US Declares Palestine Action A Global Terror Group

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3:06by Novara's own Stephen Methan as well. The US Treasury under the power of President Donald Trump, has weighed in on the row over the UK government's prescription of Palestine action as a terror group, and is done so in chilling style. The US government has now declared Palestine action a global terrorist group, adding it to a list that includes Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Justifying the designation, the US Treasury Department said this. The UK-based Palestine action has supported numerous acts of terrorism since July 2020, including acts that have physically injured UK law enforcement personnel, as well as acts intended to intimidate lawful commercial enterprises and co-verse the UK government. The groups actions include multiple high profile instances of breaking into defense infrastructure and British military installations, and causing millions of dollars worth of damage to military equipment. The law that the US government is using to designate Palestine action a terrorist group is called Executive Order 13224. It was signed into US law by then-president George W. Bush on the 21st of September 2001, so just 10 days after the Al Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Sass the US government using legislation rushed

4:08onto the statute books during a national emergency to explicitly link Palestine action 25 years later to the so-called war on terror. And the Executive Order is clear about what it enables the US government to do, saying this. The order provides a means by which to disrupt the financial support network for terrorists and terrorist organisations by authorising the US government to designate and block the assets of foreign individuals and entities that commit or pose a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism. That means any US assets held by the group are likely to be frozen, and any transactions with it by US residents will become illegal. But the law goes even further. Potentially, other organisations anywhere in the world can be financially impacted by association as well, with the order going on to say this. The order authorises the US government to block the assets of individuals and entities that provide support, services or assistance to or otherwise associate with terrorists and terrorist organisations designated under the order, as well as their subsidiaries, front organisations, Asians and associates. Responding to the prescription, Palestine Action Co-Founder Hood Amori said this.

5:10Palestine Action's activities in the US and elsewhere have always been about saving lives by disrupting the Israeli war machine, which is committing a genocide in Gaza with the support of the US government. Trump has been at the centre of the mass murder of the Palestinians, enabling the Zionist regime at every single turn. The Starma government's decision to use counter-terror law against the British direct action group for the very first time last summer, it's certainly said a precedent, but there were also suggestions that neither Starma nor his home secretary at the time of Etcuba may not have thought up all by themselves. In March last year, Palestine Action claimed responsibility for an action at Donald Trump's turn to regulf course in Scotland. In large letters, the words, Gaza is not for sale, was spray painted across the green. Holes who also dug in the turf, or the causes clubhouse was sprayed in red paint. There's no doubt that was vandalism, which is what direct action is historically involved. But reporting on two calls he'd had with Kier Starma after the event, Donald Trump used very different language, boasting this on truth social. I was just informed by Prime Minister Starma of the United Kingdom that they caught the terrorists to attack the beautiful Turnbury in Scotland.

6:11They did serious damage and were hopefully treated harshly for three people who did this are in prison. You cannot let things like this attack happen and I greatly appreciate the work of Prime Minister Starma and UK law enforcement. The case shows just how cheap the word terrorism has become in just a quarter of a century, from bringing down iconic skyscrapers in killing thousands of people to damaging grass and spraying paint. It's also worth noticing that Trump used the phrase serious damage in that post. A technical though undefined term that is part of the UK's definition of terrorism that was used to designate Palestine Action Terror group just month after those calls. Declassified as reported that those conversations between Starma and Trump also came up in the judicial review, the Hood and Mory brought against the prescription last November, but despite several freedom of information requests to the foreign office, their contents remained shrouded in secrecy. The telegraph reported on the conversations last September as well, writing this, after Trump's turnbrew was vandalised with red paint by progarter protesters in March, the Prime Minister asked for updates on those arrests from police Scotland and brief Trump personally on developments according to one well-taste source. The group was

7:14called Palestine Action. Four months later, the UK government prescribed as a terrorist organization. A legal challenge is seeking to establish where the Trump press to care for the ban. The UK's ban on Palestine Action continues to be challenged with the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Hood and Mory's case in November. Since the prescription, there have been over three and a half thousand arrests involving peaceful protesters holding signs expressing support for the group. Many of them retired people, including NHS workers, teachers, social workers and clergy. It remains a criminal offence under the UK terror acts to express support for Palestine Action. I am now joined by Navarra Steven Methan, who has been reporting on Palestine Action very diligently. Now, in terms of this recent action by the United States, has there ever been precedent for this kind of action being taken against a UK-based group? I mean, not that I know of, and certainly not recently. As you said, the order only allows this to happen only came into effect in 2001, so 25 years ago. Then, of course,

8:15it came into effect as, you know, in a national emergency. It was a piece of legislation that was moved through after just 10 days after the attacks of 9-11. I don't think, can't really imagine that anybody at the time, when they drew up that legislation, imagined that just a quarter of a century later it would be being used against a direct action group, largely well, no longer operating in the UK, but when it was, largely doing property damage. In fact, only doing property damage, actually, didn't mean to say largely there. Do you think this will have any impact on the upcoming Supreme Court case about the prescription? It's very hard to say, isn't it? Because, you know, the Supreme Court is the highest court that we have in this land, and we'll be looking really carefully at Huda Ramore's case. But it certainly seems to support the idea that

9:16Palestine Action is a terror organization. I mean, hopefully, the Supreme Court judges, whatever decision they come to, will be able to exercise their own independence of mind. But there is the potential for it to impact public opinion, because you now have the US declaring the group, the terrorist organization, is the Supreme Court then overturns it in November. It looks like you have this massive disjunct between the view of the court in the UK and the view of the US government. I mean, I will say, I do think that British people are very aware of what kind of government is in power at the US at the moment. So I'd be interested to know how, yeah, people are understanding this coming from the US, whether they're understanding it as sort of tracking some kind of fact about the organization, Palestine Action, which, you know, I don't think it does, or whether they understand it as a feature of the kind of government, that is the current

10:21government in the US. Now, of course, one of the things that we've seen a lot since the prescription of Palestine Action is people being arrested for terror charges in relationship to showing support for Palestine Action in the UK. How will this ban in the United States affect those people? Again, it's like so unprecedented. It's really hard to say, because, you know, the powers invoked by the order that this designation has been made under are quite wide ranging. And Marco Rubio, I believe, has explicitly talked about supporters of groups. Now, you know, what those protestors on the Defend our Juries protests are doing, were expressing support for Palestine Action in protest of the prescription. But nonetheless, you know, they were still expressing support, which, as you've said, is illegal under the terror act in the UK. It's an interesting feature, though, of the US legislation here, that it does have a carve-out

11:23for free political speech. It does say that it doesn't affect constitutional rights to free political speech. Now, of course, the constitution only applies to people in the US, it doesn't apply to people in other countries. So, I don't really know how the US is going to proceed here. I mean, is it the case that they're going to think, well, if a US citizen was saying this, you know, holding up a sign, we wouldn't be able to, you know, create some kind of financial circumstance that affects them very badly, but given that it's someone else, we can. I mean, I would really hope that the British government, if there was an attempt to do that, although, you know, you don't hold up much hope for British governments when it comes to the US. But I would really hope that what they would do is they would, they themselves would recognize the unreasonable of classifying people who are engaged in a mass campaign of civil disobedience, which, you know, of which we have a grand tradition in this country. I would hope that they would

12:26object very strongly to the idea that there should be any international implications for those people. I mean, the Trump administration has shown they're willing to use the designation of terrorists to commit pretty extreme acts. And I look at the example of the Venezuelan fishermen, for example, and what they've done there. So what they, what this, what is codified into or what they may end up doing, those could be completely different things. But turning around to the relationship that you mentioned between the US and the UK, obviously, we know that there was discussions between the two governments. We don't know what discussions were taking place. Do you think that the US might potentially be behind the initial prescription in the UK at all? Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exima. So I get how it can still your time. But why let Exima take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglyce? Epglyce, lubricism app, LBKZ, a 250-mg per 2-mg leader injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms

