It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: Trump Bans the “Free Press,” Palestinian National Council Elections, ICE Shooting, Canadian Neoliberalism

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Starting point is 00:04:14 I know this has been a busy news week. There's the United Nations. The Trump admin is throwing around the idea of a diesel export embargo. There's a lot of big issues in this country. But on Wednesday, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama decided to use the United States Senate to bring up another very important issue threatening the national security of our country. Let's take a listen. Airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community.

Starting point is 00:04:52 Lord help us. It's terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetus of dressing up like an animal. You can't make this up. Every time I hear that guy's name, he sounds like he's a character on Thomas Sank Engine, like a side character. Then he goes and does shit like this.

Starting point is 00:05:16 He does have a very cartoony name. Also on the little podium here, a printout of the... An emoji? An emoji. Not just any emoji. Does someone want to take a crack at describing this? I think this is what we would describe as the pregnant man emoji.

Starting point is 00:05:33 I'm sure. a yellow emoji figure with short hair who is pregnant. The text reads transgenderism as a mental illness. Something I think Taberville and others are overlooking is if we were to, you know, excise furries from their jobs, this airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, our entire system would collapse. Those are the crucial soldiers keeping our airspace. They are the glue. Yes.

Starting point is 00:06:02 They are the glue. Like, we're already running into many issues in, you know, regards to air traffic controllers and the airline industry. If you take the furries out, it's done. It's over. You know what? Honestly, someone in the furry community, get on organizing the furry strike, where all the furries just go on strike.

Starting point is 00:06:21 We can end this whole system right now. We can defeat them in a single stroke. Let's move on to some other small news items. Yeah, okay. someone was upset on the subred that we didn't call this all the small things we're not going to I guess I'm going to start with Pete Heggseth Pete Heggseth have announced a joint warfighter evaluation oh boy yeah so this is a thing for 06s who are screening for their first star right across all the different

Starting point is 00:06:50 branches of the military I'm not going to list what in 06 is because I don't understand how the Navy works but he's claiming that this new evaluation for promotion will like value competence over credentials. It's the way he phrased it. It's basically like an exercise that these officers will have to take part in, and various versions of it are going to involve a war game against an AI-powered adversary, which is great. I expected, I guess.

Starting point is 00:07:19 We probably could have seen this coming. It's additive to the existing things that they consider for promotion, but this is part of his ongoing purge of the US military, Officer Corps. Secondly, I want to talk about a visual investigation by Thomas Bordeaux. He's at CNN, but I think he's working with BBC Verify on this. BBC is doing a kind of true crime podcast about the disappearance of Austin Tice at the moment. People aren't familiar, Austin Tice was an American freelancer who disappeared in Syria at the beginning of the revolution and continues to be missing. Have any of you guys seen this video? No. This must be like, well, I think it was 2012.

Starting point is 00:07:59 for 2011. I think it was right at the end of 2011. So it purports to be a video of his execution. It seems very likely to be staged. Like if you watch it, it seems a lot like it's regime Intel guys dressing up and pretending to be like rebels. They basically say nothing but Takbi the whole time. And then they make him say some stuff. And then the video cuts, right? You don't see him being executed. He's blindfolded and it's supposed to give that vibe. Anyway, they have geolocated this video to an area that would have been controlled by the regime at the time, which I guess further adds evidence to the claim that he was held by the regime, at least at that time. CBS is reporting that Trump administration is ready to accept

Starting point is 00:08:41 17,500 more Africana refugees. Yeah, the people who have struggled the most in the continent of Africa. CBS is reporting that the Trump administration said, quote, the United States anticipates that Afrikanas from South Africa will fully assimilate into the United States in a manner that preserves taxpayer resources for U.S. citizens and does not anticipate other countries resettling Afrikaners. One can only imagine why. This assimilation thing has been a consistent thing for them, right? The first time they accepted white-throes African refugees,

Starting point is 00:09:16 Rubio talked about it in Congress. This seems to be the standard by which they're judging refugee admissions now. You have to be white and you have to, quote-unquote, assimilate. So that's great. on Tuesday, J.D. Vance's so-called anti-fraud task force announced that they were cutting almost a million people from Affordable Care Act coverage after deciding that 760,000 people or enrollees were fraudulately enrolled in government health care plans, that these plans did not correspond to real people or these people were ineligible for coverage. Vance announced that another 419,000 accounts are under quote additional verification. Memet Oz said that they canceled coverage for people in part because those people never filed a claim. 760,000 people, we call them phantoms because we believe most of me that don't exist or had no idea they had coverage.

Starting point is 00:10:15 We believe that because we have been writing them, telexing them, you know, walking to them, FedExing, whatever we could possibly do to get into touch with them, They won't answer, and they have never filed a claim. So it meets all the criteria for us to pretty as much as any government can say, you actually don't know you have this or you don't exist. Obviously, in numbers this large, it is not unlikely that there is many real people who do need this coverage or rely on this coverage who will be cut as a part of this almost a million people. And Vance has promised that more cuts will be coming.

Starting point is 00:10:52 Last Friday, the DOJ released a new legal opinion, concluding that the federal ban on handgun sales to 18 to 20-year-olds is unconstitutional and should not be enforced against licensed dealers. And lastly, for me, ProPublica just published a super in-depth investigation into how Trump crushed a sweeping 24 FBI bribery probe into Susan Collins and her super PAC, among a three. few other congresspeople as well. This article lays out what looks like a pretty clear pay-to-play scheme with requests for campaign donations in exchange for Collins securing millions of dollars in federal funding for defense contractors. Collins is the chair of the Appropriations Committee. With one contractor, a naval company called Navtech, funneling donations through a shell company, which the head of Collins Superpack said was, quote, very small. art. Oh boy.

Starting point is 00:11:54 In email correspondence obtained by ProPublica. This shall company, by the way, was called the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers. Wait, just scientists? Scientist. Incredible. Yes. Yes. Scientists.

Starting point is 00:12:10 That typo was how this donation was first flagged that then prompted this investigation. Cool work there. ProPublica writes, quote, the money had come from Navitech's account, not their CEOs, violating a ban on government contractors making donations, unquote. So the CEO of Navitech is now in prison, but obviously Collins is not, though the CEO was interviewed by the FBI for a number of years regarding his dealings with Collins and other people in Congress. Republic writes that the CEO, quote, handed the FBI the 50-page document. document detailing Navitech's dealings with more than a dozen members of Congress and their staff, unquote. So part of Republic's reporting is explaining how the FBI was about to kind of launch this

Starting point is 00:13:03 much broader, full-scale investigation around the end of 2024. And then obviously in 2025, Trump got into office, this whole, like, type of investigation fell apart. The whole bunch of attorneys resigned during February of 2025. This is another one of those articles. I think it's worth just reading the whole thing. It's pretty long, but it's some pretty solid reporting, and it's already been corroborated by the New York Times as well. All right. Do we want to talk about some medium-sized things? Some medium-adems. Okay. Talking of medium-sized things, let's talk about wolves.

