Live Middle East Q&A with Wajeeh Lion

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[00:00:01]Good morning ladies and gentlemen and all between the binary. This is Guinifi.

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[00:04:43]Good morning.

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[00:06:30]I speak uh mainly two languages. I like uh to think that I can get in trouble in many other languages. Um and uh I can get in trouble maybe in three or four other languages than Arabic.

[00:06:48]I also speak Arabic and understand I I speak Arabic and four five dialects but I understand Arabic and more than 10 dialects.

[00:07:00]Uh I'm kind of diverse. I come from a diverse family from the Middle East. Uh my mom is Syrian.

[00:07:12]My dad is Saudi. His dad is Saudi. His dad's dad is Saudi or from the Arabia Peninsula. But this is an interesting part.

[00:07:22]My grandpa is married or was married, bless his soul, uh to Egyptian woman, my grandma.

[00:07:32]His father was married to a Turkish woman.

[00:07:36]Um, so my mom is Syrian, my grandma is Egyptian, my great grandma is Turkish.

[00:07:44]And, uh, you know, that kind of gives you an idea of how mixed I am in the Middle East, which kind of allowed me to understand more dialects because each of these regions have their own dialects and stuff. And you know, also opened up my eyes to different cultures uh way more quickly than just uh the Saudi culture. Um yeah, a little bit more diverse than your usual person. Oh, I did my DNA test and I came back 6% Ashkanazi Jew. For anyone that does not want to believe that the Middle East is not mixed up and that Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula has no Jewish bloodlines in them is an absolute lie. In fact, there are some tribes in Arabia that exist right now that can trace their lineage directly to Judaism.

[00:08:46]Like Alh Hari is a beduin tribe in Arabia that historically was a Jewish tribe that's now a Muslim like a Jewish faith tribe. They're ethnically Jewish, ethnically Arab Jews, but they are Muslim now or many of them are.

[00:09:08]There are some secretly under the table where Jews uh still Jew pract practice the Jewish faith.

[00:09:16]I am curious uh what you think about why Iran is not helping the people of Lebanon more forcefully since Israel is breaking the ceasefire because they have an existing ceasefire with the United States I believe and that uh they don't want to complicate the war on themsel but they are this is what they're doing they're making sure that any of their negotiation ations in would include the proxies of Iran whether it's the Houthis whether the their proxies in in Iraq or proxies in in Lebanon or proxies in Yemen all of these proxies are like one of the main priorities of the Iranian people and as they are a big large priority majority of them all talk peace talks with the United States have included them in that and um the United States walked back from that even though the Pakistani prime minister that was involved in these peace talks said oh yeah the ceasefire included Lebanon with the ceasefire that is included in Yemen included in Iraq and included in and and and and yeah, so from day one the peace talks have included included the Iranian proxies.

[00:11:00]Iran may not have all the resources that they used to have to support their proxies as they used to uh because they're focused now on inside Iran. But no, they have not giving up on their proxies. Uh they're being strategic. I would say they're being a little bit more strategic about how they support their proxies right now.

[00:11:24]Good question.

[00:11:28]That's a good question from Debbie Brandy.

[00:11:33]I want to know about Syria. I actually think it would be a good discussion in depth each nation. Okay, I'll see what I can do for you. I'll write an article about that or something.

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[00:11:55]Mr. Gay, even though Trump claims the war is over, what is it the possibility that Iran would strike the American blockade?

[00:12:11]If Iran sees no future talks with the United States, um, here's what making Iran a little hesitant.

[00:12:22]The fact of the matter is is that when Iran doesn't want the United States to hit its most important infrastructure, which is like oil facilities, water desalination, other electric plant infrastructure, the reality is that every player in the Middle East on on the battle board has a lot to lose.

[00:12:54]Even though Iran has lost a lot already and a lot of people like to claim that they have nothing else to lose. In one way, what they mean is that if they don't survive this war, it's all or nothing. So, it's it's it's you show up 100% for your country now, otherwise Iran may not be here tomorrow. And that's what they mean about that.

[00:13:21]What is the reality on the ground and otherwise in that is that Iran does not want to lose their electric plants, does not want to lose their basic infrastructure that the rest of the society survives on.

[00:13:40]The GCC nations in the same time do not want their secure infrastructures hit because Iran has shown more than capable of striking all of the Gulf nations most secure infrastructures whether it's water desalination electric plants oil uh infrastructure the Iranians have showed that they're capable of hitting all of them and committing large amount of damages that would take days to put down a fire. Not sometimes, depends on the fire, sometimes weeks. We're talking about oil fire, not your regular fire.

[00:14:29]Um, and if if Iran does that, then that up the whole Gulf country.

[00:14:37]Also, the United States does not want their warships, including the their their aircraft carriers or their um any of their destroyers hit because those are very expensive ships that takes years to build and the US military is not 100% able to block all the missiles and drones attack against these ships and those any of those ships hold like hundreds to multiple thousand soldiers at a time. So there's a lot of things that all sides could risk losing.

[00:15:21]That's why you haven't seen uh the Iranians striking first against the Americans. That's why you haven't seen the Americans going back into the battlefields and and striking Iran.

[00:15:35]That's why you haven't seen any of the Gulf nations taking any direct actions against Iran because everyone has realized the actual cost of this war.

[00:15:47]When this war first started, there was a strategic miscalculation between from the United States and from Saudi Arabia that they would be capable of decimating the Iranian regime and having a regime change within few days to a week.

[00:16:07]Now everyone has realized that not only Iran can survive all these strikes and and the regime survive all these strikes, but they're able to head back and own the straight of Hormuz.

[00:16:21]That's a nightmare for everyone that's involved because they thought that the straight of Hormuz would still be open, oil flow would still continue, the global markets would not be much uh like severely affected.

[00:16:35]But the exact opposite happened. So everyone is at a standstill. Everyone's going, "Oh, wait a minute. I don't know if I want to move this soldier here.

