you know the. real that would. be the bottom. like you but i got. to watch the horse i am so i robot and i'm telling the wallace if it's very interesting to see the effects of the thanks i hope us facebook your only hope. kind of thing that happened during the post-election about you know facebook will let this happen oh my god you sold out to these people oh my gosh things on facebook might not be real like that weight loss by the way my probably not be real. shocked shocked by gambling and this is

doubtless you know kind of this is the this is what happens when again you have what can move around like you know innocuous things like ok someone put up a picture of kim jong room and trump and you know are there was fishing sites you know when you click on the wrong thing and it takes your information right you know i want to keep that from being on there but sure i mean they were according to fire i which is the firm that supposedly just magically discovered that you have off time and love they are free i know. by the way this is the same company that was involved in the sony in investigating the sony hack which if anyone as a fan of mine knows that i have a lot of questions about that one too. but what they have said is according to the reports of the activity does not appear to have specific been specifically designed to influence the twenty eight u.s. midterm elections as extol extends well beyond the u.s. audiences in the u.s. policies. well if they're not looking to influence elections then why purge them

because they said something that was pro that was pro russia or pro bashar al assad or anti israel or pro but the fact of the go they were saying pro palestinian thing yeah right this is one of those things where it's kind of like again it goes back why are we looking for big brother to tell us how to think and how to and who keep information i shouldn't like away from me but that's a living today i will use your own brain if you see something on facebook or see a page on facebook they don't like don't click on it you know because today this is a we are in a nanny state yes the same people who cried muled for years that we were in a nanny state never but it gets a trophy and all of those now all of those people who complained against him have literally put him policy after policy in both private and public industries to make it so that no you don't think for yourself because that mean might get you the money might get you you know and then what's interesting is it wasn't just facebook on tuesday twitter conveniently and interestingly enough also did

a big purge on tuesday they removed two hundred eighty four accounts originating from our run for engaging in coordinated manipulation and stated that many of the cards appear to have originated from iran so again that begs the question ok so what's in a rainy an account but you didn't like it what it was saying so let's get it off let's just take and that is somehow going to make facebook safer or twitter it is going to have this i got to say we didn't have this problem on my space we put our faith down and out of we made glitter come down and that was it there was no i'm reporting this person for this i don't like this you just didn't want the one you prayed to are like what all this kind of really smells like to me is summed up in our good buddy mark warner of the vice chairman of the u.s. intelligence committee in the senate announced from his pulpit on tuesday i've been saying for months that there's no way the problem of social media manipulate. ation is limited to a single troll farm and so you petersburg and the fact is now beyond

a doubt what this is to me and what it smells like is we're going to use creepy oh and people are going to convince the world that all commit suicide via social media and burn the united states down to the ground we're going to convince a room we can do that and it's going to become like nine eleven for terrorism it's like any group we don't like any country we don't like we're going to say they're out there manipulating our social media and they're evil and let's go after him as pretty much i think what we're seeing from this point forward. diplomacy is our very first line of defense against hostility whether it be militarily or economically but these days sanctions are the name of the game a game the u.s. isn't exactly winning as countries around the world are faced with economic sanctions for various transgressions the world of diplomacy is losing favor amongst elected officials however according to a recent gallup poll over half of americans depletes believe diplomacy is the way

to improve relations with russia not sanctions that's true even for those who wholeheartedly believe that russia meddled in the twenty sixteen presidential election and here will walk us through the poll and the state of u.s. diplomacy is our to america's military a guy who when so first let me say it's have you kind of summarized the whole thing already just like that i mean i'll break it down for everybody yes let's break it down that's basically what it is i mean over a thousand thousand twenty four adults sampled by via telephone and they've increased it to not only landlines nowadays because who has landline so landlines and cell phones over a thousand adults across the united states answered these survey questions and as you said over fifty percent of americans do believe that the u.s. and russia need to try to work together versus how congress is handling this and pushing the administration. too strong armed with these sanctions you've got fifty eight percent that's an overwhelming amount of people fifty eight percent versus

