israel and pro palestinian beings as well as to promote support and support support for specific u.s. policies paper bowl to iran such as the us around nucular deal. can you smell that me air you could continue to smell the atlantic council just worse parading with joy over this purge so let's take a slide down the slippery slope of facebook as political arbiter and try to keep free speech alive as we start watching the hawks. get the. real deal with. the politics if you. like you know that i got. that he. would.

rather watch the hawks i am so i robot in downtown but. if it's very interesting to see the effects of the. thanks hope us facebook your only hope. kind of thing that happened during the post-election that you know facebook will let this happen oh my god you sold ads to these people oh my gosh things on facebook might not be real like that weight loss by the way my probably not. shocked shocked if i gambling and this established you know kind of this is the this is what happens when again you have what can move around you know innocuous things like ok some put up a picture of kim jong 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 from being on there but sure i mean they were ordered to fire which is the

firm that supposedly just magically discovered that it was time and love they are free i know. by the way this is the same company that was involved in the sony investigating this only 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 that 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 us 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 bush are all assad or anti israel or pro but the fact of the go oh they were saying pro palestinian thing yeah right this is one of those things was kind of like a gimmick goes why are we looking for big brother to tell us how to think and how to keep information i shouldn't like away from me but that's

a living will use your own brain if you see something on facebook or see a page on facebook you don't like don't click on it you know because today this isn't we are in a nanny state yes the same people who cried muled for years that we were in a nanny state never but again. 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 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 codes appear to have originated from iran so and again that begs the question ok so what's an iranian 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 really going to have this i got to say we don'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're right you're like what all this kind of really smells like to me is some 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 manipulation is limited to a single troll farm in st 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 everyone we can do that and it's kind of become that 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 and that's

pretty much i think what we're seeing in this point forward. diplomacy is our very first line of defense against hostility whether it be militarily. 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 to walk us through the poll and the state of u.s. diplomacy is r.t. america is manila change. 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 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 a 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 to strong arm 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 of 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 disclosed fifty 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 a whopping 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 because when you when i was in charge you saw you know the independents 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 i don't know why but that's what we're hearing in the media

as you guys know in the media landscape we're hearing how we need to be stronger the u.s. needs 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 occlusion 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 we 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. yeah i think you might see the divide right between you 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 to we want you know 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 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 if it fares well at the polls that well. 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 out of nowhere and i got to say thank you very much for coming on and kind of breaking down these really united numbers that came

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in the urban jungle of 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 to bella 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 victim 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 a bird till 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 about the history of what the sausage farm was thank you for having me in the south central farm our region we started in one thousand nine hundred two after the riots and i was 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 it originally started seven acres but the necessity were 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 i mean in fact i grew up in los angeles i never heard about such 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 salad or mesoamerican 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 existing to within a lot of inner cities right urban areas and define that they just have likely occur stores 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 had 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 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. in 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 of themselves absolutely so when two thousand and six rolls around tell us what happened why was it that this property essentially was see. 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 organized to oppose the project and they stopped it and so he basically said you can say you're going to do this project in the on the property that i own and you guys didn't 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 just has been a backdoor deal with our previous council member was john perry and we 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 a. we have a lot of support from the community so it's it's just amazing that we want to we want 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 they're going to build something which they didn't build 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. 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 a 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 concrete jungle saw people have referenced the 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 the original we for over twenty one it was a 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 in 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 our next two thousand what's been a very and it's 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 fifth 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 fifty

fifty diesel trucks and that was just one warehouse and now we're talking about four big warehouses. the 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 immune 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 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 the stress of the judge our attorneys right now 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 it's ideal scenario really is that if this project doesn't go through how could the.

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 the community could fund raise the money once again we did it before we raised 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 it's taken hasn't been operating for almost twelve years but like i said it's still very present in our neighborhoods and our minds and our organization farm was really advocating for food justice since 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

there been inspired and one thing that. a lot of resilience and also shows a lot of the termination in terms of the community and that would be 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 antigen 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 bodies already make naturally. now remember there's a long road ahead for the technology being used in the field at the pier where proper process moves forward in a long 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 know you get a brood put in the perspective of like we would never get blood problems if no other as every year we have brought 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 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 zero 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 that if this technology works you're talking about you would never have to worry about blood type or get that life right i mean that takes a huge problem out of it and once you bring them in you can then all plug 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 we're at a ball and there's a thing only about a birdie just over thirty five percent of people in the united states are even eligible to get blood wow 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 or vampires are that is our show. remember everyone in this world we're not told real love so i tell you

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from sanctions to syria russia's security chief meets his american counterpart for talks in geneva but one topic interested journalists more than others. whether you would ever concerns that iran's president is a security risk of course not i mean that's a silly question. also this hour the us democratic party crisis fall over another suspected hack and the answer turns out to have been much closer to home. and facebook bans hundreds of pages groups and counseling to iran and russia for alleged political meddling. a very warm welcome to the program to you from.