The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #995
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1 hour and 28 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 995 of The Lotus Eaters, Connor and Josh discuss how men have struck again over in Germany, the Tenet Media disinformation story, and the colonisation of the proms. Also, the return of the Hot Fuzz Roundtable.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 995, on today, Friday the
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6th of September, 2024. I am your host, Connor, joined by Harry and Luca Johnson, who last
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time was on the show, was on our election night. Have you recovered yet?
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It was kind of worse than the jet lag back from Japan, not going to lie.
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Well, I hope all the biscuits are flushed out of your system. Time for us to discuss
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today how men have struck again over in Germany, the Tenet media Russian disinformation story,
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obviously we've got friends involved, so we wanted to get into that, and the colonisation
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of the proms. But, one thing that is British culture, that has not been corrupted, we will
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be discussing today, at three o'clock, finally we are doing the Hot Fuzz Roundtable that,
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internally, we have promised, since establishing this large studio. Harry, you want to say something?
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I've only just seen this thumbnail. One, this was my idea, so why is Josh in the middle?
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Two, why that picture of me? Why that one specifically? Samson, you've got a lot of
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This is actually the laughing boomer face, but like young Harry.
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That was me, that was me trying to pass a mouse to Josh. It was turned into a, you know,
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This is revenge for the time you've been hitting the desk, basically. Far too animated for your
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own good, my friend. Anyway, if you're a premium subscriber, you'll be able to watch that
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live. If you're not yet a premium subscriber, till still time to sign up. Remember, we get
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no ad revenue on YouTube, so you're the only one supporting us. Without further ado, turns
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out men have struck again. If you remember a few weeks ago, we discussed how men from
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the nation of no fixed abode, very violent country, that one, have been committing lots
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of crimes across Europe, and they're all men of a particular demographic that we cannot
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notice. Well, today we're going to be going through three new and updated case studies
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about how these indiscriminate men seem to have, for no apparent reason, committed Islamic
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terror attacks. Shock. But, before we do that, Islander merch is on the website. I believe
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today is the last day that you can get the Islander merch from the first issue. Maybe
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because there's another issue on the horizon. Who knows? Ooh. But Rory designed all this
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merch, and this t-shirt in particular is a very good looking one. He's put a lot of effort
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into it. We all love this t-shirt. It's an amazing t-shirt. I love classic 8-bit Orcs
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and Elves games. I don't wear graphic tees, but if you are inclined to wear graphic tees,
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remember, this is the only way to support us other than donating on the website or subscribing
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to the website, which you should also do. So, please consider it, and this will be limited
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edition, so you can post to all your friends if you have those. Don't know why you'd want
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them. Anyway, on to an update. What's happening in Germany? Why was everyone voting AFD? Could
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it have been that the 15% migrant population are committing 41% of the crimes? What crimes
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you ask? How about a terror attack? So, yesterday was the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics
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massacre. If you don't know what that is, basically a Palestinian terror group called Black September
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went and killed 12 people. I think it was about 5 or 6 members of the Israeli Olympic team
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and a bunch of other hostages, and then there were 7 of those that died as well. There was
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a shootout. None of the hostages got rescued. One of the police officers died. This caused
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the establishment of the GSG-9 German police service. It was a massive event. I think it
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was commemorated at the 2020 Olympics with a minute of silence. On this anniversary, a
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bloke turned up outside the Israel Foreign Ministry in the Munich Consulate and decided
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to discharge a World War II rifle 30 or 40 times. Problem is, there was basically no one
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inside the building, so he wasn't the brightest terrorist of the bunch.
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A bit useless. When Josh told me that this had happened, I asked him, oh, was this one
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of those new Germans? And he said, well, it was either them or one of the old Germans.
