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Welcome to tonight's InfoWars Nightly News broadcast.
The date is Wednesday, November 16, 2011.
I'm Aaron Dyk sitting in and tonight really is a tale of the parasites versus the plebiscites as we have insider trading and the Feds taking over.
And Occupy Wall Street protesters being pushed out of their parks and clamped down upon.
We'll get into that in just a moment.
Later in the broadcast, we have an exclusive interview that our camera guys got with Immortal Technique.
He's a very prominent rapper in the anti-New World Order circles.
He's been covering issues like 9-11 for a long time.
That's coming up in the broadcast, but first in the news.
There are timing questions that have emerged in the MF Global customer cash shortfall.
That's because at least $200 million was found to be short October 27, just days before the firm declared bankruptcy after bad bets on the European sovereign debt crisis.
MF Global Holdings Limited may have faced a shortfall in customer funds even as far back as October 27.
Just hours before the bankruptcy filing, MF Global executives told regulators they believed a shortfall had somehow occurred, possibly starting on October 27 or October 28, the people told the paper.
Then that number later went to 600 million.
Then, in Paul Joseph Watson's report, Based on Bloomberg and other reports, you find out the number's really almost $900 million, of which there was a shortfall.
In Paul Watson's article, MF Global looted customers' accounts via internal bank run, but the big players got a warning ahead of time that the financial broker was set to collapse.
And you go on to find out that many people were warned and there were miraculous transfers just before the firm went bankrupt.
Uh, and billions of dollars were transferred.
And why was there a shortfall?
Well, we'd all like to know.
You've heard Gerald Cilente on this broadcast last night and on the Alex Jones Show today talking about his personal losses in MF Global, how they shorted him, and some 21,000 other customers, according to these reports.
And at least one CFTC commissioner is upset about it, Bart Chilton.
A Democratic Commissioner of the U.S.
Commodity Futures Trading who reports on the $600 million missing.
The money's not where it should be.
I think something nefarious has happened, potentially something illegal.
Yeah, you think so.
Possibly nefarious, possibly illegal.
Obviously should be looked into, but neither MF Global nor its former chief, John Corzine, who just resigned, has yet been charged with anything.
And so we'll see how that develops.
But they do report that many customers will be getting at least 60% of their money back, which would be a number figuring $520 million out of the total $869 million that was essentially stolen and questionably transferred just before the bankruptcy.
Something to watch.
Meanwhile, New York Police have ousted the Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park and Mayor Bloomberg said that decision was his and his alone.
Mine and mine alone, the quote says.
We'll get more into later how it was not his decision.
It was coordinated federally through 18 cities.
But they did get everyone out of the park, all their tents, belongings, and they brought in the sanitation workers who said we're going to disinfect the hell out of this place, calling it a safety hazard and so forth and so on, saying it was a haven for criminals.
We have some of the video now from Luke Radowski of We Are Change's coverage of the ousting of the occupiers.
All persons must temporarily leave the park.
If you refuse to immediately remove your property from the park or refuse to leave the park, you will be subject to arrest.
Any property left behind will be taken to the Department of Sanitation Garage at 57th Street and 12th Avenue.
All tents and other property have been removed from Ducati Park and the park.
So they're pushing them out here and then we have another clip where they're beating people in tents and pushing other people back.
And we're going to show you coming up, too, where they have the sound cannons waiting and ready to go.
And so you'll hear some of the protesters chanting, reciting the First Amendment, which certainly should apply even over these civil codes, but that's the very premise the police are using.
This is a protest.
of religion.
Resetting and exacerbating religion.
Hard prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Hard prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Hard prohibiting the freedom of speech.
Hard prohibiting the right of speech.
Hard prohibiting the freedom of speech.
And then, as if it wasn't enough to violate the First Amendment of the actual occupiers, we also have a clip of them pushing the various press members back, including Luke, who was repeatedly told he had to move further and further down the sidewalk and away from what was going on.
Now, let's play that clip, too.
You have to leave.
You cannot block the roadway.
You will be arrested.
All day!
All week!
Occupy Wall Street!
Occupy Wall Street!
All day!
All week!
All day, all week, occupy Wall Street.
Yes, you can see here that this part of the crowd is almost all journalists.
Everybody's got cameras clicking away.
They're being pushed back by police also.
Of course, all these people, regardless of what you may think of their views, are completely protected by the First Amendment.
