well we ways we spoke to a matter of form m i five intelligence officer who says that whistleblowers in the us and not receiving fair treatment i think we have to await the outcome of his trial or of his case just to see what the actual facts might be however it does raise some interesting concerns one of course the overreliance of the u.s. intelligence agencies on contracting out their work and the huge amounts of money that are there by paid to contractors usually friends of whatever ministration is in power secondly of course we have to think about what actually happens to whistleblowers in the u.s. because they've had a really rough time those coming out of the intelligence agencies over the last decade and the americans say they have this procedure where whistleblowers can can raise their concerns and they will be properly addressed and yet we see time and time again that they're not so i think we need also to consider what might be the best path for whistleblowers to have confidence that if they have concerns about crime or about corruption they will be heard. the investigation will occur those

who might be needed to be held to account will be held to account but the whistleblower will not be penalized and it appears from this case the whistleblower yet again has been penalized. russia is at its again now the claim in a new article in the u.s. magazine the atlantic it says the kremlin has sat its sights fairly on meddling in the upcoming midterm elections. the russian government has one overriding objective with regards to the united states to weaken america so that it loses its will and ability to counter russian objectives well the article goes on to explain russia's three steps to break american democracy first take russian hackers and get them into fear seconds by corrupt us politicians and support those who think favorably of pay said that lant it believes this very channel helps undermine democracy by inviting them guests here death to be different they name brands and straka as an example he's the founder of

a movement encouraging democrats to walk away from that policy but the atlantic a pest to forget we own the only one he talks to. well i i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberals friends drake is spent years as a liberal he now says he's concerned by what the left has become well before the election i was already starting to feel uncomfortable with where we were headed in terms of identity politics and p.c. culture. political commentator leinil told us what he thinks is driving such a rush articles. nobody ever calls these people to task they are paid for by volume or how many likes to do you get how many clicks hey that was a great article factually incorrect. factually

a baseless and also the mentality just feeding frenzy of this this monster this mob this monster that you must feed constantly with us no rush no nato no bad guy no bogeyman so there's many reasons why the bogeyman the strawman the specter the evil image of russia must be maintained because it fills because somebody talks about the time the power of nightmares it was horrible b.b.c. documentary and you need something to fear you need something and historically in this post cold war a red baiting this russo phobic hysteria feeds into this is well and there's an audience for it. now for the protests have erupted in the gaza strip with palestinian demonstrators demanding a ten of what they call the hand in israel the crowds can be seen to strike large

amounts of smoke and take us to great much of the ten on the israeli gaza border that started back march and that's one hundred seventeen civilians civilians have since been killed gaza based reporter who has the details on our list in years continue to protest for the twenty first friday that israelis can seen you do prior to your gas canisters and live ammunition on the palestinian protesters. that the situation now is as good a thing as the palestinian protesters are trying to bring you to bring some tires to bear the vision of those ready snipers that israeli forces continue to fire mortar gas canisters on the palestinian protesters to disperse them and to keep them away from the front at least two palestinians injured in the bed. are you very critical condition as you see palestinians are are raising the palestinian flag. throwing stones on the israeli snipers and this is how the palestinians have been

constant in their days right the snipers and the israeli forces oh my god like many in this unit you guys come to search are now being fired that gun on the palestinian protesters and as you see it's going to be fired on the part of student protesters where your gas canisters are being fired from was directions as you see the place is filled with white smoke everyone is suffocating from the tear gas fired this is also one of the injuries are from the tear gas fired just right now. no signs for the first time i see this there is no fence where the palestinian protesters hide that but if you do break the fence was probably just earth hardship . as that palestinians have that ability to break up fence. forces that are frankly shooting live ammunition on the part of protesters that we want is going back. meanwhile he

is ready to fence forces say the response of their troops to palestinians trying to break through the fence was in accordance with standard operating procedures another protest was held in the west bank miss friday where people marched peacefully against the demolition of a local village. and he had to lend support to the people of the mill and i hope that people come from to stand with them so we can this time around. palestinian activist are committed to me may join the protest in karnataka the seventeen year old girl was recently released from jail after serving an eight month prison sentence for slapping an israeli soldier in december two thousand and seventeen the protesters condemned israel's decision to demolish the village israel claims that it was built illegally and has offered locals relocation to amazing sight. meanwhile

