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AP News Radio
Debt limit deal heads to vote in full House while McCarthy scrambles for GOP approval
"The debt ceiling and budget deal worked out between House speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden has advanced to the full House, where a vote is expected Wednesday. I'm Ben Thomas with a look at its progress. The House rules committee voted 7 to 6 to advance the bill, chairman Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican calling it a product of compromise. And reflects the realities of a divided government. We shouldn't allow that to overshadow what this bill accomplishes. It would restrict spending for the next two years while also suspending the nation's debt limit during that time, and the nonpartisan congressional budget office says it reduces deficits by $1.5 trillion over the decade, but South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman also a member of the freedom caucus was disappointed. We had a real bill that was going to make a difference. We did in the original bill. This being watered down is completely takes the teeth out of it. And I see why the Democrats vote for it. I see it now. He and Texas congressman chip Roy, who earlier in the day, said not one Republican should vote for this deal. Join Democrats in opposing the bill's advance. Ranking Democrat Jim mcgovern of Massachusetts accusing the GOP of weaponizing the debt ceiling, saying it's a precedent that will forever haunt the nation. One party can use the full faith and credit of the United States as a hostage to pass their widely unpopular ideas. Adding, someday, hopefully not in my lifetime, but someday there will be a Republican president. And you will remember this moment because what you are trying to do is get things enacted that you could not get done through regular order. Ben Thomas, Washington
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Prosecutors Address Criminal Charges Against SBF
"U .S. criminal charges against Sam Bankman -Free don't warrant dismissal, prosecutors say. So basically, his lawyers tried to get criminal charges dismissed, and these include technicalities around his extradition back to the United States of America and campaign finance violations. In May, he filed pretrial motions to dismiss most charges against him. His defense argued procedural issues, the relevance of some U .S. laws given FTX's non -U .S. location, and that charges exceeded the great extradition terms. I actually want to toss this to Jen. I know your hand was up, Zach, but I'm going to toss it to Jen because she's our legal person. And I have nice hair today. She has better hair than you. Zach's got good hair. It's true. I can't beat Zach on the hair. Thanks, Will. All right. Let's get into the story. You know, I think Sam Bankman -Free has a good legal team. He understands what's going on. His parents are lawyers. And so we're going to see them kind of pick apart the technicalities of what's going on. I wasn't surprised to see that they didn't stick because what he is alleged of committing are really serious crimes that affected a lot of people. We're dealing with a large amount of money here, and I don't think it's going to go away based on some technicalities. But I do think that we can expect the team to continue to like throw the ball, see what sticks, see what kind of charges they can get thrown out. I just don't think it's going to work for Sam Bankman -Free. He is accused of some pretty serious crimes. Zach? Lawyers going to lawyer. That's what I see when I see this story. They're going to lawyer. This is the procedural dribs and drabs before the show goes live in October. We're all waiting for that season to kick off, and it's going to be a big season. This is someone who's alleged to have done some pretty significant financial crimes. So the idea that they're trying to knock this down is reasonable, right? They're trying to get their client the best possible terms that they can. Of course, they're going to do this. But still, this is going to go to court. This is going to happen. This is going to be really wild to see what the defense ends up being and what the case ends up being.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. Mike Lee: This Imposter Bill Puts the Onerous on Republicans
"I find it odd that we undermine their own piece of legislation which already passed the House for a week or bill that you now have to fight to pass the House That call me crazy center but that sounds like regression not progress It is regression precisely And we undermine that in the process we undermine all Republicans Look a few weeks ago I put out a letter a letter that we signed by 43 Senate Republicans We only needed 41 but we got 43 three others that they agreed with the substance of it for strategic reasons didn't want to sign it What that essentially said was let's assuming those 43 at a minimum would have been willing to vote to pass Bill like limits save grow What that meant was that it would be up to the Democrats because it'd be up to the Democrats to limit safe growth had already passed in the House They didn't even need to Democrats over there All we needed then was for Chuck Schumer to find 17 Democrats to vote for it So as to avoid what the Democrats themselves are touting as an imminent emergency By doing this by coming forward with this impostor bill that purports to have all these savings measures in it but on further examination it's just smoke and mirrors he's now put the onus back on Republicans You watch remark my words Dan what they're going to do this is going to unite Democrats Democrats are going to be just thrilled about this You will have more Democrats excited to vote for it than you have Republicans This will be good for them put the onus back on Republicans You're already seeing conservative Republicans who are opposing it Being attacked And that is because of this very thing And by the way the reason the only reason why they have any ability to claim that this is the only deal is because of this fake June 5th deadline
AP News Radio
Humanitarian group MSF calls for support for refugees in Kenya affected by cholera crisis
"Refugees in Kenya's dadaab camps are believed to have been hit by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly. Doctors Without Borders says 2786 refugees have been affected so far, and that there's an imminent risk of outbreaks of other gastrointestinal diseases that adapt camps, host more than 300,000 people and with a biting drought in neighboring Somalia, the numbers are on the rise, straining water and sanitation services. In 2016, the Kenyan government had announced plans to shut the camps over concerns that extremists from Somalia's Al shabab group were hiding there making the camps a conduit for smuggling weapons, but the United Nations had urged Kenya to reconsider the plan and continue to offer refuge to victims of violence and trauma. There are plans to open another camp in the complex to accommodate new arrivals and ease overcrowding. I'm Lawrence Brooks
Mark Levin
The Moment Sen. Tim Scott Announced His Presidential Candidacy
"Cut 18 go Joe Biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the latter that helped me climb And that's why I'm announcing today That I'm running For president Of the United States All the America It's exciting isn't it Isn't that exciting mister producer He's really a good guy Really a good guy Very nice man
Mark Levin
How to Describe Our National Security Position: 'Prudence'
"Best defines what our national security and our defense and military posture should be What one word He read liberty and tyranny chapter ten you know What is it Prudence It's not an ideological thing When it comes to the security of the United States prudence and so chapter ten is entitled self preservation Not defense not national security and liberty tyranny it's entitled self preservation That's the goal The conservative believes that the moral imperative of all public policy must be the preservation and improvement of American society So I love it when I'm lectured about this As I wrote about it it's almost 20 years whenever it was Similarly the object of American foreign policy must be no different The founders recognized that America had to be strong politically economic culturally and yes militarily To survive and thrive in a complex ever changing global environment Not only in their time but for all time History bears this out After the revolution Revolutionary War the founders realized that the confederation was inadequate to conduct foreign affairs Since each state was free to act on its own There could be no coherent national security policy because there was no staining army in each state ultimately was responsible for its own defense The nations economy was vulnerable to pirates who were terrorizing transatlantic shipping routes and by the way taking the men who worked on those ships into slavery And bring him into the central part of Africa And of course the British and Spanish empires were looming threats
The Dan Bongino Show
Part 2: TX Sen. Brian Birdwell Recalls Being at the Pentagon on 9/11
"Eventually get to Georgetown university hospital with a great staff there We'll give me my initial emergency room care But I'll say that last prayer with the hospital chaplain because I fully expect that I'm being called into eternity by the lord in these moments I would survive the lord would allow me to get with me That afternoon I don't know she's there but Mel will get to Georgetown That's its own harrowing story of what it took in the traffic there in those moments after impact to get to Georgetown and eventually I'd be life sliding over to the Washington hospital center mill would be taken through the Georgetown police department Georgetown university police department over to the hospital and she said it was just very eerie I mean the streets of D.C. have never been that empty Since Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and there would be a number of challenges we'll go through I mean I could do it all the time to name them all but everything from having maggots put on me for three days to eat the infection dead tissue what happens to you in a burn unit ban is a burn injury is terrible but what has to be done to you medically as far worse But by the lord's grace I'm still here And so many things over the last 20 years that we thought that Mel would see as a widow whether it's Matt graduating high school or college getting married and now having two grandchildren We've gotten to see as a married couple And lord willing he'll give us more years and no matter what This is still the greatest place on God's green earth And if I may be so bold to our friends in Florida Texas is still the greatest place but Florida is of course
