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A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
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Hezbollah stages wargames for media, asserts readiness to confront Israel
"Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah put on a show of force in one of its training sessions, which was unusually open to the media. In the training, Hezbollah's forces staged a simulated military exercise, masked fighters fired from the backs of motorcycles and blew up Israeli flags posted in the hills above. They also jumped through flaming hoops, the exercise came ahead of liberation day, the annual celebration of the whipped rule of Israeli forces from south Lebanon on May 25th, 2000, it also came in the wake of a recent escalation of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Gaza, militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza has long had ties with Hezbollah, I am Karen Chammas
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U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Addresses Israeli Parliament
"Let's listen in just to a little bit of this Cut 12 go But as we welcome peace we can not ignore the threats to peace in our region Those threats have one primary cause The rogue Iranian regime Most of the turmoil in this region of violence and instability can be traced back to that source Which continues to fund terrorism arms its proxy militias and pursues nuclear weapons Iran seeks to destabilize Iraq It wants to entrench missiles in Syria It empowers the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon And it is fueling a brutal Civil War in Yemen And among all this aggression it seeks to encircle Israel with hostile forces We can not allow Iran regime evil campaign to succeed To deter To deter Iran's dangerous behavior our nations must continue to stand together We the United States integrated Israel into our central command And our continuing to carry out military exercises together As long as I am speaker America will continue to support fully funding for security systems in Israel
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Israel strikes Lebanon, Gaza, as Al-Aqsa crisis escalates
"Israel has launched rare air strikes in Lebanon, a sharp escalation that sparks fears of a broader conflict after militants fight dozens of rockets from Lebanon into Israeli territory. The Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon was analysts describe as the most serious border violence since Israel's 2006 war with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group threatened to push the confrontation into a dangerous new phase following violence at one of Jerusalem's holiest sites in addition the Israeli military reports a Palestinian carried out a shooting attack against Israelis in the northern West Bank Israeli medics say some people were critically wounded and remain unconscious. The shooting marks the latest incident in a period of unusually high violence in the occupied territory. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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Rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon raise risk of conflict
"Militants have fired a barrage of rockets into Israel from Lebanon, ratcheting up regional tensions as Israelis celebrated the Jewish Passover holiday, Israel's military said dozens of rockets had been fired across the border and that many were shot down by its Iron Dome aerial defense system, Iranian backed Hezbollah, holds most of the power in southern Lebanon, which has long been a flash point with Israeli forces. The rocket fire raised fears of a wider conflagration, especially as clashes erupted at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy sites, Palestinian worshippers clashed with Israeli forces who tried to evacuate them from the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian militant group Hamas responded to the clashes with rockets attacks across the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel, I am Karen Chammas
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Talks to Investigative Journalist and Author Lee Smith
"Portions of the following program may contain pre recorded material. The deep state is not a theory, it's fact and you know it as of this morning. Why? President Trump has been talking about it for nigh on 6 years and now they're trying to take him down yet again. Who better to discuss it? The man who literally wrote the book, the plot against the president, turned into an amazing documentary and the permanent coup. My friend and investigative reporter and author par excellence, Lee Smith. Welcome back to America first. Sab great to be with you, as always. Lee, we usually jump straight into the meat of the matter. We have the luxury of a little bit of extra time today because this is one of our deep dives one on one. I got to know you, I don't know. Centuries ago, when I was doing national security, you were doing national security. Your original book that I knew you from was the strong horse power politics and the clash of cultures or Arab power dynamics in the Middle East. For those who aren't familiar with your prior work before you got into this analysis of domestic politics and the deep state, tell us a little bit about Lee Smith and your trajectory, how you moved from international affairs to what you're covering today. Well, this is, I mean, actually it was covering the Middle East. Covering Iran and Syria. In particular, in particular, that showed me what was going on in 2016. First of all, I was covering the Syrian conflict, very, very closely. And the reality was, is that Barack Obama officials were coordinating with Russia, with Vladimir Putin in Syria. I'm in Russia's Russia came in there and partnership with the Islamic Republic of Iran. And Hezbollah and the Obama administration was supportive of this. So when starting in the summer of 2016, we started to see stories about how Trump was close to Russia. And many of these leaks, many of these many of these statements were sourced to unnamed officials, who was it turned out were precise the same officials who were boasting about the Obama administration's coordination with Russia and Syria. It seemed absolutely ridiculous to me. And I knew there was something going on at that point. I knew it was what David Samuels described in a famous New York Times Magazine, article as Ben Rhodes and Barack Obama's echo chamber. So I saw something going on with that. But there's something else too that's even more significant. And that is, I started to see around that time how our press are free, our ostensibly free and independent press had started to take on the characteristics of the Arab, the Arab media. In particular that none of this was independent reporting, it was all done in coordination with intelligence services. And that's precisely what we saw in particular with The Washington Post and The New York Times, starting in 2016. It's coverage of Donald Trump. The press became the outward face of the intelligence services, and to see that happen, and our country said, in the United States, the Beacon of the Beacon of freedom, the world's greatest country, and oldest democracy, to see this happen here. It should get everyone not just alarm and alert people, but to get everyone out of their doldrums and get everyone to defend our country to see what to see what's happening and to see what people have in store for it. Unless we protect our country. Unless we defend our liberties. So just to remind those who may have forgotten those years, not too long ago, under Obama, this is the same president who on that notorious that infamous hot Mike moment with Putin's puppet Medvedev lent over didn't know the mics were hot and said to Medvedev, this is incredible. Tell Vladimir, I will have much more flexibility after the election. And met with dev in his central casting thick Russian accent says, yes, yes, I will tell Vladimir. Likewise, it's the same Ben Rhodes in The White House, the only official ever at that level in an administration to be refused even an interim security clearance by the FBI because of his shady background. This is the same Ben Rhodes, who in an article actually said it's so easy to quote unquote exploit the idiots in the press corps in Washington, D.C.. These are the same people Lee. Yep, absolutely. And this is something, of course, that as you and I say this, I've been, of course, we have our friends and allies who understand this, who've heard us say at who've heard others say it. But look, it's telling that there's no way that this will ever penetrate the media, right? And this is the issue that the media is the sword and shield. Not just of the Democratic Party, but most crucially, Barack Obama and not just Barack Obama's legacy, but Barack Obama's initiative, which is to utterly transform the United States of America and to come to the present. What we've seen the last 6 plus years, it's culminating to date in the indictment of Donald Trump. And I think it's really important for us to look at the role that Barack Obama has played in this over the last 6 and a half years. It seems to me this is a crucial piece that's been missing and we talked about at the beginning, the way that I see the prosecution of Trump beginning. It starts July 5th, 2016 when Christopher Steele first turns over some of his phony Trump Russia reports to the FBI. And we know that this was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign for president. So Hillary's taken rightly, she's rightly held accountable for how this country has been poisoned the last 6 plus years. But that unfortunately by focusing too much on Clinton, we forget that all of these spy chiefs who were coordinating with the Clinton campaign who were leaking to the press, these people all worked for Barack Obama. It's inconceivable. As a matter of fact, we know that Obama knew what was going on. We knew we know from a handwritten notes from John Brennan in the summer of 2016. And we know him these White House meetings in early January 2017. Barack Obama knew what was going on. We know that we also know from the text messages between the FBI lovebirds. That's right. That they said at one point, the president wants to be briefed about everything with regards to operation crossfire hurricane in the targeting of Mike Flynn, correct? You're absolutely you're absolutely right. And I'm glad I'm glad you reminded me of that. I was moving so quickly through all of it. But you're absolutely right. And so I think that this is how we need to understand the indictment. And the strain, you know, everyone talks all the time about, oh, but especially Donald Trump's foes. Talk about, oh, he's an exceptionally bad president. He's an exceptionally evil man. And this is why he deserves this is why he deserves everything that's happening to him. This nonsense. Donald Trump is very firmly within the tradition of mainstream American politics, going back to the beginning, whether we're talking about economic nationalism, whether we're talking about a strain of rough and ready populism. This is part of the American mainstream. What is not a part of the American mainstream. And that's arresting other presidents indicting prosecuting other presidents of the United States. That's what's extraordinary here. Donald Trump is a great president. You and I and your great audience agrees on that. But what's extraordinary is not Donald Trump. What's extraordinary is prosecuting a president, a former president, and the FrontRunner for the 2024 nomination. That's what's different to you. Yeah, that's the key element that to use the British term here's the current leader of the opposition, not just the former president, but the individual who is right now, 20 to 30 points in front of the next next possible candidate to be the Republican nominee. We talked to Lee Smith, author extraordinaire, follow him on Twitter at Lee Smith D.C.. He's the author of the fabulous works, the plot against the president, which became a movie made by our friend Amanda milius and the permanent coup how enemies foreign and domestic targeted the American president.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"hezbollah" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Laden group, which again, it was something that I was part of at the very beginning, was focused on this, but for example, our Hezbollah group was also very focused on the attack. Until 9 11, nobody had killed more Americans than Hezbollah. So everybody has their lanes of expertise the same way that our analysts also take their gloves off. Everybody gets focused on that mission and the whole network of CIA stations worldwide were actually told two things by me. First, what you're 6. This is not a singular event, something else is coming. And second, hit all your sources, liaison sources, unilateral sources, and see what we can get on this event. You do write in the book as well as your frustration with fictional depictions of the CIA, a certain amount of frustration with how well the CIA communicates what it's doing. And it's striking juxtaposing with that with the sections where you write about your time spent in the Honduras and Nicaragua with the contras in the 1980s. You make a fairly strident, unapologetic case for the contras, which is to put it mildly not a fashionable opinion anymore. If indeed a devil was, did the CIA just do a poor job of explaining themselves? Well, look, the problem that the agency has is the media's never friendly to us. Sensationalism is what sells. We don't deal with that. I'm not saying that we're a crystal pure, the conscious we're a 100% good people. No, there were some black sheep. I brought two it in for justice. But the greater majority of those contrast, for example, were extremely loyal to God to their God and their country. That's all that we're there to do. They were not ever, you know, these were in guys and gals that discussed miles the tomb or Lenin. No, these people had the reason for being there was they raped my daughter. They burnt my church and beat up my priest. Everybody had a personal reason for being there, including the majority of the commanders. Was it a 100%? No, neither is the United States, neither is politics, neither does anything we're humans. I did want to ask as well about your time after leaving the agency and you write about this in the book. You go and work for Blackwater, a private military contractor. Is there the same tension in the private sector between rules of engagement various other strictures imposed on an organization as there is with the CIA and if there isn't should there be? First of all, there are. I mean, if you'll win and I did exactly that for Blackwater, my title was vice president for special government programs. So I was very much engaged with the special DoD components, both military and Intel. And they are under incredible scrutiny and thus I was under incredible security. And I had to report everything, everything had to be documented. Everybody had everything had to be signed off. If I was going on a trip to do Z, you know, they would have to say, okay, you're ready to go. You can do this. You can do that parameters are there. Most of these units, people don't know this. Most of these units have not only lawyers, but like FBI representatives in-house that are clear to know what's going on in these operations so they can say, wait a minute, this can not happen. This is too close to the border of going illegal. That was Rick Prado speaking to monocles Andrew Muller there. No, still to come on the program.