[00:16:46]Wait a minute. I don't know if I want to take this shot." Everyone is second guessing themselves.

[00:16:53]The Iranians have a a plan for the plan for the plan.

[00:16:59]If the leader dies, they have 10 snakes to take over.

[00:17:06]Why do Americans fall feel like they have to support Israel military even though they are committing a arashra autocracies uh against the neighbors? Honestly, we we need to do a history lesson for that one.

[00:17:31]But that goes back all the way to the establishment of Israel.

[00:17:36]Um that goes uh toward the Israeli lobby in the United States. I I talked about how one of the biggest weaknesses in the US government is the foreign lobby system.

[00:17:52]When the United States allows foreign governments to have their own lobbies in the United States and use their capital to financial capital to get out of US senators and representatives and presidents, whatever they want, then this is not America first. This is western countries first and then Americans for the longest time and until now this hasn't changed. Americans pay premium dollar on medications. Meanwhile, third world countries pay discounted price on medication. I'm not asking for third countries to pay full price on medications. I'm just asking for that the American people would pay the discounted prices on all of the medications that exist because we have shown that these medications are cheap to produce and the only reason that we are charging a premium is because we want the American consumer to be the person paying for all of the research for these medications and the American people are the ones being used as test rats for all these medications.

[00:19:14]So that's how you get the med I can go on and on about the medical system. I apologize.

[00:19:25]And then what was going back?

[00:19:29]So the lobby system that we have is undermining the American people, undermining the US. Not only the American people, the US sovereignty, the Saudi government was able to secure lands in Arizona. And Arizona doesn't have a lot of water, but they used to have a lot of underground water. And the Saudi government used lobbies. And by the way, more than 500 former US senior officials are in the payroll of the Saudi government and the United Arab Emirates.

[00:20:11]And that is to navigate the US political system and take advantage uh of that and how to manipulate the system so they can get whatever they want.

[00:20:27]more than 500 senior US officials.

[00:20:37]That was done years ago. That number is probably way higher now. You're talking about CIA. You're talking about Pentagon. You're talking about NASA.

[00:20:48]You're talking about former US representatives. You're talking about former US uh senators. You're talking about uh any of those big name positions.

[00:21:01]Former US uh advisor to the uh White House, former uh uh you can just think about the position they have hired.

[00:21:19]You think that's for your best interest?

[00:21:21]And I met Alhan and I told her, "There's 500 former US officials on the payroll of Saudi Arabia. Could we do something about it?" And you know what her response was?

[00:21:37]It was very depressing. Honestly, said that's part of their first amendment.

[00:21:45]To me, it was the first time I ever hear someone say, "Oh, it's part of their first amendment to betray their country." and work for another country and give them the inside trade information and hand them the keys over to a foreign country.

[00:22:00]That's Alhan Omar telling me there's nothing that she could do.

[00:22:23]Yeah, I was shocked by that reply.

[00:22:26]I was shocked myself and I've met Han several times and I know her team and her team has helped me with a lot of personal things but I'm not going to lie, you know, I met with her and I told her this is what's happening in your country. It's been reported. I'm not giving you any facts. The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, they all have reported on this.

[00:22:52]Former US officials are paying and working for countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, giving them all the secrets, teaching them how to bypass US, the balance of power, the checks and balances that we have in the country.

[00:23:21]Some people in the US, former US officials know how to bypass them. So when a country like Saudi Arabia or even worse, there might be people that even have worse than Saudi Arabia.

[00:23:36]That person gets a job at the US government, learns all the inside information, knows all the secrets, and then they go to Saudi Arabia and they go, "Baby, I know you want what you want the nuclear weapon from America. Yeah, I can help you out, my friend.

[00:23:55]Oh, you want to learn about how we can uh ignore the your human rights violations?

[00:24:02]Don't worry.

[00:24:04]You have public image about uh Jamaal Kashuki. Let me teach you how you can bypass all of that and you're sitting there and you have no idea what's going on.

[00:24:23]Tell us about who are the Kurds and why they are important. I will do a specific article about that. um that that alone needs an hour of discussion or two hours of discussion and I need to prepare for it.

[00:24:43]You know there was a quote I heard that was supposedly said supposedly said by what's her name?

[00:24:57]>> Churchill.

[00:25:01]Churchill is a very amazing speech giver, but I'm not 100%. I need to triple double check the the quote, but the quote goes and regardless of how if Churchill said it or not, the quote is good in my own opinion.

[00:25:18]They said they asked him, if you have a 5 minute speech, how many hours do you prepare for it? He goes, at least 5 hours.

[00:25:29]And then he they asked, "Well, if you have a speech that's going to be for a few hours, how many how long do you prepare for it?" He goes, "Five minutes.

[00:25:45]when you have uh what he was trying to say is that if you want to deliver a message, precise message that hits the ear, you need to be precise in every letter you say.

[00:26:13]So every word that comes out of your mouth would be memorable in everyone's ears.

[00:26:20]It's only 5 minutes.

[00:26:26]But now if I'm going to sit down here and talk to you for hours, I don't need to plan for hours and hours and hours. I only need 30 minutes to an hour. And uh if I know my topics, if I know I'm speaking on now, if I have to understand a new topic from scratch, I I have to go and study, which is different. Why I call it study is because before I talk about anything, I need to know the details. I need to know I need to understand it first to a point where I can explain it.

[00:27:04]If I going to understand it first to a point where I can explain it, then when I prepare for a few hour talk, I'm only explaining and answering what I just learned and study.

[00:27:20]But if I want to deliver a precise message, I need to take all that hours that I spent on the study and spend another additional few hours to craft a message.

[00:27:37]something for you guys to know. I know you guys like interesting tracks.

[00:27:43]You know, the sad thing about the Dem Democrats is that uh they're no longer the working man. Uh I I say this again and again, the US House of Representatives was designed to continue growing. It was never designed to have a fixed numbers of representatives. The US Senate was the US Senate was always designed to have two senators for each state regardless of the population.

