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the iraqi army just entered her cook to take control of the oil rich city has long been the focal point of kurdish iraqi tensions thousands of kurds and her could have voted to break away from iraq to form a kurdish state a few weeks ago experts fear a territorial disputes like this can lead to more instability and possibly even civil war between the kurds and the iraqi government both of whom are u.s. supported our life joining me now and to continue this discussion is former pentagon official michael maloof thank you so much for joining us today maestro now can you first tell us why this is a big deal it's a big deal because it could bring in total instability into iraq and in a country that's already teetering on instability and and you have warring factions within the country which could take advantage of that and actually move into areas such and such as the resurgence of isis for example and it could create new.

pockets of resistance and it will be nothing but headaches for the for the baghdad government as a consequence and it will it will mean that the united states which is trying to stabilize that country is going to have more problems on its hands alternately prime minister i gather bodies than a statement that this operation incur cook was unnecessary what do you say to that it yes in terms from the baghdad government point of view it was unconstitutional in terms of declaring independence absolutely against their constitution number one but number two it tears up the country apart to its tantamount to partitioning of the country and that's the one thing the central government does not want to happen and once again it will bring in other foreign interests into that area such as the israelis the turks and who are already. biding their time in order to cast their own influence in those regions of the kurds reacting to this the kurds are not

taking it very well there has been gunfights of course i'm hearing latest reports of over hundreds on either side having been killed. this is just to secure kirkuk and the oil fields the oil fields was really really important to the baghdad government the kurds kurdish government up in erbil was siphoning off the oil and so on a directly outside particularly to the turks and to the israelis and the baghdad government wasn't making any money so consequently that was one of the things they wanted to receive cure and the parent may have the question then is in order to ensure that the country remains whole and doesn't partition are they going to be moving up north into or below in those areas in order to have an iraqi army presence that's going to create even greater difficulties you know what to do or what do you think will happen as a result of the instability in northern iraq. it's it's going to create even

greater tensions. particularly within the country and outside the country with all the other. outside countries that have interests in iraq iran is going to be very interested in what happens iran has a major influence the russians have an influence the united states has an interest in saudi arabia has an interest in it because of the sudanese and israel does to israel is the only country that really supported the referendum for independence from the kurds why is that they they have they want to have their own deal they they actually receive kurdish oil and because of their alliance now with the with the saudis i think that this might be something that's playing into that alliance in which the saudis themselves like to have instability in a country that's run by the shia as opposed to the sudanese and so they're looking out for sunni dominance to resurrect that once again and inside of iraq i want to shift the focus now to the u.s. the u.s. has trained an armed iraq units and its allies with kurdish groups so what concerns

the u.s. the most as it pertains to you are a conflict between the two groups but it's the instability itself the united states was looking for a position in iraq to maybe use the kurdish area to set up a base but if there's if there is conflict in the region it brings on greater instability in this combined with the existing instability within the iraqi government itself even among the shia so this is this is you're having instability throughout the entire country and it only brings in on tremendous tensions and also it gives the let's say the sudanese and maybe even more to see how the salafist groups an opportunity to take advantage of that instability and to move move back in which is which would be horrendous if anything do you think the u.s. will intervene u.s. is intervening in the. sense of mediating that's what that's their role right now

they're trying to get all sides to talk they're not entering into any conflict we have special forces up there we have them with the kurds and they're also with the iraqi army they are staying out of the fight as they should but i think their role really is to try and mediate a very difficult situation right now going back to the baghdad government what is all this tell you about the government it tells me it's really unstable that it's trying to maintain its formation trying to hold the country together the fact that a body the prime minister took decisive action such as this really puts a damper on any future intentions of whether it's the kurds or any other element. sunni's for example in other tribes to try and carve out iraq and to have and have their own independence and have a partition i think that was the message that was going in there that other groups would see this and if the if the kurds got away with it then you're going to see other groups trying to piggyback on to that approach mary thank you so much michael

that was former pentagon official michael maloof pleasure. more than three hundred people are dead and hundreds more have been seriously injured as somalia's capital suffers its a worst attack to date artie's alcohol of age is in toronto with the latest alex what can you tell us about the attack. well this attacks not only for somalia looking at globally it's one of the worst attacks in recent years anywhere we're talking about three hundred people plus dead three hundred people plus injured happened two trucks were involved the first truck exploded at a busy intersection near a popular that's where most of the casualties occurred and then a second truck exploded nearby and other people all the asli were hurt in that explosion as well we learned that today about seventy people were airlifted to turkey they were in awful condition and turkey is now taking them in and basically to see if they can help these individuals as for hospitals in somalia they're

saying that people be burnt beyond recognition were brought at the hospitals you can hear their families wailing in the hallways that the doctors were just absolutely overwhelmed their eyes closing after having to treat these people day after day obviously they're not staffed as much as they'd like to be so mogadishu we know has been a hot spot for many years and the culprit once again we're blaming al shabaab which is an al qaeda linked organization al-shabaab is one of the most dangerous if not the most dangerous organization in africa and as it stands right now this has happened promise according to them earlier this year that they would do some attacks just like this after the election of donald trump and also the president of somalia his name is mohammed abdul mohammed he is also an american citizen as well as a somali citizen so this is the president. mohamed i should say.

at this point has called three days of mourning people are coming in as much as possible to donate blood but the situation in mogadishu as you can imagine is very dire and it's just it's not the country that socks really college this is such that need is on this any what kind of response can we expect from the somalian government and its allies. well the smaller government it's been rattled the country itself i mean as we know for years has been stable in an attack like this proves to many that mogadishu a city of two million people is simply not safe the government that's there right now cannot keep the people safe we know that other countries have offered to help kenya and ethiopia in particular have offered to send in medical help and the u.n. united states has condemned this attack the united states has been active in somalia they say someplace around five hundred special elite forces have been there trying to help with the the the african united army as well as the somali army in

getting rid of al shabab but as we know these guys are still there and i can tell you look in two thousand and six two thousand and seven this is this is bin al-shabaab territory twenty two thousand troops from the african union and u.s. counterterrorism campaign have been around there and we're looking at four thousand two hundred eighty one deaths at the hands of al shabaab in two thousand and sixteen so obviously this is one dangerous organization right now we do not know how the u.s. is going to respond there was talk in the past of sending more troops to somalia and this would definitely be a reason to pump up the presence of u.s. troops there if there ever was one thanks so much alex for this report that is out of knowledge reporting in toronto thank you you thank. the war of words continues between top officials and the trump administration the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley appeared on meet the press sunday's saying even if iran deal is

decertified congress will likely devise a more appropriate plan the conversation then turned to north korea he likened to escalating tensions between each nation and the united states when you look at the fact that twenty five years of botched agreements and negotiations and accountability not kept by north korea that's the whole situation that got us to where we're having to watch day by day to see if they do an i.c.b.m. test going forward what we're saying now with iran as don't let it become the next north korea and the meantime on c.n.n. state of the union address sunday's akrotiri of state rex tillerson encourage diplomacy while calling on the international community to keep pressure directed at north korea i think in north korea we have to be unified the international community clothing north korea's previously closest allies now along with. this comes after trying reportedly told tillerson to quote save his energy will do what

has to be done amid heightened tensions on the korean peninsula la south korea and the united states kicked off a massive ten day long joint military drills in the region today according to north korea's official state news agency the drills are quote pushing the situation to the brink of war. coming up on our t.v. did microsoft collect data from your personal computer legal analyst lionel joins us after the break you don't want to miss that. remark when he said it's easier to fool people than to rinse them they've been fooled that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed feed the news feed for by corporate interests beat you down until. so you leave there fairly. well here's a story for you it's called big and it's bad fiction.

