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[00:00:08] Hello and welcome to
[00:00:10] a in Cross Talk where all things are considered. I'm Peter Level. Do the people get the rulers
[00:00:14] they deserve? Does democracy, as it is practiced in the west,
[00:00:18] truly represent the will
[00:00:20] of the voters. Consider the issue of war and peace. Voters
[00:00:23] across the western world are most definitely against
[00:00:27] of foreign conflicts, nonetheless constant war. is the
[00:00:34] of of norm,
[00:00:39] cross talking democracy, I'm joined by my guess Margaret Kimberly in New
[00:00:43] York, she's executive editor of Black Agenda report, and in
[00:00:47] Alexandria we cross to Joe Loria, he is the editor and chief of
[00:00:50] consortiumnews.com. All right, crossstock rules and effect, that means you can jump any time you
[00:00:54] want, and I always appreciate it. Let me go to you first, Joe, and in
[00:00:58] my introduction I asked: the first question, do we get the rulers we
[00:01:03] of deserve? well, that's a good question, I don't think we have a choice, we
[00:01:07] don't get the choice, we don't get the choices that we deserve, I'll put it that
[00:01:10] way, I will, I will say that, when you look at
[00:01:14] democracy in history, it's always been very limited, of course, even
[00:01:17] a in Athens
[00:01:18] it was only
[00:01:19] a males who can vote, and in America early American Republic only
[00:01:23] males with property could was even more restrictive, we look at
[00:01:26] the origins of democracy, I think
[00:01:28] you have to go to Peter. potkin, the great Russian prince, anarchist mutual
[00:01:32] aid, that the instinct of cooperation is what brought about the survival of
[00:01:36] species more than our instinct for corp for
[00:01:39] in competition, but throughout history, elites have formed in
[00:01:42] of hierarchies of to try to disrupt uh that mutual late or coming
[00:01:46] together to be cooperative, and that's they and they
[00:01:49] deify leaders, they build monuments to them, their state
[00:01:53] secrets, these are the kind of elements that have we've seen throughout history where
[00:01:57] an elite tries to destroy democracy. democracy, which I'm
[00:02:01] arguing
[00:02:01] a is natural to us, and that's what we
[00:02:03] a have today. We have now oligarchs in the United States
[00:02:06] in a putocracy, when when literacy came about it became more complicated
[00:02:10] for the elites to manage
[00:02:12] of populations,
[00:02:13] of but they find a way, and it's a constant struggle to try to the
[00:02:17] people to unite and and and rule themselves against these elites
[00:02:21] and we're no more progressed to many ways than we have for
[00:02:24] centuries, in terms
[00:02:25] of the United States elections and American political system, it's an
[00:02:30] oligarchic plutocracy that rules and it's a struggle
[00:02:34] for people to have a voice and to actually try to rule themselves,
[00:02:38] but we answer your question, we don't have any good choices since state control
[00:02:41] both major parties uh and who the candidates are talking about huge
[00:02:45] money doing that? you know Margaret, all you the
[00:02:49] first before we started
[00:02:50] here I was telling Joe that uh um I went into the voting booth in
[00:02:54] 1976 with my mother, I wasn't old enough to vote yet, but I made
[00:02:58] her vote, I made her vote for Jimmy. Carter and um
[00:03:02] my family, as many people know of me, I was brought up in in the
[00:03:06] environment
[00:03:06] of the John Bert society, so you could see why I had to
[00:03:10] secretly tell my mother to pull the lever for democrat,
[00:03:14] um, my father never knew, but Margaret, we've all been brought up
[00:03:18] with this mantra, and there's so many rituals
[00:03:20] of part of
[00:03:20] of these elections in Europe and in the United
