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People Losing Food Stamps | ‘Medical News’ with Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 3: This is a tough one, and I am of the
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  Speaker 3: ilk of I have a hard time that in America
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  Speaker 3: many people just don't have enough to eat. It really
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  Speaker 3: rips into me. So there are Arizonians four hundred and
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  Speaker 3: forty thousand of them losing snap benefits why because of
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  Speaker 3: money that has is no longer going to the States
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  Speaker 3: where the states administer SNAP but is paid for by
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  Speaker 3: the federal government. Well, there are new barriers well, which
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  Speaker 3: means pressures on food banks have soared because if people
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  Speaker 3: need SNAP payments to eat, where are they going to go?
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  Speaker 3: They're going to go to food banks. And the number
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  Speaker 3: of Arizonians getting SNAP benefits have fallen to about half
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  Speaker 3: in less than a year. I mean that is huge.
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  Speaker 3: That mean fewer and fewer people are hungry. No, nope,
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  Speaker 3: there was a law passed last year that limits assistance.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump championed the law, and so many of those
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  Speaker 3: four hundred and forty Arizonians, half of them still remain
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  Speaker 3: eligible for help those that dropped out. The problem is
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  Speaker 3: that the new law established establishes steep penalties on states
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  Speaker 3: that make too many mistakes when awarding benefits, and I
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  Speaker 3: mean steep benefits to the point where Arizona is losing
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  Speaker 3: or paying so much money because of the penalties because
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  Speaker 3: of they're not ad administering the SNAP benefits appropriately that
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  Speaker 3: they may just have to bail out.
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  Speaker 2: They just can't afford it. The state just cannot afford it. Now.
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  Speaker 3: The argument is, and this is the administration, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: to an extent This is absolutely true. A lot of fraud,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of waste, a lot of abuse. Well, isn't
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  Speaker 3: that every program that the government administers. I haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: of waste and abuse. For example, in the military with
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  Speaker 3: a trillion dollar budget, no such thing as fraud, abuse
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  Speaker 3: or waste. Every contract is legit, every contract is appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: It's these social programs that have the abuse and the
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  Speaker 3: waste and the penalties that the federal law imposes up
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  Speaker 3: to three hundred million dollars just in Arizona. Well, Arizona
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  Speaker 3: saying you could be forced to eliminate the SNAP altogether.
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  Speaker 3: According to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, The director,
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  Speaker 3: Michaels Weisshardt said this is an existential threat. Why because
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  Speaker 3: states like Arizona were contemplating a world in which SNAP
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  Speaker 3: isn't available. In eight Americans receive help. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: the number of Americans who sneak who need help. The
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration unilaterally raised benefits by twenty five percent. The
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration has not reduced benefits, but is just making
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  Speaker 3: it far more difficult to get benefits. I mean, and
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  Speaker 3: they're talking about the error error rates to the point
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  Speaker 3: where homeless people they're considering in some of the rules
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  Speaker 3: is that homeless people have to have affidavits from people
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  Speaker 3: who drop money into those cans, into those containers to
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  Speaker 3: prove that they in fact are hungry. It used to
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  Speaker 3: be you just said it, I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 2: Need I need food, I need food stamps.
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  Speaker 4: Weren't these services originally a leg up and not a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, social security was a leg up, and it has
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  Speaker 3: become a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: It has become people who it was always at.
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  Speaker 3: It was plan that it would be a supplement to
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  Speaker 3: savings and retirement plans.
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  Speaker 2: It is not, but many go on they do.
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  Speaker 4: Add infinita, they do, and it becomes an albatross.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a wait.
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  Speaker 4: You should be helping people out of situations. I understand,
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  Speaker 4: But let me ask you this, and this is the problem, Neil.
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  Speaker 4: How poor do you have to get now? Unemployment benefits?
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  Speaker 4: Those make sense because and again huge fraud goes on
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  Speaker 4: in a world of unemployment.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to go and show that you have
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  Speaker 3: applied for work on a regular basis with unemployment and
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  Speaker 3: there is some level of control. The problem is it's
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  Speaker 3: your word. Just on and after day was saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I went to the gas station and applied for work
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  Speaker 3: to pump gas. We don't have gas stations that pump gas.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot apply for that.
