so then when that album was done. shortly there after trump was elected and we were releasing singles and now it was this one of things that happens with people like oh that song pray is about trump well not specific no not specific. but it is the type of thing where you see that with every new movement there's waves of people so occupy happens and waves of people step into the streets and then likewise matter happens and waves of people step into the streets and then you know the climate change that people keep step new people keep entering and you know it's from selection suddenly you have tons of new people that say look old now is the time i need to get active and there's always dynamics that happen when a new group of people step into something and there's been people there many many years before but it's important to find ways not to make enemies of those people but to be inviting and to be welcoming and to to use it to kind of refresh and renew and strengthen the movement. so it's great to see the activists in the

streets and holding the signs but what happens after the streets where we're you know where does the activism go you know after after the protest. yeah i mean i think there is there's a difference between sort of. generating power and then wielding that power and i think. for people who are brand new often there can be some conflict confusion and dissonance and you think well if we start to engage in the political process then we must be selling out or we must be somehow if all you have is a stylistic sort of activism like wait we went from the streets and now we're you know sitting down across from someone who could actually make this policy a reality but we're inside we should be outside we must be traitors really selling out but really if you care about the transformation that you want to see happen you can't be focused on us then you can't be focused on well you know we're now sitting down across from a police officer we're sitting down across from you know an elected official or somebody who works for an oil company that that can't be if you if you say that

that's off limits then you're not actually serious about implementing the change you want to see eventually if what enough people come to this place and there's active popular support for any cause you're going to have the opportunity to wield the power and make the change that you so desperately been fighting for as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and to learn more about today's featured artist check us out on facebook twitter and you tube and see our poll shows that r t v dot com coming up the low doesn't stop as the flobots return to the stage is watching the hawks strikes a chord. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of fonseka documents were examining. all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this thought it was newspaper. and probably other politician which were. other politicians the media were quick to find targets such as the kings of morocco in saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. that had so i have sued so many

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. i am. i am. if those of us who are truly seeking connection can just be curious about somebody else's pay as opposed to denying it. it will go a long way as right now we have very much got in the habit of those debates that we're having i think it's does them a great i think it holds them too high to even call them debates right i think

we're just that they're just roving castigation and but if we can. we can at least. like why are you like you're hurting you're actually hurting so tell me about that. when i used to teach elementary school like a kid came up to me crying the first thing i don't say is i don't say like that doesn't hurt. if i were to do that i would redouble the damage of what that child is feeling and that's what i think we're doing as adults is like right off the bat we're denying the pain and specifically with certain backgrounds and certain groups which is i know you don't have access to pain i think the left does that very well . and i think as a strategy. it's flawed and if some of us can at least be curious i think there's a lot of information if we treat pain as information we're going to learn something as opposed to denying the entire reality of existence of somebody by saying that

they don't have access to it one of the songs on our album rattle the cage is trying to speak to the fact that when we get so caught up in being right and making sure that our narrative is dominant we can become utterly dehumanized so that when you'll have a terrorist attack for example you know you have you have something an act of violence that happens this act of violence happens and all we know is that there's been real people who lost their lives and without knowing anything else you go to social media and the first battle you see is who's narrative does this fit like i guarantee you this is going to be a x. y. z. which will fit my narrative and all of you guys are going to see that you were wrong this whole time and you get permutations of that from every direction and it's really grotesque that we get to the point where we're so excited that we might be proven correct by an act of violence that it's going to fit our narrative that we don't even bother to say whatever just happened this was tragic people lost their lives we just jump straight to this you guys are going to finally understand

i'm right and that's really grotesque. one thing that's exciting for me to think about is what we really mean when we say we. you know in the united states there's a tendency to say well. you know x. y. z. is happening we have to do something and there's it's very easy to say we think that we means you know the military of our of our particular state but there's a different we there's women all over the world who are dealing with patchy arche wherever they are and these women can work in solidarity with one another as women and be transformative in every single country that they're in it'll be a different fight it will be a different front but it's the same battle and i think that on an even more human level just. you know that the world is so disproportionately filled with young people in any country where there's an oppressive regime or just oppressive laws or you know unsustainable practices there are young people that are looking around at

