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The Reason For War Just Changed Again | Trending Ep371:
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For decades the justification was Iran's alleged nuclear programme. Now the focus has shifted again. Gareth examines Benjamin Netanyahu's latest claims, asks why the public narrative appears to have changed, and explores what that could mean for the wider conflict. Plus: fabricated political stories, childcare policy, and more from today's Trending.
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Thursday's episode of Trending. Iran definitely has chemical weapons. A UK MP makes up a story about a constituent. Free childcare for families on benefits in the United Kingdom. And again, in the United Kingdom, they've reduced the death penalty sentence to life imprisonment for a woman they executed over 70 years ago. Iran definitely has chemical weapons despite nuclear setbacks, Netanyahu warns. Well, if Netanyahu says it, it must be true. Because remember, he claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which is where that whole thing came from. And that was right, wasn't it? Yeah, that was fine. He also said that Iran had lost its capability to produce nuclear weapons during Operation Roaring Lion, adding that the US and Israeli strikes had pushed it back considerably. Now the attacks on Iran, and they are attacks on Iran, have made it a bit awkward really for Israel and Netanyahu, and indeed the US, but particularly Netanyahu, because this is a guy that's been claiming for over 40 years that the Iranians are either two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon or two months away from developing a nuclear weapon. So if they so they can't really continue to claim that now, because if they continue to claim it, one, it's a bit of a busted flush, really, we've heard that before for decades. But also, if they say or continue to say that, you know, Iran has nuclear capabilities or whatever, then what they're admitting is that the whole operation failed, and this whole you know period of months on end of the closure of Strait of Hormuz and all the nonsense and the economic turmoil and stuff has basically been done for absolutely no reason whatsoever. So that's not going to go down very well. Um, and of course, if they admit Iran is is done in terms of the nuclear weapons, which is what Netanyahu's doing here, and then they just put a full stop after it, then well, there's the excuse for the war done. Let's just let's just cut a deal, sort it, it's fine. Open the Strait of Hormous, we'll all go down the pub, shall we? Um, because that excuse of the fact that we need to take out their capabilities is done, isn't it? So you've got to claim something else. And also, they can't claim that they're taking out the regime to protect the Iranian people, because one, the regime's gone, essentially you just killed them all anyway. And also, when you started bombing primary schools and killing hundreds of Iranian kids, that sort of claim of I'm doing it to protect the Iranian, that don't really fly anymore. Iran possesses chemical weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed during an interview on Newsmax's The Record with Greta van Sustran on Tuesday. Now I'm sure it was a serious interview. If it was on Newsmax, they would have been real tough. Um, tough questions. They wouldn't have been softball questions, not to Netanyahu. It would have been very, very strong journalistic, you know, dig in. It wouldn't be just letting Netanyahu spout nonsense for an hour. I don't believe that, surely not. They definitely have chemical weapons, he said. That I can tell you, and that's another threat they pose. So there you go, you see. You've got you've got your excuse now, haven't you? You've got your your excuse. Um, first they claimed, of course, that it was to do with a nuclear weapon, like I say. Then they claimed they were liberating the Iranian people, which, like I say, that narrative died when they started murdering school children. So now it's chemical weapons. Oh, okay. Well, I hope you're frightened, ladies and gentlemen. I'm terrified, I'm quaking. I might actually have a sip of coffee now just to sort of calm my nerves. You know, like when a WPC comes around to tell you some bad news and they they hand you a coffee and you're like that. That's how I feel when it's all about chemical weapons. Absolutely petrified. Iran had not previously been reported to have used chemical weapons during the um the US-Israel-Iran war. All right, but do you know who has? Do you know who regularly drops white phosphorus on Lebanon and on Gaza, which of course is a chemical weapon and and is a war crime. Do you know who does that? I'll let you guess. But, you know, war criminals are going to war crime, I suppose. He also said that Iran had lost its capability to produce nuclear weapons during Operation Roaring Lion. We destroyed a lot of their infrastructure, a lot of their centrifuges, a lot of their houses, a lot of the associated factories and facilities that are used to manufacture nuclear weapons, and we knocked out about 20 of their top nuclear scientists. 20 of their top nuclear scientists. I don't know why he's repeated that, he explained. So we pushed it back considerably. However, he also warned against complacency towards the regime, the regime that you've already murdered. Um We knocked out 20 of their top nuclear scientists. Knocked out is a weird way of saying assassinated, isn't it? Like knocked out is like if it's part of a military operation, like we knocked out their elect we knocked out the electricity, or we knocked out we knocked out the security cameras so that we could get in. It's not the way that a normal person talks about human beings, to be honest, but then he's not a normal person, is he? Um at the moment, so yesterday, of course, suddenly the ceasefire was over, and you know, bombs are flying left, right, and centre. Already, and and I did an episode of my own show where I was making the point that actually this is a war that's not meant to end, not anytime soon, anyway. And it's not necessarily just a war on Iran. It is a war on Iran, but it's not just a war on Iran, and it's not just about taking Iran out in terms of that strong um regional nation that can counteract the balance of power in the Middle East and maybe hold back the idea of the greater Israel and stuff like that. That is part of it, of course it is, and it's a major part of it. But another part of it is about it's war on all of us. It's about destroying the world's economies, it's about bringing the world to its knees, destroying the old normal so that you can offer the