Starting point is 00:13:38 Not as big as Buffalo, large than rabbits. So Donald Trump has signed an executive order, which gives 90 days for the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a broad inspection of regulations impacting ranching and make suggestions to change them. The executive order presser was called supporting America's ranchers. As part of this, he talks about instructing Doug Bergam, who, if you don't remember, was endorsed by REI last year to work on delisting wolves from the Endangered Species Act.

Starting point is 00:14:11 Specifically, I'm just going to quote here, the Secretary of the Interior shall make a determination as to whether the gray wolf and the Mexican wolf has met the recovery criteria for delisting or downlisting under the Endangered Species Act. And if he determines that the recovery criteria has been met, shall begin the process of delisting or downlisting them. It also directs him to work with states to have them removed from state ESAs, right? So several states have their own Endangered Species Act.

Starting point is 00:14:36 California is one of them, right? I think wolves were listed under the California ESA before the federal ESA existed. If you're not familiar, wolves have become a massive cultural war issue in the West, right? Like, wolves are very woke. It's a thing that I have learned. Like, if you go, and I go to Gardner outside Yellowstone, right? Like, this place which we can categorically prove makes millions of dollars a year from people coming to look at wolves. You'll see people wearing those smoker pack a day t-shirts, and they're not talking about cigarettes, right? Oh. Yeah, removing wolves from the West, seeing wolves as like this, this woke thing that is destroying our writing

Starting point is 00:15:14 interesting interest. It's a big culture signal. Like the idea that like conservation is like woke or in some way or like like animal like. The thing with wolves is it combines like people don't like people who talk about animal rights. People don't like ecology and conservation and people don't like predators. Got it. Right. And so when we get these three things together, it's the idea that it's a bunch of people in New York who don't understand what wolves do and they want them back but they don't have to deal with the consequences, right? And like it does suck when there is predation. Like my family raised livestock, I've dealt with predation. It's fucking sucks. It sucks, especially when it's young animals, right, calves or lambs or whatever. One of the things

Starting point is 00:15:54 that the Trump administration has also instructed Bergam to do is to look at and consider amending the existing compensation programs, which exists for wolves, right? The wolf issue, I think, is also particularly controversial because there have been hard introductions, right? Like, if you look at Colorado, Colorado had a ballot measure in 2020 to introduce wolves, to reintroduce wolves, which they began doing about three years ago. And like Colorado has this big cultural divide, right, between like your blue counties and the western slope, I'll say. Like the idea that like these front range folks in Denver and Boulder mandated wolves on ranches. And so it plays on other, I guess, existing insecurities. It's a little different here in California because the wolves in California weren't released.

Starting point is 00:16:35 They walked in on their own feet. although a popular conspiracy theory that I've heard is that that's not actually true and that some people sneaked the wolves in from Oregon and released them like wolf vigilantes. This should be real. I know, right, yeah. Please, if you have smuggled the wolf into the state of California, you've done a lot of crimes, but I would love to talk to you for my podcast. I want to address this more in my podcast natural causes.

Starting point is 00:17:06 because I think a lot of people are wrong about wolves, right? I think it's silly to say that we shouldn't have wolves. I think it's also frustrating for people to think that the reason that we have wolves is to fix our fuck-ups. Wolves have a right to be there because they've always been there and they belong there. They're not there to undo the damage done by capitalism and the state to the land. And we shouldn't tie the justification for reintroducing them to that because sometimes the science will not support that and then we will lose that justification.

Starting point is 00:17:34 They have a right to be there because they belong there. That can be the start and the end of it, and I think it should be. I think we should be expecting the wolves to, like, do our dirty work or undo our dirty work. I'm a little confused about what Trump is exactly saying here because he also wants, a, quote, a legislative recommendation to fully delist or down lists a gray wolf and the Mexican wolf under the ESA. There are not many Mexican wolves. Like, I think there are fewer than 400. Jeez.

Starting point is 00:17:57 Yeah, like, there are like 320-ish in those sort of southwestern of southern states and then probably 50 in Mexico. We spoke about a prosecution for killing Mexican wolves a few months ago that I found in a New Mexico court in court records, right? But it seems very unlikely that they will meet the recovery guidelines set up under the ESA, but admittedly have not looked into those recently. I want to move on to something that's even more depressing, the lifeboat protest in the UK. So this week, and really this month, has seen a series of really disgusting protests and attacks on lifeboats in the UK. This includes fascist Daniel Thomas. He goes by Danny Tomo, really great Nondegger, which disguised his identity very well, stabbing a lifeboat.

Starting point is 00:18:46 For those not familiar with this, the discourse here is related to the mission of the RNLI, which is to rescue those in peril on the sea. The lifeboats were, I guess, at least during the time when I was growing up, foundational British institution. They are funded by the people, not the state. They are literally in the book Mutual Aid, like Capital M, Capital A, Mutual Aid. They also used to celebrate Krapokin's birthday, the R&LI. You can go back if their Twitter page still exists and see them posting things about his birthday. There's a very good piece called Lifeboats and Anarchy in the R&LI magazine. The people should read, they wouldn't know more about that. Like when I was a child,

Starting point is 00:19:25 there was a very popular way back when, right, when there were only four TV channels. There was a very popular TV, children's TV program, and children who works the program would hold fundraisers for the lifeboats every year. And this was like a completely foundational thing that everybody thought was good, right? All they do is rescue people who are in danger of drowning. It's mostly a volunteer institution. I've had friends and colleagues who I've worked with who have volunteered on the lifeboats. It is a dangerous, stressful and often thankless job that you can't plan or schedule for, right? When someone needs help, you have to go and help them immediately. You have to stop what you're doing. Work away from work, walk away from whatever you're doing

Starting point is 00:20:04 socially, walk away from your family, go risk your life to help people. And that's all they do. Why are they stabbing the boats then? So I guess... I mean, fascist going to fascist. What's the source of these protests? Specifically, it is the idea that the lifeboats are bringing people seeking asylum to communities who cannot support them. You see the same shit that you see everyone in the world, right?

Starting point is 00:20:28 Like I saw a BBC interview with someone who is like, we've got homeless people here. And I would be prepared to wager a large amount of money that that person has done the square root of fuck all to help homeless people in the last few years, right?

Starting point is 00:20:40 But now is suddenly concerned because apparently they have to compete for scarce resources with asylum seekers rather than, yeah, you know, the fucking royal family. Yeah. In this case, there was a protest in Gosport where we saw crowds of people

Starting point is 00:20:53 led by a child chanting, let them drown. I was about to ask if this was the same protest. Yeah, like, one can understand a child who isn't fully formed in the brain saying shit like that, I guess. It's not their fault. Yeah, for a child to be raised in a place with that much hate, it's fucking disgusting. And for grown adults to be like joining in and encouraging that behavior is fucking appalling. Thomas has pulled this shit a few times. but obviously this was the worst.

