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 4 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 so let's start watching the honks. what's going on in a city street you want to. see this as this you always state i'll see a. mass graves see displaced systemic deceptions late show which. so brings up the bill 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 the chemo levy armstrong and author and salon dot com editor at large the walk ins thank you both

for joining us today. thank you to. the i want to start with the release of the video showing the the murder of constitutional attorney daniel horowitz 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 have 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 the. scene of 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 cell. 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 away from this video every time it popped up because i've seen too much heard it or not even thought about it outside of a neighborhood who might not. want to use the limit i've been around in a part of so many murder scenes that i just i you know i try 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 already have to be 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 up and it 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 got lucky that land white person decides that they fear a black art form an unarmed black or something in the law or whatever. to try to justify both murders we've seen in cases like this involving whites it will be 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 and standing in the threshold whoa 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. then make michael and apple it's known that they could happen all night which could also and we can result in them actually not. quite the ones and celebrate. that long it's a travesty of justice that it's all month each year but this is just one part of the battle out home will be whether or not. a jury at their hearings actually knew that they would just lie in murdering an unarmed man that. you all want to add just real quick to the i want to ask you is the is the victory here d n a chemo is the victory here that some point or the idea of where we're going towards at some point it doesn't take you know everyone from le bron james and even taylor swift to speak out about this is that but that it shouldn't have to take a video in the 1st place i mean is that where where the victory is that where the

end game is the end goal should be for everyone involved and everyone speaking out about this is a should not to take a video it should not to take problem of celebrities it should just people shouldn't be shot just for jogging while black. so. you know for i'm going to think. in meaning and it really doesn't matter but there you know it or not right i mean he. where black people have been you know by one form or otherwise and that person. so for many a black flag watching him or oprah hopefully he and i gotta keep out the night he will watch the video every time he came up and might be. there with the triangle but i had to watch you know it's hard. but we're not saying he will marry and.

you know we saw you on mcdonnell in chicago you know 16 shots in a corporate along the prosecutors had that morton's videotape and yet they tried to perpetrators like that. against the unarmed me. it's not guaranteed just force and no matter what i'm what are very internet on the back hope is that this has been very long and it's. some day we're just at the top i totally agree and videos definitely do 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 the bridge thrown back into the back of the police his 1st. people saw it people video on it and people saw it and get almost all 6 of those officers involved in their home or dio are still employed

there to take him 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 he shared his videos i want to talk about how it does help like his friends awareness like it is it gets a lot of people want to be involved. normally i would be a part of that be i literally set down you know 3 people down one not 2 but 3 people that can kind of gadget help get out of prison so it's like celebrities have platinum and sometimes these systems that it's what he says listen to celebrity celebrities more than now listen to like activism people who advocate for got 30 is know about the drug problems we've been fighting to get him out because these blood is something he's got tied up in something anything and even do you know ads out oh i wish i could get him with a 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 reporting that one staff asked for medical supplies they were sent body bags instead now while they're chalking it up to a simple delivery mistake i want to ask that came up is this a pretty accurate representation or metaphor of how communities of color of been treated during this pandemic. absolutely and i don't think it was an accident are we i just know that a lot of folks are comfortable with people of color he said dying right if it weren't. such significant. and economic and criminal just parroting them rapidly on a day to day basis and a lot of the inequities are long and they happen to our generation after generation after generation and we are seeing these disparities exacerbated in white. public

night and so it's going to be one fortunate that right in the white it from the sea will the day and the back and someone will not sending body bags to a native american organization but it is a very symbolic in terms of what people are expecting to happen in our communities that are persistently being under-served more conflict. and the is the united states war against kobe 19 following the same path as most u.s. horse 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 who have been on the front line. delivering of 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 raise the car grease is not enough they got a whole. to think there were he says it's like a brand new level because it's probably maybe like that new chris is a wart like of reese's pulitzer something that they've got a choice they're going to get it but it is really frightening when you really look at how all this is all playing out and you do i think you see that pattern over and over again i want to ask you quickly what the global bit of time left what started with your day what do you feel is been 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 or everybody talks about a president that's funny that they can relate to that 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 it 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 it's going 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 website and 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 you know seeing black and brown and the media about the fact that our government is expecting to die when they open up and they know that our communities will be disproportionately impacted and we will stop our debt it's unfortunately and that 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 you know in that way and we need to actually raise our guards make sure we're wearing masks

don't make sure that you know work well i think we can limit our it's old right side you need to index and protect me and government and they'll go so we have to step in when you've got to protect us couldn't agree with you more than grocery promote myself and i'm richard couldn't agree with you more all right thank you so much dee watkins and the kima 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 could also start watching the hawks on the man for the brand new portable t.v. . google play on the store by searching portable t.v. or you can stream us to your t.v. if you want to watch the big screen by downloading the portable t.v. app on the apple t.v. and. t v this app will be available on more devices. coming up. yes 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. state to be watchable. seemed wrong. but old old just told. me to get to shape out just to become educated and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the.

the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by one person of those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. believe. that we're operation in their dying water some of the wealthier neighborhoods it's been far more contained and the numbers are much lower than some

of the word neighborhoods start to do. the same we're working with can source outside of the state is there just so it's here so i think that it was. 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 businessman lewis to joy 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 way we say

interesting aspect of digital ways appointment. is the fact that mr joy only real qualification for running the u.s. postal service if the loyalty and the money he's given to president donald trump and the republican party according to the federal election commission to join has contributed more than $2000000.00 to the trump campaign or republican causes some $26.00 teams including 821-0006 100 dollars 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 the big picture on r.t. america. hello hello hi i'm so exudes burn 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 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 real. boff 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 can end in 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 vote

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 ripoff 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 a 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 come. 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 then 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 home when you said you know big go where everyone else won't at the end of the bay they will hit every address 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 about what 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 oh try that 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 in all right thank you so much for coming out of a holland coat the whole. still the big picture all that does i miss you guys. and finally today are to america of course one of john how to bring us a passing look at how the past is influencing the present as prehistoric bird fossils are being used to potentially help modern aviation has even drone technology take a look it's called a pterosaur and it was 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 a form of 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 multi-layered 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 $11.00 source a series of bones we cost spar 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 tensioning 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 city 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 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 have beeb says some of his recent research is currently under review by the us 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 an 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 honey. that a lot of us some serious size dinosaurs right there is better than modern jet that is amazing this might be my favorite one i'm upset that i. could develop good about all right everybody that is our show for you today remember in this world we are told that we are loved so i tell you all i love you i am tired rover and i will

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