EP 19 When You Draft Me For WW3, Make Sure To Overcharge Me For The Diabetes Cure

Well hellloooooo, fancy meeting youuuu here! Well, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is we might have cured diabetes. The bad news is we might start ww3, in which case, we REALLY cured diabetes. For everyone. And all other diseases too. Except radiation poisoning, I suppose. But if that doesn't pan out, we still have a new  vaccine for type 1 diabetes. Just don't tell RFK Jr. or you might get deported to a d**th camp in El Salvador. Then you'll probs pray for ww3. Okey dokey, seeya round space cowboy/girl/whatever.

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- Help my friend Fatima survive https://tinyurl.com/fatimafund

- https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/they-cooked-up-their-own-intelligence

- https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

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You're gonna wear a hat? You and George, what's his name on Mother of All Talk shows? George, what the hell's his name? George, George, come on. You know, no, George. I'm joining the colonialists. I can sense a winning battle or losing one. I think, here we are, George Galloway, you and George Galloway, he always wears a hat. does he does he wear a hat or does he wear a pith helmet? No, he always wears a hat. guess, I think because he was attacked and he's left scarred. I think that's why he doesn't. Years ago, years ago. Yeah, he's pretty good, he's pretty good. He's a little too Christian for me, I'm sorry, but he's a good, no, no, no. And when he starts talking about, well, actually all these guys, this is a bit of a problem. They start talking about woke, it's like, please, just stop, just stop. But it's all right. No, no, but yeah, yes, yes. you know? out of focus again. You're out of focus again. it there? Now you're back in focus. So it must just be that when you start moving your camera loses it a little bit. Now it's fine. Yeah. going on. Let me have an idea. How about that? Nope. Okay. We'll get it. We'll get it eventually here. There we go. Good enough. Yeah, I think so. It's fitting with the ADD, you know what mean? So uh I suppose I should say welcome to Comrade Uncle. I'm here, my name is Odysseus uh and I'm here with my uncle. He's the uncle, Dr. Lyon. it's so good to see you. would be Odyseus. It shouldn't be Odysseus. I mean, that's the English pronunciation. It's actually Odyseus. Yeah, Odysseus Ladoeopoulos. Yeah. That's right. Named after that guy who was in a boat for a long time. And he found and he named it. And what did he call himself when he was in the uh in the in the uh in the Giants that had only one eye. He called themselves No Man. No Man. No Man. Right. Is that Utsis? No Man. No one. Utsis. Right. That's right. Utsis. That's right. That's right. That's right. Right. ah So you could be you could be No Man or you could be uh or you could be Odisha, one of the two. yeah, yeah, yeah, just don't call me late for dinner. Oh, he? Nice. Nice, nice. can call me this, you can call me that, just don't call me that. It's gotta be a World War II depression era, something that those guys did. I have no idea. So, yeah, he's long dead. Whatever. We all die. We all... do. uh Rest at last. So, you know, we wanted to talk about a couple of things today. um Let's see. We've got some good news. We've got some bad news. We got lots of bad news. got, but we do have some good news. Well, there's actually some, I think, horrific news. And just for the people who do listen to us, there are analysts much, much more well-read and thoughtful than, certainly than me. I'm thinking of, as we just mentioned a minute ago, George Galloway. I'm thinking of Nima, I've forgotten Nima's last name on uh Dialogue Works. I'm thinking of Electronic into Father. Actually, I'm thinking of Danny Haifong. um He's good. uh India and Global Left. These are all podcasts. Of course, Chris Hedges. And one that surprises me over and over and over is Judge Napolitano. who I always thought of as a pretty right-wing guy, libertarian kind of guy. But he has some just remarkable guests. it matters for what we're gonna talk about today because in terms of analytics, I think, in terms of world situation, these guys are good. One of the things I've noticed that happens over and over with all of them, and no disrespect to any of them, they're, again, smart guys, is they seem to miss the boat domestically. And what I mean by that is, They will, of course, what's happened here is that um Israel perpetrated a sneak attack on Iran, I believe it's four or five days ago, while the United States, unprovoked, while the United States was stating, it occurred on uh Friday night, the US and Iran were supposed to talk again on Sunday. That would have been Sunday, that's a week ago, gosh, that would have been Sunday last. So we're talking way more days, we're talking over a week. Sorry. And then, and there was analysis of this. And then last night, the United States, after Trump said, well, I'll make some decision in a couple of weeks what I want to do, after