live pictures from iran where huge crowds of mourners are gathering for the funeral of kassam full of money iran's most powerful commander killed in a u.s. air strike in iraq meanwhile u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi and now says a resolution to curb donald trump the right tack he ran over the war restriction was stripped from a defense bill passed by congress just last month. plus as we enter 2020 the hangover of political correctness still haunts us notably over a new gangster film gentleman who put the issue up for debate. can tell you some of the most foul and disgusting racist language this was

a movie avoid gangsters and guess what police gangsters don't speak in politically correct balanced way. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our church here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the body of iranian general has arrived in his hometown care mon where he will be buried huge crowds of mourners are gathering to pay their respects to the country's most powerful commander killed in a u.s. air strike and baghdad international airport on friday you can now see live pictures from camera there's been a huge outpouring of grief with millions flooding the streets of tehran on monday as well tensions across the middle east have soared as ukrainians demand retaliation trump added he would strike more than 50 iranian targets. putting

cultural size if you ram it acts out the threat to hit back one of the 1st repercussions for washington has come from iraqi m.p.'s who voted on sunday to expel foreign forces from their country for conducting the killing on their soil and after that there was complete confusion at the pentagon a letter from a top u.s. general to the iraqi defense ministry suggested that american troops were pulling out of baghdad after nearly 17 years their pentagon chiefs later dismissed the letter as a poorly written draft. there's been no decision whatsoever to leave iraq there's no decision to leave nor did we shew any plans to leave or prepare to leave that letter was a draft it was a mistake it was unsigned it should not have been released poorly wooded employees withdrawal that is not what's happening. donald trump likewise rejected the withdrawal and the war in iraq to brace itself for heavy sanctions if baghdad kicks out the troops in all democrats are angry with trump's middle east decision making

mainly because he didn't get congressional approval but it's kilmartin explains they had a chance to get it but voted against. thomas decision to kill iran's top general isn't exactly bringing peace and stability to the middle east as the world is on edge waiting to see how bad the fallout will be democrats have spoken up however the objection of the democrats isn't that trump killed got some solid money but that he did it without their permission the operation against solo money in iraq was conducted without specific authorization and any advance notification or consultation with congress there is usually a congressional consulting process it's most constitutionally required we see a gradual march to military action directly or indirectly with iran that has not been authorized by congress but they did actually have a chance to stop trump the recent $738000000000.00 defense spending bill could have

included amendments that tied trump's hands and mandated he not carry out any attacks against iran no federal funds may be used for any use of military force in or against iran unless congress has a declared war be in 1000 specific statutory authorization for such use of military force if the president wants to attack iran he needs to come to congress for authorization i proly support this amendment prohibits in the use of any funds for war with iran without congressional authorization a number of progressive voices did speak out but they got outvoted the bill was passed. any member who voted for the national defense authorization act a blank check can't now expressed dismay that trump may have motion of the war in the middle east my amendment which has stripped would have cut off funding for any offensive attack against iran including gates officials like sunday mommy now democrats in congress are looking to pass a resolution that would not stop but only limit trumps actions when it comes to

iran and no surprise there because in the aftermath of solomon is killing democrats seem to act go trance claim that it was indeed an awful person who deserved to be shot down so the money was a murderer responsible for the deaths of thousands including hundreds of americans general still the money was a violent man who died a violent death toll money was a bad guy there's no question about that a notorious terrorist. no one should shed a tear over his death he deserved to be brought to justice he deserved to be brought to justice was a crime this seems to be the outlook of the democratic party it's ok to kill the top general of a foreign country and put the country on the brink of war you just have to ask permission 1st they don't sound as much like cool headed dogs but rather like noxious bureaucrats waving the rule book interim space demanding proper procedure

they could congress could. put much stronger clamps on the president but over the years we've seen them fail to do that i think they realize they can't stop it so what they'll try to do is limit. you know what kind of money could be spent without congressional approval and that kind of thing is will be a sort of a face saving thing for the democrats to say we tried to do something this juvenile attitude in america that we have that you know all our enemies are bad guys are the baddest of the bad and we're the good. nobody will just say look this was the general of a company of a country the commanding general and we and he was killed this is not what you do i mean this is an act of war. the latest movie by acclaimed british director guy ritchie has been getting some less than stellar reviews with critics branding the

picture racist and out of touch a gentleman was released last week in the u.k. here's a look at what's getting publications so riled up. it's really you know. every imaginable demographic gets their moment to be targeted and denigrated the only thing the gentleman finds worth celebrating is the bravado white masculinity. a less forgivable blast from the past however it is a deuce confort ing strain of racially based humor running through out reaches original script making flat punch lines of multiple asian characters. it's just a shame that guy ritchie falls back on his bad habits casual racism and the nolan ask lack of female character is problematic but still very entertaining.

