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are experiencing this. surprise that they understand it's the policies of president donald trump that that the except that the knowledge and that they're very appreciative of. a young girl from maryland who was reportedly reprimanded for nailing cheering the pledge of allegiance has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it takes courage to express disagreement with injustice eleven year old marianna taylor hopes more people will join her it's important to stand up. to us where they can disagree entirely what it is that you know for the people making the . marianna said she was inspired by an american football quarterback who knelt during the national anthem before a game in twenty sixty to protest against a racial inequality and police brutality his silent protest soon spread among the
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athletes this provoked a fiery political debate which reached all the way to the white house but you love to see one of these in a phone. when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a of the field right now out of style that was not against our anthem or our flag that was actually kneeling is a reference position responding to the girl's move the american civil rights union the old maryland schools to guarantee all students the freedom of speech without punishments meanwhile the girl's school has issued a statement saying it's not aware of any students being disciplined for such behavior but marianna says her teachers shouted at her and she left to a classroom in tears well my colleague andrew farmer discussed the issue with john loudon a former missouri republican and richard goodstein former advisor to the hillary clinton presidential campaign. football is about football schools about school and
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if you have a protest protest in a constructive way this girl can write letters to the editor she can arrange a little march but protesting in your classroom to irritate your classmate mates and virtue signal and that's what she's being taught mom's teaching her mom is so proud that her daughter's virtue signaling that she cares more than anybody else and i actually find that to make no sense when you get arrested disproportionately when you get shot disproportionately when you get put in jail just proportionally that's not just normally that's totally ruining your life so the fact you're taking to the streets is not merely disruptive you're trying to make a point in less you have a goal and something that you actually have a path to accomplish then you're just disrupting you're just being an antagonist to your fellow athletes or the fans or in this case to her classmates what does she want what's going to make her stand peace on earth and you know will we ever get to
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the point where there's no discrimination no there are bigoted people let's stipulate that there are people who are bigoted they will be bigoted forever donald trump is giving them a voice but the fact of the matter is it's not to say it's wrong for them to basically stand up for what they believe in that's what this little girl was doing that's all for politicians getting involved in this why can't we just and i. asked him perhaps n.f.l. people to protest if they want to why is it such a big deal politically the democratic party the united states gets their power on dividing people and separating us versus them there's class warfare gender warfare they want to show that everybody's got a reason for injustice and they need to vote democrat to war in order to fix it and that's all this is it's just it's pure politics. and hillary hillary clinton got a million more votes than donald trump to and her campaign theme was being together not dividing people she wasn't. mocking handicapped people she wasn't
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telling punch him in the drawer i don't pay your legal bills that's not what her team was thirteen was about bringing people together and she got millions for those exxon i'm sorry is the voters actually disagreed with you. the pentagon analyst has been stripped of his security clearance and that's after he complained about a lucrative contracts given to a man who turned out to be an f.b.i. informant spying on the trunk campaign let's get the details now from caleb maupin kaleb good to see you now we've seen much talk of people being stripped of security clearance in recent days why is this one causing such a stir. all right so we've got adam love is a twelve year pentagon specialist and he makes a complaint about what he calls the astronomically outrageous contracts that are be given being given to a former cambridge professor stefan helper he's basically saying look we're giving
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this guy over six million dollars and what is he actually doing now this is the exchange this is his attorney jim baker the director kept hope of contracts very close to the vest and nobody seems to have any idea what he was doing the time he contracted out a good chunk of it of the academics he composed them all and then collect the balance as his fee as a middle. so adam levin ger is then stripped of his security clearance now his boss who was appointed by obama has four big complaints against him he says that he made an unauthorized trip to israel he was he was taking home on classified academic papers that he was reading classified material on an airplane and that he had an authorized contacts with the government of india however love injured then files a whistleblower retaliation complaint saying that essentially he's being retaliated against for complaining about these outrageous contracts given to stefan halper now
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if you look into stefan halper it's quite interesting now we do know at this point he was an f.b.i. informant inside of the trunk campaign and furthermore he had a long time a cia history as an operative now he worked as an intelligence operative within the ronald reagan administration and furthermore he seems to have been having meetings with papadopoulos and page and the more you look into it it appears that some of the information that he provided to the f.b.i. has been used in the special counsel investigation by robert muller and that this investigation looking into allegations of collusion against donald trump was utilizing information from this university of cambridge professor who adam love a juror was saying was getting these outrageous contracts so the whole thing points to more questions you know is it possible that adam was fired for retire as
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a form of retaliation for his complaints about staff and help or why was stephanie help or receiving this six million dollars a lot of questions being opened up as we look into this case people asking why exactly adam levin juror was stripped of his security clearance and. thank you for that dates now we have contacted the department of defense for a comment on that story we're bringing to you any reply as soon as we get it plenty most still to come off of this short break to stay with us.
