Well, I mean, talk about what,

Well, how about I show my series really quick to give people some context on how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is, I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? And so what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? That's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds are contingent upon Israel being happy with you and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know, boycotting them, I should say, boycotting Israel in any way.

So, yeah, so that's a very special relationship.

Yes.

Well, I mean, talk about what.

Well, how about I show my series really quick to give people some context on how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is, I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? And so what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? That's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds are contingent upon Israel being happy with you and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know, boycotting them, I should say, boycotting Israel in any way.

So, yeah, so that's a very special relationship.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

So at the tender age of 15, I decided to just stop.

I, I didn't watch the news.

I didn't read newspapers, even though I had sort of interests along those lines.

Um, and uh, I never went back.

[laughs] What I did do though, uh, is I thought, "Well, I don't like this pretense to objectivity.

I would like people who lay their cards on the table a bit more, uh, and say, 'This is, this is our ideological goal.

In contrast, sensible provisions for rational suicide, governed by the principles of autonomy, dignity, and compassion, offer humankind the possibility of ending a life that was so acceptable that it required no further deeds or days.

This is how we're doing it.

That seemed like a certain honesty in it, you might say.

So I stopped reading the mainstream media, and I decided to read something on the right.

Don't laugh at me, Pete.

National Review.

And something on the left, which was The Humanist.

I quickly got bored of the National Review, though it did introduce me to Eric Von Canol-Ledeen, for which I'm grateful, who I later got to meet.

Yes.

Well, I mean, talk about what,

Well, how about I show my series really quick to give people some context on how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is, I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? And so what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? That's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds are contingent upon Israel being happy with you and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know, boycotting them, I should say, boycotting Israel in any way.

So, yeah, so that's a very special relationship.

Yes.

Well, I mean, talk about what...

Well, how about I show my series really quick to give people some context on how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is, I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? And so what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? That's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds are contingent upon Israel being happy with you and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know, boycotting them, I should say, boycotting Israel in any way.

So, yeah, so that's a very special relationship.

Thank you.

Well, I mean, talk about what.

Well, how about I show my series really quick to give people some context of how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist.

Right.

[chuckles]

Go right ahead

... of why I even, how I even ended up on this topic, and that is I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? Um, and so the...

what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? Um, that's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds, uh, are contingent upon Israel being happy with you, and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know? Or boycotting them, I should say.

Boycotting Israel in any way.

[laughs]

Well, I mean, talk about what.

Well, how about I show my series really quick to give people some context on how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is, I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? And so what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? That's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds are contingent upon Israel being happy with you and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know, boycotting them, I should say, boycotting Israel in any way.

So, yeah, so that's a very special relationship.

I reference it quite often, yes.

Go right ahead

... of why I even, how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is, I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? Um, and so the...

what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? Um, that's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds, uh, are contingent upon Israel being happy with you, and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know? Or boycotting them, I should say.

[laughs]

Go right ahead.

How I even ended up on this topic.

And that is I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? And so what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US.

But I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? That's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds are contingent upon Israel being happy with you and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know, boycotting them, I should say, boycotting Israel in any way.

[laughs]

Well, I mean, talk about what...

Well, how about I show my series really quick to give people some context on how I even ended up on this topic.

And that is, I've been doing a series called The Specialist Relationship.

I looked it up.

It's a real word.

Special, specialer, specialist, right? And so what is the specialist? We talk about the special relationship between the UK and the US, but I think we all know there's an even more special, a most special of all relationship between the US and the state of Israel, right? That's being brought home today as we're learning that disaster relief funds are contingent upon Israel being happy with you and you're not sanctioning them or whatever, you know, boycotting them, I should say, boycotting Israel in any way.

So, yeah, so that's a very special relationship.

I reference it quite often, yes.

... about that.

But there, there's two things coming into this, uh, that I have behind me coming into this.

One is that I did a series on my channel, Radical Liberation, on YouTube, um, on mutual aid societies, where I went through a book by David Beito, and he was focused more on the American side, but it, it's, it's kind of a very similar story in the UK, for example.

Um, and, and so I just went through that book because I wanted to, uh, understand this history, and then I helped actually form one.

I for- uh, helped form a brotherhood.

Your burials and things, and yeah.

Yeah.

Um, and, and so they'd, say, form an orphanage, and then once it was there, maybe some other people would benefit from it who aren't members of the society, right? Um, you know, and once the s- structure is there, it could have wider benefits, which to my view is all, all good, right? The, the problem is when you undermine what built it all in the first place.You, you abolish the ability to exclude, and so now you have people come along who are not participating in the give and take-

And the Americans going that far is also a big deal.

So may I provide a little context? Yeah, please.

So I have a show where I cover matters like this, financial matters, with my co-host, the Black Horse, he goes by.

Yep.

Big fan of both.

And one of the things he has pointed out on our show is that if you think of everything's made in China, China's the top trading partner of the US, you're actually quite out of date by now.

Right.

Right, right.

Facts

... solar.

Uh, instead of scrapping the windfall tax on energy companies, as this government is planning to do, we should be strengthening it instead.

We need a real loophole-free windfall tax with no exemptions for reinvesting in fossil fuels, a robust tax that claws back every single pound of reckless profiteering from this crisis and repurposes it immediately to protect every home in the country.

Now, let's just explain something.

Fossil fuels aren't just a source of energy.

They are the precursor to plastics and to fertilizers and to electronics and to pretty much everything in your life.

Yeah, it's precisely that.