trump
University is another one of Trump's scam outfits. So he
with the Trump Foundation pays off Pam Bondi, who is
then the Florida Attorney General that so she won't investigate
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Trump University, which is another complete not a corrupt scam.
And what not. Only by the way, does she take
this twenty five thousand and not investigate but the Trump University.
But then down the line, Trump remembers that and puts
her an attorney general, and she launches this very same
attack on le Tricia James for her daring to go
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after Trump and his ties to charities, like you can
not get a better encapsulation of the Trump ministration corruption
than that. And the best part is Trump is only
twenty five hundred dollars by the irs for this violation.
You know, you can't get more quintessentially corrupt in this
personal enrichment way, just in this blatant way that that
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Trump has done it. It really is the classic example
of a brand of corruption that really Trump has perfected,
I would say, over the years. And you can go
for a bunch of other different crazy cases. That was
just one I thought was particularly pertinent because of the
Pam Bondi connection there. But you know there is crazy
allegations against Trump and the charities, just them blatantly stealing money.
(25:41):
I think your child's cancer outfit was involved in terms
of them taking money at a child's cancer fundraiser and
putting it in the Trump Foundation, which again they use
as their little own personal piggybank, but and again paying
off the future Attorney General Pam Bondy. But you know,
now Trump is expanding it even further, and Pam Bondi
has tapped and Martin, the ex interrom US Attorney General
(26:03):
for US Attorney for washingt DDC, as special attorney probing
New York Comtornity General Letitia James. Two administration officials told
NBC News Martin will also be involved in a Justice
Department probe against Senator Adam Schiff over alleged mortgage fraud
later to the ownership of his homes in California and Maryland.
The administration officials, they're just digging up dirt on every
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single possible person that ever dared to investigate Trump. You know,
I don't think Shift is a particularly you know, good, fair,
you know, and honest politician. I think he's completely corrupt.
He's tied to Defense and you know, the national security
state in a really ridiculous way. But he was talking
oppositionally towards Trump and he gets investigated like this is
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a really insane situation, and I think there is no
denying that. It's gonna be very interesting to see how
far and how hard these investigations go over time. So
Donald Trump is now going to be sending troops to Mexico,
or at least he's gonna try, in the name of
supposedly stamping out drug cartel activity. Here is the headline
(27:07):
in the New York Times, Trump tracts military to target
foreign drug cartels. The President has ordered the Pentagon to
use the armed forces to carry out what in the
past was considered law enforcement. And I think the biggest
issue here is that he seems to forget that Mexico
is a sovereign country and they're not going to like
they're probably gonna view this just a thought that they
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may view this as a little bit of an incursion
on their sovereignty, not to mention the I think the
effectiveness can be very easily and very fairly questioned. Trump
has apparently secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to
begin using foreign military force or American military force against
Latin American drug cartels that his administration was deemed has
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deemed terrorist organizations. According to people familiar with the matter,
the decision to bring the American military into the fight
is the most aggressive step so far. The order provides
an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations
at sea and on foreign soil against cartels. The US
military officials have started up drawing up oxytions for having
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the military can go after the groups, The people familiar said,
so still very much in the planning stages, but directing
the military to crack down on illicit trade could raise
legal issues, including whether it would count as murder if
US forces acting outside of congressionly authorized armed conflict were
to kill civilians, even criminal suspects who pose no imminent threat.
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It is unclear what White House, Pentagon, and State Department
lawyers have said about the new directive, or whether Justice
Department's Office of Legal Counsel has produced an authoritative opinion
assessing the legal issues. Already this year, Trump has deployed
the National Guard and active duty troops to the southwest
border to choke off the flow of drugs as well
as immigrants, and has increased surveillance and drug interdiction efforts.
