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3/31/26: World Leaders Dire Warning On Iran, Israel Execution Bill Passes, CNN Assaulted By IDF, Trump Ballroom Bunker · Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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  Speaker 3: dot com. Now to Rory's point about all of the
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  Speaker 3: global impact that this crisis has already created, let's go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and start. We've collated a bunch of very ominous
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  Speaker 3: comments from heads of state, from leaders all across Europe.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the Italy's Defense minister. He says, I am forced
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  Speaker 3: to know things about what could happen in the coming
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  Speaker 3: week and the effects it will have on the economy
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  Speaker 3: in our daily lives that no longer allow me to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: You may easily pair that, let's say, with this warning
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  Speaker 3: that came out D six, guys, if we could just
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  Speaker 3: go and put that one up here next is almost
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  Speaker 3: certainly this was an illusion. The Energy chief of the
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  Speaker 3: European Union, Dan Jorgensen, sent a letter a confidential letter
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  Speaker 3: to member energy ministers where he said national governments should
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  Speaker 3: consider I love this phrasing. Voluntary demand saving measures with
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  Speaker 3: particular attention to the transport sector aka travel restrictions could
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  Speaker 3: be coming to EU citizens very quickly, as in, nope,
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  Speaker 3: you're not driving car anymore. You are banned from let's say,
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  Speaker 3: either train travel or who knows right. In terms of
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  Speaker 3: the actual restrictions that could be put into place far
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  Speaker 3: and away, maybe crisis for the European Union already it's
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  Speaker 3: a crisis in terms of their natural gas prices, their
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  Speaker 3: overall energy consumptions. If you think I'm exaggerating, let's look
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  Speaker 3: at a country where this is all playing out right now.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put D two up there on the screen. South Korea.
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  Speaker 3: Their president today. I'm sorry, yesterday he said the world
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  Speaker 3: is in turmoil over the energy crisis. The situation is
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  Speaker 3: so serious it has even kept me up at night.
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  Speaker 3: The immediate problem is grave enough, but the outlook ahead
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  Speaker 3: seems even more unstable. The situation is worse than expected.
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  Speaker 3: That came at the exact same time. D five guys
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  Speaker 3: that South Korea is now having to weigh the first
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  Speaker 3: driving curbs in thirty five years since the Gulf War
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  Speaker 3: of nineteen ninety one. So what they are currently floating
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  Speaker 3: is basically what happened here in the oil crisis in
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  Speaker 3: the nineteen seventies, where depending on your license plate, you
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  Speaker 3: get to drive that day, odd number, day you get
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  Speaker 3: to drive, even number you get to drive. What I
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  Speaker 3: was shocked by this policy is already in place for
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  Speaker 3: civil servants, So every government employee in South Korea is
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  Speaker 3: already on a driving curb restriction. They're already voluntarily instituting
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  Speaker 3: all of these energies, say policies I told everyone yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: They're telling the citizens.
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  Speaker 3: Don't shower, you know, or take a shorter shower to
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  Speaker 3: save heating costs. I mean that's a crisis. I mean
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  Speaker 3: the vast majority of their oil comes from the natural
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  Speaker 3: comes from the straits of Horn moves their natural gas.
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  Speaker 3: This is a g I mean, a top economy in
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  Speaker 3: the world. Samsung car manufacturer, their stock market is getting
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  Speaker 3: just They're down twenty percent since the start of this crisis.
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  Speaker 3: This is a disaster for South Korea. And then think
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  Speaker 3: of Italy. You think there's any mystery why the Italians
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  Speaker 3: were like, all right, we're done, no more flights over
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  Speaker 3: our airspace. This is why, I mean, we have precipitated
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  Speaker 3: a real crunch in these countries. And these are just
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  Speaker 3: two that I've listed, you know, before I move on Crystal.
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  Speaker 1: But it is really bad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and these are you know, wealthy countries. They're already
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  Speaker 2: suffering and struggling. You can only imagine in the developing
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  Speaker 2: world the type of cuts and you know, the type
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  Speaker 2: of pain that they are all already experiencing. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean that is part of what is kind of sick
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  Speaker 2: about this situation is look, four dollars at the pump
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  Speaker 2: is nothing, Just like that's a problem, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have more problems. And there's you know, issues with
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  Speaker 2: the chips and the ilium and the fertilizer. All of
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  Speaker 2: that is very real. We're going to be a lot
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're going to have a buffer against the
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  Speaker 2: worst of these impacts. So we get to go out
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  Speaker 2: in the world create this total global economic catastrophe and
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  Speaker 2: then we're relatively relatively unscathed compared to the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the world against certainly compared to the developing world, which
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  Speaker 2: is by and large cord of the pulling adamantly opposed
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  Speaker 2: to this war whatsoever. So it is kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it is kind of sick. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: reflected in Trump with his like, oh, we don't even
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  Speaker 2: rely that much on this, you guys, go get your oil, Like.
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  Speaker 4: We created this disaster, created.
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  Speaker 2: This new reality with the straight of hormboos. No problems
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  Speaker 2: with the strait of Hormons before we came in and
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  Speaker 2: started doing our thing. And they're like, all right, rest
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  Speaker 2: of the world, which is already acutely suffering, go and
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  Speaker 2: figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: In good luck here to your point.
