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ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. greetings and salutations. as the united states braces for the devastation expected from hurricane as it makes landfall in florida this sunday the much maligned federal emergency management agency or. may be running out of money yes according to a senate aide in a new report by bloomberg the pressure is building on our lovely do nothing congress to stop their partisan bickering they are so good at and actually well you know do something
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a spokeswoman for fimo who asked to remain nameless relayed to bloomberg that the most disaster relief fund which pays for the agency's disaster response and recovery activity had just one point zero one billion on hand and of that just by one hundred forty one million was immediately available for response and recovery efforts related to hurricane harvey. thankfully it does appear that both the house and senate are expected to pass just over fifteen billion for disaster relief fund by saturday we hope when it's reported that the muslim urgency coffers will run dry but let's be honest this is rather deplorable and should never ever ever have happened in the first place it's not like hurricane season is some brand new unpredictable problem you know there's a reason it's called a seas in it's because it happens annually every year in fact from june to november it's not a surprise you would think they might plan for that put
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a little money aside but you know we we really shouldn't shouldn't really be surprised by this better last minute the never style of disorganization by our congress and elected officials because after all this is a country that prefers to spend over five hundred billion a year on war death and destruction than our own infrastructure and other departments that actually save lives rather than take them. well let's start watching the hawks. with. the. real thing. at the bottom. like you know i got. this. we. are going to watch the markets i am tired
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and i'm sad but the while it's terrible you know this is a prime example of why i get so angry with our government here in the united states because. we will spend more money blowing up other people around the world then we will saving our own citizens in natural disasters that are predictable that we see coming that we know there is a season for you know we know we're getting worse due to climate change whether you believe it's manmade or not they're still getting worse right now so concerned about it the u.s. military is concerned about all of these things this is where money should have been spent after katrina there should have been no question that you need to earmark this money and you need to make a serious change in how we rescue people how we protect american citizens on i'm here and they have it seems seems obvious seems obvious right but it's not when you look at these numbers that this is where all the talk about budgets and cuts it
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always seems like well we'll get rid of the fat sometimes you're taking things remember before hurricane harvey sort of caused all this massive flooding and destruction in texas the house spending. spending bills homeland security section had eight hundred seventy six million dollars specifically to feed. to their disaster relief i'd say we're going to cut all this and the point of that was. you know put that down payment on the wall that we need oh right i'm not going to stop water your house that brilliant wall to keep people out yes let's let's move some money over that may be used to save people's lives just to keep people wow well i mean thankfully maybe they've learned from this but i doubt it because it seems like hurricane after hurricane the same problems rise up still a disaster in terms of organization i mean they're getting a little bit better but we can all remember brownie you know from the original hurricane katrina disaster there are ones yeah and that great spirit now going by and shoes i mean to me there's no difference i mean where are those c one thirty
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jets where's our you know while we're using our military resources right now down in florida in a massive capacity to help get some of these people out or in houston and texas to help get these people out instead it's our hearts are with you our prayers you are prayers are with you good luck going strong men and women that we have invested in training that we've invested all this money with our tax dollars into all of this equipment where are they that is the biggest question and i mean look we have a defense department have a congress and defense department in the government that would rather give lockheed martin you know almost five billion dollars. in contracts to continue production on an f. thirty five joint strike fighters back in july which may or may not work at the end of the day and it's been a boondoggle since it started i mean this is where the when people ask where do priorities lie you have to look at where money is spent you know is money is what makes sadly the world go round and jala ticks and if money is spent on blowing
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people up rather than saving people then you have to seriously question the moral nature of your country which is what i think we all should be doing right now is these storms continue to ravage and destroy the good citizens of the united states . a very you know i agree completely and the problem is when you look at the numbers i mean if you don't agree with that you might want to rethink some things but the thing that's really disturbing is that. there seems to be this you know myopic on capitol hill about how much money it takes to save people and how much money it takes to fix things after these kinds of natural disasters that we get more and more of that they're getting worse we should know how to handle it by now if we don't the thing with thema is that it bleeds money quickly you really have to have everything it needs to be there on tuesday the fifth of this week the femurs emergency fund the had about one point zero one billion. just put that all into perspective which is less than half of the two point one four billion that they
