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PragerU Pushing Propaganda in American Schools, Led By an IDF Spy · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now on top of all of this,
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  SPEAKER_01: we know that Israel has to buy their way into propaganda because
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  SPEAKER_01: if given their druthers and actually able to speak the truth
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  SPEAKER_01: about what they're seeing and what's happening to them
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  SPEAKER_01: and why they're doing what they're doing, it would be a very different narrative.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Israel's not interested in hearing any of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they're just going to Swallow up all the companies that put out narrative
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  SPEAKER_01: and make sure that they are only rabidly pro-Israel or they will buy them out
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  SPEAKER_01: and replace everybody there that isn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: See TikTok, see CBS News, see what's happening now at CNN.
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  SPEAKER_01: Corporate media is doing this across the board.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there will be nobody in corporate news, in corporate media, that is not rabidly pro-Zionist.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what they've been trying to do now for a while, and they've been successful at it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But on top of all of that, they want to go after the kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they've always been going after the hearts and minds of the kids
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  SPEAKER_01: and get them early, get them while they're young.
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  SPEAKER_01: And brainwash them into believing that this colonial project
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  SPEAKER_01: where we're murdering people is actually a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are we doing this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, we've got a Unit 8200 Israeli spy behind the PragerU plan
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  SPEAKER_01: to rewrite American education to indoctrinate children.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I believe Dissent in Blue might have done an article
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  SPEAKER_01: about something like this using PragerU.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is Indie Media Award honoree Alan McLeod in Indie Media Award honoree Mint Press News.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alan is a regular columnist over there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Support him and support Mint Press.
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU is trying to take over American schools.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right-wing pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in
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  SPEAKER_01: at least 10 states.
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  SPEAKER_01: And blitzes children with highly questionable messaging on race, history, and politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even more concerning,
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU is led by a former,
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  SPEAKER_01: former quote-unquote Israeli spy,
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  SPEAKER_01: Marissa Strait,
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  SPEAKER_01: who has stated she uses the tactics and techniques honed
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  SPEAKER_01: by IDF military intelligence on the American people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Straight up admits it.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's playing the same role as Barry Weiss is playing, head propagandist-in-chief.
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  SPEAKER_01: Straight's company is involved in a big money operation targeting children
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  SPEAKER_01: with neocon,
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  SPEAKER_01: pro-war,
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  SPEAKER_01: pro-business,
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  SPEAKER_01: pro-Israel messaging,
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  SPEAKER_01: attempting to indoctrinate them at their youngest and most impressionable age.
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  SPEAKER_01: My guess is they're also going to partner with Turning Point USA at some point,
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  SPEAKER_01: because they're all
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  SPEAKER_00: aligned ideologically.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mint Press now explores this increasingly powerful group with ambitions
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  SPEAKER_01: to completely overhaul the American educational system.
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  SPEAKER_01: Frightening.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brainwash.
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  SPEAKER_01: Leave our kids alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, douchebags, Zios, leave our kids alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: You've probably seen a PragerU video.
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  SPEAKER_01: An estimated one in three Americans already have.
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  SPEAKER_01: The billionaire-funded media machine is a powerful force on the American right,
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  SPEAKER_01: providing highly produced conservative content attempting to push U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: politics and society rightwards.
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  SPEAKER_01: Recently,
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  SPEAKER_01: however,
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  SPEAKER_01: Prager U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: set its sights on children and is seeking to hijack the American education system.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since 2023,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's signed deals with 10 states, Alaska,
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  SPEAKER_01: Arizona,
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  SPEAKER_01: Florida, Idaho,
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  SPEAKER_01: Louisiana,
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  SPEAKER_01: Montana,
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  SPEAKER_01: Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah to become an official education partner.