Except when they're not in a de facto clampdown from the New York police.
But of course, it was not just isolated in New York.
It happened everywhere.
Among other places, Oakland.
In fact, it happened in at least 18 cities where there were Occupy protests going on.
And Washington's blog puts together how Homeland Security coordinated the 18-city police crackdown on Occupy protesters.
And chief among that is the Oakland mayor, Gene Kwan, who admitted there was a coordination, there was a conference call going on prior to this.
They discussed, among other things, how to use city codes to have an excuse to get people out, you know, sanitation and safety premises, as they did in New York.
You also have mayors and police chiefs who talk strategy on protests.
That's in the AP, and they admit that they, you know, won.
I mean, you know, a lot of people wanted to urge the removal and that they would, you know, use excuses like the criminal elements supposedly showing up, supposedly gang activity, the presence of homeless people just seeking food and all the rest of it.
But what you really got here is a federal coordinated Quote, advised to seek a legal reason during these conference calls that focused on zoning laws and existing curfew rules to skirt the protection of the First Amendment, the first among the Bill of Rights, which were not to be violated for any reason instead of any reason you could think of, as you see here in this disgusting crackdown on Occupy protest.
And it happened all at once.
And it's just disgusting that Homeland Security has, in fact, been turned against the people They started off at the beginning of the Patriot Act with violating the Fourth Amendment and so forth and so on, down to the TSA searches, and now it's down to the First Amendment.
I guess the Second Amendment's really all that's left, but I'm sure Homeland Security will find a way to come after that as well.
And there's more articles confirming it.
Wonkett reported on it.
Surprise, surprise.
Homeland Security coordinated the crackdown.
You've got the Examiner.
Who spoke to someone in the Justice Department who confirmed that indeed it was Homeland Security who coordinated these conference calls among the police chiefs and mayors of these various cities.
So we'll look more into that as it continues to develop.
In other Homeland Security and Department of Justice news, the Department of Justice is trying to make it a crime to quote lie on the internet.
And here Kurt Nemo reports on how they plan to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to possibly punish not only serious cybercrime or hacking incidences, but people who simply lie or provide false information, violating terms of service of third parties on the Internet.
And they give the example in Digital Trends of Reporting a fake name on Facebook, lying about your weight on a dating site, or using Google if you're under the age of 18.
So not only does this have the potential to criminalize ordinary behavior, it's also a ready-made excuse to crack down on political activity.
Which we know irks the system.
They've been trying to take on supposed conspiracy websites in numerous ways.
We know the Department of Defense, among others, have been deployed to counter conspiracy theorists and take them on in the cyber world.
We know people like Cass Sunstein have called for disruption and outright infiltration of conspiracy theorist groups.
And now they just have another tool they can use to crack down on that or any other group.
We're all at risk.
It's definitely one of those hang-together, hang-separate situations as they really try to bring in new levels of tyranny as they try to shut down what was once the Wild West of the Internet.
And it's going to become very corporate, and Alex has reported on all of that Internet 2.0 plan already, so we'll see what happens there.
Now, we have more news coming up, but right now we have the first part of that exclusive interview with Immortal Technique, and he's really been someone who's been out there on the 9-11 issue, on a lot of other important issues.
He was extremely critical of Bush during his years, and let's just see what he has to say now.
Don't make you a hero.
Roared to ground zero.
The devil crept into heaven.
God overslept on the 7th.
The New World Order was born on September 11th.
Of all the things that are happening, what tops the list right now?
It's very difficult to pick just one thing that tops the list of things that are happening in the world now.
I think an interesting thing to look at is America's foreign policy that really hasn't changed under Obama, as was promised.
In fact, I think being that the Republicans in the 2012 race are focusing so much on the economy, it's kind of an unspoken truth that Obama is a war president.
He's not someone who came in here and shut down Guantanamo Bay like he said he was going to.
I think one other interesting thing is the continued sort of push and pull between Republicans and Democrats for show about what they're going to do about the Wall Street situation.
and Occupy Wall Street has definitely had its impact on the process, but I think it's going to take a little bit more than just them.
They're going to need to push through specific policy or to pressure individuals who are in power enough to make a decision.
So I think between that internal struggle and the outward foreign policy issues, There's definitely plenty to worry about or concern yourself with if you look at the global field.
