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Felon Trump's Gestapo, AKA ICE, Murder another US Citizen; Epstein Bestie Trump Attacks Venezuela; Houston Marathon - TPN 1/11/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of January eleventh, twenty twenty six, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's news. Local protests to
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Speaker 1: ICE murdering a woman in Minnesota. Will Venezuela be better
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Speaker 1: after the US invades it? Iran is on fire as
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Speaker 1: protests erupt across the country. The Houston Marathon just finished.
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Speaker 1: We update you on the results. All that and more
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Speaker 1: on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is the
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Speaker 1: People's News, and the People's News starts now. The criminal
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Speaker 1: corrupt addled seventy nine year Old's law enforcement agency otherwise
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Speaker 1: known as ICE, shot and killed a Minneapolis resident, Renee Good,
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Houston is one of the largest cities to
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Speaker 1: be targeted for deportations. Local residents here turned up on
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Speaker 1: Friday to protest the actions of ICE and the murder
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Speaker 1: of Renee Good.
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Speaker 2: Immigrants are our friends and neighbors. Immigrants are people that
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Speaker 2: give so much more than just our jobs. We give
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Speaker 2: camaradi and community. And there's certain people out there that
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Speaker 2: should not be named for the color orange, but will
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Speaker 2: have you try to be try to make you more
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Speaker 2: scared of immigrants than a pedophiles.
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Speaker 3: And we have to say hell.
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Speaker 4: No to that.
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Speaker 2: So, so I want to bring up an ala of
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Speaker 2: ours because this is not only affecting immigrant people. She's
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Speaker 2: gonna bring a testimony up of how this is how
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Speaker 2: Ice is legally racially profiling. So, Attorney Kim Bruno.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 6: I am honored to be a part of right now
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Speaker 6: history in the making, because we need to put an
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Speaker 6: end to all of this social discrimination in what where
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Speaker 6: have we come? Where we are now having to face
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Speaker 6: being undocumented, being faced with losing your life, being assaulted
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Speaker 6: brutally in public, being chased down and humiliated in the
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Speaker 6: streets and the roads, in the public. This is not okay,
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Speaker 6: and especially by people who are who are unidentified, who
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Speaker 6: are in unidentified vehicles. These things need to end in
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Speaker 6: our city. And as an immigration attorney, this is not
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Speaker 6: the first individual who this has happened to. This happens
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Speaker 6: a lot. Fortunately, we have somebody who is willing to
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Speaker 6: come out and say something and disclose his experience. As
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Speaker 6: of yesterday, Again, what happened in Minneapolis is not Texas
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Speaker 6: is not isolated from what is going on because this
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Speaker 6: is going on all over our country. No, no, no,
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Speaker 6: in any way, shape or form, should bounty hunters be
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Speaker 6: allowed to operate as quote unquote ice individuals and haunt
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Speaker 6: people down. This is I'm going to bring up one
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Speaker 6: of my clients who's been a client and a friend
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Speaker 6: for a very long time, United States citizen individual who
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Speaker 6: simply questioned an unmarked, unidentified officer coming to his window
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Speaker 6: at six in the morning and asking him to show
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Speaker 6: his identification. All my client did was rolled down his
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Speaker 6: window and tell and ask the officer, what who are you?
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Speaker 7: Who are you with?
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Speaker 6: Are you a police officer? And in that moment goes
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Speaker 6: down to look for his for his identification and starts
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Speaker 6: getting choked out by an officer.
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Speaker 8: The office just or never.
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Speaker 6: Disclosed who he was with, what entity he was with.
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Speaker 6: And I just want to thank my client for being
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Speaker 6: brave enough to come out and tell y'all his story.
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Speaker 3: First of all, thank thank everyone for coming in this
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Speaker 3: uh this very uh advantage. It's important because that we
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Speaker 3: could stop more more violence against my the Hispanic community,
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Speaker 3: and the rest of well everyone in general. Uh what
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Speaker 3: what miss Brutle was telling you? Yes, it is correct
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Speaker 3: that it happened in the morning. My mom was also
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Speaker 3: arrested in the morning too, And I quickly got up
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Speaker 3: in bed just to go straight straighted, just to stay
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Speaker 3: from my mom because I had a call that she
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Speaker 3: was just being detained from Ice. At that moment, I
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Speaker 3: didn't think. I didn't think my dad.
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Speaker 9: And I just left.
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Speaker 3: We just left, and we didn't think. I didn't think
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Speaker 3: about my dad. They could get in too, So fast forward.
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Speaker 3: It's bringing up already told you most of the story.
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Speaker 3: Whenever he got my neck, I did push back. I
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Speaker 3: did push back. I started running away like a like
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Speaker 3: a police car chase. Was It was a crazy morning.
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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, yes, they did
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Speaker 3: get my dad, but he wasn't and no criminal at all.
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Speaker 3: It was a hardworking man, and I think him because
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Speaker 3: he taught me hardworking values. Hard work workers, work your
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Speaker 3: way up and and don't give up. Right right now,
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Speaker 3: both of my parents are arrested and I'm the only
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Speaker 3: main source. I'm only twenty two, uh auto autumn body technician.
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Speaker 3: Right now, everything slow, and I had to live up
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Speaker 3: with the bills now, which it's okay, it's part of
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Speaker 3: growing up. But I'm ready. God is with me. God
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Speaker 3: is with every one of these, with every one of
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Speaker 3: those who's suffering the same the same thing as I
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Speaker 3: am even.
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Speaker 1: Worse, says our Esponotia of Feel commented on the actions
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Speaker 1: of ICE locally and calling out Houston Mayor John Whitmyer.
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Speaker 2: So today we're here with a rally to bring attention
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Speaker 2: to us and then in Minneapolis, uh and as well
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Speaker 2: as what's happening here locally. Houston Harris County is one
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Speaker 2: of the largest supporters in the country and a lot of.
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Speaker 9: People don't know that.
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Speaker 2: So we've got to make sure that people know this
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Speaker 2: and that people are able to voice their concerns and
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Speaker 2: and be able to hold all of our elected officials accountable.
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Speaker 10: One thing people don't know that you know and others
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Speaker 10: are are trained to deal with with with the community.
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Speaker 10: They're trained to deal with de escalating situations. But but
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Speaker 10: ICE ICE officials aren't trained the same way correct law
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Speaker 10: enforcements trained. Is that something that people should.
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Speaker 2: Know a lot of the times, even though even though
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Speaker 2: the even though police are trained, sometimes they don't even
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Speaker 2: do that. And for ICE, they're not even getting training.
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Speaker 2: They're just getting guns and giving the blessing to Anna
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Speaker 2: Street and do whatever they want.
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Speaker 8: There's no restrictions with this.
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Speaker 2: There's no restriction for them, and there's no accountability either.
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Speaker 8: What do you think of the video that came out.
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Speaker 2: The video that came out that shows the different angles
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Speaker 2: of Miss Renee getting murdered are clear as day. The
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Speaker 2: one the only one that's not clear to day is
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Speaker 2: the one that the alleged ICE officer was taken with
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Speaker 2: his personal selferm.
