April 20, 2025 • 53 mins
Alternate Current Radio and 21st Century Wire present: Sunday Wire with Patrick Henningsen
This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts globally on Alternate Current Radio, with host Patrick Henningsen sharing some thoughts and reflections over this Easter weekend about the state of America, Europe and the Middle East, and especially the human tragedy and apocalypse unfolding in Palestine and the increasingly inability of our ‘democratic’ western civilization to stop the unprecedented violence and suffering being endured in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli regime. All this and more…
This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts globally on Alternate Current Radio, with host Patrick Henningsen sharing some thoughts and reflections over this Easter weekend about the state of America, Europe and the Middle East, and especially the human tragedy and apocalypse unfolding in Palestine and the increasingly inability of our ‘democratic’ western civilization to stop the unprecedented violence and suffering being endured in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli regime. All this and more…
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this week's edition of
The Sunday Wire. I'm your host, Patrick Henningson. We're streaming
out live on the Alternate Current Radio Network also at
twenty first century Wire dot com. We're also stream out
live on x Rumbo, Facebook, YouTube, Facebook Live, also on
the audio streams as well after the program. And it's
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great to be with you this episode five hundred and
forty four of this weekly omnibus news and analysis radio program.
And we'll do something a little bit different today. Normally
we're in studio, we're connecting up with our team, but
where I am or part of the world I am
right now, the weather is about to turn, so this
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is the last day of sun we might have for
a week. So I decided to make sure I got
out here outdoors and just enjoyed this Easter weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And there's a lot to.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Reflect on and a lot to talk about, and I
thought this format might be a little bit more personal.
We won't be probably connecting with our team members afterwards.
We'll catch up to them next week and hopefully they're
having a great break as well. So just considering what's
happening in the world is a lot to reflect on
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Easter symbolizing the resurrection in Christianity, a rebirth of sorts,
and I think the world's going through that process definitely.
We've been seeing that for a while, for the last
couple of years. There is a bit of a rebirth happening.
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But at the same time, it's a painful process, and
you can see it's becoming clear anyway to me that
you can see how the establishment, how the old system,
the old control system of the twentieth century based even
longer than that, I can talk about that, but this system,
you can see it's lashing out. We're seeing levels of
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desperation that are like nothing we've ever seen in our lifetime,
especially in the West. You have to remember that the
last thousand years, it's been Europe dominating the world, basically European,
the European continent and its colonies.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Including the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This is basically the euro domination of the planet that's
gone on for the last millennia basically and right now
in twenty five and people have been commenting on the
emergence of bricks and the emergence of China, Russia as well, India.
Africa is a renaissance going on in Africa right now.
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That's unbelievably politically, the levels of awareness, just people taking
stock and reevaluating the formation of that continent, a post
colonial formation continent. I would say the same in many
ways about South America as well. But this old order
is really really having a difficult time accepting the fact
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that there might be other poles of influence emerging. And
a lot's been said and of course commented, certainly we
have on.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The multipolar world.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And the problem with the multipolar world from a Western
centric point of view is that means no more US
or Anglo American or US European global hegemony, and specifically
US hegemony. If we're talking about the last hundred years,
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and you know, how's the US going to compete with
other polls of influence. They just by the moves being
made by the Trump administration, they don't really want to compete.
You can see they're engaging in economic warfare and interpret
any gains made by any other country like China, for instance,
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or any other country that the US is running a
trade deficit with, which is everybody, and they have been
running a trade deficit since nineteen thirty four, so This
is nothing new. It's not a state of emergency, as
Trump so disingenuously used an executive or an emergency action
to implement economic warfare against the rest of the world.
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And the United States has always been running deficits because
that's a choice the US made years ago in order
to maintain a global dollar reserve currency, and that's been
the source of America's power and influence.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's been able to shape the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
World through through a global reserve currency, the US dollar,
and that really sort of gained steam after the United
States went off the gold standard and onto the petro
dollar post Breton Woods and Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, the
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old brain trust of the nineteen sixties and seventies. And
once the US did that, it started running an unlimited deficit.
It was believed that this was the only way. This
is how the United States was going to basically export
its dollars all over the world, worthless Fiat dollars and
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get real goods in return. It's a good deal, low
prices at home, keeping everybody hooked on the dollar and
playing with interest rates all the while in order to
create boom and bus cycles globally, and the United States
has been able to run a two trillion dollars a
year deficit. That's probably the most important part of all
this is if a country is allowed to run a
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two trillion dollar deficit and their military industrial complex, which
they used to enforce their dollar hedge of money costs
around to trillion dollars a year. They're doing that off
the back of deficit spending the national credit card. Imagine
if every country did that, where would we be. We
probably wouldn't be here. The world would have already gone
up into smoke in the Third and fourth World Wars
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by now. But the United States has that privilege it's
given itself and then disingenuously turning around as Trump has done,
and say the world is ripping us off. They're ripping
us off. We're getting a bad deal. And this line
the shtick that this president can't come up with a
better narrative than to sell an absolute lie.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's more than a lie. It goes to.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The heart of the matter, which is that the US president,
it doesn't appear that he understands how the United States
financial preponderance works. He doesn't understand how the global reserve
currency works. Maybe he has a rough idea, but he
really doesn't understand it. Certainly maybe his Treasury Secretary, Scott
Bessett does, and maybe, of course Howard Lutnick, his Commerce Secretary,
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which is his shadow. This is the President's handler, following
them everywhere. Behind every curtain you find the Commerce Secretary there,
representing the banking elite from Wall Street and the Israeli lobby, etc.
So they understand that the United States has been running
a fiat global empire based on trust, trust that the
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United States dollar will be redeemed upon presentation of the
bonds and all the other debt the United States is
piled up in order to maintain this global Ponzi scheme. Okay,
now the interests coming due on nine trillion dollars of debt.
They're panicking in Washington. They need to refine, they need
to refinance this. The only way they can really refinance
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it is to force the value of the dollar down,
force it down, to devalue the dollar and then lower
lowering interest payments by doing that, and somehow by magic
increasing US exports when the US doesn't have a manufacturing base.
So it's it's an incredible gymnastics move. Maybe it'll be successful.
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Maybe it won't. Early indicators are the fundamentals just aren't
there for the US to pull this one off. But
it might be enough to get Trump through the first
couple of years of his first term. But beyond that,
there is no structural remedy here. This is really a
real gamble by Trump, and he's gambling the livelihoods of
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everybody in the country today and the global economy as well.
So the rich certainly got rich and made off like
bandits when the stock market crashed two weeks ago after
Trump announced as teriff wars.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They all made money.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
They've all been shorting the market since February or before that.
Even they knew, especially if you knew it was coming
down the pipeline. This type of insider trading with Trump
in his inner circle makes Nancy Pelosi's stock tips look
like lunch money. Okay, the amount of money these people.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Are making, it's in the tens hundreds of billions.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, for this elite class, they've done very well, while
everybody else is going to suffer inflation or recession, stagflation
and so on. Nothing for the working class, certainly, nothing
for the middle class or what's left of it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That's the reality of MAGA.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, and this is a critique coming from the conservative side,
So really trying to hoodwink the American people into this
situation is quite extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And nobody really articulating what the master plan is.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Maybe somebody knows somewhere, but they're not really articulating it
to the public, maybe because they're busy building up the
ground floor of their private fiefdoms to be the next
Rockefellers Carnegie Melons for the next hundred years through the
implementation of some proprietary CBD, central bank, digital currency or
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stable coin whatever. Trump and his intercircle and Peter Thiel
and the digital oligarchs are planning. They're not telling you.