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  SPEAKER_01: Supplying books,
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  SPEAKER_01: like I said,
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  SPEAKER_01: textbooks, videos, and other content to schools across the United States.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll provide the curriculum, you provide the students, and it'll be a beautiful merger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Students in New Hampshire, meanwhile, can earn credits by completing online PragerU courses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Get stupider by watching these courses online and get college credit for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And with PragerU Espanol, it has plans to expand into Latin America as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Frightening.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is all, by the way, Christian Zionism.
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  SPEAKER_01: Florida was the trailblazer in this phenomenon.
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  SPEAKER_01: People ask me why I wouldn't want to move to Florida
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  SPEAKER_01: because their school system sucks balls because of shit like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: As part of his Stop Woke Act,
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  SPEAKER_01: a bill that sought to eradicate liberal ideology from public life,
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  SPEAKER_01: Governor Ron DeSanctimonious partnered with the organization PragerU,
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  SPEAKER_01: identifying it as one that aligned with the state's revised civics
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  SPEAKER_01: and government standards.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wonder how much they put into his campaign coffers, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU now provides ultra-conservative support American values messaging for use
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  SPEAKER_01: in grades K through 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brainwashing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, this is fascism sold as patriotism.
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  SPEAKER_01: Florida's post-stopo-gag curriculum now requires middle school teachers
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  SPEAKER_01: to instruct students on the benefits of slavery for black Americans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Including that slaves developed skills,
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  SPEAKER_01: which in some instances could be applied for personal benefit.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're talking about pro athletes today.
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  SPEAKER_01: That because they were engineered,
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  SPEAKER_01: they were literally eugenicized to only allow the strongest to survive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that now has benefits because now there's a ton of pro athletes today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Holy shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's also rewritten the 1920 Ocoee Massacre,
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  SPEAKER_01: a pogrom that saw a white mob kill dozens of black residents
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  SPEAKER_01: and permanently ethnically cleanse the Florida town of its black population,
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  SPEAKER_01: an act of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Holy shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: College students at Southeastern University in Lakeland,
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  SPEAKER_01: Florida, meanwhile, can earn extra credit by taking a PragerU history course.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, get dumber by watching a course and get college credit for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This despite the fact that despite its branding,
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU is not an accredited educational institution,
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  SPEAKER_01: let alone an actual university.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oklahoma,
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  SPEAKER_01: however,
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  SPEAKER_01: as dissent pointed out in an article earlier last year, has gone even further.
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  SPEAKER_01: Last year,
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  SPEAKER_01: the state superintendent of education,
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  SPEAKER_01: Ryan Walters,
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  SPEAKER_01: launched a controversial teacher evaluation test developed by PragerU
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  SPEAKER_01: to vet teachers for their ideology,
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  SPEAKER_01: political ideology,
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  SPEAKER_01: and filter out applicants considered insufficiently conservatives.
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  SPEAKER_01: The plan even withheld teaching certificates from educators
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  SPEAKER_01: from what Walters described as woke states.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you came from New Jersey, you can't get a teaching certificate in Oklahoma.
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  SPEAKER_01: Too woke.
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  SPEAKER_01: Walters left his position to head the Teacher Freedom Alliance,
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  SPEAKER_01: a conservative pressure group, a.k.a.
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  SPEAKER_01: lobbying group, opposed to teachers unions.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hilarious.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's now being paid off big money more than he had been at
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  SPEAKER_01: the education department in Oklahoma.
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  SPEAKER_01: He just set it on fire and walked out the door and let everybody else deal with putting it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Free healthcare is slavery, but actual slavery, A-OK.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's where we get into the PragerU agenda.
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  SPEAKER_01: The PragerU content being shown to American schoolchildren contains a number
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  SPEAKER_01: of highly controversial viewpoints presented as common sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: Most lessons are presented in cartoon format,
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  SPEAKER_01: with one about the founding of America,
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  SPEAKER_01: including an animated Christopher Columbus stating that slavery was no big deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Slavery is as old as time and has taken place in every corner of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mental gymnastics, he did.