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And this was something that you know, the Republicans out
of the debate states that Trump wasn't even on promise
to do to great fanfare, and we'll play some of
eclips in the moment, but let's just say here, I
think this is this is really the perfect way for this,
and supporting anything with regard to Gaza is really the
perfect way for more American troops to die as soon
(29:22):
as possible, all for a mission that we know is
not going to be that effective in all likelihood. You know,
you're asking US troops to go through the jungle to
root out these cartels that could very easily just completely
regenerate and completely return. They have all this money off
of totally offshore accounts. And if you talk to any expert,
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any even law enforcement expert who are traditionally really quite
gung ho to go in this that isn't, you know,
obviously completely allied with the Trump administration, they would say,
of course, this is a bad idea. Of course this
is going to get a lot of people in the
military put in harm's way. It remains to be seen
if he's actually gonna follow through on this, because you know,
(30:03):
the Trump always chickens out phenomenon in the fact that
Trump also doesn't does have a lot of other forces
in his ear that could try and alter the course
of his action at the very last minute. So you know,
those two factors mean that it's not necessarily guaranteed whether
anything too certain could happen on any any one direction
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or on any one policy with regards to what exactly
the military is going to do to try and root
out these these cartels here. But it certainly does seem
like they are really trying to push the envelope when
it comes to this military usage and expanding the use
of the military in Latin America. And this has come,
(30:49):
of course with a very dark history. You know, if
you've looked in the past of Guatemala, Nicaragua, the Conscios
and the Sandinistas. You know, when you have US troops
on the ground and they're really never has been direct
US military on the ground except for very sparse, sparse circumstances,
mostly a very long time ago. You know, when that happens,
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it is really an excuse to wield political power in
these countries and oftentimes does not really go after the
cartels you've seen at one time, you know, the CIA,
if you read a lot of the documents and believe
a lot of the kind of history that maybe is
a little bit hidden, isn't really fully acknowledged. But essentially
all that evidence is there to prove is that when
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other parts of kind of lower level parts of the
US government were working to snuff out the cartels in
the war on drugs in the eighties, you know, the
good people that you saw in you know, Narcos on
Netflix and things like that, you had other parts of
the government that were working with the cartels to sell
crack to funnel cocaine for weapons, and you know, there's
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a lot of people that believe they were selling it
in la and places like that so that they could
you know, fund these the contra military and also sell
weapons to Iran in the Iran Iraq War. So that
that is what happened the last time we really fully
delved into trying to you know, stop the war on
drugs and trying to wield political power with armed force
(32:17):
in the middle in Central America. You know, it really
is a place where a lot of violence and a
lot of corruption it happens, you know, not just among
the native politicians, but among our politicians as well. Here,
let's go to Donald Trump explaining this an any press conference,
(32:38):
we're talking about sending military forces to fight against the
drug cartels in Latin America. Do you think it's it's
worth sending our forces or US forces there to take
this on cartels where central Latin America.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Latin America's got a lot of cartels, They've got a
lot of drugs flowing. So you know, we want to
protect our country. We have to protect our country. We
have been doing it for four years. And we love
this country like they love their countries. We have to
protect our country.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And you could see that that got a really quite
fiery response, a pretty corresponse from one of my personal
favorite world leaders who even Trump has had to him.
It is pretty strong. There's a reason why Mexico has
a ninety day tarriff truce right now and uh Mark
Carney and Canada are still slapped with some pretty high
tariffs like twenty five thirty five percent, because Claudia Seinbaum,
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Mexico's president, does not play around. Here is what she
said about this offer, This quote unquote offer to deploy
the US army in Mexico. What a what a great offer.
You know the fact that the US only the US
would phrase putting your troops their troops on your territory
as an offer, you know, a positive offer. Let's take
(33:49):
a look at what Claudia Sheimauer to say. I want
to confirm that this is in some of the protos,
though not as says he said, what can we do
to help in the fight against narco trafficking? Preferring the Trump,
I propose for the US Army to go into help.
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And you know what I said, No, President Trump, Our
territory is inviable. Sovereignty is inviable. Sovereignty is not for sale.
Sovereignty is loved and defended. There is no need. We
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can collaborate and work together, but you do it in
your territory and we do it in ours. We can
share information, but we will never accept the presence of
the U. S Army in our territory. So damn straight
there from Claudia shan Lam. You can see the Mexican
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her supporters there in this speech, the dental persy, Denta,
that's what they're saying there, and you can tell they
are don't want any part of American troops on the ground.
And it's very very fair because if you invite these
troops on the ground. What's to stop them from leaving?