[00:28:17]people who are were too afraid of classism, too afraid of the working class, and too afraid of um people of color. lobbyed hard to make sure that there is no more increases in the number of people that represent the citizens of the United States in the House of Representatives because they saw and they believed as we allow that number to increase, we allow people from different backgrounds to on and that will give better representation based on the people who are living in those countries in these states and as we have more of these representation happening the more diverse our political arena would be. If you ask anyone in the last 60, 70 years, are you a Democrat or a Republican? They will tell you, I'm a moderate.

[00:29:30]What they mean by that is that I don't see anyone or any ideology in the arena that I could claim my own.

[00:29:45]I'm not asking to form a new political party. I'm just saying the two parties that we have and the people that represent us in those parties do not represent the demographics of the United States and that's where you are falling short as you are having less people represent you for the population of the United States as the population is increasing. ing the more inequality will continue to happen in the system.

[00:30:26]So what can we do about this?

[00:30:28]We need to do a constitutional amendment because that's how it got changed to begin with or it needs to be sued.

[00:30:41]It needs to be taken to the Supreme Court. Say that this is unconstitutional.

[00:30:46]We no longer have a adequate representation in the US House because in particular of that decision and I believe as that changes the more people are going to be like ah this person actually says everything I believe in.

[00:31:08]Okay, that's exactly what we want to hear. But as I continue to hear people, oh, I don't see anyone that represent me. That tells me that we don't have enough people running.

[00:31:20]Someone is saying good luck there.

[00:31:22]That's okay. Good luck there. But you know what? We have been saying good luck for a lot of things and we kept be uh putting it aside. And now we are continuing to be hungry.

[00:31:34]And as more people are continuing to be hungry, we are inching away toward a revolution. And and I'm not wanting this country to go to a revolution. I would like to fix this problem before we head to a revolution. And as people continue to say, "Good luck with that." As people continue to say, "Oh, maybe not in my lifetime." This problem continues to put aside.

[00:32:03]People need to be able to draw their own red line and have their own demands, absolute demand. No, baby.

[00:32:10]I need more representation.

[00:32:13]If each state did uh their own referendum, if each state collected enough signatures to put something on the ballot, we would not be here.

[00:32:30]We would not be here. Why do we have 60 year old, 70 year old, 80 year olds in the US House of Representative in the US Congress that has been there for decades?

[00:32:43]Listen, I always say there's something to be said about experienced representatives and experienced senators because they understand how the system is run.

[00:32:55]But there's also something to be said about an aging government.

[00:33:02]an Asian government does not have the interest of improving. They're all tired.

[00:33:08]They're all so forced to go to US Senate to So, they're falling asleep. We're talking about bombs. We're talking about nuclear weapons. We're talking about there's these That's the problem.

[00:33:26]We have an aging house.

[00:33:30]political house and majority of the people in this country are young.

[00:33:36]That's the same problem we used to face in Saudi Arabia.

[00:33:46]By the way, the more you elect people that are barely awake, the more likely nothing happens.

[00:33:56]You're just going to sit down. Oh, we elected such and such. Yeah, we're so happy.

[00:34:06]We need young people with energy to wake up at 3:00 a.m. in the morning and run.

[00:34:19]We need people that even if Iran says we're not going to go peace negotiations, they go to you, they go to Pakistan, they're like, "Yah, we're waiting on you.

[00:34:34]We need people."

[00:34:37]When the American people need answer, they go quickly and give us some answers.

[00:34:49]We need creative people who can think outside the box.

[00:34:53]We need trustworthy people.

[00:34:57]So if you see young leaders in your community, encourage them to run. It doesn't have to be for the US House and US Senate, right? the way encouraging them and supporting them to run for local small offices makes a huge difference. Cut out the middleman.

[00:35:16]Run for yourself. Run for your community.

[00:35:20]It starts there.

[00:35:22]It starts small and goes big.

[00:35:27]You have no idea why I started becoming a grassroot organizer in Missouri and in Kansas.

[00:35:41]I witnessed my first public execution at the age of 10 in Saudi Arabia.

[00:35:49]I could have gotten a similar sentence just for collecting signatures.

[00:35:56]and they broke some records in Missouri collecting signatures to put ballots to put some laws on on the ballots to be voted on.

[00:36:07]I got attacked in Missouri by some deranged guy coming out of their house because I was canvasing doing voter education for the November ballot.

[00:36:21]cuz I know deep down inside of me that there is zero chance of any of that happening in Saudi Arabia and I know that if we continue to do the work like this that we do in the US where we are grassroot organizing where we are knocking doortodoor where we getting our neighbors involved to make the change happen now only we can do this by law here but if we don't do it we can become like Saudi Arabia tomorrow that's why you have to lose what you are risking by not doing anything by brushing it under the rug You're risking becoming another dictatorship.

[00:37:29]We already have an illegopoly in the economy system. What igopoly means?

[00:37:34]Means few rich people own the whole economy and it's very expensive for everyone else to join the economic market and compete in the US economy.

[00:37:46]We're already heading that way.

[00:37:48]We now have someone in the US how white house that wants the the corrosion of the checks and balances in the US government and he's working very hard to do so.

[00:38:04]You think by sweeping it under the rug that's going to help stop that from happening?

[00:38:13]If you thought when is the time for action and when is the time for change, it's now.

[00:38:20]It's now or never.

[00:38:24]You have no idea.

[00:38:27]You can vote in Saudi Arabia for collecting signatures. I can go to jail and lose my life, lose my head.

[00:38:37]Do you understand that?

[00:38:46]Thanks for hearing me. Thanks for attending my TED talk.

[00:38:56]The UK hasn't fall fallen yet. Um, so someone says all countries eventually fall. Yes, that that statement is true. But not all countries have to fall.