The Dan Bongino Show
Remembering Dan Bongino's Grandfather, A WWII Hero
"My grandfather wasn't an Omaha He was at Utah beach but he fought in the Battle of the Bulge He named my father John after a battle buddy of his who was killed in combat And when I graduated the Secret Service academy we didn't have a lot of money so we all stuffed into one room and double tree in Alexandria Virginia my grandparents came down you know we had like cots and everything We just didn't have a lot of dough So we couldn't afford another room So my grandfather stayed in the room with us and I stayed on the couch and in the middle of it of course he gave them the bed and in the middle of the night my grandfather got up and yelled really loud It was really odd I don't know two 3 o'clock in the morning And nobody responded but me I just was kind of like are you okay Everybody else just slept through it and got up and went right back to sleep and was interesting The next morning I think I said to my dad I said what was that about Or maybe it was my grandmother I said what happened with grandpa I said why do you do Oh yeah he has bad memories from the war when he came back from World War II You know sometimes he'll get up at night and he'll scream and it's because he's having some kind of nightmare and he just goes back to sleep Those are the sheep dogs Those are the men and women who have decided to raise a right hand and pledge allegiance to the United States serving combat and leave a piece of themselves behind for you My grandfather did that Never talked about it by the way ever I remember when Sabin private Ryan came out I asked him about his experiences in combat and more and he never said anything He didn't want to talk about it The silence there was deafening at times Showed you what they'd been through
AP News Radio
At West Point, Vice President Harris to make history as first woman to deliver commencement speech
"Vice president Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman to deliver the West Point commencement speech. Harris told the U.S. Military academy class, they graduated into an increasingly unsettled world where long-standing principles are at risk global security. And global prosperity depend on the leadership of the United States of America. The vice president says America has no greater strategic asset than those wearing our uniform. There is no more noble work than a person can do than to serve our nation in uniform. Four decades ago, West Point graduated at first class of female cadets, still it's made slow progress, diversifying its ranks. Julie Walker, New York
Mark Levin
Ben Ferguson: The Media Wants a Civil War Against Two Candidates
"I want to have a conversation I want you to listen to what I say very carefully because I don't want people to put words in my mouth okay And I want you to understand that the conversation that I'm about to have with you is extremely important conversation if you consider yourself to be conservative if you consider yourself to be a libertarian if you consider yourself to be a evangelical Christian voter okay I want you to I want you to really understand what I'm about to say to you Is a very important conversation that we must have and one where I want you to understand that I am not picking and or endorsing a candidate This is a conversation where you could say can it a and can it be Can it why This is not about the two people I'm about to talk about It's about a bigger conversation that we need to be careful and we need to have Ron DeSantis has announced that he is running for president okay I don't care about that aspect of this right now That's why I'm saying I'm just stating the fact Donald Trump has already announced and is officially running for president of the United States of America It's obvious to me that this is a two man race between candidate a and candidate B and there is something that the media is hoping is about to happen That the listeners of this audience the listeners of my podcast the listener of every conservative talk show in America are about to have a Civil War Between choosing can it ain't can it be Now if you look at candidate a and candidate B both candidate a and candidate B I think would serve the conservative movement very well I think candidate a and can it be both have track records of being staunch conservatives
The Dan Bongino Show
Only 2 Ways to Solve Debt Crisis: National Bankruptcy or Productivity
"I see only two ways out of this National bankruptcy or productivity And that's it The idea of a national bankruptcy may seem bizarre because we can't go bankrupt like a chapter 11 because we can print money but folks I ask you this money's in exchange of value right We don't trade refrigerators for chickens right We don't barter You know you may laugh but the hard reality is throughout human history that's how we exchange value through barter You'd exchange your blacksmith services for some farmers eggs or whatever it may be The idea of money Yeah it's been around a while I mean we tobacco leaves her money but the idea of a central currency controlled by a behemoth we know is the Federal Reserve now This is the first time in human history This has been tried on this scale Money's just an article of faith now You ever thought about that I mean it's only paper It doesn't do anything If there was a zombie apocalypse tomorrow and someone said hey I'll give you a $100 for that Last Big Mac on Planet Earth You'd be like what the hell am I going to use a $100 Is that even more It's a piece of paper I use it for fire Pretender We are going bankrupt Our money if we keep going down this trajectory has the potential and the strong potential to be worthless Worthless in the sense that it won't acquire you the decent middle class lifestyle you used to You know again I'll say it like I said in the opening of the show folks if you look and study human history the course of human history has been marked with pillage plunder and poverty It just has We are one of the first countries in the history this rock we live on calling earth called earth That is enabled a middle class lifestyle that resembles that of the filthy rich even a hundred years ago The ways you can communicate the foods you can eat these are things that weren't available to civilizations before the United States set the standard through capitalism and freedom of prosperity matched nowhere else on Planet Earth
Mark Levin
Morton Klein: Biden Administration Is Redefining 'Antisemitism'
"The United States came out just a few hours ago With their program of how to fight Jew hatred anti semitism Instead of using the normal respected accepted definition for anti semitism called the Ira definition Instead added to it as a valuable tool to other definitions by nexus and others these other definitions that they're now promoting as valuable and important say if you oppose the Jewish State of Israel it's a very existence That's okay That's not anti semitic If you treat Israel differently from any other country that's not anti semitic At all which means the United Nations for example which has overwhelming number of critical criticisms of countries overwhelmingly it's against Israel But that wouldn't be as I said this is according to the new definition of Biden When a journalist is killed in Israel embedded journalists journalists are killed in more situations all the time No country has ever condemned for it It happens When Israel has a journalist killed the whole world starts condemning Israel which of course is anti semitism They're being treated differently So this report allows the George Soros the anti Israel politicians to no longer be allowed to be called anti semitic that allows the campus programs on college campuses that promotes boycotting in Israel Now it's no longer an antisemitism So we can't fight him as readily This is a very dangerous definition that he's put out And it's interesting He put it out two hours before this very holy day tonight culture viewers
AP News Radio
Pentagon says allies will unite to train Ukrainians on F-16s, but warns jets aren't 'magic weapons'
"The Pentagon says European allies are developing a program to train Ukrainian forces on flying F-16 fighters, but it's also issuing a warning about expecting too much from the jets. There's no magic weapons in war. Joint chiefs chairman Mark milley says for one thing, F-16s are expensive. The jets themselves. And the pilots to go with them and the system costs and the missiles and the maintenance do the math. $2 billion for ten aircraft. The Russians have a thousand fourth and 5th generation fighters. And Ukraine will need a substantial amount if it wants to contest Moscow in the air. The smartest thing to have done is exactly what we did do. Which was spend money first on getting Ukraine air defenses and ground capabilities that have allowed them to hang in the fight. Millie says had the F-16s come first. You wouldn't have tanks you wouldn't have Bradley's. You wouldn't have anti army weapons. You wouldn't have anything else. You'd spend all your money on just that. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
The Dan Bongino Show
Vivek Ramaswamy: How to Declare Economic Independence From China
