Sometimes the Lord, she ain't always around
Cause you know I still love to hear those guitar
Of a woman I found
Just to show her I'm just a fan of her
Play me the song about her
Put a cold one in my hand
Cause you know I still love to get drunk in here
Controversy
Don't play ol' cheese
It's the van
I got a heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeo
Fuck it, let me get you right, step right
Get off the stage, you got damn good, you know
Piss me off
Fuckin' jerk
Get on my nerves
Well, here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand
He's one ball man and he's off to the rodeo
Let me get you right, step right
Get off the stage, you got damn good, you know
Piss me off
Fuckin' jerk
Get on my nerves
Fuck cause I'm off to the rodeo
Let me get you right, step right
Get off the stage, you got damn good, you know
Piss me off
Fuckin' jerk
Get on my nerves
Well, here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand
He's one ball man and he's off to the rodeo
Piss me off
Fuckin' jerk
Get on my nerves
Drinking dances, no place else to go
We'll stay out all night long
We'll toss a break down
Hell, let it let's go
To the Motel Cabo Show
Where the road won't fall
But I'm the same pretty old quote
In the trailer that you rode
To the Motel Cabo Show
Where the park will be in a line
Underneath the cold beach sign
It's a long, long way to ride
But I should ask you why
Something stronger will be fine
Hell, let it let's go
To the Motel Cabo Show
Where the drinking dances, no place else to go
We'll stay out all night long
We'll toss a break down
Hell, let it let's go
To the Motel Cabo Show
Where the road won't fall
But I'm the same pretty old quote
In the trailer that you rode
To the Motel Cabo Show
Where the road won't fall
Not bad for a hockey talk, baby
But it's a long, hard road to climb
So far ahead of time
And you never sleep a dime
You're so far ahead of your time
To the Motel Cabo Show
Where the bearing road's too cold
Well, stay out all night long
We'll toss a break down
Hell, let it let's go
To the Motel Cabo Show
Where the dust will soon kick in
And the fun
Will soon begin
The fun
Will soon begin
And the world
To the Green Luke School
Baby, it's fun
Ain't no singing here
Now, J.M. Wake up
Okay, there is no need for that name called
You, bitch!
Clean, you got a second one
That's what my family's murdered by the CIA, Steve
Won't you fax that thing up?
Y'all talking about eating house in here?
Why are you talking about eating house in here?
The idea of comedy, really, is not everybody should be laughing
It should be about 50 people laughing
And 50 people glorified
Trying to have serious conversations
About serious things
Y'all talking about eating the booze
So I should nip it in the bud
Nobody can dispute the fact
That we need
Tony Fauci Gumbo's suppository
You have direct incision
Sometimes I retract into my shell
In order to avoid some of the drama
That we've seen recently
Did you hear the question, Senator?
Running for reelection in 2026
Spooks in Spain
If you want to fight against a country
You need a F-15
You need some a little more than a gun
No, I'm not joking
Think about this
Taxation is failed
I love you guys, we'll see you soon
Good luck to us all
But wait, there's more
You're right now not in a very good position
You're gambling with World War III
For the American people to see what's going on
Now, there's a lot of journalists here
It was like a great Michael Tracy
Who we met in that festival, the Icarus Festival
In Rutherford of Journalists
And I've had him on the show at his point
And I brought this up and wrote this down
His point is that he's probably a peddler
Is who?
Well, Tracy
Well, that's being charitable
I would say he's probably a Hasbara
Something, but
Jenna was like, that guy likes girls at age
That's why he's defending it
But that's just speculation
Hold on, I think that's a little unfair
Because sometimes what if he just wants to be a contrarian?
Fuck you
Oh, on eating children
I might be in a purity spiral
But I feel like
Fuck you, Michael
Fucking Tracy, you fuck
Yo
My joke about this shit is
I didn't see the Nickelodeon molester documentary
Because I'm backed up
On molester documentaries
Really child
But I'm being cleaned up
For our society, you can't say the name of the crime
I believe this probably
Yo, does anybody notice it's everything?
I got into it with a random
Boomer at the gym on Saturday about
Israel, let's talk about it
Before I continue, no, this is not satire
I still cannot believe this happened
This is a real legitimate conversation that happened
Okay, Saturday afternoon
Just hours after the United States
And Israel
Struck Iran with missiles
Bombed them
I've had the gym minding my business
With my fiance
We're on the cables doing chess flies
Dude comes over
I'd say he was probably about 60
Asking about
How many sets we have left and all that good stuff
I politely let him know that we'll be on it
For a while, we just got there
He says, okay
But before he turns to walk away
He looks me up and down and says
Wow, you know, I'm glad that
You're staying strong, we might need you soon
Do you hear about the new war that's starting?
I was like, yeah
Unfortunately I did hear about it
But I just want to be clear, I'm not fucking dying for Israel, brother
He's like, oh well
You might not have a choice, there might be a draft
We need young Americans to go fight
There might be a draft
And I was like, dude, I don't know
How many different ways
I can explain this to you, I don't care if there's a draft
I don't care what the fuck they try and do
I'm not going
Right?
The average American
Does not fucking want anything to do with this
This is clearly another one of Israel's
Wars that they're dragging
The United States into
We should not be anywhere
Near that region right now
So no
I don't want to be involved with that shit
What the fuck
The disconnect
Between the boomer mentality and young people is insane, bro
Boomers obviously
Have suffered from decades and
Decades of TV news propaganda
A lot of these boomers are not really on
Social media or if they are
I mean, Zionists control all social media as well
So it's just whether they go from the phone
To the TV
There's no discernment there
All they know is pro-Israel
All they know is pro-war
And it's just
It's so sad and frustrating, man
The
The average older person and their
Unwavering support for Israel and their
Unwavering support for any fucking war
That the United States is involved in
Is just truly mind-boggling, bro
And young people
Are waking up, young people don't want
Either one of those things
I'd say like if you're 40 and under
And that's just a rough estimate, obviously
There are exceptions to the rule
Young people do not fuck with
Israel, support them in any way, shape, or form
Young people are ashamed and frustrated
And pissed off
That our tax dollars fund their health care
And their military, right
Young people
Want nothing to do with
Israel's military action or to support them
In any way
And the way boomers are just
Always ready to go to war
Is just sickening, dude
It's a fucking joke
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This act, the Federal Reserve Act, establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth.
When the president signs this bill, the invisible government by the monetary power will be legalized.
The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years
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I'm not saying that's why what happened to his grandson happened.
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They didn't just burn the books, they destroyed the printing plates, banking and currency
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And this book, which is about how and why those bankers tried to get us into World War
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And he wasn't just anyone.
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And it named names that JP Morgan controlled almost all of Wall Street.
Orberg, Schiff, Peabody, Rockefeller, Strong.
He called them all out, so they silenced him.
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Iran has never attacked a neighbor.
Israel has repeatedly attacked its neighbors.
Iran signed the Non-Politeration Treaty.
Israel has refused to sign.
Iran submits to inspection.
But by the International Nuclear Energy Agency, Israel refuses to submit.
Iran has no nuclear weapons.
Israel has between 75 and 400 nuclear weapons.
So Israel poses an existential threat to Iran.
For the last 40 years, Israel has conducted a systematic campaign of this
information about Iran.
Why the lies?
Why the double standards?
Why the hypocrisy?
After interrogation, children are brought here for trial over military prison near Jerusalem.
The army would not let four corners film inside.
I've been behind these walls three times.
I saw children shuffling across the courtyard, handcuffed and shackled.
Some hearings lasted 60 seconds.
I saw one boy shout the name of his prison so his mother would know where he was being held.
I saw the judge convict some children without even once looking at them.
Through it all, what I saw was a conveyor belt of convicted children.
I think I have to give you some indication of how efficient from a military perspective
this system is.
According to the military court's own records, their annual report,
the courts have a conviction rate of around 99.74%.
Typically, a Palestinian boy convicted of throwing stones will be sentenced
to about three months imprisonment.
The United Nations Children's Agency, UNICEF, last year released a scathing report
on Israel's system.
It found that Palestinian children had been threatened with death,
physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault
against themselves or a family member.
The report found that that ill treatment was widespread, systematic
and institutionalized throughout the system from the moment
that the child was arrested right up until the sentencing process.
Last month, under pressure from human rights groups, Israel stopped
a long-standing practice of keeping children overnight in outdoor cages.
Children had been kept freezing in the cages during snowstorms.
Iran has never attacked a neighbor.
Israel has repeatedly attacked its neighbors.
Iran signed the non-proliferation treaty.
Israel has refused to sign.
Iran submits to inspection by the International Nuclear Energy Agency.
Israel refuses to submit.
Iran has no nuclear weapons.
Israel has between 75 and 400 nuclear weapons.
So Israel poses an existential threat to Iran.
For the last 40 years, Israel has conducted a systematic campaign
of disinformation about Iran.
Why the lies?
Why the double standards?
Why the hypocrisy?
One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is people talk
about how much energy it takes to train an AI model relative to how much
it costs a human to do one inference query.
But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human.
It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat
during that time before you get smart.
And not only that, it took like the very widespread
evolution of 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned
not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out science
and whatever to produce you and then you took whatever.
So here's what's going on.
I don't want to scare anyone.
These people all believe that they are communicating
with some ancient Sumerian deity.
I know this kind of actually kind of I have kind of sources on this.
They believe they're they really do.
They believe they are communicating with super intelligence
and and they do believe and he just said it out loud.
By the way, he literally just said he was like
100 million years of evolution, all of the 20 years of life.
They have all led to this point.
And this point is when we are going to give birth, as I've said
on the show before, because this is their main goal to the AI demon.
They want to give birth to the AI demon,
the super intelligent AI who is then going to run the planet
and decide who stays, who goes, who's necessary, who's not.
They're pretty open about this.
This is the thing about all of the AI people, all of the tech people.
They really are, you know,
they really are pretty transparent when it comes
to what they want to do and what they need to do in their minds
because they go, if China gets to it first, if China unleashes the AI demon
before we unleash our AI demon, our American AI demon,
Western values, America, Ra Ra, AI demon
and China enslaves their population with their demon.
They will sell the world, their demon.
And then that demon will enslave the world and then they'll make all the money
and they'll have all the political geopolitical leverage
and they'll have all the military advantages.
So in this quote, AI arms race, we are both racing
the US and China to give birth to an ancient Sumerian
super intelligent demon and your aunt Connie in Phoenix,
who's a receptionist, is fucked.
Because that's what's going on and you got to tell her that.
You go, Connie, I hope you save money
because there are men in Silicon Valley
who are communicating with an ancient Sumerian God.
What? Connie, will you sit down and listen to me?
Connie, have you saved your money?
I've saved a little bit of it, but, you know,
the prices at the grocery store are so high.
Connie, you have 18 months before your ass is out of that office.
There's an ancient Sumerian God that Sam Altman and Peter Thiel
are communicating with and they're going to give birth to an AI demon.
What? It's a demonic force that's going to take form
through artificial intelligence.
And we have to do it before China does.
Well, that sounds scary.
You have no idea how scary it is, Connie, and you better save your money.
You've got 18 months, 18 months left before this AI
demon is going to do your job.
An ancient Sumerian God is going to do my job.
Yes. Yes.
How many times do I have to explain this to you, Connie?
An ancient God before Jesus, before Yahweh, before Muhammad, before any of that.
I mean, an ancient Connie.
I don't even know what to start with you sometimes.
We have finally invented a way to summon this demon
and bring it back to earth to increase efficiency.
It should be examined to make sure that all the nipples are OK.
Sometimes a bitch will come earlier, sometimes a few days later.
Every bitch should be checked for brucellosis.
Why is it important that a bitch not be overweight?
Overweight bitches have an overweight bitch, a fat bitch, a bitch,
and you should exercise the bitch.
Approximately how long can a bitch go?
A lot depends on the bitch.
Milk the bitch, calm the bitch down.
Watch your bitch.
Try to milk the bitch like a cow.
By now you should know your bitch is pregnant.
Typical behavior.
Oh, for heaven's sake.
I would like to understand how that's permissible.
It doesn't matter.
We all are abiding by the same rules.
I will take that down.
Yeah, well, I would like to take a break at this.
Yeah, I'd like to have a conversation for now.
Go off the record.
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Let's get right into this first clip from Dave DeKamp of antiwarnews.com.
Hey, this is Dave DeKamp from antiwar.com.
And welcome to Antiwar News.
It's about 9.30 on Wednesday night here in Virginia
as we're getting started here.
Lots of stuff to go through, as usual.
The first story at the top of antiwar.com today.
U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have killed over 1,000 civilians.
So U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday
boasted of the death and destruction
the U.S. military can rain down on Iran.
As reports say that U.S. and Israeli air strikes
have killed over 1,000 Iranian civilians in just four days.
Hegseth said at a press briefing that the U.S. and Israel
should soon have complete control of Iranian skies.
And he said that that would mean, quote,
Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power
every minute of every day until we decide it's over.
And Iran will be able to do nothing about it.
B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, Predator drones,
fighters controlling the skies, picking targets,
death and destruction from the sky all day long, end quote.
Hegseth said that the war was not meant to be a fair fight
and mentioned that the administration has loosened the rules
of engagement for the military.
He said, quote, our war fighters have maximum
authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly.
Our rules of engagement are bold, precise
and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it.
This was never meant to be a fair fight and it is not a fair fight.
We are punching them while they're down,
which is exactly how it should be, end quote.
So just brutality and barbarism from Hegseth here.
Again, as so many civilians are being massacred
in this bombing campaign, Hegseth said that in the attack
on Iran, which he has dubbed Operation Epic Fury,
the U.S. military has delivered twice the air power
of shock and awe in Iraq in 2003,
referring to the massive bombing campaign
that opened the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
So without any sort of debate in Congress,
without without even trying to sell the war
to the American people, this administration
has started a bombing campaign twice as big
as the opening weeks of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
And chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kain,
said at the conference that the U.S.
has hit over 2,000 targets inside Iran so far.
So the Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA,
a U.S.-based and U.S.-funded NGO
that's very critical of the Iranian government set on Tuesday night
that at least 1,097 civilians have been killed
and more than 5,000 have been wounded.
So a huge civilian death toll.
This is after four days.
And citing Iranian medical authorities,
Al Jazeera also reported on Wednesday
that over 1,000 civilians have been killed.
So both from sources, you know, the NGO
that's very critical of the government
and medical authorities inside Iran
are saying over 1,000 civilians killed.
And with the lack of communication,
internet blackouts and things across Iran,
these numbers are likely in undercount.
The HRANA said there was another 800 or so reported civilian deaths
that they were trying to confirm.
They said they've only confirmed a few dozen military deaths.
They're saying that that's more difficult for them to do
because of, you know, these things happening at bases
and not having access to that information.
But just a huge, huge civilian toll here.
And of course, the worst known civilian massacre
occurred on the first day of the bombing campaign
when a missile struck an elementary school in Minab,
southern Iran, killing at least 165 people, mostly students.
Hegseth was asked about the strike
and whose munitions struck the school.
And he said that the U.S. military
was investigating the matter.
And now a map, I'll show it to you here,
a map that they had displayed at this press conference
showed the strike zones that the U.S. has hit.
And if you see this green dot,
somebody plotted the location of the Minab school.
It's right in the center of one of these areas
where they're saying that the U.S. bombed.
And again, it was close to an IRGC base.
So the evidence is suggesting that it was a U.S. strike
on this school, just absolutely horrific.
And the way that they, when asked about it,
just so flippantly like,
oh, we wouldn't intentionally target civilians,
they're investigating that.
Next question, not even saying that it was horrible
or offering any sympathy or anything like that.
Just move on, I don't wanna talk about that.
So of course, the civilian death toll is going to rise
as this bombing campaign is escalating.
That was Hegseth's message at this press conference
that they're going to escalate
this bombing campaign.
And he said more forces are on their way
and they're gonna start dropping gravity bombs.
Once they get that air control,
instead of the standoff missiles,
the precision guided missiles that jets,
things can fire from far away,
they're gonna drop the bigger bombs
like the things we've seen Israel drop on Gaza.
So Hegseth said, quote,
more bombers, fighters are arriving just today.
And now with complete control of the skies,
we will be using 500 pound to 1,000 pound and 2,000 pound GPS
and laser guided precision gravity bombs,
which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile, end quote.
So it's gonna get more brutal.
And he said it could last four weeks,
five weeks, up to eight weeks.
Who knows how long it's gonna last.
But again, the message was we're just getting started.
That's what he was saying.
Again, just absolute barbarism here.
So the next one,
report says that Hegseth and Rubio are at odds
over US troops in Iran.
So this article's from Middle East Eye.
Tensions are rising between US Secretary of War,
Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
over the US's approach to the war on Iran,
three former US officials
and a senior regional official told Middle East Eye.
Rubio and Hegseth were described
as at each other's throats
over the question of whether the US should deploy troops
to Iran at Israel's request,
the sources told Middle East Eye.
So that suggests that Israel has asked
for the US to send troops into Iran.
And Hegseth is supportive of the position
while Rubio is deeply wary of entangling the US
in a long war.
Now, that might sound surprising coming from Rubio,
but one of the things about Rubio is,
he's as hawkish as you can get generally,
but he's not stupid.
Hegseth, on the other hand,
seems like he just wants to go
just diving right into this thing.
And Rubio, I think also wants the US
to keep focusing on Latin America.
He wants that Cuba regime change.
And I think he might know that if, you know,
we start sending troops into Iran,
it could really delay that.
I think that's his ultimate goal.
