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Hormuz, Maduro, and the AI War Machine · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am Samuel Trapp. This is International Flavor. You are listening
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  to Dan Radio coming at you live from the Lake Ozark Real Estate of the Art Studio this
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  16th day of June in the year of our Lord.
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  What year is it? We don't remember. 2026. Years just click by so quickly anymore.
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  Who cares what people think year it is? We can just make that up as we go along. If we can
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  identify as a monkey or identify as a, I don't know what, a camel, why in the world can we not
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  decide what year it is? Reality matters not at all. Isn't that correct? Reality has no effect
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  on your inner self. So decide for yourselves what year it is. Choose accordingly. If you choose to
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  dress in the clothing of the 1700s, more power to you. You know, if you just decide to wear a toga,
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  well, have at it. So, you know, that toga thing reminds me of,
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  I went to Greece several years ago. It was very interesting. I went to Greece. I went to Athens.
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  I saw some pretty cool places. You know, there's a Parthenon Palace and there's some really cool
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  stuff to go see in Greece because it's been around a hell of a long time. But I also went to an
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  island. So I went to Crete. Well, I went to the island of Crete. I went to Crete and I spent
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  a week on Crete. And the Mycenaean culture there was pretty freaking big. And they had some old
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  castles there that UNICEF was redoing or whatever. And it was really, really cool. And the Mycenaeans
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  are way before the Greeks even. And so it was pretty neat what they knew about it. But
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  one of the day trips, if you wanted to get on a boat and go out in the
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  Mediterranean somewhere, you could go out to the island of
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  Spinalonga is what the island was called. And that Spinalonga back in, I forget the centuries,
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  but it was several, like a hundred years, a couple hundred years that this went on is what I recall,
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  that everybody who had leprosy was dropped off on the island.
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  And that's where you lived. If you had leprosy, you'd go out to Spinalonga Island and the island
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  was, oh, not huge, but not really, not tiny. I mean, if you had an estate on there of your own,
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  it'd be grand, you know, but they had a small city and then that city, small town on there,
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  stone buildings for everybody. It was, I forget the exact history of how it came to be
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  with all the stone walkways and paths and buildings and houses and stuff like that.
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  And that's where you lived if you were a leper, you know, they'd drop you off over there,
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  which I always wondered how are they going to drop you off?
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  I thought you didn't want to get touched by a leper. That was the whole point.
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  How are you going to drop them off? If you get on a boat, what do you got to swim?
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  And if you swim, are parts of you going to be falling off in the water? Anyway, it was rather
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  interesting. So I'm not sure you'd want to associate with that time is my point in this.
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  But Spinalonga was a very cool island. The island of Crete was much better, in my opinion,
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  and it was much larger and there were some great sort of resorts or nice hotels and stuff
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  that you could stay at over there. And we stayed in a reasonably decent,
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  like when I travel, I stay in apartments, you know, or like
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  the two, three bedroom places that you can rent some kind of like an Airbnb.
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  Like Russia, I'll always look for a two bedroom, two bath place over there. And
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  you know, it's harder to find there a two bathroom place. You know, you're spending some
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  money to get to that, but you can get a two bedroom, three bedroom, you know, one bathroom.
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  But there's also some pretty good in the, if you go to a city like Naberezhnye Chelny,
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  or you go to Kazan, you can get some pretty cool stuff over there. And if you, especially if you
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  and if you're gonna move into one city and then branch out from there and not spend four days in
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  this city, five days in that city and whatnot, because if you're branching out from a spot,
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  like when I was in Morocco, went to, stayed in five different cities and went basically around,
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  around the entire country of Morocco, that's a pretty cool way to travel.
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  So I did some Casablanca, did the capital city, which name I can't remember to save my life.
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  And any of the, you know, all the other big cities, Marrakesh, we went to, that was kind of
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  cool. And some, you know, each place we stayed in a different, a different private residence,
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  you know, traveling like with an Airbnb kind of thing. And you can, you can do pretty well like
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  that going around the world. And like, it's pretty funny, because their deposit rules are different,
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  and you have to learn the deposit rules before you go and whether you get them back or not.
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  You know, there are people that are, especially if you go into some of the, some of the smaller
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  towns, I can't remember, I think it happened in Turkey, where we got into a place and the guy was,
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  and it was a big house, kind of a villa thing. But boy, it was nasty, had dogs everywhere. And then
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  we didn't get a private spot. And he knew we'd be screwed if we got out there from the airport,
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  because we were trying to go to the west part of Istanbul and see some, some things out there.
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  Got out there so far, couldn't even rent a car. We're stuck. Uber was freaking ridiculous.
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  And this guy lived like on a stinky, smelly sheep farm. He had a bunch of sheep and goats in the
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  front yard. And he was just basically like, wait a minute, that's not what, this is not at all what
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  it said in the advertisement. And you get over there and he's like, but it's really nice. It's
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  like, well, you know, so, so what? Yeah, you'll join us for dinner. No, that is not what we're
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  going to do. We're not going to join you for dinner. And you know, we're not going to stay
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  in the house with you. No. And it was some, it was a weird scenario. Anyway, be careful when you go
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  to Istanbul that you don't get Hamad, the guy who's going to, I don't know what, if I put you out to
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  work on his farm or something, you can't get anywhere. And we took, had to get an Uber all the
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  way out there. And that was, it wouldn't have been too bad, but we couldn't get a car until the next
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  day. And it wasn't like, it was like, well, let's stay here one night. Nah, I wasn't even going to
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  do that. So I didn't. Anyway, when you travel, sometimes you got to watch out for stuff like
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  that. And sometimes it works out well. And sometimes it does not. So there's plenty,
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  plenty of things going on in the world today. And lots of news. So the G7 was going on.
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  Yesterday, we had some, some stories I'd like to share with you. The Netherlands.
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  Here you go. I want to share this story with you. This is, this is, there's a couple of crazy ones.
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  And here's one. The Dutch military has taken out a test where they created a mock prisoner of war
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  camp for Russians. And so this, this is the Netherlands, the Dutch, you know, they nuts,
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  the nut, the Dutch crazies are all trying to create prisoner of war camps for Russians.
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  The Dutch media reported last week that the Netherlands army is test running a new POW
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  camp at the Marnehuizen training facility in Groningen, preparing to hold up to 2000 Russian
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  captives in the event of a conflict. The facility reportedly features barracks housing groups of
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  roughly 20 detainees, seeks to replace traditional watchtowers with guards by
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  camera equipped poles. Monitoring will be carried out by drones.
