WEBVTT - The Unvarnished Truth

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, keep send, Welcome to Look f Daily with

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<v Speaker 1>Meet your Girl. Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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<v Speaker 1>Happy fuck It Friday. It is amazing when we make

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<v Speaker 1>it to the end of one of these weeks in America,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, today I would have spent a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit of time, which I'm sure you all have seen,

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<v Speaker 1>on the passing of Henry Kissinger. And why do I

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<v Speaker 1>want to do that? Because I think that it's very

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<v Speaker 1>interesting to look at this man who lived to be

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred years old, who had such an extraordinarily her

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<v Speaker 1>terrific impact on American foreign policy, and yet has been revered,

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<v Speaker 1>hailed as a genius, was protected from experiencing the trials

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<v Speaker 1>that war criminals should be facing after they have contributed

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<v Speaker 1>to the deaths of millions of people. And yet I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sure as you've been watching the news, you've seen you know,

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<v Speaker 1>memoriams done that talk about his genius, that talk about

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<v Speaker 1>his patriotism and say that, oh he had, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a controversial sentiments about him and around him, but all

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<v Speaker 1>in all, he was a good American And isn't his

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<v Speaker 1>story incredible? As family escaped Germany during the height of Hitler,

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<v Speaker 1>they fled to the United States, and then he has

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<v Speaker 1>this storied career as an academic at Harvard and then

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<v Speaker 1>moving on to be Nixon's top guy. Right, And I

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<v Speaker 1>just I gotta tell you, history is a funny thing.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's a piece that I'm going to read from

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<v Speaker 1>that I think is important. And if you're a subscriber

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<v Speaker 1>to the Rolling Stones, you are the Rolling Stone. You

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<v Speaker 1>must and I always call it the Rolling Stones like

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<v Speaker 1>the band. If you are a subscriber to Rolling Stone,

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<v Speaker 1>you should read it. If not, go on one of

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<v Speaker 1>those sites that allows you to read subscription only pieces,

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<v Speaker 1>because it is absolutely one thousand percent worthier time, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's long, and it is brilliant in its description of

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<v Speaker 1>who Henry Kissinger actually was. His absolutely just disgusting policies

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<v Speaker 1>that would lay the groundwork for the way that the

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<v Speaker 1>United States operated in Iraq, operated in Afghanistan, and the

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<v Speaker 1>way that we have allowed right Israel to operate in

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<v Speaker 1>its current war. So here's the piece and the title

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<v Speaker 1>of it at Rolling Stone is Henry Kissinger, war criminal

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<v Speaker 1>beloved by America's ruling class, finally dies. Just the title

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<v Speaker 1>alone brings me in, Okay, And it's written by Spencer Akerman,

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<v Speaker 1>and this is what he writes. Henry Kissinger died on

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<v Speaker 1>Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. His consulting firm said

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<v Speaker 1>in a statement, the notorious war criminal was one hundred. First,

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<v Speaker 1>let me just pause there, because wow, I wish that

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<v Speaker 1>we all had the access to the kind of healthcare

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<v Speaker 1>that the federal government and our tax dollars go to provide,

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<v Speaker 1>right to representatives, to presidents, to state officials, and what

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<v Speaker 1>have you. I know that Henry Kissinger is a wealthy man,

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<v Speaker 1>and once he left government work, probably you know, had

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<v Speaker 1>his own health care. But let us understand that what

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<v Speaker 1>would America look like and what would our life expectancy

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<v Speaker 1>rate be if, in fact, we all had access to

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<v Speaker 1>the same kind of healthcare that our representatives do. Just

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<v Speaker 1>a little food for thought, maybe it wouldn't be seventy

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<v Speaker 1>three and declining, just putting it out there. He goes

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<v Speaker 1>on to write, measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst

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<v Speaker 1>mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the

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<v Speaker 1>white supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April nineteenth, nineteen ninety five,

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<v Speaker 1>McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murah federal building

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<v Speaker 1>in Oklahoma City, killing one hundred and sixty eight people,

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<v Speaker 1>including nineteen children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection

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<v Speaker 1>in June two thousand one. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes,

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<v Speaker 1>even over a man such as McVeigh, necessary questions about

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<v Speaker 1>the legitimacy of killing even an unrepentant soldier of white supremacy.