I've been visiting as many occupiers as I possibly can on the road for this Martyr Tour and I think one of the things that's most striking to me is how even though they're trying to work more and more cohesively on a strategy that's encompassing of the entire movement.
It's incredibly important that they not lose sight of the fact that they do have internal problems within just that area, that they have problems that just fit that specific county or region which they should deal with.
I think that's very important and I see them continuously doing that.
Whether it's homelessness, drug abuse, things that may not be solely relegated to where they're from but that they have to deal with on a local level and not just a federal quote-unquote war on drugs blanket on everything.
You know it's very personable.
When people get help there they're getting from someone whose first name they know.
When they're talking about these horrible issues of homelessness or homeless families, these are people that have also lost their home.
They're talking to people who can identify with their struggle, not some government agency that's faceless and really lives in a dimension without compassion.
Any group that poses a significant amount of collateral or can raise leverage against any government agency is going to try to be co-opted by just about anybody, whether it's far left or far right or what even designates that
That title, you know, that's up for grabs too when it comes to these, because you may find factions of a group which are less inclined to be in line with the complete strategy, but say, okay, I've been working with this guys, whether it's a left-wing group or a right-wing group for 10, 20 years, I haven't seen the results I want, here's the raw power and energy of a very, very active and aggressive group of people that are
aggressively and actively demonstrating, and yet they have not, like the police, unfortunately, have descended into violence and blind anarchy.
I think when they see the power of that movement, the nonviolent protests, but also the ability to confront government, that's something they want to have in their arsenal of weapons.
So why wouldn't anybody try and infiltrate it?
Whether it will be infiltrated, I think, is another story.
You know, we're talking about a wide collective group of people.
And this is, if anything else, regardless of what people want to say about them, they're not stupid people at all.
Some of them are very educated, and when I say educated, it just doesn't mean that they paid an overpriced bill for a piece of paper with their name on it.
Some of them are individuals that have built an incredible reserve of knowledge about the Fed, you know, about the history of the Fed and when it started.
How to get off of it.
You know, people that have ideas about how to change the system.
That I think, you know, bear mention.
There should also be a conversation, I think, in private.
Not all of the conversations that Republicans, Democrats, or even people who run this show or run any business have been completely in public.
Sometimes for the integrity and for the protection of the individuals that work for it.
Sometimes for the protection of the message so it doesn't become marginalized, sabotaged, or diluted.
They do things behind closed doors.
And I told the people from the very beginning that those type of actions were going to need to take place.
Not in the vein of government secrecy to protect government.
But rather to make sure that, you know, innocent people don't end up being victimized.
I think it's important for people to realize that the only thing that this movement is really, really at its heart trying to do is make America a more honest country.
Is make America a less corrupt country.
You know, now of course there's always going to be some nut with a sign that says, you know, aliens are coming or repent, it's the last day.
But at the end of the day, we know what the core message of the Occupy People is.
So regardless of who has an issue with it or who has a problem with it, you know, you can reserve your commentary and your anger until the 2012 election when it really comes down to it, which we're right about at the doorstep of.
Well, I mean, I'm not an economist, so I can't tell people how to balance their budget, or I can't come with a bunch of promises that I'm not capable of fulfilling.
But I think what I can tell people is this, that in every situation where you have massive amounts of government corruption, You can't rely on the people who broke the system to fix it.
You know, you can't rely on overpaid Congress who doesn't really see a problem other than the fact that their constituency is angry, not actually the suffering of the people.
And I'm not going to speak for all of them, but for the vast majority that have done absolutely nothing.
You know, it's funny that some of them want to blame the President as if they have some solution to the problem themselves.
I'm not saying that the President's way is the most efficient or the right way.
I'm just saying that they offer no other solution, even when we talk about any other topic.
It's immigration.
Deport 12 million people.
That's not feasible.
That's not possible.
It's physically impossible.
It would collapse the American economy.
It plays into the idea that you don't understand the history of this country because not all European Americans came through Ellis Island.
Not all of this country was gotten through a legal means.
In fact, most of it was stolen land from Native American people that if you drive from Louisiana to Houston, you'll see they did absolutely nothing with.
So what's the point of stealing it from a bunch of people?
When I say stealing, I know that red-blooded Americans get angry.
Some of them get even have a violent response to it.
How could you say we stole anything?
No one in this country has ever done anything wrong.
Really?
