even. if they're new to me i mean come on. a need to hold. early man pairs strike a compromise on the nord stream to gas pipeline linking russia to germany france earlier sided with the us in opposing the project. chinese tech giant huawei and zte really rejects allegations of spying after the us lobbies of e.u. governments to ban the firms. will march in great numbers to washington will even

go to the white house to deliver more than ten million signatures asking for respect for the news of. the venezuelan president urges his people to resist u.s. interference after washington rules out negotiations with what they were. the latest on these stories you can head over to me dot com stay with us now though for the big picture. on this week's show venezuela will chaos there. usa cuba confrontation but first outbreak many years old is back and in ten states so far science look there's disease decades ago so why is it back and while we're hearing about calming five genes. conic to vittie and how it's going to

change our lives we're also hearing health warnings i'm khalid in washington this is the big picture on our t.v. america. if you had measles as a kid you remember seven to ten days you'd like to forget about twenty million people a year still suffer this disease mostly in africa and asia the world health organization estimates that in europe more than forty one thousand children and adults caught me souls in six months and twenty eighteen washington state governor jay inslee has declared a state of emergency after dozens there and in oregon have contracted measles this winter why is measles making a comeback let's ask dr eric braverman director of path medical in new york city

and the path foundation he's the author of the edge effect a chief of total health and longevity with the balanced brain advantage dr welcome back oh thank you so much is good for you to get the word out in medicine well although the measles vaccine commonly administered in the usa has proven effective this is what you docs call an endemic disease meaning that it's always out there and measles is extremely contagious correct. it is and i'm sure there's pockets in oregon and other places where vaccination rates are low in addition there's a lot of stress on our kids in terms of junk food sugar pollution anxiety violence all of that will lower the immune system and children will be more vulnerable but more likely than not vaccination rates are insufficient while in recent years vaccinations become controversial the centers for disease control estimates that

some ten percent of kindergartners in iowa have not gotten the views of the measles vaccine and some parents opt their children out of required vaccinations citing religious beliefs and now seventeen states permit opt out for philosophical reasons is this asking for trouble it is because also that it effects the other kids so kids that are actually vaccinated may be exposed to a high rate of measles virus and therefore overcome their vaccination you know vaccination as a mass approach began with smallpox and george washington and the smallpox vaccine eventually was perfected by jenner and it turns out that the nation is for ever a great way to build your immune system whether it's flu vaccine the kids vaccines eventually we're going to consolidate these thirty three vaccines for children but in the long run that's a nation is the way to go and i'm not certain that the option to avoid vaccination

is fair to the majority of people well when you said forever i had measles when i was a young child so am i now ok for a life and should adults who never did and were never vaccinated now get the shot. well the issue and i say forever is that you're supposed to be vaccinated for shingles alright and pneumonia at your age those are some of the vaccines that are proven to be good and there may be some benefit to other individuals that weren't vaccinated and vaccination records coming people coming from other countries are unreliable but what i meant by forever i meant that backs a nation is a forever like covenant between doctors and patients just like there's people that baptize forever a wash themselves and their people who circumcise forever you could say vaccination

is the new scientific approach to protection of health at the down so at your age you should get an ammonia that scene and you should be getting you know the shingles herpes also the vaccine to vaccination is a. approach for and i say forever for humanity to protect ourselves from new infections different viruses mutations and viruses and the children are the most important those who take care of children properly are the most blessed in this world when you don't get your kids what they need you're endangering them now that doesn't mean that people think they're doing it on purpose you know look there have been many religious approaches like jehovah's witness wouldn't take a blood transfusion turned out they were right in the sense that the blood was not purified of h.i.v. virus that we could have detected they have the virus through have to titus be in the blood but there are religious concerns that we need to allow and think through

