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well i think that some of it was triggered by. obama i think that obama who wrote to power in two thousand and eight as somebody who had transcended all these racial divisions he was going to be here and that's why he generated so much excitement instead when he got to power he started playing list of identity politics in a quite shameless way and he exploited a number of. terrible incidents in order to score political points i mean you know the case of trayvon martin the case of michael brown and there was a whole list of them and i think that he did introduce a kind of a poison into american life that i'm fortunate going to be with this whole quite a while george said moodily global policy expert from london metropolitan university we appreciate your time this hour thank you and i'll be back in thirty
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minutes time with more global news stay with our. salutation. now is the time for reflection or watchers by maoists through most of the searing the united states of c read or heard about the young america's moral compass so consumed with hate that he would turn a vehicle into a weapon and attack those who would stand in opposition to his fractured and important beliefs our hearts go out to have her hair and her family along with the seventeen others who were injured by this act of one justify violence and pure cowardice now while the corporate media scrambles to churn out their sensational headlines and politicians scramble to turn this tragedy into political capital to
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bash their opponents with. let us not forget just how much of a key role these two players played in the radicalization of so many people in groups across this country politicians and the media how often have we seen the corporate news media feign discussed while parading out white supremacy in their race as leaders for click bait interviews and headlines how often have we seen politicians capitalize on xena phobic fears playing the political extremes for votes stoking the fires of hate by exclaiming how and godly and evil the other side is then throwing their whipped up base a carefully coded bill or two to keep them voting in order to hold their seats of power all these kind of actions by our political leaders and ratings hungry for the state give legitimacy to bills who peddle racism and fear of anyone who looks differently thinks differently or believes differently than they do. in the republican party deep down you know you've played this most dangerous game for
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a very long time now but all you democrats now revelling in your sanctimony of see we knew this was going to happen sorry but folks you're just as guilty as the republicans because for a party that supposedly wraps themselves in tolerance and liberal ideals i've seen a whole lot of mockery intolerance and outright hate coming from you towards those who believe who you believe are your political enemies apparently in the age of trump hate is now the only acceptable currency in both our political parties will hate only begets hate and hate leads to violence leads to the violence we saw this weekend i say let's break free from the hate and violence let's go back to showing those that morally are politically disagree with us some compassion and love because that is what changes minds that is what softens a hard heart pumping out hate and that is what ultimately will put an end to these acts of violence. well let's start watching the whole.
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thing. looks like really it's like. a ladder to the bottom. of the like you know what i got. to. do with. this. he. would say. well the wrong to watch the markets like the old one for. just one day after the state of emergency had been declared the city of charlottesville came out to mourn those who were lost in saturday's tragedy artesian a tough a sweet as in charlottesville with a story. the mood here in charlottesville virginia is completely different than it was twenty four hours ago as you can see it is somber moon people are leaving supports with flowers and candles remembering the three people who died on saturday
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. a time for mourning and putting all of what happened saturday into perspective we're all suffering from this island bar tells is a charlottesville residents while preparing for what she called an unpleasant event she says she was absolutely shocked regarding the death of three people tied to saturday's rally and i've lived here for eighteen years there's nothing like this has ever happened according to our tells it's not something her town stands for me i knew it was going to be bad we everyone in town knew there was going to be violence because the cops were bragging ahead of time but the fact that someone actually lost their life that someone would actually take such a violent step to deliberately kill other people was just beyond that i just couldn't believe that according to i clean a local shop owner while he's witnessed many protests during his younger days he says saturday was different so those came as expected over their murders never expected and that. place right at my back door sitting there i heard the screams
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and i open up the my my back door to let some of the people who are fleeing the car come in as people took shelter in my clean shop he says he knows why outside he groups targeted charlottesville they have a third generation. hippie population politically politically and socially left of center very you know open to diversity and despite his life winning political views i clean says he along with many other locals are for keeping property least emancipation park attorney general jeff sessions has announced that there is now a federal investigation into saturday's rally and the driver of the dodge charger james alex fields is being charged with second degree murder in charlottesville virginia natasha sweet's art scene. joining us now as we're back to mostly camp who was in charlottesville one of the so kurds covering the protests lee you were there did i have to ask did anyone attending these marches both the media or the marchers
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you know anyone there that you saw on the ground it did anyone actually kind of anticipate this kind of violence this level of violence going on. i don't know i mean i know things were getting pretty violent. i only showed i missed the fights but it was clearly had gone on because you could see all the remnants and they had fenced off the main park and the cop car had been all over and things like that but i showed up ten minutes before the the terrorist attack and and which is what i think it should be called and was standing in the video you see the red minivan i was standing off to the side of the red minivan and it's you know it's just just coincidence or fluke that i you know i was in order killed or all the people that that i know it's you know who gets who gets hurt or killed in that type of thing is just it's just a fluke but. it was it was in her effect thing to witness and the moments that i. there there i mean they clearly like i said had been fighting there was fighting
