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a month in june he ordered his empties to resign, saying direct political system is corrupt to right. has not had a functioning government in nearly a year. and then you can see also to support his upside and lets me to manhood out what it is in baghdad and tell us more about those supporters and what their reaction has been with us. oh, okay. my i was just asking robert of if you can hear me, what has the reaction of the supporters of notarial sort of being done? i don't know when it, when, as you can see right behind me here, these are supporters up see at leader looked at a souther only following his latest tweet. quitting that political scene. i suppose. those are trying to storm other buildings inside the green with its light to move toward his other estate and
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institutions. as they say to thornton. they want to go that way in the direction of the positional palace and other estate and potent facilities that are very angry. they say that they will not leave the area despite the fact that security forces, as you can see in the back ground, trying to prevent them from moving any further. but these, but as, as we speak to them, they say they are adamant determined to continue existing here. in fact, they want to more further to each other estates in institutions state facilities including including deposition palace. remember, they also want to go and it had another, a protest in front of the supreme judicial a council. as you know, the supreme judicial council is at the heart of this political deadlock, only 24 hours ahead, over expected supreme court session to be held total and
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a plea that was submitted by many politicians including it so that are affiliated petitions, demanding, get their president of the state, the caretaker, premier and the speaker, the parliament to dissolve the parliament so. so it is tuition here in the background with they want to reach to other state facilities. security forces are trying to prevent at them so okay, we're going to leave it there for now. thanks very much indeed for that update. we'll be back with you as the day goes on. thanks very much. and if not a team from the un nuclear watchdog is on its way to inspect you cranes up reach a power plant in the southeast, the head of the international atomic energy agency. rafael grossey has sort permission to visit the site for months. grossey tweeted this picture. a few hours ago ukraine and russia have traded blame for shelling near the facility. europe's biggest nuclear power plant has been occupied by russian troops since the start of the war. the head of ukraine's atomic energy company has called on moscow to remove
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its troops pill. woo! with her for best hope. lovely will be able to bring in asked was a final on the altima, the decision flows approach to nuclear power plant just to remove fractions from her clue. so looser a more military for an aide has started to arrive in pakistan as it deals with record flooding. planes from turkey and the united arab emirates arrived on sunday more than a 1000 people have died since mid june. military helicopters have been deployed to help those stranded in remote mountainous areas. the minister for climate change is warned up to a 3rd of the country could still be submerged after the monsoon season. and now, sir, is looking to take its 1st major step towards a manned mission. in 50 years. the engineers are working through an issue at the moment, looking at live pictures right now. one of the engines on the osman rocket may affect the launch from kennedy space center. and the world's largest record was due
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to launching around an hour of us plans to put humans back on the moon surface by 2025 or up to the headlines. got more news coming up right after people and path we'll see later. ah, the elsewhere in the world, the last few years, the scene reco, temperatures cramped and wildfires in the usa. some of the long predicted consequences of manmade global warming. but surprising numbers of americans still maintain that scientific proof of climate change is either exaggerated or policy assumed. this approach to control their lives. this to pop film goes in search of
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some of those already affected by the ceiling. and those who suddenly refuse to respect science, the evidence and from this writing coolant blue . ah, this summer prompted by some of the highest recorded temperatures in its history. large parts of the united states have been devastated by drought. but 2022 isn't unique. it's been like this for several years now. searing heat waves dried
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up rivers and reservoirs huge while fires all the devastating consequences of global warming. but scientists have been warning about for decades. what is different about 2022 is that this might be the year that the u. s. government began to take climate change seriously. in early august, president joe biden find him to law a spending bill that among other provisions for health care and tax reform will commit almost $370000000000.00 to tackling the climate crisis and reducing the carbon emissions of the world's largest economy. this bill will kick start the era of affordable, clean energy in america. it's a game changer. it's a turning point, and it's been a long time in coming. but what remains to be seen is whether you initiative album, anything to change the hearts and minds of those americans who still refuse to accept the global warming is real or convince them they should change the way they
