don't dismiss the idea telling reporters i don't think reparations for something that happened out in 50 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea we've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war and passing landmark civil rights legislation we've elected an african-american president yeah yeah as you can see our water is nothing exposes the racial and political divisions in this country faster than the mere mention of the idea that the united states' government might actually be held fiscally and socially responsible for the hardships currently faced by black americans today due to the country's history of slavery and institutionalized racism so today let's talk about reparations and also most importantly the historical and cultural importance of juneteenth and what that means for the u.s. as we start watching the hawks. it's.

like you know that i got. was that we. would. be. welcome in watching the hawks i am very open and i'm tapped. to help us better understand the importance and what it has to offer us education is the president the national chain type observance foundation state blame thank you so much for joining us today steve good evening thank you very much for having us be with you it's a great pleasure to have you on your special for all the good work that you guys are the true been out there doing in trying to get you know juneteenth recognized i want to start by asking you what is the historical significance of juneteenth as the day that celebrated or the day that's remembered of african american slavery and in the united states i think many. classes across the country you know we kind

of believe that it was always the emancipation proclamation when lincoln did that actually and of slavery but. important day for the celebration because it really recognized when slavery truly undercorrect well. it's a phrase correctly juneteenth is a puerto rico a combination a jew and and a several days to happen during juneteenth the day that most commonly recognized is the day when general major general gordon granger was issued general order number 3 and texas in galveston texas and that was after they were sent there to reinforce to board a shore force from the french army which was coming back from mexico at the ballot bowl. and when they were forced by a storm to land in galveston the soldiers there knows that slavery hadn't really taken effect the freedom knows had been issued and general granger

issued orders general number 3 there's a lot of. things around how that exactly happened but june when he issued the order and the relevance of juneteenth is that it completes the cycle of freedom the celebrations of freedom in $776.00 black people even though we fought in the revolutionary war where he was in a revolutionary war we were still slaves it took 88 years 11 months and about 22 days before granger issued general order number 3 and still that wasn't june 14th 1966 when the treaty was signed with the 5 tribes to release just slaves and make them part of the nation so juneteenth as a combination of things that happened on june 13th it's more than just texas always has been it's been to texas. think one of the things that we forgot is that there's this idea of a once the emancipation proclamation happened just the whole united states got the

text and then everything was fine was a very different world down there not just from people deciding they weren't going to listen to the emancipation proclamation but quite literally information getting around well now we're in this age where information is very quickly you know moved around for activism purposes you know we get information very quickly and things happen and yet here we are june t.n. that seems a very important part of our american history a very you know. critical role is still not a national holiday it's not a major day where we take that time you know it's still something that feels like it's it's it's sort of brought up on their face for the 6 states do have it as a holiday. why why the how many 30 day of observance days i do about virtually already for 2 of them it's a holiday as of today the state of pennsylvania with our regional director there signed a bill where you can do a brain and make it into

a holiday from dave i'm sure that's great why and as i said look this slow work to get it here you are and that's one more to say why is it important that it's a national day of servants why is it important for our as a nation that we actually look at june team. as i stated before it closes the cycle the celebration of freedom ok. everybody is not free. to everybody is free none are free to everybody is free and so juneteenth commemorates that time for did indeed slavery in america and start a new chapter with every day did you call it was there for closure we would need to have been ordered to go forward. in america ok's to bring everybody together to bring the unity together to bring peace and coordination between all the different fashions you have to address. the issue of this landmark time in america

that ending the slavery is not saying everything was fixed everything was good going forward but it's a starting point and. i was there to say it's sort of what you said it's like the thing of it's a process there's this idea i mean you see a huge. there is there is the time when you know america became a sort of you know we 1st landed here we have slavery then there's a huge chunk of time when you look at a timeline of what happened and you see that there's also you know the jim crow era segregation all of these things do you feel like we've made it to that point or is this a journey that we're still on as americans going toward freedom what we are or the journey we're still war we have to be able to let every american have liberty the 13 to 14 to 15 to minute the civil rights of them voting rights of all being set upon so that we can have the same course of action to everyone else but the real