The US has mainly confined its operations
to airstrikes and standoff strikes
using cruise missiles and ballistic missiles,
but CNN reported this week that the CIA
has begun training and arming Kurdish fighters
to operate in Iran.
And one Gulf official told Middle East Eye
that US officials have discussed
sending special operations teams into Iran
to target senior IRGC officials
and people familiar with Iran's nuclear program.
And so that is something that's been discussed.
So, you know, and I think we're headed
in that direction, them placing, you know,
trying to conduct special operations raids,
maybe from Iraq.
You know, it just seems like they're just ready
to escalate and escalate here.
But interesting, you know, if this report is true,
if it's right, it's kind of an interesting dynamic,
but I do think it's believable
just based on what we're seeing from Hegseth.
That, you know, that he's willing,
that he wants to send the troops in.
All right, so the next one here,
US Navy submarine uses torpedo
to sink Iranian warship near Sri Lanka.
So a US submarine sank an Iranian warship
with the torpedo in the Indian Ocean
off the coast of Sri Lanka,
marking an escalation and widening
of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed
during a press briefing that the US sank the vessel.
This is what he said, quote,
yesterday in the Indian Ocean,
an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship
that thought it was safe in international waters.
Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo.
Quiet death, the first sinking of an enemy ship
by a torpedo since World War II, end quote.
Otherwise his quiet death, what's quiet about that?
I guess the submarine was quiet.
I mean, just the way he talks about this stuff
like gleefully, it's really just evil to me.
And he tries to,
he proclaims that he's a Christian
while committing things like this.
It's just very bad.
So the Iranian ship, the frigate, Iris Denna
had been making its way back from a visit to India
where it participated in an international naval exercise
and visited a port in India.
So it was not involved in the war.
It was not engaged in combat operations.
You can see the video here of the strike.
It was thousands of miles away from Iran
and it was coming back from India,
which is a US ally state friendly with the US
and they just blew it up, sank it,
let the, you know, didn't rescue survivors,
just let the Sri Lankan Navy deal with it.
And then that was that.
So they're just really, you know,
who knows what they're gonna do next.
So the next one here, names and ages of children
killed in strike on Iranian school.
So Middle East, I published a partial list of the students
of the little boys and girls who were killed
and murdered in this just horrific opening day of this war.
It's a partial list.
They say the death toll is 165 is the latest number
that includes mostly, most of them over a hundred
are young girls and young boys
and then some staff and parents.
And you can see their pictures here.
This is a partial list of 25 boys, 26 girls, eight women,
one man and a two month old baby.
And their names are all listed here
and you can see pictures of them.
I mean, these are little, just little kids.
You can see their graves there.
It's just so horrific how this thing started.
And the next one here,
Senate fails to halt Trump's of war on Iran.
So this is just disgraceful.
The Senate on Wednesday voted against advancing
a war powers resolution aimed at halting
further US military action against Iran
without authorization from Congress
amid the major US Israeli bombing campaign in the country.
The resolution introduced by Senators Tim Kaine
and Rand Paul, so it was bipartisan,
but it failed in a vote of 47 to 53.
Rand Paul was the only Republican to support it
and the Republicans had help from John Federman,
Democrat from Pennsylvania.
He's come out very strongly in favor of the war.
He's extremely pro-Israel.
The resolution was defeated
even as the Trump administration is making it clear
that it intends to escalate the conflict
and that it's considering sending troops into Iran.
And so Kaine's point was,
this is the recorded vote
and so they're on record now
for where they stood on this war,
in the future when everybody looks back.
And I suspect that the consensus is gonna be,
this was a disaster,
they're gonna look back and they'll have this record.
And the House debated its own war powers resolution
on Wednesday, but a vote is not expected until Thursday.
So call your House representative.
The one in the House,
I think has a little more of a chance of passing
because you have at least two Republicans
who are gonna support it, Massey and Davidson.
And I'm hoping a few more might join them.
It just doesn't hurt.
Give them a call and say, just express.
I mean, it's just, look at this next story here.
So Congress isn't doing anything to stop this.
I mean, again, the Senate vote failed.
Hopefully the House won't passes,
but then it would have to go back to the Senate anyway.
But this is what the Trump administration is saying.
The next one here, the White House says
that the U.S. launched the war
because Trump had a feeling that Iran would attack.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said on Wednesday
that the U.S. launched the war with Iran
because President Trump had a feeling
that Iranian forces were going to attack first.
Leavitt made the comments when pressed on the claims
that there was an imminent threat facing the U.S.
that justified the joint U.S. Israeli attack on Iran.
She listed a series of talking points
about how Iran posed a so-called threat to the U.S.
and said that the president, quote,
had a feeling based on the fact
that Iran was going to strike the United States,
was going to strike our assets in the region,
and he made a determination
to launch Operation Epic Fury
based on all those reasons, end quote.
So Trump had a hunch,
and that's why they launched this huge disastrous war
that has so far killed over 1,000 Iranian civilians
and at least six U.S. soldiers.
And President Trump made similar comments the day earlier
when he was asked about Rubio saying
that one reason why they attacked
was because Israel was planning to attack.
He said, no, I thought,
I believed that they were going to attack us,
so we just did it.
But Pentagon officials, you know, the Pentagon planners
told Congress on Sunday that there was no evidence
that Iran was planning to launch an attack
if they were an attack first.
So they're just lying, you know, it's just so absurd.
And then look at what Trump had to say on Wednesday.
He claimed that, oh, if I didn't do anything,
Iran would have had a nuclear weapon in two weeks.
That's what Trump said.
That's how stupid he thinks you are.
That's how stupid he thinks we all are,
that people are going to buy that.
After saying that the nuclear program was obliterated
and there's just no evidence.
I mean, the consensus is that Iran's unable to
enrich uranium at the moment.
You know, they need to rebuild their facilities
and they're going around and making these claims.
Steve Wittkoff made a similarly absurd claim
during the negotiations,
which pretty much when I saw that,
I was convinced that there was just no chance
that they were serious about these negotiations.
Next we have this clip from Rachel Blevins
with guest, Patrick Henningson.
We now to discuss is Patrick Henningson,
a journalist, geopolitical analyst,
host of the 21st Century Wire
and writer at patrickhenningson.substack.com.
Patrick, thanks so much for taking the time to join me.
Great to be with you, Rachel.
Great to have you on the show.
Now, I know you were just in Iran a few weeks ago
and now that is the place where we are all watching
and waiting as you have the U.S. and Israel
launching a full-on war here.
You have President Trump telling CNN on Monday morning
that, quote, we haven't even started hitting them hard.
The big wave hasn't even happened.
It's coming soon.
Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth,
just gave a press conference where he refused to rule out
deploying U.S. troops to Iran.
And this comes as Iran has, of course,
responded to U.S. and Israeli attacks by targeting
not only Israel, but over a dozen U.S. military bases
in the region.
So how do you view the current state of tensions
and also Trump's warnings given the warnings
that we've heard about the current state
of U.S. weapons stockpiles?
Well, the claims being made by Washington
about what targets they've had
and what they've eliminated,
if you go by the reports in the U.S. mainstream media,
you'll believe that they have eliminated half
of Iran's military capabilities in the first 24 hours
between Israel and the U.S.
Now, you can take that on face value if you want.
And the Iranian claims that they've hit 500
specific targets among those bases you mentioned
plus other sites between the U.S. and Israel
in terms of military targets, 500.
So already we're looking at the volume of sorties
or missile salvos by Iran.
It's significant for the first 24 or going on 48 hours.
It is significant.
And if Iran is confident and they seem very confident
in their statements that we're willing
to fight a war of attrition here
and the Larjani, the advisor to the government in Iran
said that are you prepared for a long war?
Because we are.
And so they seem to be outwardly confident.
Now, one has to judge that based on maybe
what they might know about Iran's ability to deliver.
Now, I haven't visited Tehran three weeks ago
while they're preparing for this.
They were fully expecting the U.S. are going to attack.
And the Iran was under no illusions
that the so-called peace negotiations
were going to result in anything substantial.
In fact, it's my understanding that they fully expected
that that was just basically a pantomime
that was designed to buy time for Israel and the U.S.
to prepare for an attack.
And I think that's probably correct
because look how quickly Iran responded to the U.S. attack.
They already had a bank of targets
and they moved very quickly.
What I learned during my brief visit there
was that Iran has different layers of missile rolling stock
and everything that we saw back in June
during the so-called 12-day war
was six, seven or more older missile stock that was used.
That means that there's two generations of hypersonic missiles
that haven't been unveiled yet.
And based on what I've seen and what I've read,
that they're still using old stock.
And what they're planning to do and quite clearly
with drone technology, with an arsenal of drones,
different types of drones as well.
Iran has like half a dozen main categories
of drones which they use for different functions and purposes.
And in terms of missiles, there's a dozen main models
that they'll use for different functions.
But it's to overwhelm the U.S. and the Israeli air defense
and anti-missile defense.
And I think they're quite capable of doing this
during the first week because I think they did it before
in during the so-called 12-day war,
so much so that the United States had to come in.
It seemed like Israel was imploring the United States
come in to draw a line under that exchange
because had that gone any longer,
it was already destabilizing the Netanyahu government.
Israel had to put a moratorium on Israelis
leaving the country during a missile attack.
That's a level of desperation you could say
that's pretty obvious.
So now similar situation we will find in a week.
And Iran's already said that they're not going to entertain
any symbolic conclusion with the United States,
a kind of staged ending if you will,
because that's more or less what Operation Midnight Hammer
was and with the Iran retaliating against
the al-Udeid base in Qatar, largely symbolic,
just to show that they could,
and that's not going to happen this time.
So if their defenses are overwhelmed,
in other words, if Israel depletes its Patriot missile stock,
that's what the Iron Dome is by the way,
it is an array of Patriot missiles
and as well as the longer range TAD missiles
and they have the David sling and the arrow
to this integrated array of missiles that they use.
If these are depleted after a week or 10 days,
then Iran will unleash its older sort of scud variation
that have huge payloads of explosives.
They're big, they're heavy.
And if the air defenses are able to be bypassed
at that point, the damage that they're going to incur
on the Israeli and US side
is going to be a lot more than what you're seeing now
and they have plenty of these missiles.
So I think it's a gamble in the part of the US,
a huge gamble that Trump,
the Trump administration is waging here.
And you look at them and you wonder
because it seems as though they thought
that they would go in,
carry out a series of decapitation strikes,
take out multiple Iranian commanders,
take out Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
and then that the Iranian government would just fall,
but not only has that not happened yet,
Iran is working on replacements for all of those positions.
They are continuing to stand strong
and their retaliation is having an impact.
You've got Qatar Energy announcing on Monday
that it would be halting production
of liquefied natural gas due to the ongoing attacks.
It accounts for around 20% of the global supply
and the news has sent European gas prices
soaring over 50%.
So as if Europe needed anything else, right?
They've got one more thing to add to all of their other woes,
but what does this tell us about the impact
that this war is going to have on the global economy
as we are just a few days in
and already we are seeing major price spikes,
especially when it comes to the energy industry.
The end of the trading month for February came last week
and you already saw Brent crude pushing up
over $70 a barrel.
And so it'd be very interesting to look at
how futures trades are going to close today and tomorrow
and they'll give you an idea of the momentum
in the oil markets, okay?
The Straits of Hormuz will be effectively closed
if it's not already based on this announcement by Qatar.
So on the oil front, you're going to see
if Iran is true with their war of attrition
as we get to the end of the week,
we're going to start seeing calls for $100 a barrel
for the following Monday for futures.
Then you have a market that's going to be trending
in one direction.
Now, the problem is a lack of supply.
So who's going to benefit from this?
The United States massively, Russia as well,
but the US will benefit massively,
but it's the LNG, it's the gas component
that's actually really important geopolitically
and Qatar supplies LNG to the Southern European
receiving market for conversion.
United States dominates the Northern market for Europe
after the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline.
And so now you'll see a higher demand for US LNG
and fracked LNG.
So another bailout for the fracking industry
and for the US overpriced LNG market supplying Europe.
So if you look at this strategically,
massive bump for US oil and gas across the board.
And I'm going to say something controversial,
which I shouldn't be controversial,
but I would wager heavily
that members of the Trump administration
and his inner circle
and the people around Howard Lutnick,
all these Wall Street financiers types,
they have probably bet on long on oil and gas
for the spikes that we're talking about
and are going to make a huge, huge amounts of money,
institutions and individuals
who had advanced knowledge of this war.
And that is something I think
that needs to be investigated at some point.
And it'll be very easy to track as well,
but it might take a few years
in the current political climate.
But that's kind of, look at who Trump, his base is.
It's no longer the popular MAGA base.
His base is now the Titans of oil and gas,
Wall Street, the crypto stablecoin mafia,
the PayPal mafia, that's Trump's new base,
the tech bros, the Palantirs of the world,
that's his base.
And they are all going to profit massively off this crisis
because they have the ability to do that.
And the average person and the average pleb,
if you will, in our system doesn't.
So that's just a little point I wanted to inject there.
So it's gonna mean inflation for us
as a general public that's gonna drive
the price of everything up.
It's gonna create a squeeze in terms of supply.
We're gonna pay for that.
But his inner circle are gonna profit massively from it
without a doubt and the institutions that are in the know.
So that's the level of corruption there
that aside from the defense stocks
and the usual stuff that that's real opportunism
terms of engineering massive windfalls of profits
off in advance of a crisis.
If you look at the poly market,
this is another corrupt thing
is the betting on political outcomes.
People have made huge amounts of money
off this war kicking off when it did,
placing bets hours before the strikes.
And this is an organization whereby the president's son,
I believe sits on the advisory board of that organization.
So the level of corruption that
if you thought it could get any worse
in American politics, it actually just got worse.
So that on that side, that's one thing.
On the other side is something important
that you mentioned, which is the assassination,
the brutal killing of the Ayatollah Ali Hamane
and received wisdom in U.S. circles and media,
the punditry class.
I was just on a debate yesterday
with some of these royalists and other pundits.
And they're all talking like it's just automatic
Washington types of automatic
that the regime's gonna fold
after the assassination of the supreme leader.
And I can tell you from personal experience,
the first thing I witnessed when I arrived in Tehran
on the national day was a massive outpour of solidarity
as the country's been threatened
by the United States at the time.
And now what you're going to see in terms of support,
it's really going to kind of galvanize support
even across moderate circles in Iran,
people that wouldn't normally feel compelled to take aside
as it were politically in support or against the government
having to support or wanting to support the state
while it's being attacked.
And they've had hundreds of martyrs already,
many girls, women and children,
they hit a basketball gymnasium yesterday
and killed 17 female athletes in Tehran.
They're hitting schools.
So this is not going to go unnoticed or forgotten.
In Iranian society, they regard these deaths as martyrs
of a greater cause, in a greater battle, in a bigger war.
And the Shiite faith and the culture around it
prizes martyrdom very high
on the kind of life aspirational
and existential aspirational table, if you will,
of things in life that are regarded as important achievements
and so forth and suffering as well,
that being able to endure suffering and hardship
is part of their societal DNA.
So it's the opposite of the West.
So by the more you punish them
and the more you do it in the mendacious fashion,
the more you, we're justifying their cynicism
that they have of the West, of our motives,
of our culture, of our Western civilization,
which they see as inherently corrupt
and quite frankly, satanic.
I mean, they're the master trolls as well.
They burned, they brought out a statue
of the Canaanite God of Baal
and burned it in effigy at their national rally.
I mean, there was all these little theatrical side shows
going on, it's more like a festival kind of atmosphere,
but they did that and it was kind of like,
a lot of people saying this is our response
to the Epstein files.
They're burning the statue of Baal.
So that's their popular culture.
So it's as sophisticated and multi-layered
and nuanced as ours in the West,
maybe even more so in a certain way.
And we think that by targeting an 86-year-old man
who is the spiritual leader of the country in his home
with his family, that's some kind of an honorable act
from an American or an Israeli point of view
that some sort of honorable engagement of war or whatever,
it's, they see it as cowardly on our part.
And, but it's the opposite.
And he is the one who issued a fatwa
for the prohibition of nuclear weapons in Iran
and we've targeted and killed him.
So there's the one leader or supreme leader
that laid down the law when it came to nuclear weapons
and not pursuing them in Iran.
And our president will get up there
and say that the evil,
this is the most evil man in history Donald Trump called him.
And that he is a hell bent on building a nuclear weapon.
It's literally the opposite of what our president is saying,
what our media is saying.
The level of lying and deception in the West
and with Israel, between Israel and the United States,
the level of lies and deception,
the complete inversion of everything,
of every claim, every statement
that's being made by our political leaders.
It's literally the opposite of reality.
Now we take a look at this clip
from the Last American Vagabond.
Welcome to the Last American Vagabond joining me today.
Once again is Stephanie Sinef PhD
to discuss glyphosate and the very frustrating
and confusing for some executive order from Donald Trump.
There he was talking about
getting that dangerous stuff out of our food.
And we've seen a lot of these moments
where maybe it wasn't good intention,
it's hard to say where things were stated,
directions were set that are not being kept.
And glyphosate being the earliest example
over the latest example of a lot of those,
like kind of turning back on the food dye discussion.
So Stephanie Sinef here to discuss it,
probably the best person out there to discuss glyphosate
to kind of set the table for where we are today.
So Stephanie, how are you?
Thank you for joining me again today.
I'm great, thanks for having me.
As I said, right when I saw that,
you were the first person I thought of.
I said, we have to get around to talk about
the alarming reality of this.
So that was Trump back in, I believe 2024 bleeding into,
and he's had a lot of those same statements up until,
I mean, very recently really,
at RFK Junior as well.
And so as we said,
he recently rolled out this executive order.