"How do you anticipate in the future handling China So look I think that we have a short window Dan we're a little lucky We can't take credit for this but we're a little lucky that Xi Jinping has shot himself in the foot in the last year to hold on to his third term of power He took the floor out of China's economy This is our moment to declare economic independence from China I think we can do it This is our window because China's already weak And if we declare independence and say that here are the terms if you don't reform no data theft no intellectual property theft Here's how you're actually going to play with state subsidized competition on the global stage Lay out our list of demands You're not going to use our companies as pawns to advance your political agenda through lobbying here in the United States If we do these things then you tell Xi Jinping if not we're actually going to pull out and we beat it Xi Jinping will fold The CCP might fall if we actually economically sever our ties from China So what I would say is I've put in bands to say no CCP buying land in the United States I ban most U.S. businesses from expanding into the Chinese market Until and unless this ECP meets our list of demands and they're in such a weak spot Dan if we can open our eyes and see it that we're working within a short window now to actually deliver that with the spine but that takes fortitude It takes a little more Churchill a little less Chamberlain in our foreign policy That's part of my urgency I understand these issues deeply I've been in exchange student in China In fact in my first company I did business in China That's why I started when I started strive I said no we're not going to do business in China because I understand how the game is played But I understand this deeply that gives me part of my urgency to run for president I think we can do it
The Dan Bongino Show
Yuri Bezmenov Explains How Marxists Targeted the Education System
"Democrats have been working for 30 years through colleges and K through 12 as well to indoctrinate a young group of woke soldiers to go out there and take over corporate America You're seeing the results of that happening right now It was all deliberate It was all of them It's all it was all a plot Was it a coordinated effort by people who spoke to each other now They didn't have to They just had to read the same destruction manual If Jim and I put the same table together and followed the same Ikea instruction manual or wherever you bought the damn thing from does that mean Jim and I coordinated No we just had to read the book And the book's been out there forever It's been Marxist communist ideology They want to hear it straight from the horse's mouth This is a Marxist themselves This is Yuri besmanoff He was a KGB agent He defected to the United States We played cuts of him many times Audio cuts and video on my podcast Here's him explaining exactly how marxists and communists have planned this forever that marched through the education system Take a listen Education This track them from learning something which is constructive pragmatic efficient instead of mathematics physics foreign languages chemistry teach them history of urban warfare natural food home economy your sexuality anything As long as it takes you away there you go From an actual Marxist mouth himself you don't need to hear from me Just listen to them They've been plotting this for 30 plus years arguably longer much longer Seth wrote a great book over at Fox about this whole thing
AP News Radio
Largest US gay rights group issues Florida travel advisory for what they say are anti-LGBTQ+ laws
"The largest gay rights group in the country is issuing an advisory against traveling to Florida. The Human Rights Campaign is joining a group that includes the NAACP, the league of united Latin American citizens. The Florida immigrant coalition and equality Florida in warning newly passed laws and policies in Florida may pose risks to minorities, immigrants, and gay travelers. The Human Rights Campaign is not calling for a boycott of Florida, but is highlighting laws passed by Florida's Republican led legislature and signed by governor Ron DeSantis. They say are hostile to the LGBTQ+ community, restrict abortion access and allow floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit. Visit Florida says more than 137 million tourists visited the state last year. Surpassing pre-pandemic levels. I'm Ed Donahue.
The Dan Bongino Show
Asra Nomani Hopeful Thomas Jefferson H.S. Case Goes to SCOTUS
"The parents are going to keep fighting They're excited because they think that this now could go before the United States Supreme Court Here's osra nomani And we expected this decision and we knew the biases of these judges two to one appointed by Democrats who believe in the philosophy of critical race theory And they laughingly use this logic that said there was no disparate impact on Asian American students because oh wow so many Asian American students got into the school What they didn't their knowledge or dare to value was how this was a policy that was a targeted hit on Asian American students It's evident in the text messages that we discovered in our case represented by Pacific legal foundation in which a school board member a bra omesh admitted that the new policy was anti Asian LOL laughing out loud Yeah these were private text messages that the Pacific legal foundation got a hold of that showed school board members admitting that I mean what more evidence do you need What kind of judges are these
Mark Levin
The Truth About 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments Passed After Civil War
"The 13th 14th and 15th amendments were passed after the Civil War By the Republicans the Republican states they dealt with the aftermath of the Civil War Fourteenth Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with the financing of the country And who has what power Some what is it now Let's see Most a 120 years later ended in 1865 While more than that my math here is not great 160 years almost But that said I would never states would never have ratified an amendment that would give the power To raise money to pay off debt to the president of the United States Ever And they didn't
ESPN FC
"united" Discussed on ESPN FC
"He is a football mind. He would find a way. It's not like he will save the world the first couple of weeks. I mean, when you have a look at the teams that are not a lot of gig and pressing players in that team and the voice are right, there are some players that will kind of be troubled to adjust that. Having said that, I got a feeling and I don't know what the other boys to think of that. Do we think the advances united us they are equipped now with their management will they bring in Ragnar without talking to Ronaldo without talking their agent? Will they do that? Or do you think that he has okayed it? I hope not. You're on a slippery slope. You start asking players about anything. Players need to be told what you do. You start asking players for advice, then you've got no chance. So I certainly hope they don't. Joels will talk about PSG a little later in the show, but where does this leave mister pochettino? Well, that lives in Paris to establish at least, which I'm not sure who would be happy with that. But just to go back briefly on the point that you made earlier, which is a really good point, if you bring rank Nick, at least certainly in terms of intensity and high price, for example, even, that similarities between the way and it's not the case in Paris, of course, for different reasons, but the way pochettino likes his teams to play. And they were ragnick makes his team to play. So already I guess you will have the basic if butcher Tino is the one to come in the summer. He would be able to work on the basics, the same basics and would have been doing for 6 months. And what he would want to do. So on that point, this would work. If you get someone completely different to parch and completely different to writing, then you've wasted 6 months and you have to start all over again. But for opportunities, it would still want to take that job in the summer. He leaves piaget a bit more time to make sure they find the replacement to come after him. I use in it in Sudan. But at least that gives everyone a bit more time. But again, I'm not sure pots wanted that more time. Yeah, and you've set this up almost as quite a stunning soap opera as to how all this telling novella is going to kind of develop is it going to work? Well, you have to have a look around who are the candidates. It's funny that yesterday put your Tino was the wish of all Manchester United fans in the world. Now is Ralph Ragnar. So I just wondering who will be tomorrow. But if you look at it, I didn't think that they would go all the way with rhythm because writing has been out of now out of the game. It's local Moscow. He has his own consultancy company, and he makes his services. But he's being linked to a lot of clubs. And I've talked to chairman. I've talked to managers, talk to Ralph Ragnar and in meetings they've had with him. He has straight away said, well, yes, take me on, but I have to decide. I got to decide, but if you think, the Manchester United, and I think that Craig has a very valid point. If you have a look at Manchester United and try to analyze the trouble they have at the club is set up in and around the kind of dressing rooms of Manchester United. They need someone to make that set up. Will it work in the next coming three, four months? I'm not sure. I'm just saying that I've taken someone on now. He's more or less. It would be a manager. He will be a headwind for them. And it will be a builder. And all this, you should do in 6 months. And then we know, you have to win football games. It's as simple as that. And the other side of that coin is and I'm not going to go over the source of the management side of it. But let's just go over the personality side. And January will know better than me, but he seems such a nice guy. And you know, I think the thing is, apart from the tactics, apart from the selection and all that goes with it, let's be honest, these United players need a firmer hand. Amongst everything else, they need a firmer hand. They need to be told and no uncertain terms. Everyone needs to step up from the training to the March performance. Everything. And I think just in that alone, we should see some percentage of improvement. What then that translate to on the field is certainly we don't know. But surely that's sort of easy street and the press conferences and everything sort of been honky Dory. I think you need to finally realize that they need more than that. What we do know though is that he won't be in charge for Chelsea against Manchester United this weekend, Michael.
Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
"united" Discussed on Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
"Feels of of rwanda to the concentration camps of of jinjiang province in china today millions of look to the un for their safety and the protection of the us has consistently let than down and that is a massive failure on the part of of the united nations. And i urge all of you listening today to put aside just a sentimental sentimentality about the united nations. But to to really look at the evidence that is in place and i urge you to support the motion that the united nations is indeed opposite thank nile gardiner and getting literally the last word in the debate itself making his argument against the resolution that the un is obsolete here once again as muhammadu. Thank you very much john. Thank you to the colleagues. It's been a very spirited than very nuance and intelligence conversation. I wanna call you ladies and gentlemen to the importance of experience and self reflection a few years ago he might have fond me on the other side of this motion at the age of twenty two. I had the privilege of sitting in security council When he met in november nineteen ninety ahead of the gulf war and followed these discussions than was struck by the level of realpolitik identify town in a post doctoral degree and trying to look at the intricacies of these organizations and came to see that limitations. I then served as foreign minister was able to put this theory in practice and now a mike critical scholarship teach these issues to my graduate students and we have conversations on them all the time. What i have learned from this is that it's too easy to criticize the united nations in this fashion and this radical fashion that it is obsolete a needs to be get with off in that sense. I see that this is an organization that has much to improve that has many faults but the united nations. I could so easily to is what we make of it. Not only the states but all of us it is the world we inhabit. It doesn't sit out there in outer space removed from the sales of this world. That were there before will certainly be there after. It's gone what i've seen is the promise to the elderly in the global south of what the united nations could give it. I could see with my graduate students here. Privilege you in the global north sort of the inspiration that it gives them to do conduct such work and so with that. I certainly see that the united nations is not obsolete. I see that it's promise is very much relevant. And its its mission that think remains in its nobility and the way that historically came to be and for that reason and for everything we have discussed and evidence. Certainly not sentimentality. I would like to invite you to vote against the motion that the united nations is upset. And i think you forty attention. Thank you who muhammadu and thank you to all of our debaters. As that concludes the final round of our intelligence squared debate. And it's time now for our second and final vote remember. It's the side that sways the most minds between the first and the second vote that will be declared our winner. It works the same way as before. Go back to iq to us dot org how the same choices as before four against or undecided and as i mentioned earlier. We're going to be keeping this vote open for seven days and inviting the general public to watch vote also and at the end of those seven days we will announce the winner on our website. I two u. s. dot org The competition is over. I just wanted to thank our debaters. Angara regime mahmoud nile for a really excellent debate And also. I wanna thank you for the way that you conducted it you. You obviously feel very passionately about this issue. There's really i could send significant overlap in a lot of your world views. You just happen to disagree on this motion as we phrased it but you you argued it with with respect for one another and with respect for the audience and with respect for this process of dialogues. I wanna thank you all for the way that you took part in this. Thanks to all of you for for living up to the spirit of intelligence squared. Thank you for hosting thank you john q. I i also want to thank our audience being audience for something like this rejoining this because this is what we do. We we try to bring to you and to millions of listeners. Around the world real debate through our podcast and television in public radio. And we do it all for free. It's something we care about a lot here at intelligence squared as i've said many times before we are a nonprofit We do we turn to you for support. And if you want to support us or just want to learn more about.
Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
"united" Discussed on Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
"Let's get back to our debate. So you've heard the first two opening remarks and now up on the screen with an opening statement in support of the resolution that the un is obsolete here is nile gardiner nile. The screen is yours. Joan sir thanks very much for hosting us today and this is an extremely important and very timely issue for a debate actually is the united nations also eat and view of rajon myself that the un is in fact obsolete and that's based on looking at the evidence and the facts that we have available. Everyone wants the united nations to to succeed that includes of course The us tax payer that puts in several billion dollars a year into the united nations system. the united nations. The whole of the free world wants the un to to succeed at every level. Unfortunately i think the the founding vision of of those who set up the united nations in the aftermath of world war two the greatest war in our history that founding vision i think largely evaporated and i think what we have today with the united nations is tremendous disillusionment a with the system and the united nations has failed on so many fronts and i i go to address. In particular the un's failure with regard to human rights with failures stand up acts of genocide. It's faded to stand up to the most dictatorial regimes. The world and at the heart of that failure really is the fact that the united nations contains within it so many authoritarian and dictatorial regimes. Who actually use the un as a shield to protect their own. The ferris activities and one only has to look at the the un human rights council the perfect solve that. Let's you on that council today that includes the likes of china russia. Few some of the world's worst human rights violators sit on the un human rights council. The un simply does not stand up for the values of its original united nations charter letdown. Many of the most vulnerable people in the world u n peacekeeping operations across the world. Many of them have been spectacular failures. If you look at the congo peacekeeping mission monuc there were over. One hundred and fifty instances of major human rights violations carried out by un peace keepers and u. n. officials this is a staggering failure. Where is the united nations survey standing up to china with genocide against the the weavers whereas the united nations in terms of standing to the likes of the assad regime in syria which is used chemical weapons time and time again. The united nations has failed on so many fronts at has a massive disappointment and the reality is at this time. The united nations certainly is a brooklyn institution. It has lost the faith of so many across across the free world if has become the plaything of some of the most brutal dictatorships on a this has to change and it's certainly our view that the united nations in its present form is also elite. This is an institution that we want to succeed but as it stands at the moment it just has been a massive failure on so many fronts. Thank you very much. thank you nile. And our final opening statement will be against the resolution that the un is obsolete in other words. It's an endorsement of the un. It comes from hamad mahmoud muhammadu and mohammed mahmoud the the floor and the screen is yours. Thank you very much john. We've just heard quite an indictment full of the united nations. In fact we can add to this. The united nations Is certainly not the most efficient organizations we can look at its heavy bureaucracy. We can look at its convoluted nature but that is not the issue. And i'm not here to wave the flag of an institution that needs a lot of fixing and is in need of soul. Searching the issue is whether an organization that was set up less than a hundred years ago seventy six years ago which is not a lot of time when it matters of history in governance and international organisations in the current era whether such organization is obsolete are the definition of obsolescence. Is that something is no longer needed because something better has been invented instead of it. Well that is not the case. There is no other organization inside that. Do that kind of issue that you just my colleague mentioning that has a comprehensive mission and let us forewoman set aside the cynicism that is so prevalent these days and look at the mission and the mandate the very letter of bringing peace and prosperity to all around the world. Well if we look at this in terms of those then i think too key issues are fundamental first of all in terms of how this came about in terms of the very notion of the concept of inefficiency that we heard our colleagues from well. Evidence of efficiency is not evidence of What matters as i said is the mandate the mission and there is no other organization. That could do this. If the problem is the security council as it served is then reformed as many have been trying to do for many years if the problem is the funding then. Well let's let's make study and resourceful in any of this if it's the staffing that have a proper merit system if the issue is sexism or racism then let's deal with this a seriously. Well none of this is reason enough to cancel out the one organization that has this comprehensive mission at its heart and which has not been a failed When it comes to the letter of what was designed many decades ago secondly and most importantly every time the world came out of major trauma. It ran to this very place of putting together such as tuition after the brutality of world war one. The league of nations was setup after horrors of world war two. The united nations was created after decolonization. The new young states of the middle east africa asia ran out to that very organization for their place in the world at the end of the cold war. The whole concept of human security peace building was invented the agenda for peace that whole language that we practiced today was designed doing that day. Kate win the united nations front and center certainly not doing so successfully. But that is not evidence of obsolescence after nine eleven. The conversation on security began by then in their time and again we went to that very place that wants us to develop corporations and matters of working together. Finally if you look at the wall today and see all of the ills that are around us from the pandemic to racism to injustice to poverty to poor education to systemic inequities to gender equities to youth unemployment. There is no other organization that it has in its mandate place for all included. Indeed the bad students in this world as were mention days one entity that is designed to deal with this and the united nations in that sense is absolutely not obsolete so i would say that the argument for the obsolescence of the united nations is in fact shortsighted. It doesn't do justice to the very concept that stands at the heart of this organization which remains universal and so for that reason for the reason that my colleague mentioned earlier. I invite you to vote against the motion that the united nations is obsolete for itself is not thank you very much mahmoud and that concludes our first round of this intelligence squared. Us debate where our resolution is. The un is obsolete and now we move onto round two and round two is where the debaters a conversation and address..
United States Citizenship - Civics Test Podcast
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"Question number thirty eight. What is the highest court in. The united states and the answer is the supreme court. Here's a quick civics lesson to help you remember the answer to question. Thirty eight the. Us supreme court has complete authority over all federal courts. It's rulings have a significant effect. A supreme court ruling can affect the outcome of many cases in the lower courts. The supreme court's interpretations of federal laws and of the constitution our final. The supreme court is limited in its power over the states. It cannot make decisions about state law or state constitutions. The court can decide that a state law or action conflicts with federal law or with the us constitution. If this happens the state law becomes invalid. The supreme court case ruling marbury versus madison established this power known as a judicial review. The supreme court also rules on cases about significant social and public policy issues that affect all americans. The supreme court ruled on the court case brown versus the board of education of topeka which ended racial segregation in schools. So again question. Number thirty eight is what is the highest court in the united states and the answer is the supreme court..
Life in the Son
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"Sorry about your luck. But I'll tell you what. You can take about a hundred of the weakest people in this country put them together and one big bad dude you ain't gonna take them. All right? So. Think about what we can do together. You know I know I'm using a cliche really when I say united we stand. It is a cliche I suppose but it makes sense. These three words together make sense. And the other three words that follow makes sense too. United we stand divided. What? We fall. You know where that started with us? The model of the July 1942 flag cobra campaign. Has been popular ever since the American Revolution. But you didn't know. It's okay if you didn't now you do. It originated in the fourth verse of a 1768 patriotic ballot. The liberty song by John Dickinson if you hadn't heard it go check it out. You may like it may not I don't know. But listen to this. During the Civil War the phrase became a rallying crap for the union cause. Think about that. Neither did we stand. As a rally cry. And by the early 20th century labor unions had taken up that same slogan as a call for solidarity in the struggle for better working conditions. You hear that? They're working conditions weren't good. Do you came and banned it all these people together? They work together to get what? Better working conditions. You see how this works when you stand together? How about World War II? United we stand in boat not just an American patriotism but a unity among the allied nations and ain't all Americans did you all know? And this was expressed by who? I don't even know if I can pronounce her name but it was Queen Wilhelm in..
Life in the Son
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"Sorry about your luck. But I'll tell you what. You can take about a hundred of the weakest people in this country put them together and one big bad dude you ain't gonna take them. All right? So. Think about what we can do together. You know I know I'm using a cliche really when I say united we stand. It is a cliche I suppose but it makes sense. These three words together make sense. And the other three words that follow makes sense too. United we stand divided. What? We fall. You know where that started with us? The model of the July 1942 flag cobra campaign. Has been popular ever since the American Revolution. But you didn't know. It's okay if you didn't now you do. It originated in the fourth verse of a 1768 patriotic ballot. The liberty song by John Dickinson if you hadn't heard it go check it out. You may like it may not I don't know. But listen to this. During the Civil War the phrase became a rallying crap for the union cause. Think about that. Neither did we stand. As a rally cry. And by the early 20th century labor unions had taken up that same slogan as a call for solidarity in the struggle for better working conditions. You hear that? They're working conditions weren't good. Do you came and banned it all these people together? They work together to get what? Better working conditions. You see how this works when you stand together? How about World War II? United we stand in boat not just an American patriotism but a unity among the allied nations and ain't all Americans did you all know? And this was expressed by who? I don't even know if I can pronounce her name but it was Queen Wilhelm in..
