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June 17, 2024 - Jimmy Dore Show
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you you Hey, guess what?
You've been lied to about another war, it turns out.
I know you've been lied to about every war, right?
They lied about Vietnam through Ford from presidents.
They lied about Iraq twice, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan for 20 years.
If you read the Afghanistan papers, that's what that proved.
They lied about Ukraine.
There isn't a war they haven't lied about.
It turns out now the Gaza war, it looks like we're being lied to about the Gaza war.
Ben Swan has put together this video.
I want to show you a little bit of it right now, and then we'll bring Ben in.
Seven months ago, on October 7th, Hamas was able to carry out a shocking terror attack against Israel, despite Israel's intelligence, military, and security apparatus, commonly considered to be the best in the world.
Bearing in mind Israel's incredibly sophisticated and capable defenses and brigades of trained IDF soldiers stationed near the Gaza border, the scale and the operational success of the Au-Aqsa flood attack surprised even Hamas.
Hamas Representative Ali Baraka explained to the Washington Post the ease with which Israel's entire security apparatus disintegrated.
Just saying we were expecting to get a smaller number of hostages and return to Gaza, but the Israeli army collapsed in front of us.
What were we to do?
Well, in response to the Au-Aqsa flood attack, the Israeli military's retaliatory efforts, codenamed Operation Swords of Iron, has resulted in the deaths of over 100 journalists, 190 United Nations staff, 34,000 Palestinians, including 13,000 children, displaced nearly the entire Gaza population of 2 million people, and cost the United States almost $50 billion.
So how did October 7th happen?
Well, almost everyone in mainstream media was quick to call it an intelligence failure.
The Guardian told its readers on the afternoon of October 7th that Hamas's murderous attack will be remembered as an Israeli intelligence failure for the ages.
While the attack was still ongoing, on October 7th, Politico quoted Israel's former deputy national security advisor, saying, quote, it's a failure in terms of intelligence operationally.
It's clear that we were caught totally unprepared by this.
And on October 8th, Jonathan Panikoff, former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East, who's now at the Atlanta Council think tank, firmly educated the public that, quote, this was an intelligence failure.
It could not be otherwise.
Chagrin.
In fact, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who quickly tweeted, then deleted a statement saying that he had absolutely no prior knowledge of this coming attack, saying, quote, under no circumstances and at no stage was Prime Minister Netanyahu warned of war intentions on the part of Hamas.
The tweet said that before it was promptly deleted.
Why did Netanyahu's team delete that tweet?
Did he, in fact, have intelligence that there would be an attack by Hamas?
Well, the evidence seems to point to only one answer.
Yes.
Foreign security services, Israeli security services, and the Israeli public all knew that Hamas was planning a violent cross-border incursion where they would attempt to overrun and attack the kibbutz communities in southern Israel and then take prisoners back to Gaza.
And they also knew when, but it happened anyway.
10 days before the attack, and then again, three days before the attack, Egypt's intelligence officials actually sent repeated warnings to the highest levels of the Israeli government.
In one of those warnings, Egypt's premier intelligence minister, General Abbas Kamel, personally called Netanyahu and warned him that Hamas was about to do, quote, something unusual, a terrible operation.
Unnamed Egyptian officials told WhyNet News that they were shocked by Netanyahu's indifference to the news.
But Israel didn't have to trust or believe Egypt because actually most of the warnings of the October 7th attack came from Israeli civilians and the Israeli military itself.
The civilians and soldiers who brought these emergency warnings to the military were ignored and in some cases, strangely enough, threatened with legal action.
So let's go all the way back to 2022 and then work our way forward to the days before the October 7th attacks.
So let me bring in Ben Swan.
He's a two-time Emmy-winning journalist who has worked for various TV stations, including KDBC El Paso, K-Fox in El Paso, KTSM in El Paso, WIX in Newport, Kentucky, Cincinnati, and RT America.
He's also a political commentator and founder of the Truth and Media Project, a web series that focuses on investigative reporting and alternative news.
Please welcome to the show, Ben Swan.
Hey, Ben, how are you?
Jimmy, I'm great.
Thanks for having me on.
So were you shocked as I was to learn that, wow, the Israeli army just kind of crumbled right in front of a bunch of guys in hang gliders and Adidas sweats?
I think it was shocking, yeah.
And that also Benjamin Netanyahu, they all did, they did have advance warning of what was happening.
Isn't that weird?
Yeah, and it's not just weird, right?
When you start to see the weird part, right, which you alluded to, when you hear about this story back in October and November, it's like, how did guys come across in paragliders?
Like, is this real?
This really happened?
They flew across the border in these very like primitive makeshift setups that they were able to come across.
Yeah, exactly.
It was like completely wild in the way they're coming in and they overwhelmed Israeli defense forces.
Again, as we pointed out, the best in the world.
How do you manage to pull this off?
And then when you start to look into the story, and what was surprising, it wasn't just, and you've played a lot of it so far, I hope you'll play more.
Yes.
It wasn't just what happened, right, leading up to October 7th, just before.
Israel knew two years before they had the blueprints because of spies in Gaza.
They studied them.
They knew exactly what was going to happen.
They knew how it was going to happen.
And Hamas followed those blueprints, by the way, to the letter.
It was exactly what they had said they were going to do.
And so the thing that it's, I guess, I guess I should just expect it now that this has to be reported by people like you and places like this or the gray zone.
It's never going to be reported on ABC or MSNBC or even Fox or CNN.
They just go along with this was, again, what you just showed.
Oh, no, it was an intelligence fail.
We didn't know.
Oh, we got caught with our pants down.
Chagrin.
Well, not since the last BB's working both times.
We had RC's working.
That's right.
Every time there's always working his shift.
Every time there's a 9-11 type thing happen, Bibi seems to be in power.