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15:38I-I mean, I-I-I-I-again, I don't-I don't know, but I do think that the-the-the fact that there were conversations, the fact that Trump, you know, posted about is and used that-that phrase serious damage, which as I-as you said there is like-is-is a term directly in the-in-in-in-in-the terror act. I think there's all raised questions and I think there's all questions that Labour Party members should very seriously be asking of the party and of the leadership. And the reason for that is that-and I think you're going to come on to talk about this, you know, the Trump administration is on a mission to suppress what they call left-wing violence or left-wing extremism, but what they actually mean is left-wing descent of any kind. And if it turned out that there was, you know, some kind of conspiring between Kirstaama's government and the US, going in either direction, whether it's

16:40that-you know, whether that-whether our government in order to save face and the possibility of a challenge to the ban asked America to do something or whether Trump asked them to do it and they did it, there's any kind of channel back and forth like that. I think that, you know, Labour Party members should be seriously asking about it because that is the Labour Party, a party that is supposed to be notionally at least of the left, even if it's the centre-left, even if it's the social democratic left, there's a post to be of the left. And if that happened, then they are working in co-huts with a what I think we can all, you know, begin to see as an autocratic government or it has autocratic tendencies, which is looking to, you know, to diminish, to crush the left in the US. And that does not seem to be anything-has anything to do with Labour Party's values, even if it seems to completely

17:43contrary to the Labour Party's values as, you know, a social democratic party to really be operating in that way with that kind of government. So I think really it is for Labour Party members to seriously ask questions about what happened there. Yeah, I absolutely agree. Thank you very much for joining us this evening, Stephen. Thanks, Lena. When the US announced their designation of Palace-Dat-Action as an international terror group, the country's Treasury Department posted this online. Today, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control took action to counter the growing threat posed by violent, far-left terrorist groups. Globally net works and politically motivated terrorists, particularly far-left terrorists, are increasingly embracing organised deadly violence and pursuit of their objectives. Now, that statement neatly encapsulates what is an explicit strategy in the US government to frame left-wing protesters as terrorists and to shut down legitimate forms of dissent. Last month, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with delegates from 60 countries to encourage them to clamp down on what he called far-left extremism, saying that

18:48left-wing political violence was the result of, quote, a unique evil rooted in a deep resentment towards civilisation. If you can imagine such a thing. At the time, the BBC reported that there was no discussion of far-right political violence, with a Democrat secusing Rubio's political partisanship. Around the same time, Trump's Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller unveiled a presidential directive aimed at the left. The directs for the first time in American history, all of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together, to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country. It's very important to understand that left-wing political terrorism seeks as its ultimate end the overthrow of our system and form of government. As part of that directive, the State Department also made it hard for people to travel to the states from other countries. Marco Rubio announced a visa restriction policy, targeting what he called members of far-left terrorist groups,

19:51so far, however, there's been little said about what constitutes a far-left terror group. The recent designation of Palestinian action may give us a clue. The property damage is, of course, not what people are normally talking about when they talk about terrorism. But it's left-wing violence actually on the rise, but Centre for Strategic and International Studies, also known as the CSIS, is a bipartisan research centre that is defined and tracked left and right-wing terrorism. It defines terrorism like this. The deliberate use or threat of premeditated violence by non-state actors, with the intent to achieve political goals by creating a broad psychological impact. It's clear from the report that the CSIS does not count mere property damage or economic vandalism as terrorism. More to the count protests against ICE, though they do argue that these acts may add to the perception of increased left-wing violence. The report defines left-wing terrorism as that pursued for anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and a kissed or various liberationist ideologies amongst others. And it defines right-wing terrorism as evolving white supremacism, extreme libertarianism, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ ideologies and Q&N conspiracy theories.

20:56Its analysis shows that left-wing attacks and plots have increased in the United States since 94, peaking from 2016 onwards. But with the exception of 2025 when right-wing attacks and plots dramatically dropped, the number of acts of left-wing violence has rarely come anywhere near to those perpetrated by the right, shown in red. The severity of the instance is also in sharp distinction with the CSIS saying this, In the past decade, despite the increase in the number of left-wing incidents, left-wing attacks have killed 13 victims compared with 112 and 82 victims for right-wing and jihadist attacks respectively. The CSIS also adds a note of warning over the drop-in right-wing attack seen in recent years. It's probably temporary that the report says this, although it isn't possible to definitively prove the link between the policies of and positions championed in Trump's second term and the decline in right-wing terrorism instance in the United States, it is probable that at least some extremists do not feel the need to act violently if their concerns are being addressed. Dalia, this whole

21:58debacle that we've seen in terms of the US government's attacks on free speech, attacks on free association and attacks on dissents is incredibly chilling, but it does seem it's not only chilling in the United States and obviously we're seeing the way in which they're acting in terms of the prescription of Palestinian action, it comes to the UK, but it does seem, given that they've been in meetings with other countries leaders, they're trying to spread this kind of crushing of dissent to other countries as well. Yeah, I mean the use of terror legislation in this way is textbook authoritarianism. It's something that authoritarian countries, authoritarian states around the world have been doing for a very long time and I think you're right to raise the deep irony there about the amount of ink that has been spilled over the past 10, 20 years about threats to free speech and the issues of free speech and the thought police, the whole point of the idea of a right-to-free speech or

22:59as it is in the US, the first amendment, it wasn't about defending people's right to have a newspaper column in the times. It was established precisely to defend people against these kinds of threats, precisely to protect people from being criminalized for holding political beliefs. And we have to understand really what terror legislation is and what happens when something, when an act of violence gets classified as terrorism rather than as something else or when a set of beliefs or ideologies become associated with terrorism. In a liberal democracy, we are supposed to have the certain protections enshrined in the law that are held universally, you know, things like habeas corpus, things like rights to privacy, things like having limits on the amount of punishment that can be given for a certain crime. Terror legislation essentially

24:02functions as a loophole out of those rights. It says for this kind of crime, which we will classify, the state classifies, these universal rights no longer exist. And it's deeply inseparable from politics because the thing that separates a terroristic violence from other forms of violence is the political or the perception that it is motivated by a political ideology. So when a state creates a category like far left terrorism and basically implies that a political ideology is a breeding ground for terrorism, even when it's not credibly true, as you've sort of pointed out, Helena, you know, there is no credible threat that that terroristic violence from far left organizations is a gen, it's something that warrants this kind of level of response that it is not endemic in this way. But when you associate a political ideology with terroristic threat,

25:03it does two things. Firstly, it manufactures fear and stigma around that political ideology. So, you know, if you start to say, oh, climate terrorism is a huge threat, you create an air of suspicion around anyone who has a deep political concern around the climate. The other thing that it does is it massively expands the remit of the state to surveil and monitor and criminalise people who are associated with that political ideology or who share some of the opinions of that political ideology, even if they themselves don't believe in violence or have no relationship to violence or have never committed a violent act. So if you, it creates this air of suspicion, with this kind of symbolic air of suspicion, but it also gives the state credible and material rights to surveil and monitor people for having particular political beliefs. And that is why the state was so determined to prosecute Palestine action under terrorism legislation, even though, you know,

26:07legislation on criminal damage, etc, is perfectly appropriate. You know, you could get sentences on the basis of criminal damage. The reason the state has been so eager to prosecute Palestine action as terrorism is in order to create an air of suspicion and fear around pro-Palestinian politics. To say that pro-Palestinian politics carries with it this threat of violence and it associates in people's minds pro-Palestine politics with a form of violence that most people obviously find genuinely terrifying. But even though this organization that they have designated as a terrorist organization has not claimed a single human life, you can, you through this kind of terrorist legislation loophole, you can end up in this obscene, like, completely irrational situation where people are being prosecuted under terror legislation, which is the most draconian legislation that in Britain, in the legal books, for people holding a sign, because you have, you have achieved

