it isn't the surveillance that is scary it's the fact that it's intimidating they're creating a system that intimidates white men and pushes them down and makes them look over their shoulders and makes some breaks and that is the tactic of a totalitarian state and they seem to not be able to wait until they can inflict a want to bonnets and the mainstream media has has this label on white man and even white people in general on college campuses i'm in jobs even at restaurants i'm fairly college student right now and i see this this this is the whole i guess clay coming to everyone's minds thinking that white people are bad white people she claimed for their ancestors problems you know that shouldn't be happening and i'm not sure whether this marks an occasion of desperation for leftism or opportunities a sense of blooming opportunity or maybe both if you're not really on the left unless you're a victim and in order to be a victim you have to have an oppressor and they appeared to have settled all the different causes all the different angles or less doesn't appear to have settled on

white males for racism sexism bigotry and homophobia and that is the great evil of america and we are going to be made to pay for that one way or another even if we're innocent and of course most of us are. they just they were this is saving this is all to international to i mean half an hour for the latest headlines. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. greetings and sell you take. we love we love our democracy here in the

united states hard watchers we love it so much that we will often spread our brand of democracy around the world either by handshake. or shakedown but despite our great chest thumping over how golly gee great our democracy is when it comes that actually practicing it. take the recent two thousand and eighteen midterms according to recent data compiled by the center for responsive politics the two thousand and eighteen election was the most expensive midterm ever by a layer large margin with total spending surpassing five point seven billion dollars yet despite that massive amount of money spent by candidates parties committees pacs and outside groups or only an estimated one hundred thirteen million people actually voted. but but tyrrell one hundred thirty million people that's a huge number all these political pundits and journalists told me it was

a banner year for us democracy well friends yet not really really especially when you look at the amount of voting age citizens who didn't vote in the two thousand and eighteen midterms which clocks in at roughly one hundred and thirty nine hundred forty million people that's more than fifty two percent of the electorate that's a terrible amount of nonvoters for a country that long since democracy like we do now there are many reasons for these bad numbers the terrible candidates not enough political parties terrible candidates gerrymandering terrible candidates the list goes on and on and on but for the good people of sandusky ohio they decided to knock one of the main ones off the list economic inability to get out in vote not enough time during the day how did they do this by declaring election day wait for it paid holiday and as an added cherry on top they did away with celebrating columbus day in the process to yes

sandusky ohio the home of tommy boy just chose to celebrate election's over genocide and if they can do it why can't the rest of us now let's start watching the hawks. this is. real that this would. be the plot of. the day like you that i got. this. well the one to watch in the heart of the robot and i'm talented and good first stand dusky as good for that and those skill while leading the way are good midwestern sort of. like solos and stepping up and saying like you know it should

be a holiday people should get the day off they should get a paid they ought to go out and vote it can it's really not that difficult but i always use that it's great that they got it right with columbus day at the same time and what have you got that one fell swoop facebook the city of sandusky is really great so sandusky is proud to recognize election day as a holiday what better way to celebrate the value of our employees and citizens than by removing barriers for them to participate in the greatest of american innovations our democracy and it's true though i mean i think it's great this is the thing i would say it's you scott us started small town in this community start making it an obvious choice get more people to vote why do you not want more voters that's what our stand mandery why don't less voters find out more more makes life better you know it's interesting when you get into like you know why people are going to making elections like a national had their making their music zooming to is it your notice if you go around the country like your local elections can be in like may and then like you know this other election can be in september and then finally there's some national

ones on in november should always be in november simplify it it's the idea of the entire a concept of the country. and when you comparison of the rest of the world we're not doing that well no. only fifty five point seven of us turnout turnout in two thousand and sixteen and that's people who are of age to eligible voters only fifty five percent in two thousand and sixteen presidential election that's not that much. that puts the u.s. behind most of its peers in the organization for economic cooperation and development. in. places twenty of the thirty two countries. where we are everything. out of. germany. canada and australia. ahead of us and we're supposedly the shining beacon of democracy in the world more than half our people don't even.

