- Today, we're talking about Hamas' devastating attacks
on Israel, all the misinformation,
the updates, what's about to happen,
as well as how a battle to save a dying species of whales
could completely upend Big Oil.
Why California Governor Gavin Newsom is vetoing caps
on insulin and shrooms decriminalization.
We're talking about all that and so much more
on today's brand new Philip DeFranco Show,
your daily dive into the news.
Just make sure you're subscribed and let's jump into it.
Starting with, Israel was caught completely by surprise
this weekend after Hamas launched a massive attack
early on Saturday morning.
The assault, including not only the normal stuff,
like firing thousands of rockets into Israel,
but also a coordinated assault across the border,
which was done by dismantling parts of the border fences
and having hundreds flying to Israel on paragliders,
and once inside, they assaulted border villages
and locations with large concentrations of Israelis
with grim efficiency.
This meant going door to door in some places
to shoot civilians in their homes or take them hostage.
One of the worst incidents
was at the Supernova Music Festival.
Right, that took place in the sparsely populated
and it gave desert about 13 miles from the Gaza Strip.
Now, investigators is still piecing together exactly
what happened, but through dash cam footage
from some of the cars there and videos taken by party goers,
we have a general idea.
Early in the morning just after sunrise,
the ravers could hear the rockets coming from Gaza
so they started to be escorted out of the festival,
but Hamas soldiers quickly arrived and just started killing.
With initial reports indicating dozens were killed,
then 100, and now, it stands at at least 260 people
at the festival were killed and many others captured
and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
If you add up all those killed
throughout the border villages,
it's believed that over 700 Israelis have been killed,
many more taken prisoner,
and about as many are still missing.
Right, for context of how big of a disaster
this is for Israel, this is the single biggest loss
of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust
and adding to the horror of all this
is the sheer celebration that those engaged
in the killings were having.
You can see Hamas troops, desecrating corpses,
and parading them around, or in many cases,
showing off those who were captured as war trophies
including women who have been raped,
and since the attack, the Israeli Defense Forces worked
to secure border towns in the broken parts of the border,
which has led to multiple firefights, and while there
are understandably many questions being asked right now
that we need answers to, one of the biggest is,
how the fuck did this happen?
Right, Hamas' attacks seemed to have come out of nowhere
and Israel wasn't prepared.
With one of the reasons being the timing,
Hamas attacked during a major holiday in Israel
when many troops were on leave allowing Hamas
to capture what few troops were there relatively easily,
which could partly be why they attacked, when they attacked,
but also, the date has importance
in Israeli-Palestinian history.
Footage from places like the music festival show,
only a handful of police security in a single tank arriving
to try and slow down the attack, but overall,
there is a sense that Prime Minister Netanyahu is done for.
There's a few reasons for this,
ranging from reports that he ignored intelligence
that something big from Gaza was going to happen too.
He spent too much effort on his judicial overhaul bill
in order to stay in power or even that he sent
too many troops to help Jewish settlers in the West Bank
kicked Palestinians out of their homes
rather than worry about Hamas.
Right, even some extremely, staunchly pro-Israel
supporters are calling for him to hand over any prisoners
Hamas wants in exchange for those now being held hostage
with takes like saying, "We don't negotiate with terrorists,
only works if you can actually protect against terrorists.
Israeli government and intelligence failed horrendously
and the Israelis slaughtered and taken hostage
in this weekend's attack are victims of Hamas' terror
and also, victims of Netanyahu's inexcusable failure
to protect his own citizens.
Once the remaining Israeli hostages are safely returned,
Netanyahu needs to resign."
Now, that being said, he's very unlikely to actually face
any kind of reckoning until after fighting
with Hamas has been finished, which will likely take
a long time and a lot can happen between now and then
and it also helps that all the major opposition forces have
now formed a unity government during the crisis.
So far as of updates, Israel has called up
300,000 reservists, the largest amount ever.
Netanyahu and his ministers have made it clear
that Israel is at war, that Gaza will be besiege
and there'll be an invasion by troops.