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TuneInPOC
"hezbollah" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"I just repeat the phrase that you used in that op-ed. They seem to be moving in slow motion, like they are on the sidelines of childhood. Folks, please read this editorial piece by our thank you. It is in full on CNN dot com where you can learn more about just how much has been lost in Lebanon. I want to get you the Lebanese minister for economy and trade. I'm in Salam to discuss what is going on. So you will have heard my conversation with our it is so sad to hear how the very most vulnerable are coping or not coping in Lebanon at moment at the moment. You are the minister of economy. How do you plan? To fix Lebanon's economy. Hello, Becky. And thanks for having me on today. First, let me start by saying I was story has really near and dear to my heart. Because 40 years ago, I used to be one of those kids in Beirut. I was born in the late 70s when Lebanon was war torn situation was very difficult. I grew up throughout the war. With much, much, much more intense situation. I have lived that life. And I emigrated out of Lebanon for 18 years looking for a better future expecting to find a better path and that I returned to Lebanon about the year and a half, two years ago. To find that Lebanon is still in a very difficult place, 40 years later, it's still even more complicated and the war left after 40 years torn country with a completely completely destroyed economy based on decades of mismanagement and none taking any serious government decision and the past three decades or four decades to really fix this country and put it on the right track. Okay. So I hear where you're at. Let's talk about how you do that because notwithstanding that there will be those watching this who will consider you part of the elite. I hear what you're saying. I want to go and drill down a little deeper here. The prime minister announcing today that his cabinet will soon convene. No specific date given to focus on improving Lebanon's budget, which is the main condition set by the IMF. So what does that budget look like? So as we know the IMF now is really the most serious structure and financial economic platform we are looking on. Lebanon needs that platform. It needs that structure to be put in place and now the IMF is looking at all the updated data as you know, the first stage that the IMF works on is what is called the prior actions. Part of the prior actions was for us as an IMF team and I am a member of that team, including the minister of finance, Central Bank governor, and the deputy prime minister, and we have been working on compiling all the updated data, we did announce that this financial gap is about $70 billion, the more serious step now is for us to work on dividing those losses between the government, the banking sector, the Central Bank and the depositors. The IMF has accepted the most updated data that we have compiled and shared, and we are expecting a team from the IMF to visit within the next few weeks pending some final approvals on all the numbers and the division that we are considering. And moving forward after their visit, we will be really in the serious negotiations looking more into the growth, the recovery plan and the economic development piece, which is as important for the IMF as the prerequisites for the prior actions. Well, I want to talk to you again then because if the IMF have this plan and it's sounds to me as if you're suggesting it is sufficient to convince the IMF that you are serious about getting on top of this. I mean, you're talking about 70 billion where once and I'm talking two and a half years ago, we were talking about sums of 11 billion. So clearly that widening of the gap in what is needed is a cruel number at this point. I must ask you, both Hezbollah and Amal parties have been boycotting cabinet sessions until a resolution is found for the investigation of the Beirut port explosion. If the prime minister says that he's hoping to convene again within the next couple of days, does that mean the investigation will be completed soon? I hope Becky that we will get to a completion to the investigation because there are a lot of people there are a lot of victims and families of victims that are awaiting this relief. That was first and foremost. Second, yes, we have heard that today prime minister mikati sent a very optimistic message that we are expecting the government to reconvene in the next hopefully week. We are waiting for a few things. I think there has been some political work done in the past few days to move the ball forward. And it's been optimistic as of today specifically that the prime minister did this announce. So I'm hoping.
Mark Levin
Rabbi Dovid Weiss Hates the Existence of Israel
"And this Michigan rally featured others controversial speakers Including rabbi David Weiss I told you This idea that all Jews think the same way He hates the existence of Israel He's attended Holocaust denial events With former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former KKK leader David duke Rabbi Weiss Gave a gift to the head of Hezbollah an event in Beirut in 2018 Now this rally was held to commemorate what they called the nakba A Palestinian phrase for Israel's founding that loosely translates to the catastrophe It's affiliated with Talib and the other squad anti semites This resolution is just the latest in a long this is Lee zell and running for governor In New York of anti semitic and anti Israel statements and policies and actions by the most radical voices in the Democrat party And he's exactly right
Mark Levin
Rashida Tlaib Is a Vocal Anti-Semite in Congress
"In her speech Talib railed against what she called the apartheid Israeli government And urged Arab Americans to run for office in order to advance the Palestinian cause and Washington D.C. You remember the cause as they were celebrating on 9 11 Talib has emerged as one of the most vocal anti Israel activists free Beacon She's a vocal anti semite and Congress Well here they are And it's a strong back of the anti semitic boycott divestment and sanctions movement Which obviously intended to destroy Israel economically She has accused Jewish supporters of holding dual loyalties at term widely considered obviously Anti semitic Has an extensive history praising the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas I wonder I wonder if he is a parent who speaks up at school board meetings and I wonder if the FBI and the Department of Justice with unmarried Carlin are keeping an eye on this bastard
Bloomberg Radio New York
"hezbollah" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Legislative body Independence and newcomers they won at least ten seats Is it a shift How should we describe it How significant is the move Let's get to Simone foxman She's tracking this story from Cantor So Simone a little bit of a shift in the complexion of the parliament but you hardly call it dramatic or not as the case may be You know it's not a panacea in terms of getting rid of this entrenched sectarian party system But it was a surprising result and Hezbollah looks like and its allies likely to actually lose their majority They had 71 seats They needed 64 to maintain that majority And right now it doesn't look like they've actually achieved that Major reason there for the essentially losses among Hezbollah and its allies is a shift in the Christian vote Again this is a sectarian system and a lot of that vote appears to have moved from the party of Michelle aun to the Lebanese forces party which is pretty very anti Hezbollah and has been a member of the opposition So that the key shift there you also mentioned the success of those independents They had been seen at a severe disadvantage because they were among divided parties And that a better than expected result from them Does this however result in the reforms that are necessary to bring that crucial IMF in foreign aid into the country Analysts pretty cynical right now They are very concerned that the results will end up in a deadlocked parliament between Hezbollah aligned side and an anti Hezbollah aligned side And if there is complete deadlock that's an even worse situation than the one we're in right now However we'll see how these results ultimately come in and the extent to which they're able to form this government amid wrangling over the next couple of weeks Yeah a lot of heated debates within Lebanon over the last few hours I watched some of it yesterday evening in terms of the political news in turkey because president Richard time Erdoğan once again raises the issues with NATO expansion What's the latest on that front Where is the rhetoric headed Yeah we heard a really conciliatory conciliatory tone coming from NATO leaders and even Turkish ones at the end of Sunday and now it seems like Erdoğan is completely flipping the script calling Sweden a nesting ground for terrorists saying that it will refuse to admit any country into NATO that imposes sanctions on turkey That apparently a reference to some weapons sales restrictions imposed by Finland and Sweden when turkey was going after the Kurds in Syria and its offensive there after 2019 Clearly there is a desire by turkey to use its leverage to exact concessions from Europe and the United States but it's playing with a little bit of fire there One also thing that could be important is this may be these comments maybe with an eye to domestic politics The Kurdish issue whether or not this Kurdistan People's Party it is a terrorist organization into the extent that Kurds should play a role in Turkish politics is a really controversial subject in turkey and clearly Erdoğan has his eye on those elections They have to come by June 2023 So this may be some positioning around that And some wealth funds in the region making moves in U.S. stocks So it takes us through the highlights Yeah two highlights I want to point you to one Saudi PIF coming out with its holdings has to report its U.S. stock holdings at the end of the first quarter Dramatic decline in value there from $56 billion at the end of last year Down by 12.7 billion dollars over the course of that quarter Did take up a little bit more exposure to tech stocks asked some consumer names or at least decreased positions of the likes of Visa and Walmart that an interesting shift We also saw QIA come out and file a 13 D a signal that it intends to be an active investor in Twitter We know that QIA is really going along with Elon Musk's plan to acquire the company which is another sign that they're willing to get more involved in taking tech companies private that's been a theme investing in private tech companies And so that an interesting headline to watch develop as well Simone thank you very much for running us through all of that information It's about Fox but the kind of financial center You know what Madison I want to get back to JPMorgan's call on the recession risk being overpriced So I was reading through a note from neuberger Berman And they're seeing sort of a similar kind of narrative I mean basically the market has gotten ahead of itself equities and pricing for an imminent recession and may provide a springboard for rallying over the coming months especially among the beaten up growth stocks at the moment we're called about two fifths of 1% higher on the S&P 500 mini Yeah let's have a look at the credit markets because you got to ask yourself.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