So let's go on.
I'm going to show a little bit more of this and we'll come back and get you to comment on it.
Here we go.
Hamas followed its own blueprints that Israel already had in its possession with shocking precision.
So Israel literally had the attack blueprints, but were they taken seriously by the IDF?
Again, yes.
The plans were diligently studied.
In fact, a presentation on the planned attack was given to senior officers in the IDF's Gaza division.
The presentation concluded with this sentence: quote, this invasion constitutes the gravest threat that IDF forces are facing in the defense of Israel.
So in response to all of this, did Israel's intelligence apparatus actually enhance or beef up their surveillance of the Hamas militants along the Gaza border?
Well, actually, not only is the answer no, but stunningly, they did the exact opposite.
They decided to entirely stop monitoring Hamas's handheld radio traffic because they saw it as a waste of effort.
Even though during that same time, in 2022, Israelis living in the kibbutz communities near the Gaza border, most of whom have some type of military training because of Israel's mandatory IDF service laws, they were, according to Israeli media, picking up clear evidence that Hamas was practicing the breaching of the fence and conquering kibbutzim and seizing hostages and destroying everything in their path.
Then in April of 2023, again, this is still six months before the attack, the IDF, according to Israeli media, actually did something even more surprising.
They restricted the ability of Israeli citizens living along the border to monitor Hamas's wireless traffic.
In September of 2023, that's less than a month before the attack.
The head of the IDF's Devil's Advocate Intelligence Unit, which challenges prevailing narratives within Israel's military, twice alerted senior decision makers in both the army and the political spheres about Hamas's plans for a large-scale cross-border military operation.
He reiterated those warnings in person at intelligence branch strategic assessment sessions on September 26 and September 27th.
This is just days before the attack.
During this period, again, just days before the Al-Aqsa flood attack, Israeli civilians residing in the kibbutzim near the Gaza border were witnessing with their own eyes and ears constant and enormous Hamas training exercises.
The army reportedly turned a blind eye.
One of these Israelis, Ben Shoshan, worked as a tour guide in the southeastern Israeli region surrounding Gaza.
In a radio interview just days before October 7th, she remarked, quote, Hamas has been training for weeks right up against the border, sometimes in massive numbers.
I tried to warn the officers, but they told me I didn't know anything and that I was safe.
On October 3rd, a journalist for Israeli public radio tweeted and made crystal clear that the bizarre and violent Hamas drills that were taking place on the Gaza side of the border were evident to everyone who was living alongside that border, including the Israeli military.
The Islamic Jihad organization started noisy exercises very close to the border with missile launches, simulating breaking into Israel and kidnapping soldiers.
Didi Fold, a resident of Natev Hatara, said, it was significantly closer than previous times.
The children wake up and they ask what's going on.
There are explosions, booms.
It is not similar to previous exercises.
So it was clear to everyone that Hamas wasn't only planning to do something horrible, but it was also clear exactly what that horrible and evil thing was.
According to a female IDF soldier who spoke to Israel's Channel 12 news program, she was constantly trying to warn her superiors about the gravity of the Hamas training exercises.
And she was threatened with legal action, saying, quote, we were told that if we continue to harass on this issue, you will stand trial.
So, Egypt knew, the Israeli military knew, and the Israeli civilians knew.
And yet, two days before October 7th, the Israeli military took two entire commando brigades, that's around 100 soldiers, away from the soon-to-be-breached locations of the Gaza border and sent them to the other side of the country, to the West Bank village of Huara.
Despite no Hamas presence being in Huara, and despite there being giant Israeli dance parties taking place right along the same border fence where violent, escalating, and obvious Hamas drills of breaching and kidnapping were taking place.
Does this make any sense?
And have you heard about these dance parties?
Because it turns out there's bizarre and inexplicable narratives surrounding the planning of these now infamous dance parties in Israel along the Gaza border.
I thought it was weird that they had a rave next to a concentration camp and they were told, no, go have it.
Yes.
They checked the people who organized that check to see if, hey, is this safe to have it right by the, you know, our big concentration camp?
They said, yeah, go do it.
So, Ben, what this reminds me a lot of what they said after 9-11.
After 9-11, they said, no one could have imagined that they would fly planes into these buildings, even though the Deutsche Bank who short sold the plane companies.
They somehow did.
Even though then afterwards, you find out that lots of people had imagined that.
Not only did the people inside the intelligence community imagine it, but it was on TV shows had imagined it.
They imagined trouble for you just stating obvious reality politically.
That could lead to violence.
They can game that out.
You can't game this one out, though.
So what do you think?
What do you think this adds up to?
Go ahead.
Yeah, well, it's a couple of things.
And by the way, 9-11 was always referred to as an intelligence failure, also, right?
Oh, it was intelligence failure.
Or agencies, we need more agencies to work together and have more power in order to not have intelligence failures, right?
So that's the game they play.
Look, when you really look at the evidence here, right?
And by the way, but these dance parties, the one that happened on October 7th was only allowed.
It came in late.
It was proposed late.
The head of the IDF in the area actually opposed it and said, nope, you can't have this dance party on the 7th because we need more time to be ready for it.
It's Jewish holiday.
We can't do it.
We don't have soldiers in the area.
And the reports are that when he made that protest, the IDF authorities over his head said, nope, you're going to approve it.
And they pushed it through.
The bottom line is this, guys.
If you look at the statements by Netanyahu and by his party after the fact, what have they said?
Not even my words, not your words.
What has he said?
Netanyahu has said there was not political appetite in Israel to go into Gaza and to root out Hamas.
And he says we did not have that until October 7th.
It gave us the political will from the people, not only in Israel, but in the international community, from the U.S., others who would have said, no, you can't just go in there, right?
Now all of a sudden, you can, right?