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to express it. was something i wanted. to do i believe this is what the full story of the people that. i'm interested in the why. should. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that are critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create

change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business 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 for. microsoft has come under fire from a dutch privacy watched og that alleges they collected consumer data from personal computers using its windows ten package legal and media analyst line of why no media joins me now to discuss this further why no does this surprise you at all.

not in the least and what surprises me even more is how we are not surprised in the least aren't you actually becoming more and more used to this don't you find yourself saying wow what are you going to do you get to browse mean after all actually it's not it's not ours and i mean when you go online you kind of give up your privacy of me don't you kind of sort of think that i'm a pig that yeah and that's that's what scares me because it shouldn't be like that let me ask you a question let's assume you're driving in your new car and unbeknownst to you your car provides g.p.s. information as to where you go how many bars you go to how many restaurants you go to what part of town you go to how many people are in your car how fast you drive how often you drive how late do you drive and then it takes that information and it feeds it to your insurance company or insurance companies or the police or

retailers and all of a sudden you're getting information in the mail because now your whereabouts let me go a step further it records what you say do you have an on star kind of thing do you have these neat devices where you talk to your dashboard or you talk it is voice activated you think that's terrific well believe it or not your p.c. your mac your unit is listening to what you're saying have you forgotten and add all of a sudden for something you were just talking about somebody dies somebody in your family god forbid passes away and next thing you know there's a funeral plots and burial plots is like how did it know we were talking about this how would you feel if your car instead of your browser provided this information see that's what scares me actually it's our data we're data and just because we

use these devices just be. because we sign off on things and don't read the fine print does it mean that everything that we do everything that we read everyone that we're with that this is knowledge for everybody i never consented to that just because i want to go to google maps doesn't want to me i want people to listen to what i'm saying in the privacy of my own home sounds a little scary lionel thanks for pointing that out now what do you think it would do to you that any you do tech giants oaken seamers. well one thing that has to be done is they have to be more transparent now you know when everybody knows that i can bury in the fine print of contracts even though laws says that certain contracts have to have a certain font size or for a certain print they have to know that they cannot hide behind this idea that well actually signed up for t.o.s. are terms of service that term to conditions of this that's number one but what is the most important thing that we as

a society can do is what we're doing right now and letting people question more but also no more i want and we won i hope the consumer and the individual specifically and also especially the millennialist who have never who were born into captivity who don't know who are privacy means you don't know who never live without surveillance to understand that they can say something and once we as a consumer say we don't like these brothers hey microsoft or or macro whatever to stop this we're going to go elsewhere and to let the other people say guess what actually we have a brand new browser a brand new system that doesn't track you or we're going to be very upfront with how you can disengage and decide nabl the ability for us to track you just because you're using a browser just because you purchased something does not mean you're giving up your privacy does not mean that you're giving everything about you up to this cloud we

never signed on to that line or a little short on time now if companies like microsoft other companies are collecting per pertinent data on us citizens i'm curious to know who exactly owns this data. that's the million dollar question and the answer unfortunately is they do because what we've done by virtue of purchasing this we've unfortunately tacitly consented to it because they're out there argument is that nobody forced you to buy this you don't have to use microsoft you don't have to have this computer you don't have to do this there's a certain degree of privacy that one gives up i mean when you have a phone you know that people might be able to hear you if you're on the old wireless somebody could hear you me things can go wrong just because so if you don't want this if you don't want your wish this don't use it well that argument doesn't apply anymore because with the genius that these people employ to day to day basis they can certainly use that genius to me that they can ensure our privacy

and our safe being part of our self we're going to have to leave it right there lionel thank you so much for your and say you know why no media thinks again thank you. but you have maybe have commissioned the latest virginia attack submarine the us south dakota was officially unveiled on saturday at a shipyard in connecticut. has this report the navy's newest and most advanced nuclear attack submarine made its debut at the electric boat shipyard in growth in connecticut marking the seventeenth virginia class a marine commissioned by the u.s. navy dignitaries from connecticut rhode island and south dakota gathered at the electric boat shipyard where the state of the art vessel was christened by see the ship sponsor as well as the wife of general martin dempsey the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. the construction of the u.s.s. south dakota also known as as ascend seven ninety began back in two thousand and

thirteen and her kill was laid in april twenty sixth meanwhile the submarine is expected to be commissioned for service in the second half of twenty eighteen virginia class summaries which cost over two point six billion dollars per unit are built to operate in shallow and open ocean waters conduct anti-submarine and anti surface ship warfare support special operations collect intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance and lay mines and as us and seven ninety which will be home to a crew of around one hundred thirty people is only the latest addition to the navy's submarine fleet was on october seventh the navy commissioned the u.s.s. washington seven eighty seven as its fourteenth virginia class fast attack summary just six more virginia class ships are under construction by a lecture boat as a part of a contract for twenty eight ships shared with construction partner newport news shipbuilding the south dakota was the seventeenth virginia class ship to be completed electric boat is also beginning to prepare for its next may be contract

a five point one billion dollar award to design and build the lead summary in the new columbia class a ship that will be nearly three times bigger than the south dakota which can displace about seven thousand seven hundred tons of water reporting a new york turn of each other as r.t. . boom bust is coming up next here on r t america ellen de france joins us for a quick preview either lindsey a opec nations are having some trouble getting in line with agreed upon cuts in oil production and blog change technology is getting a boost from big banks also it's thirty years since the crash of one thousand nine hundred eighty seven we'll take a look back at how that happened and if it could ever happen again in the same way that's coming right up sounds like a great show thanks. all that does of are now for more on the stories we cover to go to youtube dot com slash r t america also check out our website our two dot com forward slash america you can also follow me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t and don't forget to question more.

all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of partners are n.t. america play r.t. america much more america first. many ways use landscape just like you really use big city actors bad actors. you could never hear all. of the park in the world the state of the world all the world's a stage or do you. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests that's drowned out a lot of noise that's how it is in the new culture in this country now that's where

i come in. i'm it still on r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroad you'll get the straight talk in the break. mark twain said it's easier to fool people than to complaints them they've been fooled that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed the fake news feed for by corporate interests they beat you down until you believe their fairy tales well here's a story for you it's called big and it's full of bad fiction. people who got to know whether or not their present or supreme people deserve to know at this point does it mean mr guard against the military industrial.

we shall never want to go. or should know that. we do what we. think. future. there. facebook recently experienced a pretty big outage that affected a lot of places including bothell washington and apparently people were so freaked out without their steady supply of memes and egotistical ramblings of people they know because they called nine one one the bottle police tweeted we will move mountains to help those in our community however we can't fix facebook so please don't call nine one one to let us know it's down so people were actually supposedly

calling nine one one to tell the police that facebook was down this is how much of an emergency they thought it was this is how addicted people are to the digital detritus of social media experts have been warning for awhile that social media is addicting for lots of different reasons they've actually studied the human brain on social media and found that it adds a lot like a brain and anything else you can get addicted to researchers have actually found a surge in dope meet when people use social media dopamine has been called the pleasure chemical in the past but scientists know that it also has a chemical that creates want as in the more you have it the more you want it that's what literally going on in people's brains when they're on facebook studies have also shown that when people stop using their favorite social media they go through a kind of withdrawal even though other studies have shown that social media makes us less happy a recent study showed facebook was linked to last moment to moment happiness and life satisfaction the less the person used facebook the more happy and satisfied

they seemed to be and the study ironically said that's because facebook actually makes us feel more lonely even though it's supposed to be a social thing studies have linked facebook to depression jealousy loneliness addictive behavior low self-esteem you name it is. is a bad way to be facebook has made it so and yet everyone is still scrolling through their feeds and lastly hoping to get their next fix even though it almost always makes us feel worst even though it's tearing us apart even though it shows us faults terrible representations of who our friends are and who we are as a species even though it's the exact opposite of being truly social if there's any reason to call nine one one over facebook it's to have it shut down forever. or.

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hey there i'm lindsey francis is the boss broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. coming up oil prices are shaky and domestic conflicts are right among opec nations we take a look at the status of the cuts they agreed upon to boost prices per barrel and the big banks have turned away from block chain technology for quite some time but things could be changing we explore that and it's been three decades since the infamous black monday stock market meltdown could we have another super crash will discuss how markets have more since one thousand nine hundred seventy my guest former u.s. attorney commissioner bart chilton stand by boom bust start right now. boiled

production by the organization of petroleum exporting countries member states and affiliate nations increased again in september it's hit a level that's beyond the limit the group had agreed on in order to push up prices since november of last year the cartel has tried to keep production within thirty two point five million barrels per day well it rose to around eighty eight thousand last month to thirty two point seven five barrels per day on average now libya nigeria and iraq output jumped as all face massive domestic conflicts venezuela's production dropped as its financial crisis unfolds their oil has strengthened in recent weeks with brant crude hitting fifty nine dollars late last month dropping

to around fifty seven and slowly recovering now to around fifty eight in the meantime b.p. midstream is pushing forward with an initial. offering its a unit of b.p.'s u.s. pipeline unit expects to sell forty two point five million shares and then raise up to eight hundred ninety three million dollars in its i.p.o. on the new york stock exchange under the symbol b.p. m.p. according to a filing with the u.s. securities and exchange commission shares are slated for a suggested price range of nineteen dollars to twenty one dollars each. and according to the u.k.'s office for national statistics blue book in britain surplus of four hundred sixty nine billion pounds has slid down to a net deficit of twenty two billion pounds investment in the u.k. in the first half of two thousand and sixteen fell from one hundred twenty billion pounds surplus to twenty five billion pound deficit over the same period this year but all puts the u.k.