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live and do business. ah, this is the utah desert, where temperatures routinely exceed 40 degrees celsius every summer. and this is cameron knutson, a real estate developer. our actually in construction were starting about 11 houses up here currently. and we just started another $58.00 up. it's a poor city. we have a commercial section and we're going to have a school churches, all those things. soon, 30000 people will be living here. the 1st have already moved in, drawn by the development center piece attraction. especially with the lockdown and things. there's not a better place to be locked down than on a golf course. factor. these acres of pristine green grass, a watered several times a day. it's an 18 hole golf course with
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a lake on whole line and an artificial stream. a lot of people are getting married on on golf courses are very beautiful pictures, you know, being by water and grass and everything in the middle of the desert. it just, it gives it a very unique feel. it's an incongruous sight in the heart of a state which has recently been hit with the graph and history. the local laws allow canlans to take all the ground water he needs. this is a whole pump if he builds his own well. so this is where the well is all merged. what are i i think it's in gallons for men and i think it's like 200 gallon. in fact, that's likely not enough. the more construction like this there is, the more pressure falls on scarce resources elsewhere. so this is barely completed
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. unlike the golf course, these houses will draw their drinking water from a neighboring cities, already depleted water reserves. yet for now, profits are all that matter. here. this side is 1700000, and then the small size 1.3. if you want to buy it, if you want to rent it, i think it's about $1500.00 a night per side. each unit has their own hot tub in pool down this entire line. so these are some water laminar as a just squirt water in the pool. when you have a long lat pole in a hot tub. in the face of some of the worst water shortage is the u. s. has ever seen. many may wonder if projects like this are appropriate, but cameron shrugs off any concerns. so the question, is there a better solution for water? which is tell i want to stop living here. so that's, i guess we can tie one in the middle east that too, cuz i water. so don't find water. don't produce water. i just don't live there anymore. so we are at rhode island. i guess it reflects an argument that continues
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to divide america caught between the reality of a climate of urgency and a desire to keep business going at all costs. meanwhile, the u. s. like the rest of the world just keeps getting born. in 2021, the united states recorded its hottest ever summer as temperatures reached unbearable levels. and hundreds of thousands of acres of forest burnt getting closer to town this year. it's the same. lakes and rivers are drying up kind of strange as someone living in america without water. yet much of the country is still in denial . hotels, casinos, golf course is still contribute to the depletion of water supply. climate change skeptics continue to find a receptive audience. there are more polar bears right now on the earth than ever
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before. you're doing great. meanwhile, when resources come under pressure, conspiracy theories thrive figure to plan by control water, the control to people. so will it ever be possible for americans to reach consensus about a crisis, but most see all too plainly yet others believe is either exaggerated or a sinister plot to restrict their freedom. in this 2 part report, we've been in search of answers to a question that never seemed more urgent. we cannot live in a group that is getting this hot. oh, it's like the titanic heading for the iceberg. we don't have time to screw around death valley, california. it's long been one of the hottest places in the united states. but now it's increasingly savage. temperatures are attracting tourists, looking for selfies. we've never been here before. we have always wanted to come
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here and so call check it out. yeah. but it is getting hotter, ideal like around the world. it's just all getting hotter when we were filming the temperature was just about bearable between 42 and 44 degrees. but it's been getting much warmer and the greater the heat, the more impressive the photos to share on social media. hot go hundreds of such pictures of appeared online in recent months. often with humorous remarks attached. whether it's $55.00 degrees, $56.00, or even $59.00 for many, this is global warming enjoyed as a holiday experience rather than something terrifying, but at least it reflects reality. but elsewhere in the country, others have yet to be convinced. the global warming is real. it's sunday morning in fort mill, south carolina, a city dominated by this huge complex. it's home to