Because this horrible attack that no one could have ever, ever predicted.
And the fact is, not only could they have predicted it, they absolutely knew it was happening.
They watched it happening, it looks like in real time, and they stepped away and said, let it happen.
They allowed this to happen.
What?
They use their own people as human shields?
That's a mass of them.
So, so, you know, what I have said on this show before is that it looked like exactly what this is.
Israel stood down on purpose.
They turned the other way.
They let this happen.
They did everything they could to make sure this happened so that they could use this attack on October 7th as the reason to go in and carpet bomb Gaza and slaughter these people and eventually take over Gaza.
The only Jews safe.
Israel's the only reason Jews are safe, right?
Because that's the other.
And that's the iron.
So that's what it's looked like to us here, but your great reporting and the way you put this together spells it out perfectly.
I mean, it's just none of that makes sense whatsoever unless what we surmise is happening, our theory, is true.
Otherwise, that doesn't make any sense that they could be that incompetent that they would approve that party even after the local IDF person, even after their own citizens are telling them what's happening.
So the only thing that makes sense is that Israel not only allowed this to happen, but did things that encouraged this to happen so they could use this as the reason to go in and do the slaughter that they're doing.
And what do you want to say somewhere?
You know why they probably didn't have an appetite to go in and get Hamas out of Gaza is because Bibi kept telling them we've got to support Hamas to prevent a two-state solution.
So that probably dulled their appetite to go get rid of Hamas, paying Hamas the whole time.
So before October 7th, you talked about it, Ben, there wasn't a consensus inside Israel to do this.
So they couldn't have done this unless there was something like this, right?
Well, exactly right.
And again, remember, almost two years before they got these plans, so they were studying, they were monitoring them.
At some point, and this is where we don't know on the timeline, at some point, the position changed, right?
It appears, if you follow kind of the breadcrumbs here of the reporting, it appears it was sometime in 2023, sometime probably around April, that the highest levels of government, looks like Netanyahu's office in the highest levels, they come in and say, hey, you know, these plans we've had, the reports we've been doing, the monitoring we've been doing, we know exactly what these guys are going to do.
You know what?
Let's start to lean away from it.
And I think this is where it becomes really problematic, right?
Because we don't take this lightly at all in terms of the information that's here, right?
It's pretty serious when a government allows something like this to happen.
But even more than allowing it to happen, it appears that they did two other things.
And one was that they prevented their own people who were living in these communities from knowing what was coming and lied to them repeatedly when it was questioned and people were saying, look, what's going on over here?
Obviously, there's something different happening here.
Can't you guys see what they're doing?
No, you're safe.
You're safe.
You're safe.
And then the fact that they would allow for this party on the 7th, which had not been previously scheduled, to allow that to happen also means that you're not just allowing it.
You're creating the conditions for maximum carnage.
You're creating the conditions that if you know Hamas is coming across.
And that's why since we've done this report, some people have said, oh, so it was an inside job.
No, it's not an inside job.
When you use terminology like that, and that's intentional terminology that people start throwing out, right?
Oh, it's a 9-11 conspiracy.
Yeah, that bullshit.
No, no, no.
Yeah, they're trying to do that to you.
And instead, it's like, no, it's not an inside job.
It was Hamas's plan.
Hamas was going to do this.
Israel could have knocked it down with no problem.
They knew what was happening, when it was happening.
They could have shot these guys out of their paragliders with no problem.
But they chose to allow it to happen and created the conditions for maximum carnage.
And you're never going to, you'll never hear this.
I'm telling you, you're never going to hear it.
You won't even hear this on Piers Morgan, I bet.
You're not going to hear it on MSNBC, CNN, Fox, New York Times, Washington Post.
You'll never hear the truth about it.
Just like you never hear the truth about Libya.
You never hear the truth about Iraq.
You never hear the truth about Afghanistan or Ukraine.
They're lying to you about Ukraine.
We've laid that out to you a million times.
And so there's one more piece of this video I want to play.
And here it is.
What's Riya, which is also the location of the IDF's Gaza division, and it's only three miles from the Gaza border.
The first party planned months in advance was a party called the Unity Festival.
It took place on October 5th and 6th.
Then the Nova Festival, the October 7th party, was actually added last minute, only a few days in advance of the event.
So for obvious reasons, any significantly large gatherings on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza require Israeli military approval.
Again, this is a part of the story that virtually no American media network will talk about.
According to Israeli media reports, Lieutenant Colonel Sahir Fogel, an operations officer at the IDF's Gaza division, opposed the approval of the Nova Party based on a couple of things.
The last-minute nature of its event application, the intensifying Hamas drills at the border, and because if something were to happen, more soldiers were on holiday.
It was the Jewish holiday of Sukkud.
The Lieutenant Colonel explained his opposition to the party's approval to his superiors, and he was instructed to allow the event to happen.
Israeli newspaper Heretz reported that other Gaza division officers privately told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of that party.
In February of 2024, Elkhana Fetterman, the head of security of the Nova Festival, gave an interview to Israel's Channel 14 where he made a statement that has not been reported on by any American media.
He said this, quote, I had a guard in the festival who had served in the Reim Division near the Gaza border.
And a week before the festival, he sent me a voice message basically warning me, saying, quote, Elkanah, something is going to happen over Sukkud.
I just wanted to let you know there were a lot of warnings.
I passed the voice message on to the local IDF officials and they told me everything was all right.
After the attack, Federman called his friend in the IDF and asked him exactly what he knew, saying, quote, you were speaking in codes.
Tell me exactly what they showed you.
He told me, Elkanah, they told me there was going to be an invasion and that they were planning to take over settlements.
I just wasn't allowed to tell you that.
And that's what happened.
If he knew what he knew, a driver on the Gaza border, what did those above him know?