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  SPEAKER_01: Being taken as a slave is better than being killed.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I don't see the problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you have mush brain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Further justifying the enslavement and genocide of two continents,
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  SPEAKER_01: Columbus tells those watching that, quote,
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  SPEAKER_01: the place I discovered was beautiful,
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  SPEAKER_01: but it wasn't exactly a paradise of civilization and the native people were far
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  SPEAKER_01: from peaceful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another video lesson grossly distorts the views of abolitionist Frederick Douglass,
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  SPEAKER_01: with animated Douglass justifying slavery in America,
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  SPEAKER_01: stating that, quote,
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  SPEAKER_01: the founding fathers made a compromise of supporting slavery
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  SPEAKER_01: to achieve something great, the making of the United States.
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  SPEAKER_01: They made no such compromise.
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU Kids videos also cover more contemporary issues.
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  SPEAKER_01: One video titled Los Angeles,
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  SPEAKER_01: Mateo Backs the Blue,
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  SPEAKER_01: deals with the murder of George Floyd,
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  SPEAKER_01: whom the narrator describes as a black man who resisted arrest.
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  SPEAKER_01: The video claims that violent protests and looting were sparked by false claims
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  SPEAKER_01: of racist policing spread by unnamed activists.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mateo, a Los Angeles child,
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  SPEAKER_01: is aghast by protesters threatening police who he thinks are the good guys,
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  SPEAKER_01: or as the video calls them, protectors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't look up what 40% of all cops do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't Google that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And decides to stand firmly in solidarity with the Blue Lives Matter movement.
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  SPEAKER_01: Totally aligned with Kyle Rittenhouse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another educational resource approved for use
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  SPEAKER_01: in schools is they literally are teaching people to lick boots.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another educational resource approved for use in schools is
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  SPEAKER_01: a lecture called Is Fascism Right or Left?
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  SPEAKER_01: By controversial conspiracist Dinesh D'Souza,
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  SPEAKER_01: who's also a paid propagandist,
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  SPEAKER_01: in which he insists that fascism bears a deep kinship to the ideology
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  SPEAKER_01: of today's left.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, not at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: First of all,
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  SPEAKER_01: there's no left in elected politics and even the Democrats are still not,
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  SPEAKER_01: it bears kinship to the ideology of today's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: In 2014,
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  SPEAKER_01: D'Souza pled guilty to violating federal campaign financing laws and
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  SPEAKER_01: then was pardoned by Trump.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unsurprisingly for a conservative movement funded by fracking billionaires,
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU also instructs its children to reject the overwhelming consensus
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  SPEAKER_01: on climate change.
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  SPEAKER_01: However,
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  SPEAKER_01: it takes it to absurd levels comparing the supposed oppression of climate skeptics
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  SPEAKER_01: to living in the Warsaw Ghetto where upwards of 300,000 Jewish people were killed by
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  SPEAKER_01: the Nazis, allegedly.
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  SPEAKER_01: We continue in Poland, Anya's energy crisis.
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  SPEAKER_01: The titular character is fed propaganda at school about the disastrous impact
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  SPEAKER_01: of human-made climate change,
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  SPEAKER_01: only to have her eyes opened by her conservative parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anya is ostracized by the other children for merely expressing her concerns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Luckily,
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  SPEAKER_01: her grandfather,
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  SPEAKER_01: Jakub, gives her the strength to continue by telling her about the Warsaw Uprising.
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  SPEAKER_01: Through her family's stories,
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  SPEAKER_01: Anya's realizing that fighting oppression is risky and that it always takes courage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Except that oppression, the oppression isn't...
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: On India...
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  SPEAKER_01: American children are told that the country benefited greatly from British imperialism.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a surprise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who spread the influence of Christianity and Western values through India.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were savages.
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  SPEAKER_01: And discouraged or even outlawed.