Because we use nice words for things.
So when you say a pilgrim or a settler, you don't think of a land stealer, an invader, a robber, a thief.
You know?
I deprive the woman of her virginity.
No, you're a rapist.
That's what you are.
So I think when we get rid of the mythology of America, then we begin to understand a clearer reaction to it.
In terms of the Occupy Movement, I think that's something that's incredibly important.
Going back to the very beginning of how all this started, and seeing the different reaction that people have towards the fiscal crisis.
Some people say, oh, it's all these, you know, people who are living below their means, that tried to buy extra houses when they shouldn't have.
Oh, okay, you mean the uneducated class of individuals that As they're referred to by, you know, people on Fox or whatever, that we place the blame solely on them, or the predatory lenders who know everything about business, who've been doing this to people for 30 or 40 years.
Who's more to blame?
You know, the sucker who walks in thinking, damn, I'm gonna be able to give my family a nicer home, and here's a guy who's explaining it to me, and it all sounds like it's gonna work out, when in reality, here's this snake oil salesman, Telling you that everything's gonna be great, and it's really not.
You know?
At some point, if America truly is the country it is, it has to confront people like that.
And it has to make sure that it doesn't allow its citizenry to be taken advantage of it that way.
Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality?
Read about the history of the...
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Now in other news about how the Feds know best, we have Homeland Security's linked group now training citizens in Colorado that their best pal could be a terrorist.
And it goes on to explain how there's a course in quote-unquote Uh, community awareness programming that is funded by this organization and they produced a video previously saying that buying gold is a suspicious activity and a number of other ordinary kinds of events and it's a woman named Diana Woodson and she's training people basically that, you know,
Says here an ex-marine from Lakewood whose wife gives him the evil eye when he's sizing up potential threats at Denver Airport as a problem, as well as a scenario where a New Yorker refuses to ride on subways and spends as little time as possible in high-rise buildings, so setting this whole atmosphere of being paranoid wherever you are, and then it goes on To explain how this course teaches you that even your closest neighbor could be a terrorist.
It's not going to be the person you think it's going to be, said Woodson.
He's your best neighbor, your best pal.
He doesn't always look like the bad guy.
It could be someone unassuming.
And that's a course called Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab, or CEL.
A little term they throw around to make it sound tough.
And I think we have here some clips from the previous video they produced on how buying gold is so evil, where they got John Elway, another talented NFL guy, to work for Homeland Security.
I'm reminded of the morning of September 11th, 2001.
I remember turning on the television and saying, how can this possibly be happening in the United States of America?
Well, it's something that we're going to have to deal with the rest of our lives.
The horrific events of September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing have made it clear that terrorism is not only a very real threat abroad, but also right here at home.
Anyone can become a victim of terrorism, anytime, anywhere.
Some terrorists even gain employment to monitor day-to-day activities to gather detailed information about their target.
Have you ever been on a bus or a light rail and noticed a bag that has been left unattended?
This could be an example of a terrorist determining how long it takes for people or security to respond.
Terrorists not only need to raise money, but they also need to transfer and spend it in a way that doesn't bring attention to themselves.
There are many signs to watch out for, such as witnessing an unusually large transaction that's paid for with cash or gift cards.
Any of these surveillance methods may be a sign that something isn't right, and you should report it to the kayak.
It's important for all of us to realize when a terrorist incident occurs, it affects everyone.
You can make a difference in helping stop an attack by being able to recognize the eight signs of terrorism and alert the authorities.
If you or a family member sees any sort of suspicious activity, you shouldn't attempt to stop a suspect.
Rather, report it immediately by calling 911 or the kayak.
So there you have it, just more implication that if you're selling gold or talking to your neighbors or trying to sell something second-hand, that could be suspicious.
This is all about supposedly training people to trust the federal government, Homeland Security, and not trusting the people you actually know.
And notice how, too, it's not about Muslim terrorists infiltrating the country.
It's about targeting, watching, surveilling, being paranoid of other ordinary americans because this is an apparatus meant to descend upon the american people and you've seen countless example of it if you've been following this program at all here it is again and it's just absolutely disgusting a little tip we can take this back to kindergarten the stranger is the federal government The stranger is Homeland Security.
You don't know those people.
It's statistically known what kind of creeps fill up those agencies.
Meanwhile, you need to count on your neighbors and the people you actually know.
That's all we really have in this world.