Because he is a small screw in the system.
End quote.
The Hamas attacks were violent and brutal, and they've been likened to tragic events such as the September 11th attacks or even the Holocaust, which makes it strange that Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his party have at times described these attacks as somewhat of a political gift.
Kassim Batturi, a member of Netanyahu's party in the Knesset, referred to the attack as sort of a gift from God because they are being used to justify the current ongoing war, stating, quote, we were meant to fight this war against Hamas as is happening now.
And luckily for us, it came from the heavens.
Back in January, Toriyahu explained that Israel did not have the domestic or international support to invade or destroy Gaza.
He said the October 7th Hamas attack solved both of those problems for him.
We couldn't get the domestic consensus to make such a definitive solution to the problems, Hamas.
That is, no one would agree across the Israeli public to go in and basically destroy Hamas, go throughout Gaza and destroy Hamas.
We didn't have the international consensus either.
Nobody would understand.
Why are we doing it?
Both conditions were created because of the Hamas savage attack on Israel on October 7th.
All of this information has been reported in isolation and without context.
That is until now.
But it in no way excuses the violent and brutal Hamas attacks of October 7th, in which so many lives were lost.
But it does raise an important question, a question that brave people have to consider.
Did the Israeli military, the Israeli intelligence community, and the political leadership of Israel allow this ghastly attack to happen to justify wiping out the population of Gaza?
It also raises big questions for us.
What type of war is the Biden administration and U.S. taxpayers supporting?
Is this a war of self-defense or is it genocide justified by an attack that Israel likely could have stopped had it wanted to?
These are heavy questions.
Yeah.
Just like all the wars.
Just like all the wars.
I just want to remind people that Orr informed them that Annie McCon is her name, a former MI5 intelligence officer.
She explained how Israel bombed their own embassy in London in 1994 to frame Palestinian activists and terrorists for it.
And if Israel was capable of such barbaric false flags then, what are they capable of now?
Well, obviously, they're capable of allowing this to happen so they could go in and commit a genocide, which is exactly what's happening.
Some people call it ethnic cleansing because that sounds nice, like they're cleaning them.
Call what you want.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Yes.
You know, the Holocaust, it means sacrifice, burnt sacrifice.
Uh-huh.
Is that what it means?
It's a sacrifice.
That's really what the word means.
So we haven't had a war on the book since World War II, or official legal war in America.
Right.
All of our wars have been Holocaust if you count the number of people we killed.
Vietnam, by the time everything was said and done, the real numbers are like almost 6 million.
They tell you it's about 500,000.
Nah, it's a lot more.
Well, they've been doing these the whole time.
And they're sacrifices to get what you want.
Oh, we couldn't do this until this happened.
Yeah.
What's valuable to us?
Our own people will sacrifice that.
You see how mundane and secular it is?
It's not like spooky.
It's just what?
Powerful.
That's how that's how it works.
Yeah.
So, if I can just say two, this is a seven-part series.
I know it feels like we covered a lot in that one.
We did.
It's actually a seven-part series.
And so we're covering a lot.
And there's a lot more to this, including something that I think a lot of people in the United States do not know about.
It's something called the Hannibal Directive, which goes into real detail about this is part of Israel's official policy.
Part of their official policy is you allow people within your communities to die if it justifies a greater cause.
And it's so interesting to me as an American, right, in the U.S., our foreign policy, I don't think Israel is mimicking our foreign policy.
I think that we're mimicking theirs.
I think we've been copying what Israel's done for a long time.
They said it in 9-11.
We got to be more like Israel.
They would say it out loud.
I remember this vividly.
Like, yeah, Israel's got figured out.
We all said that.
So, you know, what's interesting is that it seems, what is that policy called?
Hannibal Directive.
The Hannibal Directive.
So we had Scott Ritter on the show, and he was saying how Hamas actually has their own version of that.
He didn't call it that, but he said they knew when they did that attack on October 7th that Israel would overreact and slaughter all these people.
And I'm like, well, why would Hamas do that?
And they said, well, to them, it's just like they're worth sacrificing them if they Can get a victory.
And it looks like now they've turned the entire world against Israel over this.
And so Hamas sees that as a victory.
And Hamas was willing to sacrifice the 30,000 or however many people have been killed now.
They had no choice because of the Abraham Accord.
So all of them were good as dead.
Right.
Because Abraham Accords passed.
So they were willing to do some.
So it seems like both sides are willing to have their own people be massacred in order to get a political goal, right?
That's what it looks like to me.
Do you have any comment on that?
No, I totally agree with you.
Absolutely.
That's exactly what it is.
And look, so one of the non-binary choices, it should not be a binary choice, right?
Is either you're with Israel or you're with Hamas.
No, no, no.
That cannot be the only choices here.
Hamas is not a kind or good leader to its people, right?
They do sacrifice their people.
They do use them as human shields.
But let's also be honest that Hamas came to power in a secular Palestine, right?
They were not invited by the people to take over.
They essentially destroyed the lives of a lot of people, murdered a lot of secular Palestinians in their seizing of power, but they did it with Israeli funding.
They did it with Israel's funding, and Israel made sure they had that power.
They wanted this, right?
My enemy is my friend.
Yeah.
So Israel did this.
So we've explained it.
Instead of working with the secular PLL Palestinian Liberation Organization that was less militant, they decided to prop up a terrorist organization so that they could, again, say, we don't have anybody to negotiate with.
These people are savages.
These people are terrorists and we have to wipe them out.
You know, like America.
But how often does that, how often does that happen in the U.S., right?
We do that all the time.
That's exactly what we did in Syria.
It's what we do in Iraq.
We do it to us.
We put in ISIS.
We fund them.
And then we say, oh, look how terrible these people are.
We've got to overthrow Syria now.
