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- 0:05SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
- 0:10SPEAKER_01: This is really going to be more like a potpourri of imperialism in addition
- 0:16SPEAKER_03: of fuck Israel.
- 0:18SPEAKER_03: So let's start with it here.
- 0:21SPEAKER_03: We'll start at Middle East Monitor by telling us that U.S.
- 0:24SPEAKER_03: bases in Middle East suffer severe damage from Iranian attacks is what a report
- 0:29SPEAKER_03: from.
- 0:30SPEAKER_03: I believe it's A.A., So this is one of the images of a U.S. military base.
- 0:37SPEAKER_03: U.S.
- 0:37SPEAKER_01: military base in the Middle East have sustained heavy damage from Iranian strikes,
- 0:41SPEAKER_01: according to photos and videos obtained by ABC News,
- 0:45SPEAKER_03: as the Pentagon assesses the toll of a war that Washington launched more
- 0:50SPEAKER_03: than six months ago.
- 0:51SPEAKER_03: That's AA.
- 0:52SPEAKER_03: Like I said, that's the Turkish agency.
- 0:55SPEAKER_01: The report said that the images showed damaged buildings and an aircraft
- 1:00SPEAKER_01: at three bases in Kuwait and a Saudi base hosting U.S.
- 1:05SPEAKER_01: assets, some of which were evacuated.
- 1:09SPEAKER_01: One photo appears to show an E-3 Sentry surveillance aircraft valued
- 1:14SPEAKER_01: at $270 million damaged in late March at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia,
- 1:22SPEAKER_01: the report noted.
- 1:23SPEAKER_01: That's that's not a little bit of money.
- 1:26SPEAKER_01: Well, these bases have been irreparably damaged, irreparably.
- 1:30SPEAKER_01: And if we choose to rebuild them,
- 1:32SPEAKER_01: it's going to be a decades
- 1:33SPEAKER_03: long undertaking,
- 1:35SPEAKER_03: said a senior U.S.
- 1:36SPEAKER_03: service member who spoke,
- 1:38SPEAKER_03: of course,
- 1:38SPEAKER_03: on the condition of anonymity,
- 1:40SPEAKER_03: because if he didn't, Trump would probably have his head.
- 1:44SPEAKER_03: The service member accused the Pentagon of a lack of transparency,
- 1:48SPEAKER_03: that's the understatement of the night,
- 1:50SPEAKER_03: stating that there are drone strikes and ballistic missile strikes actively landing
- 1:54SPEAKER_03: on bases
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: every day.
- 1:58SPEAKER_01: A Pentagon Inspector General's report released Monday indicated that hundreds
- 2:02SPEAKER_03: of buildings and structures were damaged.
- 2:05SPEAKER_03: Hundreds.
- 2:06SPEAKER_03: The watchdog estimated the war's cost at $33 billion.
- 2:11SPEAKER_03: We know it's a lot more than that.
- 2:13SPEAKER_03: While the nonpartisan CBO put it at $38 billion.
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: How?
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: When we already know that it's cost us over $100.
- 2:23SPEAKER_03: The first 90 days cost us like over $100 or $60 some odd.
- 2:29SPEAKER_03: The Defense Department, again,
- 2:31SPEAKER_01: not war,
- 2:31SPEAKER_01: the Defense Department,
- 2:33SPEAKER_01: said 18 U.S.
- 2:34SPEAKER_01: service members have already been killed and 824 wounded
- 2:37SPEAKER_03: since they began attacking unprovoked in Iran February 28th.
- 2:44SPEAKER_03: The deadliest attack came on the second day when six soldiers were killed
- 2:47SPEAKER_03: at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait.
- 2:53SPEAKER_01: Pete Hanks has said force protection is a top priority,
- 2:55SPEAKER_01: though he acknowledged some Iranian weapons do get through.
- 2:59SPEAKER_01: Some.
- 3:01SPEAKER_01: Not to him, but yeah, some.
- 3:04SPEAKER_01: So that's our bases and our money and the Middle East,
- 3:09SPEAKER_01: or this is again Kuwait, Oman, and all the other places where we have bases.
- 3:17SPEAKER_01: Iran's hit them pretty good.
- 3:20SPEAKER_01: And according to these people, irreparably damaged that will take decades to rebuild.
- 3:25SPEAKER_01: I have a feeling that that's a little bit of hyperbole.
- 3:29SPEAKER_01: And guess what?
- 3:30SPEAKER_01: The military is just looking for more ways to have to spend money.
