well come on lee can only take the news from behind a new poll has found almost universal support for gun background checks yet for some odd reason they don't get passed by our lawmakers and this is not new a twenty thirteen poll found background checks enjoyed more support than apple pie baseball and kittens among americans. how can. we rather keep a gun away from a maniac than we'd like to poke the belly of an adorable baby if you. look at them look. and seeing as we'd all give our left arm to have that be our left arm right now. that must be background checks are pretty popular iraq poses to the live audience clap if you don't want that to be your fingers right now. oh shut up get out of here psychopath not fit for society so. better background

checks are that popular why the hell have our lawmakers not done anything about it well here's the deal folks the n.r.a. owns our congress so we will never have sensible gun laws health insurance companies own our politicians so we will never have universal health care big banks own our politicians so we will never have big bank regulations that make sense weapons contractors own our politicians so we will never see an end to war big oil owns our politicians so we will never get real climate change legislation or you're starting to see a pattern here. you see. corporate america has captured our government it was a soft coup it's done it's over most of it have been no a while back while you were watching the third season of lost all right. our country has been captured by fraudsters and criminals once you result of your self

to that except to take it in real deep we can start to actually begin to fix things they have yeah they have the things so lock down that if you even ask about their corporate puppet masters you're ejected from the conversation in fact an activist was a jack did this week from a meeting for just asking how much his lawmaker pennsylvania rep lloyd smucker gets from the koch brothers just as you how voters well i'm i'm glad we're having this town all areas it's good and i'd like to talk want to get rid of them to read a good read to him about it and i just wanted to talk to the people and get to meet you tackle or take you down i just it's good to meet the people have an open discussion about tasers whole area taze them all right over here. this is the age of the club don't crash rule by corrupt thieves in fact the f.c.c.

inspector general is examining whether chairman a cheat by colluded with sinclair broadcast group sinclair is one of pis corporate daddies and honestly that article is not shocking because pi may have colluded it's only shocking because someone cared to write about it that's amazing oh my god someone gave a temperament turd about the corruption in our government that's awesome that's just it's just a real nice surprise really. it's like finding out there were three more barbecue potato chips at the bottom the bag and i like that everything's coming up this. there is there is hope though people are standing up against our corporatocracy every day but it's not talked about on your corporate media for example citing the urgent threat of the climate crisis two hundred thirty six us mayors denounce trump's attack on the clean power plan yes the mayor is getting angry even mayor

mickey's got off his greasy ass just a boy a little concerned but you know considering how much meat production contributes to climate change he probably shouldn't be the one to talk really i'll take you seriously mayor when you switch your head to a baji burger right. where he also lied. how many animals died for your face. the best way for the ruling elite to have full control even limit the possible ways that we're told we can impact the system telling you that you can only have an effect every two years in a rigged ballot box with proprietary software you can never actually see if your vote counted tell you that's the only way well you've lost before you've even voted you were lost and that we could have an impact every day. in a week if we just realized our collective power we're going. to come out with

him right. going right back compare dot com for details or to vote for your city redacted or dot com we'll be back in ninety seconds. united states is going. to mistake for us shelling still a miracle supreme a c. from the outside world from russia not from china but the inside those sites. around russia and. you know russia. is psychological that list on the bill of times to find somebody outside the united states is responsible

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a big yawn there by fifteen billion it was funny in my head here to discuss this car runs it embossed room if you're running. you. know who an employer is possible get away with us you gotta listen and learn only listen and learn there's still little enforcement of minimum wage laws that workers have to rely on the honor system to get paid and the honor code in my business school was i hereby pledge on this open work of pedia page. that i will not copy cheat or rob until the coast is clear. so this is how it works small companies change their names to avoid paying and big companies hire those small companies as independent contractors and church responsibility for their low wage workers so when the customer service is bad at target you should try. to the manager of phony scam l.l.c. . exactly a good friend look no full time minimum wage workers nowadays can't afford

a two bedroom apartment in any us state their full time your salary is below poverty levels it's a starving wage right these crooked bastards are stealing from poor restaurant workers and house cleaner though i can't believe it i know these thieves don't believe in themselves you pick yourself up by your stolen bootstraps and scam someone with at least a two bedroom apartment and a soda stream. if you could write checks people can cash you can write yourself into your next door neighbor carries well no. keys or amateurs ok well let's not encourage anyone to steal but what can an unpaid worker do what well actually there are options the employee can hire a lawyer file a complaint with the state or federal labor department give up. i actually recommend the feds because they have eight hundred ninety four minimum

