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Livestream: They Did 9/11, Now They Get Nukes??? · Combat Veteran News

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We're once again live streaming. Thanks
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for tuning in. Uh we're starting a
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little early, I know, but you know,
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we're kind of off to a late start. This
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is kind of a casual stream, but that
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doesn't mean we're not going to
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we're not going to be talking about some
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some truly truly preposterous stuff.
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Damn. When did you sell your clout, man?
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And I could have been selling my clout.
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Could have been selling my clout this
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whole time.
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When someone hires Saudi citizens and
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they want to put blame on your ally in
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region, why you help them?
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Well, we're going to talk about just
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that.
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Well, you know, I mean, people are like,
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why? And well, we'll talk about all of
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it. Actually, it sounds like you guys
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have a,
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you know,
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we're going to talk about all of it.
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We're going to talk about all of it.
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Let's let's let's crack into this.
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Say,
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so okay. Um,
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compliment me to drag on to the
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elections. Yeah. Yeah, it that's that
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may be part of it. That may be part of
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it. Um,
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let's see. Let's see.
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Exactly. Nobody's ever offered me money
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for my clout, you know. Uh, nobody's
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even tried. I actually sometimes I'm
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mildly offended. Like I w you know the
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Russians spent what half a million
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dollars to like license videos from
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Benny freaking Johnson and
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like not once have the Russians been
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like hey man not that I'd take their
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money but you know want to get out of my
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garage have a really one of those cool
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guys studios you know be cool
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right be one of those guys who's like
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private jet influencer you know I mean
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you guys will know like what I'll do is
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probably take the money. You'll be like,
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"Man, Paul really has a lot of good
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things to say about the Israeli
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government all of a sudden." And then
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every video is like from my private jet
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and you'll just be like, "Oh, it's cuz
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the Israelis offered him not less than
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$10 million. You want me to be a shill?
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10 mil is my is my is my floor." Okay.
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And you got to give me some other some
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other goodies, right?
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Okay.
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So, we're going to talk about this
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because I don't have a ton of time. I
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got to be done at five.
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Make the money just wink when you're
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lying. That's right. That's right. Most
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people, but again, no one ever has.
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Like, nobody ever has.
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I know. In fact, I you notice I haven't
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had a sponsored video in like two
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months, which is crazy.
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Like, you should definitely take the
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money. Yeah, that's the thing. It's not
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even offered. It's not even offered.
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President Trump has made it clear that
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there is one red line for him and that
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is the largest state sponsor of terror
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in the Middle East isn't allowed to get
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a nuclear weapon. Now, it's not so
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important that he's going to put boots
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on the ground, but the second largest
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sponsor of state terrorism, hey man,
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it's free game apparently. But is this
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actually part of a good strategy in the
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region or is this just kind of desperate
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manipulation by the Kingdom of Saudi
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Arabia? Check this out. So the US is
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announced a deal with Saudi Arabia
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authorizing them a nuclear program. Now
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I want to be clear. I think Saudi Arabia
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actually already has nuclear reactors.
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Uh but the difference with this deal is
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that it is uh much more sprawling
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and
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the oh sorry it actually doesn't I'm
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wrong it has no operational nuclear
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reactors but it is developing a civilian
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nuclear program. Now this is significant
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because under the non-prololiferation
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treaty countries are actually authorized
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and and encouraged to have peaceful
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civilian nuclear uses. In fact, the
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IAEA, the International Atomic Energy
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Agency, was created with a carrot and
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stick structure. They have an audit
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capability to make sure that every piece
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of uranium that's either mined or
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shipped into a country gets tracked and
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they know exactly how much is pulled out
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of the ground. They make sure that exact
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amount ends up in factories in refining.
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They track all of it to its final uses.
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And if there's ever an instance where
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even a few grams of refined uranium goes
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missing, it triggers huge uh
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consequences from the IAA or what passes
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for huge consequences by the IAEA.
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Mostly just angry letters.
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Now the but that's the stick the carrot
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is that the IAEA says listen we will
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help you including with significant
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funds develop and field nuclear power.
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Uh this was created in the 1940s where
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people actually believed that technology
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could make their lives better. Not just
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turn it into giant data centers and AI
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powered surveillance tech, but people
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said, "Wo, nuclear power, this could use
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just a few pounds of uranium could power
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an entire city for weeks and weeks and
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weeks and weeks." It was and is a
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game-changing technology that I think
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even the Europeans would agree they
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probably should have bought a few more
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nuclear power plants and bought a little
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less Russian gas over the past century.
