tv Cross Talk RT March 16, 2020 7:30am-8:01am EDT
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which is not just idiocy but it is absolutely laughable now will the corona virus results in the downfall of globalization in the downfall of the new world order which is being in existence since the end of the soviet union and the soviet communism i believe not why firstly because a shim and because there is an assumption the ordinary man or woman in the west unsettling britain and america has made the connection between the emergence and the spread of the throughout its iris and globalization and in this in the case of the european union with its without borders so that is a dangerous assumption the 2nd reason why i do not believe it will result in the end it's all good like station is that there is no alternative to globalization ever since the end of soviet communism capitalism has math test itself
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that has its goals in itself today to corporate capitalism and one of our mentions absent is of course globalization so there is no alternative in the world i know but a bit of if that's a very interesting comment i mean i i i'm i'm not suggesting that dog globalization is going to go away because of the corona virus i'm not saying that what i'm saying is taking on board what marcus just said is that we have to take note of its weaknesses and how it needs to be adjusted i don't think we can turn the clock back 40 years ok but at the same time this this horrible event that is affecting the world on a scale that is only increasing and we're going to get in later in this week on this program going to talk about the economic consequences of it but it does beg the question is it really working that well and what needs to be adjusted so we can we can avoid such a pandemic because it will be other pandemics this is a test case and how to. to leverage what we have now and what needs to be done in
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the future go ahead while i agree with a marker of. the nature of northern cape town is an easy expansion expansionary to not only territory for example i lot of people blame for their coronavirus they had been so they cheney's but didn't we hear from the western experts that we should consume insects we should change our food patterns you know we should expand and expand you know their sphere where humans interfere with nature basically it's becoming more or less clear that they survived was a result of human interference in nature it did not it was not produced by nature itself so we see how the system is fragile because not all only. is it effected by destruction you know the story in the spread the story but in
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expansion is already a good tragedy and all people losing money here just to store the system is vulnerable in the middle back to markets like i guess maybe to fine tune my comment introductory comments that is is that we have globalization and that is a that's a very broad brush but i think kind of demons kind of teasing a little bit of what i'm talking about here i mean this is a corporatization globalization because when countries have to react to this pandemic they they they have all of them have a different tool box and they're not necessarily connected and the end we've seen today is the the inability to contain it i mean globalization in a very broad sense would seem to suggest that but we don't have that because it's war of the corporate driven globalization go ahead marcus. let me let me make a change. look at last. has.
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look at the decisive steps russia for instance took to confront and constrain the corona virus once once it hits threats from china straight away the russian authorities took the responsible decision and closed it to slaughter it and if the european union and it's written that britain is out of the year in you know how bold as if they had totally secure and defended borders then maybe maybe they would not be the situation that there is today it's for example it's early and germany and britain were guarding the coronavirus so i believe that the russian authorities had demonstrated the absolute necessity of how to pull up the markets let me get let me ask you a question then so you're telling me and i'm extrapolating from what you just said is that western elites and their vision of globalisation their ideology trumps public safety is that what you're telling me. oh absolutely well good that's what
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i'm thinking as well resolutely expand on that it's us who has been one of the beneficiaries or the corona virus western media because western media should have to create an atmosphere of awareness and calm about the coronavirus they should of told the british public the american public that a news virus has the most it is potentially so it's all it could become and dammit you must remain calm and you must put it into perspective because year in year out for well over 100 years now the world has been livin with a pandemic in the fall of influenza that would have been the actions of a responsible major but alas british mainstream media and the american mainstream media did not do that they deliberately creates it and say a claim didn't yap enflamed it and what has happened in britain for example
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the sale of newspapers has increased the amount of clicks on newspaper websites that are advertised since i live in it has let me go to deeming answers so. exactly how i do it so even though even the business model for media for media trumps public safety ok we could go on and on and on go ahead well i can just give you an example the he'll an american publication they published an article us play in term or keep it killed russian disinformation of coronavirus so russia did liberally misinformed the us public about coronavirus we are not calling itself is of misinformation well the article called assistant secretary of state for europe and you're a sheffield precursor seign rushes in to intent is to saw discord and undermine us institutions and their why answers from within including through covered and courtesy of malign info. and skimpy by spray disinformation about coronavirus