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actually that was there on the morning of thursday august thirty first well that is a show about five days so we're talking as a spender rate about nine point three million dollars an hour or just about carry of that so you are hundred fifty five thousand dollars a minute that's how much they're spending we should be should be holding every elected official that we have right now speak to the fire and maybe that's the right maybe that's the time to say you know what both parties democrat or republican i don't care you're out of congress we did people that are actually lead and actually seem to actually care about their constituents because i'm really starting to believe they don't and maybe we always knew that all along but. i wonder. as put by ariel writer and academic i own a italia in a recent piece for the magazine quote satire is designed to shock us to jolt us out of our smug complacency and french magazine charlie hebdo looked to shock and their
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recent cover which depicted nazi flags in texas and people drowning as a result of hurricane harvey the text says god exists he drowned all the neo nazis of texas and the reaction has been predictably hypocritical especially from supposedly free speech advocates for congressmen and radio host joe walsh tweeted this quote. french rag charlie hebdo mocks harvey victims as a neo nazi showing the how do i make fun of everyone but muslims cowards. get burned out except for the january twenty fifth terrorist attack against them for an illustration mocking the prophet mohammad you remember the one that left twelve of their staff dead but then this does truly show how. the poverty of those who claim that their political leanings are racist or bigoted if you swede one have both took a satirical swipe at muslim extremists for your turning your nose now your traffic
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and the kind of apocryphally that make satire like charlie hebdo so necessary if only to continue to lay bare the true deception of the politically active they're really only active when the victims look like them good point good point and this is rife with hypocrisy because i'm seeing so many people out there now condemning charlie hebdo which don't look it's an insensitive cover because as they do not all texans are meal nazis and all of the so but that's the point they're satirical they make outlandish things that make everybody like god this is really scary and understand most of these are europeans or illustrators and it's coming from their perspective of the united states so this idea that the entire world should just coddle at our feet never criticize us or never make fun of us is the kind of snowflake a mentality that is shutting down all good dialogue a bit better if they are going to you know make covers like this are there to be controversial or there are good and you know they're going to take slings and arrows and i'm saying you shouldn't criticize them get that if they put out
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a cover that's very sensitive you know mohamud covers and things like that but at the end of the day you can be duplicitous about you have to basically say look if we believe in free speech they have a right to do it however we can also criticize them when they we feel they've gone too far we can't have it both ways we can i say oh no no we really believe in their free speech when it you know criticizes people that we don't like bradley really hey. there are free speech when it criticizes people that we like which means it's about it's it's all about the whiteness it is all about whiteness it comes back to and it's so funny people go why do ours have to do this it's you know when you offend an american it's traitorous you know you know it's glenn greenwald million or so wrote. a really best it was a moral imperative to embrace some celebrate the ideas under attack and to glorify those who are expressing them even to declare themselves to be you know sweet charlie values what you have when they got you know when we were in that tragedy struck their offices before about everybody kind of jumped on the bandwagon but
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again it's like look you got to the first amendment is there to protect popular speech and it's there to protect unpopular speech yes it's in france it's a forum you know magazine all that but the freedom of speech it's there it's terrible sweden are the only ones and if we're going to be the country that says look at how great our rights are we have to let everybody know about it but it's not because you're seeing people like piers morgan ago i was in everybody the same people who stood up and said no it's totally fine for these people to go waving guns around in texas over a cartoon or the fact that some people don't like a cartoon but when it comes down to it and somebody criticize you know and if so you shouldn't be that offended by the idea of neo nazis if you aren't one or if you aren't doing that and this is the thing that was so so hypocritical is that there were countless other terror attacks that one when charlie have to happen and the mainstream media and a lot of people ignore that ok so it's very true and they didn't get jay sweet like everybody else because they were you know when majority white european cosmopolitan
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cities are hit like belgium and paris everybody has no it's not supposed to happen here but at the same time that was happening ten other places literally were bombed that had it had things like this and nobody has a sweep them and there's three of them because there's this is where the boxing offending white people is somehow traitorous an actual word used by people about. that's it the traitorous cover but you know defending oppressed people of color is somehow race right right yeah good point good point and there's a point where it's just like it isn't about that when it but when it's about you and that's when you have to really look in the mirror and i regret that then does this damage my entire ideology my everything else i try to put forward when the basis of my arguments are like joe waltz is just to be that ignorant group which just means you're outraged and you like to yell about it and then catch yourself a great point all right as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what