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Speaker 1: Hi Bui is a longtime organizer and leader of the
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Speaker 1: group We the People organize. They fought hard for investigations
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Speaker 1: into HPD over the Harding Street botched drug raid in
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, which ended in the deaths of two innocent people.
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Speaker 1: He said that ICE has had no training.
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Speaker 11: What happened to visso Rena good was you know, we
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Speaker 11: all know when there's no police accountability, this is exactly
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Speaker 11: what happens. So you know what will happen is ICE
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Speaker 11: is not properly trained and so nothing surprise beat for
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Speaker 11: all this and it will more will happen as you
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Speaker 11: know today. But yesterday there was already two more people
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Speaker 11: got shot in Portland. Yes, so the number will increase
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Speaker 11: more and more. So we have to have transparency and accountability.
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Speaker 10: The reason why they're not trained the same way local
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Speaker 10: police and other agencies are trained to deal with.
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Speaker 8: The public, all right, that's correct.
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Speaker 11: They get a fifty thousand dollars most signing bonus and
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Speaker 11: then and then they cut back the training now in half,
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Speaker 11: so it's just puff putting bodies in there, and that's
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Speaker 11: not right.
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Speaker 8: You have to train.
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Speaker 11: HPD takes a year to be training, at least the
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Speaker 11: academy here. It's like twenty days.
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Speaker 1: Now since the shooting in Minie Apples, there's been another
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Speaker 1: shooting where two people were shot in Portland on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: This came after a traffic stop with Homeland Security officials
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Speaker 1: targeting the two individuals, which were alleged to be undocumented.
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Speaker 1: Congressman Al Green of the ninth District in Houston, Texas
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Speaker 1: held a candlelight vigil for Ine Nicole Good Sunday at
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Speaker 1: the Wyndham Hotel near NRG Park. If you are listening
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Speaker 1: at our Sunday noon broadcast, this event is coming up
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Speaker 1: at five point thirty pm. Green has been a vocal
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Speaker 1: opponent of the convicted felon in the White House and
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Speaker 1: is called multiple times for his impeachment. Last week, the
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Speaker 1: convicted felon, in an effort to distract from the release
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Speaker 1: of the Epstein files, and the fact that the Justice
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Speaker 1: Department has only released one percent of the promised one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent of the files they were supposed to release,
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Speaker 1: and to provide cover for deporting without due process Venezuelan's
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Speaker 1: back to Venezuela, the adult seventy nine year old Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump sent special forces into Venezuela, attacked the capital and
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Speaker 1: captured their president, Nicholas Maduro and his wife, and brought
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Speaker 1: them to the US. Since then, the US, which has
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Speaker 1: been seizing Venezuelan oil tankers, has stated they will sell
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Speaker 1: the oil back to the country in exchange for the
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Speaker 1: regime they're buying US goods. Trump has also said he
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Speaker 1: was getting with the oil companies in the US to
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Speaker 1: rebuild the oil infrastructure in the country, which he says
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Speaker 1: is already owned by the US. This is a lie.
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Speaker 1: We talked to three people on the subject. First, University
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Speaker 1: of Houston Energy fellow ed Heares, talked about what the
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Speaker 1: oil will do for both countries.
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Speaker 12: I don't think it means very much at all. Right now,
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Speaker 12: You know, this is not like a takeover of an
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Speaker 12: oil company on a stock exchange. You know that we're
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Speaker 12: dealing with two sovereign nations. The Trump administration essentially removed
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Speaker 12: the CEO, took Maduro out. That left the entire the
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Speaker 12: entirety of the Maduro regime, including the management of Beta
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Speaker 12: Basa of the state oil company, in place. Before anybody
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Speaker 12: can go in and start investing to rebuild Venezuela's oil patch,
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Speaker 12: there needs to be some assurance that inbound investment will
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Speaker 12: lead to outbound profits. And that's not been the case
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Speaker 12: easily over the last forty years. You know, fifty five
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Speaker 12: sixty years ago, Venezuela produced as much as three and
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Speaker 12: a half million barrels of oil a day. Today, that
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Speaker 12: figures about one and a half million barrels a day,
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Speaker 12: and only about a half million gets that recorded. That's
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Speaker 12: less than point five percent of the global oil supply.
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Speaker 12: So it's it's no panacea for consumers and it's not
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Speaker 12: going to be a bonanza for the oil companies.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, because a lot of people think that because of
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Speaker 13: because of taking if the US word you take over
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Speaker 13: the oil there that is a it's this misconception that
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Speaker 13: it's going to make for oil prices to either.
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Speaker 12: Rise or fall, right, But that's not going to happen.
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Speaker 14: The impact.
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Speaker 13: What happens to the what happens in China and the
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Speaker 13: the in Russia. As far as their invoice, they imported
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Speaker 13: a lot of a lot of oil and even Cuba
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Speaker 13: from a lot of oil froms in Aberta.
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Speaker 12: Well, you know, the the amounts that Cuba were receiving
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Speaker 12: from Venezuela was really pretty small. You know, if Russia
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Speaker 12: wants to continue to support Cuba, they can do this.
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Speaker 12: You know, Russia outbound oil is under all sorts of
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Speaker 12: sanctions by the Western nations. Iran similarly with their oil
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Speaker 12: and Venezuela and oil. China has been financially supporting the
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Speaker 12: Venezuela oil patch and investing and they've been accepting oil
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Speaker 12: in return for that investment. But they can turn outwhere
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Speaker 12: China has been the primary buyer of sanctioned Russian crude
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Speaker 12: all Assas India. You know, it's a global oil market.
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Speaker 12: If it goes in at seventy dollars a barrel or
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Speaker 12: twenty dollars a barrel, it still goes into the global
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Speaker 12: oil market.
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Speaker 13: Well, the situation in As will change as far as
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Speaker 13: as as far as you know, they're losing a huge
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Speaker 13: market with oil. And that was one of the one.
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Speaker 13: That was one of the problems with Chevez and the
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Speaker 13: Madeiro regime is they relied mostly on oil, on the
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Speaker 13: oil industry and took away everything else that they were.
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Speaker 13: The other industry that they had were that that made
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Speaker 13: for us stable, a stable economy.
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Speaker 12: Right. Well, Venezuela was second or third in terms of
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Speaker 12: per capita income, one of the wealthiest nations in the
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Speaker 12: Western HEMISR in the in the sixties and seventies, and
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Speaker 12: of course now it's it's at the bottom. And what
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Speaker 12: Chabez and Maduro did was they diverted the revenues from
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Speaker 12: the oil industry to their own ends and without reinvesting
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Speaker 12: in the oil patch, without reinvesting in the economy. And
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Speaker 12: so today the UN estimates at Venezuelan population lives in poverty.
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Speaker 12: And we know that eight million Venezuelans have left the country.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, a lot of Venezuela's here in Houston and here
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Speaker 13: in Florida also made.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly those who could did leave. I mean, it's
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Speaker 12: it's a migration issue. Uh, It's not unlike what we
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Speaker 12: helped foment and cause in Iraq under President George W.
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Speaker 12: Bush or in Libya under President Obama.
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Speaker 15: What would be the what would be the differences in that.