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He used old German weaponry, but he's not even German. As DW tell us, right, this is an Austrian
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man. An Austrian man. He's back. Why would Austrian men do this? Police say, a few hours after
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the incident, they shot him, by the way, an 18-year-old Austrian, an 18-year-old with
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Austrian citizenship, but they didn't comment on potential motives. Currently, and this is
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according to DW, and this is a quote from the Munich Police and Public Prosecutions Office
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in a joint statement, currently we're working on the assumption that it's an attempted terrorist
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attack, also in connection with the Consulate General of Israel, although the focal point
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of the running investigations is the motivation of the suspect. Now, what wasn't mentioned in
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here, about the Austrian man, as revealed by Build. Lord Almighty, I don't know what
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button to press with that, but anyway, you can see that end of the description. The attacker's
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name is M-R-A-I, so they've condensed that down, and he does...
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M-R-A-I. M-R-A-I. M-R-A-I. Typical German name, right? According to Build, and Build, bear
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in mind, was the outlet that first published the photos and information that the
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stabber at the Solingen Diversity Festival was a Syrian national, and they got that
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right, so they're pretty authoritative out there. According to Build, the man was born
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in Austria, he has an Austrian passport, so we know that makes him Austrian. Ignore
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the fact he has Bosnian roots, ignore the fact that he's a second-generation immigrant.
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This is all just exactly the same as the Welsh man from Southport.
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Yep, quite. Well, there's a slight difference, because obviously we don't know the motivation
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of the Welsh man from Southport, but I think we can guess here, because the thing that
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was left out, in 2023, he was reported on suspicion of membership of a terrorist
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organisation, because the Austrian authorities found ISIS propaganda on his phone. Conveniently
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left out of the prior articles. I looked at a bunch of other articles, by the way, to
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present to you, that were in English, because this one's in German. You can translate it,
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but I thought it'd be easier. Wasn't mentioned in Reuters, wasn't mentioned by the BBC, wasn't
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mentioned by the DW. I wonder why they conspicuously left that motivation out. I'm sure it's just
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Hmm, yeah, I wonder why the promise of mass deportations is appealing to so many young
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Germans. I mean, the point being, totally avoidable accident. Incident, not accident. Don't let
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foreign criminals into your country. Would be a fantastic idea. Same thing's happening
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in the UK. Really glad this is not an isolated incident. We had this come out yesterday.
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So the Home Office were meant to be having an inquest about this aspirational Marine being
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stabbed to death by an Afghan. And they now don't have to do the inquest, because the
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coroner, and this is Rachel Griffin, senior coroner for Dorset, ruled yesterday, Wednesday,
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on the 5th of September, there was no need for a full inquest into this murder, because
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she said there was a system of checks in place when this chap, Lawangin Abdullrahim, Abdullrahim,
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I can't pronounce this name, Abdullrahimzai. Abdullrahimzai, that's it, thank you. There was
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apparently a whole system of checks in place when he entered the country to check his identity and
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undertake an age assessment, so it's not a systemic failure that he slipped through the net.
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We're going to go through the details of this case, because I happen to think this hasn't been
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labelled a systemic failure, and hasn't been investigated, because it looks so bad for the
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authorities that led him through the net, that the entire immigration and asylum system would fall
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apart if they admitted fault here. But she said, although there was an emerging pattern of violent
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behaviour, and a risk to others of harm at the time of the incident, that the illegal immigrant
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had used a knife in an act of violence, apparently he hadn't made any threats to kill anyone since
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arriving in the UK in December 2019. She said, it's too speculative and remote to state that there
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was a causal link between these missed opportunities to detect him, and Tommy's death, the chap who was
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killed. Let me see what you think. So the details of the case are, Tom Roberts, 21, stabbed to death
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by this chap, the Afghan guy, who had previously shot two migrants with a Kalashnikov in Serbia while
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travelling to the UK. Might have been able to detect that.
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So while he was escaping persecution, I assume?
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Persecution, sure. Not one of the interpreters. Why would he be fleeing from the Taliban?
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Why would he know how to use a Kalashnikov? Is it possible he was a militant?
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We can never know. We can never know these things.
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It's not that they admitted that they were using the asylum thing to, you know, literally infiltrate us.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, so this chap, Abdul Rahim Arzi, arrived in the UK on December 26th, 2019,
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hidden in a vehicle, back of a lorry, on a ferry from Cherbourg, and told the Border Force officials
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he was 14. At the time, no assessment was carried out.