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russian maligned. vine is a gauge that one example cited in the article that you could find of did misinformation as usual they side report which is classified the public cannot cede they are not providing any evidence of any fact but that's not an individual case that's not the several case in europe spiegel magazine they published an article headlined one coronavirus need sporter got a crisis put it on a supporter in and out of got so the kewl sportin and now they're gone or weaponized and made gratian you know all driving hard old masa still europe it immediately it reminded me of an headline in their corner just a few years ago and that their hard old monsters in and now dear spiegel say as it's put in and out of the same get all of the water but there's really no market so if you've been listening to that i mean there is no self reflection of the
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malign foreign intervention into arab lands muslim countries they created these migration waves in the 1st place this is just how my optic western media is that their countries create these problems their media blames the these problems on a 3rd party that wasn't involved in the 1st place i mean it is so circular so sad self-satisfied and again a business model that praises ideology over the public welfare of people go ahead marcus. absolutely the world is the emergence of a new virus it can be followed so it could become. what we have. since the beginning of 2020. 1000000 americans. in a few years ago in britain in the. 6008. 1000 british people dying from the sleuth so we have to be. aware about the threat of
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the risk we have to it's here to basic hygiene i hate if for example washing your hands really often that's all it when you come back from the shops or from a ball phone or restaurant but i am not go into let's british mainstream media which is a local outfit create fear and. also these are the people who claim that stan hussein has weapons of mass destruction these are the people who claimed mass murder into makes it also the us and in libya and in kosovo they are compulsive liars and they do it deliberately in order to achieve a financial when so themselves they are despicable creatures you know and then we you know at the biggest loser is we end this segment here is public confidence in the end in the media itself it again it's a circular vicious circle here markets beat up on us thank you for joining us on
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so she and i as a nation such as fish i think yes and investors are at the. ocean as a little she's a mug for for you've got bloated look at short term food for your not your mom happens you know to try to accomplish more. i was. upset. because the global world was going to have to close you need so that in your voice you are just of us have the displeasure of us moving the support of the family when you're fighting with the sofa cushion have. something left just the fortune of a photo 6 months because of the sound. welcome back across top where all things are considered a bell to mind you were discussing real news.
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and now to nicosia we're joined by alex christopher he's the director and writer for the duran dot com welcome to the pros program alex. we see how in the 1st part of the program which i know that you listen to when we had markets papadopoulos we talked about the globalization in the pandemic and how we have to reassess globalization at least we should i opinion but let's bring it a little bit closer to the u.s. domestic politics here donald trump up for reelection the democrats have anointed their all but annoying to their nominee joe biden and it looks like to me that the democrats and they're applying it media are going to make this entire election go past the going to the conventions and to the general in november as a referendum on trump's handling of the corona coronavirus is that a good play on their part because let's be honest here trump has not presented his
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best face when it comes to talking about how his administration is dealing with this pandemic he's good at rallies he's not good with the teleprompter alex. yeah i agree with that i think that the trump administration started very very slow to handle this and the big sign was with the testing there was just a lack of testing kits and people are getting tested now i think they've got everything ramping up now and a little bit more into control that wednesday oval office teleprompter speech to the american public if you peter was absolutely awful that was terrible in the markets reacted and the people reacted i think we saw a lot of panic because that environment for trump is not beneficial to trump trump needs to interact with people he is not good talking in front of a machine trump wants interaction even negative interaction even the press going adam is where he thrives so i think that latest press conference he gave at the