Before that happens though, Israel's Air Force has already
started bombing the city, and this while Hamas has continued
to send rockets into Israel through the past two days
and surrounding all this, there was a lot of misinformation.
Right, there's been footage circulating of Israeli attacks
on Gaza, then you have things ending up just being actual
fireworks celebrations from another country completely,
or have children in cages that Hamas allegedly captured,
that's actually old footage, not even taken in Palestine
or Israel, or Elon Musk recommending people
to follow channels that are notorious for spreading
any video they can get their hands
on without checking them at all.
In the case of YouTuber, Moist Critikal,
there was a fake screenshot being shared all over of a video
titled "Massive Israel Drama", which is definitely something
he didn't make.
Also, as you can imagine,
this conflict has caused a lot of reactions.
The US has largely said that it's giving unwavering support
to Israel and sending a carrier strike group to the region.
Meanwhile, many European countries have condemned
Hamas' attack with the EU even announcing that it was ending
a massive $700 million Palestinian aid package
because of the violence, but then on the other side,
some lawmakers such as Ilhan Omar,
have expressed their support for Palestinians
while also dancing around the atrocities committed by Hamas,
which actually on that note,
it brings us to kind of the next thing.
Talking about this issue at all in any way opens people up
for criticism because everyone ends up digging
their heels in.
Right, take Kylie Jenner and Jamie Lee Curtis, for example,
both made general posts in support of Israel
only to then take them down after severe backlash.
Some of it coming from personalities like Mia Khalifa
who said, "If true journalism exists,
the next person to talk to Kylie Jenner will ask
for her opinion on geopolitical tension in the Middle East
and not break eye contact until she can string
one coherent sentence together since she wants to take
a stance to her 400 million followers so badly."
However, Khalifa herself has also gotten a lot of support
and a lot of backlash for taking
an extremely controversial stance that many others have.
but the writing things like wanting the freedom fighters
and Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal
and in the face of backlash, she doubled down and said,
"I just wanna make sure there's 4K footage
of my people breaking down the walls of the open air prison
they've been forced out of their homes
and into so we have good options for the history books
that write about how they freed themselves from apartheid.
I stand with all people fighting oppression."
Right, and she was hardly alone in that, right?
Throughout the world, you could find Palestinian groups
celebrating Hamas' attack as well as online,
many ignored all the footage coming out to say things like,
"The assumption that Palestinian fighters committed rape
is based on racism, pure and simple.
There isn't a single verified report
or claim of that happening."
Now, for obvious reasons,
I am not going to show you the footage here,
but I can assure you that without a doubt,
rape has happened.
Meanwhile, you have others arguing
this is a natural consequence of Israel's actions
and of colonization.
There even people justifying the killings of innocence
such as the the 22 year old German woman
at the music festival whose mangled body was later paraded
around by Hamas with takes like, "If she didn't want
to experience the incredible violence of decolonization,
she probably shouldn't have participated
in colonization, I guess."
And as you might imagine, many were outraged
with those takes and responding with stuff like,
"Murdering tourists at a fucking concert
is not an act of decolonization, you fucking psychopath."
Also, at the same time, many of those who are pro-Israel
are calling for the complete destruction of Gaza.
Netanyahu himself told Palestinians to leave Gaza City
as they're seemingly planning massive airstrikes
all across the city, while also at the same time announcing
that they were cutting off all food, water,
and electricity to the tiny territory, but also,
here's the thing with that,
they don't really have anywhere to go.
In fact, it's one of the reasons Hamas
is even able to stay in power.
Many Gazans feel like if they're going to be living
in generally shit conditions,
they'll at least go out fighting,
but it creates a cycle where Israel wants to cut supplies
so Hamas gets weaker, but then it bolsters Hamas' popularity
with Gazans as they suffer and it's explained
by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti who works
with the Palestinian group in the West Bank.
Hamas' attacks are often able to garner so much support
from Palestinians because many are so angry with decades
of what they call an apartheid Israeli state and adding...
