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A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain of command nothing was done.

A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain of command nothing was done.

A U.S. official briefed on the shooting investigation and a former senior Afghan National Defense and Security Forces member told CBS News that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, had been part of a "Zero Unit," an Afghan intelligence unit and paramilitary force that worked with the CIA. The units were exclusively composed of Afghan nationals and operated under the umbrella of the National Directorate of Security, or NDS, the intelligence agency established with CIA backing for Afghanistan's previous, U.S.-backed government. They were considered by the U.S. and its international partners to be among the most trusted domestic forces in Afghanistan.

Those units are often labeled "death squads" by human rights groups. The units were known in Afghanistan for their secrecy and alleged brutality, and members were implicated in numerous extrajudicial killings of civilians, particularly during night raids.

The U.S. official briefed on the investigation confirmed the suspect had been disturbed by the casualties in this unit and, more recently, deeply troubled by the killing of his close friend overseas.

The image of the ID badge also carries the words "Firebase Gecko," which was the name of a base used by the CIA and special forces in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, inside what was previously the compound of the Taliban's founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Thursday the suspect had previously worked "with the U.S. Government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar."

Lt. Gen. Sami Sadat, a former commanding general of the Afghan National Special Operations Corps, told CBS News that Lakanwal worked for the "03" unit for eight years. A former senior Afghan general under the U.S.-backed government told CBS News on Thursday that "03 unit, also known as The Kandahar Strike Force (KSF), was under special forces directorate of NDS. They were the most active and professional forces, trained and equipped by the CIA. All their operations were conducted under the CIA command." Lakanwal was part of the unit's operations team, Sadat said.

"He was known for being responsible and professional within his team and had strong anti-Taliban views," Sadat said.

"While we could not establish any connection between him and any terrorist organization, we also cannot completely rule it out," Sadat said. "However, we can confirm that his background does not show any links to terrorists."

Lakanwal's family faced serious threats from the Taliban, which led him to relocate them from their native Khost province to Kabul, Sadat said. In the U.S., Sadat said Lakanwal was "generally calm and maintained a clean record, though he suffered from PTSD."

As a member of a Zero Unit, the suspect would have been virtually guaranteed a route to asylum in the U.S. because members of these elite units were high on the list for Taliban retaliation after the group retook control of the country. Many members of these units played key roles in the August 2021 evacuation from Kabul, in return for a guarantee of space on a flight for themselves and their families out of Afghanistan.

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Wonder if there's a spin cycle. Ha.

Seriously though. This should really help the elderly or those with a physical limitation.

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Using the recent United States’ average contract price for lithium carbonate, about 37,000 dollars per ton, that estimate comes out to be nearly $1.5 trillion.

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0:01 Get a load of this guys. Another Afghan national was arrested this time in

0:08 Texas. Now reports are saying that he posted a video on Tik Tok of himself

0:17 making a bomb and bomb threats. Very strange that all of this is happening so

0:23 close together. I mean, it was just the other day we reported about uh an Afghan national who went to, as they said, they

0:30 he drove across the country to Washington DC and shot two National

0:36 Guard members. One of them has already passed away. That is Sarah uh Beckm who was only 20 years old. And now they are

0:43 reporting that an Afghan national in Texas was arrested 2 days prior to that

0:51 incident in DC. Very strange, isn't it? It's almost as if someone just pressed a

0:57 button somewhere and it activated activated these guys. It's almost as if

1:05 and I'm telling you guys, look, yes, I believe in coincidences, but given

1:10 everything that is taking place right now, I do not consider this to be a coincidence. I believe these guys were

1:16 activated. And we're going to get into the details of this. Let's start with this first clip here. By the way, Fox

1:22 News was the only one who reported this so far and other news outlets are

1:29 referring to the Fox News reporting. So, I find that very interesting as well. Listen to this.

1:35 Well, this just in. We have a Fox News alert from Brooke Taylor. You won't believe this. DHS is confirming that an

1:42 Afghan national was arrested Tuesday after posting a video of himself on Tik

1:47 Tok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort

1:52 Worth area. Yeah, I don't believe it. Yeah, I I

1:58 don't believe you're telling the whole story. You know what I mean? Like, come on, guys. They're not even trying to

2:04 hide it this close together. Excuse me. this close together like it

2:11 it they are really really trying to press this button. I'm telling you they are trying to make you fear Muslims in

2:18 this country. They're going to try to sell this narrative that we are under attack that Americans are under attack

2:25 from Muslims and why Afghanistan. We're going to get into the details about that in just a couple of minutes about what

2:31 Donald Trump said in September of this year about Afghanistan. Let's continue.

