undermining your faith and elections. trust me for. pretty sure it's not russian internet trolls that are that in there mean sapping black americans faith in the country's electoral process and annoying to the leaders democrats and republicans have had that market cornered for many years now through broken campaign promises gerrymandering the way the power of the black vote and passing laws that imprison black americans at a rate five times higher than the white american average so no a snob i mean but the second report prepared by researchers for new knowledge columbia university careful research delve deeper into this supposed the targeting of black communities by the internet research agency but what's left out of all the headlines a new news articles on this report is that what's also interesting is that new knowledge has some pretty crazy connections investigative journalist yasha levine points out that the company is founded by state department operatives and spies here we have a very clear case of homegrown meddling in our democracy

a nexus of spy craft and corporate profits so today let's delve into what's new in the latest round of xenophobia and conspiracy theories surrounding russia gate and the social media of the twenty sixteen presidential elections because we can't ever move on but we can start watching hocks. to win the league in the playing field with this would be a luxury for the bottom. line but the players like you let down our guard. which we. would. be. everybody to watching the hawks on top of the wallace and joining me today to do.

us russia gate and beyond is r t america correspondent sara modest thank you so much for joining me thanks so much i want to first is there anything new in these new reports that we haven't seen before about that sort of point one point zero one percent of internet traffic during the top of the it's more of the same narrative basically saying that facebook targeted these ads and the russians targeted facebook ads to help trump when the presidential campaign the election but really the only new thing i guess that's really surfacing is that now it's instagram so and again these these ads are kind of laughable if if you will but again facebook owns instagram so really is just using this new platform to again target people to convince them and have that effect on them to really help trump when the presidential election it's it's kind of amazing not seeing enough evidence to really show that there was this successful targeting campaign and all of that but

what's interesting now when you you found out and what's come out today is michael isikoff who is a yahoo investigative journalist recently gave an interview to media and he was one of the first to report on the steel dossier so what was the most shocking revelation from his new interview because he's very pro narrative russia gave him everything beginning so what he up to so he was one of the first to start reports and start reporting on it without first yahoo news article back in two thousand and sixteen and president trump even took to twitter this morning and praised isikoff for his honesty and what he said today and let's take a listen in the exclusive media i interview and what he said. when you actually get into the details of this deal dot ca the specific allegations . we have not seen the evidence to support them and in fact there's good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations will never be

proven and are likely false. so isikoff was the first to report on these stories that were later used by steele in the dossier and i want to make a connection here that steele was hired by fuse fusion g.p.s. a firm under contract by the d.n.c. and turned out the hillary clinton campaign and let's not forget that john mccain also helped to fund this dossier but isikoff is now arguing and saying that there is no evidence from some of the details of the dossier which is interesting because he was one of the first to report on this whole russia gate right and he's considered one of the experts that he and you know when he says this it's because he knows he has connections with them that work but at the end of the interview isikoff also said that robert mueller is now sort of reaching his end game and we might find out much more than what we know right now but did isikoff accept any responsibility for helping publicize essentially what he lauer largely a myth was largely fake news you know and the thing that he's pointed out to was

he's said that a lot of the details in this dossier are false like for example michael cohen who allegedly traveled to czech republic to meet with russian intelligence or even the infamous trump sex tapes that russia allegedly has now but he does say that the details are not accurate but he continues to say that steele was on to something with that dossier saying that the russians really had some sort of interference with the election for to help the term campaign and he stands by what he said in that sense i mean interesting is a lot of a lot of facts and things that need to be granted as took off as one of those people who is very well connected does a very good connections in order to get news out of the. you have to wonder why their turn now and why is that earlier this year we saw a senate committee work for the dossier author christopher steele refer him for prosecution for lying to the f.b.i. and lying about contacts he had with journalists one of those was this