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Oh, thank God, you're illegally entering the country, but you're 14. Come right in.
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And we're not going to check it at all. No documents, we're just going to take your word for it, right?
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His fingerprints were taken a few weeks later, and revealed he had links with Norway and Italy,
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so he'd passed through other safe countries, noted war zones Norway and Italy.
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The fingerprints were then sent to both countries, but with no request for further information,
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for some reason. So they just sent the documents and didn't request follow-up.
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If this had been done, it would have revealed that his age was in question, because he's actually 19.
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On January 29th, 2020, his foster carer reported that a dentist said, Abdul Rahim Arzi,
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was older than he had indicated, and while it felt an age assessment was needed,
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it wasn't done because the authorities felt a mental health assessment was needed first.
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They needed to check if he would be upset by being asked his age.
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We are not a serious country. He was placed in a secondary school in Bournemouth, Dorset,
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so just stuck in a school, without the need for an age check, even though lots of people were
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questioning his age, including his own foster family.
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This is literally a George Alexopoulos cartoon.
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For context, there's one where, you know, there's a school, and they're in the class,
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and one of the girls gets stabbed, and then it's a full-grown Afghan man with a big beard,
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and the teacher says, don't worry, it's just his culture.
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Well, funny you say that. He was expelled for carrying a knife, and then immediately enrolled
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You could have just sent him home. You could have checked his age and deported him, but no.
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Then, from December 21st, 2020, and throughout 2021, there were several incidents and concerns
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raised around Abdul Rahim Arzi, carrying knives, including allegedly chasing another pupil at his
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In May 2021, he hurt another student at the school, causing an injury, and July that year,
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he tried to headbutt his foster carer, who managed to move out the way.
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In September, when he had been placed somewhere else, he was accused of assaulting another child.
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So, just a repeat criminal offender who lies about his age.
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Also, let's stop for a moment and consider what we're hearing here, is a 19-year-old, presumably
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as time goes on, you know, he's getting to 20, 21 years old.
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He comes to this country, lies about his age, and then they put him in a school immediately,
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and he, as a full-grown adult, who should at least, at the very least, be interested in
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doing other things than hanging around a school that he's too old for, decides to hang around
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a school, bring knives, and chase other kids around.
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How is it not humiliating for him to consider that that's what he's having to go through
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So, there's no dignity, there's no shame in this person, not that I would expect it of
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someone like him, and then he goes around terrorising schoolchildren, and this is just normal.
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This is something that he presumably is fine with.
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Obviously, I'm not surprised that he was going around terrorising children, but the entire
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If I had to break into a country and do something like this, I don't know if I could look myself
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It's only ridiculous because he knows that he's going to be allowed to get away with
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it, because the system somehow operates on the presumption that everyone is just telling
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the truth, and that everyone is going to be free, equal, and peaceful as soon as they
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make contact with British soil, so he couldn't, one, possibly be lying, and two, he therefore
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knows that he can do anything, such as acting like the exact barbarian he was back in his
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homeland and in various countries along the way, and not get kicked out of the country.
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Because if we had, I don't know, gone to Japan and claimed to be asylum seekers from our
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government, and then claimed to be 12, and then entered a Japanese school and started
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chasing people around with a machetes, as is a British pastime these days, we'd expect
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I'd expect a bit more of a brutal beating than being sent home for doing something like
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It really is, though, the trail of events that led there that I just find so inconceivable
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as well, that, you know, obviously it's all come to tragedy for, you know, this victim
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involved, you know, here in Britain, but the risk put on all these citizens in all these
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Like, you know, it could have been some random Swede, it could have been a Norwegian, right?
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Their governments are just as complicit in this as ours, because all of them, on a European
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scale, are working with such duplicity, such, you know, as, you know, to all these people
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that they're putting at risk in their own countries.
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Yeah, well, they fundamentally believe that it's just a product of education and economics
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that savages like this are insane, murderous liars.
