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greetings and sal you take a shit with just over $530.00 shopping days left until the next united states presidential election it appears that the trump administration is looking to kill some time till the campaign season begins. by possibly starting a war with iran or at least national security advisor john bolton the rest are putting all the pieces in place to wake the dog of war on the heels of last week's inspired bit of military theater that saw bolton blame some brand new incredibly bag iranian threat for the reason the placement of the abraham lincoln carrier strike group to the straits of hormuz this week the u.s. state department in a security alert on its web site ordered the departure of non-emergency u.s. government employees from iraq both at the u.s. embassy in baghdad and the u.s. consulate in erbil once again under the auspices of some beg new threat from iran

if threats obey the not even the top soldiers on the ground in iraq are apparently aware of it yes in a rare break from the new official party line major general chris the deputy commander of operation inherent resolve the u.s. led coalition against isis he told reporters the following you know there's been increased threat from iranian backed forces in iraq and syria but. what but here in washington d.c. thousands of miles away john bolton said there was a new threat how could the major general on the ground in the region know more than john bolton we most of them will be about forces is clearly one of them and we don't see any increased threat from many of them at the station oh because they're there and they must serve them all. looks like the general didn't get the latest memo yes my friends here in d.c.

it's beginning to smell a lot like deja w m d's all over again which means we'd better start watching the hawks. but that's a. real that would be. part of. what they like you know that i got. this. takes a. while to learn on the watching or i rolled with her off and on top of a lot of this is of course now we have a problem and it's even when the mainstream media is starting to pick up on as a little bit earlier today even c.n.n. was in a lower 3rd kind of talking about this idea that you know there's an iranian threat

allies are skeptical so now you know we can we question it now are we allowed to question more on the subject this is one time you know this it's been such a weird couple weeks it's like especially here in d.c. and having lived through the run up to the 2nd you know the iraq war and even the 1st iraq war with the whole babies and debaters thing and you can kind of smell like and see all these pieces falling into place like oh or you're trying to start something you're trying to create a war that shouldn't even be really great you're trying to create a threat so you can justify a potential war down the line and it's getting pretty bad i mean this week we saw reports that the white house reviewed a military plan to send 120000 troops to iraq in the event of the iranian strike on u.s. forces or the speed up of its development of its nuclear program. but you know then when confronted trump denied the plans telling reporters quote. no i would

do that absolutely but we have no plan for that if we. plan we have a lot more troops. where's he getting them. i'm confused wherever you go we've done more than that i mean what the golden army. elephants. that would be the end of it well i mean the problem of a part of the evidence. that's the really the part that oddly enough we're interested in is actual as. new jersey senator bob menendez he's on the senate foreign relations committee told the media that there are only 2 reasons to evacuate the u.s. embassy and iraq that's either that americans working at the missions are risk or to prepare for military action. went on to declare that the trump administrator said has not provided any information to this committee on the intelligence behind

their decisions and what they plan to do in iraq or iran and i mean this is the senate senate foreign relations committee and i think one of the things that the trumpet ministration is kind of pooh poohing and kind of turning their nose out is that they have to approve we have things about wars that congress has to. i can understand give them or give the recent history of the past couple of prisons i can understand why the trumpet ministration would be like both who needs congressional oversight we can start a war anytime we want. since world war 2 now you're going to have people who normally were like no terrorism terrorism terrorism for the last decade and a half will now have to be like prove it now they're going to have to actually do their job but it seems like they might be they might actually start looking at these things what they should have been though in a long time ago and but at least they're doing it now. the rest of the world seems to be catching on i mean here you have. generals on the ground in iraq

saying no there's no threat that i can see there's nothing new that i've seen and then you have spain withdrew its brigades from the lincoln carrier strike group that i mentioned earlier because the group is now focusing on these alleged threats rather than the agreed upon objective to mark they were all actually going out to mark the historic seafaring anniversary together of this league but now they're suddenly being you know you have to cover this weird throw up that no one has ever evidence of look i just i want to make sure i have enough time for this for the people at home i hate to be the one to ruin your summer travel plans but it looks like the state department is urging u.s. citizens not to travel to iraq due to these heightened tensions so you might want to call in just let you know let's find out if you get a shot your deposit back on the sandals resort deal i guess i don't know i mean maybe it's one of these things where they're ramping i mean i'm hoping that it might be one of those things where they're like ramping all of this up much like