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  So in a statement on Monday, the Russian embassy slammed the drill and said,
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  it's difficult to comment on such blasphemy, which unfortunately are becoming an everyday
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  routine in the Netherlands. The Russian diplomats in the Netherlands have called the Soviet Union's
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  role in World War II said that Russia has a historical experience of liberating such
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  camps in Europe and rescuing their prisoners from the atrocities of the Nazis. It is regrettable
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  that similar ideas are still arising in the 21st century. The European hotheads should understand
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  that if Europe unleashes a war against Russia, prisoner of war camps will certainly be of no use
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  there. I mean, it will kick your ass. So the test follows the hysteria triggered last year
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  when numerous reported drone sightings over the Netherlands and Belgium disrupted civilian air
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  traffic. While some EU officials pointed to Russian involvement, you know, Russian disinformation,
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  they failed to provide any evidence. And analysts later suggested the sightings might not even have
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  involved drones at all. Russia, of course, denies involvement, drone or no drone. We weren't involved.
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  And so in Belgium, the defense minister Theo Franken, one of the main proponents of the
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  frantic 58 million dollar campaign to deploy anti-drone measures, has come under attack
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  with accusations that the purchases are not subject to standard public tender pricing.
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  After the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, numerous Western officials have speculated
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  that Russia could attack NATO within years, a claim that President Vladimir Putin dismisses as
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  not only pure insanity, but a deliberate a deliberate provocation.
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  Isn't this crazy? Well, there was an article I was interested, you know, allegedly the Iran war
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  is over again. It's been over. I don't know how many times. And I thought it'd be
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  interesting to share this. We have some interesting, interesting discussion today.
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  The Hague has rejected Ukraine's Crimea claims. The roadmap, what is and isn't known of the
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  deal with Iran is kind of crazy. But if you're going to go straight from the Israelis
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  who are reacting with anger and anxiety to the new deal, it can't be good for them.
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  After three and a half months of fighting and back and forth, the U.S. has announced,
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  well, Donald Trump has announced that Washington and Tehran with alongside Pakistani mediators
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  have reached a final agreement to end hostilities. Right. We wonder, the deal is expected to be
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  signed in Geneva on June the 19th. That'll be exciting for us. Keep an eye on this. I
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  have my doubts. We shall see. According to reports, nobody knows the actual anything
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  because nobody wants to give me any information. Apparently it's over, though. According to the
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  reports, though, the memorandum stipulates that upon signing, both sides will declare immediate,
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  complete, permanent and to all hostilities across the region. Now, this I don't believe
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  because Israel will never agree. They love hostility. This is what they live for,
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  including in Lebanon. Right. The blockade on Iran will be lifted. Washington will commit
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  not to interfere in Iran's domestic affairs. They will refrain from increasing troop levels in the
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  region and released released half of Iran's frozen assets, which total approximately 12 billion
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  dollars in exchange. Iran will reaffirm its commitment to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty,
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  so they aren't going to proliferate. You know, they're a subject of it. Israel is not, by the
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  way. And they will confirm that it will never produce, develop or acquire nuclear weapons.
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  Tehran would also reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic within 30 days,
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  according to arrangements specified by Iran. Israel has not taken this news lightly.
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  Opposition leader Yair Lapid has said that the emerging agreement achieves none of Israel's
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  goals. Yeah, they want to total destruction of the region and them to get everything. You know,
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  all land, all Arabs get out. Basically, the Israeli philosophy, right? Get out.
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  None of you belong here. We're it. It's our homeland. Every single bit of it. None of it
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  belongs to you. So get out. And that's the that's the the none of the Israel's goals. Israel's goal.
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  Death to everyone except us. That's I don't mean to laugh about that, but those people are
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  out there. You know, they they just kill with a with a with a pleasure. You know, they just time
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  to kill. Guess we'll join the army. And everybody does. And everybody wants to be involved in the
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  killing. So the regime. So none of Israelis goals. Here's the problem. The regime Iranian survives.
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  The missile program remains intact. Well, Jesus, what are you doing? You're bombing all day,
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  every day, send some more missiles. And that's OK. Nobody's supposed to complain about that.
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  But by God, nobody else better fire back. That would suck. That doesn't reach our goals. We want
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  to be able to fire at will with zero being lobbed back in our direction. And Iran retains the
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  ability to rebuild its nuclear program. Why can't they have nuclear power? You know, that's it's.
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  Oh, I saw this. Did you see this yesterday? The B2 bomber crashed. I saw that, too. I was trying
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  to get some more. Looks like eight people were dead in that. That's unfortunate. But anyway,
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  this Yair Lapid says this is a complete failure by Netanyahu. And in the process, he's turning
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  Israel into a client state that takes orders on matters of its own national security.
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  Uh-huh. They've gotten to do whatever they want, whenever they want, forever.
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  So I disagree with that statement. Another opposition figure, another guy named Yair,
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  this one, Yair Golan, was equally blunt, described the policy as a failure.
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  Trump is signing an agreement that funnels billions of dollars to the Ayatollah regime,
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  leaves the nuclear infrastructure intact, preserves the ballistic threat as it is,
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  and throws a lifeline to the murderous regime in Tehran. Well, having let's see, murderous,
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  they must all be murderous bastards. So I got a letter not long ago, maybe I'll share with you,
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  that refers to people as murderous bastards. And this is very similar, it sounds like.
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  Throws a lifeline to the murderous regime in Tehran. Look at yourself, friends and neighbors,
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  this Yair. Who's murderous when all we want to do is destroy Iran? I mean, they've been pretty open
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  about it. You know, you're bombing girls' schools, and there you go. But the frustration
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  isn't limited to only politicians. Conversations with ordinary Israelis paint a picture of
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  disappointment, anxiety, they're all very anxious, and a growing sense that the historic opportunity
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  to destroy Iran may have been squandered. A 30-year-old Tel Aviv student named
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  Mor Cohen believes the agreement has missed a chance to finish the job. Okay, now I'm sharing
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  this with you. This is how these people think, you know, we need to destroy a culture, we need to
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  destroy genocide. This is exactly what they are after. So this Mor Cohen, the 37-year-old student,
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  said, this deal guarantees another war in the future because everything that mattered to Israel
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  was left unaddressed, and the issues that concern us the most remain unresolved. Well,
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  if you hadn't lied about the necessity of blow as a government, not him, as a government of the
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  necessity to destroy Iran in Lebanon and all your neighbors in the first place, perhaps if you played
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  better neighbor, you wouldn't need to worry about destroying the countries that surround you.
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  But they won't do that. Anyway, the concerns that she has are not without basis. According to
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  estimates, before the war, Iran possessed roughly 3,000 missiles, including long-range capable
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  systems of traveling up to 2,000 kilometers. And although the conflict reportedly has cut
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  that arsenal in half, there remain up to 1,500 missiles, which still represents a serious threat
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  to Israel. Nor have nuclear weapons or Israel's nuclear concerns been fully addressed. While
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  Washington insists that Iran would never have nuclear weapons, it offers no concrete guarantee
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  to Israel. Listen, all we do is lick the rear end of Israel. I mean, what sort of guarantee do
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  you want? The guarantee is we're going to lick the rear end of Israel. You know, Lindsey Graham
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  and company are going to just keep on passing more that way and spend half the budget, military
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  budget of trillions of dollars now funded in Israel. You know, they'll always be top of the
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  list above us, above America, the homeland above us. It's Israel. Israel gets to direct that. In
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  my humble opinion, I don't believe that we ever refuse anything to them. I'd like to see it.
