tv Documentary RT August 16, 2018 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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and so for them to support. or better times to come for the whole crew of the excitement sure it's goodbye for most. of. our top stories on our t.v. a wave of fire bombings hit sweden just weeks before parliamentary elections prompting intense speculation everything started the well organized attacks. also donald trump revokes the security clearance of former cia director john brennan
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citing his erratic contacts and behavior and threatens a number of other former officials with the same. armed gunmen stormed a military intelligence center and coupled with the city still mourning thirty four people killed in wednesday's suicide bombing at a school by islamic state and the economic standoff between ankara and washington gets worse to expand their anger by destroying their i say. you're watching us he international law is from moscow good to have you with us c'est more than one hundred cars have been set ablaze across sweden three weeks ahead of the september elections it's believed the fire bombings were coordinated as. takes a look at the at the timing of the arson attacks and how they are stoking tensions ahead of the electoral rates. it's not even dark people look out their windows and
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see this. the first train of thought the locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out a word a few moments later they erupt in sheer fury and they scream. thinks . their next thought is it even safe to leave their homes now the hooded thugs smash up and burn mostly cars they know what they're doing when they know how to do it the art team in the last few days there were almost identical scenes everywhere you see a flame i can swedish media say at least about one hundred cars are now burnt out pieces of metal police have made a number of arrests but basically the country still in the dark about who's behind
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the menace and was overthrown for it. you can see. it from here. in about three weeks swedes will be voting for their new parliament well now politicians there have more things to worry about than stuff like their election promos before the most any custom have the question has to be asked of those people and if this what the heck were you doing what do you think you are born as you destroy the whole area for the neighbors for the children on their way to a free school you have to see burns out because we're going to be hard response from society any of us are somewhat strong words but not as emotional as society which clearly wants the ones in charge to get it sorted.
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such neighborhood disasters don't come out of nowhere when it comes to all kinds of street crime lately sweden's been getting less and less safe last time i was attacked by my people and they took my old bike cold and there are increased number of shootings has gotten worse in every way police man said that he had never experienced anything like this for change just as if. it is not the sweetest and when the years of ignoring the trends backfired literally with flames some of the swedish elite chose not to talk about the state rather they came up with conspiracies or in other words pointed the finger at right wing extremists some quote unquote dark forces. they want the elections to be about arsons they want to fuel discussed and fear i hope the whole thing is not orchestrated by the dark forces that threaten our democracy and our independence. last night's events
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with my mom flashed before the election while well organized did not surprise me if the extreme right were involved in some way a false flag by the extreme right version is popular among some journalists to. visit inside desperate theories to explain the attacks including blaming them on questions trying to ferment invest before the election. sweden democrats sympathises a running around in the suburbs burning cars in a coordinated action to direct criticism of the suburbs population in the hope of favoring s.d. to make sure sweden can dodge any russian efforts to screw up its election stockholm has even splashed out on the media so that they could wipe out the never ending fake news that was only to be hit by a wave of homegrown conspiracies before the police had at least something solid for
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the public ilya betraying co r.t.e. . swedish police say similar attacks have happened in several towns in previous years but on a far smaller scale we spoke to swedish democratic campaign can't occur off his party sparked controversy with this anti immigration stance he says people are starting to realize their country is not as safe as they thought. the situation in sweden i started to strip out in the international arena when people suddenly realize whoops sweden is not a nice little country thought it was but now realize what the hell happened to sweden and so this has been on for a long time we have made you our sins and wired many years back i just saw some statistics that. our son. in cars with intent. has gone up from twelve to thirty percent from nine hundred sixty seven to
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one thousand five hundred cases a year or something and i mean it's been going up in actual numbers too. now the former cia chief john brennan has hit back after donald trump revoked his security clearance brennan claims the president simply calls take criticism that's why the president revoked my security clearance to try to soilent anyone who would challenge him mr trump's claims of no collusion are in a word hope wash. as though it many other officials can now suffer the same face with the details has. exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information sara sanders spoke to press and she said the decision to revoke brennan's clearance was based on his erratic conduct and behavior of defending the move as an effort to secure classified info from someone who has helped foment division in the past and clearly has very partisan leanings