We also have the Special Ops commander who says the SEAL raid book is a lie because it goes against the just ridiculous official account of the killing of Bin Laden.
It's just not true.
A U.S.
Special Operations Command spokesman, Colonel Tim Nye, said it's not how it happened.
So even though they staged the Situation Room photo with Obama, Hillary and the other gaggle of people, even though they threw the body overseas without any, over into the ocean without any evidence, even though their own account was repeatedly debunked and witnesses on the ground said a lot of other things happened, this account can't be true either.
It's really kind of a As this suggests, choose your own adventure.
Choose the story you want to believe because no evidence has ever been put forward that Bin Laden had anything to do with 9-11 or really that he was even killed here in this special operation.
You've seen SEAL Team 6 take a lot of losses without a lot of explanation.
And here again from this far guy that they're saying not to trust is another account of the helicopter crashing during the raid.
We got that again from witnesses on the ground in Pakistan.
You choose what to believe.
I'm sure it'll be the federal government.
We also have a update on the Occupy protests.
They have reclaimed, some of them anyway, their place in Zuccotti Park, and they're planning to have a larger protest tomorrow, Thursday.
And they've also got a lot of lawyers backing them up, telling them that they do have a right to re-enter.
We'll see what happens there.
We do hope it remains peaceful on both sides.
We know there could be provocateurs within the protest groups, and we know police, unfortunately, have a tendency to overreact sometimes, especially when they've been given orders to regard people as not really within their rights to simply protest under the First Amendment.
We take you now to more from our exclusive Immortal Technique interview.
There definitely are people that are fed up with how it is, so they're looking at alternative forms of media, whether it's this or any other.
And at the same time, you have to realize not every one source of media is, you know, the voice from the burning bush.
You know, at some point, it's incredibly important for people to watch this show or to listen to any news outlet they might have heard and cross-reference that information to do some heavy research, you know, not just to believe something insightful that's said, you know, because we fall in danger of having fear-mongering be a tool not because we fall in danger of having fear-mongering be a tool not just of the right or the left, but of the independent
You know, I think, though, that this program, others like this, and the ones that are appearing on cable television or the ones that appear, even as satire, like the data show.
What's the whole point of it?
To ask questions that people aren't normally asking.
What's the point of this program?
To ask questions that you won't hear normally on mainstream media.
Now are people going to criticize it and say that it's a conspiracy theory?
Sure!
Because they've never understood what a conspiracy really is.
You know?
They don't know that people got together behind closed doors to decide how their life would actually be.
The shape of their home, the shape of their neighborhood, the red line districts in many cities which define how people are sectioned off based upon race and class.
Someone else who's not you, who didn't have a democratic process of election to have these issues pushed through, push them through.
If anything's, you know, a conspiracy, look at the war in Iraq.
A group of individuals who decide, okay, we're in Afghanistan, we've got Bin Laden cornered, what we really ought to do is redeploy, you know, tens of thousands of troops to a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons, but that we're going to say has nuclear weapons.
That didn't work, so now we've got to come up with chemical weapons.
Now we're scrambling for different ideas.
You know, I hate to bring it back to that, but unfortunately I think that people shouldn't Be so afraid of, you know, a news outlet or a competitive, independent media source, as they should be afraid of just believing whatever they hear.
Or to be suckered into a quick solution to an issue.
Because there is none.
Most of these are multi-layered issues.
Not everybody is going to agree with every politician about everything, you know?
Like someone was interviewing me about Ron Paul, and I said, you know, there were some things about him that I really liked.
And then they said, well, what about this and that?
And I said, well, you know, that's a little, you know, idealistic.
And then I remember there were people that were angry because I didn't agree with everything he said.
Like, you know, how can a man agree with everything that, and no disrespect to him, but this is true.
He's a politician, you know?
lobbies, he has days in Congress, he argues bills, he represents a constituency that isn't me.
He represents them.
How am I going to agree with him about everything that's right for the people that live in his part of America rather versus the people that live in mine?
Obviously, they're different.
Or he would be the congressman of Harlem.
Who, by the way, is a corrupt individual who happens to be a Democrat.
And I think that has no bearing on it.
Democrat or Republican.
I mean, people have gotten used to eating at the same trough.
No wonder they don't have any table manners.
I mean, it's just the way it is.
Applying... Our vision of how the world would be on other people is absurd, you know?