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  Arguably, arguably, this is the first perhaps refusal, if you want to call it that. I don't
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  call it that. The American officials haven't directly addressed the issues of Iran's regional
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  proxies like Hezbollah in the north, Houthis in the south, both of which continue to challenge
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  Israel. Somebody ought to challenge them through sporadic rocket and drone attacks. The general
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  feeling on the street is that Trump has sold us out. Yeah, but you tricked him into getting
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  involved in the first place, is my argument. This was said by Matt Attias, 56-year-old resident of
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  Haifa. Americans don't understand the Middle East, he said. Iran has fed them a narrative
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  and they bought it because either they genuinely believed it or because they were tired of dealing
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  with the conflict. Midterm elections are coming up and politicians need the support of their voters.
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  In this equation, Israel sits at the bottom of the priority list. Well, don't worry,
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  mayor, because as soon as the elections are over, we don't matter either. And you will go back up
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  to the top of the list. And the Lindsey Grahams of the world will fund you full of all kinds of
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  weaponry and you can go back to destroying your neighbors unhindered in your efforts.
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  He shared the assessment, argued that American policy is driven by interests rather than
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  alliances. Well, don't get me started on that. But according to Moore, Trump has his own agenda.
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  Today, he might be Netanyahu's best friend. Tomorrow, he could be Kim Jong-un's best friend
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  if that serves his interests. It depends on what benefits him personally and politically.
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  For many Israelis, such fears are reinforced by past examples. In 2021, thousands of Afghans
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  who worked alongside the U.S. as interpreters, guides and government partners were left behind
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  during America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. And later, many faced retaliation from the Taliban,
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  which prompted criticism from veterans, lawmakers and policy analysts. Two years earlier, in 2019,
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  Trump himself ordered U.S. troops to pull back from the parts of northern Syria,
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  paving the way for Turkish military operations against Kurdish forces that served as Washington's
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  primary ground partner in the fight against ISIS. So the sense of abandonment comes at a heavy cost
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  and came at a heavy cost for both the Kurds and the Afghans.
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  But Moore and Mayer believed that Israel, unlike these other allies, would not be easy prey. That's
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  because they know that we're always going to back them up without question anyway. And all they have
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  to do is do it themselves. Right. And this after elections, maybe for the next few months, somebody's
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  going to have to be careful. But they say he says we're not easy prey. We're well equipped, highly
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  trained and determined to survive with or without America. We will remain resilient and do whatever
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  is necessary to defend ourselves. The reality is that Israel may ultimately have to finish the job
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  on its own. So they're going to do it anyway. Whether in Lebanon or Iran, our security must
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  remain the top priority regardless of whether the old Trumpster approves. Hmm. Hmm. Those
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  sentiments come as earlier today, the Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, issued a written
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  statement signaling that Western Jerusalem is prepared to respond forcefully if Iran intervenes
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  in any future confrontation involving Hezbollah. We will not compromise on Israel's supreme security
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  interest or the protection of our citizens, meaning their direct attacks. They started.
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  And then they then they look, somebody else is fighting. Well, they're fighting because you
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  started it. That's how it works. And we will not withdraw from the security zone. The statement
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  said if Iran attacks Israel because of events in Lebanon, we will strike it with full force and
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  demonstrate the disparity in power between us. It concluded that was that Katz guy.
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  Whether Israel would have the freedom to act independently remains an open question. Israel
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  is the largest recipient of American military assistance. And that in and of itself is crap.
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  No, no doubt. And any serious rift with Washington might carry significant consequences.
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  And during the Gaza war, President Biden temporarily paused shipments of certain
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  heavy munitions, including 2000 pound bombs over concerns regarding civilian casualties
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  in densely populated areas. But Israel isn't worried about those. They don't mind that.
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  That is what they are intended to do is to destroy the entire population so they can come in and
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  take over the land. Same concept. Trump could choose a similar course if Israel acts against
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  Washington. But not everyone sees disagreement as a strategic defeat. For some Israelis,
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  the prospect of avoiding another large scale conflict outweighs the concern surrounding
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  the deal. Lilik Calderon, a 40 year old mother of three, says the war with Iran has taken a severe
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  emotional toll on ordinary families. The war with Iran is deeply traumatic, especially for families
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  like mine. My husband serves in the reserves and worrying about his safety has kept me awake night
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  after night. When we heard about the agreement, our family felt genuine relief because it means
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  lives may be spared and soldiers will not be forced to spend 50 or more consecutive days
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  serving across multiple fronts. I meant to look into that and see how that worked.
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  So think about this. They only have to go 50 days at a time for a small country of 10 million people.
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  That kind of burden is unsustainable, she said. Some experts are equally unconvinced that Israel
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  can sustain a prolonged military campaign if it chose to act independently. A Israel military
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  veteran and security analyst, one Amir Orin, argues that the country's ability to wage a long war
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  on its own against Iran or Hezbollah is constrained by strategic and political reality.
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  He said in the case of Iran, obvious regime change is not achievable. Well, that's clear.
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  As assassinations did not have the desired effect and no revolution ensued, destroying nuclear
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  targets proved to have some effect, but not for long. Ditto the ballistic missile infrastructure.
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  At the same time, Israel will be struck. Its interception arsenal will dwindle and American
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  support is no longer assured. Therefore, short of an emergency surgical operation against an
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  existential peril, that's what they all get to claim. Existential peril? What about the
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  existential peril to Iran? Such as a nuclear-tipped missile ready to be launched, a campaign would not
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  be sustainable. With domestic support quickly denied for the government, if headed by the
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  untrustworthy Netanyahu, according to this guy. As for Lebanon, there's a constant public outcry
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  at the harassment Hezbollah manages to present to Galilee communities. There's a demand that
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  the government do away with the Iranian-backed Shiite terror group, but this is far easier said
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  than done. Short of a full occupation of Lebanon, which neither the Israeli public nor any global
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  power will support, Hezbollah will be able to regroup and rocket from areas outside of Beirut
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  and southern Lebanon. A diplomatic arrangement mobilizing the moderate government of Lebanon
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  against him, Hezbollah, seems like the optimal way out of this crisis. The IDF, if deployed properly
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  and on alert, having learned the terrible lessons of October 7, will always be able to defend Israel
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  proper. But as for offensive operations, attrition war, or casualty-ridden campaigns, there is little
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  to suggest that they would be sustainable. The attrition war. As diplomats prepare to gather in
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  Geneva, the agreement may have succeeded in stopping a war. Whether it secured a lasting
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  peace or merely postponed the next conflict remains a question that hangs over Israel.