27:11what the goal always was, which is to stigmatize the politics that you are associating with terrorism. So when it comes to the use of terror legislation in this way, the state is always much more concerned with the politics of it, rather than the violence. It's actually not concerned with preventing violence, the kind of violence that people are afraid of. It's actually more concerned with criminalising and creating suspicion around the political ideology as a whole, whether that's pro-Palestin politics, whether that's climate politics, whether it's politics that is against, you know, the wholesale dehumanization of immigrants. But it becomes a very effective tool to carve out particular kinds of politics from the liberal democratic norms that are supposed to protect things like free speech and freedom of association. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy as well. Insofar as they will say these particular groups are terroristic. There's a real problem of left-wing terrorism. They'll

28:13designate whoever they want to as terrorists, like the NSPM7 designation in the United States is casting a very wide net in terms of what it treats as being antithetical values in the United States, potential signs of terrorism. And then from those designations, the overall numbers for left-wing terrorism will, quote, unquote, increase. They'll say, we told you there was a problem, and it's clear that there's a problem, right? Like we've reported so many times down the UK that the average person arrested for a terror charge is like a, like, a white woman in her 50s or whatever it is because so many people who've been involved in what's happened since the past election prescription in this country. Yeah. And I think it's really important to also note that, none of this would have been possible without the kinds of counter-terror legislation and architecture that has been built over the past 10, 15 years. When you look, for example, in Britain at the prevent legislation, when you actually look at the markers, the things that service providers are told to look out for as possible signs that someone is at risk of radicalisation.

29:17We're talking like children in primary school. It's things like exhibiting the drawl, exhibiting depression, having a sudden interest in their religion. Obviously, doesn't mean all religions, they mean specifically Islam. So if you create those categories as markers that someone who might be exhibiting depression and might have shown extra interest in their faith, their faith being Islam, that you then say that there can be a direct connection between that and conducting some of the most traumatising acts of violence that people have seen on their televisions. You are creating an air of suspicion around a community. And also, you can then turn around and say, there have been X number of referrals to prevent in the past 10 years, which makes it sound like this is a really budding and important threat in schools. When in reality, the benchmarks that are used to designate that are deeply ideological and deeply problematic,

30:20but that doesn't get communicated when you say there have been dozens of hundreds of referrals to prevent, which flags people on the basis that they are at risk of being radicalised. What you hear is, you know, hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of, you know, immediate risk of committing extreme violence, which is just not the case. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema. So I get how it can still your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglyss? Epglyss, Lebrichizema, LBKZ, a 250mg per 2mL injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kg, with moderate to severe Exema. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin, or topicals, or who cannot use topical therapies. Epglyss can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to Epglyss. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe.

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33:24villages most affected by the floods, with some of them all but wiped away. Over 120 people have been rescued so far, but dozens of bodies swept downhill by the torrents have also been recovered from lower altitude plains. Among the missing also many tourists. Two teenagers aged 13 and 14 years old are amongst the 33 British national still missing in Nepal. The cause of the flood has also been identified. According to experts, it was most likely caused by a collapsing glacier that had been weakened by melting snow, causing it to plummet a kilometer into the valley, below and triggering a massive surge of displaced water. Scientists have warned for years that melting ice and permafrost, which is centuries old frozen soil, in the Himalayas, is due to climate change. Last year, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development or ICIMOD, warned that the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were losing ice has doubled since the year 2000. This may be the largest climate-related disaster to hit Nepal so far, but it isn't the first time the country has been affected by climate breakdown. Shreya K.C. coordinates what lost and damaged youth coalition in Nepal, spoke to Sky News. Last year in July 2025, the similar

34:31regression lake outburst flood was recorded in Votikosiri River in the river where we are seeing huge number of casualties now. And as a matter of fact, we can say that we will face similar climate industries as stirris, maybe with bigger intensity, with bigger dams in the coming future as well. So there's a lot that we need to do, but also there's a lot that Nepal's need in terms of climate finance, in terms of loss and damage finance, so that we can cope with this impact. Talk to me if you will about that element, because it is countries like Nepal and it's an example of climate crisis and what it means. Yes. Apologies for just cutting over there, a bit of a delay on the line, but talk to me about that, because it is countries like Nepal that impact the global climate, the least, but often fill the impacts of the changing global climate the most. Your contribution to carbon emissions is

35:35almost negligible compared to other nations, but the impact of a warming climate is felt far beyond that that is felt in other regions. How is that conversation going in the pool at the moment when you look at what is happening to your landscape and also the people that live amongst it? Yeah, true. There has been a widespread outrage in the country, showing that how literally we are contributing to the global climate emissions, but we are always on the forefront of facing the climate impact. We're always the first one to hit and also when we are hit the first, we are hit the most. And Nepal as a country of the Hindu-Kusik Mahal in Rizm also known as Thadpul, we have this majestic mountains, but during this case it's because of the global warming and oil and shrinking glacier rate. We are seeing increase in the number of such glacier like outblast flood, so there has been a widespread outrage regarding the injustice that we are facing time and again,

36:36time and again. Dalia, this very terrifying image is I was looking my Twitter feed last night as what Retaparcy tweeted out something that genuinely looked out some like from for a disaster film from what I was seeing, absolute harrowing footage. Yeah, it's devastating. I mean, we've got last I checked, it was 95 people dead, hundreds of missing. Also, there is a chance that there is a landslide dam upstream that could collapse within the next few days, that would cause a second wave of devastation. And obviously, when it comes to climate breakdown, you have these incidents, which are these highly spectacular and explicit impacts of climate breakdown. But this is really the tip of the iceberg, you know, for one of a better phrase. A lot of the impact of climate breakdown exists in much slower forms of violence, things like displacement,

37:38things like people who rely on agriculture for their livelihood, their livelihood being destroyed, the various health impacts that happen as a result of climate change. It's a shame, I think, sometimes that the only time we get to really talk about this is in this context of these tragedies. But obviously, we have to take these moments when we can. And it's devastating. And it's not just about the kind of the lives and livelihoods lost over these few days. It's also the downstream impacts of this kind of infrastructural collapse. And I was glad to hear in that Sky News segment, finally, the British media talking about the fact that a lot of countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change contributed the least to the climate crisis. What was missing there is the fact that this is not just a problem of geography, you know, I see a lot of stuff about how this happened in Nepal because it's, you know, a very mountainous region. It's like, yeah, Nepal has

38:38been a mountainous region for a very long time, you know, that's not why we are in this situation. It's because of first of all climate change. It's also because of an infrastructure problem, you know, we know what is going to happen. We know what's on what is already happening. And the countries that are most at risk of climate breakdown, the impacts of climate breakdown, are being literally prevented from building the kind of infrastructure and resilience that they need to protect life from a catastrophe that they did not cause. I think, and so that's all, you know, that's really, really important to underline. I also think, you know, this is a show about the British political, the world of British politics. So I think it's been interesting in Britain where we've kind of also had this summer of reckoning when it comes to climate change, you know, not only are we seeing more and more in the news, instances and crises that are so clearly

39:39driven by extreme weather, but we've also had, you know, the wildfires and flash floods here in Britain, you know, the impact of climate breakdown is being felt in Britain sooner than we might have thought. And I think that what really worries me is how that reckoning is colliding with the rise of far right politics, you know, reform UK, the most prominent right wing party in this country now, is fundamentally a climate denialist party, you know, Richard Tice has thrown down on the idea that climate change is man-made, you know, that's a position that most of the British public doesn't hold. We should be able to win on that ground, right? You know, clearly climate breakdown is happening, this party doesn't even believe in climate change. That should be a way to kind of discredit the far right politics, but my worry is that what we're actually going to see as our own experience of climate change really sharpens, as we see more and more people in the global south being displaced by this experiencing extreme adversities as a result. That intersection with far right populism,