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white house with the media there with his team behind him i think we saw a much more confident and a much more secure trump and we saw a little bit more leadership and we saw trump in an environment that suits him i think he needs to stay away from the oval office period as this crisis unfolds interact with people speak with people have some give and take with the press answer their questions push back and i think people will start to feel a little more secure and they'll be a little less panicked because the united states in the world now needs to see some leadership and god knows we're not going to get it in europe that's for sure so the only leader that i can think of right now in the western world is trouble and i think he really needs to deliver on this he started out very very poorly but hopefully after that press conference in the white house things will start to get under control that well i hope you know you have to see this unfold yeah i mean and
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of course the i mean i think we'll all of us have to step back i mean they're watching american media there unfortunately there's so many people that want to score points and not really address the real issue and it's a pandemic ok and then. why it's very frustrating watching american media because it's all about politics for them it's not about people as usual ok that's why i got elected in the 1st place you know. the media's presentation of it just from what we just heard from alex and when we heard from marcus in the 1st part of the program here they're doing a huge disservice to the public because they're they have weapon dies this issue in a way that is to their own benefit that serves their own ideological interests and it's not addressing the real problem but one of the real problems is here is the patchwork of american medicine ok there is no national medicine and in it's basically individual corporations so no wonder it's very difficult for this
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administration because they have to talk not to officials in the administration but officials in the administration that are talking to the corporate world they're not all on the same page and they all in the corporate world will never move away from their bottom line that's one of the difficulties alex brought up the lack of testing that's that's from a corporate point of view go ahead well again just a few facts weeks before they spend them extent that. asked for $740000000000.00 for what you know we read the newspapers the primary targets are russia and china so a tiny fraction of these mining could have provided thousands you know millions of tests you know and the coronavirus would not be such a great danger right now and no one is talking about that and apparently one will most likely get get that's something i will go away too with you deem the pentagon every year waste more money than all of the money times $10.00 that will be spent
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on dealing with the damage in the united states when you bet and we see we see that basically. there is no universal health care in the united states and this system seem. to be walking now we see that it's not what can you know wealthy people get in fact it because they go to bars more often you know the meat moral from working people are sometimes just glued to their walk by he says and who gets infected you know the wire for the canadian prime minister you know what sort of people in the media world lots of people in the keys to quote we see how unprotected the reach have become simply because they were so greedy that they provided no health service you know if so that's a really good point to go back to alex and nicosia i mean again this is this this pandemic it's poor people it's elderly people in the case of the united states people that are not insured are under insured and you know so people are going to
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stay home you know the rich and powerful the. you know the all of silicon valley. and they'll bring in their food bring in their dry cleaning but what about the overdrive are ok in the dry cleaner and all that see this you know again watching how the administration react to this you know and you know i suppose if you own a lot of stocks you're going to be really worried about the stock market but the stock market exists because there is an economy and economy exist because it has to serve the people you've got all of their priorities all out of order and this pandemic shows it glaringly go ahead alex. yeah i mean i think you know when the pen demick runs its course however long it's going to take absolutely the united states to stop and reflect are they going to do it most likely not because they don't stop and reflect when it comes to regime change wars and like demas said the military spending the military budgets so i doubt when this pandemic runs its course the u.s. will have an open and honest debate about health care now you know it doesn't
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matter where you lie on the spectrum with health care there's no doubt that the united states should reassess and discuss their health care structure but peter that the whole idea here is that this pandemic is shutting down everything in the united states but it's playing into the media's hands and it's playing it to biden's hands the it's perfect for them to not have biden speaking it's perfect them to have biden hidden away and it goes against trump to not have trump at rallies and speaking so going forward in a hall of this what you're seeing right now is a pandemic that the media is going to utilize and capitalize on that biden is going to utilize and capitalize on because biden now can just give 5 minute internet speeches and internet life streams and he can disappear and even there he's shaky and trump can't go out to those rallies into those big events and play up to his