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  One thing is for certain, while the guns may be falling silent, the battle over what this means
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  for Israel has only just begun. We've only just begun. Let's sing some carpenters, shall we?
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  Maybe we'll put some carpenters on the news. Wouldn't that be fantabulous?
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  Ah, let's see. Let us see what shall be seen. Hello, caller. What do you have to say for yourself?
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  Hello? Hello, caller. What do you have to say for yourself?
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  Can you hear me? I can hear you.
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  Yes. I got to turn the volume up. Hang on a second, okay?
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  You got to turn the volume down. I'm sorry. Okay. Hey, I have a question for you about
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  Nicolas Maduro. If China was to helicopter down on Mar-a-Lago and whisk the president away in
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  shackles and take them off to a kangaroo trial like happened to Maduro, are you okay with that?
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  No, I think I've been pretty clear that it never should have happened anyway.
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  Well, I know, but now that it has, wouldn't that be tit for tat?
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  I suppose.
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  So there's no problem with it, is there?
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  There's no problem with what? With China flying into Mar-a-Lago? Is that what you're saying?
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  Yeah. Some country taking Trump or Nutty Yahoo.
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  Nutty Yahoo. I like it. I might steal that. How do you like that?
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  Yeah, I think they're all in the loony bin. I think what they're doing and what they have done
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  and what they're contemplating in Cuba, the exact same thing with Raul Castro,
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  I don't know if you heard it, but a couple of weeks ago, I took the unsealed indictment about
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  the pilots and Raul Castro and filing charges against them for murder in a United States court.
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  Then the plan would be to do what they... Let's call it Maduro-ing somebody. You fly to their
• 35:56
  country, you steal them out of their bed at night, bring their wife along for good measure,
• 36:01
  charge her with something. You know one of the charges against Maduro is
• 36:08
  possessing a machine gun. That's against the law to possess a machine gun in a foreign country,
• 36:16
  even if you're the foreign leader. You can't have a machine gun. The Maduro and the idiocy
• 36:22
  of a grand jury is really stupid anyway. Because if you can't get a grand jury to support your
• 36:29
  position, you're a terrible lawyer, especially because there's no other lawyer going against
• 36:35
  you. It's just one side gets there and puts out the so-called evidence or just gets up and says
• 36:43
  a few words to the grand jury and says, hey, what do you think? Well, sounds like a crime to me.
• 36:47
  Let's issue an indictment. But an indictment's a BS piece of paper. It doesn't mean anything.
• 36:53
  It does if you're on the receiving end of the indictment. But it doesn't, proof an indictment
• 37:03
  is not, not remotely, is that proof of anything. It doesn't even, all it does is give an excuse for
• 37:11
  the prosecutor to say, I didn't do anything. I just gave evidence to the evidence to the
• 37:18
  grand jury and look what they did. Or the opposite. He doesn't want to charge somebody.
• 37:24
  That way he can protect his friends. He can go in and say, well, I gave the evidence to the grand
• 37:29
  jury. Just seemed that one element was missing. And that's what a grand jury is. It's a farce.
• 37:35
  It's crap. And it's crap because in felony law, you either get an indictment or you get
• 37:45
  a preliminary hearing. The only portion of each is if there's enough probable cause or some of
• 37:53
  the elements of the crime to charge a person with a crime, you have to have at least that to charge
• 38:00
  a crime. And an indictment gets rid of any proof because you don't have to, you're not questioned
• 38:05
  by the other side. The other side doesn't get to say, where'd you get this? How did you, who told
• 38:11
  you this? Where did this alleged evidence come from? You have to have a foundation for the
• 38:15
  evidence, but not so in a grand jury, you can do whatever you want. And people don't get that.
• 38:21
  They just hear this grand word, a grand jury. Wow. That's a big jury, isn't it? That's a jury
• 38:28
  that's bigger than the other jury. This must be a very serious deal. It's a serious pile of crap
• 38:34
  in my opinion. And so it makes no sense because there's only one side present and it's only the
• 38:43
  prosecutor and nobody gets to question anything that he provides to the jury. There isn't even
• 38:51
  a judge, by the way, nobody there. It's the prosecutor in a room with a bunch of citizens
• 38:57
  going, here you go. I think somebody committed a crime or I don't think I have enough. You know,
• 39:03
  you can coach them. I mean, if you're the only guy in the room, what the hell? How can you not
• 39:09
  win if you're the only lawyer in the room? It's crap. Anyway, I'm ranting too much on there,
• 39:16
  but that's how I feel about the Maduro who's basically disappeared. Where'd he go? You
• 39:22
  haven't heard a word. He's gone. Hey. I'm listening. Go ahead.
• 39:30
  So how does money influence courts outside of the United States? Everybody knows that
• 39:40
  a good suit and a good attorney will get you farther than going down there and
• 39:48
  representing yourself. And that's buying a decision.
• 39:54
  Well, it's the same in America. Don't act like it's not.
• 39:58
  I'm saying it happens in America. Is it prevalent in other countries, too?
• 40:03
  Oh, sure.
• 40:05
  Oh, yeah. Well, that sucks.
• 40:08
  It happens.
• 40:10
  Hold on, man. Hold on. You keep going sometimes and I can't say a word.
• 40:14
  All right. Please do.
• 40:15
  Are you proud of the way the president is hiding all like this memorandum of understanding
• 40:23
  and him being proud of sneaking Kuwait's oil out and paying Iran off to sneak Kuwait's oil out?
• 40:36
  Wouldn't you like to have an honest president?
• 40:39
  I don't get to speak about his honesty versus dishonesty, I can tell you. I don't believe him.
• 40:49
  But hold on, though. He may have more information than I do. I'm not trying to overly
• 40:56
  defend him because I think the proof is in the pudding.
• 41:01
  Right. So yesterday he said the straight is open and the straight is not open.
• 41:08
  No, it's not.
• 41:09
  Right. It's not true. So that's a lie. That's my example right there.
• 41:15
  Then he said we were sweeping for some mines that we had already found.
• 41:19
  He doesn't make any sense, man. He does that every day. He'll say
• 41:23
  the straight's open, the straight's not open. They don't have any military. They won't stop
• 41:28
  bombing us. We never get hit. And then you find out, you know, they're rescuing a fighter jet
• 41:35
  pilot out of the middle of the country. Maybe they're not. Maybe they had a whole mission set
• 41:40
  up and they were trying to get to the uranium. I kind of tend to believe that,
• 41:49
  but I don't have any. Except for the surrounding things, when you don't send in
• 41:57
  the groups that they sent in and they were ready immediately to rescue this pilot.
• 42:04
  OK, and they were and I believe that there was something much larger going on. And by the way,
• 42:10
  some of the some of the research that I've seen on that, some of the opposing stories that I've
• 42:17
  seen on that from outside the country, I don't believe anything you get inside the country.