his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, stated that the consensus of the intelligence community was that Iran simply was not working on a nuclear weapon. They just weren't. Yeah. So Trump said, well, I don't care what she says. I think they are, but I'll make a decision in two weeks. And then last night, he sent several B-2 bombers and attempted to bomb three nuclear sites. Well, actually did bomb three nuclear sites in Iran. Well, I've seen the holes from pictures. How much damage is actually done is, of course, unclear. The Iranians say no. no, mean, supposedly nuclear sites, not supposedly bombed, certainly bombed, supposedly nuclear sites. Maybe. from the information that is released. They were nuclear sites. They had been emptied out several days in advance. But the point, though, my point is not exactly that. Of course, it is that. And we need to talk about that briefly. But the real point I want to make is that in the analysis of what Trump had done by supporting Israel's war of aggression. as well as Israel's genocide, which by the way, it's not just Trump, it's Biden. And before Biden, it was Trump. And before Trump, was Obama that basically was perpetrating illegal, these illegal acts that were using drones to kill people extra judicially and so forth. But in continuing that, some of these guys, and I'm thinking of on Danny Haifong's program this morning and on uh Nima's the discussion works or whatever it's They said we thought that Trump Was I'm paraphrasing a man of peace. We thought there was he was something somehow better than this way and I and and No, no, it is it is but but it it seems to me that the only way you could say things like that is If you've completely ignored what he's been doing domestically, I mean I think that he is a fascist leaning, I would call him a fascist, definitionally uh individual surrounded by definitional fascists in his cabinet, incompetence as well as uh fascist. I'm not, well no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you can be quite competent in this, right? But in this case, he has chosen people who are ideologically, and again, I'm not, just throwing the word around. is definitional, if one can look this up. Fascists, but they're competent as a level, whether it's RFK or Hagseth or anybody in between, including the little twit 22 year old who's in charge of terrorism response. What was his last job at Lowe's Hardware or something? I don't know. Anyway. Not that there's anything wrong with people who work at hardware stores, you know, mean like, yeah, no, you could be, you could be not a monster. yeah... Yeah... The US and Israel are the biggest terrorist powers on earth. the only point of, I'm sorry, I'm getting a little bit, you're sidetracking me. The only point is that these guys would make those comments about Trump. We thought he was a man of peace. We thought he was somewhat different. We thought he wanted to focus on America. I mean, You can only say things like that if you've ignored what he's done since he's come to power. And what he's done since he's come to power, both kind of operationally and in terms of bills that he's wanted to pass, have been nothing short of horrific. So if you start with the guy's appointees, RFK Jr. as the head of Health and Human Services, we are facing a, you it may not... happened for a while, but we are facing a potential for the next pandemic that'll hit us where we will not be able to respond when the next wave of COVID hits us, which by the way, has already, already appears to be based on data, has already slammed or beginning to slam China. We are not going to be prepared. These guys are talking about not having vaccines. And they're making proclamations, the one that came out recently. that RFK Jr. said was from the CDC. The CDC had nothing to say about this. It was RFK that said it, which was, pregnant women do not need to be immunized. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which in the past was asked to weigh in on this as well as CDC, said unequivocally that's wrong. That's just wrong. Women who are pregnant are at increased risk. And their children, once born, are at increased risk if the mother doesn't have uh immunity to COVID. because a good swath of the neonates immunity comes from their mom. That's why one of reasons breastfeeding is so important, of course. But we are gonna be ill-prepared for this. And whether it's him or whether it's the secretary of education, right? Or, um I mean, it is truly breathtaking. And there's a couple of interesting articles which I think we should include in this month's... uh podcast at the appendix one is this article by lead author is Reichmann on um Allogeneic stem cell transplant that literally now well, I'm going to overstate it slightly that literally cures type 1 diabetes melis Basically, it's way incredible now. This is just a safety and efficacy study. There's only a total of I believe 14 patients It's very small. But the article is worth looking at. And again, we will include it, I think, at the end here. But because what these authors have done is take work that was... uh