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The Raw Deal (9 December 2024) with co-host Keith Rodgers

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	So self-assured, how I find the genuine, I know the word of the door.
	Help me if you can, I'm feeling down.
	And I do appreciate you being around.
	Help me get my feet back on the ground.
	Won't you please, please help me?
	This is Jim Fetzer, your host.
	Welcome to The Raw Deal right here on Revolution Radio Studio B this 9th day of December.
	2024, where I'm joined by Keith Rogers.
	We begin with Chuck Baldwin's dissection of Trump picking a war cabinet.
	It seems to me he's got this exactly right.
	The Trump toadies who are convinced Donald Trump is going to drain the swamp and make America great again during his upcoming second term as president are delusional.
	I gotta confess, I was in that category for quite a while.
	He did neither during his first term, and will do neither during his second.
	One only need look at Trump's appointments at the senior executive level who will direct his admin and who Trump is no more than more the same, especially in matters related to foreign policy, which is one specific area where a president single-handedly do the most damage.
	I've already warned readers about Trump's appointments of the uber-Zionist warmongers.
	Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.
	Kristi Noem, Homeland Security.
	Mike Walsh, National Security Advisor.
	Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense.
	Elise Stefanik, Ambassador to UN, uber-Christian, Zionist, Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
	We can now add Uber, Zionists, Sebastian Gorka, and Pam Bondi to this ignoble list.
	Judge Andrew Napolitano said that to a man.
	Trump's senior executive leadership picks are 60% Jewish and 100% Zionist.
	Trump has been true to his campaign promise to make Israel great again.
	The Bondi appointment as America's Attorney General is especially noteworthy.
	Trump's first election with Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
	But after being announced as the next Attorney General, the Zionist news media and political lobbyists pounce into action.
	You see, Gaetz is among the very few members of Congress not on the Israeli lobby payroll.
	The result?
	It took only days for Gates to be forced to withdraw his name.
	Enter, Pam Bondi.
	Bondi is a rabid, bro-zina zealot.
	She's also a radical anti-Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment.
	Bondi, along with Kristi Noem of Homeland Security, has every intention of stopping our freedom of speech in the United States, especially any denouncing the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.
	In his interview with Max Blumenthal, Judge Knapp and Max had the following exchange regarding bonding Napolitano.
	Aaron Mate and I have discussed at length the assaults on free speech by the Biden admin members and Congress like Elise Stefanik, as an example, slated to become Trump's ambassador to the U.N. I think you'll agree with me this is about to get worse.
	Here's Pam Bondi, designated to be Attorney General of the United States, suggesting demonstrators on college campuses should be deported at worst or interrogated by the FBI at best.
	Here's Bondi speaking.
	Whether they're here as Americans or here on student visas, they're out there saying I support a mosque.
	You and I have seen that on all these television shows, frankly.
	They need to be taken out of our country.
	Or the FBI needs to be interviewing them right away when they're saying, I support Hamas, I am Hamas.
	By the way, none of them are saying that.
	They're saying, I am a Palestinian, or I am Palestine, or I oppose genocide.
	That's not saying I support all these poor Palestinians are trapped in Gaza, which is what they're actually saying.
	That's not what they're saying, according to Bondi.
	So I think their student visas need to be revoked.
	I think we need to reinstate Trump travel ban immediately.
	There are a lot of things that can be done to stop this.
	Anti-Semitism throughout this country now is truly heartbreaking to see what's happening to all our Jewish friends in this country.
	Let me say right off the bat, this is ridiculous!
	It's not anti-Semitism.
	No give a damn about the Jews.
	It's what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
	This woman is completely unqualified.
	Napolitano.
	So this woman who's about to become the head of the Justice Department and indirectly of the FBI believes that First Amendment notwithstanding, the government can evaluate the content of speech and decide which political speech is worthy of brains, which is worthy of interrogation, and which is worthy of kicking people out of the country.
	Worse than anything Biden's DOJ ever imagined.
	Blumenthal, who's Jewish but highly objective, I think he's terrific.
	Well...
	The Biden DOJ has helped that stage for this.
	Well, look how Pam Bondi came into position as Trump's Attorney General nominee.
	It was the downfall of Matt Gaetz, one of the few members of Congress who has not taken Israeli lobby money, who actually voted against one of the major aid supplements to Israel, along with other members of the Freedom Caucus, mainly because it also was linked to Ukraine aid, but he did it.
	Gates went down mainly because of this bizarre background.
	He had SAGA that involved apparently sexual blackmail as an aside.
	He had a friend who was in a position to push a driver's license and gave a 17-year-old driver's license and made it appear she was older.
	And Gates apparently had sex with her in the false belief she was of age, and they're now using it against him.
	And Blumenthal continues.
	And Bam Bondi comes in.
	She's welcomed by CNN. It appears Senate Dems will let her slide through.
	She's been a longtime corporate lobbyist for GM, Amazon, Uber, even Gulf Monarchies.
	She's a corporate tool.
	So she'll sail through.
	Yes, I think they got her right.
	But also, in the last hours of Matt Gaetz's nominee, the American Jewish Committee in Anti-Defamation League condemned him as an anti-Semite.
	And Pam Bondi appears, someone with a very clear record working under Florida Governor DeSantis, who said he'd be the most pro-Israel governor in America of shilling for Israel and advancing Israel's objective politically and legally inside the United States on behalf of Tel Aviv, crushing the First Amendment and the rights of students and other Americans to organize against this genocide.
	And that's what I think we're going to see.
	An agenda been spelled out in Heritage Foundation Project Esther, which was actually largely written by Christian right activists, Christian Zionists, to seek terrorism designations for groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, American Muslims for Palestine.
	Notice they're not for Hamas, they're for Palestine.
	The group leading the demonstrations in the streets and then to begin actually prosecuting them and debanking their activities, going to places like PayPal, Venmo, ordering them to block transactions, anyone who's leading Palestinian solidarity activity.
	I mean, this is all spelled out.
	And Bondi seemed to be the perfect person to advance this authoritarian anti-freedom on American agenda on behalf of Netanyahu and the Israeli apartheid regime.
	Napolitano.
	Is there anybody in Trump's cabinet that's not an ardent sign?
	I mean, yeah.
	It's mega.
	Make Israel great again.
	Keith, I am just so distressed.
	Your thoughts?
	Well, Jim, good morning to you.
	Yeah, it's pathetic there.
	I... From what I know about U.S. interventions and stuff, the covert actions and stuff, that's just one thing.
	But when you look at the American taxpayers who are being built to the max, whether it's through the Ukraine war or through the Israeli efforts, the Middle East efforts, all this is to secure oil pipelines and stuff.
	And what gets me the most out of this It's going to two different entities that are both kosher.
	And they don't care how many millions of people have to die.
	It's the same story over and over.
	You know, it's like when people talk about the United States being invaded by immigrants.
	But no one talks about the United States illegally invading another country, staying there, putting bases there, stealing oil, stealing crops.
	I mean, it's got to come to a point where Americans realize that The $36 trillion in debt and growing, which is supposed to reach $50 trillion pretty soon.
	And it will, the way Biden's administration keeps spending, for one there.
	But all this is being done in our names.
	Us, little Americans that have no vote in whatsoever to say about foreign policy.
	And what gets me the most is when they, especially, Jim, when you want to talk about Sandy Hook, And all the disparities of the official report.
	The point is, though, is, well, if that is so tragic, what is tragic more about using 2,000-pound U.S. bombs to drop those on schools, those on hospitals, those on aid centers and stuff?
	When would the American people realize you're being played?
	Yes, those are real deaths in Palestine, unlike the fake deaths in Newtown, Connecticut.
	You're so right about that.
	And I think we have to look at every action Trump takes now from a Zionist lens and asks, is this to promote America or Israel?
	For example, U.S. Senator introduced a bill to redefine occupied West Bank as Judea and Samaria.
	Measure would remove all references to the West Bank from U.S. government documents, replacing them with the Israeli name.
	Senator Tom Cotton has introduced a Senate bill seeking to eliminate federal use of the term West Bank, instead implementing the use of Judea and Samaria, claiming the terminology aligns with Israel's historical and biblical claims of the territory, except their historical and biblical claims of the territory are all but non-existent.
	Judea and Samaria is the Israeli term for the occupied West Bank.
	We've heard Mike Huckabee make that point, by the way, during various interviews.
	The proposed legislation mirrors a House bill introduced earlier by Rep.
	Claudia Tenney, Randy Weber, and Anthony Desposito.
	If enacted, the measure would remove all reference to West Bank from U.S. government documents replacing them with a biblical name.
	The Jewish people legal and historic right to Judea and Samaria go back thousands of years.
	The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel, Cotton said in a statement.
	The move comes amid growing international criticism of Israel's policies in the occupied territory.
	In July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel's occupation of West Bank illegal under international law, challenging the legitimacy of Israeli settlements, which now housed nearly 700,000 Israeli settlers.
	The UN has documented a sharp increase in violence, with nearly 1,000 Palestinians killed in the West Bank in 2022 due to Israeli military raids and settler attacks.