- 3:34SPEAKER_01: This is yet another way that they can gouge that $1.1 trillion budget, right?
- 3:42SPEAKER_03: But more from Middle East Monitor is the Israeli army.
- 3:45SPEAKER_03: We can't forget that they're committing war crimes on a daily basis.
- 3:50SPEAKER_03: Sets fire to a government hospital
- 3:53SPEAKER_00: in southern Lebanon.
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: Fuck Israel.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: Believe this shit?
- 4:01SPEAKER_00: This was one on May 20th.
- 4:05SPEAKER_00: The Israeli army set fire to a
- 4:11SPEAKER_01: government hospital in southern Lebanon Friday.
- 4:14SPEAKER_01: Again, that's a war crime.
- 4:16SPEAKER_01: Attacking hospitals is a war crime.
- 4:20SPEAKER_01: The agency said Israeli forces ignited the government hospital in the town
- 4:24SPEAKER_01: of Maiz al-Jabbal in Marajoun, southern Lebanon.
- 4:28SPEAKER_01: Why?
- 4:30SPEAKER_01: The agency didn't immediately provide information on the extent of the damage or
- 4:34SPEAKER_01: whether there were casualties or
- 4:37SPEAKER_03: Separately,
- 4:38SPEAKER_03: the agency reported movements by Israeli military vehicles outside the town
- 4:42SPEAKER_03: of Al-Mansuri in the Tir district.
- 4:47SPEAKER_01: Israeli forces also carried out an explosion in the town of Al-Bayadah
- 4:51SPEAKER_01: while artillery
- 4:52SPEAKER_03: shelling targeted Al-Mansuri, it reported.
- 4:57SPEAKER_03: Of course, the Israeli army has not immediately commented on the reports, because why should it?
- 5:02SPEAKER_03: Nobody's holding them to account to.
- 5:05SPEAKER_01: The attacks come in spite of a U.S.-brokered framework agreement between Lebanon
- 5:09SPEAKER_01: and Israel reached in June,
- 5:11SPEAKER_03: which provides for gradual Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory and
- 5:17SPEAKER_01: the deployment of the Lebanese army in areas vacated by Israeli forces,
- 5:21SPEAKER_01: except that they're not going to vacate anywhere.
- 5:23SPEAKER_01: They said so, and they've continued to take more and more territory in Lebanon.
- 5:28SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
- 5:29SPEAKER_01: Despite the agreement,
- 5:30SPEAKER_01: Israel continues attacks on southern Lebanon,
- 5:33SPEAKER_01: still occupies areas in the south,
- 5:35SPEAKER_01: some for decades, and others seized during recent wars and military operations.
- 5:41SPEAKER_01: By the way,
- 5:41SPEAKER_01: they've killed at least 4,300 people and wounded another 12,407 others just
- 5:49SPEAKER_01: since March 2nd, according to Lebanese official figure.
- 5:53SPEAKER_00: That's insane.
- 5:55SPEAKER_00: And the world just says, meh.
- 5:59SPEAKER_01: These are war crimes.
- 6:01SPEAKER_01: They attacked a sovereign nation,
- 6:04SPEAKER_01: are stealing their territory under the guise that they're going after Hezbollah,
- 6:11SPEAKER_01: which is fucking nuts, all of this.
- 6:16SPEAKER_01: Lebanon's health ministry said the overall casualties from Israeli attacks
- 6:20SPEAKER_01: since October 8th,
- 6:22SPEAKER_01: 2023, the day after October 7th, had reached 8,953 killed and over 30,000 injured.
- 6:33SPEAKER_01: Fuck Israel.
- 6:35SPEAKER_01: And none of these get lumped in really when they talk about the casualties and
- 6:41SPEAKER_03: the damage that had been committed since October 8th, 2023.
- 6:46SPEAKER_01: Now, just remember that they're claiming that Israel,
- 6:51SPEAKER_01: the Palestinian people are claiming that there's only 72,000 Palestinians
- 6:56SPEAKER_01: that have been killed since then.
- 6:58SPEAKER_01: They've barely attacked Lebanon and there's almost 9,000 people dead already.
- 7:04SPEAKER_01: They've destroyed all of Gaza and you're telling me that's only 70,000 out of 2.2 million?
- 7:08SPEAKER_01: Come on.
- 7:09SPEAKER_01: It's at least 600,000.
- 7:10SPEAKER_01: It's got to be at least 600,000.
- 7:21SPEAKER_03: Next, speaking of Israel destroying shit in Lebanon and nobody caring,
- 7:27SPEAKER_03: Assal Ra, who we talked about last week.