They'll tell you when they're ready, and they prepared on
their end to fully control and fully capitalize on the
new system, the new reset, or to build a parallel lane,
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which they're currently constructing. But it gets back to that
original point, which is that the United States doesn't know
what it's like to compete with anybody else in the
world because they've managed to game the global economy for
so long, and now they're realizing that they've been playing
This financial game is financial Ponzi's game, and why they've
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eschewed all of the fundamentals of the industrial economy, of
the state intervention and the harmonization of private and public
interests that the United States used to become the world's
superpower in the twentieth century. Now they're on a rampant privatization, deregulation,
total stampede right now in order for everybody to rinse
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what they can, to suck every last drop of value
out of this old system, which they themselves destroyed. Okay,
you and I didn't destroy it. The bankers destroyed it.
They decide the boom and bus cycles. They decide what
inflation's going to be. Inflation is a stealth tax. It's
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not declared by Congress, it's not passed by any legislation.
But the decisions made by the President, by the Federal Reserve,
by the central bankers will determine the inflation rate. And
that's going to decide whether you're rich or or poor
at the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Okay, it's a tax. Doesn't affect the wealthy.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
They're already buying luxury goods, your basic overheads, and now
you're paying twenty dollars for a tuna sandwich. And a
bag of potato chicks. And that wasn't the case ten
years ago, was it. What is the true inflation rate? Well,
it's much closer to ten fifteen, seventeen and a half
in some cases, twenty on some critical areas, fifty percent
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a year in some areas, all averaging out probably somewhere
between fifteen and twenty percent. It's expensive, not for the
wealthy though, not if you're well positioned, not if you've
managed to.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Parlay a seat at the table.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
If you can afford two hundred and fifty million or
three hundred million bundled from you and your tech buddies,
as Elon Musk is done, you can buy a seat
in the White House. In fact, you turn the White
House into your co workspace. The cost of that three
hundred million, the Israeli lobbying six hundred million. What does
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it cost to pick the entire cabinet of the President
of the United States?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Six hundred million? Because that's who picked Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The approved list was given to the president on the
proviso that everybody on that list shows sufficient loyalty to
the State of Israel. This is why the Israeli lobby
and their agents of influence within Trump's transition team selected
on that basis, not based on merits, skills, certainly not
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expertise when it comes to foreign policy and when it
comes to quote national security. And now you're seeing the
results of that. You're seeing the attacks from the Trump
administration against the First Amendment. Free speech is no longer
free in America. Any students, legal residents, legal residents, green
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card holders married to American citizens that dare to criticize
the state of Israel are being deported, kidnapped by Ice
and deported. Writing an op ed Fulbright scholars you know
how hard it is to get a Fulbright scholarship. That's
the top of the top. They apprehended, kidnapped a Fulbright
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scholar from Boston, you know, one of the Boston University.
I think it was toughs kidnapped them off the street
and accuse them of anti Semitic or pro Hamas or whatever.
The epithet of the day is of this ever expanding
definition of quote anti Semitism. Nobody knows what it is,
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like the woke, like the gender fluidity, and the pronouns.
The definition keeps getting updated every week, so they must
have a website where you can keep track of the
new definition, so it's not to fall foul of this
new definition that's being used to police speech in America.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But that's the reality. That's the reality.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Speech is no longer free. So just imagine criticizing a
foreign government. Criticizing a foreign government will get you deported,
not even criticizing the American government or US policy. Criticizing
a foreign government. So a foreign lobby is dictating the
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terms of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. That's
what's happening, and it's being enforced by autocrats like Marco Rubio,
who pockets millions over his career from the Israeli lobby.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Donald Trump has pocketed.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Well in this last election cycle, him alone two hundred
and thirty million. So there's a little conflict of interest there,
more than a little when the US administration is attacking
the First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
On behalf of a foreign lobby.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Because when any of these cases will end up in
the Supreme Court, if they're adjudicated strictly on a free
speech interpretation, there's no way the government has a lect
to stand on. So they're acting for a foreign on
behalf of foreign influence. The thing that they that everyone
accused Russia of doing, influencing the US or influencing the
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US political system, It's actually happening. But it's not Russia,
it's Israel. They already did this in the UK with
ousting the Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbin and then ejecting
any of his allies from the party, totally meddling in
British politics. Foreign lobby, same lobby. Why do they do that.
They do that because they want to control the foreign
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policy of these countries, to make sure that they act
and they support and they rule in favor of Israel. Okay,
So that's what's going on in America. An unbelievable situation.
I never thought I would see the US, of all countries,
whether the most sacrifanct of all their amendments is the
First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
All other amendments the rights.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Are derived from that ability to have a First Amendment
inalienable rights. Anyone within US jurisdiction, legal or not, is
entitled to those rights. And by the way, the President
of the United States and his advisors or whoever, has
to swear an oath. I'm not sure if anybody does
these days, or if they do, whether they actually mean
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it much less actually put their hand on the Bible,
mister President, if.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
They swear an oath, if you're a soldier, you swear this,
don't you. What is the oath?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's you swear to protect and defend the US Constitution
from all enemies, foreign and domestic. So, if you're a
US politician and you are undermining or attacking the First
Amendment of the United States on behalf of a foreign government,
then you're an enemy of.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The US Constitution.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You are a domestic enemy of the US Constitution if
you're a foreign lobby paying for that access to cajole, manipulate, coerce, blackmail,
pay off, bribe US officials and office holders in order
to undermine the First Amendment. So is to eliminate any
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criticism or opposition to what that foreign country is doing,
like Israel in this case, carrying out a brutal genocide.
So anybody involved in that selling out of the US
Constitution that unfortunately is tantamount to treason.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Maybe the media, maybe the Democrats should take a look
at that.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's like an open goal for the opposition, but they
won't take it. The goals wide open. The goalkeeper is gone.
You got two strikers just past midfield. There's nobody there.
They won't take the shot. The Democrats won't take it,
AOC won't take it. Bernie certainly won't take it. Because
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both parties are bought and paid for in the United States,
both parties, and that's really sad. Now you're seeing the
result of having no opposition is when the nefarious elements
get done with the politicians, then they start going for
the machinery of government. They start attacking the US Constitution
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because no one domestically will defend it. And all these
so called conservatives who've been show voting for the last
four years, fighting the woke, you know, fighting trans real,
brave work, when it comes to actually defending the US Constitution,
they ran a mile. Most of them support Israel, so
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that's that, you know, they're not going to lift a finger.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
They love deporting their opposition.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They don't want any critics, they don't want students protesting
on campus. Disingenuously frame this as the students are pro
Hamas or pro terrorist, a total lie, a complete metamorphosis
of the of the real concept. Because if you've been
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on a campus protest prior to Hamas coming in power.
By the way, Hamas the political party in Palestine and Gaza.
They were founded, funded, created effectively and nurtured by Shinbet
Israeli intelligence, by Netanyahu himself because they wanted to create
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a counterbalance at the time to the poo. Unfortunately, Hamas
did too good of a job looking after people and
became very popular. So they want to frame this pro
Hamas that students are pro Hamas. They're not students in
America Jewish, Muslim, Christian protests. They couldn't care less Amas.