	Opponents of the bill argue it solidifies U.S. support for Israel in its settlement activity.
	A stamp flogged champion by Republican donors such as Miriam Maddelson does provide significant financial backing to GOP campaigns.
	In February, Secretary of State Blinken emphasized that expanding settlements in the West Bank undermines Israel's security and contradicts U.S. policy.
	Which has traditionally supported a two-state solution.
	But little has been done by the U.S. to stop Israeli settlement billings aside from a handful of sanctions against individual settlers.
	And just to mention Mike Huckabee, who's to be our new U.S. Ambassador to Israel, has said, yes, he's all for a two-state solution as long as the Palestinian state is outside of the borders of Israel.
	Meanwhile, Rashid Tiab, who's the only Palestinian member of Congress, a yes vote for this bill is erasing the existence of Palestinians.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Palestinians also have a right to exist.
	The origins of the effort can be traced back to earlier Republican initiatives where Representative Taney, Introduce a Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act, which sought to update existing U.S. legislation, such as the Foreign Assistance Act, to replace West Bank with Judea and Samaria in February.
	Israeli people have an undeniable and indisputable historical and legal claim, which had been both denied and disputed, in fact demonstrated not to exist.
	At this critical moment in history, the U.S. must reaffirm it.
	Israel's claims to the West Bank capture during the Six-Day War in 1967 have been a flashpoint for decades.
	Keith, I find this so insulting beyond belief, but there it is.
	No doubt it's going to move forward and pass.
	Well, there again, Americans are paying for ethnic cleansing.
	Take these two conflagrations right now, whether it's Israel or over in Ukraine.
	They are fighting to the last Ukrainian.
	This is ethnic cleansing.
	They're destroying the Orthodox Christians over there.
	They're destroying the language.
	This is pure racism, and it's sponsored by the United States government.
	Yes, yes.
	Now, here's another action I say.
	Look at it through the prism of Israel and what emerges.
	Trump calls for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
	Now, bear in mind, the Russians are kicking butt in Ukraine.
	They're destroying the Ukrainians.
	And actually, the soldiers are putting on the front line.
	Keith, they're overwhelmingly Christian.
	They're using this to depopulate Ukraine and slaughter Christians in the meat grinder, but Russia's making rabbit advances on every front.
	So, what would be in the best interest of Ukraine and Israel?
	A ceasefire.
	President-elect Trump demanded an immediate ceasefire negotiation to begin in Ukraine.
	He made the remarks on Truth Social after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
	Likewise, Zelensky in Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness.
	They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers and many more civilians.
	I'd say actually the number is closer to a million.
	There shouldn't be an immediate ceasefire and negotiation begin.
	Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted.
	Too many families destroyed.
	And if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger and far worse.
	He added, I know Vladimir well.
	And of course, that's not Voldemort.
	He's talking about Putin.
	This is his time to act.
	China can help.
	The world is waiting on the campaign trail.
	Trump told the American people he would bring the war in Ukraine to an end within 24 hours of taking office without laying out a plan.
	Since getting elected, he's appointed a slew of Russia hawks to staff his incoming administration.
	His national security advisor, Mike Waltz, envoy to the Ukrainian conflict, Keith Kellogg, have each endorsed the outgoing Biden administration decision to significantly escalate the war in Ukraine by allowing Kiev to conduct long-range strikes inside Russia.
	Saturday, Trump met Zelensky in France.
	Following Trump's post, Zelensky wrote on social media, I say that we need a just and enduring peace, ones that Russia will not be able to destroy in a few years as they have done repeatedly in the past.
	The hypocrisy here is mind-boggling.
	His concept of peace is for Russia to withdraw from all the territories, for Ukraine to become a part of NATO and Russia to pay reparation to rebuild Ukraine.
	I mean, it's insane.
	It's a no-brainer.
	And yet he's pretending as though he's an advocate for peace.
	Trump also gave an interview with Meet the Brass airing over the weekend where he said he expected other NATO members to spend more on their militaries.
	They have to pay their bills, adding he'd absolutely think about withdrawing from the alliance.
	Before Trump's first term, he made similar remarks about removing Washington from NATO and engaging Putin in diplomacy.
	However, He emerged from his first term, having significantly degraded the U.S. relationship with Russia.
	And I don't know that there's a reason to think the outcome of his second is going to be any different, Keith.
	Well, let me start.
	First of all, you're not sharing your screen, so I can't follow along with you.
	But anyway, let me quote Mr. Putin.
	Putin said, and here we have A Ukrainian president who's Jewish.
	And he's leading a band of Nazis.
	And this is where you follow the so-called paper trail to the Times of Israel.
	I think it was the Times of Israel which said, or it was Haaretz, where it says human rights organizations demand that Israel stop arming neo-Nazis.
	So Mr. Putin knows who started this whole thing.
	It's kind of like the Mossad up there with the PKK. But Mr. Putin knows that it's Israelis behind this thing.
	Remember, he promised Bennett that he wouldn't kill Zelensky.
	But again, like I say, between the two conflagrations right now, whether it's Israel or Ukraine, there are two ethnic cleansings going on.
	And believe me, it won't stop there, but You know, a lot of people, if you read the Pale of Settlements and stuff, you'd understand that.
	But anyway, this is their old ancient Kazarian homeland.
	And they want to secure it for themselves.
	And putting demarcation lines up in whatever territory now still means that NATO's on your border.
	And still, the thing with Russia today is the goal of the denazifying Ukraine is going to take place, come hell or high water.
	And if that takes going on to Kiev, which is the old ancient homeland of the Khazars and Russia, that we may see Kiev fall too.
	And I will comment that I haven't yet to see any Atakums or other type missiles ever since Russia launched that hypersonic missile there.
	But there are those that, you know, when you hear people talking about like sending a billion dollars to Ukraine and stuff, Well, a lot of that is propping up their government and stuff, but it's also to buy U.S. arms.
	And Americans are supposed to feel good because they're gainfully employed because they're making bombs allegedly for our defense.
	But as you notice, the Western supplies of ammunition to support their own countries in case of times of war are being depleted.
	So that would really put the United States in a really bad area if this country was attacked because they couldn't even defend themselves unless it went nuclear.
	Good stuff, good stuff.
	Can you now see?
	I thought we were sharing screen from the beginning.
	Now here's a wonderful piece.
	Actually published on my birthday, December 6th.
	Who the hell is in charge here?
	If Trump submits to Israeli control as Biden did, we need a revolution by Phil Giraldi.
	A photo popped up on the internet, a bit of a surprise even for those of us who've been overly obsessed with a seemingly aimless and highly dangerous comedy routine that describes itself as the United States of America's foreign policy.
	The U.S. has confronted no real security threats since the Cold War ended, but has done so many things that were against its own interest that that finds itself seconds away from nuclear emulation as registered on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock.
	Recently, there's been much discussion of what Trump will do regarding the wars he's inherited from Biden in Ukraine and the Middle East.
	Bear in mind that Donald Thinks he's a tough guy.
	And believe by throwing around threats, he'll inevitably get his way.
	Concerning Ukraine, he's repeatedly promised to end the war in one day.
	Though he's not exactly provided details on how you expect to accomplish that.
	Sebastian Gorka, your new deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism, has explained Trump will use the threat of increasing military aid to Ukraine.
	As a tactic to bring Russia to the negotiating table.
	Let me add, it ain't going to work.
	I mean, that's so stupid, I can hardly believe it.
	Gorka called Putin a murderous former KGB colonel and said Putin must negotiate now or the aid we've given to Ukraine thus far will look like peanuts, which is such an inflammatory, really disgusting thing that ought to Motivate Putin to end the war before Trump even enters office, which he can do effortlessly.
	The comment is so preposterous.
	Those monitoring the situation are waiting to hear something from Trump himself to provide some clarity.
	Trump's connection with Israel suggests he, like Biden, will do whatever Yahoo wants.
	On the campaign trail, he has openly and ostentatiously bonded closely with Israel and its Jewish and Christian Zionist supporters, describing himself as the Jewish state's best friend.
	Nevertheless, on at least one occasion, he rebuffed now and following the 2020 election as soon-to-be ex-president, lashed out at the prime minister for being, in his words, the first person who congratulated Biden.
	The internet photo that appeared last week showed a festive gathering at Mar-a-Lago featuring a beaming Donald Trump, seated with Senator Lindsey Graham, standing behind him with a big smile on his face.
	Sit next at Trump or two grinning apparent guests at Trump, whose faces would not be familiar to most Americans.
	The woman was Sarah, the wife of Israeli PM Netanyahu.
	Seated next to her was her son Yair, who reportedly has been living in Miami.
	The presence of Prime Minister's wife and son at Mar-a-Lago Friday signaled a clear desire by the Israelis to maintain the much-needed warmth In their personal relationship with the American president.
	The backstory to how Sarah and Yarra arrived at Mar-a-Lago is a bit murky, but it appears that Graham, a passionate and outspoken advocate for all things Israelis, He was on one of his frequent trips to the country a few days before the dinner, may have brought Sarah back with him to meet personally with the president-elect and suggest to the incoming admin that the ties that bind the net, you know, and the Trumps transcend politics.
