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greetings and sell you take. despite what the constitution declares the freedom of the press has had a topsy turvy sometimes even brutal history of abuse here in the united states of america while most of the time attacks on us journalism has been through very indirect or opaque means like the influence of the lure of the almighty ratings dollar the or the herd click mentality of beltway ivy league journalists or even newsroom employees putting their climb up the corporate ladder before their journalistic integrity but every so often throughout our long history there is a very direct abuse of the press by members of the government institutions they are . paid to report on

a lot like the exchange that took place recently when defense one news editor ben watson tried to make his way through customs at washington dulles international airport the hill reports that watson was harassed and accused by a u.s. customs and border protection agent of writing propaganda when he attempted to reenter the united states this week apparently as watson was going through customs after informing the officer of his occupation the officer held onto his passport repeatedly asked him over and over and over again so you write propaganda right. this started of course a volley of well no i'm a journalist so you write propaganda write well no i'm a journalist so you write propaganda write until watson finally relented and said yes whereupon he was given back his passport and allowed to leave the airport finally as watson told the washington post with his tone and he was looking me in the eye very much realize this is not a joke i've honestly never had a human attempt to provoke me like this before in my life this behavior is totally

normal now i guess. that my friends is a good question and one that can only be answered by watching the whole us. get the sense. that it's really. hard to see. what it's like you know that i got. this. welcome everyone to watch the hawks i am sorry roland and i'm taffeta lalas and that. you were just saying to you would have you would you go in the us borders because of the dollar so you you you get arrested i think you guys and i don't think that would have gone as quietly as an. i don't really understand why it's

just sort of taken aback by the class by the relentless and i've had experiences with. just coming in and out of d.c. especially definitely. suspicious you mentioned that you are in journalism or in news or anything like that they definitely give you more of a once over although it's funny because while they're paying attention asking questions about like what do you report do you talk about. they don't notice that you have things. like. little things in your bag or not looking for anything. interesting in response to. the mail to the customs border patrol spokesperson without giving who they were. the spokesperson said that the agency is investigating the allegation about the officers alleged inappropriate conduct at

washington dulles international airport they also added that the agency holds its employees accountable and does not tolerate inappropriate comments or behavior as an interesting thing because it's like it's hard to tell in this case because it's an agency wide issue. agency says hey you guys are given the. job that we're doing what we're doing at the border of the. attack. or is it just an individual by individual because look at the end of the day these are people with their own beliefs and. ideologies behind that counter saying give me your passport it's hard to tell if it's an individual thing or a. customs and border patrol at this point. i mean i think there's probably a lot of things at play here when it comes to because you don't know necessarily. part of something that you tell them. it's just you know they give. and they ask if you're from this country. well the usual did you bring.

this isn't the 1st time though this isn't as if it's just this one instance of. multiple journalists have reported being harassed and even detained by u.s. customs and so over the past year you had one back in february the bus paid reporter was pretty aggressively questioned at j.f.k. airport in new york later got an apology from officials saying that it was an appropriate so they do actually they do. in june a freelance reporter. by c.b.c. . austin texas airport for several hours going back and forth live on the border covering the issue of. migrants in august british journalist james dyer said he was harassed and told called news by. the los angeles and international airport it definitely is. i think if you are if you lean

a certain way right now they are probably. fox news reporters we're going to say i'm your new fox news reporter. as a customs and border. so interesting because this is a journalist who just pretty much focuses the 1st one just focuses on the u.s. military whether you are for actions by the u.s. military or against they just pretty much that's all they report on what's really interesting is the reaction to all of this and one of your. capitol hill folks. out of the house intelligence committee tweeted upon your learning of this story saying it's appalling that an american reporter was harassed by a federal employee while reentering our country and it's happened before this must be investigated corrective action taken reporters are the enemy the people. of our democracy it would have been really nice for our. zach same things

