IS RISKING WWIII THE ULTIMATE MEDIA DISTRACTION?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
As Trump risks World War III, will the media defend the fig leaf of excuses offered by the likes of Mike Pence, who once helped sell our disastrous invasion of Iraq- and now can't keep the facts straight? Why did we kill a man who defended the US embassy from ISIS, and who was just instrumental in destroying the rebel Islamic state?.. and was Soleimani assassinated on his way to peace talks with Saudi Arabia?
Were activists in Iran, who have taken over a thousand casualties fighting for democracy there, about to change the government?- Now Trump's action has powerfully strengthened the hardliners there, and made a hero of a hated figure. We hear from Iranians living in America to get their perspective.
And what about the news Trump is trying to hide?- leaked unredacted emails proving Barr and others were shaking down Ukraine, proof Trump got 2 billion dollar loans from Putin before he became president, and evidence Trump's crime family has been playing the stock market based on knowing what Trump is about to do... is that why somebody bought up Lockheed stock bigtime the day before the assassination?.. Is this the ultimate media distraction?
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| 0:00.0 | Back in the 80s, Louise and I and our three kids lived in Germany for a year from June of |
| 0:07.2 | 86 to July of 87 as I recall and we lived in this region of Germany, it's called the Franchinwald, the forest area north of Nernberg, |
| 0:19.4 | about an hour north of Nernberg at about 15 minutes south of the East German border. A little town called Stadstainach. |
| 0:27.1 | And the next town over was Kumbach. And in Kumbach there was this giant castle and in Stadstainach in our backyard backyard I mean you know it was a walk through the |
| 0:35.2 | forest of maybe 10 minutes but in our backyard there was an old castle it was called Nordic which was built in 1034 and had been abandoned for hundreds and hundreds of years. |
| 0:46.6 | It was just a ruin. |
| 0:48.0 | And it was just in the woods. |
| 0:48.9 | I mean, there was no, there was a little plaque on it and that was it. |
| 0:52.3 | People didn't know about it. there was no road to it. |
| 0:54.8 | You know, there it was in the woods. It overlooked the Steinach River, which was a very |
| 1:00.1 | very small river that ran through Stad Stad |
| 1:01.5 | Stadst-Stahnachach and it was probably a way station |
| 1:05.1 | where they were collecting tolls and just down the road there was another |
| 1:09.9 | ruined castle deep in the woods. Now I bring this up because one of the things |
| 1:17.1 | that one of the a friend of mine who had been in the German army actually and you know during the war |
| 1:24.8 | he'd been drafted and was working with the Salem organization this international |
| 1:29.7 | relief organization where Louise and I were living at their headquarters, |
| 1:33.0 | Salem International.org if you want to learn more about it. |
| 1:37.0 | Then this friend of mine is his name was Horse Fund Higher. |
| 1:39.0 | He died a couple of years ago. |
| 1:40.0 | When he died he was a really old guy but when he was drafted into the |
| 1:44.1 | the army he was like sixteen he told me and I I believe this to be true but I |
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