thirty six percent now i want to move over to the breakdown if we can who knows how who how the respondents answered so if you look here. that you can probably guess democratic respondents told gallop that they believed russia not only interfered with the two thousand and sixteen elections but the overwhelming majority of dems seventy eight percent of them believed it changed the outcome of the presidential race as opposed to just nine percent of republicans who agreed with their democratic counterparts and again how about taking strong steps against russia perhaps not saying but some kind of strong action against russia not nothing particular disclose this the one percent of dems think some sort of strong step is in order to as opposed to twenty two percent of republicans who think the same thing and just as we expected that's what big seventy four percent of republicans believe that the u.s. needs to continue to mend relations with moscow so i think no matter which way you

cut it the bulk of americans really think we need the u.s. need to stop being a bully is basically because what you want to see charges you saw in the permits in the middle world. to forty's you combine that with the republican side of things and the democrats who were good and you suddenly have a majority of americans who don't know why but that's not what we're hearing in the media as you guys know in the media landscape we're hearing how we need to be stronger than us need to be stronger against russia and they keep pushing especially the mainstream media pushing this narrative of how you know the russia collusion and what have you and everything we've seen so far hasn't turned up any rush of collusion we've turned up a lot of bank fraud and white collar crime and this idea that it changed the election so now we don't let people read things that are that are different or don't fit with our narrative as they were in the ocean media you know the segment before right this is it doesn't fit some some narrative so you're going to take it

down and not allow people to read things that that don't fit whatever it is that you want to hear i also want to touch on how how being this being a. midterm election year i think you might see the divide right between you know how does that work out because you have a large already of americans who are saying we don't like it we don't want it we want better relations but washington is just saying forget it so how does that how does a well we're here in the belly of the beast we know that it's an election year it's a midterm election even though americans want this. capitol hill is saying this other thing because i think a lot of people are trying to hang on to their seats and the people that do go out and vote right now it seems like a lot of democrats who are are trying to ride this supposably wave we're not sure if that's really real but the blue wave is a popular slogan right now and russia is the popular slogan it's

a midterm election year so i think that's why the congressmen and women are out there telling this russia line because it it fares well at the polls. so you know they're being told to by their party their party's all that's right going to control their actions because they control that's right and they're going to do whatever the party tells them to do absolutely and i got to say thank you very much for coming on and kind of breaking down these really united numbers that came up today always a pleasure having you on all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter and your poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up sean stone looks at the fight over urban farming taking place in south central los angeles and ladies and gentlemen there has been a breakthrough in blood. from we want to check that out so stay tuned to watch of the whole.

thing. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics score business i'm show business i'll see you then.

finally in a moment also the chickens in atlanta now hundreds of billions of dollars on the point. line and you feel you wouldn't be that easy to find and found that out in me. plus is that going to get the city to go home. but i thought it might have been my little bit of a wonder about our little bit that we are back at that out of money coming over much of the way for the market not to get it but a. good one because like lose. some boards of.

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in the urban jungle or south los angeles california the age old fight between city developers and the local community has come to a boil over a section of neighborhood that once was home to the largest urban from the united states develop back in one thousand nine hundred four in the aftermath of the l.a. riots this fourteen acre community farm brought not only healthy food and jobs into the community but a strong camaraderie as well until of course the land was deemed too valuable for urban farming and the city of victor the farmers in favor of industrial developers in two thousand and six but those farmers and their supporters would not go gently into the l.a. night and i've been fighting the city ever since recently winning an important court ruling the force the city to reassess the environmental impact of developing the land for industrial use our own johnstone recently sat down with burchill the toa a member of the south central farmers' restoration committee who is fighting fighting

to bring back this urban farm that his family helped tend to since he was just a boy take a listen. abetter thank you so much for joining me today you're heading up this central farm restoration committee in most people who don't even know that there was a south central farm this massive plot of land that was operating on what over a dozen acres can you tell us of the history of what the sausage farm was thank you for having me the south central farm or originally started in one thousand nine hundred two after the riots and they were given to the community to help mitigate the poverty there was a lot of looting of food in our neighborhoods so they had an idea of starting a community garden and they did and originally started seven acres but the necessity was so big that it just over to the other seven acres for a total of fourteen acres and it operated from one thousand eight hundred to two thousand and six like i said and we did an three year campaign to try to bring awareness about the center farm there's no other farm like in the nation and we

