greetings and sell you taishan. you know it is it is truly tragic my friends it is tragic that the spite all of us living in the middle of a pandemic despite over 20000000 jobs being lost in just april alone despite more than 75000 us citizens losing their lives to cope with 19 it appears that here in the united states of america we still have time for some good old fashioned racism and murder i'm talking of course about the 21st century lynching of 25 year old ahmad arbor use attackers 64 year old former police officer gregory mcmichael and

his son travis were finally arrested this week after assaulting and shooting the young black man down while he was out jogging in glynn county georgia back all the way back on february 23rd i say finally arrested because for months police and prosecutors in georgia despite having video evidence to the contrary were content with giving the mcmichaels a pass why because while the father and son dynamic duo of white privilege basically loaded up on guns and stalked our breed down after he committed the most heinous crime of jogging past that while black the new york times writes the gregory mcmichael told the police that mr r. berry looked like the suspect in a string of nearby breakin. and that and that excuse was apparently all georgia prosecutor georgie barnhill needed when he argued that the father and son's actions were legal under state statutes on citizen's arrest and self-defense and

that the under mr r. bery had initiated the fight with travis mcmichael and was thus allowed to use deadly force to protect himself boom case closed except. except for that darn video of the shooting that found its way out of the darkness of law enforcement coverup and in the light of public scrutiny and it's in that light that we begin our show today let's start watching the homes. what's going on in a city street you want to. see the rises you always stay i'll see you. great city displays systemic deceptions show which. so brings up the film as. well who have been watching the fire over there and i'm in the chicago and joining us today to discuss the murder of mr r.

berea more of the civil rights turning out of minneapolis minnesota mickey armstrong and author and salon dot com editor at large d. walk and thank you both for joining us today. the i want to start with the release of the video showing the the murder of constitutional attorney daniel horowitz in the news you know he basically the news of the charges being brought against mcmichaels 2 tweeted out something very very interesting let's take a look at this he tweeted the righteous development is not attributable to a video it's attributable to a video that prosecutors had lot of things to view becoming public that distinction should concern you a great deal that is one of the real ugly realities in america is it not that unless you've got video of a white on black crime it is rarely prosecuted right be. seen in the biggest problems that exists in this country it's like you know so many people are racist

but nobody wants to be called a racist or see as greece is even though the race is things all of the time like you know without technology and sell. so many police officers who are now incarcerated will be free so many people who committed these heinous types of crimes will be in prison right now like they should be this week because of technology this is extremely say i've tried my best to click away and watch it with this video every time it popped up because i've seen too much heard it all not even thought about it outside of a neighborhood and now. 40 years to live and i've been around in a part of so many murder scenes that i just i you know i try my best to look away from it when i see it but i'm happy that this video you know is out there so even if these guys are able to beat the system as they are already have to they already should be in jail you know at least people know what's going on. absolutely and the

talking about beating the system is something that we see regularly when it comes to cases like this came up their original georgia prosecutor on this case cited statutes on citizen's arrest and self defense as reasons to not bring charges against the mcmichaels this sounds an awful lot like the defense used to justify the murder of trayvon martin are these self-defense laws being twisted into a new version of jim crow. and mean we natalie that when i white person decides that they fear a black art form an unarmed black or something then the law or whatever or even if you seem to try to justify both mark you see in cases like this involving whites it will be you who felt that they had already to take out our very life as well as when police walk with your shoes on and what they plan for it was a law saying that they are saying insanity rational it's relatively low when it

comes to and knowing that these folks will be right in front of their peers so let's think about it it's very possible that in. the mcmichaels have a jury trial that they could have an all white school which could also. result in been actually not. white but we should celebrate since that was long overdue the travesty of justice and it's almost here but this is one part of the battle the outflung will be whether or not. a jury of their peers actually believe that they will just lie in murdering an unarmed young back to. you i want to add just real quick to i want to ask you is the is the victory here and the chemo is the victory here that at some point or the idea of where we're going toward an event some point it doesn't take you know everyone from the bron james and even taylor