2:38 Muhammad Dawid Alukazai is charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat according to DHS.

2:44 Listen to this. He came to the United States as part of Operation Allies

2:50 Welcome. So here you have it. This happened Tuesday. Texas Department of Public Safety. This is a second Afghan

2:58 National Second one this week. Operation Allies Welcome. He had a terror plot. We

3:04 know it comes the same week that that deranged individual, that alleged assassin, took out two of our heroic

3:10 National Guard came here on the same program, Operation Allies Welcome. A

3:16 program that we were assured time and time again by Morcus, by Jens Saki, by Joe Biden himself was safe and secure.

3:24 But here we have a second data point in one week that it was not safe. It was not secure. And we've got to look very

3:30 hard at this program as President Trump is vowing to make change. We will give you all the details as they come. New

3:36 reporting in from Brooke Taylor. And notice what she said there at the end. They have to take another look at

3:43 this program. In other words, what that means is that they're going to have to take another look at the immigration

3:49 policy and how these people were vetted. Now, we already told you that the previous uh suspect from DC was approved

3:58 for asylum under Donald Trump's administration this year in April. But

4:03 what they're trying to do is they're trying to say this is all the fault of the Biden administration. And as I told you guys before, look, there are many

4:09 criticisms of Joe Biden and his administration, which I have been talking about for a number of time, you

4:16 know, on this channel when he was president, but Joe Biden is not president anymore.

4:21 Donald Trump is president. So only for so long can they continue

4:28 with this narrative. This is all because of the Democratic party. Reality here is folks, we know like if we look at the

4:35 history of this country, we know that there was yes different operations that

4:40 have happened via the deep state. We know about MK Ultra. We know how they

4:46 experimented on people right here in this country. And I don't want people to forget about that. Make sure you hold on

4:53 to that. There's more a little bit more information here. Again, I want to show you. Look at who was reporting it. It

5:00 was Fox News. I also find it very strange that this arrest happened uh

5:06 last Tuesday, but it was not they didn't report it.

5:11 This happened prior to the DC attack. So

5:18 why are you just hearing about it now? And if you go back to what she said, she said it was the Department of Homeland

5:24 Security, which of course is under the Trump administration. Don't Don't anybody find it strange that

5:30 this guy was arrested last Tuesday, but they didn't tell you about it? It's almost as if they're going to look and

5:36 search for things now to prove their point to get their point across that we are under attack.

5:43 Here's another one here again. Fox News, the only one. Listen to this.

5:48 An Afghan national now facing terroristic threat charges after he posted a video saying he was building a

5:54 bomb with Fort Worth, Texas, the intended target. Christina Coleman

6:00 joining us live with the latest on that story from the Southland. Christina, hi Kevin. Yes. DHS spokesperson Trisha

6:06 Mclofflin says just one day before the terrorist attack against the National Guard in Washington DC, another Afghan

6:13 national who was parrolled into the US under Biden's Operation Allies Welcome

6:18 Program was arrested for threatening to blow up a building in Fort Worth. Authorities identified the suspect as

6:25 Muhammad Dalwood Alakose. DHS says he's accused of posting a video of himself on

6:30 Tik Tok indicating he was building a bomb intended for the Fort Worth area.

6:36 Fox News's Brooke Taylor reports that he was arrested on Tuesday by the Texas Department of Public Safety and FBI in a

6:43 coordinated law enforcement effort. I'll look. So he was arrested also by the FBI, but

6:51 Cash Patel didn't know about this. Like the incompetency

6:58 of this administration. Jeez Louise. Jose was parrolled into the US in

7:03 September of 2022. He had been admitted as a lawful permanent resident. Also

7:08 this week, President Trump called for a reform of the country's immigration vetting process following the attack on

7:14 the National Guard troops on Wednesday, which involved a suspect who was also parrolled into the US under Biden's

7:21 Operation Allies Welcome Program. These are people I'll show you this in a

7:27 second as well. These are guys who fought alongside with our CIA in

7:34 Afghanistan. They fought against their own people. uh as we told you before um

7:39 Ramanula he was recruited when he was 15 years old.

