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War Crime Time · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I died in my dream and thus died in real
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  life. But stuff still happened. So what's up?
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  Dear listener, a lot is up and I sandwiched this
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  episode with some fun and science, but the middle
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  is brutal. Gonna be talking about war crimes
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  and crimes against humanity. The good stuff.
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  Uh, it's not good stuff. It's actually really,
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  really bad stuff. But I'll say it's not gonna
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  get super graphic. I'm not gonna show a bunch
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  of dead bodies or anything like that. It's gonna
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  be very, like, matter of fact, just kind of going
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  over it. But before we get there, we have a few
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  other things to talk through first, starting
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  with a heist. It's been a second since we've
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  had a nice heist here. All this stuff keeps happening.
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  Let's talk about Renoir's second health bar.
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  Fans of the video game Expedition 33 will know
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  that it's not a good idea to just go and mess
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  with Renoir without being prepared. In France,
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  a couple of thieves decided to pull off a heist
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  that is exactly what you would expect from people
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  who are like, let's do a heist at a museum. Two
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  thieves went to a museum that housed a bunch
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  of Renoir originals and used power tools to cut
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  through the fence and then jumped in through
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  a window. They took an angle grinder to four
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  Renoir originals and took them off the wall.
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  It is at that point that they triggered the second
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  phase. breeze through that first health bar but
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  they tripped the alarm and a few minutes later
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  authorities showed up freaking them out so these
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  two dudes are trying to hold four full paintings
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  and when the when the cops show up they're like
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  nope never mind drop two just kind of throw them
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  on the ground and they high -tailed it out of
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  there at time of recording they're still they
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  did it they got away with it They set out to
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  get four paintings, only got two, but they got
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  away from a Renoir museum with two Renoirs! That's
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  impressive. I mean, it's illegal. It's very illegal,
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  and I don't endorse it, officially, but it's
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  impressive. The paintings that were stolen are
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  Madame Ca -duh -cum -dum, huh? Madame Colado
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  Romano? Wait, Madame Colada Romano is one of
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  the paintings, and the other one was Coco Reading,
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  and they're gone. We don't know where they are.
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  Here's the thing, though. If you stole multiple
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  original works from an extremely famous Impressionist,
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  you're not gonna be able to just fence those.
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  I mean, what do I know? I am not a high -level
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  underground art fence, but that just seems like
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  a hard piece to move. So like, we're probably
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  not gonna see it cropping up anywhere anytime
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  soon, but this is coming right on the heels of
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  that heist at the Louvre, and Europe is basically
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  on high alert for more museum heists, which means...
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  I'm on high alert for more museum heist stories.
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  Anyway, as long as we're talking about theft,
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  let's talk about the theft of our future. From
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  this fucking administration. Alright, look. The
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  President of the United States is a dumbass.
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  It's a very well -documented thing at this point.
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  Never mind that instead of tackling at -home
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  affordability issues ahead of the midterms, he's
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  trying to, like, build a triumph arch in DC while
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  also beefing about the reflecting pool. And also,
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  we're doing war with Iran still. Affordability
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  stateside was already bad, and it's trending
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  worse. And with diesel prices continuing to skyrocket,
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  it's getting pretty messy. And so Trump is doing
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  exactly what he always does, which is blindly
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  reacting to his latest blunder. See, Ukraine
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  has been doing deeper and deeper strikes into
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  Russian territory, trying to fend off Russia
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  from the whole invading Ukraine thing. This includes
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  striking oil refineries in Russia. And that upset
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  Trump. because of diesel prices. So he calls
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  up Zelensky and he's like, stop doing that, because
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  that's negatively impacting the diesel prices
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  in America. Now, obviously, Ukraine striking
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  a few facilities in Russia is not what has caused
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  the fuel shortage across the entire globe over
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  the course of this year. That would be due to
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  the Iran War that we're doing. But he makes this
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  call and he turns around and he starts saying,
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  it's all about diesel, diesel, diesel. That's
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  how he described the call. I'm not one for reporting
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  on what this guy said, right? Like, I don't care
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  what he has said, but if we do take his speech
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  patterns as sort of an indication of how he's
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  thinking about things, which is a stretch, You'll
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  notice that he very much likes to have these
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  little like three -word catchphrases, usually
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  the same word repeated three times. You got fight,
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  fight, fight, win, win, win, drill, baby, drill,
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  now we've got diesel, diesel, diesel. He likes
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  to take whatever the most recent thing he learned
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  is kind of important and make that his whole
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  personality. Of course, he tells the entire world
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  that he's the world's foremost expert on the
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  subject about whatever the thing is. And I would
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  wager that he never once thought about diesel...