problem is that we don't have the liberty to exercise bill's freedoms that we have been legislated so that's you know the freedom to walk down the street without be true to your salted by law enforcement is a serious encroachments upon our liberty and wanted to keep things to america was patrick henry give me liberty or give me death that we need where we need and celebration to juneteenth will help bring about that liberty this is because you know when you look at something like this i think it's easy for us to kind of forget the importance of you know days you know holidays not just it's not about you know where we go celebrate but it's also just remembering the meaning of the holiday in the mean. behind it and why we're there and i think it's easy for us because you see you know arguments going on capitol hill this week and things like that over even like reparations things like that but i think a lot of that comes because people forget their own history very quickly of this country or at least power in this country for gets its own history and wants to

move on does juneteenth will that help us if we'd like you say as a as a you know national holiday that is observed it's talked about that we celebrate every year does that help remind us of this history so that we don't repeat it though so that we can move beyond the death of zack purpose for having a national day of observance in in the in the legislature to call it flag day and we are understand what the flag code is we understand how to treat american flag juneteenth with that type of push behind it can help educate america about the status of black people in america the contributions that we made and hopefully bring us closer together how how how tough is that fight ben for you i mean it's great to hear that 46 states you know at least observe it but we still have that next level of government how tough was the fight ben to try to get the observance of the holiday state to state and do all this while we celebrated our 25th anniversary this friday in new orleans and it was. a fabulous man by the name

of reverend ronald v. meyers sr indeed who led the charge here he was the nissho there with the 1st apology in 1909 right he worked on legislation the 1st date was delaware bernie wilkins and we just finished montana up this past year to defy has been difficult at times but we are not going to give up because of the importance of america to understand the relevance of juneteenth and its history is just as an important day as the 4th to july. do you feel that you know where when you talk to people every day americans you know they're sort of split one half is this you know we're past racism we're past all of this you know we we don't need to keep remembering it or you know this idea that we've moved past this idea every summer

a post racial country and you have the other half or says nothing has changed and that we're still in that what is it what are the things that you know educators parents you know people can do what's the best way to observe juneteenth what are the things that we should make say as educators as journalists or anybody what are the the points that we should be making and how best do we do that will be the best way to observe. as we request for people to learn about our history learn about history in action because education is the 1st key thing and. dave the conversations with people in america varies really upon the demographics younger people are less or concerned about more of these things but it's still relevant to not what did not aware of the relevant set of plates in their day to day interactions and as you move up the scale you find more attention is paid towards it. so it's very we need to address the problem in

a systematic way and by observation juneteenth and developing a program that everybody can get to know and understand and recognize the contributions of african-americans people of american descent former slaves that work here in america the better we'll be off as a country i think it's incredible i think it's on my part now one of the things we always talk about a michaux is understanding your own history even if it's uncomfortable like that's not that's the stuff you should be learning if it makes you uncomfortable that's probably what you should be reading and probably what you should be paying attention to engine team does one of those that i wish was much more mainstream and as we see it but it's become so much more over the last few years so you're 5 you guys are fighting really hard and it's working because it's getting out there on a they've had a record year this year we really appreciate i think june to nation everyone got out raised their flags did education programs worked of all the people in your

community to explain to him about the true essence of the meaning to june to all the nation i really appreciate you all god bless you and we appreciate the work that you and everyone else is doing thank you so much our steve williams president of the national gene seems observation foundation thank you so much for coming out there certain educate the audience on that important day thank you very much all right as we go to break off watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered up facebook and twitter and see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up we delve into the latest on venezuela with the americas john harvey but 1st washington d.c. is apparently awash with spies. according to the international 5 museum i want to miss the state of washington office.

