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last month RT launched a new opinion

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show called Sputnik hosted by the

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respect party Member of Parliament

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George Galloway now if you're not

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familiar with Galloway you should be

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whether it's taking on the UN over its

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oil for food program or blasting the

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Western Empire in the halls of

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parliament Galloway has done it all over

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the course of his decad long political

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career and earlier this year Galloway

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launched a Kickstarter to create and

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promote a film called the killing of

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Tony Blair although he only asked for

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£50,000 to make it he received well

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over1 6,000 with a project to date

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Galloway joined me earlier from London

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and I first asked him what he's hoping

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to achieve with the

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film our first objective is to have Mr

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Blair removed as the so-called peace

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Envoy uh which is the most inappropriate

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appointment since Caligula appointed his

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horse as a pro Consul of Rome secondly

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to make him so toxic that decent people

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and decent corporations if they

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exist will no longer wish to hire him

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and our highest aspiration is to have

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him on trial at the ha on charges of

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crimes against humanity and war crimes

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uh now that's a very ambitious movie uh

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but uh it's not as farfetched a set of

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objectives as it once would have looked

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and so we have now more than 6,000

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donors to this movie uh growing every

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day and I I think that this film is

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going to be one of the films of 2014 I

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hope so and it has a a raft of executive

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producers of note including Max Kaiser

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and uh Abby Martin of RT uh proud

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producer uh George I'm really excited

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about how well the film's doing I cannot

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wait to see it um other than doctoring

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up evidence for the Iraq War briefly

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touch upon the other crimes that you

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think Tony Blair is responsible for that

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we might not know about here in the US

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well the titled the killing of Tony

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Blair is a triple on Tundra the first

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killing was his killing of the labor

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party as we knew it and I was a member

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of it for 36 years before he expelled me

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in 2004 and abolished my parliamentary

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constituency uh hoping that one way or

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another he'd be rid of me the killing of

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the labor party was a crime against the

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working people of Britain because every

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country needs a labor party including

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your own country I may say a party that

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will stand up for working people whose

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interests are entire and separate from

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the interests of other classes in the

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society the second killing is obvious

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it's the killing of a million people in

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Iraq and in Afghanistan and by extension

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uh in Lebanon and in Palestine and many

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other places and the third killing is

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the financial killing that Mr Blair is

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making out of of the previous two

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killings by destroying the labor party

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he made Britain safer for the

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corporations he made their tax bills

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shrink he made their regulatory burden

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disappear and now they're rewarding him

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for all of that financially by paying

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him sums of money that are simply eyeing

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he now entered the Sunday Times rich

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list he is officially one of the richest

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people in Britain let's hope that when

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Tony Blair is brought to the he because

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of your film he'll not plead affluenza

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too wealthy to have a moral conscience

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which is what we just saw here in the US

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shocking president set there let's move

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on to Parliament though recently the

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editor and chief of the Guardian along

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with journalist Glenn Greenwald were

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called to testify under Britain's

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terrorism law Greenwald said that the UK

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government's trying to equate journalism

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with terrorism as a member of parliament

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yourself do you what do you see is the

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real purpose of these hearings well it's

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a a rain of intellectual Terror really

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and edging into physical Terror the

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British Security Services actually

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editorial floor of the Guardian

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newspaper and broke hard diss on a

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newspapers computers smashed them into

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pieces uh this is uh even by the

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standards of the British State uh a step

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uh not only too far but one that has

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never been taken before at least not in

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peace time although I suppose we're

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perpetually at War now so that's what

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they might say in uh in just ification

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but of course the guardian was only

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telling us what our rulers are doing and

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doing with our money and in our name and

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the idea that they should be allowed not

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only to keep these things secret but

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when these secrets are revealed take

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such Draconian punitive piratical

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measures as invading newspaper offices

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and breaking up their hard diss is truly

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extraordinary and the more shocking

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still is that the rest of the British

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media has completely ignored this story

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as indeed they have more or less

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completely ignored the Snowden Affair in

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any detail uh right from the beginning I

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wanted to move on to Syria because

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there's a huge story that just came out

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of course relating to you directly Dr

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abas Khan the British man held by

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Assad's forces was scheduled to be

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handed over to you and instead found

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tragically dead George according to

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security officials he committed suicide

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I mean can you tell us any more

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information about this case it was to be

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a Christmas gesture and uh then 4 days

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before my departure uh he was found dead

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in his cell now there are two things

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that must be obvious here first of all

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Bashar alassad did not order the killing

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of this man that would be simply absurd

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because if he was going to do so why did

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he make such extensive arrangements for

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me of all people someone who stood by

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Syria through all of this terrible 3

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years uh to go to Damascus to pick up

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the prisoner if he was going to execute

