u.s. sends an additional $1000.00 troops to the middle east with iran continue to rise that comes after washington and. the recent attacks on the 2 because in the. social media. controversial. debate he says it won't any content unless u.s. courts. and. people in the public sector also. but rights activists say the new law violates religious freedom.

want to. live with me. welcome to the program the united states has ordered an additional $1000.00 troops to the middle east relations continue to worsen with iran secretary of state says the deployment is being made for defensive purposes and doesn't mean his commander in chief wants war we are there to deter aggression present does not want war and we will continue to communicate that message while doing the things that are necessary to protect american interests in the region the responsibility for diplomacy achieving the strategic outcomes the president trying to set forth on all of us but the state department is the 1st or the water on that but we can't do that without making sure that we have the capability to respond if iran makes a bad decision. discuss the significance of that department. the step itself isn't entirely significant but there have been so many steps

leading up to this less than a month ago a $1500.00 more troops was sent to the middle east they had strategic bombers stationed in the middle east additional strategic bombers they had ph it and t. ed defense system station the middle east carrier battle group last time they justified it by saying that there was an imminent credible threat from pro raney and groups that would go in to attack us personnel in the middle east we of course never saw any evidence is all classified this time they've offered videos and photographs apparently showing that the united states is correct and that iran was behind recent attacks on oil tankers in the gulf of oman iran of course denies all of this and says that we've seen these reports before the united states blaming other countries things that are very questionable they're saying that the united states is trying to sink diplomacy and at the end of the day they say if they

wanted to shut down the persian gulf and all the oil flowing through it they just do it regarding the new incidents in the persian gulf republic of iran decides to block exports of all through the strait of hormuz it is militarily strong enough to do and publicly give us a sense of the international reaction to this how is it playing out what are people saying when it comes down or are they siding with just one side or is it more nuanced than that well iran's traditional rivals enemies if you want saudi arabia and israel. of course backed the united states over these claims over these allegations they're willing to stand by the united states in case of an escalation but almost every doubts russia china the european union have taken this. with a deuce of skepticism. sober assessments and wait for some evident. to be presented with it is bits ridiculous decide secrets in this case already in the last days

we've called for the maximum restraint the world cannot afford another crisis especially in an area like that. we call it all parties to remain rational and restrained not to take any action yes collation of tension in the region and not to open a pandora's box there might be the odd trump supporter voted for him and 2016 on the back of him saying you know our adventures in the middle east were going to come to a close it's costing too much money too many lives but yet the trouble are seemingly doing the same thing present donald trump came to power by criticizing his predecessors by saying that enough is enough we should pull out of the middle east out of afghanistan that we're sinking manpower resources human lives into conflicts we don't need to be in i happen to think it was the worst decision made in the history of our country going into the middle it's like quicksand it was a terrible decision terrible nevertheless all the evidence that donald trump is

being shown with regards to iran for example all of it classified may be enough to sway him but it isn't enough to sway other countries including more to do in syria want to bring our troops back home to place one crazy they want to keep but then you have people here in why she wanted they never want to leave some day people will explain what this is really viewed. and they call it the military industrial complex so. remains to be seen where the situation goes from here but so far it's just been an escalation of the escalation. discuss the situation with a member of the hamilton coalition to stop the war can stand he believes washington is still set on changing the government in toronto. the u.s. has never forgiven iran for overthrowing the shah its puppet shah 40 years ago and

it fully and intends to achieve regime change in iran and to put back another shop on the throne in tehran iran is not a compliant state from the point of view of the us rulers of the us empire such as trump and pompei oh they don't look at it as as a distance on a map they look at the map as their own map as their their own playground and they don't intend to broke any disobedient regimes and that's what this belligerent statements and actions in the gulf are all about there is a difference between the 2 spokespeople for the us here on pale on the one hand trump on the other i don't know how anybody could believe anything that the us says at this present moment. there are concerns about america's military activities on the climate front and even ports by admitting us you know that claim that the pentagon is