a cough charges that are very similar to now what we're seeing now. a former national security advisor michael flynn faced earlier today in federal court has christopher steele or anyone associated with his commented on the discrepancies within the dossier and that some of the sort of. accusations has he taken any responsibility for that or said anything not really he kind of pushed back on on answering certain questions in regard to that now the senate committee did refer steel because the reason that the f.b.i. was able to get the warrant for example to listen and to wiretap. on. who was on page on the foreign policy adviser to trumpet her page was because of these dossiers in these articles and steal and lie to the f.b.i. and said that he had not had contact with the coffin of the reporters which turns out clearly is not true so he was one of the first to initiate this whole rush to get investigation now he's coming out and saying that

a lot of the details in the report aren't accurate but again standing by what he said that there's something there that there is some sort of collusion but not being i think completely transparent about what. i mean these are mean we're seeing more of business connections it seems that of course you know trump clearly wanted a hotel he wanted to get in trump tower in moscow and it's looking more and more every day that it's business dealings between people not political dealings we aren't seeing this concerted effort to move some sort of political mechanism it's more for people to be able to make money off of and it's a cough did know that more is kind of reaching an end to the investigation so what that means then we'll see in the coming days if there is really anything i mean they're still they've been digging for two years all these resources and what they haven't found anything they haven't come out straight with it to see what it is they found so even he mentioned that which makes us question really what is in all

of this clue. zhen or what that even means and what will say at the end of zero obviously there school lots more to come out now for we'll hear more thank you so much for following this story for us and making sense of both of the numbers on so i guess it is the most fair amount of. tis the season for robbery yes with the holiday season and cheer comes the holiday season of crime and it seems there's been quite a few nobody list folks strolling through neighborhoods making amazon packages off the front porches in recent years in fact according to business wire some twenty six million u.s. citizens had a holiday package stolen off their front porch or doorstep in just twenty fifteen alone that's a lot of stolen goods well thankfully many are starting to fight back including one former nasa engineer who went full kelvin mcallister home alone in his fight against porch package holiday and larceny. has has more.

how good stuff. there are major problems this time of year especially with porch pirates you know the people who steal someone's package right off their doorstep. so a former nasa engineer now you tube star took the matter into his own hands and i just feel like something needs to be done to take a stand against dishonest punks like this his name is mark rober he's a former nasa engineer turned you tube star with over four million subscribers on the platform he says he previously spent nine years helping design nasa's curiosity rover but these days he's known for his elaborate science experiments and homemade gadgets and most recently for his glitter bomb trap i built a dart board that moves to get a bull's eye every time i spent nine years designing hardware that's currently moving around and another freakin plant if anyone that was going to break with the package over engineer the crap out of it it was going to be me inspired from the

one nine hundred ninety s. movie home alone were eight year old kevin mccallister defensive self against two burglars with this little hobby traps decided to make a booby trap of his own when a package was taken from a sports let's go to the package from my porch and now he's about to open it in his car but he doesn't know this is a custom built bait package that is recording him on four different cameras and it's about to unleash the power of the world's finest order along with some other surprises but understand how we got to this point first we need to rewind. he spent six months crafting the revenge package that looks like an apple product and after thieves nab it it unleashes a pound of glitter when opened then followed up by spurting out for free as research he says his real this is only one of the latest efforts to prevent individuals from stealing parcels from porches other efforts include police sting operations and amazon's a smart locks and amazon key that allows delivery people to enter your home and leave packages of course there monitored more than half of americans reported knowing somebody who was

a victim of package that and thirty percent of those people reported being one of them reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . as we go to break don't forget i want to know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter shows at r.t. dot com after the break we'll sit down with north carolina activists to send you famously toppled one of the many confederate statues that litter of the south but even when they're physically removed the fight doesn't meant and if you're a poacher in missouri i hope you like disney movies. so watching the. results on to feel. lonesome for boston. help.

