Canada Accuses India of Assassination

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Tommy and Ben talk about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation that India may have been behind the murder of a Sikh Canadian citizen, the prisoner swap between the U.S. and Iran, the one year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, the United Nations General Assembly and lack of world leaders in attendance, and the latest updates on Russia/Ukraine, including rumors of Ramzan Kadyrov’s death. They also discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to the US, China’s disappearing public officials, stories about increasing espionage activities between the US and China, a missing F-35, and an Australian man who was fined for taking his pet Python surfing. Then Tommy speaks with Rory Stewart, former British politician and author of the new book, “How Not To Be A Politician”.

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0:00.0	I'm Ben Rhodes and welcome back. Welcome home. Good to be home. I'm going to bring a little
0:18.2	higher energy this time, Tommy. It's kind of brain dead last time I apologize. Listen,
0:22.2	your brain was working just fine as far as I can tell. The gears are turning. Just not
0:26.5	fast. Have you recovered? You know, I have, but I think I've said this before on this podcast,
0:32.8	like jet lag is one of those things where you feel like you realize you're not 30 anymore.
0:38.4	It just doesn't go away. Sometimes I prepare a light anecdote at the top end this time,
0:46.0	this is a little less so. As I think you know, last week marked the 50th anniversary of this
0:51.1	impact military coup in Chile. Yes. When our friend Hank Henry Kissinger backed Pinochet,
0:58.1	General Pinochet, toppled the democratically elected president, Salvador Aende. You two could
1:03.6	do that and then have a Gallup party thrown at the New Republic Library 50 years later for your
1:07.5	birthday. Yes. Yes. So Ben, Kissinger, not just a proponent of the coup, maybe the principal
1:12.8	architect of the whole thing, an eagle-eyed pod save the world listener who lives in Chile,
1:18.4	posted a photo from his local bookstore into the Discord channel, the pod save the world
1:23.5	Discord channel, our subscription chat thing, of Kissinger's book On Sale in Chile last week.
1:30.8	The fucking stones on that guy. Yeah, yeah. Selling your book on the 50th anniversary of a coup
1:36.8	was quoted on the Nixon White House tape saying some things are too important to leave up to
1:41.6	Chilean voters. I think that was the exact quote. I mean, just there's no justice in the world.
1:47.2	No. Yeah. Unless you're Henry Kissinger and then there's a lot of it.
1:50.8	There's a lot of cash. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's just a lot of cash.
1:54.3	Unbelievable. I just had to bring that up because it's so galling. But we have a lot to cover today.
1:58.7	We got the Canadians accusing the Indian government of assassinating at Canadian Sizzan
2:03.1	on Canadian soil. The US and Iran conducted a prisoner swap the coincides with the one-year
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