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him he definitely would not have done

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that equally obviously though I'm sorry

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to say uh it's pretty inexplicable

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pretty implausible that Dr Khan

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committed suicide because he knew that I

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was coming in 4 days to take him home he

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was elated at that news he said so to

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his mother and in letters home to his

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sister and brother and so the idea that

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Dr KH committed suicide just before

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getting his freedom is equally

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implausible that I'm afraid leads to a

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very very dark third option and that is

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that somebody inside the apparatus of

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the Syrian state is not under the

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control of the president and in fact set

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out to wreck a gesture being made by the

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president of syri that does not augure

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well unfortunately there's so many state

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actors involved with all their vested

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interests it's really hard to tell who's

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telling the truth without being awn in

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this Global chess game George I'm really

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happy you're keeping it the pressure

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hopefully we get answers soon but I

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wanted to move on to this accidental

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drone bombing of a wedding in Yemen by

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the US what do you think would happen if

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a wedding was accidentally bombed here

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in America or in Britain by Yemen the

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even more Despicable part of this story

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is that I promise you this has not even

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made the news neither the BBC nor Mr

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Murdock Sky News have yet reported that

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perhaps dozens of guests in a wedding

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Convoy in Yemen were destroyed torn into

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pieces from a sofa somewhere in

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Washington presumably or elsewhere in

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the United States someone pressing a

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button and wiping out a wedding Convoy

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and the Paradox is unbelievable able

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they are prepared to destroy innocent

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wedding guests in Yemen in their war

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against Al-Qaeda and yet they are arming

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and funding al-Qaeda in Syria that's the

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point I've been trying to make about the

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Dr abas Khan story Britain is up to its

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neck as is the United States in blood

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and gore in Syria but they're on the

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side of al-Qaeda in Syria whilst they're

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wiping out wedding guests in Yemen

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supposedly in a war against Al-Qaeda and

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of course they're getting away with it

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because the so-called mainstream media

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simply averts its eyes passes by on the

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other side of the road and the question

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you asked me um of course doesn't even

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need an answer imagine if Iran had

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bombed a wedding party in the United

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States or bombed a wedding party in

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Britain imagine if the Chinese Navy was

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in the Florida Straits in the way that

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the United States Navy is in the South

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China Sea imagine if President Putin was

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on the streets of Mexico agitating

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upheaval in the way that John McCain is

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anti-russian feeling if you begin to put

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these Paradox is line them up I mean you

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don't know whether to laugh or cry so

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farfetched are they and yet it's really

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happening oh man well I'm laughing right

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now because it is just so absurd the

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contradiction is staggering I would

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imagine that we would be in World War

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III right now George if that happen uh

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and speaking of the scenario Yemen

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definitely we would yeah definitely I

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mean look at their uh look at their

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reaction when President Putin paid for a

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age advert in the Wall Street Journal or

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the New York Times or wherever it was

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imagine if he showed up on anti-American

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demonstrations in Canada can you imagine

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it well that's what European and

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American leading politicians are doing

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it's the reverse Iron Curtain George uh

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speaking of the scenario Yemen now

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banned drones in their country but the

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UK government has already made a

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statement that it's not ruling out drone

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bombing them in the future I mean why is

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is the government already ignoring

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Yemen's Sovereign decision here Pakistan

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made the same Sovereign decision but it

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hasn't stopped Britain and America

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firing drone missiles at uh at Pakistan

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and they don't give a damn about the

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national sovereignty of Pakistan and

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more fool Pakistan for continuing to

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describe itself as an ally of the very

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people who are bombing them and in the

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case of Yemen the political situations a

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bit less clear uh but nonetheless uh the

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Yemen government's sovereignty doesn't

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add up to a row of beans uh these

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countries will be bombed as and when

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white men in Britain and uh black

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president in the United States have

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their kill meetings on Tuesdays or

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Thursdays and decide that they're going

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to fire rockets at these people you

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remember President Obama made a joke

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about it he said that uh boyfriends

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sniffing around his daughters uh you

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don't see them coming just like drone

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missiles it's true you don't see them

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coming until your wife is minus her head

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sitting next to you until your daughter

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is lying in pieces in front of your eyes

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you don't see them coming but the hatred

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and bitterness that they leave behind is

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sewing Dragon's Teeth for a terrible

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Harvest further down the line cuz I'll

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tell you this if my family was wiped out

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by a drone I would devote the rest of my

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life and I'd encourage my sons to devote

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the rest of their lives to getting

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George Let's wrap this up you've got a

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Nick talk about what the show is how

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people can find it we have about a

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minute left Sputnik orbiting the world

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with me George Gall and my wife gatri

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very glad on this and on many other

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things to be a comrade of yours Abby

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Martin same to you George much respect

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