1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, keep send, Welcome to Look f Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl. Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: Happy fuck It Friday. It is amazing when we make 4 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: it to the end of one of these weeks in America, 5 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: and you know, today I would have spent a little 6 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: bit of time, which I'm sure you all have seen, 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: on the passing of Henry Kissinger. And why do I 8 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: want to do that? Because I think that it's very 9 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: interesting to look at this man who lived to be 10 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: one hundred years old, who had such an extraordinarily her 11 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: terrific impact on American foreign policy, and yet has been revered, 12 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: hailed as a genius, was protected from experiencing the trials 13 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: that war criminals should be facing after they have contributed 14 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: to the deaths of millions of people. And yet I'm 15 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: sure as you've been watching the news, you've seen you know, 16 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: memoriams done that talk about his genius, that talk about 17 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: his patriotism and say that, oh he had, you know, 18 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: a controversial sentiments about him and around him, but all 19 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: in all, he was a good American And isn't his 20 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: story incredible? As family escaped Germany during the height of Hitler, 21 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: they fled to the United States, and then he has 22 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: this storied career as an academic at Harvard and then 23 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: moving on to be Nixon's top guy. Right, And I 24 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: just I gotta tell you, history is a funny thing. 25 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: And there's a piece that I'm going to read from 26 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: that I think is important. And if you're a subscriber 27 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: to the Rolling Stones, you are the Rolling Stone. You 28 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: must and I always call it the Rolling Stones like 29 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: the band. If you are a subscriber to Rolling Stone, 30 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: you should read it. If not, go on one of 31 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: those sites that allows you to read subscription only pieces, 32 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: because it is absolutely one thousand percent worthier time, and 33 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: it's long, and it is brilliant in its description of 34 00:02:51,560 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: who Henry Kissinger actually was. His absolutely just disgusting policies 35 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: that would lay the groundwork for the way that the 36 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: United States operated in Iraq, operated in Afghanistan, and the 37 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: way that we have allowed right Israel to operate in 38 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: its current war. So here's the piece and the title 39 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: of it at Rolling Stone is Henry Kissinger, war criminal 40 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: beloved by America's ruling class, finally dies. Just the title 41 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: alone brings me in, Okay, And it's written by Spencer Akerman, 42 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: and this is what he writes. Henry Kissinger died on 43 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. His consulting firm said 44 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: in a statement, the notorious war criminal was one hundred. First, 45 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: let me just pause there, because wow, I wish that 46 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: we all had the access to the kind of healthcare 47 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: that the federal government and our tax dollars go to provide, 48 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: right to representatives, to presidents, to state officials, and what 49 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: have you. I know that Henry Kissinger is a wealthy man, 50 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: and once he left government work, probably you know, had 51 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: his own health care. But let us understand that what 52 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: would America look like and what would our life expectancy 53 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: rate be if, in fact, we all had access to 54 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: the same kind of healthcare that our representatives do. Just 55 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: a little food for thought, maybe it wouldn't be seventy 56 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: three and declining, just putting it out there. He goes 57 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: on to write, measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst 58 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the 59 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: white supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April nineteenth, nineteen ninety five, 60 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murah federal building 61 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, killing one hundred and sixty eight people, 62 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: including nineteen children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection 63 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: in June two thousand one. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes, 64 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: even over a man such as McVeigh, necessary questions about 65 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: the legitimacy of killing even an unrepentant soldier of white supremacy. 66 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: His death provided a measure of closure to the mother 67 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: of one of his victims. Quote. It's a period at 68 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: the end of a sentence, said Kathleen Treynor, Who's four 69 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: year old McVeigh killed. McVeigh, who was, in his own 70 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: psychotic way, thought he was saving America. Wherever you heard 71 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 1: those words before, never remotely killed on the scale of Kissinger, 72 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,559 Speaker 1: the most revered American grand strategist of the second half 73 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: of the twentieth century. The Yale University historian Greg Grandon, 74 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: author of the biography Kissinger's Shadow, estimates listen to this 75 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: that Kissinger's actions folks from nineteen sixty nine through nineteen 76 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: seventy six, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger 77 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: made Richard Nixon and then Gerald Ford's foreign policy as 78 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: National Security Advisor and Secretary of State meant the end 79 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: of between listen to this. I need to just say 80 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: this again. Eight brief years nineteen sixty nine to nineteen 81 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:57,239 Speaker 1: seventy six, when Kissinger was both Nixon and then after 82 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: the resignation, would become Jered World Forwards foreign policy advisor 83 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: as their National security Advisor and Secretary of State. He's 84 