Well, it's not... Work that was basically clearly funded, the reason I'm hesitating is I'm just trying to think sort of how far back to go. I worked for years, I worked uh in the lab, I had a research lab. It was not ultimately successful, but that's okay, was science, it doesn't matter. But I worked with a remarkably smart guy, a guy named Ammon, A-M-M-O-N, PEC, P-E-C-K, at the University of Florida. He uh still is at UF. He still is an immunologist and he was doing work at the time, different from the work I was trying to do, that looked at stimulating stem cells to become islet cells to cure diabetes. And for a short time actually, he thought he had the answer. He succeeded and then it was like, and then he lost it. And he just like, it was gone. He couldn't make it work anymore. And you know, it's one of things that happens in science, but this is, that's probably 20 years ago. All of his work was NIH funded. He did form a company and there was some people that invested, but that company is now gone. But all of his work was NIH, or National Science Foundation, but basically federally funded work. As I expect was this work of Reichman's that's recently come out. And the reason I want to mention that, the reason it's important to mention that is because What we have today, and again, this touches on the issue, I believe, of what I would call, what I would like to call, it will not make sense initially, of one big union, the Wobblies, one big union, international workers of the world, viewed all workers as workers. Didn't matter whether you were physicians, you're intellectual workers. If you work in a steel factory, you work with your hands as well as your head. They viewed it as everybody is one big union. Of course they were destroyed. But the reason I mentioned them sort of in a parenthetic way is that because what we are facing is an administration that takes how many hundreds of millions of dollars, $400 million from uh Harvard. I don't remember how many hundreds of millions from uh Columbia and other universities. And those monies are research monies. That's what these are. They've slashed research funding. And the work that we are referring to today that may actually cure type 1 diabetes. Now again, this is a safety and efficacy study. That's all it is. There's only 14 patients. But it looks like this works. So of course you need to do now bigger studies. It will not be uh inexpensive. because you have to stay on immune suppressants probably for your life if you're going to be on this. But again, when I say it won't be inexpensive, I'm actually specifically referring to big pharma who will take these findings that are funded by us, people of the United States, and they will commercialize them and they'll try and make a lot of bucks. This should not be. This should not be. What should be is that we help fund and finance this basic research, something good comes out of it, and we should be able to sort of reap those benefits without going bankrupt. As well as, if there's gotta be pharmaceutical companies, that's fine, make a fair profit, we can talk about how to define that. But it will be expensive, and it shouldn't be, but part of the expense is also gonna be because people who get these dilat cell transplants, again, assuming this actually works, that it does look like it will work. right. because they have to be on immunosuppressants for the rest of their lives. But it is remarkable work that's only possible, only possible because 20, 30, 40 years ago, people at the National Institutes of Health, the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and on and on on on, National Science Foundation funded basic work about how do you take blood cells and separate those blood cells into stem cells and other cells, stem cells which are cells that can become anything. And then how do you turn those stem cells on specifically to make bone, to make islet cells in the pancreas, you know, and on and on and on. That work is slow, expensive, multiple false leads before you get there. My professor and colleague, a guy who I think very highly of, Dr. Peck, you know, was on his way until... He hit a dead end and it all blew, you and he couldn't do it anymore. Somebody else picked up and found a different way to do it. But it's all expensive, it needs to be funded, it's federal funding, and that's what Trump and his foolish minions have slashed. And the reason that matters is because... One of the few things that actually works in our United States today, infrastructure is a mess, transports a mess, education is a mess. We have been defunded, unfunded, underfunded for decades and decades and decades. But one of the things that actually did, at least until recently, work was biomedical science. mean, there are flaws. Don't misunderstand me. I know you and I have discussed this previously. The health system is an unmitigated disaster. I am part of that unmitigated disaster. I've been involved in it for 45 years. But as I stated, I think to you, I think, you know, the first political debate I had as a 21 year old undergraduate at UC San Diego was with a young