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Whoops. But the point is that for
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countries like Saudi Arabia, they've
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never really gotten on the bandwagon. In
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part because, well, why would you buy
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your competition? You're an oil giant.
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If there's one thing Saudi Arabia
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doesn't really need, it's energy. They
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have literally their entire country is
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basically floating on a lake of
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petroleum. The Saudis and even if they
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needed energy,
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the Saudi desert is a solar power like
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mecca. I mean it also is the mecca of
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meccas but uh
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like it's
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really I mean and the Saudis have said
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listen we are really interested in solar
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power uh mass a country with maybe some
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of the most solar potential of the
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entire world again this has been more
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recent this pivot towards solar power uh
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but I think this is a real sign that the
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Saudis have plans to expand and
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diversify their energy
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which makes it weird that they're like
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actually we also want a nuclear power
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plant and the US and Saudi Arabia are
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expected to announce a deal that will
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allow the Gulf Kingdom to develop a
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civilian nuclear program. Now the
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announcement uh is likely going to come
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out on Wednesday uh according to CBS
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News which is owned by an administration
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ally so I believe them. The agreement,
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which of course could be worth billions
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of dollars to the United States
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conveniently, uh whose companies could
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be involved in building a facility to
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produce enriched uranium useful as a
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fuel and power plants, but also to make
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bombs. Huh. So, the US has said,
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"Listen, Saudi Arabia, we're going to
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give you guys plants that can make
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enriched uranium." This sounds
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this sounds fine.
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So
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I once again uh you know we see this and
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we go
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you know this this maybe this is fine.
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Uh
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and
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I think though the troubling part is
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that uh
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like nuclear experts and former
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officials in Israel, the US's top ally
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in the Middle East have voiced concern
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that the plan could lead Saudi Arabia to
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being de able to develop a nuclear
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weapon. Well, that concern is actually
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completely valid because that's
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literally what enriched uranium does.
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That's the whole reason everyone's so
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mad at Iran. And the deal though allows
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US companies to run nuclear power for
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the Saudis on Saudi soil. And the the
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weird part is the Sa the Saudis already
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buy enriched uranium from third parties.
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Which begs the question, why is it
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really important that you have enriched
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uranium on your own soil? Right? We ask
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these same questions about Iran who
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transparently has a policy of not not
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necessarily developing a nuclear weapon
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but coming this close to being able to
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develop a nuke right uh and that's a
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policy of again a lot of countries
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actually that invest in this
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infrastructure that sort of onshore it
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want to in the event that their ally the
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United States's nuclear umbrella
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vanishes say a US president announces
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that they're not protecting treaty
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allies like NATO, those countries want
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to be able to say, "Okay, we need to
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take care of ourselves. Let's just pull
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let's just enrich the uranium that we
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already enrich for our nuclear reactors
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and just refine it a little more and
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stick it on an existing ballistic
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missile system that we have and we have
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a crude bomb." Again, a lot of countries
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are 12 months. Most developed countries,
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I'd say, could probably get a nuclear
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weapon in 12 months if they have any
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enrichment capacity at all. Countries
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like Japan could probably do it in like
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six. Um,
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and so it should already be kind of a uh
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it should already make the give tingle
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your spider senses a little bit to say,
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"Huh, the Saudis want are it's really
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important that they be able to refine
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nuclear material on their soil." Uh, and
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again, the deal is thought to be worth
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tens of billions of dollars. I think
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Trump's kids are involved in Oh, yeah.
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There we go. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric
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Trump of course invest and and hold
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investment and advisory roles in
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companies tied to nuclear energy uh
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including Quantum Leap Energy, a nuclear
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enrichment company.
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Yeah.
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Cool. So uh the of course the Saudis are
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this is interesting because in 2009
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uh under Obama the Saudis neighbor the
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United Arab Emirates signed another
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nuclear deal with the United States but
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the UAE cannot produce its own fuel and
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accepts a host of other restrictions.
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Uh, so obviously non-nuclear
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proliferation campaigners are like, "Hey
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man, why why why why is it so important
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that the Saudis be able to refine their
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own nuclear material, right?"
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And
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again, in 2018, NBS said his nation was
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not applying planning to acquire a
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nuclear weapon, but without a doubt, if
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Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we would
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follow suit as soon as possible. Which,
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you know, I got to say, I really like
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his transparency. Um because well that
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would be the case of a lot of countries.