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  ever in his life before now. I just have a very
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  hard time believing that Donald John Trump thought
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  about the logistics of diesel and the role that
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  it plays in the national trucking business and
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  freight in general before making a strike on
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  Iran and causing a global oil crisis. I just
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  don't think that that was on his mind. But where
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  he is right is that diesel prices are dangerously
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  high and staying dangerously high. As I said
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  last time, there are new records of record high
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  diesel prices in the US basically daily right
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  now. It's even gotten to the point that Republican
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  Senator Chuck Grassley was like, ah, the diesel
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  prices are so high. Trump should do something
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  about that. And it's like, I feel like you could,
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  too. As it stands, Trump is again threatening
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  to annihilate Iran over and over again, and we're
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  still at war and the Strait of Hormuz is still
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  closed. And none of this needed to happen. It
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  still just didn't need to happen. Really, I just
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  was hoping for healthcare at some point in my
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  life, but I guess that'll have to wait. Let's
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  move on. Before we jump into the next section,
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  move on now. Great, great job me. A content warning
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  for this next section, I'm going to be discussing
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  mass death and child death. This is not gonna
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  be graphic. I will not be showing wounded people
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  or anything, but it's gonna be rough. The United
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  Nations commissioned a fact -finding mission
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  that dug into Iran and the U .S. and Israel with
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  just everything that's been going on this year.
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  The fact -finding mission was targeting a handful
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  of major events. First off, the brutal crackdown
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  from the Iranian government when there were protests
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  earlier in January and late 2025. They also dug
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  into some of the horrific opening strikes from
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  the U .S. on Iran, the strike that blew up a
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  girls' school and also blew up a sports center.
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  The questions that they were looking to answer
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  were essentially what actually happened, how
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  many people actually got hurt, and did this constitute
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  crimes against humanity or war crimes. Spoiler
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  alert! Yeah. I read through the report. It's
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  also linked in today's newsletter. It's not super
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  long if you want to get more information, but
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  here's a general summary of their findings. Some
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  of this we already knew, some of it we could
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  probably surmise, and some of it is actually
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  new, but here we go. We'll start with Iran. So
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  in late 2025, there were mass protests in Iran
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  across the entire country. And they really came
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  to a head in early January 2026. Around January
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  8th, the government turned off access to the
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  Internet for their people and for people outside
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  of Iran. And so we just got no idea what was
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  going on in there. Leading up to that point,
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  Iranian security forces were using live ammunition
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  on mostly peaceful protesters across the nation.
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  And apparently, after they cut off Internet access,
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  that skyrocketed. According to the report, state
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  forces were firing tear gas and then shotgun
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  rounds into protestor crowds. There were people
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  mounted on buildings with automatic rifles. This
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  caused thousands of people to rush to hospitals.
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  There were doctors reporting people coming in
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  with shrapnel wounds, a lot of people with shrapnel
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  wounds in their eyes, and many people fully losing
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  sight. Security forces then rushed hospitals
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  and they were looking for people who had injuries
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  that would indicate that they were maybe a protestor
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  to detain them. And this also caused people to
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  avoid going to hospitals to get life -saving
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  treatment. Some medical workers talked about
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  treating patients without creating a paper trail
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  to help stop the security forces from taking.
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  As far as the death and injury counts, it's pretty
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  muddy. Although the fact -finding mission was
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  talking to governments and on -the -ground eyewitness
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  accounts and third -party investigations, they
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  couldn't get to a final answer about really how
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  many people were killed and how many people were
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  injured. There were headlines that were saying
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  like tens of thousands of casualties. We don't
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  really know. The Iranian government themselves
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  did say multiple thousands of deaths and even
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  more wounded, but the fact -finding mission still
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  believes the number to be far higher than that.
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  The UN mission also reached out to the Iranian
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  government, and while the government did respond
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  on a few things, they mostly got stonewalled.
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  Ultimately, the UN investigation holds that the
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  Islamic Republic of Iran did commit crimes against
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  humanity. by way of gross violation of human
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  rights. But how about the United States of America?
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  Free country, USA. Land of the free, home of...
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  We bombed a fucking school full of children.
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  A bit over a month later, the US and Israel launched
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  a war on Iran, seemingly because Benjamin Netanyahu
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  wanted to, and because people in Trump's cabinet
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  want to launch a holy war. And so we did that,
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  and in our opening salvo, we launched multiple
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  Tomahawk missiles. added a primary school in
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  Iran. So here's what the fact -finding mission
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  found. The primary school in question was near
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  an Iranian military base. It used to be a part
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  of that base, it was separated off from it, and
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  at time of bombing, satellite imagery clearly
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  showed that it was a separate facility with its
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  own walls around it and a separate entrance from
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  the main road. Also, photos from before the strike
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  show it as an operational school. It had school
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  furnishings and playgrounds and murals that are
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  nice for children. Per the review of the satellite
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  imagery and eyewitness accounts, one missile
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  hit the bottom floor of the school, which prompted
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  the surviving staff to usher students upstairs
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  into the prayer room, which was then struck by
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  another missile. Weapons analysts identified
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  the missile as a U .S. Tomahawk missile, which
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  is a missile that only the U .S. has in this
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  whole engagement. Right after this happened,
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  there was a whole bunch of rhetoric going around.