- What you see today is a reaction to several things.
First of all, settlers, terrorist attacks on Palestinians
in the West Bank that has evicted already 20 communities
in an act of ethnic cleansing, 248 Palestinians
who were killed by the Israeli army and settlers
in the West Bank including 40 children,
attacks on the holy sites,
the Muslim and Christian holy sites by Israeli extremists,
as well as declaration of Netanyahu
that he will liquidate the Palestinian rights
and the Palestinian cause by normalization
with Arab countries and he dared even to go
to the United Nations and carried in the United Nations
a map of Israel, which included the whole of the West Bank,
all of Gaza, all of Jerusalem, as well as the Golan Heights.
- Without food, water, electricity, and a general invasion,
the conditions there could get much, much worse
for the 2 million residents, and adding to the problem
and really, just touching on what a nightmare situation
this could become are the civilian deaths that will happen.
Partially, that's because horrible collateral damage happens
in every war even when countries try not to, but also,
especially because Hamas actively uses civilians
as human shields.
Including right now as officials told residents
to stay in place despite Israeli warnings
that strikes will happen.
So it's because of that policy that people
like Ben Shapiro have said that any Palestinian blood
in the upcoming campaigns will be on Hamas' hands,
not Israel's, and when you look at everything
that's happening and what everyone is saying,
it really feels like with this entire conflict,
all nuance is dead.
Like I don't think it should be a hot take to say
that specifically killing civilians and taking hostages
is horrendous and shouldn't be supported
and many have pointed out that even if you support
an armed resistance by Palestinians,
there are legitimate military targets to attack,
not small towns and concerts.
Right, there would be and should be similar outrage
if Ukraine sent a force into Russia and did the same things
Hamas just did, and in general,
there's a sense that Hamas actually fucked up support
for the Palestinian cause.
Right, you've probably seen it worldwide,
it's been picking up steam, but then atrocities
like this come out and make people quickly go,
"Oh, shit wait a second."
Although with it, there are actually some conspiracy
that this was done partially to derail Israel's talks
with Saudi Arabia, then at the same time,
it's fine to condemn some of the language coming out
of Israel, such as when the defense minister said that,
"We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."
With language like that, usually the first step
to horrible acts of violence against populations,
but ultimately, all we know for sure right now
is that more people are gonna die.
Not only because both sides are bombing each other
and shooting each other, but also because Hamas warned
that for every unannounced airstrike he was going to execute
a hostage and right now, there is no reason to believe
that Israeli-Palestinian relations are gonna improve
anytime soon.
Though understand, this is obviously an ongoing situation
and there's gonna be a constant stream of news coming out.
Right, I mean, even since I just started filming this piece,
we've now heard Israel is bombed Hezbollah targets
in Southern Lebanon, as well as there being claims
that Russia sent captured western weapons from Ukraine
to Gaza to try and make it seem like Ukraine supported them.
It is just a nightmare right now
and we're gonna have to wait to see what happens next,
and then thousands of more employees are now joining
the UAW strike after rejecting a deal from Mack Trucks.
That's just one of the big updates we're looking
at right now.
Right, so Mack Trucks is best known for manufacturing semis,
but they also produce construction equipment, fire trucks,
and even military grade vehicles, and in a letter released
on Twitter, the UAW said that over 70%
of their workers voted against the proposed contract
covering about 4,000 Mack trucks employees in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and Florida.
The UAW President, Shawn Fain, saying in a statement,
"The members have the final say and it's their solidarity
and organization that will win a fair contract at Mack."
Now, according to the company, the rejected deal
included a 10% wage increase in the first year
with another compounded 20% over the course
of the five year agreement, along with a guarantee
that the health insurance premiums would not go up,
but the workers are looking for more with Fain saying
that the two sides now need to reach an agreement
on not only wages, but cost of living,
allowances, job security, and pensions.