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a christian organization, morningstar ministries and includes a university campus businesses, a hotel, and a church. in the latter, a service is taking place. ah . despite its historically high temperatures, the u. s. continues to be the most climate change, skeptical country in the west to a large extent that reflects the current one is the nature of american politics around 56 percent of republican voters say they don't believe in global warming. a constituency that's clearly reflected by the morning, so our congregation understands all their pastor rick joiner, has been climate skepticism for years. and he's the author of several books on the subject. his audience pays close attention, i believe. and change thing,
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which i do believe is a ruse of leverage. one politically motivated and i have been praying for science. i am for song builders. are you sorry? i was just like your study news and vega. everything else? no wonder when politics in it gives you the world. now that's part of the judgment of god. he is want to restore the earth till the paradise was originally created to be his message, which he later comes out to share with us is simple trust in god. mamma, climate change isn't happening and don't believe those who say it it with me on everything. yeah. we have heard for centuries, for the whole history of man, there been here again. so all this stuff to say this is happen, book cover kilometer and it makes some looked for what makes some looked ridiculous and a lot of people just get turned off. they were born to notes,
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but the problem for america's climate change skeptics is it facts are undeniably facts and what is now universally accepted science can't be just wished away. global warming is accelerating at an unprecedented rate because of human activities and the consequences are now everywhere to be seen. in the summer of 2021, california was hit by a huge wave of wildfires in the space of a few months. over $400000.00 hector is a forest, were destroy trees, scrub and wildlife work with only casualties. dozens of people who work injury thousands more were forced to leave their homes. teresa and don lived in greenville a small community of around a 1000 people in the northern part of the state. one evening in august 2021. their settlement found itself in the path of an oncoming blaze. i just can't believe our
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town went up like that. it moved real fast. it went through there, it went through that town quick. this is what it was looking like. this was just you for the sheriff pulled up and told us you guys need to get out of town. the spires coming down into town. oh, how were less to stop the imminent disaster? the couple could only watch and film as the flames drew near with. i can hear timber does blowing up. they have helicopters, go crazy on it, right now we do this for this one right here. this one right here. not what we did a couple hours. the 1st health it's almost completely destroyed. the intense flames had made it impossible for the emergency services to prevent catastrophe.
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to day for the 1st time since the fire theresa and dawn are being allowed back to their home to see the damage. the 1st time we got back you a, you know, i've been stress sounds bad. we didn't have insurance with, you know, we rented the place, no rentals insurance and now we gotta figure out where we are going to let you know we are starting your live over again. as they get closer to the town, the devastation becomes more and more a 1st they are to attend the meeting for the local county sheriff and about 30 other greenville residents. first off, i just want to thank everyone for being able to come. i notice was difficult. i wanted to give you folks opportunity to actually go to your residence as m. look and see how things are there are video if you want to take some pictures and,
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and try to spark the human process. this is what greenville looked like before the fire. ah, and this is what is left of it now. ah! amid the ruins of their old home, theresa and dawn are hoping to find some possessions. it's a sad, looks like a bomb went off in our town. they've lost almost everything that my dad told bab, it's going to be somewhere. do you like my dad just passed away and i had all his stuff in here. so i mean, it wasn't the most fabulous home, but it was home for us. you know, he does that series and stuff with all cans are pretty tough. it's all that can
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be found of their former life here. the memories that you have on them. now they are reliant on the kindness of others. part of a native american community, their tribe is housing them temporarily in a hotel room, this laundry basket and this laundry basket. and that laundry basket is pretty much all we made it out with our daughters. we got approved for another week and we know we're good for until monday and we'll see what they say from there. but we, we were looking for a travel trailer to move in to and we want to print it out in the area. the couple are getting only limited welfare support as elsewhere. the effects of climate change are often felt most by those who can least afford it.