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That's one of the reasons, not the only
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reason, but one of the reasons why the
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Israeli government has never publicly
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acknowledged the existence of their
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nuclear weapon because Iran would go
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from having uh a like having enriched
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uranium, ballistic missiles, and an
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empty warhead, right? You very close to
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just being like boop, and you have a
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nuclear weapon um to actually going
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boop, right? Having a breakout time
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measured in in weeks, right? That's one
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of the reasons why Israel loves the the
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Iran is two is weeks away from
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developing a nuclear weapon. That's
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true, but that's that's like that's like
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saying I'm seconds away from killing my
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family because I I I technically have my
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clay shotgun and and some rounds both in
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a safe. Like, yeah, I could. It's You're
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not wrong. I just that's not a thing I'm
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going to do. So,
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I think this is uh bad. And it's not
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just bad because
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if the Saudis get a nuclear weapon, like
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here's the thing. The Saudis have this
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policy. Do you think Iran also has the
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reverse that if if Saudi Arabia gets a
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nuclear weapon, Iran will follow suit as
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soon as possible? Probably. And do you
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think it's also the Israeli policy that
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says that listen if the Saudis get a
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nuclear bomb? Do you think the Israelis
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are going to go, "Hey, actually FYI, we
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really do have a nuclear weapon. We
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really want to make this clear that the
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Saudis, we are in a state of mutually
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assured destruction." And then the
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Iranians would get a nuclear weapon. And
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you see how every time a country gets a
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nuclear weapon, the fear is is that you
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add another moving part to the equation
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and it's harder and harder to control
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the um
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keep the likelihood of nuclear weapons
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being used in war low because again
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these things are mass. I mean they're
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city destroyers. If they're deployed in
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in in a military capacity, they exist
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essentially to annihilate entire cities.
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It's you like not ensuring that nuclear
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weapons are not used in combat again is
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a global priority and including by
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superpowers,
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right? Because China it's it's
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prestigious to be a nuclear country. It
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grants you authority and capability and
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prestige that other countries do not
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have. Um you cannot one thing that's
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noteworthy it is if you have a nuclear
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weapon you cannot have your regime
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threatened. the again if if someone was
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to attempt to um uh like march on
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Beijing and like seize Beijing
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even with a ground force the the CCP
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would use its nuclear arsenal to defend
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Beijing. It cannot happen. There is no
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scenario where that happens and that is
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a very prestigious thing and it's
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something that other countries are not
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afforded. And so what I want to talk
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about is the problem here because again
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I see you guys in chat being like Saudi
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the Saudis are good guys. Those guys who
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did 911 they were just rogue elements.
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Okay well that's not what the lawsuits
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say. And yeah the 911 commission report
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which was which was released 22 years
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ago 3 years after 911 quote found no
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evidence that the Saudi government as an
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institution or senior Saudi officials
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individually funded al-Qaeda which is
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actually a really bizarrely worded
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thing. First off, finding no evidence
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doesn't mean it didn't happen, right?
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Inside my windowless garage, there is no
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evidence that the sun exists. Yet, uh,
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you know, it it's definitely there. And
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that the Saudi government as an
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institution, I don't know what that
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means. Like, what do you mean the Saudi
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government as an institution? Why not
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just say the Saudi government or senior
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Saudi officials
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individually funded al-Qaeda?
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What a strange convoluted
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what a strange series of of very
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specific claims.
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It's like it's it's it's
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trying to think of a good analogy here.
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It's like saying, "Listen, listen. I
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have never taken cash with my hand out
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of grandma's wallet."
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You're like, "You mean you never stole
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from grandma?" And you go, "Right. I've
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never taken cash with my hand out of
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grandma's wallet."
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You see the problems here, right? So,
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right there, there's something a little
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squishy here. But then
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10 years later, the FBI said, "Actually,
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guys, a Saudi diplomat named Thumari and
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a Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs
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official and a radical cleric who lived
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in the United States named Albayumi. Um,
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those guys actually had helped the 9/11
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hijackers uh a lot, pretty extensively.