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Speaker 12: Well, with Iraq, we had Vice President Dick Cheney, the
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Speaker 12: former CEO of Halliburn uh and and many members of
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Speaker 12: the Bush administration and Congress at the time said well,
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Speaker 12: we'll just take the Iraqi oil and make it our own. Well,
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Speaker 12: that never worked out, and we're not very good at
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Speaker 12: nation building. And then with Libya, the the Obama administration,
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Speaker 12: if not directly indirectly supported the overthrow of Kadafi, but
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Speaker 12: really had no plan in place, no no backbench ready
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Speaker 12: to come in and take over the operation of the nation.
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Speaker 12: And then the void Libya splintered and the oil production,
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Speaker 12: some of it came under direct control of ices. You know,
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Speaker 12: this is this is not a good a good path forward.
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Speaker 12: And we saw the same thing in nineteen eighty nine,
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Speaker 12: ninety ninety one with the class of the old Soviet
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Speaker 12: Union and the Russians asked for our help and rebuilding
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Speaker 12: the oil industry of US companies went in and we
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Speaker 12: know there's no US companies left operating in Russia today.
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Speaker 12: That's uh, that's not a good record. And this administration
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Speaker 12: doesn't seem to have the personnel and plan in place
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Speaker 12: to do any better with Venezuela.
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Speaker 13: Well, we talk about South America and we know the
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Speaker 13: history of of our our pasts explorations so to speak,
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Speaker 13: in South America, I mean namely Chile and Argentina and
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Speaker 13: Joel savor in there also. But if you says no
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Speaker 13: plan in place, or we're going through the same same
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Speaker 13: same plans or same or same struggles that we had
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Speaker 13: then problems that we had.
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Speaker 15: Then.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, it sure kind of looks like it from this distance.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, because what's because what's the I'm trying to figure
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Speaker 13: out what's the long term what's the long term goes?
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Speaker 4: Because if you're gonna.
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Speaker 13: Leave the vice president in place, everything that's going to
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Speaker 13: stay the same?
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Speaker 12: Am I correct on it? You know, that's what you
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Speaker 12: would think. I mean, Howard, you know, is the tiger
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Speaker 12: going to change its stripes and suddenly be h uh
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Speaker 12: useful business partner in the redevelopment of a critical industry
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Speaker 12: for the nation. And uh, we don't have any evidence
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Speaker 12: that that's going to be the case.
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Speaker 13: I also mentioned Cuba and Columbia is one of the
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Speaker 13: other places that even Iran as far as taking over
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Speaker 13: there will Is this just talk or is this something
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Speaker 13: that's realistic that may be only agenda.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 15: I don't know, because it seems like it seems like
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Speaker 15: we're we're going to we're going down the path of
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Speaker 15: uh of uh.
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Speaker 8: The mont Road.
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Speaker 13: Documentary bringing in bringing the US industry in all these places,
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Speaker 13: sort of the naut Republic, so.
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Speaker 12: To speak, what we did in America?
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Speaker 14: What do you?
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Speaker 8: What is it?
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Speaker 13: What is industry saying as far as as far as
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Speaker 13: the stock market.
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Speaker 8: And all that?
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Speaker 16: Is it?
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Speaker 8: This is pretty sable right now?
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Speaker 17: Or is it going?
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Speaker 4: Is it going?
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Speaker 12: Price of oil is still blow sixty dollars a barrow,
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Speaker 12: you know, keep in mind that it was over eighty
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Speaker 12: dollars a barrel this time last year. So President Trump
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Speaker 12: has not been particularly good for the domestic oil industry,
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Speaker 12: and the costs for drilling have gone up because of
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Speaker 12: the Trump tariffs on steel, which are critical to drilling
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Speaker 12: these long laterals into the shale place. It's it's going
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Speaker 12: to be very difficult to convince CEOs of big oil
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Speaker 12: companies and Wall Street investors that they can go earn
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Speaker 12: a rate of return in Venezuela, something that's going to
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Speaker 12: require billions of dollars in investment and hundreds if not
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Speaker 12: thousands of newly minted oil and gas professionals to go
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Speaker 12: back and rebuilding the industry. And keep in mind, we
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Speaker 12: probably not see any real profits from that until after
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Speaker 12: the Trum administration is over.
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Speaker 1: Egberto Willis from the KPFT talk show Politics Done Right
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Speaker 1: says he has seen this before. He is from Panama
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Speaker 1: and experienced the US coming in and taking away the
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Speaker 1: leader of Panama, Manuel Noriega in nineteen eighty nine. Well,
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Speaker 1: let me first.
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Speaker 16: Tell you that the big problem that we have today
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Speaker 16: in our country is that we have news that has
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Speaker 16: to be filtered through neoliberal corporations. All the people in
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Speaker 16: the mainstream news media, the reporters and journalists, they are
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Speaker 16: good people and they do good research. In fact, a
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Speaker 16: lot of what we report from is from some of
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Speaker 16: the good work that they do. But all of this
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Speaker 16: work goes through the prism of the neoliberal nature of
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Speaker 16: the corporations who pay to keep those news stations, those
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Speaker 16: new TV networks active, and as such, the news is
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Speaker 16: that comes out is very, very biased against a particular class,
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Speaker 16: a particular group of people, and that is exactly what
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Speaker 16: has happened with Venezuela. That is what has happened with
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Speaker 16: Panama and every other country south of the border.
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Speaker 4: That plase.
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Speaker 16: Okay, let's give an example. America considers Ugo Chavis as
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Speaker 16: the dictator of Venezuela, and you know it was he
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Speaker 16: a dictator. Eventually he became a dictator. The reasons why
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Speaker 16: he became a dictator has a lot to do with
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Speaker 16: self preservation of the Bolivarian Revolution. But let's go ahead
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Speaker 16: and dig a little bit deeper about that. Venezuela is
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Speaker 16: a very, very very wealthy country, not only in oil,
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Speaker 16: but it has the fifth largest reserve of gold and
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Speaker 16: many other resources that the rest of the world want,
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Speaker 16: including rare earths, etcetera. Now, that used to be under
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Speaker 16: the purview of America for all practical purposes because the
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Speaker 16: wealthy class and the appendages of the wealthy class controlled
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Speaker 16: it all and it never trickled down to the people.
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Speaker 16: Ugo Chavis was a result of that small amount of
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Speaker 16: folks on the top keeping the rest of the country
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Speaker 16: in poverty. So as such, while Ugo Chavis may seem
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Speaker 16: like a dictator to some, he's a liberator to most Venezuelans.
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Speaker 16: Of consequence, and the issue, the big issue is, we
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Speaker 16: know the history of We know the history.
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Speaker 17: Of US imperialism in South and Central America. We can
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Speaker 17: go to Panama, we can go to Argentina, Chile, go
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Speaker 17: to Costa Rica for that matter, all have been affected
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Speaker 17: by US intervention in Icaragua, in US intervention in those countries.
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Speaker 17: How is it that people are supporting this, this takeover
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Speaker 17: the o the country and what happens next.