wage investigators more than any state agency. oh god no and nine hundred fifty we had about a thousand you know those were the good times when less than an hour's wage could get you a movie ticket to see disney's cinderella which actually wouldn't be believable today and now the chambermaids are way too busy working to star in feature films. or have meaningful friendships with mine. and the pumpkin driver he lost his job a long time with. many stars we want to give upon we have we have millions more workers that and i deemed forty eight there's a be like exponentially more investigators now it is only we need to leave labor regulation to the states except those seven states where there. are no minimum wage investigators the old can afford a bible belt the it's

a screw loose and ever even if investigators find underpayment they can't really get your back pay in fifteen states forty one percent of the total was not actually paid to the forty one percent the bureau's think did their job they send letters to the guilty employers telling them to pay up or else or or else they will feel bad for being bad people. or later that's it we really do have a two sided justice system in this country want to protect the wealthy on the other just a blank book to at the poor. a letter could be intimidating if you had a severed finger with you know. and that's why i am never opening fan mail again i am i mean the ring was nice but. it is the thought that counts i get like in a year or like

a classic pretty well. sure i'm right or capitalism strangled workers have also strangling the entire public infrastructure for more on this we go to john of o'donnell for the breakdown. here puerto rico the land of beautiful white sand beaches and crystal clear water landscapes of plush green mountains coral reefs waterfalls this. puerto rico is also where nearly two hundred fifty thousand people still don't have electricity five months after hurricane rita struck over one hundred thousand still lack clues drinking water and guess what just like redacted i had said several weeks ago the disaster capitalist have indeed descended upon the us i. and territory like a fat kid up on cotton candy author iommi klein says the corporate and political

elites from outside of puerto rico have not wast time exploiting hurricane maria's trauma to push forward false and ruin his solutions from the privatization of the central services to a tax on education with its privatization policy ah private is a in the dictionary definition is transfer from public to private ownership and control but that's not visceral enough it's more like transfer from public to private hell bent for profit interests that don't care if you a slip in the shower and break your collarbone and then when you're struggling to get up a rhinoceros barges in and impales you through your solar plexus and you bleed out on the cold wet floor. to visceral now. klein goes on to say in this context of the rampant disaster of capitalism there is an urgent moral imperative to inform leading people to know the real roots of the super imposed crisis that is followed on these islands with climate change the races system brutal austerity illegitimate and odious debt and colonialism easy the government

doesn't want people to have context that might inform us of why this crisis is continuing to unfold there is anything about this guy's response to the hurricane make you think he's interested in context. not really a context. not his that. hey maybe the mayor of san juan puerto rico carmen yulian cruz can enlighten us on what type of privatization is happening we're facing up privatization on the energy front we're also facing province ascension of the educational point the local government a puerto rico has introduced a concept that charter schools and has said that it's going to privatized schools it almost seems like the perfect storm for disaster economics or. what they

call the sasser capitalism and everything seems to be out there for sale everything is out there for sale puerto rico is even selling this retro oven mitt from the one nine hundred eighty. no takers the six said plan now is to privatized the border rico a lectured power authority and to privatized the education system into charter schools just like in new orleans who could go. out ten years after katrina new orleans all charter school system has proven a failure. to understand this shock doctrine of vultures corporations exploiting national disasters to take over the public infrastructure is actually their ongoing game plan it's not going to stop with puerto rico there was just a devastating cyclone in the u.s. territory of american samoa that nobody is talking about there's little doubt the disaster capitalist are going to jump in there too and without question the

sinister tactics are going to be used more and more on mainland america as environmental destruction unfolds i want everybody to think about that. except for me it's a way too depressing quick pull up the tourism footage. of that bad air there's been a reporting for puerto rico john f. o'donnell redacted since that started shall we have to go don't we didn't get the if you're. not also follow me dot com. this is charlie munger is approached economic. models from wells fargo wells fargo . charlie munger and one buffett.

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maker. two days of crisis talks at the united nations. breakthrough on syria as world powers attempt to agree on a ceasefire for the rebel held. people begging we don't do it don't do it don't do it and we did the right thing washington says the date for the relocation of its embassy in israel to jerusalem a move the palestinians say could destroy any hope of a peace. three friends from australia challenge themselves to a grueling ninety kilometer cross country skiing race in despite never having tried the ever before.