and i am being absolutely sincere much rather watch cats than the angry racist mass that is the gentleman. we put the issues raised up for debate with political commentator david rails on social activist leader. this is a sort of bygone break movie a sort of muscular reassertion of the we can say what we like is our country and we don't give a damn what anybody thinks it can tell us about our most foul and disgusting racist language this was a movie gangsters and hey guess what really gangsters don't speak in politically correct balanced way is that snow would gangsters do when we see movies like this is the following day when those racial epithets are repeated on the should treat give cause for concern that. movie makers like guy should have

a broader social conscience and responsibility. producing the arjen they do if you want to see a margin to reassess them then that's fine you go and see it if we go to see a gangster movie you know we're not expecting to. find high philosophy we're not expecting to experienced work culture that's just reality i think is outdated is outmoded and he's not reflecting the kind of future which is of a more inclusive sense of britishness nationalism you know here we are in 2020 and what we're experiencing over this movie is just an early flutter of walk culture of the perpetually offended black panthers one of the most successful movies in the world and it's successful economically for a reason i think i'm not in favor of any artistic ban law and the law i do think there should be greater diversity in the production and creative rooms quite

amusing that you just referenced black panther and you went on then to talk about diversity if i recall the black panther movie successfully there wasn't a huge amount of diversity in not so if you want equality and i do then i think we have to have the fundamental right to have all opinions of all sorts heard saying and understood. such political correctness concerns echo the spirit of the previous year as art is your standard reports 2019 was a year of many things it was a year of trumps and grettir a year of protests and the year of the insulted getting offended all at once all around the world about all sorts of things militant political correctness brought together the man the the human kind fashion designers wanted people to dress to impress instead some parts of the collections went full on dress

to distress this balaklava like jumper by good she didn't thrill anyone not because of the price tag but because some had a black face problem with it singer kathy perry show a self in the foot with the same gun when she suggested people should shove their feed well into something resembling a black face 2019 was a year when mediocre male wrestlers realized they can be outstanding female wrestlers never says a word against that is a transfer and i see conferences got cancelled because at a certain age more women than men decide they want to be something else in life than a nerd and saying from personal experience of course. this christmas was

unlike any before because only last year did we realize that we in fact have no idea how the famous gingerbread identifies so meet the gingerbread person neither do we know what santa looks like not like any of us have ever seen them so make sure to say santa no more of this father christmas nonsense the christmas classic baby it's cold outside played in fewer homes because some have finally clocked on that the temperature outside and as little to do with the male singers intensions the p.c. army is world deserving of a round of applause for its $2900.00 gains but in the spirit of inclusive it's the and with all those triggered by loud sounds in mind here is a silent wave which is just as good and climactic what

a way to ring in 2020. or casting an eye back over 21000 right after this short break. what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to see what the flag tree a boy can be good get. interested in the waters of. their city. small seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just become educated and in detroit because the trail.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back we're taking stock of $21000.00 reflecting on more of the abounds that marked the year that's just gone. we've divided the review of the year into 2 categories mind games and warring world let's start with the 1st category mind games give us a touch and see what comes up a got plenty of options here as to not $21000.00 was

a year of struggle for truth with some apparently looking to hide or censor it social media giants such as facebook came in for particular criticism accused of blocking stories it doesn't like in all whistleblowers accuse the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons of twisting findings to fit their narrative ok michael censorship now take the allotted $2800.00 attack in syria it was blamed on the syrian army but many question the report. steeper a new year is a chance to start over to start clean a chance to reach new heights all well climb back to the old ones you fool enough to try and rebuild your reputation as is the case with the o.p.c. w. it started off with horrific footage and the alleged chemical attack.

took a year for the u.p.c. w. to publish its 1st draft open and shut case it's found traces of chlorine strongly became that the container is would drop from the air. and done. today's o.p.c. w. final report on the 7th of april 2018 attack in doom confirms chemical weapons used demonstrating the vital importance of the o.p.c. w.'s work this confirms chlorine attack was only the latest example of the assad regime's chemical warfare attacks on its own population we would later learn that a significant part of that year seemingly went to picking off 4 and that would make as sad look most guilty the 1st hand came with the leaks report which calculated

that the evidence didn't match the catalyst as were very likely placed at the scene observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggests that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed at those 2 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft the whistleblower behind this leak was kicked out of the u.p.c. w. building he wasn't even an employee they claimed we would later learn that he was and they lied but that would happen later 1st another o.p.c. w. whistleblower would strike with very very serious allegations most of the duty and focus he reports on the incident the interim report and the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent professor richard felt was there at a conference in brussels where the 2nd whistleblower spoke well essentially he

presented. evidence testimonials to the a theory that the report final report could not be justified in the form that it was submitted and that it had been tempered with in such a way to create a set of conclusions that curse with work. the u.s. . brick truants it would be the outcome of an investigation but the evidence didn't support. here's how they manipulate of the evidence despite their best efforts they never 1000 to any nerve agent what they did find a traces of chlorine sounds dangerous right to the uninitiated that again you can find traces of chlorine in your drinking water your cleaning sprays and your local