How Iran Uses Hezbollah to Conduct International Operations
"I'm continuing my discussion of Iran and its operations in other countries in the Middle East and even in North Africa. The article I'm discussing is written by Karim sajar poor in foreign affairs magazine and such a port makes the point that Iran uses its surrogate, which is Hezbollah, to conduct operations in a number of other countries, but particularly in Lebanon. Now Hezbollah is by far the most powerful force in Lebanon today. They just go about doing whatever they want. I mean, they want to assassinate a political opponent. That's it for him. They have they run their own underground economy. They've implanted thousands of rockets in Lebanon that have the capacity of striking Israel. And then one time Hezbollah claimed to be sort of its own organization. It was not part of Iran. But of late, they've become very explicit about their the fact that Hezbollah essentially is Iran. Here is Sheik and Ezra. This is by the way the founder and leader of Hezbollah. And he goes, as long as Iran has money, we have money. Just as we receive the rockets, we use to threaten Israel, we're receiving our money. So this is an azra la basically saying, hey, listen, I'm Iran's man outside of Iran. I do Iran's bidding and the Iranians are perfectly happy to fund me. Let's remember that Iran also uses Shia radicals and local groups in Iraq and they used it while America was in Iraq to sort of destabilize the Iraqi regime, which they were very successful in
Mark Levin
Gatestone Institute: A Final Warning From Arabs to Biden
"There was a piece in the gatestone institute international policy council Website By Khalid Abu tome And it's really quite compelling It says in a message directed at the Biden administration and the other western powers involved in the Vienna negotiations This is with Iran Led by Russia on our behalf the Arab country said that Iran and its terrorist militias are continuing to create chaos and instability especially in Iraq Yemen and Lebanon The Arabs including the Arab League are telling the Biden administration that in their view is not only Iran that threatens their security but also its terrorist proxies Including Hamas the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen The Arabs are clearly worried about the financial and military aid that Iran is providing to the terrorist groups Any deal with Iran will further strengthen these groups and encourage them to step up their terrorist attacks The Arabs are also worried that when Iran obtains nuclear weapons they will sooner or later find their way into the hands of terrorist proxies And other terrorist groups including the Islamic State that's ISIS and Al-Qaeda
The Larry Elder Show
How Does the Russia Ukraine Conflict End?
"Base. Finally, on Ukraine's senator, how does this whole thing end? I'm not sure what we're going to see. My hope is that it is going to end with you crane holding Kyiv and holding their government and pushing back on the Russian troops. What really concerns me on this Larry is now Putin is so distraught over how Ukraine has pushed back on him. Now he's doing soldiers for hire and mercenaries. And of course, Russia Iran, China, North Korea. That is your new axis of evil as I call it. And you've got Russia with their proxies, Hezbollah Hamas Taliban. You've got Putin getting mercenaries, soldiers for out of Syria, out of Laos, out of Yemen. Out of different places and trying to get them to conduct urban combat in Ukraine to me, that is frightening.
Game of Crimes
"hezbollah" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"Cigarette investigations by Hamas and Hezbollah, all the money is going to a much larger criminal organization. So let's talk about this case in San Diego. How much credit takes the case? Prosecutor loves it. They're working under 14 months, making bias doing surveillance additional information. It was funny, you know, it's always going to go, it's going to go, it's going to go and you're like, I always have traveled reservations every week. Never goes. Karen and Megan, I went somewhere for Thanksgiving to get back. I get an email. You gotta be in San Diego in two days. I'm like, I'm on an airplane in a foreign country. Yeah, I know. When you land there, go. Don't leave the airport. Get another plane and fly to LA or a flight of San Diego. I'm like, oh, so Karen magnate the car home? I got on a plane with my bag. And flew to San Diego. Next day, they pinched this guy with a camera across the border, went to his warehouse seized over a million dozens of Judas, a counterfeit medicines, and illicit medicines. And worth millions and millions of dollars. And then on top of all that, it was a crazy amount of this giant warehouse. I had TB had tuberculosis. And it was a pharmacist in Tijuana. So he had been handling all the drugs that he was dispensing to his patients in Tijuana. And I liked Tijuana, but we grew up eating on the street down there and my dad played softball down there and it was like our other town. And then all these counterfeit medicines, he was dispensing to people who probably were well under the radar in San Diego, and Los Angeles. They've all been consuming stuff that he was touching with his dirty little fingers. The Marshalls wouldn't even take him. MCI did take this guy to the hospital. When he's clear a TV, well, take him back. Now I never met anybody with TV before. Never exposed to it. Unfortunately, I thought I was going to have to interview him because I do Spanish, but they had somebody that could, who knows? Or over the phone, I'll interview you. Get out of zoom. We'll do it over zoom. Exactly. Well, they work. They were hoping to get past him, but he was kind of the kingpin on the side of the border. And it's the case ongoing, what's the resolution? He pled guilty, went to prison. It wasn't a great sentence but I think it was a year and a half or two years in federal prison, which is what? Oh, let me tell you that one of the real issues with this whole thing is the sentencing guidelines for counterfeit medicines. And I made reference earlier to the food drug cosmetic act. The sensing guidelines for counterfeit medicines is very low. And unless you can show a direct correlation to a death, we're getting better guidelines that we're getting better sentencing on the fentanyl. But that's a controlled substance right as a narcotic. And there's more deaths there. One of the things that Carrie has started saying, and again, Steve and I both admire her so much. But they don't call an overdose..
Game of Crimes
"hezbollah" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"No. Yeah those those are really specialize accents. Boston was usually on on high demand to lead the way you want to talk boston. Just put an. Ah at the end of everything instead a summer at some some some sunshine. It's wicked smart. You know so. But one. I want to tie into this. And let's dive into victor. You said you had a lead from another case too. So there was also a thing called a red notice. Mineral victor had one for money laundering case out of belgium at that time to right so let people know about how the role of interpol played in this. And you know what a red notice was and not. That changed what you guys did. But just that's part of the context right. He's already wanted man. At least in one country it was then the question is do the folks that have a lodge stallone force it will they actually prosecute him so a red notice for lack of a better terms like an international arrest warrant. You're basically putting the rest of the world on notice and there's a couple of different ways to do it. You can have a red notice that goes out blanket to everybody or you can do. What's called a diffusion which is much more country specific so instead of telling the whole world you might know. Let's say you had intel that. Something's going to travel through specific country. You might only want to deal with one country to take take away. The risk compromise Either inadvertent everybody trying to do good. Maybe people jump something or you know on the bad side. You might have places where these guys had infiltrated authorities. That's what they do you know they. They corrupt countries that they go to so that they're protected so there's a long history. I'm victor he'd been tried to grab for many many years. Belgium may seem like an odd place belgium with really back at that time. Especially one of the crucial places. Where arms deals are conducted more for the launch important. The planes and the financials and the privacy laws and the logistics most of the arms came out of bulgaria or ukraine sure soviet made but the physical factors were in these other places they'd move on to belgium and then that was kind of a launching point. So that's how you a money. Laundering case might be might be inclined to allies. You almost didn't get a chance to go after victor. Because if you read the reports and this is stuff that's been published right in two thousand six. He may have had a very close call with israel in beirut. Yeah there's some reporting. I think it's out of the guardian that In the opening salvos of the israeli hezbollah war in two thousand six The israelis might have tried to take them out in a missile strike into into an apartment building which again is open source reporting never ever established anything on that myself but They're worth some things came up on the case some some hints from you know from others involved with him that he he had armed hezbollah in the past and that's why.