40:43I worry that it's going to strengthen even further this idea of like, batten down the hatches, close the borders, get really used to watching like, Black and Brown people dying all the time. And, you know, this idea of like, you know, okay, climate change is happening, loads of Black and Brown people are being displaced, there's resource scarcity. It kind of in many ways, like, if it goes the wrong way, it can bolster this far right ideology of like, we need to get into this like malthusian kind of world view where it's us versus everyone, and we need to hoard the resources for ourselves, we need to get whatever we can, we need to keep drilling so that we can like, keep going and get what they call energy security. And so I think as I'm watching the British public begin to have to reckon with climate breakdown in a way that people around the world have already been reckoning with climate breakdown, and I see that intersect with the rise of far right politics. I wonder that we are going to get into this kind of what is called climate fascism or

41:46eco-fascism that could even intensify far right politics, even though it should undermine far right politics because the far right doesn't even believe that climate change exists. So I think that is something for us to really be keeping an eye on from a British political perspective, especially given the fact that within Britain, what we should be doing is thinking about climate reparations and thinking about how we own our historic role in creating this problem and, you know, help to support communities on the front line in protecting themselves from the worst successes of this crisis. And I think that point about far right politics is really, really pressure because it's in the oligarch's interest to push it, because in the same way that the global north have not concerned themselves with the after effects of climate change because it would only be felt by the global south, right? That dynamic also plays out between citizens of the global north and the oligarchs of the global north. And so far as there will be a time when what we're seeing in Nepal now, what we've seen in the global south in terms of climate breakdown affecting their livelihoods, it will affect the global north eventually. We're starting to see it from like the wildfire

42:49city. Absolutely. Obviously it's only quite limited right now, but it will get more extremist time goes on. And then suddenly it will be a problem for global north citizens. When be a problem for the oligarchs though, there'll be the people who will be able to avoid all of the after effects. And they have to reckon with the fact that eventually citizens of the global north will want to revolt against them for their historic role in creating the apocalyptic conditions that will come due to climate change. And so trying to make sure that they blame the people fleeing the worst excessive climate change in the global south, coming to the global north is a significantly better dynamic for those oligarchs than if we take them on themselves. Shop vans and Albertsons for fresh savings every time you shop. This week at vans and Albertsons get fresh, boneless, skinless, chicken breast for £199 per pound limit 10 pounds. And locally grown grape-ere cotton candy grapes are £299 per pound with digital coupon. Plus 24 packs of Canada dry or 7-up 12-ounce cans are £499 limit one with digital coupon. Enjoy fresh and delicious savings for every meal. Hurry in, these deals won't last. Visit vans or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save.

44:10This week at vans and Albertsons get fresh, boneless, skinless, chicken breast for £199 per pound limit 10 pounds. And locally grown grape-ere cotton candy grapes are £299 per pound with digital coupon. Plus 24 packs of Canada dry or 7-up 12-ounce cans are £499 limit one with digital coupon. Enjoy fresh and delicious savings for every meal. Hurry in, these deals won't last. Visit vans or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Today we will increase the lower rate of capital gains tax from 10 to 18 percent and the higher rate from 20 to 24 percent while maintaining the rates of capital gains tax on residential property at 18 and 24 percent too. This means the UK will still

45:11have the lowest capital gains tax rate of any European G7 economy. It doesn't feel like it, but that was two years ago when Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget in October 2024. And the policy of both increasing the rates of capital gains tax and reducing the threshold of which it is paid proved quite controversial at the time. Here's what then Shadow Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said at the time on the I.G.'s art of investing podcast. We see not speculation about capital gains tax, capital gains tax increasing to the e-comptex levels and wealth taxes under a suggested U. Prime Minister. Do you think that would be good or bad for the investment environment and for the economy? It would be terrible. And it doesn't matter if you're left or right, don't do it. And the reason is because if you increase capital gains tax above 24 percent, you will get less revenue, not more because investors will change their behaviour, they won't sell their assets. They'll move their assets abroad,

46:13they'll move abroad themselves, and you will get less money, not more. So if you're a left-wing government that wants to raise more money to redistribute it to poorer areas or to put into public services, don't do this because you'll get less money for the things that you care about. If you're a centre-right government that wants to encourage enterprise and wealth creation, obviously don't do it because you're going to discourage precisely the thing that will make the economy dynamic and successful. The Office for Budget Responsibility didn't go that far, but they did predict that the potential revenue from the changes would be very modest. The capital gains tax measured out in the budget affect an overlapping set of tax and tax bases. Together, these measures are expected to raise £5.2 billion by the end of the decade, mainly across capital gains tax and inheritance tax and income tax. And Richard was mentioned in her speech whether it was £2.5 billion attributed to capital gains tax there as well. And we've got the data in today on the total tax liability on capital gains tax from the 2024 to 2025 financial year. Well, I'll let the figures speak for themselves. This is from the FT.

47:16The UK reported a record haul from capital gains taxes in 2425, according to new data on the first day following the rate of the decision to increase the rate in her first budget. HM revenue and customs reported to £24.2 billion in capital gains tax receipts in the 2425 tax year and 89% increase compared with the year before and the highest annual capital gains receipts since 1987. HMRC said the CGT rate increase consecutive yearly reductions in the tax free allowance and increase in business asset disposal rates from April 2025 all contributed to the record tax receipts. Now, it is worth pointing out, by the way, there is some evidence to show that the risk here was shown in terms of capital disposal in the run-up to the budget. They were predicting, as was mentioned in that podcast clip we saw, that there would be people who would sell their capital assets early or create contracts that would then finalise the sale after it, but codify it beforehand so it would dodge those tax rises. But in the day to which it was only about £77 million of liabilities generated in the October of the budget. So I can't see huge

48:22amounts of evidence to say that that is the lion's share of this increase in capital gains tax liabilities that we're seeing there in the reported figures today. And on top of that, HMRC themselves said that the increase was driven by the increase in the rates and it was driven by the changing of the thresholds as well in that reporting there by the financial times too. This is on top of reports of the first substantial increase in UK productivity, alongside the highest growth in the G7 in 2025 as well. The tax raising, debt issuing, budget was supposed to create an economic doom and loop of stagnation that I was totalled by the stages over on the Tory benches. So how did the economic aura cause Jeremy Hunt and the OBR get it so wrong? Well, it's not like some of us didn't see it coming. This 2025 tweet from Movara's Onauer and Bastani looks very prescient in retrospect. On Radio 4, Jeremy Hunt smuggly says he reduced capital gains tax because of the treasury and the OBR told him to. What was the point of the Tory's in government? What's the point of a chance if you just do whatever you're told by an OBR whose models are wrong and whose data is wrong? Seems perfectly reasonable to ask, right? I mean,

49:27the point that he made there about saying that the OBR just continued to get things wrong with seeing the evidence in before our eyes in terms of their prediction for capital gains tax receipts. And what we actually saw in terms of capital gains tax receipts in the numbers today. I'm like, Jeremy Hunt, in the podcast clip we watch talks about what has to be 24%. If it's any higher than 24% then we'll lose investment revenue. We'll change all of this behavior and there's still lowest rate in European G7 economies as Rachelie's pointed out there as well. And it seems like that's a number that's been told to him by the OBR and he just repeated it. Again, what was the point in having politicians with an ideological framework? I guess if you write your political framework is already embedded in the crangos who get to scrutinise your policy and doesn't really matter about it, does it? Now, given how the OBR constantly gets his predictions wrong and its lockstep monitorates framework of fiscal policy orthodoxy continually proving them wrong, sometimes some in the green party calling for the crangos to be completely overhauled. Motion A65, a green party conference, calls for a totally new approach to budget philosophy, calling for the party to

50:29embed post-kintinism into the state regulator. This is what the motion says about the OBR. The Office for Budget Responsibility would be transformed into the Office of Fiscal Transparency. Within this new office, rather than targeting public debt or deficit levels through rigid fiscal rules, the government will establish a new fiscal policy committee, charged with recommending a target range of optimal government spending. Decisions over the level and nature of spending in tax would remain solely with a chance to invite a government, but undershooting or overshooting the range would require justification to parliament. Shop vans and Albertsons for fresh savings every time you shop. This week at vans and Albertsons, get fresh, boneless, skinless chicken breasts for 199 per pound limit 10 pounds, and locally grown grape-ere cotton candy grapes are 299 per pound with digital coupon. Plus, 24 packs of Canada Dry or 7-Up 12-ounce cans are 499 limit 1 with digital coupon. Enjoy fresh and delicious savings for every meal. Hurry in, these deals won't last. Visit vans or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save.