- 7:30SPEAKER_03: This is a 42-second video.
- 7:32SPEAKER_03: Why can't I stop it?
- 7:35SPEAKER_01: The Israeli army blows up another neighborhood.
- 7:42SPEAKER_01: They can blow up an entire neighborhood in Lebanon without generating any headlines
- 7:46SPEAKER_01: in Western media.
- 7:47SPEAKER_00: They want you to believe this is normal.
- 8:02SPEAKER_00: This is the aftermath of the bombings.
- 8:04SPEAKER_00: There's nothing left.
- 8:11SPEAKER_00: Horrifying.
- 8:14SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 8:15SPEAKER_00: Next.
- 8:17SPEAKER_01: Some actual, I guess, good news, sort of.
- 8:21SPEAKER_01: At least on the transparency side.
- 8:24SPEAKER_01: Israel-Palestine News,
- 8:26SPEAKER_01: who led us to that incredible Arabic Post 360 article last week about
- 8:34SPEAKER_01: the six horsemen of the digital apocalypse that are running the Hasbar operation in
- 8:40SPEAKER_01: the U.S. for Israel.
- 8:43SPEAKER_03: We have another good article from Israel-Palestine News.
- 8:47SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 8:48SPEAKER_03: And this is through If Americans Knew, I believe.
- 8:51SPEAKER_03: Well, that's their thing.
- 8:52SPEAKER_03: But the genocide tracker.
- 8:55SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 8:57SPEAKER_03: Roya News Instagram.
- 8:59SPEAKER_03: So let's just listen to this one.
- 9:02SPEAKER_02: New online database tracks pro-Israel political donations in the United States.
- 9:08SPEAKER_02: Reposted from Roya News English's Instagram, September 1, 2026.
- 9:14SPEAKER_02: A new online database tracking pro-Israel,
- 9:17SPEAKER_02: political donations in the United States has been launched by activists amid
- 9:21SPEAKER_02: the protracted conflict in Gaza.
- 9:24SPEAKER_02: The site,
- 9:25SPEAKER_02: who funded Genocide.com,
- 9:27SPEAKER_02: was announced via an Instagram post by the account at archive.genocide.
- 9:32SPEAKER_02: The group describes it as a searchable record
- 9:34SPEAKER_02: of pro-Israel political money drawn primarily from U.S.
- 9:37SPEAKER_02: Federal Election Commission filings and public disclosures.
- 9:42SPEAKER_01: According to the announcement,
- 10:03SPEAKER_01: Includes Senate and House votes on resolutions to block arms transfers
- 10:07SPEAKER_01: and covers fundraising pages
- 10:08SPEAKER_03: built for 165 candidates along
- 10:12SPEAKER_03: with related committee data.
- 10:15SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 10:16SPEAKER_03: We launched Who Funded Genocide, a searchable database.
- 10:20SPEAKER_03: We encourage you all to look up your own representatives.
- 10:24SPEAKER_03: The group claimed that one of the networks involved left a website misconfigured,
- 10:28SPEAKER_01: allowing a team member to download information before it was secured,
- 10:32SPEAKER_01: while emphasizing that core figures come from public FEC records
- 10:37SPEAKER_01: with full methodology and sources
- 10:39SPEAKER_03: provided on the site.
- 10:42SPEAKER_01: Figures highlighted on the site include almost half a billion dollars raised
- 10:47SPEAKER_01: by pro-Israel lobby PACs between 2022 and 2026,
- 10:51SPEAKER_01: the large majority from individual donors like Miriam Adelson and Bill Ackman.
- 11:01SPEAKER_03: And this is the site who funded genocide.
- 11:05SPEAKER_03: And this, again,
- 11:07SPEAKER_03: is updated in real time and on an ongoing basis
- 11:10SPEAKER_03: where you can look up your own representative and you can look up
- 11:14SPEAKER_03: the specific donors.
- 11:16SPEAKER_03: And look at that.
- 11:17SPEAKER_03: Apex Super PAC United Democracy Project, $230 million, 225 of which came from individuals.
- 11:24SPEAKER_03: Pretty wild.
- 11:31SPEAKER_03: The AIPAC PAC itself is another $126 million.
- 11:37SPEAKER_03: So just between that, that's $350
- 11:40SPEAKER_01: million from AIPAC.
- 11:42SPEAKER_01: Remember that prior to 2020,
- 11:45SPEAKER_01: AIPAC had never made a political donation in the United States ever at all.
- 11:52SPEAKER_01: They did it through different cutouts and different organizations,
- 11:55SPEAKER_01: but they had never directly donated to a candidate.