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Speaker 16: Well, let me just tell you. I mean, people around
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Speaker 16: the world are the same, whether they are Americans, whether
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Speaker 16: they're Latin Americans, it said to us. So when you
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Speaker 16: say about how do people support that, Look, there are
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Speaker 16: Venezuelans outside of Venezuela that we're happy for Trump invade
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Speaker 16: in their country. There are a few still in Venezuela
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Speaker 16: that we're happy that Trump invaded the country. It is
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Speaker 16: called one of two things, indoctrination or being of the
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Speaker 16: class who that benefits.
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Speaker 1: So why why.
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Speaker 16: Do do people support that? Well, we support in America
24:01
Speaker 16: an economic system where we work as slaves. And I
24:07
Speaker 16: use that word loosely, but we work in order to
24:10
Speaker 16: enrich just a few. Even though all this we produce, it, all,
24:15
Speaker 16: we develop it, all our intellect created all but a
24:19
Speaker 16: few people that know not much benefit from it, and
24:22
Speaker 16: we tolerate it. It's a form of inductrination that has
24:26
Speaker 16: allowed us to continue to live under the boot of
24:31
Speaker 16: a few. Now, why are some supporting the invasion. They're
24:35
Speaker 16: supporting the invasion because we're inductrinated in to believe, in
24:39
Speaker 16: one that these guys are just a bunch of communist dictators,
24:43
Speaker 16: as if we are not, as if corporations themselves aren't dictators,
24:48
Speaker 16: and we've learned to accept one from one side and
24:52
Speaker 16: not the other. So, I mean, we really have to
24:55
Speaker 16: do what you're doing right here, and that is not
24:58
Speaker 16: just towing the line, but educating people as to how
25:02
Speaker 16: these economic systems and political systems really work.
25:06
Speaker 7: I've heard I've heard Venezuelans they are upset now because
25:12
Speaker 7: the administration, the US administration, is not moving to remove
25:19
Speaker 7: the the hierarchy is that that was that was in
25:24
Speaker 7: place under Maduro and there so your genius they're upset,
25:30
Speaker 7: that is not They're not taking.
25:33
Speaker 16: Over your genius for making that observation. Uh, let me
25:37
Speaker 16: tell you something, Okay, America is not interested in having
25:42
Speaker 16: democracies around the world. We have never been interested in
25:46
Speaker 16: having democracies around the world. We supported uh uh uh, baby, Doc.
25:52
Speaker 16: We supported Ferdinand Marcos, we supported dictators all around the world.
25:58
Speaker 16: We want to make sure that the people that are
26:01
Speaker 16: in control of that country, we are in control of them. Now,
26:07
Speaker 16: Trump and his minions had to make a choice. Do
26:11
Speaker 16: we destabilize Venezuela further by instituting Machado or any one
26:17
Speaker 16: of these other right wing leaders who only have fifteen
26:21
Speaker 16: to twenty percent real support, not manufactured support by false polls,
26:28
Speaker 16: but real support of the masses. Or do we leave
26:31
Speaker 16: an entrenched government that was able to stay alive for
26:35
Speaker 16: so long and simply manipulate them into getting what we
26:40
Speaker 16: want because they also want to stay in power. And
26:44
Speaker 16: that's all in the name of the game. If they had,
26:47
Speaker 16: if they had thrown Matchado in there or Gonzalez in there,
26:51
Speaker 16: you would have created you would have created a destabilized Venezuela.
26:57
Speaker 16: And a destabilized Venezuela doesn't lend itself. Have oil companies
27:01
Speaker 16: come in, not that they're going to come in now anyway,
27:04
Speaker 16: but to have oil companies wanting to come in. But
27:06
Speaker 16: if you keep a stable, structured government in Venezuela, then
27:11
Speaker 16: guess what. The country remained fairly stable from a political standpoint,
27:16
Speaker 16: it just shows you that it has always been a lie.
27:21
Speaker 16: Madudo as bad as he is and I think he's
27:23
Speaker 16: not a good guy. He has more support than the right.
27:28
Speaker 16: If Ugo Chavis had survived and was able to maintain
27:31
Speaker 16: the Bulavarian Revolution, it would have been a threat to
27:34
Speaker 16: the United States because people would have seen that when
27:38
Speaker 16: you have a country that says the resources of the country,
27:41
Speaker 16: unlike the United States, where the resources go to the few,
27:45
Speaker 16: meaning the oil when it's dug up only excellent and
27:49
Speaker 16: a few people and the shareholders get the oil as
27:51
Speaker 16: opposed to it going to the services, meaning health, free
27:56
Speaker 16: health care, child support, and all those things. When they
28:01
Speaker 16: see that successfully working on a rich, a resource rich country,
28:06
Speaker 16: Americans themselves would start to ask why is that not us?
28:12
Speaker 13: Where do we go? So I've talked to I've talked
28:16
Speaker 13: to professors and say that the oil at the United
28:19
Speaker 13: States is that are are taking over. It's gonna take years.
28:24
Speaker 5: If it's gonna take years.
28:26
Speaker 13: With that money that they're talking about raising to go
28:30
Speaker 13: into anything benefiting the United States or Venezuela, you know.
28:34
Speaker 16: That's yes or no, right, let let's declare it here.
28:36
Speaker 16: I spoke to a professor in Karakas, Venezuela yesterday, and
28:40
Speaker 16: in fact, I'm preparing that audio that that video right now.
28:44
Speaker 16: But uh, the truth of the matter is China is
28:47
Speaker 16: already doing uh drilling in Maracaibo, so that oil is
28:50
Speaker 16: going to be online. Of course, China will keep that
28:52
Speaker 16: all because they're contracted the sixty billion or so that
28:55
Speaker 16: they gave to Venezuela's back by all their drilling in Maracaibo.
28:59
Speaker 16: But if you take a look at the field that
29:02
Speaker 16: you have in Venezuela, even though they are in disrepair,
29:08
Speaker 16: if the oil Venezuelan and oil is not hard to
29:12
Speaker 16: get to, I mean, it's not like deep sea horizon
29:15
Speaker 16: that you have to go fourteen thousand or fourteen thousand
29:19
Speaker 16: feet to get it under high pressure and through water.
29:22
Speaker 16: If they really if there was really a need to
29:26
Speaker 16: get that oil quickly, we would get it quickly. But
29:29
Speaker 16: there isn't. The reason for Venezuela is at the backstop
29:32
Speaker 16: to the sour oil that comes out of Canada, that
29:35
Speaker 16: comes out of Saudia Aravia, that comes out of Mexico.
29:39
Speaker 16: They have sour oil, and our refineries don't like sweet oil.
29:43
Speaker 16: Our refinery we export sweet oil at a high price.
29:47
Speaker 16: We import sour oil at a cheap price, and because
29:50
Speaker 16: we can make more profit per barrel on that terrible oil.
29:54
Speaker 16: And that's why we want to ensure we have all
29:57
Speaker 16: the possible sources of that sour oil to take care of.
30:01
Speaker 16: So whenever you hear a professor say well it won't
30:03
Speaker 16: come online enough, he's just towing the line, or they're
30:07
Speaker 16: just towing the line. If we want to bring those
30:09
Speaker 16: things online quickly, we can, but there's no need to
30:12
Speaker 16: do so because there's a glut of oil on the market.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, and it would make sure would make all prices
30:18
Speaker 13: go down.
