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Welcome to today's Megatrends. July 4th, where is our music? July 4th, 2026. Your midweek synopsis of the world as we think we know it. I'm your host, Pat Fahey, with my executive producer, Jason Francisco, and his student intern today. Welcome, Astro, here at Pacific Coast TV in Pacifica, California. I'm not going to be talking about the governor's race. Things are still up in the air. A three-way between Javier Serra and Tom Steyer and the GOP, whoever he is, whose name I won't even bother to mention. Today's Megatrends examines the Electronic Intifada, details of the resistance in Lebanon as we speak, with on-the-ground reports from the incredibly brave Courtney Bonneau. As the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force, bombs civilians as we speak right now, and kills hundreds of people as they break the so-called ceasefire with impunity. And the resistance is holding the IDF off with their drone technologies, homegrown drone technologies. Also, we're going to domestically talk about the Montana Plan, which is going national to end Citizens United and how they can give And of course, a choice for corporations. You can either do business with us or invest in political PACs or, oh, but you have to choose. You can only do one or the other. And then finally, how does the school voucher program that's intended to end public education by the GOP. Sort of an extension of Project 2025 is being resisted. And also the other main big resistance is happening across the political spectrum. Conservatives, liberals and moderates, everybody in local areas stopping the data centers. And that's going very, very well. Before we get started with it, I wanted to play this one little Beautiful, perfect start to Megatrends today. But before I do, I wanted to talk about, you know, it wasn't until my early teens when my Spanish grandmother revealed to me that her family were originally Ladino Spanish Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism to blend in and avoid the threat of pogroms and kind of the equivalent of the KKK throwing burning crosses on front lawns or ring houses or worse. And even though I'm Pat Fay, I'm also Patricio Jose Maria Gallegos. And my grandmother was a Casals who married into the Gallegos family. And the Casals and Gallegos families came to America in the 18th century believing they could move to what was northern Mexico at the time when they heard from family members that all the different religions were tolerated, living together in community and then easily blended in. And that's what motivated them to come to what is now what we call the United States, but at the time it wasn't, but the area we call New Mexico. But things changed in the middle of the 19th century. The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the U.S. and Mexico fought between April 1848, 1846, and February 1848. And it was won by the Americans and damned by its contemporary critics as expansionist. And it resulted in the U.S. gaining more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory, extending westward and northward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. And it stemmed originally from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or as Mexico claimed, or the Rio Grande as the U.S. claimed. So, you know, what did a Mexican-American war have to do with Manifest Destiny? You know, the concept of manifest destiny held that the U.S. had a providential right to expand the Pacific Ocean. And anyway, in the next generations, the tolerance level changed after they got here. And once again, the Casals family of Ladino Jews realized that their children would fare better if they became Christians, particularly Catholics. and attended Catholic church services. And so the menorahs and other Jewish symbols found their way to remote areas of grandma's living room. And my asking about the menorah candles, it's what started that historical journey. My mother really never shared or really knew much about, so. The last little tidbit was El Dia de los San Patricios in Mexico. It's a day of a nativist movement built on anti-Catholic sentiment and Anglo-Saxon supremacy ran rampant in America during the 1840s. And for Irish Catholics who escaped poverty and prejudice and colonization under British rule, they arrived in the U.S. only to be met with similar derision. And so... you know it was these irish soldiers constrict conscripted to fight with the u.s soldiers uh um listen to the u.s soldiers using the same insulting language describing the mexicans as they use on the irish you know dirty ignorant vermin and all that and so we see the historical threads of that racism today, the same derisive language we hear Donald Trump using, shit countries and then why we should be giving money to shit countries in Africa and Latin America, the basis for his executive order to defund USAID and programs and break ties with the World Health Organization. So, you know, between 1844 and 1849, the influx of Irish immigrants, left their ancestral lands to escape religious tyranny and famine, the so-called Great Hunger, caused by this destructive mold that wiped out much of the country's potato crop, which resulted in more than a million deaths and the displacement of a million more. So with this flow of mass migration, you know, anti-papist aggression reawakened racist rhetoric that circulated in the press. So, you know, the history of Zionism also includes, you know, the Bund, who were the Bund of the anti-Zionist socialist Jews of Europe. And later we're going to have a little piece in Megatrends about that. It was like Yitzhak Shamir, the head of the Zionist terrorist group, Stone Gang at the time. They hated socialist Jews so much that he wrote a letter at this to Adolf Hitler in 1941, promising to turn in Boone's socialist Jews to gain favor with Adolf Hitler. And actually in Israel's Jerusalem Post, broke a national taboo in 1989 by writing of Shamir's letter that promised Hitler that Shamir's stern gang guerrillas would collaborate with Nazis to turn in socialist Jews. So that is who is running Israel now, the traitors. of the socialist Jews and Jews who want to live in peace with Palestinians. So we'll get to that story. That was from the L.A. Times in 1989. But I wanted to get to this domestic, what's happening in Louisiana. And this was in a...