	In that light, It is perhaps no coincidence that so soon after the arrival of Sarah, President-elect Donald Trump issued a grave warning to Hamas, which is still holding something like 100 Israeli hostages in Gaza, violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire world, according to Trump.
	Which is ridiculous.
	Those who have been released have acknowledged they were treated in a humane fashion by Humaz, unlike the prisoners that the IDF regularly rapes and tortures even to death.
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	Then he continues, in a true social post
	Monday afternoon, Trump said, if the horse stages were not released by his inauguration January 20th, there'll be all hell to pay in the Middle East for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity.
	He seemed to be talking about the October 7th and all that, because the atrocities have been the Israelis, the idea, not...
	Hamas.
	Trump concluded those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has hit in the long and storied history of the United States of America.
	Release the hostages now.
	Keith, that's just such a shocking statement.
	There's a long and storied history of the United States, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	So what's he going to do?
	Is he going to nuke Hamas?
	Is he going to nuke Gaza?
	I mean, this is just grotesque.
	Your thoughts?
	Well, I sent you the video from Ehud Barak, who said that Netanyahu is the one that created Hamas and stuff.
	But the point is, Qatar was fed over a billion dollars.
	Is he going to nuke Qatar?
	Because why wasn't Qatar sanctioned and stuff like that?
	It was all a setup.
	This has all been planned out for eons like that.
	This is why Bibi can stand up there at the UN with his green-colored map and show you the greater Israel, which means that tens of millions of more immigrants will be...
	It's already 37 million since the war on terror started in the Middle East.
	So 37 million now...
	When you start displacing the Palestinians in Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and other areas, Egypt and stuff like that, can you imagine the amount of mass immigration?
	Then, the United States is backing this Al-Qaeda leader over there, which is now the HTS and is still on the wanted list.
	But they're putting three Muslim fractions together over there, which is going to cause religious racial tension.
	And they're covered it by a new diversity thing.
	So now the new government over there is going to be diversity, you know?
	So, I mean, it's going to break different chains of the Muslim world, and I think they're setting themselves up for a massive uprising.
	Well, of course, you're talking about what was our next story, the development in Syria, which are rather astonishing.
	Now, again...
	Trump urges U.S. to stay out of Syria's collapse.
	Israel agrees.
	There again, he's on the Israeli side.
	In any event, Syria's a mess, but it's not our friend.
	The United States should have nothing to do with it, Trump said.
	This is not our fight.
	Let it play out.
	Let us not get involved.
	But frankly, that's absurd, because we created al-Qaeda.
	We created ISIS. We have been funding and supporting this H- I mean, it's just outrageous.
	They get running it together with Harry Truman's initials.
	The actors find Assad are his enemies, each other's enemies, but they're also our enemies.
	Therefore, from Israel's perspective, the best thing that can happen is that they both bleeding each other.
	But in fact, Israel has been against Assad.
	Israel has been wanting to take control of Syria.
	The situation is so dire.
	Assad and family evacuated Russia.
	Iran has begun withdrawing its military personnel.
	Russia doesn't have a plan to save Assad and doesn't see one emerging as long as the Syrian president continues to abandon its position, a source told The Telegraph.
	I'm frankly shocked that Russia would allow this to happen.
	Experts on the Russian military said the country would struggle to evacuate its main airbase in Syria before the terrorists capture it.
	They believe all the personnel will be evacuated, but much of the hardware, including planes used to back the Syrian regime, would be left behind.
	Fighting in the Syrian civil war had remained largely quiet since 2020 when a ceasefire was struck, but recent events cracked the forces that had kept the current line frozen.
	I don't get it.
	The two main events that have changed were Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and the Iranian back-to-Moss Terrace launching their unprecedented attack on October 7, which we know was orchestrated by the IDF. Russia's invasion,
	as siphoned a way to support it, would have sent back to Assad, primarily to fight the HTS, a designated foreign terrorist organization that evolved out of al-Qaeda's former branch in Syria, and indeed ISIS. HTS leader, a terrorist who has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U.S. government, as you were observing.
	I'm in the excitement surrounding the potential downfall of the brutal dictator Bashir al-Assad.
	He's not a dictator.
	He's a democratically elected president of Syria.
	He has a support of 80% of the Syrian people.
	I don't know how they come up with this propaganda again and again, the bald line to the world.
	Analysts and media often overlook it's happening at the hands of jihadist groups.
	Said Joe Druzman, senior research analyst and editor and foundation for defense of democracy's long war journal.
	The prospect of a Syrian state dominated by Islamic factions, especially if they gain access to advanced weaponry pilfered from regime arsenals on Dali raises significant concerns in Israel and the surrounding region.
	I doubt that.
	Here's a map now coming from the truth seeker.
	Will Damascus fall?
	We know Damascus has fallen.
	Mike Whitney for the UNS Review.
	In a matter of days, a small army of battle-hearted GIs has swarmed across Syria, shattering of fragile troops, threatening the regional balance of power.
	The surprise blitz set the stunned Syrian army into full retreat while mostly foreign militants have seized the country's industrial hub, Aleppo, and its fourth largest city, Hamas.
	The unexpected route, It has delivered a knockout blow to the government of Bashar al-Assad, who has now appealed to Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah to deploy troops and weaponry to stave off the devastating offensive and prevent the fall of Damascus.
	It didn't happen.
	Allies must move quickly, however, if they plan to save the regime and stop the relentless advance of the Turkish-backed invaders.
	Enemy forces are now gathering just a Hundred kilometers from the capital, suggesting their intention to topple the present government and install a regime allied with its foreign benefactors, Israel, Turkey, and the United States.
	Friday, Turkish Western Erwin tacitly congratulated the terrorist militias on the verge of toppling Assad without explicitly admitting his role in the treachery.
	Meanwhile, there it is.
	In plain English, Erwin supports the jihadist advance on democracy and welcomes the ousting of the government.
	In truth, the war on Syria has been a long-term project for Erwin, dating back more than a decade, leading to the splintering of the state into multiple parts controlled by the U.S., the Kurds, Israel, and a number of disparate militant groups under control of Ankara.
	The latest onslaught poses the greatest threat the government has ever faced, and we know, of course, it has fallen.
	Here's a wonderful image of Erdogan taking off his Turkish mask, showing he's a full-blown Israeli stooge.
	Meanwhile, Hal Turner did a wonderful job of covering this.
	The Russian Foreign Ministry announced President Bashar al-Assad of Syria stepped down to press and left the country.
	After issued instruction for a peaceful transition of power, no, no, no.
	He cannot have done that.
	There's nothing peaceful about this, and he most certainly would not issue such instructions.
	Moscow stated it was not involved in the negotiation leading to the decision and called on all parties to avoid violence and pursue a political resolution, which is ridiculous.
	Keith, I am so dismayed by Putin here.
	It seems to me he has betrayed Syria.
	He's betrayed Iran.
	We all know this is part of the Greater Israel Project.
	It was initiated after 9-11.
	Where Wesley Clark revealed the plan to take out the governments of seven countries in the next five years, where they began with Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, ending with Syria, and then the Persian nation of Iran.
	Now Syria has fallen.
	I am disgusted beyond words.
	Your thoughts?
	Well, I understand what Mr. Putin has done.
	It is for the sake of Syria, though.
	There is no reason to jeopardize the Iranian and Chinese ties.
	That's more important to Mr. Putin, and this will all play out.
	But sadly, though, that Syria has fallen.
	Again, though, as I've said before, or as even Gerald Salenti would say, if Iraq or any of these guys was growing broccoli, the United States wouldn't be in there.
	But it's all oil resources.
	These are all these planned oil lines across the entire Middle East.
	And, of course, Iran is the final target.
	So, of course, Mr. Putin is going to get divided on Syria.
	That's a smaller item in the cash, I guess you'd call it there.
	But we have the Belt Road Initiative, BRICS and stuff.
	And so Syria is a small cog in the wheel, I guess you'd call it.
	And I could understand that it wouldn't be worth diverting Russia's attention from Ukraine and stuff.
	To get embroiled in another war, which is exactly what they wanted, was to distract Mr. Putin, just like the Georgia uprising.
	They wanted Georgia to be a second front against Putin there.
	But, I mean, it's all geopolitical, and the United States doesn't care who gets killed as long as there's arms sales and billions of dollars in orders.
	Just like when Blinken said that the money to Ukraine doesn't actually go to Ukraine, it stays at home, it creates jobs, blah blah blah, you know.
	And you're supposed to be a proud, patriotic American knowing that you're building bombs that are killing innocent civilians.
	Well, I want to go back over your rationale from Putin's point of view because contrary to your insinuation, I believe he actually can walk and chew gum at the same time.
	I see no reason why he could not have defended Iran by supporting Syria because it's obviously the effort Taking Syria is to launch a further attack on Iran.
	No, I cannot see any benefits for Iran from Putin allowing Syria to fall.
	I'd be grateful if you could expand upon that, my friend.