51:54Shop vans and Albertsons for fresh savings every time you shop. This week at vans and Albertsons, get fresh, boneless, skinless chicken breasts for 199 per pound limit 10 pounds, and locally grown grape-ere cotton candy grapes are 299 per pound with digital coupon. Plus, 24 packs of Canada Dry or 7-Up 12-ounce cans are 499 limit 1 with digital coupon. Enjoy fresh and delicious savings for every meal. Hurry in, these deals won't last. Visit vans or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Sheridan Kates, a member of the Green Party Economic Policy Working Group who drafted the motion, said this about today's CGT figures. It is almost evidence of an unfair tax system, while that people can bring in so much unund-income tax at much less than income from work. Greens have already got the policy that would equalize taxes from all sources earned or unund, and it doesn't detract from the need to tax wealth. Plenty of the richest people aren't even realising their gains, but take out loans against their wealth to avoid taxes altogether.

52:57Dali, given the figures that we've seen and the previous predictions all seemingly being wrong, is it time we should abolish the OBR? Well, the thing about the OBR is that it's not this ancient pillar of the British state. Like, it's barely older than the iPhone, right? It was invented by George Osborne, in 2010, it has this juicy, neutral sounding name, office for budget responsibility. Like, how can anyone disagree that there should be an office for budget responsibility? Like, we all believe in responsible budgets. But obviously, George Osborne, who created this quango, was not neutral, and he had very specific ideas about what public finances are for, about what counts as a responsible budget. And for him, public finances are a responsible budget is not about what you and I might think a responsible budget is, which is ensuring that wealth is

53:57distributed fairly in society, and that people have the basics that they need and that the economy works for everyone. His idea of what a responsible budget is is a budget that creates a good environment for big business to make profit. Like, that is, and as well as an ideological opposition to the concept of a welfare state. And so, we obviously can't be surprised that, you know, any institution that was designed in that mold would continue to perpetuate that ideology that could continue to measure budgets against that ideology. And what is so effective about it is that after, you know, people's lives have been completely destroyed by austerity, austerity becomes a very difficult thing to sell politically. So, what you do when you have this office for budget responsibility, because I'm sure George Osborne knew that austerity would eventually become politically unpopular because people don't like to have, you know, their GP surgeries privatised, they don't like to have, you know, social services cut to the bone,

55:00they don't like to have their youth centres closed. So, he kind of had this vision and this understanding that austerity is going to become very unpopular. So, how do I make sure that the logic of austerity, that Osborneomics, remains in the fabric of the British state long before I have left, becomes like the algorithm on which the British state's economy runs. The way I'm going to do that is that I'm going to create this kind of seemingly neutral or independent watchdog that means that even if a political party gets voted in on an anti-Osterity platform, which technically this Labour Party was voted on not that, they can then say, well, we didn't want to do austerity, but this neutral, independent watchdog that knows about the kind of what James Meadway calls the dark arts of economic forecasting told us that we have to. So, it's a way, it was a very pressing move by Osborne to make sure that his legacy continues on beyond him, even as his politics

56:01becomes explicitly unpopular, to kind of create this, this, this, this quango with this independent official sounding name. Because ultimately, you know, as James Meadway says, economic forecasting is a dark art in the sense that it has this, this impression of being this mathematical scientific, you know, objective practice that we, you know, the economic laws exist above politics and above ideology, and you can study it scientifically and you can come to objective conclusions. In fact, all economic forecasting is subjective and it starts from basic assumptions about what an economy should do. So, in a sense, all economic forecasting is subjective. The question for us is what assumptions and what principles do we believe economic forecasting and economic management should be run on. So, let's be transparent about it. Let's not hide behind this ridiculous veil of, of, of neutrality and actually be really explicit about what we think this economy should do.

57:03And that is what the Green Party can do because the Green Party's vision of what an economy should be doing, which is to take, which is take care of the majority of people, is far more aligned with what is politically popular than what the Conservative Party did. But the Conservative Party's ideology of what an economy should do makes no sense as irrational as deeply unpopular. So, they have to cloak it behind this idea of scientific mathematical law that most economists worth their salt. No, it's not true. No, no, you don't get it. You don't get it. All of that austerity-driven excess deaths that we saw from 2010 to 2019, that was just responsible social murder. Yes. That was just responsible social murder of the government committed. We couldn't do anything about it. It wasn't our fault. And it was like, if the idea that, you know, allowing your own citizens to die early is somehow responsible budgeting is crazy. It's also the idea that being responsible is not spending too much. From 2010 to 2019, we were in a liquidity trap. For people who don't know what that means at home, when you reduce rates to zero to try and encourage investment, but you still can't get the economy to grow, you still can't get people to invest, right?

58:04Interest rates at zero is a sign from your economy that people are desperate to buy, government debt to desperate to buy bonds. They're desperate to want to make that investment. And yet the government still wouldn't create the investment necessary by going further into deficit to try and stimulate economic growth. They didn't do it. That was irresponsible. That's a decade of stagnation, a decade of productivity being stagnant as well. It's interesting that as soon as the government does stop borrowing more, which they have done since retirees became chance for in 2024, productivity has started growing again, having been stagnant. The economy is growing again, having been stagnant. Again, those terms in the abstract don't necessarily correlate with better living standards over all an issue, how the economic policy to make it happen, but I'm not saying they're bad things. One of the things that the Conservatives pride at themselves on. They always do this is that they are the ones who are the best to get in the economy to grow. And that's proven to be total bullshit. That's proven to be an absolute nonsense. And so it has been irresponsible. It was probably the most economically irresponsible time I've ever seen anyone manage this government in this country when George Roswell was chance to do it. It was ruinous. It potentially has created unsolvable problems in terms of our infrastructure,

59:08the state of our country. And now interest rates are 5% and the government's having to catch up with all the infrastructure investment that we should have been making. And if there's anybody, when people ask me, like, who radicalised you? Who radicalised you to left from politics? And people say Lenin, people say Rosa Luxembourg, George Osborne, my radicalising moment was that I didn't solve for it right. I just didn't solve that story a lot on stream. I lived in Solford from 2010 to 2017, I think. And I worked at CEX for a large time during that period, when that was one of the worst areas in terms of counts of budget cuts in terms of austerity. People very, very poor around there. And CEX, you buy and sell games, consoles and electronics. And people come into my store and I have to look at these people in the eye and tell them, I can't give you more than like 30 quid for your old PS3, whatever it was. And you see the light drain from their eyes. As they realise, they had no choice but to sell their stuff to me at a cup, I was able to afford to live. And from that moment, I told myself I would make it my

