WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.880 Alzon Media. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.200 This is it could Happen here Executive Disorder, our usually 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.680 weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.480 crumbling world, and what it means for you. I'm Garrisondeo's Dam, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.840 joined by Mia Wong, James Stout, and Sophie Lichterman. This episode, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.360 we're covering the events from the end of December to 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.880 the first week of January. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.480 Yeah, and the events are not good. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:37.199 Did not start off to a slow start whatsoever, did 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.280 not ease into the new year. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.640 Yeah, this might be the worst just the worst first 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.720 week of a year I can remember it. I remember 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:46.839 twenty twenty. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.199 Oh worst year ever potentially maya. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:51.639 I long for. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.120 The halcyon days in which twenty twenty was the worst 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.280 year we'd ever experienced. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.440 I started twenty twenty cycling around Rwanda, and I had 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.639 great start twenty twenty. This has not been a great 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:02.040 start it. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:07.120 No, Yeah, let's talk about the event that happened several 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.400 hours before we started recording this. We were recording this 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.360 again on Wednesday, January seventh, so I don't think there's 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.720 gonna be any new information about this. But yeah, hours 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.240 before we started recording Ice shot and killed a woman 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.040 in her car at a routine anti ICE action in Minneapolis. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:30.240 From the videos, these protests are identical to thousands of 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.200 other small scale protests against ICE raids, where pissed off 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.479 locals blow whistles and scream at the ICE agents who 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.600 carry off their friends and family in the dead of night. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.120 The video shows ICE agents approaching a stopped car. One 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.080 agent tries to open the front car door elle screaming 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.680 get the fuck out, while another walks in front of 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.760 the car as it backs up to pull away from 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.960 the scene. As the vehicle pulls forward to drive away, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.680 the ICE agent pulls out his gun and shoots the 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.080 dry This is the agent's immediate response. There is no 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.280 verbal warning. He simply pulls out the gun and shoots. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.520 There are videos out there you will see. I have 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.000 seen three angles of it so far. The videos are 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.680 graphic and gut wrenching, as we'll get into in a second, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.200 so be warns if you are trying to watch them, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.040 you are just going to see ICE murder a woman. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.799 The agent, I can fairly definitively say, was in absolutely 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.840 no danger. Again, he simply steps aside from the slow 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:35.200 moving vehicle. He has enough time to take a shot 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.600 and then step aside and take two more shots. The 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.320 video is just heart wrenching. The closest angle we have, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.320 the woman recording the video is screaming no as the 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.680 agent pulls out his gun and shoots. There's another video 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.880 that shows there is a passenger inside of the van 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.680 and it just so starts sitting on the ground, sobbing 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.320 and saying, they killed my wife. I don't know what 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.080 to do. It is one of the most heart wrenching 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.160 things I have ever seen. Having watched the videos of both, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.680 it is eerily similar to ICE's murder of Silvero Viegas 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.480 Gonzalez in Chicago in September, who was also killed while 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.160 attempting to drive away from ICE agents, and who the 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:17.480 DHS has likewise accused of committing acts of domestic terrorism 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.519 by attempting to ram agents. It is clear from both 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.600 videos that is not what was going on. Both these 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.919 people were simply trying to pull away from the ICE agents, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.520 the other shooting that this is very similar to that 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.480 I think has been getting more press comparisons, even though 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.720 in terms of what actually happens in the video that 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.480 we have, I think it's closer to the actual murder, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.640 but it is also very, very similar to an incident 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.440 in Chicago last year where Border patrol agents hunted and 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:52.080 then shot Mary mar Martinez, who thankfully survived but was 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.080 charged by the federal government for domestic terrorism, a case 0:03:55.120 --> 0:04:00.880 which thankfully completely collapsed after, among other things, the contents 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.360 of a group chat were released in which Charles ExHAM, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.200 who's the agent who shot her, was bragging about shooting 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.520 the woman in Chicago. So that's I think a valuable 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.080 insight into the mindset of these people is that when 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.920 one of these went to trial, we got a group 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.680 chat where the agent who shot a different woman in 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.719 a very similar situation was bragging about it. In the 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.479 immediate wake of this Trump post, untrue social that the 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.359 driver in Minneapolis quote willfully and viciously ran over the 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.640 ice officer who seems to have shot her in self 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:36.200 defense end quote. And then he then links to a 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.680 video which is a bad angle of the shooting that 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.159 also does not show what he claims at all, because 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.960 he is simply from the video footage we have available, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.240 this is simply a lie. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.320 Yeah, after the person was shot, that vehicle continued moving 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.640 forward and struck a parked car. That is not unusual 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.760 in the case when somebody's shot driving a vehicle, right, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.560 like when you jump forward onto the pedals. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.479 Yeah, there's two things I want to emphasize here. One 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.960 is that the DHS always releases statements. This is the 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.800 third shooting like this that we've had since these massive 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.840 immigration rays began. Every single time they release a statements 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.719 where they accuse the driver of intentionally attempting to ram 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.320 the agent, it has never been true. We have seen 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.240 three attempts of this, We have seen the videos and 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.719 three attempts of this. It has been false every single time. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:34.159 Major media outlets continue to just post the statements without 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.760 any of the context. That these people have been lying 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.880 about this every single time. And that. The second thing 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.960 that I want to emphasize about this is how normal 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.560 of a protest this was. This is just a completely 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.080 ordinary ice action. It looks like every other anti ice 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.599 action I have ever seen. It wasn't a particularly large one. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.520 It was just a group of people who were on 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.760 the street. In the video where the woman is sobbing 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.359 about her wife, she says that they pulled up to 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.520 film the ICE agents. Yeah, it's heart wrenching. There have 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.839 been lots of protests. Greg Bavino, whose influential word patrol 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.080 officer we have talked about many times on the show, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.800 was at the scene. And it's also work noting this 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.880 comes within twenty four hours of the White House announcing 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:24.440 their giant operation in Minneapolis to deploy two thousand federal agents. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.919 This was specifically a new surge that started on Tuesday, 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.520 January sixth, and Yeah, literally less than twenty four hours 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.360 after this surge, Ice killed a woman. Yeah. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.919 The thing I want to end on in the of 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.960 the immediate analysis, if we talk a bit about the 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:46.159 protests that have been happening, is that absolutely hauntingly, today's 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.880 murder took place less than a mile away from where 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:55.080 police officer Derek Schauvin murder George Floyd, which is Yeah, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.960 it is as clear a demonstration of the continuity of 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.440 the violence of the American state as can pop possibly 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.840 be produced. Yeah, And I think the other pattern that 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.040 we've seen specifically in these protests is pulling weapons on 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.680 people constantly, even more so than normal police would. And 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.880 you know, I remember a lot of people I've talked 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.560 to in Chicago. One of the things that they said, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.200 is that, Yeah, this is if they're eventually going to 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.480 shoot someone. They've now shot a third person in the 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.240 course of these operations, and presumably as long as they're 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.880 allowed to continue, they will probably shoot more people. Because 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.280 one of the things that's the best apparent from this 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.679 video is that this is the sort of muscle memory 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.680 reaction that they have to being in front of a 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.200 car that's moving towards them. There's no thinking, there's no thought. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.320 They just pull out the gun. Shoot. Yeah. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.200 I mean he's shooting the same time he's moving sideways 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.480 out of the way of the of the car. Yeah. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.240 He just as easily could have not fired, and it 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.720 would have had the same result. He just chose to fire. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:55.560 Yeah. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.320 A little over an hour after the shooting, Mayor Jacob 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.640 Afray of Napolis gave a press conference where he said 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:03.800 this to Ice. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.360 There's little I can say again that'll make this situation better. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.040 But I do have a message for our community, for 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:17.960 a city, and I have a message for Ice to Ice, 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.680 get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:27.000 you here. Your stated reason for being in this city 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.480 is to create some kind of safety, and you are 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:34.760 doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt, Families are 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.640 being ripped apart. Long term Minneapolis residents that have contributed 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.760 so greatly to our city. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.440 To our culture, to our. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:48.880 Economy are being terrorized. And now somebody is dead. That's 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:54.280 on you, and it's also on you to leave. It's 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.640 on you to make sure that further damage, further loss 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:04.520 of life and injury is not done. We're going to 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.480 be working towards justice as quickly as we possibly can 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.599 right now, and justice is what we've all got to get. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.040 Fray, I think is just is reflecting the sentiments of 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.600 the city right now. There are immediate protests in I 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.640 mean within minutes of the shooting. There are people showing up. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.400 Protests have been intensifying. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.840 Crowd's have got tear guest like thirty minutes after the shooting. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.880 Yeah, yeah, I mean, and Bovino is there are pictures 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.560 of him on scene while these protesters are sort of 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.319 ramping up. So we will see what happens in Minneapolis 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:37.200 in the coming days. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.080 Solidarity protests have already been announced in Portland and Philadelphia. Yeah, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.400 and I'm sure more cities will follow in the coming hours. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.440 Yeah. Yeah, We'll give an update next week if more 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.800 information becomes available. I think the events themselves are fairly clear, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.800 but we will see what the federal reaction to this 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.440 is going to be and what the reaction on the 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.440 ground is, and we will keep you updated. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.080 That's and sabmads here, and we'll be back to talk 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:20.240 about Venzuela. We are back with the second wild story 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:25.080 of this week, which is that the United States supposed 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.360 to be United States Special Forces radio Caracas last week 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.480 and kidnapped President Maduro, who was the president of Venezuela 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.520 and his wife. We covered the details of this in 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.319 a whole episode, so I'm not going to go over 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.079 any great detail here, and that's already out. Trump kidnaps 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.080 Venezuelan President Maduro is the name of that episode, so 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.000 you should be able to find out. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.080 The feed he danced too close to the sun. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.640 I'm not so sure the dancing was the fact of it. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.360 I will only update that to say a couple of things. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.440 First of all, we know that there were in excess 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.520 of fifty Venezuelan casualties, right, I should say there were 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.280 in excess of fifty casualties. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.600 Some of those would probably cubed sebecurity for. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.719 US Uban nationals year in a military advice kind of 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.880 a prestige posting, but military advisor kind of role, and 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.360 that there were injuries to US troops we didn't hear 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.880 about first, So US troops and US helicopters did sustain 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.200 some damage, but there were no people killed on the 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:29.880 United States side. And Donald Trump has truth that I'm 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.720 just going to read this one. I think, God, we 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.199 can do our best to understand it. I am pleased 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.080 to announce that interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.360 over between thirty and fifty million barrels of high quality, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.000 sanctioned oil to the United States of America. This oil 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.440 will be sold at its market price, and that money 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.880 will be controlled by me, as President of the United 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.760 States of America, to ensure that it's used to benefit 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.920 the people of Venezuela and the United States. I have 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.520 asked Energy Secretary Chris Right to execute this plan immediately. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.440 It will be taken by storage ships and bought directly 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.920 to unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.080 your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump, President of 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:10.840 the United States of America. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.760 You know I distinctly remember the days the halcyon days 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.560 when I was a child, when saying no war for 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.839 oil was a provocative political statement because the leaders of 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.199 our country insisted that the wars were not in fact 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:24.800 for oil. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:26.160 Yeah. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.400 Yeah, all that has dropped and we do not give 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:29.520 a single duck anymore. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.000 No, it were just openly doing the thing they were 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:32.720 doing before. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.640 Yeah, it's wild to think of the Bush era of 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:41.120 a golden age of at least pretending it is extraordinarily vague. Right, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.000 how much this oil is it being turned over over 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.640 what period of time? It's Venezuela. They were expected to 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.320 extract and refine the oil then hand it over, or 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.040 it's going to give you as companies the right to 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:51.360 do that. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.880 They don't have much of the processing facilities. There's like one, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.480 I think American processing facility that can process the kind 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.000 of crew that comes out of Venezuela. But it's difficult. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.040 We talked about this more in the other episode. But 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.400 it's de Venezuela and oil sucks. It's difficult to refine, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:08.400 it's no. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:12.840 High qual What are you talking about here in the 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.520 post Man, I don't know, I don't know. I've been 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:16.240 hearing the truth. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:17.240 Yeah, in the truth. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.719 Thank you, Thank you, Garrison. That really does make it 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.439 sound like I'm reading from the Bible at church and 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.640 think that God, we'll say the oil is not sanctioned. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.880 That's not how sanctions work. Sanctioned countries and people, not things. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:35.040 Bizarre center structure is Yeah, it's doing a lot for me. So, Yeah, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.080 I talked about the Rodriguez option in the last show, 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.120 and I guess this is kind of confirming a lot 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.960 of what we get speculated about there. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.760 That's assuming this happens. By the way, I will say 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.040 that there was some dip in oil prices today over 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.280 the exact plication of this is real. But I don't 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.600 know how well connected those people are, either quite frankly, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.520 or how much of an understanding anyone has over whether 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.679 this is going to happen or not. We don't know. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.360 He just says things, and sometimes they happen and sometimes 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.160 they don't, and there's no actual way to tell which 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.520 ones are going to come true and which ones are 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:12.760 just him posting. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.720 From Trump's mouth to Rubio's ears. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.520 Yeah, and then Riba said something different in an interview. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.200 Trump says it again, and then yeah, there we go. Yeah, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.360 it does look like they are attempting to pursue the 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.360 strategy which you spoke about, which isn't The only thing 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.160 getting liberated in Venezuela is the oil. Right that they 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.240 will allow the regime to continue. They will not be 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.360 any attempt at regime change. They just want a puppet 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.120 version of the old regime which they can manipulate purely, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.200 apparently for their own financial benefit with oil. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.520 Yeah, it's also worth noting that Trump is claiming that 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.320 he personally is going to be controlling the money after 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:57.440 it's sold at market price, a sentence that any other 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.800 time in American history would be the most dictatorial thing 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.880 you've ever seen, but pales in comparison to the fact 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.080 that he is claiming to be running a country after 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.960 a war that he unilaterally started without congress. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.640 So, I mean, is it even accurate to call it 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.720 a war? It seems like it's like a single military action. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.440 Now it's it's like an act of war, I guess, right. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.040 But okay, if you combined the blockades, which are an 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.160 active war, and we'll get to blockades more in a second, 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.280 and this, I think this is just a war. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.200 Like I mean, I went to the protest in New 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.560 York the morning after the action, and you know, a 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.720 lot of a lot of chance for about you know, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.600 no war in Venezuela, you know, no more bombs in Venezuela. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.320 And like it looks like they're kind of done. They 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.000 they're kind of done with the bombs. They're kind of 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:43.520 done with the war. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.800 Here's the thing though, So Trump has also said that 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.400 if the current government of Venezuela refuses to comply, he 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:50.960 will do. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.880 More strikes WHOA than he did mad. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.360 Yeah, and it's always kind of difficult to parse exactly 0:15:58.400 --> 0:15:59.480 what's going on there, but. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.720 Yeah, there's a potential for more US action, definitely because 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.240 it seems like right now they are paid to have 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.800 got roughly what they wanted. And then like there's also 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.520 the potential for this do you any number of ways? Right, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:17.640 Like things could continue to deteriorate for the regime there, Like, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.120 like what does it mean for their ability They have 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.440 previously had the ability to use various kind of nefarious 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.280 reflaggings of boats, which mean is going to talk about 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.720 a second here to obtain some income, right, Like, if 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.640 they're not even able to do that, it's get even worse. Right, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.680 And the economic situation in Venezuela could very easily get worse. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.960 I know everyone I've spoken to there is out trying 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.440 to stock up on nonperishable food and they don't know 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.680 what the future holds to them. Plus you now have, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.320 as we saw earlier in this week, very trigger happy 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.080 pro government militias will probably be the best way to 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.720 describe it. Like in this case, so they were shooting 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.280 at a drone up in the air. But I think 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.720 there's very clearly still a lot of tension in the country. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:10.119 So on Saturday morning, after the military action in Venezuela, 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.199 I went to the protest in New York, like like 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.240 I previously mentioned, and I've put together this little audio 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.280 report that I recorded at the protest that takes you 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:27.680 through about like an hour's worth of protest activity. And yeah, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:33.359 give it a give it a lesson. It is Saturday, 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:38.320 January third, two fifty four pm. I am in Times 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:43.160 Square with I would say two hundred to three hundred 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.560 people protesting US action in Venezuela as well as Iran 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.720 and the genocide in Palestine. Kind of a mix of causes, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:57.439 but mostly talking about Venezuela and the military extradition of 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:02.240 President Maduro. Like The organizational structure at this protest seems 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.920 to be mostly propped up by various communist organizations. There's 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.240 a revolution Communist Party tabling. There's the BOB, a vacant 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.960 refuse fascism organization with a lot of banners and signs. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.760 PSL has a bunch of banners and signs, as well 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.560 as the Kuney Internationalist student group, which is tied to 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.280 the New York City Public University system. They have some 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.720 homemade signs, the only signs actually drawn on paper probably 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.520 this morning, versus all of the PSL signs, which appear 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:39.760 pre printed and pre prepared. A rotating selection of speakers 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.800 have given speeches for the past hour, and now at 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:47.360 three pm, this relatively small crowd for a New York 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:52.760 protest is leading a march south. I don't know, I'm 0:18:52.800 --> 0:19:08.200 not alive. The march is taking up probably about one 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:13.600 city block just outside of Times Square on forty third 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.920 and eighth, turning on to eighth Avenue. Now after about 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.720 ten minutes of marching and why hed bikes at the 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:27.320 front of the march as well as on foot officers 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.560 on either side of the crowd not like a huge presence. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.280 I've maybe seen cumulatively one hundred or so cops, which 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.400 is actually not that much for New York, especially based 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.520 on how spread out they are, because maybe like two 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.600 dozen cops on either side of the march, just walking 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:53.920 walking on the sidewalk, and then maybe another another two 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.000 to three dozen in the front and more in the back, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:22.800 so between fifty to one hundred. A little over fifteen 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.159 minutes into the march. They have now moved up to 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:30.160 forty seventh Street. At this point, there's been zero conflict 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.480 with the police. They mostly facilitated the traffic around the 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:50.320 march as people continue to chant and walk north. The 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.840 crowd has been marching for over thirty five minutes and 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.000 now are arriving at what I assume is their destination, 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:07.359 Columbus Circle up at fifty eighth Street and Broadway. No 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.520 scuffles with the police. There was like two guys in 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.400 mega hats, kind of I'm trying to antagonize the side 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.160 of the crowd. For the past fifteen minutes, nothing really happened. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.000 One random dude came out of a convenience store yelling 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:28.200 fuck ro Duro, trying to agitate some people in the crowd, 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.760 but everyone just moved on and now they are approaching 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:33.880 Columbus Circle. 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.320 The decent people in this country needs to answer. 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.040 The people of the hole. What are we gonna do? 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:46.360 This is not a time for protract the usual. 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.040 There needs to be a full regime, not a minute 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:56.240 failing for right here in the US country. 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:10.440 Oh my, guys, got interest in. 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:21.000 Police are now very lightly directing people into Columbus Circle, 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:25.439 onto the plaza and off of the street. Some groups 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:31.640 are hacking up their protests signs and bags and starting 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:42.000 to peel off. So as expected, this protest was done 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:48.440 by a coalition of anti imperialist leftist, socialist communist organizations. 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.600 You have the Party for Socialism and Liberation PSL and 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.520 all of these other like communist groups who are all 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:58.680 primarily either trying to grow their membership roster or sell 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.040 their newspapers. Sell there are magazines, and this is what 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.200 most of the protest actually is. They have tables set 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:07.960 up while people are giving speeches. They have people walking 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:11.920 around handing out pamphlets and flyers. And this protest was 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:14.160 not very big, Like I said, it was relatively small, 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.320 maybe two hundred and three hundred people because there's not 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:17.800 a lot of public buy in for this sort of thing, 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.600 because at this point, if anyone's been around, they know, 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:22.840 based on the flyers that get posted, what kind of 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:24.399 protest this is going to be. This is going to 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:28.000 be socialist communist organizations trying to grow their membership. It's 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:30.400 not a representative sample of the people of New York. 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.960 It is. It is people trying to sell magazines and 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.640 newspapers and books. And the fact that the entire proto 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:41.320 secret system for stuff like this is fully captured by 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.160 these sorts of organizations makes it really hard to grow 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.040 a genuine movement because people know that it's going to 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.879 be walking for thirty minutes and then people are going 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:53.280 to be shoving pamphlets in in their hand, and that's 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:56.320 the extent to what you are protesting. It is that 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:59.760