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: the only person to have held both of those positions 85 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: simultaneously in the Nixon administration. He is responsible for the 86 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 1: deaths of between three and four million people, not three 87 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: and four hundred, not three and four thousand, Three and 88 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: four million fucking people, not just numbers, mothers, fathers, uncles, sisters, brothers, children, 89 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: in eight years. Let me go on. That includes quote, 90 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: crimes of commission, he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, 91 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: and omission like green lighting Indonesia's bloodshed in East timor 92 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: Pakistan's bloodshed in Bangladesh, and the inauguration of an American 93 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds. Quote. The 94 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: Cubans say there is no evil that lasts one hundred years, 95 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: and Kissinger is making a run to prove them wrong, 96 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 1: Grandon told Rolling Stone not long before Kissinger died quote, 97 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: there is no doubt he'll be hailed as a geopolitical 98 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: grand strategist, even though he bungled most crises leading to escalation. 99 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: He'll get credit for opening China, which, by the way, 100 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: he won a Nobel Peace Prize for ending somehow opening 101 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: China and ending the war in Vietnam after bombing Cambodia, 102 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: which was by the way, a neutral country at the time, 103 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: but because as I learned in this article, the ho 104 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: Chi mintrail went through Cambodia, he gave the green light 105 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: to just bomb it to smitherees a country that had 106 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: no involvement in the Vietnam War, but nonetheless killed one 107 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: hundred thousand of its seven hundred thousand people. I just 108 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: want to pause here because as I was reading this 109 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:50,479 Speaker 1: article and I'm getting into it, something seemed eerily familiar 110 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: as the author is explaining some of the actions that 111 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: were taken, particularly in Cambodia and Chile. In Chile was 112 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: to oust have the United States develop a coup to 113 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: oust a democratic socialist who was bringing together the people 114 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: of Chile. And they didn't like that because now there 115 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: was going to be tariffs placed on the copper that 116 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: is abundant in Chile that was owned largely by American corporations. 117 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: There was going to be taxes and penalties placed on 118 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:36,119 Speaker 1: it by the new leader of Chile in the nineteen seventies, 119 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 1: and Kissinger came up with a planet said, ad, that 120 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: doesn't sound great. You know, then we won't have control 121 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: over the extraction that we're doing in that country. So 122 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: let's get rid of him, which would then usher him. Oh, 123 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: I don't know, decades plus of a military occupation by 124 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: a murderous general that would kill and torture tens of 125 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: thousands of people at the behest of Kissinger who decided 126 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: to oust the Democratic socialist who wanted reparations from the 127 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: countries that were extracting their abundant natural resource of copper. 128 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: So just a little tidbit here, going now back to Cambodia, 129 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: this neutral party, this neutral country that the Vietnamese were using, 130 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: you know, and I use quotation marks as a trafficking 131 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 1: thoroughfare for weapons. So Kissinger said, oh, well, we'll get 132 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:51,119 Speaker 1: a handle on this war by bombing this peaceful country 133 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: because oh they're harboring, right, this trail that's being used 134 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: does has sound familiar? To you, because it does to 135 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: me when being told most recently about Hamas you know, 136 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: using hospitals and their underground areas for their tunneling systems 137 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: to justify the bombings and decimation of hospitals which are 138 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: filled with innocent wounded people, doctors, nurses, and administrators. But 139 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: you know, necessary evils and crimes of commission. Okay, History 140 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: repeats itself when we decide not to learn it the 141 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: first time over, or you know there are no checks 142 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: and balances. We go on in this piece to talk 143 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: about how kiss and over his decades long grip on 144 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: American foreign policy, because it didn't end with the Ford administration, 145 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: it would continue, and he would act as an advisor 146 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: to many, a secretary of state to many of president Right, 147 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: this article goes on, no infamy will find Kissinger on 148 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: a day like today instead in a demonstration of why 149 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,719 Speaker 1: he was able to kill so many people and get 150 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: away with it. The day of his passage will be 151 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: a solemn one in Congress, and shamefully, since Kissinger had 152 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: reporters like CBS Marvin Kahb and The New York Times 153 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: Hendrick Smith wiretapped news rooms. Kissinger a refugee from the 154 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: Nazis who became a pedigreed member of the quote Eastern 155 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: establishment Nixon hated, was a practitioner of a men American greatness, 156 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: and so the press lionized him as the cold blooded 157 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: genius who restored America's prestige from the agony of Vietnam. 158 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: Not once in a half century that followed Kissinger's departure 159 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: from power did the millions the United States killed matter 160 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: for his reputation, except to confirm a ruthlessness that pundits 161 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: occasionally find thrilling. America, like every empire, champions its state murderers. 162 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: The only time I was ever in the same room 163 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: as Henry Kissinger was at a twenty fifteen national security 164 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: conference at West Point. He was surrounded by paining army 165 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: officers and ex officials basking in the presence of a statesman. 