in a very weak position and that separation talks from the european union on monday u.k. prime minister theresa may met with the leaders as the block is set to decide if there is any point to reviving the latest round of deadlock divorce negotiations leaders of the e.u. is twenty seven member states demands that first a financial settlement between eighty eight million billion dollars and one hundred twenty billion dollars be paid to resolve outstanding commitments that britain has with the e.u. also the rights of e.u. citizens on the status of the border between ireland and northern ireland must be closed out before talk of trade and security can move forward. aggressive demands by the us have changed the tone of north american free trade agreement talks making a possible end to the deal more of a reality even ever some say american negotiators are purposefully sabotaging the

longstanding agreement between canada mexico and the u.s. but others say it fits perfectly with president trump style of quote unquote negotiating our tease out some highlights joins us with more from toronto alex u.s. negotiators have dropped some bombs and have to talks you and i both know which in the best case scenario will drag the process out further what's the latest. it was the fourth round of negotiations and what the u.s. says done is brought out a plate of things that are palatable to canada and mexico so here's a short list of some of the ideas the us has been throwed out some that nafta demands first of all the sunset clause and sunset clause could end after five years the other countries don't really like that idea but the us say we need this bill to the nafta two point zero agreement second is that in mechanism now this is the big one for canada it's really sort of stood behind this idea it's chapter nineteen of nafta that's really were most of the information is on this basically it provides

an alternative to judicial review by domestic courts and what it does is it creates an independent by national panel to resolve cases such as dumping or duty case and stuff like that so this panel has been something canada has been very very passionate about and really wants to see and remain within nafta if we do more move forward with nafta then number three is just a different industry such as dairy and textiles and automobile parts automobiles parts of something we've talked about over and over again it's this buy america thing from donald trump you want space of the sea fifty percent of all parts in cars built in north america come from the u.s. that would completely it just screw up the whole supply chain that we have from mexico to canada to the u.s. parts cross the borders every single day and that's the way we build cars as it stands for the industry has been up in arms over this idea and in the states as well so a lot of american businesses are saying that this is just not

a good thing and that donald trump has to step back now ask for donald trump i mean this isn't the first time we've seen him do this with any type of agreements let's say we know with the rand deal we know what he was talking about when it comes to health care we know that with the whole building the wall and with immigrants in the states it seems to be this policy of let's destroy the. and then rebuild from here and this is a idea that many people are saying that trump might be looking in to put pushing in that clause which would shut down nafta given about six months left of life but someplace in there he want to read they go shoot a new nafta mexico has said no way if he says no to nafta we are not renegotiating with that six month period so bottom line is right now the whole idea that before christmas that we could have a new nafta agreement well that looks like it's right out the window and when it comes to canada well canada is kind of sitting back and thinking we have a lot of bilateral agreements with the states with nafta goes well we're not really

thrown out the window so if this happens some are saying canada's ready to throw mexico right under that bus well they're obvious in options i mean the u.s. congress leaving out but it seems the brits might be interested what's going on across the pond. plan b. for the brits that everything falls apart the way it's working they're looking at nab now this is actually come from the from the telegraph the london telegraph which is close to the conservative party saying these talks are actually really happening that's what a lot of of the politicians there are saying that nafta looks like it might be a good way for the brits to go but if there is no nafta what could the brits do so there's all this speculation up in the air why not join canada tighter agreement with canada to the point where the brits would almost become canadian and then they could join the we would see it as a comfort of economic trade agreement that canada has with europe which is a tight agreement and the brits could leave and then kind of loop around the back door if they wanted to that would be a little bit ridiculous but there's all kinds of ideas out there right now almost

canadian and i wish many people have around the world thank you very much for your insight on this alex and highlights from toronto thank you. sales of i information medication this earned drug manufacturer and one point four billion dollars last year recently eyebrows were raised when it transferred the patent to st regis mohawk tribe in upstate new york it took advantage of an american tribal sovereignty law to protect its patent and prevent generic makers of the restasis drug from getting approved for sale while now a texas district court judge has ruled against allegations actions in trying to extend its patent stating it's not entitled to renewed patent rights might happen tonio the host of america's lawyer joined me earlier to explain the sovereignty issue. well here's what happens drug companies get to hold the patent for ten years before they lose their monopoly and then cheaper generic versions and get to enter

the market they tell us most of the time that they need those ten years to recoup the costs of research and development that's a total lie most drug makers make all their money back within about two years seventy five percent of the costs are actually just marketing because the big pharma wants this pay they want to charge these ridiculous amounts of money for prescriptions and they want to say well gee whiz this is all about research and development it's not it's about marketing it's about the idea in two years they've got all their money back and most of the people to understand government pays for most of the research drug companies spend close to seven billion dollars a year on stock buyouts to make their shareholders even wealthier and they do that lindsay during a time when the federal government this is this is where i really ought to make angry federal government funds close to fifty percent of all the research and development that a company like allegan has to pay and let's talk about this patent troll issue that

our going claims what do you think of the generic makers moving in on a name brand name brand territory and having sometimes a shorter f.d.a. approval period or government approval period for this patent allegan says it's a troll issue they say it's this this deal is a sophisticated opportunity to strengthen the defensive as our of our for status intellectual property what do you think of this argument yeah yeah well look this is nonsense allard again is scamming the system again it's just the latest in a long line of schemes hatched by drug companies in order to prevent generic drugs from entering the market in the past they've tried things like tweaking their formula a little bit in order to claim a new patent but this move giving the path to a group with sovereign immunity is a whole new level of disgusting let's not forget this is what you have to understand trends follow. companies let's not forget that allegan has a history of manipulation earlier this year the company settled the whistleblower lawsuit for thirteen million dollars after doctors came forward and clearly showed

that the company was actually involved in kickbacks to doctors for prescribing their medication the drug that they're now trying to hand over to native tribes to protected their. look i got to tell you some of had thirty five years going to war with companies like allergy and these are the folks that park their money offshore so they don't have to pay taxes they get the government to pay for the research and development they have all types of scams where they run they go to universities they have to have professors write phoneys up literature form look this is a drug company lindsey that pulls in about one point five billion dollars a year and they're going to give the native group that they're talking about about fifteen million percent yup is long is long as they don't lose the patent right well you know people i talk to. in tribal law say that this is a classic case of what is commonly referred to as rent a tribe you go you find

a sovereign tribe and you basically pay them to hold on to your business for you and it could actually put into danger tribal sovereignty if this is a controlled within the tribe and now we've got lawmakers saying we want to close this loophole how dangerous is this for tribal sovereignty in our country. well it's a terror it's terrible look drug companies understand for example the financial problems that plague native tribes all over the country so they're using that to manipulate those tribes native americans have been nearly completely left out of any kind of economic recovery in the last few years so this company's taken advantage of that their native tribes you have an employment levels nearly double that of the overall population they have a high ever higher poverty rate they lag behind in education more than one in four native people live in total poverty their labor force participation is about somewhere i think around sixty percent the lowest of all race and race groups nearly eighty percent of native americans have no access to clean water or basic

sanitation so here that's where al again says oh wow we have an area of total despair let us now take advantage of the area of total despair lynsey it's the same thing that we see these companies doing with opioids let's go to parts of the country where there's total despair where they have nothing to gain and so the opiate industry is in there for that reason this company is in there simply because they can take advantage of all the misfortune that these tribes are facing and you're right it does create a problem to where the next allude to their sovereignty to say we're an entity our reservation is an entity that doesn't have to play by all the federal rules because we have our own tribal law that is it risk this company doesn't care about that all they care about is making more money that's the ugly part of a story like this this company has a history of that and they'll continue that history until somebody really slaps them down somebody has got to slap this company down for what they're doing here

well the mosque claim it's not diversifying their income as you pointed out at between fourteen to fifteen million dollars a pound three thousand i considering what the drug companies make on rest face that's just one drug that allegan has. do you feel like it would behoove the mohawks and tribes like the hawks to. regulate this from within because it seems dangerous that especially hawks on the hill who want to eat in on tribal sovereignty to find this is the perfect excuse of taking that away from eating at it. well right now for example there's a case going on where we're claiming that the indian tribes have their own law to be able to go after the distributors of opioids ok because they ought to be able to sue them under their schematics of laws not the feds right the feds are always trying to take away from the reservation take away from that right and so that's

what we see here is that conflict on who would know better than you thank you so much for weighing in on this for us mike papantonio the host of america's lawyer thank you. time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return big banks may have successfully ignored block change technology but the tide is turning and it's thirty years since the infamous black monday stock market meltdown could we have another super crash discuss how markets have morphed since nine hundred eighty seven my guess as we go to break here are the numbers the closing bell. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories there are critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create