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  SPEAKER_01: This
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  SPEAKER_01: rewrite of history is why they want to control AI
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  SPEAKER_01: and feed it all this propaganda bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because 30 years from now,
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  SPEAKER_01: this is going to be the fact,
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  SPEAKER_01: the truth,
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  SPEAKER_01: the known established truth throughout all the schools that push this agenda,
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  SPEAKER_01: this nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some ancient customs are harder to change than others.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Framing Indie's problems as entirely down to their own backward culture rather
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  SPEAKER_01: than centuries of direct rule and oppression.
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  SPEAKER_01: Occupation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another video lambasts Canada's free healthcare system and highlights
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  SPEAKER_01: the supposed dangers of socialized medicine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, wait times, wait times.
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  SPEAKER_01: How long did it take you to see a specialist, pal?
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't get in to see one for months.
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  SPEAKER_01: While extolling the for-profit privatized American system despite it being by far
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  SPEAKER_01: the most expensive comparatively and having the worst outcomes
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  SPEAKER_01: of any developed country in the civilized world according to international studies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, they're creating their own ideological foot soldiers.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why they want to have so many kids to spread the influence of evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is also why they went after TPUSA and influencing kids with Turning Point.
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU also sets its targets on Cuba, China,
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  SPEAKER_01: Venezuela,
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  SPEAKER_01: North Korea,
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  SPEAKER_01: publishing videos demonizing those countries as authoritarian nightmare regimes
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  SPEAKER_01: in need of U.S. intervention.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you are a green card holder in the United States,
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  SPEAKER_01: do you think that place is more authoritarian than the one
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  SPEAKER_01: that might be locking you up and deporting you?
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  SPEAKER_01: I would guess not.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we've got, what's Netanyahu's favorite channel?
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  SPEAKER_01: WIIFM, what's in it for me?
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  SPEAKER_01: No nation, however, concerns Breaker U as much as Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: The organization has dedicated a huge amount of time and resources to defending
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  SPEAKER_01: and promoting that country.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't imagine why.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their Israel at War series of lectures denounces the lie
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  SPEAKER_01: that Israel is occupying its neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_01: No!
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  SPEAKER_01: And includes a link to sign a petition to condemn Hamas and stand with Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fuck that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stand against Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stand against genocide.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stand against baby murder.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lesson plan designed for young children shows teachers how they can make
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  SPEAKER_01: a model iron dome out of juice boxes and straws in order
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  SPEAKER_01: to educate American children on how Israel is defending itself
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  SPEAKER_01: from Palestinian terror.
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  SPEAKER_01: Interspersed with messaging like Israel and the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: are best friends that share values and are tied to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: The same God that tells you to murder Palestinian babies, calls them Amalek?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another video explaining the current crisis in the region to older children claims
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  SPEAKER_01: that,
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  SPEAKER_01: like the United States,
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel is a nation of immigrants,
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  SPEAKER_01: which prides itself on its freedoms for all citizens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Citizens,
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  SPEAKER_01: not the ones that they don't give citizenship to,
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  SPEAKER_01: no matter their religion, ethnicity, or race.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uniquely,
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel is the only country in the Middle East
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  SPEAKER_01: that does not oppress its minority populations.
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  SPEAKER_01: They fucking blew up the biggest temple in Iran.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were freely allowed to practice Judaism in Iran.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's all narrative propaganda bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_01: This will come as some surprise to Israel's Arab minority who face systematic
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  SPEAKER_01: and institutionalized discrimination,
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  SPEAKER_01: including restrictions on land ownership, jobs,
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  SPEAKER_01: education,
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  SPEAKER_01: and to human rights organizations such as Amnesty International
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  SPEAKER_01: and Human Rights Watch who describe Israel as an apartheid state carrying out
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  SPEAKER_01: a genocide against Muslims and Christians.
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  SPEAKER_01: Both.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU, however, frames Israel as the victim.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, Israel loves to frame themselves as the victim.