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  Speaker 3: Literally while you were talking, flashed from the AFP, Indonesia
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  Speaker 3: announces fuel rationing, order civil servants to work from home
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  Speaker 3: one day a week, price hikes due to the Middle
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  Speaker 3: Eastern War, Right, I mean, you got full blown rationing
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  Speaker 3: now in the developed world. Let's continue on down the line.
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  Speaker 3: For example, let's put D four up there on the screen.
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  Speaker 3: This will be no surprise considering what Trump has been.
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  Speaker 3: True thing about the UK just got its last tanker
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  Speaker 3: of jet fuel from the Middle East this week. So
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  Speaker 3: now what they are floating, this is unthinkable. They are
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  Speaker 3: floating having airports just saying no fuel here too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: imagine we're to London heat throw, probably one of the
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  Speaker 3: most busy.
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  Speaker 1: They'll probably be fine, but I don't know what. It's
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  Speaker 1: a smaller airport.
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  Speaker 3: What's the other one, Gatwick or whatever, like all these
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  Speaker 3: smaller airports throughout the UK.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, we're just we don't have any jet fuel.
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  Speaker 1: You can't you can't get right fuel here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the end of global commerce, of global travel
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  Speaker 3: if you have no jet fuel. They're saying that the
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  Speaker 3: European will have to now seek additional jet fuel supplies
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  Speaker 3: from refineries in West Africa and the United States. However,
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  Speaker 3: they will take weeks to get there. Even in the
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  Speaker 3: interim there could be a shortage, and when they arrive
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  Speaker 3: there will still be a dramatic increase in the overall price. Now,
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  Speaker 3: connecting it to what Rory just talked about, if you
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  Speaker 3: take jet fuel from the United States, you're literally it's
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  Speaker 3: a finite, relatively amount of supply. So that just means
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  Speaker 3: if you don't have a jet fuel shortage in the UK.
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  Speaker 3: You could have one in Mexico, in Guatemala or anywhere
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  Speaker 3: in Latin America. So somewhere somebody's going to get shafted.
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  Speaker 3: Let's continue down the line, Shell and.
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  Speaker 2: The era of you know, plane tickets and jet travel
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  Speaker 2: being like relatively affordable for middle class people that are
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  Speaker 2: is going to be at at least.
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  Speaker 4: For some time.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I told you, yeah, yeah, And I mean
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  Speaker 2: it does just fit with the sense of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: things that we sort of took for granted quality of
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  Speaker 2: life getting measurably worse and noticeably worse over the course
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  Speaker 2: of a lifetime. And you know, I think you can
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  Speaker 2: see that already with like how freaking expensive steak is
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  Speaker 2: and with no ine insight, and that's probably only going
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  Speaker 2: to get worse. And I think you could see the
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  Speaker 2: same thing with air travel, where it just becomes you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is something we beas can do and that's.
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  Speaker 1: It ultra luxury good.
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  Speaker 3: So I look, like I said, I was thinking about
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  Speaker 3: going to India, and so I look at the prices.
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  Speaker 1: The only cheap way is to go through.
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  Speaker 3: Katar, and you're like, just like, maybe we don't want
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  Speaker 3: to risk getting hit by a ballistic missile while we're
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  Speaker 3: in a plane. So okay, so what's it going to
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  Speaker 3: cost otherwise? Literally two over two thousand, five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 3: for economy tickets.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's insanity. That's like in my high head,
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  Speaker 1: it should be like twelve hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I'm extremely naive, but like, I mean, five
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  Speaker 3: thousand bucks for basic economy tickets just to be able
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  Speaker 3: to fly to India. Who speaking of India, let's put
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  Speaker 3: D seven up there on the screen. They're just I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're having a currency crisis. The Indian ruppee plunged ten
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  Speaker 3: percent and is now in the worst annual decline in
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  Speaker 3: fourteen years. And let me explain something about this too,
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  Speaker 3: because this is a big Asian problem. So what's happening
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  Speaker 3: right now is that Japan yesterday had the lowest I
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  Speaker 3: think yen to usd and not all time low, but
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  Speaker 3: extremely low.
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  Speaker 1: Also, you have the Indian rupee.
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  Speaker 3: What they're currently doing is to afford the high dollar
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  Speaker 3: price of crude oil, they are having to sell off
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  Speaker 3: vast amounts of its own currency that is deflating depreciating
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  Speaker 3: their own currency. So what they're having it's actually a
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  Speaker 3: dual crisis. To afford very expensive oil, they're basically having
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  Speaker 3: to sell off their own currency, which is creating problems
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  Speaker 3: for import export relative to all of these other goods
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  Speaker 3: that are around the world. There's some advantages to being devalued,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, not a ton. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: these foreign exchange traders and others are like you know,
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  Speaker 3: going after the Indian roopee or going after the Japanese yen.
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  Speaker 3: This also has major impact for US treasuries, for gold
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  Speaker 3: as well for other people have to sell off in
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  Speaker 3: those to be able to buy dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So all of Asia, from South Korea.