[00:39:14]Countries that fall are countries that allow demented leaders make horrible decisions, small decision at a time, big decision at a time and then isolating the country. And that isolationism is what eventually leads to a fall of a nation.

[00:39:41]And that's what our president is currently doing. Is it preventable? Yes.

[00:39:47]The United Kingdom was an emperor.

[00:39:58]They prevented the fall of the mon. So they prevented the fall of the whole government.

[00:40:07]The kings had to make concessions there.

[00:40:13]They have some they still have some countries in their own commonwealth.

[00:40:21]They could have easily fallen, but they've been around for more than 500 years because they made sure when there is demented decision making, these be put aside and someone else who's smarter that can make wiser decisions take over.

[00:40:43]Is the fall of the US government preventable? Yes, it is preventable now if he decide to take action.

[00:40:57]But it may not be tomorrow.

[00:41:03]I haven't even finished reading your question. I believe this may be the beginning of the end for the United States national debt. Uh, regarding this topic, I um the how the United States is getting kicked out of the United from the world global uh uh standing, how it's getting kicked out of the Middle East. Uh it's that and all of what's in between. I am working and collaborating with the Middle Eastern professor, a wellrespected one, specializes in Middle Eastern security and Middle Eastern conflict and and the United States uh standing there. Um we're going to have a collaboration. We don't have an exact date yet, but we will be talking in depth about that because we care about the United States. We love the United States. We want the best for the United States. And when we are saying this we're not saying it because we hate this country. We're saying it because we're we're seeing a pattern. We know how the game works. And it's scary for us.

[00:42:22]And that should say something to you.

[00:42:24]And it's scary for us. We want only the best for the American people.

[00:42:30]We want only the best for the American government. And we're not doing that. We're not putting America first.

[00:43:04]question from Tess said or tested.

[00:43:15]I don't know how to read these names.

[00:43:18]Trump is allied with Putin.

[00:43:22]Oh, not only he's allied with Putin, he loves Putin's ass.

[00:43:27]Malcolm says, "Uh, find you someone who loves you like Trump loves Putin's ass."

[00:43:37]And Putin is actively allied with Iran, North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, um, and many adversaries of the United States.

[00:43:51]So why is it not so obvious to America that Trump is a traitor?

[00:43:59]Because Americans live in a bubble.

[00:44:05]Americans are isolated from the global shock more than the rest of the global market.

[00:44:16]You think you're facing hard time paying the bills at the gas tank? Huh?

[00:44:22]You should see the rest of the globe.

[00:44:24]They're paying 10 20 $10 a gallon at the moment in some countries.

[00:44:31]You are having subsidized in a way oil prices in a way because we're using our own oil production. And we are using oil that is in been in in this in in in a reserved oil reserve to you know stabilize the market and so on and so forth. And as we are trying to stabilize the market, as we are trying to uh make prices a little bit more stable for Americans, Americans continue to live in somewhat of an economic bubble.

[00:45:20]the prices that you are seeing now. If our reserve runs out, if our um bubble gets bursted, you are instantly going to be living in hell. You're no, you're going to live in pro. Most of the middle class would be shifted to a poverty class within 24 hours if our burst if our bubble is bursted.

[00:45:49]Now, Americans also sadly will not know a country and where it is at in the world geography unless they are directly affected by its actions.

[00:46:06]They they don't know where most of Middle Eastern countries are. They don't even know what Saudi Arabia looks like for most of the time. They don't know the difference between a Sunni and a Shia. They don't know the difference between a Persian and an Arab. That's the reality that you have here. People continue to live in a bubble and unless that bubble is affected, they don't give a damn.

[00:46:44]I need to talk about urban economics sometime cuz that's another one by design that we do to isolate people by class and then after we isolate them by class we divide services based on these classes.

[00:47:08]Uh, don't get me started.

[00:47:14]Do you think that our enemies to democracies are enriched inside our political economics?

[00:47:26]Yeah.

[00:47:29]dictators, adversaries continues to use uh US economy and and and the political arena and the lobby uh system to take advantage of all of your American sovereignty and economic benefits.

[00:47:49]Uh, and even if they don't do that, Russia is making bank out of this conflict and they haven't did not have to move a finger.

[00:47:59]They're making a lot of money selling oil.

[00:48:18]Oh, even if Trump is gone, the damage to the US economy and the global market would take years. Like remember the 2008 2007 market crash.

[00:48:34]We're heading toward that direction, maybe worse if we are going to continue in this situation. Korea, a first world country, is already facing becoming a third world country because 90% of its energy consumption comes from oil.

[00:48:55]They're already urging their people to take shorter showers. People think that's funny. Countries when they do that, they have drastic measures and they are facing horrible times. And that's a US ally and a first world country.

[00:49:14]Now can you imagine what would happen to those countries that is not even a third world that's not even a first world country that's a third world country. I don't know if you know but on average US sanctions kill about half a million people mostly children.

[00:49:34]That is only US sanctions.

[00:49:39]every year results in half a million people dying mostly children.

[00:49:50]What is the consequence of the new NATO bank in Canada? Will they have the US since the defense contract would be made in Canada?

[00:50:04]NATO or NATO or or countries who are in NATO are actively finding ways to make alliances with each other outside the United States cuz the United States too much headache to deal with.

[00:50:22]Too much of a headache.

[00:50:24]And the more you do that, the more you isolate the United States. What is this doing to US national security? It is allowing countries to start establishing their own security without the US being part of that equation entrenched. I'm sorry.

[00:51:06]Let's read this again. I am dyslexic. So sometimes when I'm not when I'm reading fast they are very much entrenched in our political system. And I talked about how the like Saudi Arabia, Russia, um, MSAD, is always tried to hire former US senior officials and politicians to get under their payroll so they could be doing favorable things for foreign countries. I mean, you don't even have to be Republican. You could be a Democrat and you could be an agent for Egypt. What was that Democratic uh guy name that was taking gold bars from Egypt as as payment for for making things a little easier for them? Uh this is not a joke. US politics have been infiltrated by foreign governments. And we like to say, oh, like we hate this foreign government and we hate the foreign government. And we have been allowing all that to happen.

