and that coupled with backing out of the nuclear deal violates a fifty's era treaty between the two countries and while the court didn't accept all of iran's arguments they did in a preliminary ruling find that the united states must remove by means of its choosing any impediments arising from sanctions that affect humanitarian goods and services and the u.s. assurances that sanctions won't hurt humanitarian aid were not adequate but rather than really examine the impact of these sanctions or at the very least start some form of dialogue with iran over them secretary of state decided to put sanctions over people and announce to the world the united states is terminating the nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity with iran this is the this decision is frankly thirty nine years overdue well that's one way of dealing with a situation you know rather than follow the rule of law or let's just abolish the

rules we're breaking. all went on to declare iran is abusing the i.c.j. i.c.j. for political and propaganda purposes given iran's history of terrorism ballistic missile activity and other malign activity iran's claims under the treaty are observed. right e o mike because the united states never had a history of terrorism or malign activity toward iran. yeah the self delusion of exceptionalism is strong when you're not watching a whole. body. that looks like real but it's like. as part of a lot of. what they like you but i got.

to. tell them what all the watchers dark side of i robot and i was out of the list yeah i think the brat mentality is very very spot on marrow who can view it's just strange to me with everything going on in the world that they that this is the time when suddenly it's this. craziness. right and who's behind it but missed a moustache and so well you know you got bold pale like this kind of tag team of spineless wonder. bratty wonder going out in the above they were what they were not because they had to sit there eight years the liberal level democrats also by the way democrats aren't lefty or liberal just why i should probably choice republicans actually blogs and doesn't care is why it's such a big thing now and why it's so it seems so immediate like this must be done we

must walk back all of us and cause all this financial up people not just for rand but for other countries as well but because also you know basically like they're getting called to task internationally right so it's like oh well we need to figure out how not to be called to task internationally so let's get rid of these treaties i mean bolton john bolton speaking of our buddy the national security advisor announced that the united states is withdrawing from the optional dispute resolution process. so the of vienna convention on diplomatic relations old sub the decision was made because of a case brought by palestine over president trump's decision to relocate the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem so it's like anything that doesn't go their way that they're called the task of internationally well let's just get rid of or run away from it's any criticism if there's criticism of every anything there can't just be a what you know you're the secretary of state you're you're kind of ahead of diplomacy and you're literally saying no we're not doing that diplomacy thing anymore that's just silly and that's what i find most disturbing since that's

literally where the diplomatic corps comes from right as some would say it's apartment and having someone who doesn't seem to respect what diplomacy is and what that have thing has in it is what's really are really kind of scary when you look at the international criminal court that we're talking about the i.c.j. which is funny because again it's this way don't believe in the i have no international criminal court we don't care but now all the sudden early but they're using it when you don't care about anyway what will bolton have this really has less to do with iran and the palestinians than with the continued consistent policy of the united states to reject the jurisdiction of the international court of justice which we think is politicized and effective here's the problem you already said you weren't going to take that you are going to recognize the court mean more and whatever so why do you whereas as it's being politicized you're asking the court to beat make a political decision right and you're asking anyone that's their own standard

excuses that tablets like i mean the court or any kind of body of law whether domestically or or internationally goes against their political ideology or whatever they're trying to live round people's throats with resections or whatever it's as well as politicize the process as politicized which a lot of times like you said they're the ones politicizing it but here's what's really fun to me. for those of you feeling like deja vu all over again with this kind of hardline. rhetoric as we as we march towards iran it's very similar to the march to the war with iraq moulton has assured reporters that the u.s. policy is not regime change but we do expect substantial change in their behavior meaning iran but this is contrary to the john bolton who was on fox news before he was national security advisor because he said this just like a year ago there's a lot we can do and we should do it our goal should be regime change in iran.