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straight talk in the straight through. the truthful. computer science researchers at catholic university of love in belgium have discovered serious weaknesses in w.p.a. too it's what protects all communication between modern why fight networks so it's eavesdropping time when a person using wi-fi is there anyone using crack to tap into the wife i signals crack is short for key reinstallation attacks crack is used to access information

such as credit card numbers passwords chat messages emails photos basically anything you don't want anyone to see by breaking into w.p.a. too it was previously thought to be encrypted the data can be manipulated and ransomware can be injected using the weakness. for years big banks and firms ignored block chain and its potential but now the mood toward the digital ledger is changing with the major companies hopping on board for she has more on that for us at best it takes several days in order for international transactions to be completed and in a world that's more connected than ever that can get frustrating very quickly one order to fix that american tech giant i.b.m. is looking to the block chain on monday i.b.m. announced a new partnership with block chain start up stellar and payments company quick x.

in a press release a senior vice president of i.b.m. industry platform said with the guidance of some of the world's leading financial institutions i.b.m. is working to explore new ways to make payment networks more efficient and transparent so that banking can happen in real time even in the most remote parts of the world making distributed larger technologies more interoperable is the latest example of i.b.m.'s leadership driving the rapid advancement of change and one of the banks that i.b.m. will be working with to implement the new process is t.d. bank and in the press release the bank's cheap digital and payments officer said we're focused on innovation that adds value for our customers and our business and block chain presents a tremendous opportunity to transform and it has payment systems enabling us to continue to evolve the products and services we can offer and last year i.b.m. introduced the i.b.m. block chain and then in the summer announce

a block in partnership with food companies to improve the food supply chain so the banks latest move is an example of the growing collaboration between the finance world and private firms it also demonstrates how the attitude for the decentralized has changed over time and this goes beyond just payments more normalized it becomes a more likely blocked chain is to impact other areas like identity systems or loan programs. let's talk more about that how could the block chain affect identity protection systems and those those loan programs especially with identity protection seems huge so proponents of blocked train would say that for one it makes loans easier for it makes it easier for companies to apply for to be approved for loans because it would eliminate all the burdensome processes that they have to go through i mean a lot of them are still. parts of the process are still paper based so they're still relying on fax machines for parts of their communication and of course part of the reason that is because of security concerns which kind of goes into the next

part about identity the block chain is encrypted so it offers an extra level of protection that protects not only the company but also their clients from hackers or any other sort of criminal networks that might try in and get your information or your money so there certainly are a lot of attractive features of the block chain it's just a matter of these big companies that for a long time are rolling their eyes at it warming up to them and then scaling it up and if you protect the customers you protect yourself as well great speaking of i.b.m. one of the inventors made some interesting comments about humans and robots for finding that more and more among tech leaders are going to tell us about john mcnamara who's the senior inventor at i.b.m. wrote a submission to the u.k. house of lords saying that humans could become reliant on implanted technology within the next few decades and of course he doesn't represent the rest of the company this is just his thoughts but he had a pretty smart guy and yes he is probably pretty smart and i think what caught

a lot of people's attention was that you know on one hand he said in plant a technology could eventually help us we're pair of bodies if we have a broken bone or maybe damage to our muscles or cells but then he also said it could quote in human cognitive capabilities so could start affecting our brains and perhaps the way we think and process information so i think that's what some people on edge now because you're walking around totally out of it and you've got a chip. in your brand you got a pen and on a device that's just not you thank you so much. well three decades have passed since the dow jones industrial average tumbled more than five hundred points in a single day the black monday crash in one nine hundred eighty seven started in hong kong shifted to europe and then u.s. markets were hit hard joining me to discuss this former u.s. training commissioner bart chilton horrible day for the markets back in nineteen eighty seven hard to believe it's been thirty years there's a lot of uncertainty at that time not just in the markets but obviously around the

world the way it spread how if the markets more sense then is it safe to assume it's better could that ever happen again in that same way it's safe to assume things are better that way you know never say never on on these sorts of market calamities we have seen and i think you know regulators are not particularly great at being nimble or quicker seeing around the corner so don't expect that they're going to step in and try to do something anytime soon to prevent another calamity but bottom line they have changed i mean the fed is very much more involved in monetary policy than they were then it was billions now which trillions with the quantitative easing that they're getting out of that changes our economy it changes markets and we've got a bunch of new players to that are you know in these markets so you know things have changed but i think by and large things are a little bit better ok let me ask you about some specifics that didn't even exist you talked about new players exchange traded funds and yes yeah i mean that's the

way these exchange traded funds are real way for average folks to get exposure to different things that without going ahead and buying it particularly you know in my old area in the commodities i mean it's not like you can invest other than maybe for your dinner in corn but through an e.t.f. you can invest in different commodities oil or gold and it gives you you know the e.t.f. try to keep that exposure so that. mirrors the price futures price and so i think that's a pretty good thing and in the e.t.f. themselves is like stock are also you know different venues for people to invest in so there's more places that people can invest and i think that's a good thing to ok so it's spread out but let's talk about speed we've got these cheat as a high frequency traders and of course algorithmic trading or even touch on a i guess the sara lee yet but but tell us about this so when you go back three decades to the black monday they had some rudimentary algorithmic trading but it

was really you know they didn't want to stop loss i mean it was computerized but it wasn't fast and it was fairly it was a blunt trading tool put it that way but now with the cheetahs with the h f t's they are you know scooping up micro dollars in milliseconds they are in and out of these markets all the time now the good news is that you know there's lots of liquidity i mean somebody is on the other side of those trades even if it's just for less than a second somebody is getting it somebody is hitting that bidder offered so that's a good thing but is speed necessarily good and you know there comes a point where you have to say when we see things in markets do we want things to happen as fast as they can with these cheap is really in control lot of liquidity in markets today that we talk about these massive passives as you call them this group of traders who are they and how do they change the markets with

a massive passives or really a group that came to four in the mid two thousand and they are like pension funds and that they did is they were making so much money and doing really well in the stock market they decided to diversify into the derivatives markets and so they took took large chunks of their portfolio and said you know let's put a little bit in agriculture let's little put a little bit in the energy complex let's put a little bit in the metals complex and instead of getting in and out like. most traders do or what they did back in the day they'd get in and out of markets these massive passenger would take large amounts massive and they would put them there and letting them sit passive and they would do this for years so their bet was for example lindsey they think the price of oil is going to raise in two or three years not next week or anything and that's a safer bet by and large so those kinds of they also add liquidity but they change markets a little bit i was worried you know back when i was at the commission about concentration

but that same seems to ameliorate it was a concentration of too many of them pushing a price one way or another but my former agency seems to have a good a good bead on that and keeping excessive speculation out of the way interesting how much it's changed we've seen other market drops two thousand and ten there was that flash crash. dropped nearly a thousand points poor recovering much of that loss it was huge we're at you we're at two year old commissioner job than what are we likely to see as far as flash crashes or any other black monday or anything like that any time soon two thousand and ten was huge but it just went so fast well back then like i said when you have these changes in the market not that they were the cause of it it was actually algorithmic program just plain that can tank markets in a quick in a quick hurry so we need to watch about those things going forward absolutely thank you so much former u.s. attorney commissioner part shelter. thanks for watching be sure to catch on directv and united states you can catch us on the channel three two one and if you missed