	Okay, well, Syria, now this is a Zionist plan because right now Israel's up over in the Golden Heights firing over into Syria, taking out all the weapons caches and stuff like that.
	This was to totally disarm Syria from any arms from Iran, which was flowing to Hezbollah.
	That's why they did the peace treaty.
	This was another little psych, you know.
	Israel didn't stop the peace treaty, like, you know.
	Or a ceasefire, I guess you'd call it.
	They just pulled back to their normal lines, and then suddenly this entire war erupts over there in Syria.
	This was all planned.
	The Pentagon fighters are meting it out with the CIA-backed rebels and all this.
	We, the taxpayers, are paying for it.
	And I forget, I just saw something that said what the average wage was in Syria and Iraq and stuff, and what those fighters are getting paid.
	I think it's like $450 a month or something like that, which is good, good money.
	And so you can drag out jihadist fighters from anywhere.
	Good money in the Middle East, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's like in Ukraine and stuff, same thing.
	Middle East, you've seen the Red Cross boxes full of $100 bills.
	These aren't going to foreign aid.
	These are going to support these jihadist troops and stuff like that, all trained by Western backed NGOs, all this stuff, you know.
	And again, this country has to survive off war.
	It's an empire.
	So anything you're seeing in the Middle East is all part of this wide vision of pipelines, Whether it's through Iraq, Syria, into Turkey.
	Turkey gets revenue from the pipeline.
	That's why they're in on it.
	They didn't shut the oil off to Israel.
	Israel's new Mediterranean Eastern pipeline, which is supposed to flow up through Greece and on up to supply Europe, blowing up the Russian pipeline.
	This has all been done.
	And, of course, it's because of the corporate side of America There's that 1992 article that the United States will not let no rival spring up like that.
	So as long as millions of people are dying elsewhere and Americans can drive their cars or SUVs and whatever like that and keep the gas prices low, they don't care about who gets killed or anything like that, just as long as they have their RVs or boats and stuff.
	I mean, it's saddening, but it's true.
	Well, let me add a few further thoughts from Hal Turner.
	Violence solves everything.
	The takeaway from today's resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is that force and violence actually work when it comes to effectuating political change.
	If you attack enough things and kill enough people, you get to overthrow a government and seize power.
	People who say violence never solves anything are flatly wrong.
	It turns out that violence solves everything.
	The day is proof.
	You mentioned the gas pipeline, yes.
	Back in 2011, when the first outbreak of terrorist violence and civil war broke out in Syria, the entire effort was prompted because Syrian President Assad refused to grant permission for a natural gas pipeline to run from Qatar through Syria to the Mediterranean Sea in Greece.
	The image below shows that two competing proposals for natural gas pipelines, one from Qatar to Europe would enrich Qatar, which is favorable to the West.
	The other would be from Iran, which is not favorable to the West.
	Both would have to run in part through Syria.
	The pipeline was designed to provide natural gas to Europe instead of Europe having to rely on Russian gas.
	Even back in 2011, the effort to harm Russia was underway here in the US while Hillary was Secretary of State.
	It was then all this Syrian violence broke out.
	President Assad no sooner refused permission for the Qatar pipeline than a gigantic media blitz began saying Assad was a vicious dictator, murdering his own people and more.
	That's when all these groups, The Free Syrian Army, the Syrian Defense Force, it all began cropping up amazingly.
	They all had brand new Toyota pickup trucks, meals ready to eat, fuel guns, rocket launchers, ammo, and so forth.
	It was clear the group trying to overthrow Assad back then were being equipped and financed by the US and countries in the Middle East, all of whom had something to gain from the proposed gas pipeline to Europe that could not run through Syria, given Assad's opposition.
	From 2011 through September 2015, Syria fought ISIS and other terror groups, As events went bad for Syria in 2015, they appealed to their ally Russia.
	Assad went to Putin and told them they wanted to build a natural gas pipeline through Syria to Europe, for the express purpose of cutting off Russia supplying gas to Europe.
	I stopped that to protect Russian gas sales.
	Now I need your help to stop those attempting to overthrow me.
	On September 30th, 2015, Russia agreed to enter the conflict and protect Syria and did so within months.
	ISIS, SDF, FSA were all bombed into oblivion by Russian aerospace forces.
	The Syrian government regained control of their country.
	Toward the end of the Russian war, all the bad guys who tried to overthrow Assad were cornered in a city named Adlib in Syria.
	It was then that Turkey The UK and other nations told Russia, please don't smash Iblit.
	Our people are there.
	We'll get them out.
	We just need time.
	Russia agreed.
	Military action ceased over Iblit.
	But as we can see now, those assurances from the West were lies.
	They didn't evacuate.
	The only thing the West really did was to cover their people in Italy, rebuild their forces, allow them to once again move against Assad, startling about two months ago.
	And of course, that's exactly what happened in Ukraine, where they had what was supposed to be a peace deal, but it was all lies by the West to beef up Ukraine to defeat Russia.
	And by the way, they don't just want to defeat Russia to preserve Ukraine.
	They want to invade and carve up Russia and seize its natural resources, which are estimated even by Putin himself at $88 trillion.
	The greed of the West knows no bounds.
	The only thing the West really did was covertly arm their people in Adlib, rebuild their forces, allowing them to once again move against Assad starting about two weeks ago.
	Only this time, the bad guys move so fast with such force they overwhelm both Syria and Russia as such.
	Today, Assad fell.
	Look for a natural gas pipeline from Qatar.
	That'll be built through Syria when it happens, and it will.
	You'll realize this whole thing was really about dollars and weakening Russia by usurping their natural gas sales to Europe, which of course were interdicted by destroying the Nord Stream pipelines.
	Keith, your thoughts?
	Well, as you've cited there, Jim, it's just as I said, it's all about oil and pipelines.
	It's interesting to listen to these seven-hour recordings of U.S. soldiers in Iraq riding around in their Humvees and stuff.
	Those boys know exactly what's going on, whether it's Kellogg Brown and Root or any of that stuff.
	Listening to them talk about it's our oil, they're just sitting on top of it.
	I mean, this is the mental psyche of the United States, and I don't know how they drill it into the military.
	I'm non-military, so.
	But to sit there and And have this to the point where U.S. soldiers actually think that the oil underneath someone else's land belongs to the United States.
	I mean, especially since this used to be a predominantly Christian country.
	But to sit there and then go into these countries and bomb millions to death, level their cities, and then wonder why you have immigration, of course.
	And then to sit there and kind of laugh at the fact that when they talk about 500,000 Iraqi children dying, You know, that the price is worth it, you know?
	When you see Iranians and others burning the US flag or chanting death to America, it's not because they're jealous that their men can't marry each other and stuff.
	It's because of what the United States has done to their country.
	And if you look up the Anglo-Iranian pipeline, you'll understand exactly how the entire Iranian Revolution started.
	And of course, how the CIA got involved in that.
	It all involves what they call the Seven Sisters, the massive oil companies that keep the world lubed, I guess.
	That's the only way to put it.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	Here's Mike Adams summing it up very concisely.
	Syria falls to Western-run proxy forces, inflicting deep strategic blow to Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia.
	There are huge global economic and strategic implications stemming from the fall of Syria that just took place.
	It will accelerate the world toward global conflict by allowing Israel to rapidly expand its territory eastward toward Iran.
	He has more to say.
	In alternative view, I find this somewhat peculiar.
	It comes from Mike King of the anti-New York Times, who offers a rebuttal To the Times reporting what we've just been explaining ourselves, Assad's rule ends.
	None of this makes any sense, writes Mike King.
	But sure enough, it's got the black bill dealers and sunshine patriots buzzing from the article.
	This is now the New York Times.
	President Bashir al-Assad has resigned and left Syria.
	Russia's foreign ministry said on Sunday, a stunning fall for the longtime dictator, Sikh, What kept rebel forces at bay for years with the help of Moscow and Tehran.
	Mr. Ellis saw at departure after rebels opposed to his rule swept through the country in a lightning offensive.
	It was an earth-shaking moment in the history of Syria, which had been ruled by his family with an iron fist—I don't think that's correct—since the early 1970s.
	It marked a dramatic breakthrough for rebel factions in Syria who have been trying to unseat it for more than a decade, much of which marked by a devastating civil war.
	Back to my king.
	The real heat of the Mossad CIA proxy war in Syria, deceitfully dubbed the Syrian Civil War by fake news, took place between 211 and 218. The decisive factors that finally crushed subversive moderate levels in ISIS were the following.
	First, Trump 2017 cut off of both direct and indirect CIA funding for the moderate levels in ISIS. Second, the active combat involvement of the forces of Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah in support of Assad.
	Third, the dynasty and loyalty of Syrian military forces.
	Fourth, The support of the vast majority of the Syrian people, as I mentioned before, 80% support the guy who was their democratically elected president, not a dictator.
	By 2023, even the butthurt Globalist Council on Foreign Relations had to admit Assad was not going anywhere.
	Hopeful regime change have largely died out.
	Peace talks have been fruitless.
	Some regional governments are reconsidering their opposition to engaging with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
	The government has regained control of most of the country, and Assad's hold on power seems secure.