So the rejection of this deal means that 4,000 Mack workers
went on strike this morning, bringing the total number
of striking UAW workers across 22 states to about 30,000
with thousands upon thousands of those participating
in a targeted strike against Detroit's big three automakers
for weeks, and while some are still concerned
about the massive effect this strike could have
on the auto industry and the US economy as a whole,
we're actually seeing some good news on that front.
With Fain announcing last Friday
that the UAW Union would not be expanding
their strike further right now and the union citing progress
and negotiations with all three automakers,
including Ford, offering a 23% wage increase
over four years in General Motors agreeing to include
electrical vehicle battery manufacturing facilities
under the new union contract.
With Fain saying in that announcement, "We are winning,
we are making progress, and we are heading
in the right direction.
Strikes and the threat of strikes by a unified membership
are what delivered."
But things are still developing, so we're gonna have to keep
our eyes on this one, and then, you know,
I'm not here to freak you out, but cybersecurity is no joke
and we all need to be protected 'cause you know,
I can constantly see online banner ads,
sidebars, and popups everywhere.
In short, mostly just colorful distractions,
but some are malvertising ads created to infect your device
with malware and viruses.
So how can you block these dangerous sites
and help give you peace of mind?
Well, that's where the fantastic partner
and sponsor of today's show, NordVPN or more directly,
NordVPN.com/Phil comes in.
Right, an attacker will create a convincing advert
containing hidden lines of malicious code and find a way
to feature their content on a legitimate website.
When you click on that ad,
you'll be directed to a dangerous server from which the rest
of the attack will be launched, and I love that NordVPN's
threat protection service blocks dangerous sites
and limits advertising, giving us a cleaner,
safer browsing experience.
So slow down, exercise some caution.
Right, a healthy dose of skepticism will go a long way
to keeping you secure.
So take control of your internet experience today
and go to NordVPN.com/Phil to get a huge discount
on a two-year plan, plus an additional four months free
and the deal at NordVPN.com/Phil is only
around for a short time and it's risk free
with Nord's 30 day money back guarantee,
and then this endangered species of whale
in the Gulf of Mexico is now just Big Oil's latest problem.
Right, so for decades, the whales living
in the Gulf of Mexico were thought to have been a part
of the widespread species of Bryde's whales,
but then a genetic analysis back in 2014 revealed
that the whales in the Gulf were so different
from the Brydes that they might be
their own species altogether.
Though in order to officially declare a new species,
scientists needed a body and so they waited five long years
for one, which brings us to 2019 when the 38 foot long body
of one of these whales washed up on the shore
of the Florida Everglades and that's when Michael McGowan,
research zoologist and curator of marine animals
at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History,
knew that this was it, and then after the body was buried
in sand and then manure to allow the flesh to decompose,
this massive skeleton was sent to the Smithsonian
and after examination,
scientists with the National Marine Fishery Service
published a study in 2021 declaring
that this was a brand new species and naming them
Rice's whales, after the late biologist
who first identified whales in the Gulf of Mexico,
but this awesome news was then immediately followed
by a terrifying realization that there were very, very few
Rice's whales left.
Right, I mean, at the time of their announcement
as a new species, there were only 50 remaining.
That made them one of the most endangered marine mammals
on earth and these whales appear to live exclusively
in US water, so it's up to us to protect them
even though humans are one of their biggest threats.
Though specifically, I'm talking about humans working
in the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf Coast
and that's even outside the threat of just oil spills,
the seismic air guns used to find oil and gas deposits,
those could deafen marine animals,
not to mention the threat of getting hit by boats tangled up
in fishing equipment and just general debris.
In fact, a piece of hard plastic was found in the stomach
of the Rice's whales that washed up in the Everglades
in 2019, which may have contributed to its death.
Now, notably, the discovery around all this prompted
many to push for greater protections
for the whale's habitat.
With the Biden administration even beginning taking steps
to protect the whales under the Endangered Species Act.
Also, the National Marine Fishery Service proposed
designating a 28,000 square mile swath of the Gulf
as critical habitat for the Rice's whales.
6 million acres of the habitat was also pulled
from an offshore oil lease sale
and how even boats were ordered to slow down in the area
and completely avoided after sunset when the whales come
to the surface to rest.