and everyone else i capitol hill who called everyone here at our t.v. propaganda is an enemy is and a danger to democracy before you shot your mouth off and signed onto a bunch of of papers and took away press then you want to thought of that because this is the rhetoric it eventually goes this is what happens i said nothing i said nothing i pointed my finger and laughed at them because well they're russia and. karma old adam. rose as well are pros. locked. in may of this year a man in melbourne australia pled guilty to 3 counts of rape and one count of sexual assault for attacks on a series of women he met on the dating app tender and the stories continue to emerge of rapes of souls even murders related to people who met on dating apps and now it's trail yes he's taking steps to warn its citizens of the dangers of digital dating actually banks house story. also millions are being warned against using it

dating ounces specially a dating app called tender now officials say they have seen an increase in sexual assaults linked to the act according to new south wales police one of 5 sexual assaults within popular spots in sydney happen after people connected through the dating over the last 3 years the sunday telegraph carried out of the investigation finding more than a dozen tases were men and the women were either rate harassed or soft after match lined the it and want to case a woman who was trying to end a relationship with her to her date when he raped her and another case a female doctor who met a man online was stabbed 11 times and doused in gasoline after she to try to think in this scenario the doctor had no idea her date had previously been convicted of assaulting 5 different women she figured if that was the case when police make sure her dates access to apps. tinder be limited or nonexistent however new south wales

police say they are not responsible for reporting dating at profiles of persons who have been charged with a crime and said it is up to dating at the users to report verbal and physical assaults according to reports and statistics what's happening in australia is happening across the globe many dating app users are not only at risk of contracting out c.d.'s or at cia but they're also at risk of being dolphin even worse than murderers sitting up companies are now a challenge with finding ways to protect their users reporting in washington actually bank artsy. to the responsibility of the of the app owners to keep us all say out here in the big scary you are not what i think it's a tell you more you had more experience of online dating is a positive experience as an online dating and i have you know it's time for the

host it's a tough call because on one hand i understand that like the police it's impossible for them to keep track of everybody who's using a social media app for dating on the other and i also understand but on the other hand you would think that those social media apps because they're making so much money on the advertisers make it so much money off of this and that they would put in a little bit more self care when it comes to like checking the backgrounds of groups do exciting on and like you know is this person a convicted sex offender who is now on the dating app maybe we don't want this person using our product like you would think they would be proactive in that and trying to figure out who exactly is putting up you know most of these things i mean there's a lot and that was the thing is you can't do that without. working with the company because it's not as if you just go in and see all the listings they have to check but then again there's a certain amount of understanding but there's a kind of like if you look at the numbers this is the world of dating so 40 percent of americans. use on line dating. you've got 53 percent of people law

on their online dating profile never do that one until i really am 648 and i do found 43 percent of online relationships and through e-mail so via starts in this world am i an attack. i mean it's interesting to look at this and this people have kept fishing and things like the. one in line dating profiles are because you're skimming through. i mean. you combine that with the 50 percent of. it's something brand new and i get that it's new and everyone wants to use it and look how great it is you can look at some of the pictures. but it's no different the dangers are still just as real as walking into the bar and walking in the meeting a stranger and. it's still the same amount of danger whether you see their profile

or not but i feel like there's a difference is that when you're in a public place with other people around kind of gauge other people's reactions to that person you can kind of look at that i think there's a certain safety angle just to dating and mating new people that i mean this is a online 8 dating isn't now we had the internet back in the 2 in the early 2000 back in 90 and then and then over the boom is in there with the very mars and actually what's interesting is more people in their fifty's and sixty's are actually using that. i think a lot about how serious you know people are getting divorced later in life for sort of looking at finding companionship in that way where. things like tender are looked at by so many a sort of a hook up that that it puts you in a really weird position but you have to always remember to tell people where you go . you know take us screenshot of the person's profile that you're going to meet send them to somebody there's lots of whatever your phone knows there's ways to

