garrity analysts come along and says a number of factors led to the relative success of the attack. i think unfortunately the afghan security forces are just not. up to the standards or there's too much pressure on them and there's not much coordination between nato forces and the afghan police there are multiple threads there's the taliban there's al qaeda there's ice is there's also has been which is also in the government so there are a number of opponents and i think this simply isn't the right intelligence to counter these kind of attacks because they're happening on the regular basis one day it's a civilian target one day it's a military target one day it's a commercial road or a hotel like today had to counter terrorism in afghanistan you need a regional approach and the regional approach means working with iran working with pakistan and working with russia in the central asian states at the moment the us is not really doing that they have their own strategy and it's not doesn't fit in with britain strategy. donald trump's first year in the white house has been marked

by a government wide shutdown this follows the senate's refusal to approve a bill to fund the government all but five democrats voted against it and the main sticking point restaurants refusal to include protections for undocumented young immigrants for you know the republican leadership do the job they are paid to do today they put politics above the national security everyone thinks of themselves as a leader in that building is going to have to look at themselves in the marriage and ask are they really being true to the ideals of this country democrats hold on local citizens hostage over their reckless demands we have a divider. in the white house this is behavior the structure just loses not legislate. well this is the latest example of how bumpy the first twelve months something for the president artie's kind of more pain and takes a look at how trump's tenure has unfolded so far. when trouble is sworn in

a year ago emotions were running high on all sides. ok. us media described it as a pivotal moment in american history you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell it will be very bad americans and others will now die washington d.c. the establishment is terrified and they should be they call that the trump revolution trump promised to completely overhaul u.s. foreign and economic policy he promised a brave new world that was cheered by his supporters and dreaded by his detractors as a distro be an apocalypse so a year on where are we well with all this america first rhetoric you might have thought that would have met with less interference in other countries well that's not exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike we were part of our military and it was another

successful event we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary on the home front some promised a new level of protectionism against mexico and china but the usa is increasingly buying more foreign goods and producing less of its own the trade deficit with mexico is up by eleven percent the trade deficit with china is up by seven percent unemployment is low but so are wages there is record amounts of household debt in the united states right now and retail stores are closing across the country and here's one thing that didn't change between trump and previous administrations during the election trump talked about getting along better with russia and his detractors called him a kremlin puppet but now one year later things which one washington and moscow are about the same as they were before bad for their action by the. congress to put these sanctions in place in the way they do best the decision they made that made it very overwhelming was. except we may be at an all time low in terms of

the relationship with russia this is built for a long period of time now trump promised to drain the swamp of corruption we are going to drill. washington d.c. . but it looks like that swamp is still here and deeper than ever policy stay the same our foreign policy is the same the monetary policy in the federal reserve is the same spending as the same deficits are still rising so there has not been any significant changes in the direction of our country which i had been hoping for is that he has perpetuated so many of our deeply flawed policies especially in foreign policy foreign policy is a little bit more confusing i am very pleased he's at least made an honest effort and he's reduced the amount of regulations and i think that's one of the reasons we've had an economic boost. and that is that is good and he's made an effort to

reduce taxes that's for from perfect but lower taxes less regulation is good and the marketplace is reflecting that oh and don't forget about that wall we're going to build a wall we have no choice we have no choice. yeah how's that going we have some wonderful. prototypes that have been put up now despite the president's ambitious timetable for construction it remains unclear when the wall might actually go up on the surface donald trump looks like a president like no other he's allowed brash he doesn't care about political correctness is even turned twitter into an official white house channel but if you look a little bit closer and judge him by his political actions he's a little bit more the rule than the exception. artsy new york. times presidency has also be mocked by a string of quirky catchphrases and diplomatic moves that have kept the world and

the media guessing what he's going to do next here's our take on trump's first twelve months. ily. donald trump's oath of office means nothing this is one of the most radical and of your own speeches we've ever i'm not going to give you a new stakeout or you are fake it is. donald trump's incoherence is all a direct result of the potential collusion rough inclusion of u.s. officials are growing increasingly concerned about a possible russia exclusion. we've

just launched fifteen. heading to iraq where we're headed to syria. heading towards syria. you just got back from the middle east with just about saudi arabia is. still. going to go to a. meeting with.

we are totally prepared for the second option totally destroy north korea is a sick puppy the north korean regime is calling president trouble for it's a load of nonsense obviously he's a pretty smart cookie. he wish you a very happy. breakdown and thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over consumed and all about your soul. now read hysteria has made headlines in britain after a student confessed on the radio to her support for communism that story after the

break up. of a winner take all bent out of it's a lottery mentality in america you know where are your dead and the farmers or companies of course a lobbyist i want to watch if they change laws the way possible to help all cost in america and nobody cares because it ever learned a lot as a wal-mart today they said let's do it again. something good these very important. not to be only a common market. as we say to be a community of them going to talk to views of process as if you twitter is so good to power that you must go right so good domine to it. their way to be unsettling to communities he's.