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in another part of california, the extreme temperatures mean many low pay farm workers are having to change to night shifts. this is near dunnigan, an agricultural town in the north of the state. some of california is best. wine is produced here on immense vineyards that cover the plain. but to day in the middle of the harvest period, the fields are empty. the searing heat makes work impossible. i can come up with the it's over 40 degrees in the shade during the day and $28.00 at night. virginia does everything she can could keep the temperature down. during the day she takes care of her 2 little girls. i herself
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with la and stuff out of the little me and look at the leo battle though a hub and the linen fellow man, la, but i have been sophia, kelsey, cibola missed that a ban. but again, i think of many of the nick of setting up the law jose, her husband is a farm worker for the last 6 years during the 6 hottest summer months, he has been working at night when the temperatures drop during the day, he tries to rest as best he can work with me, family do their best to keep things cool, but it still 25 degrees inside the house. if the lighter got them off, but a loyal norm for younger exact, i'm interviewing, one of your sierra really forgetful. they go knock on the info, they left off of the anthem us gallium, fair keel, or case worker for be
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a hipaa like us. i cannot be a mere ansolaski on finger field, but all and so spike in free and poker like awesome. what, right. if that thing, okay, but and then he hello, which i'm which and that he yeah, this is the and just thought of many more choice but in the low. well this is mother which order the i thought i didn't focus them one like us up i came in for the own vocal. like i said, the air conditioning and fans costs around $250.00 a month. a lot of money for a low income family, the math math. it means jose has to work even harder to pay the bill when the go ahead and what it doesn't make it up into what went on the 11th of them. is that part of the lot of money you 1000000 the last minute feel a little universal. you know, well, you know, plus another company in
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at 5 pm. his day begins a night work is becoming chin here. in part, this is because 800 workers died of heat in the united states in the last 20 years . but it's also because the machines can't run in the extreme day time temperatures went on, and i think what i think of a company and also don't cut them. we our letter from wayne mcdonald puzzle arrival just i will double that. i thought as a 1 dollar and i'm not just entering some we fell in mental capital letter to some work done on our on don't know maybe is those they got on sale. i'm lucky not this home phone in the past,
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iowa. mike, you know what i thought? so my thought of, ah, with the temperatures rising so much, jose is unlikely to see his work schedule change. and industries other than for me are also now being affected. california salmon industry is one of them. in midsummer, 2021, as rivers began to dry up, the state had to arrange for almost 17000000 fish to be taken by truck to the sea. the roots, they would normally follow were no longer inevitable. in the same month as forest fires, believed firefighters began wrapping the states famous 1000 year old redwoods and aluminum to protect them from the heat. elsewhere in central california farmers began tearing down thousands of fruit trees because there was insufficient water to
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irrigate them. in one reservoir, near los angeles, state officials even tried covering the water with millions of small black plastic bowls to prevent evaporation. desperate measures for desperate times, ah, but some of these decisions are unusual in las vegas in neighboring nevada. the response to water shortages seems almost perversely contradictory. in the cities outer suburbs patrols now monitor the streets to limit water misuse. perry k is one of the official i'm always looking for evidence. i worked for o'clock in the morning to 230 in the afternoon, but we have people out here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. i'm right. there's that one there's that is about yeah, we've got a violation right here. okay. she's here soon for us. a simple rule. while it's
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okay to have a sprinkler on your lawn, the water can't hit the sidewalk. waterways investigator, 7158 time is now 750. 5 am 26 of august. i have a broken sprinkler is water spraying off causing run off and this one is broken causing the run off over here. the same thing. this one is misaligned. this is hit misaligned and is hitting the sidewalk causing the run off. misaligned sprinklers, the offenders received 2 warnings before being sanctioned. a 3rd violation means of fine is $80.00 after perry, the others, the ticket, the owner of the house arrived. are you doing sir? waterways investigator, the sprinkler over here is broken and it was running off into the property. you
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need to adjust to sprinklers to keep the water on the, on the sidewalk. yeah. that one there is to. it is broken as well. so the ones in the corners are broken. that's what's causing that. a simple tap of the foot. let go. okay. you 6 that have now. here's a natural good shape. ah, you are no longer in by lucian, except for that brooklyn. and that's the end of parry case shit. alright, thank you. thank you. renewed us call us with the las vegas authorities insist that these patrols drastically limit water wastage. but meanwhile, no one seems to be police in the city is huge casino hotel or clearing the gondolas from its artificial canal, or turning off the giant fountains that break tons of water every day. in truth, the city is an ecological catastrophe. a money making machine in the dry mojave