We've got to overthrow Libya.
It's in the bloodstream leader.
The American gangs, the MS-13, recall that's somebody from the military from one of our many conflicts helping people who was trained by us.
That's the official lore of who started it.
Yeah.
We all do the same thing in this amazing rules-based order of the Western world.
Rules-based order.
I love that.
I love that.
Well, where can people find more of this?
The rest of your series, Ben.
Absolutely.
So the website is truthinmedia.com, truthandmedia.com on X. You can follow us at truth underscore in media.
We'll have a special episode that will drop tomorrow about these hostages and the hostages being freed.
There's a lot to that story.
And then we'll be picking up from there again with a whole bunch of episodes explaining to people the bigger picture around this, guys.
So I really appreciate your coverage.
Let me just say, I first became aware of you when you did some work on the Seth Rich story.
And guess what?
Everybody said there was a crazy conspiracy.
You know, whenever you're not allowed, I knew this when I was at the Young Turks, which was built itself as the number one online news show in the world with over 5 million subscribers.
I would be on panels with Jenk Uger and Ben Mankowitz.
And I remember I was asking them, can anybody remember the last time reporters, people on news shows, weren't allowed to ask obvious questions about an unsolved murder investigation?
And they couldn't.
Of course they couldn't because the only time you weren't allowed to ask questions about an unsolved murder investigation was Seth Rich.
That was the only time you weren't allowed to ask that question.
And so now here we are seven years later, eight years later, and the FBI will not release Seth Rich's laptop.
Not only that, they've been ordered now twice by a judge to release it under FOIA, and they still won't release it.
They say we're going to release Seth Rich's contents of his laptop in 65 years.
So I certainly feel vindicated for asking those questions.
I was wondering how you felt about it.
Oh, absolutely.
And there's a kind of a long history for me in this.
I know for you as well, for a lot of us, right?
Who have been asking the questions for a long time.
And for so long, we were demonized for questioning anything.
Now I think we're living in a moment where a lot of folks are able to say, okay, well, it makes sense, but also the more that comes out, the more it all ties together.
And it's not because, again, it's one cabal that does everything.
It's that they're very unoriginal.
People in power are incredibly unoriginal.
As soon as they do one thing that works, they all just imitate it.
So they just run a playbook at that point.
And so I think we're seeing that happen, but I think vindication is probably the right word on a lot of stories that continually kind of rise to the surface.
Yeah.
The other thing is, you say they make you pick Israel or Hamas.
That's ridiculous.
You pick Likud party of Bibi Metanyahu and messianic psychopaths that are in that party.
They make you pick them.
You don't even get to pick what party in Israeli politics you're with.
Right.
You have to be with Bibi because all this reporting you're doing, you're showing Israeli sources.
I haven't been able to get over this the whole time.
If you want to know what's happening, you can read Israeli shit.
It's more honest than the obviously captured by Mossad media we have here.
Well, and then to that point, I mean, that was something we were very intentional about.
I have an amazing producer working with me on this.
His name is Jeremy Lafredo.
Did an incredible job.
But one of the things that we were really intentional about is going after Israeli media sources because we know that they're going to say, oh, yeah, you guys are making stuff up.
This is all conjecture.
I mean, at the end of that piece, and I'll do it with everyone that we do, I would challenge any journalist anywhere to come back and fact check us and show us where we're lying.
Show us where we're wrong because this is all sourced.
They won't even bother to do it because they don't want to have the conversation in the first place.
And so my final question: do you ever bump into Jackson Hinkle at the hair salon?
I was going to say, yeah, great way, too.
I was also thinking your hair is great.
I appreciate it, guys.
Okay.
All right, Ben Swan, Truth in Media.
Check out.
He's dropping a new episode tomorrow on the hostages and the Haas situation in Gaza.
Great job.
Thanks for coming up.
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It's just the facts of the case.
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So, CNN did an article trying to get Tucker Carlson's tour canceled.
That's what the point of this is.
They're trying to censor someone that is more popular than them by a lot.
This is the new game.
Yeah, because they couldn't do it too much.
This is a new game.
Of course.
Tucker Carlson is going on tour.
Ticketmaster is profiting off his hateful rhetoric.
This was written by a guy named Oliver Darcy.
And I know what you're saying.
Who is Oliver Darcy?
He's a corporate hack who gets paid to do stuff like this.
So Tucker Carlson announced plans this week to crisscross the country with a 15-city arena tour.
Oh, how about you let me come on and do some stand-up on some of those?
I'd love to.
You're always invited on my live shows, by the way.
I should maybe make the formal invite.
Yeah, I think you do.
Okay, I'm going to make a formal invite.
That's what I should do.
I'm sure he'd love it.
So CNN's Oliver Darcy spent the week calling Ticketmaster.
He was calling Ticketmaster and Live Nation, as well as multiple event venues, demanding to know why they would allow Tucker Carlson to speak.
Really?
You know who else they platform?
Ticketmaster, Live Nation?
People like Hillary Clinton, who wrecked Libya and turned it into a failed state, used depleted uranium.
Oh, George Bush, who used the Plenium uranium in Iraq, killed a million people.
They also sell tickets for those things.
You think I'm kidding?
There it is, StubHub.
Here it is: Ticketmaster, the Clintons.
You know, Bill Clinton, his Secretary of State, bragged they killed 500,000 Iraqi children.
I don't think Tucker Carlson's ever killed anyone.
Oh, also, Hillary Clinton on board for the Iraq war, which killed a million people.
And then she went on to do the Libya and laughed about it.
But Oliver Darcy, the CNN doesn't care about those people touring.
He's just Tucker Carlson.
Why?
Because he's more popular than them.
And he has a counter narrative to the establishment.
So I'll read you the article.
You won't believe how crazy this article is.