order to vote in other countries. but as you said there's a million reasons why one of those is because the day comes suddenly you can't get off from work if you have school there's a million reasons one of the pew research center had looked at when you looked at americans on both sides of the aisle with really looked at everyone making an election a national holiday was a good idea seventy one percent of democrats and fifty nine percent public. think it's just a trick to get a bill to vote it's a trick to get people to vote. totally. senate majority leader your favorite mcconnell. is wildly against the federal holiday for elections in fact if it came up time to go proposed that mcconnell said

just what america needs another paid holiday and a bunch of government workers. on the other side and their campaign says that is exactly what america needs it. another paid holiday. so low or many more actually if you up what was the blows my mind with this is that like sixty percent almost fifty nine percent like you said earlier almost sixty percent of all republicans are for a national holiday to vote because like another eleven percent more on the democratic side mcconnell well push this through you won't allow this to happen this is were big it was absolutely ridiculous for a country that claims to be the bastion extraordinary thing a big place on the hill of democracy spreading it around the world by the barrel of a government's try so here. and yet another blow to the concept of world peace and stability the united states of america and russia have now both officially backed

out of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty the nine hundred eighty seven accord was one of the highlights to come out of the end of the cold war prohibiting the development testing or deployment of certain types of short and intermediate range land based missiles joining us today to bring us the latest on the end of the i.n.f. treaty and what the future of nuclear buildup holds for the united states and russia is r.t. america correspondent sara mountains so i thank you so much for joining us thanks for having me this is interesting and quite fascinating the way like always the western media seem to be very quick to blame one side in this treaty kind of. the oh they're blaming russia left and right is there any actual proof to the idea that this is all roses fault the u.s. is an innocent bystander and pulling out of the story well that's what many critics and experts and analysts are saying that there is no proof now there's actually an interesting new york times op ed headline that was released today and it said the i.m.f. treaty dies blame russia if the i.n.f.

treaty dies blame russia but it was changed by mid-afternoon to a different headline that said how russia undermined over thirty years of nuclear arms control they happen to soften it up a little bit now what they're specifically talking about is the russian missile myname seven twenty nine but russia says that it's in full compliance with an eye on that and russian ambassador had this to say about it. united states has introduced some concerns regarding the russian. missile a nine am to nine i would like to see their minister of defense has decided. to present unprecedented measures of transparency we invited military at the chair to minister of defense we offered them to look at . we provided a lot of technical explanations of what mr e.'s. so russia invited the united

states to take a look at the missile for them to explain what it was that it was indeed not in violation of the i.n.f. treaty but the united states declined that invitation reports claim that both countries are actually working on building up now these land based missiles in that within the next few years the u.s. actually has increased military spending this year and actually expanded one of its air satellite bases in tucson arizona and russia revealed some of its newest missiles last year all of them claim to be within the i.n.f. treaty rules but after trump's withdrawal russia is really saying that they're going to follow us footsteps and working on their own missiles. so here's the thing about this treaty i'm old enough to remember when it happened and what a big deal i mean that was the end of the cold war something that our parents had lived through that we had lived through and here we were sort of seeing the end of it it meant the establishment of global stability and of all of this sort of you know finding our way into

a new world what's the world's reaction to the united states decision to withdraw well perhaps some of these global powers are forgetting that the reason behind this was to end the cold war and it was mainly as a security blanket if you will for europe some close u.s. allies including germany have come out and spoken how concerned they are that this will lead to a new global arms race e.u. foreign policy chief for that he said what we definitely don't want to see is our continent going back to being a battlefield or a place where other superpower superpowers confront themselves there's also a bill that's supposed to be coming out ten u.s. senators where they want the u.s. to remain in this treaty so. you know it's interesting because. basically i mean they've all come out of the we're not in the treaty anymore and we're we're pulling out of it but like i you know on paper technically it's still

another six months to go you know pretty much both sides of pretty much said this is over but being that there's still the technical aspect that led maybe there is there a glimmer of hope in there like the russian u.s. could kind of somehow reach some level of open dialogue and fix this problem before we end up in another new nuclear arms race like you said i mean it's still fixed month but and russian ambassador actually said he's leaving his doors open for russia and this is something he said today. we are open to find solution with the united states skeptical when i see. and diplomats senior diplomats go in and around the country in the world in the europe trying to blame just on the russian not to try to find a new possibilities to deal with this issue. well china said he wanted china also involved in other countries in this treaty so if there's hope we're still not sure

if trump and the trump and mr ation is willing to have some dialogue with russia. well. coming on well you know we've been down as once before there's always somebody comes along and gets everyone to the table and hopefully peace is on the horizon and you know calmer minds prevail thank you so much and that. thank you. i was going to court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of a proper true coverage of facebook and twitter to our poll shows that are three dot com coming up our own a wall of some covers some rather curious consistencies in the recent news of a better way well that's being used to justify u.s. intervention in the political fairs country so stay tuned for watching the hawks the oldest.