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you think of the topics with a couple of facebook and twitter see our bulstrode with our team dot com we're also excited to announce that you can now watch. watching the hawks and all of your favorite r t america shows on direct t.v. channel three two one coming up i'm still in talks with journalist and political writer diana johnstone about the targets of u.s. sanctions and then the wall looks at the supposin second amendment crisis taking place in the denial to. all the world. and all the news companies merely players but what kind of part does our n.t. american play r.t. america offers more. in many ways the news lindsay is just like the leader. you could never how we. so much part of the play all the world's
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a stage all the world's a stage all the world and we are definitely a player. called the future we don't know. every the world should experience freedom and you get your role in. the world according to just. welcome to my world come along for the ride. crisis after crisis for years washington has appeared to be rambling into a world war three just waiting to happen from its reliance on the good old strategy
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of regime change and nation building to it the love of using sanctions as the modern incarnation of gun gunboat diplomacy there is no intervention economic or political that the foreign policy goobers on capitol hill do not find a way to love and woe befall those who are unfortunate enough to find themselves in the path of america's sanctions which in today's case happens to be our allies and friends in europe first start getting around that russia that ironic and now once more russia the rounds of sanctions seem to never end and are touted as the most humane alternative to resolving washington's differences with the world's so-called rogue nations but who are the real targets of these putative measures do they really hit our presumed enemies the hardest and who are really stands to gain from them for answers to all this and questions and more sunstone sat down with award winning political writer diana johnstone. will first of all i want to point zero out these. students who believe these sanctions to punish
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russia. and inferno no need to do the punish the allies and did do with words but they're actually loosing actions are probably turning out to be good for russia because they're forcing russia to reinvest realized to develop its own group cloture in order to replaced the the imports who are most in europe that it used to which is very bad for europe because the european i've been told here is suffering because of us said. anxious that russia retaliated by by pulling sanctions on. western cultural goods and there's a result now of russia's is making friends. and so on and so on so actually
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least these sanctions are completely insane because they don't hurt russia but they do hurt the allies or maybe they're not the same because maybe somewhere or other the purpose is to use these sanctions which they do blackmail for their european allies who are also trade partners and so these sanctions are used by the united states for instance. to to. they say they sanction and the investment or in the north stream gas pipeline it's a new one of other but gas pipeline for natural gas from russia and but then the right the united states says well we'll sell you frack. from the united states which is much more expensive so this looks like very much in
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the jerk there german business people have said that this looks like using the saying sions for unfair competition in order to to to push out a good rival russian gas is cheaper and abundant and regular in supply whereas the facking gas is more expensive than that so certain and so on but but yet the united states uses sanctions. for its trade advantages at the same time always doing it with a great look of moral. virtue we're doing this for the good thing we're doing this against terrorism against russia because they did bad things in ukraine and so it's always this moral posturing they can say no i don't think anybody believes that the united states but that's that's what's happening absolutely and so in terms of how these sanctions. seem to also be as you mention directed against unfair and
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fair very unfair advantage regards to european banking you've talked about how for example deutsche bank was hit with hundreds of millions of dollars of penalties certainly french banks as well been hit with these kind of penalties and and fines and now it can only escalate because of the idea that basically these these banks are no longer able to underwrite and finance even deals relating to russia bringing its own oil and natural gas to europe and so this is really going to disrupt the basic the overall energy patterns of eurasia because russia is such a prominent provider and supplier of energy to western europe well the russians will find this with their natural gas in asia it's europe that's being deprived of this and also you see a lot of companies would like to do business. when they run a business and especially but not only i mean exports again of things and so on and
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the the trick of the u.s. sanctions and this is the big case with the french bank and paper which is the biggest friend today and it was behind nearly i think nine billion dollars nine billion. what for for doing things that were perfectly legal for friends for having been trading with cuba and a couple of other. countries that the us the nation and the friends france didn't say the un didn't sanction them it just the u.s. sanctions them so her. man pay had to pay the huge fine for doing something perfectly legal by international law and by french law because the us had sanctions against those countries and. and because everything all international trade patently goes in dollars the dollars come back through the u.s.