want to bring it back to the community because it it really means a lot to the community it's spent twelve years since we've been evicted from the property but the community still advocates for this project because it is just focal it's food everybody eats so everybody can relate to it absolutely you know i mean in fact i grew up in los angeles i never heard about the central farm tell me how much food is being produced what kind of crops were they growing we had three hundred fifty families working their own plots and they got an opportunity to grow their own organic food which is amazing rate giving people resources so they could be knowledgeable about growing their own crops and there are going to produce and i think that's what really resonates in the community that they were given that opportunity a lot of the households live in apartments and they don't have backyards so the really focal place for a community to break bread and build community i mean we have everything from of a tree speeches. rasberry strug berry different kinds of squashes spinach a lot of meso american greens that were not typically found in the grocery stores

in the neighborhood and so it was a really focal point of bio that bio dad. city and also a lot of community building yeah in fact we know about these food deserts that are existant within a lot of inner cities right urban areas and do you find that they just have likely per store is basically in the access to like really healthy organic foods so with this farm was it obviously was being grown by you said three hundred fifty families but where they have making enough growing enough to actually sell to the community or to basically even potentially sell to other distributors like you know whole foods for example the produce the production of the farmers were pretty small but it was enough to feed the household i think that having a very like a really ten by ten you could grow a lot of serious food if you actually know how to work in an alternate about how tahsin the seasons best of all so i think that once people are familiar with knowledge than they can use any space even their apartment complex or their

apartment balcony to actually grow serious food and that's what the thousands of farm was doing the farmers were growing serious with in south central and pretty themselves absolutely so when two thousand and six rolls around tell us what happened why was it that this property essentially was c. . so it was sold back to the city out to the horowitz back in the day he sued the city saying that because they wanted it originally in one thousand eighty five bill to trash incinerator and community members concerned citizens of south central and also mother said recently. to oppose the project and they stopped it and so he basically said you guys say you're going to do this project in the on the property that i own and you get it and do it so i have a right to get it back and the judge ruled three times against and say that he did have a case and it's. been a backdoor deal with our previous council member was john perry and we're going to expose the corruption that it's within city council chambers and we call her out

and saying that the community really supports that project and they continue to do so so i mean like us. we have a lot of support from the community so it's it's just amazing that we want to we want it back we want to back to the community precisely yes so the idea was the division of the city instead taken the land from this owner on the notion of eminent domain because their way to build something which they did it builds and so essential they give it back to him but then he waits what happened with you know once he had the property from two thousand and six why has it been sitting dormant for last twelve years he originally. said that if the community race sixty million dollars that we would be able to get the farm for the community and so we are going to bunch of benefit concerts and we also to an impact a number of foundations who say and step in and said if i want to sell the property we're willing to put the money to purchase the property so it could maintain the green lands of south central because

a lot of people know them as like it was just from an aerial shot it's just green and the rest is just concrete jungles or people have referenced the south and your farm at the to greenland some thousand trees so we did raise the money and at the end of the day for political reasons he refused to search the community because he said that he didn't support that type of project for the community and you know it was just really sad because we had the money to buy it it was just a political thing that just prevented that self more into exactly so in so you were fused to sell it back to the community really just whatever you know his political motivation was in his animosity to the community which was very disappointing so what happened then why is it been sitting there for you know these past dozen years saw we for over twenty one it was the company that was interesting in actually getting the property develop and we actually did an environmental impact report in a study proposal project to the city and we actually launched a boycott against for twenty one we picked at their stores the source and pasadena

one of their main source and now we really were. are you saying that we want to support green space. and so are they because of the political pressure that we put on them they start in this east and they relocated to lincoln heights so he knew that he wasn't going to be able to develop anything on the property because community members have still a lot of anger towards they should want to happen because the farm got bulldozed in front of the community so the farmers were kicked out and then all the crowds for it was basically a show basically of a bunch of bulldozers just tearing your crops and your food that really it was a triumph for the community because it's really hard you don't mess around with people's food riots it's something you don't do like you know that's it meant a lot to the community and that's where the community organizing for the past twelve years to try to get support and also try to bring back the thousands of farm two thousand what's been a very very symbolic that notion of basically taking bulldozers destroying the