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They're there protesting on behalf of the Palestinian people. They're
there protesting for human rights. They're there opposing what the
International Courts of Justice is calling a genocide. They're there
protesting what the International Criminal Court, whether you signed up
to it or not, have issued arrest warrants against the
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Israeli Prime Minister and his Defense minister, Bibi Netnyahu and
Joev Galant for war crimes, crimes against humanity. That's what
the students are out there for. They're out there effectively
to try and save lives. They're and advocating for boycott, divestment,
and sanctions against a country that is clearly a rogue
state that's now acting way outside of the bounds of
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normal behavior, going against everything everything that was put into
place in the post World War two US led liberal
internationalist multilateral world order that created.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
The United Nations.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
They created the Geneva Convention, they created the Genocide Convention
to prevent the crime of all crimes, genocide. And here
it is happening right in front of our eyes, and
instead of doing something about it, they're perpetrators and those
abetting them, like the US and Britain and Germany, are
attacking the institutions. They're attacking the protesters trying to stop it,
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trying to save lives, trying to stop the bloodshed in
the carnage. That's what our elected officials in the West
are busy doing. So they're being compelled to take that
position out of fear and also because they've been bribed,
They've been paid to take that position. This is an
incredible situation. We're in a historic inflection point. So many
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people have been bought and paid for. There's so much
deep corruption right now, and the damage has already been done.
The question is can we prevent it A from spilling
even further? And b there is going to have to
be a reckoning for what has just happened over the
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last year and a half, and then who has aided
and abetted it, who has facilitated it. This reckoning is
going to have to happen. There's going to be there's
going to have to be some sense of divine justice,
and it will eventually happen, maybe even not in our lifetime,
maybe in our children or grandchildren's lifetime. But the time
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horizon for these events is not limited to merely a
presidential term of Donald Trump or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's much broader.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Look at history, these wars, the scars of these types
of brutal conflicts and slaughters and massacres.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It goes on for centuries.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It will rear its ugly head in the future at
some point, and your children or grandchildren are great grandchildren
might end up paying the price for what we have
done today, what for what we have allowed to happen today,
even though it's not their fault, even though they weren't
even alive when it happened. The decisions were consciously making
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today going to affect our progeny and and perhaps in
a very negative way. Certainly that's going to be the
case with Israel. Anybody living within Israel or anybody hoping
to live within Israel, They're going to have to pay
the price of what net Yahoo and the Israeli society
has has allowed to happen, has called for, which is
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a brutal killing and ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population.
It's going to eventually happen. So what does that leave
the United States and its political system morally completely bankrupt?
And still nobody wants to talk about it or acknowledge
that this, this grave injustice is happening. The US is
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doing everything except for piloting the planes, dropping the bombs,
everything else the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
United States is involved in. They're a co belligerent.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It's not Israel's war or Israel's genocide, It's the US
and Israel's genocide. It's it's the UK, It's France, It's Germany, Germany,
of all countries, Germany can't stop the aid and the
arms to the State of Israel. The German society is
so lost and so bludgeoned by history that they are
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so desperate to atone for their guilt of World War
Two that they're willing to atone for that guilt all
the way down to the last Palestinian. That's quite an
extraordinary irony of history. And if Germany is the top
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of Europe and Europe is the titular head of Western civilization,
then I will say that Western civilization has utterly failed,
an abject failure, and we're watching it fail. We're watching
it fail. It's collapsing under the just the degradation of
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its own moral and ethical pillars that are nothing but dust.
At this point, there is a chance to turn it around,
or at least for some leader to rise to speak
truth to power, to say something that makes sense. But
we don't see it. We still don't see it. Everybody's
doubling down on it. They're afraid now, they're horrified at
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what they have done, and they're only their only red
course is to double down on it. That's their only
option in their mind anyway, for their political careers, for
their survival. I mean, look at these leaders. Look at
these these arguably the weakest, the most morally bereft, ethically
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void political quote leaders.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
In living memory.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And we've had some bad ones before, but collectively, this
is this new class of emotionless, vain narcissistic bureaucrats, and
they're at the head of every major country and decision
making positions.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
So we are definitely in need of a rebirth this year,
this Easter something to think about, and I think about
the Holy Land. If you're a Christian, of course, this
should take more of a deeper meaning because right now
in the Holy Land, especially if you're an American Christian,
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or American Christian evangelist or a Christian Zionist, that your
tax money is going to pay for five hundred pound
bombs that are turning ancient Christian churches to dust.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
The Israelis have destroyed scores.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Of them, and they have killed thousands of Christians in Palestine. Yes,
there are Christians in Palestine, the descendants of the first Christians,
the descendants of Jesus. They're there, that is the Holy Palestine.
And you're paying for aiding and abetting the evisceration of
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historic Palestine, the Holy Land. That's what you're doing, unbeknownst
to yourselves. Clearly you don't get it, and Israel certainly
doesn't care. If they did, they wouldn't have done it.
And also they wouldn't have blown up every university in Gaza,
every higher education institution, and even last Palm Sunday. Last
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Palm Sunday, I woke up and the first thing I
see in the news is al Ahli Hospital, one of
the last working hospitals in Gaza, was attacked by the IDEF,
and I see people cheering on social media pro Israeli
saying We're going to go for every hospital, We're going
to get every last bunker tunnel. What do hospitals have
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to do with anything other than helping and saving people,
saving lives, caring for the wounded. They've destroyed all of them.
The scenes of Gaza desolate, total annihilation. This makes Dresden
look like a light treatment of carpet bombing. This should
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give pause to anybody in the West. If you haven't
spoken up against this, if you haven't opposed it, if
you haven't vocally vocally to your friend's family, colleagues, and
your church and your work place in your political communities,
if you haven't vocally opposed this and you are a
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party to it, because you can't claim ignorance, not with
the sheer volume of content information that's already been broadcast
is available, your fingertips to feign ignorance on this issue
is disingenuous that at best, at its worst.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Pure evil.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
There's nothing else that anyone can say about that.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You know, and you might say, well, I don't want
to take the Palestinian side because that would.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Make me pro Hamas.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Pro Hamas, But this term Hamas has been used as
a broad brush in order to label everything of any
resistance to an illegal Israeli occupation and now a genocide
as being somehow tantamount to terrorism or allied with terrorism.
This is just a disingenuous legal maneuver performed by the
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US and its allies, the UK, European countries at the
behest of the Israeli lobby.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
That's all it is.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
If you were to get technical about it, say what
about the political wing of Hamas.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
They're not terrorists? Are they?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The people doing aid, community work, education, healthcare, sanitation?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Is that terrorism as well?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But really, if you look at the UN Charter and
UN resolutions multiple examples, the UN recognizes any country under
an illegal occupation is having a right to an armed
liberation resistance struggle. Armed resistance struggle is recognized under international
law as a right, and any illegal occupying military force
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has no rights in that occupied territory. That means Israel
and the idfor IOF, the Israeli occupation forces, not defense forces,
just calling balls and strikes. It's dispensed with the euphemisms.
