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Cool Group Nicknames · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I earned the title of 00 Agent. But stuff
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  still happened. So what's up? Hi, I'm back. I'm
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  going to try to do this one standing. We'll see.
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  I'm going to be favoring one leg. I hurt myself.
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  Not intentionally. Did anything happen while
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  I wasn't looking? Fuck. Let's talk about what
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  happens when governments come for you. Wait,
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  let's rework that one. Man, it's been a minute.
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  Easing back in. Western governments love to scare
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  people with stories of faraway governments prosecuting
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  their citizens over bullshit charges to crush
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  opposition. With no irony. Because that happens
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  in Western governments all the time. And here's
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  two high -profile cases in the UK and the US.
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  Actually, three. Uh, I forgot. Another one came
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  up while I was writing this. Over in the uck,
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  we've got the Filton 4. Side note, there is a
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  silver lining of a Western government going after
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  a group of people. You get a cool nickname. At
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  least there's that. In the UK in 2024, a group
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  of activists with Palestine Action raided an
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  Israeli arms manufacturer to destroy weapons.
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  This was about 10 months into the genocide in
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  Gaza, and these activists were like, well, we're
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  going to do direct action. We're going to go
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  destroy the equipment that's being used. To do
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  a genocide, all these activists were hit with
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  pretty significant charges that landed with sentences
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  ranging from around six years to eight years
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  in prison. They were largely charged with criminal
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  damage. One of them was also convicted of grievous
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  bodily harm to an officer, but largely it was
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  material damage to objects and weaponry. So the
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  jury decided to convict, not knowing that the
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  judge intended, if the jury were to convict,
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  to elevate this to include a little sprinkling
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  of terrorism on it. The judge could basically
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  say, cool, we have this conviction, also, this
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  is adjacent to terrorism, and therefore, you
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  are now adjacent to terrorists. The reasoning,
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  in addition to the UK having labeled Palestine
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  Action as a terrorist organization, is because
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  he said that these people were trying to terrorize
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  Israel by destroying their weapons in the UK.
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  Cool. The terrorism designation, it's not really
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  an additional charge, it's just like a flavor
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  of the sentencing. So it means that they can't
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  reduce their sentencing, and for any institutional
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  purposes, they're gonna be considered a terrorist.
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  Like, you want a bank account? Oh, no, we don't
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  work with terrorists. Like, they're in the same
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  group as Al -Qaeda now. So Palestine Action has
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  been labeled as a terrorist organization, again,
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  in the same vein as Hamas and Al -Qaeda, per
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  the UK, and now a recent Court of Appeal actually
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  upheld that. Starmer, the current PM, is very
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  underwater. He has a favorability of negative
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  46 % and even his own party wants him to resign.
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  And this isn't really helping his case. Fun little
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  bonus fact, in the past Starmer actually defended
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  people on very similar charges. So, we love what
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  power does to people. Let's move on to our next
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  group with a cool nickname. We're gonna pick
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  the camera up from England and pan all the way
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  over to Chicago to say hello to the Broadview
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  6. The Broadview Six are a group of anti -ICE
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  protesters who were hit with federal conspiracy
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  charges for protesting ICE. This group also included
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  then congressional candidate Kat Abugazale. Here's
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  the history. Back in autumn of 2025, ICE was
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  in Chicago doing Operation Midway Blitz, one
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  of their many operations to go into a relatively
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  blue city with a relatively high population of
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  minority folks so that they can terrorize them
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  and kill them in the streets. So after a few
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  weeks of masked federal agents with military
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  gear disappearing their neighbors off the street,
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  people from Chicago decided that it was time
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  to protest. That's an understatement. They were
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  protesting like immediately. But still. So one
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  day there's a protest outside of ICE's Broadview
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  Processing Facility. There's a whole bunch of
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  protesters and an ICE agent tried to drive a
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  car through the protesters. The protesters were
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  like, fuck you. And they were banging on the
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  car. They keyed it. And the government was like,
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  oh, they inscribed a mean message on the side
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  of the car. Let's throw them all in jail. Weeks
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  pass. Like nothing actually happened then. And
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  suddenly, six people get informed that the FBI
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  has indicted them on federal conspiracy charges.
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  What followed was months of legal battles for
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  these six normal people, just residents of Chicago.