7:44 So again we talked about that early programming. So we have to remember that

7:50 and why they were given refuge here in the United States. They fought along the CIA against their own people in

7:57 Afghanistan and then of course afterwards they were considered you know

8:03 they were they were threatened of course in their own country. So they were given

8:08 you know refuge here in the United States because they worked with us.

8:15 It is absolutely insane. What these reporters should be calling out is the

8:20 deep state. They should call out the CIA. They should say, "Hey, I don't know. Maybe we should not be training

8:27 people uh as hired guns to go kill their own people." But you're never going to

8:32 hear them say that because that's not what they're paid to do right now. They

8:37 are paid to make you afraid. That's what they're paid to do. Who does

8:43 it benefit? Always ask yourself this question. Who does it benefit at the end of the day? It benefits the US

8:48 government. It benefits Israel. It benefits that relationship between the US and Israel.

8:55 New polling does not look favorable for Israel at all.

9:03 Look, this is how they come in. This is how they they're standing on top of each other in a that's an airplane. There was

9:10 no vetting or anything. Such a lie. DHS says about 85,000

9:16 Afghans settled into the US under Biden's Welcome Allies program. Sean Van

9:22 Driver, the president of Afghan Evac says vetting was conducted, but again a

9:27 review of the vetting process will take place. Now, as for the suspect in Fort Worth, ICE has lodged a detainee on him

9:34 and he was charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat. Kevin,

9:40 so they realize they can't make Americans afraid of Palestinians. That

9:45 doesn't seem to be working out. So now, let's go back to Afghanistan.

9:51 Let's make them afraid of Afghans in this country.

9:58 And why Afghanistan? Let me show you something. Uh, someone sent this to me.

10:04 And of course, shout out to the individual who sent this to me from ML

10:12 Corvidel. They sent this screenshot

10:18 September 20, 2025. Trump says bad things will

10:24 happen if Afghanistan does not return Bram Air Base.

10:31 This was reported by Reuters in September. You know, it kind of went right past me

10:38 to be honest with you, by Katherine Jackson and Phil Stewart. September 20th, 2025. Bad things will

10:45 happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram Air Base.

10:50 What kind of bad things? Look at Look at what's going around,

10:56 folks. It's almost if it was really right there in plain sight.

11:04 President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened bad things would happen if Afghanistan does not give back control of Bagram Air 11:11

Base to the United States and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it. If Afghanistan doesn't give Bagram

11:18 Air Base back to those that built it, the United States of America, bad things are going to happen. Trump said in a

11:25 truth social post. He said that the US has sought to regain control of the base

11:32 used by American forces following the attacks of September 11. He told reporters that on that Friday that he

11:39 was speaking with Afghanistan about it. So, first of all,

11:46 let's talk about this. And you you guys know how I feel about this. The US should not have bases in Afghanistan or

11:51 any other country. We've talked about this before. The US has been basically policing the

11:57 world. You can't just come into these people's countries, put up a base, and say,

12:02 "Okay, like we're watching you." Now, then there is the war in Afghanistan. 20

12:09 years in Afghanistan, what was accomplished from that war?

12:15 People are asking, "Why are there Afghan nationals in the United States?" Again, that's the wrong question.

12:22 But to answer that question, because of what we did in Afghanistan,

12:28 we destroyed that country there. There's no other way to put that. A 20-year war,

12:34 and what was gained from it? A lot of people died, including American soldiers also died in Afghanistan.

12:42 There was starvation crisis in Afghanistan. When Biden was in office and he decided, okay, we're going to

12:47 pull the troops out of Afghanistan, a lot of reporters didn't cover what was

12:53 happening uh during that time in Afghanistan and what happened after that, which was that there was a

12:58 starvation crisis in Afghanistan. We go into these countries, we steal their resources, we kill their people,

13:06 and then the people there are worse off than they were before the intervention. And I've said this over and over again.

