the co-founder of. linked in apologizes for funding. which created. this time in the u.k. . the u.s. government shutdown continues funding. for the media the flames of discontentment even using outdated video to drive. they just. left in the desert everyone. has done everything they possibly can to make the trip more dangerous plus the image of

a typical terrorist is shot. or. the whole crew here welcome to you and yours. the co-founder of online networking site linked in has apologized for funding the discredited democrat party. it created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like a republican rival. the operation was tossed in the u.s. with tracking fake russian. to be the very one creating. his. well was embarrassing the same. the least here i thought

you could get away with blaming russia for anything nowadays apparently not but it does set a new low for democrats making think russian boughts to win elections is the irony i find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing for that reason i'm embarrassed by my failure to track. the organization i did support more diligently as it made its own decisions to pounce fun projects that i would rejects the recap reid hoffman co-founder of linked in contributed wittingly or unwittingly money one hundred thousand dollars to a pro democrat cyber security company called new knowledge which it seems specialized in fraud and fake news lies and this information the company created think facebook pages to confuse republican voters they created fake

russian boats who were tweeted and followed through him or the republican candidate in alabama's two thousand and seventeen special election they then publicly declared that that was proof he had ties to russia because i think russian bullets were retreating him dirty very very dirty so surprise the chopper support him or they both have a deep love of country the country's russia but still right reach a car good question is for you it's pretty alarming when a guy's lips in a fluent russian or speak fluent russian russian is everywhere year later it's moving closer into the oval office interestingly enough the democrats love that and mocked roy moore when he accused them of setting him up last year but here's an interesting tidbit new knowledge she jonathan morgan was all. seemingly one of the

mosque the minds behind hamilton sixty eight which claimed to track russian online influence operations russian bots real russian bots. ironic again that outlets including new york times washington post c.n.n.

all use the hamilton sixty eight data to accuse russian boats of sowing discord and conspiracies online wonder how much of that was fake but food for thought was more by luck than not that we found out about this quote the sea of n.y.t. yet how many more incidents like this could there have been that we don't and never will know anything about food for thought journalists are dave lindorff believes the covertly bought operation reflects broader problems in the us electoral system dirty tricks are not illegal there. you know they're part of our our corrupt electoral system you can you can lie and you can make up stories so you can live for all of these things are. allowed in us the us

electoral system and then what what compounds it makes it so corrupting is the vast amount of money that can be poured into these campaigns that allows them to pay for this kind of corruption and then on top of that we have a population that's really not capable of critical thought. so people will buy into the stupidest claims about canada. britain's defense minister has voiced his deep concerns about a possible spying threat from chinese tech giant weiwei this comes amid a confrontation between the company and the u.k.'s closest ally the united states artie's point has details they seemed like the best of friends one side with cash to flash the other keen to court chinese investment we have a golden era of u.k. china relations. the relations between britain and china are very good issues in the past i think we've come to an understanding over

a no as premier league said yesterday this should be an indispensable partnership. we have cemented britain's position as china's best partner in the west with the u.k. playing bragg's it really with brussels trade ties with china seem as important as ever but there's a bone of contention coming between london and beijing all rather a phone of contention we've got to look at what partners such as australia in the us are doing in order to ensure that they have the maximum security of that five g. network and we've got to recognise the fact as has been recently exposed the chinese state does. times aren't in the maligned way weiwei is one of china's most important tech companies that the world second largest mobile phone producer and it makes the laptops and tablets gadgets that rival apple and samsung but crucially weiwei also sells some of the communications hardware that allows mobile phone and

wireless networks to operate and when the u.s. currently embroiled in a tip for tat trade war with beijing the chinese tech giant has come into the spotlight washington says it's concerned that using weiwei hardware will give beijing the ability to spy on foreign countries and exert too much control over western infrastructure weiwei has raised serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role in cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services reportedly used for a shell companies to conceal efforts to get sensitive satellite technology from boring facebook shared the personal information of americans with smart phone manufacturers these included the chinese companies one way

n.z. t e z t y way threaten the security of our networks due to their close ties to the chinese government and now the u.s. is pursuing well ways chief financial officer who was arrested in vancouver at washington's request to now faces extradition to the u.s. over possible violations of sanctions against iran but the case appears more than a little politicized the u.s. president suggested he might use china's tech princess as a bargaining chip with beijing if anything it's good for the country you find i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever meet which is a very important thing which is good for national security. i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary australia or new zealand have followed the us as lead and banned huawei from providing tech for its five g. rollout citing security risks the u.k. has yet to follow although there are murmurs in that direction what we're