• 42:22
  You know, I don't believe it. It's most of it is. Highly slanted, you know, you're not going to get
• 42:31
  a real story on this side of the planet, and they have eight hours to come up with some way
• 42:38
  to sell it to us because they're eight hours ahead. You know, it's daytime, right? Well,
• 42:44
  much further in the afternoon. The day has already occurred in in the Middle East. And so
• 42:51
  you have a team of people over here and lawyers, politicians and media to get together and come up
• 42:59
  with what the narrative is supposed to be. And I believe that's something that occurs every day.
• 43:04
  What are our narratives today to keep the masses in line? I believe that happens,
• 43:10
  regardless of whether it's Trump or anybody else. I don't think Trump's as good as it
• 43:14
  is, as good at it as others have been in the past. And he tends to people have always excused it for
• 43:23
  me when I when I question it. They say to me, well, Trump's a dealmaker. He could be bluffing
• 43:30
  to create the, you know, the art of the deal and, you know, make people he's posturing that is
• 43:39
  called posturing. Well, I call it being untruthful. That's what I call it. And the fact that, you
• 43:51
  know, and it's funny because I talked about it last week with Rubio getting on the Senate floor
• 43:58
  and talking and being interviewed there or questioned there about the the latest
• 44:07
  bill to or the budget of one point five trillion dollars, which has gone up from nine hundred
• 44:15
  million. Why in the world are you two thirds increase, two third increase of your military
• 44:22
  budget? That is nonsense. Yeah, I know. And and then they want two hundred two hundred billion
• 44:29
  more on. I'm sorry. Yeah. Two hundred billion more on top of that for the war. And it's I don't
• 44:37
  believe so. So I'm I'm with you on this one. I don't believe that the Iran conflict is being
• 44:45
  dealt with truthfully at all. And I believe that the American interests have lost and they lost
• 44:55
  when the Strait of Hormuz were closed. I think it was a huge mistake. And I'm not sure we'll
• 45:03
  recover from it in the region. I don't. That's why I was sharing the the Israel letter. Now,
• 45:10
  a lot of people disagree with me, but OK, that's great. Have your own opinion.
• 45:14
  People. A lot of people think there's going to get a lot worse and it hasn't even started
• 45:20
  getting bad yet. Well, that's that's another distinct possibility. A lot of people have been
• 45:26
  right about everything so far, too. So it's possible, you know, sometimes it's just doomsday
• 45:33
  click stuff. And other times people talk about the scenario for a long time for it ever have,
• 45:40
  you know, the the Strait of Hormuz has always been a strategical threat. And
• 45:47
  the U.S. has always claimed that they were could handle it.
• 45:52
  Well, they can't anymore. The war, the modern warfare is completely changed.
• 45:59
  Well, how did they not know that, brother? Well, they should have known it. I mean, hell,
• 46:02
  I knew it. And I'm not I haven't been in the military for Jesus, 20 years. I've been out.
• 46:08
  And, you know, you know how many years ago it's been that I've seen the Iran's tunnels and caves
• 46:17
  and their their lines of boats in there with the I think they put a picture of a martyr or something
• 46:24
  next to next to each one of each one of their pieces of equipment. They're they're kind of
• 46:29
  wild about every every strike is some kind of revenge for them. Well, but if you if you die
• 46:37
  as a martyr, it's actually a for for their severely religious. It's a good thing.
• 46:45
  You know what I shared as soon as this occurred back in February, I shared the the very well
• 46:54
  publicized and and actually smart theory that the entire upper crust of the religion, especially,
• 47:05
  and the government as well, were happy to die as martyrs and would not go underground. In fact,
• 47:13
  the Ayatollah Khomeini himself said that he would he would not go and he chose to die there
• 47:25
  with his wife. They didn't leave their compound. They stayed right there and they knew they were
• 47:30
  target number one. And that's that's according to that's not according to Sam Trabb. That's
• 47:35
  according to a very large contingent of people talking about what occurred in the first days of
• 47:45
  this of this debacle. So I I'm with you on that today. I appreciate the call and thank you so
• 47:55
  much. And you have a very nice day. Goodbye. Bye bye. And there he goes. I was going to get
• 48:06
  to the Maduro because I wanted to talk about what's going on here. The Guardian reported
• 48:14
  yesterday, in fact, that the vanishing of Nicholas Maduro, the billboards are being painted over
• 48:24
  and allies are eager to forget the man they once glorified. His face is leaving. So for years,
• 48:34
  his face stared down from billboards and glorified the supposedly revolutionary rule
• 48:41
  of the dictator. Right. And now Nicholas Maduro has disappeared. Isn't that depressing
• 48:49
  for those, you know, except for the vice president. Her boss is in prison. And,
• 48:57
  you know, but that's OK. She she's still in charge. And she's according to Trump,
• 49:05
  she's working for him now. This is a good thing for her. Right. I'm not sure if we can stay up
• 49:12
  to date. I wanted to check and see what we're doing. What day was this? Yeah, the latest.
• 49:25
  The latest is is really not that late. It's there's not a whole lot of news going on.
• 49:35
  I think tomorrow for the biggest day in radio, I will.
• 49:42
  I will get on the federal court website for the whichever district, I think it was Eastern
• 49:49
  District in New York, but I don't remember is get on the Eastern District in New York and find out
• 49:55
  what happened to what's going on with his his case in his wife's case, you know,
• 50:02
  and I feel the same way about it that I felt about that. I, you know, feel about
• 50:11
  the idiot charges against Raul Castro that they've, you know, have been have been reborn.
• 50:19
  A rebirth has occurred. It's all it's lunacy. Just look around you. We're at the pits of hell.
• 50:27
  This is it's lunacy everywhere. It's just the crazy, crazy days going on.
• 50:36
  You know, has anybody been following the World Cup? Anybody? I'm not I'm not so sure that anybody
• 50:43
  has. It's kind of weird. I haven't seen that many people. I mean, you hear more about it when it's
• 50:50
  outside of the country, you know, frankly, and usually you do. I wanted to play for you. Where
• 50:58
  is this? We're going to take a little bit of a song. There's a brief Shabbat. Did I play the
• 51:04
  quartet song for you? No, I played Pikachu yesterday. There was an interesting Zelensky's
• 51:11
  Gonna Surrender meme going around that was pretty, pretty slick. I played Pikachu yesterday.
• 51:22
  And which one is this one? Now that is funny. The song is called Drunk Cherry.
• 51:33
  And it's pretty comical because it shows a girl who wakes up basically with yesterday's
• 51:42
  drunkenness upon her. It's all dressed up. Her friend calls at the beginning and they talk about
• 51:48
  going out. She goes, no, no, no. I haven't been drinking for a long time already. Let's go out
• 51:54
  and have tea only, you know, later. And so they get dressed up and they she goes out and the friend
• 52:00
  stands her up and it follows her through her night of drunkenness again. And you hear the stories of
• 52:06
  her drunkenness. And that one came out in 2018 or so. It was kind of a fun little song.