30:18
Speaker 12: I'm like correct on that.
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Speaker 16: You're absolutely right. In fact, that's what they want is
30:24
Speaker 16: simply to have access to the oil and ensure that. Look,
30:28
Speaker 16: China is drilling in Maracaibo. When China starts to drill
30:33
Speaker 16: in Maracaibo, China no longer needs a whole lot of
30:37
Speaker 16: Russian oil and other oil, which the oil is a
30:40
Speaker 16: global market. So if they stop buying Russian oil, Russia
30:44
Speaker 16: is going to go somewhere else to sell that oil.
30:47
Speaker 16: And guess what that does to the prices of oil internationally.
30:51
Speaker 16: It drops the price of oil.
30:53
Speaker 4: So all the.
30:54
Speaker 16: United States really want to do is to control the fields,
30:57
Speaker 16: not necessarily produce the fields. But when the oil is cheap,
31:02
Speaker 16: they can work slowly to develop. When oil starts to rise,
31:07
Speaker 16: they just go ahead and drill up. But let's be
31:09
Speaker 16: clear here, these guys have been playing with oil prices
31:14
Speaker 16: for a long time. We have never, ever, ever had
31:18
Speaker 16: a shortage of oil. This is manufactured scarcity for us
31:23
Speaker 16: to make a lot of money on this particular resource.
31:26
Speaker 16: And when we realize that, we would start acting accordingly.
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32:11
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32:16
Speaker 1: seen protests against the government US pressures militarily and economically
32:22
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32:26
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32:30
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32:34
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32:40
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32:44
Speaker 1: hit back militarily on Iran. Those living abroad continue to
32:49
Speaker 1: hope for change, but can they really hope for the
32:52
Speaker 1: overthrow of the government. Persians in Texas hope for just that.
32:57
Speaker 1: As we talk to Kareem Zagna with the Iranian Community
33:01
Speaker 1: of Texas.
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Speaker 14: O Giez you're watching right now is talking about so yeah,
33:08
Speaker 14: it's all about you know. So so just can you
33:11
Speaker 14: name in title for the recording please?
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Speaker 5: Yes, this is a Korean with the Iranian American Community
33:17
Speaker 5: of Texas. And thank you Richard for contacting me regarding this.
33:22
Speaker 5: I'm glad that I'm talking to you.
33:26
Speaker 14: Yes, tell us what the situation is right now in
33:28
Speaker 14: our on.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, they you.
33:32
Speaker 5: Know, after after decades of the dictatorship that the Iranian
33:37
Speaker 5: people has been doing uprising and trying to overthrow this fascist, religious,
33:48
Speaker 5: fascist regime. You know, obviously they tried so many times,
33:53
Speaker 5: and this times is we call it the revolution in
33:57
Speaker 5: making and hopefully they overthrow the regime.
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Speaker 14: What do you think about the proper administration actually calling
34:06
Speaker 14: for regime change and what you so happy in Venezuela
34:11
Speaker 14: may be happening in Iran? Do you think that's possible.
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Speaker 5: I think it's less likely that to happen because there
34:19
Speaker 5: is for good reason. First of all, you know, the
34:23
Speaker 5: Irnian people are ready to overthrow the regime, so there
34:26
Speaker 5: is no there is no need for any intervention from
34:31
Speaker 5: any other countries. So the Rnian people are boots on
34:35
Speaker 5: the ground.
34:36
Speaker 4: The resistance, the resistance.
34:39
Speaker 5: We I am following or our community following. We are
34:42
Speaker 5: over forty estates in the United States of America, which
34:47
Speaker 5: is the ncr I and led by Miss Malliam Bragoria
34:52
Speaker 5: as the President elect for the matter of transferring the
34:57
Speaker 5: power from from the the regime to the Iranian people
35:02
Speaker 5: after the overthrown. So these are we are supporting them,
35:06
Speaker 5: and they are like she she's been saying many many
35:09
Speaker 5: times that we don't need any foreign money or weapon
35:14
Speaker 5: or any intervention or boots on the grounds are the
35:18
Speaker 5: Irane and people, so we don't need any war to
35:20
Speaker 5: overthrow the regime. We are ready to overthrow the regime.
35:24
Speaker 5: And that's exactly the scenario right now is going on.
35:27
Speaker 5: I don't think that what they did to Venezuela is
35:32
Speaker 5: is is needed for Iran.
35:36
Speaker 14: Yeah, but you see what the forces in our own
35:39
Speaker 14: the military and the security forces are doing to the people.
35:44
Speaker 14: How do you say it's not going to be How
35:46
Speaker 14: can you say that you can take over any type
35:51
Speaker 14: of violence or any type of war.
35:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a very legit question and concerned.
35:59
Speaker 5: So you know Iranian people, we're talking about the millions
36:04
Speaker 5: of people. The regime has no one in in their
36:09
Speaker 5: site when it comes to the people.
36:11
Speaker 4: So yes, they do have the suppression forces.
36:16
Speaker 5: But but the Iranian people, especially the m e K
36:20
Speaker 5: which is a motorizing hal and that they are is
36:25
Speaker 5: a is an also member of the n c r I,
36:29
Speaker 5: which I told you they are. They are forced on
36:31
Speaker 5: the ground. They are they are, they have many thousands
36:35
Speaker 5: resistance units all over.
36:37
Speaker 4: Iran and that those are the one that who.
36:40
Speaker 5: Actually organizing this resistance, organizing this uprising, organizing this revolution
36:47
Speaker 5: that is hopefully soon we overthrow the region. They are,
36:52
Speaker 5: they are, they have weapons, they have weapon to protect
36:57
Speaker 5: the people, so hopefully.
36:59
Speaker 4: They can help overthrow the regime.
37:06
Speaker 14: What if you do have a regime change, it's always
37:09
Speaker 14: difficult to build a new government. We saw what happened
37:15
Speaker 14: in Afghanistan. We saw what happened and especially the US
37:19
Speaker 14: and picking over countries and try to rebuild a new
37:23
Speaker 14: a new country, a new government. What's the plan for
37:28
Speaker 14: Iran if you rebuild Iran as far as government, and
37:35
Speaker 14: what's the chances of it coming back to having something
37:37
Speaker 14: like the Shaw was there?
37:39
Speaker 5: Okay, the Shaw never going to come back? People are
37:42
Speaker 5: it ran over through the Shaw back in nineteen seventy nine.
37:46
Speaker 4: Not because he was so wonderful. They threw him out
37:49
Speaker 4: because he was He was not for your inn and people.
37:52
Speaker 5: He was at Brussels cross the regime and the dictator
37:57
Speaker 5: of a single party. And just like this regime that
38:00
Speaker 5: is single party, like Hiszbe law, that one was single party.
38:05
Speaker 5: They call the rest Office, which which shot said if
38:08
Speaker 5: you take it, or you just leave the country, or
38:11
Speaker 5: you're going to go to in prison. So yeah, back
38:16
Speaker 5: to your question, Yeah, it's not the Iran is not
38:19
Speaker 5: Afghanistan or any other country.