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joined me every thursday on the elec simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. according to north carolina state law a monument memorial or why. work of art owned by the state may not be removed relocated or altered in any way without the approval of the north carolina historical commission in addition the monuments may not be permanently removed and

may only be relocated whether temporarily or permanently which is why it's become so difficult to permanently remove the silent sam statue from the campus of the university of north carolina chapel hill silent sam as it is called is a bronze statue that was wrecked in one thousand thirteen by the united daughters of the confederacy which to memorialize the young men who left if i call left college to fight for the confederacy in the civil war it has been steeped in racism since that day it went up and confederate veterans when a confederate veteran actually bragged the day went up about horsewhipping a block woman for insulting a white woman since then the statue has been vandalized over and over again since chapel hill was officially integrated in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. so when the statue was toppled by protesters on august twentieth of this year many thought that would silence old sam then in october the university trying to work around the laws governing the monument posed building a five point three million dollars is story center with

a statue at the center u.n.c. trustee laurie cardwell told the press the preference would be to take the facts off campus but we have a law on the law prevents that and we're obliged to follow the law well joining us from durham north carolina help us understand the removal of these more memorials and the fight to keep them removed is suki its home state and activist who is best known for being the one to topple another confederate statue in durham in august of twenty seventeen in the aftermath of the deadly white supremacist march in charlottesville welcome to kenya and thank you so much for joining us today. thank you to you to care i want to start by asking though about the statue that you were involved in taking down you said you were thinking about your ancestors and i think many don't. really understand what that means from someone of african descent living in the south in the united states can you elaborate on what why it's so important for these things to be taken down. when i

said i think when. they go about. the struggle for dignity. that has taken place not just america not just the south of america. but you know throughout the diaspora my mother's. going to set my father was born in haiti so i think about that and also think about you know just the history of resistance . to. dehumanization terror and that's what that's that you know for her i think it was a struggle. to you know. allow people in people across the south. what happened in charlottesville it wasn't just the struggle around you know the statues i mean when we talk about the circle around

dignity we could even take take that and think about the struggle around civil rights you know. the struggle to end segregation it wasn't about eating out woolworths well words was probably disgusting it was the fact that you know you are relegated to second class citizen second class citizen really so that has to be resisted at every turn so that's what i was talking about and quite literally that day. i was reading phenomena and thinking about the struggle to. reinstate dignity in colonised people so it's a major thing because these these statues aren't just statues they aren't just about a history or heritage there's a lot more to them what you know now that the silent sam statue which is has come up again now stood on the grounds of u.n.c. chapel hill but after it was toppled. much like the statue that you top of the

courthouse there were a lot of credit even if there was this idea of where to put it next and now protests have broken out over this idea that the college came up with this idea what do you so well great just about the idea of spending five and a half million dollars to protect this statue with a history building. you know i think the worst part. isn't even you know building. the building you know the worst part is what was hidden in the proposal in the appendices of the proposal was to create a forty person. mobile unit could. descend on any one of the u.n.c. system schools and the u.n.c. system school has seventeen colleges and father which are h b c u's

so that would cost two million dollars to create or two million dollars a year to run on top of the five million that would be the one time expenditure for the building and then after that there would be a hundred thousand dollars a year expenditure to create a shrine for asylum and if we look at the law. carol fall fall. the other person that you mentioned earlier in the segment they're using a rhesus interpretation of the law. you know it says the statue cannot be moved or relocated so to relocate the statue inside of a white supremacist safe space would be you know. breaking the law also so you know you're choosing to follow the law but you're choosing to follow it to. a racist letter of the law so let me ask you about that because that's the thing

that you hear so much from white supremacists and white supremacist culture and sort of this idea is and they're right conservatives is that there is this idea we it's history and you can't criticize it you can't do this what does that mean that they expect a safe space they expect students to pay for it especially students some of those students are going to historically black colleges and they honestly think that you should pay to protect their racist history what does that say to young activists like yourself how does that hurt. what everyone's trying to do. because it's ludicrous to me it's just ludicrous. i think what it does is it just paints the picture perfectly clear.