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  Speaker 3: Japan, now the Indian rupee, all of their currencies are
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  Speaker 3: getting hammered. And I think the point of this whole thing,
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  Speaker 3: let's put D eight up there as well, just to
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  Speaker 3: you know, underscore what you said. Africa is already in
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  Speaker 3: a full blown energy crisis. They're rationing, They're having to
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  Speaker 3: just straight up cut from various different sectors or telling
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  Speaker 3: others that they won't be able to fulfill orders. They're
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  Speaker 3: just not going to have gas at the pump. If
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  Speaker 3: this continues now for some time, especially some of the
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  Speaker 3: poorer nations, you will see full blown like zero supply
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  Speaker 3: in Africa, Asia. The rich countries like South Korea, Japan
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  Speaker 3: and others, they have strategic reserves. They're very rich. They'll
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  Speaker 3: be able to go out and buy, but it'll be crippling.
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  Speaker 3: India is right on the fence. They've got enough money,
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  Speaker 3: but they're really going to have to struggle. Bangladesh they're dead,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, Pakistan. I'm thinking about some of the
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  Speaker 3: Indonesia we talked about who you know, like they're right
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  Speaker 3: in the middle area where they have some money, but
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  Speaker 3: not a ton of money.
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  Speaker 1: They still have some poverty. They're really going to struggle.
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  Speaker 3: Sri Lanka already having you know, shortages in then outright
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  Speaker 3: poor countries are just it's decimation, yeah, right. And then
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  Speaker 3: here in the West, we have, i mean a literal
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  Speaker 3: probably the most inflationary environment since the nineteen seventies, or
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  Speaker 3: at very least with twenty twenty two, especially because we
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  Speaker 3: already have the existing inflation baked in from twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nightmare.
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  Speaker 4: Kiss your rate cuts, goodbye, rate cuts, your war.
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  Speaker 1: We crease the least of our problems.
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  Speaker 3: We're actually talking about, like genuine demand destruction, quality of
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  Speaker 3: life destroyed, now for years in the post COVID environment.
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  Speaker 3: So look, I mean we could be wrong, Like with
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  Speaker 3: the taco we could just settle around three point fifty
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  Speaker 3: a gallon, although I mean that's still high, right compared
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  Speaker 3: to where things were. It was two ninety before the
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  Speaker 3: war started, it and probably going down.
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  Speaker 1: That's where things headed. Rate cut was coming.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as of February twenty eighth, the day before the war,
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  Speaker 3: they were talking about three successive rate cuts.
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  Speaker 1: It's over now.
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  Speaker 2: Put D nine up on the screen because it's also
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  Speaker 2: very significant. This is India. Atom twos was highlighting this
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  Speaker 2: chart and said that it was one of the most
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  Speaker 2: significance that you could.
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  Speaker 4: Take a look at.
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  Speaker 2: So this is this chart shows where fertilizer plants in
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  Speaker 2: India have closed because of this actually cross South Asia
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  Speaker 2: because of LNG supply disruption. So again you can see
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  Speaker 2: the ripple effects here. And then fertilizer becomes more expensive,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's costs a lot more to grow food,
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  Speaker 2: and then food becomes more expensive, and your diesel is
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  Speaker 2: more expensive, so everything that has to be trucked to
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  Speaker 2: a store is more expensive. That's the way this ripple
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  Speaker 2: surround the entire economy and remember in the early days
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  Speaker 2: of the war, there was this like five D chest
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  Speaker 2: style cope of like, oh this is you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is really.
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  Speaker 4: Good to hurt, It's really good to hurt China. Not true.
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  Speaker 2: I saw an analysis that actually our GDP is projected
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  Speaker 2: to take double to hit that China's GDP is that
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  Speaker 2: they're actually better, not that they're going to you know,
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  Speaker 2: feel no pain either, but they are actually better positioned
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  Speaker 2: to weather this disruption than we are. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: in some senses, like the biggest winners of this war
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  Speaker 2: are exactly the people we position as our geopolitical adversary,
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  Speaker 2: certainly Russia, China, and if Iran ends up controlling this
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  Speaker 2: vital strategic asset of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran comes
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  Speaker 2: out much stronger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just think when you look at the way that
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  Speaker 3: things are now around the globe, and you know, because
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  Speaker 3: what we're trying to show everybody is it's and this
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  Speaker 3: is the framework that I was laying out yesterday was
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  Speaker 3: coked February twenty twenty COVID right, And one of the
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  Speaker 3: reasons I was panicking in February. I have all these
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  Speaker 3: friends in Asia and I follow all of these accounts,
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  Speaker 3: and I would just look at the daily toll in.
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  Speaker 1: Wuhan and I was like, Oh, that's really not bad.
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  Speaker 3: And then you would see the first case in South Korea,
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  Speaker 3: or in Japan or in you know, anywhere in the Philippines,
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  Speaker 3: and I would watch the exponential factor grow and eventually
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  Speaker 3: you're like, oh, we're just gonna shut down air travel.
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  Speaker 1: It's over.
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  Speaker 3: And you knew that a month before the lockdown ever hit.
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  Speaker 3: In the US, oil is kind of the same way.
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  Speaker 3: You have the heavily reliant countries which immediately have the shortage.
