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Oct. 21, 2021 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hello, is Jim around?
Yeah, this is Jimmy.
Hey, Frank, this is President Joe Biden.
No, hello, hello, Mr. President.
How are you doing?
I'm in mourning.
I'm mourning the loss of a great American, a great friend, and colleague, and statesman.
I'm talking about Colin Powell.
Right, right.
I remember when I first met Colin, I only read his name before, and I said, hey there, Colin, I'm Joe.
And he corrected me and said it's pronounced Colin.
And I said, I said, this is a great American.
And his name is Colin.
This is so stupid.
Okay.
All right.
Colin leaves behind an amazing legacy.
One unlike any other single person who has served their country with such vigor and dignity.
Yeah, I guess you could say that.
He was the son of immigrants who roasted Ryan's United States Armed Services to be the chief of staff.
And then finally, the first black African-American Secretary of State.
Truly an admirable achievement.
Yeah, and what did he do when he was Secretary of State, Joe?
Did he do anything memorable?
Yes, he served our country with distinction.
Also, in 2016, he and I raised Corvettes against each other on an episode of Jay Leno's Garage.
I know it sounds like an invention of my dementia, but no.
That's an actual fucking thing that happened.
Jesus Christ.
You know, there is something else a lot of us associate with him, and that would be...
He used his position of power to be a peacemaker around the world.
A broker of diplomacy.
Par excellence.
President Biden, I'm sorry, but don't interrupt me, Horse Shack.
I'm off on one of my things here.
No, no, no.
Sorry.
Not going to allow us.
In 2003, he stood before the United Nations and delivered the pack of lies to the world that led us to the Iraq war, the greatest mistake, perhaps in human history, which led to the death of millions of civilians and the destabilization of an entire region, Mr. President.
Ah, here we go with this shit again.
Look, Jack, we would just let it go.
No, I will not let it go.
This whole show is more or less a result of the Iraq war.
The obvious demonstration that our government can and will lie this country into horrible things.
So, no, I will not forget it.
Look, Pep Streebeck, you got it all wrong.
It's 9-11 you're supposed to never forget.
Don't you know that dummy?
We don't talk about the Iraq war.
Maybe in 100 years, like slavery or some shit.
But not while people like me who got us into it are still alive.
Have some damn manners.
Oh, sorry.
My social graces, when it comes to war crimes, are a bit clumsy.
My apologies.
You know what?
Yeah, yeah, you know, listen.
You're like Jan Michael Vincent, but instead of booze, it's horse hockey.
You're full of banes.
Why can't you just say he had a complicated legacy?
Like the fellas over at MSC NBC are saying.
The White House approved that for them.
We can approve it for you, too.
Because it's not complicated.
It's the furthest thing from the complicated that can be.
I'm so sick of hearing that.
Quantum physics, that's complicated.
Colin Powell lied us into a war is simple.
Very simple.
Yeah, but he opposed Trump.
So?
That was brave.
To stand up to a president of your own party, that takes guts, Kimo Sabi.
No, it does not take guts to think that Donald Trump sucks.
And it certainly doesn't make up for the Iraq war.
Not by a long shot.
See, see, it's complicated.
I can't wrap my mind around it.
There's a lot of facets to a man, to a time, to a place.
I'm looking out the window right now, and there's a bird.
Jesus Christ.
I'm sorry, Mr. President, but the Jimmy Door show is not a place that willfully engages in the rehabilitation of war criminals.
I'm going to name that bird Colin.
Sometimes I wonder if you're faking your dementia just to get out of answering difficult questions.
But Colin has in the body part, not Colin Powell.
That's just a coincidence.
Okay, Mr. President.
But just remember that many of us will never forget your role in pushing for the Iraq war yourself.
That's right.
Never forget.
The great man is gone.
That's what matters.
We remember his service.
Flags at half flagstaff.
Flagstaff, Arizona.
And there is a bird.
You buying a shit?
No, not really.
Establishment media sets of artists fighting.
So good luck the bullshit we can't afford.
Watch and see as a jack dog.
The media who speeds and jumps the medium and hits him head on.
It's the Jim Dor show.
Let's talk about Colin Powell because Colin Powell has, well, here it is.
Colin Powell has died of COVID-19.
He's the first black Secretary of State.
He helped shape foreign policy in several Republican administrations.
So I guess COVID is trying to revamp its public image.
I guess that's COVID.
COVID doesn't want you to hit.
Look, we took out a war criminal.
I think that's what COVID is saying.
We're not all bad.
I think that's what they're saying.
And where do you think Colin Powell, I like to hear that conversation he had right after he passed away?
Him going, hey, hey, I found weapons of mass destruction.
And Satan's going, yeah, of course you did.
Where did you think you were going?
So, and by the way, stay away from social media today because the apologists are out in full force.
And I'm going to do what I always do when a war criminal dies.
I'm going to watch every tribute and take a shot every time somebody says the word patriot.
So, Colin Powell, he passed away this morning due to complications from COVID-19.
He was fully vaccinated.
So, but he had an underlying, he had that myeloma.
I think that's how you say it.
He had the cancer.
He had beaten it, but they say that that complicated.
That's why the COVID got him because he had this cancer thing.
R.I.P. Colin Powell, a war criminal who lied to the UN, to Congress about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction, a lie that cost the lives of over a million Iraqis.
So, yeah.
Colin Powell became the Bush White House's indispensable pitch man for the Iraq war.
You know, only in the United States could somebody be unironically described as a pitch man for an illegal war and still be celebrated.
Among other, alone among the president's war council, the four-star general was seen by Republicans, Democrats, the news media, and the public as a figure of unassailable credibility, which he didn't deserve, by the way.
When Colin Powell spoke before the UN Security Council, it was by then widely understood that Iraq had played no role in September 11th attacks, nor did it possess weapons of mass destruction.
Although you are never going to hear that from the New York Times in real time, you'll hear that 20 years later, but you're not going to hear that in real time.