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i'm ashley banks and you're watching our team america we begin today in iraq where the iraqi army just entered her cook to take control of the oil rich city has long been the focal point of kurdish iraq. thousands of kurds and her cook abode it to breakaway from iraq to form a kurdish state a few weeks ago experts fear territorial disputes like this can lead to more instability and possibly even civil war between the kurds and the iraqi government both of whom are u.s. support of our lives i spoke earlier to former pentagon official michael maloof and i asked him why is this a big deal have been warring factions within the country which could take advantage of that and actually move into areas such and such as the resurgence of isis for example and it could create new pockets of resistance and it will be nothing but headaches for the for the baghdad government as a consequence and. it will it will mean that the united states which is trying to

stabilize that country is going to have more problems on its hands alternately prime minister idea than a statement that this operation incur cook was unnecessary what do you say to that it yes in terms of from the baghdad government point of view it was unconstitutional in terms of declaring independence absolutely against their constitution number one but number two it tears up the country a petition it's tantamount to partitioning of the country and that's the one thing the central government does not want to happen and once again it will bring in other foreign interests into that area such as the israelis the turks and who are already. biding their time in order to cast their own influence in those regions how are the kurds reacting to this the kurds are not taking it very well there has been gunfights of course hearing latest reports of over hundreds on either side having been killed. this is just to secure kirkuk and the oil fields the oil fields

was really really important to the baghdad government the kurds kurdish government up in erbil with siphoning off the oil and so on to directly outside particularly to the turks and to the israelis and the baghdad government wasn't making any money so consequently that was one of the things they wanted to re secure and they apparently have the question then is in order to ensure that the country remains whole and doesn't partition are they going to be moving up north into or below in those areas in order to have an iraqi army presence that's going to create even greater difficulties they're going to do what do you think will happen as a result of the instability in northern iraq it's going to create even greater tensions. particularly within the country and outside the country with all the other. outside countries that have interests in iraq iran is going to be very

interested in what happens iran has a major influence the russians have an influence the united states has an interest in saudi arabia has an interest in it because of the sunni's and israel does too israel is the only country that really supported the referendum for independence from the kurds why is that they they they have they want to have their own deal they they actually receive kurdish oil and because of their alliance now with the with the saudis i think that this might be something that's playing into that alliance in which the saudis themselves like to have instability in a country that's run by the shia as opposed to the sudanese and so they're looking out for sunni dominance to resurrect that once again and inside of iraq i want to shift the focus now to the u.s. the u.s. has trained an armed iraq units and its allies with kurdish groups so what concerns the u.s. the most as it pertains to our conflict between the two groups but it's the instability itself the united states was looking for

a position in in iraq to maybe use the kurdish area to set up a base but if there's if there is conflict in the region it brings on greater instability in this combined with the existing instability within the iraqi government itself even among the shia so this is this is you're having instability throughout the entire country and it only brings in on tremendous tensions and also it gives the let's say the sudanese and maybe even more to see how the salafist groups an opportunity to take advantage of that instability and to move move back in which is which would be horrendous if anything do you think the u.s. will intervene u.s. is intervening in the sense of mediating that's what that's their role right now they're trying to get all sides to talk they're not entering into any conflict we have special forces up there we have them with the. kurds and they're also with the iraqi army they are staying out of the fight and as they should but i think their

role really is to try and mediate a very difficult situation right now going back to the baghdad government what is all of this tell you about the government it tells me it's really unstable that it's trying to maintain. its formation trying to hold the country together the fact that a body the prime minister took decisive action such as this really puts a dampener on any future intentions of whether it's the kurds or any other element of sunni's for example in other tribes to try and carve out iraq and have and have their own independence and have a partition i think that was the message that was going in there that other groups would see this and if the if the kurds got away with it then you're going to see other groups trying to piggyback on to that approach all right thank you so much michael that was former pentagon official michael maloof pleasure. more than three hundred people are dead and hundreds more have been seriously injured as somalia's

capital suffers its a worst attack to date artie's alex mahal of isn't toronto with the latest looking at globally is one of the worst attacks in recent years anywhere we're talking about three hundred people plus dead three hundred people plus injured. two trucks were involved the first truck exploded at a busy intersection near a popular well that's where most of the casualties occurred and then a second truck exploded nearby and other people all the asli were hurt in that explosion as well we learned that today about seventy people were airlifted to turkey they were in awful condition and turkey is now taking them in basically to see if they can help these individuals as for hospitals in somalia they're saying that people be burnt beyond recognition were brought to the hospitals you could hear their families wailing in the hallways that the doctors were just absolutely overwhelmed their eyes closing. they're having to treat these people day after day obviously they're not staffed as much as they'd like to be so mogadishu we know

it's been a hot spot for many years and the culprit once again we're blaming al shabab which is an al qaeda linked organization al-shabaab is one of the most dangerous if not the most dangerous organization in africa and as it stands right now this has happened. promise according to them earlier this year that they would do some attacks just like this after the election of donald trump and also the president of somalia his name is mohammed abdul mohammad he is also an american citizen as well as a somali citizen so this is the president. mohamed i should say. at this point he's called three days of mourning people are coming in as much as possible to donate blood but the situation in mogadishu as you can imagine is very dire and it's just it's not the country that socks really college this is such

saddening is this any what kind of response can we expect from the somalian government and its allies. well the smaller government it's been rattled the country itself i mean as we know for years has been stable in an attack like this proves to many that mogadishu a city of two million people is simply not safe the government that's there right now cannot keep the people safe we know that other countries have offered to help kenya and ethiopia in particular have offered to said in medical help and the u.n. united states has condemned this attack the united states has been active in somalia they say someplace around five hundred special elite forces have been there trying to help with the the the african united army as well as the somali army in getting rid of al shabab but as we know these guys are still there and i can tell you they look in two thousand and six two thousand and seven this is this is al-shabaab territory twenty two thousand troops from the african union and u.s.

counterterrorism campaign have been around there and we're looking at four thousand two hundred eighty one deaths at the hands of al shabaab in two thousand and sixteen so obviously this is one dangerous organization right now we do not know how the u.s. is going to respond there was talk in the past of sending more troops to somalia and this would definitely be a reason to pump up the presence of u.s. troops there if there ever was one thanks so much alex for this report that was out for the holidays reporting in toronto thank you thank you the war of words continues between top officials in the trump administration the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley appeared on meet the press sunday saying even if the iran deal is the certifies congress will likely devise a more appropriate plan the conversation then turned to north korea a way compared to ask the lady tensions between each nation and the united states when you look at the fact that twenty five years of botched agreements negotiated

and an accountability not kept by north korea that's the whole. situation that got us to where we're having to watch day by day to see if they do an i.c.b.m. test going forward what we're saying now with iran has don't let it become the next north korea and the meantime on c.n.n. state of the union address sunday secretary of state rex tillerson encouraged diplomacy while calling on the international community to keep pressure directed at north korea i think in north korea we have completely unified international community a clue being north korea's previously closest allies now our ally with us this comes after trump reportedly told tillerson to quote save his energy will do what has to be done amid heightened tensions on the korean peninsula south korea and the united states kicked off massive ten day long joint military drills in the region today according to north korea's official state news agency the drills are quote pushing the situation to the brink of war. some of the same people who supported

the two thousand and three invasion of iraq based off the weapons of mass destruction premise are some of the same people who are seen rallying behind us certifying the iran nuclear deal experts argue the two thousand and three invasion of iraq and the unknowing of the iran nuclear deal have the same end goal for the u.s. to ultimately invoke regime change in iran and other nations in the region that are resistant to u.s. israeli relations joining me now to discuss this further as an investigative journalist and author max blumenthal thanks so much for joining us mark good to be with you here now many of trans advisers are leading him to go for the iran nuclear deal however we've seen time and time again where trump is saying he wants to decertify this deal so who is he being influenced by great question i mean you have you have two different factions one inside the administration mostly which is in favor of the deal we're talking about rex tillerson the secretary of state

a charming master who is someone you would consider and tear on top national security advisor the same with jim madison defense secretary very anti iran but they want to stay in the iran deal because they understand that getting out will empower the hard liners in iran and make diplomacy even more difficult for the u.s. who is trump listening to hear he's listening to primarily three billionaires sheldon adelson bernard marcus and paul singer all of whom are extremely close to the likud big government of benjamin netanyahu in israel pro israel hard liners who have donated over forty million dollars to support trump's super pacs as well as people in congress who are influencing trump heavily on getting out of the iran deal like senator tom cotton who has said that the goal should be regime change in iran something that couldn't happen without a war that might kill hundreds of thousands and one figure they've influenced inside the trump administration probably the biggest hard liner on this who