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And it's like, no, some people are fundamentally morally bankrupt.
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And the whole way through, he must be thinking to himself, I can't believe I've got away
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Obviously, you know, it was good for him that he was able to get away with it all for so
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long, but he was laughing at us, and rightfully bloody so the whole time.
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Rightfully so at the systems that allowed it to happen, because they are a bloody joke.
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So there's more details here that they might have been able to catch him on before he decided
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to murder this poor young chap, who's actually a massive credit to our country, and this
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guy is a net drain on culture, resources, and morality.
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In January 2022, the authorities held a meeting confirming an age assessment would be carried
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out, because Abdul Rahimazi had been, quote, bringing females back to his placement and
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was refusing to attend school or engage in education.
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So, you might think an age assessment might be needed there.
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You might think a few eyebrows would be raised, but no, nothing happened still.
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I'm sure the teachers didn't want to be racist.
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And just a normal structure, right, in that school, like, if you'd not turn...
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If you're in that situation, like, you'd be kicked from the school, or you'd be, you
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know, excluded or something, because you've not been turning up.
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But the problem you have, and I've spoken to people who work in schools like this, problem schools
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will shift students around, especially if they are non-white or immigrants, because
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they don't want to be seen as being racist, despite the criminal behaviour of the school
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And what'll end up happening is they'll send them from one failing school to a slightly
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more successful school, on the premise that the more successful environment will recondition
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the student, because fundamentally, we're all equal.
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But instead, it just makes life harder for all of the better students at the more successful
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school, because the only thing that makes the school better is the character of the students
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From when an age assessment is needed, because he's bringing young girls back to his flat,
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March the 10th, in the evening, 30 hours before Tom Roberts was stabbed, the police received
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a call about a youth carrying a machete-style knife in public.
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The coroner's report, the same woman that says we don't need to look into this any further,
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States that when the police attended his address to speak to the chap, the gates were locked
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and they could see a member of staff asleep at his desk and couldn't gain access.
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Abdul Rahimazi was then went on to kill Tom Roberts, and he was jailed for 29 years for
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Roberts' murder in March 2022, following a trial at Salisbury Crown Court.
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It later emerged he was flagged as, quote, susceptible to terrorism by the Home Office's
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So he was known to the authorities for over a year.
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Abdul Rahimazi's fingerprints were not shared with Interpol until after Roberts' death,
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which revealed in September 2022 he had been convicted, convicted of double homicide in
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On the night of the 31st of July 2018, Abdul Rahimazi walked into a shed in the farmland
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on the edge of Don Brinke, where a group of refugees, refugees, were staying, and gunned
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So if they would have just gone through the process of actually checking his age with his
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fingerprints, they would have found out he was already a murderer.
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If they would have done any of the age checks after he chased students around with a knife
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or, presumably, sexually assaulted women, they would have found out he was a murderer.
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But no, Tom Roberts had to die because the government voluntarily chose not to do their
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And yet, yet, Miss Griffin, the coroner, says that the inquest did not meet the criteria
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for Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
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Article 2 states, if the state knew or ought to have known of an immediate risk to an individual's
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life, it must take responsible steps to deal with that risk.
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Because if this implies that the state knew ahead of time this guy could have been a murderer
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and they could have done things to stop it, then the entire immigration and asylum system
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It is remarkable, isn't it, that the European Convention on Human Rights seems to protect
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the rights exclusively of everyone but Europeans.
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It's almost like the purpose of a system is what it does.
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So, they call everything systemic failure, but the entire point of this was to say it
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This is Dolores Wallace Roberts, poor grieving woman.
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They are accountable and there is negligence here, but they just block any attempts to find
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They're basically saying it's okay for someone to walk around with a machete in public.
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They're supposed to be helping the public and protecting their safety.
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But instead, the coroner is protecting the home office, Dorpset police and the BCP council.
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Everything is wrong in this country and it will continue to happen again.