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  SPEAKER_01: Israelis,
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  SPEAKER_01: they tell their audience,
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  SPEAKER_01: grew up under ongoing attacks from terrorist organizations whose
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  SPEAKER_00: primary goal is
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  SPEAKER_00: to destroy Israel
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  SPEAKER_01: because Israel stole the country.
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  SPEAKER_01: On many occasions,
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  SPEAKER_01: it continues,
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel sought peace with surrounding countries after they had already blown them up
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  SPEAKER_01: and attacked them and sought to destabilize their countries like Syria
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  SPEAKER_01: where they placed a spy that ended up working his way up to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: The ranks of Syrian government watched Borat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sacha Baron Cohen did an Amazon series about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel did not seek peace with its allies and the local Palestinians.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_01: They wanted dominance.
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  SPEAKER_01: They wanted supremacy.
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  SPEAKER_01: They didn't want peace.
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  SPEAKER_01: They wanted subversion.
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  SPEAKER_01: They wanted passivity.
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  SPEAKER_01: The network even comes with an endorsement from Netanyahu himself
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  SPEAKER_01: who shared their video, Israel,
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  SPEAKER_01: the world's most moral army, with his followers and said, we stand with Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Prager, you reply like a good Nazi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Prager is there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, now we get to the Israeli spy who runs it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This unconditional support is unsurprising given who actually runs the company.
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  SPEAKER_01: PragerU CEO Marissa Strait is, after all, an Israeli spy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't like it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't care.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's a fucking spy.
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  SPEAKER_01: On her 18th birthday, she joined Unit 8200, the IDS spying agency.
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  SPEAKER_01: In interviews,
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  SPEAKER_01: she's admitted that she was an officer in the controversial unit and stated
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  SPEAKER_01: that she uses tactics and techniques honed by Israeli spying agency on
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: the American people.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: How is she allowed to operate in this country in that case?
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: How is she not being prosecuted as a traitor?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Coming back here to the United States with the gifts that Israel has given me
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: during my military training,
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: I felt compelled to employ them here in my nation of the United States.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: That ain't your nation, you cunt.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck you.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Get out of my nation.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly what her role as a Unit 8200 officer is, was, remains a mystery.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: She said of her time there that, quote,
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: we were tasked with looking at problems that
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: the intelligence community might be missing, unquote.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: Given that her service coincides with the Second Palestinian Intifada,
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: however,
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: one can speculate that suppressing domestic resistance to occupation was
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: among her tasks.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: One does not join Unit 8200 by chance.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: The group is Israel's most elite spying agency, accepting only the top 1% of applicants.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: Rich parents spent fortunes on extra STEM classes for their children in the hopes
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: that they'll be chosen to serve in the unit knowing that there's a fast track into
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: the upper echelons of Israeli society as well as the tech world.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: Unit 8200 is responsible for cyber warfare and psychological operations worldwide.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: The group has created a massive surveillance dragnet targeting Palestinians and uses
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: the data to generate massive AI-derived kill lists.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's widely identified as the group behind the 2024 Lebanese pager attack,
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: terrorist attack, which injured thousands of civilians.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Unit 8200 agents are also responsible for producing much of
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: the world's most invasive spyware that's sold to authoritarian regimes across
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: the planet.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: And democracies, by the way.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Alleged democracies.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: This includes the notorious Pegasus software,
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: which was used to surveil tens of thousands of politicians,
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: journalists, human rights defenders, and union leaders.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: Saudi government,
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: for example,
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: used Pegasus to track WAPO journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: dismembering him with a bone saw inside their embassy in Turkey.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Quote, so much of what I learned in Israeli military intelligence has impacted
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: the way I think today.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's such a gift what they've given me, she said.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, they've given you the CEO ship of PragerU on top of it.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: From there,
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: she moved back to the U.S.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: to work for pro-Israel pressure group, the Israeli-American Council.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: She's a propagandist.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: She sees Israel and the United States as fundamentally linked together and both
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: under threat from progressive values.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: No, they are not our allies.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: They are not looking out for the best of America.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: What they want is to absorb our resources and our finances.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: And our military cover.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: And they're getting it.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: And they're using it for their colonial goals.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: We're losing America to radicals who hate the West and everything we stand for.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Cry more.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: We must teach our children to be grateful to live in America.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: If you give them something to be grateful for, but if you hand them...
