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генерального штаба, все люди, каждый совершает какие-то ошибки, они когда-то их искупили свою вину в полной мере, это первое, второе, как будет складываться, расскажите, of вы вы командир, да? hello and welcome to spotlight a government shut down looms in the us as the democratic led senate and the house which is controlled by republicans remain at logger heads on plans to fund federal agencies, the senate is pushing for a stop gap bill that would extend

federal spending until november 17th, but house republicans are opposed to a short-term funding expansion. they also want deep in spending cuts as well, the house of republicans have already passed several bills to fund parts of the government, that however would not stop a shutdown because there's no hope that the bills would pass in the senate, and us government has started notifying federal workers that is shutdown uh is uh imminent, a government funding in the usns early sunday, if congress fails to come up with a clear plan, federal agencies will run out of money and that would affect hundreds of thousands of workers halting a wide range of services. joys on tonight's spotlight, we have daniel plat staff writer at executive intelligence review joining us from los angeles, and international from the international action centers join. from new

york, well welcome to the program, to the both of you, let's start off with mr. platt in la, two days until the government shut down with signs of deal, uh, does congress have path to avoid the shutdown? there is always a path, but the question is whether the uh power it be want that path to be used, there i think that is important to remember that much of what goes on in the us congress is theater, the... was a study that was conducted in 2014 by the prestigious american university princeton where they found that the united states is not in fact a democracy, it's an oligarchy, it's a nation govern by a small group of of wealthy, business interests, financial interests and so on. the us economy is in serious trouble, bankrupt, they are trying to preserve bubble of speculation, which were frankly cannot be saved, and there's going to be lot of hardship for the american people, and this this government shut down provides a scape

goat of sorts where they can say everything would be finenomics would be considered success if it were not for the government shut down, so whether or not they choose to to solve the problem is an open question, but there are ways to solve it. flounders, how likely is it that there will be a shut down come sunday morning in the us? well, there have been many shutdowns in the past, and it's true, this is absolutely theater. on the part of both republicans and democrats, it is to intentionally on the part of both parties, create hardships for working people, for hundreds of thousands of federal government workers, for pension and social security checks, for essential programs, for everything from libraries to parks that got shut down, of course never shuts down the us military, it does shut down any one of 800 military bases around the world or the...

traf carrius, the submarines, it doesn't stop their wars for one minute, but it does impact working people profoundly in the millions and their families, so that... is who it's intended actually to impact? do they care if they create hardships for working people? no, they don't at all, they'll actually save some money doing this, and that is what is the cruelest part of this theater. danielel plat, the american government's finances aren't in good shape, in august, us credit rating took a big hit, how big of a hit will a government shutdown um deliver to the already suffering economy? it will be substantial, but again i think that this problem would exist shut down or no shutdown, and they do uh look forward to blaming their failures on the shutdown. same question to you, miss flounders, about uh the fledging economy of the united states,

our guests in la believes that the economy is in trouble with or without a shutdown? the us economy is in deep trouble, uh, the dollar no longer. supreme, that's a fact, the whole world knows it, dedollarization is fact, their ability to impose sanctions on the world is falling out from underneath them, countries have found ways to trade and exchange directly with each other, that's enormously threatening to us power and to the us economy, they have sanctions on 40 countries around the world, if they can't impose them, if these countries are trading among themselves. that spells disaster for the us economy, for us corporate power, for us banking power, so yes, there is real problems ahead, who are they going to shift it to, they're going to try to push to working people right here, so that they continue to make the profits, the super

profits and uh, people here pay the cost, and people around the world also pay the cost of this total theft of resources, pumping it endlessly. into war and never into people's needs. sarah flounders, i'm going to stay with you for the next question, the democratic led senate and the house which is uh controlled by republicans uh, they remain at logger heads on plans to fund the federal agencies. what are the main differences here? the senate is pushing for a stop gap funding bill that would extend federal spending until november 17th. house of republicans are opposed to that short-term funding expansion. they also want deep spending cuts. what are these? spending cuts? well there's a lot of grand standing going on uh and so the republicans may talk about uh war in ukraine and whether to keep funding it uh the military will always receive its money, that's that's a fact and it's a given. so

what they're really talking about is cutting out all kinds of programs which have been pretty essential in terms of infrastructure. education, health programs, that's what they want cut to the bone, there isn't enough money for that, and so there's a push pull back and forth, with the democrats who would just assume let some of these programs go, by the way, but they want to be able to blame the republicans, so this whole thing about which deadline they're going to go with and whether it's extended or not, as i say, it's it's really grand standing, it's theater. daniel plat, one key issues at hand, is that some republican lawers, they do not want money to keep moving toward ukraine, a georgia congresswoman has been quoted as saying, any defense containing ukraine funding is dead arrival, how deep is the division over ukraine here? well, i think the