did before it with north korea and then later it's like oh we did all this the kind of sit down at the table but i. mean giving them a football field long benefit of about. 85 years ago american machine a 10 relation and discovered a way to mass produce what we now know as glitter since then glitter is going to a big part of crafting cosmetics and even celebrations however scientists universities and even music festivals are saying get out to glitter texas a and m. university is among a number of educational facilities banning glitter on campus especially during graduation ceremonies because while 7 they make for brilliant instagram pics they are impossible to clean up can poison wildlife and often end up washing into local water supplies in addition over 60 music festivals in the united kingdom have banned them citing that glitter is plastic and you know because we've been so hawk watchers are you will. to give up glitter if it means reducing the letter that's

a really tough question because you know me i love i know and i don't know if the people at home understand how much you love glitter no this is one of those things where i look at a tab and i'm like you know we have to bend with the times like i get it glitter was really fun back in the eighty's and. glitter has been around a lot it's just mass produced it used to be something we always had this they would live. with but the problem is modern glitter yeah you figured out a way to mass produce that not so great how you did it so the thing about glitter is it's essentially made by taking sheets of very thin plastic and then putting a layer of metal like a little and m. over it and then chopping up in a little pieces and then just letting it out in the universe plastic is obviously made from fossil fuels fossil fuels contribute to greenhouse gases they cause matter that you know will probably cause mass extinction across the planet and also it's just it's water and that answers the question as i'm sure

a few people are wondering is why they're talking about good or why be concerned about you know because it's made from aluminum. i'm going to some sort of tell you . just so you understand how this works how it gets into our water supply it's a lot like the you know kind of micro beads that we've talked about in the soup to look we got glitter all over your body because you're a coach oh and then you wash your body i hope it goes down the drain and what eventually happens is that glitter which is micro plastic ends up in the ocean e.p.a.'s that means 90 percent of the plastics and marine environments are micro plastics like glitter and like the little beads and soaps and things like that the same thing came up with the micro beads and they end up being banned around the world including the u.s. so maybe we've got to step forward and say it's time for good or bad. you know and i wish i wasn't you know i'm not i'm not one to be about like. in ways like this where you thought you know it's a. plastic straw in that i don't know that these worldwide things sort of address

the actual issue like the glitter is not going to go away people are still going to use it they're going to get it from places but i do think we've market. it all happen. i will be right there to see me on the glitter. but the thing is i think we just need to like him a lot of things weather comes to fossil fuels and energy sources we need to start moving to something that's sustainable that isn't as toxic can move us toward that and that's one of the things about the alternatives and there are a lot of alternatives there's biodegradable cruelty flea free plastic free all these things on the market and they're made from things like cattle and it's it's a good to dissolve really quickly they're nontoxic but what you want to do to be clear is some alternatives for glitter are made out of mike which is a natural. natural mineral and it sparkles and you can sort of peel off layers of it it's very cool but here's the problem and this is why lush the bath.

company used to use that as opposed to plastic and there are sort of bath bombs but they change out long ago for this reason they were using mike and they decided not to they're making a biodegradable version of it the reason they're doing that is because most mica is mind of it's child labor so you're either poisoning the fish or you're contributing to child labor by not thinking about the glitter and then if you if you were going to craft if you're going to do these things of you to put your beard irresponsible about everybody else and you know get something you know also it's like these poor people who are the janitors and the people who have to work at these places there is literally no way to clean this up it's just glitter everywhere and they can't do anything about it so it's not. interesting story because i don't think it's one of those products that. you don't think about now

you don't think about the consequences of it and that's why it's important to bring up stories like this because there's a lot of products in the marketplace that you don't think about the bigger ramifications of their use of think oh glitter it's cute well that's your classic straw and then you see a turtle with its document's nose and you're like oh i get it new poll open ambition it's all little bits of micro plastic well this is just another kind of micro plastic and as we're seeing it over and over there are whales washing up on the show or a mess and they're having plastic and micro plastics and it's getting us that stretch mariana trench the plastic at the bottom of the deepest trench in the ocean yeah it was all right as we go to break walk watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the proper through the cover of facebook you tube and twitter your poll shows that r t v dot com coming up we discuss the harsh anti-abortion laws just passed in 3 u.s. states and the fight over how best to change them and. alyssa milano sex strike. what well that's the lawyer. to.