this is one of the greatest public ass whoopings you'll ever hear so let's play this first one uh this is from tyt so much for mentioning me your hat says trump was wrong about everything it should say you are wrong about everything that's adorable all right the board is clear the board is clear burned

The state of Louisiana in 2025 deported multiple children, one of whom was born in New Orleans and had brain cancer. Donald Trump got the pro-life Bible thumping Republican Party to say, yes, we want more of that. As a matter of fact, St. Gregory Bovino down here to harass more people. So I have no doubt in my mind that the map's going to pass. If y'all can give us less than zero seats, you would do it. Y'all do this under the orders of somebody that said the Civil Rights Act was harmful to white people, that it caused reverse racism. RFK said that black children are overfilled on antidepressants and that they need to be reparented on different forms, all of them. Pete Headseth constantly brings Doug Wilson to the Pentagon to give a prayer service. Doug Wilson is the same pastor that said that slave owners were on strong spiritual ground. I don't have no belief in no morality on anybody that followed Donald Trump. If you wasn't with this map, you wouldn't be underneath this president. You wouldn't be in your party. You would stand up. You would stand against it. You would speak out about it. So as far as I'm concerned, if you here as one of these Trump Republicans, you already showed us who you are. You showed us what you want to do. And I believe the country as a whole is rebuking your party. Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why y'all have to redistrict. That's why y'all have to cheat. That's why Trump got to go to Texas and say he entitled to five more seats. It's because y'all know what y'all doing is abhorrent. We letting our people die in Iran based on false pretense that Tulsi Gabbard and Joe can't say it ain't real. Y'all okay with all that. So I'm positive y'all going to be okay with the maps. But the beautiful thing is the children that y'all have made and the people that's younger than y'all don't support none of this racism that y'all want. The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy. And I'll be happy to see millennials and Gen Z bury y'all. There will be no more of your party. The midterms going to come, y'all going to get wiped out. Trump going to get dragged out of the White House, and I'm going to love every second of it. Because y'all loved every second of the suffering that he caused to everybody in this country and worldwide. We starve in Cuba. We bomb Nigeria. We hold in Zimbabwe and Zambia hostage for their minerals. We don't want to give them aid support. The pro-lifers that say all life is special. Y'all letting kids die of AIDS. What part of your Bible say that? Point out the scripture. I think everybody would love to see it. And we would love to see y'all in the midterms. Just to address some of the things said by Jay Morrison, he was up here, which I thought was pretty much hilarious. He said Mike Johnson is popular. Mike Johnson has negative 7%. He said he wants to spread more of the conservative ideology. I think that's a uniquely bad idea that virtually everybody in America agrees on. The conservatism that y'all have spread through Louisiana has led to the highest rate of people leaving the state that y'all have been running. When you look at what's going on underneath the Donald Trump presidency, we have the highest amount of people that want to leave America. We have the least popular presidential campaign ever ran in the history of Poland. If we have more conservatism, what comes with that? Less education, more dumb people. The worst education in our country comes from Republican states. More dead babies in a hospital. The worst infant mortality comes from red states. More mothers dying, giving birth. The worst maternal mortality comes from red states. The most war, sending our people to die in places for no reason, comes from Republican presidents. The worst recessions, 10 out of the last 11 recessions have been started underneath people who think like you. Who think like Jay Morris. who think like Donald Trump. And what makes it beautiful is we see it on display. Miguel is over here saying, oh yeah, y'all have an issue with racial gerrymandering. What the real problem is, legislation. That's what we really need to take care of out of that. We got a bunch of people came up here saying, we don't like the way that y'all write maps. Miguel is saying, no, all we get out of that is don't solve the problem. Let's just do whatever we have to do to save ourselves from going back to court. This is pitiful. It's a reason why y'all movement is just unpopular. And it's a reason why y'all have to cheat to have any chance of winning. And what's beautiful is the midterms going to come around and you're still going to get wiped out.