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desert. it arguably couldn't exist at all, were it not able to draw water from lake meat 30 miles away, which as the right of the satellite picture shows has steadily shrunk as the city has grown over the past 30 years. back then, the lake was full to the white line on the rocks. now, every year its levels fall to some, a glaring metaphor for americans reluctance to fully acknowledge global warming over those same 3 decades. they also have to do touch with people don't like to do. good god, good, good, good. you do have a fire had a good the way you'll have a 50 yard drive when required. so it won't be able to go to the other side. they don't do that, we'll see a little while back. so with so much evidence of climate change to hand wire. so
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nearly americans still reluctant to accept the families. we obviously feel very strongly that if we ignore that science and sort of put our head in the sand and think it's all about vegetation management. we're not going to succeed together, protecting californians. it'll start getting cooler. i wishes you just watch, ah 0. 11 o'clock into all the top stories here on al jazeera and we start with breaking news from iraq. queer curfew has just come into effect to the capital baghdad that's off the supporters of influential shortly dom tuttle. sarah stolen the presidential palace,
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your live solder announced his resignation from politics in june. he ordered his em piece to resign, saying iraq's political system is corrupt. the rock has not had a functioning government in india you moment up a while. that's the latest. now from that, these are supporters up, she at leader looked at a sudden wow, only following his latest tweet, quitting that political scene. i suppose those are trying to storm other buildings inside the greens when they're trying to move toward his other estate and institutions, as they say to thornton. they want to go that way in the direction of the position palace and other state important facilities that are very angry. they say that they will not leave the area despite the fact that security forces, as you can see in the back ground, trying to prevent them from moving any further. but these, but i says, we speak to them. they said they're adamant determined to continue existing here. a
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team from the you, a nuclear watchdog, is on its way to inspect the crane separate your power plant to the southeast, the head of the international atomic energy agency refill grossey has sought permission to visit the site for months. grossey tweeted this picture a few hours ago. ukraine and russia have traded blame for shelling near the facility. your biggest nuclear power plant has been occupied by russian trip since the start of the war. for an aide has started to arrive in pakistan as it deals with a record of flooding. planes from turkey in the u. e. arrived on sunday. more than a 1000 people have died since mid june. minister for climate change has warned up to a 3rd of the country. could it still be submerged after the monsoon season ends now says most powerful rockets should have been just about to blast off from the kennedy space center in florida round about now. but engineers are having to work through an issue at the moment with one of the engines on the ottomans rocket. the
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mission is at nasa's 1st major step towards pretty humans back on the moon surface by 2025. that headlines won't come up here. now. desert, right after democracy, maybe me ah, i was very young age. what racism white supremacy was. racism is evil. if you are visible or not to be taken seriously, you are
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a criminal. you are someone who is supposed to shut up and accept what america gives you. the i the mother, she is like this ideal place where everybody's voice counts and it can only be created if we destroyed the systems that america. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 people live on that it's allusion. they have power that they give to a politician. it's not real poll real powers into people. when you make the politicians do what you want them to do. america is governed by people who are born, paid for by the rich, is the money to make changes to people voting
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in blakely. little now will that, oh well we for, for the right to vote in the honorable reverend doctor martin luther king junior, put his life on the line for the right to vote. he was fighting for the power of the vote, a power to change laws, the power of legislation. this is not what he fought for as well. both don't have any power. ah, my brother morning like man has everything. okay, you have a thing. thank you sir. so before we get started, i gotta know where you've been and what you've been up to. so we just so it's all
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about black opportunities, right? as an organization, i feel like the apex with black smoke. so i'd file for my license to carry and texas, which will carry over to 30 states. we want to be prepared and ready. violence arises. i will tell you that you may be met with resistance. and the quickest way to change the laws regarding upholding your 2nd amendment, right, which is the right to be to have people of color apply for applications to carry a gun in value. you will see a change in state law because somebody will be tracking that. so i just want you to be aware of, right, i was really interested in is we are seeing record levels of black gun ownership. and we as that happen is a shortage of bullets. right. and there's actually
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a public hardcore public that was introduced to me by a mutual friend. it said, i hope you fight it so well i look, i'm not surprised in remo. back history. history is told us that republicans was on the right side of nature when it came down to slavery and then went to the other side of the ledger. i know. so i'm not surprised by not a gory, but you're going to find a needle in a haystack. you know, it was, you know, it was really interesting. so around the 1900 sixty's, when doctor king and everything was on fire, right. it was a run for the presidency, right? democrats knew that they needed black boat, so they appear pro civil. right. so the republicans say we're going to have a white southern vote, and that's when everything shifted, right. i really feel as though black folks don't have anyone fighting for them in politics. ah, then when martin luther king junior was murdered,