• 52:13
  But if you don't understand the little, the part where she's in jail,
• 52:18
  the policeman says, well, you know, she says, why are you putting me in a cage? What am I,
• 52:25
  a monkey to you, Stoli? Stoli means, you know, do you think of something like that at the end?
• 52:32
  And she goes, what am I, a monkey to you? And he says, no. He says, you know, you're a very pretty
• 52:39
  lady, but an idiot. It's kind of. Anyway, the whole it's a video that follows the whole one.
• 52:47
  Somebody should do something like that on an American song and or maybe translate this one
• 52:53
  all the way because it was a pretty damn funny video back in the day and kind of entertaining.
• 53:01
  But I'm a little bit on the loopy side and I like watching interesting things and listening to him
• 53:07
  say, what am I, a monkey to you? Oh, and by the way, at the end of the thing that her doorbell
• 53:12
  rings, you know, she's back home in the morning. They released her. The cop takes a picture with
• 53:17
  her at the, you know, when she's standing in front of the screen to get photoed, takes a picture of
• 53:24
  her. And then she stands around looking like what he goes, you can go now. He let her go get out.
• 53:33
  So she gets out. She goes home. She picks up some food and stats at a coffee shop and is talking
• 53:39
  about nobody likes me. Nobody likes me. The guy goes, the guy goes, whatever. And she goes home
• 53:47
  and falls on the bed and then the doorbell rings. And when she goes out to the doorbell,
• 53:52
  it's the policeman carrying a stuffed animal for her. So a gift and she's letting him in the house.
• 54:00
  Anyway, that's a drunk cherry for you right there. Interesting song. Good stuff.
• 54:08
  Anyway, I don't know why I'm going there today. It doesn't matter. We were talking about Maduro
• 54:12
  and then we were talking about the old Trumpster and tell you what, there was, I wanted to share
• 54:20
  something about, and this is international because it happened in Brazil.
• 54:30
  There was a Brazilian woman. Let's, let's, let's figure out what this is because this story
• 54:37
  is just, you know, there's a lot of things to watch out for with AI. You know,
• 54:46
  we've talked about on this program, we've talked about hallucination that they talk about. We've
• 54:53
  talked about sycophancy. So the hallucination is completely wrong stuff telling you what you want
• 55:00
  to hear. Sycophancy is, you know, you know, the sycophantic obsession of the, of the AI to
• 55:08
  tell you what you want to hear. Okay. So if you're,
• 55:17
  if you're tell you what, trusting it for things that you shouldn't be, that you aren't verifying,
• 55:25
  you know, the old Ronald Reagan adage is, is important these days. Trust, but verify,
• 55:31
  you know, your information. I said yesterday, and probably at several other times is that
• 55:42
  the way to do it is, is, is you can't just trust the things that, that, that it puts out for you.
• 55:51
  You have to question it. You have to train it. And this story tells you one of the horrific effects
• 55:58
  of something that possibly could, um, um, be something to watch out for when you go to the
• 56:06
  hospital. Now, this isn't an American story. This is the fam. This is, came out, came out today.
• 56:13
  The story came out and, uh, the family of a Brazilian woman who died after waiting several
• 56:21
  days for an intensive care bed. They're blaming a new AI powered state system for downgrading
• 56:32
  the severity of her condition and delaying her transfer. So Rebecca Cardoza Tenente Molina,
• 56:40
  a 32 year old psychologist from Minas Gerais sought treatment earlier this month for what
• 56:49
  was believed to be gallstones. Her condition quickly deteriorated and doctors soon concluded
• 56:57
  she needed urgent transfer to an intensive care unit. However, in the new state run core MG
• 57:06
  bed regulation platform, that platform failed to treat her case as critical despite Molina's
• 57:15
  relatives going to court to try to force a faster transfer. A bed was found five days later, 300
• 57:25
  kilometers away. And Molina was flown there by private plane, but died hours later. Her death
• 57:34
  certificate lists septic shock as the cause of death, but the doctors are still trying to determine
• 57:43
  what triggered her rapid deterioration. Doctors lost autonomy to decide if the patient was
• 57:50
  seriously ill, said Molina's twin sister, who's a lawyer, uh, uh, Samila Cardoza Tenente Furtado
• 58:00
  told the media. She said the AI system gave Molina a severity score of 6.8 despite her
• 58:11
  family's belief that she should have been treated as a 10, a patient at eight, a patient at 6.9 would
• 58:21
  jump ahead of her, said Furtado adding that the AI powered platform would not accept a higher level
• 58:29
  despite worsening test results. My sister, other people are not just numbers. They are not just
• 58:37
  protocols. They are not just a CPF Brazil's taxpayer ID that is thrown into the system.
• 58:45
  She said the core MG system was introduced last month and state officials said it would make
• 58:52
  bed allocation faster and more transparent while helping classify patients by level of severity.
• 59:01
  The health department has denied that the system harmed Ms. Molina saying that she was registered
• 59:09
  immediately and that transfers depend on bed availability and clinical needs. It said
• 59:15
  regulation remains overseen by doctors and that the core MG did not change the clinical criteria
• 59:24
  or the method of finding beds. The rollout of this core MG has drawn criticism and legal
• 59:32
  challenges from local authorities who argue that it is disrupted patient transfer and Molina's case
• 59:40
  comes amid broad concerns about AI integration into healthcare everywhere in the United States.
• 59:49
  Insurers have recently faced lawsuits over algorithmic claim denials and nurses in New
• 59:58
  York have warned about hospitals rushing to deploy AI tools without sufficient input or
• 1:00:07
  oversight from healthcare workers. So I follow some of those things on the AI realm globally
• 1:00:17
  because I think it's important. Remember what happened for example with the AI on the Tomahawk
• 1:00:28
  strike on this elementary school that killed all these children in Iran and they claimed it was AI
• 1:00:38
  and it was a Tomahawk strike on this elementary school in Minab and killed nearly 160 people,
• 1:00:45
  mostly children, on the first day of the war if you remember that. And it was the use of AI
• 1:00:53
  that people are bitching about. And the guy, CEO Dario Amodi has said that this use of the AI
• 1:01:06
  in this strike with a Tomahawk didn't violate Antropic's red lines. So the U.S. forces
• 1:01:13
  struck the school in Minab with a Tomahawk missile on the very first day of the war
• 1:01:19
  and the instation was targeted based on outdated data used by Palantir's analysis and surveillance
• 1:01:26
  software which incorporates Antropic's clawed AI. So in an interview with Bloomberg published
• 1:01:34
  last week, Amodi was asked whether his firm's AI played a role in the attack. We don't know
• 1:01:41
  exactly how these models were used. And what you're talking about is in a use case that doesn't
• 1:01:48
  violate our red lines, he said. While AI assists the military, a human made that final call,
• 1:01:58
  he said, stressing that Antropic opposes entirely autonomous weapons and decision-making systems.
