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welcome to Sputnik orbiting the world

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with me George Galloway and me gatri

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when the mutton heads of England on tour

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met the Leer meaner Russian thugs on the

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streets of Marseilles and Le there could

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only be one winner and one loser the

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game of football if you believe the

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British press the England thugs trashed

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city after City only because they were

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provoked by the big ugly Russian it all

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fitted into the prevailing Narrative of

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russophobia it doesn't matter that

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Russian submarines turned out to be

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Swedish and not submarines at all that

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Russian airlanes intercepted by the RAF

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turned out to have been flying in

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international airspace or that Russia

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hasn't the remotest intention of lifting

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a finger against the Baltic states let's

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send thousands of NATO soldiers anyway

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get ready to die for vilnus is the

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explicit message of the recently retired

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gungho generals and jingoists where is

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all this anti-russian propaganda taking

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us we're joined by Dr Thomas Pier tronic

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who's a junior doctor a psychiatrist a

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writer and editor of the London

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Progressive journal and he's only 31

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doctor you're quite a renaissance man uh

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tell us uh first of all what lies behind

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the current escalation really of

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anti-russian feeling propaganda media

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treatment Etc well it's part of a larger

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picture essentially um the west or has

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to portray Russia as the big baddy um as

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part of the prevailing narrative what we

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saw recently in the last few days um the

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stories about Russian thugs um crashing

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uh French cities attacking English

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football fans is just the tip of the

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iceberg of course it's unfortunate that

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there were there was thuggery from both

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sides in fact not just Britain and

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France but there were thugs from

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Northern Ireland of thugs from France

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other other football playing Nations as

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well I mean it's just unfortunate you

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get thugs ruining a beautiful game um of

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course the media won't focus on the fact

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that the Russian thugs were maybe about

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100 150 in total out of the thousands of

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Russian fans who were there um so

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obviously they have to they have to

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Russia as a as an enemy um it's just I

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mean fug cannot be condoned on any

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either any side um actually I was quite

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surprised that the the Western media

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wasn't quite as Russ because normally is

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in this particular situation but you

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know give it time the tournament is

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still young I mean the sun did publish a

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story about on the 13th of June about

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how the Russian Football Hooligans were

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linked to Putin they taking orders from

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Putin exactly but of course you know I

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mean let's be honest sun's not exactly

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great at reporting of record no I mean

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think of hillsbor for example it's not

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exactly great at reporting a football

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hgan isn't uh no exactly uh but they

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always do try to drag the Russian

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president in even when he has of course

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absolutely nothing to do with it but

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what's it all about what is the purpose

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of it uh Russia is a European power it's

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important to the other European markets

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and uh and economies uh what's achieved

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by continually pushing Russia farther

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away I mean you're quite right Europe

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and Russia would be a powerful force

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together that's why the US doesn't want

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to be uniting I mean Russia is is

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actually if um after the Cold War

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America thought one Russia under Putin

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has resurged Now link together with the

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EU it will be a powerful block um at

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China India Iran onto that it would

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certainly outdo the US in terms of trade

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and from a military point of view that's

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why the US has to keep pushing through

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its European allies the russophobic

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message um certainly this is all part of

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the wider picture and the media is a

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powerful tool and it can shape people's

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opinions and if you constantly Port

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russophobic ideas through the media both

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in terms of through films through

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culture through news reports eventually

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certain image will form in people's

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minds the same thing happens with

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islamophobia war is portraying Muslims

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as the bad guys portraying Muslims as

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terrorists and the same thing happens is

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happenening with with Russia to a

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certain extent of course what they don't

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tell you is they don't tell you that

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that ever since 1990 NATO has continued

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to expand into the Eastern block uh

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James Baker um the the then US Secretary

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of State gave Russia a promise it wasn't

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written down but he did but the records

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showed that he said in the conference we

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will not expand one inch Beyond in

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exchange for West and East uniting in

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exchange for the Soviets giving their

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Ascent to that we will not um expand

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Nato one inch further to the east of

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course it wasn't written unfortunately

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it wasn't written down the Russians were

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foolish to trust NATO and ever since

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then they' been expanding eastwoods not

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only that but also um us or read for for

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for NATO read us because it's although

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it's meant to be an alliance there

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really only really one member and that

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plays that s directs things there out of

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the 28 members in NATO but the US um

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NATO have sponsored um various

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revolutions color Revolutions in all the

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in various is block Nations for example

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the orange the orange revolution in