[00:03:23] a States, um, this is a change election, we're
[00:03:27] of of always talk, it's a change election, this is the most important. an election and we hear it all
[00:03:31] of the time,
[00:03:32] of but of if there is change, it's not good change, at least for the vast
[00:03:36] majority of people pulling that lever,
[00:03:39] a Margaret? well, as Joe was saying, uh, the people
[00:03:43] of don't, of we the term democracy it implies that the people have some
[00:03:47] say, but you
[00:03:49] of go to the voting booth
[00:03:50] of after the people at the top have made the decisions, after they've
[00:03:54] decided who can and can't run, after they decided
[00:03:58] who they want to win a primary. then you at the end
[00:04:02] of that process get
[00:04:03] of to make a quote unquote choice of a
[00:04:07] person or of a party that lie to you, they know
[00:04:11] what people want, they know people don't want wars, so they run
[00:04:15] for office saying, we're not going to have any forever wars, and now we
[00:04:18] of have, i think Ukraine is the latest forever war, they'll end one
[00:04:22] and uh start another, and it's very
[00:04:25] of clear, of people want
[00:04:25] of the minimum wage to go up, people want medicare for all, and
[00:04:29] then weird told uh people
[00:04:32] of left of or
[00:04:33] of leftish, you have to vote for the democrats, but they've already said uh
[00:04:37] Hakim Jeffries who uh will probably be the speaker
[00:04:40] of the house said
[00:04:41] of he doesn't want medicare for all, so uh we don't
[00:04:44] get the government desert we deserve, because it doesn't represent
[00:04:48] our interests, yeah, and Joe, because it's
[00:04:52] it's so pre-packaged, I mean the how
[00:04:56] difficult is it to start a third party, I know that over the summer...
[00:05:00] was all this uh talking tucker carlson had met many
[00:05:03] of the dissidents that left the magga
[00:05:06] slash trump movement and they were talking about the
[00:05:10] establishing or people said that they were talking about about establishing a third
[00:05:13] party and it seems near impossible, neither republicans
[00:05:17] or democrats like to see a challenger from
[00:05:21] the left or the right? joe, it's impossible, do it's
[00:05:25] fixed for the do for the two parties, the duopolie, you can't get on the
[00:05:28] state ballot, in order to get on the ballot is an enormously difficult
[00:05:32] process to do, they get the signatures and there are all these, you talk to Jill
[00:05:36] Stein about this, we ran as the green party candidate twice for
[00:05:39] president, you can't get on the ballot because - every state has an
[00:05:43] enormous bureaucracy, red tape, they put all kinds of obstacles on there, it's a very
[00:05:47] complicated process, and then getting into the debates, that is
[00:05:50] almost impossible as well. she was actually, i think arrested once, jill stein
[00:05:54] trying to get on into a studio where
[00:05:56] there was a debate, she tried to protest, and so if you can't get on the ballot
[00:06:00] and you can't get on the debates, you're left with these two awful parties that
[00:06:04] as Margaret was saying, pretty much are most issues, especially
[00:06:07] foreign policy are the same, they're both aggressive uh back
[00:06:11] American. of power around the world, the
[00:06:15] primacy the United States, etc., etc., push those lies about
[00:06:19] democracy being spread, in fact around the world, when when when it's
[00:06:23] the opposite, when United States has overthrown democratic elected leaders and
[00:06:27] put in kings like in Iran, reversal of
[00:06:30] 1776, they overthrew a democratic elected leader and put a king
[00:06:34] back on the throne, and uh, chilley was elected, they put
[00:06:38] a military dictatorship in, so these parties push the...