swift to speak out about this event but it shouldn't have to take a video in the 1st place i mean is that where it is not where the victory is not where the end game or the end goal should be for everyone involved and everyone speaking out about this is that it should not to take a video it shouldn't have to take prominent celebrities it should just people shouldn't be shot just for jogging while black. you know her i'm going to say. in a meeting does it really hasn't mattered whether you know it or not i mean he is. where black people have been. awful otherwise and that. you know for many of us the sidewalk you know will be all over me and i'm actually not being watched the city you know every time they came up in my. deal

with the trauma of what i had to watch you know 'd. what we're not saying people will marry and. you know we had you on the donald. in chicago you know 16 shots and i won't crack your videotape and yet they. are charging. against. me. it's not just in force and no matter what i'm what are very internet. hope that made it very long. and they were just at the top of it i totally agree and videos definitely they don't they don't guarantee justice like it is still has to be like you know that's more than a video of it was like dozens of people. saw for a brick through the bat into the back of that police van hit 1st people saw it

people video of it and people saw it and get all of those all 6 of those officers involved in a home or deal are still employ to take in a salary off of my tax dollars so videos videos definitely don't guarantee justice but at the same time i think this celebrities you know when they shared these videos and when they talk about it it does help like this prison where it is like it is it gets a lot of people to be involved who normally would be a part of that be i literally set down you know with 3 people down one not 2 but 3 people that can kind of dash and help get out of prison so it's like celebrities have platform and sometimes these systems and it's what he says listen to celebrity celebrities more than they'll listen to like activists and people who've been advocating for lots of us forgot 30 years know about the drug crimes we've been fighting to get him out because he's part of something he's got time to stop than anything and even do. you know ads out i wish i could get him out of phone. you

know in other disturbing news just now coming to the surface back in march in the seattle area community health center the focus on native american care n.b.c. news is now report. in that one stuff for medical supplies they were sent in body bags and. now while they're charging about a simple delivery mistake i want to ask the camera is this a pretty accurate representation or metaphor of how communities of color of been treated during this pandemic and absolutely and i don't think it was in fact are we i just know that a lot of times are on people with people of color and it's people dying right if it weren't it will be what we have such significant. economic and criminal justice dispiriting grapple with on a day to day and a lot of the inequities aren't won't they happen to our generation after generation

after generation and we are seeing these disparities exacerbated in light. of the night and so it's really unfortunate that racism and white supremacy still will the day and the fact that someone will not standing body back to a native american organization but it is very symbolic in terms of what people are expecting to happen in our communities that are persistently being under served in war and. andy if the united states war against kobe 19 following the same path as most u.s. wars meaning the ones fighting it and the ones most brutalized by it are once again the poor and the working class. absolutely you know those black people people who have been on the front line. delivering packages and working at grocery stores and fighting to keep what parts of america functioning that is still able to function

you know the crazy thing about this administration is that everybody knows out of shops people will buy pencils or uses but it's like they were extra hard to prove that the extra rhesus like the car grease is not enough they got a whole. there were he says it's like a brand new level because it's probably made like that new chris is a wart like of reese's pullets something that they've got this oil they're going to get it but it is really frightening when you really look at how all this is all playing out but you and you do i think you see that pattern over and over again i want to ask you quickly with little bit of time left what started with your day what do you feel is when the most important but under-reported aspect of the united states is handling of this pandemic what should we be talking about but we're not. we should be talking about how important it is to have good leadership everybody wasn't president that they could have everybody talks about a president that's funny that they can relate to they only uses monosyllabic words like that well when things like this happen you kind of don't want to person