1:00:09mission to make sure that the politics that led to that desperate situation is something that I would oppose for rest of my life. And I think the point that you raise as well is really important, because what often gets lost in these very pretentious and deliberately opaque conversations around economic laws and fiscal responsibility is the fact that actually a lot of what drives the design of the economy is a moral question. George Osborne is not opposed to the welfare state because he truly believes in these neutral economic laws that we have no hand in designing. He opposes the welfare state on a moral ground. Like he thinks it is, you know, these people are all influenced by the same small group of thinkers. And there is a moral belief that to provide someone with a guaranteed social safety net, to take from the rich, to give to the poor as they put it, they believe it is a form of theft. And they believe that it is morally abject. They believe that it creates laziness, that it creates slavonliness. These are people who

1:01:16ultimate believe that there is ultimately believe that like there is no such thing as society. That is a moral position. They genuinely believe that the people who went to me, when I was working to be having to sell their prized positions to afford to live, that they are at fault, that those are people who made the way they would engage a personal moral failing to get to that point. And that's a good example. And that to protect them from the consequences of their actions is to morally fail them. So this is where like the kind of they get to hold, they get to hide behind this idea of economics as a hard natural science. When in fact so much of it, much like us, much like our analysis of politics in the economy is morally driven. So is theirs. It's just the armorality. It's not fucked up. Whereas theirs is. And that's why they can't admit it. Whereas I'm very proud of my moral position on what an economy should do. Couldn't agree. Couldn't agree more. You can't predict the future, but you can prepare for it. Arizona State University is building degrees for what's ahead. Programs designed around emerging fields,

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1:03:22Palm Olive, we're breaking down topics like oral health, skin health, and more with the help of expert guests. Check out Serving Smiles or Evergaier Podcasts. There's a lot on the plate of the Democratic Party right now. Donald Trump is shredding the US Constitution in front of the world, starting economy destroying forever wars, upturning the world order, and trying to use the supreme court to manipulate the important midterm elections in November. And a few as at home considered that none of that is as important as talking about the opinions of a Twitch streamer? Well, that's exactly where we are. And it's this clip from commentator Hassan Piker, better known by his online moniker, Hassan Arby, that has been doing the rounds. It all started on Sunday when a short clip of Assailant viral on Twitter after being posted by this pro-Israeli account, claiming Assailant's inviting quote, bad things on American Jews due to their support for Israel. Here's the clip in its full context and unedited. Let's see if that framing is honest.

1:04:28Tough job ahead of you. Well, you have to go back to your communities and try to get your your elderly relatives to understand that this connection between Israel and Zionism that is expressed over and over again through a lot of these Jewish institutions. Okay. Is teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic and this is a dangerous, it is a very, because look, it's a very dangerous mode of propaganda. And you want to know why? Because people don't fuck with Israel any longer. And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel mind you, but against American Jews. Okay. We're teaching people the wrong lesson. At the end of the day, American Jews do not prioritize

1:05:33Israel, but they do prioritize anti-Semitism. And that's precisely the reason why a lot of this propaganda that is facing the American Jewish side from a lot of these Jewish outlets, right? We'll tie the two all the time. And we hear that from outlets like ZBS as well, right? When the host asked Angie Nixon, like, oh, well, don't you think we shouldn't stop giving weapons to Israel at a time when anti-Semitism is exploding? Where's the connective tissue between these two events? American Jews do care about anti-Semitism. It's understandable to care about anti-Semitism. Don't care about Israel. So how do you tie the two? You say, well, Israel is the only thing standing in the way of the next Holocaust happening. That's how you do it. That's how you do it.

1:06:36So every single time you have prominent Zionist Jews come out and be like, no, this is anti-Semitic. To oppose Israel is anti-Semitic. You're teaching people that you're teaching people the trope of dual loyalty. That's where you're teaching people. After you teach them that, you can't turn around and say, oh, well, this is dual loyalty. This is anti-Semitic. Because at a certain point, people are not going to give a shit. And we're already past that point. It's that simple. So Hassan was not advocating for that to happen. As is made clear when the clip is watched in full context, it's actually very similar in tone to this paragraph from an as-recline article from earlier this year. Anti-Semitism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, anti-Semitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don't do the anti-Semites work for them.

1:07:41If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state, then they must hate Jewish people, eventually they will believe you. Not that context, of course, would stop the pro-Zionist media from seizing the opportunity to use the art of context clip for their own ends. But here's CNN's Dana Bash. You may not have heard of left-wing streamer Hassan Piker until this year when Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul Al-Sayed began campaigning with him. Just a reminder, Piker has excused sexual violence from Hamas terrorists. Now, the controversial relationship between the two entered new territory this week after Piker said this. While Piker made that comment, that American Jews who support Israel are responsible for actions taking against them. Which is quite odd. When she had previously said this, when interviewing Benjamin Netanyahu.

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1:09:52Sausage egg and cheese McGrittle's small hot coffee and hash frowns for just six dollars. Price and participation may vary promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing. American Jews in Congress who support Israel and support what you just said. Say that a lot of the actions by you and your government are making Jews in the United States unsafe. Congresswoman Hailey Stevens, she's running for Senate in Michigan, said Benjamin Netanyahu has made us less safe. He has frankly put Jews in an uncomfortable position across the country. It's a bit weird then. Now, of course, this perceived crack in the liberal coalition has been widely exploited by the right-wing media, such as Fox News, who have talked more about Hassan than they have talked about the Iran war. This includes 224 broadcasts about him just in the month of August alone. He is just a taste of their Hassanar B. Derejman syndrome. Bar left streamer Hassan Piker, who is built a platform on anti-American, anti-Israel rhetoric and is a massed, a massive, massive following and doing so.

1:10:54Well, Piker's not a socialist. He's not a progressive. He's a communist. Hassan Piker is the ultimate privileged nepot baby. I mean, Hassan Piker wears the costume of Mao Zedong, who is the most murderous dictator of the 20th century. He blows the death tolls of Hitler and Stalin out of the water. It's just a terrible guy, right? I don't know if there's an equivalent on the right for somebody like that. I've been doing a lot of Bible study with Harold and Greg. And I think I'm pretty certain that this Piker guy, not getting into heaven. I mean, again, it's interesting because, of course, I know Fox News aren't stupid. I know that they know that by broadcasting all of this Hassan Piker staff, they're going to create the discourse. They're going to be able to put this into discourse and ask people on the kind of liberal side of politics to respond, say, well, if you don't say anything against Hassan Piker, then you must agree with him that communism is good. You must agree with him that Israel is an apartheid state that is a genocidal state. Of course, they should agree. The

1:11:54Israel is an apartheid genocidal state, but of course, many of the Democrats do not, and therefore will jump. They will jump with the opportunity to buy into the rights frame, give an issue because they have no idea how to engage in agenda setting. And we might see what that looks like. The Democrats are addicted to allowing the right to set the agenda, as I said, and they've gone into full condemnation modes to try and force Michigan Senate candidate Abdul-Elsaid to distance himself from Hassan. Representative Hillary Shulton in Michigan was the first democratic politician out of the block to jump at the chance to make her opposition to Hassan public. With this prepared statement, she posted to Twitter on the 24th, claiming he had called for violence against American Jews and named Congressional candidate Jeremy Moss on stream. Now that reference to Jeremy Moss is not from the original clip of the win viral last week. Here is Hassan referring to Moss later in that stream. Yeah, Jeremy Moss, the democratic nominee for US House Michigan 11 says, this is the person who took who won Haley Stevens' seat, by the way, says Abdul is going to have to demonstrate some serious outreach

1:12:56to Oakland's Jewish community. I wonder what he asked to do to gain the support of Oakland County's Jewish community. Yeah, he has to drop his critiques of Israel. That's what it is. Now, is Oakland County's Jewish community in unison making this demand of Abdul-Elsaid? No, of course not. But if there isn't opposition from Jewish figures in this community that are loud about the divergences between this representative and their own desires, then the media narrative will set in. Even if they don't realize that this media narrative presents Jews as single-minded and singularly invested in the continuation of the Israeli apartheid.