	My king.
	And now, just like that, he's gone as a result of what's being described by wall-to-wall accounts as a lightning offensive.
	Here's some headlines.
	Syrian rebels lightning offensive.
	Syrian rebels lightning offensive 11 days to the fall of Damascus.
	A small lightning offensive evidently got the Russians, Iranians, and Syrians asleep.
	Everyone, Mike King says, just calmed down.
	But the deep state in such a state is a deep state in such a state of decay that its network can't even muster up street protests in the U.S. With a deep state in such a state of decay that its networks can't even muster up street podcasts in the UN,
	let alone Color Revolution again, we're expected to believe that remnant jihadists just emerged out of nowhere, captured homes and strolled into Damascus within a matter of hours, toppled a popular Russian-backed Iranian-backed leader who had not been dislodged during the days of peak rebel power under Soros Obongo, Which coincided in the days of big Zionist power under Bibi Satyehu?
	If Soros and Bibi, rivals with a common pull in Assad, are both dead or in prison, and indeed they are, then who's to believe these new lightning jihadists?
	As the editorial board of the NI New York Times sees it, this would be akin to a pack of six jackals being killed or badly injured by a male lion they could not take down after a long, ferocious struggle.
	Now imagine!
	Just one year later, a single remaining jackal, missing a tooth and limping from his injuries, instantly and effortlessly taking down and eating the very same king of the jungle, who at this time is actually stronger than when he fended off the whole pack.
	Does that make any sense?
	Clearly, and he continues right after this break.
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	Mike King continues.
	Clearly, what just happened in Syria has to be part of the movie being scripted by Whitehead Productions.
	A likely replay of things that would have happened had the cabal had its way.
	As for the specific purpose and endgame of this particular scene, following other scripted scenes such as the October 7th Hamas raid and kidnappings in Israel, the subsequent wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the missile exchanged between Iran and Israel, that remains unclear.
	But we do have some theories we'll keep to ourselves until the inevitably illuminating passage of time clears things up a bit.
	It always does.
	For now, understand that it's all a necessary part of an ever-twisting and turning show rapidly approaching its climax.
	Trust the plan.
	And he has several images here.
	After nearly a decade of heroism, blood, and sacrifice, you really believe that Assad and Putin would just stand down like this and allow Syria to fall to a globalist Zionist mafia that no longer even exists?
	Hat-trip to Joe Rambo.
	Images of Barbara from CubePost 298 posted September 7, 2017, exactly seven years between Assad's fall at the hands of extened deep-state rebels in 2024. Will this all blow up on deep-state Israel soon?
	I find all this very curious.
	He ends with his conversation at the water cooler, Bubus Americanus Juan.
	I read in the New York Times today, saw it had fled Syria, a boobus Americanist, who, yes, I understand it was a lightning offensive, St. Sugar's cat.
	More like a phantom offensive, boobus.
	Editor, this stunt caught me by surprise.
	Let's see how it fell off.
	Meanwhile, we have Colonel Jack Boat talking about it.
	it.
	Let's listen to a bit.
	Hi, everybody.
	Today is Monday, December 9th, and Colonel Jacbo is back with us.
	Welcome back, Colonel.
	Yes, thank you very much for having me back in your show.
	Thank you.
	Let's start with what's going on in the West Asia, the situation in Syria.
	There was some sort of chaos in Syria.
	Assad right now, the government has fallen.
	Assad is in Russia.
	We had We haven't seen the Syrian army fighting against the rebellions, these HTS fighters.
	And Iran and Russia, it seems that they're confused with the situation.
	Here is the note coming from the Russian government.
	Their statement, they're talking about what has happened in Syria, was decided by the Syrian government.
	They were not part of the process of deciding what's going to be the next, what's going to be the future of Syria, and how they're going to decide about the future of their country.
	And Iranian are talking the same way.
	But after all, when you look at Syria and the importance of Syria and what has happened in Syria, what's your take on what has happened?
	Well, I have studied quite extensively the Syrian conflict in my book, Governing by the Fake News.
	And I studied that quite extensively because obviously this is a conflict that started and was initiated, in fact, From the outside, this has never been a revolution or rebellion from inside of Syria.
	It was something that was guided from the outside, and we have seen that very concretely with the arrival of Libyan foreign fighters, those who actually toppled the Qaddafi government in Libya.
	They came afterwards in In Syria.
	And if you look at the figures, by the way, it's quite interesting to see.
	I can show that.
	The West Point Center for the Study of Terrorism or Research on Terrorism, they studied where The combatants in Afghanistan and Iraq came from, and they found that 85% of them came from the area of Benghazi, Darna, exactly the place where the Libyan revolution started.
	And then we have, when we look at the friend fighters in 2014, That came into Syria to fight the government, you see incredible numbers of Libyan, Turkish, Tunisian, Lebanese, Iraqi fighters, and so on and so forth.
	They even had people from Russia, mainly coming from the Dagestan area and Chechnya, exactly.
	But no, Czechia is listed here so currently.
	Here are those from Dagestan.
	So in any case, we see that we had at that time literally a revolution staged from outside.
	And I don't want to go into all the details of that war, but We have to understand that when this war started in 2011, Syria was a viable state.
	You had institutions, work functioning and working institutions, you had an army, you had infrastructures, you had and so on and so forth.
	And they waged a very, very tough war with those Insurgent or foreign fighters and so on.
	And that was a war where the Syrian population suffered a lot.
	And because of the sanctions, because of the permanent bombing coming from Israel, coming from United States, having part of the country occupied by the Kurds and the US,
	or Kurds backed by the US, having all resources confiscated or literally stolen by the US. And a part of the country, namely the northern western part of the country,
	still occupied by those Islamists, because in 2017 Based on discussion between Russia, Turkey, and the Syrian government, they created those so-called de-escalation zones that were in here a map probably to illustrate my point.
	There were those de-escalation zones in the area of Idlib, the area of Daraa here in the south, We had a small area close to Damascus and other close to Amman.
	And all the Islamists were regrouped in those areas.
	Well, there's much more, of course, he has to say, but the whole event is massively troubling.
	Now it turns out that the U.S. is launching airstrikes in Syria, ignoring the backlash after Trump's warning to avoid Middle East quagmire.
	U.S. Central Command Forces conducted dozens of precision airstrikes targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria on December 8th.
	Frankly, that's very peculiar because ISIS is our guise.
	The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS to prevent the terrorist group from conducting external operations and ensure ISIS does not need to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria.
	But it seems to me that this has already happened.
	This is very damn peculiar.
	Keith, what do you make of this?
	Well, as I said before, Jim, when...
	They start outlining where all these so-called jihadist fighters come from.
	You know the old saying about skin in the game?
	Of what benefit would it be for some, say, Libyan fighters or Ugar Muslims?
	Remember, as Pompeo talked about the imprisonment of the Ugar's up there in China, while over 5,000 of them were fighting in Syria on the behest of the United States government.
	And that's why China was locking them up, because they were radicalized Muslims.
	But the point is, though, someone is paying their wages, and while Americans here, like in Tennessee and stuff, can't get help to the state or whatever like that to rebuild their homes, whatever like that, there's billions of dollars for Africa, billions of dollars for Ukraine, billions of dollars for Ukraine, and other portions of it, and billions for Israel, and there's nothing for the American people.
	And yet we're supposed to be paying for all this stuff, And the amount of austerity that's soon to come to this country is going to be shocking.
	But the point is, though, someone's paying all those wages.
	And of what benefit?
	Again, skin in the game.
	Are any of these so-called jihadist fighters going to be getting kickbacks from these oil lines and stuff?
	That's where you start looking, see?
	So if you're able to do the research on it like that.
	Otherwise, they're just...
	What's that term they use in the military, Jim?
	Bodies?
	They're just bodies?
	They don't care about death, you know.
	But remember, no war can be won from the air.
	It has to be a ground war.
	So they need these, like Zelensky up there, let's just draft the 18-year-olds.
	They need the bodies.
	They need the bodies.
	That's all they care about.
	They don't care about anything else, except like as Lindsey Graham would say, to the last Ukrainian, it's all about the minerals and the resources and stuff.
	That's all they care about.
	It's not human life.
	Well, you got a lot of mercenaries.
	There's no doubt when ISIS was created back in 2012 by Hillary Clinton and John Brennan and Barack Obama, adamantly opposed by Mike Lynn, for which Brennan suggests that to Obama he should fire Flynn, which he obligingly did.
	There's no doubt that ISIS was our guys.
	A whole lot of them were sporting U.S. Army tattoos.
	They were financed.
	They were getting medical assistance from Israel.
	So this idea that CENTCOM is targeting ISIS just does not make any sense to me.
	Can you offer an interpretation of what this means as you see it?
	Yeah, there's a video of a Russian outpost that was posted on Telegram.
	And if you know anything about what was going on over there, Russia was using or employing or deploying their snipers and stuff like that.
	And Russia was cutting off the ISIS patches off these soldiers they killed.
	And so since those ISIS patches were in this little bunkhouse type thing, they're now trying to claim that Russia is ISIS. Well, that's silly.