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[00:53:38]Question, how fast will Iran close the Babal Mandup if they get attacked? Uh, within hours.

[00:53:49]Babel Mandab uh is 50% smaller than the straight of Hormuz.

[00:54:01]The straight of Hormuz is about 22 miles. Babal Mand is about 10 miles or kilometers I forgot.

[00:54:13]uh 10 mi e either both of them either 10 miles or 20 mile or kilometer I need to go back and check and the only reason they haven't closed that is because they're using it as an ace card and they have demonstrated several times during this war that they are capable of not only shutting down Babal Mand up but also stealing boats and the last boat that was stolen was yesterday by whole bunch of pirates. I don't know if anyone drew that connection for you but the Houthies and the Somali pirates are aligned and working with each other.

[00:55:01]Waji, do you think uh Arab nations are more capitalists minded or uh cater for communism, socialism. You know, the reality of the situation in most countries is a combination of both.

[00:55:22]Some socialist services, including the military, is a socialist program. Any military in the world is a socialist program. You're investing and paying money into a project that does not give you money back. You're not expecting money. Like when we give companies to make us guns and weapons, we're not expecting to make any profit off of that. The company that's making it is making the profit. Uh when we are training, spending millions and millions on soldiers, we're not expecting that soldiers to bring us profit. We're expecting that soldiers to protect the country. That's a socialist program.

[00:56:08]I don't know who told you that's a kind of that's a capitalist ideology.

[00:56:15]Um wait and then yeah Arab countries have many socialist ideology that is originated within the Arabic culture. So like we call it socialist now because that's what it falls under. But Arabs have worked in an environment where everyone is supporting another and a constant basis. If a tribe needs money from another tribe, that tribe usually gives them the money without expecting that money back.

[00:56:57]But when that other tribe is needing that assistant at any time, they go back to the tribe they assist and they said, "Hey, we're in a situation. We need your help." They expect that tribe to show up whether they have money or not cuz they have that system, the tribal system where each tribe is supporting another. So they have like humans have existed with socialist ideas all the time and capitalism have always existed around us as well because we buy and sell and that's how we trade. So like anyone that gives you a pure system type of ideology is lying to you. I I I talked a lot about the principles of Keynesian e capitalistic ideology and classical uh economic ideology and they're both capitalistic ideology and they have huge disagreements of whether the government should uh intervene in an economy. a classist economist uh will tell you and they both won uh uh uh economic uh Nobel prizes the classist person would tell you oh the classic the classical person would tell you that you know prices are not sticking market moves up and down and reacts automatically and they believe that the government should not intervene and they believe in money trickle down economy but that's very old school thinking came a little bit after that and they said hold on hold on hold on after constant studies after close attention We have noticed that prices are sticky especially with the fast moving of information and with the uh how fast things are going now. There is no time for the market to react all the time. We don't have enough space and time for the market to adjust itself automatically all the time. So sometimes prices become sticky.

[00:59:36]So demand goes high all of a sudden and the price hasn't jumped all the way up yet. Or demand has dropped all of the sudden and then the price hasn't come down automatically yet. So what a Keynesian tells you and in a simplified way will tell you well the government needs to get involved.

[00:59:57]They need to fix the prices that are getting sticky.

[01:00:01]and they need to make sure that money trickle down like it doesn't work. So they need to make sure that there are ways for the working class or for working people to get adequately uh paid for their job. So anyone that's coming up to me and tell me you are a communist, you want the US government to be involved in our economy.

[01:00:29]How do you expect rules and regulations exist?

[01:00:32]How do you think we put end to child labor?

[01:00:37]How do you think we put end to slavery without government intervention?

[01:00:44]Things just happen naturally.

[01:00:51]US government needs to get involved.

[01:00:55]All these that are finding offshore banks and putting their money in offshore banks and avoiding the tax system. What the is happening to that?

[01:01:07]Have you seen trickle down economy from offshore banks into your wallet?

[01:01:18]Have we seen any mandatory thing saying if you make a certain percentage of profit, you need to give a certain percentage or you need to give your people, your employees a certain race.

[01:01:39]No, you don't.

[01:01:44]We say we are giving you tax breaks so you can have trickle down economy and as soon as the company makes profit what do they do? Do they do you understand what they do? No. I tell you they go back and buy the shares they were selling in the in in the market. Why do as a company go after they made profits they go to the market and buy their own shares to increase the value of the company.

[01:02:16]Why does a why does a CEO own a why does the owner of a company owns an LLC and that LLC is owned by uh a holding company and that holding company is owned by a trust fund.

[01:02:39]So when I come to sue the LLC, the LLC that exists is worthless.

[01:02:51]All it has is employees.

[01:02:55]The assets and the funds are owned by a holding company.

[01:03:01]So the holding company does not lose money. The owner does not lose money.

[01:03:05]There's three four steps for me to reach this has been taking advantage of me. That's why you see billionaires getting sued for hundreds of millions of dollars and they're walking around like nothing happened.

[01:03:28]What happened to trickle down economy?

[01:03:31]We created the perfect system for monopoly.

[01:03:35]That's not capitalism.

[01:03:40]You know, the United States is not even in the top 10 when it comes to capitalistic economies.

[01:03:49]The United States does not even make it to the top 10 when it comes to capitalistic economies.

[01:03:55]Even capitalism, we're not doing it right.

[01:04:02]Is that a slap to the face to you?

[01:04:07]It shouldn't be.

[01:04:15]You don't even have a good capitalistic economy.

[01:04:19]Because if you have a good capitalistic economy, it shouldn't be that hard for you to join the market.

[01:04:28]The whole point of capitalism is competition.

[01:04:34]Can you compete in the current economy?