a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions it's output in some cases the policy is that of whole countries breaking down the findings has that internal quarter. forget single use straws and plastic bags there's a much bigger problem wreaking havoc on mother nature its war the pentagon's wars to be exact. 59000000 metric tons of greenhouse gases that's how much the u.s. defense department spewed into the atmosphere in 2017 alone brown university says the d.o.d. is both the largest oil consumer and institutional polluter in the world there are entire countries that don't emit as many fumes portugal for. finland and sweden to name a few how is that possible well the u.s. military does have a presence in over $150.00 countries it's $560000.00 buildings worldwide make up 40

percent of its greenhouse emissions the rest is from military operations which in 2016 used up 86000000 barrels of fuel that's in afghanistan pakistan syria you get the picture and it's not like americans are electing people who understand wars environmental impact the department of defense must do more than simply acknowledge take piecemeal action to address climate change while it increasingly threatens in homs oh militarism infrastructure and operations even the pentagon itself says it's worried about climate change the facts of the changing climate are a national security issue with potential impacts to department of defense missions operational plans and installations the top brass might say they're concerned but their words certainly are not matching their actions in fact the u.s. military budget may see its 5th consecutive year of growth in 2020 despite spending

more than the next strongest militaries combined the d.o.d. is not cutting back it's actually preparing for more military ventures and considering the u.s. iranian tensions are escalating in the persian gulf there are few signs of any turning back. the last 4. major national security threats both have all of the identified. as being one of those huge serves and yet it soon activities are leading to exacerbate it is this serious threat to global security i didn't buy it at pennsic which is crime and yet rather than doing anything serious to. problem bigotry expenditures do seem to be oriented towards crew to global. climate change and in many other ways. the device of canadian professor and author

jordan peterson has a new platform called think spot and it's got one key principle no censorship he says the site will only women of content if ordered to do so by the authorities despite not yet being fully up and running it's already causing a stir has public. if they won't 7 let you in the club just to set up your own that's the philosophy behind a brand new anti censorship social media platform that's hitting the web this think spot will be an intellectual playground for censorship free discourse that's according to its founder controversial academic and bestselling author jordan peterson the canadian professor is a divisive figure hated by the left and dariya fide by the right earlier this year he was snubbed by the most intellectual of british institutions cambridge university he was supposed to have

a visiting fellowship this sort but that offer was rescinded after a backlash from star students this was jordan peterson's response to the decision at the time what do you think it says about free speech in britain the cambridge university made an announcement this week saying they were going to invite you to speak i don't think it says more about nature of the universities in general than about free speech in general i mean i don't see all the my deuce invitation has compromised more in free speech ability because i have so many platforms on which i can discuss my ideas according to peterson's latest video think sport will be a subscription service where controversial creators will be able to monetize their free speech once you're on our platform we will take you down our list were ordered to by a us court of law that's the idea so we're trying to make an anti censorship

platform one of the testers of the site will be anti feminist you tube call benjamin his you tube channel sagal and of a coward was recently downgraded after he made offensive comments about raping a brit. politician he was also banned from crowdfunding site patriot last year olds right poster boy milo yet not police suffered the same fate for jordan peterson and his community patriotic actions to block these prominent commentators was the final straw doesn't look like moving to an alternative provider an alternative commercial provider that's out of or bailiwick out of our control is going to be viable critics argue that an anti censorship platform could in practice turn into a safe place for extremists and the person who most publicly to test the platform

is somebody who's not only joked about raping somebody but then doubled down on it saying well if i was junk enough maybe i would you know this man is very dangerous because i mean he's interested in much overlap with mine and my government to student of you and many others that you and pizza is interested in but because he has the learning and speak some sense this is a good american but very to support the creation of peterson's think spot say that western society need somewhere to exchange ideas without fear of reprisals and clampdowns the major point that we have to defend and cultivate prioritize wedding gauging and the robust discussion in public life is that no situation anywhere as an adult is free of risk in that we enter into these things to try and get something out of it it's hard to argue with the numbers alternative thinkers like jordan peterson and the rest of his self-styled intellectual dark web have

