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this hour's headlines stories 3 people are left dead. opens fire a us naval base in florida authorities are investigating whether the incident was terrorism. also coming up a former content moderator is taking the company to courts alleging calls him psychological. and some people in the u.k. fail to see the funny side of a christmas card poking fun at all so. there are ways you can cross jokes in order to situate the human away from people. my father had on the before he died.
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and i even find it funny and. run the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome. a member of the sunday earth force faithfully shelved 3 people wounded 8 others of a u.s. naval base in the state of florida on friday the f.b.i. is investigating the incident reportedly examining whether it was a terror races the shooter was a saudi military trainee that was at the base to study of he was shot dead at the scene by officers on confirm reports suggest that the perpetrator published an american manifesto prior to the further 6 not setting up schools were arrested near the base detained for questioning or t. america contributor as more. the f.b.i.
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is now taking the lead on this which is interesting because a saudi national florida governor on the santas though told reporters that the saudi arabian government needs to make things better quote unquote for the victims one of the things that i talk to the president about is given that this was a foreign national in the employ of a foreign service is you know be time to do this but obviously the government of saudi arabia needs to to make make things better for these victims naval air station pensacola bay security and local law enforcement got the call that there was an active shooter on the base local sheriff's deputies were among the 1st to respond and they're reporting that the shooting happened in a classroom building on the base covering 2 floors it's had a huge impact on the pensacola community this is a military town this base is the heart of this community and many many waves a lot of people either had relatives that were enlisted or they work for the base this has been a very very difficult day for for families for the navy family here there is some
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real heroism today this is the 2nd shooting at a navy base in 3 days there was one at the joint base pearl harbor heckman on wednesday a sailor opened fire there killed 2 other shipyard workers before killing himself they don't have that motive as well but it's all in their investigation. well donald trump saying as he's spoken to the saudi monarch about the deadly event and was told the shooter does not represent the true feelings that the saudi people have for the u.s. . king solomon of saudi arabia just called to express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors 'd who were killed and injured in the attack thinkings said that the saudi people have made me angry by the actions of the shooter and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much trump will try to downplay the saudi role in this and that if it were yeah i think
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it's correct to say that if there was another country that president trump had not does not have such close ties with he would be strongly denouncing this as something he may even you could imagine trump seeking to cut off ties with the country if it was a different foreign national you could very well see him impulsively taking action to dramatically change relations so but the fact that one of his president trumps close supporters in congress matt gates is calling this terrorism could complicate things a bit for for the president. it's a tense french capital this saturday strikes against plans to overhaul the country's pension system continue there for a 3rd consecutive day. 2 during. the massive demonstrations have been held nationwide since thursday
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affecting schools hospitals on public transportation officers have been using tear gas to disperse the crowds with the most violent drugs a korean crisis group which suggests around a 1000000 people have been involved in this strike action since it began. a former facebook content or a tourist taking the tech company to court now alleging that he developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his work he claims that watching hundreds of violent and shocking news every day without having received proper training left him psychologically scarred hawkins takes up the story of whirling some graphic cultus book about. let's be honest we've all had one of those days at the office most of us have probably experienced stress but some jobs can make things much worse apparently being a social media moderator could be one of them my 1st day on the job i witnessed
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someone being beaten to death with a plank of wood with males in it and repeatedly stabbed was the 1st time for me seen on video and it all as school as heat from the i've had to go on antidepressants because of working on the job at times i was solving my problems with alcohol to get to sleep because at least i wasn't dreaming when i slipped after having a few drinks on me our diagnosis of p.t.s.d. is something you'd expect after tours of duty in a war zone working in the emergency services perhaps but not from a desk job yet after months working for c.p.l. solutions 3rd party company providing moderation services for facebook as many as a dozen former employees are suing both companies for what they claim is psychological trauma well before you my generation gets carried away things may not be that bad to so let's not overreact. are a little over do and have understand. what's going on.