greenery destroying the food the food substance of a community so that they can put basically what they want to build now which i understand is centrally warehouses for garments and things like this so where is that obviously there was a court case that we heard about recently and essentially you wanted a sense because the court basically put a stop on that endeavor to build these new warehouses for the moment so what actually has taken place so we filed a lawsuit on april twenty two thousand and seventeen against the city and pima arguing that they failed to adequately do an environmental impact report and also follow the sequence process and we got them on the basis that they didn't do a cumulative impact report on how it's going to affect the community and the overall not just when it's getting built so they're arguing that they're going to only bring two hundred twenty two diesel trucks daily and the project before that was proposed for twenty one they said they were going to print two hundred feet for

trucks and that was just one warehouse and now we're talking about four big warehouses and a. big parking structure. which is where all the parts of long beach come through l.a. and i mean a story of very transitting street there it's very congested it's very loud it's very there's a lot of it's own for industrial use but it also has immediate residence just across the train tracks so there's high schools there's imune residents who are going to be impacted by by the you know the construction and also the long term project so that's why we're asking the committee members and people to oppose this project because it's not going to benefit the community in the long run but as it is so the judge put a stop on that because trash the judge our attorneys right now are talking to the judge and basically what's going to happen they're going to revoke their permits to actually start construction and it's going to go to a city council again where they have a choice of actually opposing the project or supporting it again its ideal scenario

really is that if this project doesn't go through how could the the south central farm be restored how can you guys get a hold of that land again we have a lot of supporters and some funders so i think if the p.m.i. decided to sell the property to the community that can we need could fund raise the money once again we did it before we reach sixty million dollars to purchase the property and we could do it again so i think there's still a lot of community solidarity and like i said the land at stake and hasn't been operating for almost twelve years like i said it's still very present in our neighborhoods in our minds and are going to satiate in south central farm was really advocating for food justice says the early one nine hundred ninety s. before it became popular topic like right now where everybody has school guardians there's farmers markets everywhere so i mean i've seen the change and i think that are going to say she was really crucial in creating that conversation and dialogue within city officials and other communities and

a lot of communities have started because of the because of the work we were doing then been inspired and i think that that. a lot of resilience and also shows a lot of the termination in terms of the community in the world they've been doing for the past twelve years. according to the red cross blood services division every two seconds in the united states someone needs a blood transfusion that means thirty six thousand red blood cells seven thousand units of platelets and ten thousand units of plasma needed each day that this week a new discovery by researchers at the university of british columbia presented at the american chemical society could change everything while only type o. blood is universal meaning it can be given to any blood type a and b. type blood contains sugar molecules called it's up until now the challenge has been finding a way to remove those antigens well it turns out the answer was in our guts all along that's right it seems there's an enzyme in our stomach that can break down those sugars and when applied to blood cells removes the antigens even thirty

percent better than any other enzyme what this means is that donated blood could be converted into a universal blood type for any patient by using something our body's already made naturally. now remember there's a long road ahead for the technology being used in the field as the pier where proper process moves forward along so give blood if and when you can because just one donation of one pint of blood which takes about an hour of your time can save three lot wow wow this is like how how groundbreaking is that i mean when you put it in a perspective of like we would never get blood problems if no other has renewed every year we have this summer just last in july the red cross and they're still doing this by the way if you go and give blood at the red cross right now they will get they're giving out five dollars amazon gift cards to anyone because there's always a shortage especially of certain kinds o. negative can go to any one positive thing on anything you know that anyone with

positive but a and b. and all these it's tough and that's the hard part is that you have people who can't use any other kind of blood or a specific kinds of blood and it slows the process especially in trauma and trauma center so you know them so this if this technology works you're talking about you would never have to worry about blood type to get the blood right i mean that takes a huge problem out of it and once you bring that and you can then all blood that comes and whether it's the platelets or anything that can be converted into a usable type so it can be universal as opposed to worrying like if you're a positive and they don't have any a positive that's where things come because signal i read a book and there's of the only about bertie just over thirty five percent of people in the united states are even eligible to get blood due to any number of factors so it's important that those people are give blood so that as this process goes along we keep those blood plus we can save more vampires exactly which is ultimately the goal more vampires are that is our schroeder's. remember everyone in this world

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