13:13 There is also opium in Afghanistan. Yeah, Afghanistan has resources. The US

13:19 government just doesn't go into a country that doesn't have anything and say, "Hey, I think we need to start some war around

13:26 here." So, the people have just been the

13:32 intervention in Afghanistan, the the 20 years, it ruined that country and the

13:39 people have been left in despair. Now, Donald Trump wants to reactivate that

13:45 base in Afghanistan again. Why? Why would the president of so-called peace,

13:50 which people continue to say, which is ridiculous, why would he want to reactivate a base in Afghanistan?

13:59 What is going on? Everyone needs to pay attention and call him out on this

14:04 ridiculousness. A lot of us, I believe, nowadays, are

14:11 anti-war. And if you're anti-war, if you want these wars to stop, you shouldn't be calling for reactivating any US

14:18 military bases and obviously not implementing any new military bases. We

14:24 shouldn't have military bases all over the world. This is absolutely insane. And I say that as someone who came from

14:29 a military family. I'm here to tell you it is wrong. Imagine if another country

14:35 had all of their bases in in the United States. Imagine if China or Russia had

14:40 bases in the United States surrounding us. How would you feel?

14:49 So, what is this really all about, folks? What's really going on? And I'm going to

14:54 tell you, we're going to have to look at the G um the geography in just a second

15:00 because I think I know what the plan is. But I want to take you back to when Afghan nationals were brought into the

15:06 United States. This was during um about two years ago. This video uh Texas

15:13 Congresswoman helps free jailed Afghan soldier who fought alongside US troops

15:19 during the war. So again, there were many of them that fought alongside with

15:24 the United States. Listen to this. Just to take you back. Now, it's a story you first saw on KPRC2. Today, an imprisoned Afghan troop

15:32 who fought alongside US soldiers against the Taliban is going to be reunited with his family. Our KPRC2 Zach Latchway joins us this

15:40 morning with more on the call for help that was answered. Zack. Sophia, good morning. It's a remarkable

15:45 story of sacrifice and determination. A man not American risked his life for our

15:51 country. And this afternoon, he will be reunited with his family after spending the last 4 months detained.

15:59 This is my brother. Okay. He worked as a special force officer. The call for help came last month when

16:05 Sammy Safi reached out to us hoping we could help his brother Abdul Wasi Safi,

16:11 an Afghan troop who fought alongside US soldiers against the Taliban during Operation Enduring Freedom. Wasi was

16:18 left behind when the US pulled out of Afghanistan. And to avoid persecution, Wasi fled to America seeking asylum. But

16:26 he was detained crossing the Texas Mexico border. We reached out to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who

16:33 wrote to the White House asking for Wasi to be freed. I indicated that this was a national

16:38 issue. This is not something that we want to go unattended and that this

16:44 young soldier was fleeing for his life. It worked. Jackson Lee announced Wasi

16:50 will be freed. He was fleeing for his life. Why was he

16:58 fleeing for his life? Because he fought alongside with us against his own people. And that is why they are here.

17:07 So people always need to remember that. And a lot of a lot of people they want to point and say, "Oh no, they shouldn't

17:13 be here. Why are they here?" etc. but they don't want to get into the meat of

17:19 it like I just did to show you why they were here in the first place. Now, I

17:24 said it seems though to me someone came along somewhere and they decided to just push a button and activate these guys

17:32 and I really do feel like something is is a foot here. Something is a foot.

17:38 They are really trying to make you fear Muslims in this country. And if that means that they have to implement these

17:46 false flags, these quote unquote attacks

17:51 to scare you, then they will. In fact, Alex Jones of all people, and again, I

17:58 never thought I would uh show video from Alex Jones on this channel. Ever. ever

18:04 ever thought that Alex Jones of all people was given a heads up about the he

18:09 was g given the warning about this after that arrest in DC. Listen to this.