[00:06:42] two uh what we're seeing and we could this is a whole other issue maybe is the
[00:06:46] support for Israel is eroding to point where
[00:06:50] nobody ever expected so that a democratic part and particularly if you're a
[00:06:53] politician you support Israel that could be a liability which is unbelievable but for the most
[00:06:57] part there still that bipartisan support for Israel for foreign
[00:07:01] wars there are few slight differences domestically on policy but
[00:07:05] neither one as again Margaret said there's medicare for alls the American people
[00:07:09] desperately would want that like most industrialized countries. nationalized health
[00:07:13] system, neither party is for that, so America people are
[00:07:17] stuck with two really bad choices. yeah, you Margaret, I mean, I'm
[00:07:20] I'm literally quite far away from it, but when I look at the
[00:07:24] coverage the these midterms elections, which hasn't been extensive
[00:07:28] because it's so ritualistic that I, I, I don't
[00:07:32] even, I can turn the volume down and I still know what they're saying, you know what I
[00:07:36] mean, but you know, it it's very, this this character
[00:07:40] Haley Stevens that made the news the last few. cycles,
[00:07:43] so Joe was telling us how difficult it is to get on the ballot, but
[00:07:47] someone like this woman was elected to congress
[00:07:50] okay, I mean now now I'm you
[00:07:54] now the the constitution doesn't have tests
[00:07:57] to to be candidate, but maybe they should have IQ tests, okay? I
[00:08:01] mean, this
[00:08:02] is this, I mean, no, I mean,
[00:08:03] you know, you, you have to be more responsible than that
[00:08:07] kind of behavior, I mean, and then it tells us really the real condition,
[00:08:11] I mean, obviously she was waiting for her last paycheck from someone and
[00:08:15] we all know who that was Margaret? well yes,
[00:08:19] she it's it's kind of funny to me, Haley Stevens
[00:08:23] had one job was to distance herself,
[00:08:26] distance herself from Elsayed
[00:08:29] enough without making it look like Democrats didn't
[00:08:33] want him, that's all she had to do, but then she endorses the
[00:08:37] Republican and even people like Chuck Schumer have to condemn
[00:08:41] her her own staff. quit, which tells me about what it was like to
[00:08:45] work for her before this, um, they couldn't even stand working for
[00:08:48] her for seven more weeks, but um, this is
[00:08:52] classic example of what we're talking about, the establishment, the
[00:08:56] zionist donors did not want elsayed, but low and
[00:08:59] behold, the people choose him, well what do you do now? you
[00:09:03] discredit him, you use islamophobia, you claim he's
[00:09:07] anti-semitic, you get the loser to not
[00:09:10] stand down the way she's supposed to stand down, and so the
[00:09:14] Democratic Party, they have a problem, they have to recalibrate, they haven't
[00:09:18] changed at all, but their voters went and did something they
[00:09:21] didn't want them to do. El Sied, by the way, is not
[00:09:25] very progressive, but it just tells you what the system
[00:09:29] is like that someone who with mild criticisms of
[00:09:33] Israel is considered persona nongrata,
[00:09:37] but now they have him, and I, I think he's going to win, I don't think
[00:09:41] it's even going to be very... close uh, but but this
[00:09:44] is this whole comedic episode
[00:09:48] tells you what happens when you do not really have democracy,
[00:09:52] when people with money pick candidates and make clear
[00:09:56] who they want, and you see the panic when the public do something
[00:10:00] they didn't plan for them to do. yeah, it is a comedy of
[00:10:04] errors, joe, but it's not very funny,
[00:10:06] is it? no, it's serious, if it weren't serious, it
[00:10:10] wasn't about people's lives, so it would be, would be funny and this episode
[00:10:14] in particular, which I have to say, I never even heard of this woman until this thing broke out, I don't
[00:10:18] follow, because as you said, you turn down the volume, you know what they're saying, you
[00:10:21] know what the script is, and as... is pointing
[00:10:25] out here, even a mild criticism of Israel, they tried to stop this
[00:10:28] guy, um, but it's it's the fact is the people,
[00:10:32] this is democracy, they voted him any way, and what the hell do they do then?
[00:10:36] they panic, but what's happening on the streets of France and the rest of Europe, and now
[00:10:40] Germany, Albania, this is, I have to say,
[00:10:44] democracy when you don't have an avenue for people to really get some
[00:10:48] kind of power, you go on the streets and there's no question
[00:10:51] that leaders listen to protests like...