In the real time, they were amplifying what he was saying.
Nearly all the intelligence Colin Powell presented to the world in his UN speech turned out to be false.
Whoopsie, just a little gaffe.
Everything I said as a pretext for a war was false.
You want to hear some of it?
Here's some of that.
Emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons.
Their thick intelligence file is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.
That thick intelligence file, by the way, is housed inside the imagination of Hall Burton, just in case you were wondering where they keep it.
The intelligence file was as fabricated as all the tributes to Colin Powell are going to be also.
Okay, here we go.
Now, here's a bunch of scary-sounding stuff.
None of it's going to be real, but trust me, we need to blow shit up.
Watch it.
Take you inside that intelligence file and share with you what we know from eyewitness accounts.
We have first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails.
The trucks and train cars are easily moved and are designed to evade detection by inspectors.
In a matter of months, they can produce a quantity of biological poison equal to the entire amount that Iraq claimed to have produced in the years prior to the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein's intentions have never changed.
He is not developing the missiles for self-defense.
These are missiles that Iraq wants in order to protect power and to deliver chemical, biological, and if we let him, nuclear warheads.
So he knew he was lying, just so you know.
It's in case you didn't.
And here's, this should be his tombstone, by the way.
Lie after lie, what Colin Powell knew about Iraq 15 years ago and what he told the UN.
The evidence is irrefutable.
Powell consciously deceived the world in his 2003 presentation, making the case for war with Saddam Hussein.
But I knew this is his, this is what Colin Paul says about it.
But I knew I didn't have any choice, he said.
What choice did I have?
He's the president.
Well, I guess everything's forgiven then.
I guess you didn't have.
Wow.
Okay.
Here's Code Pink's tribute.
Colin Powell was a liar and a war criminal.
There you go.
Colin Paul was the first black Secretary of State.
He is a war criminal responsible for the death of millions.
Eric Holder was the first black attorney general who sided with Wall Street, gave them immunity after rampant white-collar crime, which crashed our economy.
What does this tell you?
That's from Nick as a Fred Hampton leftist.
That's friend of the show, Nick.
It tells me a lot.
The idea that enabling the Iraq war was the one blemish, because that's what he would say.
That was his pockmark on my, he would say that.
That was a blemish on my record.
A blemish.
It's a dangerous fantasy.
Easily disproven by hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of women, children, elderly nuns, priests, and other Central American innocents slaughtered with Powell's help.
People forget about the stuff he did in Central America.
Well, since he's trending, important to remember that Colin Powell was one of the leading generals arming, training, and protecting the Salvadorian military and death squads responsible for slaughtering 75 to 80,000 people.
He did so throughout the war.
Duarte was the bloodiest of the Salvadorian presidents.
Good for you, Colin.
When the offense of 1989 made clear that the offensive of 1989 made clear that the Salvadoran military could not defeat the FMLN guerrillas, then chairman of George Herbert Walker Bush's Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, threatened U.S. military intervention.
Powell also led the invasion of Panama, which left countless, mostly poor and black Panamanians dead.
All this and more before he became the George W. Bush U.S. Secretary of State, who lied to the world about Iran's Iraqi nuclear capabilities in order to start the war that left over a million dead in its wake.
Not someone to celebrate our name or name schools after.
Colin Powell's shameful role in the U.S. propaganda campaign to justify its invasion of Iraq is well known.
But what's less spoken about is that he facilitated, covered up, and justified U.S. war crimes in Vietnam, including the notorious My Lai massacre.
Did you know that?
That's our buddy.
That's the buddy.
Colin Powell was assigned to investigate reinforced allegations of a massacre at My Lai in March of 1968, in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of civilians, including children.
So sanitizing war crimes.
That's what he was doing.
That's what makes you electable.
Powell's conclusion that in direct refutation of this portrayal, relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent, flew in the face of growing evidence of brutal treatment of civilians by U.S. forces.
So he was completely giving you 100% whitewashed version of what was going on that was untethered to reality.
He was later accused of whitewashing the news of the massacre, details of which became fully public in 1970.
Yes, if elected, progressives who said nothing when Mike Gravelle died give condolences to Colin Powell, the war criminal.
I'm going to turn into the Joker.
Well, get ready.
So they are.
So here's Jamal Bowman, recently elected Justice Democrat, part of the squad.
He says, as a black man just trying to figure out the world, Colin Paul was an inspiration.
He's inspired by war criminals.
He was from New York City, went to City College, rose to the highest ranks of our nation, slaughtering, murdering people and covering up war crimes, sending love, strength and prayer to the family and friends of Secretary Paul.
Rest in power.
The power to annihilate black and brown people who can't fight back.
That's the kind of power he's going to rest in.
God damn, I hate these people.
Jamal, who are you?
Who are you?
Really?
Inspiration?
A war criminal inspired you?
That's from Jay Buffon.
Professor Zenkis says he's in the club now.
These are the things they say.
That is the things he says.
That's exactly right.
Fighting the status quo and bombs by praising war criminals?
Because that's what his Twitter virus is causing problems for the status quo, not bombs and incarceration.
But what did he just do?
He didn't cause any problems for the status quo and he just embraced bombs.
General Colin Paul's death is so shocking and heartbreaking.
He had some.
This is from Joy Ann Reed from MSNBC.
He had some tough moments around our wars, but was a fundamentally good and decent man.
He had some tough moments.
He's decent?
You know who else had some tough moments?
All the people in Iraq, Panama, El Salvador.
All the innocent casuals, college casualties around the world.
of the soldiers who were either killed or their lives were ruined they've had some tough moments around the wars too wow he had some tough moments wow i mean uh just in case you forgot powell also knew about the iraq torture programs and went along with them if you think that was a tough moment for him it was definitely tough for the people the u.s were torturing he helped cover up war crimes helped perpetrate the highway of death war crimes and led us into a war that killed over a million people and displaced tens of millions more if
there were any justice in America, he would have been convicted of war crimes at the Hague.