[01:04:39]You have $10,000 to open a small small tiny shop that sells phone covers in the mall.

[01:04:52]You don't even have that.

[01:04:56]You know, families and tribes in Pakistan and India come together and collect a lot of money and then they send one of their kids abroad and that kid opens a gas station and that gas station is funding their family in Pakistan or India and they're feeding them.

[01:05:20]That's how they were able to open a gas station.

[01:05:28]You don't even have that.

[01:05:30]You can't even open a gas station.

[01:05:33]You need to be a multi-millionaire in the US.

[01:05:39]Can you open a restaurant?

[01:05:44]You don't even have the cost to rent a restaurant.

[01:05:53]Why is it so Have you asked yourself why is it so hard for me to have a business in the United States?

[01:06:02]Is that a good capitalistic system?

[01:06:08]So even when you get a politician that tells you, oh that person is communist, tell where's my capitalistic economy?

[01:06:19]Where's my capitalistic economy?

[01:06:22]I want my capitalism, I have already written a couple of uh big uh big eyes 14 is asking can you review the consequence of the UAE exit from OPEC?

[01:06:50]Go back and read uh some of my articles in the last couple days I've written about that someone wrote a paragraph here.

[01:07:03]If you want to increase the productivity and improve the quality of life of government, run a healthy insurance system needs to happen. Yes. How do you expect people to give you a great return on the US economy when people are barely even able to pay their bills and they're from paycheck to paycheck?

[01:07:26]You know, the United States became great because they gave everyone an opportunity to to to to join us.

[01:07:40]We gave opp people opportunity to become part of the national pride. We gave people opportunity to innovate. We gave people opportunity to go through some of the best education system in the world. What have we done in the last 50 years? It's constantly cut funding from schools.

[01:08:05]What does it mean when you cut funding from schools? You are cutting funding for the future. What does it mean when you cut funding of future minds for an economy? That means you are investing in the failure of the future.

[01:08:24]We spend trillions on our military.

[01:08:28]If we spend a fraction of that, we would have the best education system in the world.

[01:08:36]Our teachers are borrowing money to have pencils and tissues and gerax and highlighters in a classroom.

[01:08:54]We expect our teachers to pay from their own pocket. That is a fraction of what anyone is making. You know, an entry- level teacher makes a $30,000 a year.

[01:09:05]What the is that going to do to you?

[01:09:17]We don't have good education system.

[01:09:23]You know when I came to the United States, I went to one of one best 100 schools, high schools in the US. I was very privileged. I was very lucky. I was uh I grew up in uh from junior high to high school and then through college in a small town called Manhattan, Kansas, the Little Apple.

[01:09:51]Luckily, Manhattan was a small enough town to have one high school, but big enough to have one big high school.

[01:10:02]We had like five, six basketball courts.

[01:10:05]We had like three football fields. We had all the resources that you could think. Rich people one time wanted to make their own high school. And the whole city was like, "Fuck you.

[01:10:17]that. We all get the same resources given to everyone."

[01:10:23]And because I had access to one of 100 best high schools in the United States, I got, you know, uh into uh forensics and uh I was able to, you know, win awards over my forensics work and and mock Congress and and other stuff like that, which got me very involved. olved with the Saudi government later on and I had access to you know amazing uh I was a student and I am a student with learning disability so you know I had hearing aids I had dyslexia I have uh ADHD you could add the whole list if it wasn't for the fact that there were paras coming with me from class to class and giving me that little extra assistance.

[01:11:26]I moved from being an F and a C student to becoming an A student that graduated with honors.

[01:11:37]And all it took is a little extra help.

[01:11:40]All it took is a parah giving me a extra assistant of how I received that information.

[01:11:51]Most high schools in the United States cannot even afford having a teacher to have a parah.

[01:12:04]And the only reason I got access to this amazing education system, I saw what horrible education system looked like in in in the US. My first two years in the United State were in Colombia, Missouri.

[01:12:18]No access to Paris. no access to uh students with learning disability.

[01:12:27]I was an F student.

[01:12:31]I thought I would become a gangster.

[01:12:38]I seriously thought that I wanted to become a gangster when I was in Columbia, Missouri. My first two years in America where I was still learning the English alphabet because the branding that I had, the education system that I have wasn't supportive.

[01:12:58]I'm now one of the most educated person that you might know.

[01:13:08]That's through your education system, not Saudi Arabia.

[01:13:14]That's here in the United States.

[01:13:16]Imagine what's happening to your kids now. You're having people who are like wanting to do old education system, no calculators.

[01:13:33]You go back to who's pushing these ideas, some conservative mindset, religious mindset. We're trying to push religion to through people's throat and and we're expecting everyone to to come out genius.

[01:14:00]Okay, let's see questions here. What did I miss?

[01:14:07]I'm having good ranch today, y'all.

[01:14:13]What does that exist?

[01:14:33]Yeah. You want, you know, future good education system. You want to future good economy for your kids, give them good education. As as simple as that.

[01:14:44]If parents are too busy to go to school uh to if our parents are too busy to come back home and take care of our kids, then our government and our school system need to be there available to make sure that our kids come out good.

[01:15:04]In India, there was a time where they hunted down all of the old older elephants.

[01:15:17]There was whole bunch of baby elephants.

[01:15:23]They killed all the older elephants.

[01:15:27]So the daily elephants growing up had no one teaching them the way.

[01:15:32]This is true. So they went and started destroying farms, breaking into people's uh uh property, uh killing people cuz they had no one to raise them.

[01:15:47]So they went to Africa and they adopted some older elephants and they brought them back to India.

[01:15:59]Through months and years, these older elephants started teaching the younger elephants how to behave right.

[01:16:10]They taught the elephant, younger elephants, how to eat, how to survive in the wild. Elephants are very social animals.

[01:16:21]And these are goddamn animals.

[01:16:28]I talked a lot about how a system is what makes a person good or bad.