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And in 2021, Al Bayumi was actually
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outed as indeed being a Saudi
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intelligence agent. Uh so in fact three
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Saudi government officials actually uh
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assisted the hijackers in entering the
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United States. Then in 2022 the FBI said
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there's actually a 50-50 chance Alba
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actually had advanced knowledge that
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9/11 was to occur. Guys at some point if
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you go listen an agent of the Saudi
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intelligence knew that these guys were
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planning 9/11 and didn't do anything. At
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what point do you sit there and go
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the I think that the government of Saudi
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Arabia is just culpable. I mean, Alba
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helped the hijackers find housing in San
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Diego. He stated he was just being a
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friend, right? But he also had said he
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wasn't a Saudi government agent, which
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that part was a lie.
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Now, the Saudi governments of course
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cannot be sued uh by the United States.
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Conveniently, uh, our Congress has
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passed a law protecting the Saudi
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government and a federal judge ruled
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that a lawsuit brought by the survivors
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of 9/11 said they actually had a
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reasonable basis to sue the Saudi
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government. So
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this whole section here, uh, again,
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Bayumi and Thumari diplomatic employees
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were employ sorry employed by they were
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diplomats at the Saudi General Consulate
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in Los Angeles. Uh, right. It helped the
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hijackers find apartments. Alba actually
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paid the first two months rent for the
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two men and helped them set up bank
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accounts. That's just what you do for a
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person you've just met. Uh subsequent
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FBI investigations revealed Alba was in
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close contact with Saudi government
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agencies. The telephone numbers of
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employees of the Saudi embassy who
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worked in the Islamic affairs office
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were actually found in Bayumi's
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apartment. Right. That very common.
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Obviously, I have a bunch of consulates
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of numbers for a bunch of foreign
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governments in in in they're just
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sitting just sitting right here on my
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desk, right? Don't we all? Uh FBI
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investigations. Also, it turned out um
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uh that he made dozens of phone calls to
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the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles. Just
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another common thing, right? and a uh
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Althumari suspected of providing
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behind-the-scenes support to the
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hijackers. A higher ranking Saudi
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embassy employee in Washington allegedly
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tasked the two with to support the FBI
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uh 9/11 perpetrators. And this is in a
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court filing. FBI said that a senior
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Saudi embassy employee
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uh instructed these two men to assist
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the 9/11 hijackers. Huh. But the Saudi
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government didn't have anything to do.
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Now,
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Al Bayumi, uh,
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the FBI knew all along, of course, uh,
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that Bayami was a Saudi agent. Uh, US
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police had confirmed internally that
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Alba was indeed working for the Saudi
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secret service. Uh, I mean, this is just
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it goes on and on and on, right?
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uh connections to Saudi leadership arose
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through the Saudi ambassador to the
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United States, Bandar bin Sultan, uh who
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of course is related to NBS and the rest
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of the Saudi royal family. US Congress
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file 17 something called file 17 listed
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over three dozen names including Thumari
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Bayumi uh and others identifying
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numerous personal links between Saudi
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Arabia and the 91 and hijackers. Spandar
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himself came under scrutiny when it was
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known that at least $15,000 had been
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transferred directly from his personal
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bank account to the family of a Saudi in
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California. That Saudi, Al Bayumi, who
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then sent that money to pay for the rent
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of the hijackers. I don't know what more
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evidence you want. I mean, they did
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everything but fly the planes. 10 days
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before the attack, Turkey Iban Fisel
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unexpectedly resigns at the head of the
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Saudi secret service, a position he had
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held since 1979, as is completely
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normal. Uh, and his resignation came as
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a surprise as he had just months prior
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been had his term of office extend
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extended another four years. uh
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and
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the
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uh for example in the phone book of
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al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaya arrested in
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March of 2012 contained the secret phone
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number of a company in Colorado that
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managed there was a shell company that
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managed the prince of Saudi Arabia's
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country estate as well as the number of
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one of Bandar's employees a bodyguard at
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the embassy h weird stuff
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right also of course significant amounts
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of al-Qaeda of funding was from private
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donors in the Middle East, particularly
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Saudi Arabia. Wealthy Saudi individuals,
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Islamic charities that provided a
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fertile ground for fundraising for
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al-Qaeda. Uh, oftentimes these donations
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were to charitable foundations with
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Saudi state involvement of course
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diverted into channels that ultimately
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benefited al-Qaeda. I.e. you donate to
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the feed the starving Afghan children
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fund. The starving Afghan children fund
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goes and funds the uh organization for
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helping Afghans. And then it turns out
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that the organization for helping
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Afghans primarily helps, you guessed it,
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al-Qaeda, right? That's a theoretical
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example, but that's basically the
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scheme. Uh they would called it the
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so-called golden chain, including mostly
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wealthy Saudis who supported Bin Laden.