18:17 Two weeks ago on my syndicated broadcast, General Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency,

18:23 predicted that in the coming months or even weeks, the deep state CIA elements

18:32 ally of the Democratic Party, the Communist, China, Venezuela, and others would begin triggering sleeper cells

18:39 inside the United States, particularly Islamic. Now, let me pause here. So of course he

18:45 says the Democrats, it's not the Democrats. The deep state is not linked to one particular party. People have to

18:52 really understand this. It's not China. It's not Russia. But the part here that 18:58 I think you should hold on to is intel. It's the intelligence agencies, whether

19:04 it's this the CIA, the NSA, etc. implementing sleeper cells to activate

19:12 people. So the problem here with Alex Jones is that he still wants to put the blame on

19:18 the other party. This is not something that's unique to one party. Intelligence agencies operate under both parties. And

19:25 honestly, at the end of the day, they don't really give a damn what party is in power at that point in time. As long

19:30 as the mission, their mission is accomplished. That's what it really comes down to. So he's still stuck in

19:38 the whole it's that side and not our side thing. Um maybe one day he will

19:44 fully wake up and see things for what they really are, especially when it comes to foreign

19:50 policy. But the deep state in particular, the CIA, the NSA, etc.,

19:58 Israel, the MSA, all all of this together, they work together to

20:03 accomplish their mission at hand. It was a while back I I showed a video on this

20:09 channel of a guy who used to work with the CIA and he was talking about this is back in the 70s. He was talking about

20:14 how they would even pick articles. They would decide what would we what would be

20:20 reported in the news like back in the day during that time after he left. He said that they were picking headline

20:26 stories. They sometimes would create headline stories.

20:33 Look it up. Google it. Look it up on YouTube. It's a video from the 1970s. I can't show it on here again because it

20:38 has copyright, but look that up. So, he's still stuck in the duopoly. It's

20:44 It's not a duopoly thing. It's not. And once people start to realize that, then they'll see what's really going on.

20:50 I'll post the interview below. He was on my broadcast yesterday

20:56 and pointed out that all the evidence is clear. We've also had whistleblowers uh that have talked to Jesse Waters and

21:03 others at Fox from inside the CIA that this whole program with the

21:11 Sedicious Six and the script they were given Brennan's the handler

21:16 former head of the CIA from my analysis. this whole operation they've been

21:23 running of saying implying Trump's putting out illegal orders is ahead of

21:28 major events to destabilize the United States with different paramilitary forces and then when Trump tries to call

21:35 the military the corporate media would already pre-plant the idea that his orders are illegal. This is sedition.

21:41 This is the prep phase for a violent coup and I've been predicting it along with

21:49 General Flynn as well. So again, he's still stuck in the partisan part, but he had part of this,

21:55 right, which is that yes, the deep state can activate sleeper cells. Um, so that would be the intelligence agencies,

22:02 right? Yes, Trump's orders are illegal. Uh, it is okay to say that. And Alex

22:07 Jones, you need to get out of that whatever that cult is that that you're a part of that just constantly defends

22:14 Donald Trump to no end. uh and then you'll start to see things for what they

22:20 really are. But yes, again, we have seen these things happen before in this country. Like I said, don't forget the

22:25 MK Ultra uh experiments. So, what I believe is happening, and let me pull

22:32 this up here. I want to show you this map. What I believe is happening is this. I

22:38 believe that they are trying to in some way, shape, or form, there's the Israel

22:43 peace. We'll get back to that in just a second. They're trying to initiate some

22:48 type of conflict with Afghanistan. Again, why? Let's look at the map.

22:56 If you look at where Afghanistan is situated, so we have Iran. Afghanistan

23:04 is right next to Iran and Pakistan. In between Iran and

23:09 Pakistan. Imagine that, right? Because of course the US government, both

23:14 parties despise Iran. They see them as a threat to Israel's greater plan.

23:22 And they're also not happy with Pakistan. Remember, they came in and they kicked Imran Khan out of office and

23:29 jailed him because he didn't want to take a position on the Russia Ukraine war. Let's not forget that as well.

23:36 But if you look at Afghanistan, what do we see

23:42 very close to it? Ah, China.

23:49 Let's go in a little bit further here. China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are

23:58 very close to China. We come out a little bit closer here. You can see it.

24:06 So, it's almost as if if I were to make a prediction, it almost kind of feels like

24:13 the US wants to to to have some type of issue with Afghanistan again.

24:20 And we already know they have an issue with Pakistan. So that they can kind of make their

24:25 their reasoning for coming in to take over Afghanistan

24:31 again. So that they can make their way right here. Ding ding ding ding ding to China.

24:40 They're right there on China's border. Right there.

