singh for now evidence as to why that being imposed now and the u.s. has already implemented measures you might remember that around sixty diplomats were expelled by the u.s. last spring when this saga fest escalated but when questions at the press conference the state department officials didn't mention any fair the reasoning behind the sanctions whether this was because of old evidence or new evidence let's take a listen to what they had to say there are you getting the conclusion that for she's behind the screen poisoning i would leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the screen. we've been very clear that we agree with the assessment that it was a joke agent and that the perpetrator was ultimately the russian federation i'll leave it to others to give those kinds of details of what we currently understand obviously from reading the press it appears that their investigation is ongoing in terms of the scope and nature of the details and its implications but i'll leave that to others the key words there from the officials where

a leave it to others to give the details so whether the u.s. wants the u.k. to disclose further evidence behind the attack remains to be seen and the u.s. is now skating around the reasoning at the moment issuing fresh sanctions without fresh evidence and all the while russian officials here in moscow keep asking for transparency for evidence of keeps asking can russia be involved in this investigation and yet we do understand the basis of the yukos evidence still falls on the quote highly likely stance well the case views on this always has been highly likely that russia is behind this attack saying that only russia has the motives the means and the record to target the school policy and moreover as well moscow has repeatedly denied involvement with this offering offering like you said cooperation on the investigation which london has repeatedly denied but so far we know that the chemical weapons watchdog the a.p. c.w. and porton down haven't been. able to confirm the origin of the nerve agent we have

not verified the press a source but we provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish at porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide aid you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular near future is but it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured to be clear your not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that neither the deists novices nor the o.p.c. w.'s report i did too far as the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and now we're left with this highly likely stance from the u.k. and the u.s. is issuing this fresh round of sanctions but we haven't seen any new information come to light here in the sanctions that thought to be imposed on or around august

the twenty second in the meantime the u.k. prime minister's office has the new batch of u.s. sanctions on russia the russian embassies saying it only wants transparency it still asks can we please to be a part of this investigation by the russian embassy calling it these sanctions describing them as draconian measures. these things and haven't been imposed yet but the announcement has already impacted on the russian economy with the ruble plummeting to its lowest level for years christine urban a chairman of business association free market study t. says though not much can be read into the fore. i don't think the impact will be so big because up to the present us russia traitor lation are not that big actually. and still have already been damaged by past sanctions so there are overlapping of sanctions actually maybe most most importantly you should also look at their fact on the you because up to now in many cases do you followed.

us in terms of sanctions and obviously they your relations with russia more economic relations with russia are more intense than the u.s. relations because you and the russia have economic alim are complimentary in the terms of the products they deliver. a tunnel used by jihadists in syria has been turned into a monument dedicated to those who helped defeat the terrorists local artists carved out sculptures on the walls of the former high that.

facebook may have closer ties to washington than previously thought and now emerged the social media giants relying on experts funded by branches of the u.s. government and nato when it comes to tracking foreign influence lippa trying to explain its. how's that for a mark zuckerberg nightmare he or his team in front of a horde of suits go and sort these russian bots out sort out the fakes sort them out or did i just paint a good picture of the reality web giants of been facing lately in the past election you. we've seen how foreign actors are abusing social media platforms those images that can be attributed or associated with the russian company lack of resources a lack of commitment and a lack of genuine effort the likes of zogby could have proudly said we're just

a platform where independent and sorting out what you call fakes is none of our business but when wall street alarm bells are ringing you know how it can happen with the stocks it could be better to zip it and focus on an intense year. see if we stick to be the tough year began with. news feed algorithm the trick was to boost posts with let's say pics of your friends cat and sideline all that politics related media stuff haha they say this lead to less views likes and comments under donald trump's posts move it on facebook has evolved from policing offensive content to policing news views ideas it can be anything apart from your friend's cat if people flag them as potential hoaxes we send those to fact checkers and if those factor. that is provably false then we will

significantly reduce the distribution of that content why do you want to just say get off our platform will look as a porn to some of this content can be i do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice eventually though the get off our platform way to sort things out still prevailed ok and now. it's time to meet the fact checkers journalists have found them in a tiny room at these guys' h.q. got it at the end of the day facebook's not so happy with that online policeman's hat so zuck and co are outsourcing the digital share locks i'm being serious that's what they call themselves who are let me check where they come from. linked to nato with their help thirty two suspicious pages have already been sorted out the big ship is not turned around overnight takes a while but i think that the have now given the opportunity to work with them and i