everything and saying they're synthesizing and saying how can i transform this and at times i'm sure that feels like a very lonely operation and people feel like they're the only one but i guarantee you you're not the only one there's people in every single country with very similar aspirations and dreams and people who are deeply loved the community that they're from people who are deeply don't want to see tradition just like set aside but want to also carve a new path forward and so you know for those people that we've met that we've had the privilege of meeting when we're touring and traveling we know that to be true but we also know there's just countless people that we've never met or never heard from and it's those voices those on heard voices that as they start to lift and rise and be more and more heard that's what's going to transform the planet in this day and age where even the word fact is so hotly debated i don't think beauty is so i would say if we can pair any of our outrage any of our anger our

fear with beauty where possible because it's a medium that will transmit. i think if you if you shout at someone they are conditioned to not listen to you if you shout beautifully which we call singing . you're making an emotional argument that is much harder to deny so i think in some ways i know it's easy to say but i think seeking beauty is revolutionary right now. i can ride my bike with no handlebars goel head to bars both handle bars i can ride my bike with no handle bars go handle bars no way i don't voters in the low gimme hands of the damage it's good to be a law even

a famous rapper when the past was going to be i can show you how to dose you dobe i can show you how to scratch a record i'm going to give out the remote control and i can almost put it back together inside on a charity sim i could tell you about the barracks and i don't all the words to take a lot is that i'm proud to be an american be a mom friend from platypus be a mom and made a comic book to get sound long until god can't do anything that i want because look i mean there is a window manager and go go that should go go that route know that i can see you based on that salad cold call that sell a phone call that sell the phone. to me just call to say that it's good to be a law in such a small world i'll call them with the dream i can make money when i'm going through a storm i may live in a magazine that is on its at six volts account in anything other than the computers the bio quite a bit since i'm not on the business i can make you want to modify or shakers and

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a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on a city parking space is not a solution your craft someone wanted touring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all and is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. but i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you know. i'm not a politically like you go to school you know to simulate it will still give up food for the hope of. the. earth. but you don't really feel like the human being in it. and then. the guy just

came over to me saw me in gave me this book. we applaud the tremendous courage of the reigning people. washington throws its support behind the violent antigovernment protests in iran threatening sanctions over attempts to suppress the unrest. also to come after infuriating muslims across the middle east over jerusalem status the u.s. president considers cursing aid to the palestinians for not wanting to talk page. slanging match between donald from the north korean leader descends into products about the size of the nuclear button just as south korea tries to calm the

situation with upcoming talks with pyongyang. follow their welcome you watching r.t. international this wednesday morning where it's just gone eleven o'clock here in moscow. our top story the trumpet ministration could impose sanctions on iran if it's not satisfied with response to the ongoing protests in the country don't get ahead of sanctions but that is one tool kit a couple things that we have in a very broad and wide. there are a range of options that we certainly have going forward and that's why i say we are watching reports very carefully of any potential human rights abuses of these protesters who are protesting peacefully with iran has seen its six consecutive day of rest with at least twenty one people thought to have died in clashes the

demonstrations started in december in protest over the sluggish economy and also a jump in prices then transformed into a political uprising with some chanting anti-government slogans the unrest turned violent and several times with police posts attacked by the protesters in the last three days there have been more than four hundred fifty arrests. we asked people in toronto what they thought about the protests. given that that i feel that if people's economic problems were addressed these accidents would never happen again so if someone from the government came and spoke to them these incidents would not escalate. get only the cost of living unemployment the lack of attention to people authorities say that this problem started with a surge in the prices of basic food supplies. they