political opposition to funding is significant. i agree with miss flounders that the likelihood that they will cut funding is very slim, but they fear. the sentiment in the american public, there was a poll conducted on august 4th by cnn where they found that 55% of americans oppose sending more money to ukraine, and there were votes this morning in the congress on resolutions to cut funding, there were 100 congressmen that opposed the funding, they of course were outvoted, but that's still a significant number. there was also a vote on sending cluster musician, cluster munitions to ukraine, which frankly. should be uncontroversial. most of the world denounces the use of cluster munitions as a war crime. there were 160 congressmen that voted to stop the cluster munitions, and this was about half and half democrats and republicans, which i think is important. so even though i think that the powers that be will ram

through funding for ukraine, they fear that this fight over ukrainian funding will spark some kind of the major resistance in the american population. right, daniel platt, how did the us get here and what does it mean when the government shuts down? well, as you mentioned, it's shut down, shut down 22 times. is prior to this, it's kind of becoming routine, and i think it is kind of mechanism for psychologically uh controlling the population, to keep them to convince them that there's a huge difference between the two parties, which is largely illusory, or that it's important to fight over these tertiary issues rather than the big ones, which are the neoconservative drive for global war, which is absolutely a bipartisan effort, and also the continued desperate. attempt to bail out the bubble of financial speculation which cannot be safe. there's never any debate over those issues uh until

like i say this business with ukraine is becoming something of a public fight which is very useful. sarah flowers you mentioned earlier that there have been a number of uh government shutdowns. i came across an interesting question uh on the web by uh by user which said why is the government the us government always shutting down? why does it? a government shut down loom almost every year, what can you tell us in that regard? well, it is part of this posturing that they're fighting each other, and it's really shadow boxing, uh, it is completely staged, 22 times that's a lot, it shows how many years this has gone on and on uh for how it is every year, every time at least it gets resolved uh with some essential programs cut. uh some really important ones that have to do with social needs and at the same time uh lot

of speculation on in terms of who's making the money on this, but the wars don't end, nor are they really cut, and uh, it is very true, this figure 55%, and that's at least of people admit that they're against anymore funding for the ukraine, so people in congress got to act like they're addressing that, but of course... they're not, they will continue to fund the wars, they will continue to fund us threats and they will try to take it out of the population right here, uh, and and that is what this is about, it it's so, it's so fraud and it's really hard to treat it seriously, because everyone knows they'll they'll arrive at some backroom deal, they'll cut the budget here and there, we'll find out that uh, this this social program, this medical program, this cost of pharmaceuticals is no longer covered, you find that out long

afterwards, it was all part of the bargaining and haggling, and uh, really none of it is, we're i'm talking to you from new york, where we're in the midst of flash floods and subways shut down, just from rainstorm, because the infrastructure here is so decayed, so decrepit, and there's no funding for it, so i'm here at home, unable to go. anywhere because of the condition of the uh today. this is part of what is happening everywhere in the united states today and it's happening in the schools, it's happening in senior centers and daycare centers uh everywhere. the the programs are being gutted and nothing is being rebuilt. staying with you miss founders on the issue, the last partial government shut down as you also loted to was in uh 2018 through 2019. that was um supposedly the longest in history, lasting up to 34 days, there was one in

october 2013 where the government shut down for 16 days after congress was unable to agree a budget for the new fiscal year, whether this is posturing or not, obviously um hundreds of thousands of federal workers, millions of people are affected by this, what are the projections saying about this one, about the duration, about the severity in comparison to the previous uh shutdowns? well, we should know what happened with the last shutdown, because in a country where the greatest number of workers live paycheck to paycheck, the idea of being more than a month without a paycheck and bills coming do and rent coming due and tuition for children and all kinds of things, these shutdowns create huge problem, the shutdowns for that long a time of of parks. and highways and roads, all kinds of things, it's an enormous um

inconvenience, more than inconvenience, a real problem, a real life threatening problem in some situations, so it's been done again and again, how long this one will last, we don't know, uh, programs like female, they'll shut down, but as i say, the wars don't shut down, and so just making those comparisons, i think is an important part of. that if seniors don't get social security check that means hunger uh so uh these these uh shutdowns create real enormous and immediate difficulties and it's part of the theater, both both sides king they want to reach deal and it's a problem of the other party. daniel plat, miss flounders just mentioned an interesting um comment, interesting notion that even if the government shuts down, the wars don't shut down, do you, do you agree with that? absolutely, it's a bipartisan

consensus, the people that say that we don't have bipartisanship in the united states just start paying attention. all right, and uh, daniel platt, the us government has already started notifying workers about this eminent shutdown, with no deal in site, millions of federal workers are in limbo, what services will be rattled if deal is not reached in time, what's the impact, for example on food assistance, uh, medical benefits, retiry benefits and etc. well, it'll be substantial, and again we've seen this happened before, we know what to expect, and it shows a certain cales disregard for the welfare american people, the the commitment to the global war agenda (neo conservatives is iron clad) and they're willing sacrifice the welfare of the the average citizen uh without hesitation. sarah flouters, where is joe biden amist all of this? well, he's been uh kind of out to

lunch for a long time. um, where is he? is party maneuver part of this whole theater uh and i have no idea what to say because clearly he can't resolve it, this is uh push pool that goes on between the house of representatives, the senate, one has one bill, one has another bill, obviously he could with executive authority keep any of these things still functioning, but of course he won't do that, he would rather put it on congress to thrash with each other uh than to any way try to solve it, and that has also been the role of past presidents, they act like their hands are tied, and uh, of course, they they could pursue, they could push through any of these programs if they so chose, but they don't choose to do that.