who do we believe here or which john bolton do we all know is a job over at the end of the bay of spineless coward that's just like a pig. from the women's march to the march for a lives protest here in washington d.c. are pretty common occurrence but this week saw a very unique protest hit the national mall in the form of truckers in the wake of safety regulations being way of dr natural disasters most recently following hurricane florence members of the trucking industry are calling for changes most notably some independent contractors and small companies are accusing the government of acting in favor of big corporations who has ever heard of that here's our t. america's rachel weapons with more. truck drivers from across the united states have gathered together in washington d.c. to protest current regulations which they say were passed in the name of safety but evacuee done more harm than good organizers of the ten for protest said their

mission is to bring truck drivers together to unite against regulations that help the large trucking companies but herd small companies and independent contractors the transportation industry the trucking specifically as a whole is heavily regulated by the federal government right so we have a lot of different i mean our our safety book or regulation book is like this you know it's massive book and these drivers have to know that inside now a lot of those regulations especially over like the course of basically last ten years have made it harder and harder and harder for the small guy to be to remain successful some of the truck drivers were critical of the electronic logging device mandate that went into effect in two thousand and seventeen which gives them a limited amount of time to drive during the day instead of letting them break up their driving time according to their judgment it was all done in the name of safety but it hasn't really made things any so. you've got guys that are pushing

the envelope they're trying they're driving faster you know trying to get more productive as much park devotee and the day is. and they're taken chances as far as being forced to use it no i don't agree with that because nobody wants to be forced into anything and we shouldn't be forced to have to have that drivers are doing things they shouldn't be doing the gear into our lanes and i get thirty five years accident free this all comes us just to stick from the truck safety coalition show that conditions for truck drivers have only gotten more dangerous over the years unfortunately you know we just got new figures yesterday for data that came out in two thousand and seventeen showed that truck crash fatalities were up yet again and they're up forty one percent since two thousand and nine navvies drivers say that they hope their show of solidarity will lead to positive and prove men's and industry in which many of them have contributed the majority of their careers along with countless hours on the road in washington rachel watkins art scene.

who don't see those protests very often but well you know and i think you're going to see more because i think this is where everybody sort of forgetting that you know the republicans in the truck administration really really got a lot of these blue collar workers and industrial workers and because i saw the related jobs they were going to make a better more manufacturing all of this and that was these truckers now where you have to answer is about three and a half million truck drivers semi truck drivers in the united states and about one in nine of them are independent and a majority of those are owner operators work so they own the truck and they are own the business that it is as though i mean it's a while when you're independent cause you can't cover these things right i'm not a big corporation i thought it really was striking when they're saying like look we understand the need these electronic logging devices to understand why they were put in but at the end of the day they're actually making new even more dangerous or just as dangerous as it was before because of the struck. to avoid you know how many hours they can be on the road about a family member who's a truck driver it's

a brutal the bizarre job you know you don't where's the job it's a good job but it's a hard job and what's interesting is that like according the united states perhaps transportational instructor was required to follow these strict hours of service regulations are tracked by these mortgage electronic boarding devices but when like a magical disaster strikes as you were saying. they get waved off and a lot of these regulations they're complaining about are regulations that you know benefit the big corporation but don't benefit the independent contractor that your i pod and small business a lot of these guys are you know and i think one of the jeff to look at is that this whenever you see the requirement of a device or requirement that some piece of product has to be put into your vehicle and it's tracking things you've got to ask yourself who is making it what kind of algorithm is behind it and as they said does it allow for truck drivers who've been doing this their whole lives many times twenty thirty years you know according to

the owner operator independent drivers association you've got on average small business truck drivers try more than one hundred fifteen thousand miles a year that's more than three million miles and their life time they spend up to two more than two hundred forty nights a year away from home and typically they have to pay in excess of ten thousand dollars in federal taxes plus state taxes more than six thousand dollars for their trucks now why wouldn't you ask them to make certain judgment calls when it comes to you know safety how long you drive because as they said it says you have to drive between me is ours you know and then you have to instead of breaking it up or knowing how they're sleep or these are people driving millions of miles they should have talked to the workers before they talked to the companies that. talked to the corporate lobbyists at the end of the day why would a corporate lobbyist a lawyer about safety and things like. are it is required precautions don't forget the. let us know what your big of a property to cover the bay for good for your poll shows that r.t.

