Democracy Now! 2023-12-21 Thursday
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for December 21, 2023; “The Hostages Weren’t Our Top Priority”: Israel’s “Bombing Frenzy” Endangered Hostages Held in Gaza; “The U.S. and Israel Stand Alone”: World Demands Ceasefire as Gaza Death Toll Tops 20,000; Colorado Disqualifies Trump from Ballot, Triggering Battle over Constitution’s Insurrection Clause; “Fascism Out Loud”: Trump’s Escalating Racist Rhetoric & the Far Right’s Plan for a Slow Civil War
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now. |
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| 0:37.0 | Without sufficient safe water, food and sanitation that only a humanitarian ceasefire would, child deaths due to disease could well |
| 0:46.2 | surpass those already killed in bombardments. |
| 0:49.5 | As a death toll in Gaza, tops 20,000, including 8,000 children. UN officials plead for a new |
| 0:57.0 | ceasefire as the humanitarian crisis escalates amidst heavy Israeli attacks. |
| 1:01.8 | On Wednesday the UN Security Council was its heavy Israeli attacks. |
| 1:02.6 | On Wednesday, the UN Security Council was forced to postpone a vote for a third time on |
| 1:07.3 | Gaza due to opposition from the Biden administration. |
| 1:10.1 | We'll get the latest. |
| 1:11.4 | Then to the Colorado Supreme Court's historic decision |
| 1:14.4 | to bar Donald Trump from the Colorado primary ballot |
| 1:18.1 | over his role in the January 6th insurrection. |
| 1:20.9 | And we'll look at Trump's increasingly extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric on the campaign trail. |
| 1:27.0 | I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country when they do that. |
| 1:32.1 | We get a lot of work to do. They're poisoning |
| 1:35.1 | the blood of our country. That's what they've done. They poison. All that and |
| 1:39.1 | more coming up. Goodman. Palestinian officials say the death toll from 75 days of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has |
| 1:56.4 | topped 20,000, nearly 1% of the Gaza population. |
| 2:01.6 | At least 8,000 children are among the dead. On Wednesday |
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