But here's what Glenn Greenwald says: He says, This is the tactic that has made U.S. corporate media the leading agitators for censorship while pretending they're not.
They call up big tech companies and others to say, hey, we're going to report on how you're platforming fascists, which they mean conservatives, to coerce them to ban them.
You know, the definition of fascism includes suppression of the opposition and oppressive control.
But apparently, not when CNN does it.
Brianna Joy Gray, notorious anti-Semite, Brianna Joy Gray.
If you spell this tweet backwards, it reads kill Whitey.
She says, if your instinct is to not care about it's not, if your instinct is to not care because you don't like Tucker's politics, reconsider.
This strategy is clearly being used across the board.
They've targeted me at Patreon.
And also remember what the TikTok ban is all about.
The TikTok ban is all about people telling the truth about what's happening in Israel-Palestine.
So these people who call themselves left, they're not.
If you're for censorship, you're not a lefty.
You're an authoritarian and a fascist.
They're trying to get Tucker Carlson's tour canceled.
So here, here's the, I'll read you the article.
Ticketmaster is linking arms with right-wing extremists.
Tucker Carlson is anti-war.
That's considered extreme.
Boosting their ability to reach mainstream audiences.
Tucker Carlson has a mainstream audience.
You know who does it?
CNN.
Nobody watches CNN.
And profiting off their dangerous and hateful rhetoric ahead of the November election.
You know who has dangerous and hateful rhetoric?
CNN.
CNN has been for every war in my lifetime.
That's dangerous.
They got three or four hundred thousand people in Ukraine slaughtered.
They helped do that.
Who did CNN?
Not Tucker Carlson.
The ticketing sales giant is the distributor of the forthcoming live speaking tour from Tucker Carlson, who announced plans this week to crisscross the country with a 15-city arena tour, inviting fellow conspiracy theorists such as Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Green to join him along the way.
The biggest conspiracy of my life was Russia Gate.
CNN screamed that at the top of their lungs.
They're the biggest conspiracy theorists there are.
They also said that Assad gassed his own people, another conspiracy theory.
They also said that they also lied to you about the Ukraine war, that it was unprovoked.
They also lied to you about the Iraq war.
They also lied to you about the Libyan war.
They also lied to you about the Afghanistan war for 20 years.
You know who didn't do that?
All those people.
On the Ticketmaster website, Carlson is referred to as a leading voice in American politics and an alternative to corporate media dedicated to telling the truth about the things that matter clearly and without fear.
While it is hard to imagine that Ticketmaster conjured this glowing description of Carlson itself, It is remarkable the company would approve it and promote it on its site.
Of course, they didn't write that.
I think that's that looks like Patton Oswald.
I'm kidding.
That is because there is not a morsel of truth to how Ticketmaster is presenting Carlson to its customers.
Really?
Carlson, a former mainstream conservative who, over the course of Donald Trump's presidency, traveled to the fringes of American politics, has for years promoted dangerous disinformation and damaging conspiracy theories.
Again, no, who does that is CNN?
The people who do that at CNN Carlson lied about the COVID-19 vaccines.
No, he didn't.
He told the truth about them.
You know who lied about them?
You, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, and every other Jagoff who has a microphone on CNN.
You're the ones who lied about it.
You lied about that.
You lied about Ivermectin.
You lied about the virus, where it came from, who funded it.
You lied about natural immunity.
You lied about herd immunity.
You lied about transmission, contraction.
You lied about masks.
There wasn't a thing you didn't lie about at CNN.
You know who didn't lie about it?
Tucker Carlson.
Discouraging his fans from receiving the life-saving shots.
Well, a lot of people would, a lot of people, a lot of doctors and scientists, leading doctors in their field, are now calling for those things to be pulled.
He so, but of course, the FDA and the CDC say they're fantastic.
And right now, if you're following along, you will be on your 10th booster.
So CDC guidance is go get your 10th booster.
He so doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
So again, when he, if you so doubt about the 2020 election, you're a bad person.
But if you so doubt about the 2016 election, you're a good American.
If you say Russia stole our election in 2016 and that Donald Trump was illegitimate, that makes you a good person.
Suggesting that it was rigged by sinister forces against Trump.
Anybody who has confidence in our elections is a chump or works for CNN or both.
And he reprehensibly peddled the false notion that the January 6th insurrection was a so-called false flag operation staged by the deep state.
It was.
We've showed you that millions of times.
Why is it that the head of the FBI, when asked point blank by a congressman at a hearing in Congress, did you have FBI assets dressed up as MAGA supporters inside the Capitol before it was breached?
I can't answer that.
The answer should be no.
But there is still a sliny, tiny sliver of Americans who believe this stuff.
An even tiny sliverer of people who actually read this.
I'm reading it because it makes good fodder to show you how crazy and how fascistic CNN actually is.
They want to shut down anybody who's a competitor to them and has a different political outlook.
Um...
Thank you.
In addition to those corrosive lies, Carlson has been one of the top promoters of the great replacement theory.
You know who was the top promoter of the great replacement theory?
The Democratic Party.
For a decade, I heard Democrats say demographics are destiny, meaning that the more Hispanics we get into Texas, the sooner it will turn blue because demographics are destiny.
Well, now Hispanics aren't voting for Joe Biden.
But they're the ones who pushed the great replacement theory.
First, the idea favored by white supremacists that falsely accuse the Democratic Party and wealthy Jewish figures such as George Soros of importing third world migrants into the U.S. to shift the country's demographics to win elections.
Well, I know for sure that's happening.
I know for sure that George, that Joe Biden flew in a couple hundred thousand illegal immigrants into our country.
And the border's wide open.
And James Carville, former Clinton advisor, admits that that's a goofy policy.
You have people like Dennis Kucinitz saying we have to seal the border and Joe Biden not doing it.
