WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: Iran Ceasefire Expires, Corrupt Military Contractors, Florida Election 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:02.880 Also media. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.840 This is it could happen here Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.760 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.680 and what this means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.279 I'm joined by Mia Wong, James Stout, and Robert Evans. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:22.040 Who do we do? 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.200 This episode? We're covering the week of August twelfth through 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.680 August nineteenth, So I guess I'll start with I've seen 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.960 reports that ICE is using parked vehicles, I guess as 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.760 staging points for cameras. And I've seen videos of what 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.559 appeared to be licensed plate flippers on ICE vehicles. If 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:40.879 you're not familiar, right, like, there's been lots and lots 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.280 of reports of ICE agents like manually changing license plates. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.000 This just appears to be a device goes whoop, rotates 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:49.960 one hundred and eighty degrees, so you got two license 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.800 plates available. A lot of the pitches, we saw a 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.520 man being I'm not sure if he was arrested or 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.440 just like harassed for saying like, why don't you have 0:00:58.440 --> 0:00:59.880 a license plate on your vehicle? Why don't you have 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.280 a plate on your vehicle? And it very much appears 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:06.240 if that vehicle had a license plate flipper on the front. Secondly, 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.800 CBP is pausing all construction in Big Bend. This is 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.399 according to Rodney Scott, who's the CVP commissioner, who says 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.480 he is personally on his way there to conduct a 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.920 quite personal evaluation. It's entirely unclear like what that means 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.880 and what are the criteria for this evaluation? Right, Like, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:29.839 there are dozens of laws, treaties and regulations that cover 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.720 the kind of thing that they are doing in the 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.520 place that they are doing it, and they have waived 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.160 all of them. So this is what we get now, right, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.319 we get Rodney Scott going on a plane and just 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.560 like giving it the like the imperial thumbs up or 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.080 thumbs down like some kind of Roman emperor. I guess, 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.319 like this is a thing that wouldn't fly in like 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.840 a hereditary monarchy like the UK, right where we now 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.800 have one person making this choice that everyone will have 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.320 to live with forever. They are destroying a place which 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.960 is beautiful and one of the places that has not 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.800 been ruined by like capitalism, and the one of the 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:05.080 few large areas of public land in Texas. So I 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.360 will keep you updated on what Rodney Scott decides to 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.480 do I will probably do an episode on my other 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.519 show Natural Causes about Big Bend soon. And then finally, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.520 I guess, as we're talking about border wall stuff from me, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.320 people are conducting a tree sit in a cottonwood tree 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.480 in Arizona. The cottonwood tree. It's a very old cottonwood tree, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.480 sometimes called Grandmother tree. These people are trying to protect 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.080 it from being destroyed due to border wall construction. They've 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.359 been sitting in that tree for several weeks. Now I 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.480 will eventually go visit them. It's going to go visit them, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.760 but I went to Spokane when those fires struck. Instead, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.480 they have been joined by someone on the Mexican side, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.640 So now there are two tree sitters, making this the 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.240 first international tree sit that I am ever aware of. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.760 That rules Yeah, no, it's great. Oh yeah, hell yeah. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.440 Well like trees don't know borders, right. Yeah. As I 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.760 highlighted in my other podcast, Natural Causes, the US left 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.240 really fucked up. NAFTA came in by not saying, if 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.360 you're going to try and pay people less in Mexico, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.680 then we will try and organize people in Mexico and 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.239 together that we will demand dignified wedges and conditions. I'm 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.720 glad that people are not taking that approach anymore because 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.000 they didn't get us anywhere. Yeah, I'll keep covering the 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:17.800 situation there as well. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.440 So, speaking of I guess the long range effects of 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.360 NAFTA KOSB, which is the Korean stock index, hit its 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.160 circuit breaker, which is the breaker that hits if you 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.960 lose too much percentage of the stock market's value again 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.440 on Wednesday. I genuinely have lost count of the number 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.400 of times that it has been triggered over the past 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.800 few months. This has become a regular recurrence in one 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.080 of the largest and most important stock markets in the world. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.800 This time it was fueled by a collapse of tech 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.080 stocks and the Brett Fruit Index hitting ninety dollars a barrel. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.080 We will be getting into some more of the impacts 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:52.800 of that later. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:53.920 I don't know. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.720 My guess is that it's going to rebound as everyone 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.240 buys the dip tomorrow. But any one of these could 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.560 be the one where it does rebound, and we will 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.000 let you know whether the global economic collapses on. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.760 Yay, Yeah, what happens if there's not a rebound? What 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:10.560 is that going to look? 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.120 Like odd, everyone's fucked. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:15.880 No, I mean like in terms of like what is 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.640 your expecting cascade of events? 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.280 If that goes down, Oh, the entire global economy goes under, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.200 because the Korean stock market right now is basically a 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.799 kind of tragedy as forest version of the American market 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.279 where most of almost all of the value is congealed 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.240 into these three AI yeah, three three companies that yeah, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.479 basically make AI chips, right, and then the rest of 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.600 the value down the chaine is people doing weird gambling 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.920 stuff on different AI components. If the market just actually crashes, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.920 that is those three companies, and you know we're talking 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.960 like Samsung here, right, these are vital components in the 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.839 entire AI. I mean not just the AI sere obviously 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.920 the Samsung, right, Like we're talking about you know, things 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.520 that are vital components and the big tech companies yeah yeah, 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.200 in like all the manufacturing of tech all over the world. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.880 If that stuff goes down, that takes the American markets 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.520 with it, That takes all of all global markets that 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.840 are reliant on these AI surges go with it. And 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.640 that's kind of just the beginning of the poppy of 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:15.200 the tech bubble. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:16.080 Yep, yep, yep. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.159 I just wanted to get to that because it's like 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 it is this mirror of exactly what's gone on in 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.919 the United States. I guess the big difference is that 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.680 so far, the obvious signs of trouble in South Korea 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.200 have not set off alarm bells in at least in 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.159 American investors to the extent that you might expect. But 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.360 I'm sure. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.480 There's been some Like it tends to be the other 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.960 way around, where Kosby tends to kind of be following 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.680 the American markets, But there have definitely been days where, like, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.279 because of the time difference in Korea, all of the 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.320 American investors wake up to watch like ten percent going down, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.120 like ten percent of the value of the Korean stock 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.560 market disappearing in one night, and in that like lowers 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.840 American stocks, and then Trump says something about the war 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.039 ending and it goes back up again. So there has 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.120 been some notice it, but our grand collective delusion to 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.360 maintain the functioning of capitalism continues. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.240 Great, good, good good. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.679 On Tuesday, there was a JP debate for the South 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.600 Carolina US Senate special runoff election. So it's a special 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:22.240 election and a runoff, and in this debate, sister of 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:29.039 the fallen Lindsay Graham, Darlene Graham, could not answer a 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.560 pretty rudimentary foreign policy question because it is not her 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:38.080 area of expertise. Let's take a lesson, Senator, Are Taiwan 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.520 in the South China Sea national security issues for the 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:42.279 United States? 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:47.120 If so, why, I'm sorry, could you repeat the good 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:51.120 our Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.960 for the United States? And if so, why or how? 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.680 I'm just going to be honest to you. I'm not 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.640 on national security that I'm not informed on national security, 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:07.440 so but I do support the military. My brother was 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.880 in the Air Force for thirty three years, so I 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.880 will do everything I can to support the military. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.400 Great stuff. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.560 You know what, honesty, that's what we need in politicians. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.960 Is I love hereditary seats. This is an amazing feature 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.480 of what is supposed to be a representative democracy. It's 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:28.000 so good. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.200 Yeah, yeah, I don't know shit about fuck, but I 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:32.880 love the army. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.240 That's incredible. She later goes on to literally say it's 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.520 on her quote unquote area of expertise. It just talks 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.560 about how regardless she will always support the US military 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:50.200 it's a townded Lindsay Graham rolling over in his grave. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.400 So that is Darley and graham sister Lindsay Graham, who 0:07:54.480 --> 0:08:00.280 is facing Republican Ralph Norman in this runoff election, winner 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.400 of which will then face the Democrat doctor Annie Andrews 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.840 for this general election in November to replace Lindsay's seat. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.960 Pretty cool, God, I hope she wins the primary. I 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:13.600 want to see more. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.200 Yeah, this will be highly amusing if nothing else. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.920 Oh man, I want to briefly mention some new information 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.520 regarding the federal investigations into anti ice protests in the 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.680 Twin Cities, based on some newly released court documents. This 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.360 was first reported in the New York Times, and I 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.040 have read through the like thirty page motion filed by 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.480 the defense that unveiled these documents and a number of 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.920 the thirty some exhibits. And I'll report on this in full, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.040 probably next week with its own episode. But I do 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.920 want to discuss with the group here a little bit. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.880 So four days after CPB killed Alex pretty DHS open 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.720 investigation into labor unions and left wing activist groups that 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.120 they thought were involved in funding the anti ice protests 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:12.760 and quote providing material support to violent opportunists unquote. This 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:19.520 HSI investigation amounted to a massive spying operation called Operation 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:25.520 puppet Master and later Operation Whipple Shield. Whipple is the 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.040 name of the federal building that was at the heart 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.640 of a lot of the protests in the Twin Cities, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:39.360 and these operations ended up probing three years of financial 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:45.040 records from organizations like Sunrise Movement, the Communication Workers of America, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.760 and the Healthcare Union SCIU as a part of a 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:53.600 quote unquote financial investigation into quote unquote domestic terrorist financing. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.760 I think it's really important to point out here is 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.920 that this three year time span of of documents extends 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.600 far beyond the time span of Operation Metro Surge and 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.720 the protests. Right this, this, this, this is not a 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.920 probe into into financing specific protest groups responding to us. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.760 This is just a general drag net into labor unions, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:21.760 into left wing nonprofits, environmental groups, a racial justice activist 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.959 group in the area like this is this is a 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.240 huge probe. They're looking into VENMO transactions, They're requesting bank 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.400 records like this is a massive probe of like the 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:36.520 the interior of like some very major national unions. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.760 Yeah, it's interesting when you look at who they're looking into, right, 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.840 because it's it's a really really wide swath like across 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.200 the political spectrum of the left, like s CiU. Like 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.000 obviously there are like locals of s CiU that like 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.640 do good work, but like nationally, s CiU is not 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.960 like a radical organization, right, like yea of the major unions, 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.840 this is just like it extremely extremely mill toast union, right. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.800 Yeah. I guess contexts of SEIU particularly would be that 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.280 they arrested David Wuerta in Los Angeles in June of 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.119 last year, right, it's union leader. Yeah. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.840 Yeah, And I know because Alex Preddy was a healthcare 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.440 worker SIUs, a healthcare union, Like I went to like 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.920 a solidarity protest put together by a bunch of different 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.560 unions in New York City following the death of Alex. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.880 Pretty Yeah, it's interesting that the federal government picked up 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:32.760 on that sort of union solidarity and then started investigating it. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:33.240 Yeah. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.320 I think that is that is really telling. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.400 Yeah, part of what I'm getting at here is like 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.480 they're just going after everyone who's even like tangentially involved 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.160 in these protests, right. Yeah. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.080 The way the state sees this is they're incapable of 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.439 organizing like spontaneous and like horizontal solidary. Seeing that, right 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.720 they understand. Yeah, SEIU folks showed up in New York 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.680 where Garrison is, and I think they're not called the AFT. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.480 In Minneapolis, maybe they called the Federation of Edgy Cats 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.800 or something like that. MFE looks like, yeah, like another 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.040 union right for educators evidently, and fifty to fifty one 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.200 and some more explicitly socialists and leftist groups showed up 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.080 against us, showed up in solidarity off adlex Pretti was killed. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.240 And the way the state sees this is therefore they 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.199 are nationally and vertically integrated and someone is pulling the 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.720 strings and paying the funds, not like they are fucking mad. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.040 Yeah, it's like it's like the way that they see 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.520 it is like yeah, like Seiu National has like handed 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.839 down like the riot orders just like no no CiU. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.480 Like, but she's right, Like that is how they understand it. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.160 If like time traveling militants for the nineteen seventies kidnapped 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.480 SEI used leadership and held them at gunpoint and said 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.080 we will let you go if you order mass riots, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.480 they still wouldn't do it like. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.480 That's not that's not what this is. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.360 But yeah, the Feds have a hammer and they're trying 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.960 to hammer down every single thing that even vaguely looks 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.720 like a nail. Yea, so they can do sort of 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.600 the broadest and widest ranging oppression that they can deal with. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:01.360 Yeah, and we have like an example of how HSI 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.240 is envisioning this sort of conspiracy like what we're talking about, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.040 because as a part of the new exhibits that were 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.720 released to the public, we have this slide that was 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.920 sent to grand jurors for the indictment which we'll soon 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.319 talk about, that targeting fifteen protesters. The grand jury was 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:25.160 shown this slide that is labeled the conspiracy that has 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:30.560 about fifteen different organizations with all with arrows pointing towards 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:35.480 Direct Action Minnesota DAM, which is the protest group that 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:40.760 the government alleges the fifteen people indicted were involved with 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.160 in some way. I want to read through some of 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.360 these organizations that are part of this conspiracy diagram. There's 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:53.360 the Monarca Rapid Response Line. There's Ray Rainbolt Memorial, Gun Club, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:58.160 Red Pine Revolutionary Collective SCIU twenty six showing it for 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.480 racial justice, Socialist Alter of Veterans for Peace, Whipple Watch, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:07.839 Workers Solidarity Circle, AFL CIO, Black Cat Workers Collective, all 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.400 of it, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Grease Pit, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:16.480 which is a local bike shop. Hell yeah, Minute Left CHAB, 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:22.120 Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local fifty nine, Minnesota Association of 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:27.080 Professional Employees, Minnesota Ice Watch, and Minnesota five oh five 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:27.800 oh one. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.280 Pretty incredible, Uh, pretty incredible collection. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.880 They're all supposed to be like sending like a council member. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:37.320 Yeah. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.680 The diagram has is that there's a council member these organizations, 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:46.840 council that like is part of Direct Action Minnesota that 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.000 is like orchestrating all these protests. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.000 It's incredible. I love to see like kreminology overcoming like 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.760 a DIY bike shop that had been for a few hours, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.240 a few afternoons a week, like it's the Pollit Bureau 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.280 of Minnesota is populated by like bike co ops. It's 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:12.600 just a shadow council, James Shadow. They're running everyway. It's incredible. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.960 This is what happens when Socialist Alternative and DSA can 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:22.120 overcome their differences and support Council copyedism to send a 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.200 member to Direct Action Minnesota. High Council, Black and Red 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.640 United Yet it's incredible stuff. Now, of course, none of 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:36.080 these organizations themselves have actually faced charges stemming from this investigation. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:41.080 But this investigation did result in fifteen people being indicted 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:45.120 on quote, conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:50.120 for allegedly planning to block a roadway, among a few 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.480 other charges against specific individuals for participating in ice rapid response. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:59.440 So although DSA, the Grease Pit and like SCIU are 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:04.040 not themselves as organizations you know, charged this this sort 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.240 of huge, like a very broad investigation into into into 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:14.080 nonprofit organizations, into electoral organizations, into labor unions, this did 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.640 result in charges against specific people, many of whom are 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:22.360 not part of these you know, fifteen fifteen council member organizations. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:29.160 The defense lawyer Kevin Riach wrote in emotion, quote Homeland 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.360 Security Investigations investigation extended far beyond any potential threat to 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.360 law enforcement safety. It concluded, with no evidence but obvious 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.960 political animus, that numerous Twin cities, unions, and nonprofit organizations 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:46.680 were involved in a widespread conspiracy to violate eighteen USC. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.160 One one one assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:56.600 and it surveiled and surptitiously gathered financial records generated by 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.480 these organizations, despite the lack of any connection between those 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.960 organizations and criminal conduct. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.600 Yeah, it's co intel pro shit. Just it never ended. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.120 They're just doing it again. I've always been doing it. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.680 Yes, And part of what these new docs reveal is 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.480 is much more details on like the covert surveillance of 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.960 organizer meetings at libraries and churches, and the way in 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:26.160 the extent that Homeland Security infiltrated signal chats and how 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.280 undercovers tried to entice people into discussing or committing crimes, 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.560 and I want to discuss that in more detail in 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:34.320 its own episode. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:35.439 I think that requires a. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.800 Very careful focus on, likew how that actually went about, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.560 because I think that can very easily be turned into 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:48.200 you know, panicking or maybe overstating certain things regarding you know, 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.399 where ICE the ones actually you know, directing all the 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.960 protests against Ice, and like no, obviously not so. I 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.840 think that that requires a distinct focus. Specifically in these 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:02.360 core documents, there's a there's a reference to an undercover 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.480 discussing with someone at like a sunrise movement meeting about 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.960 getting more involved in direct actions and maybe building quote 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.560 unquote devices for direct actions. So it's that kind of 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.520 stuff and I want to discuss that more in detail. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.880 But this new Batchel Corps documents in this case has 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.639 revealed a lot about about how this investigation went. How 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.560 it started off very very broad against a lot of 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.359 organizations and like what you know, national security presdential memory 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.119 and them number seven wrote about, you know, looking to 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.760 the finances of a lot of different nonprofit groups. But 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.560 then from there realizing that maybe they are not going 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.919 to be able to prosecute all these unions for terrorist financing. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.159 Instead they find fifteen people who are engaged in firstmen 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.760 in activity that they think they could maybe you know, 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.840 turn into an Antifa boogieman and get that past a 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.040 grand jury, because you certainly could not get the rest 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.520 of this shit past a grand jury. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.520 Yeah. Talking of like pushing the back boundaries of the 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.480 Constitution with regards to policing as a good tie into 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.720 this next piece that I have, which is to talk 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.840 about the national defense areas. So the DOJ has issued 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.919 a new opinion this week suggesting the military forces in 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.040 the national defense areas that span that much of the 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.160 border can now detain people not just inside the NDA, 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.719 but also near the NDA who leave it before they 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.959 have time to arrest them. If you're not familiar with 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.800 the NDA, these areas along the border wall that have 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.159 been transferred to the military and are being managed as 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:36.080 extensions of military bases. For example, NDA number three, the 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.680 California NDA begins I think at the western edge of 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.760 Otai mount of Wilderness, stretches all the way to the 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:46.119 Arizona border in Imperial County. That is an extension of 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.879 Nafel Centro So. That's Naval Air Facility El Centro So 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.359 that's patrolled by marines. The New Mexico one is an 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.720 extension of Fort Huachuca and that's patrolled by the Army. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.240 There is one Texas, which is an extension for Bliss 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.920 for bless Spanzer's two states. Better that it goes that 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:12.720 NDA goes into Texas. More the bases themselves are being extended. Therefore, 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.760 the logic goes from the Justice Department that they are 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:23.040 not violating the Poscomatatis Act because there are recognized exemptions 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.119 they say for military installations. So they're saying because the 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:32.239 base is being extended to generally but not always. It 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.640 is the Roosevelt Reservation, right, which is a sixty foot 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.359 area to the north of the physical border, but some 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.560 of these NDA's span areas larger than that. They are 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:47.800 claiming that that area is therefore exempt from PCA. If 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.399 the military is prosecuting or in this case, arresting or 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.760 detaining people for trespassing on a military installation, right, they 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.080 think that the military can also enforce federal law on 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:06.440 its installation. So by definition, anyone ewie entry without inspection right, 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.040 so that someone entering between ports of entry, anybody doing 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.359 that in an NDA, which is a large amount of 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.840 southern border right now, would be trespersoning on military installation. Right. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.320 You can also see in this opinion they they're like 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.639 hinting it, adding more NDAs soon. This is the same 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.320 legal reasoning that they are using. Claim it is illegal 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:31.160 to photograph things inside an NDA. I think this one 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:35.400 is incredibly suspect. Right, So the statutory law does ban 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:39.360 photography of quote, certain vital military or naval installations or equipment. 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.359 But I think you'd have a very hard time arguing 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.639 in court that like a pile of razor wire ands 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.600 and rocks is vital military equipment. But that's what they're 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.840 going with. Right. This is important because what we are 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.600 seeing here is the Trump administration pushing at the boundaries 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.600 of constitutionally what it can do. And as I've said 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.320 hundreds of times on the show over the last four years, 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.960 this always starts at the border, and it never stays 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:08.399 at the border. Right. Everything we see with mass surveillance 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.040 now has been a reality in border communities for some time. 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.720 Everything we see with the increased presence of ICE of CBP, 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:19.639 this has been something that border communities have dealt with. 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:19.880 Right. 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.600 This is this particularly violent form of law enforcement that 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:26.600 is particularly unaccountable. If we see this at the border, 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:28.159 and they get away with it at the border, then 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.760 I'm sure it will continue in other places. It doesn't 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:34.080 take like a brain genius to look at, for instance, 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:36.880 what happened in Portland six years ago, right, and see 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:41.600 how we could edge towards the PCA Poscombat Artist Act 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.960 waivers in other parts of the United States as well. 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:47.280 So I think this is worth keeping an eye on, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.400 and like I would like it to get more attention 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:50.280 in reporting. 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.080 Let's go on an ad break and then we'll discuss 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.560 in honor of Lindsagram the US military. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.119 Who we support, but we don't know where they go. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:14.399 All right, there's a lot of military news this week. 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:17.640 That ship does not look like it's doing too well. 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:19.520 Let's let's start with the sad boat. 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.320 That sad boat. Anyone here old enough to have watched 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:24.639