what do you do if we came here where did you work before you came here when you live well death row and in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people that because of what they did have given up the right to split them up us some even proven innocent up to years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about it. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

it's hard to take some from somebody if you know have something to replace it. they want to do this interview today and i want to use market and then they take me. there are 4 years ago in most areas. so i'm going to tell you stop selling drugs if we'll hire some to put the money back. they judge me on the way in life has almost been basically my color speech before the words do you guys have executed many security positions i've been in that. david jack me again. you see people get all their cars you know so you come in the military and it seems like they'll hurry up and run into the house like they don't want to do they don't want to talk to you or get your mail or anything like that. but in the day. but i just i read

a. you know no chance i'm in. here in washington d.c. there are 177 foreign diplomatic missions or embassies within the city limits in greater d.c. we have over 400 international association about 100 academic institutions and just over 1004 unarmed companies and every one of those foreign nationals foreign born or foreign employed people at those places could be a spy that's right according to the international spy museum there are at any one

time $10000.00 spies in the u.s. capitol however these aren't your gram most shaking their martinis and hiding in shadows bryant they're going to assist in special agent in charge of counterintelligence for the f.b.i. as washington field office told w t o p news a spy is nondescript a spa is going to be someone that's going to be a student in school a visiting professor your neighbor or it could be a colleague or someone that shares those soccer field with you. there are a lot of spies. probably isn't this cloak and dagger some would have you believe in fact most of these guys aren't the 7 of your dreams and nightmares they are hiding in your bushes or tapping your phone that's the n.s.a. was reading made a fairly important point when spies tell you how many spies there are coming to get you that the russians and the chinese are out to steal our american dreams from our slumbering bodies try to remember too little important one everyone spies on their

allies just as much as their enemies and to those telling you there's a spy under every bed are the very people spying on you in the 1st thing that is true that is incredibly true all the spies are going to get. the united states government does more spying on the american people than any foreign born or and by embedded here working. in fact the cia and the f.b.i. have somewhere estimated around the united states i mean one time as over a 100000 people worldwide operating as. spies. people get a better understanding. by segment we're doing today just so people get a better understanding of spying i would like to go over the most common types of spies here and. species of spies currently. exist that could be. a researcher fellow at the heritage foundation

a special army special forces officer told popular mechanics but you speak about embassy spies in particular when these embassy spies are at their jobs the rest of their time they spend wandering around washington d.c. trying to make contact with people who they can get to share information these are the people who work at embassies that also try to go out and get obviously just wandering about going out to people going to have information can either information it was worthless you could have information. during about the survey i had no idea they were just wandering about i thought those were squirrels. secret agents more rare kinds of spies on the spy spectrum are knox and o.c. used for the not official cover list if anyone watched mission impossible you know these are spies posing as businessmen journalists students things like that then of course you have sleeper cells these are you know spies with fake identities like they show the americans yes like this the americans yes and then lastly you have

you know. traitor the american traitor the benedict arnold yes the u.s. citizen who is. another country the rosenberg. going back to all the famous spies of that day you know there's your model hari's and then you have your rosenberg say you some people are just selling their so you know another people are trying to get it some people are putting on this whole thing and i think there's a us idea that spies are glamorous and sexy but scary like it's all double 07 is great the fact that he steals and kills for a foreign empire that doesn't stop any of those we let it go it's entertaining if it looks like sean connery or pierce brosnan when it's all right in our book yeah not very much honestly those are probably right here favorite by. well there's a thing that gets me is that you know if we're really worried about i think the estimate of what like 10000 of them went and yeah within here if we're really

worried about people getting hold of like top secret documents were made with the u.s. shouldn't make everything top secret i mean. it was like 60 some odd 1000000 documents are considered top secret 90 may be right and i'll tell you why that's fine number so high if we have so if there's all those documents and all those all those documents are considered top secret or classified. you need a lot of people to process the documents you do and that's how we end up with a huge amount of people who have top secret clearance so you have what it was the estimate was. like 800000 even a 1000000 people a 1000000 different government employees or people's access to the contractors are they given top secret security clearances that's incredible but the fact is there are a 1000000 contractors out there with all of this that we may or may not know and fact that every leak if you're so concerned about these leaks the national security well you keep getting things leaked by contractors that you hire or people that are working for you that have this clearance and maybe don't have a 1000000 people with clarence keep your secrets a little more even being

a little iffy gulbarga i'm not saying you can't take naked pictures of yourself i'm just saying maybe don't put them on the cloud so part of it's this idea of not having you know as many. options also so there's a huge we have such technology but we don't have the uses of hiring people and so they have access to things are going to get leaked things are going to happen i think part of the reason why this falls by saying us become very sexy again i'm very big as the memory of a teen ok and to me she's always going to be the spy who wasn't she was never a spy ok she was charge of the crime of conspiring 1st of all the some people are conspiring to infiltrate conservative us political groups without proper registration that was her crime by the way she didn't steal top secret blueprints arrival at that officials she did 2 things and here's the world the spying when you start looking at especially the women all the famous female spies are supposed to scare us the model hari is all about terror right red sparrow there's this whole