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I mean, a couple of weeks ago, I covered the Raikou unit that oversees preventing the
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home office and they spend billions of pounds, man hour, even pay actors to gaslight people
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So, your children will be killed and you'll be told don't look back in anger.
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But then, when these criminals are allowed into the country, preventable measures can
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be taken to detect whether they're criminals ahead of time and they can be sent back.
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They won't admit fault and it will happen again.
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Was driving a green BMW on Nantwich Road with Stanson, near Nantwich, Cheshire.
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When her car hit Stephen Ray on the 9th of February.
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You can't notice whether or not the names of the perpetrators and whether or not the names
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of the victims are any different because we're all equal after all.
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It's not like foreigners are killing the indigenous population.
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All of these names and all of these place names are very, very familiar to me.
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Now, whenever I return home, I've noticed that all of a sudden, I've mentioned this
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before, all of the old folks around the local town and the town surrounding as well are no
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longer being escorted around by the usual care workers from, say, 2019 and beforehand.
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All of a sudden, it's all being replaced by men and women like Shitu.
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And we wonder why the abuse rates are through the roof.
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Reminder, the World Health Organization found recently that two in three care workers have
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And a UK provisional license with driving without insurance.
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Driving like a typical third worlder, actually.
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She's only been jailed for four years and two months for killing this man.
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So only a little bit more time than if she'd sent a nasty tweet.
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Don't worry, she's been banned from driving as well.
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Why have we got to pay for her jail sentence when we were already subsidizing her career?
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Because remember, if she was here on a care worker visa or something like that, or generally,
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we can make generalizations here because immigrants of this type are never net tax contributors.
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We've been paying since she's been here, and now we're paying to keep her here.
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And presumably when she's let out, probably an early release, she'll stay here and be a net drain.
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And also, this poor man paid with his life for her to be here.
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So at this point, immigration is obviously a threat to the indigenous populations of Europe,
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but they won't admit it because the government can stop all of these tragedies happening.
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Their policies are complicit in them happening, and so whenever you try and get transparency
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from it, they'll never admit fault, and this will sadly just keep continuing.
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You had to bloody find one that's literally where I'm from, didn't you?
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Yeah, sorry, genuinely, mate. I did scour for any other news.
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It's always awful when it hits close to home, and thank you for confirming that I am in the right
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to give a bit of side-eye to some of the new care workers in the local town.
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The Last Russian, with $2 on rumble, says something pertinent to our next topic, actually.
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He says, how many right-wing channels rely on donations and superchats?
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Pretty much all of them because we get demonetized for telling the truth.
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If you cover news and receive any foreign money, you're now guilty of the same crime
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No, no, it only matters if the money is from one country.
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We're going to have to cancel that subscription.
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It might just take me by surprise, so we'll see.
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Always exciting when you've got a little bit of unexpectedness in the podcast.
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Anyway, so foreign money is a big problem in America, being donated to political causes
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and being used to influence political causes and swing elections one way or another, but
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And that's what we'll talk about right now, which is that Lauren Chen, friend of the show,
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friend of the show, who appeared on here a couple of weeks ago, might be in big trouble
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with the US government, as has been revealed by an indictment that has been released, I
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think it was on Wednesday it got released, that suggests that her company Tenet, disclaimer
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that all of this is speculation and allegations at the moment, both because it's being looked
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into and because the indictment itself doesn't explicitly name anybody, but this does give
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all of the information needed to identify the people that it is speaking about.
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She might have been accepting money from Russian donors involved with Russia Today News.
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So this is very interesting, let's take a look, but before we do, we don't accept any foreign
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money from anybody, nobody has approached us that I'm aware of.
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If they had, we probably, I would not be, I would be living in a much nicer house.
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Yeah, so let's get into it. So the NBC News have a quite thorough breaking down of all of
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this information, so I'll read through some of this, and we'll add our comments as we
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go through. So, employees of the Russia-backed media network RT funded and directed a scheme
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that sent millions of dollars to prominent right-wing commentators through a media company
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that appears to match the description of Tenet Media, a leading platform for pro-Trump voices,
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according to a review of the charging documents, business records, and social media profiles that
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It is worth saying that all of the people, the big names that are employed by Tenet, have since
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come out with statements saying they didn't know anything happened, so it is worth saying
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Yeah, we will make this very clear as we go through, but you are right to point that out.