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  hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal bills
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  and going up against federal prosecutors in a
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  bullshit case that you know is bullshit from
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  the start. Oh, you were kind of in the way of
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  a car driven by an ICE agent. We're going to
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  charge you with federal conspiracy. Thankfully,
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  this has recently blown up in the government's
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  face. The judge in this case was reading over
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  the unredacted transcripts of the grand jury,
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  which is the group of people you need to get
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  an indictment. And it was revealing. Here's how
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  it works. You want to indict someone, you're
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  an attorney, you get a grand jury, and you make
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  your case, and you're like, can I indict this
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  person? And they say yes or no. If they say no,
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  you can't do it. But in going over the transcripts
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  from the grand jury, a few interesting things
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  popped up. Let me read you some. This is an exchange
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  between Mecklenburg, who's a U .S. attorney,
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  and one of the grand jurors. Mecklenburg says,
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  are you going to be able to listen with an open
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  mind? Tell me the truth. The juror replied, I...
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  no. To which Mecklenburg said, okay, then you
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  have to go. The juror then chimed in. I heard
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  this case like last week, and I thought it was
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  a crock of shit then, and I still think it is.
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  Scene. How about one more? Just a quote from
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  Mecklenburg. Speaking to the grand jurors, quote,
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  If you can't come to the conclusion that I want
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  you to, then sit this one out. You don't need
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  to be a lawyer to know you can't do that. It's
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  not allowed. It's pretty not allowed. It's also
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  not new. It's not like this is the first time
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  the Trump administration or any administration
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  has done this. This is what the Department of
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  Justice does when they want to silence opposition.
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  That said, it's being done by far more incompetent
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  people now, and so stuff like this is happening.
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  And now, again, as I said, It's blowing up for
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  the government. These transcripts come out, the
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  judge is like, what the fuck, and now they're
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  digging further in to the attorneys and what
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  happened. They're also now having the defendants
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  asked to have their legal bills covered because
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  this was a farce. The defendants are also seeking
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  discovery in DOJ communications about this case,
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  going all the way to the top like the attorney
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  general. Hopefully we'll get some more fun things
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  to read about how incompetent these people are.
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  And we'll use that as the backdrop for our third
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  group that was announced as I was writing this
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  story, the Minneapolis 15th. At least that's
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  what I'm calling them. I don't know if they've
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  got an official name. I'm just kind of giving
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  them that nickname. It's 15 people who were charged
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  in Minneapolis again for protesting ICE. It's
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  a part of Trump's attempt to go after Antifa,
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  which is not an organization. And so they went
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  after 15 people who are associated with a group
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  called Direct Action Minnesota. Essentially,
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  it's a rapid response group. Like it's like a
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  protest group that's like, hey, this is happening
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  in this location. Let's go there and... disrupted.
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  This is all very new. There's not a ton of information
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  out about this right now. But I do want to read
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  you what an argument made by the US government
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  against this group was as to why they're being
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  charged, why these folks are so dangerous. So
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  we'll remember that the US has the best funded
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  military on the planet and currently has a massive
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  domestic occupation force who's walking around
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  unchecked with military equipment. Anyway, the
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  government's upset because this direct action
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  group makes, quote, aggressive use of shields
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  against law enforcement. The only person who
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  could possibly qualify as making aggressive use
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  of shield is Captain America. Anyway, I truly
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  hope that none of you out there have shields
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  because if so, straight to the brig. Let's talk
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  about Iran. I made a very quick video about this
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  earlier in the week, but essentially there is
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  sort of kind of almost a sort of peace deal between
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  the US and Iran that probably won't stick, but
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  maybe. It is a memorandum of understanding. It
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  is the first step towards trying to actually
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  have a peace agreement. It's essentially an outline
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  for the plans for the peace agreement. We don't
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  have a ton of concrete details about it, because
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  for whatever reason, the Trump administration
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  is very uninterested in releasing it until after
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  it's signed. Hello, it's me to edit Endeavorance.
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  As I was editing this, guess what? They made
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  me a liar. They have since signed the thing and
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  released the information, and it's still pretty
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  accurate. What I said here is still pretty accurate,
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  but I'm going to refer to it as having not been
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  signed and whatnot. That is not true. So I'm
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  a liar. And I think we'll get a bit of a clue
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  as to why that is, as we go down the list of
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  what we do know so far. Here's what we know about
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  the plan that's in the memorandum, just based
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  on what has leaked. An immediate ceasefire on
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  all fronts, including Lebanon. The US ends their
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  naval blockade on Hormuz immediately upon signing.
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  Iran demines the strait to allow maritime traffic
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  to return to normal within 30 days of signing.
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  Iran promises it will never make nuclear weapons.