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  Speaker 4: These systems are so out of whack. There are good
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  Speaker 4: people always get nailed. I'm the one that has to
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  Speaker 4: ask for a key to open up the you know,
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  Speaker 4: container for razors or for spray paint because some wing
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  Speaker 4: nut was stealing it. So the people that are not
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  Speaker 4: getting these benefits are because we're not punishing the people
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  Speaker 4: that are taking advantage.
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  Speaker 2: But that's always the case.
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  Speaker 3: Speed limits laws against robbing banks, for example, or theft
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  Speaker 3: or burglary, whether the law exists or not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to burglarize your house. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to burglar your house. That's just not something I would do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need that law. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: it's in place because there are people that have to
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  Speaker 2: be con.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty percent of the population or less are causing problems
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  Speaker 4: for the eighty.
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  Speaker 3: P Well, then then we move right into the benefits
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  Speaker 3: of euthanasia and what percentage of people you just outright kill?
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  Speaker 4: Who are people go to China?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Who are in albatross? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: It's there's no easy answer here other than do you
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  Speaker 3: air on the side of giving people food stamps for
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  Speaker 3: those people that need it, or do you air on
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  Speaker 3: the side of controlling waste and abuse? And in my
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  Speaker 3: belief is I'll take the abuse and waste so people
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  Speaker 3: don't starve.
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  Speaker 2: That's just my view.
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  Speaker 3: And because you know, I've always felt that with minimum wage,
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  Speaker 3: people that work forty hours a week and are earning
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  Speaker 3: minimum wage or less kno, for example, should should be
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  Speaker 3: able to eat and put a roof over their heads.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just not America. That's one of the big
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  Speaker 3: problems I have with the United States, just the minimum wage.
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  Speaker 4: Trade, education, and more.
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  Speaker 2: Look at them.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right, but look at the cost of that,
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  Speaker 3: Look at how the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Not about ability.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but let me ask and I I don't disagree,
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  Speaker 3: but opportunity. Where do you go with opportunity when there
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  Speaker 3: are no opportunities? Look what AI is doing wiping out
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  Speaker 3: entire industries.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone says that, but when when you look back on
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  Speaker 4: when the internet itself came in, an ton of jobs
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  Speaker 4: were long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there's no question I will see.
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  Speaker 4: More millionaires were made, no question, no question about it.
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  Speaker 4: It's ingenuity, it's it's it.
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  Speaker 3: Is But it's also it's also long term. It is
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  Speaker 3: also much more long term. In investment in the internet,
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  Speaker 3: it was private investment. In the case of cars replacing carriages, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, horse and buggies, it was private industry that
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  Speaker 3: paid for that money. Okay, moving on to what's going
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  Speaker 3: on in New York. Uh, the the Democratic Socialist mayor
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  Speaker 3: Zohan Mandami. Mandani challenged the federal government to execute an
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  Speaker 3: international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, calling him
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  Speaker 3: a war criminal and the architect of a horrific genocide
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  Speaker 3: against the Palestinian people. I have a real problem with
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  Speaker 3: describing anything that's happening in the Middle East as genocide.
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  Speaker 3: Genocide is going after a people because they are their people,
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  Speaker 3: wiping out the Jews, for example, to try to eliminate
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  Speaker 3: them from the face of this earth. That's genified genocide.
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  Speaker 3: What the Turks did to the Armenians in nineteen fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: to simply destroy the Armenian culture and to kill as
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  Speaker 3: many Armenians, that is not what's going on in Israel now.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are dying, and there's a whole
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  Speaker 3: question as to how Israel's handling it. But they are
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  Speaker 3: not out to kill every Palestinian. They are there to
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  Speaker 3: stop Hamas. If Hamask left Israel alone, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: Israel would attack, I would attack attack Gaza. It's as simple.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is Hamas as a policy, it says charter
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  Speaker 3: is the destruction of the state of Israel. That is
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  Speaker 3: a problem which Israel has to defend itself. However, how
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  Speaker 3: it's defending itself. So you have the October seventh attack.