hope that in the months when we have at least three other platforms in that we will see. a willingness to collaborate with us to come up with a solution bravo and it's not just facebook for doing just as great one question though since already most americans head to social media to get their news when will freedom of speech ring a bell political commentator brian logan says the left is moving to get rid of undesirable views on social media platforms. feels like the only people they have the right to speak out are those who agree with the leftist principles if you are against lefties ideology in any kind of way they find a way to demonize you they call you a conspiracy theories they say it is you're promoting fake news we're coming more under the control of big corporations and a lot of these people who are in the government and corporations are kind of working together to colluding with each other any kind of extra regulation from the

federal government will most certainly impact freedom of speech online it's going to be a battle to try and corral the internet back and kind of the mainstream media. form a where you get your news reader for you and you don't have any kind of dissenting view points. new u.s. poll suggests the reputation of news organizations is in decline has found that more than a quarter of american citizens now think the president should have the power to close media out listing to be behaving badly and he's got him open took to the streets of new york to get opinions on freedom of speech. the american media just can't get over the anime of the people label first slapped onto it by donald trump a little while back anime of the people i think crosses a line i think it's reckless i respectfully ask that and this is a phrase that has a long historic provenance it goes back to the french revolution it goes back to stalin to now when the president attacks journalists we question his motivation at

this point you could dismiss the comments simply as media oversensitivity or biased against donald trump however whether it's media partisanship or trumps behavior it seems pretty clear that public support for freedom of the press is stark now at this point less than half of americans say they believe the mainstream media is working hard to engage in honest reporting now what's more shocking is that twenty six percent of americans more than a quarter say they believe that the president should have the authority to. shut down any media outlet that isn't gauging in what they call bad behavior now it's not surprising that most of these lidia's haters are republicans and it's no secret what outlets they want shut down. do you think that's surprising to you do you think a lot of americans agree that the media outlets should be shut down i do i think they're smart if you're smart and you have a good mindset where you see different things that you would know things like that

obviously should be shut down especially if they're not telling the whole story that's a joke that's a joke once again this go back to page one of the press. to in a pretty good twenty six percent mean that you know the constitution i'll be brought me i don't think the pressure be closed down but doesn't mean we have to read it or pay attention to it i just block it out. i don't really know what their definition of bad behavior means if there is a clear definition of bad behavior and no maybe i'd agree with that statement more of course if they're imposing by always or inciting some kind of peaceful motion that i don't agree with them and then maybe they should be looked at more in depth but in terms of shutting them down often you jerk reactions no i don't agree with it now seems that the first amendment is the first thing that many americans want to be amending. r.t. new york. the people of illinois are demanding the return of

a sacred statue taken more than one hundred years ago by the british navy it was presented as a gift to queen victoria before eventually ending up in the british museum where it's currently on display on things on the situation and asked visitors if it should be handed back. hosting an estimated eight million objects the british museum is one of the world's best known collections of art history and culture and often the subject a fiery debate about whether all chicks sourced during the british empire is colonial times should be returned to where they came from. the latest dispute ironically involves a statue called lost or stolen friend

a fitting name to the indigenous people of easter island or trying to recover a unique figure taken one hundred fifty years ago and given to queen victoria who then give to get to the museum this is reportedly being negotiated as we speak. the circumstances have changed and we heard that there's a possibility to discuss the stones are trying to chile with the museum and the british government the british museum attracts scores of tourists so it's not surprising the museum is putting up a fight claiming their better preserved under its own watch sometimes offering temporary loans as a compromise but what do the visitors think let's find out sooner really speaking i would say it should be returned i think it's a heritage says just of history we thought over this whole kind of colonialist british empire thing and stuff nice theory but it's rare and this museum is very well operated and very well you know so i i think like staying here would be