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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. this week another bill criminalizing abortion passed the alabama state senate with a 25 to 6 boat despite the fact that even the bill sponsor doesn't expect it to become law that's because the bill like those that have passed in 6 other states in the united states is actually a stunt as the bill sponsor alabama state representative terry collins stated it's to address the issue that roe v wade was decided on is that baby in the womb a person. however it seems that the legislators at the heart of these bills aren't the only ones claiming to be allies while admitting they're not equipped to debate the issue actress and activist alyssa milano caused a stir over the weekend when she tweeted our reproductive rights are being

a race until women have legal control over their own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy join me by not having sex until we have bodily autonomy back i'm calling for a sex strike pass it on well the twitter verse definitely passed it on right into the hands of activists who are none too happy about the proposed sex strike right or political analyst and lawyer i know what chunk reached out to milan him and posted an e-mail response in her tweet that showed alyssa shit said share this with whomever i like so in the email from the law no she cynically stated while claiming to be an ally saying i know you don't like me it's obvious and super cool mulatto then went on to state as she had on numerous occasions that she works in georgia which also has one of these bands and her kids go to school there she then wrongfully accused chung of docs ing her by the next day when mulatto was asked specifically regarding the sex strike she so vehemently called for she stated i

mean i don't know i sent a tweet last night i haven't really thought about it passes this morning joining me now from atlanta is writer political analyst and lawyer i know a chunk thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me 1st i want to start with the alyssa milano business mulattoes step into into this kind of thing before most notably when she tweeted quote i'm trans i'm a person of color an immigrant i'm a lesbian i'm a gay man and i'm the disabled i'm everything i want to ask you what is the danger of mulatto using her status as an ally and activists as a shield against criticism. i really appreciate the framing of the question i mean in these times particularly where everyone has been. biggins it is great to have folks like you know actresses like melissa mulatto who will signal elevate the actual work and actions and issues that we're passionately working on the

grassroots level however when you sin to yourself as a privileged person as she is in those identities that are very much not transferable it creates this this is this confusion that somehow because you are an ally or you identify or empathize people that you can also stand in their place and many people during that whole that was like 2 months ago many different people including myself in a semi private forum tried to reach out and explain kind of how that wasn't the best course of action in terms of expressing empathy and solidarity like there are lanes of solidarity and that just wasn't the best way to express it. i want to get to the core of what the sex strike sort of was i think a lot of people understand that makes sex strike sort of this idea come out of you know listen which i want to remind everyone this playlist out in which women want to stop war by saying i'm not have sex anymore that was a comedy it wasn't like it was a comedy it was

a mentor and started. oh i'm so i'm going to ask you do from your perspective do sex strikes actually work in real life and are they worth the haast of using sag says it seems like a bargaining chip for women like our own right. i mean there are some actual historical examples of sex strikes working in other cultures great but the at the core crux there are 2 different issues one you have a strike it actually has to be those who are doing the labor that is the actually calling for the strike rate so you're calling for something to calm the strike for something that actually needs to be correlated to whatever it is you're protesting in this instance all of us who are liberal progressive minded not having sex with our partners isn't going. to change conservative lawmakers from doing what they're doing they don't want to having sex anyway so that's one thing the other thing is that like you pointed out using sex as

a bargaining tool tool or acting as if it's something that we don't really have that this is the only sorts of power we have is so let's hold our bodies from our partners and it also excludes you know. women right like women who are queer women who are not partner to men and all of this also excludes transmission who also can become pregnant and have abortions as well so there's a whole litany of reasons why that was maybe not the best idea which is why the e-mail you all saw on twitter was actually a response to an e-mail that i had sent asking you know who works with you when you think of these ideas trying to really help her understand that when you're going to get out there as like a as a major activists are calling for a major action there really is a lot more work that goes behind it instead of just jumping out there and say hey let's do this thing it's a great point i think a lot of people lost but celebrity activists and even even slow reactive us i think they kind of they jump they put the cart before the horse you know that kind of thing they don't actually do the hard work before kind of jumping on the bandwagon

and potentially mucking up you know the good work that people are doing to try to change things it's interesting during the debate in alabama and alabama state senator bobby singleton had this to say about their heartbeat bill and its intended purpose let's take a listen. say that you better be very careful about what you want to overturn why you think that you have a president is ready to give you roe v wade and hand it to you based on the court that he's given you believe me that there are presidents there are constitutional statues that those men and women and here to 1st before they adhered to political parties. that's interesting how has the kind of provocative by repub. wiccans and activists like mulatto her fight to protect women's basic constitutional rights and how do we stop that how do we fight against them. i think

