Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240703

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Things for your advice and things to be a commentary will speak to you again soon. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for joining us here for the program. Just a quick side though, for your of course not far away from israel is a ron. Of course, a ron was kicked off the swift, the global Payment System actually about a decade ago, but is now using united havens into face u. P. I, to trade internationally with partners like in the rupture and others. What right now are the us in summit in jakarta, one of the top topics that is the further usage of multi you p, i system. And essentially the end of the dollar and global trade, those details to build a comment on the news. The we went to bed and 2017 of the i woke up and it was 19 o 3. Nope, our light a water . No cellphones. I mean its just like nothing was work and you didnt know how your loved ones were doing except the ones and you had you need immediate, initiating the hospitalization without power doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. So once like youre on your, on 40, on the, the rule. So brain with the people of where to read we left with the with and we also love puerto rico. The new response to maria was really like a poster child of, of the relationship between, you know, puerto rico and, and the United States. The situation in mario is not just created by maria, but what is maria plays bear the reality. It strips it down to the bare bones and you can really see that colonialism still exists in a few places. And for today go as one of them, us the interactions with people. So yes, it is possible to resist break the colonize mentality that these guys can be part of that theres nothing we can do to change the situation. That sensor input the in the 1970s when once that guy was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland. Although many, Puerto Ricans were angered by a lack of political economy. Only a small percentage advocated full independence from the United States. Even fewer chose ones past of parent military operations and robbing banks. The last one i did was 33 years ago. The most of the times my role was because the protection against the Police Coming so i was ready to engage in gunfire if it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. So i had thought that through the the, the, the island of point the vehicle was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. In 1898. It became late us yet it has retained its own cultural identity. Today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people live a population greater than 21. If the 50 us states live close to has to live in poverty, the puerto rico is a us territory. Powerless to challenge options of the United States government that affected the residents have no vote in congress or in president ial elections. The we had a subscription to Time Magazine and there was an issue in which the cover story was on prep schools in the us. And i read in and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 Indoor Basketball Court that we had made it for very as a while the, the i had like a shark skin suit which i thought was so cool. The 1st time i walk into the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. And as soon as i walk into the cho take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes you know, thats the 1st time id heard that word. Let alone address did me when i went up and slapped them in the face, you know, as hard as like we just had, he was so shocked that he didnt do anything. And i went into the, to the co room, to have my coat men go into the, the dining room. And, you know, i said, holy, what if ive gotten myself for sure. If this was the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. Len james, you said, said, how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam . Yeah, sure. And he said, why dont you do a paper on the spanish american war . And i didnt, i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional record. And theres nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side. It was referring to us for practically as monkeys. And like the round races and this and that are going away. And then you had guys like a William Jennings bryan. And the anti imperialist, saying this be trays all over the United States is about, we know we followed the call on a referral for independence. What are we, were going to become an empire now. The for over 400 years for adult eco suffered as a spanish calling but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy. Many hopes that this was a step towards independence. But it turned out to be a dead just months afterwards, though he goes to 1st election to the United States, invaded the within 10 weeks. Hopes of independence were dashed as the island was a next by the us. And then in 1917 the jones made for him so he can see us citizen the like, ok, were going to make you american citizens, which you didnt ask for even if we were offered citizenship with had and we would prefer the you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i dont know we were supposed to and i know a lot. I see a lot of people doing it. So there you go. Okay. Whos next . I dont know that. Thats not john harvard. No, that is no because he was dead by the time they did that. So some, some young man posed so on. Okay. Um as the years not right. And he wasnt just the founder because he was one of, of a whole lot of so thats why they say this was the statute. The 3 lice. Ah. Okay. So the year the, that was my dorm room window on the top floor there. The, as i looked down that morning i was just starting to be light. There was a mist still on the yard which added to this kind of serial quality. And there was a ring of policeman setting up an outer perimeters. I mean, they all had these elements on visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. And you could hear the screaming and Everything Else and then started seeing the guys students who were in the building being evicted, one by one. The bigger everybody, i just pulled it on and is it as they brought you down the stairs and kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery. I can throw you in the battery where i can fill the padding right and drove it out. And then brought the next one is the answer and that was what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that we could change things peaceful in understanding that these guys had to be for in a different way. For me that was the beginning, us from my radicalization the crowd man, and the people inside the building, the the, [000 00 00;00] the a good 50 years earlier. Another point though he can student matriculate at harvard barrel. Ill be so comes in 1921. He graduates from Harvard Law School with the highest grade point average and his class privilege minds, a pottery glass produced and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blackboard reading so not out the after harvard be so campus returns to for the recall where he witnesses the us controlled sugar cartel, extracting higher profits from plantation workers than any other place in the world. The in 1934 b. So compost organizes sugarcane cutters, or much of data to strike against us sugar companies. They are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers prevail. And the wages are double to a 1. 