Yeah, but his friends running military contracting companies made a lot of money, so you have to look at it from both sides.
So let's bring in Max Blumenthal.
We've done enough here.
Max Blumenthal, what do you have to say about the passing of Colin Powell and how he's being lauded today by progressives?
I saw someone, I tweeted about him.
He's like a Defense One reporter, blame the unvaccinated for killing Colin Powell.
And I was just wondering where they were when Dick Cheney was still around.
So where are they for him?
I mean, Colin Powell really wasn't necessarily the most diabolical figure out of the Bush administration, one or two, which is sort of why he has managed to maintain so much prestige and rise through the ranks throughout his career because he commands a level of credibility that he doesn't deserve because he follows orders so willingly.
And he follows the orders of people like Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush in his role presiding over the dirty war in Central America and El Salvador, as well as, I mean, he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff back then, as well as the completely phony criminal war on Panama, which we can get into.
So Colin Powell has been there throughout so many of the heinous deceptions and attacks.
He also justified the Clinton administration's bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which was supposed to be a retaliation for Al-Qaeda attack presided over by Bin Laden.
And what they did was they blew up the facility that produced 50% of the pharmaceutical drugs in Sudan, including drugs that were kind of like horse dewormers.
We hear that a lot, but that actually prevented parasites in rural livestock.
And it caused a massive parasite infestation in the rural populations of Sudan that led to the deaths of thousands of children and vulnerable people.
And Colin Powell said that they absolutely needed to do it.
The plant was owned by Bin Laden.
So it's not just him holding the
vial reading the script reciting the allegations of a phony defector named Curveball who was cultivated by the CIA and lying the U.S. into war it was all throughout his career colin Powell has been at the heart of so many regime change and criminal deceptions and why do they love him now why do all these sort of liberal celebrities love him it's because he
supported Barack Obama.
That's the only reason.
And he helped bring another war criminal who had more credibility than he deserved, who comes from a very similar background and follows a very similar set of establishment orders into office so that the crimes could continue.
Remember, Colin Powell was in the military when the Reagan administration first attacked Libya, first attempted to assassinate Gaddafi.
And then Colin Powell helped bring in Barack Obama, who finished the job, turning Libya into a failed state, destabilizing that entire area of North Africa, destabilizing parts of Europe, you could even argue, by the refugee crisis they caused.
And it was all Colin Powell who helped bestow credibility and military support for Obama and Barack Obama has thanked him today.
Well, Barack Obama's message was weird.
I mean, you should read that off.
He basically thanked Colin Powell for telling America that he was not a Muslim.
He said, at a time of dangerous, I can do my mind, a time of dangerous conspiracy theories, Colin Powell was there to say that I was not a Muslim, because being a Muslim would be absolutely terrible.
And that's what he thanked him for.
So, Colin Powell has been instrumental.
He also is instrumental, Jimmy, in a sort of indirect way in the destruction of American media, which began, obviously, under the Reagan administration when they got rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
Then the Clinton administration worked to privatize media further, relaxing regulations.
And Colin Powell, after he left the Bush administration, stuck his son in as the chairman of the FCC.
And he enacted some of the most extreme privatization measures in media, basically handing the media over to corporate behemoths like Sinclair and Clear Channel.
His son was Michael Powell.
That's another chapter that I think is forgotten here.
Yes.
So we have to look at the little details, the footnotes of Colin Powell to understand how insidious he was.
And he was, he was allowed to, you know, he was embraced by the shit libs, as I like to call them, the people who vote blue, no matter who the blue and non cult, the religion that is called the Democratic Party.
He was embraced by, by them because, A, he did back.
So he was very much like Barack Obama.
He presented well, right?
You would never think he's a war criminal.
You would never think that Barack Obama is going to drone bomb children and weddings and put kids in cages who come here.
You would never think he would do that.
He did those stuff.
Same thing with Colin Powell because they're always so soft-spoken.
They're always, you know, again, they're just well-mannered.
And so I guess that, and that's the biggest sin that you can commit is having bad manners and being impolite, which is what Trump, why Trump was such a bad face of the empire, because, you know, he had all these warts that he regularly showed.
He let you know he was a crazy maniac, whereas those people are able to hide it behind some kind of respectability that's fake.
And so, and then Colin Powell went on to not like Trump.
So he was crazed that he's perfect for the Democratic Party of today.
He supports all the stuff Republicans do, which is what Barack Obama supported too.
And then he also hates Donald Trump.
So that's why he's so loved.
And he's a horrible, atrocious human being, Colin Powell.
And he wasn't the worst of them.
That's what's kind of funny.
He was one of the good ones.
Yeah.
I mean, everyone gets forgiven in today's Democratic Party if they take on Trump or Trumpism.
I mean, it's not just Colin Powell.
It's William Crystal.
There was even a moment when I think Dick Cheney did a little PSA for mask wearing, and I saw some Twitter liberal influencers sharing it.
His daughter has been welcomed and partnered with Scott Representative Scott Crowe, I think, to introduce a bill to try to stifle the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Cheney name is sort of it's it's not poisonous anymore.
George W. Bush, I mean, he's on a speaking tour right now.
He's raking in huge lecture fees.
Maybe, you know, two guys, Mike Preisner and Jeb Sprague, heckled him, but everyone else is paying for some reason to go to these talks.
These people should be in Iraqi prisons and they walk free among us.
And, you know, Bill Crystal's hanging out with Ari Melber and they're doing woke Bill Crystal segments.
I mean, this is someone who kind of created the, made the intellectual case for the war in Iraq, the war in Syria, a war on Iran.
All of these people are the most, I mean, we agree.
They're the most heinous figures.
But there's almost this, there's this clear cultural shift from the second Bush term.
And it really, I really blame Obama for it.
It was Obama who decided not to prosecute Bush.