• 1:02:07
  I'm not so sure. The U.S. military has admitted to actively using Palantir, named after the
• 1:02:17
  11 orbs corrupted by Sauron in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to pick targets with the war in Iran.
• 1:02:24
  Do you remember the Palantir? If you watched the movie, that was in the Two Towers, I think,
• 1:02:30
  in the movie is when Saruman was using the Palantir was the little crystal ball they used
• 1:02:37
  to see between cities. That's a Palantir. And so they stole the name from Tolkien.
• 1:02:45
  But anyway, last month, the Pentagon announced it had linked
• 1:02:49
  to top U.S. AI companies like Google, Amazon, SpaceX, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Microsoft,
• 1:03:01
  and they made these deals. And Palantir CEO Alex Karp proclaimed a new era of AI-enabled
• 1:03:09
  U.S. military supremacy. According to Google whistleblower and Palantir insider
• 1:03:19
  Zach Voorhees, AI giants' defense of surveillance and use of the AI in warfare is a catch-22.
• 1:03:29
  It's like, hey, look, if we get very accurate data of your country, then we won't bomb a school for
• 1:03:37
  girls, he said, while discussing reports that data secretly harvested from Pokemon Go players
• 1:03:44
  over many years was likely used to enhance U.S. military mapping capability.
• 1:03:50
  The way that they're framing this is that if they don't have good enough information,
• 1:03:58
  they're just going to have collateral damage, you know. And he warned that U.S. AI giants are
• 1:04:05
  pushing to be deregulated in pursuit of military advantage in using this technology.
• 1:04:14
  Isn't that crazy? Did you see that Pokemon Go story? I played Pikachu for you yesterday.
• 1:04:26
  Maybe we should sing that. Pokemon Go helped the U.S. military map the world,
• 1:04:34
  said a whistleblower that was published on June 11. And gamers have unknowingly generated
• 1:04:40
  targeting data later used to kill people. This is according to the same Zach Voorhees.
• 1:04:47
  Ground-level footage from around the globe, which millions of Pokemon Go users
• 1:04:54
  had gathered over the years, was fed into the U.S. military, augmenting its satellite mapping
• 1:05:02
  for potential use in warfare, said Google whistleblower. Released in 2016 by San Francisco-
• 1:05:09
  based firm Niantic, Pokemon Go was one of the gaming industry's first successful forays into
• 1:05:16
  augmented reality. Uses the player's smartphone, camera, and GPS to overlay digital creatures into
• 1:05:27
  real-world locations. I don't think that anybody that was playing Pokemon Go had any vision that
• 1:05:35
  their data was going to be used to kill people. But that's what it's being used for today.
• 1:05:41
  Voorhees told the newspaper on Thursday, said that user data was exploited to play more deadly
• 1:05:48
  games like warfare. The game's technology traces its route to a keyhole, a mapping startup,
• 1:05:57
  which was later acquired by Google. There's been a lot of reports
• 1:06:04
  that a lot of these Pokemon Go players were snooping around foreign military bases
• 1:06:10
  because there was some sort of very valuable creature that they had to take a snapshot of.
• 1:06:17
  Now that is messed up. So yeah, you get this very valuable creature. I remember when this game was
• 1:06:24
  all the rage and people were talking about it, saying people are getting caught in Area 51,
• 1:06:32
  or they were going to places that the military wouldn't want them to in foreign countries,
• 1:06:37
  and they were being run up. But if you can get in there and sneak a shot of this animal,
• 1:06:44
  the only place you can find it is here. So they were encouraging people to go there.
• 1:06:48
  But the whole thing was, we get in there, we get a video of the military base as it's built.
• 1:06:57
  So this is where the valuable creatures that they had to take snapshots. And so Google
• 1:07:03
  shared this data with the US military to help it build ground level information that augmented
• 1:07:10
  satellite imagery, two-dimensional pictures, can be used to help reconstruct 3D terrain.
• 1:07:17
  And the details could be added later. Details would be obscured to photographs that were taken
• 1:07:25
  from space. With this, they were able to get a more complete picture of the battlefield.
• 1:07:31
  Wow. The whistleblower argued that artificial intelligent giants like OpenAI are getting
• 1:07:40
  rid of their internal transparency mechanisms in order to better aid what he called the US
• 1:07:46
  deep state. A top US AI companies have signed deals with the Department of War,
• 1:07:54
  said the Pentagon last month. Where's old put me in coach? I haven't even mentioned him today.
• 1:08:00
  Put me in coach, Department of War. Let's fight that deep state. That's what we got to do.
• 1:08:08
  But let's use OpenAI to bomb a children's school in Iran. How do you like that?
• 1:08:15
  They're fighting Russia on the Eastern front. They're fighting Iran on the Southern front.
• 1:08:19
  And they don't want to have any red tape that would stop them from being
• 1:08:23
  able to get the maximum military advantage. Well, it's probably true.
• 1:08:29
  Hmm. Let's go back to the Straits of Hormuz. Let's do that, because I am skeptical. Let's
• 1:08:41
  call me skeptical. Skeptical Samuel, that is me. I am skeptical that anything is going to come
• 1:08:49
  of this Iran deal. Frankly, I don't see it happening. We shall see. But let us begin at
• 1:09:00
  the beginning. There's a dude named Oleg Akulinichev, Akulinichev, who's the Orientalist
• 1:09:11
  and Deputy Chair of Russian-Iranian Business Council in the Russian Federation Chamber of
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  Commerce. So he's saying the following. This is his article. This is his statement that he's put
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  out. Okay. So the news on the latest US-Iran deal announced Sunday evening looks less like
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  peace than a pause before the next crisis. I agree wholeheartedly. This is another pause.
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  I saw a screen up here in the studio that said Brent Crude is down to $80 a barrel.
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  Wow. How do you like them apples? It's 80 bucks a barrel. I'm curious as to what's going to happen
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  here long term. I have no idea. But I suspect that the Straits of Hormuz and Donald Trump's
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  glorious statements about what's happening, I think are going to be short-lived. But that's me,
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  and I'm a skeptical person. So the news of this deal, which pushed oil prices down by 4%,
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  at first glance, seems like a triumph of diplomacy. The US and Iran have agreed to
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  end the latest phase of their confrontation and reopen the Straits of Hormuz. Donald Trump,
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  never one to miss a dramatic flourish, immediately declared on true social,
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  ships of the world, start your engines, let the oil flow. Of course, who closed the Straits of
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  Hormuz? Hmm. Not so sure it was Iran. People knew this was going to result way back when,
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  when you started the war and blew up a school of young girls. Anyone looking beyond the market
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  reaction, so why is this always Sunday night so that Monday there's huge increase or decrease in
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  the price of oil and those with billions make billions more? Anyone looking beyond the market
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  reaction can see that the barrels of black gold still got to pass through the Hormuz minefield.