politico reported had. and story even basically written was the author of trump's new iran policy is the u.n. ambassador nikki haley now thanks for mentioning her political report it that nikki haley was the key force behind trans the ron paul a c do you agree with that assessment well you know to call nikki haley the author of anything requires some examination because she herself is authored by neocons she has no foreign policy experience i've called her the pancake lady before because her foreign policy experience is limited to eating out at the international house of pancakes when she was governor of south carolina so the neo cons of essentially rick rented the space in her brain and sheldon adelson the pro israel billionaire las vegas casino baron that i mentioned before actually donated two hundred fifty thousand dollars straight into nikki haley's campaign coffers last year so the influence on her is enormous from the neoconservatives then you have

john bolton bombs away bolton someone who helped direct negotiations with north korea in the bush administration has pushed for war with iran i actually ran into john bolton at the dulles airport nearby and started a quick conversation with them and said asked him to his face do you support bombing iran and regime change and he said yeah that's the goal he said that freely john bolton was just in las vegas meeting with sheldon adelson and john bolton even while trump's chief of staff john kelly tries to keep him away because he's so extreme has claimed credit for trump's most provocative line about the iran deal that trump will completely know the iran deal if congress refuses to do it. and you keep mentioning sheldon adelson if you don't mind is the law breaking in telling us exactly who is this guy he's a very you know charming character in two thousand and twelve sheldon adelson donated through his collected and a collection of super pacs one hundred million dollars to mitt romney to unseat barack obama with the specific intention of destroying the iran deal that obama was

about to pass that he did this on behalf of benjamin netanyahu who is someone he's supported for over a decade through his foundations and his various think tanks sheldon adelson has said personally in a talk in new york that he favors dropping a nuclear bomb on iran and then you have bernard marcus the pro israel billionaire who made his fortune off home depot who's supporting a constellation of neo conservative organizations like the foundation for the defense of democracies which helped craft trumps iran's speech bernard marcus has said and this is a direct quote iran is the devil so these are figures who are not looking at u.s. policy in any rational way they're putting israel before american interests and even before israel there putting the extreme right wing faction of israeli politics before what many israelis might even want this is an extremely dangerous scenario and you have trump basically going to war with his own advisers over it are going

to leave it right there thank you so much mats for your end sight that was max blumenthal investigative journalist and author. coming up on r t austria makes a mark shift to the right and it's the latest election is this a sign of the new normal in europe we'll bring you the details in just a moment stay with us. guys i made a professional is powerpoint to show you how artsy america fits into the greater media landscape is not all laughter all right but we are a solid alternative to the bullshit liberal or conservative and as you can see from this bar graph we don't skew the facts either talking have left these talking head righties oh there you go above it all to look at world artsy americans in the spotlight now every really have no idea how to classify as and it actually took me way more time than i care to admit people have got to know whether or not a fair presenter supply american people deserve to know your difference at this point does it make must guard against the military industrial war we shall never

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likely to become a make strong so that will stick as meat up the people's party has given no indication what impact will this coalition with he has said that he will talk with everyone all options are open now there are various scenarios of course being played out on the one hand you could have a coalition between the people's party and the social democrats this does seem highly unlikely because this has been due to the kind of state will stay as history and this is largely because these two large parties have been able to charges of espionage and racial incitement against chavez to support them the freedom party to form a coalition with sébastien but what it would be exactly would have a white government now this would be a huge blow to the european union it would also be a strong vote against the book politics but it's it would be also all the same we see happening in europe where more and more voters opposed by.

vivre the full say these are going to be. all over the yard was this that. the now many european leaders have of course already congratulated goods he will become europe's youngest and leader and i think talking to people here on the street it is a state that these election results were predicted they certainly match the polls my thinking behind. well it's always the same. but nothing of a problem with the refugees of course and best of the main reason for their going right your. problems are no problems with. immigration this. service or effort cheese and many paper

a phrase debate about the richie issue was very big was over a percentage into the action campaign. because it's it's some thousands of people and i would say maybe half of talk in election campaign waltz was about the right to things so. yeah but definitely it was something where the right wing politics came to look the same lots of votes. joining me now to continue to kill continue this further or steve malzberg conservative radio talk show host steve thank you so much for joining us now and your opinion why did this happen. well you know the new york times put it best this is the new normal this isn't just some lurch to the right that is a one off this is something that has become a pattern you look at poll and you look at hungary the problem as you heard in those sound bites the main problem is immigration the european union is all about

open borders whether it's for trade or for immigration and kurt's ran a campaign against this kind of immigration against the islamization of his country and also by the way economically and lower taxes but this is something that the e.u. has to come to grips with you know austria views itself as some kind of middle of the road kind of conduit between eastern europe and western europe and if you look at what's going on in the west with germany and france it's all about takeover of their country losing their country and in two thousand and fifteen austria took in almost one hundred thousand refugees in the e.u. relocation program for displaced people and they thought that was enough we've had enough and the e.u. said no it's not enough so they're speaking out and this is the feeling there of the people and unfortunately for the e.u.

they don't get it fever is this a threat to the e.u. . oh yeah i believe it is a threat to the e.u. as i said you look at what's happened in poland look at what's happened in hungary even to an extent look at bragg's it of course in in england i think that the e.u. as to understand that this this open borders policy this immigration forcing immigrants into countries and forcing governments to accept these immigrants without any repercussions those days are over and the people are speaking out and if you look at you get up those totals of the people's party which one is the freedom party which he might form a coalition with and that's fifty eight fifty nine percent of the people of austria so i think this speaks volumes and the european union i mean there are some things they could do but they won't do any of them they're going to have to sit and cooperate and accept what just took place in austria steve did this at all remind you of the twenty five thousand elections here in the u.s.

absolutely why did donald trump run on donald trump ran on america first he ran on closing the borders he ran on stopping the threat of islamic terror and the islamization if you will of the country and when it comes to radical islam anyway absolutely he ran on nationalism and he ran on populist seems that this is exactly what i would say exactly but mostly what we've seen here in austria and what we've seen in the eastern bloc of the european union and this is why donald trump won this is why it hurts one and i think that you're going to see more and more of it taking hold as as we go along we're going to leave it right there that steve malzberg conservative radio talk show host thank you so much thank you. now given a sway lies a south american nation celebrated regional elections this weekend sunday's vote result in the government party taking seventeen of the country's twenty three state governorships versus six for the opposition ministerial as the main opposition

political front refused to recognize results for what they call a surprise when their polls predicted a majority for those who oppose the party and power leaders of the opposition coalition claimed regularities cold for street action and demanded an audit but offer no evidence of fraud the turnout was over sixty one percent immense accusations of relocation of dozens of polling stations on sunday night president nicolas maduro celebrated the latest victory for the political movement named after a late president who go child vets now to the smallest member state in europe motel where investigative journalist daphne want to go easy with kill this monday lazio was driving near her home when a bomb destroyed her car and took her life at this point no group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack maltese prime minister joseph muscat confirmed and condemned on twitter saying quote this is a spiteful attack on

a citizen and freedom of expression i want rest until justice is done the country deserves justice the multis investigative journalists had exposed her island nations links with the panama papers and pointed the finger at muscat and his connections to offshore companies linked to passports and payments from the government of answer but by iran azerbaijan. coming up on our team president donald trump and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell have been butting heads because their relationship be warming up we'll be right back. with mark twain said it's easier to homeschool people than to mince them they've been for bad could be why america is so divided because people have been fed the fake news paid for by corporate interests they beat you down until you see leave their fairy tales well here's

a story it's called big and that's. what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. some want to be. to the right place that's what the. real people are. interested in the why. should. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that are critics can't

tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business. 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. come back president trump held a press conference outside the white house today with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell from had to blast the mcconnell recently for not getting things done as

it pertains to trump's agenda but today it looked as though their relationship had warmed up a bit to talk about all things politics let's bring in ed schultz host of the news with that trolls here on our team america thank you so much for joining us ad now do you see these guys really working together on the president's agenda moving forward well i think mitch mcconnell should realize today that he's been put on notice by the prez the united states i expect you to get this done we get along really really good as long as you get it done so i think the hourglass in a sense has been turned on mitch mcconnell if he can't get it done republicans will get somebody else to get it done so passing tax cuts and getting tax cuts have been done before in washington by the republicans they did it two rounds of tax cuts during the bush years just at the turn of the century so i don't think there's any question that it can be done it should not be a big negotiation the big pole of course is going to be over health care but i do