thing there are 2 things that maria between a dead that made her the easy target for free mongers one she was pro-gun and 2 she had sex with high level republican operatives that's the only reason that she was important she didn't do anything she didn't sell anything so my whole thing is if you're going to throw a spy on me at least they did something other than. activist at the end of a baby right right has really not understanding of the difference between 5 and ask and 4 and lobbying and all of. it and not by. the great real life political thriller taking place in venezuela just added one more twist to its already labyrinth being plucked it appears that one weibo the united states and gore's leader seeking to depose the colonel at the president of venezuela it was with doris bottom soap in a sticky situation involving embezzle moon yes the scandal involving the misuse of aid money by his subordinates for more on this past moving stories or to america's john harvey. the story is certainly gaining traction and some say

a black eye for one why don't know the report was published in the pan-am post it's a publication here in miami that reports on latin and south american issues and the story alleges that 2 of one white house senior staff members resign number a white house chief of staff and kevin rojas the regional coordinator for why doe's popular will party blue upwards of 125 $1000.00 on lavish parties rental cars shopping trips alcohol and nightclubs and the money they allegedly embezzled according to the report was supposed to help pay for housing for the venezuelan army soldiers and their families defected from nicolas maduro his government to why dose side will have some rare reportedly claim to have spent the money on $7.00 hotels to house over $1200.00 defectors but only 2 hotels were paid for one of the hotels even ended up eventing $65.00 of the defectors and their families because of more than $20000.00 in unpaid bills the money that rojas sumber air allegedly took

came from funds that were raised during the live aid style concert back in february organized by billionaire philanthropist richard branson of the virgin group along the colombia border with venezuela colombia to coincide with the humanitarian aid shipments that were suppose. flow into venezuela why dole has since fired both pereira and rojas and has called for an investigation reportedly saying quote we will investigate this deeply every center of public funds should be sacred and that is something we have to learn as a society the united states has recognized white oh as venezuela's interim president and later and supported his efforts to oust nicolas maduro madero has called white oh a puppet for the united states and said this about the ensuing scandal. humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was

stolen take note to washington not only on the opposition liars but they are thieves too who stole sauza of dollars from each other despite the ongoing scandal the u.s. still continues its support of one why do vice president mike pence tweeted quote under my duro crime violence and lawlessness have spread like a virus even venezuelans across the country suffering beyond measure president trump and i stand with interim president one and support the venezuelan people in their fight for freedom it's unclear what happens at this point in the story about the scandal in the misappropriation of funds that is if colombian authorities are going to prosecute but colombia's foreign minister has called on all quote unquote relevant authorities to investigate for watching the hocks john hardy r t. let's call so lama plax this x.m. a name that is

a combination of the latin word for sex and the greek word for changeable it's also known as the don't go on bush tomato and since 1702 research isn't puzzled by the fact that its purple flowers seem to contain both male and female reproductive functions which can happen in some species but there's a distinct there's a distinct reason for it while the doug winbush tomato seems just decide to be male or female for the heck of it and according to science that is not supposed to happen gender is not vis fluid they say it's impossible and yet here it is a tomato that can and does change its gender and sexual expression seemingly at will throughout its lifespan a sex change in gender fluid tomato that of its classification just seems really on brand right now i can hear so perfect appears to be done go and. bush tomato and the scientists easing into better understood very world we live in. 11 of them

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prosecutors charge for suspects over their alleged involvement in the downing of malaysia airlines flight m.h. 17 over in eastern ukraine in 2014. during today's media briefing of the representatives of the joint investigation team appeared to contradict themselves on the information they've received or have not received on a major 17 from russia. from the 1st day after the 17th of july the russian federation hasn't disclosed anything about what happened that the information in the form of the russian federation information about. them as well as opposition parties accused of spending humanitarian aid money on lavish hotels drugs and prostitutes.