	I mean, cutting off the pages could be like a body count.
	You know, you've got the patch represents a dead ISIS member, which, in my judgment, is all to the good.
	I mean, the Russians are on the right side here, just as they're on the right side in Ukraine.
	Well, as I told you before, though, Jim, it's even like these so-called protests.
	You know, where'd all the flags come from?
	Who prints these ISIS patches and stuff like that, you know?
	Is it done by union laborers or whatever?
	But anyway, the point was, Then there was a video of these really nice BMW-type things pulling up outside their central bank there and just dragging bags of cash out.
	Just dragging it out.
	So the bankers made sure they got their money out of Syria before all hell broke.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Well, a lot of this still doesn't make sense to me.
	Here's Biden.
	A new constitution.
	A new government that serves all Syrians.
	This process will be determined by the Syrian people themselves.
	The United States will do whatever we can to support them, including through humanitarian relief, to help restore Syria after more than a decade of war, and generation of brutality by the Assad family.
	There was no generation of brutality by the Assad family.
	I mean, the bullshit, the bullshit coming from the American government is suffocating.
	Jim, I got another one for you.
	When Saudi Arabia hangs a bunch of gays, it's all through the news to incite anger.
	Anyway, there was a video of them releasing the prisoners through the different penitentiary systems there in Syria.
	On the street corner, they interviewed three, which was saying, by the grace of Allah, we've been freed.
	Fifty of us were scheduled to die today.
	You know, it's like, isn't that interesting?
	You don't hear about any of these mass executions in Syria only after the so-called Syrian government falls that suddenly these people are all out in the streets saying, oh, yeah, Assad was killing 50 a day.
	I mean, this is how this propaganda works.
	Yes.
	Just ridiculous.
	I can't help feeling that Putin allowed this to happen when he should not have.
	This is a...
	First serious criticism I've had of Putin, perhaps, for not being sufficiently aggressive in Ukraine, obviously allowing the West to bamboozle him over ad lib, saying, you know, please, please, let us evacuate our people.
	He just should have gone ahead and taken them all out, Keith.
	I mean, I'm very, very distressed about what appears to be Putin's role here.
	Get this.
	Romanian court annuls vote Nicolaire's presidential election do-over after far-right pro-Russian candidate on top.
	Right?
	They can't have that.
	Something unprecedented just happened in the NATO and EU member country of Romania.
	A top court annulled the first round of the country's presidential election.
	Essentially, there'd now be a do-over.
	The constitutional court made the decision even as voting was still underway.
	The electoral process for the election of the president of Romania will be resumed in its entirety with a government required to set a new date for the election of the president of Romania as well as a new calendar for carrying out necessary actions.
	The court decided to annul the entire electoral process to ensure the correctness and legality of the electoral process in a controversial ruling that has never before happened.
	Here's Kalin Goriska, the widely dubbed far-right contender who came out on top in the first round.
	In its shock outcome, the left are both claiming Russian election interference.
	Of course, where have we heard that before?
	Apparently, the smoking gun is related to mere social media posts on platforms like TikTok.
	The Constitutional Court's unprecedented decision, which is final, came after President Klaus Iannis declassified Intel Wednesday, alleging Russia ran a sprawling campaign comprising thousands of social media accounts to promote Kalin Gorgosko across platforms like TikTok and Telegram.
	Gorgas Kouinroud's top of the ballot after the November 24th first round, despite declaring no campaign spending, and was set to enter a runoff originally scheduled for Sunday against reformist Alina Lasconi of the Save Romania Union Party.
	Contributing to the dossier examined by the court on the alleged Russian election interference included Romanian Intel Service, Foreign Intel Service, Special Telecommunications Service, Ministry of Internal Affairs.
	I wonder if they had a phony dossier by Michael Steele prepared for this occasion, Keith.
	His nationalistic rhetoric has proven ultra-popular, and social media videos featured him having racked up millions of views.
	But at least much of this would likely be genuine and organic, given the vast majority of the population leads ultra-conservative.
	Romania also has one of the highest church attendance rates in Europe, with the dominant religion being the very traditional Romanian Orthodox Church.
	Which is also in communion with the Russian Orthodox.
	This is the wildest thing I've ever seen, the EU-NATO establishment on a push-free.
	Keith, your thoughts?
	Well, it's basically, I mean, you look at it.
	They want a world government with one world religion.
	It's basically groupthink, no matter how you look at it.
	If anyone can't see it, regardless of whether you're a Muslim or a Christian, Orthodox Christian, whatever like that, The U.S. has waged eternal wars on the Catholic populations all down through Latin America and stuff, you know.
	But this is, you know, another thing is they want you devoid of any spiritual contact with your creator.
	It's the same thing what they've done with the Native Americans here, you know.
	Your God is a state.
	Your God is your money.
	In God we trust, you know.
	It's saddening, really, there, but that's what it is.
	It's They are deculturing the entire planet to bring us into this world government and where everything's supposed to be hunky-dory when you hear about Chris Laum and stuff like that, how things are merging, the LGBT agenda to make everyone co-equal and all this stuff, you know?
	It's a war on our cultures and that's what they can't stand is when people have their own rights, their own dignity, and they don't care about what other people are doing, just leave our kids alone and stuff like that, you know?
	But that's not how they want it.
	They want to intrude into everyone's lives.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Just also insulting.
	I mean, another country proves it's not democratic.
	If the wrong candidate wins, they're going to redo it.
	They're going to not allow him.
	I mean, obviously, a pro-Russian candidate would be wildly received in Romania.
	I mean, given what we know about the country, there ought to be nothing surprising.
	And the idea of Russian interference is just insulting beyond belief.
	Get this.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	There was five countries that fell this last week, and every one of them had financial problems.
	That tells you how fast this is coming apart.
	Speak more, Keith, about that significantly.
	Well, like I say, South Korea has a massive debt, and of course, the United States is out there saying, you know, you got to continue to buy arms because, as Lawrence Wilkerson said, that South Korea is going to be the lily pad for the launch for the war on China.
	Right now, Lawrence Wilkerson said that the United States, through the National Guard, is revamping all these islands throughout the old Japanese island chain, and they're putting runways and stuff like that.
	They're going to go to war with China like that, you know?
	So, like, say, you shouldn't be surprised that it's Russia that's the target this time, or Iran tomorrow, or something like that.
	China's in the crosshairs, because someone at the State Department, or at the White House, or whatever their foreign policy is, They all believe that the United States has a deed to the planet and we all know that the United States is being used by these oligarchs as the military and the financial prowess to conduct their wars across the planet so that they can own it all when it's done and of course the people be the ones that live under mass austerity when it's over.
	Yes.
	Here's the guy actually addressing these issues.
	I've seen yesterday Ms. Lascani made a witness to it.
	We have to help Ukraine witness war.
	We have to do all we can.
	The alternative candidate is for Ukraine.
	We see that the Romanian nation is being asked to enter the war in Ukraine.
	I miss Ukraine.
	I have seen yesterday how through manipulation young people were taking to the street.
	The same way she took to the street, she'll take them to war.
	I don't know if their parents are ready to send their children to war for them to never come back.
	The war in Ukraine must stop.
	For me, It's a strategy of peace, not a strategy of war.
	Keith, I think that explains that the other candidate was all for Ukraine.
	He's opposed to Ukraine.
	NATO can't allow to have a member state not be supportive of the war on Ukraine.
	Wow!
	So glad I played that clip.
	Your thoughts?
	Keith, did I lose you?
	Sorry, I had my mic off.
	Can you hear me now?
	Yes.
	Okay, sorry, I have my mic off.
	As Victor Hugo mentioned with Georgia, you know, it's all this diversity stuff.
	They want to bring in the LGBT stuff like that.
	You know, these countries are opposed to that because they're Orthodox Christian.
	They want nothing to do with the so-called outside West.
	It's the same thing, like I say, in Iran.
	When you look at, you know, whether it's the, I don't know if you want to call it Defeminizing or the headship thing that's outlined through either Christian or Muslim teachings, that the woman is subordinate of the husband and stuff like that.
	But anyway, they're trying to destroy our cultures.
	And this is the same thing with Khan up there in Pakistan.
	If you remember the Leslie Stahl interview that he did, she was talking about the amount of rapes that are now appearing in Pakistan.
	And he basically said, in English terms, that's because our women have been westernized and are dressing like sluts.
	So they're inviting the rapes by charging the hormones of these horny little Muslims running around, which like to proliferate.
	So she didn't like that answer, but that's exactly what was going on.
	Yeah, fascinating.
	By the way, let me mention, I am going to be opening the phone lines here right after the break.
	Bear in mind, the number is 608-957-8727.
	608-957-8727 to speak to Keith and me about these issues.
	I'd most certainly welcome your thoughts, especially what's going on in Syria.
	And why Russia would have abandoned Syria.
	I don't like this one bit.
	We'll be right back.
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	We have a first caller from Maricode 814.
	Brian, would that be you?
	That's me.
	I wanted to bring up the prophet, the seer, the psychic named Baba Yunga from Bulgaria.