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  Speaker 3: Then you see the price roll through all of that,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what's coming here. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be as bad as a lockdown, but to me,
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  Speaker 3: just knowing the pocketbook effect of four to fifty a
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  Speaker 3: gallon gas, that's a disaster, right for a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: especially going in the summer, like Rory was talking about
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  Speaker 3: with the driving season, very similar, you know, to the
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  Speaker 3: July invade or to the February invasion of Ukraine. With
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  Speaker 3: the July twenty twenty two crisis, does everybody remember that
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  Speaker 3: some people really like shut down in terms of their spending.
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  Speaker 3: You all show created the whole k shape phenomenon. We're
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  Speaker 3: the only people who could afford to travel and fly
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  Speaker 3: at that time were the top ten percent, and then
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  Speaker 3: the bottom ninety actually just became a lot poorer the
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  Speaker 3: entire time. So if you look and put all this
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  Speaker 3: stuff together, you can very clearly see the global crisis,
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  Speaker 3: the effect that it will leave now, the effect of
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  Speaker 3: even the single the unilateral taco now of the mess
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  Speaker 3: they will have to clean up, the absolute abject mess.
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  Speaker 3: And then alternatively, if we do have to escalate anyran,
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  Speaker 3: what that would continue to create and to escalate in
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  Speaker 3: terms of we really just have no good options right now.
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  Speaker 2: So we wanted to turn our attention to this new
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  Speaker 2: law that just passed in Israel, which is really first
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  Speaker 2: of its kind, which applies effectively the death penalty to
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  Speaker 2: one ethnic group over the other. So Palestinians will be
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  Speaker 2: slated for death by hanging and it does not apply
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  Speaker 2: with you know, effectively no exceptions to Jewish Israeli. So
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  Speaker 2: let's put this up on the screen from Haretz. This
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  Speaker 2: is something that Ben Gaveri, you can see a picture there,
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  Speaker 2: has been pushing hard. He was celebrating with Champagne yesterday
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  Speaker 2: after this monstrous, ghoulish bill passed drew the Israeli kanesse
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  Speaker 2: It so Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians
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  Speaker 2: convicted of lethal acts of terrorism. The bill's wording creates
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  Speaker 2: a distinction designated almost exclusively for Palestinian terror, while the
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  Speaker 2: ideological burden of proof it sets is expected to make
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  Speaker 2: its application to Jewish nationalists terror difficult to possible. So
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  Speaker 2: let me give you guys a little bit of background,
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  Speaker 2: because even that headline is a bit misleading. So they say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to apply to Palestinians convicted of lethal
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  Speaker 2: acts of terrorism. That makes it sound like there's like
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  Speaker 2: a real judicial process where people get to go and
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  Speaker 2: they get to prove their innocence, and that it's only
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  Speaker 2: by and large going to be people who are definitely
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  Speaker 2: guilty of these horrific crimes who are going to be
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  Speaker 2: subjected to the death penalty. Even if that was the case,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that you have this blatantly apartheid law that
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  Speaker 2: only applies to Palestinians and not to Jewish israelis that
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  Speaker 2: is unacceptable to begin with. But we also have to
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind the people that this would apply to
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  Speaker 2: These are West Bank Palestinians by and large, who are
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  Speaker 2: convicted tried in military courts that are effectively kangaroo courts.
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  Speaker 2: The conviction rate is I've seen estimates anywhere from ninety
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  Speaker 2: six percent to ninety nine point six percent, So it's
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  Speaker 2: effectively show trials. We know the way that israelis not
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  Speaker 2: only sweep up Palestinians, you know, like just because they're
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  Speaker 2: military age males, but then they use torture to coerce
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  Speaker 2: confessions and they put them through these show trials, and
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  Speaker 2: those are the people who would be slated for execution.
