greetings. all right hog watchers another week has come to a close here in the d.c. swamp lands and like the humidity the idiocracy has been rather suffocating starting with the antics of one president donald j. trump who celebrated his seventy first birthday this week with what appears to be a truly senior moment after applauding saudi arabia and others in the region for taking a hard line and isolating the country of qatar trump proclaimed from the rose garden about a week ago that quote the nation of qatar has historically been

a funder of terrorism at a very high level but apparently funding terrorism at the highest of levels is not a deterrent for a good ole arms deal less than a few days after the donald's condemnation it was announced that the united states formally authorized the long term sale of twenty one billion dollars worth of u.s. weapons to qatar including twelve billion in f. fifteen fighter jets i guess he just forgot that they were bad guys supporting terrorism. but it's not just donald trump having senior moments of forgetfulness this week the democrats appear to be having a little trouble remembering just who they are and what values they are supposed to be standing up for journalist ben norton and altered its gravestone project of uncovered the democratic senators leapt across the aisle to join their republican brothers and sisters to vote fifty three to forty seven in favor of the trump administration's sale of five hundred ten million dollars worth of persuasion

guided missiles to saudi arabia three of the five democratic senators including claire mccaskill of missouri and bill nelson of florida have not surprisingly been revealed to have rather die. keep campaign finance ties to the military industrial complex i guess i guess to casco and nelson and their ilk the interests of boeing and lockheed martin outweigh the safety and plight of the citizens of yemen but the dems apparently were not finished there because were rumors on the hill this week are is that our democratic friends have sold the fight over health care up the river in order to among other things get full republican support first stronger sanctions against russia and bind trumps hands in the process. just sold health care up the loot river these these these are your political leaders of the united states of america. i think it's time to start watching the honks.

pretty. good. it's like. to. be like you know that i got. the. well the watching the hawks i am tired robot and i got to the wall and. try to guess that. returning champion as. i say that i found out professor be decided to try to university all right. he said understatement yeah i mean there's some what's going on but what will will will start with with carter and donald trump's senior moment i think you know when i see the few days

before of the arms deal was announced and said carter is funding terrorism and they're evil and bad and way to go saudi arabia and then you know twenty one billion dollars twelve million billion. to cover later. is trump just this kind of blatant hypocrisy at this point what is a journalist to do i think he is on certain levels i mean you know they he does play the old. fastest thing from the thirty's that like an impressive thing he does it he does it well and he does it because he's got support in congress for that because they really have nowhere else to go. a lot of them on either side of the aisle have the same aims as you open the show with you know with the military industrial complex but. for the most part the republicans have no place else to go but deal with him and play to the base that he's excited i mean he can do this even when it's. blatantly obvious with the with the other thing that you have this geo

political sectarian thing going on in islam that very few people understand and he's put his. his mitts into it and turned it into some weird arab versus arab you know and then he turns around and sells a twenty one billion dollars worth of stuff i mean i guess the twenty one billion won't be used for isis i mean what what what i just don't get that people need to call him to task for that let me let me ask you this though we were quick before we move on but like is a difficult for the media we kind of mentioned it to criticize trump when you know you got him. by g.e. military contractor you know advertisers on c.n.n. lockheed martin you know is it hard for the media to kind of you know it's easier i mean that's why stuff like you know talking about russia russia russia russia is easier because you know you don't have lockheed martin paying your bills i mean

that's what's going on so yeah it's much easier for them i mean that's that's part of it but a lot of it is it's very very complex to when he puts his simple self a do a complex issue that you should be able to cover it but they just can't do and there's and it's i think it's hard because they're trying to cover a certain covering tracks not actually covering it like a journalist but they're covering tracks. five democrats just jump on board with a bunch of republicans over you know saudi arms deals that you know there's no way that anybody and in the in the any democrat can look themselves in the eye in the mirror and say yeah progressive am i i'm all about nine piece and then run toward the republicans right i mean they're just in the pockets of their finances right there in the pockets of who's financing them because it is commercial corporate t.v. and then the issues i mean you're talking about middle eastern geopolitics they can't even handle syria correctly and you've got. these different. is

a poor focus. of power you know with with the with the iran and and the turks and and the saudis i mean they're all you know jostling around on this chess board and you know it's lama's not a unified model if it thinks you've got that complex thing going on too they just can't handle it so you've got the complexity and the corporate sponsorship it makes for you know just bad news bad journalism and one of the interesting things i've seen in politics this week is you know everything's rumoring you know everything is anonymous source rumor this rumor that rumor that and the rumor that i saw this week that i was like oh this is not true. congressional journalist jeff stein with vox tweeted quote top senate democrat eighty e-mails to say not going nucular on h.c.a. also allows them to hammer out a bipartisan russian sanctions deal so there's that. now. if