Let me just say that the great replacement theory, the only replacement theory that CNN is actually concerned about is them being replaced by independent media because they are.
They have been.
They've been replaced by independent media.
Joe Rogan gets somewhere around 14 million views per show, which is probably more views than CNN gets in a week.
And they're around 24 hours a day.
I mean, so this, so that's bad if you if you do it, promote a tick if Ticketmaster hosts an event that great replacement theory, but that Ticketmaster has promoted events that with Joe Biden,
the guy most responsible for our modern-day prison system, white supremacist Joe Biden, who lied about being at civil rights, being a civil rights activist, still does it, even though he's been corrected and caught many times.
Ultimately, Carlson grew to be too much of a problem, even for Fox News.
And you know why he became too much of a problem for Fox News?
Because he told the truth about the Ukraine war, the Syrian war, and then he started to tell the truth about big pharma and COVID, and that was the final straw.
Again, you don't get fired for lying.
You get fired for telling the truth, just like Julian Assange is in prison, not for lying.
He's in prison for telling the truth about the war machine.
And Rupert Murdoch, evidently, Fox News has higher standards for whom they will do business with than Tikkaman.
They don't.
A remarkable low bar for the events, John.
Fox News won't do business with people who are willing to tell the truth.
Asked for comment this week.
Representatives for Live Nation subsidiary chose not to respond.
In fairness to the company's public relations division, it is difficult to see how they can defend such conduct.
How can any decent person not only participate in enabling Carson's point?
So this is why no one watches CNN.
This is why no one listens to their garbage.
This is all they have.
CNN also posed questions to the venues hosting Carlson.
They're trying to get him canceled, which include the they did at the Honda Center, T-Mobile Center, Delta Center, Dickey's Arena, Intrust, Bank Arena, and others.
Spokespeople representing each respective venue did not provide a comment.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Companies with basic ethics should, of course, reject doing business with dishonest figures who profit by dumping toxic waste into the country's information environment.
You got to be kidding me.
As opposed to literally dumping toxic waste, such as war criminal George W. Bush, who poisoned Iraq with depleted uranium weapons.
And Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who used depleted uranium to poison the water supply in Libya.
But doing so puts them at risk of being targeted by those very same people who, like Trump, have tremendous sway over the vast majority of Republicans and a lightning rod for painful boycotts.
Ticketmaster hosted events by anyway.
But while the politics of 2024 makes for a thorny business environment for companies to navigate, from an ethics perspective, the questions that lie before them come with clear and obvious answers.
Those uncomfortable decisions risk catapulting them squarely into the center of the information wars, where grifters like Carlson thrive.
The biggest grifters were Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Anderson Cooper, and everybody who works at CNN.
And of course, Rachel Maddow, who did the most unhinged conspiracy theory at the top of her lungs for now seven years running, Russia Gate.
And again, you don't get fired for lying or spewing conspiracy theories.
Rachel Maddow was such a bad conspiracy.
She did so much conspiracy.
Even the Washington Post and New York Times spanked her for it for her crazy Russia conspiracy theories.
Glenn Greenwald says: Presumably, the reason Ticketmaster is willing to sell tickets to Tucker Carlson's show is because he's arguably the single most popular and influential voice in media and journalism in the United States, while Oliver Darcy, the guy who wrote this article, is not and thus has no claim to dictate who can be heard.
So Tucker Carlson's podcast, number one on Spotify.
Look at that.
The New York Times, second.
Look at that.
Candace Owen, fourth.
Look at that.
So that's the news division.
I wonder where ours are.
Is ours in the news division?
I think it, or is it in the what's that?
I think it's in the performing arts category.
Because we're always in the top 10 there.
And just a reminder, no problem.
Warmonger, warmonger killed millions of people.
Pro-Iraq war used Hillary Clinton, used depleted uranium tip bombs to poison the water in Libya.
It wasn't a war she hasn't been for in my lifetime.
Bill Clinton bombed Kosovo depleted uranium.
They bragged about killing half a million Iraqi children.
They bragged about it.
And of course, I don't have to tell you about this guy.
But CNN doesn't have any problem with those people being platformed.
Isn't that amazing?
Nobody was showing up to their shows.
No one showed up to the Clinton shows, by the way.
They had to bring in these huge curtains.
So nobody.
Why would you?
I got to let Tucker know I want to open for him.
Hey, do you want to know the new reason, the real reason?
Well, one of the realer reasons while we're in Ukraine, while we're sending all that money to Ukraine, here's Lindsey Graham to explain it to us.
This is sounds like Miss Somebody is bucking for a position in the Trump cabinet.
Let's listen.
What did Trump do to get the weapons flowing?
He created a loan system.
They're sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine.
They could be the richest country in all of Europe.
I don't want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China.
If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of, that $10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China.
This is a very big deal, how Ukraine.
Hey, you know what's extra ridiculous is I can't remember any of these psychopaths mentioning this mineral thing until just now.
Yeah, the trillions of minerals.
There's a lot of things about that.
I remember freedom, democracy.
If we don't stop Putin there, he's going to go on to the rest of Europe.
I remember all that stuff, but I don't remember anything about minerals.
No.
Biolabs was one.
Nothing about trillions of dollars in minerals.
That's weird.
Do you think that's where you think that would have been top?
Wow.
And you know, those mineral resources, they help power cell phones, Kurt.
And so that way Lindsay can play candy crush in committee meetings.
And let's keep in mind, this guy.
This is the same guy who was demanding that Ukraine lower the draft age.
Lower it?
Yes.
So he could buy more ties like that.
Okay, there's more to this.
Let's help them win a war.
We can't afford to lose.
Let's find a solution to this war.
But they're sitting on a gold mine to give Putin 10 or 12 trillion dollars for critical minerals that he will share with China is ridiculous.