welcome back a british student has been making headlines after appearing on a radio show and confessing her support for communism twenty four year old fiona loudly told the b.b.c. programme she felt communism was never given a chance to develop in the soviet union and so we didn't actually fail the story whipped up a storm of debate over how universities are new ring students to the left one repeatedly quoted professor says law is downplaying the crimes of stalin. r.t. spoke to her about the media storm i think it's completely hypocritical and very typical of academics like him to kind of passionately you know talk about the

deaths under the soviet union but i think this is you know very much selective outrage the media in general obviously don't paint marxism or socialism or really any kind of left wing politics in a positive light and that's because obviously in you know the media is owned by so angry people in the media is owned by a billionaire class that have certain interests they want to protect i think people can think for themselves and i wouldn't take their headlines general opinion of the british regime and it seems red alerts have been flashing a few times recently in the british media much was made of the prime minister wearing a bracelet featuring frida kahlo a communist known for her concerns about the poor and the buzz feed's science editor felt compelled to lock down her social media account following abuse she received after writing that she wanted communism for christmas. but does the public

share the media's read fear and according to a new opinion poll nine percent of young adults few communism as a danger to the world compare that to global business which almost a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat that you got to miss george barda says there's a need to distinguish between history and propaganda what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the u.s. of course much of the west identifies communism in the soviet union and anytime like hard left or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream foreign policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the

propaganda and the historical reality if. we're following the allegations of russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election twitter is stepping up its efforts to expose what it calls russia's propaganda machine try to have started sending emails to those who might have followed it retreated or might suspected russian propaganda accounts during the presidential campaign or twitter estimates that six hundred seventy seven thousand users fall into that category when this message to those uses the social media platform urge them to learn more about the nature of the russian propaganda effort one of those contacted by twitter is political comedian tim young he told us that liking or retreating shouldn't be considered as propaganda. well i thought it was very interesting getting a letter from twitter because. i never recalled re tweeting or liking something that i would have viewed as russian propaganda to have donald trump elected or or

manipulate the election is a propaganda tool if you agree with what you're liking or re tweeting i'm not sure who is being influenced as an american by the tweets especially the tweets that they showed they had a few example tweets and a lot of them were just basic political messages that anyone in america could come up with so i think twitter and a lot of the democrats think americans are extremely stupid so i'm not sure exactly why twitter thought that i would have been fluence to buy something. outside of this country to begin with and the election. well twitter doesn't explain what tools it uses to identify which accounts are related to so-called russian propaganda platform has been sharply criticized by u.s. lawmakers for failing to prevent what they say was a torrent of propaganda and to say information on their platform during the twenty sixteen election campaign today responded that it would work to identify and inform people about that alleged propaganda. letter that i wrote calling these companies to individual inform all users who are exposed to false misleading and inflammatory

post generated by russian agents we will be working to identify and inform individually the users who may have been exposed to the ira accounts during the election. it's nearly impossible to be able to show what is actually political propaganda because in and election cycle everything can be considered political propaganda and what is considered a different country meddling in another country's election because i've been contacted i've done digital marketing before for many people and i think contacted by foreign leaders to run their digital campaigns into social media for them so would that count as an american meddling in their election like there's so many different ways you can categorize this and it really doesn't make sense but it plays into the all now one year old or longer conspiracy theory that russian the russian government colluded with the trump campaign which there's still no evidence

of. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just about half an hour meanwhile for more on all of ostorius. young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia's new liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances what is and is seen as. news on news. eat well with us in the end all. of the things

years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local. mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never enforced and that means the school boy minus here continues risking their lives for the money they need to survive on. it's rather stand in here from us and. our own. move from what i saw.

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for him and for. me the only. see. one of your exact to deny all right here is something you don't hear in the mainstream media something a little bit of a redacted there's a growing theory out there that our entire reality is actually a simulation being run by a higher level being like like an animal kid in an alien kid and only an animal time kid a garage somewhere just watching us scramble around working a job we hate buying things we don't need and fearing death. let's see n.b.c. new cover that where the simulated dairy laster halt. breaking news twenty percent chance we're all just eighty eight characters in a bad video game now want to jam with the simulated weather. simulation theory

it's a little like a matrix it doesn't amazing if humans were like inside pods whereas in simulation theory we are part of the simulation and only think we are conscious being aware that with emotions in underwear and seasonal affective disorder and all that stuff and no you don't have to be high to believed a funny god heard it doesn't hurt at all if it helps a lot so are we in base reality or are we in a fake one well here's a long mosque to the given that we're clearly our trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality and those games could be played on a set top box or on a p.c. or whatever and they would probably be. you know billions of such. you know computer setup boxes. it would. seem to follow that the odds they were in face reality is one in billions. the

auxiliary reality is. one hundred billion but whether that guy ever been right about anything. the theory works like this the level of computing we're capable of has increased exponentially compared to just thirty years ago remember thirty years ago we thought it was amazing that mario could jump up and hit his head on a brick without any long term mental trauma at all but a running back in the n.f.l. so now. now imagine where computing power will be a thousand ten thousand years from now will likely easily be able to simulate life to such a high degree that the beings in the simulations would know it's not real and if a thousand years from now everyone is running simulations there would be billions so is it more likely we're one of those simulations or that we're in base reality however one thing you on musk is missing in his analysis would an incredibly