as scientists is their potential merit but once you have an outbreak of measles vaccine that should be a red flag to that region go check your vaccination rates and records you out and see whether or not there are appropriate and whether or not you're in place and in fact the whole country now you're doing a great service jefferson called you as a journalist the fourth estate out so now you're also alerting the rest of the country because things can spread very quickly shorted states and military everyone knows that during military war and different things people die more of disease whether it's malaria or whether it's smallpox we need to understand that disease spreads quickly due to hygiene problems air pollution a host of health and stressors right around the world and you are doing the service of alerting i think the whole united states and the world to say hey what is armies

all vaccination rate can we get this up to ninety nine percent well thank you for saying so and for being here and while the doctor is in i want to switch gears because two of the faster growing industries over the next five years are a. health care and telecommunications and various experts reckon that the two are related as the five g.'s system is being built we're hearing lots about how it's going to rev up internet connectivity one application could be surgeons operating remotely controlling robotic tools but some are warning that five g. will expose even non-users to harmful radiation and for years there's been debate about radiation from existing wireless phones one conspicuous early adopter was republican strategist and george h.w. bush and lead at water often seen with his one nine hundred eighty s. cell phone pressed to his ear and at water's age forty one brain tumor there was

a lot of speculation about the long term effects of explosion or exposure to wireless technology so doc you stay with us and let's bring in dr mag harvest professor emeritus at trent university in canada she researches the biological effects of non ionizing frequencies and the electromagnetic spectrum electro smog as you've put it professor welcome to the discussion and in layman's terms what are the sorts of electromagnetic pollutants that surround us. well you can be living near cell towers for example or broadcast antennas if you're living near an airport you'll be exposed to radar which is a form of microwave radiation very often the most common sources and the highest exposure will be in their own homes from cordless phones using their cell phone why five for example smart meters and smart appliances can can be

a potential source and so can baby monitors those are the key things that we're exposed to in our homes in the aggregate now lately u.s. diplomats have fled our embassy in havana suffering from what's. thought to be espionage related radiation bombarding the building but forty two years ago a book titled the zapping of america warned that we are already wading through a sea of radiation the stuff you mentioned is newer but microwave ovens police speed radar traps etc professor are we exposed just walking around now. unfortunately we are especially if you live in an urban center where there's a lot of people around using their wireless technology and exposure to cell phone antennas with the five g. which is just around the corner and is being tested in a number of locations we're going to be exposed to a whole different bank. microwave radiation millimeter wave and there's been no

long term studies that i'm familiar with testing the safety of this form of radiation dr braverman even now before the dawn of five g. are you wearing and should we use the ear buds or the speaker phone feature rather than pressing a smartphone up to our temple. of water back then we used to have cell phones that did not have shielding in our either area so we knew that those lack of shielding caused acoustic neuroma from brain tumors and we know the whole history of radiation so i'm going to make it easy for your audience you die of sunburn in ecuador if you don't put sunscreen on and get water all right when churn ople occurred and other nuclear testing occurred everybody picked up that iodide radioactive iodine it was killing the thyroid and lead to ten thousand cancers in chernobyl area and it took two days to recognize the chernobyl was out and linus

pauling won two nobel prizes one of them by alerting the world to the fact that low level of cesium could cause cancer so i got good news for you most of the stuff today is shielded so what i do is i walk around with a million gallons meter and you go indoors and you can see what things are leaking radiation or e.m.f. smog and water not so the indoor pollution is related to poor lighting poor air and e.m.f. so everybody knows i'd rather be at the beach in miami right now and everybody would like to be on the sun in the caribbean so what is rotten about being indoors . well we've got pollutants we've got lead in the air we've got lights that do not have the right spectrum they're not white lights they don't have the full spectrum and we have e.m.f. i wish i would have brought for you this simple f.d.a. approved c.e.'s device that we offer our audience our patients that antidotes e.m.f. although it's approved for anxiety depression and insomnia for marketing what it