believe that the members of congress especially the republicans have got to figure out trump sooner or later he's like this big daddy in the room he can whoop it up one day and the next day is going to be hugged just like a big teddy as long as he gets his way i mean that's trump he can repeal on twitter in the next day or the greatest personal world if you will a do a deal with him and so there's been a lot of consternation in the halls of congress about can't figure this guy. now you know what trump seems to be more productive than the members of congress right now i mean if you're keeping score so i think the president came out today defended himself as far as a timeline to getting things done as far as a schedule and he was on offense today and i think the mitch mcconnell should be wise enough to understand that i think he's been pretty much put on notice the president expects him to get this done one thing the president has harped on is does mantling obama step he took with an executive order just last week now one part of that is bringing down the cost of prescription drugs you mentioned that

again today let's take a listen to that. if you go to england you go to various places canada you go to many many countries and the same exact pill from the same company the same box same everything is a tiny fraction of what a course it is that says we are going to get drug prices prescription drug prices way down this is exactly what the democrats have been talking about for years there have been numerous instances where people from the house in the senate on the democratic side have gone to canada to illustrate the disparity in drug pricing that's taken place and how senior citizen in this country are getting gallops by the drug companies trump today. like bernie sanders he came out doggy like a democrat he's going to get a lot of support from the democrats if he really wants to do this i've never heard a republican president talk like this when it comes to real and then the drug companies on how they're gathering the american people tax reform is another thing that the g.o.p. wants to push through when some say they must get a win here now do you think that will happen and if they can get the tax the

corporate tax rate down to twenty percent that will be one of the biggest moves any president's done in decades that would and if they can simplify it the way they claim they're going to simplify it it will be favorable with a lot of americans and that will give i think the president a foot in the door and a good start for re-election and the democrats i think are going to have to really make the case that lowering the corporate tax rate doesn't mean that these companies are going to bring their money back to america and it's not going to go to the dividend it's going to go to the workers it's the wages it's the disparity of wages that is really got a lot of people furious in this country the depression of wages and bring in money back off shore and put it in and investing in companies i guarantee that the workers are going to get it that's of course where unions come in but. the president saying the right things but he's got to deliver and we were

a little short on time ad out there's more noise coming. out of north korea and trump didn't even bring up north korea today does he have a plan to deal with kim jong un he wasn't asked about it either the mainstream media at the press conference never asked him about kim jong un and it's a big story that he says that diplomacy is worth there's no more talking he's calling the president trumps hit me that's basically what kim jong un is saying to the prez the united states we're not going to darken the goes i don't think you're going to hit us so i mean this is just it's just another round another volley but this is this is pretty big we can't talk to them all right thank you so much all of that shelter most of the news with that jill thank you so much after nearly a week of flames continue to burn in northern california surrounding the famous wine country rising went ignite at the fires again saturday forcing hundreds more to flee their homes artie's natasha sweet is in los angeles with the latest natasha . well actually there already is or say that roughly one hundred thousand people are now under evacuation orders as the wildfires in southern california continue to

burn for the eighth straight day now one of the main ingredients for this disaster are the unrelenting whens officials estimate the winds current smokers farmers in mexico some five hundred fifty miles now says motorists had a light passed over california on friday capturing these images where you can see the thick line of smoke coming from santa rosa into the pacific ocean parallel to the northern edge of mexico it was when dream and dream is basically. just started pollution and intensifies. tire fire crews are working around the clock trying to contain these massive wildfires which have burned roughly two hundred fourteen thousand acres that's pretty stunning figure that the fact that we burned almost as much in a week that we burned all year long so it's a it's a fire season in a week resources are stretched pretty thin but the crews are still in good spirits as of the late season fire and this is typically when california severs its most devastating fires. devastating is an understatement for those who witnessed mother

nature's violence with their own eyes feeling the heat from the fire on their own skin then the winds came up the fire was like a fire tsunami it was like a fireball the winds were so fierce so fierce so there's very little time i ran and grabbed our grandson who was staying with us seven years old my wife and our two part dogs thrown in my car and we backed out and as we backed out the house just went up in flames so we're very fortunate to get out. authorities say at least fifty seven hundred homes and businesses have been destroyed and one of the bigger fires in napa and sonoma county was the tops fire it's made some headway this past weekend at thirty six thousand three hundred ninety acres it's now seventy percent contained and even a bigger fire the nuns fire in sonoma county is at forty eight thousand six hundred twenty seven acres and is now at fifty percent containment there redwood a valley fire in mendocino county is now at thirty five thousand eight hundred

acres and is now forty five percent contained so still a lot of work ahead for those fire crews and authorities say that so far at least forty people have been left dead from these fires now a firefighter contract worker he was killed in a crash early this morning he was driving a water tanker truck and there's no down that these wildfires are being called the deadliest and most destructive in california's history ashley and taj thank you so much for that update and as we were reporting in los angeles. here's army sergeant bowe bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion today at fort bragg before an army judge bergdahl defense team argued for his case to be thrown out because bin g.o.p. presidential candidate donald trump called bergdahl a quote and dirty rotten traitor and called for his execution the instructor is now the commander in chief bergdahl is a lawyer saying he couldn't have a fair trial because the military court reports to the president a judge didn't buy the argument and dismissed the defense of motion to drop the

case taliban fighters captured and tortured bergdahl for five years after he walked off of eastern afghanistan army beef back in two thousand and nine president barack obama organized his relief and twenty fourteen. the u.s. navy have commissioned the latest virginia attack submarine the u.s.s. south dakota well than fisher we unveiled on saturday at a shipyard in connecticut. has this report the navy's newest and most of them snootily or attack submarine made its debut at the electric boat shipyard in growth in connecticut marking the seventeenth virginia class a marine commissioned by the u.s. navy dignitaries from connecticut rhode island and south dakota gathered at the electric boat shipyard where the state of the art vessel was christened by c. the ship's sponsor as well as the wife of general martin dempsey the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. the construction of the u.s.s.

south dakota also known as as ascend seven ninety began back in two thousand and thirteen and her kill was laid in april twenty sixth meanwhile the submarine is expected to be commissioned for service in the second half of twenty eighteen virginia class summaries which cost over two point six billion dollars per unit are built to operate in shallow and open ocean waters conduct anti-submarine and anti surface ship warfare support special operations collect intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance and lay mines. and as us and seven ninety which will be home to a crew of around one hundred thirty people is only the latest addition to the navy's submarine fleet on october seventh the navy commissioned the u.s.s. washington seven eighty seven as its fourteenth virginia class fast attack summary just six more virginia class ships are under construction by electric boat as a part of a contract for twenty eight ships shared with construction partner newport news shipbuilding the south dakota was the seventeenth virginia class ship to be

completed electric boat is also beginning to prepare for its next navy contract a five point one billion dollar award to design and build the lead some or even in the new columbia class a ship that will be nearly three times bigger than the south dakota which can displace about seven thousand seven hundred tons of water reporting in new york trinity each others are to twenty nine year old a modern conrad he media have been found guilty of eight federal charges in a two thousand and sixteen bombing and new york city that wounded thirty people while september two pressure cooker bombs were found in new york's chelsea neighborhood where he was convicted on eight charges including using a weapon of mass destruction a bombing in a public place prosecutors say where he was motivated by isis and al qaida acting u.s. attorney june eighth cam so that quote today's a verdict is a victory for new york city a victory for america in its fight against terror and a victory for all who believe in the cause of justice the defense promised to

appeal sentencing is scheduled for january eighteenth. coming up on our t.v. did microsoft live data from your personal computer a legal analyst lionel joins us after the break you don't want to miss that. mark twain said it's easier to wall people than to print them there's something that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed breaking news . and for by corporate interests they beat you down until you believe their fairy tales well here's a story for you it's called big and it's full of bad fiction. what politicians do such as you can. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to express it i'm sure. some want to just.