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the most divisive president an individual who basically portrayed his nation he routinely lies betray the women of the f.b.i. he deceived and betrayed the american public and he misrepresents the facts and reality is a betrayal of the nation but this is not abnormal president john brennan left his position as director of the cia back in january twenty seventeen and he now serves as m s n b c's senior national security and intelligence analyst but this whole debacle began last month when senator rand paul called brennan's motives into question asking if he had been profiting off of his clearance by divulging secrets to the mainstream media his exact words he even met with trump asking him to revoke the clearances of not only brennan but i feel other prominent political figures i'm a valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter struck lisa
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page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the most important things that have happened in u.s. politics in recent years is there's been a realisation that everything is political in other words that the federal bureau of investigation the cia the n.s.a. all of these u.s. agency is not about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like broadening komi intervening in the public debate that these organizations and individuals. with very considerable politics they are clearly very empty trond has been all along when they were in office and continue to be now and i think that's very problematic for the united states because what it means is that. these these institutions that were once seen as being the terra just because it's a little being questioned i think it's a good thing that they're being questioned because they haven't been there and just
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but it's also very disruptive to the american system as. the u.s. says economic sanctions against take a will remain in place even if and correct released if an american past being held on suspicion of terrorism offenses that softer both sides imposed said the tariffs on each other meanwhile some techs of chosen to smash up that i phones in protest at washington's economic warfare. going to. want to go home understood. they have not proven to be a good friend they have a great christian pastor there is a very innocent man. stepping in on take a side that i was could top which is just approved fifteen billion dollars in aid
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to prop up the take a shaquana me on course who has been looking at how the decades old alliance between the us is being tested to breaking point. she was built the entire entire roof so no leading goes to great tree do you as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing heritage as your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you any longer what countries could he mean or stealing could it be turkey the country's lira shed a quarter of its value against the dollar in just one week after trump's tweet about doubling existing tariffs investors are running away screaming inflation surging and turkey's leadership is bracing for an all out trade war the reason for such a calamity against an old nato friend was ankara's refusal to release an american pastor accused of both terrorism and espionage it's punishment time for
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a rebellious ally the tariffs that are in place on steel would not be removed with the release of castor brunson and president heard a wand lashed out in defiance calling the u.s. move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback but turkey is just one example of how the trumpet ministration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult to move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that wasn't bad enough the us president went and slapped tariffs on europe today i'm defending america's national security. by
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placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum brussels tried to hit back with restrictions of its own tried to appeal to the transatlantic solidarity special relations bonds of friendship but to no avail and it begs the question with such a long list of enemies the us is currently fighting from iran to north korea russia china why kick your allies we have to move with talks about putting america first because its allies also it with america first to handle their own interests and this is beginning i think decouple some of america's most obviously he's really trying to assert american leadership and perhaps we've tended to think of it with arc of aggressiveness in recent years you can probably military involvement suppose like afghanistan iraq and so on but you know we're going to trump perhaps is less inclined to want to use military power but he wants to show that americans to the
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house particularly financial who get money in the world competitors like beijing and moscow attempting to pack as much heat as the u.s. these days sanctioning and scaring everyone in view may be the only way for the u.s. to impose its will on friend and foe alike donald quarter r.t. . still to come on the arrest of two young women and led to me plotting a cave has left the russian media in a frenzy that story and more after a short break. on saturday irresponsible lobbyist accessing unlimited credit from an irresponsible federal reserve bank you have the infinite regress that you saw with the out money starting in the one nine hundred seventy s. and now insurance companies selling insurance on insurance contracts i don't charge
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contracts on insurance contracts with another bureaucrat another bureaucrat is infinite regress. when all is true seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape our disdain comes to advocate and indeed for many equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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