[00:10:55] this, I've just took a tour the deep south, I came, I went, spent three days
[00:10:59] in Selma and I went over that bridge and to Montgomery by car,
[00:11:03] and I saw that that protest brought about the voting rights act, so
[00:11:07] and that Martin Luther King was actually speaking to Johnson and got him
[00:11:10] to do that, so protest can work on the street, and I think they're
[00:11:14] panicking in Europe about that, what's going on right now, and the
[00:11:17] Ukraine war is at the essence of that protest, even if they're not saying it,
[00:11:21] because the money is going for the militarization of... europe
[00:11:25] and to pay for the Ukraine war and the people are fed up in
[00:11:29] Europe because they're not getting what they need, the social services they came to be used
[00:11:32] to under social democracy, which is eroded towards an American
[00:11:36] type system. No, they want to militarize it. We have to give up on social
[00:11:40] services, we have to militarize, you have to go into the military. This is
[00:11:44] remark, this is what the EU experiment is all turned into, it's very
[00:11:48] authoritarian, and it brings no prosperity. All right, I'm going to jump in here, we're going to
[00:11:52] go to a short break, and after that short break we'll continue our discussion. On
[00:11:55] democracy, stay with our
[00:11:56] team. YouTube
[00:15:16] where all things are considered on Peter you
[00:15:18] were discussing
[00:15:19] democracy.
[00:15:29] All right, let's go back to to Margaret in New York. It's, I, I, I'm
[00:15:33] gonna go with my own metaphor there, turning down the volume, because
[00:15:36] you know what they're saying here. "I mean, so many these so-called elections are
[00:15:40] just referendum on somebody's personality.
[00:15:43] Okay, um, it would be nice. I i'm not against referendum, I
[00:15:47] wish it'd be referendum on the Iran war, um, I, we all
[00:15:51] know what direction that will go, but when these this mid-term election
[00:15:55] is come and gone and forgotten about, the war in Iran
[00:15:59] will be continuing. Okay, that this election cycle is not
[00:16:03] going to change that. That is human a huge
[00:16:06] flaw. in what democracy is supposed to do, because it is supposed
[00:16:10] to be the will the people. this is very unpopular war, it has been
[00:16:14] from day one, the most unpopular war in recorded American
[00:16:18] history, but it's still going to be continue, and elections have no
[00:16:22] impact on that at all. oh no, well this is
[00:16:26] something that the dewapoly have wanted for ever since the
[00:16:29] Iranian revolution in 1979, destabilizing
[00:16:33] Iran has been on the agenda of both parties. uh,
[00:16:37] Trump being weak, very ill, I mean that's a whole other
[00:16:41] story, uh, it's not just Israel, but they're
[00:16:44] playing a big role in this, and only one senator,
[00:16:48] Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who I have other issues with, last
[00:16:52] week, he said he'd been briefhed, and this plan is
[00:16:55] insane, it's not talked about, it's not an election
[00:16:59] issue, it didn't get his comments didn't get as much attention as
[00:17:03] I think they should have, why did you call a press conf, I'm
[00:17:06] sorry, you call a press conference, because his comments
[00:17:10] came serendipitly, he was, he
[00:17:13] was on, he was being interviewed, yes, yes, he was talking about something else
[00:17:17] entirely, but he's part the system, he's one the
[00:17:20] people who uh famously or
[00:17:23] infamously uh uh went with John McCain to
[00:17:26] Keyev to during Maydon to overthrow an
[00:17:30] elected president, so he's not really interested in democracy,
[00:17:33] there's some element of this plan that he finds disturbing,
[00:17:38] uh enough to mention it kind of on the
[00:17:41] side as you point out, but it's not being talked
[00:17:45] about at all by anyone, this will be
[00:17:49] catastrophic, we're talking about huge loss of life, we're
[00:17:53] we don't know where this is going to go exactly, we know it's going to be
[00:17:56] something uh quite terrible and it's going
[00:18:00] to happen, there's all these murmors about it, New York Times,
[00:18:04] Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, they haven't written much about. it other
[00:18:08] people running for office haven't talked about it, I mean this is
[00:18:11] classic uh something that's going to have huge impact
[00:18:15] on the world, on our lives, is not being discussed
[00:18:19] because the war party, because
[00:18:21] it is the war party, and it's never on the ballot is it,
[00:18:25] it's it's it's never on the ballot, Joe, what is the
[00:18:29] fate of Maga? first of all, Chris Murphy got got a stroke right
[00:18:33] after that, I don't know, I don't think there's any relation there, but so the guys,
[00:18:37] poor guys. in the hospital now, well he's not, he's not an old
[00:18:40] man, he's not elderly, no, but he had a
[00:18:44] stroke, um, so anyway uh, maga, it's
[00:18:48] a very good question, um, I think Donald Trump
[00:18:51] exploited these people who also want health insurance and don't
[00:18:55] want a war in Iran, he championed them and he fooled them to thinking
[00:18:59] that billionaire would represent the interest of working class people,
[00:19:03] mostly white American working class people, and uh, they some the...