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it was an uproar across the world. right? it will right, it's all right. what people really just like when george what do you want? me just george lewis. just a regular do. he was no freedom fighter. you know ange unit god sent down to give us the right to vote. just regular. do. but the way the sheet she was killed, it jolted everybody into action. ah,
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we look back at the protest, bird by the black lives matter movement. and we see this is a turning point in american democracy and in democracy more generally with wasn't the death of george lloyd alone, whose back bark the math approach has me that we saw when i defeated 2020. it was that death on top of a long term process of disenfranchisement interest, allusion meant on the part of african american and other citizens that really cause that with what i think a lot of people felt was we're not gonna take it anymore. a just a collective feeling of enough is enough the racial wounds and
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divisions that still have not healed in the united states still have not been transcended in the united states. and it didn't. and with the civil rights legislation of the sixties and it didn't. and with the election of an african american president. oh, i think that in order to get rid of the racial device in this country is going to take a lot of hard work and it's going to be complicated. i don't think that it's going to be a simple process. it's not easy to change and the longer you've been doing something even harder than it is to change. and this has been the status quo for the western world since slavery began to, now we have defined what it means to be a human being. we have defined what it means to be a citizen based on race. i think that people have trouble believing in democracy
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because we don't have a good example. it's hard to believe in what you can't see. it's even harder to conceptualize something new. and so people are just looking for answers and i think that is really the that's really the conversations that are happening around the world. i don't think that adjusting the problem will solve, must allow us to achieve democracy. but i think that it is a necessary 1st step. ah, i think that racism is a huge issue and extremely into influential. and i think that's where i always start. i am not coming to you asking you to stop being racist as a person who is devoid of prejudice. you have to learn how to question, why. why do i think that something different from the what i've seen is wrong. when we talk about the majority of america, not believing in democracy, how would most of them define it? how would most of them define our own democracy?
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why don't we care about other people enough to allow them the same opportunities you would want for ourselves? ah, well, water with living fell through the water renewed up. and so i think we can see the consequences of very deep social divisions and cleavages in the united states. where we now have one party, a republican party that has become in many ways, extremely homogenous. it is overwhelmingly white. it is overwhelmingly not just christian, but composed of people who are quite legit. brand cyrus in the my god gave me a dream about prison time in the white house and he said, i want you to start paying for this man. the democratic party in this country is composed of people from a broader array of backgrounds except for those types of folks who are represented
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in the republican party. and so people have really retreated into seeing themselves as parts of groups that are really quite distinct that don't have a lot of overlap or interaction with other groups. and therefore the sense that we are americans in addition to all of these other identity, i believe, and i did my team of people that came to shut down. i know about them. cba infiltrated, they had plans to dress up and look like some supporters. they said, i've never seen the united states so divided in the political agendas that people have ah, and it's a very serious problem to many of us. we like to focus on why are people violating our laws? and in particular, the constitution state, ah,
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this division in our society has been boiling for a long time. it's not that trump, ala was son brought this division on. it's the fact that they now have a strong, strong republican who has been able to move things that they want to just blame him for everything that has gone wrong. ah, all the people have, my personal opinion is when you're part of any country, you need to understand there are responsibility. it's not all about rights to belong. we have elections that are supposed to be run a certain with one of the major problems with the current situation is that the people in power
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worked to make sure that more ballots were put in volks, for that particular candidate than the other camp. and so would that be considered fraud? yes. you hear many stories. i cannot justify whether the stories are true for their false. you look at the death records in people who have been dead for years are voting. how can nappy i there is, i think, a real division that is reflected in values, you know,
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attitudes towards religion towards certain social practices that i think is, you know, actually shaping a lot of contemporary politics. what is the problem? why does identity oppose such such an enduring and serious challenge for democracy? tanqueray rock rust, i wrote this famous article back in the 1960 s which said that one of the basic requirements of a democracy is you have to believe you're living in the same country. well actually, well this interesting about that article is he said it's the only precondition is that common sense of national identity. everything else you can develop along the way. the trouble for democratic politics comes when your identity becomes essential eyes, meaning it's the most important thing about you so difficult to actually govern them because they have no sense of national identity. so this is clearly the single