Starting point is 00:21:24 What they're trying to do, I guess, is like, boats have been leaving from Chieuhrbore, so like on the mental west side of France, right, because of increased police presence in Dunkirk and those areas where you would go to Dover where there's a shorter channel crossing, right? And so the lifeboats being dispatched are coming probably from the eye, I'm not exactly sure,

Starting point is 00:21:47 maybe the Al of White, I think, and they are taking them to the UK mainland, right, by the shortest route. If the lifeboats took those people who they rescued to Dover, that would take probably half a dozen hours. And at that point, the lifeboat is then out of its area of operation. So if anybody else is in distress on the sea, that lifeboat can't respond, right? It's a good example I have how this bigotry hurts everyone. They've been doing this for a while. I actually made a podcast a couple of years ago with Professor Ruth Kinner about lifeboats of mutual aid. but like to see this many people going after something that was so foundational to the culture in the United Kingdom not so long ago.

Starting point is 00:22:25 Like when I was a kid, because they've been whipped up into thinking that they have to compete for resources with asylum seekers rather than like the only dangerous minority being the rich. It makes me really sad and it makes me really angry. And like there is something so fucking broken about a crowd of people chanting, let them drown. and like I know I'm proud of all my friends who continue to volunteer for the R&LI. I really want to go back home and do a series on it because I know a lot of people who are life boatmen and like I think what they do is incredible and it's it's the answer to the question that everyone always has about anarchism like who will put out the fires without the state the same people who fucking rescue thousands of people a year from the sea right like the R&LI

Starting point is 00:23:10 is funded by donations and through people's wills. doesn't come from your taxes, the money doesn't come from the state. I've pointed to them for so long, like, both when I'm teaching and in conversations, and, like, I think that's something we should be really proud of, and it's disgusting to me that people are doing this shit. Talking of disgusting, do you want to talk about Trump speech at the UN? I think we should probably talk about the advertisers that support our podcast first. Hopefully it's the lifeboats. We can donate. I don't think it's going to be the lifeboats. I don't think they advertise on podcasts. That would be cool.

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Starting point is 00:30:33 And now we're traveling from the United Kingdom to New York to talk about the United Nations General Assembly, where Donald Trump used the platform he had to make comments that sounded straight up genocidal. But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope? of future greatness or generations.

Starting point is 00:31:23 But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to. This is fucking great, right? Oh my God. To go from like, don't worry, I'll genocide them all to vote for me, please. Only a deal after the election. Yeah. It's like, I got to see what happens.

Starting point is 00:31:43 Yeah, right, yeah, we got to keep him in just so we see how this goes. It's a fucking UN. Like it was found And admittedly here's failed, right? But it was founded as the idea that we could all get together and talk it out. We wouldn't have genocides. And there he is. Just fucking, like, as I said, the UN manifestly failed in that regard and many others.

Starting point is 00:32:01 It still sucks. Yeah, it's still fucking bonkers. It's super easy to like, you know, poo-poo on the UN because it's the UN. But I mean, it's what we have. It's what we have. Yeah. Yeah. It's a tool that we have.

Starting point is 00:32:14 And like, yeah. He then went on to talk. about the midterms, this is like another 30 seconds. Let's listen to this. They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election. What they don't realize is that I'm not running. I did that already and won in a landslide. We won in a giant landslide. And I'll be here for two and a half years. The Republican Party is running and I'll be helping them. But I am not running. I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election

Starting point is 00:32:49 when it comes to Iran. It doesn't even enter my mind. Then he goes on to say that they don't get a nuclear weapon, of course, right? This is bonkers, right? The idea that Iran is not aware. Yeah, like... He's like, wait, guys, you have to understand. Americans have different elections.

Starting point is 00:33:10 They can't comprehend, right? Is this the thing where he didn't know this and someone told him? Like what is happening here? He's like, they recently told me I am actually not running. Yeah, I'm good guys. Clearly,

Starting point is 00:33:26 his war on Iran has been extremely unpopular and continues to be extremely unpopular because it costs six bucks to buy a gallon of gas now. Even if people don't care about the massive human toll of this, they do care about that. Which I do also,

Starting point is 00:33:42 also want to say for the record that this war was unpopular before the gas prices increased. It's made it more unpopular. But no one has ever liked this war and it just gets more unpopular every day. Yeah. It's part of why he's, I guess, bringing this, you know, midterm stuff up in like both of these clips here. And I guess he's like, he knows he only has a few months left until the amount of like support he has in Congress will take a pretty big dip. Yeah. Even if, even if they just lose the house. But I mean, if, if looking at the polls, it's like the Senate's on the line, that would, that's, that's, that's, that's it's going to put at least some constraints, it's some checks, opposed to the

Starting point is 00:34:17 zero. Yeah, yeah. I have like zero or negative checks that have been in Congress in the past two years. It's like he's going to like, I assume, plot out, you know, all the way up until the time that the next Congress has sworn in, like, whatever

Starting point is 00:34:32 his game plan is. Yeah. It's well to see him electioneering this hard at the UN as well. At the UN. Yeah. Like, just, I mean, he does this all the time, right? He goes ceremony of something that's absolutely the most jarring tone shit from anything that has happened there before. But like the way he continues to talk about like annihilating Iran.

Starting point is 00:34:51 It's disturbing. Especially as our conventional weapons resources get lower and lower, it's scary. Like it's genuinely scary. That's stuff that you could just play at an ICC trial for genocide. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he spoke about the ICC as well. He critiqued the ICC or not even critique. That's not the right word.

Starting point is 00:35:09 Didn't you call for the Maltor to resign or something? Something, yeah. Yeah, I mean, some of them can't even come to the U.S. Yeah. Yeah, this was and continues to be bonkers, I guess. Like, it's not surprising in a sense, but it still sucks. Yeah, it's horrifying. Dan, I know you had some stuff you wanted to talk about.

Starting point is 00:35:29 Do you want to pick up from here? Yes, so there's a lot of talk about what's going to happen to Gaza, what's going to happen to the Palestinians of the West Bank. I just didn't. It could happen here episode on the way the Israeli state and the Israeli settler movement are working together to ethnically cleanse the West Bank, but how we should distinguish between the two. Anyway, the way that international actors, particularly the United States, have behaved, is to kind of audaciously sideline the Palestinians. Like, they don't even pretend to include them or consider them. So the Board of Peace, for example, doesn't have any

Starting point is 00:36:01 Palestinian decision makers. There are only technocrats who are essentially supposed to just take commands from the Board of Peace. So there's really like no space in the discussion for Palestinian agency. But I think international actors, governments in the EU, but even some in Washington, kind of thinking medium to long term about after Trump, they understand that this doesn't look great. And that at some point, they'll have to make a big display of getting Palestinians to sign some grand peace deal with the Israelis. And you need some group of Palestinians to do that. Right. So the Palestinian authority that governs the West Bank is led by President Mahmoud Abbas, as I'm sure many know, who has overstayed his term limits for many, many years. He's also the chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the PLO.