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most of our. former employees claim a different picture while the lawsuits are new the problem is not and anyone would think twice before applying for the role after seeing this job feedback i have seen videos of a baby sitter choking a toddler to death in the giving bloody noses to baby anyway i have to always look at it. you always see death every single day former employees allege of climate of pressure hitting high video targets hundreds per day while maintaining pinpoint accuracy little time to make decisions and action plans for getting them wrong and even less opportunity to get the support and counseling of a claim they need facebook disagree the job is tough they say moderators get good training and full support at work this includes 247 on site support with trained practitioners and on call service and access to private health care from the 1st
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day of employment we are also employing technical solutions to limit their exposure to graphic material as much as possible of the trouble is facebook are between a rock and a hard place they've been criticized for years from failing to do more to prevent genocide and being too slow to stop streams of mass murder to allowing violent posts and not tackling fake news which lead to violence in recent years facebook's hired tens of thousands more staff to deal with increases in violent content ai and automated systems seem to be a part of the solution but this doesn't come soon enough for those taking a giant to court. christmas approaches there are all kinds of festive goodies packing the shelves adding to it all one comic company has created a seasonal card with what they thought was a pinch of humor the card depicts her grandfather who has alzheimer's disease being removed from a christmas dinner scene after being accused of committing an obscene which he
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linked to his illness it's been heavily criticized in britain where more than half a 1000000 people with the the generative neurological condition the content of this card is misinformed utterly inappropriate and actively damaging to the wider represent people living with dementia so did the card go over the line or is offense taken far too easily these days to discuss we invited u.k. equality law specialist linda ballasts a look at us from online political magazine spiked on to the program. we have experienced a slight overreaction i think what we need to understand is that this is a card which is by modern toss and if you know about modern toss the cartoonists they specialize in using crass and distorted expectations of what is expected of a particular situation i'm caricaturing them my father had families before he died . and i didn't find it funny ever there were amusing things
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that he was able to share and. if only we if we had a cure for alzheimer's i suspect we might all relax a little but even funny taking it off for sale fails to recognize that people are complicated based there may well be people who are living without simers or a family suffering with outsiders out there who are fans of modern toss and will nonetheless get the joke and find it funny and i think by taking out the sail by and with the outside society pretending that everyone who has an interaction with outside this thinks the same way i think we're slightly underestimating people's capacity to find humor in even the most black and dark situations do we make jokes about the holocaust should we i mean on the basis of what i just heard about justified then the whole of course who rape or this list the number of things that could be if you were using this logic work for me. must say that i
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am lucky the question is where the site of the human lies now the subjects that you just listed have been used as stock topics for comedy but comedians have to be very careful as to where they situate their humor it would not be funny to make a joke merely the expense of the victims of the holocaust or victims of rape but there are ways you can craft jokes in order to situate the humor away from people's vulnerability in my case it was my father but when your your your wife will you pull your husband. a condition like. alzheimer's what you're dealing with is very very difficult and it's not worthy of a joke. indian police have shouted form in the queues that the gang rape and murder of a young vets in the south of the country last month the atrocity sparked widespread demonstrations with calls for them to be lynched to execute it however rights
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groups are accusing the police officers who shot the suspects of carting out extrajudicial killings. let's go was on her way to see a doctor when a stranger approached to tell her that her scooters trial was punctured because she then called a system not going to come to which our mobile phone switched off. with his little pick. up the police their actions were justified he tatties to killers can be punished
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dad can we are happy to step on. more of saturday's world news coming your way in 90 seconds. this is kaiser report coming to you from an undisclosed bunker in the middle of nowhere so get ready for the apocalypse and the zombie infestation. must have a song together. in
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a world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. just approaching a quarter of an hour into the program welcome back on calling speculation about whether tech giant weiwei will play a pivotal role in the u.k.'s 5 g.