new normal and all the rest of it. Now, as I've made the point a bunch of times, and it's probably boring, but I think it's a valid point. When in 2020 they wanted to lock everyone down, they didn't say two years to flatten the curve, they said two weeks to flatten the curve. Because two weeks is a manageable period of time. I thought, oh, it's two weeks. I'm gonna give you two weeks. It's a carrot and a stick, it's the whole point of the fact that the carrot must never be within reach, but it should never be out of sight because as soon as it's out of sight, stop going for it. So the whole point is that there's always these peace talks. It's close, it's close. We're gonna cut a deal, we're gonna cut a deal. People go, Whew, peace is just around the corner, it's just over the mountain, it's fine. I'll keep my head down, I'll keep my mouth shut. And then, oh, ceasefire's broken. And so the economies are destroyed again and the prices go up, and everyone gets squeezed that little bit more, but then oh no, there's peace talks again. Oh, phew. I mean, honestly, so you had all that nonsense yesterday where he's like, they're bad people, they're evil people, and all the rest of it. Today he's already come out Donald Trump saying that um that they want to cut a deal, they're desperate to cut. Oh, so there's that there's that carrot on the stick again. It's so predictable and it's so ridiculous. Um, but it's not meant to end, like I say, anytime soon. But they do need excuses. They need to try and sell it, particularly to the American people, but to the people of the world as well. They need to sell it. So for me, this whole chemical weapons chat is the latest excuse that they can then sell it to the Americans. Which also says to me that there's a possible false flag on the way because they've done it before. They did it with Assad in Syria. Assad's got chemical weapons, Assad's got chemical weapons. No one was really buying it because we've we'd had all the Saddam Hussein weapons mass destruction nonsense before. Do you know what I mean? You'd already people had already been fooled by that. I hadn't. I was on the streets protesting, but a lot of people had already been fooled by that. So people did and then suddenly there was the attacks in like Duma and places like that, which they later show is absolute nonsense, but it was enough to garner consent, particularly in the UK, for for the British to go and get involved in Syria. So it wouldn't surprise me now. Now Netanyahu's come out and said this: if we saw a chemical weapons attack of some description, a dirty bomb or whatever, that then is blamed on the Iranians. So then suddenly, or even not even necessarily the Iranians, you can blame it on one of their proxies, so you can blame it on Hezbollah or the Houthis in Yemen or whatever. And, you know, then Netanyahu, just like he did when he predicted the World Trade Center attacks, suddenly he can emerge with, I told you so. This is why you need to listen to me. This is um, this is what we need to do. And it's like, yeah, you did tell us because you did know, because you got the script, mate. And that's the long and short of it. All of it, it's a script. It's a massive theater production to garner consent for the globalist agenda. And they don't care how many people die as a result of it. Because this is the thing, and I keep making this point all the time. If they could steamroller over the population and make us accept what we don't want to accept and make us do what we don't want to do, they would be a darn sight easier, be a lot less hassle, a lot less time, and uh a lot less drama and a lot less money in terms of in terms of you know trying to market and sell what they want. The fact they don't steamroller over everyone is because they can't. They need people's consent. So, same as with the Rona stuff, they had to create this fear. They did it with weapons of mass destruction, create this fear. It can attack, it can attack European Saddam can attack European cities in 45 minutes. Really? No, not really. That came from the Jonathan Institute, an institute that's named after Netanyahu's brother. But it doesn't stop him trying it, it doesn't stop him using the same play to to push through legislation and to continue a war that will damage and is damaging the world economically. Because that's the point of all of this. It's about dragging people to their knees so they've got no choice but to accept what you offer them. The whole, you know, you'll have no privacy. Well, you don't you don't you can't have privacy because there could be terror cells everywhere, so we can't trust anyone, can we? You need to be frightened or you need to give away your privacy. The whole you'll own nothing, well, you're not gonna be able to afford to own anything. And when people like on that whole you'll own nothing thing, right? I've used this as an example a few times. If I said to you, if I if I knocked on your door, say you're a homeowner, I knocked on your door and I went, All right, mate, sign over the keys to your house, will you? Other deeds and stuff, sign them over to me. You still live there, still live there, just sign them over to me, mate. What would your reaction be? It would probably be to tell me to sod off, slam the door, bosh. But now if I create a situation which destroys the economy, therefore you lose your job, or or inflation takes prices to a point where even if you've still got your job, you the money's worthless. You can't afford anything, can't afford to pay your energy bills, you've got the bailiffs round the corner waiting to knock on your door, they're gonna take your telly, they're gonna take your kids' bike and all the rest of it. And then I come back and I say, Oh, alright, mate, it's me again. Um those guys are gonna take your house, aren't they? It's bad, isn't it? He was a big lad as well, that one. Do you see? And the one with the beard, I I wouldn't want to argue with him. Tell you what, my offer still stands, mate. You sign over your stuff to me, you still keep it. Little Johnny still gets his bike. Look at him. Yeah, he loves his bike, doesn't he? But I will own everything. What would your reaction be at that point? You might just you might just sign it over. You you might just own nothing and be happy about it.
SPEAKER_01Don't mention the reptiles, Dave. Even less is said about the Grey Pope, which some believe to be the true ruling power in the Vatican. Humans emissing a macadress. All of them had little sickness. I've never seen it before. It's a transition reptile. This is the ultimate suicide. The symbols around us every day are just ornamental. What if their instructions?
SPEAKER_00It's not manipulatable.