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"hezbollah" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Erupted in the streets during a protest by Shia Muslim groups who disagree with the judge investigating the huge blast at the city's port Hezbollah which organized the protest said people were fired on by gunmen on rooftops Huge Tencent still surrounds the inquiring to the explosion which killed 219 people in August 2020 Now a weather rolling el Nina appears to have emerged across the equatorial Pacific It is setting the stage for worsening droughts in California and South America frigid winters and parts of the U.S. and Japan and greater risks of the world's already strained energy and food supplies The U.S. climate prediction center says a phenomenon could continue until at least a February And there's expected to be a surge in players for tonight's Euro millions draws as Tuesday's record jackpot was rolled over The big prize now stands at 184 million pounds That's the highest it can actually go It will be cap therefore future draws until it's one meaning any extra crash will now 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a pack if we win the money we help each other I don't know Well okay I love that So now I feel bad saying no but if I'm gonna be gambling you know I wanna be in Vegas I wanna be in the atmosphere I don't wanna just walk into a corner shop wait in a queue for an hour This atmosphere in that corner shop that we study Good stuff Thanks so much guys with the world news and a bit of a chuckle this morning Right Wall Street will back yesterday with the best day since March and European stocks rose to a three week high the 3100 climb .9% highest level since mid August so actually a very good day yesterday The start of earnings season has reassured investors perhaps a little that the economic recovery is able to weather the inflation pressures Joining us now is Hannah gooch Peters whose global equity investment our list that San lamb investments Hannah how much are cost pressures going to affect European companies this earnings season What do you watching Good morning I think it's going to be a real key fever cost inflation supply chains and input costs across the earnings season I think I'm particularly in the likes of consumer Staples companies you're brewing companies and also we're seeing that start to come through in the airline results as well with energy costs having a big impact for them So for us we're looking at the likes of Unilever whether or not they'll be able to pass through those input cost pressures and we've seen real weakness in the stock of recent as a result of investors based surrounding that But you know we believe that if you look out over the long term this will this problem will fade and that we're also looking at the revenue exposure to those high growing emerging markets parts of the world as well So what really is a tortoise today will be more like a hair in the long term because of the durability of the business And Unilever a great example there but I'm wondering how pervasive that is our investors for the most part pricing in the supply chain issues Yes I think Bill and I think that's why we've seen so much weakness in the stock It's now down around the 38 levels and for us it was an opportunity for us to add a little bit to our positions and we do believe that these inflationary worries are stickier than we perhaps thought that you know they will pass through eventually and it does have good strong brands in your emerging markets And so you know we're looking at the longer term for us I mean most companies won't be able to grow three to 4% over that long-term And it doesn't sound exciting But if you look at it compared to most of the companies the index and certainly in the fridge that will over the very long-term allow it to outperform What about financials So we've had the bank earnings for Morgan Stanley Bank of America and then Goldman Sachs comes later Today we have had an absolutely blowout quarter Is that going to be as true for Europe The comparison always tends to be more negative or the quarter more difficult in Europe versus the U.S. What do you think of financials now Now that we try and stay away from what we do stay away from the banking sector as a whole for us we're looking for balance sheet strength and quality based investors And so we just tend to stay away from that market but what we're doing is when we're looking at the results from the banks we take JPMorgan for example their merchant processing volume shows 16% growth on the quarter and their volumes measured by growth purchase volume above 2019 levels is that they've recovered from this pandemic shock And so what we're doing is we're looking from this to get trends into other parts of the market And so your payments processes for example your credit card companies such as Mastercard and Visa which are very much like the market in the U.S. over the last year really starting to be interesting personality So we're looking for that read across into other parts of the market that we can take from those banks earnings in the U.S. So if you're looking for balance sheet strength how do you square the conundrum of tech where they have that pricing power they have that strength yet they're a longer duration equity so they suffer from this rising yield environment Yes I think we just have to really put an emphasis on castle stock selection You know you're talking about Europe versus the UK I think that we have seen some very stretch valuations like you saying if we take something like Facebook for example in the U.S. they've got that key trend towards digital advertising a real structural growth story and on a free cash flow basis they're looking around 5.9% on a forward basis And if we compare that to something like L'oreal in Europe which is obviously not a tech company but does have those access to different structural growth trends But I'm then looking at a sort of sub 3% free cash flow basis So on a valuation basis we're seeing a really really big discrepancy and so for us the U.S. is starting to actually look very interesting versus parts of Europe where your logic has stocks that are actually looking really quite expensive As we move beyond perhaps the pandemic I'm never quite sure whether to say that or not but what happens with healthcare stocks now and how do you view them So we've seen a big discrepancy between the likes of your medical diagnostics and your medical technology companies.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"hezbollah" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller There's some sectors that you want to have more or less exposure to We've got a vaccinate the whole world analysis of the day's Wall Street actions What's the thought on apple here from Bloomberg intelligence Bloomberg opinion and influential newsmakers The bond market was the boss Bloomberg markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller Subscribe to stay at Bloomberg radio dot com The Bloomberg business app or I tombs Little bit more news flow now coming through on the fertility globe IPO It's hard to chart in Saudi Arabia and in Abu Dhabi But here's where we are I gave you the price number two 45 to 65 giving you evaluation of seeing 5 and a half to 6 billion U.S. dollars But this is the juice There's three cornerstone investors coming in to stock up on 30 globe One is Abu Dhabi pension from the second is GIC but this is the important headline Jeff ubin is coming on board and taking a stake infertility globe So three cornerstone investors Now what conscious my eye by this is Jeff ubin is of course I'm inclusive capital He's also going to be an independent board director on the fertility board So this is the other critically important point of this story We have written on a number of occasions but when would activist investor become something of a feature in the equity markets in our region whether that's in Saudi Arabia or in the UAE We get you more lines on that as it comes across the Bloomberg terminal So as we get that we oh the dividend guidance has been raised as well They keep coming So they've raised their dividend guidance for the second half of this year to $200 million That would be payable in the first half of 2020 one in April Sorry April 2022 And the full year for 2022 has been raised to 300 from 315 to $400 million Okay that's another one Let's see how hot that is to try on opening Now aqua par another recent IPO in Saudi Arabia It's retrace some of its 30% gain on the trading debut the company which just staged the largest Saudi IPO since Aramco back in 2019 Let's see what Simone fox makes a little She's in Doha So it was a pop of 30% and a drop of 10% Mild volatility day two Good morning Simone Yeah volatility is right And this is quite surprising Just because of how hot this IPO was how much demand there was in a pre IPO level I think there was about $300 billion worth of orders for this $1.2 billion IPO And there are two questions here We have to consider and in the context of the fact that this is stock is still up over 19% from when it began trading One is this investors just trying to determine what kind of valuation this company should have It is going to be central to Saudi Arabia's plans to try and move into a greener more efficient energy structure and so maybe they're just grappling with that valuation or does this say something about the faith they have in Saudi Arabia's ability to pursue those plans We've seen some investor doubts from the likes of blue bay asset management about whether or not the green bonds that Saudi talked about issuing really are going to fit that ESG mold is this a question mark from aqua power as well I know you have Muhammad Ali has seen on in just a few minutes So I'm eager to get his take and hear his more what he has to say about this Yeah I want to hear what he's going to say about having an activist investor on the board of 30 club I think that could be at really quite interesting The phones are ready The bid's already gone in Let's turn to Lebanon because there's some important movements there Simone aren't there We've got Lee investors leading a probe into last year's devastating poor blast Now this is an issuing of a warrant and it is for the arrest of the former finance minister So what are the details Well man is this really an escalation of disputes between the judge leading this investigation into the pork blast and Hezbollah as well as the former ministers who are aligned with Hezbollah that have been accused of having a role in the pork blast You know we've seen the head of Hezbollah come out earlier this week and say you know this judge bitar He's really out for us He's unfairly accusing these people And this isn't the first time this former finance minister Khalil has failed to appear for questioning but you know when we look at the government and its ability to maintain a sort of precarious relationship between these factions this issue has already come up in cabinet meetings according to a Reuters report it's meant to be on the docket yet again today And we have to wonder whether or not this issue will fracture the government that's already so piecemeal and holding on that We had such difficulty informing it to start with but you know again underscoring the difficulty with which the legal system can really hold ministers to account in a very factionalized system Absolutely and people in Lebanon have been calling for as well as retribution in terms of the devastation to their country and to their economy Thank you very much at the cata financial center in Doha I want to show you U.S. equity features You've just set a conversation You've just listened to a conversation with state street They are concerned about the risk of a correction and equity markets And you see spoons lighter on the feet by ten to 1% There's no doubt about a tech is under pressure Apple is the key story here That's the Caroline They're poised to slash their iPhone production goal due to chip shortages It's banks reporting day to today JPMorgan's on the slate I will earnings season go We're looking for a rise of 28% at earnings 49 bucks a share free this.