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  One of the prominent ones was, well, they shouldn't
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  have had a school in a military complex. They're
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  using they're using children as human shields.
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  To which I would like to remind you that the
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  Department of quote unquote war has schools in
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  military bases all across the world, hundreds
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  of them. I guess all of our students in the military
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  are human shields. An investigation was opened
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  up into what the fuck happened because, obviously,
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  but also, we shouldn't really expect anything
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  to come of that. We did get reporting from the
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  New York Times that the preliminary investigation
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  said that there was, like, a bad bit of intel
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  that caused this to happen. Like, we were working
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  on outdated information, is what they were saying.
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  Like, we thought that that was still part of
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  the military complex, so we blew it up. Without
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  checking. Other versions of the story from people
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  who are involved in the investigation talk about
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  basically going for the strike without really
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  having all the information, just knowing that
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  there was someone generally in that area they
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  wanted to kill and just go for it. Which would
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  track, like, we're still bombing boats in the
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  Caribbean. As of now, it is pretty universally
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  agreed that the U .S. did this, right? It's just
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  we're arguing about whether or not it was intentional.
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  But that doesn't change the fact that we did
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  it. And we didn't stop there. Later that day,
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  there was another attack on more civilian infrastructure.
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  We launched multiple precision strike missiles
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  at a sports center. These missiles are US only,
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  and what they do is they target a location above
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  the target, and then they blow up and release
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  hundreds of thousands of tungsten shards. Tungsten
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  is heavy. You don't generally want tungsten that
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  came from an explosion above you to hit you.
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  The target of this strike was an area that had
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  primarily a sports complex, just like, you know,
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  a place to go play some sports, and a residential
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  neighborhood. 22 people were killed from this
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  strike, most of whom were just people in that
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  neighborhood. After this happened, and again,
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  like, what the fuck? Everybody's looking around
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  trying to figure out how could this be so bad
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  so fast? The US was like, no, that wasn't us.
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  Oh, but we did use a precision missile strike.
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  But not that. That wasn't, don't worry, don't,
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  no, it wasn't that one. We did use it. You should
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  be proud of us, but not... Don't make me reconcile
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  this. And so, with all of that bullshit, the
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  ultimate finding from the UN fact -finding mission
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  is that the US, at best, was extremely grossly
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  negligent in targeting random civilian infrastructure
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  as a part of indiscriminate strikes, which is
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  a war crime. And so, yeah, the UN did some fact
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  -finding and found that Iran and the US did some
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  war crimes. If only that mattered. All right.
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  All right. We're going to cool down a bit with
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  just a weird little science thing. And frankly,
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  I don't fully understand this one, but I'm going
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  to talk about a weird little science thing. Let
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  me introduce you to my boy Spyro. Full name is
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  Spyro Stomum Ambigam. Spyro is a single -celled
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  organism that lives underwater and it has a neat
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  party trick. It can basically instantaneously
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  shrink down 25 % of its size faster than we can
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  even perceive it, faster than a blink, and we
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  didn't know how it worked until recently. Scientists
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  did some microscope stuff that is way over my
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  head and they found out that this little dude
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  has like a fishnet of proteins that it wraps
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  around itself and just kind of squishes itself
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  in like sort of like a corset. but for a single
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  cellular organism. And that happens in like five
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  milliseconds, which is fast. So Spyro's just
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  kind of going around being like boop boop boop
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  boop just kind of popping around doing its own
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  thing. And that's cool. We're really happy for
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  Spyro. But the interesting thing here is we can
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  learn from this. See, scientists are whack and
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  they're able to do stuff like bioengineering
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  and like this can help us with that. This functions
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  faster than like human muscle tissue can. So
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  it could help with like I don't know, biorobotics
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  or prosthetics? Maybe we'll have like an exoskeleton
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  at some point? Let's all get real small. That
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  would probably actually just crush us to death,
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  wouldn't it? Uh, lightning around. The White
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  House revoked press credentials for multiple
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  news outlets and then launched Trump TV, a 24
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  -hour YouTube stream of something. I want to
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  note that multiple news outlets have now banded
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  together and are saying, hey, that's fucking
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  stupid. Stop doing that. The NOAA says that El
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  Nino is getting real strong. And is probably
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  going to keep getting stronger. A strong El Nino.
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  An airline passenger who was so rowdy on his
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  flight that he had to be duct taped to his seat
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  now says he has no memory of the incident. I
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  don't think I would either. Discord is now doing
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  their age verification system that's going to
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  use AI to analyze your account and try to figure
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  out if you're an adult or not. I don't like the
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  future. And finally for today, Pete Hegseth is
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  reinstating mandatory testosterone screenings
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  for men in the military. Which is really fucking
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  weird, my guy. Thank you so much for listening
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  to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.
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  Head to SKH .News for sources, bonus content,
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  and the results of my testosterone testing. My
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  name is Endeavorance, we'll talk again soon,
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  take care, and be well.