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going on around town but what i witnessed was a peaceful march of people with signs that were against hate against racism and then car plowed into them. it was a police presence like before and after the terror attack occurred there was extensive police presence i mean walking to that place where the attack occurred i had filmed tons of riot cops going by m. raps so that stuff was in town. i don't i you know people have said that they stood down and basically allowed all these fights to happen and didn't really get in the way of them i can't speak to having witnessed that but what i can speak to is there were only three arrests which is kind of crazy considering how many there were in ferguson or even just standing rock but what i can speak to in the moments that i saw during the attack was the people that were on the scene helping immediately where the volunteer medics did an incredible job of dealing with so
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many injured and hurt and obviously dying as well and and then professional mascot there soon after then the fire department and then maybe fifteen twenty minutes later there was police presence but it's a you know for there to be that many police in town and twenty minutes to take them to get to that seems seems odd to me it seems it seems like a. poor poor job probably only speculate but it does seem like they didn't really quite have all their ducks in a row especially knowing that you have two groups that are going to war and those you do you would hope that they would have those things where you make choices edible time that is sort of all this different from what you saw ferguson and that you walk from the police point of view well i was in i didn't report it a lot on front and saying i want that for a center standing rock but i do know that there were only i think it's three arrests on saturday including the killer and suspected killer ledge killer and. and that number compared to obvious fights you know i've talked to friends who were
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in those fights and things like that it seems like a very very low number to me. what water of the water water you're i know it's so fresh and i know it's not something easy to see you know what are your thoughts coming out of the week. and walking away from this. well i think there's a lot of there's a lot of points to be made about our society and everything like that i think i need some time to. get my thoughts in place because right now it's so emotional and and you know that actually can be a point in and of itself it's like people like oh well i you know that this is one case where i stand for the death penalty and it's like yeah having been there and watched people get hit by these cars i would love to see that guy. get the death penalty but i also understand that that's why we don't legislate when you're at your most furious because i'm against the death penalty and for just that reason when you're in the middle of this stuff when you're feeling emotional about this stuff that's not when you should make the rational decisions on on these type of
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things you've mentioned to do it so you went to school there you know what what kind of a community is charlottesville for folks that have no concept of the city before this week yeah when i was there was one school there was a very peaceful town i mean i i don't doubt there's some racism there there is some bigotry there but it was never very little violence in that respect and you know i think some people are surprised it's not a really liberal town because it's a college town it is fairly liberal but it's not there weren't tons of demonstrations when i was going to school there i think we're past the time of the sixty's and seventy's when students are maybe as awake in as politically active as they were then but then again i was you know there fifteen years ago or more so so maybe things have changed maybe as students are getting more active and more political interested we are go to sleep thank you very much i know it's i was told to come on i'm going to talk about this stuff right after it happens with the.
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thank you for the good work that you're doing out there thank you bowles reporter. all right as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you forgive of topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our two dot com coming up journalist and senior editor of alter its grace on project rush limbaugh will answer the hawk's nest to discuss the political social national international implications of this weekend's wilds of that wallace brings a little quantum entanglement and puts a quantum entanglement in a nutshell state through the watching the whole. oh there are already.
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isis militants and just chilled patrol base on the left and right even this is compound. enemy treatments have been spotted on the other side of the rhythm. here in the only two groups of militants have joined forces. those groups leaders have declared their determination so an independent isn't an extinct in the philippines you know. even after two months of funding.
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explosives. civilians used to live. in the. city. as a modicum of peace. the political blame game is only beginning almost immediately critics from the left took issue with the president. of the violence noting he did not call a white supremacist by name at first the right point out the democrats' similar
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reluctance to take responsibility of left wing extremist. congressman steve. on the ground arguing over whether it was the far right groups or left wing protesters that instigated most of the violence while some are already placing the blame on our favorite usual suspects russia to break down the tragic blame game. we want to start by asking so. many sides. alluding to the protesters as well as the far right. between the two sides as one racial superiority while the other fighting evil and fascism so what both sides here have basically have a role in the violence that we saw i mean i do think it was a false equivalency i think it's one of the lowest moments. in this presidency in this race to the. bottom but this is really one of the lowest moments i mean what
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you saw was what appeared to be an orchestrated terror attack on a group of protesters with through the what the charlottesville police call vehicular homicide by someone who is an invalid neo nazi idealogue from vanguard use or whatever the organization is called i think matthew heimbach is the leader so it's a pretty clear case where trump should condemn the homicidal terrorist instead he obviously gates in issues of false equivalency of both sides because he's in the process of playing to his base at a time when he's under political siege i mean today he announced that he may part in sheriff joe arpaio who is also kind of an icon of the racist right who's one of the most sadistic figures in american political life is sheriff of maricopa county so for trump it was political cynicism at its worst and i think it really didn't it was that there was a time for moral leadership that could have even come from trump and he failed that moral test completely let me ask you what. what actually lies behind the right.