overall like the work but in the way alyssa has like stepped out i mean i think ultimately she is trying in her own way right to raise awareness but i do think that when we were just boycotting or striking without any real context to the issue at hand and even taking credit for now everyone's talking about issue we've been trying to raise awareness you know since the start of our various sessions across the multiple states but there are some people who've been doing reproductive justice work particularly in the south for years now who have been trying to warn particularly their democrat allies that this is a fight that is coming to a head sooner or later this national effort we see now with these multiple states passing this similar type of legislation is it is a strategic effort it's not a coincidence that we're seeing state after state knowingly passing unconstitutional bills this is this is intentionally happening which is more reason why we need collective effort and support to actually lift up the voices of organizers of the executive directors of the legal teams in these various states

who are actively fighting and have been actively fighting in terms of these anti choice provisions what do you feel is the best. the best examples you've seen in these states of pushing back against the tide choice provisions that you've seen what or what are some of the good examples of. this here and i notice the same thing in alabama because since we're all a southeast region we have this we have similar staffing in terms of like planned parenthood and some of the major reproductive justice orders so i've seen the collective leg there's actual direct lobbying that people did all across the session our law here in georgia passed by just a few less than 5 votes and they were active working with members of the state legislature to make sure that people were informed in gauge you know we were able to get. so folks we couldn't split both but at least got some folks to not vote so there's that type of strategic lobbying that people have been doing and then there's also raising awareness in organizing people been trying to inform people

about what the law is and is because there's a lot of misconception because using the term heartbeat really implies something way more significant so what is really at stake we're talking about a 6 week old fetus which is really like a cluster of cells electrical impulse right so there's been that as well like trying to educate people and really the medical community i mean the medical community coming in and giving testimony whether it's nurses doctors do was made was i mean having those people really lending their expertise and understanding of the issue has been really helpful as well to helping not only the public but also to help point out how ridiculous some of these members of the legislature really are because they're going against science they're going against the law they're going you know just basic common sense just to prove their point i want to say we just have less than a minute left for you but i want to we're out a show but i wanted to mention something and i want to thank you so much for coming on here because you've been attacked a lot about coming on stations like this and but nagware was actually a hit piece and w a b e n.p.r.

states. and i and you know and it george washington university's robert w. or tang actually said when progressive activists appear on sputnik or stations like this that makes the outlet seem more legit russia may be using activist frustrations about u.s. politics for its own purposes i want to give you a quick chances like. responded let's now and thank you for. coming on here oh yeah i pause but i pause because but that experience last year was ridiculous and i've never let it stop me from going on by any means necessary with eugene puryear i do appreciate this opportunity and i really have felt that as long as we're verifying the information that we're receiving regardless of the outlet because fox news is the mystic and it's trash that gives us the opportunity to actually lift up the work of organizations like the yellow fund and alabama like a r.c. ses like sisters long song like so many amazing organizations new georgia projects so many amazing organizations that are doing really powerful transformative work

that unfortunately our mainstream media does not necessarily find room to highlight because its goal is to maintain the status quo and many of these organizations into these are actually trying to smash not only the pick of patriarchy but the way things are being done currently so. i have always appreciated thank you want to thank you because if without voices like yours we can't tell that to the people and it's important that we tell stories like that thank you so much writer political analyst and lawyer and noah chunka thank you so much for coming. thank you for having me. i. forgot what you know of what you think you know about modern robots are supposed to look like this because researchers and interns at nasa langley research center in hampton virginia are bending all the rules called soft robots these robots forego the usual metal joints bolts and pistons and instead use silicon and air bladders for the body mechanics of their robots this creates a movement and look that appears closer to it a organic thing of nature than

a machine made in a factory in particular researchers are investigating 4 key properties of the soft robot actuators mobility jointing leveling and shaping and how to use them in space exploration they're hoping that these soft robots could play a big role in the future of robotics in space due to their flexibility and potential ability to squeeze into tight spaces so. i guess in space no one can hear you squirm. i know i want one and i know very little cash all right about our sort of a day remember everyone in this world we are told that we are loved and upside so you know i am tired rolled in and out of all the people out all watching all those hawks out there have a great day like. what

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as the u.s. ramps up the pressure over iran senator bernie sanders accuses donald trump's national security adviser of trying to lead america into a war with iran just as they did with iraq. meanwhile the u.s. department of commerce puts the chinese tech giant huawei on a trade blacklist after the president signs an executive order banning the use of its equipment citing an alleged security risk plus also to come. at this point we are definitely not seeing any benefits it's just pain american farmers lament the impact to be escalating u.s. china trade war saying don't wait for.