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Ukraine in 2004 the rose revolution in

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Georgia in 2003 the coup in Ukraine most

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recently um what what the Western media

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won't tell you is that um or what

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they'll they'll allude to is that

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there's there are annual NATO exercises

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happening in eastern block on Russia's

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borders within Russia's former sphere of

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influence most recently on the 6th of

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June we had a 10-day exercise called the

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Anaconda exercise which involved 31,000

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or 30 odd th000 troops from about 20 OD

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different NATO countries operating in

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the Eastern block on Russia's borders in

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May this year we had the missile defense

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system the US missile defense system put

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in place in Romania and Poland um

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ostensively in the for the last 10 years

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the US has been clamoring to have this

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missile defense system put in in the

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past it was we were told oh they were

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told Russia don't worry it's not against

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you it's against Iran of course that

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that that the cat is out the bag now now

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that Iran and the US have made a deal on

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nuclear uh uh on Iran not progressing

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with nuclear enrichment

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the question has to be asked so why are

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you still having the missile defense

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system there of course we all knew it

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was against Russia Iran was simply the

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excuse now that excuse has gone to cast

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out the bag um I mean on top of that

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NATO is sending another 4,000 another

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4,000 troops um to which includes

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British troops to the baltics and uh to

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the countries in Eastern Europe um to

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try to um Boler security to try to

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reassure those those Eastern block uh

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leaders against the the non-existent

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Russian invasion that will never come

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well I uh debated against uh a an a

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British general who had only one week

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retired from the NATO uh headquarters

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staff he was a very important figure

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indeed and he said and I quote the

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British mothers will have to get used to

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the idea that their sons might have to

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give their life's blood to defend

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ltia now leaving aside that most British

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mothers don't know where lvia is this

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presupposes any intention on Russia's

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part to make any kind of move against

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these Baltic states I see no evidence

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whatsoever for that the Ukraine

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situation that you uh just discussed is

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of course a crisis of the wests making

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uh the violent overthrow of a president

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and a parliament the setting a fire

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Ablaze of the Constitution and the uh

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Parliament building uh even has led to a

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crisis in in the Ukraine but most

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British people uh probably think that

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this crisis is of Russia's making it's

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quite a successful propaganda operation

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don't you think I think so yeah and

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they've been hard at it they've been

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working hard at it since the the early

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'90s of course NATO was formed in 1947

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of course with the end of the Cold War

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NATO should have outlived its usefulness

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I mean you have to ask whole question of

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why is NATO even even there the US Stars

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Fallen apart so what are they defending

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against of course there's a whole lot of

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people who lose their jobs um there's a

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whole lot of um uh weapons that wouldn't

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sold weapons wouldn't be sold the whole

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military industrial complex would itself

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fall apart obviously that has to be the

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fire has to be fueled in some way I mean

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you you alluded to the British general

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talking about mothers British mothers

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having to get used to their sons dying

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in in vus it's quite shocking to hear

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that after all they've already Sons

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already died in Afghanistan and Iraq for

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on well I I I did say to him that it's

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quite unlikely that many British mothers

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would be takers uh for that but you've

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put your finger uh right on the button

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here you can understand the Cold War

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these were competing ideological blocks

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and both were intent on converting the

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world to their uh world view their way

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of doing things but Russia is a

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capitalist country like all the others M

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uh the Soviet Union no longer exists so

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what's the what's the kazos belly that's

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what I've never why can't they deal with

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Russia is it because Putin has

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stabilized Russia and has begun to

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rebuild Russia's national strength and

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uh its n its International reputation

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and so on is that what it's really about

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they can deal with a broken Russia under

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drunken yelon but they can't deal with a

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strong and prosperous Russia well

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precisely that is part of it I mean

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under Russia under Els in Russia

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basically sold away the family silver

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they sold away National Enterprises to

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both um domestic and foreign oligarchs

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essentially they happy to have yelton in

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power he was a Democrat but what he was

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really doing was he was really

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um uh a puppet of the West we jumping to

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a tune happiness to sell away the the

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nation's um Goods essentially nation's

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resources um of course Putin you know

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love love and Below them he's given res

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Russians respect he's brought the

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Russians back out of economic crisis and

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he's given them respect he's he's

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brought the nation he's given the people

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um self- resect back he's given he's

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certainly brought a nation from its knes

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upwards and that is what the what the

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West can't tolerate of course you

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mentioned about both being imperialist

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rels that's quite right and not

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imperialist capitalist capitalist