What if someone were to do that to us and come in here and say, you know, like I explain to people when they're a little confused about the black or Latino experience in America or in the hemisphere.
I said, you know, imagine if someone really did invade the Middle East, you know, not this The thing that we did where we sent a proxy in to fight against other people, or the Bush way where we take a few countries over.
But really, hardcore, old school, from antiquity invasion.
You know, the rape of women, the decimation of children, the destruction of religion, the destruction of a people's culture, to convince them that the Quran is a fraud.
To convince them that the Prophet Muhammad never existed.
That he's not a real figure in history.
Right?
Imagine someone doing that to America.
Coming here, convincing everybody, you know, Jesus Christ is a myth.
The Bible is a fairy tale.
You know?
You're all going to worship a different God.
The one that I designate.
You're also going to give your children to me.
Everything about you that made you an American is going to disappear.
Congratulations, you've just discovered the Black and Latino experience for 400 years.
That is the transfer of power.
But that's not all of our history.
That's not who we are as a people.
That's unfortunately a small period of time within our history.
Now drawing from that example, you can apply it to a much larger scale.
To show people, listen, if we're suffering here, in this particular point in America, That doesn't mean that we have to stay in that position forever.
There is an amount of organizing that we're capable of doing.
There are actions that can be taken.
I really won't like them to get violent because I know how easily that can turn into utter chaos.
But I'm telling you right now that if anything isn't done, Then maybe that is the government's strategy, to push people towards absolute breaking point status, and then clamp down on them violently.
Which is what a lot of people feel like is going on.
If you see the Occupy protests, it's a blueprint for what people are worried about, who concern themselves with that.
The city, the state, the police in Oakland or in New York, goading the protesters, you know?
Uh, pepper spraying women.
You know, at some point, people were gonna break.
And yet they haven't.
You know, if you're going to call them violent protesters, I think it falls into a contradiction when you have 20,000 to 25,000 people in a mob in downtown New York.
Hey, if we wanted to rip the city apart, we could have right then and there.
We didn't tear the city up.
Why?
Because we love the city.
We didn't ruin America.
Why?
Because we love America, obviously a lot more than the people who claim that they do.
Simply because they wave a flag we want to make the country a more efficient place a better place We want people to invest in America, and I think one of the greatest failures of American capitalism was just in investing in Systems and institutions those are great, but they have to also be matched with Investing in people you know huge bailout for institutions and banks none for people You know, we give grants to universities.
We need more grants for students that want to stay here.
I think more than the message of materialism, what you're speaking about is the braggadocio attitude of hip-hop.
I think the message of materialism is one aspect of that.
To say that I'm better than you, I can say it in many ways.
I can beat you in a fight.
I'm stronger than you.
I'm bigger.
I have more people on the street.
I got more guns.
I have prettier women.
This has always been kind of a back and forth, kind of teasing.
Almost a vaudeville, but also taken very seriously in the streets when people put their reputation up on the line.
But I think having more money was something that came to the forefront as a part of the corporate involvement in hip-hop.
And therefore, them wanting to use that to be the ultimate trump card.
To say, okay, who's got more skills?
That's great, I'm glad that you can rap better than me, but I've got more money than you, so I'm better than you.
Or, you know, technically you can freestyle better than me, but my video's on MTV and yours isn't.
So I must be better than you.
You know what I mean?
It plays in every aspect of life.
Think about it.
Imagine if I'm a college professor.
Emeritus.
Harvard.
You know, I have wonderful ideas about the economy.
They just so happen to help my friends that are themselves working in Goldman Sachs or somewhere else.
You!
You're a f****** camera dude, working for a show.
But you know what?
You've spent the last 20 f****** years, excuse my language, researching, digging through books, reading the history of America, reading the history of the economic collapses that have occurred
throughout civilizations through the passage of time and you've amassed an incredible amount of knowledge and you present that simply because I have more letters behind my name and I work for some fancy institution people are going to believe me and they'll go so far as to ridicule you which is what happens in hip-hop doesn't matter how dope people are doesn't matter if they're incredibly skilled I got more money than you, so I win.
If that's not a corporate, I said so, I told you so, I don't know what is.
So I think it directly to that.
Why?
Because a corporation that makes 14 billion dollars a year, profit.
Mind you, I think you all out there know the difference between gross and net.