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<v Speaker 1>His death provided a measure of closure to the mother

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<v Speaker 1>of one of his victims. Quote. It's a period at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of a sentence, said Kathleen Treynor, Who's four

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<v Speaker 1>year old McVeigh killed. McVeigh, who was, in his own

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<v Speaker 1>psychotic way, thought he was saving America. Wherever you heard

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<v Speaker 1>those words before, never remotely killed on the scale of Kissinger,

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<v Speaker 1>the most revered American grand strategist of the second half

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<v Speaker 1>of the twentieth century. The Yale University historian Greg Grandon,

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<v Speaker 1>author of the biography Kissinger's Shadow, estimates listen to this

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<v Speaker 1>that Kissinger's actions folks from nineteen sixty nine through nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>seventy six, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger

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<v Speaker 1>made Richard Nixon and then Gerald Ford's foreign policy as

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<v Speaker 1>National Security Advisor and Secretary of State meant the end

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<v Speaker 1>of between listen to this. I need to just say

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<v Speaker 1>this again. Eight brief years nineteen sixty nine to nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>seventy six, when Kissinger was both Nixon and then after

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<v Speaker 1>the resignation, would become Jered World Forwards foreign policy advisor

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<v Speaker 1>as their National security Advisor and Secretary of State. He's

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<v Speaker 1>the only person to have held both of those positions

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<v Speaker 1>simultaneously in the Nixon administration. He is responsible for the

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<v Speaker 1>deaths of between three and four million people, not three

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<v Speaker 1>and four hundred, not three and four thousand, Three and

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<v Speaker 1>four million fucking people, not just numbers, mothers, fathers, uncles, sisters, brothers, children,

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<v Speaker 1>in eight years. Let me go on. That includes quote,

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<v Speaker 1>crimes of commission, he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile,

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<v Speaker 1>and omission like green lighting Indonesia's bloodshed in East timor

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<v Speaker 1>Pakistan's bloodshed in Bangladesh, and the inauguration of an American

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<v Speaker 1>tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds. Quote. The

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<v Speaker 1>Cubans say there is no evil that lasts one hundred years,

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<v Speaker 1>and Kissinger is making a run to prove them wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>Grandon told Rolling Stone not long before Kissinger died quote,

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<v Speaker 1>there is no doubt he'll be hailed as a geopolitical

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<v Speaker 1>grand strategist, even though he bungled most crises leading to escalation.

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<v Speaker 1>He'll get credit for opening China, which, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>he won a Nobel Peace Prize for ending somehow opening

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<v Speaker 1>China and ending the war in Vietnam after bombing Cambodia,

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<v Speaker 1>which was by the way, a neutral country at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>but because as I learned in this article, the ho

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<v Speaker 1>Chi mintrail went through Cambodia, he gave the green light

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<v Speaker 1>to just bomb it to smitherees a country that had

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<v Speaker 1>no involvement in the Vietnam War, but nonetheless killed one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand of its seven hundred thousand people. I just

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<v Speaker 1>want to pause here because as I was reading this

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<v Speaker 1>article and I'm getting into it, something seemed eerily familiar

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<v Speaker 1>as the author is explaining some of the actions that

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<v Speaker 1>were taken, particularly in Cambodia and Chile. In Chile was

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<v Speaker 1>to oust have the United States develop a coup to

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<v Speaker 1>oust a democratic socialist who was bringing together the people

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<v Speaker 1>of Chile. And they didn't like that because now there

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<v Speaker 1>was going to be tariffs placed on the copper that

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<v Speaker 1>is abundant in Chile that was owned largely by American corporations.

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<v Speaker 1>There was going to be taxes and penalties placed on

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<v Speaker 1>it by the new leader of Chile in the nineteen seventies,

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<v Speaker 1>and Kissinger came up with a planet said, ad, that

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't sound great. You know, then we won't have control

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<v Speaker 1>over the extraction that we're doing in that country. So

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<v Speaker 1>let's get rid of him, which would then usher him. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, decades plus of a military occupation by

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<v Speaker 1>a murderous general that would kill and torture tens of

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<v Speaker 1>thousands of people at the behest of Kissinger who decided

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<v Speaker 1>to oust the Democratic socialist who wanted reparations from the

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<v Speaker 1>countries that were extracting their abundant natural resource of copper.