So by doing that, it's created a chilling effect, and
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they're trying to impose that on US, students, people around
Europe and so forth, to get people to shut up
so they don't point out the obvious. That's what's going
on is it's an unprecedented, historic massacre, an indiscriminate use
of overwhelming military force against the civilian population. And God
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bless and there have been so many important voices that
have been there to give testament to what's happening and
to try to stop it. It could never name them all,
but on this Easter weekend, I would say thank you
and God bless Pastor Mounter Isaac.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
In Bethlehem, in.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Palestine, the UN Special Rappertoire of Human Rights for Palestine,
Francesco Albanisi, and the great scholar Norman Finkelstein, Ilian Pappe.
There's so many, and most of all the people of
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Gaza who've been taking a stand and just by the
mere active survival is the ultimate form of resistance. This
is a level of resiliency never seen before in history ever, never.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
If the Pope did anything.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You canonize every last person in Gaza for what they've
had to withstand and put up with and suffer. Those
who've survived anyway, is extraordinary. Takes a strong constitution, strong faith.
These are really really resilient and strong will people. Look
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at what they've been through. They refuse, they refuse to
leave the land. That should tell you everything you need
to know that if you're rooting against them, or you're
advocating for their annihilation, or you're.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Calling for their forced expulsion.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
This native residence of Palestine, then you are absolutely on
the wrong side of history, profoundly on the wrong side
of history. So while the state and the establishment are
(35:31):
spending all of their time and effort and energy to silence,
to intimidate, to threaten, to cancel people who are speaking
up and criticizing the gravest of injustices in a way
(35:55):
that really digging their own grave in historical terms. Anyway,
they're delegitimizing themselves.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
So epically it will go down in history as the
ultimate self.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Own I guess, but it's sad, you know, without free speech,
without the ability to express your opinion, especially expressing your
opinion as it pertains to an injustice, as especially as
it pertains to a war crime, but even more especially
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if it pertains to a crime against humanity, if it
pertains to a wanton mass slaughter of innocent people, of
tens of thousands of women and children, many of whom
are still being dug out of the rubble in Gaza,
many of whom will not be discovered for a very
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long time. If you're speaking out against that, That's what
that First Amendment was intended for. That's what the principle
of free speech was introduced into the era of democracy.
(37:14):
Who was introduced for that reason to prevent those very
things from happening.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
And look now as they happen, And.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Look who's trying to silence people who are trying to
point out and trying to stop what is happening.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
And that's all you need.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
To know about where things are at in twenty twenty five.
So you have to decide what you need to do
to course correct this incredible diversion of Western civilization. Maybe
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we can learn a thing or two from other civilizations,
non Western civilizations. They might have something to say as well.
What we don't want is for this situation to korene
into a Third World War. So it's a cumbent upon
people like Donald Trump and his inner circle, especially because
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the US.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Has the power.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
They have the gold, the money, the bombs, the satellites,
They really have the power. At the end of the day,
they can decide whether this is going to kreene out
of control or not, or if another one hundred thousand
people are going to have to die for some extreme
ethno nationalist ideology, ethno nationalist settle or colonial ideology. Yeah,
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the Trump White House is going to have to decide
how this story ends.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Otherwise, other countries, other people will have.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
To intervene to try to change the course of events
because they don't want to. They won't accept another two
hundred thousand or more people killed for no reason other
than they're an inconvenience to some expansive colonial settler state.
How else are we supposed to interpret this. You might
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not like my interpretation. It might make you uncomfortable. It
might you might try to accuse me of being this
or that. No, I'm just reading it as it is.
I'm being pretty conciliatory. Actually, this is a pretty lightweight treatment.
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That's kind of what it is, though, And it might
make you feel better to deny it, but it's not
going to make the situation any better. Your denial will
probably ultimately contribute it to this being much worse. Eventually,
it will affect you wherever you are. Nobody's going to
be safe from this level of violence, this level of depravity,
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this level of sheer corruption, total abuse of power, the
ultimate abuse of power. It will come home to roost
wherever you are. It always does eventually, And if it's
not in your lifetime, it'll be in your children's or
their children's. Why don't we do them a favor and
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make sure that doesn't happen, at least do our best
to make sure that doesn't happen. So I don't really
know what to say this easter beyond that those are
just these are just a few thoughts I had in
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my head.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I want to get out, get out of the studio.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
For once, and this might be our last, like a
good weather here for another week or so. But I
appreciate you guys joining us the shorter than normal sun.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
But it's nice to do something a little different.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
We'll be back with the normal programming during the week
for the midweek Wire and also next Sunday. We'll have
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Speaker 2 (41:51):
Us that way.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
So we've got time for today again, thank you so
much for joining us. And just a few thoughts really
on Easter.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Nothing nothing really, I.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Hope I hope you're with if you are celebrating this
holiday or you have time off, I hope you're able
to spend it with family and do something worthwhile meaningful.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
I certainly will be doing that.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
So but take care everybody, and we'll leave you with
a couple of very poignant pieces of art or what
they call music from a very dear friend and a
very talented songwriter, Joseph Arthur.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I'll leave you with that. Take care of everybody, all
the best, O.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Sees file.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Sees fire.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
God's so how many children have to die?
Speaker 6 (43:29):
There are no sides when their mothers tried in no
real way to justify.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Their death.
Speaker 6 (43:42):
That comes from an eagle sky sees file.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Sees file sees fine guys are somehow.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Damnage fly a nuclear bomb dressing in a kill box.
People can a scay bet told to leave, but where
can they go? A genocide something It's biblical fai.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Cease fire, cease fire, seize fire.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
In gods or somehow because it might be the last
time raising hand about do we are? What's this say
(45:14):
about you? We are? Because it might be the last
time to raise a hand about do we are? What's
this say about you?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
We are?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Digital limits show said, digital.
Speaker 7 (45:43):
Lies cut out they are along with the supplies, the
proper gang.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
The leads to the humanize our fellow human and silence.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
That cries.
Speaker 8 (46:04):
Sea Fine seas fire cease fire.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
In guys.
Speaker 9 (46:21):
Some without equality, there will always be wore.
Speaker 6 (46:35):
We have all of history to see how it's have
been before.
Speaker 9 (46:41):
Travelaz equals equality from.
Speaker 4 (46:47):
Or else man had with Shirley fall, seaspin.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
Sees fire, fire, gods or somehow.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Because this might be the last time the raisor hay
about the we are? What's this say about the wea?
Speaker 5 (47:38):
This might be the last.
Speaker 4 (47:42):
Raising? Hay about me? What's this say.
Speaker 5 (47:49):
About wen't even know about its.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
Genoside? It's never justified. There ain't no reason because human beings.
Speaker 10 (49:21):
I'm more than just a kind defined by race or religion,
because we all have souls and the mission here honor.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Only God knows why you can't decide that death.
Speaker 11 (49:45):
Because you want here for their birth or their first
life for Christ. Don't let the children die. Don't let
that children die.
Speaker 12 (50:01):
Sisters and brothers, we know it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
When we see that father's cry.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
With their mother.
Speaker 4 (50:18):
Jet aside. It's never justified. There ain't no reasons cause
human beings.
Speaker 10 (50:33):
More than just a kind define by race or religion,
because we all have souls and the mission here onors.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
Only God knows why you can't decide that dad, you know,
because you want it for them on their first life.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
A cry.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
Don't let the children die.
Speaker 12 (51:08):
Don't let that children die. Sisters and brother, We know
it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
When we see them father's cry.
Speaker 7 (51:24):
With them.
Speaker 4 (51:25):
Mother. Don't let the children die.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
Don't let the children die.