I don't mean gross, I mean net profit.
14 billion dollars.
They come back one year, instead of making 14, they make 13 million.
That company's looked at as a failure.
Failure?
You just made 13 billion dollars in a year!
How are you a failure?
Because you're not growing.
Because you're not expanding.
Because you're not buying people.
Because you're not taking more.
Because you're not more aggressive.
Because you're not living up to being the virus that we all thought you could be.
It's hard because I know a lot of my colleagues, and these are people that are involved in hip-hop and may not be as political as myself, but they're also thinking minds.
These may be people who work regular jobs, but they're thinking minds, and they think to themselves, what does my vote really count for?
And I say to them that they should start with a local election and look at the numbers.
Those numbers are decided by hundreds.
And in some cases, decided by tens.
And in some cases, decided by single-digit numbers.
I mean, even if you look at Minnesota, at the Al Franken situation.
Wasn't his vote like 127?
Some ridiculous number like that.
You can affect change in a certain way.
I think what they feel disenfranchised by is that The candidate that they elected had all these promises and none of them come through.
That, in essence, makes them feel more frustrated than anything else.
But I don't think they should stop voting for it.
I think though there should be severe campaign reform.
And when I say severe, I mean like, you know, we're talking limitations to who can you know, come up with billions and billions of dollars from other people, you know, the amount of debates that need to happen, the airtime that we afford individuals, the honest answers that we demand from people instead of allowing them to just glance off.
You know, I remember when, even though he's not necessarily known as the world's most moral man, but I remember when John Edwards challenged President Cheney in a debate very late.
I thought he should have come out much earlier with this about him voting against Martin Luther King Jr. and his birthday and all these other things that kind of expose the weak underbelly of the rights issues with race.
Not to say the left doesn't have them, because we all heard Harry Reid's comments about, you know, Obama being a quote-unquote well-spoken Negro.
But, I mean, it definitely does expose the right's more difficult way of covering that up and saying, all right, well, why didn't you?
And when he says, you know, I believe my record speaks for itself, you know, there was almost like, okay, well, we'll accept that.
And at some point, we don't need to accept that.
At some point, the voting audience has to say, no, I don't know that your record stands for itself.
Because I don't know what you're saying anymore.
You claim that there's still a presence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq?
Dude, we've gone over this, you know?
How many hearts do you need to have in your chest before you come up with the right answer?
At some point, you know, you just need to be honest with the American public and admit that you made a mistake.
That's also another issue.
They don't see accountability, so they feel uninspired to get behind the candidate.
When someone comes out and says, no, this was my fault, I did this, you know?
Katrina, Bush, no accountability.
You know, I'm sorry.
I should have done more.
I thought it was all in Brownie's hands.
He was doing a heck of a job.
Well, he wasn't doing a heck of a job.
He wasn't doing any job.
And as a result, American citizens, you know, I know there are some people watching this that, you know, they would probably be less affected if they weren't American citizens.
But as a person that believes in God and really feels the pain of innocent people, it doesn't matter if they were citizens or not.
They were people who were dying because of the negligence and the corruption in the American system.
When you have an Arabian horse racer put in charge of FEMA, you know, when people see that happen, when they see that cronyism, that's when they get uninspired.
I would just tell them that if they don't vote, they're going to see more of the same.
The martyr doesn't come from the idea of needing to die for revolution.
It comes from the idea of needing to live for revolution.
You know, in the martyr, the martyr's perception in, for example, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is that the revolutionary must become the martyr because there are parts of him that must die.
Selfishness.
The ego.
This is a process of death.
It's not like just one day he wakes up like, oh, you know, now I don't have any issues.
I could look past race and sexual orientation and class and get to the core problems that people have and how they need to be addressed.
That's a process.
That's a process that I've taken years and years to address.
Updating my music.
Updating my flow.
Updating my skills.
Updating the way my message gets across to people.
So I would say it's more based upon that.
Not the necessity to give your life in terms of killing yourself.
Destroying yourself, but have given your life by dedicating yourself, by working hard.
And maybe not in a conventional way.
Maybe you are a revolutionary lawyer, a revolutionary doctor, an independent journalist.
Maybe you offer health care to people in the hood.
Maybe you do take pro bono cases.
Maybe you're a psychologist that deals with underprivileged children that are the victims of abuse.
I don't know.
You can't save everybody.
You can't save someone.
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