witnessing is more kind of security hope something a candle or russia for real and american only sees itself in a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market over the margin having talks in the back room between the american state department and the british foreign office trying to pressure raise or put leverage on the british government to come out and support the years sanctions tree attire for the husband channel but i don't think for one second that britain follow america's foreign policy to dictate to the policy that britain needs for true truth the world after bret's that there's little hard evidence of weiwei ever having engaged in any spying or handing over of data the company denies any ties to the chinese government beyond paying its taxes for the u.k. following washington's lead and banning way risk souring and up until now fruitful

friendship as well as slowing down the rollout of vital new technology for london it will be a tough choice between wa way and the us way. twenty eighteen was a tough year for cryptocurrency bitcoin experts called it the year its a bubble bust and predicted its complete demise ninety times and top investor says a long dark winter is coming from paper bitcoin to its coin and free fall day coin has sunk to its lowest level so far this year the price continues to plunge as the claps and cryptocurrency got his pace losing to seventy five percent of its value so far this year are we seeing the death of think point as we know it bitcoin was the postmaster the centralized digital currency it created more comfortable conditions for trade on transactions on gave why the popularity of bitcoin enthusiastic and told us what he expects from the cryptocurrency ofter its ride

this year. if you look at the big you know grace ballboy as you would say yeah you could say that that baby is has happened but the user adoption emerging adoption advances in the technology of the box in itself had twenty years actually been a really good year for big four and maybe again not so much for the price but if you're looking at the technological aspect of the blace you know underlining because great year. i think that was more like mainstream media's portrayal of the big point is like you know the get rich quick aspect of it during the run of twenty team but i think there's kind of segue to into the mainstream more so moving into the the interest in the technology like how does black chain work where does the price come from other than speculation the actual technological advancements so i guess for that i could think that mainstream media.

i don't think it's much more of a risk than it was when they incorporated the internet into their business model what i think is it provides incredibility it may overpower any kind of security flaws there's a lot of things that happened behind the scenes in banks i think that you know a lot of end users and customers of banks would benefit from banks using open ledgers and giving that you know trust listeners spect a try when it comes to banking. just don't put more in than you're willing to lose and you won't have to worry too much about trading with emotional money. people in new york i've been left dumbfounded by a neon blue light blazing across the skyline the posted videos of the bluish horizon with some even wondering whether it was an alien invasion alarmed by the phenomenon. of police units on fire trucks it turned out the incident had nothing

to do with any galaxy far away just the result of a transformer explosion. still to come here on the program or not to you thousands of us workers are out of pocket over the festive season after a us government shutdown over trump's border war funding and your other friday headlines in just. over my. knees changed there are. the level of the physiology that is at the level of the brain the brain as a form of plasticity can rewire itself and not just the brain but also the rest of the responses. i've been saying the numbers. matter the us has over one trillion dollars and. more

than ten times champion each day. eighty five percent of global wealth to the rich eight point six percent markets thirty percent. some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit. and when rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one does not show. org to miss the one and only. quarter past the hour here in moscow while millions celebrate the festive season in the united states the government is in the midst of a shutdown of a cash for trump's border wall the president claims to stalemate is not about

funding the anti immigration beriah at all. this isn't above the wall everybody knows that a wall will work perfectly in israel the wall works ninety nine percent this is only by the democrats now letting donald trump and the republicans have a when they may have the town senate votes but we have the shoe border security two thousand and twenty if you thought there would be a christmas truce in the washington wars then you were wrong christmas is over and new year's is coming and the government has already been shut down for a week and it's all because of the wall we have a little bit of a shutdown because we believe in walls and we believe in borders and we believe in barriers the american public is demanding no more if we have to close down the country over border security i actually like that in terms of an issue federal workers are furious they're telling horror stories on social media about a penniless christmas they're blaming it all on the man in the white house whenever

i talk about my air traffic control husband working without pay on twitter all i get is hateful remarks about how he will and won't lose a di i know that but were we supposed to buy christmas and bills in the meantime feeling so sad for you no not really you destroyed christmas but eight hundred thousand employees no one cares about you well if my husband who works for this day doesn't get paid we won't have money to give our elderly cat his insulin shots so would have to put him down it seems. is that the hysteria is not going to end trump says the government won't be open for business until he gets funding for his border wall and the democrats are still resisting that i can tell you it's not going to be over until we. were old friends whatever they'd like to go over the goal of whatever the we cannot accept the offer they made to put a billion dollar slush fund for the president to implementing his very wrong