Well, there you have it. I have to say I was really, I hope you really enjoyed that. But then, as you know, what happened in Louisiana was the Calais versus in the Louisiana decision, which ended section two of the Voting Rights Act. So, and then immediately nine states jumped on board to do gerrymandering, to do the same thing, to deny black and Latino proportional representation. So that's what's going on. But there's a big fight back going on, too. It's very, very interesting. You know, we're in such a the perfect time where this is a fight that's going on. And it's not clear what the outcome will be, but it looks like a mega trend. We'll keep an eye. That's what we're doing. We're going to switch gears to now the middle, actually to Lebanon. And this is what's going on. By the way, this is Courtney Bonneau. who's been reporting on the ground reports from the Israeli genocide in Lebanon, this invasion, that this is so egregious. It even prompted Donald Trump to really sock it to Benjamin Netanyahu, who we talked recently, cursing him out publicly. Just listen to this. This is Courtney Barone.

Hi, I'm reporting to you from the city of Sur. The Israeli army has again issued forced displacement orders for almost the entire city and the surrounding refugee camps, which are densely populated. This personally is my third displacement in two weeks. Forced displacement is barbaric. Anytime I get on the road to leave my apartment, I see families with young children. I see families with elderly people and families with disabled people attempting to flee. As you can see, there are hundreds of people here on the beach in the MENA area who have been forcefully displaced from the rest of the city. Today has already been a particularly violent day with dozens of air and drone strikes. And what you can see behind me here is the front line of an Israeli invasion and occupation of a sovereign country. What I've been witnessing and what you've been witnessing when you watch my videos is a genocide. So that was to cut short, you know, right, right soon after there was a,

For her safety, she had to kind of pause that. We're going to pick up on Courtney a little bit later on. Courtney actually lives in Lebanon. She's married, has children, and she's doing journalism from there because she feels like that's what she should be doing. So my heart is out to her, and let's all hope that she stays safe. this next one is from the electronic intifada so this is actually the war journalism from the resistance side you know and how drone technology has changed the equation you know how who made low cost drone tech by the little people is actually breaking even with these billion dollar US Israeli funded genocide let's listen to what's going on here

Here is the shot that the Israelis have been afraid of. You see the dust of a Israeli military Humvee. And right about now, the Humvee sees that there's a drone coming, slams on its brakes. Clearly no plan how to handle this situation. And the Israelis are now stopped and attempting to bail out of this Humvee. You can see two soldiers there, the one on the left doing the Superman. He's got his foot caught in the tire there. You can see another fighter operating in South Lebanon with his fingers removed, the fingers from the Pager attack. You have a fighter on the front line putting together the drone that just apparently killed several Israeli soldiers, although they haven't admitted to that. These guys bailing out and leaving their two to four other guys in the back to fend for themselves. They're not jumping out here to shoot at the drone or to try to knock the drone down. They just bailed. And that's going to be a theme of this program. Right here is the shot that the Israelis have been afraid of for the past 80 days of this war. Showing the final moments of these soldiers would become a major propaganda coup and also a real shock to the morale.

So that's the Electronic Intifada and then you can watch them on social media and they have like a, you can go to the electronicintifada.com and they have, you know, a variety of people from, you know, throughout the journalistic world giving information that you're not going to be getting on MSNBC and CNN and in Western media in general. But the rest of the world, this is what they're seeing. So kind of bringing the third eye, going up the Z axis to see what's happening in living in the United States where you have to really search Hard to find out information about what's getting on in our mainstream media. This next one is also is from Courtney. And this is, so let's listen to what she's saying here.

Hi, I'm reporting to you from occupied South Lebanon, quite close to the yellow line area you can see behind me. This is an area implemented by the Israeli army in order to illegally occupy more Lebanese land. The strategy has also been used by the Israeli army in Gaza under the guise of being a security belt. It is not a security belt. It is a land and resources grab security belt includes rich farmlands, rivers, streams, and notably the Kana gas field because the security belt extends out into the ocean. The Israelis are committing multiple war crimes in this current situation. My friend and colleague Amal Khalil was reporting on this and she paid with her life when the Israeli army executed her two days ago while she was doing her job. Americans This is so frustrating to keep having to say this while you're being forced to choose between groceries and gas for your car to take you to a job that likely doesn't even offer you health insurance. The government is sending your tax dollars to kill unarmed civilians, journalists, medical personnel, and so on.