man who was a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, a right wing Republican group at the time. They're probably moderate them, but they were the extreme right at the time. And the debate was on the American health system. He took the position that uh this is the best system in the world, the best time in the world. And I said, Even then as a 21 year old, said, my God, you are wrong. And this is why. And 50 years later, I'm still having the same debate. It's the same debate. We've gone nowhere but essentially backwards for decades and decades and decades. They are slashing the funds that could make this system, at least research wise, better and improved. They are in addition with their, whatever that bill is called, it's such an idiotic name, big, beautiful bill, whatever that stupid name is, to cut Medicare and Medicaid, right? Medicaid, which is a state, federal, dual-financed medical program that funds children, that funds dialysis for children, that funds medical care for children, that funds... know, nursing homes for old people who are poor. They're going to, they want to slash that and they want to slash it. They want to slash it. They want to slash it. So these, forgive me, these motherfuckers can get a tax cut. These motherfuckers who are so greedy, who are so greedy, they, enough is never enough. They need a couple more yachts, a couple more airplanes. And that's what they're doing at the same time. at the same time that we are increasing our spending on so-called defense, well over a trillion dollars now. And at the same time that we are now involved, not just, as if this wasn't bad enough, of course, not just that we're uh complicit in, involved with Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people, it is genocide. Anybody who doubts that. simply needs to go to every human rights organization in the world of any substance, including, by the way, Batsalen, an Israeli organization, whom I have nothing but respect for. And they have... go on freaking, you know, go on Instagram. You can literally watch it. Yeah. great. I know what you mean. just, it's just AI. No, it's not just AI. No, no, it is not. But not only are we complicit in assisting in the perpetration of genocide, we have now become complicit in and active participants in uh illegal war of aggression. Now that war of aggression is against Iran. which we may have and we do have our disagreements with. And if you want to understand why there may be disagreements, all you have to do is go study the history and you will see why they exist. Why do they chant death to America? I just can't imagine, but it might have something to do with overthrowing their government that was democratically elected and then putting the Shah in who was a butcher, a butcher. It might have something to do with our assassinating their scientists and their politicians. Be that as it may. Okay, we've got some disagreements with them. That's why you talk. You you and I don't talk because we have to come to agreement. We talk because we talk. But when you have an enemy, purported or otherwise, you talk to sort of solve issues. What we've done, along with the Israelis, is we have now begun an illegal, another illegal war of aggression, right? Which is, if you remember the Nuremberg trials, aggressive wars are the crime of crimes. the crime from which everything else stems. When we did this in Iran, actually we did it in Vietnam, forgive me, we did it in Iraq, we did it in Vietnam, and now we're doing, on and there's more than one, more than one. But we're doing it again. so when, again, this is many, many, many, many words to say, when the guys, the analysts, again, they're all smarter than me, they're all better read than me, when they talk about Trump and say, we thought he was somehow different, it's as if they've not paid attention to what he does here at home. And maybe they don't have the bandwidth to do it, I don't know, but they're all good, smart guys. But what he's doing here to us, that ranges everything from his so-called big, beautiful bill, Medicare and Medicaid, the appointees that he's got, both from the Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, to what he's trying to do and has done. Hium and his ilk have done to women and their ability to control their bodies. It's beyond criminal. So it should come as no surprise that what he's done is get us involved in an illegal war of aggression, which is not going to end well. just before, not just before, years before World War II started, it became evident that the League of Nations had become nothing, not even a debating society. It was useless. And what Trump, but also before Trump, Biden, Trump, Obama have done, what we have done, is make the United Nations essentially irrelevant. Now, Gutierrez, the secretary general of the UN, has not come out strongly against what the United States and Israel have done, not in the slightest. So, Some of the blame is theirs as well. But we've made the United Nations irrelevant. We've made by these acts the Non-Proliferation Treaty, The Non-Proliferation Treaty, which for those who don't