a past promised palestinian journalist has been arrested by the israel defense forces for filming soldiers and allegedly inciting violence to a live streams two videos on facebook of israeli soldiers operating in ramallah filming i.d.f. soldiers is illegal in israel and filming an officer with intent to undermine the spirit of the army is punishable by up to five years in jail in a statesman's the i.d.f. said the man they arrested was inciting violence against the state of israel the man filmed and edited videos of idea of 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

then they asked who lives upstairs i said it's ali 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. staying in the region palestinian rapper and see gaza has risen to fame off to filming a music video showing the greats march of return he dedicated the song to his friends a journalist killed during that march. he will send a message like oh. we don't know what you're. going to. know but. you just want to. just want to go we just leave a little to him

a lot of. other sort of i need you as well because almost was just my concept and it made me just to see like i want to start my music here because on the way to drive it's i was standing easy for them. still to come on the program a young girl in the u.s. to stay in the attention of top politicians for protesting during the patch of allegiance the details on that so i'm all after a short break. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final.

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welcome back to the program now a young girl from maryland who was reportedly reprimanded for nailing touring the pledge of allegiance has won the support of henry clinton the former presidential candidates tweeted that it takes courage to express disagreement with injustice and that in your old marianna taylor hopes more people will join her. it's important to stand up with. it but you know. i kind of. what it is that you don't bother people just making. marianna said she was inspired by an american football quarterback who notes during the national anthem before a game in two thousand and sixteen he said it was against racial inequality and priest police brutality his silent protest soon spread among other athletes that provoked a fiery political debates which reached all the way to the white house but you love to see one of these in the phone. when somebody disrespect. to say get that son of

a. right out story that was not against our anthem or our flag that was actually kneeling is a reference position well responding to the girl's me if the american civil rights union all my read on schools to guarantee 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 such behavior but marianna says her teachers shouted at her and she left the classroom in tears well we discussed the issue with john leighton the former miss a republican and richard goodstein former adviser to hillary clinton's presidential campaign. football is about football schools about school and 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 you're taking to the streets is that bothersome to people is that annoying to people when you get when you get arrested disproportionately when you get shot disproportionately when you get put in jail just proportionally that's not just annoying 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 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 the democratic party the united states gets her 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 millions more votes than donald trump did and her campaign theme was being together not dividing people she wasn't mocking handicapped people she wasn't telling punch him in the jaw and i'll pay your legal bills that's not what her theme was thirteen was about bringing people together. a simple mistake you need to pull to school with. up rule on twitter while covering an opposition rally in nicaragua c.n.n. wrongly used a photo of a pro-government demonstration and that sparks a big reaction online some uses noticed a flag in the background belonged to the country's ruling party moreover the

demonstrators actually holding portraits of police officers allegedly killed by the opposition some of the people in the photo even chimes in saying that it was a pro-government rally against terrorism it all began in april with demonstrations in several cities against costs of the social security system the protesters demanded the president's resignation and then election at the same time and waves of pro-government marches demanded action against those disturbing the peace over three hundred people have died in the unrest since that this is it turns out this isn't the first time mainstream media has made such a mistake. the russian story that georgian security forces are. to prevent people going back into gold so much of concern by. ballot irregularities in the vote count in sunday's parliamentary election in his ruling

united russia party lost a large. welnick curricular based author stephan sefton told us that such blunders by western media typically don't typically go unnoticed. c n n a publishing that fake show two claiming that it's actually an opposition demonstration on it constitutes a massive insult. to the victims of the opposition could and to the families of those victims they don't they don't care if they get shown up to be completely without credibility because only then a mass audience. isn't going to take it you know they mean that any correction will barely registered with the mass audience of c.n.n. . ok and it's the same with the new york times or the washington post or the guardian or the b.b.c. or any of the. western media very very influential with me still don't continue to report downright lies as if nothing has happened in western

corporate media they portray everything back to front so what you want you have is a kind of alice in wonderland kind of through the looking glass. coverage in the media in the western media. pay for that for a feather details on the stories covets and much more check out the dot com i went on social media to be back in just a very thirty minute. it