Starting point is 00:36:51 And Palestinians are very unhappy with this setup. Basically, the polls show that they think it lacks legitimacy and that he lacks legitimacy. So the international community has essentially been getting to work to kind of paper over this issue. So last year they pressured Abbas to find a successor because he's so old, they're afraid he's going to keel over. And he unilaterally changed the bylaws of the PLO outside normal institutional procedures to create a vice president position. And he appointed someone to that position from the PLO executive committee. The dude he picked, Hesseun-O-Shech, polls at 2% with Palestinians. So they're already.

Starting point is 00:37:28 setting up for what comes after Abbas. And now they're working on PLO changes that would again on the surface look like an institution renewing its legitimacy. So part of that, this is ongoing right now, is having the legislative body of the PLO, the Palestinian National Council, actually hold elections. So I'm going to quote here from the European Council on Foreign Relations. The PNC is responsible for formulating the PLO's policies. It acts as a parliament that represents all Palestinians, except for Palestinian citizens of Israel. The PNC currently comprises 747 members representing Palestinians in Palestine and in the diaspora.

Starting point is 00:38:04 But because the PNC has had such difficulty convening and all of these things, there are other bodies that bridge between the legislative and the executive, like the central council. And over the years, the PNC has basically lost any power, even though it's supposed to be the legislative body, it's supposed to be kind of the democratic engine of the PLO. So in February 26, so at February of this year, Abbas issued a decree saying that there would be PNC elections in November and that this would include basically trying to make it so that all eligible Palestinians that can like feasibly vote directly, living in the diaspora, or if that's not possible kind of through an electoral college process in different diaspras or via quote unquote consensus.

Starting point is 00:38:51 So the PLO, the PA, which at this point overlap, they've been going around different communities, different Palestinian diaspora communities, and setting up so that these different communities run people for these elections. But the way they're doing it is extremely undemocratic. They are not thinking about, you know, who are we going to tap that actually represents some constituency in these diasporas? or are they actually representative of these diaspora? They're just getting yesmen in a lot of cases. Some members of the Central Council basically found out that they had been removed after reading it in the media. So it's completely undemocratic.

Starting point is 00:39:34 The Palestinian diaspora in Chile, for example, they've tapped a particular organization, but that organization gets to run the elections and other organizations in the Palestinian diaspora in Chile have to jump through a lot more hoops to be able to run in the same elections. So to me, it feels like a grand conspiracy against Palestinians to pretend like this PNC elections are actually legitimate, in reality, really disempowering huge swaths of the Palestinian diaspora. He also announced in that decree that he's going to half the numbers

Starting point is 00:40:07 of the PNC from 747 to 350. So essentially one seat allocated for every 35,000 Palestinians is like the idea, but yeah, it's, it's, uh, not great. And I think that we should really, you know, focus on what's happening here because the Palestinians are being set up in so many ways for a very bleak near-term feature. I feel like I've stunned all of you with the silence. Well, it's so blat. They're just like, how openly they're just kind of ringing the elections. It's like, I don't know. It reminds me of like more expansive version of the way that like the CCP does elections for, or like, there's like nominal elections for all of their party official offices where they do like a very similar process of like,

Starting point is 00:40:56 yeah, we've like put forward one candidate who's like our person, you're all going to vote for them or you're going to vote for one of the like allied parties or something. Yeah. No, no, it's completely like minimized as a process. Yeah. I mean, I haven't even gotten into like the local elections that have happened in the Occupy territories and how kind of problematic some of those have been. But just on every level, like, even when they're pretending at democracy,

Starting point is 00:41:18 see like it's not happening, you know? So yeah. And then like in the same like CCP structure thing, you have like this big assembly that does nothing. And then there's like executive bodies that have been carefully chosen from their like loyalists outside of that to like do all the things. Yeah. Exactly. No, no, that's that's a good comparison. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:41:37 So the second thing I wanted to just very briefly touch on is the issue of Palestine and higher ed. I think like because there haven't been the, you know, massive white spread protests that we. saw a year or two years ago, this maybe has dropped from the radar, but it continues to, you know, those protests on campuses continue to have ramifications for higher ed and for a lot of the people who participated. So two cases I wanted to just mention briefly is that at Stanford University, a number of students were criminally prosecuted for protesting on their campus and for some of them that involved occupying the president's office and demanding divestment and things like this. But the charges have all been dropped against

Starting point is 00:42:18 those students, the Santa Clara County District Attorney that was assigned to this case, who was seeking criminal prosecution, was using the case to solicit donations for his reelection, saying he was tough on anti-Semitism. So the judge was like, hey, I think this is probably, you're probably too biased for this, so that he like asked him to be removed from the case. And then eventually, as I said, the charges were dropped and the students like have to pay a small sum, and do some community service, but the idea is like all of these cases,

Starting point is 00:42:54 whether at Sanford and other places, they were used to deter further protest, for sure. And then the second case I wanted to mention is maybe people remember three Palestinian students, one from Brown University, one from Haverford College, and one from Trinity College, were shot for wearing kathias on the street in Vermont, maybe two years ago.

Starting point is 00:43:15 All three of them were wounded, and one was paralyzed. So the guy who shot them, Jason Eaton, faces up to life in prison. And despite the fact that that guy had claimed that the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies had transmitted orders to him to shoot the students via FM radio. And that God had commanded him to protect his Jewish neighbors. No hate crime charges were filed. So I think that that is quite telling. Yeah. But nevertheless, one of the students' mothers, the student, Hisham,

Starting point is 00:43:48 Awrthani was the one who was paralyzed. His mother Elizabeth Price spoke to the media after the verdict and said, justice has been rendered for Hisham, Kianana, and Tashin. After three years of sorrow, loss, and struggle, our families finally feel relief. We are grateful our son's suffering commended attention and support. We grieve so much that Palestinian suffering never does. So I just wanted to update about that case as well. I'm not sure it's a happy update, but some semblance of reparachia.

Starting point is 00:44:15 Yeah, damn. Yeah. I guess we got another shooting because this is America. I hate this country. Yeah, I know this one's fucked up. Ice agents in Texas shot a man in the back last week. Wilbert Rafael Garces Perez. He's a migrant from Venezuela.

Starting point is 00:44:32 He was shot in the back. He appears to be in stable condition now. We've seen a number of different videos. The videos of the shooting are not entirely clear of the rended out events. I's claimed he was running away from them. video doesn't seem to show that. We have seen video of ice agents cuffing him and appears that they're doing that before rendering aid.