1:14:08I don't know how, however, I don't know how many different ways I can explain this. I don't know how people don't recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews. You're running around basically tying your entire identity to a country that inevitably will be seen as basically Jewish ISIS, and you're saying, as Jews, this is all we care about. Other Democrats were quick to follow suit in their identity condemnations. Here's the ones who have done so as of the 26th. So I have Alisa Slotkin, Josh Gottheimer, Jackie Rosen, Suzy Lee, a keen Jeffrey's Richie Torres Cory Booker, Brad Schneider, Hillary Shulton and Jake Ockinstras. There's one commonality between these representatives. The EGLEI tweeters didn't miss out on, however. This graphic from Track A-PAC alleges that the vast majority of these elected officials have

1:15:10received a great deal of money from the Zionist lobby. Weird, how they all decided in Unison to weigh in on a deceptively edited clipper for Twitch streamer rather than focusing on beating the Republican party. Outside of copy and paste statements from elected representatives, some congressional candidates also weighed in, including this statement from Michael Lashar and candidate in New Jersey. Defenders and some critics of Hassan Paka just don't get it. The issue isn't just that he lumps all Jews together and holds us all accountable for the supposed evils of Israel, as the his non-stop drive to demonize the world's soldierous state. Along with those who support its survival, crosses a line by miles between criticism and Jew hatred of the ancient variety. Also, Mr Paka, Zionism is fact bound up with Judaism. It is not false conflation. Yes, some Jews are anti-Zionists, and yes, you have felt turn the Z word into a slur such that large numbers of Jews, particularly younger ones, disown it partly out of misunderstanding. But when Jews are attacked for supporting Israel, they are being attacked for a cool part of their Jewish identity. It is Jew hatred, it is unacceptable, and your rhetoric encourages him.

1:16:14Sparish your taxonomy of good Jews and bad Jews. Genuinely incredible. Genuinely incredible for him to go by saying, the problem with the Sun Paka is that he just lumps all Jews together, which has on explicitly did not do in the clips we have seen in their full context. He was explicitly saying that Jewish people are not a monolith. Those are direct words that came out of a Sun's mouth. To then go on and say, actually, Jewish people are a monolith. Zionism in Israel are permanently indelibly inked upon to the Jewish faith, despite only existing as an ideology for just over a century, and was incredibly contested, especially in the early 20th century with the opposing kind of though a kind and bundish movements that were alongside Zionism as believing that Jewish people could be part of a diaspora. There has always been levels of disagreeable, and Jewish personal telly that there was always disagreements around the dinner table. The idea that you can condemn somebody for treating Jewish people as a monolith when they are not. To then go on and say that Jewish people should be a monolith, and that they should be somehow entirely indenibly linked to a genocidal ethno-nationalist apartheid expansionist state is, again, it is doing the job of

1:17:17anti-Semites for them as Ezra Klein and as Azana have already pointed out. Now perhaps the most deranged of public statements came from representative Josh Gottheimer from New Jersey's fifth. Hassan Piker is an anti-Semite. It is what it is, and I don't think he would even claim otherwise. He tries to slice the words up at the end of the day. That's what he is. Nobody should be anywhere near this guy. No one should campaign with him. No one should repost him. And frankly, anybody who is quiet right now is complicit. Everyone should come out against this guy, and we should vote to condemn him when we get back to Congress. Again, Michael Aldrin, I have a resolution. I'm hoping that Republican leaders should bring it to the floor so we can stand up to him and to people like Candace Owens who are spewing hate across the board. Yep, you heard that right. Gottheimer is teaming up with Republican Mike Lawler to try and get a floor vote on the House of the most powerful government in human history to condemn a Twitch streamer. Hassan was unequivocal however, in responding to his critics, commencing on the coordinated public statements on Twitter.

1:18:18A pack boss call was made. They are unanimous in their hatred of me, and I welcome their hatred. If you're a defender of Israel's genocide, with its occupation of its child killing spree, then your booze mean nothing to me. Represensitive Debbie Dingell from Mr. Consic, seemed to be the only one asking the real questions at least. I'm done, so don't any reporter ask me again about Hassan Piker. It's not what November is about. We Republicans are trying to make it. They're trying to divide us, and we got to stop letting them try to divide us. I don't agree with Hassan Piker and a lot of stuff, and I really don't agree with them on some of the woman things he said. And I'm still trying to figure out is it the reason he exercised and looks up is why he has so many followers. We should be silky. Now what's so bananas about the neurotic response to this particular episode is that the data suggests the Democratic Party is totally altered with their voters on Piker himself. Only half of Democrats even know who he is, and amongst those who do he's overwhelmingly

1:19:22popular, with less than a third of respondents, thinking his views are antithetical to the party, compared to over half were supportive. That's before we even get to the gaping casem in opinion between Democratic voters and Democratic politicians over the issue of Israel, with an overwhelming majority supporting arms embargoes and aid restrictions to Israel. That's on top of the majority of Democratic voters also believing Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Dalia, do the Democrats just hate their own voters? I mean, I'll tell you what I don't hate, the fact that I just got to watch loads of clips of Hassan Piker. Normally what I'm here, I'm having to watch clips of Kirst Starmas, so I'm very glad that we've had that upgrade. You're interpre-dingle imperfect alignment on this one. Yeah, I mean, we can all agree he's hot, like that is just a cross-party line. Should I hold the sun doesn't watch this on stream now? I mean, maybe we do hope, sorry, anyway.

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1:21:30Do the Democrats hate their voters? In short, yes, you know, I mean, you would think that a party that is supposed to represent the kind of left-ish, you know, left-of-center politics in the US would be sort of very keen to align themselves with by far the most popular streamer, left-wing streamer in the country, you know, a man that streams for eight hours a day, which is unbelievable, and regularly gets sort of tens of thousands of people watching his streamer any one time. You know, you would think that especially a party that has spoken so much about the importance of a broad church would be very keen to at least find some common ground to try and tap into the clear kind of coalition of potential voters that are organising around Hassan Piker and around sort of the kinds of politics that he that he represents. I mean, Kamala Harris

1:22:32was very proud to tell everyone that she had received, you know, the endorsement of Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney and how important it was to have a broad church of voices in the new democratic party. It shows it betrays a very deep level of contempt that you would be more willing to palli up with essentially a war criminal from the Republicans than someone who represents the broad, you know, a significant chunk clearly of your broad base. But I think we have to understand why this is the case. The reason this is the case is because when you have a broken political system, a political system that is not fundamentally democratic, that is completely captured by vested interests, the role of the main establishment parties is not to reflect the politics of the people, it's to make the politics of the people. And one way in which you do that is you create a very, very narrow range of political ideas that people can be exposed to and political ideas that are,

1:23:38you can legitimately hold. And for the Democrats side, that means really, really narrowing the boundary of what can be considered an acceptable left or center left politics. And that inevitably involves neutralizing or delegitimizing anyone who falls outside of that. Now, what I find very interesting is that on the right, on the Republican side, they have actually been much more able to absorb their version of this. You know, I saw in one of those clips them saying there's no equivalent of Hassan Piker on the Republican side, which is unbelievable. Nick Fuentes anybody? I mean, hello, and not only that, but Trump has been very savvy in how he engages with this kind of podcast politics. Democrats have not been able to do that. And that's because the kinds of politics that falls outside of the bound to the Democrat party are a genuine threat to those vested interests. You know, when we look at the organizations that are behind a lot of these smear campaigns against

1:24:40Hassan Piker and, you know, anyone associated with him, a lot of it is coming from this organization called Third Way, which is basically corporate executives, Wall Street executives, and incredibly wealthy private donors. Those people are not going to are investing in the Democratic party because they see it as a vehicle to neutralize left politics in the US, especially as inequality grows, and, you know, radical politics on both sides kind of grows as a response as a response to that. And the Democrat party has been really effective at neutralizing left politics in the US for a very long time because alongside the kind of, you know, liberal media, which is a phrase I use very cautiously, it has had quite a lot of control over what ideas people are exposed to. And what's happened as a result of YouTube and the rise of content creators and stuff is that flow, that control over the flow of information and ideas has been dramatically undermined. You know, people are