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Nations and you're quite right um I mean

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Nation but here we have competing

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capitalist agendas essentially the

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capitalism is in crisis around around

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the world the only way it can maintain

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its position the only way the US can

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maintain its Hemy is by finding new

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markets now yelton allowed the us to do

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what it wanted some of the Eastern block

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countries allow um America to do what it

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wants of course under Putin Putin's um

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certainly putting end to that he's not

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allowing the Western capitalists to do

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what they want the

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unar he's trying to create a multipolar

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world and not just Russia but China as

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well youve got China you've got Russia

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who are who are blocks to us hedgey and

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you got these two other capitalist

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countries who are saying wait a minute

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we're not going to allow a unipolar

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world run by the US so essentially it is

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a situation we have competing capitalist

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block

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and one is wanting to carry on one is on

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its way down the US and it's wanting to

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maintain its position I mean a COR sad

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of a cornered animal is that most

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dangerous that's what we have for the US

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well uh We've Spoken uh black and white

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between the west and Russia but what

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about the in between states the the

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former block well how are they as well

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nurturing the the Western russophobic

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propaganda or are they is there nobody

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in these countries friendly to Russia

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well it's the people are not necessarily

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anti-russia but the leaders are are of

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course anti-russian but the leaders they

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get support from the West they help to

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get the power in the west and if a

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leader comes along that's anti anti- Nat

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they deemed to be

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undemocratic um

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so essentially people may not be people

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of the Eastern block May themselves some

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may be anti- Russia but a lot are not

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anti-russia but of course leadership is

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pushing forward the direction those

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leaders themselves need an excuse to

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stay in power the E block countries are

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in a pretty rubbish way economically um

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so they need an excuse to the leaders

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need an excuse to stay in power that

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excuse is oh well you know we have to

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defend against against Russia you have

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to keep us in power we can defend you

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against Russia we need NATO's support

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essentially takes away if you put all

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your if you focus all your problems

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project them all into Russia then it

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takes away basically what's takes away

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um what's going on people's knowledge of

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what's going on at home people will be

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less focused inward on what on the

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domestic problems they'll be more

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focused outward on a non-existent

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Russian Thomas you can come back here

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anytime thanks for joining us on the

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Sputnik those who can weapon humor

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against the war party and the Wonga

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system of Finance capitalism are the new

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Z guys he's not Frankie Bole he's the

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iris equivalent Aiden Killian stay

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tuned welcome back to Sputnik in the

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1980s a generation of standup Comics

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weaponized humor against the

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thatcherites some of them going on to

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loads of money themselves of course but

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they did blaze a trail in instead of

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shaking an angry fist at those who rob

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us why not make people laugh at them

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instead one man who has them rocking in

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the aisles is doing exactly that and

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he's on his way to Glastonbury and the

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Edinburgh Festival as part of a world

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tour but joins us here first on the

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Sputnik it's Aiden Killian Aiden welcome

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not many Irish Comics make on to the

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stage at uh Glastonbury you must be

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looking forward to that but you've been

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on a world tour how do they understand

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accent well the Irish speak extremely

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clearly unlike the

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Scottish George gri it's good to be here

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yes it's an honor to be in glasbury it's

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also an honor to be here H people do

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understand me because I think most of

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the people that go to standup comedy

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have perfect English otherwise they

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wouldn't attempt to go to see an Irish

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comedian you are razor sharp politically

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is that because you were once as it were

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on the other side of the fence you were

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a banker you were a a guy working in the

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system just like our own Max Kaiser

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Perhaps Perhaps a um a gamekeeper who

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turns poacher is the most effective Port

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of them all what do you think I don't

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know the answer to that but I do know

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that when I worked in banking I learned

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to work cuz those guys in Investment

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Banking they they have you working 80

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hours a week 106 hours once look luckily

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I was getting time and a half uh overpay

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or whatever you call it I don't even

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remember how to say it what do you call

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over overtime that's how long ago since

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I've been in in the system but because I

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learned to work then I also took it on

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in comedy when I became a comedian I

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could I could do it as a job so if I

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wanted to say something I go right

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that's where I need to get and I put in

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the hours so I don't know if all

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comedians maybe they maybe they do I

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don't know I I I heard one of your

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sketches which was not just extremely

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funny but uh razor sharp in its analysis

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uh about the bank uh that was writing

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you without prejudice letters that's

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right you wrote them with Prejudice

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letter back and explained why in fact

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they owe you money because they made a