[01:16:39]I talked in previous episodes about the Stanford prisons uh experiment where 10 students who have committed no crime in ever in their life volunteered to be prisoners and 10 students who have never committed a crime all their life to become prison guards. Within less than few days the whole experiment came to an end.

[01:17:06]Why? Why did this experiment come to an end?

[01:17:12]We have made sure that there is no oversight and we made sure that we did not give these students any rules or regulations before they became student guards.

[01:17:25]Within a few days, the prison guards started abusing the prisoners, fully knowing and understanding that these prisoners have never committed a crime in their life.

[01:17:39]We saw good human beings, students at Stanford University, one of the best universities in the world, where we think these students were raised very well by their parents, right? went and committed heinous acts toward innocent civilians.

[01:17:58]Why? That's very unrealistic. This is talking about the prison experience between students. It was a controlled environment. This has nothing to do with reality. I'm sorry. This was repeated in reality over and over and over again. I will help you recognize the pattern.

[01:18:24]Dick Cheney went to George Bush and convinced him to go to war in Iraq.

[01:18:35]And I try to pronounce names how they are announced and annunciated in Arabic so you guys can recognize what Iraq is and Iraq in Arabic or instead of Iran it's Iran or instead of Turkey is Turkey. I'm I I do this on purpose so you guys could catch up to this.

[01:19:06]So Dick Cheney went to Bush and convinced him to go to war.

[01:19:13]Before Bush went to that war, King Abdullah at the time raised the phone and called George Bush and said, "Listen, my friend, it's not a good idea.

[01:19:27]I don't recommend you going to war with these Iraqis.

[01:19:31]you know they they are very strong they it's going to devastate your economy it's gonna cause a lot of you know problems in the region Bush did not listen he invaded King Abdullah called him again after him the invasion he goes listen I know that you just invaded I know that you have a lot of projects but listen to my advice just take out some down and leave. Let the Iraqis decide the the current Iraqi government put the next leader just, you know, leave and let the Iraqi government themselves choose the next leader. He did not like that.

[01:20:21]Bush decided to take the roots of the whole Iraqi government out. Who was putting Iran in check during this time in the whole Middle East was Saddam Hussein.

[01:20:36]The same country that we're fighting right now was put in check and balance by the Iraqi government and would have stayed in their place if we have not touched.

[01:20:53]But that's not why I'm saying this.

[01:20:57]Why are you telling us about Iraq?

[01:21:01]I'm telling you about Iraq because we sent some of our best people to Iraq. People who wanted to defend the United State.

[01:21:15]People who have kids. People who go to church, people who are sitting on board of directors for nonprofit, people who have never committed a crime in the United States, patriotic, national loving people. We sent them to the war battlefield and we took over a political prison that used to be run by Saddam Hussein where he would be torturing Iraqis and killing them.

[01:21:52]The United States took over that prison.

[01:21:56]I thought, no, I was too young to think.

[01:22:01]You would think, that's the word. You would think the US after they took over, they would do remodeling.

[01:22:09]They would create American prison, even though American prisons are horrible, but they're considered a joke to a lot of Middle Eastern.

[01:22:26]No, the United States on purpose took over that prison and on purpose they made sure that there is no oversight.

[01:22:41]The United Stateates made sure that there is no oversight in that prison.

[01:22:48]did not give any rules or regulations to the soldiers and gave them prisoners.

[01:22:56]Many of them we know that they were innocent.

[01:23:01]Many of them were on the spectrum meaning they had some sort of mental I I don't want to call it because it's not an illness. Um, people who have autism, people who have uh this type of situation and we put them in prison where we put them in the same political prison that was designed to torture Iraqis.

[01:23:43]What do you think these amazing US soldiers did?

[01:23:52]What they did next that only shocked the world?

[01:23:59]I don't like calling it a disability either because um like there is the I have issue with the word disability. When I was a student at Kansas State University, I made them change the student disability center to the student ability center.

[01:24:22]Because when you give people that don't have the tools they need, the correct tools, they don't longer become disabled, they just become able.

[01:24:33]And uh uh I don't like calling people who have just need extra assistant disabled. It's just my personal preference. There's nothing wrong with what you guys have chosen.

[01:24:50]Uh but what happened is that the United States, some of the greatest people have committed heinous crimes against those exact people that we like to say disabled people to.

[01:25:14]people that have hard time communicating their needs and many others that have not committed a crime or were just gathered on thrown there.

[01:25:29]So now we have some amazing US citizens that we have chosen to put them in a situation where the system was designed not to have any oversight.

[01:25:48]All of a sudden these amazing people were doing torture on regular people.

[01:25:56]Not on al-Qaeda, not on ISIS, not on government regime people, even though all of that would be a crime against humanity.

[01:26:08]So wait a minute, your prison experiment in Stanford is repeatable.

[01:26:17]Okay, let me give you another example.

[01:26:21]When a senator goes and sexually assault another person and gets away with it.

[01:26:34]Why is that?

[01:26:38]Because there is an absence of oversight or getting oversight to be applied on these senators or representative is very hard.

[01:26:48]I'll give you my personal experience working for a state senator, a good state senator, a person of color, a Democrat, a single mom, someone that fights for the minority.

[01:27:09]Okay.

[01:27:12]Senator Ola FDA from the Kansas Senate.

[01:27:19]That's where I started my first job.

[01:27:21]After college, I became a legislative administrative assistant and I was the first Saudi citizen to ever have a job inside a state senate or any senate in the United States, either federal or state.

[01:27:48]I was also a consultant at the time for the police in Manhattan, Kansas to help bridge the gap between the police relations and this minority community because the Muslim community felt like they were constantly being overwatched without having any uh reason for it. So I decided to do something about it. I became friends with the former governor of can uh no became friends yeah I did become friends with the former governor of Kansas John Kong but I became friends with a captain Tim Hagerty at the time he was working for Riley County Police Department.