	I think she died in the 80s.
	And her prediction was in the year of the dragon, which is this year, 2024, when Damascus falls, That will trigger, basically, World War III. She even said the war between the East and the West.
	I mean, it was really a specific prophecy.
	And, you know, when I look back at those things, like the things that Edgar Cayce said, I mean, you know, some of these are just really spot on.
	The fact she just hit it perfectly.
	And back then we didn't have an east and a west, you know, two power poles like that like we have today.
	So I just wanted to bring that up.
	Well, war between the east and the west hasn't broken out yet.
	So Damascus has fallen.
	There turned out to be biblical passages talking about Damascus falling in a day, but I don't know how to make heads or tails out of that either.
	Keith, do you have a comment on Brian's observation?
	Well, biblically, in the scriptures, it says that Damascus would be basically burned to ruins there, but you know what I see here is a repeat of Kosovo and Yugoslavia.
	Remember, after the treaties of Versailles, That all these nation states had their borders redrawn and it left a lot of people excluded from their homelands and stuff.
	And Hitler, to his credit, was trying to rectify some of that.
	And that's why you see the headlines of, you know, Hitler storms across Europe, you know.
	And that's because you can watch the old videos and see them throwing roses on German tanks, you know, because they were getting re-cultured again, back to their homeland, see.
	So what we're seeing now is In Syria, there's 25 million extremely mixed people, and if you listen to Ramsey Clark talking about the fall of Yugoslavia, he talked about it.
	All these beautiful Christian and Muslims all living together, no problem whatsoever, until NATO went in there and started bombing the shit out of them.
	Yes.
	I think NATO would go down historically as a calamitous Forced for evil, for bad, that has been enormously damaging to Western culture and values and wreaked savage, murderous consequences on nations where it's been deployed.
	It's grotesque.
	And people think NATO is a good thing.
	I mean, really, we gotta get our heads screwed on right.
	Brian Moore.
	Yeah, what I find interesting is, you know, I've talked about the fact that, you know, and people don't believe it, but, you know, Christ had all these lifetimes, Edgar Cayce said the same thing, and one of them was Hitler, and what people don't get,
	he was doing good things, but through Martin Borman, who worked for the City of London, they took it over from within, and that's why you suddenly had all these evil people That we're doing the things that they were doing on the Eastern Front, killing all the Russian prisoners.
	Hitler knew nothing about that.
	David Irving even talks about it, that there's no evidence.
	He knew what they were doing.
	They take over from within.
	And what I found interesting is what they showed me the other day is the Antichrist, Shabbat and ZV, came June 6th of 1666. Well, His fortress was Europe,
	and the reason they had the Normandy invasion on June 6th of 1944 is it was a dark saying, we're here to tear down the gates of Christ.
	The other thing that they showed me that was interesting is the date That they tried to assassinate Hitler was July 20th of 1944. And it was on that date,
	July 20th of 1666, that we went from the Romulan calendar to the Gregorian, also the Chabad calendar.
	And that is a totally different, that's a demonic calendar.
	So we're on On Satan's time, okay?
	And December, actually in Latin, means like 10. Decimal comes, you know, is 10. November's 9. October's 8. So December was like the 10th month in the Romulan calendar.
	But we've got to get on that 12-month calendar because that's 6-6.
	So that's part of why I say we live in illusion.
	Our time is illusion because it's not divine time.
	It's satanic time.
	It's why our energy, we're not on 432 megahertz, we're on 440. They do all of this throughout everything to create this evil illusion that we live in.
	Let me just ask about illusions as an agnostic.
	I don't buy into Christ having reincarnations, including his...
	Where do you come up with that?
	How can you possibly justify that as a rational position, or is it merely an article of faith?
	Well, I get it when I do those meditations.
	You've got three chakras.
	You've got seven chakras on your energy body, okay?
	Then, above them, And they start out, they go, your butt one is red.
	Your next one, where your genitalia is, is orange.
	They go red, orange, yellow, green, blue.
	Then it goes to indigo, blue, then purple.
	Those are your seven main chakras on your body.
	Then you've got three above those chakras that are beyond the veil.
	Okay?
	The veil, the matrix, whatever, And so there's a technique, and people don't know about it, where when you're doing these kundalini yogas I do, when you get to your third eye chakra, and you're done, you're getting ready to go to your crown chakra, instead of going to the crown, you focus on those three above all the bullshit.
	And you look at them, and then you bring that energy down to your crown.
	And then all this stuff hits you, okay?
	A lot of times I'll see visions of things.
	I'll see what went on in the other timelines.
	And what I saw with Hitler, I actually saw him in the basement of a church on a dirt floor with 20 other German soldiers.
	They'd been in a gas attack, and they're all going to die.
	And this light suddenly shows up, and they say, well, you're Jesus Christ, and you're going to lead the German people— And so anyway, that's how I get that stuff.
	And it's always spot on, okay?
	Hitler was born in 1889. The age of Aquarius started in 1890. He was like supposed to be our first leader for the new age, the age of Aquarius, but the dark interfered with it.
	So that's how I get it.
	What I find fascinating, Brian, I mean...
	I don't buy into it, but you weave such a coherent narrative, it just never ceases to amaze me.
	Keith, your thoughts?
	Keith, are you muted again?
	Keith, what happened to you, buddy?
	I'm still showing you here.
	Back to you, Brian.
	Do you have thoughts about Syria?
	What's happening in Syria there?
	Can you help me unravel the mysteries, given your mystic access to what most of us might view as unfathomable truths?
	Go right ahead.
	Well, you know, every country has a deep state.
	I've said that.
	And, you know, they're relentless.
	They will do everything and anything to get their way.
	And they want their way.
	They want that greater Israel.
	So I'm sure there was a lot of back and forth between all those free Masonic lodges all through Syria and Israel, wherever, to make sure they set this up because the Syrian army, they just dissolved.
	Those evil beings.
	Now we have Al-Qaeda that...
	El-Jabani is Al-Qaeda, okay?
	Headchoppers.
	They finally have their first state because even Afghanistan, the Taliban, wasn't Al-Qaeda.
	So it's all evil.
	And it really plays into exactly what that mystic, that prophet said, because, you know, this is going to end up being a real serious war against dark versus light.
	So that's what I get.
	Keith, again, are you there, my friend?
	Have you just disappeared off the face of Earth, Keith?
	I'm concerned, my friend.
	Hmm.
	I do have a report that Scott Ritter is explaining what's going on here.
	Let me see if I can pull it up.
	I'm back.
	Keith, you're back!
	What happened to you?
	I let the dogs out.
	Oh, you had to actually do something here.
	Did you hear any of...
	Yeah, there's one thing I would kind of speculate on is because from what I knew about any type of yoga type stuff like that, it used to be getting one into a spiritual in tune with what you call the chakra type stuff.
	And it seems like with yoga today...
	That it's devised to turn the person who's participating in yoga into a god himself.
	Does that make sense, Brian?
	Well, I mean, basically, we all are gods ourselves, okay?
	Your soul is a piece of god, all right?
	And when you get into religious, you know, garbage, because all of that...
	It's just to keep you from doing those kind of things.
	And all you're doing is you increase your intuition.
	Your soul is basically nothing more than a battery for your ego mind.
	No, I understand that.
	Yeah, I listen to Alan Watt quite a bit.
	And I really appreciate it while he was around like that, that he would take the time to, what do you call it, relate all this stuff about the Buddhists and stuff, you know.
	It seems to me, though, that the person themselves are becoming more of the...
	And the reason I'm saying this, Brian, is I live on an Indian reservation.
	And I live among cultured Indians that believe in the great spirit, the fire, all that stuff.
	And so they're really in tune with the earth.
	Whereas most Americans and other religions, they don't care about people driving down the road, throwing diapers out and stuff like that.
	They're not into the earth.
	You remember the 1970s...
	Video of the tribal guy standing on the side of the road with the pollution, with a tear in his eye.
	Yeah.
	This is where we're at today, is that people aren't in tune with the things that are surrounding them.
	And even as Douglas McGregor would say, that most Americans don't give a damn about what's going on in the Middle East, don't care about what's going on in Ukraine.
	And their country runs roughshod across the entire planet like that, but it's in their name.
	And yet, this is a country that was...
	Presumably based on God Bless America, it's Christian heritage, all that stuff like that.
	And what's being done in our names would void any spiritual connection to any entity, if you ask me.
	Well, we live in basically Satan's world.
	I mean, when we are buried, we're put underground.
	We're an offering to basically...
	The dark, okay, for one of the gods.
	Hades.
	Hades is the lord of darkness.
	Vatica is the female goddess of darkness.
	That's where we get the word Vatican.
	So you're an offering to her when you die.
	Now look at the Indians before we screwed them up.
	They put their bodies on scaffoldings and, you know, point them towards the sky, towards the stars.
	So they were living a true spiritual life.
	Their teepees were circular.
	Everything that they, you know, they lived in that circle of life.
	And we live basically in darkness, okay?
	It's that simple.
	Listen, I've got Judge Napolitano with Scott Ritter.
	Let me see what we've got here.