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What are the bounds that you set? And you're essentially
admitting as a country like Mexico that wants to assert
itself more and more on the global stage, that wants
to be sarmon, wants to be independent. Saying emitting defeat
and saying we need the US Army to put their
own troops on the ground sees an incredible amount of
implicit control and also a fair share of their own
explicit control. If you got your own boots on the ground,
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the most powerful army in the country, that is a
huge sacrifice of control. And all of that really does
go against Mexican sovereignty in a way that a lot
of people in Mexico, even if you don't support Claudia
shim Mount, which to be clear, like sixty percent of
the country is hardcore Claudia Shamboum supporters, you know, eighty
percent approve of the job that she's doing. So she's
gonna have a pretty darn United Front closer you can
(36:00):
get to United Front in democratic politics against this. They
are not going to take this lying down. So it'd
be very interesting to see how Trump decides to handle
this going forward, Let's take a look at what the
rest of Shinebomb's remarks here. I said, Mexico is great
and his people are very brave. Such is our country,
(36:25):
such as Mexico. And I said, one more thing, if
you want to help us, President Trump, help us to
stop weapons from coming into the US, coming from the
US into Mexico. Great way to flip that around, by
the way, because tons of the US is pumping out guns,
vegan going illegally into Mexico. And she says, and look
(36:49):
how things turn out. Yesterday President Trump gave an order
for there to be everything necessary to stop weapons from
coming into our country from the US. So cooperation is possible,
is what she's saying. She could be reasonable, she could
be rational, meaning she says, oh, and I just lost it.
(37:10):
I want to apologize for that. We'll go back to
it here, meaning we can collaborate, We can cooperate. Yes
to collaboration, Yes to cooperation, No to subordination, she says,
always the defense of Mexico's sovereignty. Mexico is a free,
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independent and sovereign country. That is what the people in
Mexico want, and that is what the President of the
Republic will always defend that is the greatness of Mexico.
So that is a real leader. That's someone who's going
to stand up to Trump. And it's gonna be very
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very interesting to see how this all unfolds, because if
you have real, straight up US Army troops, not d A,
not National Guard, not anything like that, US Army troops
on the ground in Mexico, it is going to be
really held to pay for the civilians in Mexico, for
the sovereignty, and for the government of Mexico, but also
I suspect for the US Army and all of the
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people within it, including the commander in chief. There's a
series of charts that have really been going quite viral
on American social media that really speaks to the awful
situation that pretty much anyone under thirty five is. And
you know, it comes to a lot of different things. Right,
are you richer in the sense that you can afford
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these kind of cheap consumer goods at a much higher
rate and just get them much easier through Amazon or
through whatever shipping service. You can get your DoorDash, you
get your burrito delivered to you, Like there's a lot
of conveniences that have been more widely available than a
lot of pretty much anyone would have expected the twenty
thirty years ago to people of the middle class. You
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know that pretty much everyone in America knows about. But
as we take a look at this chart here, this
is from Nathan Halberstaff, but it was a lot of
people were talking about this. It was going kind of
viral and left wing and right wing circles and all
kind of get out of the way here so you
get to see it better on the video. This is
estimated percentage of thirty year olds who are both married
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and homeowners. And you know, I bet the pure home
ownership chart kind of tracks quite similarly similarly to this,
and it really is a plummeting directly after the year
nineteen ninety. It goes down a little bit from the
sixties to the eighties to a certain extent, as we
see the kind of breaking away of labor and the
(39:39):
sapping of the mass production of housing just being how
it completely gets out of pace with both wage growth
and with the rising population in the country, and it's
just completely not keeping pace the housing stock with the
rising population in the well, the population that is increasing
in wealth and in riches but you also have this
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real big drop coming in the nineteen nineties, which is
where we see even more financialization of the economy and
a huge loss of economic security that you may have
had even in the sixties, seventies and the eighties when
it comes to NAFTA and a huge bunch of offshoring jobs.
This is in the nineteen nineties. The two thousands decade
of ten year time period is when it really starts
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to pick up the kind of destruction of the middle
class through all these jobs going to China, manufacturing going down,
the American dream becoming completely unattainable, and from you know,
you could see that drop nineteen nineties, two thousands, and
then you got the tail end of the two thousands,
the financial crisis. The homeowners are completely left out to
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dry well. The banks get obviously a bailout, everyone knows
that story, and you have home prices now in the
twenty tens and twenty twenties are continuing to skyrocket as
that bubble. When you bail out the banks and you
bail out all the big kind of financial players that
lost money in the two thousand and eight crisis, all
(41:10):
of a sudden you get a complete soaring right back
again in housing prices, and the wages have not kept up.
Nothing about the economy has kept up. And you get
a situation like this, This is put out by Bernie Sanders,
real weekly wages and the medium home price, and you
get this all the way down, barely fluctuating whatsoever. And
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you could say, oh, the scale is bad.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
There.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
We'll get to the actual percentages in a minute. But
look at the surge in median home price again, up, up, up, up,
all the way from nineteen sixty seven to twenty twenty one.