So they, so yeah, so that's, What she's reporting, unfortunately, I think it's because they limit the amount to, I think, two minutes. This next, and we have some more from the Electronic Intifada and from Ms. Morneau in a little bit. I wanted to bring to your attention Something that, you know, Mexico, by the way, which we're talking about, just took one of the biggest swings at public health in its history. President Claudia Scheinbaum signed a decree creating a new universal health care service, a plan to give every resident in the country free access to public medical care, no matter whether they have a job insurance or neither. By the way, our tax money funds that goes to Israel funds a national healthcare system that they have there. How about that? They can afford it there because of our tax money, but we can't afford it here. Anyway, here's how it works. Instead of building a brand new system from scratch, And I say this as a possible, you know, model for the United States to consider. The plan stitches together the country's three big public health institutions into one network. And so the idea is simple. A patient should be able to walk in with any public. So it would be a big part of which program. And the rollout is faith. It's not intimate. You have to be from the state of Mexico to start receiving a pathway. ID card that doubles as official identification with adults 85 and older, birth to life. And across institutional care for emergencies like heart attacks, strokes, high risk pregnancies, and certain cancers is slated to begin in 2027, with full integration targeted for 2030. On wages, Scheinbaum points to a track record of government calls to prove the critics were wrong. The minimum wage has risen a cumulative 154% since 2018. She says it happened alongside a record foreign investment, not the inflation spike opponents had warned about. Sound familiar? So her, so supporters are calling it a model for the rest of the continent should study. Critics question whether the budget can actually cover free care for 120 million without overwhelming, you know, public hospitals. But you know, the million dollar question is, is this the blueprint for universal healthcare done right? So we'll see. So that's going on right now. what I mentioned before when I started in the show talking about the history of the Bund, socialists, it just, it turned out like in 1989, the Jerusalem Post, a conservative, you know, post, less liberal than Haaretz, you know, they, they, broke a taboo of of revealing you know uh uh who was a remember he was the head of the stern guys in world war ii and he's the one that wrote a letter to hitler to turn in you know socialist jews and then hitler just spit it at the things it was this guy and he would you know uh so i need to add the letter and you crumple it up and through it and uh away. But so he returned to Palestine, you know, because that's where he originally was. And then he was bouncing back and forth between the European theater and Palestine at the time. This is Yerxa Shamir, who later became the prime minister between 1984 and 1992. So the Jerusalem Post cited Sterngang past in his stance on the peace now because he used the same language to attack the peace now folks in Israel who wanted communications with the Palestinians as he used with the socialist Jews. So there's really this big rift between the Zionists, the hardcore supremacist Zionists and them. So Israel's Jerusalem Post broke a national taboo today, writing of a 1941 link between Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's stern gang guerrillas in Nazi Germany. The episode, known to historians, is almost never mentioned in a country that reveres the memory of six million European Jews, including Shamir's entire family, killed by the Nazis during World War II. The respected English language daily was bitterly opposed. Shamir broke the silence in an editorial blasting obscene attacks by the premier. and other right-wingers on the Peace Now movement's contacts with Palestinians. Noting that Shamir said there would be no KGB in Israel to hunt down Peace Now activists, that really rankled everyone across the political spectrum. That might be reassuring, but for the disturbing memory of the Stern Gang, which with a final solution already underway in all but name, sought out German cooperation in setting up here of a Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis. So again, the Stern Gang was an underground group, which Shamir was the leader in trying to make those alliances. So anyway, that was posted in the LA Times from the Jerusalem Post. So this is a story about the history of the Bloomberg from a writer, Molly Crabapple. She set out to tell the movement's history in her book. Here we live is our country. Here where we live is our country.

The Jewish Labour Bund was a revolutionary party that was born in 1897 in Tsarist Russia that was socialist, secular, defiantly Jewish in a place that might have been the worst place in the world to be Jewish at the time, and proudly anti-Zionist. They pulled off massive general strikes. They created armed militias to defend their communities against pogroms. They supported international socialism. And they fought for the better and more beautiful world, not just in articles, but with their fists and with guns. One of the most fundamental aspects of the Boons' philosophy was a Dokkaid, Heerness. They believed was that they had a right to live in freedom and in dignity and to have flourishing, beautiful lives in the lands that they were born, even if the government, even if bigots wanted them dead. When Bundists said, here where I live is my country, they were talking about places that were violently, violently racist, places that long before the Holocaust were committing mass murders of Jews. And so when they insisted on their right to stay there, that was a defiant thing. I mean, Bundists and Zionists hated each other from the start. I found a quote by Chaim Weizmann, who would be the first president of Israel, where he said everywhere our strongest struggle is waged against the boon. They felt that Zionism was submission to the same bigots that wanted to kick Jews out of their homes in Europe. And they saw Zionism acting as a handmaiden of British imperialism to deny Palestinians their most basic political rights. The Zionist movement, in addition to its colonization of Palestinian land, it also colonized Jewish history and it presented itself as the only possible ideology, the only possible philosophy. There have always been strong, proud, and noble Jewish movements that fought for universal human solidarity. Zionism does not have a monopoly and has never had a monopoly upon us.