sitting across from you drinking a beer you want somebody with a genius not who has the ability to get ahead of these problems and solve them so the country doesn't shut down so we don't go into a recession this want to turn into a depression so that american people can actually work in feed their families that's what you want you don't want to got into a bar who's drunk off a cliff lights because it's just ridiculous doesn't make any sense and that's what we need to be talking about how important leadership is when it came a little bit of time up same question to you what's being under reported that should be being reported more in this pandemic. well i think that part of what you have to do is deal with service announcement sitting on black and brown and make community about the fact that our government is expecting to die when they open up here and they know that our communities will be disproportionately impacted and we will suffer death is proportionately and have in many jurisdictions so far and so we have to let our people know that at the government relaxes its restrictions and

encouraging people to get out shop work and everything else but we need to actually raise our guards make sure we're in mass don't make sure that you know we work well i think we can limit our exposure outside you need to do next and protect our own government has failed us so we have to step up when that kneecaps to protect us couldn't agree with you more of those promote myself around them richard goodman group 3 more all right thank you so much the water cannons and the cayman levy armstrong always a pleasure having you on educating our viewers thank you. thank you. thank you. all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t.v. up which available on old google play on the apple app store by searching portable t.v. or you can stream us to your t.v. if you want to watch the big screen but downloaded reportable t.v. up on the apple t.v. and online a portable to be this app will be available on board the bus she's covering. coming

up. yes holland cook the host of the big picture joins us to talk about the latest political woes and scandals taking place around one of america's oldest civil services the post office u.s. state to watch. as the report never fails to deliver the goods and we've been saying now for a few years that ultimately they're going to $100.00 trillion dollars japan's already in on a percent debt to g.d.p. on their fed's balance sheet kuroda their central banker has already taken their central bank about 100 percent of g.d.p. in terms of debt that's buying a lot of junk assets so merican 6789 trillion dollars they've got another 60

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world. they claim their production is completely harmless. it. companies want us to feel good about products while the damage is being done far away this is just going to. begin the 2nd half of our show today with some discerning news out of our neighborhood postal service this week the united states postal service board of governors announced on wednesday that they voted in greensboro north carolina businessmen with joy at the new postmaster general and according to the washington

post this new appointee will become the 1st postmaster general in 2 decades who did not rise through the agency's ranks but being an outsider isn't the only how should we say interesting aspect of digital ways appointment. it's the fact that mr joy only real qualification for running the u.s. postal service is the loyalty and the money he's given to president donald trump and the republican party according to the federal election commission joy has contributed more than $2000000.00 to the trump campaign or republican causes since 2016 including a $210600.00 contribution to the trump victory fund on feb 19th joining us now to discuss this latest round of washington d.c. kuoni ism is the host of big picture on r.t. america. hello hello hi i'm says it's run forever. i miss you guys but i am so glad that you are in front of this story

because when people lose saturday mail delivery and when they start closing post offices. capitol hill is going to get an earful on this and by then it will be too late very very true and i want to ask you can you can we can you get any more blatant cronyism than what is being displayed in this appointment i mean the guy gave over $200000.00 in february and now suddenly he has a government job in charge of all of the bright outis. right out in plain sight and you know it gets lost in all the noise to things the post office doesn't exist on tax dollars that's what washington calls off budget they make money by selling postage and last year they did over 70 b. $1000000000.00 in revenue let's also remember that the u.s. postal service which used to be the post-office department until 1971 the postmaster general was

a cabinet secretary now it's the postal service it is the number one employer of veterans and everything was fine until the 2006 postal accountability and enhanced men act and this is a rip off that no private sector business could survive the post office which pays its own way and had funded its own pension fund as we go is forced to prefund 75 years of retirees health benefits and amortize it in 10 years which means not only are we paying for people who are not even postal employees yet we're paying for postal employees who aren't even born yet so this was the titanic this was bound to sink the postal service and it was a lame duck republican congress that gave it to us. and holland we know the high