know it, you can look it up, it's pretty straightforward. But basically it was signed, I want to say three, four decades ago, maybe longer, ah that basically said, countries have the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. You sign this, you can have it for your power stations, you can have it for whatever you want, but you can't make weapons. And you got to promise, and there's inspections and so forth. Iran signed it. Iran has allowed very, very robust inspections. Israel, and Iran has no nuclear weapons. And they were complying. They were complying, they were complying, they were complying when they signed the JCPOA, Obama's, a treaty, they were complying when Trump tore it up, they were complying even after he tore it up, they were going to comply, they were trying to make a deal with Trump when they were attacked. Yeah, and let's not forget, Biden could have signed back on and chose not to. uh It is truly, I mean, I think that there's some, they were just casting about looking for the next war in some ways. I do not cut Biden any slack on that account, no matter what you say about the guy, no matter what people want to say about the guy. ah I cut him no slack. And nor do I cut him any slack on the genocide that continues to be perpetrated on the people of Palestine and Gaza. So we have basically dealt death knells. Again, this is not just Trump. This is over the last, I would say decade and a half, something like that, death knell. to the United Nations and to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. And although it may be an exaggeration, I worry that my outlook is so bleak I could exaggerate a little bit here. I believe we are seeing the beginning of World War III. mean, World War, right? We are now in, there are genocides occurring not just in Gaza, but also in Sudan and I think in Congo still as well. There are wiser, There are wars, serious wars going on in Ukraine as well as now between Iran and Israel and us and the Palestinians. Although what's happening to the Palestinians is hardly a war. It's a genocide. We are on the cusp of the abyss. And both the Pakistanis, again, don't know how much credence to put in what they've said, but they have said, we will give Iran nuclear weapons if you guys continue this. The Chinese and the Russians are not going to, I don't think, stand by and watch Iran be decimated. Iran has said, we don't need your help now. Don't need anything. It's all good. From my understanding, they've said we're still good. And they do seem to be handing Israel quite a beating. I want to emphasize. We've said this before, you and I have both said this before. They're, as socialists, they're, I believe in the concept of redemption, not religious, but political, that we can be mistaken, we can make terrible mistakes, and we can still come back from that and be significant, productive, good human beings. So I don't want to see any Israeli young man or young woman or anybody, old man or woman, die. Needlessly, I don't nor do I of course want to see any obviously any Palestinian Whether they're a fighter or a civilian that I don't I want us to be able to figure out a way to live together in a world that works That's what socialism is but But when you're being attacked when a genocide is being perpetrated, I think there are times you simply have to fight back and so the Iranians are indeed Giving as good as they get to the Israelis. ah And they've said, from my understanding of the talking heads again who are the analysts, they've said, we don't need to help Russia, we don't need to help China, we don't need any of stuff right now. But it will not take an awful lot, I think, to see this degenerate into a world war. And what might that look like? mean, what that might look like is the Iranians continuing to hit Israel and Israel decided they need to use a nuclear weapon and and and then we are and then we are toast and it's and And and none of this needs to happen none of this needs to happen and and so so again 30 minutes talking though about why You know why we think this is what's happening and why we think it's happening and and I think part of the issue is That the guys who keep saying I expected more from Trump. think they didn't and don't and probably never understood the kind of man that this man is. uh look, I mean, there's some, like, you know, in all fairness during, you know, and I mean, far be it for me to be too fair to the guy, but in his first term, he didn't really, I mean, maybe he tried to start a war with Iran, but he didn't, he was not as bellicose as, I mean, he technically didn't start anywhere. Yeah, he just, yeah. Soleimani went to Iraq to make peace, right? So that was a potential cause for war. Sure, sure, sure, sure. can see why you would get the idea maybe that, you know, cause he does uh use that rhetoric. But you know, like you say, you're not wrong. mean, yeah, he is, uh he's, you know, when it comes right down to it with Trump, just, you know, he governs, he might say this or that or the other, but he just governs like a neocon whenever they... You know, tell him to do, uh, know, jerk