so um that was uh and you can actually get that book you know just google that book and it's called what here where we live is our country by uh molly uh crabapple and um so uh check that out and see if it um in it she uh writes about um there were comments about these are people that were commenting about uh her uh what she was talking about there um That it, um, uh, that the, uh, that the Stern gang was an underground group, which was Shamir was a leader. And it tried to make alliances with you. I think I mentioned that before alliances with Nazi Germany. And, um, you know, there really is that, um, strand of criticism, um, that we're becoming like our, our enemies has, and many people saw psychologists. and commented that there was that effort originally of creating, using those Menachem Begin's group and Shamir's group, the two terrorist groups, the Stern Gang and the other one, which was his, he was the... was kind of like a post-traumatic stress syndrome, a PTSD, that there were many people that said, you know, why do you have to go in and kick people out of their lands and, and, and shooting. We, we, we were getting along with people for the most part. Yeah, we had our conflicts, but we, we didn't need all of this, uh, going on. Um, so a lot of psychologists saw that as the post-traumatic stress syndrome, both Menachem Begin and, um, uh, Yitzhak Shamir, who both lost their families in, uh, in Nazi Germany. Um, so, um, As I mentioned, the two main Zionist terrorist groups hated the Bund socialist Jews who rejected the push for the Jewish supremacist settler state in Palestine in the 1940s. And this they saw it as a violent PTSD resulting from Nazi final solution psychology, you know, and the mass murder from the concentration camps, you know, modeling the ruthlessness of the Nazi oppressors. And, you know, they they actually felt that overcoming British imperialism was, uh, they, they thought the British were worse than the Nazis because it was British, uh, the British who were like the overseers of, of, of, of what was in the 1920s and thirties and forties, you know, prior to 1948. So it was like the turning over of, uh, uh, Palestine, you know, by the British, uh, imperialists. Um, so, um, But let that sink in for a second, though. You know, the idea that a group representing a people who were among the prime victims of Nazi genocide could seek an alliance, the perpetrators of that genocide, it's just beyond shocking. That was one of the commenters said. And he also comments that the Irgun and the Stern gang, the I-R-G-U-N, that was Menachem Begin and the Stern Gang, Yitzha Shamir, both future Israeli prime ministers. The intention was always clear from the beginning to instill fear and prompt a mass exodus of Palestinians from their lands. And so today, when you see Israeli propagandists on social media, the very denial of the word genocide is integral to the normalization of genocide. So we're going to go to this next little part here. Let me see what time we're doing. It's 2.36. And it's, again, from the Electronic Intifada. Let's go to that little tidbit here. Is there? So okay, so the the electronic antithona is we're having some technical difficulties right now. What's wrong with the volume? Is there a problem with the volume?

They're not allowing this ceasefire to be a continuation of the war like Israel wants. Beautiful area, South Lebanon. It's a crime what's happening to it, literally. Another beautiful shot of South Lebanon in the spring. We're seeing the... Beautiful hills of South Lebanon. A lot of these videos are remarkable for what you see in this area. This is against a moving vehicle. It's carrying an anti-tank warhead, 93mm anti-tank warhead that has the ability to penetrate as much as 500mm of rolled homogenous armour. And that is not what is on those Humvees. So to deliver these weapons, and that's also why the net won't work. You put a net over this vehicle that we're watching right here, the RPG round just gets caught in the net and then detonates over top of the troops. So not super useful. Their willingness to go through these valleys simply to destroy homes and take casualties every day. Another soldier was killed today. 13 more were wounded today in uh in fpv drone strikes again fpv stands for purse first person view which is what we're seeing here the pilot is looking at the same thing that we're looking at again low battery um which is optimizing the um the build the drone build to um you know have one less battery gets you more uh distance more range that's an eight on uh eight wheeled uh troop carrier that got hit there directly on the top They're responding to everything that Israel is doing. They're not allowing this ceasefire to be a continuation of the war like Israel wants to try to achieve what they can't achieve in battle. by doing it during a ceasefire demolishing homes there you see the hit on the humvee there using a house as a base this is against a nomer troop carrier this is in canthara again um this is near vintage bale again the massive you know terrorist hillsides massive destruction through vintage bale is um you know devastating to see vintage bale is a heart of the resistance um And here, okay, so here the drone's coming down on the NAMR troop carrier. You're going to see the soldier's helmet, the tank, the armored personnel carrier crewmate. That's the driver, presumably, or commander popping out of his hatch there. They're not allowing this ceasefire to be.