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  Speaker 3: Israel responds by basically taking out eighty percent of all
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  Speaker 3: the structures in Gaza, and seventy thousand people have died.
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  Speaker 3: Have they gone too far? Well, yeah, certainly. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: they're accused of withholding aid, humanitarian aid. Israel denies it,
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  Speaker 3: but we saw people starving, We saw people fighting for
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  Speaker 3: food that did come in. Israel deny is that it
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  Speaker 3: ever was denying humanitarian aid. And they say, and look
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  Speaker 3: look what we do. When we bomb a facility, a building,
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  Speaker 3: a command center. We send leafless out to the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: We drop leafless, we make cell phone calls, we go
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  Speaker 3: on loudspeakers and tell people get the hell out of there.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to vomit. That's not genocide, that's telling them
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  Speaker 3: we're going to vombit, and then they do precisely that,
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  Speaker 3: they wipe out their homes.
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  Speaker 2: And so what is Israel said? Israel?
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  Speaker 3: Natanyahu says, Hey, what do you do when you have
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  Speaker 3: a terrorist group that is dedicated to the destruction of
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  Speaker 3: your state and your people, that embeds itself and a
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  Speaker 3: civilian population. Do you simply let it happen because of
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  Speaker 3: the fear or the concern of taking our civilians or
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  Speaker 3: taking out structures, homespitals. I mean, it's not that easy.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little complicated, to say the least. So with
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  Speaker 3: that in mind, the International Criminal Court, which is an
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  Speaker 3: international organization that most countries, most countries have signed on to.
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  Speaker 3: What they have done is call Netunyahu a war criminal,
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  Speaker 3: the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,
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  Speaker 3: and have a warrant for his arrest on war crimes.
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  Speaker 3: And Mundami has said, when Netta Yahoo comes to New
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  Speaker 3: York in September, I want him arrested. I am talking
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  Speaker 3: to authorities and the police here in the city to
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  Speaker 3: execute the warrant on behalf of the International Criminal Court.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of problems with that.
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  Speaker 3: One, the United States isn't even a signatory to the
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  Speaker 3: International Criminal Court. The US is saying, what are we
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  Speaker 3: gonna do arrest based on a warrant in an organization
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  Speaker 3: that we don't even recognize. Really, and then when you
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  Speaker 3: have cops in the city of New York arresting the
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  Speaker 3: head of state coming into the city, really, and with
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  Speaker 3: Israel and Natana who was saying this is a cheap
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  Speaker 3: publicity stunt, which of course it is, and even Mundani said, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, after talking to my authorities, to the authorities
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  Speaker 3: and talking to the legal legal eagles here at at
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  Speaker 3: the city, we have decided we cannot arrest him, that
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  Speaker 3: we don't have the authority to arrest them. The appropriate
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  Speaker 3: response to that is du really, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: And Mundani is making a political statement. He is pro
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  Speaker 3: Palestinian one. He is anti Israel, even though he gives
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  Speaker 3: lip service and says I believe the Israeli states should exist.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he would have no problem with a Palestinian
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  Speaker 3: state that incorporates the entire Middle East. Absolutely no problem.
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  Speaker 3: That's my view of it. There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 3: But the problem is Israel has become a pariah state
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  Speaker 3: in many ways, Israel used to be the paragon of
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  Speaker 3: the people that have come back from the ashes of
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  Speaker 3: the Holocaust, established a democracy and the only true democracy
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  Speaker 3: in the Mid East, strong ally of the United States.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of discussion going on because of what's happening
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  Speaker 3: in Israel. Is it a war crime, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: starving people is a war crime, I do. Is it genocide, no?
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  Speaker 3: But is it a war crime? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: And Israel denies that it ever has. Give me a break.