That's right.
It was Obama who decided, along with his wife, to befriend the Bush family.
It was Obama who decided not to prosecute the banksters who destroyed the economy and caused a foreclosure crisis.
And it was Obama who continued the legacy or the path that was charted out by Bill Crystal and Robert Kagan, who wound up advising Hillary Clinton's campaign in their call for a new American century or a benevolent American hegemony, American control over the entire world, where they would topple seven nations in five years.
And you look at those seven nations.
It took longer than five years, but Barack Obama bumped off one of them and nearly destroyed another, Syria.
So it was really Obama's fault for all of this.
And you look at the background that Obama and Colin Powell come from and the kind of messages you see from influential black progressives today.
I was listening to Gerald Horn today, the black American Marxist historian talking about Colin Powell's background.
And he made a really good point, which is that Powell and Obama, they come from immigrant backgrounds.
Their experience is different than a lot of black Americans.
And they were welcomed into the white establishment, which they catered to.
And they Obama particularly spent a large amount of his presidency talking down to black Americans who had a very different experience than him, telling them to pull up their pants and stop watching Sports Center, just at the Morehouse graduation ceremony, pointing his finger at them.
I mean, these are people who have worked through so much who many of them have overcome so many structural obstacles.
And Obama just sat there and lectured them as if they'd done something wrong when they had graduated from one of the best colleges in the country.
And that's the mentality that's really celebrated.
It's also the Bill Cosby mentality where Cosby went on his speaking tour denouncing black Americans as criminals and telling them it's all their fault.
And Powell, did he stand up against the first Bush administration during the LA riots?
No.
Did he say anything about Rodney King?
No.
He always kept his head down and he always followed orders.
And it's really disgusting to see people celebrate that quality of him when we should be celebrating disobedience.
I mean, we should be celebrating the disobedience of the whistleblowers at the Mili massacre who disobeyed their superiors to stop the massacre that Colin Powell covered up.
That's right.
But that's not the kind of culture that elite are the those who are determining the path of the Democratic Party and liberal culture in this country are cultivating.
They want you to obey every single mandate.
And so Colin Powell, in that sense, is a perfect icon for them.
Well, let's just remember that Colin Powell endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 at the Democratic National Convention.
So this guy, one of the guys who got us into the Iraq war, lied about it, covered up the Medley massacre in both Bush administrations.
He was welcomed at the 2020 Democratic Convention.
Yeah, I mean, Colin Powell in the 90s was actually being spoken about as a potential Republican nominee for the presidency.
And what happened was Pat Buchanan came along and forced the Republican Party to deal with what is now the Trumpist faction, starting with his culture war speech at the 92 convention, which kind of ruined it for George H.W. Bush.
George H.W. Bush wanted to, he wanted to win over the suburban moms.
That's what Clinton and him were fighting for.
They're fighting for the suburban swing voters.
And George H.W. Bush wanted to hide behind Colin Powell and set the stage for him to take over the party in 96.
And Pat Buchanan comes along and does his culture war speech.
And George H.W. Bush realizes he can't pivot to the center.
So Colin Powell was always a moderate Republican who had this fantasy of being the first Barack Obama before there was an Obama.
And he wound up just kind of paving the path for Obama, who was himself a moderate Republican just from a purely ideological standpoint.
And from the way he governed.
He even said it in his own words.
If it was in the 80s, he would be considered a moderate Republican.
He said it.
That's out of Barack Obama's own mouth when he was on Venezuelan television.
And here's what Joe Biden had to say about.
The idea that I took the word of a president saying that he wasn't going to go to war and this was a way to avoid going to war.
The only way we're going to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
And it's going to require guys like you in uniform to be back on foot in the desert taking the son of the uh taking Saddam down.
So that's Joe Biden today says that he got duped.
He did he voted for it because he didn't.
He thought George Bush would only use the threat of war.
He wouldn't actually go to war.
George Bush promised him he wouldn't go to war.
Well, do you see how Joe Biden's a pathological liar and a war-mongering maniac?
Do you see how he's lying?
Do you see how he's that was Joe Biden when he was still alive?
Yeah.
So let me see, show it to you again.
Here we go.
The idea that I took the word of a president saying that he wasn't going to go to war and this was the way to avoid going to war.
The only way we're going to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
And it's going to require guys like you in uniform to be back on foot in the desert taking the son of the taking Saddam down.
Because I didn't believe he had those nuclear weapons.
I didn't believe he had those weapons of mass destruction.
Other countries have or seek weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam has actually used them.
Is that he possesses chemical and biological weapons and is seeking nuclear weapons?
It was a mistake to trust that they weren't going to go to war.
They said they were not going to go to war.
For me, the issue is never whether we had to deal with Saddam, but when and how.
That is that the threat need not be imminent for us to take action.
From the moment shock and awe started, from that moment, I was opposed to the effort and I was outspoken.
Some of my own party have said that it was a mistake to go to Iraq in the first place.
Nine months ago, I voted with my colleagues to give the president of the United States of America the authority to use force.
And I would vote that way again today.
It was a right vote then and to be a correct vote today.
I trusted George Bush to keep his word.
He said he was not going to go into Iraq, that a free and democratic Iraq, if it could be accomplished, could have a cleansing impact on that part of the world and make our life easier.
So there's Joe Biden being a pathological liar.
And of course, they're lies of consequence.
They're not stupid lies about how big his building is or anything like Donald Trump lied about.
So I'm not that Donald Trump didn't also lie about consequential things, but the things they get mad about Donald Trump are not the consequential things.
They get mad about both of the little things.
And of course, because nobody gets mad when you lie about a war.
Why?
Because the military industrial complex has a stranglehold on our media.
So no one cares.
And that's what shapes the culture.
Our culture is shaped by a handful of billionaires who own the media and have willing lapdogs like Rachel Maddow, Joanne Reed, Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Don Lemon, these kind of tools that do their bidding.