dot com coming up the former senior security policy alice in the office of the secretary defense one michael maloof joins us to celebrate the upcoming seventeenth birthday of the u.s. war in afghanistan. stay to. see him good bye. and indeed this is the only. church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what

the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot were the previous standards not known the highest ranks of the catholic church help conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that end of that's known as the end and then i think you'll hear that it used this out in. this. case. how can reopen pandora's box who opened on those books in two thousand and eight. accepting acknowledging and recognizing and independent of course all. unilaterally proclaimed. they were doing something not just. went on. one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder has

taken on a new twist now the rules of engagement have been relaxed to give our soldiers more opportunities also from a just political standpoint i think it's also a minute to deflect iran's growing influence to cast itself in that area even though historically iranian influence has always been there same with india same with the china russia but the united states chooses to not participate in regional discussions that can come to a political resolution because they i think the united states realizes we don't really belong there and the countries in that region should be. the ones who who come up and resolve that problem but that's not where the us is heading they want to continue on with military and i think that this spawns a. response to

a desire to that we have to have a war at all times in order to justify our military spending the job creation and the defense industrial complex to keep keep that in fine working order while one of the things i noticed is that. there was an article in time magazine and it said that donald trump has devoted some thirty tweets to the n.f.l. anthem controversy during its presidency he tweeted about afghanistan only about five times and you know. now we're three presidents and. to the war in afghanistan why have u.s. presidents been so completely blundered by this war because you said it seems obvious if you get the people out of cars the damage then you come in and you fix things and you do this you don't get distracted by all of this stuff but well you've got to consider too the government we installed there. would fall probably

in three days if we left and pakistan. is just waiting they'd be guard afghanistan it's within their sphere of influence which is way to tell the bond you've got to keep in mind it was a creation of the pakistani intelligence service and so they're just wait it out the taliban just wait us out and we now refuse to talk to the taliban although we tried to invite them to a few minutes but they realize that more and more the united states is not winning we had one hundred thousand troops in there at one point we still didn't accomplish anything and now even with the limited number of troops u.s. troops have there again their mission has changed at that time they were combat oriented today they're more advise and train and that's not that that's not going to win anything plus they're located in remote areas and the taliban just goes around and you know one of the interesting things is is that you know this year we

saw a destroyer seventy yourself five hundred afghan civilian casualties and seem to think some others i think the number of u.s. soldier casualties and some more you know multiple thousands of them but you you don't see the public or political outcry over the war and i think this just because it's gone on so wall you know is this truly kind of the forgotten us war it is the forgotten war and this is the unfortunate thing because people realize that there is no solution the united states insists that it's going to stay there the question is why we it's not within our sphere of influence we have one time we're in the central asia we left russia. asserted itself and basically crowded the u.s. out of there and i was at the pentagon at the time that we were in and out of. bed to stand to stand kazakhstan now today the u.s. has receded from that area we should be doing the same with with afghanistan with regional backing and an agreement but the afghan government that we created is so

corrupt billions of dollars have been lost that we don't know where it went was and nine hundred billion i think it's just an incredible believe me just on reconstruction i think we're at i get more into i think a construct that i think we're into a where approaching a trillion right now in terms of what we spend just in afghanistan alone not to mention the six trillion in. iraq i mean it's getting worse and there's no way to cite even nobody none of the great thinkers up there in the policy positions has an answer and i guess i've been there three presidents so you know you can't land afghanistan doesn't try to fall and the like just to be clear are many other things are but this one is and this is one area where you know bush couldn't get it done. when he had done a one point until two thousand and three right and then wolfowitz diverted him and then we lost track and the taliban came back and then obama basically was like