24:45 Now, let's go back to this article here

24:52 where Trump says bad things will happen if Afghanistan does not return the Bram Air Base. So again, if you're done with

25:01 Afghanistan, you're not trying to go back into Afghanistan, you don't want to send soldiers back there, and you don't

25:08 want to have any more wars, which we know is a lie with with Trump as well.

25:15 Why do you need to reactivate that base? Why do you need that base back?

25:22 H so that you can keep an eye on what their neighbor right here, China,

25:30 is doing. Is is that why you see it's it's never just part of a

25:37 small plan. It's part of a bigger plan. And then there's the other issue with Israel. Israel wants to accomplish this

25:44 greater Israel uh project which would also include Syria, parts of Syria, part

25:51 of Jordan, even part of Egypt, even though Egypt tries to pretend like this ain't a thing. Uh there was parts of

25:57 Saudi Arabia and that in all, don't forget Israel wants Iran gone as well.

26:03 Benjamin Netanyahu called Iran the curse. Benjamin Netanyahu said uh we

26:08 would have a blessing if Iran wasn't there in the way. So the greater is

26:14 Israel project would actually also include Iran as well taking over all of

26:20 this Iraq Iran and bing bing bing bing there's Afghanistan

26:26 they would be a problem too for them they want all of it all of it.

26:32 So, everybody needs to pay attention to what's going on, folks.

26:39 And the polling shows you the big problem here for Israel. Shout out to

26:45 Drop Site News for this one. Sympathy for Israel has collapsed to a historic low. According to a new poll by Big Data

26:51 Poll, only 29.1% of voters now side with Israel, while 21.4%

26:58 back Palestine. Support has fallen sharply

27:03 from 54% peak measured after October 7th. And I'll show you that graph.

27:10 Democrats lean towards Palestine 31.9% versus 17.1%.

27:16 Independents split almost evenly. Young Republicans from ages 18 to 19 now favor

27:24 Palestine 33.4% 24% to 27.9%.

27:30 That's a big change. America First voters 25 to 29 show the starkkest

27:38 break. 40.8% sympathize with Palestine. So, I thought

27:43 this was interesting. I'll show you um the graph here. I thought it was

27:48 interesting considering they said America first voters as if that's a separate party. It's not.

27:55 So that I thought that was interesting. Maybe that's a sign of something to

28:01 come. Who knows? But these are the people that I would imagine uh supported Donald Trump, voted

28:09 for Donald Trump because of his America first uh agenda, and now have said, "No,

28:14 f this guy. This is ridiculous. Uh we are just America first."

28:19 So something could be happening there. But here's the graph here.

28:26 So this is interesting. This is interesting. Among registered voters,

28:33 29.1% support Israel. This is a historic low for Israel. I I

28:39 wish it was lower than that, but this is historic. Republicans 47.1%

28:47 support Israel. That's not even at 50% anymore. Democrats 17.1%.

28:54 Independents 20.1%. But here's the kicker, folks. That 18 to

29:00 19 year old, the young Republicans, only 27.9%. Most of them now support

29:06 Palestine at 33.4%. And America First, ages 25 to 29, only

29:12 24.5% support Israel. This big shift here, 40.8% support Palestine. That is

29:20 very very telling. Things are changing.

29:25 Again, it's not, you know, necessarily as much about the Democrats, right? Because

29:32 Democrats are are more likely to break away if if any other party, right? If if you were to compare them between the

29:37 Republican party. But what was not supposed to happen is that you were not supposed to have conservatives break

29:44 away from Israel in that way, shape, or form. This is a big deal. Um, pollsters

29:53 say the GOP's populist wing is driving the shift. Younger Republicans

29:58 identifying with the America First strongly reject Israel's war. Among America uh first Republicans age 18 to

30:06 29, 52.9% say Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide compared to 29.2%

30:14 who disagree. That's the most l most latest poll they

30:20 know. So, here's something to think about. If I saw that poll, if Dropside

30:27 News saw that poll, then you can damn sure bet that Donald Trump saw that poll. And you can damn sure bet that

30:34 Benjamin Netanyahu saw that poll.