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is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for joining us coming up on the program today we take a look at ten some more of the world's largest investment companies and largest tech company with a market capitalization that had been close again on six hundred billion dollars the giant company took a stumble this past quarter for the first time in thirteen years thirteen years we have to see you all the stocks are most to give us her two cents on ten cent and other stocks including some of the retailers whose earnings we reported on last time plus artes nickel sold don i've been looked at incoming president mexican president member a low present overboard ambitious plan to transform the mexican energy industry. and the c.e.o. of straw market reform which joins us to talk directly and the diminishing chances for a deal between the united kingdom and the european union before the u.k.

leaves next march could have large and long lasting implications and we spoke about the trade and tariff wars many times and specifically the impact on u.s. grains in particular soybeans but what might be the impact on livestock and therefore meat prices and which big ag companies might be impacted the most we asked while in miles further of this market you spoke to us a few days ago from columbia missouri now let's get to a few stories topping today's financial and business headlines financial regulators who came to power after being nominated by president trump and confirmed by the united states senate are reportedly getting big bank blowback on their proposal to relax the so-called volcker rule which was approved in the wake of the financial crisis back in two thousand and thirteen i actually helped write and vote for the final bowker rule that money futures trading commission one of the five financial regulatory agencies which crafted the measure the bowker rule banned speculative trading by big banks although it allowed such trading on behalf of bank customers

big banks speculative trading was one of the culprits to the economic calamity according to the financial crisis inquiry commission established by congress to examine the causes of the crash but the big banks are saying the proposed effort to relax the rules could end up making it even more complicated the wall street journal reports representatives of j.p. morgan chase bank of america citi group wells fargo and six other banks all met with federal reserve officials to complain about the proposal which is currently out for public comment the specific concern relates to an accounting definition of what speculative trading and compass is by effort to relax the rule of financial regulators have proposed using a standard accounting term called available for sale securities that financial term of art according to the bank. says overly broad and would make determining which trades are speculative on behalf of the customer is more difficult to determine the public comment period on the proposal ends on september twenty. third of measures

announced by the u.s. department of treasury are again targeting chinese and russian companies which the department says have assisted illegal shipments on behalf of north korea treasury's actions are aimed at one individual and three specific companies including chinese logistics syndicate daylon sun moon star and its singapore based affiliate in addition to the company profit a russian based firm the move comes as the u.s. remains concerned that efforts to denuclearize north korea the democratic people's republic of korea or d p r k needs to continue international pressure of economic sanctions to be effective that apartment contends the chinese and singapore based business use falsified shipping documents to transport alcohol tobacco and cigarette related items into north korea in violation of u.s. and united nations economic sanctions korea has reportedly profited generally from

the it's a list illicit cigarette trade to the tune of get this one billion dollars per year and profit it is accused of providing port services that shipping services plus providing fuel to those ships the it to north korea on no less than six occasions and continues to do so even after the company's employees were informed of the oil related sanctions on d p r k last year the us ambassador to united states nikki or to the united nations rather nikki haley said quote oil is the lifeblood of north korea's effort to build and fund a nuclear weapon profit its director general a russian national was also accused by treasury of personally aiding in the endeavor and interacting directly with north korean representatives in russia u.s. treasury secretary steven minutiae said it. a statement quote treasury will continue to implement existing sanctions on north korea and will take action to block and designate companies ports and vessels that facilitate illicit shipments

and provide revenue streams to the d.p. r. k. . highest paying jobs in the united states or in technology according to glassdoor that is of the twenty five highest paying jobs fourteen are in the technology sector that's up from last year with the leaven of the top twenty five earning jobs the positions include software development and engineer managers and enterprise architects even the lowest paying of those positions average one hundred thousand dollars of annual income each year incidentally see street level positions were excluded from the report's calculation. and speaking of the tech sector ten cents the giant norma's chinese investment company which is also asia's biggest technology company with a market capitalisation that had been closing in on six hundred billion dollars last year has taken the first quarterly earnings stumble in thirteen years what