Speaker 12 (51:35):
Sisters and brother, We know it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
When we see their father's cry with their mother ship.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
The
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this week's edition of
The Sunday Wire. I'm your host, Patrick Henningson. We're streaming
out live on the Alternate Current Radio Network also at
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the audio streams as well after the program. And it's
(00:46):
great to be with you this episode five hundred and
forty four of this weekly omnibus news and analysis radio program.
And we'll do something a little bit different today. Normally
we're in studio, we're connecting up with our team, but
where I am or part of the world I am
right now, the weather is about to turn, so this
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is the last day of sun we might have for
a week. So I decided to make sure I got
out here outdoors and just enjoyed this Easter weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And there's a lot to.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Reflect on and a lot to talk about, and I
thought this format might be a little bit more personal.
We won't be probably connecting with our team members afterwards.
We'll catch up to them next week and hopefully they're
having a great break as well. So just considering what's
happening in the world is a lot to reflect on
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Easter symbolizing the resurrection in Christianity, a rebirth of sorts,
and I think the world's going through that process definitely.
We've been seeing that for a while, for the last
couple of years. There is a bit of a rebirth happening.
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But at the same time, it's a painful process, and
you can see it's becoming clear anyway to me that
you can see how the establishment, how the old system,
the old control system of the twentieth century based even
longer than that, I can talk about that, but this system,
you can see it's lashing out. We're seeing levels of
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desperation that are like nothing we've ever seen in our lifetime,
especially in the West. You have to remember that the
last thousand years, it's been Europe dominating the world, basically European,
the European continent and its colonies.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Including the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This is basically the euro domination of the planet that's
gone on for the last millennia basically and right now
in twenty five and people have been commenting on the
emergence of bricks and the emergence of China, Russia as well, India.
Africa is a renaissance going on in Africa right now.
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That's unbelievably politically, the levels of awareness, just people taking
stock and reevaluating the formation of that continent, a post
colonial formation continent. I would say the same in many
ways about South America as well. But this old order
is really really having a difficult time accepting the fact
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that there might be other poles of influence emerging. And
a lot's been said and of course commented, certainly we
have on.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The multipolar world.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And the problem with the multipolar world from a Western
centric point of view is that means no more US
or Anglo American or US European global hegemony, and specifically
US hegemony. If we're talking about the last hundred years,
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and you know, how's the US going to compete with
other polls of influence. They just by the moves being
made by the Trump administration, they don't really want to compete.
You can see they're engaging in economic warfare and interpret
any gains made by any other country like China, for instance,
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or any other country that the US is running a
trade deficit with, which is everybody, and they have been
running a trade deficit since nineteen thirty four, so This
is nothing new. It's not a state of emergency, as
Trump so disingenuously used an executive or an emergency action
to implement economic warfare against the rest of the world.
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And the United States has always been running deficits because
that's a choice the US made years ago in order
to maintain a global dollar reserve currency, and that's been
the source of America's power and influence.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's been able to shape the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
World through through a global reserve currency, the US dollar,
and that really sort of gained steam after the United
States went off the gold standard and onto the petro
dollar post Breton Woods and Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, the
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old brain trust of the nineteen sixties and seventies. And
once the US did that, it started running an unlimited deficit.
It was believed that this was the only way. This
is how the United States was going to basically export
its dollars all over the world, worthless Fiat dollars and
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get real goods in return. It's a good deal, low
prices at home, keeping everybody hooked on the dollar and
playing with interest rates all the while in order to
create boom and bus cycles globally, and the United States
has been able to run a two trillion dollars a
year deficit. That's probably the most important part of all
this is if a country is allowed to run a
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two trillion dollar deficit and their military industrial complex, which
they used to enforce their dollar hedge of money costs
around to trillion dollars a year. They're doing that off
the back of deficit spending the national credit card. Imagine
if every country did that, where would we be. We
probably wouldn't be here. The world would have already gone
up into smoke in the Third and fourth World Wars
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by now. But the United States has that privilege it's
given itself and then disingenuously turning around as Trump has done,
and say the world is ripping us off. They're ripping
us off. We're getting a bad deal. And this line
the shtick that this president can't come up with a
better narrative than to sell an absolute lie.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's more than a lie. It goes to.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The heart of the matter, which is that the US president,
it doesn't appear that he understands how the United States
financial preponderance works. He doesn't understand how the global reserve
currency works. Maybe he has a rough idea, but he
really doesn't understand it. Certainly maybe his Treasury Secretary, Scott
Bessett does, and maybe, of course Howard Lutnick, his Commerce Secretary,
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which is his shadow. This is the President's handler, following
them everywhere. Behind every curtain you find the Commerce Secretary there,
representing the banking elite from Wall Street and the Israeli lobby, etc.
So they understand that the United States has been running
a fiat global empire based on trust, trust that the
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United States dollar will be redeemed upon presentation of the
bonds and all the other debt the United States is
piled up in order to maintain this global Ponzi scheme. Okay,
now the interests coming due on nine trillion dollars of debt.
They're panicking in Washington. They need to refine, they need
to refinance this. The only way they can really refinance
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it is to force the value of the dollar down,
force it down, to devalue the dollar and then lower
lowering interest payments by doing that, and somehow by magic
increasing US exports when the US doesn't have a manufacturing base.
So it's it's an incredible gymnastics move. Maybe it'll be successful.
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Maybe it won't. Early indicators are the fundamentals just aren't
there for the US to pull this one off. But
it might be enough to get Trump through the first
couple of years of his first term. But beyond that,
there is no structural remedy here. This is really a
real gamble by Trump, and he's gambling the livelihoods of
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everybody in the country today and the global economy as well.
So the rich certainly got rich and made off like
bandits when the stock market crashed two weeks ago after
Trump announced as teriff wars.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They all made money.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
They've all been shorting the market since February or before that.
Even they knew, especially if you knew it was coming
down the pipeline. This type of insider trading with Trump
in his inner circle makes Nancy Pelosi's stock tips look
like lunch money. Okay, the amount of money these people.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Are making, it's in the tens hundreds of billions.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, for this elite class, they've done very well, while
everybody else is going to suffer inflation or recession, stagflation
and so on. Nothing for the working class, certainly, nothing
for the middle class or what's left of it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That's the reality of MAGA.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, and this is a critique coming from the conservative side,
So really trying to hoodwink the American people into this
situation is quite extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And nobody really articulating what the master plan is.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Maybe somebody knows somewhere, but they're not really articulating it
to the public, maybe because they're busy building up the
ground floor of their private fiefdoms to be the next
Rockefellers Carnegie Melons for the next hundred years through the
implementation of some proprietary CBD, central bank, digital currency or
(10:14):
stable coin whatever. Trump and his intercircle and Peter Thiel
and the digital oligarchs are planning. They're not telling you.
They'll tell you when they're ready, and they prepared on
their end to fully control and fully capitalize on the
new system, the new reset, or to build a parallel lane,
(10:34):
which they're currently constructing. But it gets back to that
original point, which is that the United States doesn't know
what it's like to compete with anybody else in the
world because they've managed to game the global economy for
so long, and now they're realizing that they've been playing
This financial game is financial Ponzi's game, and why they've
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eschewed all of the fundamentals of the industrial economy, of
the state intervention and the harmonization of private and public
interests that the United States used to become the world's
superpower in the twentieth century. Now they're on a rampant privatization, deregulation,
total stampede right now in order for everybody to rinse
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what they can, to suck every last drop of value
out of this old system, which they themselves destroyed. Okay,
you and I didn't destroy it. The bankers destroyed it.
