Good evening. It's Thursday, October 2nd. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, multiple documents have surfaced revealing an extensive plan by the Israeli government to covertly flood American political influencers with large amounts of cash

in order to produce pro-Israel propaganda for an American audience. The independent journalist

Nick Cleveland's stout of the Quincy Institute has broken significant parts of the story for

the site responsible statecraft, and he'll be here with us tonight to talk about his reporting and what these revelations mean.

And then after that, the journalist and podcast host Katie Herzog has a very candid new book that details her two-decade struggle with alcoholism.

And the book, which is designed to share her experiences, but also what she discovered is effective treatment for her, particularly focuses on a controversial and little-known approach for treatment

that work for her.

And has been working for many others, despite being in many ways directly contrary to the

consensus view for how addiction and alcoholism have to be treated, namely by insisting

on abstinence.

Katie has always been, for me at least, one of the most interesting people on all of media, and this book is certainly no exception. It's an extension of what I think is her very independent and interesting thinking. I'm thrilled to have her tonight to talk about her new book, and I think you'll really enjoy the discussion about it. Before we get to all that, a couple quick program news. First of all, we are in, uh, system update is available in podcast form, not only here

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