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  Speaker 3: But their argument is we are stopping everything from coming
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  Speaker 3: in that has dual purpose, for example technology, for example
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  Speaker 3: generators coming in because the generator can also help the
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  Speaker 3: Hamas on a military basis. Oh that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 3: There's no electricity there either, and water supplies are just
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  Speaker 3: don't exist. It is better now Israel has let aid
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  Speaker 3: come into the into Gaza. By the way, people in Gaza,
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  Speaker 3: the Palestinians, rely almost one hundred percent on humanitarian aid
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  Speaker 3: coming in. They have no industry, they have no economy.
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  Speaker 3: Hamas still controls the one third of Gaza that is
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  Speaker 3: left for Hamas to control. And one of the main
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  Speaker 3: proponents or one of the main reasons that were philosophies
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  Speaker 3: that Israel has in terms of occupying is it says,
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  Speaker 3: we just have to be safe and we cannot have
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  Speaker 3: Hamas there.
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  Speaker 2: We just can't.
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  Speaker 3: So we're willing to talk, but Jamas has to disarm,
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  Speaker 3: and Hamas says you are dreaming. You can go pound sand,
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  Speaker 3: which is very appropriate in that part of the world.
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  Speaker 3: I might add that actually has a fair amount of meaning,
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  Speaker 3: All right, guys, Doctor Jim Keeney, Chief Medical Officer for
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  Speaker 3: Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, good morning, Good morning mail.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Actually some good news unfortunately, and that is I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if this just came out or a study
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  Speaker 3: came out about young women having a close to zero
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  Speaker 3: risk of cervical cancer deaths after getting the HPV shot,
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  Speaker 3: which I don't understand how every female person doesn't get
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  Speaker 3: an HPV shot when young.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's a very effective shot. It's the first
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  Speaker 5: time we've shown that a vaccination can drop a cancer
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  Speaker 5: death rate to close to zero. So it's pretty impressive news.
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  Speaker 5: And what happened was is a study in England and
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  Speaker 5: when they looked at in the registry is that women
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  Speaker 5: ages twenty to twenty four dying between dying from cervical
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  Speaker 5: cancer between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four dropped to zero.
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  Speaker 5: So that's the first generation after they routinely offered HPV
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  Speaker 5: vaccine at age like twelve or thirteen. So pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: And now I'm assuming medical science has established at the
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  Speaker 3: absolute zero rate of women getting cervical cancer are very
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  Speaker 3: close is women who don't stoop, which I'm assuming is
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  Speaker 3: a very small number of women. And the question is
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  Speaker 3: how young do you give an HPV shot to someone?
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  Speaker 3: How young do they have to be?
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  Speaker 5: So right now, it's recommended twelve to thirteen, so that
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  Speaker 5: you definitely get it before sexual activity, because the whole
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  Speaker 5: thing is it prevents the HPV long term infection, which
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  Speaker 5: leads to cancer. So if you get the infection right,
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  Speaker 5: the vaccine doesn't really do anything to treat it. It
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  Speaker 5: doesn't do anything to.
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  Speaker 2: Get rid of it.
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  Speaker 5: So once you've been exposed to HPV, the vaccine itself
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  Speaker 5: really won't have much effect. But you know, and still
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  Speaker 5: the rate has been zero of cancer deaths. So what
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  Speaker 5: that doesn't mean is there still are people that are
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  Speaker 5: having you know, pre cancerous changes, still need biopsies, still
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  Speaker 5: need treatment, but that number is extremely low. Where it
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  Speaker 5: used to be maybe ten percent, it's now one percent.
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  Speaker 5: It's a huge drop. And like I said, cancer death,
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  Speaker 5: which is really what you want to avoid, is zero.
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  Speaker 5: That's just super impressive and very encouraging. Normally in that
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  Speaker 5: same age group you'd have like twenty to thirty deaths
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  Speaker 5: over that period of time, So definitely a significant drop.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Ages twelve to thirteen is what our doctor recommended also
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  Speaker 3: for my girls, but I beat him to the punch
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  Speaker 3: because I gave him. Gave you girls HPV shots at
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  Speaker 3: age six, because I well, I didn't want them to
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  Speaker 3: get sexually involved at the age of seven or eight.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, that is a horrible thing to say
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  Speaker 3: about my daughters. I just want to point that out.
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