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protests a little just some more incidents we're seeing more and more of across the country is that is this part of kind of this global trend of fueling the far right groups that you see in europe. or is this distinctly us given our history of racial injustice and bigotry you know that it's a great question i mean i actually covered the independence day rally in finland in twenty fifteen and this was a very similar phenomenon where you had all of the right wing groups including the mainstream true fans get together and try to make a show of street power in the middle of helsinki and unite the right has followed that model which has been sort of this is a successful march in helsinki and it ended at the graves of soldiers who had fought alongside the nazi s.s. against russia so the symbol in virginia was the robert e. lee statue this is a neo confederate symbol that's really the history that they're drawing on their very distinctly american history nothing to do. russia or any other country but
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they're using kind of a european model the point was to get the proud boys together with the knights in the all right and the republicans they specifically appealed for republican support and i think with this terror attack at the end and you see the reaction of some of the far right leaders it was a complete failure and i don't think they're going to be able to come back very strong after this for a while do we know if this was something that. i mean i don't know if you're you know do we know if there's something this kid like was planning what hey i want to drive my car or was it more emotional than we know you're more just the emotional reaction to everything that was going on no we don't know i mean it could be that he you know was convicted for manslaughter because there were some mitigating factors we don't know but what we do know is that there were factors that put everyone in danger particularly the anti-fascist protesters those who identified as anti fascist number one for virginia's open carry and that allowed people to come in the oath keepers the three percent with assault weapons that terrified local
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police terry mcauliffe said police were afraid to engage and get between them because of the presence of our men you couldn't even tell the difference between them and the police in some cases number two you have bills being pushed in republican state houses and that have been advanced by the blue lives matter movement which was created as a reaction to black lives matter to lessen the liability of drivers who deliberately plow into crowds of protesters in north dakota they were pushing. for water protecting their rights so this is kind of you know giving you know the green light in a lot of ways to people who want to do exactly what was done by james alex fields in charlottesville by the republican party by the fraternal order of police in florida so that's another factor here that we have to point the finger directly at those groups for putting people in danger. it's interesting. a bit of joy in your house. you know it is interesting going to talk about reducing the sentencing for
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people plowing through crowds and obviously what we've seen mostly coming from is you know muslim terrorists in europe have done it so they're bizarre to see right where it's pushing for that here but the char critic from u.s. intelligence officer john schindler today wrote in the observer that the far right extremists behind this was will rally are advancing the kremlin's agenda that we can tragedy in charlottesville was at least partly inspired by moscow's propaganda and this is interesting because i've also seen the conspiracy theory that bannon is behind this protest because of the all right connection unite the right is bad in this concept basically to divert attention from the russia scandal of the trumpet ministrations so do you think there's anything to either of these allegations i mean i hate to respond to an online exhibitionist crank. conspiracist like schindler. but you know i hate read his article which is ironically in jared newspaper and his evidence that this is all connected to russia
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was that the separated ex-girlfriend of richard spencer was a translator for alexander doogan alexander doogan is the fourth position is russian intellectual who wants to wage a global war on liberalism and you know his sort of anti-war and anti empire but he's also anti semitic and he has very little power in the russian parliament he was tossed out of moscow university's been tossed off a right wing christian t.v. station meanwhile david duke who was at the rally was given a professed professorial position at kiev university in ukraine in two thousand and six where we are now and have been funding neo nazi militias which are now incorporated into the national guard so where do we want to point the finger. when you look at our foreign policy you've seen everyone from mccain but even former president obama you know back figures overseas. extreme far right you saw the
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balkans you saw it ukraine these kind of very extreme groups you know what makes it ok for us to kind of support these figures through our foreign policy but. that our government at the same time or figures are better than mouse them here at home it seems like a lot of hypocrisy yeah ole was the founder of this socialist nationalist party of ukraine a far right fascist even neo nazi party modeled after the national socialist party of germany the nazis he has publicly saikai old and he has also publicly appeared with senator john mccain at rallies on them i don and for friendly meetings with john mccain john mccain pals around with a single heiling fascist leader who could be fairly described as a neo nazi it's time for john mccain to renounce these ties and his collusion with these fascist elements it's time for c.n.n. to ask these questions of mccain and other figures who have met with them and it's time for the u.s.