And this is Warren Gunnolds, who is the kind of
policy man behind Bernie Sanders. He says, real median home
prices have gone up ninety two percent from two one
hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in nineteen seventy three
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to four hundred and twenty eight thou six hundred dollars
in twenty twenty three. Real wages for average workers have
gone down by thirty one dollars and twenty two cents
a week since Aetia's every three. And apparently that post
was community noted and he disagreed with it. But those
are the simple facts there. Like there, it is in
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really incredible to see from a bunch of different factors.
You're talking about financialization of the economy. You're talking about
a huge effort in cities and in suburbs, especially to
stop building of new housing for whatever reason. You know,
a huge policies over the years for the rich to
essentially buy off our politics, shut down labor unions, which
(42:41):
are engines of the middle class. That's been absolutely huge,
and then make sure that their taxes either stay the
same as inflation goes higher or in a lot of
cases go down so that they're contributing less of the
pie if you're in the top one percent, And what
do you get? Increasing income inequality, huge difference between a
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vast lawer middle class and a top one percent or
even top tenth of one percent that has really so
so much, and that leads to insane amounts of friction
in the country. It leads to people student loans, abt
not working. It leads to really increased political radicalization and
a demand for change. And that's what we're seeing in
the form of everyone from Donald Trump in some quarters
(43:24):
activating some people to zoron mom nanny, and I think
a big reason why you saw you know, the liberal,
the upper middle class, supposedly liberal part of New York
City voting for Zoron is because you don't have your
student loans paid. If you're in that situation, you're in
a bad economic position. Even if you're making you know,
in a city like New York north of one hundred
and fifty thousand, but you know, in a normal place,
(43:47):
you know, one hundred thousand, eighty one twenty K a year,
you're kind of in a bad place, especially if you
have student loans, because you know, your your housing costs
as we see here, are skyrocketing, your wages aren't really
that promising, they're not going to skyrocket anytime soon to
keep pace with the housing, and you have a student
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loan problem to worry about. So you're really one paycheck
away from being in an incredibly dire situation a lot
of the times, and that has an insane amount of
friction on a lot of different people and ends up
leading to a lot of different types of political radicalization
if you don't want to take a look at the other side.
(44:28):
This is in the BBC here a country where seventy
percent of millennials are homeowners, And the answer is China.
If you're aged nineteen thirty six and you don't own
a home, you're probably not reading this in China, the
BBC says, And what do you have there? You have
a whole bunch of people in America absolutely bamboozling themselves,
completely unable to understand why in the world that you know,
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people are aren't standing up and rising up against the
Chinese authoritarian government. It's because they all have homes, they
all have families, they all have they're all doing fine,
and they're much more economically secure then they're supposedly democratic
and free counterparts in the beautiful utopia that is the
United States of America. So I think it's it's a
very very important thing to look at here as we
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see the kind of the charts going viral this week,
if you want to understand, you know, the link between
political radicalization that we're seeing in many different forms across
many different facets of American political society. And you wonder
why nobody seems that interested in kind of upsetting the
apple cart in China. It's because these levels of economic
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security and the ability to be secure and not be
one paycheck away from doing any losing everything and being
out on the street. That exists much much more right
now in a place like China, where you know, we're
going to you know, going to war against the mantariffs
in Vietnam, and you know, culturally and all these other
different things. But we are completely completely neglecting our own
(45:58):
situation where we have you know, go back to the
stats you got, you know, young people unable to get married,
unable to own a home. Housing prices are soaring, wages
are staying absolutely flat, are really going down for the
average worker by thirty one dollars twenty two cents a
week here according to Warren Gunnells. And that sets up
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a real for at least people down a different paths
of radicalization. But it really sets up a perception of like, hey,
I did everything right. I went to college. I did
you know, I got learned to trade whatever the case
may be. But I have a job, I'm a functioning
member of society. Why is life so hard for me?
And I think when you see that happen, it really
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starts to make people ask. And you're seeing more and
more in America start to ask tough questions and really
questions that their their leadership. For a lot of different
reasons may not like And what I say is, if
you look at these starts, if you look these numbers,
it's about damn time the leadership got some tough quest
questions from the American people. And that's all we have
(47:03):
for you today. Thank you so much for listening to Newsflash.
We have all of our video clips as usual, out
now on YouTube. In addition, we have a bonus clip,
so you want to check that out, head to the
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that channel is the same as the logo for this podcast.
(47:27):
Thank you very much and we'll see you next week.
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