So there you go.
Here, exactly.
If this doesn't wake up the last of the Ukraine supporters, nothing will.
You can just believe at this point they're on board with Warmonger Graham.
That's it.
I just don't want Russia to get those minerals.
Bono has reassured liberals the mineral wealth will be used to ship his overstock CDs to grateful Africans.
Don't do that to them.
That's what they're going to do.
The music aids.
Don't give that to Africa.
Jack Spitz says, imagine publicly admitting it's all about grabbing their resources.
Well, it's trillions of dollars, and you don't, it's about Russia not sharing with China.
Grabbing their resources better than grabbing their pussies, Sean Penn said, as he's grabbing someone's pussy.
It's a war we can't afford to lose.
Yeah, where's Sean Penn, by the way?
Where's Sean Penn?
He said, don't worry about nukes.
Yeah, don't worry.
He hasn't been seen for a while.
You can't worry about nukes.
Sean Penn didn't mention minerals.
Sean Penn never mentioned minerals.
How about the normal rules of trade instead of war?
Who destroyed the pipeline supplying cheap energy to Europe?
Yeah, why do we go to wars again?
So he's just saying for minerals.
We got to make sure we can't let them win because of the mineral.
How about we just do normal economy shit?
I mean, I'm sure we can still do some stealing of minerals, can't we?
Without it?
Do you want to know?
So here, here, you want to, so okay, now here is the absolute real reason for all this.
Here's the absolute real reason.
Ready?
Here's General Colonel McGregor, and he's going to tell you.
Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is the globalist neocon elite, and both on the Hill as well as in the White House.
And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing BlackRock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites.
But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine.
It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia.
And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state.
They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992.
It's weak.
It's prostrate.
Its economy is ineffective.
Remember the McCain statement?
Oh, Russia is Spain with a gas station.
All of these arrogant displays of American hubris treating Russia as though it was a third-class nation with a fourth-class military.
Well, we're getting an education right now.
We paid no attention to the Russians who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine.
We were building an army to attack them.
We put a hostile government into that country in 2014, and we kept telling them that it made no difference to us what they thought or what they cared about.
They said, we don't want NATO on our border.
No one paid attention.
President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him.
People who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them.
So what's the outcome?
You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global.
And no one in the White House seems to really grasp that.
But we're losing.
The globalists are losing.
And when the ground dries and in June, you're going to see a massive Russian offensive.
And most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kiev.
But that government doesn't represent the interests of the Ukrainian people.
They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money.
But what about the minerals?
Would those be okay?
Hey, here's an idea.
How about we don't?
How about if we don't start a war and then just privately mine their resources?
Isn't that what this is all about anyway?
Do we usually do that?
That's what we normally do anyway.
We steal all kinds of resources without a whole war about it.
Yeah.
And Russia, I think, would be weaker after all the things we did to weaken them that somehow made their subways clean.
I don't get how it works, but it doesn't work.
I always say Russia is Spain with a gas station.
Well, if I knew enough about Spain, I bet that'd be a real zinger.
You know what they say?
Russians are Asians you're allowed to hate.
Do they say?
Because that's a good saying.
That is a good saying.
Wow.
Just white enough to hate.
So that's the real.
This is about, again, this is economic hegemony, turning up BlackRock, turning Ukraine and Russia, splitting it up, putting it under BlackRock.
Well, they've already got contracts to rebuild Ukraine.
You know this.
It really is disappointing that there's always only like a few people in the thing that will tell the truth about the thing, and the rest of them will privately feel how he feels.
Say nothing.
You mean?
And then the other ones at the top, I don't know what the hell they do to that.
They brainwash him under Disneyland, I'm sure.
But there's like not enough of him.
There's not enough of this.
Why not?
Why does everybody start snitching?
Well, it's weird.
Rachel Maddow never brings this guy on.
Isn't it weird Anderson Cooper never brings this guy on?
No, that's not weird at all.
It seems like he'd be the last thing you'd want.
Didn't he used to be on those things back in the day, though?
This guy?
Yeah.
McGregor?
Yeah.
Like, I thought he was on the news and he wasn't invited back after a certain time.
He was sometimes brought on to say when it was okay to tell the truth about Iraq.
He was brought on Fox, I think, by Tucker Carlson to tell the truth about, I think he was.
But no, I mean, this is why you have to get videos like this.
This isn't from CBS This Morning.
I'll tell you that.
I always got to get my videos from a thing with a silly name and symbol because that's truth.
Yeah, like I mean, it'll be good stuff.
I'm just like, I can't believe that you have to go hunting and picking for the actual information.
That's truth.
We should get him on the show so that he can say it all here.
But that's basically, that's it.
I mean, I just want to play.
Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is the globalist neocon elite, and both on the Hill as well as in the White House.
And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing BlackRock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites.
But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine.
It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia.
And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, okay.
So, and when Lindsey Graham says this, he's letting the cat out of the bag.
He's telling this, but again, this is people are so dumb that Lindsey Graham not only said this on television, he said it on CBS.
Yeah.
He put this out himself.
This video he tweeted out.
Like, he's not embarrassed.
Like, that's, yeah, it's about, come on.
That's right.
We're saving lives, Jimmy.
We're saving lives.
Imagine if Russia shares minerals.
Imagine if they share minerals with China.
He just says it.
What did Trump do to get the weapons flowing?
He created a loan system.
They're sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine.
They could be the richest country in all of Europe.
I don't want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China.
They just vampirely.
So let's slaughter a couple of hundred thousand more people in Ukraine.
It's all I don't want to give that money away.
That's what you call a vampire, right?
That's what you call a vampire.
It's about draining something life and wealth out of everything around you at all costs.
That's a vampire you're looking at.
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