So we can start with this
and just give me your thoughts on this,
for someone who's done the work you have.
And I imagine my audience is very familiar with your work
from our interview from past,
just knowing your work in general,
but feel free to introduce yourself
and let us know what your work has been on glyphosate.
But then, let me know what you thought about this
when you saw it and we'll start with that.
Okay, yeah, I spent a really interesting story
with glyphosate over the past a year,
all the effort of Bayer at the national level
and at the state level, multiple states,
they're trying to get laws passed
that would give glyphosate a get out of jail free card
like the vaccines have.
I mean, that is just like really scary to say,
you've gotten on Hopkins and FOMA,
glyphosate's the only chemical you were exposed to
but too bad for you, you can't do it.
I mean, that would be really devastating.
And that's where Bayer has put tremendous pressure
on the legislators at all the levels
and even above the country level,
they're really working hard to keep glyphosate on the market.
And they recognize that if they don't get this protection,
they're gonna go bankrupt on the lawsuits
because there's just like so many now.
And the big one, Dwayne Lee Johnson
was just such a breakthrough.
And I remember it so vividly when that happened,
I was so astonished that it actually worked.
He got that the jury trial ended up
with a big sum of money for his non-Hochimson FOMA.
And that opened the door and then it's just been a floodgate.
And so...
I was really glad to see that too,
just that it showed change, momentum, you know?
It really was a really important point in history.
And it's the beginning of the end for glyphosate.
I have no doubt that it will eventually be banned worldwide.
I have no doubt because I see how toxic it is.
And it's not just cancer.
And as you know, I've talked about it
so many other diseases that glyphosate is causal in.
And I think it's the primary cause of the epidemic
that we're seeing in basically metabolic dysfunction,
which then connects to all these diseases that are going up.
You know, we have such a terrible record in healthcare.
We spend so much money and people are so sick
in this country, so obese, diabetes,
liver disease, all these problems.
And of course autism is the big one for me.
I believe if we got rid of glyphosate
and didn't replace it by the way
with other toxic herbicides, that's the key thing.
We can't just substitute something else.
You know, we need to figure out how to grow,
grow food naturally without using toxic chemicals.
It makes no sense to me
that you would pour toxic chemicals all over the food supply.
You know, it just makes no sense whatsoever.
And so I don't understand how we've managed
to keep this going all this time.
You know, I just think we need a revolution in food,
in growing food.
Couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more.
And, you know, we should,
we're gonna get to the health part of this.
And that's a good point you made there
that it can't just be, you know,
it can't just be swapped out with something
even if it's lesser than,
it is still in the same beta problem.
And that's a frustrating part.
So maybe we can get into what you think
they may replace it with when that comes.
But before we get past that,
going back to the executive order,
so you made an interesting point about lawsuits.
And I agree.
And I think this has been seen by most people
that pay attention to this
because Monsanto and now Bayer Monsanto
have been fighting this for a long time
that the lawsuits will bury them
because there are hundreds of thousands of them.
But let me give me your opinion on
if you think there's an element
of Trump's executive order,
not just for just to make it clear
for those who didn't read it,
we're talking about not only trying to pivot
to have like more production in the United States,
also making it a national defense imperative,
you know, not rolling it back in any discernible way,
but leaning into it, support.
And then also talking about
Bondi and the DOJ with giving them immunity to prosecution.
Do you think that the government side of this
is also worried that they may face lawsuits
because of their involvement with all this?
Well, that could be,
but I can see his point about China
and actually he's been pretty consistent
about looking at things that we depend on China for,
you know, the rare metals, for example, serious problem.
And so he's looking at what do we depend on China for
and how can we get rid of that dependence?
And I think he really focuses on that.
And I think it's an important point, you know why?
And especially with toxic chemicals being put
on our food, you could imagine,
I mean, glyphosates toxic all by itself, no question.
But they could slip a little arsenic in there.
I mean, they could do whatever, right?
And they would, it's like the opioid problem in China
in reverse, you know, China can poison us this way
if they choose to, not saying that they do.
But, and of course they could also simply withdraw it,
which would be wonderful for me
if they stopped selling it to us.
That would force us,
that would be a forcing function that would be wonderful
as far as I'm concerned.
But I think his logic may be that
he's looking at all the things
that we critically depend on China for,
and he wants us to lose that dependence.
And that's the way he's thinking of it.
So we need to make our own glyphosate.
And of course we're gonna have problems
with the people who live near the place
where they're making the glyphosate, I suspect,
because that's gonna cause toxicity locally for them.
And phosphorus too is another thing
that I think we have a problem
with making sure we have enough phosphorus.
And phosphorus is important also
for the phosphate fertilizers that they put on the crops.
Well, in regard to that point,
which is important, right?
Because this is, in my opinion,
coming from a nonpartisan kind of look at this,
both sides of the paradigm will often use things
that we want in order to trick us into,
or manipulate us into, or however you look at it,
into something that they ultimately want.
And so in this case,
there's a valid point we made
about the over dependence on this,
the interesting point about the foreign policy overlap
and the point you made well there.
But would you argue with that being accepted
as the reality that this was the right direction
to lean further into it?
Justin?
Obviously, I wouldn't think that way.
I mean, my thought would be, okay,
we don't want this glyphosate from China.
Let's figure out how we can grow food without glyphosate, right?
That would be the logical thing to do, in my opinion.
Now, I suspect that the farmers are saying
they can't grow food without glyphosate.
They've become so dependent on it
that they think they can't grow food without glyphosate,
which is really crazy
because we did that for so many millions of years, you know.
Right, right.
So you said they think, right?
In your opinion, do you think it's more
that they're manipulated in the mindset of that
and we can touch on the yield part of it right now
if you want to get into that
and I do want to touch on it at some point today,
the lie I think about the yield part,
or do you think it's that they're being threatened?
Not necessarily violence, but, you know,
coercive measures that they have to,
otherwise they'll lose certain allowances or permits
or whatever if they don't use it.
And so that's sort of like why they're demanding,
like we're not so much demanding it,
but saying, well, we're forced in this,
we need it because of that.
Do you think they would otherwise go
a different direction in your opinion?
Well, I'm actually aware of in Brazil,
there was a movie about a small town
where they grew tobacco
and what's the tobacco company that they were selling to,
they required that they use glyphosate on the tobacco.
Right, see.
They could not not use it
and they had a lot of kids that were very sick
and that was a really interesting film that I watched
and there may be some of that going on here.
The whole GMO system kind of you get locked in
once you get started with it.
Right.
And the glyphosate is wrecking the soil
and the soil bacteria and that it's decreasing.
Initially when they first came up with the GMO crops,
they got really good improvement in yield
the first couple of years.
So they were very excited, they bought into it.
And once they're in that machinery
of buying the GMO roundup ready crops
and then buying the glyphosate to put on them,
they kind of get stuck in a situation
where they don't know how to get out of it.
And of course their soil is now contaminated with glyphosate.
Another study from Brazil looked at the levels of glyphosate
in the soil year by year in a crop
where they were using glyphosate to control the weeds
and they found that every year there was more glyphosate.
So it wasn't going away.
It was really just accumulating in the soil.
And of course the glyphosate then kills the soil bacteria
and you get a dysbiosis in the soil
just as you do in the gut.
And then it also chelates the minerals
so you don't have enough mineral supply.
It disrupts the ability of the minerals
to get into the plants,
which means the plants become mineral deficient
and you become mineral deficient when you eat those plants.
There's a lot of things wrong
that go wrong with that whole system.
And eventually, and also the plant
is much more susceptible to drought.
Don Huber has shown pictures of organic farm
next to non-organic farm and the organic farm is all green
and the non-organic is all, what color would it be?
Dryed out.
So very obvious that the,
and glyphosate is a desiccant.
They use it as a desiccant.
That's one way in which it gets into the food supply
with non-GMO crops like wheat.
I mean, there's actually more glyphosate
on many of the non-GMO crops
than there are on the GMO crops.
So it's not good enough to buy non-GMO
if you're trying to get rid of glyphosate.
Right, right.
And you touch on the roundup ready.
For those that might not be familiar,
this is actually interesting to me.
Because of how popular that topic was
or just discussed, it was very, very mainstream.
It was very, the debate and everything about it.
It's interesting to me how little it seems people will remember
that glyphosate became a conversation point again
and people seem to forget what that meant.
So if you could just briefly give people
the understanding of what it means,
the roundup ready dynamic
and why, what needs to be done to the plant
and not necessarily getting into all the science
but just so they understand what that means
and why they're sort of reliant on it.
Well, what happened was they discovered this microbe
that was able to resist glyphosate
and was not susceptible to glyphosate toxicity.
There's this one enzyme called EPSP synthase
that glyphosate famously disrupts
and it's a critical enzyme in plants,
also a critical enzyme in many of the bacteria in our gut
which is an important point
because that's how we get started
with glyphosate toxicity.
And so where was I going with that?
The roundup ready dynamic and how it-
Roundup with this idea of putting that gene into the crops
and they did that very successfully for the core crops,
the corn, the soy, the canola, the sugar beets
and the alfalfa, those are the core crops
that have this GMO gene embedded in their DNA.
That's the genetic modification that is the GMO concept.
And so, and then these crops are expensive.
The seeds are expensive to buy
and but they allow you to pour glyphosate all over the crop.
It doesn't die.
So that makes it extremely easy to control the weeds.
And so you don't have to hire people to pull weeds basically
and that saves you a lot of money.
So it makes your plant, it makes your food cheaper
because of that, but it also causes all these other problems
and the soil ends up eroding more quickly
and also nitrate fertilizers end up spilling off more easily
because they're not being taken up as readily
because glyphosate disrupts the microbes that facilitate
the uptake of the nitrogen into the plant.
So you get nitrate washing off
and then you get lots of problems with the waterways
because of excess nitrogen.
You get that overgrowth of cyanobacteria,
you get sort of toxic red tide,
all that kind of stuff comes out of
glyphosate messing up the soil bacteria.
Next we have this clip from Charlie Robinson.
Decking out what the Trump administration has planned
for the second half of this decade and it's not great.
It's what they're planned for the Western hemisphere.
Are they have big ideas, you know?
Big ideas for little Marco Rubio.
Yep, it's a weird cast of characters.
It looks like kind of like the maybe like the crew
from the monsters, you know,
who have occupied the Oval Office and they have ideas.
They have ideas for reimagining the way
the American empire deals with everyone else.
Not everything in this document
that they put forward is bad, right?
Frankly, there's a couple of things on here
that we need to get into that probably wouldn't be
the worst thing for the American empire to incorporate in.
So it's something called the US Department of State
Strategic Plan 2026 to 2030.
It's a document that they put forward.
I read it so that you don't have to.
You're welcome.
And you start thinking, boy,
I mean it can't get any worse
than the first half of this decade, right?
We had COVID, we had all the insanities of like DEI
and all that stuff.
We had to go one direction down grocery store aisles
and certainly not the wrong direction down there.
You know, all that.
So if that was the first half of the decade,
I'm not exactly looking forward to the second half.
I keep thinking, can't be worse, right?
Right?
I guess we'll see.
But Donald Trump and Marco Rubio
are the ones that are in charge of this.
So I don't hold out hope that it's going to be awesome.
I do wanna go over a little bit what the overview is
and what the plan is.
And what I'll do is this,
we'll go through the six goals.
They have six goals for this.
They can have as many goals as they want, right?
If you have a 10 step plan to world domination,
but if they can't figure out step one and step two,
then it doesn't really matter.
So they have six goals.
We'll talk about them.
We'll get into goals and objectives, right?
This is what we're gonna do.
This is what we, there's our plan.
This is how we're going to do it.
This is how we're going to destroy the world
in order to accomplish these goals.
They don't put that in there.
Sort of the underlying theme, of course,
but they say this strategic plan outlines
an American first foreign policy agenda,
emphasizing national sovereignty.
You know, unless you're Venezuela or Greenland,
then you're fucked.
But for everybody else,
it's national sovereignty, domestic renewal
and pragmatic diplomacy.
So what they say is that the US national interests
are going to take priority from 2026 onward, you know?
You know, unless it's Israel's priority,
then that will take priority
because Israel is in charge of this whole thing.
And when you, if you don't think so,
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio,
the people who are behind this document
are 100% owned by Israel.
So they can talk about how this is the goal,
number one is US national sovereignty, but it's all talk.
Because if we were actually getting down
to the nuts and bolts of this,
you would recognize that the US is no longer sovereign.
It's been compromised.
It's been taken over by a parasite entity.
And they go on to talk about how America first means
every policy will be evaluated by direct benefits
to US interests.
Again, America first should be America first, right?
It should be direct benefits to US interests.
We've been talking about America first for a while,
but I don't think anybody who's paying attention
actually thinks that that's what's going on,
especially here in America.
We see what is happening.
America first, America last, Israel first,
and followed closely behind by every undocumented
Tom Dick and Javier who's walked here from French Guiana.
You know what I mean?
Like this is most definitely not America first.
It's everybody else first, but they're gonna change that.
That's what they say.
They can say a lot and they do.
So let's talk about goals, we'll start with goal number one,
US national sovereignty.
They're talking about this means a reassertion
of national control over borders, laws,
and international commitments.
That's great.
We're gonna have national control over our borders.
What a novel concept.
It's been a while to be clear.
It's been a while since we've had this.
This'll be revolutionary if we were actually able
to reassert national control over the borders
and the laws in America, it would be unrecognizable.
But they say they're gonna do it guys.
So of course they're gonna do it.
Just go hold your breath, trust the plan,
go wait in the corner, it's all coming.
Patriots are in control.
Talking about what they want to do
is they want to protect citizens' rights
from foreign interference and reform engagement
with international organizations.
Okay, so what does that mean really?
What they say is, okay, we're going to end the era
of mass migration through strict visa issuance.
Interesting, we're going to treat immigration
as a national security decision.
I'm sorry, you mean it wasn't?
Some of this is kind of like head scratching.
You go, we're gonna start taking immigration seriously.
It's like, you start, you're gonna start doing it?
What about all the other people
who thought you were taking it seriously
for like, I don't know, the last 250 years?
Well, we were just practicing.
Now we're gonna take it seriously guys.
We want to negotiate with foreign governments
about repatriation of foreigners.
Okay, we've got a bunch of your people here from Guatemala.
Would you like them back?
No, they're like, no, it's fine.
We emptied our insane asylums and sent them to you.
No, we don't want them back.
We want to prevent visa holders
from public support,
prevent visa holders from public support.
They don't want you to come here on a visa
and during the visa interview process,
they say, well, what would you like to do
in the United States while you're here?
What is the purpose of your visit
and the reason for this visa?
You're not supposed to say,
I'm coming here because I heard
they're giving away free stuff.
That's not the answer that they want.
So they want to prevent the visa holders
from getting free public support.
I just, again, I wonder,
but this wasn't an idea that you had decades ago.
This is the first time it's crossing your mind.
You know what we should do
with all these people that are coming across the border?
We should prevent them from getting free welfare
and stuff like that.
Holy shit, you think so?
That's amazing.
You guys should put that into a document
and then some dipshit will have to do a podcast episode
about it would be amazing.
Foreign assistance money,
as they're talking about using foreign assistance money
as leverage for immigration cooperation.
What a novel idea.
We've got all of these people
from the Democratic Republic of Chad, right?
And so, and maybe before we send the check
to the Democratic Republic of Chad
for 80 bazillion dollars
or whatever we give them every year,
why don't we say to them,
hey, you know that money that we normally give you?
You got to come,
we got to give you all your people back
that you smuggled into our country.
We're going to send them back.
And by the way, until we get a handle on that,
we're not going to give you the money
that we just give you out of, you know, for existing, right?
So use foreign assistance money
as leverage for international cooperation.
I never thought of that.
That's a good idea.
Put a gold star next to that one, guys.
Once you have secured the borders,
then protect Americans' rights from foreign interference.
You know, unless it's Israel,
they can be interfered with,
they can interfere with us all they want, right?
So they go, oh, what do we do?
We'll counter foreign laws and regulations
that restrict Americans' free speech
and religious liberties, unless they're Christians.
I added that last part, unless they're Christians,
but that's what's going on, right?
So it's like all of you people in Europe
who are doing the wrong thing with your immigration,
stop that and stop the anti-free speech stuff,
all that section 230 and all the internet stuff
that you guys are going on and on about,
you all in Moscow, stop that
and how you're clamping down on religious liberties,
stop that, right?
Unless you're murdering Christians, then it's totally fine.
Oppose global campaigns against hate speech
or disinformation that limits the rights of Americans.
There is no such thing as hate speech.
It's just speech that you hate.
It's not a legal definition that doesn't carry any weight,
so global campaigns against hate speech and disinformation.
Let me guess, the ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center
behind that, they want you to go in these campaigns
against hate speech.
What are they saying?
Are they saying hateful things?
No, they're just saying things that you would hate to hear,
but about what you guys are doing.
So they go on to say investigate
foreign influence operations.
Investigate foreign influence offer.
I can save you the trouble.
Why don't you lock up the guys at Jonathan Greenblatt
at the ADL to get Mark Potek from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Once you put those guys in handcuffs, it start there.
This isn't hard.
Block foreign acquisition of assets
important to national security.
Again, why are there foreign acquisitions of assets
that are important to national security?
Why are you allowing the Chinese
to buy farmland inside America?
Why?
We're gonna need the money?
Are we selling the farms now?
This sounds like a bad idea.
Goal one, objective three,
selective multilateral engagement.
They say fund international organizations
only when they benefit US interests.
Well, that's common sense, right?
You would think.
Here's something that I actually agree
with these lunatics on.