price of loyalty came in and some pretty big games for people who are you know aligning with president trump and doing what he wants what do you believe is the motivation behind this specific appointment many are saying appointing a republican crony could have to do with the president's recent paranoia over budget by mail. yeah well expect the new postmaster to be a union buster and look at the flip side of your question the grudge match against jeff bezos who unlike trump is an actual billionaire and owns the dreaded washington post and the hobby horse trump has been on all along is that it's a rip off that the amazon deliveries are accomplished by the post office the amazon business was a godsend at the time when email and p.d.f. and all the other ways we get in touch alectryon a cli really drove down the 1st class postage business it's part of 25000000 packages that the postal service will deliver this week and any number of

analyses have shown that it's not a rip off against the government that this is a nice chunk of change for the post office now you know when you talk loyalty and campaign contributions you know fed ex and you p.s. have got to be feeding the trough but the joke's on them if the post office gets downgraded because your u.s. postal service delivers to every address every day monday through saturday and now they're even delivering packages on sundays it's what's called the last mile and amazon and fed ex and u.p.s. write that last mile they're not going to every house every day and suppose the post office gets downgraded or even limited and private enterprise takes that over what do you think a stamp going to cost them i can't even imagine i mean i think. this is one of

those classic moments where you know everyone talks about we need privatizing smaller government the post office is one of the most important staples of government and i think that you hit the nail on the head all in when you said you know big go where everyone else won't at the end of the bay they will hit every address if within their capability they will do that how important going forward is that we need to save the post office or at least reform the post office so they're not having to pay that way you mentioned earlier of 75 years in advance of retirement. yeah that bill. ought to be repealed and it just makes no sense the post office is a retirement plan before that was perfectly well funded pay as you go like any normal business would so i'd be screaming bloody murder to my congressmen and my senators about the so-called postal accountability and enhancement act of 2006 because if this goes away that amazon order you just ordered the fed ex you're expecting i live at the end of

a dirt road in the smallest town in the smallest state in the usa what kind of a surcharge are people like me going to suffer out private enterprise takes this over which i can only imagine i'll chip in if it happens i'll make sure you get your mail all right thank you so much for coming out of the holland coach the host of the big picture over that guys or i miss you guys. and finally today our to america correspondent john how do you bring us a past and look at how the past is influencing the present as priest or bird fossils are being used to potentially help with modern aviation has been drone technology take a look it's called a pterosaur a news basically a flying lizard for more than 200000000 years ago that could be as tall as a giraffe weighing more than 600 pounds and was one of the earliest known vertebrates to have evolved power in flight researchers from the university of bristol published a review in the scientific journal trends in ecology and evolution about how the pterosaurs unique multilayer. wing was structured possibly allowing it to launch

from a stationary position and then maintain stability in flight dr michael habib is a paleontologist with the dinosaur institute at the natural history museum of los angeles and a co-author of the study pterosaurs had a very unusual winning is unique to them that was muscle and skin and other tissues soft tissue stretched from 11 source a series of bones we costs are for the from the federal embassy a giant finger of the 4th fingers huge stretches in that 4 fingers that's the hind limb and that means they had to have very sophisticated ways of testing this in dealing with this fight creation problem and they were probably better than any other animal has ever flown so not only were these gigantic flying dinosaurs able to solve parallel asked to study problems over evolutionary time but they were also in the size range of modern military and commercial aircraft in particular unmanned

aerial vehicles or what are commonly referred to as drones it may seem a little bit weird to go into the fossil record to look at inspiration for 'd human designed aircraft but in fact if you want that size range and you're interested in that kind of problem that's the best place to look dr habib says some of his recent research is currently under review by the u.s. army and that nasa has a project in prototypes drawing from the pterosaurs launch and we are opening mechanisms using their legs wings and fingers to launch from the ground into the air and aerial mechanics like that dr habib says could one day be used by a drone or other aircraft to perhaps get out of a crater on mars just one example of the very distant past playing a role in launching flight technology into the future for our t.v. john hoodie. or a lot of us some serious sized dinosaurs right there is but it's a modern jet that is. may think this might be my favorite one i'm upset and i just

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