it's unlike anything that it is. 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. bery 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. on a city street you want to. see the prize this. state i'll see you. mass graves see this least systemic deception. which. brings up the bill as. well we're going to watch it i roll with her and i mean and joining us today to discuss the murder of mr r.

berea moore is the civil rights turning out of minneapolis minnesota the chemo levy armstrong and author and salon dot com editor at large d. watkins thank you both for joining us today. thank you thank you to. the i want to start with the release of the video showing 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 be. one 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 saints all of the time like you know without technology and cell phones 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 right they should be this week because of technology this is extremely say. that's the click away from this video every time it popped up because i've seen too much heard it i'm not even thought about it outside of a. room and not a muffler to use the limit i've been around a part of so many murder scenes that i had says 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 the already have because 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 that nikki mup their original georgia prosecutor on this case side. statutes on citizens 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. absolutely mean when we got lucky in that land white person decides that they fear a glance towards an unarmed black or something in the law or whatever or even if you simply state to try to justify both murders we've seen in cases like this involving whites it was you who felt that they had the authority to take out our very life as well as when police officers on our black people they ran for who it was a law saying that they feared for their saying and standing rational if well it's

going to be low when it comes to you and knowing that these folks will be right in front of your peers so let's think about it it's very possible that if they make my calls and have a drone trial that they could have an all white school which could also. result in them actually not. quite so we should celebrate this unrest that was long overdue it's a travesty of justice that it's almost here but this is just one part of the battle out home will be whether or not a jury of their peers actually believe that they will just lie in murdering an unarmed man that we're. you know i want to just real quick i want to ask you is the is the victory here. 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 the bron james

and even taylor swift to speak out about this is that the it shouldn't have to take a video in the 1st place i mean is that where where the victory is not where the end. gamer the other 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. or not. oh. so. you know for i'm going to think. in meaning and it really doesn't matter but there it you know it or not right i mean he's in the game where black people have been you know by one form or otherwise and that person when you put it so for many a black flag watching him or open up for him and i could actually back out and not 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 it's people that know you know we saw you on mcdonald's in chicago you know 16 shots in a corporate along it crossed your path that more than once videotaped and yet then tracks for which i didn't like that. against the unarmed act. that's not guaranteed just in force and no matter what i'm mad are very internet will come back with a hope and that woman who has been very long and. can do rejoice at the top i'm totally untrue videos definitely do you know 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 throw the bat to the back of the police his 1st people saw it people video of it and people saw it and get almost

all 6 of those officers involved in their home or do you know are still employ them to take in a salary. also my tax dollars so videos videos definitely don't guarantee justice but at the same time i think this celebrity these you know when he shared his videos i want to talk about it does help like his friends awareness like it gets a lot of people want to be involved who normally would be a far there be i literally set down you know 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 listens to celebrity celebrities more than elvis into life activism people who advocate for south africa 30 years know about the drug problems we've been fighting to get him out because he's part of something he's got time to stop them and even do. you know ads out oh 2nd you can want to phone. you know in other disturbing news just coming

to the surface back in march in the seattle area community health center the focus on native american care and b c news is now reporting that one staff asked for medical supplies they were sent body bags and stabbed it now while they're chalking it up to a simple delivery mistake i want to ask that came as a supportive accurate representation or metaphor of how communities of color of been treated during this pandemic. and absolutely and i don't think it will not. i just know a lot of. our own people with people of anger dying right if it weren't but we had such thing. in economic and criminal spiriting and rappel who want. in a lot of the inequities find won't. happen to our generation after generation after

generation and we're seeing this very exacerbated in light. of the night and so it's going to be one for. that racism white supremacy. and the fact that someone will not standing body bags so you are native american organizations but it is very symbolic in terms of what people are expecting to happen in our communities that are. being under served and. andy is the united states war against kobe 1000 following the same path as most u.s. wars meaning the once 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 write pencils a racist but it's like they were doing extra hard to prove that the extra race car race is not enough they've got a whole lot to think there were he says it's like a brand new level because it's probably maybe like the new over this is a war like a race is pulitzer something they've got this war and i'm going to get it but it is really frightening what it really was that i'll this is all playing out. 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 with starting with your day what do you feel has been the most important but under reported aspect of the united states is handling of this pandemic what should we be talking about that we're not. we should be talking about how important it is to have good leadership everybody was a president that they could have a beer with everybody talks about a president that's funny that they can relate to their 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 who has the ability to get ahead of these problems and solve them so the country doesn't shut down so you don't go into a recession is going to turn into a depression so that american people can actually work and feed their families does what you want you don't want the guy in the bar who's drunk off a good light because it's just ridiculous doesn't make any sense and that's what we need to be talking about how important good leadership is when it came a little bit of time website in question to you what's being under reported that should be being reported more in this pandemic. well i think that article is. now sitting black and brown and a meeting about the fact that our government it's like to die when they open up and they know that our communities will be disproportionately impact. our debt it's unfortunately and in many jurisdictions so far and so we have to let our people know that at the government relaxes restrictions and encouraging people to get out

work you know that you know that we need to actually raise our guards make sure we're wearing pants won't make sure that you know where o'clock in london are exposed right fact you need to index protect me and that we're men and it's failed so we have. got to protect that's couldn't agree with you more than those promote myself and i'm richard couldn't agree more all right thank you so much dee watkins and the chemo 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 demand for the brand new portable t.v. upwards of a. smartphones the 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 from the big screen by downloading the portable t.v. app on apple t.v. and online a portable t v this app will be available on more devices coming soon coming up holland cook

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. state to washington. you can't be both with the yeah you like.

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it 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 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 we say interesting aspect of digital ways appointment is 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 so exudes burn forever i should have drawn. 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 in 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 right out us. 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 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 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 aleck tronic lee 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 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 with america 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 offices 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 private enterprise takes this over 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 on today 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 he brings us a fascinating 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 a vast 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 far for the from the federal embassy

a giant finger of the 4 things huge surface 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 flop 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 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 bieb 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 'd 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 said what i concluded no good about our everybody that is our show for you today remember in this world we are not told that we are loved so i tell you all i love you i am tired rover and i don't miss a cross keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and. we .

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