Starting point is 00:44:53 You could see a couple of ages putting cuffs on him and another guy who apparently has struggling to put on latex or actually non-latex but protective gloves. Wilbur, like many Venezuelans, came to the USA to help his family. Like I've heard this story a hundred times, right? And I've met this family, not this family,

Starting point is 00:45:11 but like a family doing exactly the same thing 100 times. He has a son with disabilities He will probably either struggle to pay for or cannot be accommodated easily in Venezuela. And so his dad came here to work to fund his treatment at the time that he was shot. He was delivering DoorDash, super common employment for people becoming case seeking asylum, right? His family attorney, Kate Lincoln Goldfinch, has been documenting the events after his shooting on Instagram, beginning with a post where she says she was at the hospital with Wilbur's, wife and they are trying to get into the hospitals to see her husband who had called her and said

Starting point is 00:45:51 he had been shot and then the phone cut off. So evidently she's distressed, right? And the security at the hospital are denying that he is there and asking the attorney and Wilbur's wife to leave. She is then informed by a congressperson that he is present at that hospital, but that a hospital's policy is not to disclose when someone's there in ICE detention. I've done a lot of, like, I haven't put much out on like hospitals and ICE detention. I have done a lot of interviews about that. It's something I want to kind of get my arms around fully before I put something out because I think I've also done a lot of responding to times when migrants are in medical crisis and are afraid to get medical care. And I think that there are really serious repercussions to suggesting that ISIS going room to room in

Starting point is 00:46:38 hospitals or in EDs taking people. I'm not aware of the. ever doing that. And I just want to make that very clear for people whenever we get to this topic because it kills people to not seek medical care too. We need to hold those two things at the same time. In this case, I guess Austin's mayor showed up and got them confirmation that he was stable and had been released into an ICE detention center. His attorney then held a presser which Wilbur attended remotely by calling in from detention. There were different ways people can call in different detention centers. I think he had some kind of tablet device. In this conference, he said he was in serious pain and that he had not been receiving adequate mental care,

Starting point is 00:47:19 and the ICE agents had not identified themselves before ramming his car. His lawyer later said that after this press conference, as a retaliatory measure, he was held in isolation and had his communication device taken away. He was also removed from the infirmary in apparent retaliation for this presser and placed in isolation. He is now, according to Congressman Joaquin Castro, been returned to hospital to get better care. According to his lawyer, the agent who shot him was hired last year and either didn't have or didn't activate the body can. A judge has ruled that Wilbur will appear in person for an immigration hearing on the 30th of September. So that would be that he can't be removed before then, right?

Starting point is 00:48:03 He had previously been ordered, removed in absentia because he had missed a hearing. his lawyer says he had moved house and didn't get that document. ICE then proceeded to release this press release, effectively directly addressing the Instagram posts of his lawyer. And they claimed they were going to, quote, correct the record, unquote, with a number of lies. It was set up the way that you might write a document if you didn't know what a paragraph was. The Axios style of writing.

Starting point is 00:48:34 Yes, yes, perfect Garrison. Yes, that's correct. It used the Axios House style here. Yeah, an outlet that thinks you're too dumb to read two sentences consecutively. So it's set up in a claim fact format. Oh, my God. Yeah, I mean, like, sometimes I think that there's a moment, like with Jen Psiaki, where just like the way press releases are done by the executive branch just went off a fucking cliff.

Starting point is 00:48:58 The Trump administration has, like, gone from, like, slight downhill to, like, free fall at this point. But so throughout this, they don't refer to him by his name. they refer to him as the illegal alien. It's very common in all of their communications. Yeah, this shit really, like literally yesterday, my friends and I erected a memorial to a migrant who had died and put their name on it, right? And not giving people names really fucking makes me mad.

Starting point is 00:49:21 Claim the illegal alien is here legally. Fact. I'm obviously quoting from their presser here. This is false. The person is in the US illegally. He entered illegally under the Biden administration. The illegal alien had no valid work. permit had no protective status and had a final order of removal from a Department of Justice

Starting point is 00:49:39 immigration judge. This is not correct. He entered under CBP 1, right? Like, to enter under CBP1 was a massive and significant burden to migrants in the Biden administration. People I know have died waiting for a CBP 1 appointment and like not a small number of people. Like, to comply with the requirements of CBP1 was to jump through every hoop that was placed in front of you at great personal risk, right? It was safer for people not to remain in Mexico and to enter without inspection. He didn't do that. He got an appointment at CBP1, he went to a border crossing, he spoke to numerous DHS personnel, and he was allowed them to the country. CBP1 gave people a year of humanitarian parole. Trump tried to cancel that, but in March

Starting point is 00:50:29 this year, a federal judge overturned him canceling that, says you can't. can't just like broad swath, council parole like that. I've included an explainer for people who need to or would like to understand that more. It'll be in the notes. Is that the welcome.rescue.org link? Yes, yeah. This press release was just so annoying, right? Like, just repeating all these talking

Starting point is 00:50:51 points that they have, right? CPP1, if you don't know, it was founded by the Trump, the first Trump administration. This is a thing that they made. They've since tried to, like, rec on that, but I mean, they did it. It was used by the Biden administration as a de facto gating mechanism for migrants, right? It was a way of reducing the number of people who could come and apply for asylum. That is why people ended up eweeing, right, entering without inspection, because there was no other way. A large number of CBP1 appointments went to Russian-speaking people, generally because those people who had come were wealthier.

Starting point is 00:51:24 They could get hotels. They'd get hotels in Tijuana with Wi-Fi, and they did make the applications, right? the application did not work on previous generation Android telephones. And those are the telephones that the vast number of people coming to Seekers Island will have, especially, like I literally heard from a friend today who I met the Daring-Gap on, I think her fifth phone number, because people's phones just get stolen from them constantly, right? It's the most reliable item of value that most people have, so it's the easiest thing to steal. And so they end up with, when you turn your phone in to get like an upgrade,

Starting point is 00:51:59 it gets sold in different parts of the world where people don't have as much income for technology stuff, right? So they end up with previous generation phones. The app didn't work on those phones. The facial liveness scanner of CBP1, as I'd say, I'm booking an appointment for dinner, like that it's actually dinner making the appointment and not me holding up a life-sized cardboard cut out of dinner, like in front of the camera. So you have to go like that. It simply didn't work for black faces. Like I know there were NGOs in Tijuana, for instance, who has spent so. much money on like light rooms, like getting big, like to try and try and make it work for people. Jesus Christ. Yeah, this act was horrific. And he went through all the fucking hurdles and they're

Starting point is 00:52:42 still just going to call him. They're still just going to lie about it, right? Like, I think this is a particularly heinous example of how fucked our immigration system is. Yeah, I'll keep up on this. As far as we know, he's now in a hospital. I hope he's receiving better care than he he would under nice detention. Let's go on one more ad break, and then we have a few more stories before we end this episode. The music you love.

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Starting point is 00:59:55 On Friday afternoon, President Trump announced he was, quote, banning three news outlets, CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the White House, quote, effective immediately, as a result of their constant reporting fake news, Media outlets shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering the president of the United States. The Trump administration or the United States of America, other fake news media outlets to follow, unquote. Obviously not good when the president says that outlets shouldn't be allowed to write or report. Only there was an amendment of the Constitution. But it was at first kind of unclear what this ban meant exactly.