this is true which you know there are rumors all over does this come back to bite the democrats later because i mean i'm sorry to me us voters are going to care more about losing their health care or getting bad health care and whether or not we sanction russia to the nth degree and all of that you know you get this is d.c. so who knows what's going on right ahead but if you know there's always like a little tiny speck of truth in that and i'm sure that there are some idiots trying to horse trade on that this is going to bite them in the butt probably worse than the bernie vs hillary stuff because here you have an issue with bipartisan support among the regular people among the voters and among some of the trump loaders that you want to try to peel off and you know. you're not going to get much currency with the russia thing beyond a certain. critical mass but with health care maybe even trump and so through it under the bus you know the senate republicans are doing it in secret and they've

got tapes of of mitch mcconnell attacking obamacare for these you know they're doing things and secret they're trying to do it too fast and that he's turning around saying we're not doing things in secret we're not doing they've got it it's like a wonderful you know perfect storm for them so throw in the republicans face and they will probably end up screwing it up it's just a bad thing to me to get this right on a silver platter it's not just over a platter the entire next election try and everything is just handed to them on a silver platter and it's like they hear this song and there had met we want to lose lose lose like razorback at you know that. this is a specific winner for them or a bubble or is that a winner for them this is a winner for it is interesting well i want to look at this week at the women and film los angeles crystal and lucy a war it's hillary clinton when presenting an award to actress and supporter elizabeth banks clinton compared herself. to wonder woman stating quote now i

haven't seen wonder woman yet but i'm going to something tells me about a structure about a movie about a strong powerful woman fighting to save the world from a massive international disaster as my alley professor chambers as a fellow so i can speak to it and know my family you see the coffee to their i know where does this compare sit in your opinion hold water. is hillary clinton want to write praying praying that this was all tongue in cheek or trying to be funny. because it already did but you see the thing is with her i'm sure it is but with her she never really seems to carry it off well it's like her husband so i think there's a grain of yeah that could be that and i think that she may be to back off well and we're go if it was in the movie i suppose you probably will resist all they want to send you a copy you know you're leaving your oh it's friday so i got to ask you were you know we talk pop culture of the year where were those the curve where you look at

pop culture and politics there are twined to me these things are immediate all that's all that's the world we live in we're in your opinion chris where does the current state of politics the united states stand on the comic book well we have we've gone for hydro are we still a little while he's were we had a suit were in hydra no the only thing ironic and it's going to save it is either thing goes from. there and i've got spencer back there back in the dark side from d.c. coming in and crashing everything others are going to get there is that stuff you otherwise this is going to be it's going to get worse i mean i think i think we're in that we're at full. i mean you know that's why we need black panther to come yeah this is going to strike. yeah i feel like we've got a dark where i'm going like dark like neil gaiman's side where yes like the gods are in the darkness going why are these people doing and like go and i don't know but. if you make some weird jokes like that it doesn't help doesn't help doesn't

help things at all and i just i see it left and right the thing that really gets me at the end of the base that is that is that look we're a bad place right now we joke comic books are great but we're a bad place right now we need you know good reporting good journalism good punditry and good politicians and let me ask you a lake as a as a journalism teacher or. how are you dealing with because that to me this is another one of those issues have a sort of white famine as out of this idea that this white man who is very privileged is out there being like the voice of all feminism in the world and you know that's like the last thing that we know but it would mean the her me i'm one more white one it's more of my math i do think that how do i how do you how does a young female journalist well what do you i think that you know they they have to have their heroes and heroines to some of them has hillary clinton is there but i think what they need to do is to hold hillary clinton and to test say i wonder i

wonder woman fan because wonder woman is there fighting for all of us and she doesn't do that and a lot of people up there in this rarified level especially older women who have made it who have that who. are the wealth of the power behind them they don't bring it down a level which is what hillary clinton would probably need to do and what a younger female journalist should tell her to do is to bring it down we need wonder woman because she's down there helping us she's down there you know she would be down there trying to find the women trying to be down there trying to solve donald trump should be down there trying to find women who have been kidnapped and things like that and that's what i think you see young journalists a young female journalist and an on all platforms including some who are writers and bloggers trying to bring it down to that local help us level help us help ourselves level not be. world war one for us right. there chris always

a pleasure. thank you so much. as we're going to right court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the top of the government facebook and twitter see our poll shows r t v dot com coming up we are done talking wonder woman just out of style but the wall is the sun covered in other nefarious money grab and we preview this week's new episode of her back to the night. with gil stay to the bottom of. the world the states and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are anti american player martie america offers more artsy american personal