38:21
Speaker 4: Because we do have a very strong resistance.
38:27
Speaker 5: Organized resistance that they are fighting for freedom, democracy.
38:32
Speaker 4: And uh and and republic.
38:35
Speaker 5: Something circular that is governed by representative of the people
38:41
Speaker 5: that is elected by people.
38:43
Speaker 4: And that's how they're gonna do.
38:44
Speaker 5: As far as the forces that you're talking about, like
38:48
Speaker 5: I said that the resistance units, they are hopeful, very
38:52
Speaker 5: much hopeful that like in the this year, thirty thousand,
38:58
Speaker 5: thirty thousands of those union they shows around the around
39:03
Speaker 5: the country that they are there.
39:05
Speaker 4: They are organized, they are ready to fight and.
39:11
Speaker 5: Ahead of these Iranian people and they try to organize
39:15
Speaker 5: them as you see two over.
39:19
Speaker 4: Through the region. Yeah, the the region forces are yeah,
39:23
Speaker 4: they have a lot of forces, but they are not
39:26
Speaker 4: able to handle ninety million people. That's why they are
39:29
Speaker 4: so so desperate. They are vulnerable. They are weak.
39:36
Speaker 5: Has ever been because the regime lost all the praxies
39:40
Speaker 5: and all the forces they have around the around the
39:43
Speaker 5: countries or even inside the countries of the for example,
39:49
Speaker 5: I'm sure you know the Syria are not the best
39:53
Speaker 5: best ally in South Africa, South America that they've been
39:56
Speaker 5: captured brought to America. So all those things sign of
40:00
Speaker 5: regime weakness. That's why they had the only four The
40:04
Speaker 5: only thing they have is suppression and execution, cheating people.
40:10
Speaker 4: Inside Iran and trying to say any longer.
40:17
Speaker 14: What about the what about the different groups you're trying
40:20
Speaker 14: to get You know, it's a Persian country, but you
40:23
Speaker 14: still have different different factions within the country, different different
40:28
Speaker 14: tribes and different different tribes and stuff. And how are
40:34
Speaker 14: you going to how are you going to bring all
40:36
Speaker 14: those people together?
40:38
Speaker 5: Okay, this is a good question. Also your question is
40:41
Speaker 5: very nice and very good, very legit, very to the point,
40:46
Speaker 5: you know.
40:46
Speaker 4: So first of all, back to the first question you did. Yeah,
40:51
Speaker 4: they're they're the resistance.
40:54
Speaker 5: We just recently they have a convention in Washington, DC
40:58
Speaker 5: that it shows that the government in exile, which is
41:02
Speaker 5: n c r I government in exile, already completely ready
41:07
Speaker 5: to take horwor inside Iran after the overthrow and transferred
41:11
Speaker 5: to the people.
41:12
Speaker 4: So it's not gonna be any chaos like we happen.
41:14
Speaker 5: In Afghanistan or a or anywhere else that you see
41:18
Speaker 5: around the Middle East. So we are we are ready
41:21
Speaker 5: to transfer the power to the Iranian people and Irenian people.
41:26
Speaker 5: The good thing is they are united against this regime.
41:31
Speaker 5: They are all united, all of them, from Buluchi San
41:35
Speaker 5: to Kordasan to other Baijan, which is we have.
41:40
Speaker 4: To be talking about the Turkish people. You have sought
41:43
Speaker 4: Arab people. They have Bulluch on the east, we have
41:46
Speaker 4: Kordish in the.
41:47
Speaker 5: West and many other They're all united against this regime.
41:52
Speaker 4: This is the enemy of.
41:54
Speaker 5: The entire uh Iran with all the all the different.
42:03
Speaker 4: Type of people that they are there, they are they
42:06
Speaker 4: are they club. They don't call them minority. They are
42:08
Speaker 4: the Iranian. They are all Iranians. From the Persian in
42:12
Speaker 4: the center to all this I mentioned, we.
42:15
Speaker 5: Are all against the regime, not only against the regime,
42:19
Speaker 5: but also against the the previous dictators previous dictatorship which
42:24
Speaker 5: his son and his son has some activities trying to
42:29
Speaker 5: hijack again hijack day revolution, which is going to be
42:33
Speaker 5: benefiting the regime of the same regime that the is
42:37
Speaker 5: in the power.
42:38
Speaker 4: Actually, the Iranian regime are using him as someone.
42:43
Speaker 14: That to.
42:46
Speaker 5: Scary people from like if we're going to go back
42:48
Speaker 5: after all this fight, all these sacrifices, all the killing
42:53
Speaker 5: and uh this, Uh, they're gonna they're gonna go back
42:57
Speaker 5: to the monarchy.
42:59
Speaker 4: That's that's that's just something that.
43:06
Speaker 5: Some may foreign country may help him, or if they
43:11
Speaker 5: have a TV that they are promoting promoting something it's
43:16
Speaker 5: it's safe, is false, trying to mislead the Iranian people
43:20
Speaker 5: from from what they have in front of them, which
43:24
Speaker 5: is overthrowing the region entirely and bring about freedom, democracy
43:32
Speaker 5: and non nuclear republic something that they have for examples here.
43:38
Speaker 5: And that's that's why it is very important for you
43:43
Speaker 5: and everybody to support Iranian people anyway we can, because
43:48
Speaker 5: Iranian people is, like I said that many times in
43:51
Speaker 5: the past, is not the enemy of just Iranian.
43:54
Speaker 4: People, is the enemy of the entire region. Is the
43:57
Speaker 4: enemy of the entire.
43:59
Speaker 5: World when it comes to peace, friendship, security and stability.
44:04
Speaker 5: So this region has to go, is updated, it's not
44:07
Speaker 5: belonged to this age, and it has to go entirely.
44:11
Speaker 4: There is nothing that you can find within this region.
44:15
Speaker 14: What you about the it's just come across across the
44:18
Speaker 14: wire that it's large demonstrations going across the country today.
44:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is going on.
44:25
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, the major city Richard, in
44:29
Speaker 5: the last last uprising that it was like a two
44:32
Speaker 5: years ago, it.
44:34
Speaker 4: Was many many cities.
44:36
Speaker 5: This time is even bigger and is much more radical.
44:40
Speaker 5: You know, that means they are to the point they
44:44
Speaker 5: just say dead to the hamony.
44:47
Speaker 4: They said dead to the.
44:49
Speaker 5: Oppressor, whether it's a SHAW or Supreme leader. So they
44:54
Speaker 5: have the message from message that they want for freedom
44:57
Speaker 5: and democracy.
44:58
Speaker 4: They don't want another type of UH.
45:02
Speaker 5: Single partied dictatorship. So they want they want they want freedom.
45:07
Speaker 5: And now in Tehran, like in twenty two points, in
45:10
Speaker 5: Tehran alone is the people have people have a demonstration
45:15
Speaker 5: and clashes with the i o.
45:18
Speaker 4: GC in s one day they already burned the.
45:23
Speaker 5: Radio television station and they burn it to the ground
45:28
Speaker 5: and many other the city.