30:40 So, things are changing. They don't like it. And honestly, folks,

30:48 this could be the shift, the break that we're looking for. There is already uh a

30:53 candidate running against Randy Fine, who's a Republican, but is in not

30:59 support of of Israel. There is already, we brought on Jose Vega multiple times on the show. Jose

31:06 Vega is running as a Democrat in the primary and then a independent in the general. He's running against Richie

31:11 Torres. And then there's both of them are a part of uh Azapac which I talked about before

31:17 on the show which is a pack to challenge Apac to get Apac out.

31:23 I never thought I would have seen this before in my life you guys. So there is change that that is happening and uh I

31:32 really do believe that the deep state is trying to fight back against that change by implementing or initiating these

31:39 attacks that you've seen recently this past week. Hey guys, this was a savvy

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Website: https://sabbysabs.com/

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About Sabrina:

Sabrina grew up overseas and in the US. She often jokes about not having a hometown, because her family served in the military, and her family moved around a lot.

She first became interested in politics after she joined her high school debate team, where she won several debate competitions. She also developed broadcasting skills in her high school's Programming & Broadcasting class. It was this course that first taught her how to conduct interviews.

Sabrina studied broadcast journalism & and English as an undergrad. She graduated with a BA from the University of South Carolina. She later graduated with a master's degree in Education from Northeastern University. Sabrina worked in higher education for ten years as an academic advisor at colleges such as MIT and Boston University. While she enjoyed working with students, she felt restricted in higher education due to administrative bureaucracy.

Sabby Sabs podcast was created in January 2021 after progressive members of the House refused to Force the Vote for Medicare For All. As a former supporter of Bernie Sanders and the squad, Sabrina was disappointed with squad members refusing to fight back against establishment Democrats. The ineffectiveness of the squad pushed Sabrina to leave the Democratic Party and become a registered independent. This also pushed her to focus on other solutions, such as ballot initiatives, mutual aid, and third parties. She continues to encourage her viewers to focus on local organizing efforts and breaking the duopoly.

She later joined the Revolutionary Blackout Network as a co-host and member, hosting summits and organizing events with fellow members. As part of RBN, she started the Boston RBN Chapter, which focuses on mutual aid. Each RBN member has a chapter in their respective cities.

Since Sabby Sabs podcast started, Sabrina has traveled to different states covering protests and rallies, received two media awards, and interviewed guests such as Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Kim Iversen, Matt Taibbi, Garland Nixon, and Jill Stein to name a few. She has been featured on shows like The Hill's Rising, The Kim Iversen Show, Sputnik Radio, CrossTalk, and more.^[[1] https://www.sabby-sabs.com/]

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Edit:

1. Fixed generated summary to transcript.
2. Font of section titles, transcript fixed

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54102494

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54102427

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/770637

Comments

Several thousand people rallied in Croatia's capital on Sunday in an anti-fascist march protesting the rise of World War II revisionism and far-right views in the country.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he thinks it’s “very possible” that a reported follow-up strike on two survivors of an initial U.S. attack in the Caribbean in September could constitute a war crime.

“I think it’s very possible there was a war crime committed,” Van Hollen said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” when asked about The Washington Post reporting about the U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2, which the administration previously confirmed killed 11 people they deemed “narco-terrorists.”

The Post reported on Friday, however, that the initial strike left two survivors clinging to the wreckage. The news outlet reported that the special operations commander, who was in charge of the military operation, ordered a second attack to comply with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s earlier order to “kill everybody” aboard the vessel.

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“Of course, for it to be a war crime, you have to accept the Trump administration’s whole construct here, which is we’re in armed conflict, at war, with this particular — with the drug gangs. Of course, they’ve never presented the public with the information they’ve got here. But it could be worse than that, right? If that theory is wrong, then it’s plain murder,” Van Hollen said, confirming that he was referring to the first strike.

“I’m saying that it’s either murder from the first strike, if their whole theory is wrong — and I think, you know, the weight of the legal opinion here is that they have concocted this ridiculous legal theory,” he said. “But even if you accept their theory, then it is a war crime.”

https://archive.ph/Lapny

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.

Experiences with the Matrix protocol, Matrix Synapse server, bridges, and Element mobile app. There are some you-just-have-to-know-this issues.

TL;DR:

• Matrix Synapse: works fine, but requires constant manual maintenance.
• Bridges: work pretty well.
• Element: generally OK, some issues with timely notifications, no feature parity between Element Classic and Element X, terrible on-boarding (with current setup)