. many ways to use landscape just like the real news big names good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear on. so much parking all the worlds all the world all the world's a stage we are definitely a player. i'm john harshman and i'll give you what the mainstream media chant the big picture will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. being an artist in the age of social media is no easy task instead of fighting for gallery space today's creatives must contend with shares and followers to make their name in living additionally they have to try and protect their work from

theft but not just someone taking a screenshot and using it as their profile pic but someone actually taking a design they found on the internet slapping it on a t's thirteen shirt and selling it for twenty five dollars see big companies like urban outfitters wal-mart and target have all been caught stealing items either commissioned by or purchased by the stores for sale on line and in the brick and mortar stores themselves that have stolen art on them and it wasn't gone well zorra is still getting heat for using los angeles artists to say boson's jewelry designs for a series of pins i mean they've wrapped them off exactly family friendly friendly kohl's along with two clothing manufacturers were sued last year by another los angeles based illustrator lily chen for copyright infringement when they sold t. shirts and socks featuring change drawings without giving her consent without her permission and without paying her dying and now even in the browns like

a million heiress are ripping off smaller indie brands turns out the brands twenty four year old creator of the occur who claims to be pushing this female empowering messages was lifting everything from bruno mars' lyrics to a very very well known feminist designed by indie artists the flaw and generally just capitalizing on the kitsch of being a wealthy twentysomething young white woman using the words of black culture to make a buck without paying the actual artists which brings us to this week when i purchased a print and tank top of well known feminist art piece by lucas were neck who were rich. created the piece to support women and the cancellation of a chemical comic book series mockingbird by chelsea k. and many felt the work had been treated in a very sexist way by marvel who didn't support the book as they had male fronted books so originally the black and white sketch were a naked made man made a full color version that he sold as an exclusive at

a brazilian comic con many legitimate feminist organizations retreated the image over the last half of the year and eventually a sought for sale both as a print and a tank top which i ordered upon inspection i realized something wasn't quite right it was off the quality for one that was sub par for the cost the artwork just didn't seem to be printed correctly and there was a reason first i contacted the company t. for humans to express my concern that the quality wasn't there but also that they were selling items they did not have the legal right to sell not only the tease for humans ignore numerous requests from me as a consumer they also ignored my requests for me as a journalist they took the listing down within twelve hours of my increase at that themselves i'm entirely see this july duly revised version of the same stolen art same colors same quality same shirt replace the old listing except

now the tax reads just because i'm feminine doesn't mean i'm not a feminist instead of the original ask me about my feminist agenda another message the words the embers of this modern fearless opinionated wonder woman with that quote doesn't even make any sense anymore so here's the thing whether it's urban outfitters stealing the work of native americans and slapping it on a fifty dollar flask or the blatant theft of a piece of art meant to inspire and empower it's wrong it hurts businesses or hurts consumers and most of all it takes money out of the hands of those who create the things we want in our lives. be careful that x. time you buy online or in person because you might end up supporting if they've found even realising it this the major issue that we have today across the board is that you know you see people going out there you know hack and slash you know since the internet really i mean you know but it got even worse i think with the internet

where you have you know artist put something online people just hack and slash it and throw it up on the to serve up over here and major retailers doing this is a is a huge issue it's been around for a while i mean urban air urban outfitters is known for doing it so much because they they've done it on a larger scale before people can really look for it but they've gotten much better now these little indie shops come up and they pop up like this one dead one minute it's gone and they put it up with another quote that makes no phone but it makes me angry if i don't buy anything from this company you keep an eye out for what you do because this was really treated by legitimate organizations not knowing that it was a stolen piece of art and that's the thing at the end of the day do your best to give the artists their do they say they worked hard they created something at least figure out a way to give them some credit for the work that is that about the bottom of it all we can ask. who. they are to america show redacted tonight is the best comedy satire news show on television they are forcing me to say this

much but i just want you to know that i'm ok. they aren't hurting me and murdoch to me tonight should win all the awards all of the. even the ass speech or whatever else comes with a speech before they charge. well our tears were dark the lights natalie would go. through the streets show wow wow amazing and there. was real natural just like we practiced. it i swear i'm ok. i'm going to be. ok i think wow thanks a lot. don't you say working with you guys you notice they don't mean a famous thing for them anyway i'm just saying how only. so lazy i found out