Okay, so you can see that this is a rendition of what the trend in the Middle East war was. is and what the whole trend all over the world is also in Russia, Ukraine, it's in the Middle East, you know, that people are realizing, oh, geez, we can really, drone technology is really what's making, you know, the fight between, you know, Goliath and David, so to speak. It's breaking even. People can't really, it makes war completely useless anymore. People can't fight the little people anymore with their great big weapons. And that's what the United States is fighting out. That's why it's so embarrassing. Trump doesn't know any of this because he doesn't see anything. So until we get out of this, we have five more months. to before we make a major change so that we can sort of neutralize any further bad decisions that this terrible, terrible president is making. I wanted to turn the page a little bit to bring to a younger public who Edward R. Murrow was. He was an American broadcaster, was a war correspondent. He originally gained prominence during World War II in a series of live broadcasts from the European theater. And it was really a new thing for CBS. And so for the early TV, people got to see, you know, somebody on the ground talking about, you know, bravely talking about the war. And then during the McCarthy era, he was a very harsh critic of the McCarthy era in the 1950s. So this little segment here is Edward R. Murrow. I talked about him. Of course, he was on CBS. You know what's happening with Barry Weiss firing all the credible journalists on 60 Minutes and also firing Stephen Colbert because we have a president who's so thin-skinned he can't take criticism. And so that's the kind of president. This is what we elected. know learn this lesson and learn this you know that these are the elections have consequences so uh but this is edward r merle gives us a little perspective from the 1950s and his brave criticism of at the time of uh of joe mccarthy and so let's go to that right now This is Edward R. Murrow's stinging criticism of Joe McCarthy.

We should be going back with this loyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrines. And remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the results. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation, we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear, he merely exploited it, and rather successfully. Cassius was right. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

The fault is not within the stars, it's within ourselves. Yes, we helped create this monster. uh, our own monster. Uh, the Democrats, you know, when they are famous for losing winnable elections, they, there is no way that Trump should have ever been allowed to win this election. Uh, but I can't tell. And then they, they had a, uh, report out on why and one of those that would have made a difference was if Kamala Harris had come out and used the word genocide and say our tax money shouldn't be going for this and breaking with Biden's Zionist sending of 2,000 pound bombs. People were really against that. She would have really we could have easily won that election. But anyway, let's go to this next one. This is Trump's racism runs so deep, can we ever recover? By executive order, he took away this display of World War II black soldiers. So let's check this out. This is just horrible.

administration recently decided the problem with world war two wasn't nazis it was black people being remembered for their service at a u.s military cemetery in margraten netherlands where more than 8 300 american soldiers are buried after liberating europe the u.s government quietly removed two displays honoring black world war ii troops no announcement no explanation just gone Thanks to the AP for being pretty much the only outlet to report about this. One panel told the story of George A. Pruitt, a 23-year-old black soldier who died in 1945 trying to rescue another American from drowning. The other explained a basic historical fact. The U.S. military was segregated during World War II, and apparently that was the problem. The removals were triggered by Trump's executive orders ending DEI programs. Emails obtained through a FOIA request confirmed the decision was political. Not accidental, not procedural, not routine rotation. This was about making Black history disappear quietly enough that no one would notice. Except the locals noticed that this hallowed space had been defiled. The Dutch residents who care for these graves, many of whom adopt fallen American soldiers and tend them for generations, were furious. Dutch officials demanded the panels be restored. Families of the soldiers objected. Even a Dutch TV station recreated the panels in protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassador defended the removal, saying the displays shouldn't, quote, criticize America. My dude, acknowledging segregation is not criticizing America. Erasing it absolutely is. About one million Black Americans served in World War II. They fought in segregated units. They did dangerous work. An all-Black unit dug the graves of Margrotten during the brutal winter of 1944 to 1945, burying white soldiers they weren't allowed to socialize with while alive. Europe remembers them as liberators. The Trump administration treats them like a DEI inconvenience. The American Battle Monuments Commission now claims the segregation panel didn't fit its, quote, commemorative mission.