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know,
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: unaffordable college and unaffordable health care and unaffordable housing
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: and no jobs due to AI.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: What are they going to be grateful for exactly?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Shut the fuck up.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: This cunt has made her own views on Israel's attack on Palestine clear.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: She has justified attacks on civilians in Gaza claiming
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: that they're harboring terrorists and hostages in their homes.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: No, they're not.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: They don't even have homes.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Suggesting that Hamas has plans to kill all Jews including nursery children.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's what Israel is doing right now to Palestinians.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: And then asserted that slogans such as Free Palestine are synonymous with destroy the West.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: No, Free Palestine means get Israel the fuck off their backs and stop killing them.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Give them the free right of movement,
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: the free right of being human beings,
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: equivalent with rights like everybody else in this world.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: But she's a supremacist, so it's not surprising.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: So let's make America dumb again.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: She's been at PragerU since its inception in 2009.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Dennis Prager,
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: by the way,
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: was a disgusting,
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: disgusting individual that it's also a good thing that he's dead,
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: just like Lindsey Graham.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Strait has been there since 2009.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Her views on politics in Israel-Palestine,
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: however, could almost be described as moderate compared with Dennis Prager.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Who was a fascist,
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: the right-wing talk show host,
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: that's kind,
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: has visited Israel dozens of times,
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: including leading a stand with Israel tour across the country,
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: including into occupied East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Now the Trump Heights, or he likes to call it.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: He labeled Palestinians as among the world's most morally unimpressive national groups.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: No racist.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: And claimed that lying is a Palestinian art form.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's an Israeli art form.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not even art.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: They just do it naturally like water or breathing.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: Prager, whose campaign for whites to be allowed to use the N-word,
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: fell in his bathroom in 2024 and was left quadriplegic and paralyzed from
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: the neck down and has since taken a backseat in the org.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: I thought he was dead.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's interesting.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even know he was still alive.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: But it's a good thing that he's no longer running things.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: But it doesn't matter.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: The empire he built was bankrolled to the tune of millions
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: by fracking billionaires Dan and Ferris Wilkes,
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: although the pair later pulled their money
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: after Prager was insufficiently homophobic for their liking.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: By this time,
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: however,
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: the company was funded by Israeli-American mega-donor Miriam Adelson,
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: we know her, and had grown from strength to strength.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: So by 2024, its revenue climbed to a reported $70 million.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: Who's paying these idiots?
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: State governments with our tax money for curriculum.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it could afford to hire A-list conservatives like Ben Shapiro,
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: Candace Owens,
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: Tucker Carlson, Nigel Farage, and Douglas Murray to present their videos.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: They've got highly paid propagandists.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: The original plan was for PragerU to pursue university accreditation, hence the name.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: However, this was quickly dropped because they knew there was no chance of that ever happening.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: And yet,
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: despite holding no educational accreditation whatsoever,
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: they kept the misleading moniker because...
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Why not perpetrate a lie?
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Israeli way of thinking.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: This sort of callous relationship with the truth has been a constant feature of
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: the organization.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's not about truth.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's about narrative.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's about spin.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's about believing what we want you to believe.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's regularly criticized for producing content with little to no intellectual merit.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: Multiple sources have cataloged what they call the blatant lies present in the outlet's videos.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: That's a YouTube video.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: Several YouTube videos that can do that.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: Officially, PragerU is a non-political organization, which is, again, hilarious.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: We're a 501c3, even though they only allow conservative views.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: A non-profit, all right?