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So again, I think there's a there's
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robust evidence here that the
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uh
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the United States knew and that Saudi
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Arabia and its government directly
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enabled the
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the
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Saudi government to perpetrate 911. And
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again, if you're a family member of
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someone who was was killed in 9/11,
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seeing this should disgust you. The
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president's kids likely doing a deal
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funding the people who perpetrated 911,
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funding again them personally, the
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family. Remember, the Saudi government
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is the Saudi family.
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And all of this to make the Middle East
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a way more dangerous place. As if it
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wasn't already that. Exactly.
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GG, thanks for the two. How's the Trump
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reflecting pool going? I don't know.
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It's closed off because it's a crime
23:08
scene, right? Because of the terrible
23:10
vandals the president said, right?
23:12
They're probably collecting evidence and
23:14
stuff, you know? Really pulling it up?
23:16
No, they're not. They pulled it up and
23:17
they're going to repave it again.
23:19
Somehow it cost another $15 million no
23:22
bid contract. That's how this goes.
23:28
But again, compared to Trump's kids uh
23:31
getting billions of dollars to their
23:34
companies gifted by Saudi Arabia, who is
23:37
then going to clearly use it to build a
23:39
nuclear weapon.
23:41
It's not they're not going to build a
23:42
nuclear weapon. They're going to
23:43
threaten to build a nuclear weapon with
23:45
it. Right.
23:57
Yeah. And again, I I you know, people
23:59
love to like dunk on Israel and and and
24:02
I I agree, you know, again, Israeli uh
24:07
packs spending tens of millions of
24:09
dollars to um influence US elections is
24:15
uh pretty But this doesn't mean
24:18
that like the Saudis are great people
24:20
and that I want to high-five them,
24:21
right? The Egyptians were found to have
24:23
bribed a sitting US senator Bob Mendez
24:26
to the tune of what six or seven bill
24:28
million dollars. Peanuts by the way
24:30
peanuts. Um if you think the Saudis I
24:34
mean you you don't need to guess, right?
24:36
Like we just saw president's sons own
24:39
companies. Those companies score big
24:40
contracts with Saudi Arabia. The end.
24:44
Dewey thanks to two Canadian. I'm more
24:47
scared of Israel. They can false flag
24:48
the USA. Listen dog. anybody can false
24:51
flag the USA. Um,
24:54
and I'm always skeptical of false flags.
24:57
Like as we're seeing now, the government
25:00
worked tirelessly to hide the Saudi
25:03
government involvement in 9/11. The
25:05
belief that there is another that that
25:08
the false flag is a false flag is a
25:10
little preposterous.
25:18
Yeah. the the funding actually of the
25:21
Free Syrian Army is a great example.
25:22
Believe it or not, we actually for a
25:24
time the CIA was funding like one Syrian
25:28
rebel group and then the US, the
25:30
Department of Defense was funding a
25:31
different one. They then fought each
25:33
other, eliminated each other and allowed
25:34
ISIS to rise, which is uh comical but
25:37
also uh mostly sad.
25:41
But if you see here, right? Oh yeah.
25:43
Yeah. Oh yeah, I forgot about the
25:44
president's son-in-law. Oh my god. Of
25:46
course. Of course. Right. the
25:48
president's son-in-law was gifted uh a
25:52
huge pot of money uh
25:56
after the first Trump administration. Uh
25:59
yeah, his private equity firm, Affinity
26:01
Partners, secured a $2 billion
26:02
investment from Saudi Arabia's public
26:05
investment funds 6 months after he left
26:07
the White House advisory role. The
26:08
financial backing has been uh criticized
26:10
by lawmakers and ethics watchd dogs.
26:12
Right. Uh right, two billion was
26:15
directly committed from the Saudi
26:16
sovereign wealth fund. Now, uh remember
26:19
the uh let's see if we can figure this
26:23
out, right? Affinity partners management
26:24
fee.
26:31
Let's see.
26:34
Okay, so Oh my god.
26:38
Uh the Saudi government pays an annual
26:41
rate of 1.25% 25% on their $2 billion
26:44
investment while everybody else pays 2%.
26:48
Whoa.