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plans are back in focus prime minister boris johnson was spotted taking a photo using one of the chinese firms smartphones just days after hammering home security concerns surrounding the company britain's close ally the us has already placed harsh trade restrictions all the while way washington previously suggests that the. the so-called 5 international intelligence coalition between america the u.k. calif straightly a new zealand would be at risk if london gives china rule in its 5 g. infrastructure while way constantly accused of direct links to the chinese government something the company denies judie had her stuff she reports. while way a massive distributor forcing its way into the west tech industry and shaking up relations between china europe and america when it comes to trade security and surveillance to tell come join vodafone found security flaws and why wait british
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intelligence post in that building behind me has warned of serious risks to you carry operators while we can create a back toward china for years it and the chinese government have been accused of intellectual property theft a number of reasons why they say huawei is not to be trusted the u.k. prime minister boris johnson is trying to strike a balance when it comes to wall way in its 5 g. network or huawei and 5 g. . i don't want this country to be unnecessarily hostile to investment from from overseas on the other hand we cannot produce all vital national security interest but a day later boris johnson calls a stab when he visited the set of a british morning television show that's not selfies with the 2 hosts using. the television host said that the phone belonged to boris johnson leading to some to speculate whether the fact the prime minister uses a chinese model represents some sort of security vulnerability however johnson's
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a it's sad that the phone was borrowed from staffers and casually put into his very own pocket but whatever the truth is mind the extra free public sphere tool and they and other chinese firms are making quite great strides in western markets as for november this year huawei has become the 3rd most popular phone in the u.k. with almost 10 percent of the market share with the u.k. planning of course to leave the european union all attention will turn to securing as much investment from countries around the world as possible so well as far as jobs is move a big 5 g. signal china obviously is it is a huge and important market as well as a supply of. many range of particular tronic goods and particularly if briggs it is going to go ahead then certainly britain will be seeking to increase trade with china and the chinese have made it very clear that if that is going to
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be the case then they cannot exclude holloway so britain in a sense is caught in the bit of a pincer movement here wanting to boost trade with china on the one hand but a little nervous about this particular concern. with the 2020 presidential election campaigns spluttering to life an overwhelming majority of americans are tired of their country being so divided according to a new nationwide poll more than 90 percent of respondents said it's important to reduce political division in the country while 45 people said that political gridlock a big problem and with that in mind it appears that the democrats are using some questionable tactics in their impeachment efforts against donald trump a scale of note that breaks down. time is running out and impeachment paths are coming to a dead end it's time for the democrats to roll out 2020 alexion plan b.
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there is no limit on the number of the senate can vote to convict or not a president no limit to the number of times the house can vote to impeach a president if the senate doesn't vote to convict trump or tries to monkey with his trial he could of course be retried in the new senate should he win reelection so if that doesn't work perhaps they can rely on the tried and trusted tactics of all let's review 2016 1st don't take your rivals seriously or even acknowledge that they have a chance i'm very excited about the progress that secretary clinton is making i know she'll win and that the actual actions trump is not going to be president and states. i continue to believe mr trump will not be present to the trump tower celebrations don't focus on summing up your errors or what you could learn or adjusting your message instead focus on intense legal maneuvers to try and impeach the president as well as shifting the blame to moscow rise today mr speaker to
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call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america talking about a president who fired the f.b.i. director who was investigating the president for his connections to russian involvement in the presidential election playing the russia card doesn't work for another card out of the pack ukraine he colluded with the craniums we were just a few miles off today announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry into can impeachment proceedings now against this president i believe congress should take the steps towards impeachment you could reach in a bag and pull so many things out that are impeachable of this president he has been in water where he has got to move as quickly as possible to these tactics
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certainly look like they're failing politics about different ideas competing ideas here's where i draw the line if you start using non political means to achieve a political goal you've crossed the line of the d.n.c. has pushed the idea that your political views are now part of your fundamental identity instead of seeing the other side of someone bet that you disagree with the opposing political side is seen as an absolute evil and what we're seeing over here is somebody who is they are people who are saying that they want less divisiveness but a lot of times especially in professional politics that's just code for if you don't agree with me don't speak i think it when your entire policy is based of all opposing some. after a very short period of time you start to look like you don't have any ideas of your own you have no vision of your own except for that bad guy's bad. ok in other news from around the world identified gunmen carried on
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a must secure against protesters in the iraqi capital early on saturday morning health officials say at least 20 people were killed 130 of the attack targeted demonstrators camped out nearby liberation square it was the worst start break of violence the city has seen during weeks of continual on rest there since october iraq's capital and the shia majority so i think by protests over worsening living standards on endemic government corruption over 400 people have been killed in the turmoil 7 'd. to greece where around 80 have been detained after clashes between protesters and riot police took place in several cities the arrests happened during the new rallies commemorating the shooting of a teenage boy there over a decade ago killing by then by police sparked months of riots across a. sense of security forces were deployed for this latest damage.