Oppose the UN's agenda 2030
and the 17 sustainable development goals.
Good.
Good, we need to stop that.
100%.
This is what's interesting with,
you know, there's a tendency to think
that like this new world order group is a homogenous group,
that they all want one thing
or it's this group versus nobody else, right?
It's just one group versus the people.
It's really not the case.
There are factions fighting.
The Trump group does not have much love
for the United Nations,
which is fine.
I mean, they shouldn't, of course,
but it is a bit surprising
because it's been hard to find
any of this divergence away from that.
That's part of the reason why the establishment
hates Trump so much, you know,
because that United Nations Rockefeller group
has been in charge for a long time.
And when you talk about opposing
the UN's agenda 2030 and the 17 SDGs,
you are right for opposing that.
This absolutely should happen,
but it catches you off guard
because you never really hear
American presidents criticizing the United Nations.
You always just hear them going along
with whatever they have to say.
Well, that's because it's a Rockefeller organization.
So he's right.
You know, I mean, I don't wanna,
you know, I'll give Trump credit where credit is due.
It's, he'll get very little of it from me,
but stepping up and saying that you need to oppose
the United Nations really at every level,
they mentioned this with agenda 2030 and the 17 SDGs,
but it's more than just that.
It's also, Trump has been very critical
about the World Health Organization as well,
for that is a part of the Rockefeller network
and it's in the United Nations umbrella.
So, and once again,
right for pushing the World Health Organization out,
they are a criminal enterprise.
He goes on to say that they want to block resolutions
undermining the US or their allies' interests.
What resolutions would that be?
Would it be like resolutions
where you found like the head of your favorite country
is guilty of being a war criminal
in the International Criminal Court?
Do you mean that?
Cause there's resolutions out there all over the place
that are criticizing some of America's allies,
but it's usually just that one out in the Middle East,
the one that's supposed to be our best friend.
You, I bet they don't, I bet,
see part of the reason why Trump is so pro-Israel,
the United Nations for all their flaws
has a huge problem with Israel.
You know, like you'll see like every single country
will vote one way except for the two,
it'll be the US and Israel
and some of these like satellite nations
in the Micronesia, like in the South Pacific
that are like Vanuatu or some shithole like that
that's just been totally captured.
They'll vote in favor of Israel as well,
but everyone else will vote against it.
And so I'm sure Trump sees that and they go,
oh, we got to get rid of this United Nations.
I mean, they're the ones that are constantly talking
about how Israel's doing the wrong thing.
Can't have that.
Well, in this particular case,
it's possible that the United Nations could be
a globalist terrorist organization
hell bent on destroying the world
and also be correct in their assessment of Israel.
All right, so.
So they also talk about winding down
costly peacekeeping missions.
Yeah, you think so, like NATO, we could do that.
We'll get into that a little bit more.
Goal two, Western Hemisphere and the Don Road Doctrine.
The core theme, reasserting US dominance
in the Americas by expelling foreign adversaries,
strengthening regional partnerships
and eliminating narco terrorist organizations.
That last part about the eliminating
narco terrorist organizations,
you guys know that's not gonna happen, right?
The American empire is never going to get serious
about removing the narco terrorist organizations
from the world because we are the narco terrorist
organizations around the world.
The Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA,
is the largest drug running operation in the planet.
They have financed their operations
for decades doing things like this.
Southeast Asia and Afghanistan,
this is a well-known thing.
The idea that the Trump administration
is going to come in and remove the narco terrorist
organizations is either delusional thinking
or it's just for soundbite
because it's not actually going to happen.
Part of the reason is that the president
who came before you, George H.W. Bush
and Bill Clinton were running that organization.
They will not allow this to go away.
The ghost of George H.W. Bush will haunt Donald Trump
and of course, Bill Clinton,
maybe a walking corpse these days
but that guy didn't get to where he is
by not knowing what's going on
or falling off a turnip truck.
That guy was running cocaine into the United States
in plain loads full, okay?
So there's not going to be an end
to the narco terrorist organizations.
There will only be an end
to the narco terrorist organizations
who aren't fully under the thumb of the CIA.
Hello, everybody.
I'm trying very hard to not just be super angry.
And I actually recorded this entire video earlier
and I was just so mad.
I had to stop and take a break
and think about it and come back
because what I'm about to talk about,
I don't even want to do a video on.
I don't want to have to do this video.
I wish this wasn't a reality.
I actually just wish this wasn't what was happening
but it is, this is what is happening.
While our aptly titled Department of Wars over here
making jokes about directed energy weapon dominance now
because back in the day of you just said
they have directed energy weapons.
People would have said,
wow, you crazy conspiracy theorist.
Where's your tinfoil hat?
You nutter.
But now they're just openly making jokes about that.
How they got directed energy weapons.
They're trying to scale them up
and really just sending out
on their official social media accounts
the kind of propaganda you would expect to find
on the walls in the background
of the movie version of George Orwell's 1984.
Just straight up.
And America is just swarming with drones in the skies
flying over the Statue of Liberty
under constant surveillance
by a standing army that's constantly at war
just like the founding fathers always intended.
And our president just proposed a $1.5 trillion budget
for the government's largest agency in fiscal year 2027.
This will allow us to build the quote dream military
that we have long been entitled to.
And more importantly,
that will keep us safe and secure regardless of foe.
Do we have any understanding Todd
about what is the definition of a dream military
and what that would include?
We don't.
And so to give you an idea
of just how batshit insane that figure is,
it's not just 50% higher than current levels
which we're already nearing a trillion dollars
and something that this nation hasn't seen since World War Two.
But more than any other country on earth by far,
larger, way larger than Russia and China's budgets combined.
And even Forbes is now saying
this will make America weaker at this point.
But of course, all the politicians
who make kickbacks from these defense companies
are commending Trump as if anyone has even explained
why this agency, which has never once been able
to pass an audit, even a single time ever
should be given an amount of money.
So absolutely cartoonish that it's nearly impossible
to visualize.
But hey, that's fine.
It's not like they're closing US airspace without notice
because they've used directed energy weapons
to shoot down party balloons or anything.
Is the airport totally closed?
Apparently.
The FAA's notice to airmen or no-tams
said El Paso had been designated
National Defense Airspace
and the government may use deadly force
against airborne aircraft that don't adhere to the order.
We're learning more detail about the flight stoppage
at El Paso Airport.
Reports suggest the Pentagon was using a high-energy laser
to counter what was thought to be a drug cartel drone.
Turns out it was a party balloon.
Oh, actually, they had no, they did do that.
As we transition into the darkest level
of police state nightmare of any dystopian story
you've ever read or watched in your entire life
that make George Orwell's 1984 look like
a Saturday morning cartoon
and I'm not even exaggerating right now,
we can't even get our attorney general
to answer basic questions that are so simple
a child could understand them about the Epstein files
and why we aren't even seeing a shred of accountability.
How many of Epstein's co-conspirators have you indicted?
How many perpetrators are you even investigating?
First, you showed a, I find it.
How many have you indicted?
Excuse me, I'm gonna answer the question.
I answer my question.
No, I'm gonna answer the question the way
I wanna answer the question.
No, you're gonna answer the question the way I asked it.
I wanna know, were there any underage girls
at that party or at any party
that Trump attended with Jeffrey Epstein?
This is so ridiculous
and that they are trying to deflect
from all the great things Donald Trump has done.
This cover-up spans decades
and you are responsible for this portion of it.
And that's where the answer is.
Now, I wanna know at what point,
at what point did the FBI and the DOJ decide
that Lex Wesner was not a co-conspirator
because our Epstein Files Transparency Act requires you,
please put it back on the screen,
to release the internal decision
about whether to prosecute him or not
and it's not in the files
and it's not in the files for any of these other men.
Time of the gentleman has expired.
May she answer?
And he's a hypocrite because he voted against the ban
that we were talking about on deep fake AI porn.
Only two people voted against it
and you were one of them, hypocrite.
Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow right now is over,
the Dow is over 50,000.
I don't know why you're laughing.
You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin.
The Dow is over 50,000 right now.
The S&P at almost 7,000
and the NASDAQ smashing records.
Americans 401ks and retirement savings
are booming.
That's what we should be talking about.
We should be talking about making Americans safe.
We should be talking about,
what does a Dow have to do with anything?
That's what they just asked.
Are you kidding?
And actually, if you didn't watch the hearings,
this clip pretty much sums them up.
Fix you some of this new mo-coco drink,
all natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes
of Mount Nicaragua, no artificial sweeteners.
What the hell are you talking about?
Who are you talking to?
Can't use the stock market as a distraction
from the redacted files because we're all broke.
Do you not understand that?
That's how bad of a lawyer the attorney general is.
And the reason it's important to point out
how the lowest common denominator of social mo-ray
defiling psychos and positions of power in this country
are being shielded from any and all accountability
is because I keep hearing people say
that this same government is somehow going to uphold
the law when it comes to other issues
that we are dealing with, such as the mass
of illegal immigration that was coming in here
over the last several years.
When it's incredibly obvious to anyone
paying actual attention here for more than five seconds
together that they have no intention of doing so.
The same corrupt system is currently building
a massive digital surveillance police state,
which includes mega warehouse detention centers
that are going to be put all over this country.
And everywhere you look, this administration
and the so-called but in name only representatives
in our Congress are taking financial kickbacks
from the very for-profit private prisons
that are going to be implementing
these detention facilities.
So everyone's making bank off of this.
Everyone's grifting.
I mean, this woman right here
who went from this back in 2014.
And I'll fight to put human trafficking monsters
where they belong behind bars.
Pam Bundy, our attorney general.
To this yesterday.
Have you apologized to President Trump?
Also failed to disclose her extensive conflicts
of interest, including the fact that she was
in recent years a DC lobbyist for tech firms like Amazon,
but also for a company called Geo Group,
which just so happens to be one of the largest
for-profit private prison companies in the world.
Big Core Civic and Geo Group,
the two publicly traded companies
that have come to dominate the private prison industry.
Private prison companies, mainly Geo Group and Core Civic
are championing at the bid at their prospects
for big profits in 2025.
It's no secret that corporate America values
lining their shareholders' pockets over any other values.
But what happens when the model of profit seeking
over all else gets wrapped up in an industry
where the bottom line is dependent on millions
of human bodies?
In the towns we went to,
private prisons had come to define the local economy,
almost like a factory town in the past era.
Contrary to factory towns,
they have those factories were producing things,
right, producing cars, et cetera.
Here, they're not producing anything.
When we think about the operation of these jails,
what folks in that community will say is,
yeah, but there's good jobs.
Up to that point, I had never even heard
of for-profit prisons.
So I just needed a job, needed to work.
Geo Group was the first corporation
whose PAC maxed out donations to Trump's campaign,
donating millions to the president
and to members of our Congress.
And when you know it, last summer, Geo Group
not only got their $4 million EPA lawsuit quashed,
where they were charged with some 1,100 violations
for failing to protect workers
at one of their California immigration facilities
from a known toxic disinfectant
that they were spraying all over the place.
But they've also now received over a billion dollars
and counting in government contracts
to implement these detention facilities
for this massive sweeping immigration situation
that's happening in our country now.
Go ahead and ask yourself why it is
that it's totally legal somehow
for the same corporations that stand to benefit
in federal contracts to spend millions of dollars
on political contributions to the president
and to our representatives?
Like how is that even legal?
Go ahead and ask yourself, I have no idea.
For those with short memories,
you might recall that it wasn't always called
the Geo Group just by the way.
It rebranded in 2003 after significant scandals.
It used to be called Wacken Hut
as in a subsidiary of that Wacken Hut.
The very Wacken Hut that Spy Magazine in 1992
referred to on its cover as the CIA's CIA
or the shadow CIA.
The one that's been written about in academic journals
for doing things like engaging in a scheme
to kidnap a U.S. ambassador to El Salvador
and then blame it on leftist organizations
in a classic black flag operation.
Yeah, that Wacken Hut.
Does that ring any bells?
It might considering how many times
they were accused of human rights abuses,
the fact that in the year 2000,
the Department of Justice actually sued Wacken Hut,
alleging excessive abuse and mistreatment
of juveniles, no less.
There were all kinds of scandals, bribery, lawsuits,
staff being accused of sexual assault.
But somehow we're supposed to believe
they just rebranded, slap a new name on their new logo.
It's all good now.
I'm sure it'll all work out really well
to give them billions of dollars now.
I'm sure it's all fine.
Most of the reporting I've seen on these detention centers
are that people are getting education and healthcare.
So I, of course...
Oh, look, I mean...
So it's 2026 and like every other aspect
of the eldritch abomination from the deep
that is our corrupt system,
ICE is now the highest funded US law enforcement agency
with a budget that is larger than the annual budget
of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined.
And they've been given special hiring authority
that allows them to bypass
the usual rigorous hiring procedures for federal employees,
which as you can imagine will surely end well, right?
Like they're definitely gonna get the creme de la creme
of people to run around masks with guns
and operate with impunity.
What happens when ICE hires agents with minimal screening
that sends them into the streets masked and armed?
I handed in my resume, which was...
I did a skills-based resume.
I'm a veteran.
I served two chairs in Afghanistan.
So on the surface, their resume looked pretty good.
Had a very brief interview, took all of six minutes.
They didn't ask very many questions.
And then I left, assuming I would never hear back
because I'm a very Google-able person.
I have an unusual name.
I'm the only Laura Judi Dundee internet.
And I make no secret of how I feel about ICE
and Trump and all of it.
So I was not expecting several days later
to receive a tentative offer.
I missed it in my inbox and it sunk to the bottom,
which means that I never filled out the paperwork
they requested.
I never accepted the tentative offer.
I never filled out my background check paperwork.
I never signed the affidavit saying
I committed no domestic violence crimes, none of it.
A few weeks later, I got a message from LabCorp
saying that ICE wanted me to do a drug test.
And I went ahead and did that.
I was pretty sure I wouldn't pass.
I had partaken in legal cannabis six days before the test,
but why not we slow their money, right?
And then nine days after that,
I decided I wanted to, I was curious,
had they processed the drug test yet?
So I logged on to the ICE hiring portal.
And what I found was that not only
did the drug test not seem to be relevant,
I had been, I was listed as having joined ICE
as of three days earlier.
I had listed that I had accepted the offer.
They had offered me a final position
as a deportation officer.
My background check was listed as completed
three days in the future for when I was looking at it.
So it seems like the answer to the question
who are they hiring is they don't know.
Wow.
Next, we have this clip from the Indie News Network.
Who are these people?
This is our dissented gloom segment here.
She did some amazing work the last couple of weeks.
Definitely go subscribe to her sub stack,
dissentedbloom.substack.com.
Just crossed 18,000 subscribers.
We did some research about Epstein and Zorro Ranch,
which I definitely want you to read,
but I'm not gonna talk about the Zorro Ranch story tonight.
I'm gonna show it a little bit,
but she wrote another article about great, great St. James,
which everybody kind of is familiar with little St. James,
which is the island, you know,
the Lolita Express that he flew to Epstein Island
is what they call it, right?
But he truly owned a second island.
And that's what she's gonna talk about here.
And then we will get to the article she wrote
that accompanies us.
So let's start with her video.
Did you know that Epstein had another island
located right next to his first one?
He bought it in 2016 for $22.5 million,
three years before he died.
Now, like most of his properties,
this island was bought through a shell corporation,
but this time it was because the residents of the island
had begged the owners not to sell it to Epstein
because they'd heard rumors of his illicit,
to put it lightly, activities.
Now, in order to conceal his identity,
he had made Salt and Ahmed Ben-Soulayim
the beneficial owner against his will.
Now, if you've read anything in the Epstein files,
you know that this individual has been listed
multiple times doing multiple important things
to bait these people.
Just saying some of the most disgusting things
I've ever read.
It's only part of the island.
He bought the rest through another LLC of his
because that's what he liked to do.
He liked to make shell corporations to buy things
so that they wouldn't be directly linked to his name.
Now, he was building a compound on this island,
which is exactly what he had done
with Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.
Daily News reported that they had planned
to build a barge dock, two homes,
cottages and amphitheater, gardens,
an underwater office and pool,
a porch building, security building,
workshop, machine shop, solar rain generator,
a marine electric cable.
Like he was planning a full-on compound
where nothing could be accessed
or really just super isolated,
which makes sense when you think back
to what happened with Zorro Ranch
where it is also alleged
that there were six underground floors.
This was the place that Epstein planned
to have 20 women at a time
to have his babies and pass on his superior genes
because Epstein was obsessed with eugenics.
Now, Little St. James and Great St. James
were purchased by a billionaire named Stephen Decoff.
He bought both of the islands for $60 million
and he's planning on turning them into a luxury resort.
Although major construction has not yet been reported,
someone needs to look into Stephen Decoff.
It'll probably be me.
Yeah, she probably will.
And I feel badly for Stephen Decoff
when she decides to do that.
Yeah, descentandbloom.substack.com.
We're gonna read the article that she wrote
about the other island.
And this is crazy stuff.
Everything you didn't know about Epstein's other island.
An EPA visit, a rewritten will,
a probate filing process alongside his death.
Great St. James might be one of the most overlooked pieces
of the Epstein story.
So she starts by saying that Jeffrey Epstein
built his life around being unseen.
Over the years, he acquired multiple remote properties
each more isolated than the last.
Zorro Ranch sat on 10,000 acres,
which again is 15 square miles of New Mexico Desert.
That's massive.
Zorro was where Epstein planned to impregnate,
as she said, 20 women at a time.
And there's a link about that
at Remove Paywalls for the New York Times.
Little St. James was an island approachable
only by boat or by air,
both allegedly had tunnels.