26:50
So 1% what is what is 1% of 2 billion a
26:54
year? Let's see. And remember that's
26:57
going to grow. So
27:00
let's build a little model. Let's model
27:01
out uh let's model out Jared's stuff. So
27:05
here is the Saudi investment. 2 million
27:08
200 million two billion. Okay. And every
27:10
year,
27:14
uh, is that right? Yeah. So, every year
27:16
they make $25 million a year from the
27:20
Saudis, right? But remember, let's say,
27:24
here's what's here's here's where things
27:26
get preposterous. Let's say uh that
27:32
the
27:35
uh he it was when he left office. He
27:37
left office uh in 2021. Okay, let's see.
27:40
Let's say Jared Kushner didn't do any
27:43
investing really. He just used it and he
27:46
just bought ETFs. He just bought the S&P
27:49
500. He just bought SPY, $2 billion of
27:51
SPY,
27:53
uh, and he just reinvested the
27:54
dividends. Well, the underlying
27:58
principle
28:00
would have grown 115%.
28:05
And so he would have taken and so
28:07
presumably his fees would have grown
28:09
roughly comparably. So that means that
28:13
he would have actually increased he
28:16
would have doubled that effectively. So
28:18
he is real number right
28:21
would have now be about $50 million a
28:25
year just from Saudi money alone.
28:32
That is the part that is insane
28:37
that he just got the like it's not a
28:39
problem that the president's son-in-law
28:40
who is brokering the peace deal broke
28:44
the Gaza envoy or whatever has actively
28:48
is actively making $50 million a year
28:52
from
28:54
the Saudi government.
28:57
It's insane.
29:03
Oh, interesting. Kushner saw funds for a
29:05
new company from the sovereign wealth
29:06
funds of Gulf countries. The vast bulk
29:08
of funds secured by affinity with only
29:10
minor stakes were ever contributed by US
29:12
nationals. The biggest investor was the
29:14
Saudi Arabian public investment fund. Uh
29:19
Kushner has stated he hopes to open an
29:20
investment corridor between Saudi Arabia
29:22
and Israel, whatever that means.
29:25
Uh the firm still primarily depends on
29:27
Saudi money. As of April 22nd, it had
29:31
2.5 billion assets under management.
29:33
What's funny is that when you look at a
29:37
Ramco, this is the Saudi state oil
29:40
giant. It makes
29:44
its revenue is 48 billion a year. No,
29:50
no, I'm sorry. Four $480 billion a year.
29:53
So it makes half a trillion dollars. So
29:55
the two billion they gave to Kushner to
29:57
bribe him, I mean invest wisely is
30:00
meaningless. It's let it's nothing. Oh,
30:02
Jerry Anderson, thanks for the too, man.
30:05
Like that's what's insane is the return
30:06
on investment. Okay. And by the way,
30:09
Saudi Aramco is a publicly traded
30:10
company. So uh let's see. Let's see if
30:13
we can see the market cap right now. Um
30:18
right, net income. I mean it makes $106
30:21
billion in profit. So what they gave
30:22
Jared Kushner to like buy him in
30:24
perpetuity was the equivalent of um 3
30:28
days of Saudi Aramco profits which it
30:31
doesn't have to be profits because you
30:32
know uh let's see let's see if I can
30:35
find the Aramco market cap because they
30:38
could have just issued stock. Oh my god.
30:42
Saudi Aramco guys is worth $6.3
30:45
trillion. So, if they had just issued
30:48
some Aramco stock like or they could
30:51
have just taken out a loan from a bank
30:52
and put up a Ramco stock as um
30:56
collateral.
30:58
Jesus Christ, you would have 6.3
31:02
trillion with a T dollars. This is the
31:05
eighth most valuable company on planet
31:08
Earth. Wow.
31:11
Just a reminder of how
31:14
how many people are for sale. Do they at
31:16
least
31:18
Man, do they they have a dividend or
31:20
something? These come on, man. The
31:23
Saudis the Saudis aren't paying
31:24
dividends. What am I stupid?
31:28
But they sell. All right. I don't know
31:31
anything.
31:48
Uh people like, "Did they already vote?"
31:51
Uh you mean did they vote? You mean did
31:53
the Congress vote on the NDAA? Uh yeah.
31:57
Uh yeah, they did.
32:09
Wow. Interesting. This is most
32:11
interesting. So, this is the poly market
32:12
actually on the house passing the NDAA.
32:15
This is the one that contains the what
32:16
we'll generously call controversial
32:18
provision requiring the US military to
32:20
share all of its advanced technology
32:21
with Israel. Um
32:24
uh went from having a 21% chance to pass
32:27
to 100% chance. Wow.