They decide the boom and bus cycles. They decide what
inflation's going to be. Inflation is a stealth tax. It's
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not declared by Congress, it's not passed by any legislation.
But the decisions made by the President, by the Federal Reserve,
by the central bankers will determine the inflation rate. And
that's going to decide whether you're rich or or poor
at the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Okay, it's a tax. Doesn't affect the wealthy.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
They're already buying luxury goods, your basic overheads, and now
you're paying twenty dollars for a tuna sandwich. And a
bag of potato chicks. And that wasn't the case ten
years ago, was it. What is the true inflation rate? Well,
it's much closer to ten fifteen, seventeen and a half
in some cases, twenty on some critical areas, fifty percent
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a year in some areas, all averaging out probably somewhere
between fifteen and twenty percent. It's expensive, not for the
wealthy though, not if you're well positioned, not if you've
managed to.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Parlay a seat at the table.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
If you can afford two hundred and fifty million or
three hundred million bundled from you and your tech buddies,
as Elon Musk is done, you can buy a seat
in the White House. In fact, you turn the White
House into your co workspace. The cost of that three
hundred million, the Israeli lobbying six hundred million. What does
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it cost to pick the entire cabinet of the President
of the United States?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Six hundred million? Because that's who picked Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The approved list was given to the president on the
proviso that everybody on that list shows sufficient loyalty to
the State of Israel. This is why the Israeli lobby
and their agents of influence within Trump's transition team selected
on that basis, not based on merits, skills, certainly not
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expertise when it comes to foreign policy and when it
comes to quote national security. And now you're seeing the
results of that. You're seeing the attacks from the Trump
administration against the First Amendment. Free speech is no longer
free in America. Any students, legal residents, legal residents, green
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card holders married to American citizens that dare to criticize
the state of Israel are being deported, kidnapped by Ice
and deported. Writing an op ed Fulbright scholars you know
how hard it is to get a Fulbright scholarship. That's
the top of the top. They apprehended, kidnapped a Fulbright
(14:13):
scholar from Boston, you know, one of the Boston University.
I think it was toughs kidnapped them off the street
and accuse them of anti Semitic or pro Hamas or whatever.
The epithet of the day is of this ever expanding
definition of quote anti Semitism. Nobody knows what it is,
(14:35):
like the woke, like the gender fluidity, and the pronouns.
The definition keeps getting updated every week, so they must
have a website where you can keep track of the
new definition, so it's not to fall foul of this
new definition that's being used to police speech in America.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But that's the reality. That's the reality.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Speech is no longer free. So just imagine criticizing a
foreign government. Criticizing a foreign government will get you deported,
not even criticizing the American government or US policy. Criticizing
a foreign government. So a foreign lobby is dictating the
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terms of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. That's
what's happening, and it's being enforced by autocrats like Marco Rubio,
who pockets millions over his career from the Israeli lobby.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Donald Trump has pocketed.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Well in this last election cycle, him alone two hundred
and thirty million. So there's a little conflict of interest there,
more than a little when the US administration is attacking
the First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
On behalf of a foreign lobby.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Because when any of these cases will end up in
the Supreme Court, if they're adjudicated strictly on a free
speech interpretation, there's no way the government has a lect
to stand on. So they're acting for a foreign on
behalf of foreign influence. The thing that they that everyone
accused Russia of doing, influencing the US or influencing the
(16:15):
US political system, It's actually happening. But it's not Russia,
it's Israel. They already did this in the UK with
ousting the Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbin and then ejecting
any of his allies from the party, totally meddling in
British politics. Foreign lobby, same lobby. Why do they do that.
They do that because they want to control the foreign
(16:37):
policy of these countries, to make sure that they act
and they support and they rule in favor of Israel. Okay,
So that's what's going on in America. An unbelievable situation.
I never thought I would see the US, of all countries,
whether the most sacrifanct of all their amendments is the
First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
All other amendments the rights.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Are derived from that ability to have a First Amendment
inalienable rights. Anyone within US jurisdiction, legal or not, is
entitled to those rights. And by the way, the President
of the United States and his advisors or whoever, has
to swear an oath. I'm not sure if anybody does
these days, or if they do, whether they actually mean
(17:21):
it much less actually put their hand on the Bible,
mister President, if.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
They swear an oath, if you're a soldier, you swear this,
don't you. What is the oath?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's you swear to protect and defend the US Constitution
from all enemies, foreign and domestic. So, if you're a
US politician and you are undermining or attacking the First
Amendment of the United States on behalf of a foreign government,
then you're an enemy of.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The US Constitution.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You are a domestic enemy of the US Constitution if
you're a foreign lobby paying for that access to cajole, manipulate, coerce, blackmail,
pay off, bribe US officials and office holders in order
to undermine the First Amendment. So is to eliminate any
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criticism or opposition to what that foreign country is doing,
like Israel in this case, carrying out a brutal genocide.
So anybody involved in that selling out of the US
Constitution that unfortunately is tantamount to treason.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Maybe the media, maybe the Democrats should take a look
at that.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's like an open goal for the opposition, but they
won't take it. The goals wide open. The goalkeeper is gone.
You got two strikers just past midfield. There's nobody there.
They won't take the shot. The Democrats won't take it,
AOC won't take it. Bernie certainly won't take it. Because
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both parties are bought and paid for in the United States,
both parties, and that's really sad. Now you're seeing the
result of having no opposition is when the nefarious elements
get done with the politicians, then they start going for
the machinery of government. They start attacking the US Constitution
(19:25):
because no one domestically will defend it. And all these
so called conservatives who've been show voting for the last
four years, fighting the woke, you know, fighting trans real,
brave work, when it comes to actually defending the US Constitution,
they ran a mile. Most of them support Israel, so
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that's that, you know, they're not going to lift a finger.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
They love deporting their opposition.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They don't want any critics, they don't want students protesting
on campus. Disingenuously frame this as the students are pro
Hamas or pro terrorist, a total lie, a complete metamorphosis
of the of the real concept. Because if you've been
(20:18):
on a campus protest prior to Hamas coming in power.
By the way, Hamas the political party in Palestine and Gaza.
They were founded, funded, created effectively and nurtured by Shinbet
Israeli intelligence, by Netanyahu himself because they wanted to create
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a counterbalance at the time to the poo. Unfortunately, Hamas
did too good of a job looking after people and
became very popular. So they want to frame this pro
Hamas that students are pro Hamas. They're not students in
America Jewish, Muslim, Christian protests. They couldn't care less Amas.