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  Speaker 2: So it's incredibly, incredibly disturbing. You can put E two
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  Speaker 2: up on the screen. This is, as I said before,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: This is Benevie wearing here a pin that has a
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: picture of the hangman's noose there on his lapal, along
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: with his acolytes, all of them drinking champagne and cheering
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: about this mass deest. So this is one of the
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: other sponsors and pushers of this legislation, dressed up, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: excited about the ability to hang Palestinians to death. You
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: can see here some of the conditions that these I mean,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: they rightfully should be called hostages, not prisoners of Palestinians
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: the way that they are treated. And I even saw
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: one person who had been through these torture camps. You know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: these are the type of places where, of course we
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: had the right to rate protests and the horrific abuse
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: that's been documented by many human rights organizations. In any case,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I saw a Palestinian former hostage of the Israelis saying,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: you know, don't be sad about this, because many days
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: the torture was so bad that we actually wished for death.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: So Saga further codifying here a new way to mass
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: murder Palestinians, and further entrench and codify what is just
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: undeniably at this point in a part time state.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah again, the new law can only apply the death
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: penalty for homicides intended to negate the existence of the
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: state of Israel, which means it explicitly would rule out
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: like settlers and others who are convicted in the nineteen
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: nineties of gunning down a Palestinians. So this is I mean, look,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: let's call it the way that it is. And even
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: in Israel, you know, the so called like secular left,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: they're like, oh, this goes too far, Like this makes
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: it seem very explicit the way that we're applying the law,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: and we're like, yeah, that's kind of the problem by
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: the way, you know, with the entire system of the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: way that it's all working out. But I mean, I
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: just think it's just what we need to demonstrate. My goal,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I guess with all of this is just to show
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: the people that we've empowered and the society which is
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: supposedly so Western normal that we're protecting, that we are protecting,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: coddling and helping Expand that's the part which actually galls
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the most because a state like this, as you know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I'm not a moralist. If they want to exist, fine whatever,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: that's your business, but don't be asking me for my
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: money and your free healthcare and your defense and to
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: fight your war. And now it's to expand. Like just
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: this morning, the Israeli Defence Minister said we're declaring a
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: security buffer zone for the entire one third of Lebanon.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: That's one million people displaced. And when he says that
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: they're never leaving. They even said we're going to demolish
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: all homes on the border, just unilaterally. In the invasion
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: and annexation, a control I mean effectively security control, which
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: is you know, possession is nine tenths of the law
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: of this entire region.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: The world says nothing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: So we take this society, we're copying, pasting it onto
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: West Bank, onto Gaza, onto Syria, portions of northern Syria,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: and now onto Lebanon, empowering and paying for this Israeli
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: empire to I mean, think the think about the land
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: grabs that these people have made since October seventh.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's the craziest part.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know people get uncomfortable when you throw
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: this around, but it truly is a Nazi state and
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: a Nazi ideology. I mean, from the you know, expansionist vision,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: the Greater Israel project, the you know, repeated invasions and annexations,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: to the ethno supremacist ideology, and the outright the entrenchment
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: codification like from a state level of mass death, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: then the celebration like that even as next level, the celebration,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the wearing that noose and celebrating mass death, mass murder
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: in that way is truly something that is sick beyond belief.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, words fail to describe just how sick that is.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: But this comes from a you know, blanket dehumanization of Palestinians,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: where they are the ultimate evil. They are inherently bad.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: We are inherently good. That's what the ethno supremacist ideology means.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: We are inherently good. So anything we do is inherently good.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Anything we do to you is inherently good. And you know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: this thing passed without a problem, without a problem. Netanyahu
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: changed it a little bit to have some like little
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: bit of ass covering slight differences that make no essential
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: change to the actual functioning of the law. And so
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: you know, here we are. And just to underscore the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: point I was making before, put E three up on
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the screen. You know, these are these are kangaroo courts.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: These are military tribunals that Palestinians are subjected to. You know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the judges come right at their you know, their IDF judges.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: And the conviction rate according to nine seven to two magazine,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: and this is from a number of years ago. Other
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: estimates I've seen or ninety six percent, but what they
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: found is ninety nine point seven four percent. Okay, torture
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: which is used to coerce confessions. Palestinians swept up for
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: minor infractions children held in these prisons as well, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: then just blanket across the board, a mandate, a mandate
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: that if you are convicted in these kangaroo courts of
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: these certain crimes, that you will be hung to death
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: within ninety days of your conviction. Let's go ahead and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: put E four up on the screen. We've got a
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: little bit of polling here about the support for the war, which.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Continues to be extremely high.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Very different political landscape in Israel for the war with Iran.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Then here you still have seventy eight percent of Jewish
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Israelis to support continuing the war. Now, that is down
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: from the ninety three percent who supported it a month ago.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I guess you have some small percentage that are getting
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: tired of living in bomb shelters, but you know, you
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: still have overwhelming support.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: And then meanwhile, what.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: They call Arab Israelis, which are Palestinians who live in Israel,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: nineteen percent support the war. I guess originally it was
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: about twenty six percent. So you can see the way
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the society is completely divided here. We also wanted to
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: get to this incident that unfolded with CNN's Jeremy Diamond
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and his team on the ground, so his photojournalist was
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: actually assaulted by IDF soldiers and then he was Jeremy
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: was able to speak to these IDF soldiers and ask
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: them basically like what are you doing? And their responses
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: were incredibly, incredibly revealing about the way that the settlement
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: movement works and the way that they are supported by
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the IDF and by the state, and the way this
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: whole thing is designed. Let's go ahead and take a list,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: and this is a six to that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Producer Abir Selman identifies us as journalists translating the soldier's commands.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Down.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: So the soldiers just immediately came up and started pointing
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: the roAP wins directly at us, telling everyone to sit
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: down immediately. Obviously we're not posing any threat here.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: The commander comes straight for our camera and within seconds