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profit out of the uh transaction with

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you go on tell us you did your research

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yeah that's right with derivatives I

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used to be a derivative specialist which

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means that I put information into a

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computer they just make it sound fancy

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but with derivatives they profited

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behind my back without my consent so so

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what I had is a contract so they call it

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but it's actually a promissary note a

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promise to pay so that piece of paper

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this promise to pay was used as an asset

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to create the money which the bank never

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had and behind my back they profited so

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if you think about it they actually owe

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me money but I I genuinely believe in De

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forgiveness George so I let them off I

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let them off very good very good now

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what I mean Ireland is quite a political

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place this is the centinary of the Irish

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Revolution the first successful revolt

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against the British Empire um it's just

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been through uh the blizzard of

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austerity to some extent many people

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have not yet come out the other end uh

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you are victims of the crash big time is

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there therefore a big Market in Ireland

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for political humor weaponized

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humor victims of the crash I'd like to

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say we're survivors but it's true we are

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victims there's tens of thousands of

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people being kicked out of their homes

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homeless is everywhere in Ireland you

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won't see it in the the mainstream media

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Ireland the propaganda machine uh

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whatever I won't name it but it's it's

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all state owned or it's owned by Dennis

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O'Brien and it's just wow what's what's

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written there is so far removed from the

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truth are people ready to hear political

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comedy in

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Ireland if it's really really good

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they'll laugh but most of the time they

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just want to escape they want to escape

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with their pints of floridated Guinness

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and they want to just sit there and not

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be challenged too much maybe sort of sex

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jokes or jokes that are

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easy but I'd say 10% of people really

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really love it and they're the ones that

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they they stand up and they're like yes

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the most intelligent people in the

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audience are the people who are most

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sober and most present most focused

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they're the ones they feel it the

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passion and they carry the wave of

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excitement in the room and that's the

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way I see it anyway and what about uh

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the world audience you've been on World

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Tour everywhere Asia and Australia and

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Beyond do they get all the politics

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you're talking about do do they even get

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offended perhaps yeah does it

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transfer I have to say there's moments

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where I do have to change what I say for

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example in Thailand at the moment with

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the military there's certain things you

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can't say so if I make jokes about the

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the Empire and the the Irish government

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I have to be very careful that they

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don't think I'm talking about yeah but I

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would well I wouldn't want to insult

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their King but also if I did I'd be in

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prison right exactly and then in

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Singapore I mean lots of rules all

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around the world as you know it's it's

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illegal to have Chum in Singapore but

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it's also illegal to be gay you know if

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I mean if a a man does something W with

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his bits inside another man's mouth

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he'll go to prison if that man's bits

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has Chung them in it then he's really in

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trouble you know mean there there's but

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it's true I mean there's mad laws in

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California if you urinate in public you

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you you're a sex offender you're a sex

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offender if if if you urinate in public

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imagine that in England that's be

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terrifi everybody be in prison in

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England it's all these England fans at

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the Euro yeah they'd all be in prison

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for different reasons for different

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reasons right but have you bombed

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anywhere on this uh World Tour yes I

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have I got hurt bad in B I was in valy

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don't worry sorry India it's your fault

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sorry for

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that what happened was I was invited to

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a a yoga Festival uh like a spiritual a

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beautiful Festival everybody was there

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and they were doing yoga and meditation

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I I was so excited I thought they'd

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really love my my political passionate

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and I do some meditation comedy one guy

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right at the start sits up the front and

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starts meditating with his eyes closed

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during your show during my show it's the

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first time I got heckled with it

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um and I didn't know what to do what am

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I going to do throw out a yoga guy no

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meditating in

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here so and then then my friend who I

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love will he he played the end bit there

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was I had a projector and he played the

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end bit of my show in the middle because

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he misunderstood me so i' given the

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endway so I had to do 45 minutes of a

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bit was just a long 45 minutes you

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should have just crossed your legs and

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gone with Gone With the Flow although

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there's many a sketch will come out of

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that particular performance I would

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think now on this British uh leg of the

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tour um you're you're doing glastenbury

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how does that work I mean do they

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squeeze you in between a couple of the

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mega rock bands or is it a separate tent

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or what I invited to the Cabaret tent

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that's 2,200 people and it's it's pretty

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much all comedy or it's mostly comedy uh

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so I presume some people come for a

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break they watch some comedy then they

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go to to music I'm doing two shows on

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the Friday and the Sunday I'm really I'm

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really honored to be there I mean