really does is we e.m.f. on the brain is it makes you more anxious so the bulk of people that get exposed the m.-f. get anxious and guess what the next thing on the spectrum is either blue or pain out so we've got in our cars we are narcotics nation from pain and we're unfettered mean america from adderall you are right and other in fact it means by being anxious kids grab stimulants pot and adults grab painkillers and booze. and pot right that's the story so e.m.f. smog is not making us a happy country and the reality is there are simple non-drug antidotes it's called cranio electrical stimulation there's a company alpha stand that makes one of them we make them and the bottom line is they're out there and they're f.d.a. approved for anxiety depression insomnia so electricity antidotes electricity

iodide and that though it's radioactive sunscreen and it's really you know the sun the reality is there are ways to deal with the fact that indoor pollution an e.m.f. around the cities can be and that's the exciting news i'm actually out of time so i need a one sentence answer on this but about that futuristic notion that in our five future a doc in a distant city will perform surgery fear remote robotic tools you believe that. absolutely and the fact that robots will help us but we have to recognize that electric pollution is as real as water dripping on a stone it will break you so i have electrical antidote that saves the electrical age. gotcha thank you dr eric braverman from past medical in new york and professor bob at harvest trent university in canada and coming up just two years ago

along i see the u.s. a cuba relations seem to thaw but now will mounting chaos in venezuela bring back the diplomatic big chill you're watching the big picture on r.t.m. america. when you look back truth hazel's problems between the last kovi i left three to me it's clear about this treaty is coming to an end. because of that interest. both sides. in washington lost.

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lose a child for all that it. was. and that's out of. its hole full. of them and pay i think time in syria has said. from my law for them after that it will fuck around with mr hague to jim and then i hope that are ready for. big news and that kind of crypto as the currency continues to dominate global finance and put the us dollar into the graveyard yet.

in venezuela two men claim to be in charge and countries around the world are lining up behind one of the other the country is in chaos venezuela holds the world's biggest oil reserves yet its inflation is now measured in millions per cent what does this have to do with cuba let's ask. that's as close a pretty era an attorney based here in washington he specializes in international law on immigration on his high profile cases were one juan miguel gonzalez who battled to return to cuba with his seven year old son elie. ana member him and he represented the government of venezuela to extradite luis posada real estate i say that right directly right to the usa to stand trial for seventy three counts of first degree murder related to the downing of a passenger plane i was

a welcome thank you good to be with you i am old enough to remember president kennedy on our little black and white t.v. during the one nine hundred sixty two cuban missile crisis and as a generation we remember fidel castro and nikita khrushchev in the same picture as allies but when castro first seized power in one nine hundred fifty nine it was caracas and not moscow that supported the revolution and venezuelan oil was the i.o.u. correct. that's correct but when when the revolution was in full. place in the sierra maestra mountains of cuba there was a program in this willa led by some military men to gather money to buy arms for the rebels it was. by the law by the law i believe i believe it was a currency even as well as for the sea out of the mountain range in cuba and they gathered enough money to buy a bunch of arms they put them on

a couple of planes send them to those who have a minister and gave me the much needed arms infidel never forgot that gesture he told a general who had orchestrated this that in his heart he would always be considered number one but this would end for that well if it del is now gone and rowell has stepped down and the last time someone not named castro led cuba was the one nine hundred fifty s. is cuba's posture toward venezuela now more or less predictable. well since president chavez took office in venezuela the relationship between cuba and venezuela has been very strong almost like brothers. they have helped each other pragmatically you cuba sending teachers doctors social workers and others doing this well in this way that's sending oil. not in a tit for tat they would sell the oil it has reduced price. and and there's also an

ideological affinity that has existed since president chavez was from dolphus that has continued with the assumption into office of president. so it's a very very strong relationship and cuba supports the government over this one considers to be the legitimate government of it as well despite the fact that washington doesn't think that it's a legitimate government neighbors and brothers now you mentioned washington recently vice president mike pence rallied in florida in support of venezuelan legislative or and self declared acting president one quite oh here's what he said the united states will continue to exert all diplomatic and economic pressure to bring about a peaceful transition to democracy. but those looking on should know this. all options are on the table.