tell people i'm here check in and go to a public place and just you know do a little background check reverse them and search that profile picture a phone number a while i'm. all right everybody as we go to break or watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics with the world of social media be sure to watch and. it was spotify music and everywhere it was the podcast coming up we delve into the recent moves to pull u.s. troops out of syria but president trouble before we go take a look at something truly once in a lifetime that was exclusive group created by mother earth in the 800000000 year old 'd diamond with a small her diamond inside it yes nature made it to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

what holds an institution to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something wanted. to write for us this is what the 3 of them want to do that. i'm interested in the waters in the. city. the u.s. foreign policy elite here in the united states were having kittens on sunday the white house announced that the turkey will be moving forward with a long planned operation in northern syria and that the united states armed forces

will not support or be involved in the operation and united states forces having defeated the isis territorial caliphate will no longer be in the immediate area here is r.t. america saya tablature with the full story in a very unexpected statement from the white house president trump has announced to withdraw troops in northern syria now this move by the us will essentially now allowed turkey to launch an invasion in the region and give turkey rich will make turkey responsible for capturing isis fighters in the area so basically turkey is about to invade the same parts of syria the u.s. invaded to defeat the so-called islamic state except now turkey is invading to defeat the kurdish proxy force the us relied on to fight isis because turkey considers that proxy a terrorist group now here's the irony since 24 you know the pentagon had relied on

the kurdish fighters from the kurdish people's defense units to fight alongside american forces in the long battle to defeat i says but the problem is that various curtis' militia groups have also been fighting on and off the turkish state for over 40 years and since turkey is an important geo political ally of the us and a fellow nato member on korea has never been pleased about america's prefer proxy against geodes now you see even before the rise of isis the u.s. even agreed with turkey's assessment of the kurdistan workers party which is why this organization is still designated a terrorist entity in washington and turkey claims that the kurdistan. workers party support the kurdish people's defense so now the u.s. forces in northeast syria will move aside and cleared away for an expected turkish assault now the turkish president or are they going to confirm that after speaking

with president trump earlier today. goofball in our conversations with president troop withdrawal has started as a. moment interlocutors are working on the ceiling to continue to work on. now lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spoke out against trump's decision and are warning that allowing the turkish attack could lead to a massacre of the kurds and senate troubling message for american allies across the globe now one of those lawmakers include senator lindsey graham who criticized the move as a disaster in the making and in a rare public break with president trom graham tweeted that if this plan goes forward he would introduce a senate resolution opposing it asking for a reversal on that decision now in a statement senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has also publicly rebuked trump's plan to withdraw u.s. troops from northeast syria and said them move could seriously risk damaging

turkey's ties to the u.s. and cause greater isolation for turkey on the world stage but president trump has defended his dramatic policy shift citing his longstanding call to remove american forces from what he calls ridiculous endless wars abroad and in a series of tweets even threaten onco by saying if turkey does anything that i and my great aunt on match wisdom consider to be off limits i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey i've done before that president or the gun is planning to meet with president chomp later this month in washington site haven't gerard to be. joining us today to discuss these foreign policy moves is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense michael maloof thanks for joining us pleasure but i go i want to say right off. the earlier that i believe that there's actually been bombing those started. going in

and bombing in northern syria. i want to get to this what foreign 'd policy strategy do you believe was behind these moves by the white house is it what what trump said it was making good on the campaign promises because he's about to start a new campaign what is behind all this is a logic to it there is no logic there is no geo strategic. sense out of it i don't think there was i don't think that was built into it again he had he made another he had another phone call with their no one as he did the last time when he initially was going to pull out troops i mean that there is no strategic thinking in all this and i think what's what's happening here and now is that it's creating i think he tried to get i think he did it to try and get air to want to stay looking westward i think if he had any strategy at all keeping with the nato keep him happy give him what he wants and and the united states would you know