(21:01):
They're there protesting on behalf of the Palestinian people. They're
there protesting for human rights. They're there opposing what the
International Courts of Justice is calling a genocide. They're there
protesting what the International Criminal Court, whether you signed up
to it or not, have issued arrest warrants against the
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Israeli Prime Minister and his Defense minister, Bibi Netnyahu and
Joev Galant for war crimes, crimes against humanity. That's what
the students are out there for. They're out there effectively
to try and save lives. They're and advocating for boycott, divestment,
and sanctions against a country that is clearly a rogue
state that's now acting way outside of the bounds of
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normal behavior, going against everything everything that was put into
place in the post World War two US led liberal
internationalist multilateral world order that created.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
The United Nations.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
They created the Geneva Convention, they created the Genocide Convention
to prevent the crime of all crimes, genocide. And here
it is happening right in front of our eyes, and
instead of doing something about it, they're perpetrators and those
abetting them, like the US and Britain and Germany, are
attacking the institutions. They're attacking the protesters trying to stop it,
(22:26):
trying to save lives, trying to stop the bloodshed in
the carnage. That's what our elected officials in the West
are busy doing. So they're being compelled to take that
position out of fear and also because they've been bribed,
They've been paid to take that position. This is an
incredible situation. We're in a historic inflection point. So many
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people have been bought and paid for. There's so much
deep corruption right now, and the damage has already been done.
The question is can we prevent it A from spilling
even further? And b there is going to have to
be a reckoning for what has just happened over the
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last year and a half, and then who has aided
and abetted it, who has facilitated it. This reckoning is
going to have to happen. There's going to be there's
going to have to be some sense of divine justice,
and it will eventually happen, maybe even not in our lifetime,
maybe in our children or grandchildren's lifetime. But the time
(23:29):
horizon for these events is not limited to merely a
presidential term of Donald Trump or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's much broader.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Look at history, these wars, the scars of these types
of brutal conflicts and slaughters and massacres.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It goes on for centuries.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It will rear its ugly head in the future at
some point, and your children or grandchildren are great grandchildren
might end up paying the price for what we have
done today, what for what we have allowed to happen today,
even though it's not their fault, even though they weren't
even alive when it happened. The decisions were consciously making
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today going to affect our progeny and and perhaps in
a very negative way. Certainly that's going to be the
case with Israel. Anybody living within Israel or anybody hoping
to live within Israel, They're going to have to pay
the price of what net Yahoo and the Israeli society
has has allowed to happen, has called for, which is
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a brutal killing and ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population.
It's going to eventually happen. So what does that leave
the United States and its political system morally completely bankrupt?
And still nobody wants to talk about it or acknowledge
that this, this grave injustice is happening. The US is
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doing everything except for piloting the planes, dropping the bombs,
everything else the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
United States is involved in. They're a co belligerent.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It's not Israel's war or Israel's genocide, It's the US
and Israel's genocide. It's it's the UK, It's France, It's Germany, Germany,
of all countries, Germany can't stop the aid and the
arms to the State of Israel. The German society is
so lost and so bludgeoned by history that they are
(25:35):
so desperate to atone for their guilt of World War
Two that they're willing to atone for that guilt all
the way down to the last Palestinian. That's quite an
extraordinary irony of history. And if Germany is the top
(25:57):
of Europe and Europe is the titular head of Western civilization,
then I will say that Western civilization has utterly failed,
an abject failure, and we're watching it fail. We're watching
it fail. It's collapsing under the just the degradation of
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its own moral and ethical pillars that are nothing but dust.
At this point, there is a chance to turn it around,
or at least for some leader to rise to speak
truth to power, to say something that makes sense. But
we don't see it. We still don't see it. Everybody's
doubling down on it. They're afraid now, they're horrified at
(26:41):
what they have done, and they're only their only red
course is to double down on it. That's their only
option in their mind anyway, for their political careers, for
their survival. I mean, look at these leaders. Look at
these these arguably the weakest, the most morally bereft, ethically
(27:07):
void political quote leaders.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
In living memory.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And we've had some bad ones before, but collectively, this
is this new class of emotionless, vain narcissistic bureaucrats, and
they're at the head of every major country and decision
making positions.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
So we are definitely in need of a rebirth this year,
this Easter something to think about, and I think about
the Holy Land. If you're a Christian, of course, this
should take more of a deeper meaning because right now
in the Holy Land, especially if you're an American Christian,
(27:52):
or American Christian evangelist or a Christian Zionist, that your
tax money is going to pay for five hundred pound
bombs that are turning ancient Christian churches to dust.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
The Israelis have destroyed scores.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Of them, and they have killed thousands of Christians in Palestine. Yes,
there are Christians in Palestine, the descendants of the first Christians,
the descendants of Jesus. They're there, that is the Holy Palestine.
And you're paying for aiding and abetting the evisceration of
(28:28):
historic Palestine, the Holy Land. That's what you're doing, unbeknownst
to yourselves. Clearly you don't get it, and Israel certainly
doesn't care. If they did, they wouldn't have done it.
And also they wouldn't have blown up every university in Gaza,
every higher education institution, and even last Palm Sunday. Last
(28:53):
Palm Sunday, I woke up and the first thing I
see in the news is al Ahli Hospital, one of
the last working hospitals in Gaza, was attacked by the IDEF,
and I see people cheering on social media pro Israeli
saying We're going to go for every hospital, We're going
to get every last bunker tunnel. What do hospitals have
(29:19):
to do with anything other than helping and saving people,
saving lives, caring for the wounded. They've destroyed all of them.
The scenes of Gaza desolate, total annihilation. This makes Dresden
look like a light treatment of carpet bombing. This should
(29:43):
give pause to anybody in the West. If you haven't
spoken up against this, if you haven't opposed it, if
you haven't vocally vocally to your friend's family, colleagues, and
your church and your work place in your political communities,
if you haven't vocally opposed this and you are a
(30:05):
party to it, because you can't claim ignorance, not with
the sheer volume of content information that's already been broadcast
is available, your fingertips to feign ignorance on this issue
is disingenuous that at best, at its worst.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Pure evil.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
There's nothing else that anyone can say about that.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You know, and you might say, well, I don't want
to take the Palestinian side because that would.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Make me pro Hamas.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Pro Hamas, But this term Hamas has been used as
a broad brush in order to label everything of any
resistance to an illegal Israeli occupation and now a genocide
as being somehow tantamount to terrorism or allied with terrorism.
This is just a disingenuous legal maneuver performed by the
(31:36):
US and its allies, the UK, European countries at the
behest of the Israeli lobby.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
That's all it is.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
If you were to get technical about it, say what
about the political wing of Hamas.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
They're not terrorists? Are they?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The people doing aid, community work, education, healthcare, sanitation?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Is that terrorism as well?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But really, if you look at the UN Charter and
UN resolutions multiple examples, the UN recognizes any country under
an illegal occupation is having a right to an armed
liberation resistance struggle. Armed resistance struggle is recognized under international
law as a right, and any illegal occupying military force
(32:28):
has no rights in that occupied territory. That means Israel
and the idfor IOF, the Israeli occupation forces, not defense forces,
just calling balls and strikes. It's dispensed with the euphemisms.
So by doing that, it's created a chilling effect, and
(32:50):
they're trying to impose that on US, students, people around
Europe and so forth, to get people to shut up
so they don't point out the obvious. That's what's going
on is it's an unprecedented, historic massacre, an indiscriminate use
of overwhelming military force against the civilian population. And God
(33:10):
bless and there have been so many important voices that
have been there to give testament to what's happening and
to try to stop it. It could never name them all,
but on this Easter weekend, I would say thank you
and God bless Pastor Mounter Isaac.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
In Bethlehem, in.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Palestine, the UN Special Rappertoire of Human Rights for Palestine,
Francesco Albanisi, and the great scholar Norman Finkelstein, Ilian Pappe.