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: who a soldier has just put photojournalist Cyril Theophilis in
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: a choke hold, forcing.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Him to the ground.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: I don't like that, don't touch him that. The soldier
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: who assaulted Theophilis continues to demand he turn off his
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: camera before another smacks my phone.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: So as you can see what we have seen happen
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: in the last twenty four hours is that settlers came
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: to this area. They settled that hilltop, and now you
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: have a lot of soldiers coming to this area with
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: the Palestinians in this area. They're on top of the
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: home of Imad, the man that we were just speaking to,
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: and we're seeing the soldiers treat the Palestinians in the
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: area as the threat, when really what started this problem
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: was obviously the settlers who came in the middle of
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: the night and took over land.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: That's not theirs. The Palestinians here are detained and questioned.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Soldiers detain us too and walk us back to our vehicle.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: They say they're trying to establish order between settlers and Palestinians.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: So then let's put the next piece up on the screen,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and this is a vo I'll read you what happens here.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: This is an exchange between Jeremy and one of the.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Soldiers who is you know.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: So they're having this interaction and Jeremy says they don't
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: have permission to be here, even under Israeli law. He's
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: talking about the illegal settler outpost. He says, even under
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: his really law, this is not a legal settlement. This
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: is one of these outposts that they strike up. The
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: soldier says, but it will be a legal settlement. It
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: will be Jeremy says, how do you know this slowly,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: slowly thanks to your help, right, Jeremy says, of course,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I help my people, says this IDF soldier. He goes
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: on to talk about how the reason that they're doing
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: what they're doing and helping these settlers is because of
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: quote unquote revenge, because of one of the settlers who
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: was killed in some sort of a car incident. That
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: details are very murky, but in any case, they explicitly
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: say that they are doing what they're doing because they
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: are seeking revenge. And you know, this is something that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Jasper Nathaniel has talked to us about.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: So you have these sort of.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Designated quote unquote by Israeli law legal settlements. They're illegal
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: under international law, but Israeli law says these, you know, settlements, Okay,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: these are officially sanctioned. And then what settlers will do
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: is they'll create these outposts. They'll just go in and
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: steal Palestinian land and set up a tent, you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: put a car there, and then gradually those outposts which
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: are illegal again, even under Israeli law, let alone under
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: an international law. Those settlements will grow and then eventually
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the state will come in and say, Okay, it's legal now.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: And so that's what the soldier is talking about there.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: He says, well, it's illegal now, but it's going to
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: be legal in the future, and Jeremy says, oh, your
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: helping is like, yeah, of course I help my people.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: And it just shows you exactly what's going on.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: What's really crazy about this is that for I don't
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: really know why, I don't pretend to understand, like the
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Zionist community in the US, but every once in a
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: while they just like pay attention. And so you know
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: that pogram that we covered a few weeks ago, for
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: some reason, they were all like, wow, Phoebe really needs
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: to do something about this. With this one, though, it's
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: pretty clear they just messed up. They messed with the
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: wrong journalists they happened to mess with, Yeah, from CNN.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: By the way, does anybody remember they just murdered those
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: two guys in Lebanon and they photoshopped his body onto
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: a Hesbola military uniform.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: They even admitted it. They're like, yeah, we photoshopped it right. Yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I mean these people, they don't care whatsoever. It's basically
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: in their training, in their idea of response. They're like,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: we have instituted, we've called back what the entire reservist brigade,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and we are going to retrain them. Yeah, and you're like, well,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: this behavior has been happening this whole time. The same
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: brigade is responsible. Didn't they kill a citizen of a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: US citizen. I believe they're responsible at least in some way,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: not to mention, you know, for all of their behavior.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: This is part and parcel I think for what they are.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: It also I think demonstrates the serious problems for the IDF,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: which the IDF chief even warned about. They're stretched to
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the brink. They've got these like reservist nineteen year olds.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: You know, five of them got killed yesterday in Lebanon.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: So that's a real disaster I think for society which
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: is not very big. And then they're stretched all across
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: the brink, and then you've probably just got the same
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: phenomenon of you know, putting people in various different places.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: No oversight this same culture or even encourage this with Gaza.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: This is what it creates.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: So this particular battalion is called the Netsa Yehuda ninety
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: seventh Battalion, and it's an ultra Orthodox Israelly military unit
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: and has come under scrutiny before. In fact, the Biden
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: administration considered sanctioning them because they, you know, have done
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: all sorts of wild things in the past as well.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I don't want to make it sound like they're out
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: of line with official government policy. They're not, but they
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: are a bit of an outlier in terms of their
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: aggressive tactics and I guess how brazen they are about it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And so this is, you know, this ultra Orthodox unit
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: that's set up to basically you know, comes from a
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: bunch of the settlers and set up because you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: they have religious restrictions on men and women serving together,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: et cetera. So that's what this particular battalion is. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: worth noting that the Biden administration considered sanctioning them but didn't,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: and apparently Tony Blinken himself intervened and convinced them like, no, no,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the Israelis will handle it. They're on in most moral
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: army in the universe, you know. Blah blah blah, and
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: so now they're doing this pr thing of pulling them
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: from the field and sending them from quote for quote
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: unquote retraining. As you said, I mean, it reminds a
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: little bit of like, you know, the ice like rampaging.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Like the training was really not the issue. The problem
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: was the mission that they were set on, the pot problems,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: what leadership wanted them to do. That's the problem here
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: as well, where it's not just this battalion, it's the
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: IDF in general, is there by and large to protect
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: settlers and help push forward the settlement movement. And they
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: understand that to be the mission. They understand that to
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: be what they're doing. They are a force for the
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Israeli government's project of continually expanding settlements and stealing Palestinian land.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: So Jeremy, actually, to his credit, who I think, handled
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: this all very admirably. He spoke to this in response
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: to the Israeli saying, oh, we're so sorry, and we're
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: going to pull them, we're going to retrain them, etc.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Let's take a listen to E.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Eight.