And that's why we live in the culture we live in.
And that's why this guy, instead of being in a prison, is the head of the country and everyone thinks he's respectable.
Instead of what he is, a bloodthirsty maniac who's also a war criminal and a pathological liar.
And that's why you know why him and Colin Powell got along.
Okay.
I don't know if this is going to be shocking or not.
I guess it should be, but maybe it shouldn't.
So this guy thought he was going for this guy's from Exxon and he thought he was going for a job interview remotely.
And this guy got him to say a whole bunch of stuff.
This guy's from Channel 4 News in the UK.
And so he got him to say a bunch of stuff about how they manipulate Congress and stuff.
And let's listen.
To go to work.
Hi.
Good to see you.
Moments later, Mr. McCoy will become one of the first ever executives to claim that ExxonMobil has aggressively fought climate science using front organizations to maximize shareholder profit.
Did we aggressively fight against some of the science?
Yes.
Did we join?
We've been fighting against some of the science, and by some of the science, I mean all of it.
So there they are admitting that.
Some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts.
Yes, that's true.
But there's nothing illegal about that.
You know, we were looking out for our investments.
We were looking out for our shareholders.
Hey, you don't have a livable planet, but we did make some profits for our shareholders.
I hope that doesn't bother you, kids.
That's the important thing.
I always wondered what a job interview for evil mastermind would sound like.
And there it is.
Here, there's more.
When you have an opportunity to talk to a member of Congress, you know, I like it into fishing, right?
You know, you have bait, you throw that bait out.
You know, it's all these opportunities that you use.
And to use the phishing analogy again, just to kind of reel them in, because they're a captive audience.
They know they need you, and I need them.
Senators pressed to do it.
They need you.
Your congresspeople, they need Exxon lobbyists.
They need them.
Exxon's bidding behind closed doors.
You want to be able to go to the chief.
And so the chief knows you, that you can go to the chief and say, look, we've got this issue.
We need Congressman so-and-so to be able to introduce this bill.
We need him to make a floor statement.
We need him to send a letter.
You name it.
We've asked for everything.
We can now reveal the current ExxonMobil battleground and strategy.
It's big yes.
It's bold yes.
And we can get it done.
Just last week, as America continues to suffer heat waves described as apocalyptic and linked to the current climate crisis.
President Biden fought to get Congress to pass his $2 trillion showpiece law linking jobs and infrastructure to massive spending to combat climate change.
On Capitol Hill, though, Exxon was also fighting to strip out spending on climate.
Forget that, it lobbied.
Stick to roads and bridges.
So that's a completely different conversation.
When you start to stick to roads and bridges, and instead of a $2 trillion bill, it's an $800 billion bill.
If you lower that threshold, you stick to highways and bridges, then a lot of the negative stuff starts to come out.
When he says negative stuff, he means stuff like for climate change, stuff like that.
That's what he means by negative.
So you see what's happening exactly as he predicted.
That's exactly what's happening in Congress.
We went from, what, $5 trillion to $3 trillion to $2 trillion?
And I don't even know if it's going to be that.
And what are they, and watch what they're talking about?
Hang on.
Put in something on emissions reductions on climate change to oil refineries in a highway bill.
So, and people say, yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
So that, so then you get to the Germanists saying that shouldn't be in this bill.
Sure enough, last week Biden's Bayamoth bill evaporated.
A new law may be agreed, but major green initiatives are gone.
Coincidence or the big oil effect.
Nothing illegal, just oiling the wheels of power.
Plans capture CO2.
Recent academic studies show what Keith McCoy alleges is the wider Exxon strategy.
Say one thing in public, do another in private.
For example, it says publicly it supports a carbon tax.
Keith McCoy says privately, that's just PR.
That's a talking point that we can say, well, what is ExxonMobil for?
Well, we're for a carbon tax.
And why?
Because they're confident it'll never happen in America.
No, it's not.
It's not going to happen.
Carbon tax isn't going to happen.
And the bottom line is it's going to take political courage, political will, in order to get something done.
And that doesn't exist in politics.
It just doesn't.
Exxon told us for more than a so remember what he said about get all that stuff out about capping emissions and putting a tax on emissions for power plants.
Get that out of the bill.
Just talk about roads and bridges.
And they did.
Here it is.
Roads and bridges.
Biden selling big infrastructure deal.
They stopped talking about all that climate change stuff.
That's all gone.
Just as that guy predicted.
Here it is.
Here's Nancy Pelosi.
Weekend and damaged infrastructure impacts every American.
House Democrats work for the people.
And believe me, it's time we rebuilt America to ensure the airports, bridges, and roads.
That's here's Senator Merkley.
He's talking about roads and bridges.
Here's Ruben Gallago.
Every American wants climate change solutions, investments, and time.
As we all knew, roads and bridges.
Elizabeth Warren, roads and bridges.
We need roads and bridge.
There it is.
Exactly as that guy from Exxon said.
Pramila Jayapil.
I want roads and bridges.
There are no Republican bridges or Democrat roads.
The bipartisan infrastructure deal is a win for all Americans.
It's already a lose for the planet.
And it's not a win for all Americans.
It's a privatization deal.
Elected officials can rattle off a dozen things that are in a reconciliation bill, but when asked specifically what is in the corporate written bipartisan deal, it's always roads and bridges.
The truth is they don't want you to know it's all about privatizing infrastructure.
We live in a rapacious oligarchy, ladies and gentlemen, and now you see how that works.
The episode Politicians don't represent you at all.
That's who they represent.
They represent corporate America.
For many reasons, they get their funding from them, and they also want jobs with them.
They also want book deals and speaking fees.
That's how that all works.
Wow.
And by the way, for anybody keeping score, they're trying to ram through the roads and bridges bill without the spending bill.
Stuff, the spending bill that will help you.
And yeah.
Well, here, let's get one more video.
Plans capture CO2.
Recent academic studies show what Keith McCoy alleges is the wider Exxon strategy.