860AM The Answer
"hezbollah" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"We are back with Stanford University's Hoover Institution, senior fellow strategist, par excellence. Anything, he writes, You should read it. But most recently, the case for Trump Let's talk about the four years of the Trump Administration professor. If we ever have a fair historical reckoning with the Trump administration, especially if you look at the last 120 days of the Biden foreign policy, or just the crisis of the border, what would be the fair, objective assessment of national security, leadership and foreign policy leadership? Of the 45th, commander in chief. I think is he's going to remember most for resetting the entire last quarter century approach in China that that by Stars bipartisan Council on Foreign Relations Brookings Institution notion that the more uh leeway you granted China and the more exemptions for their illegal mercantile behavior, the more they were going to become wealthy and therefore they were going to become Democratic or consensual. That didn't ever that never happened. They were emboldened and interpret. That Magnum entity is weakness to be exploited. He single handedly did that I say single handle because nobody in the Republican primary until Trump, uh, formulated that idea. The second thing I think is he went in the Middle East and he showed you that this last 70 years have been a failure. And one of the reasons was that we allow the Palestinians to claim and perpetuity. They were refugees in the way that we don't with the Greek Cypriots or the Russians who East Prussians or the Volga Germans and are the Jews that were ethnically cleansed from the Arab world after the various wars, and then they had a veto power over what 500 million people in the Arab Middle East said. And so when he said that you're not going to get a and you're not going to tell us what's going to happen with the embassy or with the Golan Heights, etcetera. That was shocking thing, and then the able, McCord said. You Arab countries that are doing well and Israel have a lot in common in general, but in particular they have a common foe in Iran. And then he said, Take around out of the equation is a revolutionary disruptor with Hezbollah who these are Hamas and you would have peace that was a new formulation and see now by undoing it. We had war almost immediately. Joe Biden's legacy as he managed to take a call Middle East and give us a war within 120 days, So I think those two things are very important. There were other things he that he did that were equally important. And that is, uh, here at home in terms of security. Uh, he had a, uh, an animal cunning. If I can use that word. I don't mean it in a derogatory but he had a sense from the very beginning that the virus the covid viruses, SARS right originated in the Wuhan. Military lab. He didn't say it was deliberately manufactured as a weapon. But he said it was a gain of function enhancement. Everybody said that he and anybody who agreed with him was a conspiracies. And now we know over a year later, even then, the foul cheese positions is a evaporated and he was probably involved in granting funds for that type of research. And then he said, You know, every state vaccination has failed. The EU has failed Chinese vaccinations have failed the rush comparatively, and here. The United States has the Johnson the fighter and, uh, the Moderna, and it was a brilliant strategy of having some competition, giving some help to this company at different types of helping of that company. A third and he said From the very beginning within 10 months, we will have a vaccination. Yes. In fact, he would have had a vaccination before the election, but until fighter mysteriously delayed the date until a few days after the election, But that was an enormously important, uh, strategic achievement because right now we're in a better position vis a vis cope with in all the European countries. I can completely concur or confirm. Having worked in the White House with President Trump. There was Something pretty and natural to his instincts. Whatever the issue was, whether it was the border, the coronavirus that capacity to develop multiple vaccines,.
860AM The Answer
"hezbollah" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Anything, he writes, you should read it. But most recently, the case for Trump Let's talk about the four years of the Trump Administration professor. If we ever have a fair historical reckoning with the Trump administration, especially if you look at the last 120 days of the Biden foreign policy, or just the crisis of the border, what would be the fair, objective assessment of national security, leadership and foreign policy leadership? Of the 45th, commander in chief. I think is he's going to remember most for resetting the entire last quarter century approach to China that that by started bipartisan Council on Foreign Relations Brookings Institution notion that The more uh, leeway you granted China and the more exemptions for their illegal mercantile behavior, the more they were going to become wealthy, and therefore they were going to become democratic or consensual. That didn't ever that never happened. They were emboldened and interpret that Magnum entity is witness to be exploited. He's single handedly did that I say single handle because nobody in the Republican primary until Trump, uh, formulated that idea. The second thing I think is he went in the Middle East and he showed you that this last 70 years have been a failure. And one of the reasons was that we allow the Palestinians to claim and perpetuate the they were refugees and the way that we don't with the Greek Cypriots or the Prussians who East Prussians or the Volga Germans and are the Jews that were ethnically cleansed from the Arab world after the various wars. And then they had a veto power over what 500 million people in the Arab, Italy said. And so when he said that you're not going to get a and you're not going to tell us what's going to happen with the embassy or with the Golan Heights, etcetera. That was a shocking thing. And then the able, McCord said. You that Arab countries that are doing well and Israel have a lot in common in general, but in particular they have a common foe in Iran. And then he said, Take Iran out of the equation is a revolutionary disruptor with Hezbollah. Who these Hamas, and you would have peace. That was a new formulation. I see now by undoing it. We had war almost immediately. Joe Biden's legacy as he managed to take a call Middle East and give us a war within 120 days. So I think those two things are very important. Uh, there were other things that he did that were equally important. And that is, uh, here at home in terms of security. He had a, uh, an animal cunning. If I could use that word. I don't mean it in a derogatory but he had a sense from the very beginning that the virus the Covid virus, the SARS right originated in the Wuhan military lab. He didn't say it was deliberately manufacturers a weapon. But he said it was a gain of function enhancement. Everybody said that he and anybody who agreed with him was a conspiracists. And now we know over a year later, even at the FAO cheese position, yes. Is evaporated. He was probably involved in granting funds for that type of research. And then he said, You know, every state vaccination has failed. The EU has failed. The Chinese vaccinations have failed the rush comparatively, and here. The United States has the Johnson, the Pfizer and up the Moderna. And it was a brilliant strategy of having some competition, giving some help to this company, a different type of help to that company. Third and he said From the very beginning within 10 months, we will have a vaccination. In fact, he would have had a vaccination before the election, but until fighter mysteriously delayed the date until a few days after the election, but that was an enormously important Strategic achievement because right now we're in a better position vis a vis quote within all the European countries. I can completely concur or confirm. Having worked in the White House with President Trump. There was Something preternatural to his instincts. Whatever the issue was, whether it was the border, the coronavirus, the capacity develop multiple vaccines..
Tribe Talk Connection
"hezbollah" Discussed on Tribe Talk Connection
"Which is the united states knows that israel is pursuing a nuclear weapon. The agreement is that the united states will not stop israel pursuing a nuclear weapon and israel at the same time will not say that it has the weapon so the non-proliferation treaty can be sent to still be in effect but israel can move ahead and get the weapon on the upside of this whole episode of courses that today israel is a nuclear israel has nuclear weapons and a whole array of places it does not commonly admit that but it's very well known that it has them including them other things on submarines so that even if israel were to be taken out by an immediate strike of the people on those submarines will be able to figure out where that strike came from and will do what needs to be done to make it clear that this was the time that the jews were not going to go down quietly. Hopefully that will never happen but that again just like nine hundred fifty six changes israel standing in the middle east the fact that israel is now a nuclear power changes everything as well so many else happens in the nineteen sixties. We need to look at quickly. Which is the birth of the palestinian liberation organization or the p. l. and all i mentioned the o. very briefly it's formed essentially in one thousand nine hundred four It's formed again in sixty four. Which is before nine hundred sixty seven before the six day war before there's an occupation before there is a conflict with the palestinians and what those up much carry who will eventually become the peel. Those chairman say about that second round that they're getting ready for he says quote in the event of a conflagration. no june's whatsoever will survive period in other words. The plo is not about restoring lands to the palestinians because his doesn't have any lands of the palestinians. The pilo is explicit that its purpose is to destroy the state of israel to make sure that there is no jewish entity anywhere between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea and that in the process no jews central carry will be left alive. Where are we today almost sixty years after that well. It's my elf aena. Who was the prime minister of hamas or gaza said a few years ago. We were going to liberate palestine in its entirety from the mediterranean to the jordan river hezbollah till this very day. Which is the terrorist organization. Lebanon says that it's about eliminating israel..
Tribe Talk Connection
"hezbollah" Discussed on Tribe Talk Connection
"Gdp went up from eighty dollars a person to seventeen hundred dollars a person. So there's a huge improvement in their economic lot in nineteen sixty seven. When israel takes gaza. Eighteen percent of the homes are connected to the electric grid and very very quickly. Israel puts gaza on its own electric grid and eighty nine percent of the homes around the grid. So on a lot of ways. The condition economically of arabs pope in gaza and the west bank as well improves very significantly. But we should not ignore the fact that poverty in gaza is still rife and things are also pretty problematic in the west bank bill. They're not quite as bad as they are in gaza so we have arafat coming to the un seventy four seventy five the un votes. That zionism is racism and then in nineteen eighty eight. Were leaping forward ahead a decade or so hamas is created and hamas which now rules gaza in twenty. Twenty has a very smart way of going about things they do it very similarly to the way that hezbollah works in southern lebanon. Which is if they are not simply a military organization. They're a militarization but also a social services organization so they provide food and they provide health services and they provide education and they have obviously a very extreme military wing but with the brilliant move about providing social services does is that actually buys the loyalty of the local population because without kamaz. Who's going to educate our kids without kamaz who's going to provide doctors and so forth and hamas by the way is explicit that its purpose is not to get free from israel in the gaza strip. It's they are explicit to this very day. By the way that their purpose is to destroy the state of israel that can be no zionist entity as they call it and they were between the river and the c meaning the jordan river and the mediterranean seat in july of nineteen eighty-eight jordan from which is really captured. The west bank in the six day war says we don't want it back in other words. They renounce any claim to the west bank and now the palestinians recognize there in no-man's-land jordan doesn't want them back they are controlled by israel. But don't really wanna be controlled by israel and this is just basically heating up more and more and more now brenda's the first intifada as it's commonly called beginning begins really at the very very end of nineteen eighty-seven that the region is heating up. There's no question. Tensions arising on both sides but in december nineteen eighty-seven in israeli truck driver accidentally runs over for arab workers in the gaza strip. It was clearly an accident. There's really no question anymore. Today it was the bay back in the day but it was. It was just a horrible traffic accident and four palestinians were killed but that unleashed years and years and years of frustration and anger on the part of palestinians and in this uprising. Intifada basically means in arabic and uprising. There are massive protests rocks being thrown at soldiers molotov cocktails being thrown that idea of soldiers. It's very important to point out that for the most part this intifada. This uprising is directed at israel's security services. It is not directed at israeli civilians. There's some exceptions to that. But by march this is a mess wave of protests against israel's presence in the west bank and the gaza strip israel has taken completely by surprise. It's it's held the west bank and gaza now for twenty years. Really hasn't been a problem. As far as israel was concerned rather blindly on israel's part by obviously responds by basically putting eighty thousand soldiers on that particular issue..