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have any political involvement with anybody.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: That would be against our charter.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: Except Israel is a bipartisan project owned by both halves of the Uniparty.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: You, however,
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: would take this at face value,
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: especially if Street herself posted a video of her dancing with Trump
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: at his Mar-a-Lago residence with the caption, Make Education Great Again.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, President Trump.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Watch for her to be named a Secretary of Education if they don't dismantle
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: that department going forward.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: Or they'll rebuild it and just hand it to PragerU.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: PragerU has strongly supported Trump's wholesale attacks on the education system
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: and teachers' unions,
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: who they see as the primary obstacle to their plan to disrupt the education market
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: as for their profit.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: Even though they're not for profit, somebody's making money.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody's got to pay all those bills.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: $70 million in revenue last year.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: That means they have to spend it all.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: They have to give it out.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: And spreading $70 million around will buy you a lot of narrative and a lot of propagandists.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: Trump's also attempted to cut funding for PBS's children's program,
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: Music to Prager Usiers,
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: as the organization attempts to shape young minds from infancy stepping in to fill
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: the vacuum left by Trump's gutting of the U.S. education system.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: See how they're all working together?
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: Then you have the racist Sesame Street.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: PragerU sits at the apex between neocon foreign policy,
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: reactionary social policy at home, and relentless pro-Israel advocacy.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: But the primacy of all three of these positions are increasingly under threat in
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: the United States and are becoming progressively more unpopular.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: Large majorities of Americans support a system of socialized medicine that PragerU
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: so actively campaigns against,
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: as well as making colleges free to attend and building social housing nationwide.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: 62% of young Americans hold a favorable view of socialism, whatever the fuck that means.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, define socialism.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: You'll get 10 different answers if you ask 10 different people.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: Polls show the country overwhelmingly disapproves of Trump's aggression against Iran.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: And after nearly three years of genocide, the tide is turning on Israel.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: An April Pew Research Center study found that even four in ten Republicans hold
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: an unfavorable view of the colonist entity.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: That figure rises to 57% of Republicans under the age of 50.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: Top right-wing media figures like Candace Owens,
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: and I don't consider Nick Fuentes a top figure,
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: he's a propagandist, are all vehemently anti-Israel.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: No, you haven't gotten the message.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: Memo, Nick Fuentes is definitely rabidly pro-Israel and Zionist and bootlicking.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, sorry, Alan, you got that one wrong.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile,
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: pro-Israel conservative thought leaders such
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: as PragerU's Ben Shapiro have seen their audience crater by up to 90%.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: For pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-billionaire PragerU then, the situation is grave.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Despite years of extremely well-funded PR,
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: they've been unable to stem the tide of public opinion.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: Their new strategy of targeting children appears to be an attempt
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: to inoculate Americans with these values when they're most impressionable.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: To stop the rot before it gets started.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: Rot.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: You mean actually like believing in equality for all?
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: PragerU is enthusiastically backing Trump's dismantling the U.S.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: education system and is poised to step in to fill the void.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: In this sense, they're hoping to do to American education what Israel has done to Palestine.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: And with a former Israeli spook at the helm,
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: they're in perfect position to do so,
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: blasting young minds with a blitz of reactionary propaganda,
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: making them passionate advocates of a system that fundamentally does not work
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: for them.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Alan McCloud.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: That shit's brilliant.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Again.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: Where else are you hearing about Unit 8200 spies running PragerU?
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: I have not heard anybody talking about this article.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: I agree.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's awful.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, it's reactionary racist propaganda that they're pushing.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: America first pro-ultra-nationalism.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: Fundamentalism.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Frightening.
• 31:29
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• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: No!
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: We just fucking lost the stream!
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place It's not what you want me
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: to say You prove it's possible to sleep for days
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I still think you're right here awake The cost of living isn't much to make
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: But God,
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: it's so hard to say And when they told you everything, I said, were you safe?
• 33:09
  Were you safe?