Starting point is 01:00:43 Though at a press conference following Trump's announcement on Truth Social, he referred to this as a, quote, ban on the free press. What? Wait, you just said that? Yes. Oh, I missed this. What? Yeah. Oh, wait, let's get here. We got a video. That's fucking great. Why not? On the three news outlets, what does that mean in practice? Are you taking away their badges? Are you banning them from the pool? Are you banning them to the Oval Office? What does that mean? I show don't know what... You envision the band would have been like

Starting point is 01:01:15 in media outlets. Oh, the ban on the free press, right? Very simple ban. I don't want them in my office. I don't want them here. I would say the ban would go as far as you can. He's like, you know that thing we have an amendment about? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:01:31 Maybe he was referring to capital F, capital P, the Barry Weiss outlet that does transfer. I don't think he's talking about banning Barry Weiss's the free press. It's so cool that like, We had an entire movement that was nominally about free speech, and the result of it was, like, white CEO should be able to say the N-word, but also the president should be allowed to ban the free press from talking to him. Hey, and the R-word. There's so many slurs. Equal opportunity.

Starting point is 01:02:00 They want to be able to say. Yeah. So Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, quote, something is wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposefully negative stories. If they want to write them, that's fine. I don't have to let them into the people's house. Going on to say, like he started in that clip, I don't want them in my office, I don't want them here. I would say the ban would go as far as you can.

Starting point is 01:02:25 And if they could straighten themselves out, I'd love it, unquote, suggesting he could lift the ban if outlets, quote, straighten themselves out, meaning write the news in a different way. someone asked Trump how this would relate to then upcoming visit with President Xi and I'll just play the cliff I don't know President Xi coming I do next week

Starting point is 01:02:53 China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world what signal does it send? I don't know about that I think we're repressive also we get fake news we don't we don't repress but they write fake news cheese Oh, maybe he was on a sick one.

Starting point is 01:03:11 You know, this whole time I was thinking about, there was a story like this week about a trial of some media organization in Hong Kong, where the judge is talking about how you shouldn't be able to publish opinions that are like, I think the quote was like factually incorrect opinions because they were like negative at the regime. And then Trump's like, no, fuck that. We're banning the free press. We're going to out repress the CCP. I'm like, this is great.

Starting point is 01:03:37 This is great. I love being a Chinese American. It's such a good tie. This clip is really funny because he says we're repressive too, but then he pivots and it talks about fake news and then he goes on to say like, well, we don't like actually repress, but we do have fake news and like kind of equivocating fake news to repression in China is kind of what he turns that into. But then he just banned the press.

Starting point is 01:04:03 Perhaps after catching what he said. Yeah. But like, yeah, it's not. It wasn't really odd press conference, as you can imagine. Yeah. The banning the free press press conference. His honesty is always refreshing. Wild.

Starting point is 01:04:17 Yeah. So over the weekend, reporters from those three outlets were denied access to the White House grounds, with journalists' hard-pass credentials apparently being deactivated overnight. Then on Monday, the affected outlets filed a lawsuit against Trump and White House staff. The suit claims it's, quote, clear that the ban was motivated by Trump's disdain for reporting he considers, quote, one-sided and, quote, never good, because it, quote, diminishes him and his accomplishments. This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment, nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles, unquote. Also on Monday, ABC News, CBS News, NBC, and Fox, the four TV News poolers, besides CNN, released a joint statement in support of CNN,

Starting point is 01:05:08 who was supposed to be the designated TV pool provider for that day at the White House. The statement reads, quote, the public has a vital interest in receiving accurate independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting, unquote. These networks announced a solidarity blackout of White House pool coverage. with Fox News's Washington Bureau Chief and the current White House TV pool chair, emailing the other networks on Monday, quote, this is to advise that effective today,

Starting point is 01:05:43 the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the president. This follows the White House's position, preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place. And later on Monday, this did affect their ability to report on White House of as Newsmax struggled to hear the president during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Okay, so there is no microphone because there's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there. So maybe, Tim, this is one example of backfiring just a little bit. Pick up on some of things Michael was saying.

Starting point is 01:06:33 And obviously the ramifications are right here. Can't hear what the president's saying. Indeed. You cannot hear what the president is saying. Backfired a little bit. A little bit. A little bit, it seems. Well, they don't want to get the old press credential taken away.

Starting point is 01:06:50 They're going to be careful. To me, it's unclear how long this blackout will last and how isolated it is, because obviously there was coverage of Trump at the UN. Although outlets said that that was because the UN provides those credentials. So it's unclear if this is supposed to be targeted specifically at the White House pool. We'll get a better idea in the next few days. as Trump returns to the White House. But not, you know, good for, as Trump says, the free press.

Starting point is 01:07:17 No. Another thing, not great. Last Thursday, September 17th, the FCC approved Paramount's petition to allow almost 50% of the potentially merged Paramount WB equity to be owned by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE following this potential Warner Brothers merger, meaning the Ellison's, Sondon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, would end up owning CBS, CNN, HBO, Discovery Channel, BET, Fendango, MTV, Nickelodeon,

Starting point is 01:07:50 Paramount, Pluto, TV, Showtime, TBS, the CWT&T, and Warner Brothers. Now, though, thankfully, 12 state AGs have sued to block this $110 billion, Paramount Warner Brothers merger, since it obviously endangered competition and threatens editorial independence of even more news outlets. Though, after Paramount threatened to leave California last week,

Starting point is 01:08:18 state attorney general Rob Bonta, who was leading the state coalition's antitrust case, caved on Monday and agreed to settle their lawsuit, essentially giving this merger, the final green light. California Democrat moment. This is really bad. Yeah. Obviously, part of Bontas announcement includes a list of this settlement's quote, court enforceable concessions, which largely amounts to Paramount promising to release around 30 movies a year for the next five years. Only for the next five years, by the way. Or else they will face penalties and be required to divest Miramax Studios.

Starting point is 01:09:03 Again, this requirement only is until like 20, you know, 31 roughly. Also, like, that's what you're going to fight for, like 30 Paramount movies a year. Like, that's the big thing here. Some of the other concessions include a $47.5 million fund for workers, quote, displaced by the merger. And an annual $5 million fund to support independent film. We did it, Rob. We did it, Gavin. We got it.

Starting point is 01:09:32 Five million a year for independent film. Thanks, Gav. Now, California also announced a, quote, news editorial independence board to help CNN and CBS maintain editorial independence. So, you know, worries, no need, no need to be worried about this. Yeah, this will be fine. But if you actually read the documents of establishing this board, I'll read this here, the editorial independence board should be made up of five established journalists, but retired, each of whom shall have practiced journalism for a minimum of 10 years. No more than two editorial board members may be affiliated with the same political party.

Starting point is 01:10:18 Editorial Independence Board members shall be appointed by the combined entities Board of Directors. Who do you think is the chair of Paramount's Board of Directors? Wild guess. Larry Ellison? David Ellison. David, sure. Oh, right. Yeah, just given.