thousandth neutralised material would do well not to test the resolve of the united states. with those words the defense industrial complex began salivating i'm sure consensus is that as long as venezuela's military leaders remain loyal to sitting president dora will stay in power but are their ranks as solid and what if any influence could cuba hold in the struggle between the dora and guide oh. well there's no question but that this is a coup a coup that was planned cooked and prepared according to an old recipe that the united states has had that has it has already used and what their model cheveley in on doing in a number of countries throughout latin america it's an american inspired and why though is washington's puppet trump's puppet it's he's

a man who didn't stand for an election has never stood for election and us were so matter of fact the opposition boycotted the presidential elections of last year and us were less than equal last moda one against another candid in name and an refiled gone. forty six percent of the voters participated in those elections in minutes well. even with the boycott even with the boycott. but now you have these people who boycotted the election claiming that they should hold the reins of power and this man has never stood for an election calling himself the president of venezuela and trump of course applauding him and prodding him on it's ridiculous it sounds so familiar i guess we're all americans being in this hemisphere but we can only get fifty something percent of americans to vote and the rest of them spend the night. for years squatting and had suppressed sounds familiar. venezuela is now

suffering from sanctions and even though a lot of the long standing a cuban embargo was by the us a only it did punish cuba is american foreign policy now punishing venezuela and pushing them toward our adversaries that's that's a very good question you see. the major premise behind the cuban blockade is the same major premise behind these sanctions against finesse with which is we blockade cuba we sanction this willingness fixie aid them by confiscating their oil reserves abroad their money so that they can now withdraw from the banks and then go in and so forth and that will cause famine in the country and people will rebel against the government that's the thinking behind the blockade and the sanctions in the case of cuba cuba has resisted the blockade since it was imposed in one thousand nine hundred sixty. and then us who seems to be resisting these sanctions

up until now yes the army is behind the government but there's also a lot of ordinary people that are also behind the government there are marches on the street yes the opposition has put out some people to march but also that i was used as a marched so as long as people in the streets support the government and the army supports the government i don't think this coup is coming the way trump and pence and pump pale and they'll get a promise of plant and by the way they put a deal they berms as the point man on the coup he has a sordid history behind their keep bumping into the same people over and over eligible doing the same thing but i don't know if you noticed khalid that the american cargo plane was recently intercepted at the airport in balance here with arms for the opposition. do you remember iran contra your old your remember they

used american cargo planes to traffic arms to the country and guess who was in charge of that operation elliott abrams so it's an old recipe with the same faces obama era usa cuba normalization seems to have been a false start president trump certainly is not like minded our diplomats had to abandon the embassy building after health issues from the radiation the commercial airlines are flying their southwest was crowing a year ago but they seem to be selling fewer seats than expected and friends who have visited cuba as to restress tell me they were disappointed what are your predictions for normalization well i was very optimistic when president obama and president roh pastoral downs there normalization of diplomatic relations everybody was euphoric and optimistic if you like astral said watch out watch out for the united states and history has proven him once again to be right. there are problems

now the trump is doing everything in his power to bring down the cuban government and then this will that is the way to get a cuba right his mind this is an attack that the attack on one us one is an attack on cuba and in this town today attacking miss willow and attacking cuba is like ordering pizza it's cheap and everybody loves you. but the winds can change again with another presidential election this was a hot spot in the fifty's before the revolution i gotta think the casinos have already got the business plan together to get back in there see that way down the road i don't see casinos in cuba as long as the revolution is in power yeah how about that oil we aren't buying it we're trying to discourage other countries from buying it who other than cuba is buying venezuelan oil around these sanctions i think russia. is going to go somewhere. china yeah. thank you

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