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same wrong. holds just don't hold the world is yet to shape out just a consequence of the end in. equals betrayal. once and many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. crazy conspiracy there there were. drum on the bus forget about the back of the buses run them over because we want rush limbaugh wonder bread. welcome back to r.t. international we're bringing you live pictures from the gaza strip and i can see on
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the screen right behind me where palestinians are continuing their protests demanding a return to what they call their homeland in israel you can see the crowds despite the huge huge amounts of smoke can tear gas around the area the great march of return on the israeli gaza border started back in march of two hundred seventy civilians have since been killed in those demonstrations israel says that a mass which it regards as a terrorist organization is behind these demonstrations are using them as a cover for illicit activities we're going to be bringing you all the latest from the gaza strip throughout the day. a palestinian journalist has been arrested by the israel defense forces for filming soldiers and allegedly inciting violence alley darley live streamed two videos on facebook of israeli soldiers operating in ramallah now filming i.d.f. soldiers is illegal in israel filming an officer with intent to undermine the
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spirit of the army is punishable by up to five years in jail the i.d.f. adds that the man they arrested was in fighting violence against the state of israel and the army gaza based reporter hint who dari has the details. a palestinian journalist has been arrested for filming i.d.f. soldiers israeli forces raided his home just a day after he lost you videos on his facebook page of the i.d.f. drawing up a plan of a palestinian home a procedure typically done before demolishing the building the man filmed and edited videos of i.d.f. troops during the course of their operational activities while encouraging violence towards them and incited attacks directed at the state of israel and i.d.f. troops. and we were sleeping when we heard a knock at the door in the middle of the night we woke up and opened the door they told us their soldiers they asked me whose house is it i said it's muhammad ali's
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then they asked to lives upstairs i said it's allah dharavi so they went upstairs and arrested him he told me mom don't be afraid i hope i won't stay there for long she's not guilty i'm sure he's not we went to the court and they told us they were prolonging his detention dar ali is a well known palestinian journalist working as a correspondent for the palestine broadcasting corporation the agency is calling for the immediate release of the chip or to end states israel is targeting the palestine media these measures are intended to silence the palestinian voice and in the pictures so that israel can commit its crimes without any noise is the latest in the number of journalists arrested in palestine within the past two weeks. staying in the region palestinian rocket mc gaza has risen to fame after filming a music video during the great march of return he dedicated the song to his friend a journalist killed during that march we spoke to the musician.
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and the mrs low blow. no but i. just want to. you know we just were a little bit in the world. are you because the most was just my phone so it just seemed like they want to steal my music here because i believe it's it was the easy for them. while the wedding of a country's foreign minister wouldn't normally generate many headlines but it seems that's not the case if a certain person flatmate putin's only guest list well that's precisely what's
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happening in austria on sunday and not everyone's happy about it is paid to all of a. president vladimir putin will be the guest of honor at the wedding of austrian foreign minister. and businessman. and the luxury that they'll be getting married out just to the south of garth's in austria president putin is expected to arrive by plane early morning on saturday he'll be then traveling by helicopter to the place where the wedding is taking place there is talk of a carriage ride also going on but i think that might be more for the happy couple and not something that mr putin will be taking part in from the austrian side they've confirmed that the usual security protocol will be in place for the arrival of guess store a visitor of the stature of the russian president but it his arrival in his saying is acceptance of the invitation has provoked a controversial reaction a lot of the press across austria and across europe saying what does this mean of
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putin's extended an invitation to the wedding of a cabinet member of an e.u. nation well what we've seen for in reaction terms is from the head chef of the place where the events taking place well he says he wants a selfie with the russian president however what we've also heard is from a green party m.e.p. in austria saying that the fact that mrs is can i sell invited vladimir putin in the first place means that she needs to step down from her position in the foreign ministry for mr nigel bears responsibility for this and should in order to avert any bad consequences for austria immediately resign if she does not do so voluntarily chancellor because should today suggest to the president that he sack been confirmed that the invite was extended back in june while vladimir putin was on a visit to vienna he's making this is part of a stop off on route here to lynn for an important meeting with german chancellor
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angela merkel rest social appearance though from vladimir putin in western europe in recent times since twenty. fourteen and since relations between the west and russia took a downturn over the ongoing situation in ukraine we haven't seen much of them coming to places like austria germany in fact on social visits but the austrian foreign ministry it says that this is clearly untrue private visit that they'll be you know journalists in attendance that will be no politics discussed that's sometimes easier said than done especially when austrian chancellor. is also on the invite list almost certainly he will meet with vladimir putin at some point during the wedding it's unknown of course what they will be discussing there but when it comes to relate the relationship between austria and russia it's certainly been far warmer than most other western european nations in fact if you look at the script
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power poisoning case just recently vienna was one of the few russian capitals not to expel any russian diplomats over that but while it's certainly a private affair while vladimir putin is in austria at this wedding it's very much a business affair later in the day for him it's unlikely we're going to see any pictures from that wedding of lot of me appeared on the dance floor beginning into the night because around six pm he's due to be here in berlin where he'll be meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and thanks for choosing r.t. international for the latest join and to find that at the top of the hour. it's like saying you're free thinkers in the service it's first place just great and you finish your piece is your persecution does exist i mean.