[01:28:40]Originally I had him come over and give us couple lectures about you know for you know foreigners. The lecture was for people who are not from the United States about you know what to do if you get pulled over. What is the etiquette um of how to deal with American police? Um, I wanted as much as like I understood the American police did not always have the best interests of the American people, but I also believed that it was necessary for people of color to hear what this police captain has to say so they could avoid getting in trouble from the police perspective without having to do without having done anything wrong.

[01:29:30]So I established that connection.

[01:29:34]Months later, years later passed by and we are collaborating over this and that.

[01:29:39]I I established an ambassadorship between the the the police and the Muslim community where they no longer had to send members of the police to spy on every Friday prayer. They just had a you know the captain Tim Herodyy that the Muslim community would work with and they establish a friendship where they became friends rather than you know acquaintance like the hey Captain Tim I I see something that looks you know unreasonable. I wanted that type of relationship and I established exactly that type of relationship. The FBI was impressed.

[01:30:21]So while I was working with uh as a legislative administrative assistant, the FBI came to visit me in Topeka, Kansas to ask how I have done that and what was my process to see if they could replicate the same system uh for the FBI.

[01:30:46]So, they took me out to lunch. We sat down. We were talking.

[01:30:50]After we were done, I asked if they'd like to meet the senator that I'd like to that I'm working for. And they were like, "Yeah, we'd love it." So, we finished and uh I went back to the cap.

[01:31:06]I introduced the two FBI agents to the senator and y here's I was on a lunch break. I was doing a consultation.

[01:31:15]After they left, the senator called me to her office.

[01:31:25]The first thing that came out of her mouth is she's like, "Are you a terrorist?"

[01:31:37]Excuse him.

[01:31:40]She said, reiterated, "Are you ISIS?"

[01:31:50]What?

[01:31:54]Why would I be? No.

[01:31:58]And then her next reaction is, "Do you work for the FBI? Have they hired you to spy on me?

[01:32:12]And that harassment continued.

[01:32:19]She was allied with an LGBT activist lobbyist. Sorry, an LGBT lobbyist. Let me pull out his name.

[01:33:12]Yes, Thomas Wit, WITT.

[01:33:18]He was the LGBT lobbyist in Kansas.

[01:33:22]And as you know, I'm the first openly, you know, queer person from Saudi Arabia. At the time, I was still in the closet. I was getting ready to come out.

[01:33:31]I just applied for my political asylum and uh she was allied with him and in fact she got her first election successfully done because of his support.

[01:33:50]After the he came in, she asked him to convince me to go back in the closet, a senator of Alifa Posa, Democratic senator, mother of two girls or three girls, single mom, person of color, someone that fights for minorities.

[01:34:31]She lost this the Thomas Whit no longer became her friend. She lost his his whole alliance ship because of that small move.

[01:34:44]When she started telling me to go back in the closet and doing all these other harassments, what could I do?

[01:34:58]Oh, she was not real. She was not white.

[01:35:01]She was black.

[01:35:05]That's what I'm trying to say. Good people when there is no oversight do horrible things.

[01:35:26]I went to HR and I filed a complaint and I had to quit my job.

[01:35:36]And that started a whole loophole that let the Saudi government know that I was getting ready to come out and has, you know, put me in the spotlight in front of my parents where my mom started, you know, uh, spying on me and then I was reported to the Saudi government and then I had to apply for asylum. run. I already applied for a son. I had to run away from my parents' house with two trash bags and and enter a safe house. All of that started with those small decisions that was done by a state senator.

[01:36:28]Why are you telling us your personal story through all of this?

[01:36:32]Well, the discussion was When there is an absence of oversight, there is always people who are good that will become bad or do bad decisions.

[01:36:51]Whether it's a US soldier sent to a battle with no oversight with prisoners or a prison study in Stanford that was focusing on two two groups of kids that never committed the crime or to a a senator of color, a fighter and a grassroots organizer calling me and assessing and everything that has happened to me.

[01:37:23]What's the comment? There was a absence of oversight.

[01:37:30]Oh, where? We're coming close to 2 hours, y'all.

[01:37:36]I think uh this is a good place to conclude today's episode, unless you guys have uh more important questions.

[01:37:44]Let me take a look.

[01:37:46]I stepped away from the group chat.

[01:37:58]Oh, there's a question. Aren't capitalism democracy incompatible?

[01:38:05]I don't think it's necessary incompatible. It is compatible if you do it right.

[01:38:12]Um, I think we're not doing our democracy right and we're not doing our capitalism right. And the combination of both of them now doing done right has only been causing a lot of damages for a lot of Americans.

[01:38:28]Uh, and the US citizen is the one paying the price. You want some change for people like Bernie Sanders and AOC and uh, uh, what's his name? David uh from the Orlando shooting, school shooting.

[01:38:46]What's his name?

[01:38:49]David something. I forgot.

[01:38:52]Invest in the future.

[01:38:55]Encourage your your your the kids that you see of color or non color. Anyone that that's smart or David Yeah. David Hog. Yeah.

[01:39:06]Find you people like David Hog. He's started a whole program where he's supporting small kids, uh, younger generations running for office.

[01:39:17]We need younger energy.

[01:39:27]There are many other countries who are doing capitalism and democracy way better than we are. And when you start mentioning them to the, you know, people on the far right will start telling you, well, why don't you move there?

[01:39:43]My response to them is, why don't you find a country that is applying religious laws like Saudi Arabia or like that like cathedral or the Catholic Church or some Christian country, go to it. You want religion and state, go to a country where they apply religion state.

[01:40:06]We came here and to the United States for balance of power, checks and balances, separation between religion, state.

[01:40:17]We're not even doing that.

[01:40:22]At least when someone tells you we have capitalism, tell them do it right. We have uh democracy. Tell them to do it right because neither are capitalism or democracy is being applied correctly.

[01:40:46]Okay, I think that concluded all the questions.

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