So and so that is this very next one actually goes to a review of the Mar-a-Lago raid of documents whose classification was so highly classified. the investigators are prohibited from uh reading them uh so let's go to that one right now this is uh from um uh from carol leonig okay let's check this out here we learned a lot of new things that were actually kind of jaw dropping about the mar-a-lago search that have never been reported before

FBI agents arrived at Mar-a-Lago on August 8th, 2022, around 10 a.m., and they left at four after a very thorough search of his residence, his bedroom, his office, and other adjoining rooms. They found hundreds of pages of classified records. So shocking to have that kind of volume. But then they also learned that many of these records were gravely serious. Hours after the raid at Mar-a-Lago, The Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Matt Olson, huddled up on a hastily convened conference call with his top investigators to find out what did we recover. He turned to one of his top prosecutors, Julie Edelstein, and said, what do we do now? And her response was, if it were anybody else, We would arrest him tomorrow. That's how serious the material was. And it's how clear that this was, in their view, a serious crime. Olson knew he had to go and review these records to figure out how sensitive were they. And what he learned was that as he put on rubber gloves at the Washington field office of the FBI and began looking through these stacks of records, some had special codes on them, tickets essentially, that meant they had to be handled in a exceptionally special way he read the codes aloud one by one to a lawyer at the department of justice and learned to his shock that he himself did not have permission to look at these records these documents were part of special access programs sap and only the president or a cabinet member could grant someone the authority to look at them when we discovered these kind of gobsmacking details about what agents actually recovered in the raid at Mar-a-Lago and what Trump has said since. There was a huge disconnect. Trump had taken hundreds and hundreds of top secret documents out of the White House and to his private home when he was no longer president. This is something soldiers get court-martialed for. and government officials lose their jobs over, and there are people that are in jail for this exact thing. So the big takeaway is a lot of evidence indicates a very serious crime of Trump concealing and withholding these classified records. In the meantime, Trump is saying he maybe should have the Department of Justice pay him $230 million because he claims this was an unfair investigation that violated his civil rights. The evidence says the exact opposite, that he actually engaged in the crime most people go to jail for.

And there you have it. In fact, if he is widely realized that if he hadn't won this election, he'd be in prison right now. So that's who that's. I wanted before we get into the last one, you know, Dave Lippman is always doing some great stuff he's um shooting from the lip we're going to put that for the last eight minutes i wanted to bring people something to people's attention about um the calais decision again just one more thing and that is the um congress uses its power to modify a supreme court argument and they can do that scotus has the final say on what the constitution means but congress has the final say on what the law means. So it is possible for them to dismiss that law, but we don't have the Congress for it right now. Again, we need the Congress that will be able to do that. So five more months, and then maybe we'll get section two again of the Voting Rights Act and maybe section five back again.

So, and we have,

former Megatrend shows on that, so you can check that in the archives. Let's go to Dave Littman. This is on number 81. Let's see what he's got to say.

The 16,000-member Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn has voted by 67% to boycott Israeli goods. The campaign and counter campaign lasted years. President Peace Prize said he will slap sanctions on Brooklyn and added, if I were in charge, the vote would have gone the other way by 150%. Over the years, the co-op has boycotted Chili, Grapes, Coke and Citibank. But this one took longer because Brooklyn does not have the advantage of a good education curriculum about settler colonialism. Opponents of the move called the campaign petty since it only involves dispossession and apartheid and warned a boycott could unwittingly align the co-op with anti-Semitism in the same way that boycotting Russian goods could contribute to anti-Eastern orthodoxism. They charged the real motive of boycotts is to eliminate Israel, mistaking Israel for apartheid, an easy mistake to make. Not adding that Israel is proceeding apace with the elimination of Palestine. Details, details. Following the indictment of former Cuban President 94-year-old Raul Castro for defending his country 30 years ago, indictments of the Trump admin for the murder of Venezuelan fishermen are expected to be issued promptly in 30 years. It turns out Trump doesn't need Congress for Golden Arch approval because they already approved an arch 100 years ago and it was never built.

