and as i mean just out of the clear blue they have no evidence whatsoever of their charges that they have made and you know i look at the world like none of us are perfect all the countries have their shortcomings but i think that responsibility for short composition be their own country so we come up short in many ways i think that my job is to try to point that out so that we can change policy but this idea of just blaming other countries and it's all somebody else's fault and what we have to do is put on sanctions and then when they retaliate we think oh the world's coming to an end they don't have a right to do that we have to punish them i had a very very bad foreign policy and of course i as a libertarian over the years in congress i advocated a noninterventionist foreign policy i just think we should be out of this business and if you want to talk with people fine talk with people and work with people so i like it you know when trump and putin would talk and i was sorry when the invitation for putin was removed i think talking is good i was in the military in

one nine hundred sixty three and i was glad kennedy talked to khrushchev we need to talk to each other and that means by talking to each other you just get rid of all the sanctions in opportune that we can run the world the way we have we say talking is good i think it depends on what's said let's chat if we may about twitter's new war on hate speech as i understand several libertarian figures of a full a victim of that where are we going with this one. well that's a good question because that is a real mix bad the social media in one sense is a real delight there's a lot of information out there i have to have benefited by but it originated with a lot of government assistance in the biggest role the social networks play is working with the government and giving the government the information they do the work for the n.s.a. so it's a mixed bag or they call themselves private companies libertarian says we don't

regulate private companies and it's so mixed so i hope the only thing i can hope for under these conditions is that maybe that you know the market will devise something that can become an alternative but when you look at the strength and the power in the regulation of speech and indirectly we're talking about the government and the reason that i think happens is that. you get accused of treasonous activity and treasonous speech. because in the end power treason treason is and then power lies the truth is treason so when people blurt out the treason on the internet it's not like they're saying something mean and ugly. things challenging the status quo is what they can't stand and nervous them so they have to silence people so it's more likely for an individual like myself to be silenced because i represent a challenge to the says quote but if anybody understands our first amendment the

first amendment isn't there to talk about the whether the first amendment is there for us to be able to challenge our government but if we do that now whether it's direct regulation from the government or indirectly through social media we have a real challenge i'm just hoping that technology can stay ahead of it all and that we can have alternatives to the dependency on twitter and these other companies that have been working hand in glove with the government. some critics are saying that these poll new. these are twitter exposed as being a project to the democratic party do you think there's any truth to that. yeah well you know overall i think the parties are a farce you know our policies on change from republicans the democrats they all love big spending they like regulation they like the n.s.a. the t.s.a. they like the federal reserve they like printing money they don't care about deficit but when it comes to power there's

a big struggle who gets to pull pull the switches and pass out the money and then they fight and fume so there is this partisan fight that goes on and obviously you know we've heard about this it's amazes me that the only thing that comes out of it is that there's charges against russia for take control of our election and and it's all about trump and it hasn't been looked at carefully enough that maybe the other side had an axe to grind too and the democrats are probably more involved and then the republicans but i think all of that is just a mask we don't need and i think as the world were put together more on a libertarian viewpoint there would be this need and there would be this you know contest with each other but it is it is pretty vicious is way away i see it and it goes now into into our universities on the streets and people are getting angry and upset and there's there's just shouldn't be any reason for that but it's

a fact that if we some of us tell the truth about our government they call us treasonous in that we're speaking out of line and they would like to punish us and i think that's part of what's happening with the social media role you'll always be welcome to speak freely here on on t.v. many thanks for your time a pleasure to speak to once again ron paul my guests form of us congressman. thank you. onto other news now one of the most popular online alternative news channels the info was a seen major crackdown on it with facebook you tube apple and spotify blocking its accounts and taking down its content all of this on the same day here's our facebook explained that me we have taken it down for glorifying violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender muslims and immigrants which violates our hate speech policies in four walls if you're not too familiar with it was launched by alex jones in the late one nine hundred ninety s.