something kind of interesting about the super super ranch i was like every week we find out some fun this is crazy that's allegation of well it's getting even crazier so currently five billionaires five guys bill gates of microsoft jeff bezos of amazon consulting like crazy amazon i just read today it's like they're buying the whole foods and i was out as a six hundred million dollar contract with the cia and jeff bezos owns the washington post i want to talk about that that's all their side thing it just makes me feel creepy every time i think about it then you've got so it's bill gates jeff bezos among us your take of spain of zara the retail company was talking about is in there warren buffett of berkshire hathaway and mark zuckerberg of facebook those five guys have accumulated as much wealth as half of the world's population three point seven billion people they have those five guys have around four hundred billion dollars of wealth three point seven billion have a population has four hundred billion so these five hundred has four hundred ten billion so these five people are catching up to these to half of our population

last year was eight guys now it's down to almost five so the wealth inequality is growing and you know i think it's a good thing because it means pretty soon someone's going to have everything and some guy's going to win capitalism members because i know you're in the only area and they're like you said there's a. thing and now we go to a more reasonable democratic socialism and how long this is going to happen. not only did they just not add then people just wouldn't have staggered it's hard to like wrap your head i just realized you know hope the i guess my inherent peacenik but you don't you you hope that the people who have that much wealth kind of got to step back at some point be like. i bet i could help people what. you have with them i mean because there's a certain thing like that when you reach what's the difference really when you're making three hundred million a year and five hundred million a year there's nothing left to you for you to buy when these guys have considerably more than that as well then that goes the other thing on too though it's like we we

look to these people as though are there all moral superiors and we do ask them for advice and some of them do do bill and friend of the on topic work but is it helpful bill gates want to be involved in education privatized everything right he wants to help with. starvation and things in africa is investing in monsanto you know so he has this he has this this this free market mentality about everything because it's gotten him wealthy then i don't know if that translates into the humanitarian sector all that all the time and beyond that a lot of these people they have gotten their wealth because of the nischelle technologies in development by by the government government funded tax taxpayer funded things that we've contributed to like the internet that they've been able to capitalize on but where's our piece of the pie you know i mean i want my facebook. had i. think i am so madly tell me about how the water five guys. water that i'm drinking. water she's doing just fine. tell me about this water that

i just took a drink out of tell me about how apparently it's going to poison me yeah yeah should already it already is the poisons working your way it's way to your system so there's a study that came out of the environmental working group in one of these takes so bad. actually. from northwest northeastern university finds fifteen million americans in twenty seven states are drinking water that's contaminated with perfectly chemicals or p.f.c. and these are manmade chemicals that can cause cancer kidney disease thyroid issues it runs the gamut and these chemicals are found in things that are water resistant stand resistant they're found in fast food packaging so not like the food that you are already eating inside the packaging was poisonous enough the stuff that's a wrap in it is. and so the c.d.c. says that ninety eight percent of americans have some in their blood because it takes years and years for it to actually filter out but not only does the e.p.a.

have no regulation for monitoring the same way they monitor lead and arsenic but no new contaminants have been regulated by the e.p.a. under the safe drinking water act since one thousand nine hundred. cents there found in a zillion and one things we use every day like shampoo cleaning products nonstick cookware makeup in short all the things i use before my mom visits my studio apartment to show her that i'm a self-sufficient adult who cooks our own meals and showers regularly those are the things that are slowly killing me on the inside about ninety eight percent of americans have in their blood which means people have caesar like that h.p.v. have chemicals everyone has it but it's not just cleaning and grooming products

they can be found in there also in things like firefighting foam like this foam that overflowed when a fire alarm was tripped in an airplane hangar in santa clara california the same type of foam into groundwater from military bases across the u.s. . oh yeah that's going to have a hard and very important thing and a way to know that you present are they don't have him who are these these amish well i don't i think that in any impurity thing i don't where i that we've got to get out of that there are you know if you are ones that are well i got it i got to try these i don't miss we're back to the night which airs every friday at r.t. america and that we've got to tonight be ip which features exclusive interviews and panels every thursday in our two america john o'donnell now let me go thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure and that laser juggling is our show for you today remember everyone in this world if you don't drink the water we are not told there are a lot of them out so i tell you all i love you i am tired old winter and i'm sad in a while if people are watching those hawks and have

a great day and night everybody. all the feeling of relief. every the world should experience the ego and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. come along for the rye. we're decade the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests that's thrown down

a lot of voices that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm michel martin america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded that you'll get the straight talk and the straight news. questionable. and then finally into the night saturday if i'm going to play you now how does a thousand people point. line in you can you would it be that easy to find a friend that i had in me. just said thank you plus the city people. didn't. vote but i thought it might have been my little bit too much of my mouth that i little bit that i shut out of money going to you know about much of the way but the more i'm not going to get by any.