the cops go hand in hand. you have this clan memorabilia and you have a plan. that was put together by retired police officers who investigated and infiltrated the student movement on campus so you have a piece of klan memorabilia and you have the friends of the confederacy or the police. protecting this monument and then you have. a proposal drawn up by the elites who run this public institution to create another police force. to protect the confederacy so. you know as painful as it is to have to struggle this struggle against. i think it really does do the job of or helps do the job of. an

activist or revolutionary in making clear. the power dynamics and having a real clear understanding of state power and the extra judicial arm of state powell which is the clear and. i mean you don't see it has created a picture and drawn it so clearly you know so one of the things that that boggles me is that we have over five hundred close to seven hundred or more of these confederate statues around the country mostly in southern states but in the last couple of years not just from since charlottesville but before you've had from here in the here in washington d.c. the thomas jefferson memorial they added contacts to it saying he was a slave owner you had statues taken down and wisconsin as far as california missouri montana the thing is when i looked up you know the daughters of the

confederacy which i didn't even know existed i couldn't fathom doing the thing but when i looked on there they say the united daughters of the confederacy totally denounces any individual group that promotes racial divisiveness or white supremacy and we call on these people to cease using confederate symbols for their own bore and reprehensible purposes i want to ask you one. why. why does just out in context not answer the choir doesn't answer the question and doesn't really deal with the problem of just saying they were bad but were so memorialized them and how does the words of the daughters of the confederacy the excuse of what was a racist to begin with they just did that what how much to how ludicrous or how bad is that to say and what does it say about the people looking at this situation we need to save space. is a bully and attempt to revise history. the confederacy

existed to defend the institution of slavery. slavery is racist. i mean i don't you know i just don't know how much simpler to make it i think when we entertain the ideas of the confed the daughters of the confederacy too much. that becomes a problem but like i said i think it's revisionist history it's the same thing is the trying to repaint itself as a boys' club. is racism yeah i want to thank you so much for coming on here because it's true you're looking at a very disturbing rewriting of history to protect those things says a lot about our country and you know at a time where people are screaming about the idea that we're being divided this is one way that it should be taken down so that that division is gone and we don't make excuses for rewriting history we don't make those excuses thank you so much

for coming on this show and i look forward to talk to you again as the fight goes on you know every day to get social justice for everyone here in america thank you so much. thank you. in one thousand nine hundred eighty two disney classic bambi a phone's mother is shot by a hunter sorry to ruin it for you at one point in the film bambi's father the great prince of the forest warns bambi of dangerous saying it is man he is here again perhaps that is the message lawrence county missouri judge robert george wanted to habitual deer poacher david barry jr to hear seabury was sentenced to one year in prison for each legally killing hundreds of trophy sized adult male deers decapitation them and then leaving the rest of the deer carcass to rot in the woods but the judge didn't quite think that was enough and ordered barry to watch the movie bambi once a month for his entire prison term this is in addition to over fifty thousand

dollars in fines and court costs which goes to show you should never disrespect the life of the forest trying to poach a deer in missouri. or eat blossoms before bedtime that's our show for here today remember everyone in this world we're not told we're a lot loved or not so i tell you all i love you on top of the wallets keep on watching those hot sauce the hot box and have a great day and night everybody. well

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the u.s. senate struggling rebuke saudi arabia over the show be murder and calls for an end to the american involvement in the war on yemen is this a defining moment for this bilateral relationship will so-called values trump card political reality. you mentioned in the six thirty five that you have a career ending career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office. perhaps you sort of getting going it's. kids. are going to have to stop doing all this and this is tell you lou the minutes must be from my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it and the box.

very strong magnetic field on the field in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure my skin burned and that wireless access point there just continues on saying with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electoral smaug and it's getting worse. one of the first journalists to report on alleged collusion that now says the most blockbuster claims made in the infamous steel dossier are likely false. positive step for the syrian peace process as diplomats from.