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And again, it is all allegations, it's being looked into right now, so no need to make any
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conclusions from this. Although I will say, having looked through the indictment documents,
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whatever you want to say about the morality of accepting money from Russia, I would say the
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intelligence of accepting money from Russia when you're in a basically proxy war situation
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with them at the moment, and when you know that Russia is always the scapegoat for any
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political situations in America that don't go the regime's way. I wouldn't say it's a very
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intelligent move, but there seems to be no indication whatsoever in the indictment documents
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that accepting Russian money influenced the views or opinions that were being expressed
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by Lauren Chen or anybody else associated with it in any way. It seems that whether or not
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you think this is a good thing, they were giving money to Lauren because she was already saying
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things that they were agreeing with, potentially.
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Yeah, I mean, let's put it this way. If a congressman believes in gun rights, the NRA will
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donate to them. And that doesn't necessarily mean that then their pro-gun positions are influenced
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by the NRA. It means they've already got pro-gun positions, and someone like the NRA is like,
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we like that you're saying pro-gun positions, we're happy for you to stay there. Now, on
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the morality point, I wouldn't see it as any different, morally, from taking money from
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an outside source if you're just saying the things that you already believe. But it is
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dumb, and I say this with Lauren as a friend, and we hope she's doing okay, it is dumb to
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have accepted Russian money when they are in a de facto proxy war with Russia.
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Yes. I will say the only morally bad part of this whole thing is, I can understand why
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they would do it, is that it doesn't seem to have been, well, it wasn't made clear to
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any of the people who were partnering or associating with Tenet, and I do think that that is immoral,
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because especially when it can get them dobbed in like this, get them in a lot of trouble,
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then you're playing with their careers and reputations.
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So I would say you're playing with their reputations. We don't know whether or not this
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was intentional to obfuscate the names. As far as I understand, and I'm sure we're going
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through the details in a moment, the Russian individuals in question gave pseudonyms that
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sounded less Russian, and these were probably included on the documents. So all of the people
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under Tenet's employ, the contractors, didn't know, and they had no direct interface with
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them, and they were just contractors. It's like Tim's show. Tim licensed his show,
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Culture War, that Carl and I were on, to Tenet. He's still going to run the show now,
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it's just not going to be broadcast on Tenet anymore.
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Well, I've got the clip of him saying that, so we'll be able to hear it straight from the
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horse's mouth, but I'll go through this. So it goes through the details. The indictment
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of two RT employees, Konstantin Kalashnikov, one of the most Russian names I've ever heard in my
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life. That's not a parody. Yep. And Elena Afanasyeva, I sounded like a Twin Peaks character talking
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backwards then, includes allegations that the duo implemented a nearly $10 million plan to fund
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an unnamed Tennessee-based company as one of their covert projects to influence American politics
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by posting videos to TikTok, Instagram, X, and YouTube. The company's description matches that
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of Tenet media, according to the NBC review that they had done. Prosecutors said that the website
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of Company One describes itself as a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western
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political and cultural issues, and that is the exact wording taken off of the Tenet website. So
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I think that says it all right there. That gives away the game. The indictment also states that
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Company One is registered in Tennessee and has changed its name on or about May 22, 22, 2023.
