Col. Doug Macgregor on Nord Stream and Nuclear War

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Use Footyettes. I'm Katie Halper.
0:08.0	And I'm Mary Metzett. How are you Katie?
0:09.6	I'm doing well you.
0:11.1	I'm good so you know you're in the midst of this aftermath of being fired by the Hill after
0:18.0	they refused to air a monologue you did about Israel Palestine. How's that going?
0:23.6	It's good I'm trying to you know take this opportunity to highlight not just what happened to me
0:29.5	because I'm very relatively privileged and lucky I have other shows that I'm doing.
0:34.4	So I actually wrote a piece at the Daily Beast where I go through what happened to me just so
0:38.8	people know and also go through other people who have been punished for criticizing Israel.
0:45.1	And of course I refer to the killings of Palestinian journalists which is at the opposite end of
0:50.0	the spectrum you know the other end of the spectrum in terms of how much people sacrifice to
0:54.8	cover what's happening there. And obviously not comparing myself at all to these reporters
0:59.2	who are on the ground and risking their lives and sometimes giving their lives.
1:02.8	But you know they're the ones who pay a huge price for trying to expose the crimes of
1:09.0	the Israeli government. But the good news by the way is that you know what they say when God
1:13.5	closes a door he opens a window so when God hears you yeah yeah they actually say when when God
1:20.5	gets you fired by a corporate media outlet they get you to collaborate with an independent media
1:28.0	outlet that does not censor host. So I teamed up with Breakthrough News and I shot the video
1:35.2	that the Hill would not release. And so you can find that at both youtube.com.
1:39.3	slash the Katie Halper show as well as youtube.com slash Breakthrough News. And so that was
1:43.7	that was great. It felt very good to get that out and not have it be censored.
1:48.6	Yeah. I mean it was censored by one place but another place to meet it with me and we released it.
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