Starting point is 01:10:37 I love that they can't be, for the same, political party, right? You're going to get two Dems, you're going to get two Republicans, then you've got a wild card in there. And there is a kind of person who is a California journalist, who's a member of the Libertarian Party, and they are the worst kind of person. You know one of them's going to fucking end up in there. I love to live in a free society.

Starting point is 01:10:55 Yeah. Making things worse, Semaphore reported today that Paramount is weighing, tapping one Elon Musk for equity investment as well. Yep. I did read that. Physically painful. So both Ellison and Musk could end up appointing people to this editorial independence board.

Starting point is 01:11:19 They love freedom. Also, the other investors are like the Saudi government and the UAE's sovereign wealth funds. Like part of it, right? Part of that deal is allegedly making sure that they don't have like voting power, even though they own the shares. Sure. We'll see how that works. Honestly, I would bet on the Saudis more than I would bet on Musk.

Starting point is 01:11:43 Like, give them voting. That's a dark timeline. No, no, I'm just kidding. We'll get a great comedy festival out of it. Until we have proof that Elon Musk has deployed Sudanese child soldiers in Yemen. Okay, okay, okay. I don't know. No, no, I didn't say the UAE.

Starting point is 01:11:58 Let's distinguish. That is true. The Saudis also were involved in that. Not letting them off the home. You're right. You're right, you're out. I retracted. You know exactly what kind of press freedoms Elon Musk's going to go for as well. Like, oh, God.

Starting point is 01:12:13 But no, this is a massive failure, specifically on executives in California, between the governor, Newsom and the state AG. The fact of they caved on this due to the threat of Paramount moving to a different state puts the whole country in jeopardy. People really need to wise up to what Newsom's doing right now. He's very clearly signaling that he will be friendly to capital before he makes his presidential run. He did it with the wildfire settlements in California. He's doing it with this.

Starting point is 01:12:43 He is showing that he is going to be everything that Democrats have disappointed you with for the last four, eight, 12 years. Like, I despise what Newsom is doing right now. The other thing in the fine print of these concessions is the force majeure clause that allows the, the combined entity to get out of all these concessions in situations of, quote, war, rebellion, hurricanes, other major storms, earthquakes, fires, terrorism, pandemics, strikes, labor disruptions, economic recessions, riots, insurrections, civil commotions, blockades.

Starting point is 01:13:23 So in the case of the AI bubble bursting, they can get out of all of these concessions that, you know, the state AG of California is, you know, claiming as their big victory. of course also strikes and labor disruptions included in there as well. What's a civil commotion? A little shenanigans. James, it's what happens when I walked down the same street.

Starting point is 01:13:45 It's a civil commotion. That is a spiritually British phrase. Yeah, what legal basis is this? Yeah, I'm going to hit us up if you've been convicted of civil commotion. One final note on this, also on Monday, the Writers Guild of America, settled their own lawsuit this past summer on the grounds that this merger violates antitrust

Starting point is 01:14:07 and would cause specific harm to workers. In terms of concessions, that the WGA was able to achieve, they got Paramount to agree to a layoff prohibition for five years for CBS News broadcast members and got Paramount to agree to pay $17.5 million to the Writers Guild Health Fund

Starting point is 01:14:24 and cover their attorney's fees from the litigation. To quote the WGA statement, quote, unfortunately the conditions Paramount has committed to, with the AG's, and with us, fall far short of adequately protecting writers, and we continue to believe the merger will cause damage to the industry at large. As labor unions, however, the AG's settlement means that we had to contend with the reality of forging ahead alone with a lawsuit that would cost millions of dollars through trial, unquote. Quick update here. On Thursday, a California judge delayed the court sign-off of this settlement for at least another week by granting an administrative motion by a coalition to block the merger. This settlement to complete the merger does require a sign-off from this judge. The parties have till Monday. The next hearing to go over the settlement is expected to be on Tuesday. You know, rolling it back a couple seconds, speaking of spiritually British, let's talk about Canada in our final section.

Starting point is 01:15:33 That is a burn. It's a good one. It's a good one. So, okay, last Wednesday, September 16th, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed that Canada become the only, quote, associate member of the EU? Hell yeah. Nice. So this was obviously, well, I say obviously, this was the day before Carney spoke in front of the European Parliament, was receptive to the offer, and it seems like this is something that's going to get voted on by the parliament. Later on in this sort of trip, he met with leaders of France and England and spent a lot of time talking about strengthening ties with European nations.

Starting point is 01:16:17 It was also, I don't know, it revealed the right term, but there was, the whole process of this was very weird. But basically it was, it was like, got to the press that Canada had asked to join the, it's called the Joint Expeditionary Force, which is this sort of like British-led,

Starting point is 01:16:39 like, military alliance project. I'm just going to quote from CBC here, quote, as it was originally conceived, the joint expeditionary force was meant to preserve battlefield relations that grew up during the Afghan War. So we're off to a great start here. In 2012, Britain's then chief of defense, General Sir David Richards described a future force that could deploy rapidly overseas without Britain having to assemble an entirely new

Starting point is 01:17:06 coalition for every crisis. So, again, originally this is a kind of, they want to be able to kind of build on the military integration of the war in Afghanistan, which, I don't know, very few wars in which I want to less build on military integration from. In recent times, it has been more, the sort of coalition existence and prominence

Starting point is 01:17:29 has been about, more about as potential response to, like, continued Russian aggression in Europe. So all of this basically dropped at the same time last week. Trump responded to the whole thing about Canada becoming an associate member of the EU by saying it would be a, quote, hostile act.

Starting point is 01:17:52 He also said, quote, if it's a good intention, that's fine. If it's bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe. So who knows with that? I don't know. Genuinely, who knows what's going to happen with that situation? I don't know. Maybe we can negotiate a swap now that Britain has left Europe and just

Starting point is 01:18:13 Britain could join NAFTA Yeah, can we like physically swap the countries If you put Canada or Britain Sure like At least they wouldn't have as much Fucking coastline to be Bass it's about back home

Starting point is 01:18:27 Probably more coastline in Canada Just because it's fast Yeah so Okay we really know very little About what Trump's response is going to be To this Now the part that I actually am interested in here Is what does this associate membership thing

Starting point is 01:18:41 actually mean and what is this actual partnership supposed to look like? So we talked a little bit. Obviously, there's some military integration. Most of it seems to be trade alliances. And even that is kind of vague. What you get out of it looking into this is that the rhetoric coming out of both the EU and Canada is extremely loud. They're talking about, you know, the crisis of democratic institutions and like the rule of law globally. Yeah. All of this sort of stuff. But, But there was a really interesting interview in foreign policy with Canada's foreign minister, Anita Anand, about what actually, under the surface of this sort of grand rhetoric about, like, you know, like forming this sort of coalition and like promoting like the rule of law and being a being a non-coercive body and all of this sort of very grand rhetoric that is in response to Trump without really mentioning him, there's a lot of really interesting parts of this interview with Canada's foreign. minister about what they're actually talking about doing, I think maybe the first thing that she gets asked, is Trump saying, quote, we don't need Canada, they need us? And the response is very

Starting point is 01:19:53 interesting, because what she's doing is deemphasizing an actual break with the U.S. economically, which is what all of the reporting on this, everyone is talking about how, like, oh, this is like Canada trying to pivot away from the U.S. And her response to this is like, well, no, the U.S. and Canada are just permanently economically integrated. The auto sector is this, you know, like sign of permanent integration between the economy. Yeah. And largely the focus of her response is that, oh, we have a bunch of free trade packs with a bunch of other parts of the world and, you know, between the U.S. and Canada. So this is kind of a sign of like when these people are talking about sort of a rules-based international order, what they're talking about is free trade packs. I'm going to read this quote from the interview. So the first part of this, the question is from the foreign policy interviewer, quote.