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request. wednesday be unnecessary all the ident that's also known in english as the d.m.v. d.f.s. international bridge became very famous in recent weeks but for all the wrong reasons and mainstream media help quite frankly make it worse if you read the news you probably believe that as a voice of america stayed out on february seventh at venice where the military barricades keyboard across a glock and humanitarian aid or as the navy times put it the venezuelan military is barricaded a bridge between the two nations with a tiger and two cargo trailers in an apparent attempt to block the. aid everyone from the new york times to joe biden tweeted this image claiming that it is not

only a key border crossing but that mcgoohan rope purposely blocked the bridge to keep humanitarian aid out of venice way last thursday was a big massive problem with this story the bridge in these pictures that everyone's been waving about it's never ever been opened construction began on the thirty two million dollar project in january of twenty forties with the cost being split between colombia and venezuela it was finished in twenty sixteen the bridge has never been opened to traffic due to border disputes between the two countries and those barriers that you saw well according to a twenty six team peace and love to me own out of koku to columbia the bridges quote sheltered by an old rusty gate guard which can be seen on google street view that the entrance to the t. adidas international bridge that's supposedly being blockaded the fencing and concrete dividers you see blocking the road those as you can see from this google

image from twenty seventeen those have been there since twenty seventeen and they're on the colombian side yes they've been up for over a year and when the venezuelan military did put the tankers on their side and have officers guarding the venezuelan side you can see here there are little facts to back that up that the ten dead ended as international bridge is being used by venezuelan officials to block movement or aid in fact according to local reports the on the opened bridge had become a nighttime crossing for criminals with colombian officials telling loud pinioned just one month ago that quote the neighbors asked for the intervention of colombian security agencies so that this information could be verified stating that the mega structure we're talking about the bridge would be at the service of smugglers mafia however. there is another bridge a mere ten kilometers from the t.n.c. the samyn international bridge the one you've seen blockaded that is open and

allows close for thirty thousand venezuelans to cross into plum b.s. and back into venezuela each day the simone bowl of our international bridge a bridge that has been widely photographed and covered by mainstream media journalists for a number of years so why are so-called reputable news outlets politicians and pundits refusing to simply tell the facts as they are without addressing the set for the viewers at home tech writer justin emery who discovered the discrepancies and self wrote he quote sells despair today as as i have realized how deceptive this coverage of candy to spread has then look in the news things happen fast especially in t.v. news emotions run hot and the desire to be truth tellers can often blind us to the facts however over the last twelve months we've seen again and again media outlets using the dept of images and blatantly false information to shape merited that are

often debunked within a week but never truly corrected so hot water is the mainstream media just too busy to do basic fact checking these days are they selling us a bridge to nowhere. good question and quite honestly i i wanted to give people the benefit of the doubt on this one but i mean when you see those pictures as you put them up there this is this is just blatant anybody with two cents in their head could do a little bit of basic back check a newspaper want to thank him in a really high school newspaper. the minute i saw the article i thought it can't be that and then you literally go to a wikipedia page and then you literally go to stories written by the same reporters . new york times outlet after outlets they're supposed to be these legacy outlets that are so amazing and they're all just keep saying this thing about they. you know what bridge these are reporters that were there and these are the things that

star wars this is how we end up with we will not the united states will be going to wider war with. and then you end up. as exactly like w.-m. . or. the tubes in africa. maybe. uranium to visit the right. things that were ordered to be true by the media that turned out to be just complete player complete and this is one of them clearly i mean there's no context of the story of what's interesting is i'm alexandra being the i.c.r.c. delegation had the united states and canada she actually told p.b.s. news hour that the red cross has told u.s. officials that quote they have to help the people of venezuela it has to be shielded from this political conversation it is obviously a very difficult conversation to have with the u.s. we are there also to make clear the risk of the path being taken in the limits of

our ability to operate in such an environment she's obviously referring to the fact they're kind of doing this thing where they're turning the aid and the acquisition of a into a political chess piece and if i understand like the red cross. you know we talked about the red cross they're not perfect but the red cross is down there independently supplying and essentially running i think five or six hospitals within venice way a lot so when you have to listen to people who are actually there feeding people getting the medicine and when they try to sort of make it part of this well will give this to you but you have to do this you have to do these things it becomes a very unsettling place politically and as a citizen and this is how you end up with migration problems because you could end up having care of ads and people end up in colombia just to get away from what they think is going to be you know a fight some sort of military intervention if it is and that's why a u.n. spokesman stephane jarek had told the new york times that what is important is that