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  Okay. Iran keeps their stockpile of uranium.
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  The U .S. wants them to trim that down, but there's
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  no concrete information there. The U .S. will
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  immediately give crude oil export waivers to
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  Iran. Also, 12 billion of up to 24 billion dollars
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  of frozen assets will be transferred back to
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  Iran, and This is contested, and the information
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  around how it'll be funded is opaque, but there's
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  going to be a 300 billion dollar redevelopment
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  package for Iran. If this sounds like a total
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  capitulation to Iran on behalf of the US, that's
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  because it basically is. There was no way we
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  could win anything in the first place. The pretense
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  for this war was Iran is going to make a nuke
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  and then immediately use it to kill all of us.
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  That wasn't true! And yet we win in, we decapitated
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  their leadership, and then we ruined global oil
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  trade. Like there really isn't something we could
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  do. Like they wanted to go in with the sole purpose
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  of regime change. They wanted to go in guns blazing
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  to help Netanyahu expand the borders of Israel.
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  It's what he's been saying he wants to do forever.
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  He does presentations on the global stage about
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  it. And that can be seen in the fact that Israel
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  has made it clear that they are not interested
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  in this memorandum of understanding. They don't
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  understand. Israel is still bombing Lebanon,
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  and Iran made it clear that as part of the memo,
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  they gotta stop that. Lebanon is considered part
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  of the war front, and all of the fighting has
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  to stop. To which Israel said no. They're not
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  gonna do that. We don't know what's gonna happen.
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  This is supposed to be signed on Friday, and
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  then they'll release the details, but we don't
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  know if it's even gonna be signed, or what'll
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  happen after that. I am hopeful that people will
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  stop being killed by various munitions. That's
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  my main hope. I remain unconvinced that this
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  is the end. That was a lot of, like, geopolitics.
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  Let's talk about Ubisoft. Up front, I'm gonna
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  say Ubisoft. I've always said Ubisoft, but I'm
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  pretty sure it's pronounced Ubisoft. Gonna say
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  Ubisoft. How about I'm gonna call them Ooboobies?
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  The Ooboobies are in the news because they have
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  been closing offices left and right to try to
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  fix their financial situation, which has apparently
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  been in the gutter, despite a recent infusion
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  of 1 .25 billion euros from Tencent. Basically,
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  the Ooboobies are closing offices left and right,
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  and some of those offices are in Canada, and
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  those offices in Canada were established because
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  Ubisoft was given a ton of tax breaks and incentives
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  for it. It is at this point that I would say,
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  hey, Municipalities at large. Stop doing that.
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  Stop offering massive tax incentives to giant
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  international conglomerates in the vain hope
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  that they're going to build a headquarters in
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  your place. This happens all the time. In Halifax,
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  they shut down their office right after the employees
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  had voted to unionize. That was back in January.
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  Just last week, they closed their office in Manitoba
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  after saying that they were going to increase
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  the headcount there. A lot of these corporations
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  will roll up and get courted to build some facility
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  under the guise of making more jobs, but the
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  second that they're like, ah, you know what,
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  our bottom line doesn't really fit your country's
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  needs, they're out of there. Invest in reusable
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  community spaces, not private corporations. That's
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  my recommendation. Because you don't have to
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  look all that far back. Remember Amazon's HQ2?
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  They were like, hey, we're going to build a new
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  headquarters. And a ton of cities fell over themselves
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  trying to give Amazon the best possible deal
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  to come build in their place. Only for Amazon
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  to turn around and cancel like half of their
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  plans while pocketing everything along the way.
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  So again, stop it. Lightning round. Valve's Steam
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  Deck has spiked in pricing due to the hardware
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  shortage caused by AI. Thanks, AI. The lead prosecutor
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  on the case that's trying to go after James Comey,
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  the former FBI director, for posting a picture
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  of seashells on a beach spelling out 8647 has
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  withdrawn from the case. Shocker. After a historic
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  IPO, SpaceX is now valued higher than Amazon,
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  despite having dogshit financials. An Air Force
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  B -52 crashed in California shortly after taking
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  off, killing eight people. And finally for today,
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  Pizza Hut is being sold to private equity for
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  $2 .7 billion. Someone finally outpitted the
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  hut. How could this happen? Thank you so much
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  for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps
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  Happening. Head to skh .news for sources, bonus
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  content, and my proposal to build a new Pizza
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  Hut better than before. My name is Endeavor and
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  we'll talk again soon. Take care and be well.