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Tennessee's Secretary of State Records found by NBC News so that Tenet media entered its new assumed
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name on that same date. Tenet has partnered with six commentators, Lauren Southern, Tim Poole,
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Taylor Hanson, Matt Christensen, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson. The indictment refers to six
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commentators who are also not named. So again, you can see how the evidence is all piling up. It's
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pretty clear that this is who they're speaking about, and there were other details included that
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match those of two Tenet personalities. They're the ones spoken about quite a lot in the report,
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which is Commentator One and Commentator Two. Commentator One, probably Dave Rubin. They mention in
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the indictment, oh, it's got 2.4 million YouTube subscribers, and a person with 1.3 million YouTube
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subscribers is referred to as Commentator Two. Poole's got 1.37 million subscribers. Rubin's
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got 2.44 million subscribers at the time that this report came out. So it's all adding up. The
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indictment also refers to three other commentators, including one with female pronouns, but lacked any
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information that could directly identify their channels. It's unclear from the indictment the extent to
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which each of the commentators realized where the money was coming from, though it stated that
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Commentator One and Two were unaware they were being paid by Russian efforts and had been
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deceived about the source of funding. It found that $8.7 million was eventually sent to the
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production companies of Commentator One, Commentator Two, and Three alone. Payments allegedly made up
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90% of the deposits made to the company's account between October 2023 and August 2024.
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So, yeah, about $10 million to be able to put all of this information out, but again, it doesn't seem
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that there's any indication that the money was used to influence these people's opinions at all.
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It's just money to help people get opinions that they already believed in out. So, we've mentioned
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this before the show came on. It seems that this was a very, very purposeful release of this information
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at this very specific time when you're two months before the election is coming up to try to discredit
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a lot of very... you could see how many of those people had huge subscriber counts on YouTube to try
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to discredit these commentators because even though they were potentially deceived, even though they
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weren't influenced to change their opinions in any way, best case scenario is the media is trying to
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make them look like idiotic fall guys who fell for a scam. Two things on that. So, first of all,
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I can say as having been a guest on a Tenet Media show, which was the culture war when Carl and I
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were flown out to discuss liberalism with Tim, we never had any of our opinions directed at any
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point whatsoever. We just spoke our minds exactly off the cuff without any script. And the other thing
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that's important to notice is that Tim Poole, about two days before this came out, announced that he
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would be suing the Kamala Harris campaign for defamation because she had accused him of promoting
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genocide. Very coincidental timing. Very interesting. There is one little bit I wanted
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to mention at the end here, which it says, Tenet Media did not immediately respond to a request
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for comment from NBC News. Now, Lauren Chen herself has not made any comments. She's not posted since
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this report came out, which is probably that you mentioned they might have taken her phones. Also,
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just from a pure political standpoint and legal standpoint, yeah, it's good not to make comments
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immediately after something like this has gone down. A representative from RT did respond,
00:31:41.760
though, with a series of text messages including, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, and we gotta earn our
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Kremlin paycheck somehow. So NBC got trolled on by an RT correspondent. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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Legal reasons I can say nothing that is pro-Russia today.
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Yes, this is true, and while announcing the indictment, Attorney General Merrick Garland,
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that trustworthy figure who we all know in our heart of hearts, has only the best intentions
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for America's sovereignty and for its citizens.
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Yes, said the Justice Department will not tolerate attempts
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by an authoritarian regime to exploit our country's free exchange of ideas
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in order to covertly further its own propaganda efforts
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and our investigation into this matter remains ongoing.
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So Merrick Garland has finally found it in himself
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to defend the free exchange of ideas within America.
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Even though Kamala Harris just the other day came out
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and said she'd basically do what they're doing in Brazil
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They put parents who are protesting school board meetings
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over sexually explicit materials in the library on terror watch lists.
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For the protection of the free exchange of ideas in school libraries.
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What about listing the rosary as a hate symbol under an FBI director?
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Listen, mate, I don't think you're getting this.
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if citizens or the Russian government does it bad.
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So if the American government does the exact same thing
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that they accuse the Russian government of, it's good.
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What about the Ukrainian government when they ban other political parties
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but I think that these mad dashes to clamp down as well,
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they can feel the pincer movement sort of coming for them,
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the scythe, just because obviously on the one hand
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you've got sort of Magra and the populist right
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but obvious internationally to the entire world now
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It's not even the 60s America where it faked liking free speech.
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It's not like the 1960s left where they're like,
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people were starting to try and line up lawsuits
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and then all of a sudden this all gets released.
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but releasing the documents at this particular time