So there, right? Well, kinda. If you have a lot of lawyers. In other Trump-did-nothing-wrong news, if you set aside cheating on taxes, insider trading, cashing in on federal projects... and rewarding friends and allies. Well, you can't, because set aside is a human rights violation, along with all DEI, unless you're saving white South Africans. We might also mention bullying universities, law firms, and news outlets, prosecuting those who disagree with him, impounding money he was meant to spend, flouting judicial orders, and cutting funding to opposition-led states. But apparently there is no law against super pollutants since it was just abolished.

If you can say hydrofluorocarbons, you're too smart to be in this government. The HFCs were persecuted by the Biden crime fam and are being compensated by the cancellation of regulations. This will be a boon to the refrigeration community, lowering grocery prices with no downside except for the planet, which doesn't vote. Prez says we must end the climate. That is, end the climate of fear of the end of the climate. He can't help it if he was trained throughout his business career to be an autocrat, which he was. Roy Cohn, look it up. Immigrants detained in a for-profit jail in Newark, New Jersey are on hunger strike. Demonstrators outside are being violent, or anyway, violently suppressed, and the governor of New Jersey was denied access to the facility. Meanwhile, a group of patriots, which is to say, persons of conscience, blocked a port in nearby Elizabeth from which beautiful ships carry tools of genocide and land theft to Israel to disperse in nearby Palestine. In other thug news, Basque bully thug police known as Entrencha courageously beat defenseless non-violent flotillistas with large wooden sticks. What could have provoked this? Well, friends and relatives were attempting to greet the returning activists without permission from the king. any king. It comes out in certain media, not others, that the thugs were trained by more experienced thugs, namely Israel. Lie down with thieves, get up as fascist brutes. Thousands then protested the beatings in Bilbao, but for some reason did not enter police headquarters and confiscate the boys' beating tools. It now appears we are governed by a global police force. Every country has a specialty, of course. The US makes movies and music, Israel makes techniques of repression, and everything else comes from China. President Slushfund's Slushfund is under attack by rhinos, wokesters, and all manner of subhumans, but has been defended by ethics czar Stephen Miller, who said it was recompense for, quote, so many lives destroyed, livelihoods ruined, people deprived of their fundamental rights as American citizens. Referring here to the January 6th insurrectory, not anti-genocide students.

Well, the Palestinians, there are Palestinians, we didn't notice. Here is Israel just minding their own business, just trying to have a life, you know, in someone's country, you know, and to defend the West Bank from attacks by its inhabitants. And you don't understand that in a tricky situation like this, it's balance. It's not either or. It's not somebody's right, somebody's wrong. You have to balance the needs of the West Bank with the needs of the World Bank. It's not Israel, our most twisted alloy in the region.

It turns out that the long-suffering deportation case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not only full of falsehoods, but motivated by vengeance against him for his return from El Salvador's you-may-never-leave gulag. A judge quashed all charges against him. It was reported widely, and a shocked nation did not read the article. The judge has clearly placed politics above public safety. A Justice Department spoke, lied, projecting... An update on Mayor Mamdani's viciously pro-Palestinian Nakba Day video. Mildly pro-Zionist leaders say it omitted the Holocaust and later threats to Jews, that is, to Israel. Omitting half the story, the poobah explained, is our job. Why put out a video about Palestinians on Israel Day, he asked obliviously, if not brainwashedly. A spoke for the Jewish Community Relations Council added that there was a way to acknowledge Palestinian pain, and this was not it. The way to do it, she explained, is what she has done. Deny it ever happened, as long as you can get away with it, by which time you've taken all their land, so everybody's happy who matters. Meanwhile, the inclusion of anti-Zionist rabbis at a Jewish Heritage Month event at Gracie Mansion infuriated the real Jews. One Israeli attendee noted, I'd like to see more mainstream Jewish Zionists here. Now you know how we feel, said all Palestinians, nonviolently.

Well, so that's the end of our show for today. Megatrends, thank you for tuning in. You know, the question is, what is to be done? It means, what are we doing actively between No Kings rallies? And so please reach out and see what you can do to help push the envelope and blow on the sails of our future social democracy that we want. And also to recall the National Popular Vote concept, Next week, we're going to go dig into that popular vote to end the Electoral College, to end gerrymandering.

How about that?

So I leave you with that thought, you know, and so have a great week. And by the way, June 6th is my birthday. So wish me happy birthday. All right. See you later. Thank you for tuning in. Appreciate it.