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and a search and rescue operation continues in the kenyan capital a 6 residential building collapsed on friday 4 people now are confirmed dead dozens are injured and many more are feared to be still trapped under the rubble. defying the odds and bringing 2 nations closer together russian company s 7 space will continue its plan to reach lofty heights after the u.s. agreed to move. into russian waters. breakstone why it could be a big move for voyage into the great black beyond. the space race but to do more school against washington for decades but now. it's bringing more than just 2 countries closer it's a relationship that's proving a catalyst for learning to gether as russia breathes new life into a cutting edge launch site in the middle of the ocean.
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it's made in mission was in 1999 since then 36 launches 32 of them successful rockets flown from sea launch were produced in ukraine and equipped with a russian made engine after 2014 launches from the pad were indefinitely candy as relations between the countries hit rock bottom 7 space the company that starts the itself with reviving the platform plans on bringing it to the shores of russia's far east next year and it will take another 12 months to get it operational it is
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expected see launch will continue to fly ukraine made rockets until 2023 when it is shed yule to make a switch to so use fife a russian rocket still in development everything from the pacific ocean the man steering a 7 space is no stranger to orbital exploration his military background makes him ambitious so much so he's been dubbed the russian elan musk but for this love feel love says there's a key difference but you must he's a talented guy but mr mosque is always trying to sell the future while here in russia we're living in our current economic reality and sell exactly what we have now. there's tough competition before 7 space to become number one in the industry but russia's government has already said it will aid its cause blood is left of his a big space enthusiasts it is in his blood i hope the project will last for
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a long time i will offer to cooperate fully with him we are interested in supporting private russian companies and we are ready to share risks now it's too early to say with confidence if space x. has reason to worry but there's a new team with a big vision. of ours howard hughes run up looks for the time being the news room just behind the camera there is busy putting together all the big updates to keep you in the loop this subject colony will bring them to you in just over 30 will join and then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race in his own spearing dramatic development only
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closely and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful it's very critical time to sit down and talk. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with arguments and there's a lot of conflict within the game and between the teams close to the conflict i would say overall is around money and most of their money is made. close one on the children's cosimo each other is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complexes you get some 20 alive where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about you so you don't care mind anything.
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i am max kaiser this is kaiser report coming to you from an undisclosed bunker in the middle of nowhere so get ready for the apocalypse and the zombie infestation and your lawn lusk how does this all tied together host off to stacey's well there was an interesting question asked on line and we're going to look at it here because it's a very good question and fitting in with our ongoing themes for the past 10 years the question is is elon musk prepping for state failure this is an article from marginal revolution and they were looking at a tweet stream proposed by future pundit where he asked have you noticed that either on mosque is driving development of at least 4 technologies needed for
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easier living in a failed state news about power outages in california brought this home obviously he's doing it with the power walls and solar roofs but not just those during the electric power outages the gas stations couldn't pump gas but someone with a tesla car could recharge from their power wall so 3 technologies for a failed state but there's another cheap rocket launchers from space x. do you see the relevance to failed states let's talk about america america is a country of rugged individualists i'm an individual sovereignty we all have our sovereignty as americans i mean a lot of musk is a prototypical american hero because he's giving people back in this country what they deserve and are entitled to by birth and that is individual sovereignty to have their own power their own car their own vehicle completely autonomous from the
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state autonomy from the state you don't need the federal gov. the federal government is a luxury that exists at our for our amusement essentially and our consent and our consent right there is nothing the central about it you have local government and state government yeah ok you need that to some degree but you don't need anything more than access to the sun a solar powered vehicle energy powered vehicle electric battery powered vehicle and the technologies developed by a law must be a man must is the guy who's been to the abyss and back you know he made billions of dollars as a young man and he saw the future probably in some drug induced hazy kind of vision elucidation and he's come back from the future to deliver us americans to a state of our natural existence of individual sovereignty well all primates of course have evolved from south africa.

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