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<v Speaker 1>So just a little tidbit here, going now back to Cambodia,

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<v Speaker 1>this neutral party, this neutral country that the Vietnamese were using,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and I use quotation marks as a trafficking

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<v Speaker 1>thoroughfare for weapons. So Kissinger said, oh, well, we'll get

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<v Speaker 1>a handle on this war by bombing this peaceful country

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<v Speaker 1>because oh they're harboring, right, this trail that's being used

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<v Speaker 1>does has sound familiar? To you, because it does to

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<v Speaker 1>me when being told most recently about Hamas you know,

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<v Speaker 1>using hospitals and their underground areas for their tunneling systems

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<v Speaker 1>to justify the bombings and decimation of hospitals which are

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<v Speaker 1>filled with innocent wounded people, doctors, nurses, and administrators. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know, necessary evils and crimes of commission. Okay, History

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<v Speaker 1>repeats itself when we decide not to learn it the

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<v Speaker 1>first time over, or you know there are no checks

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<v Speaker 1>and balances. We go on in this piece to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about how kiss and over his decades long grip on

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<v Speaker 1>American foreign policy, because it didn't end with the Ford administration,

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<v Speaker 1>it would continue, and he would act as an advisor

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<v Speaker 1>to many, a secretary of state to many of president Right,

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<v Speaker 1>this article goes on, no infamy will find Kissinger on

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<v Speaker 1>a day like today instead in a demonstration of why

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<v Speaker 1>he was able to kill so many people and get

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<v Speaker 1>away with it. The day of his passage will be

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<v Speaker 1>a solemn one in Congress, and shamefully, since Kissinger had

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<v Speaker 1>reporters like CBS Marvin Kahb and The New York Times

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<v Speaker 1>Hendrick Smith wiretapped news rooms. Kissinger a refugee from the

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<v Speaker 1>Nazis who became a pedigreed member of the quote Eastern

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<v Speaker 1>establishment Nixon hated, was a practitioner of a men American greatness,

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<v Speaker 1>and so the press lionized him as the cold blooded

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<v Speaker 1>genius who restored America's prestige from the agony of Vietnam.

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<v Speaker 1>Not once in a half century that followed Kissinger's departure

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<v Speaker 1>from power did the millions the United States killed matter

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<v Speaker 1>for his reputation, except to confirm a ruthlessness that pundits

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<v Speaker 1>occasionally find thrilling. America, like every empire, champions its state murderers.

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<v Speaker 1>The only time I was ever in the same room

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<v Speaker 1>as Henry Kissinger was at a twenty fifteen national security

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<v Speaker 1>conference at West Point. He was surrounded by paining army

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<v Speaker 1>officers and ex officials basking in the presence of a statesman.

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<v Speaker 1>What's so unsettling about all of this is that this

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<v Speaker 1>piece tells us the truth, the unvarnished truth, not the

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<v Speaker 1>fairy tale of the immigrant who fled war and comes

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<v Speaker 1>to the United States as a Jewish refugee to build

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<v Speaker 1>a storied career in politics. That's the sanitized version, right

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<v Speaker 1>that you learn in school. What you don't hear about, however,

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<v Speaker 1>is the actual real consequences of this war mongering sociopath

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<v Speaker 1>that would justify the killing of millions of people. As

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<v Speaker 1>you know, crimes of commission and omission, sometimes the ends

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<v Speaker 1>have to, you know, justify the means. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>about this, and I think about how the United States,

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<v Speaker 1>because of the actions of Kissinger, have gone into bombing

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<v Speaker 1>other nations that we never declared war with, like Libya, Somalia, Syria,

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<v Speaker 1>right as a preemptive measure. But we don't hear that

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<v Speaker 1>story about America. We only hear the stories about American

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<v Speaker 1>exceptionalism and the lengths that we go to around the

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<v Speaker 1>world to protect democracy. When the moves that he was

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<v Speaker 1>making Kissinger during his heydays had nothing to do with democracy.