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i don't we're not cricket bomb up in the. dirt. that that. was so you're leaving the rail link up. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would
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prefer it be to limit that penalty just because i think that's the mayor think the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict respond innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no way that doesn't mean that we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.
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this is bone bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thanks for being on board with us coming up to date there's lots of earnings news ahead as the dow jones industrial average grows over four hundred points about reading you right now we'll give you the numbers at the close and there's hope that there's a deal on the u.s. trying to trade war that might in be available in the near term future plus our to correspondent trinity charges reports from new york on samsung and the new note nine phone it's not sold novel plus she's back lauren fix the car coach joins us to talk to us live as the u.s. securities and exchange commission has some seen and some companies following c.e.o. elon musk market moving tweet plus there is a new news on vehicles with those of mission cheating devices and one european
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country now says owners can't even have their vehicles registered while lauren will help us sort it all out and there's new cold war news between coca-cola and pepsi co the battleground is the eight billion dollars sports beverage market steve malzberg joins us to discuss there's a lot to get to but first let's get to a few stories topping today's financial and business headlines. lots of earnings news out as wal-mart's latest figures are catching the eyes of market watchers the arkansas based u.s. retailer beat expectations on revenues same store sales increases and earnings per share revenue was up three point eight percent to one hundred twenty eight billion dollars and same source sales were up four point five percent and earnings per share were one dollar in twenty nine cents a share of the wall. mart stock rose ten percent holy cow on the report one important bright spot for wal-mart now especially in the future is their reported forty percent growth in online sales and we've noted here wal-mart's acquired the
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online retailer flipkart in the u.k. or in india rather as a vehicle to enter that market earlier this year more recently walmart contracted to feature clothing from get this high end retailer lord and taylor. and other earnings news some of wal-mart's retail rivals have also reported j.c. penney's out today the new numbers there were a bit of a mirror image to wal-mart's falling short of expectations the familiar but faded retail reported two point seven six billion dollars in revenue a two hundred million dollar drop in the second quarter of twenty from twenty seventeen and losses per share came to thirty eight cents well above the expected six cents company's stock lost nearly a quarter of its value on the news and rival macy's reported a one percent fall in revenue to five point five seven billion dollars that figure slightly beat expectations while earnings per share of seventy cents were well
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above expectations the fifty cents sales at stores open more than one year were up by half a percent b.b. expectations of a point nine percent decline. and turning to other company earnings right hailing service over reported a sixty three percent increase in net sales reaching two point three eight billion dollars for q two of twenty eighteen versus one point seven billion for q two of last year and good news for drivers and other employees i suppose their revenues were up by over two billion dollars to eight point two billion and meanwhile tech multinational cisco systems as reported a record setting figure for quarterly revenue it twelve point eight billion for q two the year over year increase of over a billion dollars is expected and stock rose six percent on the news cisco security posted its growth of twelve percent rising to six hundred twenty seven million dollars cisco seems poised for even greater growth in that area after recently acquiring the michigan based tech security firm duo.