[00:19:07] have woken up to this fact and they have leaders like Margery
[00:19:11] Telegraine, like Candice Owen, like Tucker
[00:19:14] Carlson, who are saying particularly on wars, on Iran and on
[00:19:18] Gaza, they have broken with him, but also on some the domestic issues,
[00:19:22] so if they take the lead, I think he's in trouble, uh, there's
[00:19:25] question, I'm not an expert on maga, but I could tell you that there
[00:19:29] certainly descension in the ranks led by those kinds of people I just mentioned, so
[00:19:33] what the turnout in the American elections will tell us
[00:19:37] what? happens with Donald Trump uh and his future and the future
[00:19:41] of Mager, when he goes and he will go, kicking and
[00:19:44] screaming, will somebody like Rubio
[00:19:47] or or Vance, of course these
[00:19:49] are the two front runners for the Republican nomination in the next presidential
[00:19:53] election, will they be able to pick up this mantle of Mager in the same way or will
[00:19:57] that change? I think that's the big question, how much of it is rooted in the
[00:20:00] personality, the cult of Donald Trump, this we will see
[00:20:04] ultimately. Well, it's very, Margaret the
[00:20:08] the uh the other side the ledger is uh what
[00:20:12] kind of positive program are the democrats because we're stuck with both
[00:20:15] parties so what are they proposing um
[00:20:18] because um
[00:20:20] I know lot of people
[00:20:21] a whole lot of people
[00:20:22] that are furious the way they
[00:20:25] voted the last three times and regret it very very
[00:20:29] much
[00:20:29] but they're not interested in like AOC and stuff like mean that's that
[00:20:33] a I dilemma okay there's no choice.
[00:20:37] and and it it feels like people are disenfranchised by
[00:20:41] the limitations that they're presented, because I don't
[00:20:45] see the the Democratic party, and I wouldn't call it
[00:20:48] left, I mean it's
[00:20:49] just it's... "it's a different right-wing party in America.
[00:20:52] I mean, if if you look at it globally, and there's nothing very progressive
[00:20:56] about it except for few individuals, what do they have to offer? That's
[00:21:00] the dilemma for so many people. They're politically homeless
[00:21:04] now, and have been for a long time. Margaret. Yeah, I, I
[00:21:07] think we actually have more of a say in local and state elections, to be perfectly
[00:21:11] honest. Yes, yes, I agree. And the democrats, they live off the
[00:21:15] reputation, they live off the legacy of FDR, the
[00:21:19] new..." they live off of Lyndon Johnson bringing us
[00:21:23] medicare and medicaid, but they haven't done anything
[00:21:26] progressive in years, and they're not going to because their
[00:21:30] donors don't want them to, so yes, we are
[00:21:33] politically homeless, if you want to see even moderate
[00:21:37] changes, there's no one to represent you, they're people who talk
[00:21:41] the talk at election day, but then it's
[00:21:44] inevitably we get this, the dooopoli,
[00:21:48] both of whom are in f. of a war against Iran, they may differ
[00:21:52] on strategy, but they both want to unseat that
[00:21:56] government, and that means we don't have a say.