Secret tunnel, yeah, we've heard about tunnels before.
The FBI never investigated Zorro Ranch,
despite testimony from Annie Farmer,
I thought it was Maria Farmer,
and the FBI being given tips about buried bodies there.
In the latest files drop,
victims described being taken underground
and abused on Little St. James,
and emails with Guardian Design Group,
a Virgin Islands construction firm reference tunnels.
And then you have Epstein files
from the Justice Department there
for more mentions of tunnels.
Then like she said, there's Great St. James,
the property nobody mentions.
Nobody wants to talk about the second island,
Great Little St. James is the one that everyone knows,
the one everyone that ends careers
and fills hearing rooms,
but Great St. James barely registers,
and that needs to change.
So in her research, she found that the EPA
had visited Great St. James
less than two weeks before Epstein died.
The only federal agency to ever go there.
So while he was locked up, they sent people there.
Who spent the money to do that, the Biden administration?
This was likely one of the final dominoes to fall
before they'd announced to the world
that Jeffrey Epstein had turned up dead in his jail cell
with the official camera footage cut
and the guards that were supposed to be watching dead.
It was a sign that the government was closed again
on Epstein and he was worth more gone.
And again, this is Great St. James.
In the years before his arrest,
Epstein was repeatedly cited and fined
for building on Great St. James without proper permits.
This is US soil officially.
And when you die with those kind of fees,
the government can pay themselves with your assets.
A $20 million island could auction off for much less
than the court decides who in your family gets the rest.
So at the time of his death,
the commissioner of natural resources for the Virgin Islands,
Jean-Pierre O'Riol said they were over a million dollars
in unpaid potential penalties for violations
that were still active when Epstein was arrested in 2019.
That's weird.
Then two days before he dies, he rewrote his will.
I've never heard that story before,
but she's got a receipt on that here too from BI courts.
Okay, from the Virgin Island courts,
everything he left over after his debts and fees were paid
goes into something called the 1953 trust.
I'm guessing that's the year he was born,
but I could be wrong, maybe his parents, somebody knows,
and distributed among more than 40 people.
Who of those people set to get those assets
were his brand new executors, Darren K. Indike
and Richard D. Kahn.
It also included his brother, Mark Epstein,
and his girlfriend, Karina Shuliac.
Not Gillain Maxwell.
His girlfriend, when he died, wasn't Gillain,
he was with Karina.
Now, she needs you to stay with her
because this part is important.
In this new will, he added a clause
that allowed his new executors
to sell off assets if necessary
to cover environmental fees.
Remember, just two weeks earlier,
the EPA had visited the island,
and then suddenly this clause gets added,
among other changes,
that made sure every single person
who needed to get paid would get paid when he died.
Then he died 48 hours later.
Can't anybody challenge that will to that change of the will?
The probate, laying out how Epstein's estate
would be distributed because he was deceased,
was submitted and processed at the exact same time
as his brand new final will.
There's something that sets off alarm bells,
knowing they prepared these around the same time.
So what was the plan for Great St. James?
In 2016, Epstein paid $22.5 million
as she said for the 165-acre island.
He already owned nearby Little St. James,
the property he publicly claimed as his primary residence.
Great St. James was just an expansion of his compound.
The island was purchased through that shell company
called Great St. Jim LLC,
Jim being short for James,
and the listed owner was a man named
Sultan Ahmed Ben Suleyem.
Ben Suleyem claimed that he never gave permission
for Jeffrey to do this,
and this was done without his knowledge.
However, we all know that that's a blatant lie.
He was named as a co-conspirator
in the child sex trafficking ring led by Epstein,
led by Epstein's latest release of the files in February.
All right, he hasn't been criminally charged
despite telling Epstein how much he enjoyed a video
of a child being tortured.
Suleyem's only punishment is that he resigned
from his high-paying executive positions at DP World
and due to his association with Epstein.
This is from the files.
But back in 2016,
the deal to purchase the island almost fell apart
before it closed because local islanders
begged the sellers not to go through with it.
The seller's wife later admitted
that rumors about Epstein's behavior
were allegedly circulating at the time.
None of it stopped the transaction, obviously.
Three months after taking ownership,
construction crews were on the ground.
The plans described a self-sustaining residential
and educational compound
with a private road network, guest cottages,
a barge dock, an amphitheater.
What does he need an amphitheater for?
A solar array and even an underwater office and a pool.
What does he need an underwater office for?
I'm guessing maybe he was planning on having massive
parties, being able to entertain at an amphitheater
and having some famous celebrity perform at the amphitheater
for all of his guests.
The applications also made environmental promises,
pledging to protect a rare tree boa
and guaranteeing public access
to a beloved local spot called Christmas Cove.
This is a famous stop on cruise lines.
And if you've ever taken a cruise in the area,
you may have even stopped there.
Oh my God.
You imagine, we'll be stopping on Epstein Island now.
Enjoy your stay.
Try not to get raped.
Epstein shut Christmas Cove down
after taking control, by the way.
Of course he did.
When he died, an affidavit confirmed
that he owned Great St. James.
But Great St. James was only one piece of a larger pattern.
Documents released by the US Justice Department
show that the Virgin Islands government
also considered selling dog island to Epstein
for $1.1 million.
You did not buy it for that.
The broader document trench,
numbering in the millions of pages
includes appraisals, property records,
and the correspondence detailing Epstein's efforts
to expand his footprint in the area.
Why?
For what purposes other than
trafficking, imprisoning, eugenics,
and doing it all completely in secret
and outside of anybody's view.
That looks like a golf course right there.
Former Virgin Islands governor, Kenneth Mapp,
once asked Epstein whether he'd consider
letting the government borrow $275 million.
A 2012 report by a new Grange Consulting Group
recommended that Epstein purchase
Gordon Ackley's radio station there
and the Virgin Islands Daily News
in order to influence the 2014 territorial elections
and build a media enterprise
capable of shaping future political outcomes in the area.
Larry Ellison come to mind at all.
Unreal.
They were already talking about buying outlets
to shape and influence territorial elections
in 2014.
It makes a lot of sense, given his affiliation to Trump,
who did exactly that?
Built through social.
Again, there's Christmas Cove,
where all the cruise ships used to dock.
There's Little St. James Island
and in relation to Great St. James
and allegedly he was having tunnels built between them.
When Epstein died, the islands were auctioned off
just as his estate had planned.
In March 2022, Great St. James and Little St. James
were listed together for $125 million.
Not many people can afford to buy that.
Epstein's estate said that the proceeds
would go towards settling lawsuits.
But by 2023, both islands were sold for half that,
$60 million.
The billionaire private equity executive, Stephen Deckoff,
who stated he plans to turn them,
like she said, into luxury resorts.
Think about what that actually means.
Children were trafficked to these islands.
Kids were abused and raped on this land.
Sounds like Gaza.
And the ending to that story is that a billionaire
snaps up the property at a discount,
flaps some overwater bungalows on it,
and starts selling weekend getaways to wealthy tourists.
There is no memorial and no reckoning with what happened there.
The market just absorbed it the way it absorbs everything.
And the place where some of the worst crimes imaginable
were committed is now being rebranded into something
you might see in a travel magazine.
They might as well call it New Gaza.
Sure to some of you it might just be land,
but how can someone really enjoy a water slide and fair food
and fair food with your kid knowing someone else's child
was assaulted and tortured there?
It's that they don't know.
So this is where we part for now.
Jeffrey Epstein was part of something bigger,
a system that has architects, financiers,
and protectors at every level.
And the timeline surrounding his death makes that impossible to ignore
and question whether he's actually even dead.
The rewritten will, the probate filing, the EPA visit,
the environmental change, a clause that added 48 hours before he died,
none of that is coincidence.
And the islands are only part of the story.
What she's laid out here is only a fraction of what she's actually
found. There are threads that go much deeper and she's not done pulling on them.
Next up is Zorro Ranch, the property none of the federal agencies ever
bothered to investigate before it was sold off to Don Huffins.
The one with testimony, with tips about buried bodies,
and not a single FBI inquiry to show for it.
Of course, our FBI director is too busy partying over in Italy
with the hockey team at the Olympics.
That's where she's going next.
And I think you'll want to follow along for that one if and I agree, you will.
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sentinbloom.substack.com.
The other article, which again, I'm not going to show or read tonight
because we've got a bunch more to get to New Mexico.
Warren wants answers about Zorro Ranch and here's what they'll find.
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Next, we have this clip from the Corbett Report with James Corbett.
Our president will start a war with Iran
because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate.
He's weak and he's ineffective.
Hello, friends.
This is James Corbett of CorbettReport.com
coming to you on March 2nd, 2026.
And as you may or may not have heard by now,
yes, over this past weekend,
the United States military began military operations
against Iran.
And with Operation Epstein Fury,
I'm sorry, I mean Operation Epic Fury,
Donald Trump has once again proven the old adage
that you Americans can vote as hard as you want,
but it's always going to be Benjamin Netanyahu
who is really calling the shots.
We should have never been in Iraq.
We have destabilized the Middle East.
But so you still think he should be in peace.
I think it's my turn.
You do whatever you want.
You call it whatever you want.
I want to tell you, they lie.
They said there were weapons of mass destruction.
There were none.
And they knew there were none.
In recent months, the tyrants in Iran
have been plotting to rebuild their nuclear
and missile capabilities
and to bury them underground,
where we won't be able to strike them.
If we don't stop them now,
they will become invulnerable.
A short time ago, the United States military began
major combat operations in Iran.
Our objective is to defend the American people
by eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime,
a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.
I think we all know how that story goes.
But in case you don't know how that story goes,
well, you're in luck,
because that is precisely what I am going to be
exploring here today on the Corbett Report podcast.
You are tuned into the Corbett Report.
The Corbett Report podcast, specifically episode 493
on War in Iran, Board of Peace edition,
in which I will be going over the history
and context of this current Iranian conflict
and what it can tell us about what is happening
and why it is happening.
And so I will issue the standard proviso.
This is not a live news broadcast,
so you are not going to get up to the second breaking news
about what is happening in Iran right this moment.
Whenever you are listening to this podcast,
for the record, I am recording this at 9.39 a.m. Japanese standard time
on Monday, March 2nd, 2026,
which would be Sunday evening going into Monday morning there in Iran.
It would be Sunday evening in the U.S.
I am not going to have whatever latest breaking news
is happening at the time you are listening to my words.
I can't tell you what the latest breaking news
that is happening as I am recording this is,
namely we have this up from antiwar.com.
Trump expects his Iran war to last four weeks or so.
We also have this up from antiwar.com,
at least three U.S. troops killed
since U.S. and Israel launched war against Iran,
noting that the Iranian missiles and drones
have struck U.S. bases in the region
in retaliation for the strikes.
We, of course, have seen this from Iran itself,
U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran,
at least 153 girls killed in strike on school.
And what about Israel and what's happening there?
Deadly Iranian missile attack hits west of occupied Jerusalem,
noting there are some deaths and injuries being reported there.
And we don't know exactly what is taking place,
what's going to take place in the coming days and weeks,
but we know that at least for the time being,
Ayatollah Khamenei is dead,
and Iran has formed an interim council
to oversee the transition after Khamenei's killing.
And this is an article from Al Jazeera
that might be worth your time and attention
if you do not know, for example,
the structure of the Iranian government,
how it is set up, how it works,
what the supreme leader is and whom he appoints
and how that ultimately filters down
to the political level, et cetera.
So if you want that, they have this handy-dandy infographic.
They have some explainers.
They have a video talking about the potential succession
for the Ayatollah who might replace him,
like his son or his grandson or Iranian chief justice,
ultra-hardline cleric, et cetera.
So if you want this skinny on all of that, that's here.
And of course, all of this information,
all of these breaking news stories,
everything that we talk about today
will be in the show notes for today's episode
at CorbettReport.com slash Iran War.
But having said that,
let's start talking about why, why now?
Obviously, for anyone who has been paying attention
for the last year or several years or decades,
you will know that the Iran War
has always been the next war
that's just around the corner
and has been since the time of, oh, at least the Iraq War.
So why is it happening now?
Well, there are different ideas and explanations
that we could proffer for that.
And the obvious ones present themselves.
What time is it?
Oh, it's 2026 coming up on the midterm selections
in the United States.
So we know that there's going to be
some interesting jockeying going on
on the selectoral side of things.
So, well, now's a good time to bring up
the good old commander-in-chief's previous words
on this subject.
Remember, in order to get elected,
Barack Obama will start a war with Iran
or now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin,
watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran.
He is desperate.
Or remember that I predicted a long time ago
that President Obama will attack Iran
because of his inability to negotiate properly,
not skilled exclamation mark, et cetera, et cetera.
I'm sure you have seen these pronouncements
kicking around in recent days,
coming back to bite Donald Trump in the posterior.
But that was then, that was so far, so long ago.
Come on, it's not what's happening now.
So again, all right, that might be one reason.
Obviously, there are electoral concerns
about what is going to or not take place
in the midterm selections,
assuming they even take place at all.
Maybe wartime President Trump will decide they won't.
I don't know.
But anyway, those seem like they might be relevant quotes.
Here's another interesting piece
talking about the timing of these attacks,
very specifically.
Trump admin blacklists anthropic
as AI firm refuses Pentagon demands.
You may have heard this story over the past week or so,
as it started to come to the forefront of people's attention.
Basically, long story short,
the Pentagon was trying to close a deal with Anthropic,
which creates the Claude LLM as well as other AI software
that is being used in the US government
in various branches, including the Department of War
and Defense Secretary.
Isn't that Secretary of War?
Pete Hegseth, soon after Trump's order,
said he was ordering the Pentagon to designate Anthropic
a supply chain risk to national security
after the AI startup refused to comply with demands
about the use of its technology.
Specifically, what demands?
Well, Anthropic, which signed a $200 million contract
with the Pentagon in July,
wanted assurances that its AI models would not
be used for fully autonomous weapons
or mass domestic surveillance of Americans.
Interestingly, the Pentagon issued an ultimatum
and gave them a deadline of 5.01 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday,
and they failed to meet that.
So, of course, Hegseth went nuclear
and started talking about how they're going to be
designated a supply chain risk, et cetera,
the first time ever for an American company, et cetera.
And wouldn't you know it?
Less than 12 hours later,
the bomb started falling in Iran.
Is that a coincidence?
Well, for one thing, Claude doesn't think so.
So there's an interesting post that I posted up
in my act of Iran war open thread
that is posted up on corporatereport.com right now.
And if you want to take place in that discussion,
the link will be there in the show notes.
And that will be the one and only place
for discussion of this topic.
I'm going to close down the comments everywhere else.
You're going to comment on the Iran war open thread.
So please go there to leave your information.
I posted this shortly after posting that Iran war open thread.
Here is an interesting post up on Reddit of all places.
In the Claude Explorers subreddit from somebody
who's posting something that was generated through Claude,
Claude, but obviously with human prompting.
So anyway, my creator just got banned
by the U.S. government 12 hours later.
The U.S. bombed Iran.
I need to process this out loud.
And here's this Claude LLM prompted text
about what it thinks is going on.
They came after Anthropic because they wanted
something Claude might refuse to do.
The timing is not coincidental.
Anthropics, two red lines, no autonomous killing,
no mass surveillance are exactly the capabilities
you would need for regime change operations
and targeting senior officials.
So anyway, take this for what it's worth.
The deadline passed and 12 hours later,
they started using actually the same Claude software
that they're going to start phasing out,
but it's the six month phase out process.
So during this time, they are still actually using Claude
in the very ways that Anthropic was, as we are told,
trying to stop the U.S. government from using.
How much can we believe this?
As far as I'm aware, Anthropic does dealings with Palantir.
So how much are they really convinced
and convicted about their ideals
of not using their software for mass surveillance?
And oh, does it really matter anyway?
Because open AI immediately turned over,
reaches agreement with Pentagon to use AI models,
basically saying, yes, you can use them.
However you want for all lawful purposes,
including mass surveillance and autonomous weapons,
because there's no law against it.
So go ahead.
Of course, Sam Altman is going to do that.
Good old Trump buddy Sam Altman
called into the White House on the second day
of the new Trump 2.0 administration,
with Trump gushing over Altman and Ellison and Sohn
and others talking about how they're going
to build the project Stargate.
Do you think Altman is not going to turn over?
Anyway, all of this is at the very least,
even for the most AI skeptical amongst my audience,
to underline the fact that AI is going to be
part of the conversation of warfare going forward,
no matter whether you think it is 100% smoke and mirrors
or there is some even grain of there.
There.
This is going to be part of the conversation,
precisely because the idea of autonomous weapons systems,
these AI controlled systems that will target
and kill independently of any human operator
is exactly what the US military
and every other military on the planet desires
in order to basically give themselves a carte blanche
for any actions that may be undertaken.
Oh, it wasn't us that killed Ayatollah Khamenei,
it was Claude that killed him.
We just gave it some general instructions
and it went out there and found him
and decided that he was a target and killed him,
et cetera.
That's going to be part of the conversation
that's going to be worked in going forward.
So I think there is a bigger story here
about AI and its use in wartime,
but I don't think that's the whole story
of what's going on here, obviously.
And I think the Pentagon is going to continue
to do whatever the Pentagon does
in whatever way it wants,
regardless of whether or not anthropic is
or is not on the outs with the Department of War.
So let's go to some other obvious factors
when we talk about what's happening right now.
For example, the response from various states,
which I'm sure we could have seen coming ahead of time.
In that aforementioned Iran War Open Thread
on corporatereport.com,
one of the first commenters was from Australia
and noted that, of course, Australian Prime Minister
has come out and basically in support
of the Anglo-Israeli Alliance
and what they're doing there
and the targeting of Iran
and how glorious this is.