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industrial average did rise nearly four hundred points three hundred ninety six points at the closing bell with some strong earnings news we've been discussing and there is new hope that a deal related to u.s. china trade work could come sooner than anticipated here discuss that and more is the c.e.o. of quill intelligence danielle de martino both danielle we always have you on exciting days and you provide us with this important intel thanks for being with us i mean the good news is that this data seems to indicate us back to that with the retailers are doing pretty well rev of the retailers so that's pretty much helping isn't it. oh it certainly is i think that a lot of what we're seeing today in this monster rally which is the biggest in four months has to do with with two levels of uncertainty being torn back and that is
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obviously china saying it was going to send a trade delegation to the united states at the end of this month and then of course qatar providing a fifteen billion dollar infusion into the turkish into the turkish economy which was desperately need it so we've actually seen the turkish lira up for three days running now but again bart it's that uncertainty that has been plaguing markets they haven't known what's going to happen in turkey with a potential trade war with china and those both of those worries went away today on top of all of the great earnings news that you've just gone through you know i mean when you when market participants look at these things i mean look you know i don't lot of traders so do you i mean traders like to trade on any little bit of information they have so you know i've told people and i said earlier today on another broadcast a look i hope this all works out i want to be positive but you know i can't even tell you exactly what the goal is to be articulated here but you know i know that
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you have looked and i'm so pleased with your new effort danielle quill intelligence and your daily feather which we love reading here a boom bust but you spent a lot of time looking at emerging markets like turkey and when you look at that and you say well least we've sort of settled with the qatar infusion of cash and to turkey is sort of a set of the layers demise from these historic lows but what is that turkish central bank that the government could do or is the economy just too terribly troubled. well i think the turkish economy is in a very bad way because the central bank of turkey cannot do anything the president in turkey has made it abundantly clear that he is in control of the central bank and i think that the take away what we should be learning from what's happened in turkey is that politics and central banks have good reason to be independent of one
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another so that the central bankers can come in in times of distress and do what needs to be done. i took a deep dive this week into other countries that are that are similarly at risk and a lot of it comes down to for example brazil and a new scandal broke out there today that's not going to help their economy again politics and economics clashing with one another because aca stan has got a big presidential election coming up in twenty nineteen that instability and the fact that the country has a lot of dollar denominated debt as does turkey of course these are the risk factors i think investors should be paying attention to going forward because i do think that turkey is probably just a sign of what is to come in the coming years and we you know turkey surpassed for the viewers that don't know surpassed the worst performing economy i guess went lower than the worst performing currency rather and and that was the
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venezuelan ball of our news out today is that they've made a payment to a mining company using a government bonds i guess you know rather than cash in this appears to be sort of the first instance that that's been done since last year when the u.s. place those economic sanctions on the nation which prohibited those sorts of transactions and i noticed danielle that u.s. court last week said that creditors could actually go after cit that's the most valuable asset in the country so venezuela turkey a lot of these are merging economies are slowing all of the world down because they've taken so far i guess a twenty percent drop it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon does it. you know it does not look like it's going to end anytime soon and a lot of it goes back to to my former employer the federal reserve and signs that jay powell is going to continue tightening policy raising rates that's going to put further upward pressure on the u.s. dollar and every time the u.s.
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dollar strengthens it seems to try and take a country down with it which again is a reflection of this this debt binge that the world is bent on in recent years and amassing as the i.m.f. recently reported over eleven trillion dollars in dollar denominated debt they know that these these headlines are not going away as you indicate and desperate countries will end up doing desperate things i've never owned a million years heard of a government trying to make a payment with a bond but again the value of the ball the bar is basically worthless and there is no central bank that can get in the way of inflation that is upwards of four digit gains we've just got a little bit of time danielle but you know speaking of your former employer the u.s. federal reserve i want to ask you about an economic indicator that did come out yesterday the day before and that's industrial capacity which shows that essentially we're staying about even i think it was the same as as last month but is industrial
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capacity sort of a key economic indicator that your former colleagues and others at the fed will be looking at when they consider these additional two interest rate hikes for the rest of the year. well there certainly going to be paying attention to the manufacturing sector and the capacity at which it's running it is still below its long term average which is fairly remarkable given that we're in the second longest economic expansion in u.s. history you would think that we would have at least come back to utilizing the same amount of our capacity that we have in prior cycles but that is not the case and yes i can tell you that policymakers and federal reserve do rightly pay attention to industry production to capacity utilization and they will be looking for any signs of weakness in that sector danielle de martino gosh we love it when you come and the news breaks and you're here to help us all out thank you so much danielle do you want to know both the c.e.o. of google intelligence and write the daily feather thanks danielle thank you very
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much. and there's more earnings news and there's a little bit more of the met here with a look at samsung the south korean manufacturer telephone manufacturer and other technologies smart t.v.'s. is there a trinity church office from new york who has something on their new not novel note knowing that certain new phone samsung is making some big loops and it's planning on investing billions of dollars into new growth areas south korea's largest conglomerate samsung group is planning to invest around twenty two billion dollars over the next three years into five g. and a technology led mostly by samsung electronics the investment would be a part of samsung's overall one hundred sixty one billion dollar investment plans that include capital expenditure research and development and of that total around one hundred thirty billion dollars will be spent in south korea alone the investments include forty.

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