his chain or whatever, it'd be, you I mean, maybe he doesn't even care. Maybe it is not even, uh, it's just, you know, he'll say whatever the hell. then regardless, you know, for whatever reason, he just does govern exactly like a neocon. Uh, and yeah. I have to admit, I do read his tweets. I have to take a shower after every time I read one of them, I must admit, but I do read them. And it does seem like he just, whatever pops into his, know, treponema pallidum, addled brain, if you get my drift there, uh it comes out in Truth Social in his tweets. I mean, it's pretty pathetic. The stuff that he put out after attacking Iran was just... embarrassment. mean, worse than an embarrassment. but the several points that I think would matter, I mean, I don't know, but you know, is number one, we just talked about an article that's been published with materials and the real science funded by the people of United States of America that could end type 1 diabetes as we know it. There may be a problem, it may not work, but it looks like it does work. You need bigger studies now. I mean, this is only possible if you fund research. Research is only possible in research universities. Research universities are where people like me, spent almost 30 years at University of Florida, pretty big deal, research university, talk and argue and think and have ideas that people didn't have before. that allow you to make advances. And if you police that the way Trump is trying to police it, the way the university leaders are trying to police it, including by the way, the leadership of the University of Florida now, uh and other universities, Columbia for one, um you will destroy yourselves. You will destroy what works in our university system. mean, so, and Trump and his uh funding, national funding agencies, institutes of national interest to help. are destroying what works. That's one. And two, we haven't touched on too much the whole measles problem, which is still a huge problem. The last time we talked, there were, I think we said, 400 or 500 cases. I don't remember. And they were pretty much Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma. Well, it's now in 39 states. There's something like 1,400. There's been 1,400 cases. There have been... 12 % of these cases, a hundred and some hospitalized and there's three deaths. I mean, utterly preventable, utterly preventable with vaccine. But what has HHS lead Kennedy and the people around him done? They've minimized, they've poo-pooed. They've said these vaccines are dangerous, don't do them. mean, this, what they aren't doing is it's junk science. So it's not science. So they're dragging us to war. destroying what works. And as we look around at our country, including at the, I think, and I know I've made this point before, I don't mean to totally repeat myself over and over, but including the people who voted for Trump, our working class, who have been utterly and continue to be, continue to be utterly betrayed by the Democratic party. You say, But you look around and you see this and you say, what are we going to do? What can we do? My fear now is that given the events internationally that we are in just going to be if we're not already in a world of hurt, that this could explode in ways that are not just metaphorical. And it is terribly concerning. And we have been led to this. Again, I want to emphasize, I detest Trump. I think he is a... He's worse than slime. It's an insult to slime to call him slime. He is, know, he is, as some people say, he is a poor man's idea of what a rich man is like. But it's not just Trump. It is all the people around him. And it's the people who came before him who were, might've been slicker or spoke or written better than he does, but they didn't change anything. And that, frankly, after Jimmy Carter forward. And that includes people on whose campaigns I worked, my wife worked, ah that are just nothing but disappointments. So we are, think... Jimmy Carter, it's like, you know, we talk about the origins of the conflict with Iran. I he didn't do anything better with Iran. He certainly was, you know, involved in a great deal of fuckery, you know, and uh it's not, I mean, which isn't to say he hasn't said good things since and yada yada, but it's like the machinery of empire has not been dismantled by any president, uh barring uh maybe Lincoln. Not even the attempt. Well, maybe Lincoln. mean, Lincoln did argue that the Mexican war, the war that the United States perpetrated on Mexico to take Arizona, California, New Mexico, and so forth was wrong. He did say that all those years ago. He didn't give it back, but he did say that. oh no, but in our sort of more modern era, really. Mm Yeah, certainly. No more. Yeah. Yeah. working class by the Democratic Party, which was once, at least to some extent, the greater extent or lesser extent, the party of the working class, certainly under FDR it was. Maybe under Truman, but the loss of our ability to form unions, strong unions that were on the streets, has been part of the reason why time after time our people get bamboozled into wars that are wars