However, all of those protections were not received well
with Republican lawmakers saying that hampering boat traffic
could harm the economy of the Gulf Coast
and specifically, Senator Tommy Tuberville saying it would,
"Detrimentally impact our nation's ability
to domestically produce oil and gas in hopes
of becoming energy independent.'
And so as of now, we still don't know how these protections
are gonna impact other industries,
but oil companies and investors will have to change
their plans for the Gulf region.
With one offshore lobbyist saying,
"For oil and gas, it could be significant.
Withdrawn acreage, it's prime real estate."
And that acreage is a serious point of contention.
With the state of Louisiana,
Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute suing
the Biden administration in an effort to get
those 6 million acres back on the market
with no restrictions, and their argument
was that the decision to remove the acreage was hastily made
at the very last minute and the judge actually seemed
to agree with them ruling that the Biden administration
needed to put the acres back on the auction block,
and the judge writing at the process in the withdrawal
of the acreage, "Looks more like a weaponization
of the Endangered Species Act
than the collaborative reasoned approach."
Now that said, environmentalists have since appealed
the decision and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
has asked for an emergency stay of the order.
With an attorney with the environmentalist group,
Earth Justice saying, "These baseline protections
for the Rice's whales are quite literally the least
we could be doing to save the species from extinction."
And so with all this, we know the Court of Appeals
has since pushed the sale back to November 8th,
so we'll have to wait to see what comes from that,
but this legal back and forth also hasn't stopped
the Biden administration from considering designating
a different structure, the Gulf of Mexico,
as a critical habitat, which would potentially lead
to even more restrictions for the oil and gas industry,
but this is according to environmentalists,
the whales don't really have the time to wait
for these protections.
With also one marine biologist studying
the whale's diet saying, "I'm not confident that in 50 years
they're gonna be around.
Honestly, I wouldn't bet my life on it."
But for now, we'll have to wait to see
how all this plays out.
In the meantime, I'd love to know your thoughts,
and then you've got people wondering if Gavin Newsom
is a secret Republican because of this news today,
and that's 'cause the governor of California just vetoed
a string of bills that on the surface you think
a democrat would support.
Starting with a bill that would've decriminalized
the possession and personal use of several hallucinogens,
including magic mushrooms,
but you had Newsom saying that he would support the measure
if it contained more safety guidelines explaining,
"California should immediately begin work
to set up regulated treatment guidelines,
replete with dosing information, therapeutic guidelines,
rules to prevent against exploitation
during guided treatments and medical clearance
of no underlying psychosis."
Though critics noted that the law wouldn't have taken effect
until 2025 and would've had the state's
Health and Human Services make recommendations to lawmakers
on the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
Next, you had Newsome veto a bill that would've capped
the price of insulin at just $35.
With a proposed law prohibiting insurance companies
from charging more than that and out-of-pocket costs
for a 30-day supply of medicine
including deductibles and copays,
but California actually has a $50 million contract
for the pharmaceutical company to begin producing
the state's own brand of insulin.
10 milliliters of that stuff is gonna sell for $30
and so Newsom explains,
"We are getting at the underlying cost,
which is the true sustainable solution
to high cost pharmaceuticals.
With copay caps, however, the long-term costs
are still passed down to consumers through higher premiums
from health plans."
And then you had Newsom veto a bill that would've made
free condoms available to all public high school students,
but the governor's argument here being
that it's just too expensive or the state already has
a $30 billion budget deficit so he didn't think
that this program was worth adding to that.
There legislative staff estimated it would only cost
in the low millions of dollars each year
and that would supply contraception
to nearly 2 million students, and then finally,
you had Newsom veto a bill that would've outlawed
caste discrimination, which notably would've actually made
California the first state to do so.
Though you do have cities like Seattle and Fresno
that have added caste.
Right, defined as a division of people based on birth
or dissent to their anti-discrimination laws.