32:33
But then I think Congress has to approve
32:35
it, right? So
32:38
I want to see if if the Senate
32:40
greenlights it.
32:43
Uh
32:55
oh, okay. The procedural motion to begin
32:58
debating the NDAA couldn't even get the
33:01
60 votes needed.
33:03
Senate Democrats blocked the measure,
33:06
citing concerns over Iran.
33:08
The House of Representatives squeaked it
33:11
out barely.
33:19
So there's nothing. And even if they did
33:21
pass it, they'd have to reconcile it.
33:23
Dewey, didn't the Democrats just vote
33:24
against this Israel merger? Yeah, they
33:26
did. They did. And supposedly up to a
33:28
100 Democrats who opposed it, um that
33:30
had taken Apac money, Apac announced
33:32
they're not going to be funding them
33:34
again.
33:45
Yeah. I mean, like criticizing Israeli
33:48
policy
33:49
is but then saying, "Oh, you can't
33:52
criticize Israel because you're
33:52
anti-Semitic." is like saying that it's
33:54
Islamophobic to criticize Saudi Arabia.
33:56
Like, it's just not true.
34:21
Yeah, I mean
34:24
the one thing we are seeing here is that
34:27
the Saudis probably just needed
34:30
something from the Trump administration
34:32
that made them feel like this war was
34:33
worth it. Yeah, Dewey, I saw only Thomas
34:36
Massie voted against it and Thomas
34:38
Massie is on his way out, but you know
34:42
it's crazy.
34:55
I mean, I'm curious. Um, I wonder what
34:57
the latest polling data
35:06
Uh, let's see. So, I'm looking up
35:09
polling data about Israel. O only, this
35:14
is from AP Nor. So, a legit poll. Three
35:17
in 10 US adults, oh, about three and 10
35:19
US adults believe Israel has committed
35:21
genocide against the Palestinians.
35:24
Uh,
35:26
and I can understand that because again
35:29
like the definition, the academic
35:32
definition of genocide includes things
35:34
like cultural annihilation and like
35:36
constructed constructed genocide. Like
35:39
destroying all the hospitals where
35:41
Palestinian women can safely give birth
35:43
is like genocide with extra steps. But
35:46
most people don't think of it that way.
35:48
Most Americans are like, "Hey, this is
35:50
just like destroying every hospital in
35:51
Gaza was was just a regular normie war
35:54
crime."
35:57
But that's still a huge number. A third
35:59
of US adults, right? But also 30% of
36:03
Jewish adults say Israel has committed
36:05
genocide,
36:07
which is crazy,
36:14
right? which this guy, a 69 Democrat
36:16
from Ardan, Delaware, says, quote, I
36:17
realize there's a threat from Hamas and
36:19
I realize they're in a very difficult
36:20
situation, but what they've done is
36:21
unspeakable horror. Yeah, it's basically
36:23
my stance like you have every right to
36:25
go after Hamas terrorists, but like we
36:27
went after terrorists and we didn't bomb
36:28
every we didn't glass every hospital in
36:31
Afghanistan, right? We didn't destroy
36:33
Iraq. We spent tens of thousands of
36:36
American lives trying to rebuild those
36:38
countries.
36:42
So this is yeah let's see if we can find
36:44
more polling data. Uh the findings show
36:45
sharply eroded views of Israel three
36:48
years after Hamas's attack mainly
36:50
civilians right. Uh I think it also came
36:54
out that Israel killed a lot of those
36:56
civilians themselves to prevent them
36:58
being taken as hostages. Um,
37:06
and let's see, four and 10 don't know
37:08
enough to say whether Israel's immediate
37:10
military response to Hamas's attacker's
37:12
ongoing operations were justified.
37:16
I mean, that's a that is probably a
37:18
reflection of the highly like polarized
37:22
and propagandized media environment.
37:24
Even I'll admit like it's really hard to
37:26
discern truth from fiction. Um,
37:33
the initial retaliation was justified.
37:34
The majority think its current actions
37:36
are not. Yeah, I kind of agree with
37:37
that.
37:40
Interesting. Threearters of Jewish
37:41
adults said Israel's initial response
37:43
was justified, but only four and 10
37:44
believe its ongoing operations.
