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The Welcome to Meteorote's Radio.

This is Abby Martin.

This is Robbie Martin. Welcome.

Welcome.

First, we just wanted to thank everybody so much who has supported us through the Patreon platform so far.

We've had incredible, overwhelming support from our listeners, and we are

so appreciative of the outpouring of support. And right now is a really good time to, you know,

support indie media on platforms off of YouTube, because we're going to talk about later how a lot of media platforms

online now are making it hard for independent political people not just radical political

people but any political independent commentator journalist they're slowly

stripping away our ability to monetize and to make money off what we're doing.

So Patreon is still a very decent platform.

Hadn't having any problems yet with it.

And just wanted to say thank you again.

And at the very end of this broadcast, we will give a shout out to everyone who has donated so far.

And some of you didn't use your real names or aliases.

So just listen closely just to hear your name if you donated or contributed through Patreon.

Yeah, and we'll get into how, you know, what exactly is going on with YouTube in a second.

We wanted to go for some headlines.

First of all, the chemical weapons attack in Syria, of course, another red line has been drawn in the sand.

Already Trump is reneging on all of the things that he talked about and promised during the campaign,

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