need that person who says time for change should think and be worried about their own country and the rainiest should think about their country everybody should stop by trying to make progress at home. i don't think trump should interfere in our country's issues i don't think our issues are any of his business well the u.s. is also calling for an international response to the unrest in the country so america has more on that. the u.s. has firmly voiced its support for the anti government movement baster nikki haley has even called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the ongoing situation it takes great bravery for the iranian people to use the power of their voice against their government if the iranian dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the u.n. must speak out iran's president has come out in defense of peaceful protests but

the supreme let's check out what was said. the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack it can infiltrate president trump kicked off the new year unleashing a stream of tweets on the issue accusing iran of corruption human rights violations and spending its wealth on terrorism and of course the israeli government has followed suit even going on to say that the iranians and israelis will be friends once the regime forces but what's even more surprising is that israel faces the same discontent some anti-government protests and some over trump's recognition of jerusalem as its capital but what did nikki haley have to say about this now you saw strong when it comes to the freedom and dignity of very people you have but you have a different meaning of freedom and dignity when it comes to the palestinian people will be because we've been brutalized for over fifty years of occupation the palestinians now have to show their world they want to come to the table as of now they're not coming to the table but they ask for aid we're not giving aid we're

going to make sure that they come to the table and we want to move forward with the peace process well as you just heard there the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has revealed plans to stop funding a u.n. agency giving aid to palestinian refugees shortly after the u.s. leader himself suggested cutting donations to the palestinian administration in a tweet he claims that despite giving them hundreds of millions of dollars a year they show no appreciation or suspect to the u.s. suggested cussing aid because according to him the palestinians are north willing to talk peace with israel. who's an editor of the palestine chronicle believes all this is nothing short of bully. i don't think it is i think it is part of the. policy that has been followed by the trump administration for months now and it's a policy that is called you needed sort very well with the israeli government the tweet was also joined by a statement made by any either u.s.

ambassador to the united nations that she says forthright that we will not be giving money to on the u.n. and refugee agency that is dedicated to helping millions of palestinian refugees in palestine and in refugee camps across the middle east if this is not a foreign or bullying it's not a form of intimidation then what is well be it iran palestine or north korea president trump has made twitter his go to platform to get his messages across but as r.t. he goes you darn of now explains all too often his posting the to some very real and violent consequences of christmas that new year even the seasonal holidays haven't put the brakes on trump's twitter train in twenty teen pakistan got it first. the united states has foolishly given pakistan moving thirty three billion dollars in aid over the last fifteen years and they have given us nothing but lies

and deceit thinking of our leaders as fools they give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help no more no love lost their trumps administration has been walloping pakistan for months but it's not like anything in particular happened on monday to trigger the backlash but to say this tweet got a slam about an age would be an understatement three ministers including the prime minister the army the navy and air force chiefs all converged for an emergency security meeting following trump's post the u.s. ambassador was summoned for an explanation as protesters burned american flags in the streets then it was. turn of iran one of the biggest thorns in donald trump's side. iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer administration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the wealth

of iran is being looted time for change these lawmaker public has been erupting in rallies and by it says people have been swarming the streets both against stand in support of the government people died the tweet hasn't gone unnoticed in iran urging against the violence president rouhani denied to trump the right to sympathize with the nation well when done with the middle east trump couldn't help but pay the classic twitter tribute to his one and only rocket man. sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have an impact on north korea soldiers are dangerously fleeing to south korea rocket man now wants to talk to south korea for the first time perhaps that's good news perhaps not we will see well apparently this was donald trump's knee jerk reaction to south korea offering to hold high level talks with the north after pyongyang suggested the countries should meet to discuss the next olympics it's not government policy it's the.

ravings of a person who speaks before thinking tweets before thinking in a one way or hope that the people on the receiving end of these things would take them with a grain of salt because. you know trump may say those things but he can't act on them because he's got a whole bureaucracy that doesn't agree with so. it's very destabilizing and i think it's undermining u.s. ability to negotiate solutions to problems so whatever policy donald trump is concoct. storing trouble on twitter is something that is going to stay it was done of r.t. well of all the world leaders north korea's kim jong targeted by trump's tweets and after one of his recent most recent posts the battle of words between the two you just said.