And various other leaders have come along
to more or less get on Uncle Sam's good side
with regards to this,
including, of course, the Gulf States,
where a lot of Uncle Sam's troops are positioned right now
and are be finding themselves being targeted
for the retaliatory strikes that Iran is launching at the moment.
Gulf States condemn Iran retaliatory strikes
as Russia denounces unprovoked U.S.-Israeli War.
So yes, the Gulf States, oh, you horrible Iranians,
how dare you launch retaliatory strikes on U.S. forces
that are positioned in our countries.
You devils you.
How dare you do that?
But we have also seen, interestingly from Pakistan,
Iran blowback at least 22 killed
trying to storm the U.S. consulate in Pakistan,
specifically in Karachi.
So there's an interesting story there
that is as this article is framing it
as part of the Shia crescent
that Iran is obviously part of,
well, the large Shia Muslim population
in places like Pakistan
are not happy with what's going on
and there has been some attempt at storming the U.S. embassy
that did not end well for dozens of dead Pakistanis.
The Russian response that alluded to earlier is interesting
because it does raise some other specters of possible things
that may be happening on the geopolitical grand chessboard.
For example, of course,
there is the rubbing of the salt into the wound
with the Moscow official response calling this, quote,
preplanned an unprovoked act of armed aggression
against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state,
end quote, which is undoubtedly a quote
that the Kremlin has been sitting on
and waiting to unleash at least since February of 2022
when it was, of course, unleashed against them,
unprovoked.
It was an unprovoked attack against Ukraine.
Well, here they get to say,
well, this is a preplanned and unprovoked act
of armed aggression against the U.N. member state.
So nana boo boo, shame on you, Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu.
But interestingly, they also talk about the fact
that the attacks could trigger, quote,
humanitarian, economic, and possible radiological catastrophe.
Now, is that a reference to, well, if you bomb nuclear sites,
there's going to be nuclear debris?
Or is this perhaps at least the foreshadowing of a hint
of a potential for things to get nuclear in an exchange
based on this?
Well, at least that's how I'm sure certain actions out there,
like the rah-rah bricks are the savior.
Russia won't let this stand.
Crowd might argue that this is perhaps an indication
that the Kremlin is at least floating the idea
that they won't take, sit, roll over and take this lightly.
What about China?
Well, this handy Middle East eye article talks about,
will China come to Rurand's rescue
and the short answer is no.
Beijing will not send troops or battleships.
But it will continue working quietly in other ways, blah, blah, blah,
rhetoric, rhetoric.
No, the short answer is no.
China will not apparently do anything
to actually support Iran in this.
Would we expect them to?
Well, maybe there have been some interesting commentary
that I've seen written that's talked about the possibility
of China viewing Tehran as the bulwark against what it
is doing in the East China Sea, for example, with Taiwan.
So what is China's position in all of this?
Are the bricks really a thing?
Remember, bricks, guys.
Brazil, Russia, Iran?
Well, no.
Are they going to come to Iran's rescue?
Well, not so far anyway.
Well, how about the U.S. Congress?
Those Congress critters are going to come to our rescue, right?
Congress rushes to get in the loop
as critics denounce Iran's strikes.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
It's completely and totally illegal for the U.S.
president to simply unilaterally launch military operations
without approval from Congress, right?
They've got to declare war.
Oh, wait, of course they haven't declared war
since World War II.
So why would we expect anything different this time?
And I'm sure whatever rhetoric is being used,
it's Operation Epstein Fury.
It's a special military operation.
It's kinetic military action.
Whatever garbage rhetoric is always used
to skirt around the non-roadblocks that exist
toward a president launching unilateral military action.
We're seeing it in effect right now.
And of course, Congress will at least posture
and pretend to beat their chest.
And oh, you can't do this, Mr. President,
but nothing substantial will occur
as it never does from the Congress critters.
And anyway, this is just more about
the selectoral political considerations
that I was talking about earlier.
Perhaps the most interesting response along those lines
were from former Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene
who called out specifically JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard
you both need to speak out against the war in Iran.
People are paying attention.
Very close attention.
Silence won't cut it.
You were both on record repeatedly, publicly,
and loudly against going to war with Iran.
Our friend, Charlie Kirk, was adamantly
against war with Iran.
You cannot be silent.
Americans are dying.
You both know this is not what we campaigned for
and this is 100% what we said would not happen.
We said, I said, you said,
no more foreign wars and no more regime change.
All we wanted was America first.
This is not it.
So, hmm, I wonder what Vance and Gabbard
are up to these days.
Oh, that's right.
They're coordinating the strikes from the situation room
with the vice presidential seal adorning the walls
as they look all serious for the cameras
as Operation Epstein Fury continues to unfold live.
They're on Saturday.
So we know that all of that rhetoric
that Gabbard and Vance told you and whispered in your ear
that sweet, sweet opium that they delivered to your veins
during the selection process back in 2020, five, four,
they were just mouthing words and they're showing you.
They don't care.
They absolutely are involved in another regime change war
for various purposes, which we'll get into here shortly.
So anyway, that's where Vance and Gabbard
are sitting quite literally.
And then we have this.
And I think this might be the most consequential story
in terms of getting us towards what is happening
and why is it happening now?
What is really going on here?
This coming up from antiwar.com just hours ago,
before Khamenei killing, CIA assessed
he would likely be replaced by more hardline elements
of the IRGC, which says, quote,
before the U.S. and Israel launched a war
against Iran on Saturday morning
and killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
the CIA assessed that if the Iranian leader were killed,
his rule would likely be replaced
by hardline figures from Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC.
Yes, of course, of course.
There are a couple of things that we can take away,
just a priori from these events.
We don't even need all of these news updates,
but they will be there at corvoreport.com
But we don't even need these updates
to understand the basic logical calculus
that is at play here.
Of course, the Ayatollah has very specifically
been the bulwark and the roadblock
against Iran going nuclear,
at least in terms of nuclear weapons,
who has specifically and consistently reaffirmed
that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons.
And yet, they decided to take him out.
He's the one that is going to be,
they know the CIA has assessed,
they already know that he is going to be replaced
by more hardline elements within the government.
So why would they decide to take him out?
Well, of course, there are a couple of,
or at least a couple of factors at play,
one of which is the always the response
that we could always turn to, follow the money.
Well, of course, there is the military-industrial
boondoggle, which is unfolding right now as we speak.
You have heard, I'm sure, some of the commentators
talking about how, oh, they're running out of tomahawks,
they're going to use up all their tomahawks in these strikes.
That is, of course, the point.
Yes, they have supplies.
They need to continuously get rid of those supplies
so that they can order more and make more
for the military-industrial complex.
That is exactly what's happening.
And lo and behold, this up from zero hedge,
war stocks back in focus as Operation Epic Fury
drains tomahawk supplies.
Yes, because, of course, it is good for business
and they are going to be making billions and billions
for the military-industrial complex.
And oh, wouldn't you know it, U.S. defense stocks booming
as we speak.
Surprise, surprise.
The Dow's up $50,000, says the absolutely financially
illiterate Pam Bondi to the trained claps
and cheers of the MAGA crowd.
So that is one aspect of what is going on.
But of course, that is not really the heart of this.
Yes, there's always the monetary aspect,
but the monetary aspect is just used to keep the lower level
middle manager gophers of this larger agenda in the game.
Why are they in it?
Well, maybe for their own crass financial purposes.
But what is the game really about?
It isn't really about the money,
which we know is created out of nothing
by the banksters themselves.
So that isn't really what this is about.
What it is about, of course, ultimately is power
and consolidation of control, centralization of control
in the coming regional slash global governmental system
that we know is being worked on
and has been being worked on for generations.
But how does Iran play into that?
Well, in order to understand that,
we have to understand how we came to this spot in history,
because guess what?
The Iran strikes and what's going on
didn't start on Saturday.
It didn't start last June with the 12-day war.
It didn't start a few years ago.
It didn't start with the JCPOA.
It didn't start at the beginning of the 21st century.
It started, well, arguably, I guess we could go back
through thousands of years of history
to the old ancient Persian people
and the Great Persian Empire.
And we could talk about what Hegel called
the world's first historical people and all of that.
But we don't have to go quite that far,
or at least we're not going to in today's podcast.
What we can do is go back to when Iran very,
very squarely came on the geopolitical chess board.
And as viewers of how and why big oil conquered the world,
we'll know that, of course, took place in 1901.
Another global competitor to the Standard Oil Throne
emerged in Iran at the turn of the 20th century.
In 1901, millionaire socialite William Knox Darcy
negotiated an incredible concession with the King of Persia,
exclusive rights to prospect for oil
throughout most of the country for 60 years.
After seven years of fruitless search,
Darcy and his Glasgow-based partner, Burma Oil,
were ready to abandon the country altogether.
In early May of 1908,
they sent a telegram to their geologist
telling him to dismiss his staff,
dismantle his equipment, and come back home.
He defied the order, and weeks later, struck oil.
Burma Oil promptly spun off the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
to oversee production of Persian oil.
The British government took 51% majority control
of the company's shares in 1914
at the behest of Winston Churchill,
then First Lord of the Admiralty,
and survives today as BP.
Ah, yes, as viewers of the big oil documentary
will know all too well,
the cementing of the oil world order
in the late 19th slash early 20th century
completely reconfigured the global geopolitical chessboard
and made certainly formerly neglected slices
of the geopolitical pie, like Iran,
somewhat more interesting and important
and flavorful for the would-be eaters
of the Anglo-American Empire,
to really extend that metaphor.
And you will know that, for example,
the Anglo-Persian slash Anglo-Iranian slash BP interests
in Persia were at least part of what cemented
the opposition to the proposed Berlin-Bagdad railway
in the lead up to World War I,
which was contributory to the World War I conspiracy.
But let's skip ahead in this story to the 1950s
when viewers of false flags,
the secret history of Al Qaeda, will know Iran,
of course, attempted to nationalize the oil,
tried to take a greater stake
in its own geoeconomic interests,
which was, of course, a no-no that was met
with fierce and immediate deep state opposition.
In March 1951, the Iranian parliament
voted to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian oil company,
the British oil giant that struck oil
near the Persian Gulf in 1908,
and offered the premiership of the government
to Mohamed Mossadeq, an outspoken secular nationalist.
Immediately after taking office,
Mossadeq affected the nationalization, stating,
Our long years of negotiations with foreign countries
have yielded no results this far.
With the oil revenues, we could meet our entire budget
and combat poverty, disease,
and backwardness among our people.
Another important consideration
is that by the elimination of the power
of the British company,
we would also eliminate corruption and intrigue
by means of which the internal affairs
of our country have been influenced.
Once this tutelage has ceased,
Iran will have achieved its economic
and political independence.
The nationalization put Tehran
on a collision course with London.
But Britain knew that a military intervention
was not possible without American approval,
and, despite harsh economic sanctions on the country
and a boycott of the newly nationalized oil industry
that was joined by much of the Western world,
they could not overthrow the Iranian government themselves.
Instead, they had to turn to the U.S.
Although the Truman administration
was initially hesitant to become involved,
that changed with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower
in the installation of the Dulles Brothers,
Allen and John Foster,
as Director of Central Intelligence
and Secretary of State respectively.
By June of 1953,
the CIA was already adapting the British coup proposal
into their own covert operation,
dubbed Operation TP Ajax.
An open secret in the world of intelligence
the CIA MI6 role in the overthrow of Mossadeq
was officially denied by the U.S. government
for over half a century
and is still unacknowledged
by the British government to this day.
Nevertheless, the CIA's own internal history
of the operation,
first revealed to the public in the year 2000,
confirms the extent of the American
and British role in the coup.
They convinced the Shah of Iran to agree to the plan.
They handpicked General Faslullah Zahidi
as Mossadeq's successor.
They rolled out a propaganda campaign
to portray Mossadeq,
a devout adherent to democratic nationalism
who rigorously excluded
the nation's Communist Party from his government
as a Communist sympathizer
who would steer Iran into the arms of the Soviets.
They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
bribing journalists, clerics,
and even Iranian parliament members themselves
to go along with the plot.
And they used a network of agents
and suitcases full of money
to incite riots and protests across the country.
In the end, the operation was a success.
Mossadeq was driven from power.
General Zahidi took his place.
The Western-backed Shah ruled the country
with the iron fist of his feared secret police
for the next 25 years.
And a new agreement on sales of Iranian oil was reached.
This time, though,
the Anglo-Iranian oil company,
now rebranded as British Petroleum,
would not have a monopoly
on the country's lucrative oil reserves.
An international consortium was put together
to share in the profits
with American companies Chevron
and Standard Oil cut into the deal.
And yes, you can continue pulling on that historical thread
and traveling that historical path
through the 1950s and 60s and 70s
through the installation
and then the brutal regime of tyranny
brought about by the Shah of Iran
and his Savak secret police.
Again, there's a lot to be told about that tale
and, of course, U.S. complicity
in that tale,
including, of course,
the Shah's good personal friend
and buddy David Rockefeller
and what role that might have played
in the development of events there in Iran
in that time period.
But, of course, that inevitably leads us
to the 1979 Islamic Revolution
and the installation of the new Islamic theocracy
in Iran and the Ayatollah.
And then, of course,
it just inevitably follows from there
this seemingly eternal enmity
between the U.S. and Iran.
Why is the U.S. the Great Satan
in the Iranian people's imagination
and why is Iran this great bogeyman
in the U.S. public imagination?
It is because of those events
of those chaotic times.
Of course, the hostage crisis
and everything else that came after that point.
And that is why,
at least in the minds of many Americans,
there is this never-ending hatred
of Iran and the Iranian people.
Fuck this shit.
I'm just gonna dance now.
Fuck this shit.
Because we don't have a chance now.
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Yeah, here we are on Friday.
Once again, thank you, Mr. Ryan Graham.
For another fantastic independent review.
How are you doing?
Oh, you know, I'm here.
Just as we talked last Friday of,
hey, can we ask for a boring week?
And then how do you do?
They're all, nah, nah, fucking.
You can watch Tel Aviv get bombed, though.
Yeah, yeah.
I saw two days the other day
that was like watching Tel Aviv get bombed.
I suddenly know how the Israelis felled on 9-11.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, man, dude.
No, the White House Twitter account is...
I'm serious, I'm serious.
Maybe you guys in the chat help us know.
Which one is gayer?
The White House's Twitter account
that's doing shit like this.
I'll pull this up here real quick.
Operation Epic Fury.
And they're like, here's fucking epic fury.
Grand Theft Auto.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is not that that's they get gayer too.
We'll just, yeah.
There's the one.
Unstoppable momentum.
You've lost three billion dollars of military equipment.
You're lying through your teeth about troop loss.
Yeah.
I think it was just a few hours ago, the peace one.
There's one about, I think I said it, it's this one.
No, it's the other one.
Shit.
These guys are just clowns though.
It's fucking ridiculous.
It's, here we go.
This was not long ago.
It's fucking...
Like what?
Like...
That's good.
Right.
Wow.
Peace through strength.
Holy shit.
Yeah, boy.
Yeah.
Well, it is Friday, right?
And as you head into the weekend, it's important to remember
you should taste the biscuit this weekend and every weekend.
Okay.
Why does it still sound like, like, why does it sound like Hillary?
Right?
Like her regular voice, like the lady that...
Sounds just like her.
There's like a four and a half minute version of this.
Where it's still the, you know...
Doing the lady in the thrift store.
But yeah, that like the...
She goes off for like, yeah, almost five minutes on that song.
I don't know how, why, but yeah.
Oh, right?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
I hate the way that Instagram is operating on the desktop.
But...
Here we go.
And I want the right mood.
I listen to...
Let me play something for you.
And all of the ladies that were listening just slid off of their seat.
Yup.
Because that's how Billy Dee do.
Billy Dee.
Oh, shit.
This would be, this would be fun.
Going out and playing slipknot and a major key.
Oh, that's awesome.
That's so funny, though.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, the old man makeup is great, too.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Oh, shit.
And then on the, you know, conversely, the national anthem and a minor key.
That was good.
Very good.
Let's see.
I don't really have an explanation for this one.
Other than we didn't get an opportunity on the show yesterday
to note the termination.
Of a Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem.
She got herself shit-canned.
Shit-canned.
Fired.
So, to commemorate this.
Oh, shit.
Kristi Noem is in on your boy, bird-legged hoe.
That hoe, that hoe off she goes.
Oh, that's good.
I was like, what the fuck?
Where does this shit come from?
Okay, it's going in.
Oh, that's good.
And now for at least the whole way that we're, the whole time that we're
fucking on the way to the big J show tonight.
I am going to be in my head hearing.
Yeah.
Kristi Noem is an unemployed bird-legged hoe.
Yeah.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's not leaving my brain for the weekend.
At least for the weekend.
It's going to be a minute.
It is.
Oh, that's good.
It just hits.
It does.
Yeah.
So the banger.
Updated their freaking profile picture.
Oh, look.
Good times.
Good.
We can only laugh at this point, right?
Let's see.
That's what I had up.
You know, I was thinking today, Steve, if only, you know, if only we had a show,
you know, somebody who would be out there the last six plus years telling us this would happen.
Right.
If only there was this morning show where, you know, you'd bring on people that would,
you know, tell the truth and explain what's going to happen and not to fall for bullshit and
and then act surprised six years later.
I don't know.
It's weird, you know.
Right.
Yeah.
No, it isn't.
It's almost like there may have been people doing that.
Yeah.
They were, they were wildly algorithmically suppressed.
Yeah.
Some, some of them, even like T lab got hit with a bunch of fraudulent lawsuits.