immigration policy and that happened to trump temper tantrum may produce a government shutdown it will not get him his will moreover the mainstream media is turning up the heat during the discussion of the recent death of a seven year old migrant girl m s n b c s got a heart wrenching clip of border patrol agents dumping out water left for undocumented immigrants to illegally cross the border everyone in the trumpet ministration has done everything they possibly can to make the trip more dangerous more deadly they destroy water supplies that are left in the desert by samaritans who are doing what donald trump's bible tells them to do yes that mean spiritedness is put squarely on the shoulders of donald trump except if you look at the clip it's from way back in two thousand and eleven the border patrol agents in that clip were actually accountable to the obama administration

when they took those actions not to trump that fact however didn't stop m s n b c from playing the clip somehow as an example of the brutality of the trumpet ministration some border patrol dumping water that was meant for desperate migrants being dumped out on the ground this is sort of extravagant cruelty is unusual for any administration but for this administration they seem to think it's affective for their base and severe dehydration which is cannot be dealt with with just water of wind and yet they are out there destroying the water supply. lines that good samaritans put out there for people who find themselves in these situations there's folks who are inclined to view trump is this unique evil and he certainly you know does a lot of terrible things including you know having more children being taken from their parents but at the same time people forget how terrible obama wasn't really why was there a scandal again when he wanted to now know you did why was there

a scandal when he was instrumental in the coup in honduras in two thousand and nine which has helped lead to this migration crisis obama got a pass on all of these issues it again a lot of it was people like you personally and therefore overlooked all these types of terrible things whereas when trump does them they take notice it may be winter but that he didn't washington over donald trump was just keeps getting time table r.t. new york. a study in the united states has shattered the stereotype that we sometimes hold of terrorists here are the conclusions reached by the global policy think tank the rand corporation well this claim that the majority of terrorists are the majority of terrorists come from a cook asian or african american background the study also indicates that terrorists come to be either black or white while also not highlighting any particular attributes that's quite

a contrast to the stereotype the rule pretty familiar with after nine eleven the so-called average terrorist was often portrayed as being a muslim or of arab descent with our because the language of choice they were also commonly thought to have been a professor of sociology at the university of wisconsin punk side dana believes that this has led to some dangerous assumptions but three puting annie annie any issue to race basically is intended primarily. dissolved and blanket condemnation unplug. condemnation of the people of the middle east are up some muslims and all the people of the middle east was actually necessary for the for the us policy in the region although it was from day one understood by most social scientists to be based on a false premise but obviously it was serving a political strategy and the political strategy required a blanket condemnation and a mass generalization or the notion after to apply to any person coming from the

region or the middle east region north africa and southeast asia and the study that uses race as a primary viable to explain or to just default to. find out facts about crime or about terrorism is actually highly misleading let alone actually is a very basis. brussels says it's granting the french president emmanuel macron a one time exception of the paris admitted it may break euro zone deficit limits next year taking a closer look at the story charlotte due to. some strong criticism coming out of brussels to woods president matt korn of france with the european commissioner with budget responsibility describing matt corn as losing his authority this is because of the concessions he's given to yellen best testers of two weeks of final protest that of walked from it's now harris has already made those concessions costing

billions if he was over at the going to push the two thousand and nineteen budget for two point eight percent of g.d.p. all the way up to three point two percent meaning it breaches the european commission stated objectives of three percent now brussels is said it will not tolerate any breaching of these rules post two thousand and ninety under this condition move tolerates a national debt it's higher than three percent as a one time exception. however it must not continue beyond twenty nine team and it's not the first time that france has actually breached these limits in fact when we look over the last ten years they've reached the limits more than only been within them and spot the fact that penalties are supposed to be applied to a country that breached these rules so far none have been of plight france that's also the same for germany which breached the three percent barrier back in two

thousand and three but spare a thought italy that's been struggling to try and get its two thousand and nine hundred budget approved this year past the always the eagle eyes of the european commission and that's when their budget was only going to be two point four percent of g.d.p. now of course italy has huge debts and it's been trying to tighten its belt but it was well below that three percent and even then that wasn't good enough for the european commission and that's led some people to suggest that the european union remains to be a two tier system where some of the big guns can get away with anything without being penalized and everybody else countries like italy have to play according to the rulebook. ritual has marked the upcoming new year in. just. the chairman's gathered on a beach on the peruvian capital lima where the charge of over the portraits of the

leaders of russia i think us to north korea it was an annual ceremony and president bring strength and energy to the entire world. and we are back at the top of the hour with more of your friday story. you know when it's callout of crazy things gone a lot of people yell. twitter arising and somebody pops up with something really insightful really interesting. with norm a good manufacturer can send us an instant of public wealth. when the ruling

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