- 11:59SPEAKER_03: Now they're 125 million in and no sign of stopping.
- 12:04SPEAKER_03: So this is a good website and I'm sure all kinds of information can be pulled out here.
- 12:12SPEAKER_03: Of course,
- 12:12SPEAKER_03: we know that our politicians are all bought and scumbags and I'm not a fan and I'm
- 12:18SPEAKER_03: a none of the above guy.
- 12:19SPEAKER_03: So...
- 12:22SPEAKER_03: If you're looking to find out who's corrupt,
- 12:24SPEAKER_03: my answer is all of them,
- 12:25SPEAKER_03: but you want to find out specifically how and who took what from whom,
- 12:29SPEAKER_03: this is a good way to find out.
- 12:32SPEAKER_03: Next.
- 12:34SPEAKER_03: Again, more from Asal Raad.
- 12:37SPEAKER_03: The New York Times disgustingly put out a headline.
- 12:40SPEAKER_01: What is E1?
- 12:41SPEAKER_01: We talked about the settlements and cutting the territory in the West Bank in half
- 12:50SPEAKER_01: by bulldozing roads and water lines and power lines.
- 12:55SPEAKER_01: So New York Times tries to whitewash it.
- 12:57SPEAKER_01: What's E1 where Israel is pushing a disputed settlement plan?
- 13:02SPEAKER_01: No, no.
- 13:03SPEAKER_01: It's not disputed.
- 13:04SPEAKER_01: It's an illegal settlement plan in the occupied West Bank, which,
- 13:09SPEAKER_01: of course,
- 13:09SPEAKER_01: by saying E1,
- 13:11SPEAKER_01: they know that most readers of the New York Times are not going to put this together
- 13:15SPEAKER_01: with this.
- 13:17SPEAKER_01: It's done so that people will kind of glaze over the head.
- 13:20SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we mentioned it,
- 13:21SPEAKER_01: but they did it in a way so that as few people would actually read it as possible.
- 13:26SPEAKER_01: Fuck Israel and fuck the New York Times.
- 13:29SPEAKER_01: Remember, we did a story on how did we miss that?
- 13:32SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it was last summer or the summer before that,
- 13:34SPEAKER_01: about all the Zionist ties at the New York Times
- 13:38SPEAKER_01: and just
- 13:39SPEAKER_03: how much they whitewash imperialism and do Zionist bidding for them.
- 13:44SPEAKER_03: Which is funny because Israel came out and called them like
- 13:48SPEAKER_03: the most anti-Semitic newspaper in the U.S., which is fucking crazy.
- 13:52SPEAKER_03: But of course, Israel loves to cry bully.
- 13:57SPEAKER_01: So I also wanted to make note that Rami Abdul...
- 14:02SPEAKER_01: Pointed out that nearly 10,000 Palestinian detainees are held in Israeli prisons,
- 14:07SPEAKER_01: most without trial,
- 14:09SPEAKER_03: including hundreds of children,
- 14:12SPEAKER_03: doctors like Usama Abu Safiya and others, and academics.
- 14:17SPEAKER_03: They're all subjected to the most brutal forms of torture,
- 14:22SPEAKER_03: and no one in the world speaks about them.
- 14:23SPEAKER_03: So, be their voice.
- 14:25SPEAKER_03: Well, that's what I'm doing right now.
- 14:28SPEAKER_00: I'm being their voice.
- 14:30SPEAKER_00: So...
- 14:32SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 14:35SPEAKER_00: Fuck Israel and free Palestine.
- 14:41SPEAKER_00: And stop murdering these people and stop imprisoning them and
- 14:46SPEAKER_03: let them live.
- 14:48SPEAKER_03: And just as a reminder,
- 14:51SPEAKER_03: friend of the show,
- 14:51SPEAKER_03: Indie Media Award Honoree,
- 14:53SPEAKER_01: Alan McLeod,
- 14:55SPEAKER_01: Macklemore has faced more consequences than anyone in the
- 14:59SPEAKER_03: Epstein files.
- 15:01SPEAKER_03: By the way,
- 15:02SPEAKER_03: he also tweeted out today,
- 15:03SPEAKER_03: so has Julian Assange,
- 15:05SPEAKER_03: faced more consequences than anyone listed in the Epstein files.
- 15:09SPEAKER_03: You can do that for a lot of people.
- 15:13SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, fuck Israel for all those things.
- 15:16SPEAKER_03: And fuck imperialism, because again, it's not just Israel.