Life in the Son
"united" Discussed on Life in the Son
"If you don't believe that the battle also says that there is a war going on in the heavenly. Okay? Heaven suffers violence. And the violent take it by force. Now you Democrats and listening to me I said it. The violent take it by force. How you doing? You messing up? Well you probably on the wrong side of the tracks. And look the bottom line is we are Americans. You hear me? I don't know any other way I can say this. We need to stand together as a people. That. Live in the same house. We're family. We are an American family. I don't care what you look like. I don't care what you smell like if you're an American you're an American. It's that simple. And. You know we can stand together and accomplish quite a bit really we can. And you know I like this verse right here from ecclesiastes. If one can overpower him who is alone two can resist him and a quarter to three strands is not quickly torn apart. Nothing about it. If one person can do it if Donald Trump empower a suit against big tech a class action suit it won. If one person can file that class action he's got a case have you noticed? He's got a good case. He's one man. I don't care what you say about him having money. Only took it's one man to have the backbone to say hey we're not having this. One man. NASA's two men together and they can do more against big check. You know but three strand court is not very easily broken..
Life in the Son
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"If you don't believe that the battle also says that there is a war going on in the heavenly. Okay? Heaven suffers violence. And the violent take it by force. Now you Democrats and listening to me I said it. The violent take it by force. How you doing? You messing up? Well you probably on the wrong side of the tracks. And look the bottom line is we are Americans. You hear me? I don't know any other way I can say this. We need to stand together as a people. That. Live in the same house. We're family. We are an American family. I don't care what you look like. I don't care what you smell like if you're an American you're an American. It's that simple. And. You know we can stand together and accomplish quite a bit really we can. And you know I like this verse right here from ecclesiastes. If one can overpower him who is alone two can resist him and a quarter to three strands is not quickly torn apart. Nothing about it. If one person can do it if Donald Trump empower a suit against big tech a class action suit it won. If one person can file that class action he's got a case have you noticed? He's got a good case. He's one man. I don't care what you say about him having money. Only took it's one man to have the backbone to say hey we're not having this. One man. NASA's two men together and they can do more against big check. You know but three strand court is not very easily broken..
Life in the Son
"united" Discussed on Life in the Son
"You called across the field try to break through the line right? Okay well that's kind of where I'm going with the whole united we stand thing. If you have one person trying to break through that chain. It's kind of hard when the chain when everybody in the chain is really locked together. That part is not going to get through that line. You all remember that? I remember clothesline on a lot of kids like dad you know? I'm sorry. Yes I used to be mean. But. We don't need to be the one kid trying to break through the line. We need to be the lion trying to keep this one kid from breaking through the line. We need to stand to gather together together. We got this issue together these days. And bothersome really because. You know we're called the United states of America. United. And I don't know if y'all noticed. But there is a smorgasbord of all different nationalities and cultures right here in the United States of America. You know what's so cool about that? Didn't matter where you came from you came here for one united purpose to be free. I mean you know I don't know why we don't want to be free anymore. Do we even remember what freedom is? Do we know what? Do we even know what our liberties are? You know I mean I think it's great that we can be free to disagree. But I think what we're seeing right now is exactly what this country was founded I mean when this country was founded the laws that were written were written to protect us against what's happening right now. And it's not about you know the idea behind freedom is that each individual is free to think to decide to work to earn to build to tear down I mean that's what makes this country so great..
Life in the Son
"united" Discussed on Life in the Son
"You called across the field try to break through the line right? Okay well that's kind of where I'm going with the whole united we stand thing. If you have one person trying to break through that chain. It's kind of hard when the chain when everybody in the chain is really locked together. That part is not going to get through that line. You all remember that? I remember clothesline on a lot of kids like dad you know? I'm sorry. Yes I used to be mean. But. We don't need to be the one kid trying to break through the line. We need to be the lion trying to keep this one kid from breaking through the line. We need to stand to gather together together. We got this issue together these days. And bothersome really because. You know we're called the United states of America. United. And I don't know if y'all noticed. But there is a smorgasbord of all different nationalities and cultures right here in the United States of America. You know what's so cool about that? Didn't matter where you came from you came here for one united purpose to be free. I mean you know I don't know why we don't want to be free anymore. Do we even remember what freedom is? Do we know what? Do we even know what our liberties are? You know I mean I think it's great that we can be free to disagree. But I think what we're seeing right now is exactly what this country was founded I mean when this country was founded the laws that were written were written to protect us against what's happening right now. And it's not about you know the idea behind freedom is that each individual is free to think to decide to work to earn to build to tear down I mean that's what makes this country so great..
Life in the Son
"united" Discussed on Life in the Son
"I'll still be releasing those as you listen to them now. The membership site will give you access to other deals such as newsletters and what have you. You can get merchandise through there also. Also also also I hope I hope this excites you as much as I am excited about it. But I'm working on a new podcast. I'm not getting rid of life in the sun. I'm doing a new podcast and I'm hoping to get it started in a couple of months maybe by the burst of October hopefully. It could go as far as the first of the year. I haven't really got everything organized just yet. But the next thing is. That since today we're talking about united we stand. I announced this on a previous podcast that you can go to take on big tech dot com as some of you already know. President Trump has started a class action suit against big tech to defend your First Amendment rights. So please go to take on big tech dot com and put your name on that list to be a part of that class action suit. Now that's four big tech. Now it may just be me I know there's a couple of other people that I have talked to and also have the same issues that I have been.
Life in the Son
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"I'll still be releasing those as you listen to them now. The membership site will give you access to other deals such as newsletters and what have you. You can get merchandise through there also. Also also also I hope I hope this excites you as much as I am excited about it. But I'm working on a new podcast. I'm not getting rid of life in the sun. I'm doing a new podcast and I'm hoping to get it started in a couple of months maybe by the burst of October hopefully. It could go as far as the first of the year. I haven't really got everything organized just yet. But the next thing is. That since today we're talking about united we stand. I announced this on a previous podcast that you can go to take on big tech dot com as some of you already know. President Trump has started a class action suit against big tech to defend your First Amendment rights. So please go to take on big tech dot com and put your name on that list to be a part of that class action suit. Now that's four big tech. Now it may just be me I know there's a couple of other people that I have talked to and also have the same issues that I have been.