let you go right to the press this is what the full story of the people that. i'm interested in the was in the. city. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that our critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when

a company in the environmental business 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. them back. has come under fire from a dutch privacy watchdog that alleges a collective consumer data from personal computers using its windows ten package earlier i was joined by legal media analyst lionel of lentil media and i first asked him is this at all surprising. aren't you actually becoming more and more used to this don't you find yourself saying wow what are you going to do you get to browse mean after all actually it's not it's not ours and i mean when you go online

you kind of give up your privacy i mean don't you conscious sort of think that i'm a pig that area and that's that's what scares me because it shouldn't be like that let me ask you a question let's assume you're driving in your new car and unbeknownst to you your car provides g.p.s. information as to where you go how many bars you go to how many restaurants you go to what part of town you go to how many people are in your car how fast you drive how often you drive how late do you drive and then it takes that information and it feeds it to your insurance company or insurance companies or the police or retailers and all of a sudden you're getting information in the mail because now your whereabouts let me go a step further it records what you say do you have an on star kind of thing do you have these neat devices where you talk to your dashboard or you talk in his

voice activated you think that's terrific well believe it or not your p.c. your mac your you wouldn't is listening to what you're saying have you forgotten and add all of a sudden for something you were just talking about somebody dies somebody in your family god forbid passes away the next thing you know there's a funeral plots and burial plots is like how did it know we were talking about this how would you feel if your car instead of your browser provided this information see that's what scares me actually it's our data we're data and just because we use these devices just because we sign off on things and don't read the fine print doesn't mean that everything that we do everything that we read. everyone that we're with that this is knowledge for everybody i never consented to that just because i want to go to google maps doesn't want to me i want people to listen to what i'm saying in the privacy of my own home sounds

a little scary lionel thanks for pointing that out now what do you think that would do that any do tech giants oaken seamers. well one thing that has to be done is they have to be more transparent now you know when you know everybody knows that i can bury in the fine print of contracts even though laws says that certain contracts have to have a certain font size or for a certain print they have to know that they cannot hide behind this idea well actually signed up for t.o.s. are terms of service that turmeric additions of this that's number one but what is the most important thing that we as a society can do is what we're doing right now and letting people question more but also no more i want and we won i hope the consumer and the individual specifically and also especially the millennialist who have never who were born into captivity who don't know who are privacy means you don't know who never live without surveillance to understand that they can say something and once we as

a consumer say we don't like these browsers hey microsoft or or macro ever to stop this we're going to go elsewhere and to let the other people say guess what actually we have a brand new browser a brand new system that doesn't track you or we're going to be very upfront with how you can disengage and decide nabl the ability for us to track you just because you're using a browser just because you purchased something does not mean you giving up your privacy does not mean that you're giving everything about you up to this cloud we never signed on to that line or a little short on time now if companies like microsoft other companies are collecting per pertinent data on us citizens i'm curious to know who exactly owns this data. that's the million dollar question and the answer unfortunately is they do because what we've done by virtue of purchasing this we've unfortunately tacitly

consented to it because they're out there argument is that nobody forced you to buy this you don't have to use microsoft you don't have to have this computer you don't have to do this there's a certain degree of privacy that one gives up i mean when you have a phone you know that people might be able to hear you if you're on the old wireless somebody could hear me things can go wrong just because so if you don't want this if you don't want your wish this don't use it well that argument doesn't apply anymore because with the genius that these people employ to day to day basis they could certainly use the genius to me that they can ensure our privacy and our safety being our self we're going to have to leave it right there lionel thank you so much for your and say with lionel why no media thinks again thank you. for the first time a group of international scientists witness one of the most of violent events in the entire cosmos the collision of two neutron stars that's ground breaking

discovery revealed a surprising insight how our planet may have been created. in this explosion we created some of the heaviest elements in the universe things like lead and platinum and gold and those are some of the things that our planet is made of so we think something like that happened here billions of years ago before the earth was created this by remaining hidden for some time scientists estimate as the like go and virgo detectors are approved upon they may be able to identify a neutron star mergers as many as several times per year however scientists are not the only ones who are able to observe this phenomenon if there's one very close it may be that if you have a backyard telescope you could observe it with your own telescope well the events like this becoming increasingly available for the public to view it can be easy to forget einstein first predicted gravitational waves in more than a century ago these are laboratories that you can't get on earth to make ripples in

space time takes things steve objects that are nearly black holes you know swirling together and so it's just astounding i don't think i could have conceived of the amazing technology that went into verifying something that he thought up one hundred years ago and while tensions continue to ask a lady among nations with different cultures and political ideologies the scuppering prove science can be a unifying force among the international community this is an amazing global effort astronomers all around the world came together to observe the same thing in the sky and no matter their language or culture or background they came to basically the same answer about what this was so that's really the spirit of science and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now in tonight's guest our american actress director producer natalie morales an american housewife star katy mixon here's a snippet of what's to come it's not necessarily stricter gun laws it's just common sense you know maybe if you're on the no fly list you shouldn't be allowed to buy

a gun maybe if you're blind you should be allowed to. you know you have mental problems are you in that yeah i mean it should be if you have to have a license to drive a car you have to pass them tests like cars weren't created to injure people. the could be some villages solution to get anywhere i know we're working hard on it would go to you personally involved well it did the video no it was before that i contacted them before that i you know i if i hear the news i'm a person in this country and in this world and and really what affected me the most was the shooting during the batman movie and i you know movies are what i do movies going to the movies is my is my safe place that's what it's what i enjoy it's what i do for a living and for somebody to come in and make that not feel safe i don't know what to do about it there's not a lot i could do about it and so i contacted them and was like how can i help

because i mean. the only thing that helps me sleep at night is not to feel inactive watching the hoth this coming up next here in our t.j. robin who i joined us for a quick preview hi there ty low a lower right on the tonight's new watching the hawks we reveal some of the new stories you may have missed at all the mainstream noise like the boondoggle of wasted money that was the up thirty five program then we discuss the devastating impact of the california wildfires and finally we present the second part of strong storms passed through an interview with vietnam war whistleblower daniel ellsberg let's take a little sneak peek of that interview right now. south vietnam was a us creation as a country like panama you might say so when people say it wasn't ours to lose in a certain sense it was ours to lose we had created south vietnam as a foreign power that didn't give us a real right to it but it a psychological sense that no president wanted to be accused of having lost south

vietnam any more then presidents in the more recent past wanted to moves panama to real independence so or alaska but say so. that point does not come out in any case i did realize that in sixty nine and that meant to me that all of these three million deaths were unjustified result or result of a man justified us policy and unjustified deliberate homicide meant to me murder. powerful stuff. all right i can't wait to catch the show thanks so much and you. follow that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and check out our website r t dot com slash america you can also follow me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t and don't forget to question mark.

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and you'll get it on the old. according to jewish. world cup i am sure there are. there. facebook recently experienced a pretty big outage that affected a lot of places including buffalo washington and apparently people were so freaked out without their steady supply of memes and egotistical ramblings of people they know because they called nine one one the bottle police tweeted we will move mountains to help those in our community however we can't fix facebook so please don't call nine one one to let us know it's down so people were actually supposedly

calling nine one one to tell the police that facebook was down this is how much of an emergency they thought it was this is how addicted people are to the digital detritus of social media experts have been warning for a while that social media is addicting for lots of different reasons they've actually studied the human brain on social media and found that it adds a lot like a brain and anything else you can get addicted to researchers have actually found a surge in dope meet when people use social media dopamine has been called the pleasure chemical in the past but scientists know that it also has a chemical that creates want as in the more you have it the more you want it that's was literally going on in people's brains when they're on facebook studies have also shown that when people stop using their favorite social media they go through a kind of withdrawal even though other studies have shown that social media makes us less happy a recent study showed facebook was linked to last moment to moment happiness and life satisfaction the less the person used facebook the more happy and satisfied

they seemed to be and the study ironically said that's because facebook actually makes us feel more lonely even though it's supposed to be a social thing studies have linked facebook to depression jealousy loneliness addictive behavior low self-esteem you name it it. is a bad way to be facebook has made it so and yet everyone is still scrolling through their feeds and with glee hoping to get their next fix even though it almost always makes us feel worse even though it's tearing us apart even though it shows us faults terrible representation is of who our friends are and who we are as a species even though it's the exact opposite of being truly social if there's any reason to call nine one one over facebook is to have it shut down forever.

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america so for them to give sophie hope the look of the show's real year mars on the phone to call home the few members of the medical social services say yes but i'm going to put in a little some of what a month. from continental nothing. awful lot me. somethin to watch. on long enough something not set in. a little huddles look ma that's what up to now maybe maybe i'm a bit more left so. i'm going to do just that and you're watching all of.

them. greetings and salutation do you ever wonder watchers why some news stories are given massive newspaper headlines and wall to wall coverage all over the cable news while other stories just as important maybe even more so get pushed to the back of the line to wither and die on the vine of alternative news media these are the questions that we should be asking so today let's look let's take a look at a couple of those stories that deserve more than just a single blurb or headline stories that should not be ignored or allowed to do.