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DISBAND the UN? · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to get to this first article from Kareem over at BetBeat.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like this guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: He writes good stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's over in Asia, I believe, so he provides a slightly different outside perspective.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's...
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  SPEAKER_01: Got a pretty interesting suggestion here about disbanding the UN
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  SPEAKER_01: and why it makes sense at this point.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's start here.
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  SPEAKER_01: BetBeat.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: B-E-T-T-B-E-A-T. BetBeat.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are paid subscribers.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think this might actually be a paid article.
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  SPEAKER_01: A podium for genocide and the atom bomb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Time to disband the UN.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Kareem's thesis is, the UN was built out of the ruins of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's two founding nightmares.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this year, it handed the microphone to both of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, here we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Netanyahu walked to the rostrum with an ICC arrest warrant still hanging
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  SPEAKER_01: over him like a joke nobody was laughing at,
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  SPEAKER_01: and he called the delegations that walked out on him moral cowards.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think about the arithmetic of that sentence for a second.
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  SPEAKER_01: A man accused by the highest court humanity has managed to build of orchestrating
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  SPEAKER_01: the destruction of a captive population calling other people cowards.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the room let him.
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  SPEAKER_01: The translators translated.
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  SPEAKER_01: The cameras rolled.
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  SPEAKER_01: Somewhere in Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_01: a mother was digging with her hands while Netanyahu kept smirking that smirk
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  SPEAKER_01: on Arrested and protected by Mamdani and the rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two days before that,
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump had used the same podium to muse aloud about whether to annihilate Iran
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  SPEAKER_01: and drive 90 million people into hell with no chance of survival,
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  SPEAKER_01: like he's a WWE character.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said it the way I'd wonder aloud whether I'd want fries or spaghetti.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Canadian Prime Minister scrolled his phone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Reporters counted the empty seats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody actually reflected on the absurdity and total moral collapse of the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: That a U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: president standing at the institution supposedly built
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  SPEAKER_01: to prevent exactly this was indirectly threatening an innocent people
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  SPEAKER_01: with nuclear annihilation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two days later,
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  SPEAKER_01: a prime minister overseeing modern history's most brutal genocide stood in
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  SPEAKER_01: that same spot pontificating.
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  SPEAKER_01: People will tell you that the UN is a forum,
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  SPEAKER_01: a space for dialogue, an imperfect but necessary whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've heard the phrases my whole adult life.
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  SPEAKER_01: They said the same things about the League of Nations
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  SPEAKER_01: while Mussolini was gassing villages in Ethiopia and Japan was tearing
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  SPEAKER_01: through Nanking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Institutions built to prevent atrocity that instead sit politely through are not neutral.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is no neutral.
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  SPEAKER_01: You either interrupt the mass murder or you lend it legitimacy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Decades of resolutions and plausible genocide accusations have done nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Zero.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brown University has documented that the American Empire's war on terror has killed millions.
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  SPEAKER_01: The UN stood by, passed some resolutions, and sometimes even greenlit the killing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or were silent while it was happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: A global display of moral cowardice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kareem continues, I don't buy the line that the UN is broken.
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  SPEAKER_01: Broken implies that it was ever meant to work the way we were told.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look at what it actually does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Consistently.
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  SPEAKER_01: Decade after decade.
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  SPEAKER_01: The purpose of a system is what it does.
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  SPEAKER_01: It launders empire.
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  SPEAKER_01: It gives the powerful a place to say their crimes aloud in diplomatic language
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  SPEAKER_01: and walk out through a side door absolved.
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  SPEAKER_01: I talked about this today earlier with Matt and Jay over at the homeless left.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go check that out.
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  SPEAKER_01: The delegates who got up and left when Netanyahu started talking,
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  SPEAKER_01: that was the only honest gesture of the whole week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even that was choreography because they'll be back next September and he
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  SPEAKER_01: or someone worse will be back next September
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  SPEAKER_01: and Empire's mass murder will continue next September.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in the back rooms,
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  SPEAKER_01: they'll all kiss Netanyahu's feet and sign fresh arms deals for weapons field-tested
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  SPEAKER_01: on Palestinian children.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we get to disband the UN and this is what I cannot get past is Kareem's statement
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  SPEAKER_01: and I agree with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the part where my brain just stops working.
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  SPEAKER_01: The United Nations was founded in 1945 for two reasons and two reasons only.
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  SPEAKER_01: One, to prevent another genocide and two, to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those were the ghosts it was built to keep buried.
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  SPEAKER_01: The UN was built out of the ruins of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this year,
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  SPEAKER_01: in the span of 48 hours on that same stage,
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  SPEAKER_01: under that same blue flag,
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  SPEAKER_01: we watched a man credibly accused of genocide take the microphone right
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  SPEAKER_01: after we watched a nuclear-armed president openly float the annihilation of
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  SPEAKER_01: a country of 90 million.
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  SPEAKER_01: The two founding nightmares of the institution delivered
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  SPEAKER_01: as keynote addresses back-to-back to polite applause.
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  SPEAKER_01: And everyone just went along with it,
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  SPEAKER_01: filed their stories, attended the receptions, talked about tone and walkouts.
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  SPEAKER_01: How?
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  SPEAKER_01: How is this thing still standing?
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  SPEAKER_01: How is no serious government stood up and said the obvious,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is that an institution that hosts the exact horrors it was built
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  SPEAKER_01: to prevent has no reason to exist anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Disband it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Salt the ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: Put something honest in its place or put nothing at all because whatever this is,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's not protecting us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll go even further and say that it's being used as a bludgeon
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  SPEAKER_01: to keep poorer nations down,
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  SPEAKER_01: to remove their vote, even though they can say something on the world stage.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the end, when the U.S. can veto anything, what's the point?
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  SPEAKER_01: So that somebody can have a say?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not good enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just not good enough anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not after three years of genocide.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just walking out on this guy,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: again, Mamdani said he was going to arrest this guy if he showed up in New York.
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  SPEAKER_01: We saw how that worked out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump showed up at his door, I think, and basically threatened him, I'm sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: UN is a political, is a US political pawn?
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not just UN, but a pawn of imperialism.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've used it as a way to try to punish Russia,
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  SPEAKER_01: even though Russia at one point had the ability to call new speakers and everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is nice that somebody from Iran can stand up on a world stage and speak,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they don't need to be in front of delegated representatives from other countries
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  SPEAKER_01: to do so.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's got a phone now.
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  SPEAKER_01: And BB was quick to remind everybody of that act of terror while they were at the UN
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  SPEAKER_01: of the two-year anniversary now of the Pager terror attack that they then...
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  SPEAKER_01: Threatened Norman Finkelstein with,
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  SPEAKER_01: which we covered 18 months ago or so,
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  SPEAKER_01: where Baytar U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: and the JDL,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is now literally considered a terrorist organization in the United States,
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  SPEAKER_01: where they were, again, threatening terrorism.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they're doing it on a regular basis now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody stopped them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody has stopped them.
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  SPEAKER_01: If anything, we've continued to arm them, and we've continued.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, thank you, Longmeadow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good to see you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good to see you over at the homeless left.
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  SPEAKER_01: The UN should be disbanded.
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  SPEAKER_01: How do they justify where one law cannot be passed because one country has vetoed
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  SPEAKER_01: a block over 100?
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  SPEAKER_01: 100%, man.
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