AP News Radio
Hezbollah Says Iranian Fuel Tanker to Sail to Lebanon Soon
"I send this rollout the leader of Iranian backed militant group Hezbollah has warned Israel not to insist that terrain and fuel tanker headed for Lebanon the time on and will sail saying Israelis three Hey this one as well Julie from his supporters is let the dentist recently suffered from crippling fuel shortages across the country the delivery organized by Lebanon based Hezbollah would be in apparent violation of US sanctions imposed on Tehran following the collapse of the Iranian nuclear deal diesel shortages amid severe power cuts throughout Lebanon have shut down thousands of private generators the lack of fuel has led to shortages of bread and left many patients and Lebanese hospitals at risk of dying the shortages are blamed on smuggling hoarding and the cash strapped governments inability to secure deliveries of imported fuel I'm Karen Thomas
BBC World Service
Hezbollah Launches Rocket Fire in Response to Israeli Air Raids
"Israeli positions in the disputed area on the frontier between the two countries. Israel said at least 10 missiles were launched in most were intercepted. The Israeli army has responded with artillery fire. State media in North Korea say heavy rain and
BBC Newshour
Gunmen kill 2 at funeral for Hezbollah commander in Lebanon
"Army has deployed to a town south of Beirut, where a funeral for Hezbollah member was ambushed. The military said it would fire on anyone armed in the streets of Hardy after at least two people were killed during the funeral of Ali Shibly, who was shot dead on Saturday night.
The Patriot AM 1150
"hezbollah" Discussed on The Patriot AM 1150
"That Israel will be destroyed and they hope they will be God's weapon to destroy Israel. They kept saying losing their talking points. Their ultimate goal is not peace in any way she performed. The ultimate goal isn't the dignity of their own people because they're the ones who are hiding all the missiles and and and all the bombs and all the weapon depots inside the schools and the mosque and the hospitals and the kindergarten. They don't care. It's a death cult. They don't care about. Anything with other than the exception of the state of Israel. Israel's fighting against the people whose entire battle plan is a war crime that you understand that right? You're talking about 2000 missiles 2000 in just a couple of days sent into a country Israel the size of New Jersey and and and by the way, I think it's important to note that Gaza Is an extraordinarily dense place. Yet even though Israel has bombarded this place, which is so dense, it has the lowest casualty rate of any army on Earth by a factor of many, even though the EU and the US when they when they bomb in Afghanistan would say far there's no density at all. It's open areas. There's a higher casualty civilian to build two militant rate, but Israel goes to great lengths, including knock bombs to make sure they understand that the next bomb is going to be a real one letters. Cell phone calls to make sure that all these people get out. Having said all of that right, Having said all of that you still have a Democrat, a large part of the Democratic Party. Who is demonizing Israel. You had a quote from Ilhan Omar, who is a professional anti Semite and whose side hustle is congresswoman, citing siding with Hamas state, starting with the terrorists, all the people the left are shotting with them, and, you know, look, my mother in law is listening. I love her. She's a liberal, and I'm going to say something which will blow her mind. Okay, that happens now It's a low bar granted, but I got to say I am actually impressed that Joe Biden and Secretary of State Um Blinken, in fact did say that we have to differentiate between what Hamas is doing what Israel is doing, Actually, look, I know it's a little bar. I get it. But I'm actually okay. I'll be honest Army, and we often agree that that is just so low of bar that it's not even worth discussing. I mean, I mean, if you've got a nation under attack There's sovereignty in existence now is in jeopardy before our eyes. That's not the question. That's that's not There's no bar there that is just Fundamental, simple, basic truth. If you're attacked, you get to fight back. Yes, but what we're seeing in real time is a wave overtaking a significant part of the Democratic Party, which has been openly anti Israel, right. The ascendancy and the Democratic Party is not the centrists. The ascendancy of the Democratic Party is this anti Semitic. Anti Israel hate that we've seen. And and and would you? You mentioned it before, And this is so important. As you see the people who used to be pro Israel, right? And you, the Democrats are usually pro Israel and they're sitting there quiet, not saying a word. And when the loudest voices the Democratic room are, in fact, the shuttle leaves and Ellen home ours and and, uh And AOC and the rest of squat, and this is Look, Israel needs to be a buy It always it was for many years, but it needs to be a bi partisan agreement on Israel's right to defend itself and the importance of that, But we're not seeing that, and that is Bigly trouble. You can't get to first base with people that don't think you have a right to exist. You can't get anywhere. You know what they're what 30 to discuss. I I agree. So the next question I have is now where did you tell these Hamas leaders you are from Without getting into too much detail, because obviously this is how I keep myself alive. But I have a persona that that I have created that they buy into look, they would never talk to Ami Horowitz. I mean, on the horrors they would They would say anyone talk to him, and then they would kill me. So we gotta be very careful about how we deal with these people because they're not open to discussion. They they, all they want is to kill. They made that made that very clear to these interviews. They're not looking for peace. They're not looking for even again. I can't stress is and looking for the justice of their own people. That's why they're Haydn's weapons among their people, by the way that dozens of these missiles were fell short and fell into Gaza themselves. So Gaza itself is under attack by Hamas, and they don't care because they're a cult of death, Sean and by the way, I think it's also important to note that Israel's reaction to this is not only for Gaza and for Hamas, but it actually is a warning for Hezbollah. His Hezbollah on the northern border in Lebanon has 100 and 50,000 more accurate rocket provided by Iran. The member of the remember that country Iran, the one that that Joe Biden wants to make a deal with Exclude these missile sales, but they have 150,000 them And this is a very important message to Hezbollah. Saying if you come after us, we are going back at you. I don't care what the international responses I don't think they should care. Ami Horowitz. Thanks for sharing this with us. We appreciate it. Stay safe when you go over there. Um 809 41 Sean, If you want to be a part of the program, Hmm. The final hour of the Sean Hannity Show is up. Next hang on for Shawn's conservative solutions. Oh, The following is.
Part of the Problem
"hezbollah" Discussed on Part of the Problem
"If it's so important that we support and that were involved in this part of the world that it's worth nine eleven happening goes okay. Then let's just tell the american people that like let's just you know like and which is you gotta say a fair argument and go. Hey this is worth the cost then. Okay but we gotta say we're willing to pay these calls do that a lot too. Because he's a cia analyst. He would go sir. I don't have opinions or emotions or anything. I'm just here to tell you the facts and you're the guy in charge of making the decisions and he would talk that way whether he's talking to you and me the american people or whether he was talking to somebody in government look. My job is just to tell you. That's why they did it. Okay you wanna make value judgment. That's your djelic. Here's his intelligence. The inviolate did that right. Is this worth it to you or not. There's trade offs. Eric alterman from the nation magazine. Saying the same thing look man. Everybody knows that the reason they did. This is because of our support for israel and saying if that's the cost damn it then that's the price we have pay and i do think it's worth it but i also think we should be honest and let the american people know. Well which of course never happened right. You people never got that you re tweeted and i do want you know we do. We'll get into the more recent history a second. But i did want to mention because it really like. I'd never seen this before but you tweeted the current israeli defense minister. I guess this is position. I yes yeah and this tweet. Was this video that you tweet. It was really like even by some of the crazy admissions that i've heard from high level Israeli government officials. He was saying that Basically that there they had a policy to treat al-qaeda members who had been wounded in syria. The against no no. That was that was somebody else from from in the obama years. So this this this was back during the you know. Maybe like two thousand thirteen two thousand fourteen. Something like this aren't and they were talking about the conflict in syria and how they would provide medical aid to al qaeda fighters who were injured. And no you know no problem with that. I think that's kind of the first world thing to do. Is you know if someone is injured and you can save their life. There's you know whatever but what explains this proximity you well right right off that stuff aside which we've talked about a lot on the show but so he says he goes. Well look like yeah we do. That's gonna why do you do that. And he goes it's not for strategic reasons humanitarian reasons. You know someone's hurt we're going to. We're going to give them medical care. Then go would you do the same for hezbollah and goes no. And he's so serious no and he goes well why not and he goes well because we don't have that relationship with has blood and then he goes okay so then it's not for humanitarian reasons. It is strategic and they go. So why wouldn't you do it for hezbollah and he goes well. Hezbollah has attacked israel. Al-qaeda has never attacked israel and there is something as an american to watch. And you go wait a minute wait a minute so we have to give you billions of dollars. Prop up your if any israeli dies. Every politician over here has to be nothing but tears and pity we all after care so much when israel's attacked but you'll just sit there and go cut never did nothing us like as a new yorker to sit there and hear that you're like oh so so. That's not a deal breaker for you. Al qaeda's not a problem. What because they didn't attack you well. They did kind of attack the country. That's the reason you exist. The reason by your own bahamas doing the same thing. The same thing that cool that would have been one thing but it is amazing to see how much they value them being attacked. But because you you sit there as an american and you look at that and you go. Okay well then. Why shouldn't i just reverse this. I don't give a shit about hezbollah because guess what they've never attacked my country right. They never did shit to us. So why like it. Which is my so okay. Fine have that take but then we have this take to right absolutely right and so listen before we get to the current crisis because got to do that. But we gotta do this. I is this h w bush. Bill clinton tony in peace process of course was just a ruse right. It never went anywhere especially once rabin was dead. It was peres and netanyahu. And then barack and then almer sharon and then olmert and the netanyahu again and their policy. This whole time has had nothing whatsoever to do with giving up the west bank. The whole policy is continued to establish facts on the ground. Right while pretending that there's this peace process that's ever going to lead anywhere and i forgot who coined that's the first time but they say it's like negotiating over pizza while one side. He's eating the thing right right. Yeah the other side actually. Have a slice left here now. So what it is is this man. Is your liberal. Jewish friends in new york who support israel support israel on the condition that you guys are going to give up the west bank like rabin wanted one day right. You said you. Would you promised you would the two state solution. These people have to have independence right but now that game is up for. I think it was last summer. Where netanyahu announced that he was going to announce the outright full dj array annexation of all of the west bank east jerusalem and then. He backed down and he didn't do that but he might as well have. And so this is. What's now to the major crackup in liberal zionism in america. Because you said. I don't know if you've got on the percentages but last i saw american jews vote liberal democrat like eighty five percents. I'm like that. They they earn. Like wasps and vote like puerto ricans was. I forgot who learned that a long time ago. So i mean. American jews are into civil rights. Man they were like supported the civil rights movement in the nineteen sixties. And all that. If they can do that to the blacks they can do us. Man we got an solidarity among victim groups here in this kind of deal and they really believe that stuff and so then you look at palestine israel palestine and it's like mississippi in the thousand nine hundred fifties before brown versus board of education and the civil rights. Act you go wait a minute. When that was going on in america the liberal jews from the north came down to mississippi as freedom riders to try to do something about it. Now they're supposed to just sit there and and now that the ruse of eventual independence is cancelled and now that even netanyahu has said and.