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bank somehow or other and that makes puts friends under u.s. law i mean this is crazy but this is the way it works and the banks put up with this although they're not happy because the acts hanging over their head is if you don't pay up we won't allow you to use. the u.s. banking system which means the dollar is because the dollar is so powerful as an international currency even though the united states is heavily in debt because they have the dollar they can force western banks to do pretty much what they want. in many towns and cities across the united states of america often in schools and other buildings considered to be the heart of their communities you will more than likely find these signs and entrances to those ominous dusty rusty old
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ubiquitous reminders of nuclear fears and cold war conserves i'm talking about fallout shelters with many built back in the days of the old duck and cover thousands remain scattered throughout new york city and now as tensions rise once again between the u.s. and other nuclear powers like north korea and russia trinity chavez takes an in-depth look at these shelters from a bygone era. there are thousands of fallout shelters scattered throughout new york city as you can tell by this map behind me there are even more. couple shelters on some streets now with tensions rising between north korea and the u.s. many are questioning if they are still active so we took to the streets to find out for ourselves originally created in the benign hundreds in the wake of the cold war these underground bases were created to protect people from the nuclear fallout thousands of them were built in new york city after governor nelson rockefeller called for a massive shelter program in the one nine hundred sixty s. a quip with survival kits that had food and medicine in them the fallout shelters
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were built in schools churches office and apartment buildings some were even built in high profile places like the waldorf astoria and grand central terminal there was even a shelter discovered in the brooklyn bridge in two thousand and six at one time new york city had over seventeen thousand active shelters but we've found the shelters that were once constructed to protect blast survivors from nuclear fallout are now inactive they've been turned into storage or laundry rooms eliot calhoun from the new york city emergency management offices the agency that sponsored the fallout shelter program so the shelters haven't been active in decades so most folks when they think about a nuclear explosion or something without think about where they need to go shelter in the first that pops in their mind are the fault of the fallout shelter science there you see it sprinkled across many buildings or around new york city that programmers and some cited and i was really focused more on the cold war threat while some building owners and landlords have removed the black and yellow fallout
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shelter signs thousands still linger throughout the city meanwhile in the case of a nuclear attack experts say that it's safer to do a shelter in place instead of evacuate the best thing you can do is to go to go to the center of the building your r.v. and or the basement putting as many walls between you and the outside which is where the dangerous material redirect of material or fallout may settle. and by doing so you can protect yourself to the greatest extent if you go outside and you may unknowingly enter an area that is very hazardous so the best thing you can do is. to the basement the protective structure of your basement will be no different than a protective factor of many of the shelters that are pre doesn't have the shelters for. office so the defense office program the fallout shelter signs are all that remain of the government's widespread effort to protect millions from a nuclear fallout but whether the underground basements would actually save lives remains a historical debate reporting in new york turn if the charges are to. colonization
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is always destructive so is the process of colonization winds down either too fast or too slow in the u.s. virgin islands is the perfect example of what happens when you kick the decolonization process down the road so the un special committee on the colonization was established in one nine hundred sixty one in order to help non-self governing territories like the u.s. virgin islands to throw off the shackles and become self-governing and yet the un just this december again expressed concern that quote fifty six years after the adoption of the declaration on the granting of independence to colony colonial countries and peoples there still remain non self-governing territories including the united states' virgin islands the last constitution they presented was rejected by the us congress in two thousand and ten now while the u.s. virgin islands is in the midst of one of the worst natural disasters of its known as story the n.r.a. is condemning the u.s. virgin island firearm confiscation plan as a move that violates the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens using the
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two thousand and six law signed by then president george w. bush prohibiting the confiscation of guns from law abiding citizen during states of emergency. were the outrage is a tad misguided if you truly do believe in the concept of liberty and justice for all the u.s. virgin islands governor did not murder the compensation of law abiding citizens firearms in fact he doesn't actually have the power to do that either by virgin islands law or the us constitution it was simply a standing order that u.s. virgin islands governors. give during natural disasters that empowers the government to spend government resources on land weaponry and munition or other supplies from stores and authorized dealers may be required by military forces to ensure the safety of citizens but hey that won't stop certain media and special interest groups like the n.r.a. from your ideas government shouldn't be dictating what virgin islanders do with their guns or anything else in the first place. no it should not look at the end of
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the day like we don't have. people ringing outrage bells over stuff that's that's truly nothing i mean like you were telling me earlier all it did was say hey look if we need to spend money and get on with trout you want to show everybody yeah it's the same as if we you know it's this idea where you're building a wall they're saying taking people's lands and acquiring land they want to pay them for it that's it that's all it was but if somebody read the whole thing instead of obsessing and that's the problem you're obsessing while these people and everybody's looking for something to say about the u.s. virgin islands the truth is they can't vote they have no represent the representation in congress but we're expecting them to just do everything we say oh why do we still have colonial terrorists we're out some goes this is twenty seventeen i think i'm a little bit beyond that at this point i love liberty in their own state or give them their own kind of whatever it immerses addition to their lives and to no one should be held under our laws with no representation in congress period that includes or already out of there so for you today and remember everyone in this
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world we're not told we love slid to the wall i love you tyrrell but to get down on top of i keep on watching those hawks and have a great very different body. the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate. a lot of boys that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm a troll on r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroad you'll get the straight talk in the break. what.
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donald trump elbows g.o.p. leaders out of the way an exception agreement with the democrats on tying hurricane harvey relief to raising the debt ceiling and funding the government how does this affect the republican leader's plans moving forward we'll take a look on this edition of. politicking on larry king on wednesday president donald trump overruled g.o.p. leaders even his own treasury secretary to reach agreement with democrats on funding the u.s. government and raising its debt ceiling all in apparent effort to get much needed recovery money on his way to those affected by hurricane harvey the three month deal on funding now heads off a government shutdown until sometime in december when.
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