[00:22:00] I i voted in uh, early voting here in New York a couple of
[00:22:04] days ago for governor, some other state offices, and I feel
[00:22:08] like it was important for me to do so, but I don't have any
[00:22:11] illusions that anything is going to change in
[00:22:14] Washington, because the 1%, the donor
[00:22:18] class, the ruling class call. what you will own the parties and they
[00:22:22] don't want anything to change. joe, we're painting
[00:22:26] a very depressing picture here, because what is the way
[00:22:30] out? and i'm glad you brought up the um the social unrest in
[00:22:34] Europe, because the the de so-called democratic
[00:22:38] process has exhausted itself there. mean, you have a German
[00:22:41] chancellor, if i'm not mistaken, his public opinion number is in the
[00:22:45] single digit, single okay, macron is double
[00:22:49] digit on the... way out um, whoever took over in the
[00:22:53] UK is the same as guy before, that's how memorable these people
[00:22:56] are, I can't even remember their names instantly, okay, because there's nothing
[00:23:00] to remember them for, they're not interesting, they're not unique,
[00:23:04] they have no message here, and young people, particularly with the
[00:23:08] advent of AI, you know, and you want to be a lawyer, well you don't need,
[00:23:12] we don't need lawyers anymore,
[00:23:14] we we we we have AI to do that, okay, I mean even what would be
[00:23:18] considered well-paying jobs. "I mean, even the medical
[00:23:21] profession to a great degree. I mean, I,
[00:23:25] you, I'm a boomer, but I'm glad I'm not 19.
[00:23:28] Joe, yes, um, I'm glad I'm not 19
[00:23:32] either, but on the other hand, I have to say that this is the recking, the final
[00:23:36] reckoning of this class of politicians in Europe,
[00:23:39] Starmer now Bernam, Schulz, and now Murts and
[00:23:43] Macron throughout this period supporting this war
[00:23:46] agenda, and they by the way, keep talking about war with Russia." by
[00:23:50] 2029 or 2030, which is when Trump leaves office by the way, so maybe they're
[00:23:54] counting a democrat coming in to the way Biden started the war with
[00:23:57] Ukraine to go to the final uh stretch, this insane
[00:24:01] talk of Russian war, but the people in Europe, young people in particular, but not only,
[00:24:05] we've got the unions, there's general strike, there are
[00:24:09] unions who are joining and the parents joining the students in the
[00:24:12] streets, some small numbers are getting violent and bringing a lot of
[00:24:16] attention, but the majority the people are peacefully protesting this...