advanced to life form find to this simulation to be out rageous really boring. relates to today look only do involving into any age while getting furious that our phones not fast enough water splashed out of the toilet into our you know what. pain would enjoy that. but this being a simulation would explain a lot of things like why the other sock is missing you know how the cat got on top of the for a just why stephen miller never blinks but. what always seems to be half way blink . but let's assume this is reality i want to propose we're living in a simulation of a different kind a twenty fourteen princeton study found that we here in the united states are in an oligarchy ruled by an elite class we are not a democratic republic you kid yourself what do you believe these two bunny to the

study found that if the people that not only. once something to happen legislatively at the federal level it all it only happens if it's aligned with the business world corporate america business interests have substantial independent impact on us government policy while average citizens and mass based interest groups have little or no independent influence yet almost all our mainstream media attention and everything that swirls around us all day c.n.n. and all the rest and most of our national activism is based on trying to change these things that we provably mathematically almost never change. so it isn't that kind of like living in a false world you know what one where we think we matter but it's a facade is bull the truman show it's our our actions are like punching waves you know like like trying to catch a fart in your hand. trying to make soccer popular in the us.

media pursued i call this the national delusion so then it's natural to ask can i get out of the delusion out of the simulation can i have a real impact in the case of the simulation theory of our lives no you can't get out you are you are nothing but a little pixilated person in a bad video game which includes back me for some reason but. in the case of the princeton study in the case of the national delusion you do have a way to break out of the simulation it's to get active locally or even state wide cities and states are not nearly as bought off and controlled by corporate vampire squid piles of stock. as the federal government is here's an example last week bill de blasio the mayor of new york did something awesome and i know he has some bad things on his record like endorsing hillary clinton and killing the new york

groundhog on groundhog day. i'm not kidding google it but. but i think it was buddha who said people can do good things. good people can do da got everything like ok. i believe i was buddha. and donald trump tomorrow announced we were not going to drone bomb innocent people anymore i'm still given tons of credit boy i feel like did you say that you said that race is peabrain did. i still give him credit anyway i do blah deal announced that new york city would be divesting all of its billions of dollars from fossil fuels and bringing major lawsuits against five of the biggest oil companies exxon shell b.p. chevron and conoco phillips for yeah good for.

bringing the rain lawsuit against them for the climate crimes they've committed for wrecking the lives of so many people in new york city and it's not just climate change by the way one of the largest oil spills in history thirty million gallons is underneath brooklyn new york as we speak i don't want to hand i realize how big this divestment is assuming they follow through with it on the other hand i can't help but think. of course of course you don't dast in the companies that are actively killing you vanity when. i lived in new york i volunteered in coney island after superstorm sandy was devastation all right so you would assume the day after sandy new york city would have divested from fossil fuel that's it's like big attacked by a pack of wolves and surviving and you're sitting there with like one arm laughed and just open wounds and you're still investing in rabbit wall. so

i well be sure i don't like what happened i'm a. right does kiddo the. birds well keep writing this way. as they only klein points out in her article it's also extremely significant that the divestment and last year were announced in tandem because they have the potential to reinforce one another in a kind of virtuous market cycle demand cities divest their funds sue the oil companies drag them into court to defend themselves all those things hurt their stock as their stock goes down people stop investing they then have less money for oil and gas exploration and in this case exploring is a euphemism all right that means finding ways to destroy the planet because we here in america my euphemism ah. we eat it up like a baby bird gobbling up its mother's vomit and i'm not. laying boiling gas

exploration sounds nice but you can use the word explorer for all kinds of awful. bankers explore the best way to sell you a subprime mortgages that'll bankrupt you a cannibal explores your neighborhood to find the tasty and first to. kick and throw is your body for the juiciest spot. big games ahead and it's all just exploration see the point is bill de blasio never would have done this if it weren't for the pressure from activists and indigenous rights groups and environmental. impact on the local level forster's city to divest get them to sue the oil and gas companies and then moving forward we need to create a world that puts every decision through a sustainability filter is each action sustainable kind of m.s.m.

b c runs every story through what can we make this about russia filter ok. every action should be sustainable or attribute thrown at us when we need to stop congratulating the murderers and profiteers as business leaders just last week trump congratulated norway on their purchase of r f fifty two fighter jets unfortunately they have fifty two is a fictional aircraft that features prominently in the call of duty video game ok. thank you i know we were in the back radio but i know it was to be ok. ok.

ok thank. you ok now i think the news from behind as long as we're on the topic of living in a sin is simulation run by holes in their evil spawn speaking of that last two weeks the democrats voted with the republicans to continue our government's unlimited war. currently has surveillance of american citizens which is funny because american citizens don't approve of on limited surveillance in fact seventy five percent of adults said they would not let investigators tap into their internet activity seventy five percent of us say go cell. say i don't want to read or hear every conversation i have with people and they've got just a bit like a regular phone fax and.