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<v Speaker 1>It had everything to do with capitalistic domination and ensuring

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<v Speaker 1>that the United States, while creating laws around how other

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<v Speaker 1>countries should move, would never actually be held to those

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<v Speaker 1>same laws and rules. It's the same way that America

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<v Speaker 1>moves now. So when we're looking right at these horrific

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<v Speaker 1>death tolls, for instance, that are happening in Israel and

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<v Speaker 1>Palestine at fourteen thousand plus people, I think that probably

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<v Speaker 1>in the Pentagon. These motherfuckers are like, oh, that's light

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<v Speaker 1>work compared to the millions that this man decimated in

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<v Speaker 1>an eight year period, because the reality is that they

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<v Speaker 1>are not operating. America is not operating and has never

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<v Speaker 1>operated from a place of humanity. They've operated from a

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<v Speaker 1>place of capitalistic greed, and they cover it up with

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<v Speaker 1>the facade of holding on to quote unquote democracy. All

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<v Speaker 1>of it is a lot, and this idea that somehow

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<v Speaker 1>the ends justify the means, somehow we can continue to

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<v Speaker 1>bomb our way to peace is also a lie, because

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<v Speaker 1>all we do is create instability and chaos everywhere we

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<v Speaker 1>fucking go. The reason why we find ourselves so on

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<v Speaker 1>edge now is because the world has been made smaller

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<v Speaker 1>thanks to social media, right that we can actually see

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<v Speaker 1>in real time what is happening. No one fucking knew

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<v Speaker 1>really what was going on in Vietnam. No one knew

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<v Speaker 1>about the secret bombing of Cambodia. There was no one

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<v Speaker 1>sending up write any messages. And frankly, one of the

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<v Speaker 1>things that Kissinger was good for was saying that media

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<v Speaker 1>outlets in these areas should be blocked, should be barred

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<v Speaker 1>from sharing their content. Similarly, which is what Netanyahu has

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<v Speaker 1>said in Israel and in Gaza, banning cameras so that

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<v Speaker 1>the crimes that you are committing in dark will never

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<v Speaker 1>come to light, not in real time, to have any

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<v Speaker 1>real time consequences. This is the important, folks, of the

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<v Speaker 1>moment that we are currently living in. When I say

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<v Speaker 1>what is the purpose of journalism? The purpose of journalism

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<v Speaker 1>is to be the eyes and ears for the people,

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<v Speaker 1>not for clicks and for advertising. The reason why people

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<v Speaker 1>are outrage and you're seeing the tone and tenor of

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<v Speaker 1>our current president change shift around the actions in Israel

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<v Speaker 1>and Palestine is because of our outrage. Why are we

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<v Speaker 1>outrage because we are fucking trauma scrolling every single day

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<v Speaker 1>because there's not a way for them to bar us

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<v Speaker 1>and sanitize what it is that we are seeing. Sure,

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<v Speaker 1>they put up one picture on mainstream corporate media, but

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<v Speaker 1>your Twitter feed and your Instagram feed and your tiktoks

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<v Speaker 1>are filled with the actual truth. I don't believe that

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<v Speaker 1>if Kissinger was at his prime today that he would

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<v Speaker 1>be hailed as a genius and a hero. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that his feet would be held to the fucking fire

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<v Speaker 1>in the way that it should have been, but was

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<v Speaker 1>protected by the American infrastructure for him never to be

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<v Speaker 1>held accountable for his crimes. That's why it is important

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<v Speaker 1>for us to bear witness to what is happening, dear friends,

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<v Speaker 1>because we have an ability to force the hand of

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<v Speaker 1>this administration. That's why democracy is important and attention is important.

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<v Speaker 1>We have more power than we know. I encourage each

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<v Speaker 1>and every one of you to head to Rolling Stone

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<v Speaker 1>to check out this article written by Spencer Akerman Henry Kissinger,

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<v Speaker 1>war criminal beloved by America's ruling class finally dies. It

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<v Speaker 1>is a mother fucking page turner, scroller and one of

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<v Speaker 1>the brilliant pieces of writing that I have read lately.

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<v Speaker 1>That is it for me today, dear friends on wokf

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<v Speaker 1>as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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<v Speaker 1>get woke and stay woke as fuck.