50 a day. The emboldened diesel compost forms the cadets of the republic who take an oath to fight for point the week of independence. On palm sunday. 1937, they plan a peaceful march. At the last minute, the colonial governor revokes their permit to assemble and they are surrounded by 200 police. Some armed with thompson, the on the police begin firing. Marchers and bystanders attempt to sleep the flag. There is the 1st to be killed. A 7 Year Old Girl picks up the flag and she is a medium shot. The a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood. Viva la republica. Ive also seen a long lived the republic down with the murders, the 23519 killed including the 7 Year Old Girl. The 20000 mourners attend the funeral ceremonies. The none of the police are held accountable. The i didnt know any of that. When i was growing up with, you know, i was like this, what did i know and i it wasnt until years later that i began to have a different Historical Perspective on, on for the vehicle. Been you know, the guide law made find the border. You can fly by itself illegal and punishable by prison. You know, you can speak in favor of independence or you be thrown into prison. The in 1948 law. 53, lay the mortar garza known as the gag order. Makes it a crime to display a puerto rican flag speaking out for independence or seen a patriotic point. 30 can song can lead to 10 years in prison. In 1950 nationalist across the island. Read the staging coordinated attacks on police station, the governors mansion, and the us federal court. The National Guard responds with heavy artillery motors for need 47. The. This is the 1st time fighter planes. I tap on the, in the aftermath. 2000. Puerto ricans around it, up and arrested, the in retaliation to National List form a plan, the outside warehouse, the president s temporarily. Washington homes. Extreme fanatics of the puerto rican nationalist party, tried to force their way in guns blazing to assassinate the president of the United States. Assassin, oscar, colorado and 2 other guards are wounded as the plotters for washingtons emergency hospital. The 24 hour guard watches over co. You also who despite a chest wound drake covers to face trial for murder. They have tried to kill me and i knew that theyd try it again. I knew who they were. There are a bunch of fanatics that a lot of an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalist rose up like a bunch of and the government squashed on. In fact, it was the Us Government policy, the governors policy to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where its either give up or go down fighting and so they were pushed into that situation. And then of course, they responded and thought crushed and crushing away that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put the invaders, you know, put down all the freedom fighters, cut their hands off and put them on a place so Everybody Knows knows that dont mess with the us because this is which waiting for you the, was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listen, there saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. And you know, we think youre a good candidate. What do you say . I said, yes, the in 1954, 4. 3 kids living in new york decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. Communicating from prison. A be so campus presents them with admission. To bring the fight for independence to the american public. Purchases new sunday dress is advised one way tickets to washington dc. Then they enter the us Capital Building while congress is in session. Leads them and reciting the lords prayer. Then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. V by point the only way, long live free point, the equal wire in the house of representatives, and the police and crowd rushing to the capital the shuttle down wild. Im a puerto rican fanatic Raphael Miranda as photograph moments after he and apollo towers sunrise cordero at joined with the lead on that problem and buying more than 20 shop sets and part of house for 5 congress. When our wounded and the murder rest of the time, the film, grimley defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds the next time to see them from night. And that i would like this to happen today, awake because of the amount of good will the government United States to pay for the recall immediately the headings times that the nobody from freedom from wayne. Because all the other ways have been tried to not wake on the on the continued the way it is the gate fire. And i say i came here to be made statements not to the for most americans that theres no context to that. Its like these guys are totally insane. You know, these fanatics are pottery, gun dependence. So you know, when weve done such good for them, how good they do that the the criminal investigation reveals that no lead delivered on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one the Capital Police find a note in her handbag. My life i give for the freedom of my country. The United States has be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country, the feeling better for all head i was born in puerto rico in the 1930s. As a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north American Sugar monopolies. He witnessed the slaughter of the once. A mastercard he saw the depth of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home. In his twenties, already and accomplished jazz musician, he gave up his career as a trumpet player and began to fight for independence. It was clear to fee that to hear that, that the us was not going to change of its own accord the single savvy guess of wherever it or if thats and all but he knew. So, you know, at the end, at the main page is convincing me in the game that will be the, in the vice court only. So they going by the room that going on my, that a big get done that 3 and the world. Ok, that pretty good. Handle see the, the best the people started out by the, in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding in puerto rico and us base hotels, casinos and Department Stores like sheraton, howard johnsons. And well work for all his there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. Go ahead, i called these actions farms propaganda, the the architects of natos proxy war on russia. A big plans for the camp regime. As the cranes cover offensive fails, the countrys post 4 realities are being planned and the west allows. These plans will fail to the top headlines right now and ill change that optional, but at least 2 People Killed in 10 wounded as residential areas. And the city of dont have the scar again, targeted by ukrainian strikes. A correspondent remains up a scene of the latest off the mouth and speaks with the legs. The shelves flew into here, but it didnt explode. However, over here, a woman was buried in rubble. Emergency workers had to take her out. There was a lot of floods when i saw it, i froze. My wife was in shock. 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