swimming pool everywhere the difference between a mass chemical attack and someone cleaning their sink is concentration how much chlorine was the texted i guess what the u.p.c. w. decided to emit if the finding of these chemicals at the alleged site is to be used as an indicator that chlorine gas was present in the atmosphere they should least be shown to be present at level significantly higher than what is present in environments already but when the analysis of these key levels came back from the laboratories the results we can through sammy barrick at unison who is the doom of fact finding missions leader against normal expectations they were not passed on to the inspector who was drafting the a.p.c. w.'s interim report on duma really strange considering that the rebel video which was used as justification to launch cruise missiles at syria clearly showed people suffering symptoms of nerve agent poisoning it didn't even find chlorine and sufficient concentration to indicate a chemical attack it boiled down to 2 explanations either acid used or

a magical gas that is undetectible by modern instruments or the videos was staged after almost 6 months of investigation i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital before all the whistleblowers came out he just couldn't say it any doubt about acids guilt would get your mauled were they kewl smeared threatened and. fired the free media as i kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like it's of extreme you know public interest the attacks on me and it is a kind of nit picking on on certain things i was doing in my articles but it was purely on just to be able to attack me in an e-mail so after i kept pushing pushing essentially was told a couple lines about why they wouldn't run the o.p.c. w. story of the moment there are very few western well mainstream western journalists

that are reporting on this so i would say this complete failure of the media our job as journalists are to hold governments to account and if governments are going to war on false premises then you know we have good evidence to suggest that now and no one is reporting it then we're not turning our job as journalists then surely we got to see the early draft report and juxtaposed with the final one the difference was striking they cherry picked everything that seemed even and big us lee incriminating those struck by how much the redacted version of the report misrepresented the facts many of the facts and observations outlined in the full version or in extra completely connected and by selectively admitting certain ones an unintended bias has been introduced into the report undermining its credibility in case there was any doubt about which facts to pick they had identified the american agents come in and lecture the chemists on my ass ad was guilty they were

to take their word for it the inspectors left fair weathers office feeling that the invitation to the americans to address them was unacceptable pressure and a violation of the o.p.c. w.'s declared principles of independence and impartiality 2 days later the interim report was released a senior colleague told us 1st floor management says the credibility we have to have a smoking gun you'd think that management would apologize for this. off with some sort of explanation heck even have been a resignation or 2 well some of these diverse views continue to circulate in some public discussion forums i would like to reiterate that i stand by the independent professional conclusion basically to hell with the u.p.c. w.'s reputation to hell with generations of chemists and scientists who kept the world free of chemical weapons these is the 21st centuries. which can

synthesize chemical guilt literally out of thin air now let's take a look at our 2nd category being worrying world $21000.00 was also a year of tit for tat hostility and hate from terror attacks to be around the globe and i fight for syrian oil and of course trade wars between washington and beijing as well as over russia's nordstrom gas pipeline to the e.u. let's take a look at trade wars some of the world's largest economies are locked in a bitter trade battle destabilizing the globe and mail looks at how it all started . 29000 so a full blown trade war with washington finding on 2 fronts but the art of war whether the conflict is military or economic in nature consists of certain universal status. trade confrontation with china was a u.s. a major concern an idea that trump was fixed on since day one of his presidency

china china and china where the enemy chosen the only thing missing was a selected target. so at the beginning of the year the trumpet ministrations started to portray the chinese tech giant huawei as an enemy u.s. secretary of state mike brown pale a latch that while way is owned by the chinese government and therefore has deep connections to their intelligence services and presents a national security threats the official urged countries to think twice before signing up was one of the world's biggest tech firms as a matter of law the chinese government can write we demand access to data flowing through one way and see the systems why would anyone. that is already working with cyberspace but what's in it for washington well 1st you can get rid of a competitor who had a huge cheer and the market and 2nd and most important of the 5 g.

to acknowledge that china was developing and wildly promoting the u.s. wanted to create its own 5 g. so letting china dominate the market would have been a mistake. and made 29 team donald trump banned huawei and the u.s. while way officials denounced the move the fact is the us government has provided no evidence to shool there. is a security threat at the same time trying try to impose. additional tariffs on china beijing struck back with tariffs on numerous goods. some major u.s. allies such as germany refused to support the ban on trading there are 2 things i don't believe and one discussed in this very sensitive security questions publicly and to exclude an accompanist simply because it's from a certain country some european countries even sided with china united against the

u.s. while the economist asked a mate at the cost of u.s. china war to roughly head $700000000000.00 for the global economy the support for trump's actions faded fast even if growth picks up in 2020 the current drifts. could lead to changes that. for a generation. desperate trump turned his eyes on an old rival russia and tried to punish us for doing business with it russia and the e.u. had struggled for some time to launch the nord stream to project a pipeline that will provide queue up with gas so the u.s. tried hard to disturb the alliance and decided to impose sanctions on the project moves that was wildly criticized in europe. european energy policy is decided in europe not in the u.s. we crucially reject external interference and sanctions with extra territorial

effect. but here trump and things seem to reach the phase one deal and the cheve something resembling a cease fire still very few hailed it as a good sign many simply called it a failure on the part of the trumpet ministration that preliminary agreements meant no new tariffs but the future of the economic relationship still remains uncertain so the main question now is will the war continue in 2020 all of the indicators suggest it most certainly will. that's a global news update for this hour thanks for tuning in. you know world

a big part of the new lot 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront cation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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