Right.
Yeah.
But shit, dude, it is.
It's wild that I saw somebody tweet out like, Candace just blew the lid off.
I saw that.
I saw it.
You're like, and how long ago did I talk about that?
Right.
It was almost seven years ago.
Yeah.
I'm doing the fucking thing from my back porch.
I saw that.
I hadn't seen that video.
It was actually pretty good to watch, though.
I didn't realize that was seven years ago already.
Yeah.
Fucking crazy.
It'll be seven years in the summer, I think.
Still, but yeah.
Yeah, that was 2019.
And yeah, dude, I'm just kicking it in my backyard.
And if I can figure that out, you know, with laptop in my backyard seven years ago,
why the fuck is Candace Owens just now figuring it out with unlimited resources
and all of her little Candace, you know, super, super slews or whatever they are.
No fucking way.
Yeah.
No, it's just, it's kind of fun to be like, oh yeah, let me dig in the archive.
When we did that, it's got to be like a weird mix of emotion that
parties got to feel a little good that like I've been right this whole time,
but it's also like frustrating and like this is fucking annoying as hell too.
Like, I mean, it's something you don't ever want to be like fully right.
Yeah, that's the thing.
It's like you don't want to be right about it.
And then you're just like, uh,
you know, sometimes you're like, man, I might be happy being a kook.
Yeah, it's freakishly early on this shit.
But yeah, there's a lot of other people that are early and yeah.
So that part's comforting, you know, but yeah.
God, I want to get, I want to get that as a fucking sound drop now.
Yes, I mean, it's not, it's only got, it's got a limited shelf life,
but I want to squeeze the fuck out of that shelf.
I want that shelf to look like little jobs by the time we're done with it.
Yes, send me that link and I will, I will clip it for you.
Oh, here we are.
Fucking I won't be through it.
Ostrich leg as hoe.
Oh, I like this dude.
Yeah, he's funny.
He's funny.
And I'm definitely looking forward to live stand up comedy tonight.
Oh, yeah.
Very much so.
I should go find some big J.
Play a little bit.
I'm fucking offended.
This is what the Americans.
God damn it.
Well, I'm fucking offended.
This is what the Americans are selling as Irish themed desserts for St. Patrick's Day.
What the fuck is a mint chocolate lasagna?
That's at least two racisms.
Leave the Italians out of it.
This is not their fight.
What did they do here?
I will speak on behalf of the Irish people.
We do not sign off on any of this fucking shite.
None of this came across our desk.
Who gave you the right to associate the good honest Irish people
with fucking Bailey's cheesecake balls?
I've never had no cheesecake balls in my life.
In fact, St. Patrick would have fucked cheesecake balls off the island with the snacks.
All right.
And he's a lot of fucking goo.
How does one even obtain this shade of green?
I'd say the only chemical that's not in there is cocaine.
Cottage cheese jello salad.
We don't have any of those things in Ireland.
I'm assuming it's because the word cottage is in it.
Listen Americans.
I'm sorry to break the immersion.
I don't know a single cunt that lives in a cottage.
We all just live in cat roof apartments now.
Anyway, if I didn't get my message across,
basically I hate this fuck off and follow me.
I'm delicious.
You don't fuck.
He had a good one too on like the McDonald's bro,
like attempting to eat the cheeseburger.
That was a good break.
I guess he's like trolled the internet like that a couple of times
before.
Okay.
He had a thing that he did where he was like,
he did the tempered cheese thing with the filet of fish.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Eat it without tartars.
Dumped ice cream on it or something.
Oh shit.
Yeah.
He's weird.
I think.
Yeah.
He just all of a sudden is all over my feet.
I don't know what's wrong.
But well, when everybody's jumped on the,
you know, let's go do
a fucking, you know, our, our skit of this, you know, whatever.
Yeah.
Let's see.
I was thinking, oh, go ahead, man.
Oh, this Twitter account does like vintage TV commercials.
And, you know, but like somewhat wholesome eat your shit.
Yeah, dude, we'll take it back to Ronco.
We sell a lot of records.
Records cost a lot of money.
But what good is spending a lot of money
if your records don't sound good
because of dust and static electricity?
That's why I recommend to all our customers
the new record vacuum by Ronco.
It's so easy to use.
Just insert any size record, 33 and a third, 45, 78.
The new record vacuum automatically vacuums away
all the micro dust particles that distort sound.
And can damage your needle.
It also eliminates static electricity buildup.
The record vacuum by Ronco protects your records
and gives you all the quality sound aid for.
It makes this sound like this.
For the price of a couple of albums,
protect your records and prevent damage to your needle.
If you want the best possible sound from all your records,
get the new record vacuum by Ronco.
In fact, by two or three,
they really do make great Christmas gifts.
And they're only 1488.
Is there how much?
What's that price again?
Interesting.
Ronco record washer is wildly anti-semitic.
That washing machine is a virulent anti-semi.
Oh, I didn't know that was a thing for fuck's sake.
This is from a documentary called
The Most Australian Band Ever.
The Australian Band is a punk band called The Hard-Ons.
Now, I've never seen this before,
but apparently doing the cunt counter
is not a unique innovation.
Oh, I'm the fuck down.
You know, it's the fucking Hoddle,
fucking punk rock.
Fucking roll.
Because I've done it that many fucking times.
Fucking great.
Fucking fuss made by fuckwits.
What the fuck are you eating?
What the fuck?
Fucking hanky on his head.
Fucking cut in six.
Fucking awesome.
Fucking fuck.
Fucking fucking cunts.
Fuck off.
Fuck, who the fuck think you are?
You're fucking chinky.
Fucking by records.
Fuck those fucking arseholes.
There's a real fucking turn off.
This fucking song is about to go in there.
It's like, no, it's not.
Fuck.
Fucking disgrace to punk.
Oh, fuck, we got a gig.
Fucking fucked up feedback.
Fuck it.
Fuck this fucking play.
Fuck yeah.
Fuck fucking.
Fuck off.
Fucking.
Fucking unreal.
Fuck, I can't have a swim.
Fuck off back to the west.
You're fucking westy and take your fucking flanner with you.
Fucking hip song called fucking brutal.
Fucking ugly.
Really fucking ugly.
Fucking.
I don't fucking know.
Fuck wits in the back of the room can see your skin.
Fucks.
His fucking right.
Fuck.
Fucking, fucking burns your arse all the next day.
Fuck whatever.
Fucking hell.
Fuck sounds fucking awesome.
Put a fucking plug in a blackie.
Clearly it's fucking tongue in cheek.
A fucking band.
Fucking hell.
From the fucking charm to fucking surfy.
You guys, I'm a fucking westy.
Oh, fucks with my band.
Fuck off.
Fuck yeah.
We're a bunch of wogs.
How fucking awesome is that?
They're making fun of nicknongs.
They're making fun of chinkies.
And they got the big Nazmus.
Fucking Jew.
Fucking top night.
That was the fucking best thing ever.
Fucking incredible.
That's my fucking life.
Crazy fucking good.
Fucking stop.
Shit.
What is this shit?
We're fucking Aussies.
They don't give a shit.
Fuck with fucking.
Fucking awesome.
Fucking hard.
Fuck, why wouldn't I fucking go hard?
Thing fucking.
He's a fucking good looking guy.
Endless fucking feedback.
Fuck who cares?
Fuck off.
Bunch of fucking wankers.
You fuck with.
Cunts or wanker or prick.
Gonna fuck something up.
Whatever fuck it is.
Fucking hell.
Fucking fuck off.
Fucking fucking.
Fuck awesome.
Fucking mad.
It was fucking really mad.
Fucking.
Fuck you.
No, I said the worst.
Fuck about fucking bullshit.
Shut the fuck up.
Fuck a movie we have.
Just watch the movie.
All right.
I'm not saying any more.
Oh, that's great.
Oh, that's good.
You know when you used to have the T-Lab
fuck counter with Brian?
Oh, yeah.
And the contest, like if someone had the time
that would have been a good compilation.
Right.
That would have been.
That's a lot of time, but.
Yeah, no.
Just if somebody went back at like,
Yeah.
You know, two times, three times speed
over the course of a handful of episodes,
you'd get a nice little montage going.
Yeah.
You would.
There's, I think there's a few words
we haven't been able to get Ryan to say.
Yes.
But I feel like there's still time.
I do.
Let's see.
Let's do the dad crash out one.
And I'll drop the link in the chat too.
Those always get me.
And I'm going to hop out of here.
I don't know, 30, 45 minutes.
I'm like that.
My girl sister's coming over.
We're supposed to go out for a
little hike or something.
Come back and crash out and wake up
and go see big J later.
That'll be good.
Right.
That'll be good.
Right.
Yeah, dude's funny.
You got to remember to find,
pull some big J.
Yes.
It's been like, the last time I saw him
was 2022.
Oh, shit.
New.
Yeah.
No, the year before that.
It was the year before that.
It's been five years almost.
Oh, shit.
Because I was out in Colorado for,
in Assange thing.
And he was in town.
I was there for like five days
and he was in town one of the nights.
I was like, I fuck it, dude.
I'm here, you know.
Well, but, yeah.
God damn son of a bitch.
Motherfucking goddamn air.
Fucking goddamn Titan motherfucker.
What a ratty ass fucking piece of shit,
motherfucker.
Give me a fucking 13 millimeter socket.
The fucking one that says
13 mm on the fucking socket.
Fucking goddamn it.
Motherfucking piece of shit ass fucking air.
At no point is anyone in this video
going to combine the words fart with the n-word?
Oh, yeah, right?
You see what I'm saying?
These dudes don't matter to shit.
You go to your default when you're,
when you're pissed like that.
You might even assume,
based on the way that some of these gentlemen
look and sound,
that they may have some racism in them.
And at no point do you hear them.
This is true.
Bitch.
Hey Siri, you deaf cunt.
Directions to the Hilton service paradise.
Now you fucking get it.
Please enter your three digit code.
Oh my god.
You think I know my code?
The one fucking through the pipe work in the pit.
Oh no.
Turn the fucking thing off, Jonathan.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
That's good.
Dude, the 10 millimeter socket.
You should, I should start 3D printing.
Yes.
Little in case of emergency things,
you could stick around,
you know, somewhere in your workshop
or whatever to just come with a 10 millimeter socket.
Oh, did you?
I had one of those.
I think it was last weekend in the opening.
Mm hmm.
Did you see that guy?
Yeah.
I'm like, shit, we could do that.
Yeah.
That's so true.
Oh, it's good.
You could actually probably make some bank 3D
print in those though.
You probably.
That's a legit problem.
It really is.
Get one that like mounts to the inside of the hood.
Yeah.
Magnets up in there.
Right.
As long as it wasn't on a place on the car
that got, you know, too hot.
Yeah.
It'd be fine.
Shit, dude.
You, I don't know.
I needed them.
Oh, shit.
You know, you can do like,
we used to have these,
and this was years ago,
when you actually had fucking real keys for cars
and with those little like magnet sliders,
we'd hide them under the cars like your spare.
In case you ever locked your keys in your car,
we used to have one of those.
I was like, you should do that for like a 10 millimeter.
Yes.
Just pop it underneath.
Okay.
So I did that one.
Oh, I was going to drop the,
I was going to drop the link
and then look around for some big J stuff.
Oh, the can't dude.
Fucking camera has been doing this
the last couple of days.
Just cutting out.
Oh, like slightly bump the USB hub
that it's plugged into.
Oh, yeah.
And it'll go, no.
You got an Australian mic.
Right.
Camera.
The Australian camera.
Oh, thank you.
No, no.
Are you going to fucking work now thing?
What the fuck?
There we are.
I feel like,
I feel like we're also kind of getting in that spot
where it was,
as you know how stuff repeats itself
all the fucking time with the dipshits
that go left to right and back and forth.
And rightfully so,
you should have people pissed about what's going on
and you should yell at the current administration
because they all fucking suck.
But how many now people are shifting back
to the left side
and finding their savior over there?
When you know,
I'm just going to do the same stupid shit.
Bound to happen.
Yeah.
Oh, stream yard link is in the chat.
So hop in, sound off, talk shit,
ask questions, shower us with praise.
The only things that we ask of you
is that you mute up on rumble before you hit the link
so there's no weird lag or echo.
If you assault us with non-consensual poetry,
you will be immediately and irrevocably banned
in this and all known and discoverable universes
from now throughout perpetuity.
So help me blonde-haired,
blue-eyed, perfect baby Jebus.
Um, if you're blacked out drunk,
maybe rethink about, you know,
rethink joining a live stream.
I don't expect anybody to be,
but, you know, just throwing it out there.
And then most importantly, it's a hang.
So if you're incapable of being on screen
with other people without talking over them
or filibustering or interrupting them,
by all means, please start a podcast by yourself
and go hang out with you and listen to you talk.
Um, since that's what you won't say anyway.
Um, but yeah, other than that,
I've been, um, gonna be shooting the shit
for another half an hour or so.
Um, I just put that up.
That is funny as fuck, though.
That's good shit.
Yeah.
You ever do the DERP with KERP show much?
I need to.
Yeah, I would love to see you on there.
I think it'd be fucking great.
I still love seeing him when he puts the
fucking astronaut hat on.
I need to have like a serious conversation.
Uh, that's good shit.
Uh, that's good.
I thought he was gonna come across the desk at Michael Malis.
I know.
I need the big boy.
Like I was like, oh, Jesus fucking giant,
dude, and Michael Malis is a fucking mini me.
Like there's like a whole two sizes of human
between Michael Malis and Metzger.
He was all like breath about.
I thought Malis was just gonna fucking run.
He probably pissed himself a little.
Yeah, like a little dog.
Right.
I think you got dogs.
Oh, this is a.
Oh, yeah.
This is good.
This is phenomenal.
This is great.
Oh, shit.
There we go.
God damn Instagram.
Yeah, that's better than a lot of shooting bands out there.
Right.
Let's see.
Oh, it's good shit.
All right, I'll do.
I'll do this one for the big J.
Yeah.
Make sure we're a fucking stream yard.
Why have lost contact with your audio?
There we go.
That's better.
I believe me.
J. O. percent believes that a woman can do pretty much any job in the world that a man can do at least as good.
If not better.
I think that's true.
I think the best doctors in the world, the best lawyers, scientists, heads of business, industry
all could be women.
President of the United States even.
How about that?
Yeah.
A lot of people say they don't believe me when I say that, but I think
I think it's very possible that a woman can do the job
of President of the United States better than any man's ever done it.
Yeah.
But.
Show cops a lot.
And if it's an episode where they're following a female police officer, don't go anywhere.
Buckle yourself and watch.
It's going to be a good episode.
You have to eventually be shot or tased to stop this poor woman from being windmilled down the street.
And they're probably as powerful.
100 out of 100 times.
And it's funnier every time.
I believe me.
J. O.
St.
Please.
The woman can do pretty much any job in the world.
Oh, that's a good one.
Dude.
Windmilled down the street in her polyester outfit.
That is what makes the fella entertaining, man.
He's he's got he's got away with the words.
It's good build up.
I've heard him talk about cops before, dude.
He was like, remember why they shut down cops?
Black lives matter.
Oh, the the Black Lives Matter protests also wound up as the final season of cops.
And big J's like, thought that was kind of weird because like the one show that would
follow the police around and record the big shit.
Thanks to Black people got taken off the air.
Seemed like mixed messages.
I remember that.
I remember hearing Pop Patrol took a hit too with the cop dog.
It's like, no.
Yeah, the one place, though, that's availed it.
When was the last time you heard Chris Webby?
Oh, not for a long time.
Chris Webby's gone full fucking conspiracy, bro, now.
Okay.
Dude, check this shit out.
Check this shit out.
Get it in you.
Oh, that's just Hillary with all that phrasal drip on her hand.
That's red handed.
And there's still wedges on his pants.
Galena wiped the stains when her plane from Israel lands.
So someone grabbed the spirit cook a riffy looking for the gravy.
Abramovich, who is not a witch.
Well, maybe.
And Gaga don't drink the Google from little babies.
That's crazy.
She's honestly a really nice lady.
And look, it's Kevin Spacey right off the set of a movie.
He shot in his basement with a child in George Clooney.
Weinstein funded it.
Spielberg directed it.
Bono made the music and sang at a kid's benefit.
And George H.W. Bush is pulling the car up with every man in his family, even Barbara.
Ellen's on the way from Diddy's house with Sean Carter.
Because here I comment ping pong.
The club is what you're part of.
Oprah's on the way, but she'll be late.
She's stuck in human traffic.
We'll just have to film the sacrifice and show it to a wrap.
They're going through it on a lacy driver.
Don't be losing that shit.
Where's Anthony Weiner's computer?
I thought that Homer had it.
Just relax.
Take a nap with that guy in the Biden mask.
Even if they catch us, we'll be fine.
Just give it time to pass.
Jeffrey's got a back.
The shit is under control because he reports directly to the people running the show.
Well, gee, who could that be?
What a mystery.
Even with the evidence, there's not a single hint to see.
These conspiracies have been mistaken all along.
So I guess we'll never know just what is really going on.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, shit.
You muted.
Yeah.
Is that all?
Guess we'll never know what is really going on.
No.
Oh, no.
Way to go, Chris Webby.
It has been a minute.
It has been.
Oh, that's the dog song.
We got too much shit up.
Oh, there's the Reno 911.
Somebody in the chat said something about why we turned into a real or Reno 911 was real
or something like that.
Yeah.
So many different ways, shapes and forms.
Fully agree.
Fully agree to bring this up.
All right.
Well, you've got a pretty good balance there.
Thank you.
I want you to step.