166 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: What's so unsettling about all of this is that this 167 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: piece tells us the truth, the unvarnished truth, not the 168 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: fairy tale of the immigrant who fled war and comes 169 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: to the United States as a Jewish refugee to build 170 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: a storied career in politics. That's the sanitized version, right 171 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: that you learn in school. What you don't hear about, however, 172 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: is the actual real consequences of this war mongering sociopath 173 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: that would justify the killing of millions of people. As 174 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: you know, crimes of commission and omission, sometimes the ends 175 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: have to, you know, justify the means. And I think 176 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: about this, and I think about how the United States, 177 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: because of the actions of Kissinger, have gone into bombing 178 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: other nations that we never declared war with, like Libya, Somalia, Syria, 179 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: right as a preemptive measure. But we don't hear that 180 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: story about America. We only hear the stories about American 181 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: exceptionalism and the lengths that we go to around the 182 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: world to protect democracy. When the moves that he was 183 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: making Kissinger during his heydays had nothing to do with democracy. 184 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: It had everything to do with capitalistic domination and ensuring 185 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: that the United States, while creating laws around how other 186 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: countries should move, would never actually be held to those 187 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: same laws and rules. It's the same way that America 188 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: moves now. So when we're looking right at these horrific 189 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: death tolls, for instance, that are happening in Israel and 190 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: Palestine at fourteen thousand plus people, I think that probably 191 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: in the Pentagon. These motherfuckers are like, oh, that's light 192 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: work compared to the millions that this man decimated in 193 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: an eight year period, because the reality is that they 194 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: are not operating. America is not operating and has never 195 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:43,959 Speaker 1: operated from a place of humanity. They've operated from a 196 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: place of capitalistic greed, and they cover it up with 197 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: the facade of holding on to quote unquote democracy. All 198 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: of it is a lot, and this idea that somehow 199 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: the ends justify the means, somehow we can continue to 200 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: bomb our way to peace is also a lie, because 201 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: all we do is create instability and chaos everywhere we 202 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: fucking go. The reason why we find ourselves so on 203 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: edge now is because the world has been made smaller 204 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: thanks to social media, right that we can actually see 205 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 1: in real time what is happening. No one fucking knew 206 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: really what was going on in Vietnam. No one knew 207 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: about the secret bombing of Cambodia. There was no one 208 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: sending up write any messages. And frankly, one of the 209 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: things that Kissinger was good for was saying that media 210 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: outlets in these areas should be blocked, should be barred 211 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: from sharing their content. Similarly, which is what Netanyahu has 212 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: said in Israel and in Gaza, banning cameras so that 213 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: the crimes that you are committing in dark will never 214 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: come to light, not in real time, to have any 215 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: real time consequences. This is the important, folks, of the 216 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: moment that we are currently living in. When I say 217 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 1: what is the purpose of journalism? The purpose of journalism 218 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: is to be the eyes and ears for the people, 219 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: not for clicks and for advertising. The reason why people 220 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 1: are outrage and you're seeing the tone and tenor of 221 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: our current president change shift around the actions in Israel 222 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: and Palestine is because of our outrage. Why are we 223 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: outrage because we are fucking trauma scrolling every single day 224 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: because there's not a way for them to bar us 225 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 1: and sanitize what it is that we are seeing. Sure, 226 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: they put up one picture on mainstream corporate media, but 227 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: your Twitter feed and your Instagram feed and your tiktoks 228 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 1: are filled with the actual truth. I don't believe that 229 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: if Kissinger was at his prime today that he would 230 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: be hailed as a genius and a hero. I think 231 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: that his feet would be held to the fucking fire 232 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: in the way that it should have been, but was 233 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: protected by the American infrastructure for him never to be 234 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: held accountable for his crimes. That's why it is important 235 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: for us to bear witness to what is happening, dear friends, 236 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: because we have an ability to force the hand of 237 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: this administration. That's why democracy is important and attention is important. 238 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: We have more power than we know. I encourage each 239 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: and every one of you to head to Rolling Stone 240 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: to check out this article written by Spencer Akerman Henry Kissinger, 241 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: war criminal beloved by America's ruling class finally dies. It 242 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: is a mother fucking page turner, scroller and one of 243 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: the brilliant pieces of writing that I have read lately. 244 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends on wokf 245 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 1: as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 246 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.