45:30
Speaker 4: They've been clashing.
45:31
Speaker 5: Basically been fight between the people and and the resistance
45:36
Speaker 5: unit and and the i o GC, and many many
45:39
Speaker 5: times the IOGC and the member been we've been running
45:44
Speaker 5: running away from people. That's how the situation is. We're
45:48
Speaker 5: hoping soon that they're gonna overthrough. They're gonna work through
45:52
Speaker 5: the whole country. They will take over the whole country.
45:54
Speaker 14: Yes, what's the Parisian community here playing or organizing or
46:01
Speaker 14: they they are they going back home the donating money
46:06
Speaker 14: in front or what's going on in the project community here?
46:09
Speaker 4: Persian communities, ye are pretty active. Just we are.
46:12
Speaker 5: We are following what is going on inside Iran, Iranian
46:15
Speaker 5: people rejecting this regime and every one of them that
46:20
Speaker 5: you talk here.
46:20
Speaker 4: On outside, except of course, except of course.
46:24
Speaker 5: The regime agent that they are here trying to mislead
46:28
Speaker 5: the politicians.
46:30
Speaker 4: They try to miss lead the people.
46:32
Speaker 5: Those are you know, those are not coming with the
46:34
Speaker 5: tourb and they're coming with their suit and tire and
46:36
Speaker 5: good looking and but trying to go and even the
46:41
Speaker 5: amazing things reach are that you never saw before they
46:45
Speaker 5: come and they even act like they are against the regime,
46:48
Speaker 5: but they they do their regime agenda and perpaganda.
46:53
Speaker 4: So those are the things. That's why we like myself,
46:57
Speaker 4: you know, and the people that.
47:00
Speaker 5: The the community that I support, we are informing our
47:06
Speaker 5: politicians are people that do not be.
47:09
Speaker 4: Mislead by these agents.
47:12
Speaker 5: You know, many of them right now is against around
47:15
Speaker 5: the son of.
47:17
Speaker 4: The shop which they call it baby Shaw and trying
47:22
Speaker 4: to trying to say like.
47:24
Speaker 5: Like some of the shot is going to come back
47:28
Speaker 5: to to Iran, which is which is a false which
47:31
Speaker 5: is just trying to take the people from the state
47:35
Speaker 5: to go home and disappoint them.
47:38
Speaker 4: So that's that's that's how they act.
47:44
Speaker 5: But every every Iranian, every Iranian here, every Iranian form,
47:48
Speaker 5: any any form you can see is they are against
47:52
Speaker 5: the regime and they want regime change because this regime
47:55
Speaker 5: has nothing for Iranian people. They put they put them to.
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Speaker 4: Almost every one of them has been poor.
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Speaker 5: And the dollar like for example, the dollar right is
48:08
Speaker 5: if one dollar is one hundred fifty thousand two months,
48:15
Speaker 5: this is like a ridiculous sitting. You probably don't know
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Speaker 5: the number by right now people cannot even have bread
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Speaker 5: on the table, not some of them. Eighty percent of
48:25
Speaker 5: the people are poor. That's why they're audience read. They
48:30
Speaker 5: know the problem is from the Supreme leader, the regime entirely,
48:35
Speaker 5: and they know this is.
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Speaker 4: Not going to change until they overthrow the.
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Speaker 14: How can people get in touch each year the organization.
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Speaker 5: They have Unfortunately, just the last few days, the Internet
48:49
Speaker 5: had been cut off by regime because you know that
48:54
Speaker 5: they nightmare when when inside it und people are communicating
48:58
Speaker 5: and getting together and organizing themselves against them. So that's
49:02
Speaker 5: right now is a little problem.
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Speaker 4: It's it's telephone calling.
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Speaker 5: But before before this revolution, we've been we've been talking
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Speaker 5: to our family and all family's are busy, they're in
49:15
Speaker 5: the street. They're hoping that soon this regime is going
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Speaker 5: to be overthrown. So yeah, we just have a contact
49:24
Speaker 5: contact with my family.
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Speaker 1: That was Kareem Zagana with the Iranian American Community of Texas,
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Speaker 1: speaking on change needed in Iran. It's marathon weekend. As
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Speaker 1: the Houston Marathon took place Sunday morning twenty six point
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Speaker 1: two miles. People from all over the world have taken
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Speaker 1: to the streets of Houston to run this race, some
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Speaker 1: for their personal record time and some for charity, but
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Speaker 1: all are victors. Fata Benaiah of Ethiopia beat out countrymen
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Speaker 1: Tasigi Jersu and Lama and Bruce I Dribba in the
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Speaker 1: woman's half marathon with a time of one oh four
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Speaker 1: forty nine In the men's half, fourth place finishter Samuel
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Speaker 1: of Arita one with a time of fifty nine minutes
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Speaker 1: and one second. The conditions were good, as American Alex
50:16
Speaker 1: Mayer was happy with the run.
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Speaker 9: Hey had to go today, Good, sir, it was very good, Sir.
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Speaker 10: Renning in Houston. It was really he couldn't ask for
50:25
Speaker 10: a perfect data run. Yes, this thirty degrees, not too cold,
50:30
Speaker 10: not too hot, you know.
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Speaker 8: I was worried.
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Speaker 10: I was worried the other day because it was it
50:33
Speaker 10: was like in a in the seventies, So I was worried,
50:36
Speaker 10: it's going to be too hot today.
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Speaker 9: Yes, to go for you. It went really well. It was.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, it was great condition to renning and it wasn't hot.
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Speaker 18: It was it wasn't too cold, and it was a
50:47
Speaker 18: great It was a great first started to race.
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Speaker 9: To be honest, I'm grateful to be here.
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Speaker 18: I just wanted to thank God for sure, for uh,
50:54
Speaker 18: this opportunity.
50:55
Speaker 8: What's your what's your training?
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Speaker 12: Like?
50:57
Speaker 10: How was it racing far as your training goes? Because
50:59
Speaker 10: it was pretty fast placed.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, my training has been right now. I've been kind
51:03
Speaker 18: of by myself a little bit, just like I've had
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Speaker 18: help for my coach coaches Alistair and Amy and then yeah,
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Speaker 18: so they've kind of been coaching me and then just
51:14
Speaker 18: kind of been doing it on my own. And so yeah,
51:17
Speaker 18: I've just kind of been on my own trying to
51:19
Speaker 18: figure it out.
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Speaker 4: Bit.
51:20
Speaker 18: I've been having some guidance and then every now and
51:22
Speaker 18: then I would meet with my teammates a little bit.
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Speaker 9: But yeah, just kind of been on my own.
51:27
Speaker 10: People don't know, running is a cheap sport and I
51:29
Speaker 10: ran and you know, ran on my own what's ther time.
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Speaker 8: But it is a team sport. Yeah, and people don't
51:35
Speaker 8: understand that. You want to explain that to.
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Speaker 18: Some people, Yeah, yeah, I think like running with someone
51:41
Speaker 18: else that helps you. You know, they can push you,
51:42
Speaker 18: they can help you, and it's a it's a blessing
51:45
Speaker 18: to have teammates, you know. But also when you're out there,
51:49
Speaker 18: like on the race, you got to know, like it's
51:51
Speaker 18: also you know, you're out there, it's just you and God.