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there's some wonderful human beings

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there and I get to talk about what I

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want in front of possibly 2,000

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like-minded people think about think

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about the seeds that I can plan think

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about the the wave of energy with that

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many people who are all loved up on life

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right you won't be interrupted with an

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um glass and no probably just but there

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may be some public urination if you seen

548
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the uh the sex offenders everywhere the

549
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for the poort to lose how easy is it for

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you and how much do you keep up to date

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with the current events and political

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events because of all the current

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comedians uses the most on the money on

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the mark uh political critique uh is

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that come easy to you if you got

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researchers Fe you material or what I I

557
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would say that that title belongs to

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Steve Hughes uh what I do is I try and

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write a new hour every year and in that

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hour I talk about what I want to talk

561
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about this year I'm going to talk about

562
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the history of money so I actually feel

563
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I don't feel worthy to be on this couch

564
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I actually don't feel up to date polit

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politic I'm not really up to date fully

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I check the news every day I check a few

567
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different media sources because I

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wouldn't certainly wouldn't trust the

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Irish you don't trust the British either

570
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no no well I GL at them and I I look at

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the spin and then I make up my own mind

572
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I go oh they're trying to sell me this

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what would I write about and then if I'm

574
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doing gigs maybe I just throw in a quick

575
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line I mean Cliff Richards in the news

576
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today you know LM house Vis frequent

577
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visitor won't make any comments about it

578
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but you can make your own mind up but he

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he he got off so I'd be aware of it and

580
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then I go right what do I really want to

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say for this hour show because I'm aware

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that if I make a joke about something

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today that's might not be okay for my

584
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hour show that's going to be videoed six

585
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months down the road mhm so I need to

586
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create something that ideally will last

587
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that the truth in what I'm saying if I

588
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remove the joke if I remove the

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punchline that's the moment where people

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laugh if I remove that the essence of

591
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what I say I can stand by 20 years later

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and go yes that's true for me that in

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this era that's important because

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whatever you say wherever you say it is

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preserved

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forever um I'm a supporter of Irish

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Independence and unity and um I'm half

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an Irishman uh but the question does

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arise as you look at Ireland today was

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it all worth it 100 years ago what

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actually was achieved what's your take

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on

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that for me these wonderful human beings

604
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never really fought the British as such

605
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they fought for an idea and they fought

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for the idea for all men and women to

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have Invincible inable rights which

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means that nobody can be on top of us

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we're all free

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and that strength is in it's every

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single if there's one king everybody's a

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king if there's one Queen everybody's a

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queen is that today in Ireland are

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people Sovereign certainly not

615
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corporations have taken our our oil or

616
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we've given it to them actually we've

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given it to them but they haven't taken

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it we' we've given our oil our gas our

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assets our water they're taking from us

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now although the Irish people lately are

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standing up it looks like we're going to

622
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win this one yeah we're going to win

623
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100,000 people 100,000 people I was

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there on stage 100,000 people in the

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media in the media portray it like there

626
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was a few dozen they just get the edge

627
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of the corner a few dissidents throwing

628
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missiles missiles what Irish politician

629
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attacked by a missile missile it was a

630
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water balloon what are you talking about

631
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you lunatics H so was it worth it I mean

632
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it was worth it for them they gave their

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lives for what they believed in and that

634
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for them is that's that's what they

635
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lived for so yes they had to do that may

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God Rest their souls amen Aiden Killian

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thank you very much indeed for coming on

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the Sputnik

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[Music]

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and now it's your turn to tell us what

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you think through the portals of social

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media what's rattling G is there an up

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search of russophobia and why Tony MC

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Phillips says Russia stands up to the UK

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EU and USA imperialism and they don't

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like it and Aman sidiki says well they

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ran the anti-muslim theme long enough

648
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it's time for a new Target yeah it is

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quite important to have more than one

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whipping boy what more than one uh uh

651
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Aunt Sally to throw the uh throw the

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missiles at that's true um about humor

653
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political satire weaponizing humor to

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change the world Ricardo Picasso says

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Armando IUI in the loop was a scathing

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satire on The Madness of Iraq war the

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thick of it is the most devastating

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political satar ever written if you

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haven't seen it please watch it and

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that's all the tweets for today which

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alas means that's the end of the show

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but you can stay in touch with us tweet

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us at rtor Sputnik or Facebook us

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Sputnik on Russia today it's goodbye

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from me gatri and from me George

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Galloway it's been marvelous

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