attracted millions of subscribers that suggests that audience is all gagging for their free speech barrows not to be gagged. the canadian province of quebec or has passed a controversial new law banning pop. servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols at work lawmakers say the legislation aims to ensure the separation of state and religion and allow for the provision of secular public services the change affects government employees including judges teachers and police officers and applies to symbols such as he jobs turbans skull caps and crosses inspectors will also be tasked with and showing they're not being worn although the legislation reportedly enjoys broad support in the province critics have blasted it as a violation of their basic rights the prime minister has once again suggested the quebec values are incompatible with fundamental rights the 16th of june 29th teen

is a very said date that has just entered the history books of quebec a date that will forever mark a vision of quebec that divides rather than brings together that excludes rather than includes that stigmatizes rather than reconciles will there be police officers going after people to check if they have religious signs we don't know it's not clear we didn't even have time to analyze his modification clearly they did it in a very undemocratic way. the views of the panel only possible implications of cutbacks no change. i got to say i mean sikhs should be able to wear their turbans and carry their daggers and the idea of banning in yemen is absurd but even in any environment whatsoever including policing but i kind of agree with them on the burka i mean if you can't see the person that you're speaking to it that's just not compatible with western culture we had occasion new york city where there was a fellow who was working on subway he was

a sikh and he wanted to wear his turban under osha and safety rules he said you have to wear a hard hat he thought they were being unfair in that particular case you could make a point but if somebody says you cannot wear a yarmulke koofi because it might be antagonistic that i think we don't look and see where there is fish possible to allow people to enjoy the free exercise of their religion and to be serving the public at the same time to make sure that this is not some attempt just to thora their religion using it's a bit of a pretextual reason there are 2 sides to this debate on their own yes as you clearly see what are your thoughts on this in my experience especially in a city like windsor where we have a significant amount of people who exhibit exterior signs of religious belief i counted discover to my big surprise that sometimes even at symbols of

religiosity whether they are or and or we are pressing care naturally reflected religious beliefs more and to the statement this came up in many conversations i had with my students and i wonder. if this mind around their various opening up some sort of box that is then what can be construed as a religious. antennas come up with quite a few interesting points there and having been to windsor myself you see full diversity and when the dandy on tenure and all here seem to rub along quite nicely there and that doesn't seem to probably average how can this little. be passed in a country that has braced immigrants. i think we have to differentiate between quebec and canada i lived there for 10 years and it's not canadian in fact in quebec they call canada cac canada because there's so much animosity they had

a referendum where they almost voted to separate and and then come back they talk about poulain pure wall chemical and it's not an open province you can to emigrate if you don't speak french your children have to go to french schools and if you have a sign that says joe's shoes bigger than show he'll do joe they have actual language police they come by with polaroid cameras and you get a fine now they've managed to maintain a culture where their accent is 100 years old and they're nothing like the rest of the country they're nothing like france french people can't understand them so they've managed to maintain this bubble eventually you're going to come across as a fascist you can't have it both ways so yeah i think you just drop it at the facial veils i have to be able to see your face but you're right if you if you start banning sikhs turbans then you ban the cross around the neck then you start banning that little fish bumper sticker that christians have it's a slippery slope what if it's a nun a catholic nun mother theresa wow that's

a different story that survey i'll look we could talk some man takes all day long you know now and i know what this is all about come back is a little bit of a man i learned this a little bit different to a certain cases and i do believe there is a mixture of. good. attempt at preserving the uniqueness of about the cross. with one law you know very well and very candidly called. sure we all know about it and it's probably a controlling or trying to how can i say dress a certain immigration situation i doubt this without even if printed story if that makes sense back in a couple of minutes after this break. what

politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president injury. or something want to be. actually going to be close it's like in the 1st 3 in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the was a. question. anyone else so something seems wrong but i will just don't call. me. yet to say proud just a educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back to the program poland is preparing for the arrival of $1000.00 additional u.s. troops who are expected to be located from germany in a move that is concerned washington's partners and rivals alike earlier for national explains. meeting across the pond suddenly became news for germany when the american president pledged to send his polish counterpart more u.s. troops from their neighbor we have 52000 troops in germany. and germany is not living up to what they're supposed to be doing with respect to later as poland is after you graduate you thank you very much strategically 1000 soldiers

less than germany and a 1000 more in poland makes new big difference so what was the motive i think there are several aims to what trump is doing one of them i think has to do with putting pressure on germany so he wants to play the polish card against the germans tramp is trying to put more pressure on germany that germany's pay more for the military budget back in 2014 all nato member states promised to meet the guideline of spending 2 percent of their g.d.p. on defense within a decade half way to that deadline it's clear berlin will likely fail and that's driving washington nuts it's not yet clear when or how the american troops stationed here in germany will relocate to poland but trump's mere hint about them crossing the border was enough to put their lead on high alert and that was the purpose and it worked we heard from parties usually on opposing sides of the

political spectrum. for germany's own sake we need to finally in a significant and permanent way that reflects our global commitments increase defense spending. making sure the military is ready for the future is a question of solidarity with our e.u. and nato partners it's hard to say where they don't go further than words the recent poll suggests that the german public is deeply divided over a defense spending increase but it seems donald trump sprats backed by steps like they want to really kate u.s. troops from here to poland leave little choice some welcome this pressure after older lean made these commitments before trying became president this has nothing to do with the american presidents but with our responsibilities to our soldiers and to europe and credible burden sharing but others disagree they see or germany will see its biggest military budgets rise since the cold war by more than

5000000000 euros that's according to angola merkel but even that falls short of what nato and trump want somehow he's changed that for make america great again to make nato great again there we're going to make the europeans pay more for their defense what they never what they never point out of course is defense against whom they say nato is not directed against russia although everybody knows that nato is directed against russia even though i don't think anybody honestly believes there is a russian territorial threat to any of these countries every new member states is a part of the whole war machine of its need to represent and we have to overcome these war mostly because these war machine all these dinos out is other of history what we need is to reduce the troops at the border to russia to bring the troops home the old slogan of the peace movement is actually an adult but defense spending is not the only bone of contention between washington and the lean in just one of

many aspects that separate poland from germany. result applause and contracts for one tariffs and sanctions for the other and soldiers shifted from germany to poland is the most recent of these punitive measures but unlike the last. a spate of suicides in the ranks of the n.y.p.d. has been described as a mental health crisis by new york's police chief. from depression is real and people need to understand that this is that ok i don't feel i don't feel myself i

feel down i'll bring myself out of it sometimes it's a downward spiral that unless there is intervention from the outside it's not going to stop and something bad is going to happen you need to talk to someone. i respect a 29 year old detective committed suicide outside his precinct after 6 years on the job 3 officers have now killed themselves in the space of a fortnight in new york the city's police of those suffering from mental health issues to seek help from friends and colleagues stressing it's not a sign of weakness. one point on profit organization which collects data on police of its science says the number of authors who have killed themselves nationwide is higher than those who die in the line of duty it also says the wearing child has been on the rise since 26 june we spoke to a former us police officer about the intense demands of the cho. police officers are the single most treasured tested men and women on the planet everything they're doing is criticized by the public their personal problems are being criticized by

their off families and then their behavior on both calls which is a mixture of both personal and private or private and professional actions are being criticized by the command staff the public doesn't understand the pressure that the street cops have the 1st responders do and that goes all the way it's up to the detectives but for the most part it is it's a basic concept that these men and women are in a daily pressure cooker from every single angle of their lives and they have no they have no escape from that on us national in thomas we'll be back with more global updates around threatening time but to stay with us now for a documentary called poisoning power of ice. you know world big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that

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