humanitarian aid be deep politicized and the needs of the people should lead in terms of when and how humanitarian aid is used it shouldn't be this thing of. you get. when you have when you decide on the right president you know that's not that's not know how it's supposed that's not how democracy works but we were taught and i don't think our generation is going to that's not our democracy and the one of the real interesting elements to come out of this is how quickly you mentioned joe biden earlier quickly all of these democrats who told us over and over again resist from. the resistance they just jump right on board with us that are vention in venezuela opposed to the ground by a war criminal just being run by one worker it was pardoned by bush so. you know it's not a great honor. to me that you see these people jump when all they tell us over and we don't trust anything trump and so what are good. and mark over here you know.

it really it is one of those things to you but i think the reason the mean you are passionate about it is and it's because i don't want to see. another iraq i don't know see another i don't want another contra i don't want to see any more of these i we grew up watching fights we grew up watching movies that depicted russians or cubans or south americans or nicaraguans us terrible people were coming to get us it's done like it's twenty nineteen london tried of the whole thing. in the late twentieth century you we used to buzz busters or radar detectors to help us motorists beat police speed traps set up on the highways and byways across the nation but now my friends we're living in the twenty first century and the radar detectors of yesterday are now the g.p.s. crowd sourced apps of today like the immensely popular ways and just like the fuzz

busters of yesteryear the police yeah there once again crying foul r t america's tribute to all those reports. the way is traffic application is under fire by law enforcement for sharing police locations now the n.y.p.d. is calling on the application to stop sharing sensitive information like this saying that it could be considered criminal misconduct acquired back in two thousand and thirteen by google the opposite especially popular because it alerts drivers about obstacles accidents speed traps and road closures and while this could be a great way to help drivers save time during their daily commute it often thwarts the laws ability to catch speeders or as the n.y.p.d. says drunk drivers the department demanding a cease and desist letter that google disable to crowdsource apps function that allows motorists to pinpoint police whereabouts jim and joe are arriving in six minutes if i get stuck in traffic and the letter reads individuals who post a location of checkpoints may be engaging in criminal conduct since such actions

could be intentional attempts to prevent and or impair the administration of the d.w.i. laws and other relevant criminal and traffic laws the letter also reads that the posting of such information for public concern. ssion is irresponsible since it only serves to aid impaired and intoxicated drivers to a v. checkpoints and encourage reckless driving revealing the location of checkpoints puts those drivers their passengers and the general public at risk the department calling on google to immediately remove the function from the app and that google take every necessary precaution to ensure that g.p.s. data of the n.y.p.d. d.w.i. checkpoints or any other substantially similar data is not uploaded or posted at any future time on the ways mobile application google dot com google maps or any other associated internet websites or web portals now will google has yet to address this specific app beacher a spokesperson told me that they believe in informing their users of the traps

because it could help them keep safe and make better decisions on the road reporting in new york today to others are to. while us earthlings have been struggling to stay warm against the dreaded polar vortex that temperatures across america down into the negative double digits map to has a ten thousand kilometer wide storm that nasa in the space telescope science institute are dubbing a quote mysterious dark vortex the storms have been spotted before by voyager two in one nine hundred eighty nine and hubble in one nine hundred ninety. that has recorded at least three other dark vortex tempests on to to put the size in perspective it would be like a storm front stretching the entire length of the continent of africa and scientists also say that they have no clue how these cryptic vortexes are formed or what the wind chill feels like on me for this planet from the sun they do estimate though about the vortex. could swallow twenty percent of the earth's surface. if it

was here with seasons that last for years and then the vortex storms of neptune will be there for a while so we'll have plenty of time to chase some and figure out what this space mystery is all about wow the. entire continent about yeah. yeah. some serious storms serious of course things into perspective we can survive the polar caps we're not good enough to weather do you think i would never do you good and i mean you know now it's a presidency and mad. that i'm mad to. be empress but how does how does over the day remember everyone in this world we are no we're not told we're above that number so i tell you i am tired to. keep on watching all those hawks out there about the great day and everybody.

thank. god we're going to. be the. major protests take place in venezuela with both pro-government and opposition rallies held across the country.

towns and protest in the haitian.