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base so the optics right now really work towards biden and really work against trump the health care debate is something that sanders could have capitalized on if sanders wasn't so weak. that's the main issue this plays into sandra's hands as well but sanders is god now he's god he's out of it biden like you said was even have to one even has to wonder they do it and i think it's a serious question to ask is it well there even be conventions will they just be you know avatar conventions ok we're well they will they be done through skype i mean you're bringing up a very serious point here because it's actually controlling the media has the ability now to can completely control the narrative they can turn people on and they can turn other people off in an instant by i don't want to talk about health care i mean people think that bite is going to do something with health care he's already said we're going to not he's already said he would have. well it's just a lawful you know this week the american media was full of concern about rush or
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you know going to chance to run another time when he was going to be the president for life for goodness sake by then there's 11 years all of the. states is perfectly happy with him being the next president and if you read the media 90 percent of the media wants this guy 11 years all over the board in the in the next president of the united states so it's just absurd it's laughable you know the problems that these people in the media invent like russian influence russian mending and they miss the really big problem that coronavirus what they believe and what they really miss is the elites meddling in the american election and that's where the real meddling is here you know alex that's just it for me and it's it's it's fascinating is that well the primaries are over we should cancel the rest of image joe biden you know this is just this they snow they're snow balling you ok they are gaslighting you it's like it's all over ok it's a it's if we know well because
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a tribe administrator did such a bad job he should just resign and we should just annoying to biden and leave that up and everything will go back to 2015 and everyone will be happy again i mean they have gotten everything wrong for the last. 4 years and again we should step back a little bit everything will gambit they have played against trump they have failed well they succeed this time it's hard to say but they have enormous resources mobilized around this story and it's the wrong story they're not focusing on the pandemic there but they're focusing on the politics of the pandemic go ahead alex yeah and you know they're going to get the pandemic wrong as well there's no doubt about that and no matter what trump does peter it's not going to be good enough no matter what he chose oh we open the borders he's a fall close the borders he's at fault stop flights from coming in he's at fault open all the flights he's going to be at fault so trump needs to just block all that stuff out and i think he's very good at doing that he needs to focus right now
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on the short term the next month or 2 he needs to flatten that curve the pandemic we now see from china from south korea from italy at this pandemic definitely has a very steep bell curve. he needs to figure out a way in every country to figure out a way to flatten that curve out the pandemic going to run its course but they need to flatten that curve out they need to double play the spread of the virus and they need to work on getting people the care that they need for the short term and then after that we really really need to have a discussion of the united states about health care is anyone going to do it no unfortunately i don't think so but in an ideal world in a perfect world that would be the course of action that health care would be a big topic going into the presidential election with biden it's not it's a fool's errand to believe that the elites will learn from their mistakes 20 seconds to finish well talking about these statements you know now people in the united states can feel what we felt and what people in iraq felt what people in
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there with a lot of felt when the u.s. media at the act. you know whatever milosevic did he was a criminal what they were put in as doing he was always a criminal but in reality of the statements from their western but if you are a lot more responsible when. merkel who has stayed in paula longer than 2004 she has the chance of all germany when she says that 70 percent of germans are going to be infected that means 58000000 people and we're going to follow that story here that's all the time we have many thanks to my guests here in moscow and in london and in nicosia and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember crosstalk.
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you are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi ellis asked am aware of their. leverage all you like. and you can never forget maybe you can now auschwitz was really like to be inhaled close you would never believe it wasn't a human candle to have as a copy of the course for 32 years i'm open to be the bearer of it it all seems so logical for i guess i might make it right when i get out my mom won't the farm saw you don't want to take my song to their next meal so he can listen in hopefully he can bless god it hurts me. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure
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i. was going to write. as the number of coronavirus states high taste shoots up in a wrong the country's leadership claims the crisis has been exacerbated by u.s. sanctions. with infection rates increasing dramatically in other countries 2 politicians are also being hit hard with the outbreak forcing ministers into quarantine well steve we're now in slovenia and follows the 1st how he sees the crisis affecting everyday life. not be the same. critics accuse the u.k.
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