hello and welcome to world news for m r t international break thanks for joining us this saturday the twenty fourth of february it's now eleven am in moscow first up for you this hour syrian state media reporting that islamist militants in the rebel own play five eastern guta have launched a fresh round of mortar shelling on a residential areas in the capital. at least one person said to have been killed and fifteen others injured the second time a bombardment by insurgents has caused casualties in damascus this week. is a suburb of the capital and it's been under siege by pro-government troops since twenty third but the violence there has dramatically intensified as regime forces attempt to topple the last rebel stronghold close to damascus according to some estimates more than four hundred fifty people have been killed in the district this week at the u.n. to call on all sides to immediately end hostilities the security council is expected to vote on a cease fire resolution later on saturday it was delayed after members failed to

reach an agreement on friday they argued over a draft which proposed a thirty day truce and the evacuation of people in need of medical treatment russia maintain that there was no guarantee that militants would abide by the agreement moscow also said that it wanted the group to be excluded from the truce. put the dupatta which is the main problem in eastern time well as i mentioned he's consciously or unconsciously being treated the same as the other syrian rebels jim how to loose freeze not being touched and we still don't have evidence that the coalition led by the united states is treating. as a real target of course would draw the attention of our american colleagues to that fact we don't see our comments having any effect well it's been a tough two days of rhetoric and negotiations now it all relates to the district of eastern ghouta that's east of damascus a suburb that is currently under the control of rebels and terrorists in the syrian

government is trying to retake the city in an anti terror operation the anti terror operation is being widely criticized by western leaders recently we even heard from u.s. president donald trump what russia and want to read and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you that we're there for one reason we're there to get isis and get rid of isis and go home we're not there for any other reason and we've largely accomplished our goal but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a disgrace the leaders of the international community are in full agreement that civilian life in eastern is very important and the conditions are dire all want to make sure that civilians are safe however there are clear disagreements among world leaders about who is to blame for the situation in eastern guta many western

officials have been extremely vocal against the syrian operation in eastern guta but russia and others have long accused them of double standards particularly off to the west muted response to the campaign to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from islamic state which also had a devastating impact on civilians. by the escalation and strikes me humanitarian disaster systematic targeting of civilians this is how on us ongoing slaughter of trap civilians it's about the focus of the syrian government as well and we cool because including russia to make sure that this violence stops.

in iraq and in syria people are much more accepting that because it's clear their city being liberated they understand what they were suffering civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price but unavoidable part of war and commanders have to press on despite that responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis we are the good guys and munitions people on the battlefield of the different political

analyst john white says the western powers misrepresentation of the situation on the ground and go to will only add to the suffering of civilians. regime change propaganda has entered the realms of the fantastic queered in groups such as nusra front and jash al islam which is the dominant faction in eastern guta these groups which adhere to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no being depicted those rebels as partisans of second world war repute were by the syrian army made up of conscript soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious was a city in society there are no being p.t. there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative will continue syria comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of the civilians which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the syrian government and its allies particular russia

to liberate the country. the u.s. has set the date for when it will move its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem it will be the fourteenth which coincides with the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the israeli state is what president trump had to say about the decision which has been causing fury across the arab world and beyond. people calling begging me don't do it don't do it don't do it campaign against it was so incredible but you know what the campaign for it was also incredible and we did the right thing with tensions already running high on thursday a group of palestinian activists attacked a u.s. delegation visiting a research and polling center in the west bank city of ramallah the americans were pelted with eggs and had to be evacuated from the area since december when trump took the decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital more than twenty palestinians have been killed and around a thousand others injured in demonstrations.

the next american has more on the symbolism of washington's move and the fallout that's resulted. but put it simply trump said he doesn't care what the world thinks about his decision to move the embassy to jerusalem which actually supports israel's claims to the city but when he says the campaign against his decision was incredible he means this. person over. the border.

even though trump doesn't care people in the region do today we saw clashes in hebron continue which israel on the other hand is praising from its minister for transportation thank trump in a tweet even called him a friend of a back in december in a security council vote of fourteen countries condemned to trounce recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and including and among those were staunch u.s. allies like the u.k. and france and in the general assembly one hundred and twenty eight countries got the use of the top struck to the security council and unable to perform his duties and do de kids a work of the international community but it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of palestinian people must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members. throughout didn't the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to the now despite

international backlash the state department has notified congress that its embassy will be bouvard to jerusalem on may fourteenth which is much sooner than originally planned last month a vice president pence at the embassy would be moved by the end of twenty nineteen but like you said may fourteenth also happens to be the day israel declared its independence back in one nine hundred forty eight and it was the day president truman officially recognized the state but considering the international community's past response it'll be interesting to see how they react to this latest announcement. gideon levy who's a columnist for israel's ha'aretz newspaper believes that moving the embassy will have dire consequences for the entire region. they were not it says he's supporting the patient in the united states is really slipping in the face and spitting in the face of the palestinians and moved here move the embassy to jerusalem and in the same time the clear jews in the eastern.