[00:24:20] lack of democracy in Europe because these tone deaf, these
[00:24:24] elitists, these transatlantic leaders who've been
[00:24:28] groomed since they were young to support the United States no matter what,
[00:24:32] and even to the detriment their own economies and Germany is the best
[00:24:35] example by by ignoring the shutdown and the blowing up the
[00:24:39] northstream pipeline, the sanctions against Russian
[00:24:43] gas,
[00:24:43] it is destroying the economy and bringing about this turmold in
[00:24:47] Germany and now they're talking about how's their response a... military draft
[00:24:51] in in Germany, that is also a big part the protest now, so the people not
[00:24:55] having, and these guys are scared, I'm saying the protests are
[00:24:58] not useless, if they are sustained and they grow, they have
[00:25:02] enormous impact, that's the only way to change, as we've been
[00:25:06] discussing in this program a blocked system, a phony
[00:25:09] democracy, rigged system of not having someone to really
[00:25:13] vote for, these elites the power, the oligarchy power
[00:25:17] in Europe, in the United States to put candidates there, that we don't have a
[00:25:20] choice that don't respond to the needs the people, the way this
[00:25:24] is that happens is on the street and I have lot of optimism
[00:25:28] about that, it's messy, but it's the only way to get something done, and I think
[00:25:32] that that European leaders will have eventually respond, but for example in
[00:25:36] France they now the said that they are going to be uh hiring 500 more
[00:25:39] teachers, blah blah blah, why didn't they do that before, they had the money to do that
[00:25:43] before, well they had money to send Ukraine, they had money to
[00:25:46] send to Ukraine, that's it, that's it,
[00:25:50] Margaret, I mean the the this combination of economic
[00:25:54] slowdown, this war in Iran, we and
[00:25:57] obviously always above us like a dark shadow is this
[00:26:01] AI, I mean. do you see progress, a a
[00:26:05] progressive on the populist left or populist right being
[00:26:09] able to succeed considering the circumstances we have, it seems like
[00:26:13] everyone's in a straight jacket, one minute left for you, Margaret, go
[00:26:16] ahead, uh, it's going to be very difficult, I'm I, but I
[00:26:19] want to be optimistic that high school kids in France
[00:26:23] began this discussion, they literally had rats in their schools,
[00:26:27] no teachers, no desks and they are the ones who started
[00:26:31] this, and I think... that's
[00:26:32] an indicator for all of us of what we can do with
[00:26:36] organized movements and that that's what what we desperately
[00:26:39] need. it's the only thing that's going to change and our our
[00:26:43] responsibility is to figure out how to sustain these movements so
[00:26:47] we can save ourselves and and literally save the world. yeah,
[00:26:51] but i'm i'm unfortunately going to end a a rather pessimistic note,
[00:26:55] these elites, they're very powerful and they like they they're not going to
[00:26:59] give give away power, not leave power very easy.
[00:27:03] and they can use lot of force to do it, we'll see. all
[00:27:07] right, hopefully we won't talk about mid-term elections for another few years,
[00:27:10] that's all the time we have,
[00:27:11] I want to thank my guests in New York and in Alexandria,
[00:27:14] and of course i want to thank our viewers for watching us your darty, see you next time,
[00:27:18] remember crossstock
[00:27:19] rules.
[00:27:58] questions, I'm asking them, what's a free country, are you
[00:28:01] worried? Are you scared, we Rusky? Are you dictator? Are you
[00:28:05] thinking about creating something? Not planning to run for president. We will
[00:28:09] show you what they
[00:28:18] RC in the United States. I did not know that.
[00:28:22] That's the Sanchez effect. Tens of millions are now
[00:28:25] watching and we're just getting
[00:28:27] started.
[00:28:35] the west and the rest,
[00:28:39] privilege and fury,
[00:28:42] palaces and slums, old
[00:28:46] alliances, new centers of power,
[00:28:50] closed borders, open wounds. this is
[00:28:54] our reality, but between these opposing worlds, can
[00:28:58] we still find some common
[00:29:00] ground? In
[00:29:04] Hinduism we always believe that life is a full
[00:29:07] circle, there
[00:29:08] are always ups and downs.
[00:29:11] India before the British was the
[00:29:15] richest nation with the highest GDP in the
[00:29:19] world, and why did the 100 years of
[00:29:22] British rule bring it to dismal
[00:29:26] low of some 50th ranking or late 30th
[00:29:29] ranking. India
[00:29:33] was not their property, they had no right
[00:29:37] to take my property, my idols,
[00:29:41] by gods. They went to our public
[00:29:44] spaces, our sacred spaces of temples
[00:29:48] and really violently pulled out these
[00:29:51] pieces. In fact, the word loot also is a Hindi
[00:29:55] word which is now got into the English dictionary, so
[00:29:59] quite tellingly even the Hindi. word
[00:30:03] loot has been looted into the English
[00:30:05] lexicon,
[00:30:28] and good evening, it is prime time here in the United States, thanks for watching, I'm...
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[00:30:39] questions that we have asked for months have emerged: one,
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