Say one thing in public, do another in private.
For example, it says publicly it supports a carbon tax.
Keith McCoy says privately, that's just PR.
That's a talking point that we can say, well, what is ExxonMobil for?
Well, we're for a carbon tax.
And why?
Because they're confident it'll never happen in America.
No, it's not.
It's not going to happen.
Carbon tax isn't going to happen.
And the bottom line is it's going to take political courage, political will, in order to get something done.
And that doesn't exist in politics.
It just doesn't.
Exxon told us for more than a decade it supported an economy-wide price on CO2 emissions.
We're working on ways to provide energy while addressing the risks of climate change.
Take electric cars.
It's all about doubt and delay.
You're not going to be able to just switch to battery-operated vehicles or wind for your electricity.
And just having that conversation around why that's not possible in the next 10 years is critically important to the work that we do.
But science is screaming at us that we do not have 10 years.
Delay, doubt, deflect.
The classic hallmarks of modern-day climate crisis denial.
And ExxonMobil's alleged involvement in that is thus revealed from the inside tonight, straight from the horse's mouth.
Imagine if Joe Biden and the establishment media that's funded by Exxon could get you just as rapidly upset at that and their lies, and they're wrecking the planet as they could get you as mad and rapidly angry at a vaccine-hesitant person.
Imagine if that.
Can you imagine if Joe Biden wanted you as upset at that?
Does he want you upset as a vaccine-hesitant person?
Can you imagine that?
They're firing 72,000 healthcare workers who are vaccine hesitant in New York and replacing them with unvaccinated National Guard.
You tell me that's about health.
Anyway, there you go.
So thanks to Channel 4 News over across the pond for doing the work that American media will never do.
Why?
Because they're funded by them.
So there you go.
Now you know why the infrastructure bills got all that stuff taken out of it.
Now you know why it's only all about roads and bridges, and it's really all about privatization.
And the Democrats are going to get wiped out in the midterms because they're not doing anything to make anyone's life any better.
Keep voting Democrat, you suckers.
Keep donating to Democrats.
You should just go give it right to Exxon.
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We just talked about this.
COVID, children extremely low risk confirmed by study.
That's from the BBC.
That's from July 9th.
The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from COVID, extremely low.
Now, we saw another article from The Guardian saying that children have a higher rate of heart inflammation, four to six times more likely to get that and need to go to the hospital than they would be the need to go to the hospital if they caught COVID.
So just keep that in mind.
So this goes to the idea that we about should we vaccinate children.
Well, according to this study, it seems ridiculous if we did that.
But guess what?
The New York Times is out there scaring the hell out of everyone about this.
So this is from Yahoo News.
New York Times retracts massive exaggeration of children hospitalized by COVID-19.
This is from October 8th.
In an article published by the New York Times, readers were told that nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
Now, that was a slight exaggeration.
Do you want to know how much they exaggerated it by?
Well, the actual number is 63,000.
So they said 900,000.
The actual, it wasn't ETH, didn't even break 100,000.
They said 900, almost a million, didn't even break 100,000.
So they're making it up.
They were making it up.
And as the science shows, the only children that are at risk of illness, serious illness from the COVID, are children who have comorbidities, children who are already cancer patients, stuff like that.
So they already say they, so Dr. Malone, when he was on this show, said the way you treat an outbreak in a pandemic like this is you vaccinate the most vulnerable, meaning the elderly and people with comorbidities.
And then it spreads and becomes endemic, meaning it becomes more contagious, less deadly.
That's how we're supposed to be treating this, but we're not.
And now they wanted, so there's a big push to give it to children.
And you have articles like this in the New York Times that say 900,000 kids have been hospitalized with COVID since the pandemic.
Turns out it's only 63,000, which means the article exaggerated the number of hospitalizations by 837,000 cases.
Now, if I did that at this show, if I made a mistake that was that egregious, they would take my channel down.
New York Times, all they have to do is print a retract.
I'm sorry, we got that wrong.
And they'll print it on page 50.
That's all they have to do.
No one's going to call them fake news forever because they got this unbelievably wrong as they get most big things wrong.
The exaggeration was included in a report on the debate surrounding whether or how to vaccinate children.
And so let me just bring in Max Blumenthal from the Gray Zone.
Max is here.
He's been on the forefront commenting about the way the governmental bodies are handling the COVID outbreak.
Max, what do you have to say about this bogus story from the New York Times?
Well, these bogus stories actually began months ago when it became clear that Big Pharma and the CDC, which reaps enormous amounts of money from Big Pharma through its CDC foundation, as well as Fauci,
who enjoys a long-standing relationship with Moderna, wanted to vaccinate people under 18 who suffer, who face almost no risk of dying from COVID-19, except for those who have comorbidities, as you pointed out.
And I mean, there's a, you know, obvious profit-based motive for that, but there is also now just kind of an obsession with getting as many shots in arms as possible.
So we saw the narrative develop right around the time the Delta variant arrived that tons of children were flooding hospitals.
And I remember there was an article in the Texas Tribune that said that something like, I don't know, 500,000 or 250,000 children, I'll have to go back and find it, had been hospitalized in just a matter of weeks in Texas, which was, you know, supposed to be, it was one of the epicenters of Delta variant-related hospitalizations.
And then I went back and I saw all the blue check marks sharing the article.
Then I noticed maybe a week later, the article featured a little, a very long correction at the bottom.
And it said that they had overestimated the number of COVID hospitalizations in children by the same rate as the New York Times, and that most of the children who had been hospitalized actually were hospitalized for a dangerous respiratory infection called RSV.
But that, you know, you hear very little about that because the authorities, the public health authorities in Big Pharma are not pushing this mass vaccination campaign for RSV, even though it is dangerous.
So now we see another exaggeration.
And it's driven, it's clearly driven by this lobbying push for mass vaccination of everyone from six months up, which is a highly questionable, dubious move.