Right, because several religious groups,
especially members of the Indian diaspora,
have long complained about unfair treatment and housing,
education in the economy.
Here, Newsom argued that the bill was unnecessary,
pointing out that California law,
"Already prohibits discrimination based on sex, race, color,
religion, ancestry, national origin, disability,
gender identity, sexual orientation,
and other characteristics and state law specifies
that these civil rights protection
shall be liberally construed."
And in general, I thought that this was kind
of interesting news, but also, I think it really highlights
the difference between reading the headline of a story
and actually understanding a story, and then finally, today,
let's talk about yesterday, today, where we look
at the last show we put out, where we covered a lot of news.
We then dive into those comments to see
what y'all are saying, your opinions, your reactions,
your experiences, and on the last show,
the news that took over that comment section
was about the school shooter who served his time
and then has blown up on TikTok,
and I will say, it was very interesting because depending
on where you went on the internet,
vastly different reactions.
Right, in some places people were saying, you know,
he's a scum of the earth, he should never see
the light of day again, others saying,
"Hey, he served his time, he's trying to do good."
But again, we had people having all different reactions.
Some saying, Jay's former actions are reprehensible,
but he served his time and if he is genuine in wanting
to be an advocate for preventing other school shootings,
we can learn from him.
None of us have ever been compelled to do such a thing.
If his message on TikTok prevents even one future incident,
it's a good thing.
For better or worse, that platform is a great way
to build support in 2023.
Meanwhile, others chimed in saying,
"As a person who's been following
the TikTok school shooter saga on TikTok,
the main thing that people on the platform are having issues
with is the fact that Jay was starting to spout information
about reverse racism and using the sword attack
that he was a victim of as a reason to show off
his racist side and saying then when people were looking
into his mess further, they found articles from the shooting
he perpetrated where he is quoted saying that he wanted
to kill as many people as he could, but was stopped.
TikTok's problem with the guy is that he is trying
to come off as sympathetic and a victim
when he is never addressed those comments,"
and there was a lot of back and forth there, some saying,
yeah, that's the issue, others saying, again,
he didn't do that, saying at the time of his arrest
he changed his story once and arguing this happened
during a time when he was a kid in shock being interrogated
by professional manipulator, seeking to secure a confession.
Though there you had people arguing around using the term
kid saying, yeah, he was young when this happened,
but also a teacher got shot
and while it's impossible to encapsulate every opinion
y'all had on this, I'll include one more comment
with one of y'all saying, "My thoughts are complex.
On one hand, we have DUI and DWI offenders who have killed
people by getting behind the wheel
while intoxicated among other offenses,
speaking in public schools and other forms
about their mistakes and using it as an example to kids
to not do that," and saying,
"In this day and age, a message along those lines
can be spread to a wider audience on social media
like TikTok.
Well, I don't think that Jay should be allowed
to 'Profit' from his story by gaining fame.
I do think that he should be allowed to showcase
what his actions took from others and himself
while advocating for changes that may prevent another child
from repeating his crime.
We forget sometimes that children lack impulse control,
some until their early 20s while our legal system
can classify someone as an adult earlier,
there's still a lot of growth happening to make that person
who they'll be as an adult.
He served his time and we have laws to protect free speech
for a reason.
If we start telling criminals they can't share their stories
and we don't allow others to learn from their mistakes,
does that mean every sentence that comes out of his mouth
is gonna be something I agree with?
No, he's a human with thoughts and opinions
that are his own.
I particularly do not agree with the reverse racism stuff
he mentioned, but I'm sure there are lots of people
who speak in schools about their mistakes and crimes
that don't share the same opinions as me
and are not barred from speaking."
But that is where today's dive into the news is gonna end.
As always, thank you for watching,
being a part of these dives into the news, of course,
with today's stories, I'd love to know what you think
in those comments down below.
Also, for more news, you need to know
I got you covered right here.
You can click or tap or I got links in the description,
but as always, my name's Philip DeFranco,
you've just been filled in.
I love yo faces, and I'll see you're right back here
for more news tomorrow.