Starting point is 01:20:38 So let me talk a little bit then about the Canada. a Europe relationship. I hear the phrase associate member being used a week ago. What would that entail? What does that mean? And then this is the Canadian foreign minister. The nomenclature that is being attached to the growing relationship between Canada and the EU is

Starting point is 01:20:55 not the focus of the work we're doing building up to the Canada EU summit in Montreal at the end of October. Our focus is on several pillars where you will see deeper integration on critical minerals, AI and quantum, trade and investments following on from the Canada EU comprehensive economic and trade agreements and

Starting point is 01:21:14 people-to-people ties, including education students and the Erasmus program. The substantive discussions between our teams right now are very focused on these pillars. So this is the actual, right, it missed everyone talking about how we're going to form like a new trade bloc to like fight the U.S. It's like, no, they're doing free trade negotiations basically. Yeah, and that's what Carney's been like really pushing for. He's he's essentially just trying to be like Bill Clinton for Canada without, you know, that stuff. Yeah, without that or playing the saxophone.

Starting point is 01:21:46 Yeah, slightly more boring. He's a central banker. Like, that's, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I'm going to get to that in a second in terms of what, what they're actually sort of trying to do. But, you know, I think the comparison to Clinton is a good one because like what you have here basically is like what this block is, is this attempt to form a sort of like old

Starting point is 01:22:04 school neoliberal, I say old school, but like 90s, 2000 style neoliberal block to oppose the sort of like modern Trump fascism. And it's like, well, okay, so that like got us fascism in the first place, right? So that's not great. There's also a lot of talk about sort of the defense and support for Ukraine. Yeah. But I want to have one last quote from this article to really get a sense of like what is going on here. This is Anand, the foreign minister. Taking you to the investment summit that we held last week in Toronto, we are seeing increasing levels of foreign direct investment. Commitments of $500 billion last week alone to Canada through 10 national projects, from ports to highways to airports. Across the board, our work is to shorten the time period, the path

Starting point is 01:22:50 the permit time period, so that investments continue to flow into our country towards national projects. So what does that mean? And this is where things get really, really bad, because what she's talking about when she's talking about this like, you know, we're shortening the path the permit time. So investment continues to come in for national projects. What she's talking about is what's called Bill C-39, which is I guess like the next version of the Build Canada Strong Act. So, you know, it's a giant neoliberal deregulation bill, right? It decreases the permit process for a whole bunch of projects that are in, quote, the national interest from, you know, these can take multiple years. You're talking about environmental impact assessments. You're talking about

Starting point is 01:23:32 like input from indigenous communities. There's a whole bunch of things you're supposed to have to do before you can start one of these sort of mega projects. And this bill would reduce that entire process to one year. It would allow ministers to just sort of wave away environmental protections if it was deemed in a national interest. I'm going to quote from the Toronto Star here, quote, it would also create special zones called, quote,

Starting point is 01:23:55 regions of national interest where approvals for projects can be, quote, streamlined in certain areas, as officials said, and follows recent changes that means cross-border oil pipelines, gas-fired power plants, oil sands facilities, and other projects will no longer be subject to the existing federal impact assessment process. So this is special economic zones for oil fields. I was about to say they're doing a special economic zone. Yeah, and specifically, it's special economic zone where all of the environmental impact assessments

Starting point is 01:24:29 of like, hey, is this oil field going to poison everyone who lives around it? We're not doing that. I'm going to quote here from the narwhal. The legislation takes federal review of pipelines, nuclear facilities, and power lines out of the hands of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, a federal body that reports to the Environmental Minister and is meant to ensure project designs protect indigenous rights in the environment. Instead, pipeline projects will be reviewed by the Canada Energy Regulator

Starting point is 01:24:55 and Agency of the Crown that reports to the Energy Minister and oversees construction and operation of certain pipelines and power lines. So that's a very dull way of saying that instead of environmental regulators looking at the impact of like cars sands, it's going to the energy guys. It goes to the executive.

Starting point is 01:25:13 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is something that's been very specifically pushed for in a massive lobbying campaign by the Canadian oil and gas industry over the last few years. So obviously, this is an enormous danger to indigent sovereignty,

Starting point is 01:25:27 to, you know, Anyone who, like, wants there to be a livable environment. And also, it gives the labor ministry the right to end strikes. Oh, cool. So effectively what it does, right, is there is a very nebulous legal authority that the Canadian government used to crush an Air Canada, a flight attendant strike in 2025. And this bill would just codify that right and completely ignore the union's legal challenges to it and would allow just government ministers effectively to just end strikes if they're in areas that are

Starting point is 01:26:00 deemed as like adversely affecting the national interest. I'm going to quote from the MSN article here, either by having a quote significant impact on the economy or causing, quote, serious social disruption. So, you know, it's interesting because the Carney administration has said that this is actually like a protection of the right to strike, even though it's giving a government minister the ability to end strikes. but this bill is being opposed by by the entire Canadian labor movement because it gives the government the ability to kill strikes on behalf of

Starting point is 01:26:33 corporations in the name of this extremely nebulous national interest there's no way that could possibly go wrong and I think both of these put together lets you look at the domestic side of this entire sort of international PR push that's going on right it's the deployment of neoliberalism

Starting point is 01:26:53 nominally against fascism. It is using the threat of the U.S. to crush organized labor, indigenous groups and environmental groups, which are the same enemies that sort of Trump and the American fascist movements have. It's just that it's being implemented using a sort of state of emergency caused by the fascist themselves. Yeah. And I think that's something that's incredibly important to keep in mind whenever you're sort of reading about Carney and whatever you're reading about this sort of international project that he's embarking on is that this is what this project means, right? It's a war to be able to do free trade in special economic zones. With that, I think that is all for us today. And it could happen here. Dena, do you have anything you would like to plug? I want to direct people to the handbook of authoritarianism in the Arab World, which I edited. And it's out now, open access on the Bloomsbury Politics website. So if you just Google it, you'll find it.

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