sacrifice a little bit in order to get more maybe because they don't want turkey to veer more toward more eastward toward russia iran which they're doing anyway. what what exactly is turkey and earned on through and that's i mean why are they so . hot to get into syria right now well it's a northern area it's all kurdish controlled and the kurds are regarded as the enemy of turkey turkey has declared them all to be terrorists even though even the y o y p g the the group that's in syria he quits them is being with the p k k inside of turkey. and what in the buildup to the this latest development what i think is happening is that the kurds said look if if you guys attack us which has now happened we're going to war so what does this portend in my view this may open up

a whole new front. activity namely the kurds inside of turkey now rebelling and creating internal strife in that country the whole idea was to create a safe zone across iran all across the southern the northern part of syria which borders the southern part of turkey well ironically that's also an area it's 18 miles wide. 200 miles long and it happens to incorporate areas that include some of the oil rich areas of that the kurds occupy and what the what the turks what to do is have that area along with a portion of northern portions of iraq as part of a new deal ottoman empire if you will this is this is area once. look and so this and when there's actually been

a map produced by the turkish government one time this chill that entire area under turkey under turkey authority now they're going to move troops in there they're going to occupy and when will they leave they never will leave just like in northern iraq the iraqi government has been asking turkey for 3 years at least 2 to leave and that doing it and who is going to kick them out nobody really fast or you know it's interesting too because. you're seeing trump getting attacked on both sides for this engine from the you know real warmonger humanitarian intervention has left you know in the democratic party to even mitch mcconnell and is going to lindsey graham how is this exposing kind of the war office here and both sides because i don't want u.s. troops in syria at all and you know was this a good idea to pull us out of that we have to stay there or why it works as well real conservatives in the republican party tend to go along with this it's the neo

cons who are totally against it those who want to mayn't. some influence in the middle east this definitely will minimize that influence as a consequence and what's interesting is that putin has been russian president putin's been rather quiet about it but he's sort of gave a blessing to the turks doing this if if they. go in occupy which will then the whole idea is to force the the kurds down further south under assad and and create that buffer zone that everyone once. this is going to have that the sort of global it will and and what it concedes is is what some of the critics are saying it's going to give a victory to russia iran turkey but iran it basically is saying to. the united states is basically saying to iran they don't care if they occupy the

area that's why we had troops there in the 1st place was to. stop the prefect thing or you know or yeah and and turkey and iran get along well because they're all part of this this other effort now to economic effort they have a tremendous 2nd what i see happening here is that turkey is really in competition with saudi arabia. in this in this magical confrontation that no way to get there is a lot of layers on the same and this is worse than the layers of an onion. definitely keep because it's a big important story i'm sure and like you said it's changing the face of the by the ira spy the hour like we've always a pleasure thanks so much for coming on thank you. way back in 7980 a little volcano known as the suv vs erupted destroying cities like pompei in herculaneum it was then herculaneum some 2000 years later that archaeologists and

1800 higher ear scrolls that were carbonite. just by the volcanic volcanoes eruption because of that it's been impossible to on the role of the scrolls and read them without destroying them well now an international team of researchers have discovered a way to digitally on ravel the scrolls using a technique that accelerates electrons to near 0 light speed creating light from infrared through the visible range and ultraviolet all the way up to x. rays so this light which by the way is 100000000000 with a b. a times brighter than the sun could penetrate the scrolls and scan them on both sun hairs societies for preserving and uncovering the secrets of our past since the beginning of time. what was a 100000000000 tidally in times brighter than the so now that's a low to me incredible that we could make something like that on this planet but being able to read the scrolls is fascinating but what sequence will they give us you know we don't know i mean this is pompei and like is that herculaneum the whole

area around there there's a lot that we could learn we don't have a lot of information because these scrolls were carbonized like i said you couldn't get em to read them so it's kind of amazing now to see how that all pulls together so when we have 1800 of these scrolls and as i slowly scan through them and everything gets analyzed you know it's so well that you're going to feel roger sitting there always we're going to study the process to best understand the future all right everybody that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we're not over we're above the sword so you all i love you i am the world and and on top of the hour we keep are watching all those hawks out there and over great. thanks. will.

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