daniel, the us president be more present during such a critical impass. ideally yes, but we don't really have a president in the normal sense of the term. uh, there was another poll conducted by cnn a couple of months back where they found that again a majority of american citizens consider donald trump and joe biden both unfit for office. so you have to ask questions about a system which enforces a rigged choice where people have to choose between too aging, decrepit and frankly incompetent individuals. uh, you would... think that at least someone in either party could emerge that is not a neocon that is not committed to the disastrous policy this country has been on frankly for several decades, but whenever someone like that tries to emerge, the media and the party apparatus joined forces to suppress their campaigns. daniel, a side note

here, the gop led house oversight committee held its first hearing thursday morning on the impeachment inquiry of... president joe biden, talk us through its relevance in in this point in time, well it's sort of become a it's sort of like a junior high school environment where each party in turn tries to impeach the president of the other, and it's frivolous, it's again uh designed to create the appearance of huge battle between the two parties, which is frankly illusory. all right, and same question to miss flounders, uh, the uh gop that... house oversight committee, they held their first hearing thursday morning uh on the impeachment inquiry of the president, talk us through its relevance uh right now, it's it's kind of irrelevant, frankly uh, impeachment of one party, impeaching the other uh, it's another

thing that goes on again and again like like these government shutdowns time after time. uh, how many presidents have there been attempted impeachment, impeachment hearings? uh, it's uh, really, none of this has to do with how the us government functions on an international level and functions domestically here at home. it's not. what happens in washington is not what is happening to people's paychecks, which haven't increased in literally decades now. and haven't we can look at the declining education levels at all those things, this theater of who's impeaching who and where the hearings are, it gets a lot of. uh, it's important in the election campaigns of certain politicians, they get in some quotable quotes, but uh, what it amount to, i

have, i don't see. all right, and final question for both our guests, daniel plat, comes sunday morning, what's your prediction uh of the situation with regards to this whole government shut down possibility? um, i'm really not willing to make a prediction about. that i'm not sure that there is a certain volatility here and the opposition to the funding of i think is key flash point, it's very peculiar that the american media have taken the describing opposition to the war as right-wing policy, and this is something which is sort of an alason wonderland sort of thing, because historically in the united states the left has appear opposed you wars of aggression, they opposed the cold war, nowadays anyone who speaks out of against this very dangerous proxy war in ukraine is branded a right-winger and it indicates that there's a certain kind of desperation here to try to keep the public under control, they're afraid

the public a certain point is going to say, this is ridiculous, we're no longer going to accept the the narrative is being foisted upon us by the corporate media. miss i want to get your prediction as the final question for the program? well, i'm very much part of uh organizing. demonstrations, actions, protests around the country, from october 1 to october 8th, where we're planning demonstration here in new york, on sunday october 1st, and it's targeting the media, their their role in war propaganda, in pushing these wars and in creating the stage theater, and there's a growing anger at the media and at the military, so i i think these act. around the country and the they're very much left and progressive and anti-war forces, there's more than 60 different actions in the coming week, i think that's

important, they're not large, many of them, they're still at symbolic level, and yet they're speaking to the majority of the population who's against war and against this enormous waste of resources a time when human need is so great and where we have real problems of of climate. catastrophe, there should be a war on that, and um, infrastructure uh problems of social needs, these are the real problems facing it, the political parties aren't addressing it, and so people are beginning to address it on their own, with all kinds of community actions, so uh, you can actually see the this at unacpeace.org, unaac, peace.org for a listing of different actions. but i think it's just beginning, it's a first step in organizing opposition to the wars, to the cut and demanding that money be spent for jobs

and human needs right here, and not for endless war, okay, sanctions either, thanks lot, sarah flounders from the international action center from new york and uh staff writer at executive intelligence review, daniel platt, joining us from los angeles, thank you for contributing to the program and also a special thanks to you our viewers for. staying with us on tonight's spotlight, it's good night for now, see you next time, as the berlin wall collapsed in 1989, so did the once great superpower of the soviet union, the communist party leader michael gorbathawed in a new era of openness with the west, by 1991, peter. was failing and along came the new russian states versus president boris yeltson. this documentary tells the story of the eight years of yelson's

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