The United States of Animals Podcast
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"We the people and the animals of the usa united states animals in order to form our perfect union between the species provide the protection and defense of all promote the general welfare of all saban beings bird or feathered scaled or orphaned to our four footed proclaim all animals and people are created equal. So let's celebrate incredible bond between people and animals the special friendships prior no words and the amazing devotion that makes all our lives so much better with your host. United states of animals ambassador. Animal behaviorists an animal fanatic tabby trujillo and this week is the final part of my conversation with the amazing shannon j a person with an uncanny understanding of feline behavior now's a result has been instrumental in bringing scores of lost cats back to their families and saving the lives of hundreds of cats who have been victims of disasters like wildfires. This episode is a little shorter than usual but there were just two more stories about how incredible cats are that we just had to get in so many people think a cat is just a creature you feed and water and clean up after but they want to go home. It's like you're dami. I've spent my life around animals. Of every kind i'd lived in alaska. I've been around bears. Wolves every animal known to mankind. I have never seen an animal with a will to survive like a cat. Never nothing even close. I helped the woman in los angeles three or four months ago. I forgot the kitties name. She was taking him to the vet to get neutered. She was just a volunteer. It was taken him in for an organization to get neutered and she for whatever reason she thought she could carry him from the parking lot to the vet clinic and of course he went crazy scraper all up and he was gone vanished and she gone contacted me and i told her everything she had to do. This was somewhere right in the middle of los angeles near downtown and she never gave up on this cat. One lead after one tip after another after another after another after another and talk to her. I said at this point he could be anywhere and setting cameras. And bait stations isn't gonna work. I said you have to carpet bomb every neighborhood every social media site next door facebook everything with his picture in everything and she ran down one empty tip after another. After another and on christmas day she gets one more tip and she almost didn't go so much said. I just found this orange cat that sitting in an alley and she found him on day fifty. It was him. She found him in an alley with a catastrophic upper respiratory infection. Both eyes glued shut lost over half his body weight and when she got him to a apparently a world-class emergency feline rescue center hospital. The vet told her he was three hours from death. After fifty days on christmas day he is alive. And well shannon you will. You won't believe this. But i knew that was an orange cat and you really. Yeah because i gave her involved in that she didn't give up and she. She ran down so many tips for week. I mean on day fifty and literally the vet told her. He was in critical critical. Care hanging by a thread. And we knew about this and we offered to adopt this cat when he got well. Sunny recouped at the foster who lost him recouped at her home and she adopted him. She did yes she did. I mean it was a week or ten days of touch and go. I know like everybody else every hour. I'm like how's he doing better. He's getting better or you had a setback. He's better yet. Another trans whatever is getting and it was just a. We were rolling along. And i was re sharing the go fund me for that cat. Is the bills. Were going crazy. If i deserve the credit i'll take it. But she was in the trenches. she was responsive. She claimed camera she fall leads. She did not give up on sunny and in the end tammy it saved his life. You remember the national bombing. Yes a help natural musician rescue his katy cat in natural bombing. I remember that one a remotely. You lived in the apartment right where the bomb went off in a blue every window out of his house. That's buck and kitty cat. was molly. Buck got blown into the back room of his house that bomb blasts and he was in the hospital in one of his friends. Christie contacted me and said somehow she heard about me and said what do i do i do. I said lay it all out for me. What does it look like. what's it like. She ever been outside. She never in floor in. Apparently people had been in. And out. And look for. And i was like. I've kind of doing the math. And i'm just trying to visualize my ad. I said she's still inside that apartment. Kono they looked. I said tell somebody to go back. She is in that apartment. She didn't leave. And then the next day they get a couple of good old my brothers and sisters from an actual police department go inside a molly is hiding under -able superficial glass cuts and i got a picture of buck standing here with molly when they brought her out in you know. I wasn't responsible for rescue. But i got it them helping. I said okay. i'll tell them no. They went looked. I said i'm telling you when he's go back. She is in that apartment because he got blown all the way into the back cut. Glass couldn't hear couldn't has cheated. Lee that apartment. That's her homer for three years her life. She's never left he. She's not gonna leave it. He's hiding in there somewhere attack hide somewhere. You can't even believe that. God no kidding my cats and my house all the time yes so i don't know where he's at in this house somewhere and then they have here. They appear news the bad part that you don't know where they're hiding spot was no because they appear like magic they do you know. Here's one to leave you with when it comes to caswell to survive in. This is my best description. Ever cat will fight like the third monkey on the ramp to noah's ark in it's raining i love how you talk. People know the story of noah he took pairs to you by two yet. But if you're imagine there's a third monkey trying to get on ramp. He's only taken to not monkeys gonna fight to get on that to get on that arc and that's why the cat will fight like third monkey on the ramp. The knows arkan. It's raining. They will not ever stop fighting. They just they. Do you know in a fire. Disaster or any kind of disaster of the animal rescues. Cassar are always left behind. Never it's always about the dogs more is in the cats or never in. But were were changing that and we're gonna. This is something the world has never seen him. This story needs to be shared. God i love your stories. I could listen. Don't day it's been awesome chatting with you just to relive these successful miracle like alert dir miracles. Oh kind of course. They don't absolute. They are beans are living miracles and they deserve so much well and we just we just do everything we can form. is something else isn't it. It is and shannon is sharing. His story with the world. Look for his book. Fire cats feline rescue in the burn zone to be coming out soon and documentaries in the works on his dramatic fire rescues and you can keep up with shannon j on facebook if you have a cat now remembered their crafty and they're clever by nature so shannon says don't bet against cat we'll see you next week. On the united states of animals. There are more great stories and pictures on our website. United states animals dot com. And we'd love it when you email us with your own amazing stories about you and your pets. You might even feature your story on the show. Don't forget to follow us on facebook and like us on twitter and give your best friend a high popeye or a hug from us. United states of animals podcast features. Your host tammy trujillo and is produced and directed by tim piper available. Wherever you get your podcasts..
The United States of Animals Podcast
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"I left a trapped right next to the wheel. Well she was sitting under. And i came back in the morning in. Douglas was with me. And i slowly walked up and i see that the trap was untouched. Nothing was Occurred in i lay down dirt on the ground and i peeked my head flashlight. And she was in the same spot bernie yet and if the time i didn't even know who she was i just knew that she badly burn when an animal's that badly injured and this is just some of the things i learned along the way. They you know. Magin your worst pain of your whole life. Are you remotely interested in food right right. No we're talking catastrophic paint and there's no interest in food so you know what's a hail mary to put some food out and just hope they'll come out but she was in there and she wasn't coming out and so i said doug this cat is going to lay in this truck in agony for days. Die if we don't get her out. So i cooked up a plan. I went and got the jack my tire. Jack outta my truck and over a period of an hour and a half. That was a free protracted rescue a partition off the truck with chicken wire. She couldn't escape. And i jacked it up. And i blocked it up. It's called cribbing. That blocked up with cinderblocks. Just happened on this property and got up just high enough or i could reach in and by now she had dropped out of the engine compartment sitting on the ground with third degree burns and all four of her feet covered in costing diesel fuel. Did it leaked onto the truck. She screaming bloody murder. And i snatched her out through in the carrier and did a hundred mile an hour. Run to the emergency vet hospital which you set up her patients. I called them ahead of time. So i'm inbound with a critical burn patient and that was that so the rescue mama cat in mama. Cat was in the hospital for twenty three days an bandages for sixty two days from her catastrophic burns she recovered. Her family was not able to take her back at the time. And so here. We are almost three years later. A mama cat is in residence in my home. A very good life amazing right. That's j. The man who rescues fire cats or fire monkeys as he calls them. There is much more with shannon coming up next week on the united states of animals. Podcast and you can follow shannon on facebook. just do a search for shannon.