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  So the most, this, this could be the most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the
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  joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, which triggered a conflict that killed thousands
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  and shook global energy markets. But the Straits of Hormuz have been blocked by Iran for months,
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  but are expected to reopen on Friday. But the agreement is not a final peace deal.
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  The central problem remains Iran's nuclear program. Its future has been deferred for a 60
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  day period of further negotiation. While Tehran has already accumulated more than 400 kilograms
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  of uranium, close to weapons grade, Trump having abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by
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  Obaminator is now being forced back to the table under far worse conditions.
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  This creates a political trap because the Republican hawks have already warned
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  that any nuclear agreement will have to be put before Congress. Trump, therefore,
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  risks either being accused of weakness or seeing the entire arrangement collapse right before
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  mid-November's or November's midterm elections. Hmm. Hmm. The second danger is Israel. I already
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  told you that they're not happy. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz have made
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  clear that the Israeli army will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza
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  indefinitely. Katz has already warned that if Iran attacks Israel over events in Lebanon,
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  Israel will respond with full force. So this isn't going away. I don't see this is ending at all
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  the conflict in that area. It's not going to end.
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  Iran has made a complete ceasefire in Lebanon, one of its core demands that allegedly was one
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  of the requirements of this MOU and the later within the 60 days. So this is going to turn
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  Lebanon to yet another powder keg for Israel to blow up. And it'll be capable of exploding
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  regardless of any grand bargain between Washington and Tehran and regardless of this G7 posturing
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  by the old Trumpster trying to show a victory. Markets, of course, always move way too fast.
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  And market analyst Sean Callow was right to warn that there's no detail in this,
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  especially regarding freedom of navigation. This is worrying. Investors rushed to sell oil.
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  But what happens if tankers encounter Iranian patrol boats next week? A sudden price fall
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  can be as destabilizing as a surge. But the deal has foundation because Trump needs to keep Samuel
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  Trapp happy with lower gas prices before the midterms. That's what this is all about.
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  Every stinking bit of it. I filled up. So I came, I drove from Florida on Sunday.
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  And I bought gas in one location. Was it Georgia? Might've been in northern Georgia,
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  north of Atlanta a little bit. I paid $3.39 for gas in Georgia. And I don't know if it's because
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  they're taxes and they're usually 20 cents cheaper than in Florida, but this was a good 60,
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  80 cents cheaper than in Florida. I paid over four bucks, like 420 in Florida
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  to get to fill up the car. And then in northern Georgia, some, I don't know, 450 miles away,
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  it was $3.39, 29. Let's call it 39, but it might've been 29. So that is what is going
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  on here. These midterm gas prices have got to go down over the summer, even if it's artificial.
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  So Iran needs sanction relief and the unfreezing of the 25 billion in assets. Western Europe
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  states led by Brussels, London, Berlin, Paris, and Rome are already promising sanctions relief
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  in exchange for verifiable steps in the nuclear direction. So the real question about all of
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  this is whether the fragile structure can last 60 days. That's too long. In the Middle East,
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  silence in the straight will turn out to be just the calm before a new storm. So this guy,
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  Oleg Akulinichev, wrote this article first for a magazine called Kommersant, which is
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  in Russia, obviously. And it's the quiet in the...
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  It's a calm before the storm. I mean, he's pretty straight up about it. So I think we need to be a
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  little... I'm not very positive of it. I don't think it's doing anything but prompting. So what
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  happens? How fast does the 60 days go past? It'll be August, sooner than you know it. And there
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  won't be any real differences here, in my humble opinion. There was... Oh yeah, I wanted to...
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  This is a little bit worrying to me. Anybody been following Nigel Farage in England?
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  Tell you what, he made some statements. Nigel Farage has taken to Substack to accuse the
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  British government of infecting the UK with deep anti-white racism. He published a damning racism
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  and crime statistics in an essay, much of which previously would have been unspeakable.
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  He announced his migration to the platform on Saturday, moving to Substack, saying that the
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  move to Substack would allow him to speak directly to the British public without mainstream media
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  constantly distorting what I say. A day later, he used a new platform to put a 7,000 word tirade
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  against a British state, which he argued has become a two-tier state against white people.
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  And we can watch this on X. We'll have to play this for you tomorrow though,
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  because we don't have enough time in there. But Farage took aim at decades of British policy
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  that has unfairly benefited minorities, discriminated against whites. He highlighted
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  diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in healthcare, education, policing, and the military
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  that he insists have been implemented to disadvantage white patients, students, and
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  applicants, and promised to repeal the 2010 Equality Act, which in his word ensures that
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  anti-whiteness is institutionalized into every aspect of public life. In healthcare, the NHS
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  prioritizes ethnic minority communities and vulnerable migrants for accelerated diagnosis
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  and treatment, despite white Britons having the highest mortality rate of all the UK's ethnic
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  groups. In education, the poorest white Britons have the lowest outcomes of any demographic,
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  yet are lectured about their white privilege and their responsibility to reduce racism
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  and sidelined when applying for university in favor of black students with lower exam scores,
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  says Farage. In policing, he claimed agencies across the country have adopted race action
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  plans and done away with stop-and-frisk policies that target black men, even though at 13% of
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  London's population, this demographic is responsible for 61% of knife murders in the
• 1:20:50
  British capital. Now that's a BS number, by the way. 61% of knife murders. I mean, how many you got
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  that you got to pick it? None of the arguments are new, and the right has leveled accusations
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  of two-tier policing at Starmer's government since the 2024 Southport riots, when Starmer
• 1:21:10
  cleared prisons to make way for hundreds of people arrested for social media posts. However,
• 1:21:17
  the death made these accusations impossible to ignore of Henry Novak. Crazy. Released earlier
• 1:21:25
  this month, body cam footage showed officers handcuffing Novak after he had been stabbed with
• 1:21:30
  a ceremonial dagger by a Sikh man. The officers refused to believe that Novak had been injured,
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  allowed him to bleed out in their custody while they listened to his attacker's false claim that
• 1:21:42
  he had suffered a racist attack. They handcuffed him and watched him die on the ground.
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  The Novak case has triggered violent protest in Southampton and condemnation from the U.S.
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  government, with Vice President Vance blaming his death on Britain's politics of self-hatred
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  and the mass invasion of migrants. Three weeks later, an attempted beheading in Belfast
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  by a Sudanese migrant has reinforced Vance's claim. Crazy stuff, but Faraj, you could go find him on
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  Substack. Might listen to some of that tomorrow and follow up on this. I appreciate you being
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• 1:22:44
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