There's so many, and most of all the people of
(33:56):
Gaza who've been taking a stand and just by the
mere active survival is the ultimate form of resistance. This
is a level of resiliency never seen before in history ever, never.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
If the Pope did anything.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You canonize every last person in Gaza for what they've
had to withstand and put up with and suffer. Those
who've survived anyway, is extraordinary. Takes a strong constitution, strong faith.
These are really really resilient and strong will people. Look
(34:44):
at what they've been through. They refuse, they refuse to
leave the land. That should tell you everything you need
to know that if you're rooting against them, or you're
advocating for their annihilation, or you're.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Calling for their forced expulsion.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
This native residence of Palestine, then you are absolutely on
the wrong side of history, profoundly on the wrong side
of history. So while the state and the establishment are
(35:31):
spending all of their time and effort and energy to silence,
to intimidate, to threaten, to cancel people who are speaking
up and criticizing the gravest of injustices in a way
(35:55):
that really digging their own grave in historical terms. Anyway,
they're delegitimizing themselves.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
So epically it will go down in history as the
ultimate self.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Own I guess, but it's sad, you know, without free speech,
without the ability to express your opinion, especially expressing your
opinion as it pertains to an injustice, as especially as
it pertains to a war crime, but even more especially
(36:31):
if it pertains to a crime against humanity, if it
pertains to a wanton mass slaughter of innocent people, of
tens of thousands of women and children, many of whom
are still being dug out of the rubble in Gaza,
many of whom will not be discovered for a very
(36:53):
long time. If you're speaking out against that, That's what
that First Amendment was intended for. That's what the principle
of free speech was introduced into the era of democracy.
(37:14):
Who was introduced for that reason to prevent those very
things from happening.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
And look now as they happen, And.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Look who's trying to silence people who are trying to
point out and trying to stop what is happening.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
And that's all you need.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
To know about where things are at in twenty twenty five.
So you have to decide what you need to do
to course correct this incredible diversion of Western civilization. Maybe
(37:50):
we can learn a thing or two from other civilizations,
non Western civilizations. They might have something to say as well.
What we don't want is for this situation to korene
into a Third World War. So it's a cumbent upon
people like Donald Trump and his inner circle, especially because
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the US.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Has the power.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
They have the gold, the money, the bombs, the satellites,
They really have the power. At the end of the day,
they can decide whether this is going to kreene out
of control or not, or if another one hundred thousand
people are going to have to die for some extreme
ethno nationalist ideology, ethno nationalist settle or colonial ideology. Yeah,
(38:44):
the Trump White House is going to have to decide
how this story ends.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Otherwise, other countries, other people will have.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
To intervene to try to change the course of events
because they don't want to. They won't accept another two
hundred thousand or more people killed for no reason other
than they're an inconvenience to some expansive colonial settler state.
How else are we supposed to interpret this. You might
(39:16):
not like my interpretation. It might make you uncomfortable. It
might you might try to accuse me of being this
or that. No, I'm just reading it as it is.
I'm being pretty conciliatory. Actually, this is a pretty lightweight treatment.
(39:39):
That's kind of what it is, though, And it might
make you feel better to deny it, but it's not
going to make the situation any better. Your denial will
probably ultimately contribute it to this being much worse. Eventually,
it will affect you wherever you are. Nobody's going to
be safe from this level of violence, this level of depravity,
(40:00):
this level of sheer corruption, total abuse of power, the
ultimate abuse of power. It will come home to roost
wherever you are. It always does eventually, And if it's
not in your lifetime, it'll be in your children's or
their children's. Why don't we do them a favor and
(40:23):
make sure that doesn't happen, at least do our best
to make sure that doesn't happen. So I don't really
know what to say this easter beyond that those are
just these are just a few thoughts I had in
(40:44):
my head.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I want to get out, get out of the studio.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
For once, and this might be our last, like a
good weather here for another week or so. But I
appreciate you guys joining us the shorter than normal sun.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
But it's nice to do something a little different.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
We'll be back with the normal programming during the week
for the midweek Wire and also next Sunday. We'll have
a full program next Sunday here at twenty first centurywire
dot com. And again, thank you to everybody who has
donated and supported our media outlet. We've been running this
platform since late two thousand and nine, built it up
(41:27):
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(41:49):
century Wire, so you can support.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Us that way.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
So we've got time for today again, thank you so
much for joining us. And just a few thoughts really
on Easter.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Nothing nothing really, I.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Hope I hope you're with if you are celebrating this
holiday or you have time off, I hope you're able
to spend it with family and do something worthwhile meaningful.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
I certainly will be doing that.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
So but take care everybody, and we'll leave you with
a couple of very poignant pieces of art or what
they call music from a very dear friend and a
very talented songwriter, Joseph Arthur.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I'll leave you with that. Take care of everybody, all
the best, O.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Sees file.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Sees fire.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
God's so how many children have to die?
Speaker 6 (43:29):
There are no sides when their mothers tried in no
real way to justify.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Their death.
Speaker 6 (43:42):
That comes from an eagle sky sees file.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Sees file sees fine guys are somehow.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Damnage fly a nuclear bomb dressing in a kill box.
People can a scay bet told to leave, but where
can they go? A genocide something It's biblical fai.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Cease fire, cease fire, seize fire.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
In gods or somehow because it might be the last
time raising hand about do we are? What's this say
(45:14):
about you? We are? Because it might be the last
time to raise a hand about do we are? What's
this say about you?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
We are?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Digital limits show said, digital.
Speaker 7 (45:43):
Lies cut out they are along with the supplies, the
proper gang.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
The leads to the humanize our fellow human and silence.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
That cries.
Speaker 8 (46:04):
Sea Fine seas fire cease fire.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
In guys.
Speaker 9 (46:21):
Some without equality, there will always be wore.
Speaker 6 (46:35):
We have all of history to see how it's have
been before.
Speaker 9 (46:41):
Travelaz equals equality from.
Speaker 4 (46:47):
Or else man had with Shirley fall, seaspin.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
Sees fire, fire, gods or somehow.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Because this might be the last time the raisor hay
about the we are? What's this say about the wea?
Speaker 5 (47:38):
This might be the last.
Speaker 4 (47:42):
Raising? Hay about me? What's this say.
Speaker 5 (47:49):
About wen't even know about its.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
Genoside? It's never justified. There ain't no reason because human beings.
Speaker 10 (49:21):
I'm more than just a kind defined by race or religion,
because we all have souls and the mission here honor.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Only God knows why you can't decide that death.
Speaker 11 (49:45):
Because you want here for their birth or their first
life for Christ. Don't let the children die. Don't let
that children die.
Speaker 12 (50:01):
Sisters and brothers, we know it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
When we see that father's cry.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
With their mother.
Speaker 4 (50:18):
Jet aside. It's never justified. There ain't no reasons cause
human beings.
Speaker 10 (50:33):
More than just a kind define by race or religion,
because we all have souls and the mission here onors.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
Only God knows why you can't decide that dad, you know,
because you want it for them on their first life.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
A cry.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
Don't let the children die.
Speaker 12 (51:08):
Don't let that children die. Sisters and brother, We know
it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
When we see them father's cry.
Speaker 7 (51:24):
With them.
Speaker 4 (51:25):
Mother. Don't let the children die.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
Don't let the children die.
Speaker 12 (51:35):
Sisters and brother, We know it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
When we see their father's cry with their mother ship.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
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