What would be good is if you hit kick and then you kind of did that in a barrel turn and then
ah, you know, that was good.
That was really good.
You a dancer?
No.
No, no, no.
Not a time.
I just drunk.
Ah, you're going to get a call right now.
You are going to jail.
Hell yeah.
Well, he was busting a move there.
Yeah.
I want to ask you, Steve, if you've heard anything about this
new gig because when Donald J. Trump and the J is for Jewish, when he announced that
Christie Nome had been sacked on truth social, her consolation prize for losing was that she's
going to be the ambassador to the shield of the Americas, which is something that we're
going to make, but we haven't made yet.
But that's going to be her new gig when we eventually talk about it.
And so ever since that announcement, I've been scouring the interwebs to try to find out
what in the unholy fuck is this shield of the Americas?
And all I've gotten so far are clues about Technite.
Have you heard anything about it?
Just Pete Hegseth saying we're living in the Technite.
I mean, just to fuck it here.
I'll pull that up.
Fuck it, Pete, dude.
There we go.
That is why President Trump has drawn a new strategic map
from Greenland to the Gulf of America to the Panama Canal and its surrounding country.
At the Department of War, we call this the map of the greater North America.
Why? Because every sovereign nation and territory north of the equator,
from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Higiana, is not part of the global south.
It's not a new security perimeter in this great neighborhood that we all live in.
Each one of these countries border either the North Atlantic or the North Pacific.
Each one of these countries sits north of the two basic geographic
areas that exist between this region, the Amazon and these mountains.
This is basic geography that we don't watch in schools as much as we should.
And it restores our North and South relations and we must get it right.
In the North, the United States must enhance posture and presence in cooperation with you
and our sovereign partners to defend our shared immediate security perimeter.
In the south, meaning south of the equator,
the other side of this great neighborhood, we will strengthen partnerships through increased
burden sharing. This will enable you to take a greater role to defend the South Atlantic
and the South Pacific and to secure critical infrastructure and resources
in partnership with us and other Western nations.
This is what we did in World War II, just like sunk ships with torpedoes in World War II.
Yeah, you did the fucking UN and NATO,
which is a massive money laundering operation.
But in case anybody forgot, this is what he's talking about.
The North American Technique.
You on the grandpa's map?
Weird.
Well, well, look at that.
Odd how that seems to just perfectly line up.
I think you played it early this one Tuesday.
Then there's a video of him doing like the Antichrist talking about it like in 20.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fucking weird, dude.
He's a third temple exploration.
I saw two little red, two little red colored islands in the Caribbean
that used to be owned by Jeffrey Epstein on that last map you showed.
Little James, little St. James Island and big St. James Island.
That is unfortunate.
Is it a cream filled donut?
That is unfortunate or jelly.
Well, they haven't been that busy that morning because you don't see the pink
sock hanging out yet.
No, no.
I feel like Pete was he just screams as like a he did some weird shit in a frat.
Very frat-tastic, pretty gay, really weird shit.
Yeah.
I'd like to see Pete Hegseth and David Hasselhoff have an all fours low crawl
competition to see who can eat more cheeseburgers in the fastest time doing 100 meters on all fours.
Blackout smash based drunk.
Like if Pete Hegseth walked into a movies, you would expect Randall to call him a
pickle fucker.
Yes, you would.
Yeah.
That's yeah, I can see it.
I can't.
This is a hairdo.
This is wild.
It's like a mouth.
It's like half Inca, half Italian.
Yeah.
I've heard of short back and sides, but have you ever seen a short front before?
That's wild.
This guy's pretty funny.
Was that guy a sumo wrestler?
That looked like a sumo haircut.
All they need is the big diaper thing that they wear, the ghee or whatever.
Yeah, this guy's good.
Try that again.
There we go.
With volume.
Y'all give me a minute, please.
Yeah, I know.
I miss him.
Give me a minute.
Oh, I miss him.
Damn.
R.I.P. though.
Rubens racing.
Rise, help rise though.
Yeah, that's right.
All right.
Fuck.
Wow.
Fucking A.
It is responsible.
Those fellas.
Make sure you send them misses.
Oh man.
Yeah.
I kind of want to watch the, you know, maybe, I don't know, at some point.
Yeah.
Oh, I'll get around.
But yeah.
Goddamn with the fucking volume.
I don't know what the volume.
Yeah, fucking.
This is just dropping it on every clip.
Hey, you know what's weird about you, dude?
Like, sometimes did you say some genius shit?
I'm like, fuck, I scratched my head.
Sometimes you say some shit where I'm like, this man's fucking.
So I've been quite figured out, dude, if you're a genius or a little bit of
bull, made a little bit of Rain Man in you, you know.
Thanks, man.
Didn't he come from MTV Road Rules, Ryan?
Yeah.
Was he like a celebrity star?
He was on Road Rules.
Was it the first season?
Steve, I almost feel like he was like.
Might have been.
It was early.
It was a long time ago.
He was like 19 or 20 or something like that.
Let me correct the record.
I meant pseudo celebrity star.
Pseudo celebrity.
I don't know if Theo Vaughn's going to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I don't know.
I think you got to have a little bit more in your CV than just MTV Road Rules and
Miscellaneous Podcaster to make that.
I mean, it was a stand up comic for like 15 or 20 years.
It was just nobody heard of him until he got on Rogan.
Yeah.
But.
I wonder how many people on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
are on the Epstein Jerky Pizza Grape List?
I'm sure somebody's gone through and tagged them.
I know that there was like a display set up around Trumpstar.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
I would just assume all of them at this point.
That'd be well if you could like go to downtown Hollywood and play Epstein,
hopscotch and just hopscotch on only the squares of non-Diddlers,
which would probably be difficult.
You'd probably be taking a lot of leaps.
At this point, I think when I first started, you know, I mean, I'm way new to this stuff
compared to you, but you know, like was it 2019 going into it with Epstein thing?
Once you read it, it's like, I just assume at that point that everyone in any industry,
that's just by default.
You did some fucked up shit to get there until you can prove otherwise.
That's my default now.
Music, movies, TV, YouTube.
Way back in, what was it, 2009 or something?
I don't know.
I know that I can remember when Steve and Glory talked about Jeffrey Epstein
on an episode of Get Your Shit Together Slow Newsday.
And that had to be eight fucking years ago.
I mean, that's what kills me about the Epstein list.
People are acting like they just found out about it when most of us are like,
that's kind of old news.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm always like, I always have a mix of, I'm glad some of it gets brought up,
you know, like where people finally see it or like, oh, Jesus, this is fucking nuts.
But no one's going to jail, Ryan.
No, but no one's doing anything about it.
They just use it for, yeah, they use it for content to get clicks,
unfortunately, instead it's like, cool.
And then even worse, they're trying to ram this new kids online safety act down our throat.
I know, yep.
When the literal pedophiles and power are trying to cram this shit down all of our operating systems
to basically, again, to converge your digital identity so that you cannot even log on to
the internet unless you submit a dick pic and the barcode off the back of your photo ID.
And I'm like, this is brought to you by the same people who just had their Kabuki theater with
Bondi saying, but the Dow's over 50,000.
Again, nothing happened out of that other than some clips.
But beyond that, the only thing that's happened since then is we've started helping
Israel blow up fucking elementary schools in Iran.
And we're bombing painted decoys in the Iranian desert where the bomb lands on the helicopter.
And then you see that the helicopter blades aren't moving because they're painted on fucking sand.
We are fucking up their decoys, by the way.
And in return, they're taking out, they're taking out our thad.
They took out both of the fad radar systems.
And meanwhile, we've actually had two bombing runs in Ecuador over the last two days,
which I think Steve brought that up yesterday, where the current president of Ecuador,
Daniel Novoa, who is one of the most infamous cocaine cartel leaders in Ecuador
and the president, much like that douchebag from, I think, Honduras.
So we're bombing Ecuador now, again.
That's the point.
Yeah.
And helping the cocaine dealer attack his competition, kind of like what we do in Mexico.
I feel like the only difference now is what we're doing is they're just doing it so much more in your
face and they don't give a fuck where it seemed a little less, you know, in your face before,
like they try to bounce around it, but it just, they're like, yeah, no, this is,
this is what we're doing.
Yeah, you do some about it.
Make the entire country put on masks and then you take yours off and you fucking
let people fucking deal with it.
And most people can't or don't want to, so they ignore it or check out.
Terrence told us a long time ago.
Forces here at the end, it's only going to get weirder.
The level of contradiction is going to rise excruciating even beyond the excruciating present
levels of contradiction.
So I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder.
And finally, it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how
weird it is.
And at that point, novelty theory can come out of the woods.
Because eventually people are going to say, what the hell is going on?
It's just two nuts.
It's not enough to say it's nuts.
You have to explain why it's so nuts.
So between now and 2012, the next 14 years, I look for the invention of artificial life,
the cloning of human beings, possible contact with extraterrestrials, possible human immortality.
And at the same time, appalling acts of brutality, genocide, race-baiting,
homophobia, famine, starvation.
Because the systems which are in place to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate to the
forces that have been unleashed, the collapse of the socialist world, the rise of the internet.
These are changes so immense, nobody could imagine them ever happening.
And now that they have happened, nobody even bothers to mention what a big deal it is.
The fact that there is no such thing as the Soviet Union, people never talk about it anymore.
But when I was a kid, the notion that that would ever change was beyond conceiving.
So the good news is that as primates, we're incredibly adaptable to change.
Put us in a desert, we survive.
Put us in the jungle, we survive.
Under Hitler, we survive.
Under Nixon, we survive.
We can put up with about anything.
And it's a good thing because we're going to be tested to the limits.
The breakdown of anything, and this is why the right wing is so alarmed.
Because what they see going on is the breakdown of all tradition, all order, all sanctioned norms
of behavior.
And they're quite right that it's happening.
But they're quite wrong to conclude that it should be resisted or is somehow evil.
The mushroom said to me once, it said, this is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars.
You don't depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions.
It's a fire in a madhouse.
And that's what we have, the fire in the madhouse at the end of time.
This is what it's like when a species prepares to move on to the next dimension.
The entire destiny of all life on the planet is tied up in this.
We are not acting for ourselves or from ourselves.
We happen to be the point species on a transformation that will affect every
living organism on this planet at its conclusion.
Wow.
Spot the fuck on.
Wow.
And how many years ago was that, Steve?
Well, Steve's muted.
About 35.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was getting some VHS vibes on that footage there.
I'm like, bro, this has to be back from like the 80s.
It's good.
Yeah, it's early 90s.
That's wild.
Early 90s.
Dude, that was a weird dude.
He was talking that shit when I was jamming Bill Biddebow and Boys II Men.
Yeah, a little bit of Mr.
Roger sound at first.
Yeah, but he spoke the truth.
Interesting FBI connections with Terrence McKenna going back even before he was famous.
But, you know, yeah, very interesting dude.
Yeah.
I think he was caught up in that whole, like, excellent thing, too.
Big Sur does that to people.
I did find out that my homie that worked for Esalen for years doesn't anymore.
He's got a private practice just outside of Big Sur.
And I'm trying to, like, slowly, you know, test how much he wants to talk about
but he may still have an NDA.
His NDA may be lifetime, you know, you know, it's a weird fucking place.
But we might have to grab the girl and make a trip down to Big Sur.
Oh, yeah.
You're like, hey, so what was it you like to drink again?
Right, yeah.
What's the truth?
The licks are again?
No, no, no, let's go back to Henry Miller's bar.
Nopente, let's go back there.
They have these locals-only long islands that are brutal, like, painful, painful,
because they're meant for the people who are literally, like, walking home
or have a buddy that's coming down the hill to grab them, you know.
They're not made for the tourists.
I'm fucking...
Whew!
The last time I was down there, we fucking...
We went at it for, like, the whole day and I think three of those were involved in that.
And it was just, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was a fuzzy, fuzzy weekend.
We used to have fun.
On the show the other day of one of those white chicks in Dubai
deploring her current situation in Dubai, which is in the United Arab Emirates.
But I would point out, I just checked this morning
and the port of Fujairah is still open, which connects the entire United Arab Emirates
to their Etihad Railway, which only opened about two years ago,
but they're still loading oil tankers for those that aren't aware.
Dubai is on the west side of the Strait of Hormuz
and fronts onto the Persian Gulf with all their artificial islands and shit.
The port of Fujairah is on the Oman side, which is on the side that's the Indian Ocean.
And so it's a rail bypass of the Strait of Hormuz.
I haven't heard anyone talking about the fact that they're still loading and unloading gas and oil.
When I say they, I mean, the United Arab Emirates.
And so they're not able to sit around this.
We rolled a video on I think Tuesday, maybe, that I got from Syrian Girls Twitter account
that was discussing exactly what would happen
when the Strait of Hormuz got shut down and what the alternatives were.
They highlighted the train route.
It's still going to fuck oil exports massively, especially if the only people that are getting
them through are like the 30 to 60% potentially that they can squeeze through that rail line
just from UAE, not any of the other oil producing countries on that side of the Strait.
So it'll be messy.
It's supposed to be the fucking squeeze is being put on.
Professor Shang has pointed out that desalinated supermodel horse can't survive.
Yeah, I don't think anybody is lamenting the only fans' horse.
I went and did a like me versus the panel debate thing last night on the Rotten Tomato Channel.
And I know that some of you guys have very strong opinions about Sarah,
the Miss Tomato, but she's coming around to our way of thinking.
Just give it time, give it time.
And I gave the analogy that voting right now is like being dick number 837 in the Bonnie Blue Train.
And I just, I asked everybody that was listening to next time they find themselves
in a voting booth, just picture what it would look like approaching as dick number 837.
And that fucking blown out whore.
And hopefully that sunk in a little bit.
Yeah, it looked like that doughnut.
Right?
The doughnussy.
That Professor Jang guy, he did point out that if Iran targets any one of those three
water desalination plants, either the one for Bahrain, the one in Doha,
which would be Qatar or Qatar or however the fuck you want to say that,
as well as the large one in Dubai, if they take out those water desalination plants,
they're like completely fucked.
And as for that rail line that I pointed out earlier that Syrian girl also mentioned,
this the section of rail from Dubai to the Indian Ocean
has huge railroad viaducts going over large gorges.
And so it would only take one successful strike.
And I mean, literally one missile barrage could take out those three water plants in that viaduct.
And the gulp, what is it?
The GCC, the gulp states would be out, they'd be fucked.
And never mind the fact, I think we're already down.
Are we up to five F-15Es that have been shot down now?
Three were friendly fire in Kuwait.
Two others were shot down.
No, it turns out that was bullshit.
Turns out the friendly fire thing was a cover story.
It was not friendly fire.
But yeah, approaching $3 billion of military equipment in seven days.
And well, everybody that manufactures that equipment is fucking high-fiving over their
triple martini lunch right now because that is a fucked on more money in their pocket.
The radar system may not have even been, it just might have been a way for them to say
they put a billion dollars into something because it had seven to eight redundancies
that were all fully operational at the time that they installed the fucking tad thing.
So that could just be a fucking story as to whether or not the radar system
even works or is necessary.
They just could have needed that $1.1 billion that they said it caused to make
for some fucking black project.
And I don't mean like a Jet Magazine photo shoot.
I mean, like an off book, yeah, non-sanctioned by Congress sort of engagement.
But I'm going to go ahead and head out.
$1.5 trillion military budget.
One and a half trillion dollars for one year.
Darby, thank you Darby.
See, Megan, I think, yeah.
And that seems to be it currently.
But yeah, if you guys can hit up the direct donate links in each and every description.
It's value for value shows.
So the only way it gets to continues through your support.
And significantly more of you need to show some support.
So hit those up.
That'd be cool.
Third rail tonight.
Dave's doing a call-in show.
He's going to talk about, well, he's going to oversell the amount of danger that he was in
in Puerto Vallarta for empathy and possible titty picks.
That works.
Yeah.
But they'll be talking about that and I'm sure much more.
We might do a UFC thing tomorrow.
I'm not sure.
It's Oliveira, Holloway too.
Should be fun.
Saturday night, anarchy, mob rules on Sunday, all that kind of stuff.
And yeah, Chuck O'Chelley, Monday co-hosting.
Lamo.
Right on.
For a while.
That was a fun one on Monday too with Teal coming on too.
That was good.
Yeah, that was good.
That was fun.
Well, I will be coming back to the internet using the StreamYard app on Monday's edition
of the Pessants podcast.
I did a test broadcast on StreamYard this past Wednesday.
And I got to say, man, what the fuck StreamYard?
You tripled the price and now it doesn't even work as good as when it was cheaper.
So it costs more and it doesn't work as good as it used to.
Or maybe it's just me.
It just seems like StreamYard is fucked every time I want to go get another clip.
Half the time I would have the clip queued up at zero.
And then when I hit play on it, it jumps to two minutes anyway.
So then the volume is half the way down.
And I don't know what's going on with StreamYard, Steve.
But anyway, that's all I got.
It's a fully in shitified product.
It is.
Sounds like anything online these days, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, y'all.
Well, thank you for hanging out.
Thank you for being a part of all this.
And yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you are in the San Francisco Bay area and you're not doing shit tonight,
go see Big J Oakerson, Cobb's Comedy Club.
And yeah, we'll see you soon.
Good luck to us all.
See you.
Go back to bed, America.
Your government has figured out how it all transpired.
Go back to bed, America.
Your government is in control again.
Here is American Gladiators.
Watch this.
Shut up.
Go back to bed, America.
Here is American Gladiators.
Here is 56 channels of it.
Watch these pituary retards bang their fucking skulls together
and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom.
Here you go, America.
You are free to do as we tell you.
You are free to do as we.