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: The Israeli military has indeed taken what appears to be
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: unprecedented action, and the results of this both in speed
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: and in scope with the Israeli military's chief of staff
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: suspending the entire battalion from operations in the West Bank,
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: sending them back for training, all of that happening within
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: forty eight hours of our report airing. In addition, Mayyar
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: that soldier that you saw speaking about revenge about helping
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: illegal settler outposts become legal, he has been dismissed from
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: the Israeli military altogether. The soldier who assaulted my cameraman,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: serial Theophilis, has been He is under investigation now by
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: Israel's military police. We will follow, of course, the results
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: of that investigation. But I do think it's important to
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: note that the swiftness and the scale of this response
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: is only really happening in large part because of who
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: we are, because we are journalists working for an American
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: news network. We have seen incidents similar to this before,
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: involving Palestinian journalists where there is no accountability. We have
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: also continued to watch as settler violence in the West
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: Bank has continued to increase at a dramatic pace, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: on that count as well, we have not yet heard
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: a sufficient response from the Israeli military about what they
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: are going to do to counter that growing settler violence
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: against Palestinians, and that is also an issue that we
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: will continue to cover extensively.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really appreciate him highlighting the fact that, Yeah,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: if this was a Palestinian journalist, they wouldn't have done
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: anything whatsoever. If anything, they would have arrested or criminal
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: as Palestinian journalists. And that's the flip side of the
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: conversation we were having earlier about how Palestinians are put through
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: this military quote unquote military court system where they're all
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: convicted with almost no exception. And then on the flip
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: side of that is when settlers steal land, brutalized Palestinians,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: even murder Palestinians, they almost never face any sort of
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: criminal conviction or accountability, which is what makes it even
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: more remarkable that Ben Gavier is actually convicted terrorists even
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: within Israel. That shows you what an absolute maniac and
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: racist monster that guy is.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Everybody go and follow Jeremy because don't forget, who's about
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: to buy CNN, And so I wouldn't be so sure
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: that David Allison and crew are going to allow any
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: reports like that anytime soon. The preview of their real
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: future was last night when Jake Tapper spent eight minutes
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: on a segment about Hassan Piker's anti septist Oh.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: My god, what a fucking And one of the guys, sorry,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: one of the guys that he had on his panel
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: about Big Tree too, was out all day defending the races.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know that race.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: It's Love mandating that Palestinians be mass murdered, and you know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: through this new system.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just a thing.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Do you all want? Eternity?
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Eight minutes is on cable television, So forty four minutes
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: in a one hour show, I'm just going to dedicate
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: eight minutes to this. Yeah, yeah, First of all, yeah,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: you could have done a segment on the Israeli thing
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: even that. I mean, if I had forty four minutes,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: I think our first block today was thirty eight minutes.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I could guarantee you that's not what I'm talking about.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I just I'm still gobsmacked by the entire thing.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: You know, look, Hassan and I have our differences, but
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: for fuck's sake, I mean, can we take this thing
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: like a little bit seriously?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah? So crazy?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that same dude too, By the way was one
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: of the ones who was like attacking Miss Rachel as
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: being anti Semitic for standing up for kids in Gaza.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: That's who they brought on for this panel about bigotry
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: where he instantly said that every Jew in the world
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: is associated with Israel and.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: You know loves that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's which was actually anti semitic and offered
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: on that panel.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: It's really anyway, I come for some people, and he's
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: just like for me, like if when you come from
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Miss Rachel, like I'm ready to go, like I'm ready
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: to fight as hard as I can.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I just I can't deal with these people.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: All Right, We've got one more rather dystopian story here.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: So Trump's been very excited about his big, ugly new ballroom.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Kyle calls it the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom that he's constructing.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: He let's slip a little interesting nugget about some of
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the facets of this ballroom yesterday.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Let's take a listen to that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: Now, the military is building a big complex under the ballroom,
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: that was filed. But the military is building a massive
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: complex under the ballroom and that's under construction, and we're
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: doing very well, so we're ahead of schedule. That's part
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: of it. And the ballroom essentially becomes a shed for
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: what's being built under the military, including from drones and
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: including from any other thing. The glass on the windows
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: you see the big windows, the glass is extremely thick.
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: It's high grade bulletproof glass, so all of the windows
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: are bulletproof. I think the Times wrote to you some
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: of the windows are fake. We have no fake windows.
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: They said. They talked about a stairway on this south.
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  Speaker 8: We don't have a stairway of this out that was
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: replaced a long time ago. But this is a view
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: of it from the north, and that's if you see it.
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: It fits in with the White House. It's almost a
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: twin to the White House. It's something we just wanted
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: to pay tribute to the White House.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: So there you go, admitting the military is building a
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: massive complex to do something underneath of this ballroom. And Sager,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: you and I were getting questions yesterday in Ama about this,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: and we hadn't seen this news yet, and we're like, oh,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: there was some YouTube thing about a data center. I
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: haven't seen any proof for it. And then Trump just
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: go just I mean.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I've had people I haven't proven right come up to
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: me on the street beg me to cover the ballroom
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: data center.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonn. This happened like three times. Yeah, and
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I'm always like, what the fuck are you talking about?