	Scott, the CIA or other intelligence assets or even the military, and what role did the Israelis play in the fall of Assad?
	Well, the answer is we don't know right now.
	I mean, this is literally something that took the world by surprise.
	I know that President Biden went out and He made a presentation where he took credit for this.
	There's no doubt we've known for some time that the United States has been providing financial support for anti-Assad forces, both based out of Jordan and based in Idlib and operating out of Turkey.
	Turkey's been also underwriting the HTS terrorists.
	I mean, I know people are calling them up, but they're terrorists.
	They're headchoppers.
	I just want to remind people that the man who's currently sitting in Damascus at the head of what passes for a government in Syria started his career as an al-Qaeda terrorist in Iraq, killing Americans.
	And then he went to Syria, and he was a deputy to al-Baghdadi and ISIS, and he was part of that whole ISIS thing.
	Donald Trump, you were supposed to have beat him, remember?
	I killed all ISIS. Well, there he is.
	Jolani's back.
	He's now Ahead of Al-Qaeda became al-Nusra, now it's HTS. Now he's raised the black flag over Damascus.
	Let me just interrupt you for a minute.
	So a human being who cuts off the heads of those who disagree with him, and on whose head is a bounty posted by the United States State Department, has been supported by United States intelligence assets, lauded by the President of the United States, and now is at the head of this government.
	And killed Americans.
	What passes for a government.
	There isn't a government in Syria right now, but he has claimed the mantle of government.
	And it's worse because CNN, which is supposed to be a news media outlet, and I'll tell you, Danny, back to 2002, they worked hand-in-glove with the U.S. government to put out a U.S. government narrative.
	I was in the war room of CNN in the fall of 2002 as they prepared for the invasion of Iraq.
	Which wasn't going to take place until March of 2003. The United States hadn't committed to it, hadn't told Congress about it, hadn't gone to the United Nations, but the U.S. government certainly had gone to CNN and said, we're going to invade Iraq, get ready to shape the narrative force.
	CNN sent a reporter who sat down with Jolani and did just the greatest whitewash you've ever seen.
	And that was done with the permission of the U.S. government The CIA and CNN, again, I know this firsthand because I was there when it happened.
	They collude on shaping narratives.
	And this is definitely a CIA operation where I told CNN, go in there.
	We need you to whitewash this guy.
	You need to make him look clean because otherwise he has the blood of so many victims that he personally has beheaded and ordered to beheaded.
	He is literally a head chopper.
	But he's the guy in charge.
	The U.S. government has been supporting him.
	Supporting HTS, supporting these other Islamist fundamentals.
	Al-Qaeda, that's the only thing I can tell you right now, is that a large proportion of these people who float in to get rid of the Assad regime are Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda derivatives.
	They're the ones who attacked us on 9-11.
	Maybe not these people, but that mentality, that And we're backing them now, and we've put them in control of Syria after we committed American forces to drive them out of Iraq and Syria from 2014 to 2020. We've now surrendered to al-Qaeda and given them Syria, and now they have their eyes on Iraq.
	They're talking about making the caliphate that we said we didn't want to be made, but now it's politically convenient.
	The United States played a role, Turkey played a role, Israel played a role.
	But here's my take on this.
	Nobody expected this to happen.
	And the reason why I can tell you I believe that is the chaos.
	There is no orderly transition.
	There is no identified government.
	Jolani came in because HTS started what was supposed to be a limited attack in the Idlib area, basically to capture some highways that the Syrian government, together with the Russians, had taken from them back in 2020. To recapture those and solidify their position.
	And as they pushed in, the Syrian army evaporated.
	So they kept pushing.
	The Syrian army evaporated.
	They went into Aleppo.
	The Syrian army evaporated.
	So HTS just said, keep going.
	And they kept going.
	And there was not any resistance.
	And then behind them, the Syrian National Army was sitting there.
	They weren't part of this original offensive.
	And so they go, hey, guys, we got to get ginned up and let's get going.
	Everything that's happened since then is reactive in nature.
	It's not part of a proactive plan, carefully coordinated.
	Down south, they weren't prepared for this.
	Operation center that operates out of Jordan.
	They had to assemble their forces, and then they sort of slowly went in and were surprised that there was no resistance.
	Next thing you know, they're thrusting into Dara, moving to Damascus.
	This took everybody, including the militants, the terrorists, the operatives, the opposition that succeeded in overthrowing Assad, took everybody by surprise.
	Nobody anticipated this happening.
	So the key question is, how did this happen?
	I mean, this is the great unknown.
	You know, Russia and Iran have a heavy presence in Syria, and they're not stupid people.
	They've had their thumb on the pulse of Syria since 2014-2015.
	It was Qasem Soleimani, the Al-Quds Force commander, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, who went to Moscow in the summer of 2015 and pleaded for Russia to intervene.
	And in September 2015, the Russians came in and together, the Russian Air Force, the Iranian leadership, Iranian forces and proxies propped up the Syrian army, and in several years' time, they won an impressive victory, liberated the territory around Damascus, and drove the jihadists, al-Musra Front and others, out of mainstream Syria into Idlib, where they were sort of hemmed in there, and that's where they've been hemmed in ever since.
	The problem comes with the Syrian government and the Syrian army.
	This goes back to 2000 when Bashar al-Assad took over.
	He took over a rotten edifice.
	The Ba'athist regime, the generals, the governors were all very corrupt.
	His father was a failing leader, failing in his ability to ascertain, so people around him stepped in and they started to enrich themselves.
	When Bashar al-Assad When the first thing he did is shut down the corrupt general that was running the Syrian operation in Lebanon and he actually moved to pull the Syrian troops out that almost cost him his life because in doing that he disrupted not only the economy of the corrupt generals and governors but the economy of Syria which isn't an economy it's a it's a it's just this corrupt edifice and so he had to slow down and now this war came and he can't afford to shake up his power
	base And so he has to let the generals and the governors do what they do, which is enrich themselves.
	And once the fighting stopped and things settled down, these people, instead of preparing for war, enrich themselves.
	And this gets worse when you have sanctions.
	You know, the United States has put the Caesar sanctions on and all the other sanctions on Syria.
	Everybody who knows this, and I saw this firsthand in Iraq, when you sanction an economy, the first thing that happens is you get a black market economy.
	And that's an economy off the books.
	And in Syria, the economy that already existed was a corrupt economy.
	Now the sanctions come in and it becomes an even more corrupt economy where the generals, the governors, the civil servants are all making money.
	Nobody's focused on doing their job.
	Everybody's focused on how much money they can make, how they can consolidate their wealth.
	And they stopped training.
	They stopped organizing.
	They stopped doing anything.
	And so what looked like it was supposed to be a solid military of around 200,000 was a house of cards.
	Apparently the Russians knew this.
	In 2018, the Russians approached Assad and said, you have to reform this from the bottom up.
	Our generals are telling us that this system isn't going to work.
	We won this battle because of our air force, Iranian leadership, the sacrifice of 4,000 pro-Iranian proxies.
	But now you have to take over You have to reform.
	But Assad couldn't because to reform the military meant that he had to change the power base and he wasn't confident enough in his ability to step forward and do that.
	So he pushed the Russians back and the Russians were very frustrated.
	The Iranians attempted to come in and do the same thing, but they ran into a problem too.
	The Russians had said, we don't want, we, you know, they told the Iranians, you came in, you helped solve the situation.
	Now you have to go home.
	Syria cannot become an outpost of Of Iran.
	The Israelis don't want it.
	The Americans don't want it.
	The Turks don't want it.
	And we don't want to be in the middle of this geopolitical nonsense.
	We came in to stabilize Assad, not promote the greater Iranian axis of resistance empire.
	And so there was Russian pushback, but there was also Syrian pushback because the Iranians come in.
	They're very ideologically motivated.
	They put up the posters of Qasem Soleimani and their Khamenei, and then Hezbollah comes in, Iranian proxy, puts up Hassan Nasrallah.
	And the Sunnis, who are the majority population in Syria, are resentful of this.
	And so Iraq also had to take a step back.
	That meant that the two entities that propped up Syria and helped them win in 2017-2020 aren't Claim a role.
	And when HTS attacked the other day, they came in and what was supposed to be a brick wall that they were supposed to chip at, they touched it.
	It turned out to be a deck of cards.
	They hit it.
	The whole thing collapsed.
	Took everybody by surprise.
	Hi, my name's Dr. That was pretty damn fascinating, I gotta say.
	Keith, your thoughts?
	Well, I think what we're going to see, Jim, is the fact that we're going to see millions of more immigrants Either being admitted to the United States or whatever like that from these Arab worlds because those people are going to flee this.
	Again, as I said, they have three religious fractions in Syria now.
	They want to diversify and all this stuff like that.
	They're going to cause a massive uprising among themselves and I think you're going to see a lot more slaughter other than what's in the war itself.
	Hey, you guys.
	Brian, thank you for the call.
	Keith, you are simply excellent.
	Everyone out there, spend as much time as you can with your family, your friends, and people you love and care about.
	Because as it's all too obvious, we do not know how much time we have left.

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