If you look at the main advisory arm on vaccination in the UK, they advised against vaccinating or requiring vaccinations for under 18, those under 18 because of the cost-benefit analysis they performed,
that it's much safer in their view for a younger person to get COVID-19 and survive it than to take the risk, the heightened risk of myocarditis, particularly in young adolescent boys, which is now somewhere around 1 in 5,000, maybe even higher.
And if you consider what myocarditis can do to your heart, how much it can debilitate a heart, you know, or the heart of a young athlete, someone who might be an NBA star like Kyrie Irving.
And I know a lot of parents who are struggling with this right now, parents who might have children in the LA USD school district in Los Angeles, which is mandating vaccines for those 12 years and up.
And they have sons who are athletes, and they're worried about this.
I mean, if you go by that rate of 1 in 5,000, then extrapolate the entire population of LA, extrapolate from the entire population of LA the amount of myocarditis cases.
That's a large number.
I mean, it's very ethically dubious to take that kind of risk with children who face no risk of dying.
And then we have to look at the whole death count.
Obviously, COVID-19 has been dangerous for a lot of people.
It's hospitalized many people, has killed people.
But if we look at the case of Colin Powell, who died today, who had multiple myeloma, a severely lethal blood cancer who is 84 years old and who also had Parkinson's, a severely debilitating chronic disease.
Colin Powell's death with COVID-19 is actually typical of most of the deaths we've seen that are said to be from COVID-19.
I'm looking right now at the CDC's website.
And if you search the CDC's website for comorbidities and other conditions, it says that table three shows that for over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate.
So for only 5% of deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause.
Those are people who died of COVID, according to the CDC.
For the rest, 95%, and I'm reading from the CDC's website right now, data as of October 10th of this year, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.
That means an average of 4.0 additional comorbidities to COVID-19.
And this was in 95% of deaths.
So this is Colin Powell.
This is the majority of deaths from COVID-19, according to the CDC, are people who are already on the brink of death.
It doesn't mean we shouldn't protect people against COVID-19 within reason, but it means that Colin Powell, it wasn't like he was just happily skipping down the street and like running laps and doing a triathlon.
And then COVID-19 came along and took him out.
And then he was coughed on by an unvaccinated person.
It means that this is the kind of the typical case of someone who dies from COVID-19 and he was fully vaccinated.
We keep being told, oh, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, that 99% of deaths are in the unvaccinated.
Those are old statistics.
Colin Powell is now typical, someone who is fully vaccinated, but who no longer had an immune system.
I want to now talk about just how vulnerable are kids, right?
Because there was an article in the New York Times a while ago that got ridiculed, but it turned out it was actually right.
So this is a response to that.
So this was on October 12th, and the headline is COVID in age.
An unvaccinated child is at less risk of a serious COVID illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.
So if you have an unvaccinated five-year-old, they have better immunity or are at less risk of serious illness of COVID than a 70-year-old who's double vaxxed.
That's a big piece of information that, first of all, was getting roundly trounced and trying they were they were trying to denigrate it.
Emily Oster wrote an article in The Atlantic arguing that COVID-19 tended to be so mild in children that vaccinated parents could feel comfortable going out in the world with their unvaccinated children.
Critics called the article insensitive and misleading, saying it understated the risks that children could both get sick and spread the virus.
Seven months later, with a lot more COVID data, the debate over the article looks quite different.
Oster is the one who has largely been vindicated.
If anything, subsequent data indicates she did not go far enough in describing the age skew of COVID.
COVID is a threat to children, but it's not an extraordinary threat.
Dr. Elisar Munro, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Southampton, writes.
It's very ordinary.
In general, the risks from being infected are similar to other respiratory viruses you probably don't think much about.
For older people, especially the very old, as well as those with serious health conditions, vaccination does not reduce the risk of COVID hospitalization or death to near zero.
That's different from what the initial vaccine data suggested.
In terms of risk reduction, a vaccine is more valuable for an older adult than a younger adult.
Still, the COVID risk remains real for vaccinated elderly people.
So even though you're elderly and you're vaccinated, you still got to be, you have a big risk of being hospitalized and dying from COVID.
For children without a serious medical condition, the danger of COVID is so low as to be difficult to quantify.
That's stunning.
And they have a mandate here in California.
The risk of long COVID among children, a source of fear among many parents, is also very low.
All of which raises a thorny question.
Should young children be vaccinated?
Some readers will recoil at the mention of that question.
But it's a mistake to treat it as unmentionable.
So with that knowledge, just keep in mind, California is pushing its first U.S. vaccine mandate for school children.
They're making them get it.
I don't think this is following the science.
Here's what Fauci says.
And do you foresee that the vaccine might be mandated for any populations, perhaps for school-aged children?
No.
I don't think you'll ever see a mandating of vaccine, particularly for the general public.
Sometimes in the health sector, like in my hospital here at NIH, you're not going to be allowed to go on the ward unless you get a flu vaccine.
But you would never mandate, at least I do not think you would.
I'd be pretty surprised if you mandated it for any element of the general public.
Now, as a primary care physician myself, who's had many conversations around vaccine safety with patients, I'm curious, what's our contingency plan for people who might refuse the vaccine?
Well, I mean, they have every right to refuse vaccine.
I don't think you need a contingency plan.
If someone refuses the vaccine in the general public, then there's nothing you can do about that.
You cannot force someone to take a vaccine.
So let me bring in Max Blumenthal to comment on this.
This is quite a story about how a five-year-old who's unvaccinated is at less risk of COVID than a vaccinated 70-year-old.
So low their risk, it's hard to quantify.
Yet we have places like California that are now mandating vaccinations.
Max?
Well, there are some problems here with those who are supportive of this, the kind of zero COVID crowd.
They think they're so smart, they're so educated, and they're really ignorant in many cases.
These are the people, including CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, who were saying earlier this year that the mRNA vaccines and JNJ, the single shot, could actually prevent viral transmission.