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: But i mean, listen, all right, let's let's put the
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: hat on first.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Let's give the innocent explanation. Here's the innocent explanation.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: The PIOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, is a piece
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: of shit. If you read let's say, I'm trying to
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: think there's a good book, Days of Fire.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Peter Baker, A History of the Bush presidency. Bush is stunned.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: The first time he has to go down there. He's
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: woken up in the middle of the night, like after
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: nine to eleven. The look sorry, you have to go
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: to the emergency bunker. And he goes down there and
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: it's like nineteen sixties technology. He's literally sleeping on a
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: cot like him and his wife, and he's like, this
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: is untenable. Apparently it's basically not been upgraded since that time.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: There's been minor cosmetic improvements, but it's a nineteen sixties
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: bunker At the end of the day, it's really not
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: that great.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: We want our presidents to write out the nuclear.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Populistion style, right exactly.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, well the rest anyone else watching paradise
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Not to give away too much, but yeah, so like
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: that's the that's the existing situation with the Presidential Emergency
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Operation Center in twenty twenty five, they had already reported
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: that they wanted to completely think about it. Trump He's
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: not going to be an unstylish bunker, right, so he
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: needs a nicer bunker to survive a nuclear.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Apocalypse that so springing upon us.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: So what is he gonna do? So he's gonna build
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: a new one?
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Well, the new one is well, the current one is
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: under the existing White House complex, So if you're going
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: to build this giant ballroom, you might as well put
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: a new piac underneath the boss. So that's the innocent explanation.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: At the same time, everybody else who's freaking out and
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: is like, well, if you have all these billionaires by
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: building these bunkers in New Zealand, and then the president
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: himself wants to build a new but you're like, what
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: does he know that I don't know, which is entirely
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: rational again for anybody who's watching the show Paradise. Again,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: not to give away too many spoilers, but it's actually,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: like on ironically, something that would happen. Secret knowledge people
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: with means building bunkers, especially in the middle of this
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Iran crisis.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe they know something that we don't. It's scary.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing, Like the President can't tell
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: there anymore than we can. He has access to additional
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: information that we don't, although I'm not even sure that's
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: true because apparently he has less information by his own choice,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: because he decides to just get these two minute hype
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: real briefings instead of consuming actual information. But in any case,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: he can't tell the future, but he knows. Oh I'm courting.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I am We are nuclear arm superpower. Our buddy Israel
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: is also nuclear armed, increasingly superpower. We are courding this
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: confrontation both with Russia and China and oh, by the way,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: around me pursuing nuclear weapon as well.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Do we put it on the realm of.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Possibility that Israel drops a nuke? No, we don't and
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: then off to the races. Who the fuck knows what
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: happens next? So I'm going to get a bunker. I'm
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: gonna make sure I'm good so i can play these
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: end times, you know, apocalypse games, because you know it'll
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: be fine. Me and my family and my aids will
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: be will be good. Good luck rest of the world.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Not to mention this again gets into the you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: the mentality of these old men who are running the world,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: who have no long term interest in survival of human civilization. Apparently,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Caroline Levitt was asked about this yesterday. Let's go ahead
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and take a listen what she had to say.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: Can you tell us more about this massive military complex
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: underneath the president's new ballroom.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you more about that.
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: Actually, as a matter of fact, however, the military is
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: making some upgrades to their facilities here at the White House,
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: and I'm not privy to provide any more details on that.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: At this time.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: So military making some upgrades. So it's not just Trump freelancing.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And also I just have to comment on and he's
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: holding up the board and whatever like this is what
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: he actually cares about, this friaking ballroom. This is the
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Passion project, right. He's sick of the Iran The Iran
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: war has become tedious to him. That's his issue with it,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: and he wants out of there, and he's looking at
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: the market. It's not going too good. I'm sick of
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: doing this. He just wants to focus on like his
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: gold trimmings and that are going into his nuclear bunker
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: so he can survive the apocalypse that he himself is created.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Look, I don't know this entire thing
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: is the bunker. Okay, but then let's have fun with
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: it aliens.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Right? Wait, what h with the buddy?
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: He needs to survive. They're going they're coming to kill
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: us all. They can't do anything about it. It's instead
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: of a nuclear apocalypse, he's going to go down there
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: and save himself and and his friends.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: What is possible?
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: What can't it out?
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: What is the data center theory of why they're building
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: a data center?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Secret data Look, I'm not rolling it out. I have not.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I have not fully delved into it. It's like some
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: secret military video installation.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: And it would be a large data center to I think,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: to collect information on all America, like some sort of
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: supercomputereers volunteers, yes, substate that would exist on I mean
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: a bunker to survive a nuclear or alien apocalypse makes
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: a lot more sense to me.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: That's just me, So I don't know.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Keep tell us your own theories, tell us your own
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: theories and maybe why it fits with the data centers.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you guys so much for watching. We
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: appreciate you. Wednesday, so Ryan and Emily on tomorrow. I
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: think Professor Pape is on tomorrow, right, yeah, so yeah, enjoy, enjoy,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: shake up and the Professor Pape interviews.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: You had to change his schedule. They'll see you then,