as you tube videos have been watched more than one point six billion times many have deemed him a peddler of conspiracy theories in two thousand and fifteen donald trump appeared on the channel and praised jones' work in while people on social media have clashed over this ban i don't support alex jones or what in four was produces he's not a conservative however banning him in his outlets is wrong it's not just a slippery slope it's a dangerous cliff apple removing alex jones one in four words isn't some terrible form of censorship against conservatives he said sandy hook wasn't real he's seeing parents from the school he said the holocaust wasn't real his not just a conservative he's a conspiracy theorist hurts people in four wars it has been banned by facebook for and specified hate speech regardless of the facts in this case their billets of facebook to censor rival publishers is a global anti trust problem political commentator gina loudon believes the decision

could prove damaging for the social media giants. whether or not you agree with alex jones i would be just the same amount of adamant that i think it's bad policy to ban people no matter what really no matter what i mean in the united states we have a concept of free speech that we love very much it means a lot to us now these are private companies they can do what they want to do i'm not saying they shouldn't be able to do this and i'm certainly not saying that government should regulate whether or not private companies can make decisions like this but i am saying i think it's a valid decision and i think that in the long run it will not pay off for these companies it is it extremely slippery slope i do believe ultimately that probably some conservative into t.v. will come up with competitive platforms for the ones that are doing the banning and the censoring and ultimately they will have stiff competition that may even relegate them to relative obscurity because of things like this especially if they

remain so one sided. soldiers from using fitness tracking ups will explain why after the break. but politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so if you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to do i believe this is what the korean people are. interested in the why. question. the pentagon's move to ban the use of geo location tracking applications in the army saying that they could create unintended security consequences putting soldiers and missions at risk effective immediately defense department personal attributes it from using geo location features and functionality on government and

non-government issued devices. and services while in locations designated as operational areas. well comes after revelations earlier this year when it was claimed secret american bases could be found when searching for joking tracks on the global map of the strada fitness platform started in two thousand and seven has more than one billion jogging and cycle routes logged by uses around the world with close analysis revealed concentrated patterns in remote areas such as in northern syria and afghanistan which he's claimed is likely to be troops that were busy keeping fit star has defended his status saying all users have to opt in to being shown on the map. retired u.s. army major general paul fatherly joins me now. they say she that we're talking about we first heard about it back in january the pentagon's only now suspending g.p.s. trackers why the taken so long to think. well i think at this point in time in

twenty eight. we see a number of occasions their contract your g.p.s. or your low through g.p.s. through that and to then in florida where you're located you can take your i phone your other so you know and others can track you family members and so on but when it comes to operational areas there are troops are fighting in iraq rudi and we certainly don't want anybody especially the enemy to be able to track their location target them but i think that of your flying a small sure. some of the forces will still have a capability for g.p.s. tracking and that's especially important for the year to maybe provide combat support from year to ground forces so their capability to continue to exist that everybody will have the tracking device and that others can figure out where the

real cation is. although there are other issues presented by small funds pop from g.p.s. for example these a social media ensconce pitches which can a gang give away your location. well not only that give away the location but also track your voice communications your discussions on a phone or other devices and so we're so sophisticated with all these brand new high tech applications that can do many many things so in some regards wondered when it covers ground aub combat troops or air troops we have to be able to make sure that their location is not it in a fight and that they cannot be tapped into from the standpoint of listening to conversations which may be highly secretive or confidential. do we need a situation where soldiers just can't have access to small funds it would seem to

me that in the modern day and age that readily accessible in terms of being subjected to hacking does not pose a serious risk for security. well it does pose a risk but you have to keep in mind many horse olders have their own private cell phones and to use for personal matters the family also you have government issued so phone satellite phones that are given to the troops in the field for operational capabilities say in a war zone so you have both of those. type of devices available to our troops so the restricted side has to really come up when there is a combat zone around an operation on the government to shoot phones use cell phones have to be restricted only from the standpoint of who there are communicating with family and other members many thanks for speaking to us paula pleasure retired u.s.

army major general paul farley my guest. review. moving on international chemical weapons experts are heading to the english town of amesbury next week to probe the nerve agent poisoning which left one person dead and another severely ill the watchdog has already confirmed that dawn sturges died from contact with the same type of substance that was used in march to attack a former russian double agent and his daughter however they still don't know if it was the same batch of poison. the experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons returned to the u.k. to continue their work to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent which resulted in the death of one british national in angry and left another seriously ill presumably they're going to be able to try to help move the investigation forward we do know that they will be collecting further sound balls they will be sending those back to o.p.c. w. labs and then reporting back to the u.k. and of course this comes as investigators continue to try to piece together what it

is exactly that unraveled on june thirtieth and amesbury one two british citizens were taken to hospital and treated on suspicions of novacek poisoning and of course one of those people died and what it is that happened on march fourth when former double agent sergei script pollen his daughter yulia were poisoned leading to a major international scandal because still as we speak right now today both of these cases continue to be plagued really with the lack of any tangible findings some of the latest details circulating here in the british press have included claims citing sources close to the investigation that police had reportedly identified two suspects in the poisoning claiming that they were russians those reports even suggested that british authorities are getting ready to ask for those people to be extradited however those were very quickly played down in russia of course said that they've received no such request and have talked about the number

of speculations that have been flying around involving these cases says this incident there have been no less than a hundred reports based on leaks and sources that's why we shouldn't rely on this information we don't trust unconfirmed reports in the media hopefully with this latest upcoming o.p.c. w. visit more information will be shed on those two cases ok overvote with more news for you in just over half an hour. the it. when lawmakers manufactured them sentenced to public wells. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final