edified so you're leaning a little bit more towards letting them stay here. i stand firmly on the fence i mean i can see the benefits of post to be honest i mean if they went away we wouldn't see them here and we would have to appreciate do you think it's realistic to expect that a place like this would return some of the you know that some of the most famous pieces are ones that were. kind of brought here under question of only rosetta stone they mean are you aware that. in the wake of government plans to change the constitution and white farmers of the land some south african politicians are looking for more black emancipation and you parties made headlines the burning whites and forests from becoming members or a slip picks up the story after the death of nelson mandela there has been an increase in racial politics and incitement here in south africa and now as the country starts preparing for elections to be held at the beginning of next year one new party has emerged that only for black people the massive african congress says

that its goal is to restore the ideals of african people it's gone as far as to say our membership is not open to anything that looks white this is a far cry from how mandela saw the rainbow nation you have to look to it in the cities and so i don't think it's a good concept i don't think it's something that will work here though going backwards obviously by just like that to assure in the low the new south africa most parties are fighting for is unity in south africa but not having a party that now takes only black people sort of like promotes racism it's become popular in south africa particularly among the white community to talk about reverse racism in other words discrimination against white people whereas once people of color who deny jobs education and political power the tables have now turned and many whites complain of being overlooked because of black economic empowerment policies ironically many south africans once felt they were not quite enough today there are those who feel they are not black enough police they are t.

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he was talking there and the guy we're going to. close. well we got insurance that's going to come up in this story because it's a very important point about hierarchy of needs but we're going to start with this tweet here from the washington post jeff stein and he's pointing to a remarkable fact from a piece from the atlantic dot com he being jeff bezos needs to spend roughly twenty eight million dollars a day just to keep from accumulating more wealth the atlantic article he points to is jeff bezos one hundred fifty billion dollars fortune is a policy failure growing inequality in the united states shows that the game is rigged to bezos clicks of very small salary and pays only capital gains max and yet amazon also paid zero federal tax last year and it's spent twenty million dollars

a day to avoid paying federal taxes just to prevent himself from accumulating more wealth so just on his he's earning twenty more than twenty million dollars a day well i mean he's got a a monopoly position and he is milking that monopoly quite aggressively but nobody can compete with them you know warren buffett's. never never give so i'm like jeff. bezos a seventy year head start wal-mart they're now trying to train their overworked low paid associates to make deliveries. or work on their way home that's their solution to jeff because. they're basically mimicking his model where many have already talked about it we're not going to discuss that today but where his workers are underpaid and also basically abuse their bathroom breaks if you know they've got a hernia it's on a bathroom break because you have to do it fast and they're like i was really you

know constipated earlier and got a hernia that i found relief though that's what the carnivora diet will do to you that's a jimmy song told me i'm going to see jimmy song i'm going to have it to talk about this i don't feel right but as importantly the atlantic. themselves refer to it as that this is the game is rigged kaiser report of course has said this for the past ten years here and then we get like shunned by the us media who are now saying yeah ok basically kaiser report was right all of this jeff bezos wealth happened under both democrat and republican administrations where this wealth and income gap grow so i want to point to their right where jeff bezos wealth comes from the whole east coast the pacific west coast. i think i might have said east

coast at first but i meant the west coast and it says east coast west coast i'm out reminds me to pack and biggie you know they had a serious war going on and you know two back was murdered so this is jeff bezos over on the west coast it's the new form of affordable housing more people are living in their cars with rents on the rise cities are grappling with a growing population of quote this peculiar homelessness a way of life considered illegal in many places across the west coast just the past year twenty thousand more people joined the ranks of these homeless without any sort of shelter and not even in. homo shelters so they're living in their cars or the living on the streets in downtown san francisco los angeles portland or seattle but what i want to point to regarding what you had started off the show by throwing i remember she i remember it distinctly and i'm out of shoes i only have two feet i can't do it again and the point is why did we invade iraq because i'm going to get

into that after this quote this is a quote from sarah rankin a professor at seattle university of law and she says what do we do with people whose basic physiological needs are not being met like what i was referring to earlier about constipation exactly when in fact she said goes on to say when we think about people who are living in their vehicles are they able to sleep eat poop and breathe safely we have to start asking what needs to be done so i don't mean to me to ask the question as jeff bezos would do you go to amazon dot com and you can get a vehicular model that has a poop attachment right there in the vehicle oil yeah toilet exactly so precisely went to the toilet it's right there in the vehicle so you know and it's got a layaway plan so if you're amazon prime you know he'll ship it to you by drone and you could be living in your pupil bill in the next morning hours he'll make another