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Speaker 9: For me, that's how I look at it. But at
51:55
Speaker 9: the same time, you have teammates.
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Speaker 18: When you see them, you're like, okay, we trained together,
52:00
Speaker 18: we're there together. So it's like if you see them,
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Speaker 18: that encourages you, and motivation's like okay, it's like another
52:05
Speaker 18: day I practice, you know. And so I think having
52:08
Speaker 18: teammates is also a blessing because it's like you see
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Speaker 18: them doing well and you're like okay, it's like like
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Speaker 18: almost I gives you confidence, like okay, we can handle
52:15
Speaker 18: this for the second like in practice, you know, that's.
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Speaker 10: The push that you were looking for exactly in track workout.
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Speaker 10: People don't understand about a track workout you have to.
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Speaker 9: Do, yes, sir, uh just uh just yeah.
52:31
Speaker 18: The track work is hopeful for like just to switch
52:34
Speaker 18: over to that speed stuff and just get you your
52:37
Speaker 18: legs kind of turning over.
52:39
Speaker 9: So yeah, it's definitely helpless.
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Speaker 8: So do you consider yourself a road racer or a
52:43
Speaker 8: track Uh?
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Speaker 18: I like track, but I'm done well on the road,
52:48
Speaker 18: so honestly I would.
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Speaker 9: I don't know. I'm both, I guess, but I.
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Speaker 10: Say it because we always said, we always say it
52:55
Speaker 10: tated that you track runner can get on the road.
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Speaker 8: And give me the road racer better road can't get
52:59
Speaker 8: on the track can do the same.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I agree with
53:06
Speaker 18: I agree. Yeah, it's I don't know, nowadays with everything
53:10
Speaker 18: with like the shoes and everything is definitely helpful. Bit
53:14
Speaker 18: yeah it's for me definitely. I like both, So I
53:17
Speaker 18: don't know. It's hard to choose for sure.
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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, what's your next race?
53:22
Speaker 9: I'm not sure right now.
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Speaker 18: We have to talk with my coach, so just whatever
53:27
Speaker 18: whatever he thinks his best and whatever opportunity comes, I'll
53:31
Speaker 18: be ready for it.
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Speaker 8: All right, cool, thank you so much, Thanks coach.
53:37
Speaker 1: Asia Rodriguez ran a fifty nine to fifty seven, finishing eighth.
53:41
Speaker 1: It was two thousand and two. Two thousand and two
53:45
Speaker 1: was the last year an American won the Houston Marathon,
53:48
Speaker 1: but Zoe Hair to be waited till the last couple
53:51
Speaker 1: of miles to pull away from on a Dane of
53:54
Speaker 1: Gebra of Ethiopia to win the men's race at a
53:58
Speaker 1: time of two hours, five minutes and forty five seconds,
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Speaker 1: while the UK's Cali Hagar Thackeray sped away winning the
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Speaker 1: women's race with a time of two hours, twenty four
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Speaker 1: minutes and seventeen seconds. She races and trains with her
54:13
Speaker 1: husband and coach.
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Speaker 8: You are right, all right, Just gonna ask a question.
54:17
Speaker 10: Just being in this temperature with like seven degrees I
54:20
Speaker 10: think I started. Yeah, was that difficult for you or
54:24
Speaker 10: were you used today?
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Speaker 16: No?
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Speaker 19: I loved it.
54:27
Speaker 8: Just was like.
54:29
Speaker 9: Just because some months.
54:30
Speaker 19: Ago I was in Honolulu and it was just so
54:33
Speaker 19: humid and hot. It was genuinely like how it was
54:35
Speaker 19: here two days ago, and I was running and I
54:38
Speaker 19: was like, oh my god, it feels like we're in
54:39
Speaker 19: Honolulu again. So I was just so.
54:41
Speaker 8: Grateful for the cold.
54:43
Speaker 19: Like I'm from England, I'm used to the cold, so yeah,
54:46
Speaker 19: it's not always the best at the start, like you
54:48
Speaker 19: are cold, Yeah you're like, yeah exactly, but yeah, once
54:53
Speaker 19: you get going, I think in marathon it's just perfect,
54:56
Speaker 19: isn't it. You don't overheat and it doesn't get like
54:59
Speaker 19: too hard. Yeah, the weather like makes a massive difference.
55:02
Speaker 19: So I was just so thankful for the cul today.
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Speaker 10: Your training more in Europe or in England.
55:07
Speaker 19: Or yeah, a lot more in the States nowadays, because
55:10
Speaker 19: we brought a home in April time in Flagstaff, Arizona,
55:14
Speaker 19: so high altitude training and it's been it's been great. Yeah, yeah,
55:20
Speaker 19: yeah for sure, so no, it helps a lot. And
55:23
Speaker 19: then Sarah Hall is my training partner there, so yeah,
55:25
Speaker 19: it really works out.
55:26
Speaker 8: Is it hard?
55:27
Speaker 10: Is it hard running competing with you know, you're running
55:31
Speaker 10: a group? Would have gotten a bunch of guys around
55:34
Speaker 10: make things difficult?
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Speaker 19: Not really, Like I just know, I think a group
55:40
Speaker 19: is great, like obviously, no matter who they are, it's
55:42
Speaker 19: just a great group. Like it's great to have a
55:45
Speaker 19: big group of people, just gives you someone to like
55:48
Speaker 19: just yeah, just keep like picking up like just you know,
55:52
Speaker 19: just keep like focusing on them instead of like being
55:54
Speaker 19: in no man's land or anything.
55:56
Speaker 10: So yeah, people in front to.
55:59
Speaker 9: Chase, Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, that's what That's what helped me out there so
56:03
Speaker 19: much today, Just having like a group of people, yeah,
56:07
Speaker 19: for sure. Know that definitely helped. So it was good
56:10
Speaker 19: that there was like a good pack of us for
56:11
Speaker 19: a long time.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I love to.
56:15
Speaker 19: Yeah we'll see what it brings us, but yeah, I
56:17
Speaker 19: would absolutely love to.
56:19
Speaker 8: That mean, excluding Hawaii.
56:22
Speaker 3: Yeah probably, I know.
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Speaker 19: I didn't recommend the form though. Honestly, the four week
56:28
Speaker 19: turn around it was it was harder than I thought
56:30
Speaker 19: it would be.
56:30
Speaker 9: For sure.
56:31
Speaker 19: I think I get over but underestimated that. But I
56:35
Speaker 19: did feel really good the last two weeks, so I thought,
56:37
Speaker 19: you know what, I've got to give this a go,
56:39
Speaker 19: Like I'm sure I can hopefully like at least race
56:43
Speaker 19: for the win. That was always the main goal and
56:46
Speaker 19: then anything that came after that was always going to
56:49
Speaker 19: be like a bonus. But yeah, it was just it
56:52
Speaker 19: was a tough turn around our own lie, But I'm
56:53
Speaker 19: proud I got the win, and yeah, we'll see, We'll
56:56
Speaker 19: see about next year.
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