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string i don't roughly don't t.v. . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart shelton thank you for joining coming up today on the program as a mission standards are being proposed to be relaxed in the united states what should we expect in our automakers dealing with the various legal matters related to the use by some of those so called the devices to take compliance with emissions tests west tyson slocum of public citizens energy program and the car coach lauren fix and with the second quarter profits in for mcdonald's the toughest week takes a look at the hamburger giant's major moves and lets us know what is taking the biggest bite on their profits and as promised we take

a deeper dive into the july jobs report or do so with the able exist of steve malzberg all that on tap but first let's get to the future of the european union is effort to avoid e.u. businesses from being impacted by u.s. economic sanctions against iran as today the u.s. has asserted its plan to impose maximum pressure on iran by vigorously imposing such sanctions at midnight the bell will tall the e.u. effort known as the blocking statute is fashioned to guard against e.u. companies from u.s. sanctions and keep a lie they deal plan to limit iranian government's nuclear ambitions european businesses have been strong. did that they should not observe demands from a trumpet ministration for them to curtail all commerce with iran those companies which choose to pull out because of u.s. sanctions will need to be approved by the european commission or face potential lawsuits by e.u. member states a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the e.u.

twenty eight members showed their resolve saying quote we are determined to protect european economic operators and gauge and legitimate business with iran will have more on how iran is hedging their bets on the sanctions coming up a little bit later in the broadcast and breaking news today as facebook is asking banks to share their users personal financial information with the social media site so that facebook can send them new products no think you the wall street journal broke the story earlier today the journal says facebook executives have been talk with banks including wells fargo j.p. morgan and citibank over creating features such as displaying their account balances to facebook users or fraud alerts banks are reportedly wary of partnering with facebook especially after the cambridge analytical scandal and a steady drumbeat of corporate data breaches heightened concerns over online privacy but on the other side of the ledger big banks may also feel pressure to make

a deal from the follow from fear of missing out on the ground floor of the of the merger of social media and finance a merger with the norm is potential profits we'll keep an eye on this and other related stories as they develop. the global heat wave is taking a toll in japan where nearly one hundred people have perished nationwide including at least fifty deaths in tokyo alone last month the new record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in japan was set it forty one point one degrees celsius that's one hundred six degrees fahrenheit on july twenty third and many of the deaths were of older people who didn't have or weren't using their air conditioning a spike in demand for electricity to power those ac units as. push prices japan to record highs and even have spurred the reactivation of some older carbon producing power platforms when the impact of torrential rains and landslides in early july is at over three hundred people in japan were killed by weather related events last month and meanwhile canada's heat wave took the lives of an estimated seventy

people in the province of quebec in july and production livestock is also taking a heavy toll on producers as producers struggle to keep animals alive with limited water or feel our feet in the province of british columbia the power company b.c. hydro set a new hourly power demand record of seventy eight hundred megawatts on monday and the u.k. is experience with driest summer in fifty seven years while in spain soaring temperatures are said to be the cause of deaths of at least three people while temperatures of portugal of one hundred fifteen degrees fahrenheit or forty six degrees celsius have reached near record levels. we spoke about corporate average fuel economy standards a bit on the broadcast last week those are the cafe standards that the trump administration is to relaxing and as promised we are going to talk about this a little bit more and we'll get into these defeat devices used by some car companies to fake compliant with such a missions test to help us out now we turn to tyson slocum the director of public

citizen's energy program and lauren fix the car coach and president of the north american car truck and utility vehicle of the ward you're the work thanks so much for being here guys thanks to both laurent so we've talked about these standards in the past but these defeat devices that have been being used all over the world by i don't know what is it three or four different car companies now we've got who v.w. audi who else is out there nissan well that's volkswagen groups that are volkswagen group is is audi and volkswagen it's also porsche so under that group they were using to think devices because they over promised and under delivered their bosses essentially by us and we could make these vehicles fuel. mission as well as not have to carry blue which is the rio they put in the exhaust so that it actually lowers the emissions coming out the tell pipe well they couldn't do that so they cheated the system and did it and put it in a test mode whenever the vehicle idled in certain factors occurred so they got caught and then sure that does happen pretty much any time other manufacturers have