a water drop but didn't really win then there was the surge or the good old. you just saw one thing after another completely there yet and we all sorry go ahead i was going to say i think i think russia has a working group that is focused on afghanistan and i don't i know i know for a fact the u.s. has been invited to that working group numerous times and has turned it down the question is why i don't have the answer and i think that if we really want peace in those areas then we should be working with countries in that region to. we don't we don't want to have iran involved we don't want the russians involved for for reasons that were seen in other issues and so when we just continue on. doing this this this thing which is now the definition of insanity doing the same thing hoping for a different outcome it just never happens and that point that's the question i want

to ask you actually is that what is the current official plan for victory you know because we keep your eye like majority of folks that's the current plan for victory and at this point what would that victory what is a victory and afghanistan in the in the. abstractly is to train the afghan forces to be able to assume these responsibilities but they're not doing it they're just not doing it they're not up to the task not withstanding all the training that they receive many of them go to the taliban they're paid off and you know they just are not equipped to deal with this thing and and as i said the taliban is just wait in the mouth we've tried to bring in the taliban at some point but they decided they don't want to plus we don't like their harsh conditions how they treat people or things like that so that's why we're we're continuing to back a affectless government and it's totally ineffective i mean i had a i had an intelligence officer tell me recently that if the united states were to

leave. kabul would fall within a week well while i do think when i was there were quick do you think the taliban or some version of it could become a legitimate political party with an ak and a fan within the middle east that actually is running a government and could that be well i think the notion is to try to incorporate them into the current government that there are some elements of taliban that even the taliban are split on how they want to go some of them would would like to join the government others just want to wait us out the pens upon their their views and their extremism in the hinterlands they basically control everything and even in areas where we have bob posts i've seen films i saw actually an iranian film. crew that went in recently in a telephone controlled area. they had totally surrounded a british fort out in the middle of nowhere and the taliban is running and running everywhere they just everywhere and how do you deal with that and be effective and

then we don't have combat troops in there any longer it's just advising to advise and train it's to get the afghan military and security forces the do the job and they're not doing it you know it's interesting as you mentioned earlier too is that there's a lot of people you know we just recently had apple become the first trillion dollars in the company but you know that afghanistan is like the first i think trillion dollar war and even there's some estimates that it's even higher and you mentioned you know you combine iraq and what you're talking about three to five trillion or yeah i would hope when you see numbers like that combined with the casualties the people eventually politically in this country will feel justified to say you know what seventeen years is too long we didn't accomplish what we're supposed to let's pull out as best we can and like you said work with the regional people there and the riders are good some kind of absent some kind of stability without sacrificing another year or more trillions of dollars michael thank you so much less you know they always are thanks for talking with you. again. on

october first of this year nasa the national aeronautics and space administration turns sixty years old and last year now since kepler space telescope found clues suggesting that there was an x. zero moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system well many exoplanets have been found there moons have eluded scientists for decades until now taking the clues from kaplan or the nasa european space agency hubble space telescope was enlisted to confirm the findings and it looks like they're pretty close to doing so while observing a large gas giant called kepler one six two five be about eight thousand light years from earth scientists are able to see deviations and wobbles when the moon and its orbit pass between hubble and kepler one six two five b. the exo moon is about four times larger than earth but since it's a gas moon and a gas planet it wouldn't be happy to polls so don't go close to going to just. say

nasa and the european space agency just shoes keep a ming for that x. so mon because even if you're wrong you'll still be out looking among the oh i love it sixty years old sixty's congratulations mr dobbs a birthday i enjoy so a bird that is about perhaps that's good or there's bad or good we're going to get is rather that it is over a very little but i've got to say happy birthday for what happened for all of us watching all excuse what the great work that you're doing that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told with your love develops so i told you all the love you i oh i wrote on top of the list keep the truth cold hard to that word heard there by the brothers. thank. you.

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