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to recognize how dangerous the situation is in ukraine when we're talking about arming the ukrainian military even further in a conflict one million people are displaced many of those arms will fall to the national guard units like the as of battalions that are neo nazi groups and so you know this is not known to americans that we're funding fascists abroad while we're fighting them at home why are we doing it they're the woak nazis because they're fighting russia or the bad nazis or they're like the whoa whoa hobbies in syria that are also fighting a russian ally why are they i mean are they the bad guys here in a sense yes from the spin perspective they're the bad guys but we've seen this resurgence of the nationalists the right for call it is this may be part of a deeper operation like what you know to divide america that you know that's a great question i mean we could take it in a lot of directions and you know i was actually watching today i want to hear what richard spencer and goat sacrificing paganistic and high school aged woman abuser.
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gustus invictus actually have to say so i can understand what their appeal is because they do have some appeal and what spencer said when he was on the national mall when he was kicking off the unite the right extravaganza i think this was in june is that we're anti-war we are against globalization we are against you know the censorship of silicon valley of divergent opinions and i think all three of us here against that too you know richard spencer said but those aren't the truly transgressive things that are the that that really define you that's not what it's about it is about identity and our identity has to be centered on whiteness which means that what he's doing is he's taking the possibility of collaboration across political lines against empire challenging the roots of this crisis that we're facing now and diverting it into a far right racist movement that actually lets the elites off the hook and blames the victims of their war and could also argue a lot of leftist would argue that it politics too although they're more in
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corporate inclusive but if you had any politics have become a tremendous you know point of contention i mean you can't look back can't challenge the muslim band and not talk about our proxy wars in the middle east you can't do it it's interesting like just how much greater area there is of all of this because it does create these very uncomfortable positions for the a lot of people on a lot of different sides of this and that's why there was i want to ask you you know how culpable are politicians who do found those flames on either side as i mentioned in my headline it's when you're fanning the flames of hate you're telling one side these people's beliefs and opinions are have to be stamped out and we won't tolerate them. i say rather than yell and holler and scream why don't we actually sit down discuss and try to find some kind of way to get people to stop believing something you don't want to believe rather than running a car in november. but you know how it is our political leaders of this board for fanning these flames yeah i mean we're all paying the price for the. of imagination
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and the extreme policy decisions of our elites across the west and i think what the ornery exhibitionist crank john schindler is trying to do is let them off the hook by pointing the finger at russia with very little evidence so we i mentioned before the open carry laws i mentioned the you know efforts to let you know drivers off the hook for plowing into crowds of protesters but why are the protests happening well we haven't had police for form we haven't had mass incarceration reformed yet this all i mean this all goes back to black lives matter before that let's look at globalization shipping jobs off to china what does that do to white men in the rust belt how are they going to respond to that what about the refugee crisis in europe i mean europe identity europa is a far right racist reaction to the refugee crisis why is there a refugee crisis because we destroyed libya we destroyed syria and we destroyed iraq so who destroyed it our elites our national security state and i think we need
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to start looking at the roots of this crisis of identity across the west and where it comes from we're going to go about a minute left i mean i guess the question would be how does the media play a role essentially in fanning precisely this type of extremism that we're talking about even by giving platforms to the to the extremist groups rather than focusing on the real issues that they may be reform what i mean i think they tend to give platforms to the right and not to the left and people rarely hear a left wing critique of the crisis that i described which is a crisis of citizenship and identity and it's the fear of actually challenging wall street of challenging the permanent war state right wingers speak to the idea speak to the crisis of identity in a very palatable way that's comfort that's an inner glow and it's not only comforting to white people who want to hear that their identity is under attack by p.c. thugs and free speech warriors and feminazi it's it's comforting to liberals because they don't have to. in front the failure of liberalism exactly very good because
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it's very easy to kind of get like that i agree completely but it's because it's one of those problems words like it's the easy out rather than confront the problem and i will just kind of put the blame somewhere else put the blame on an easy target for for white nationalists is put the blame whatever else for your liberals it's put the blame on there the white nationalists you know thank you very much marx for coming on to talk it was very complex subject matter always a pleasure thanks for having me. know the american quantum physicist richard feynman once said nobody understands constant mechanics but will try quantum entanglement in a nutshell means that any two objects that have interacted will forever be connected or in tangled albert einstein theorized that this meant that an event occurring in one part of the universe could instantaneously effect
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a whole other event at a distance faster than the speed of light einstein called this super position whether i am particle can ostensibly exist in two places at once his nickname for this phenomenon was called i'm not kidding spooky action across distance and the team with china's quantum experiments at space scale project were successful in sending think written messages using a quantum satellite that creates an in-group sync only available to the two communicating and because of the entanglements and super positioning if anyone even anything tries them bumps into the information stream holding alarms go off and it would be twenty times more efficient than optical fiber lots spooky actions and quantum entanglement open the mind to the possibility that our minds understand more than our eyes will let us believe. and that is our show for today remember everyone so important in this world we are. love the wall i love you i am tight
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rope and i keep on watching those hawks not a great night everybody. oh
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