37:46
Interesting. Okay. AP Norc says about
37:49
60% of Democrats say the US is too
37:51
supportive of Israel, up from 45% a year
37:53
ago. Wow. And that includes most Jewish
37:58
Democrats think the US is too supportive
38:00
of Israel. Do you know how insane that
38:02
is?
38:06
Six and 10 Democrats say the US is not
38:08
supportive enough of the Palestinians.
38:10
Like well we don't do anything. I mean
38:14
even even Joe Biden couldn't say that it
38:16
was bad. He said the the sit I think it
38:19
was like the the the situation with the
38:21
Palestinians. I'm like come on man.
38:23
can't just be like it's bad to if you
38:25
can't be like it's bad to bomb a
38:27
hospital. I I don't know what else to
38:29
tell you. Or like it's bad to blockade
38:31
all food from a place like what the
38:35
truly brilliant stuff.
38:42
Yeah. Younger Democrats are more likely
38:44
than older ones say the United States is
38:45
not supportive enough of the
38:46
Palestinians, but older Democrats are
38:48
catching up to younger counterparts. Uh
38:51
interesting. GOP stays behind Israel,
38:54
but less so young Republicans. 60% of
38:56
Republicans says the US support for
38:58
Israel is about right. I mean, what who
39:00
who thinks it's not enough?
39:04
Two in 10 Republicans say the United
39:05
States is too supportive of the
39:06
Israelis. That's significant. That's
39:08
20%. Republicans under 45 are more
39:11
likely to say this. Uh,
39:15
interesting. Those who say the US is not
39:17
supportive enough has shrunk from 39% to
39:20
15%. Whoa.
39:33
70-year-old Republican. This is boomer
39:35
energy. I wish they'd gone in harder and
39:37
better.
39:39
Unfortunately, some innocents will be
39:40
hurt, but Hamas and Hezbollah never took
39:42
that into consideration when they were
39:43
killing women and children in Israel.
39:46
Yeah, but yeah, but his own logic is
39:48
like it's Hamas did it first, so it's
39:52
okay that we do it, but Hamas are the
39:54
bad guys, but Israel's the good guys, so
39:56
they can kill women and children. Like,
39:57
come on.
40:02
Only about 20% of US adults have a
40:04
favorable opinion of the Israeli prime
40:06
minister.
40:08
Well, twice as many have an unfavorable
40:10
view. Yikes.
40:15
only about a third of is American Jews
40:17
see him put favorably. I mean, as
40:20
discussed, I I'm not like Israel's bad,
40:22
like it's not intrinsic. There's lots of
40:24
there's lots of religious ethnostates.
40:26
If you don't like religious ethnostates,
40:27
I mean, most of the countries on planet
40:29
Earth you'd have to get rid of.
40:32
But the part where they invade their
40:34
neighbor, where they inflict uh
40:36
unbelievable cruelty on um civilians
40:40
living in their country, the part where
40:42
they occupy other countries
40:43
indefinitely, the part where they seize
40:46
the country's territory and then move
40:47
settlers in, like all these policies,
40:49
which by the way predate Netanyahu, but
40:51
he's like the ultra cheerleader for
40:53
them.
40:56
Huh? Okay. Jewish adults who identify as
40:58
Democrats have a more positive view of
41:00
Mandi than Netanyah.
41:02
This is the thing, guys. This thing when
41:04
people are like, "You're anti-Semitic to
41:06
criticize Israel." You're like, "What do
41:07
you mean, dude?" Like, like most Jews
41:09
agree with this. Most American Jews
41:12
agree with these criticisms of Israel.
41:18
Like
41:24
Yeah,
41:27
Dewey. Nanya is known for saying that
41:28
they fund Hamas. I completely believe
41:30
it. Completely believe it. Right. To
41:32
make sure the Palestinians don't have a
41:33
unified leadership. Like, yeah, I think
41:36
that's standard stuff. Okay. Wow. It is
41:38
after five. Uh
41:42
so, one last one. Gas price update. 95
41:46
is Brent crude. Uh, American gasoline
41:49
prices.
41:53
Yeah, we're back in trouble, guys. Buy
41:56
your electric vehicles. Maybe that's
41:58
Hey. Hey, man. Maybe uh Elon will uh get
42:01
those that bump in Tesla sales he needs
42:03
to subsidize his other companies.
42:06
Anyway, I really appreciate you guys.
42:07
Um, I will catch you
42:10
in the next one. Thanks again. We'll see
42:13
you. Cheers.