The United States of Animals Podcast
"united" Discussed on The United States of Animals Podcast
"The one hundred the burned out underneath the burned out truck. I remember a cat under the truck. I didn't remember her name. Tell us about that lama cat. So mama cat. So hide arrived on day. Five and so little backstory. My my good friend. Catherine parsons going back to the tubs. Fire two thousand seventeen. She and i became acquainted from my work. At the tubs fire. And she decided she was going to produce and make a documentary film called. The fire cast of santa rosa. So catherine started on that project in people say. Oh yeah you get this fire and We'll just be in and out in a month or two in like no. It doesn't work that way. Efforts go on for a long long time like a year two years three years. I mean it just goes on and on doesn't end doesn't end so catherine came down from. She's from canada. Toronto came down hard. Some simple talk offers and shot footage and all that was sort of in post production from the fire cast of santa rosa and then november ninth two thousand and eighteen. The campfire broke out and that changed everything so her project then became a completely different animal for the film which was renamed the fire cats so so catherine already friends by then. He spent a lot of time in person visiting and so she hired a a cinematographer a well known drones. Cinematographer named douglas thron. And when a campfire broke out so the day that fire broke out. I was working my second job where i teach at a police academy. I'm a firearms. Instructor is a part time job. And that morning i remember shooting on the to arrange in the morning and around nine thirty in the morning we took a break in the wind was swirling. It was just kind of weird weather like what we all describe as earthquake weather right right. 'cause i grew i grew up in southern california child. Okay i know that whether it was just had a weird vibe myself and might fifteen recruits. Were sitting outside just taking a break in a wind swirling and i looked to the east mountain and napa county called mount saint i saw little darks smudge over the backside of it looked at it and i looked down. I said that looks like smoke. And it looked at it. And i said no that smoke dish those clauses at that smoke but judging by the wind at sea level where i was at which is basically sea level looking to the east and i knew that smoke was coming from a long ways away in the mountains. We'd had those offshore winds goes northeast. Winds and i looked data my sought growing and i look at him. I said you're looking at the beginnings of a monster. That's the exact phrase. I used and they were like y'all. You're smoking your socks. So i got on my iphone. And i punched in fire in california and i saw the campfire in paradise unfolding on media and i immediately contacted catherine the call katherine paradise on. She should oh. My god. And i said i'm going so she hired douglas. The cinematographer joined me. I think on day six. I'd already been inside working. I was able to get into this terrible nightmare. Were authorities were not letting trained rescuers in this was a monumental amount of casualties felines alone was in the thousands and they were not letting anybody in but this one particular organization which i will not name that ended up turning into a complete nightmare and i was getting with my credentials and so i was able to for the first few days. Get in a couple of convoys actually ran into a couple of my friends over there who are. hp offers that. I teach at the academy with and and i got two convoys. We rescued a lot of cats..
The United States of Animals Podcast
"united" Discussed on The United States of Animals Podcast
"So in the beginning of every fire I have worked on and to date. I've worked six major western. Us wildfires cal northern california oregon so for example. The campfire which the campfire was in paradise was the mother of all fires. Took out that town. Fifteen thousand five hundred homes and an entire city wiped right off the map. Right of human souls lost in thousands and thousands of this place in las cats burned injured. Show i arrived at the campfire on day. Five and was able to gain entry due to my law enforcement. Profession and i got in there as social media was pulling up the lost and found pages on facebook 'cause by then people can already knew what i did and i had you know people that were reporting their loss kastner addresses and show don day one and two. I'd already had a list of addresses but at that point it was about triage. It was about getting there and start looking for burned up cats right. And that's what i did for the first couple of nights and then i had. We started to get more intel more addresses like his arcadia. Get pictures and i just would take. You know hundreds of pages of notes this address this cat. And then i would start making my rounds working at night and cruising around with the thermal scope at my pickup truck with all my gear. And you're traversing all across the city. And anytime i saw a cat anywhere. I would try and get as close to it as i could out food and water and then make make a notation back out and go looking for cast. Were obviously burned injured in trying to get them and then get to the other. The the known cat addresses and so they develop took the and the people were mapping into research so many people involved behind the scenes. It's just crazy how some we'd learned so much during the campfire because it was just a gigantic followed you on that on social media. Yeah that was That was a life changing experience. It's an emotional thing for you. I can hear it in. Oh yeah what are these cats like when you finally do trap them because you know they've been domestic cats they've been involved in a family then they go through something. None of us should ever go through. So they're totally traumatized. they've been trapped are they. I i know every cat has different personality wise and experience wise but are they friendly at all when you get a hold of them or are they just crazy. I'm over very you know it just depended but very often there were very vocal. I mean some catches screaming screaming in the traps just scared to.
The United States of Animals Podcast
"united" Discussed on The United States of Animals Podcast
"Better with your host united states of animals ambassador animal behaviorist animal fanatic tabby trujillo and i am so excited to get the united states of animals. Podcast off the ground and on the air. Our first guest is one of the most remarkable people i have ever met. His name is shannon j and there was so much talk about that. Our conversation lasted nearly two hours. So we'll hear part one this week and part two next week on the united states of animals. If i had to introduce you how to introduce. What would i say about you. Oh boy i don't know well. I just spent the last thirty three years of my life being a full time. Sworn law enforcement officer. And i retired about forty five days ago after thirty three years as an officer. That doesn't define who i am. But that was a you know your career and your life is a big thing. And i just wrote off into the sunset from that long career in An animal advocate in lover. My whole life and by a funny stroke events got involved in the feline search and rescue avocation. Do it for money. Three and a half years ago some three and a half years ago almost four years ago. Yeah almost four years ago. Wow now you actually go into. Fire burn areas after the fires are out because when a fire comes through you can probably grab your dog but good luck getting your cats exactly yup precisely and you actually find them. How did you learn all these techniques that you use. Well tammy was an interesting genesis to my entry into the world of distress displaced feline. Search and rescue so in October eighth of two thousand seventeen. We had the biggest and most destructive wildfires in california history at the time was the tubs fire mma county and two thousand seventeen which was right here in in my community. The night that fire broke out. I was actually a patient enlarge hospital in santa rosa where had been admitted due to complications from brain surgery. So i was in the hospital in awoken at four in the morning with the nurse screaming tonight face saying get up get out the hospitals about the burn up a walk out into a firestorm of fire on three sides and they tried to evacuate me on a bus for another hospital and i said i'm not getting on your bus and i'd just promptly left a girlfriend was heather was become grabbed. Me up took a couple of hours to get me because of the craziness of the fire and people just running and driving in every conceivable direction to escape the flames and we'll we got home at six thirty that morning. The scope in the magnitude of that fire began to emerge as we turn on the television and just saw an i disliked. Harry said my god. Do you know how many animals and cats are going to be burned up lost and scared and gone so backing up about year and a half earlier one of my indoor only kitty cats. A cat named kate escaped our house and vanished without a trace for thirteen days and nights in. That was the genesis of how i started to learn about las cats and behavior and how to find them and rescue them and Of course in the first few days. I did everything wrong in a few things right and eventually i hired a woman who's considered one of the best lost cat fighters in the country if not the world and through that ordeal and it was horrible. My felines my family. They're in my life blood. They mean everything to me. And i make no apology because a lot of people like it's just a cat and if anyone ever says it's just a cat and i said look i don't. We have anything to talk about. And i just known..