against people they have nothing against, should have nothing against, ah while their own standards of living simply deteriorate. And not just standards of living. mean, part of the disgrace for our country is that the lifespan, of men and women across the board has decreased by something on the order of three years, I believe. Over the last four or five years, it's down by two or three years. It's dramatic. We have really fallen off the curve. Really fallen. And uh you just don't see that except in societies that are collapsing. And while it may not feel, look like, I I look out the window, it looks the same. mean, it looks sort of the same to me. May not feel that way. I think the reality is, We are collapsing. And unless there's some political movement, you know, and the No Kings marches are, that's maybe a start, but it's not enough. You need organizing. You need to be able to look at the big picture. It's not just Trump. The problem with the No Kings movement is too much of it is it's all Trump, but it's not all Trump. Trump is perpetrating, continues to perpetrate a genocide that Biden allowed to start and refused to stop. know, things that Obama did with the extrajudicial murders of people who were not American citizens, that he refused to stop. I mean, and on and on and on. So it's much bigger than one individual. And we don't have the machinery in place, I think. For those of us who consider ourselves workers, I I may be a physician, but my captain with the Capital I have is here. Other than that, I got nothing, man. You that's all there is. ah We don't have the tools. We don't have the organizations. We do have the tools. We don't have the organization to help us solve this problem. And that's a huge issue. And then on top of all of that, as if that weren't enough, genocide, the threat of World War III, is there's the climate emergency, which is being utterly ignored, utterly ignored. Yeah. No, and they tie together too. mean, the bombing places, war is just a tremendous contributor to Crown Road emissions. It wreaks havoc on the environment. It's all part of the same struggle. mean, you cannot fight climate change without fighting... endless warfare, know, the forever war. It's just, it's part and parcel. You know, it'd be like, uh you know, recycling, but you know, burning coal, you know, or whatever. It's like, you you can't, they're tied together. uh We can't order other countries to do anything. We can enter into agreements, which we have, and then we've broken left and right, the Paris climate agreements. But we can do what we can do, you know? And the technology does exist to salvage the one planet that we have. And as much as Elon Musk, and the people who think he's such a smart guy, may talk about... going to Mars or somewhere, who the hell knows? This is the only planet we've got. We're not going anywhere. So we have to do everything we can to salvage this, to save our planet, to make it livable for me, but I'm gonna be dead in 20 years, for you, for your kids, for our grandkids, our great grandkids. And war has no place in that. Cooperation has every place in that. You know, and the elimination of fossil fuels is incredibly important. Now, that may not be totally eliminated, but for the most part, we could do that today. We just won't. We won't. And by the way, and by the way, just to make it clear, Trump's big, beautiful bill, whatever that idiotic thing is called, it's what it is. It eliminates the tax rebates for solar. And it continues, as I understand it. It continues the rebates for fossil fuels that the big oil companies get. It's just, you know, and it does a whole bunch of other terrible things, including limit the judicial review of presidential decisions. I mean, just pathetic stuff. It does attempt to destroy with the remnants, the pathetic remnants of this democratic experiment, which, you know, I think is worth trying to save. But I've... I'm afraid, of course this is why we wanted to have this, do this podcast now, which we really need, and I'm not trying to give you grief. I know you do all the things you have to do, but it needs to come out. It needs to come out. We are in deep, deep trouble, deep, deep trouble. And illegal wars of aggression, I can think of nothing worse, except what else is, what's worse is potentially our Nuclear war? airmen, marines will be thrust into battles that simply are going to waste their lives. Full stop. you know, I was, uh get like alerts for stuff anyway. I saw, I noticed on the March 30th, I believe it was, uh they mobilized, uh just from Wisconsin, they mobilized 600 National Guardsmen and sent them to CENCOM, which is the uh basically, you know, cut a long story short, it could be a few different places, but it's the Middle East, you know. It's so it's like, know, they're preparing for this stuff. I mean, it's, you know, yeah, it is. It's in the books. It seems like I hope not. and I hope not. And while this is ongoing, while this is ongoing, we have Homeland Security, a term I just can't bear to say, sending men, I think they're all men, dressed in civilian clothes with their faces