been fined the only ones we know a hundred percent for sure because they were found guilty is volkswagen and of course two c.e.o.'s went to prison for that c.d.o. a v.w. and the c.e.o. of audi right out yeah they came at them in the middle of the night like they were real criminals i mean i guess that's all relative and depends upon what you think a criminal is but they certainly didn't murder anybody but i thought it was a bit aggressive yeah tyson sorry we got you back now at the audio sorry about that give us a little bit of history on these cafe standards they've been around for a long time but really been pushed to the forefront by the obama administration when whence they came and what are they doing now right so they were first established in one nine hundred seventy five as a centerpiece of american policy response to the arab oil embargo of the early one nine hundred seventy s. and from one nine hundred seventy five up until now fuel economy standards are the most efficient way for not only the united states but nations all over the world to

control. gasoline consumption and so they have been wildly successful as a policy tool to not only prompt innovation in the automobile sector but deliver savings and safety standards for american consumers and global consumers and so the fuel economy standards had lagged for a bit during the one nine hundred ninety s. and then there was bipartisan legislation signed into law by president george w. bush in two thousand and seven that vastly expanded opportunities to increase fuel economy standards and that's exactly what president barack obama. first in two thousand and twelve and then in his last month of his presidency extended these fuel economy standards forward into the future so right now the united states the combined fuel economy standards of light trucks and automobiles is about thirty two

miles a gallon and under the obama proposal they were going to go from thirty two miles a gallon up to forty five miles a gallon by two thousand and twenty five what the trumpet ministration proposal would do would be to wipe out most of those games you would only see the fuel economy standards increase from the current thirty two miles a gallon up to thirty seven miles a gallon and this would be probably the most significant regulatory rollback by the trump administration in terms of its impact on increasing oil demand in the united states the estimates would be increasing demand by as much as eight hundred thousand barrels of oil per day by twenty thirty five it also would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions because the more efficient that an automobile is in its use of gasoline the less it consumes per mile driven and so you would see a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by getting rid of the increase the

trumpet ministration we're going to see increase in greenhouse gas emissions equal to the state more than seventy countries in the world yes and so this is going to have a big impact also on consumer wallets about two hundred billion dollars in increased fuel expenses by two thousand and thirty five more and what's your take and can the do you think the automakers can comply with the. the standards of the exists now not the ones that are proposed. well let's start out with currently is thirty four point five miles to the gallon is the corporate average fuel economy and right now manufacturers are coming in around the little under that can they meet that fifty five miles a gallon no only for goal lector vehicles we make cars lighter which makes them unsafe and you've got to remember what are people buying right now just look at the numbers the car sales have dropped almost five percent just in one month people buy

s.u.v.s and trucks in order to make those electric you're talking about large batteries that are powered by cobalt neodymium cadmium lithium these are all rare earth minerals and who owns all these mines china owns all these mines so we're now going to shift our ally from saudi arabia to china that's not a wise idea based on today's situation with tariffs and so forth even if that gets washed you still have a problem with what are we going to do with these batteries down the road and how are they going to affect the environment because there's no there's no way to recycle them they can only be you so long and then all these very dangerous rare earth minerals are going to be stuck somewhere stepped up like our solar panels all around the world so one of the things that the trumpet ministration had said is this is actually a relief to manufacturers yes they project out five years ten years in advance to produce products the only reason they're producing electric vehicles is because they're forced to produce electric vehicles sales of them are less than two percent the vehicles are lighter and more expensive and consumers aren't buying new cars

they're not keeping cars longer over the last four years the average car length of keeping a vehicle used to be ten years now it's fourteen years because people do still go out and buy new cars every year even though we're selling a lot of vehicles and look at the big picture if people buy less cars they're less likely to go to electric vehicles the sales aren't there the investment is not there and cost of insurance is higher on these vehicles consumers cannot take that burden so it makes sense why they did this this is actually helping consumers even though tyson doesn't think so i understand his position but i also a. stan that consumers especially in the bulk of the country don't have places to charge and they really don't want to go out and buy new vehicles every three years like some people did it we're going to have to leave it there just because of time i'm sorry we don't have more we could have gone on this for a longer time that's lauren fix the car coach and president of the north american car truck utility.