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"hezbollah" Discussed on Say What Needs Saying
"A joined the idea of instead so it's actually very interesting like how there's a lot of this of course it's religious of horses ethnic of course there's a lot of factors involved i think The fact that the us is like so closely tied to this not only religiously but also ethnically it really plays into why the us is involved in this in this whole fiasco you definitely the two things i would add one from the american left in then one from the american right as far as the american right the other element that comes well and i guess maybe not just the right. You see this from the american left to biden has even come out saying i'll i'll give him credit. He's come out much to the disappointment of some of those people that in that progressive left that you were just talking about But he came out in has reaffirmed that the democrats are still on the side of israel and are still defending israel. I think a big part of this On both left and right Just in america in general is the idea of israel being one of if not the only democracy in the middle east Being one of the more free countries in the area. And then on the you know conversely you'll see i can't i keep saying on left but like you said there's more of a gray and crossover area there then i'm then i'm giving it credit for him acknowledging but you know this this idea that it's more democratic it's more free and so therefore america should stand for those things and protect those things that's why not only are they our ally but we try to assist them where they can. I think a lot of this also comes from in. This is a tangent. This isn't the second point that i was thinking of. But there's also this idea of america being a leading force in the war on the international war on terror since nine eleven while and essentially before that even but we've america has positioned itself as sort of the one of the enforcers of anti-terrorism in the world. Right now especially in the middle east and so with groups like hezbollah and hamas as acting as terrorist forces and very clearly acting against israel and against the recognition of israel as a state..
Monocle 24: The Globalist
Syrians Vote in Election Certain to Give Assad New Mandate
"Syrians have voted in a presidential election almost certain to give the incumbent bashar al assad of forty seven year term. He's ruled the country since the death of his father in two thousand in the last election held in two thousand and fourteen had secured almost eighty nine percent of the vote with turnout at more than seventy three percent. This election is likely to deliver a similar result willett. The result is dependent on the country's two biggest allies russia and iran. Dr laura james is a middle east analyst at the global advisory firm oxford analytica and. She joins me now north. Thanks for coming on. Do we have the results yet. No they're not do until friday evening I think we can make a fair guess at them. Though to be honest. I mean is there any chance that russia could perhaps derail the selection. That's no indication that they want to at the moment There's always a question. Mark over how long russia will see asset is an asset rather than a liability. But i think generally the assumption is that keeping him in place keep things relatively stable that trying to bring somebody else in certainly. It isn't a to be played to soon. Possibly at some point they could bring in somebody similar as part of a deal for western reconstruction aid. But we're very very far from that point. In iran influence iran is also supporting asset again as a source of stability and as a gateway into the country. Pro-iranian militias are playing a very important role there and iran is looking for a reconstruction con contracts and most of all a routine into lebanon where it supports the hezbollah movement so again for a run asset is an important asset.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"hezbollah" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"To encourage visitors to take advantage of state parks and beaches this summer. D. C commissioner Basil Sagal says they loved. Our New York lands campaign will help promote in state tourism for New Yorkers building off record traffic the parks had last year during the height of the pandemic. We were all locked indoors. The outdoors became a place where we could find refuge and we did it in record numbers. We as an agency. We were there, even during the pandemic we were there for for you Way try to make the experiences as a zoo. Excellent as possible. The initiative will include in person education, it trailheads trailheads that is in the Adirondacks and Catskills during the hiking season. The Brooklyn Nets will face off against the Boston Celtics in the first round of the NBA playoffs at the Barclays Center Saturday night after the Celtics beat the Washington Wizards in a play in game last night. The New York next play Game one against the Atlanta Hawks at the Garden on Sunday. Both arenas planned to have separate sections for vaccinated and unvaccinated fans. Sunny and 88 today 73 now this is W in my safe Hello. I'm resident. Welcome to news hour from the BBC World Service. It comes to life from our studios in central London. It is day 10 off the conflict between Hamas and the state of Israel. Diplomacy has failed to intervene and make an impact in any meaningful way yet. Reports of a truce brokered by Egypt came and then were denied overnight. Israel says it's targeted the homes of Hamas commanders on fresh barrages of rockets were fired into Israel by Hamas. In Jerusalem, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke to foreign diplomats and defended Israel strategy. There are only two ways that you can do with him. You can either conquer them, and that's always an open possibility or you can deter them on. We're engaged right now in forceful deterrence, But I have to say we don't rule out anything. Still, Netanyahu also spoke about Israel's intention to limit civilian casualties and said it was unfair to blame Israel for not taking care against statements of precision. Targeting is the fact that Garza is the most densely populated place on Earth on a small strip of land, often described as the world's biggest open air prison because of a lengthy blockade by Israel. In such a place, it's impossible to focus on military targets without incurring civilian casualties. The current death toll is as follows. 219 Palestinians have been killed, including 63 Children in Gaza, 17 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank. The death toll in Israel stands at 12, including two Children. Just before we came on air we got through to, so here's a coot off the International Red Cross in Gaza first on the last 10 days. Compared to that last big conflict in 2014. This is the hard this that we witnessed since 2014 the destruction that's happened to the infrastructure at the buildings, the number off the displaced people in and just eight or nine days. Lack off the access Tobe article care to the rescue onto the service is the main service providers. It is really the hardest that we witnessed and several years if there was a huge damage happened to buildings, infrastructure, electricity and daughter networks on the roads, mainly roads leading to big hospitals, which hinders the accessibility to Injured people tow er to reach the medical care on lifesaving services. What can you tell us about the sewage system inside Gaza because water pipes have certainly been destroyed, haven't they? Some of the network off water, a drinking water network have bean have been impacted. The authorities here and the service providers are walking working on some repairs. But there is a shortage and fuel either to pump the water to the population or to run the wastewater treatment to plans. It is important that the flow off fuel can meet be maintained in together so that electricity or power plant can work on also the repairs. The security situation is obviously changing, and it's very fluid was the Red Cross able to make you solve the humanitarian corridor that was open yesterday for a short period of time? For the time being, We rarely can move on without without security guarantees, it will be very hard to ensure the safety off the clothes and the safety of the service providers. Well, it is important that we start the response. The humanitarian response very much needed in Gaza, Gaza is a place that is already very difficult to live in, given the longstanding of blockade by Israel. What is it that the people of Gaza need immediately? I mean, is that are their immediate needs that are being caused by the conflict now in terms of shortages of things. Well for the first need is that to have the access to medical care on guard have enough fuel for electricity. Electricity means that hospital are running water. Drinking water is running at their homes on bond with water is treated and the dump to the sea. So these are the basic needs off the off the population with the food. It's still it's still. But the Still available in the market, but it's not accessible. So a de escalation off this off this conflict is essential for the population to get the basic services When you say the food isn't accessible, is that because people that just staying inside their homes they're too frightened to leave? Because the airstrikes are not stopping on by the security situation cannot allow people to leave their homes. It was, too. Here's a coat of the international Red Cross speaking to us from Gaza, the devastating violence has lent some urgency to diplomatic efforts. Though currently to little effect, France's leading the charge calling for a ceasefire. From both sides of the United Nations Council, which off which it is now the only you you, permanent member of the United States position thus far has been to continue to support Israel. The Security Council's held for meetings on the current crisis, and there has been no public statement. Yet Short time ago, we got through to a French Senator Natalie Ghoul, a member of parliament, former vice chair of the Commission of Foreign Affairs and Defense, She's a centrist. They're not part of President Macron's on Marsh party. So what is France trying to do on a diplomatic level at the U. N France try to bring ballistic in an Israeli in a wrong the table and slow down the situation, which is no terrible. This situation does not be solved for ages. On my position for the last 20 years was to have a balanced situation, especially regarding the occupation, illegal occupation. I was always very much in favor of a Palestinian solution. And two state solution, which is now day after day less possible because of occupation. So asking the Security Council right now on this pre size, terrible situation is very unfair because it's late. It's always too late. It's too late to refrain the Israeli to have the occupation policy. It's too late to prevent the category money to build a Muslim brotherhood, Opposition and Hamas with Hezbollah are working very hard against the Palestinian people isn't part of the problem that if something is taken in a concrete way to the Security Council that the United States because of its staunch support of Israel will Will continue to block the adoption off the Security Council statement. I mean, what is it that France conducive to put pressure on the U. S to support a resolution that is calling for a ceasefire? Roughly, nothing can prevent United State to support blindly Israel policy. And there is nothing that international community can done. And it's nothing that the international community has been able to do for the last 73 years as a politician myself I'm a little tired off the useless United Nation and useless international regulation to prevent this kind of thing. You know it's disaster. Is there something that the EU could do as a block that might make an impact? Probably, you know, European Union is a major funder for Palestinian and for Israeli, so it's a very important player. What should be done in that we have to block all the agreement between European Union and Israel. But if you take any measure block Israeli help or subsidies, or if you try to do something, you immediately have all the Jewish lobby in the world. Killing you to be antisemitic, and that's it, So it's very, very difficult. And right now it's almost impossible. And you are calling for the European Union collectively to block funding for Israel. Is that what you're saying? But I think that one day one other European Union as true think seriously about funding occupation. But what you're saying would be as difficult to get consensus on in the context of 27 member countries as it is to Get five members of the U. N. Security Council to agree on something. Yes, but you know when European Union he's agree completely with Turkish policy, so the stopping the agreement with jerky Instead of that, Despite all the situation is Middle East, we continue to increase the level of cooperation with Israel. So at one period of time, somebody has to stop that. Princeton is hurt Nathalie Goulet. Now. In the past week, a record 8000 people managed to cross by water from Morocco to Spain's North African and clave off Sota on while Madrid has stepped by stepped by definite diplomatic pressure on RA bat to curb the influx. It is also sent in troops. I've been speaking to our correspondent Nic Bhikhu is in Sota. There are once again more people at the border between this Spanish territory and Morocco. But the cues that we we've seen over the past few hours are orderly. It's not the scramble over the rocks along the shore that we're seeing on Monday and Tuesday, and that is because after arriving here on what is European soil in record numbers. Lots of people are now going in the opposite direction. They're heading home and we stopped lots of people who were making that reverse journey as it were..