you know billion dollars and life is great in america so you know who the give credit where credit is due so here's an economy where jeff bezos earned over fifty billion dollars this year alone in the first six months of this year to put that into context jack ma is worth less than what. jeff bezos earned just this year so that's the context of how much this guy is earning a one year in the meantime the entire west coast where he and his resistance or it's like remember jeff bezos owns the washington post where democracy dies in darkness and the resistance is strong and yet where they control much of the economy people are living in cars and you know these sort of professors at seattle university are concerned about where these people are pooping but the path that this you meant a physiological needs reminded me of mass knows mass los hierarchy of needs this is the bottom most basic need physiological needs above that is safety of

course our government says that's their only concern is our safety and that's why we have a trillion dollar defense budget and homeland security and t.s.a. who apparently follow americans all over the place but that's another story and then above that is love belonging esteem and self actualization love to yes or no. top. or low muffin. hierarchy i mean you know it's like getting their physiological needs met julian assange over there that's what i don't remember see if he dies journalism dies if julie and we all die a little bit we're all julia in a song. keep that in mind sucker but the point is i want to talk about is that massless hierarchy of needs and here are thousands and tens of thousands of people americans on the west coast who can't who cannot meet those

basic needs now my sources tell me that massless hierarchy of needs that chart there is used by our u.s. intelligence agencies ok member number two is defense and safety right that our own us intelligence agencies use that chart when looking at when to start to topple or coup other governments so if like haiti when when haitians were eating mud pies that's a good time to overthrow their government and installed our own and then let a crisis go to was obviously our elites are not stupid obviously these journalists and people on cable news shouting know that these hierarchy of needs and that is the logic that jeff bezos has a war on people that there is no logical need is being exploited by the corporation in the largest monopoly because he ends up putting these people in these highly stressed positions know what i'm saying is the breakdown that we're witnessing and

that you and i have been talking about here in kaiser report for the past year is that what they know they know those if those basic physiological needs are not being met that leaves the entire economy and political system vulnerable and they know that because that's how they look at all their political systems so they know we're vulnerable because of that so that's why they're coming up with all these that's why there's a genuine panic when you look at cable news it is genuine panic and i think this is part of it oh you mean we're all stance hey you know it's. you know safety is number two but that's obviously wrong because number two should be why five you know that is definitely needed and also what is at the top self actualization that's very karl. the union is then i mean this is a lot of psychobabble who wrote this like some academic princeton grad student now that's from decades ago but the point is obviously like once your basic

physiological needs are met once you can sleep and eat and poop then you start to think about ok how do i make my house safer how do i make my economy or my community safe and then you then you're concerned about love and you see that across the world like you know the whole fact that we have these trigger warnings and safe rooms here and that's a very high need like you that's a an economy in a culture where that everything is already taken care of for a certain sector of people so they have so to most of the world they look crazy because they're still worried about where they're going to put that and i think about philosophy that was an almost invented by descartes who simply you know got this entire pyramid chart down to i think therefore i am and that was that people had to go on for hundreds of years you know during the whole history of philosophy well now act a little trick and pyramid this being exploited by terrorists like jeff bezos is milking the system and buying influential newspapers and bribing politicians and

creating it dystopian nightmare people living in their cars so that he can be like he has more money than he would ever mean with it doesn't want to do it all i mean it's like he's horny he's a hoarder there's people who are from books in their apartment and they just they can't live there anymore because there's nothing but phone books this guy is like just around he's hoarding cash is the nothing to do with it he's just a hoarder i want to quickly turn to the last headline which i think ties together all of those growing wealth gap between young and old remember jeff bezos newspaper washington post as democracy dies in darkness and one thing you could say about democracy is you know the more vote you have the more you win and the more you gain and we've seen the baby boomers turning sixty five as of what two or three years ago and this growing wealth and income gap is really down to age so they said that elderly households have much greater wealth in child households which is to be expected because older households have had more time to accumulate wealth the trouble lies in the growing gap between the two types of households in one thousand

nine hundred eighty nine elderly.