There's just been this massive bait and switch where they told us it prevents viral transmission and infection.
Then it failed to prevent viral transmission.
There was the story from Barnstable County that broke out in Cape Cod.
Three in four cases are in the fully vaccinated in this wealthy county.
And so the CDC had to admit these can't prevent transmission.
Now we see massive amounts of hospitalizations in the large amounts of hospitalizations in areas that are highly vaccinated.
You can look at Ireland, for example, the most vaccinated country in Europe, 93% full vaccination rate of everyone over 12.
And they are now facing an enormous caseload, higher than last year, and a high caseload of hospitalizations.
And so what do the public health authorities say?
Well, we just, they don't know what else to do.
They just say, well, we just need to vaccinate more because they're already at 93%.
I mean, what are they going to do?
Like vaccinate the plankton and amoeba?
And they are vaccinating zoo animals in the DC area at the Baltimore Zoo, I believe.
There's a story.
And these aren't, these are animals.
I mean, they're just doing it to protect them.
But the point is, we can see there, or we can see in Singapore, one of the most highly vaccinated places on the planet where cases are exploding, or New Brunswick, Canada, where they're talking about canceling Thanksgiving, highly vaccinated, over 80%.
They're canceling Thanksgiving because of high caseloads, that the vaccines fail to prevent transmission and infection.
And I think that's why the CDC might have changed its definition of what vaccines are.
Yes, they did.
So in children, a lot of people believe that if they just give their kid this shot, it's going to be like the MMR, the D-TAP vaccine that they give them that, you know, kids have gotten for a long time, and that they can just feel safe, that that's it.
Their kid will be prevented from transmitting and getting infected.
And it's just simply not true.
And we can even see with the Johnson Johnson shot, which was supposed to be the single shot that was going to help overcome vaccine hesitancy because it's just one shot.
Now the FDA is recommending a second shot because the first shot waned so quickly and the antibodies it produced were so weak to begin with.
So that's a question to raise about vaccinating very young people.
How many shots will they have to take?
How many boosters will they have to take over their lives to maintain antibodies without ever getting infected?
You know, if you're five years old and you live to 90 or something, I'm not very good at math.
What is that?
Like 180 shots?
I mean, you're going to look like Clive Barker's Hellraiser by the time you're 60.
You're going to be like a human pincushion.
I don't think anyone can sustain that.
And in Israel right now, they're on their fourth jab in Israel.
They're on their fourth jab.
The coronavirus star of Israel has said that they've got to make preparations for the fourth jab in order to maintain your green pass.
What is the green pass?
It is your passport to society.
You can't go to restaurants, gyms, theaters, et cetera, without having your green pass.
So if you were vaccinated more than six months ago in Israel and you didn't get your booster, then you don't get to participate in society.
And that goes back to vaccinating kids.
This isn't just about public health.
It's also about creating a kind of new digitized system of control, access.
I would even say a kind of social credit system through the passport system that Bill Gates's ID 2020 initiative has been advocating.
This is an initiative that was started in 2016 by the Gates Foundation through its Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization, along with the World Economic Forum of Klaus Schwab, who's like this bond Austin Powers villain who's always talking about transhumanism.
And he oversees the kind of global capitalist policy center in Davos, where all of the hovercraft elites meet.
And it's interesting because so many of the people pushing this agenda are World Economic Forum former young leaders, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, who's pushing the mandates really hard.
You know, he got he was sort of trained under the World Economic Forum and instilled with this ideology that none of them ever waver from.
And the World Economic Forum has actually put out a paper describing immunization.
I mean, this is the headline of it.
If you're watching this, just Google this paper right now.
It's under the ID 2020 website.
Immunization, an entry point for digital identity.
So basically, if the kids start to get their COVID-19 vaccine and they start to get on the booster treadmill and everything, then they get their passport to society.
And in order to maintain their passport, which will ultimately be digitized, they need to be vaccinated.
If this doesn't start young, then they're not enrolled in this massive system.
And then once they're enrolled and you start enrolling a future generation in this digital ID system, then their digital ID can be linked to their digital wallet, their currency, and it can be linked to their biometric data, their facial scans, their fingerprint scans.
And they can be either denied access to their money if there's no cash available, which is another agenda that Klaus Schwab has clearly articulated at the World Economic Forum.
They can be tracked in an unprecedented way, and they can be denied access to society or allowed access based on how obedient they are to these government mandates.
And this will certainly not be the last mandate.
So what we're talking about is the imposition and introduction of a social credit system.
There's an agenda that goes well beyond the vaccine here.
And I believe that if there hadn't been a pandemic, there would have been another crisis that figures associated with the World Economic Forum and the Gates Foundation would have taken advantage of to advance this agenda.
I saw a video of Tony Blair talking about this.
He would say this would be very, this would be very convenient for consumers and for businesses that they would be able to have a closer relationship with their customers to have something like, he was talking about this right into a camera, like this is what we need to do.
And so what I'm just saying is this isn't some crazy out there thing.
This is something that they'd like to do.
They've already talked about how they'd like to do it.
Well, Tony Blair's organization has gotten 25 million from the Gates Foundation.
I mean, he's basically a lobbyist for the supranational global capitalist organizations that are pushing their dream agenda under cover of public health.
Wow, American linguist, political activist, and world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky's on the phone.
Hello, hello, thankfully, there is some good news on the horizon.
New studies have found evidence that some individuals have superhuman immunity to COVID-19.
Some individuals, well, for the purposes of this conversation, we'll just call them the super rich.
Jimmy, there's no easy way out of this, which is why I suggest a long weed kinned of paradigm-shifting flammability and always wear your grass mask outside your bungalow.
Thanks again for your advice, Noam Chomsky.
Keep cheating it, Katoomba.
Stay hydrated and don't forget to snurp the pre-green at Jeremy's house until you're Chuck E. Cheesed Rasta Ampasta.
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