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"That's his life. Israel's reported to be massing troops along the Gaza border. But the Jerusalem Post said the story that story was planted. Draw Hamas fighters out of their tunnels. So they'd be an easier target for airstrikes hears the sound of a tank Getting into position hears the sound of the BBC's Jeremy Bowen. We're hearing from our people in Gaza, the dozens of Palestinian families Have fled their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip because off heavy Israeli shelling. It's an area where in the 2014 war, dozens of civilians were killed in Israeli shelling. So they told our guys there that they were getting out on. The pictures were finally was pitiful with people. Driving their Children, kids wearing the new clothes that they have for eat the celebration of the end of Ramadan, which it was today. As Prime minister. Netanyahu put it, Israel would charge a very high price from Hamas and the operation would continue as long as necessary. Egyptian negotiators are talking with both sides about a cease fire. While that goes on Israeli police post for Micky Rosenfeld had this advice for civilians. We're asking everybody to stay at home to be within 30 seconds of a safe zone and safe area. We know the rockets are continuing to be fired. Literally miles a few miles away from me. At the moment, we can hear the explosions in the background. The letters from Mars tactic has been to fire up to 100 rockets within a few minutes. More rockets on the Israeli iron dome system can take out. The question is how many rockets they have it in particular. How many long range rockets So they have capable of hitting? Tell Aviv last time they did this. They fired about 4000 rockets over 50 days. So far in this episode, they have fired 1800 at last count. The bigger problem for Israel would be if Hezbollah got involved. They have an arsenal estimated to have at least 150,000 rockets. And the fight going on now is just between missiles and rockets. It's also on the ground one on one hears the BBC's Paul Adams in Jerusalem. There's every sign that militants on both sides and we're talking mostly about gangs of youth. Jewish groups and Arab groups seem bent on grabbing people out of their cars, beating them up attacking houses and so forth. The Israeli security presence in these towns and areas is being beefed up considerably. You CBS news Respondent Robert Berger. You've had mobs of Arabs and mobs of Jews attacking each other on the street. Some people have been lynched. US. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says Israel has a right to defend itself. He's worried the too many civilians of being hurt in that we are deeply concerned with the loss of life among civilians, especially among among Children. Palestinians have a right to.
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"hezbollah" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"I forget that I've heard of her before. So what happened over the weekend is that she had this ridiculous piece in the L a times. And as I went to write about it at chicks on the right dot com. I realized when I went to her Twitter account that she'd already blocked me for Past grievances. I don't know what they are. And then I did a search on her name at six on the right dot com and discovered that we've written about her a number of times because she is such an absolute beast. So the reason that she is in headlines right now. Is because her piece in the L A times is called. What can you do about the Trump fights next door? And it's an article that she complains that her neighbors her next door neighbor's to her per pandemic. Get away, So it's not even her main house. Cause, of course, she has more than one house. Her pandemic getaway was Snowden so she had a big pile of snow at her pandemic Get away and her neighbors, apparently without any provocation. Uh, took care of it for they plowed her driveway and they cleared her driveway. And they apparently did a really, really good job. But she is horrified by this because the trump Heights next door as she refers to them, Um we're trump fans. They voted for Trump. And she considers this to be an unforgivable sin. And now she doesn't know how to deal with this act. She calls it of aggressive niceness. Wait, So I just want to I've heard this properly because I feel like I missed a step. So this woman needed her driveway of shoveled she I mean, she didn't ask for the shovel. But these people said we will do this for you at no charge because we are nice people. And so instead of saying Thank you. That was really nice of you. She is up in arms because she found out that these nice people who did something nice for her and asked for nothing in return voted for Trump right? She believes that this is Just a complete horror show was she cannot deal with what she's supposed to do next. So serious question off of this because we all hear the phrase beauty. How are you supposed to unite? With this person you submit to them, right? It's not. There is no she admits that okay? She she admits that at the end of her piece, so in okay, so initially, when she just says, Here's what happened. How am I going to resist demands for unity In the face of this act of aggressive niceness? She then goes on to say it's almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world when they clean your driveway. In fact, you're more likely to be overwhelmed with gratitude and convinced of the person's inherent goodness like this is a terrible thing. Right, But then she goes on to compare them and I'm not making this up to Hezbollah. Okay, She compares them to Hezbollah. And then worse. She compares them to a family who she visited in France as a teen, and they had a portrait of a Nazi collaborator on their wall, and she asked about the portrait, and they said, Well, during, you know, during the times of the of the occupation, the Nazis were very polite toe. So we didn't really have a personal problem with them, and she was horrified naturally by that, and so she compares her neighbors to these people, and I'm like, Do you want to explain why you were hanging out with that family to begin with? Because I feel like that says more about you than anything else does in this situation. But then she goes on to say that the only way that she can You know, deal with this problem of her aggressively Nice neighbors is that they are going to have to do the work of recognizing the truth about the Trump administration. And they will have to do the work for justice. For all of those whom the administration harmed and then and on Lee, then can we begin to dig out of this storm? It's just proof there. You can't unify with these people. They don't want actually. Unity they don't want you come back to that. We're laughing about that Bruce Springsteen commercial about him talking about meeting in them. Middle of the country. There is no middle of there is no middle. It's opening to them. They continue, right. I mean, at this point pick a team and whichever one you pick May God have mercy on your soul, right. But there's no there's no unifying. No, you can't And these people, this woman are the voices that are winning in the Democrat Party. If you would like to contact her because, of course I can't since I'm blocked her Twitter handle is at page 88. I highly recommend the always sticking his McDonald's spicy chicken McNuggets. But a victim in company settles in Temple began the year to smoke again. Achille I'm waiting is.
Mike Gallagher
Prominent Hezbollah critic found dead in his car in Lebanon
"Author, also an outspoken critic of Hezbollah spent founded the News of Look. Lynn Slim staff has been another big shock to the Lebanese people, just as they were marking six months on from the devastating blast in Beirut. Mr. Slim was reported missing by his family last night. He was found according to security sources, with two bullets in his head in his car this morning in the south of Lebanon on investigation has been opened into his death. In his writings and media appearances. Mr. Slim, who was himself from a prominent Shia family had regularly criticized his villa his reported to have received threats on to have asked for police protection last year, the BBC Sebastian Usher Iran's
Freakonomics Radio
Lebanon PM-designate steps down amid impasse over gov’t formation
"Lebanon's prime minister designate, has resigned less than a month after his appointment is at home See reports from Beirut He's stepping down amid a deadlock over forming a new government in the small, crisis ridden country. Prime minister designate most of a deep attempts to form an independent cabinet drew the ire of political parties and Hezbollah. They demanded the finance Ministry be assigned to a Shiite candidate of their choice. Deep been endorsed by a majority of political parties, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron. Cronus pressured Lebanon to form a government quickly in order to unlock international aid required to bail the country out of a severe economic crisis. Deep was designated in the wake of a massive explosion in Beirut sport. That explosion caused by almost 3000 times of ammonium nitrate cause popular anger and Lebanon after it was revealed many of Lebanon's politicians knew about the unsafely stored material for years. And did nothing.