- 15:19SPEAKER_01: This is a multinational project.
- 15:22SPEAKER_01: Again, to say...
- 15:25SPEAKER_01: To blame Israel is to then not necessarily acknowledge the role of the U.S.
- 15:32SPEAKER_01: and the U.K.
- 15:34SPEAKER_01: and even Australia,
- 15:36SPEAKER_01: but for sure the U.S.
- 15:37SPEAKER_03: and the U.K.
- 15:39SPEAKER_03: in orchestrating this brutal genocide massacre onslaught to ethnically cleanse Gaza
- 15:49SPEAKER_03: and eventually the West Bank and steal the entire territory.
- 15:53SPEAKER_03: Fuck imperialism for all of that because the U.S.
- 15:57SPEAKER_03: arms Israel, funds Israel, and provides media support on top of it.
- 16:06SPEAKER_01: Now you got Trump TV, literally.
- 16:09SPEAKER_01: Can I just say for a second, that's insane.
- 16:12SPEAKER_01: And how convenient that the day after Trump throws all the corporate networks out
- 16:17SPEAKER_01: that they introduce Trump TV to Which is just a 24-7 live streaming channel
- 16:25SPEAKER_01: on YouTube showing old Trump speeches.
- 16:29SPEAKER_01: And I said, wait a minute.
- 16:31SPEAKER_01: Shout out to number six from the new prisoners in chat over on Rumble.
- 16:37SPEAKER_01: But...
- 16:39SPEAKER_01: TNP has had a channel running 24-7 on Rumble for about two years called TNP 24-7
- 16:45SPEAKER_01: that runs old episodes of The New Prisoners,
- 16:49SPEAKER_01: that runs old episodes of Mob Rules and Saturday Night Anarchy and all
- 16:55SPEAKER_01: the other shows on the TNP channel.
- 16:58SPEAKER_01: Running a 24-7 replay channel is nothing new.
- 17:04SPEAKER_01: But they introduced it like it was this grand thing that was going to replace all
- 17:09SPEAKER_01: the corporate networks.
- 17:09SPEAKER_01: Hilarious.
- 17:11SPEAKER_01: But I just found that that was really interesting that they launched that
- 17:15SPEAKER_01: to some big announcement the day after they had announced
- 17:21SPEAKER_01: that they were kicking out all the major corporate networks.
- 17:26SPEAKER_01: And that If I remember correctly,
- 17:30SPEAKER_01: the plan if Trump had lost in 2016 was that he was going to launch Trump TV
- 17:37SPEAKER_01: after this.
- 17:40SPEAKER_01: If he wasn't going to be president,
- 17:42SPEAKER_01: what was he going to do after that if he had lost to Hillary Clinton?
- 17:45SPEAKER_03: He was going to launch Trump TV.
- 17:48SPEAKER_03: Whatever that was going to be at the time.
- 17:51SPEAKER_03: So I just found that it was also interesting that they morphed whatever
- 17:54SPEAKER_03: that was going to
- 17:56SPEAKER_01: ever be into.
- 17:58SPEAKER_01: And who knows?
- 17:59SPEAKER_01: Ryan speculated again,
- 18:01SPEAKER_01: T-Lab this morning over on AM Wake Up and speculated
- 18:04SPEAKER_01: that maybe they really didn't have a plan and they just kind
- 18:07SPEAKER_01: of slapped this all together once the networks were actually thrown out
- 18:11SPEAKER_01: because it looked like it was all very kind of
- 18:13SPEAKER_03: haphazardly thrown together.
- 18:16SPEAKER_03: Weird as hell.
- 18:17SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 18:18SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 18:19SPEAKER_03: So that's part one of Fuck Israel.
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- 19:29SPEAKER_03: I'll see you next Tuesday.
- 19:30SPEAKER_01: That's what she said.
- 19:32SPEAKER_03: I love you all.
- 19:32SPEAKER_03: Night, everybody.
- 19:34SPEAKER_01: No!
- 19:34SPEAKER_01: We just fucking lost the stream!
- 19:38SPEAKER_01: I guess this isn't such an awful place.
- 19:41SPEAKER_02: Is that what you want me to say?
- 19:46SPEAKER_02: You prove it's possible to sleep for days.
- 19:50SPEAKER_02: And I still think you're right here awake.
- 19:54SPEAKER_02: The cost of living isn't much to make.
- 19:58SPEAKER_02: But God, it's so hard to say.
- 20:02SPEAKER_02: And when they told you everything I said, were you the same?
- 20:12SPEAKER_00: You say