covered, no badges, no warrants, no identification, pulling people off the street into cars that at least if the, I've seen are to be believed cars with license plates that they change That they change at their whim are these Ku Klux Klan errs are these three percenters are these proud boys are these criminals are these gangs Are these federal agents are these who are they one would never know are these but well that for sure? At least not for sure They they they are They have vests that you or I can buy, bulletproof vests that say police, but that's all. oh so when we were at our neighborhood organization meeting here in Gainesville, there was a police lieutenant present. These happen twice a year. And the police always come to talk about neighborhood safety. It's fine, this is Gainesville. And so I went up to the police lieutenant. I said, I need to ask you a question, but before I ask you the question, I need to make a comment first, because I don't want you to get the wrong impression. I said, when I was, for 15 years, the medical director of Gainesville Fire Rescue Service, we created, for the Gainesville Police Department, we created a group called the SWAT Medic Team, which is a group of medics that would go when the police rapid response team would go and they... What they used to do is they would be a mile away, staged, waiting to be called in when it was all safe. But if someone got hurt, just the time between getting there and saving that person could be lost, the time you need. So we trained up with the police to ask us to do this, and we did it. We trained up a group of paramedics who would literally go in with the cops. They wouldn't do cop things, but they were right there if somebody got hurt, a cop. A citizen, whomever, didn't matter. The idea was we take care of everybody. We want to save lives. So I said this to him, I said, I'm saying this to you, I don't want you to think I'm genetically anti-police. I said, but what is the position of Gainesville Police Department if ICE comes to town and starts arresting people at Lowe's Hardware? I mean, are you gonna help them? Or do we call you? And he said, he said, Two things, one he said, we've got no direction from the chief of police on this. That's number one. But the second thing is, is if you see guys with guns, no uniforms, pulling people off the street, you call 911 and we will respond. We'll come. If it turns out they're really cops, well, I guess we won't do anything. But we will come. So, you know, again, it's... One has to have faith in the police in order to do that. And I'm not sure I do, even though again in Gainesville we have pretty decent group, I think. it is, you this is, and of course, so why, you you might not, you wouldn't say, but somebody listening might say, well, you what do I care? mean, if they're illegal, whatever. First of all, there's no such thing as an illegal human. There are people who have come here who don't have papers and they have, secondly, also true, also true, also true, but also people who have, who are in the process of attempting to become papered, if you will, and ICE has come and they've gone to the courts and just pulled them after they, and taken them and tossed them out of the country. Furthermore, there are people who are here with green cards, legally here, that they've arrested. And there's a handful of citizens of the United States that they've arrested because they look too brown. Walking while brown, walking while brown, living while brown. So these, that's why it matters, because these are literally, I think, the beginnings of our own brown shirt slash Gestapo thugs, that if they're not stopped legally, we will have nothing but trouble. So there's a host of issues, and on this I'm gonna have to stop, because I've got another appointment, I'm sorry to say, but I did want to talk to you about this. I mean, we, this needs, I mean, the people who listen to this need to think seriously about this. This is all of a piece. I don't think you can be no kings, I'm against Trump, and say, but I want to wipe out the Palestinians, or let's go to where they're at. This is all of a piece. Or that they're an acceptable loss, that it's somehow less evil or, know, yeah. yeah, yeah, I'll take that because I'll get this. No, that was the rationale for bringing up the IWW, International Workers of the World, one big union. We are one big world. And yes, I mean, yeah, we gotta have rules and you gotta follow the rules, but we're the ones not following the rules. We are the ones not following the rules. And that's what's so frightening because not only do we not follow the rules, but we've got a significant number of... massively powerful weapons that I'm afraid will be used, uh that are being used. So, more on this to come. Okay? Okay. So you've got four or three articles to include on this, this, a pen to this. You've got the opening music and the closing music and that piece that I sent you that you need to put in somewhere. It's a beautiful piece, uh El Pueblo Unido. uh somewhere in the somewhere in this mix okay okay okay till next time take care love you bye bye