1:25:42exposed now to a lot broader range of ideas. Some of those ideas, Alan Fentay's a terrible a lot of those ideas are really positive and are really kind of critically thought out. And so what we are seeing here is not necessarily strategic failure from the Democratic party, because, you know, you could look at this and say, well, why wouldn't you try and capture some of this base and reflect the way your base is going? What we're seeing is the purpose of the Democratic party as it is right now in action, which is to limit people's political imagination and create and neutralize any kind of left politics that threatens the material interests of power in the in the United States. I just can't get over the fact that they're introducing a bill to Congress to condemn Hassan Piker. I just can't get over the fact that there's going to be a Twitch stream or condemnation bill in the House of Representatives, potentially, if it gets given a floor vote by Mike Johnson, which is crazy to me. But I think there's two things about the story that stand out. First of all, I think that there's a collective delusion amongst Democratic party establishment

1:26:47that if they just wait, eventually, Mago will crumble and the Republican party will go back to being like it was under Bob Dole, under George Bush senior, like the Reagan Act had no casualties. Exactly. When in fact, on basically every single kind of political viewpoint, these people have shifted further to the right or they've just completely collapsed. Like the free trade area is over in terms of Republican politics. They're not going back to like the pro-Nafte-Ragan, I hear a politics. And they're not going back to like liberal interventionism there, they're even though the Neocons are still there for, you know, more imperial reasons as we're seeing like the Don Roe doctrine and stuff. But the Mago cult is like 30% of the electorate. Like that's not going away. People who are supportive of Mago continue keep winning primaries, right? That is the Republican party, post-teap party. It's not going back to the way it was. Then they think about continuing to capitulate that they will be able to win over this moderate Republicans. And that's just not happening. It isn't happening at all. And that's a collective delusion on top of the fact that they have a huge support for Israel. The second thing that's interesting about this is that just like in the UK, when Morgan McSweeney was designing the electoral position of the Labour Party in the run out for the 2024 election, the idea was we're only going to take positions by triangulating

1:27:52the median voters position, right? It just doesn't exist by the way. This actually came from a strategy by democratic party member called the Geigel David Shaw. He described it as popularism, not populars and popularism, he's doing what is politically popular in opinion polling. And that applies to trans people in sports. It applies to defund the police. It applies to foreign policy and loads of different other things. But when it comes to Israel, break down completely just as it did in the UK. As soon as you latch my near and matte glaciers look at the opinion polling in Israel, rather than go let's move to where the voters are, they go the voters are wrong. How dare you oppose genocide? You're wrong for thinking that we should be trying to move money away from the apartheid ethosentimate least. That's an important geopolitical asset for the United States. I'm like, well, if I was a US voter, I wouldn't want my geopolitical asset tied to child slaughter. Like that shouldn't be difficult for these strategies to understand them. But they've got their minds so tied up in this American unipolar world that they lived in in the 80s and 90s, it is dead, it's totally dead and it is dying a quick death at the hands of Donald Trump. They

1:28:56don't realise they were living in a different world. We're living in a globally connected with living in a far more ideologically disparate world. And they can't just hammer the same points again and again and expect the status quo to stay the same. People are moving away from them on explicit moral grounds and they can't cope with the fact that they are the ones who look immoral in this situation. So they're trying to force the square peg of the support of Israel into the round hole of where the American public is at, right? It's not just Democrats, lots of Republicans are moving away. Sometimes for more conspiratorial reasons or anti-Semissive reasons, but they are moving away too. And crucially, independence moving away from Israel as well, this not-so-popular position. It is a democracy party, establishing position that they cannot let go of either because they're bought out by the Zionist lobby or because they genuinely can't see what they've done wrong. And also because the structural geopolitical interests of Israel are deeply aligned with the geopolitical structural interests of the United States. Like they have shared material interests and until they can find another vehicle through which they can

1:29:57confidently exercise that power, they are not going to dissociate from Israel because for them, it's not a moral question, it's not a political question. It's a question of maintaining a structure of colonial power in the Middle East. And foreign policy in a sense has always been the kind of carved out exception of this idea of politics by consent. I mean, this kind of thing doesn't really exist anyway, but foreign policy has always been the thing where the state has had to kind of completely ignore what is actually popular amongst the people because it reflects a much deeper set of interests. And I think that- I do think that we are starting to see a shift and I think that the Democrat establishment just doesn't know how to deal with that shift because when I talk about the control of information and the control of the flow of ideas, that you can't see a clearer version of how social media and the rise of alternative media has disrupted that flow

1:31:01than in the case of Israel. There was a very tight, well-funded narrative and story around what Israel is, what Palestine is, what it means to kind of oppose or defend Israel. And the existence of largely journalists and people within Gaza being able to finally get their voices heard by the public, that dissolved within what felt like- what in political timelines felt like minutes. And that's a really, really threatening thing. And like I said, it's not this utopian thing where it's like social media is the great democratizer of information. Absolutely not, but this is one of those examples where it actually kind of worked and this question of what precedent does that set for politics as usual, for our understanding of what the role of political parties is, which again is not to reflect, but it's to shape the kind of the political spectrum. That is quite an

1:32:03existential question, not just for establishment politicians, but also the entire network of like lobbyists and think tanks and professional political understandurers that exist all the ecosystem of politics makers that exist all around kind of politics as usual. It's disintegrating. And in many ways it's falling into really scary ways, but it's not even, in some ways it's actually creating a much more critical population. Exactly. We see it in the fact that we saw changing ownership because of like the opposition designers and becoming mainstream like so CBS getting taken over and changing their editorial position. We saw the changing ownership of TikTok, because there was this conspiracy theory, the pro-Palestine sentiment was because the CCP were infiltrating the kids through the TikToks, right? And those things have changed ownership. Now, has the pro-Palestine sentiment abated? It hasn't, in fact, it's got even stronger. It shows that actually the lift cannot be put back on the bottom. People have seen shit that can't unsee.

1:33:05Yeah, exactly. You don't unsee children being slaughtered. You don't unsee people with drips in their arms burning to death under the reign of Israeli Hellfire. You don't unsee that. And the problem, of course, is that Democrats would rather lose than give up Israel. They would rather lose in Texas, because Tallerikoua poses the Israeli aid program. They would rather lose in Michigan, because I believe I'll say he'd has been photographed next to somebody who's critical Israel. A lot more Troy Jackson to lose in Maine because he supports an arms embargo as well. They would rather lose all these races and allow Trump to just continue to destroy American democracy, because they're not opposing him. They're not spending time attacking him, blowing up the world economy, and essentially trying to potentially even make the dollars its reserve currency status. Huge economic problems are coming for regular Americans and the border American state if Trump continues. And they're not attacking him. They're attacking his son, Parker, because again, they don't care about beating the Republicans. They care about maintaining ideological positions of their own, vote-based regardless of where those positions are right now. I think very much for joining me tonight, it's been an absolute pleasure.

1:34:06Thanks for having me. It is squeltering in this studio. I'm really excited for that. I know we said very, very frequently, but it's extremely, extremely hot, specifically today, because with it raining outside, it's kind of like a cloud that's kept all over the area. Sorry, yeah, like, sorry if there was any like flashes of delirium. It's my response. It's because I like sweating out every border. It's been on camera. I've been like this. Anyway, and thank you everyone at home for joining us as well. Come back tomorrow night from another livestream from 6 p.m. For now, you've been watching Novara Media. Good night. Just ahead of the curve, it's creating new paths to success. Learn from notable clinical and research faculty online. That's a degree better. Explore programs at ASUOnline.asu.edu.

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