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most emotive dividing line in american politics. now i have no doubt of those. do you have any thoughts about how this can be bridge? i think there is a kind of unfortunate tendency that you know, a lot of people want everybody to think the way they do. and their strategies are all about how do we actually a modernize everybody in terms of thought. but i just think that, you know, the challenge of living in a diverse society is precisely, you know, figuring out how to get along with people that don't agree with you. ah, i think we did not fully understand how very fragile our democracy was and how very divided our society was ah,
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our democracy is extremely fragile. and that if we are not constantly cultivating and protecting its foundations, they kind of road with really surprising rapidity. and that the divisions in our society, if we do not figure out ways to overcome them, then the door will be open for another illiberal autocratic figure like trump to walk through and begin this process of attacking american democracy and american community. again. who's there? oh, no, no, no, we're, you know what our community to make your story pray
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all kind of be a black love matter, new york. this is organizing, this is the community. it's a lot more and more down the street. it's taken care of, but i organized in a big you want to put in a bad you got it, we need strong back. i mean, i have a dream that is economic separation because nobody will care about what black people are talking about until we remove our money from their systems and use that money to build up schools
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in our community. we can build our own communities where we don't have to rely on white people coming back a little, ma'am, if you could come get it back and you'll have to rely on the money when your business. just imagine like banks to submit the stop shopping all their stores. you started shopping in our stores, you know how fast we would get right. oh. have to stand hand in hand white people and sing songs and be happy. i just have to live a life without the obstruction of oppression. so when we say black lives matter, essentially is saying that your life doesn't matter. our life does man and they get
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upset if you say all lives matter because they want to focus on black. the black lives matter created more havoc and more the more violence than peace. they were not a peaceful organization. as a brown person myself, i'm ashamed of them. they don't stand for what we stand for. identity is difficult for democracy, so you see yourself primarily as a member of a particular ethnic group or a particular religious group or identify most with a sexual minority on. and these are things that obviously are not problematic in themselves. the only become problematic when they're seen as being in competition with or antithetical to broader national identities.
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there are some very real problems in our society, some very deep social divisions that if we do not recognize and deal with our democracies and our societies are going to continue to decay, oh ah oh, we never see a gunshot here against another american from a american to american, i hope it never happens. i see both sides are getting more passionate, more intense. and
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we're not looking at us as american citizens. we're looking at, that's the right, that's the left. and that's it. and there's a big river or big mountain in between us and we can come together. i think that it's possible the next 10 years. it something could happen in terms of a civil war. it's like a volcano. volcano just doesn't erupt. all of a sudden. it builds pressure and then eventually to ropes, we're building that pressure because we are not going according to the fundamental principles of the constitution. ah, a god no, but i hear you say, well, oh,
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he read me. ah, for, ah, ah, ah, the law is white. it benefits white people in a decimated by a hold, locks us in cages, jokes us to death. it puts bullets through our body. a
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when we went out there tearing things apart, why? america handles is problems violently, all with threat of violence. why wouldn't? why wouldn't we do have a a lease done? oh me. what do we do about? are we going to have an i'll say the word a civil war? are we going to fight among ourselves? ah,
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the world is in a more and more perilous state. in my biggest fear is about democracy in the west. if we don't defend and renew and reform invigorate democracy in our democracies, we're not going to be an example that is inspiring to other countries in the world . but i remain an optimist. i think there is a new generation emerging that is seeking a multi racial society in which everybody can live in dignity. i don't think that will ever be able to completely eradicate inequality or human
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suffering. i guess what democracy looks like in practical terms is an intention and is a consistent effort to achieve in that i do. i do the scoreboards with don't have a lot of toys in. i don't think that that's something that will average not exist. but i think that being willing to do the work and i know how to hope, minimize it to help people to care about people do it. that is what matters. but if we stop trying, then we have no business calling ourselves a democracy, pulled the ah, i don't have with try to you, right? so if you bring it home, i do to through the coin with
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there are many paradoxes surrounding democracy. and one paradox is the divergent tendencies in human nature. we all want to be respected. we all wanna be treated with dignity. we'd all like to have some power and control over our own lives. but at the same time, there is this darker side of human nature, the greed for power. the greed for wealth, insecurity, the drive to monopoly, the drive to tyranny. and the vanity that comes through tyrants who want to dominate over their citizens and control all sources of
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information, wealth and power. so this is the stuff of human history. this is the struggle of politics. mm hm. ah ah.
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