that all about here discusses a c.e.o. of the stocks which most are mo to weigh in on ten cent and other stocks melissa welcome back thank you so much a ten cent became the first tech company to breach that five hundred million dollar capitalization level last november yet this year the company has lost twenty five percent of their share value and more than three percent on the single day earlier this week on tuesday i have been some concern related to their growth in ten cents mobile gaming what's that all about what's going on melissa. well the problem is that china has the regulators now are not approving any more of these gaming licenses so that's cut into what ten cent does but overall just looking technically at the chart the chart is now in a down trend it's not a buy at all it really has been trying to hang on for quite a while it could have turned around and these earnings but now with this coming out about the game mean that really has definitely hurt the company and they are at it

down try to i will say this in china gaming is huge it is huge it is the number one country in the world where there's about a thirty eight billion dollars in revenue for gaming and there which is incredible when you think about there are so many people that are doing that online on apps and for whatever reason they put a halt to this for some of the approvals and we just have to wait and see what happens in the stock might turn around but as of right now it is definitely not a buy. and i mean that's an incredible level i think i said it right in correctly you know five hundred billion with the be and i think they're up at five hundred eighty billion not too long long ago but you know it is a chinese company and how is the chinese government dealing with it i mean it's strategically important for the nation right. well well yeah i mean obviously they do a lot of things but i mean this game is big as i was saying because it's huge in china itself so they've got it here too whatever the regulator say so i'm sure they're

trying to work it out again i they're not really disclosing why they put a halt on this but that's what the chinese government has decided and they do like to control a lot of these things more so than even the regulators that you see in the u.s. you know and you know we talked about tech stocks last time and i know you're sort of on them but when you talked you got to talk facebook which has had troubles of we've talked about over the last several months and that really some sloppy trading such as this week it hasn't been a good few months in general for in the media at least for facebook how are they doing overall melissa. facebook if you look at the bulk of tax cuts at tech stocks right now facebook i would say is at the bottom and i and that wasn't the case before they had just recently made brand new all time highs but now the stock isn't looking that great it's under two hundred it's around one seventy seven or something it was trading at this week and the previous high was to thirteen but overall facebook i wouldn't go along here but it doesn't mean it's disaster for the

stock i would say though that it's a wait and see as far as buying back into the stock after the earnings and after ike you said all the media problems that they've had this year i don't think it's over with them about the scrutiny they're still on board for having to deal with some of these issues that have happened i don't look at them the same as a company like apple is on their netflix even though these are all tech stocks in the bucket i would put facebook at the lower end of the list right now we're very very interesting we've only got about sixty seconds melissa but i do want to talk about some other stocks particularly the retailers wal-mart reported this week and boy they were doing gangbusters but there was others those stocks out there to target and macy's and what's with wal-mart real quickly and is there any sort of commonality among retail well i'll just let me just quickly address wal-mart for a short time here wal-mart was the stock of the week wal-mart kept up huge cheer. points on the earnings wal-mart i absolutely love i will tell you we've talked

about amazon before wal-mart is going to compete against amazon it had the best revenues it's had for ten years more than forty percent of americans shop on a weekly basis at wal-mart and that's huge they're going after it they're going to try to compete with amazon they're the only ones that can i love that stock right now for a buy it's really almost at previous highs which was one ten expect wal-mart to continue you could buy wal-mart stock i love that stock going into the end twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen wal-mart is doing it and i tell you they're the only ones that could compete with amazon the always interesting and ever informative melissa are mostly over the. dr wish thanks for your time melissa thanks. mexican president elect congress member low price obrador has said his administration will invest billions of dollars to boost refining capacity in order to curb growing fuel imports and what about those foreign investment in exploration contracts have been so controversial in the country r.t. correspondent nicholas o'donovan gives us the details on the incoming president.