what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. and we said. just that. is enough.

but i'm also the most companies you know i've been a kid who says. when i meet. people in the school you know he goes from didn't you know it's just. you know i call. them and then they hit a safe enough. you see him in the middle you kind of this. thing they. come to your list. so to. speak is the. greetings and so. we start things off today with 2 of the most iconic american

means of self-expression in self-defense i'm talking about protests and guns since the 2016 bundy family great american takeover of the malheur wildlife refuge it seems that many white conservative or libertarian minded activists just can't seem to leave their guns at home when it comes time to start a protest especially in the era of code 19 bloomberg reported on may 14th that michigan has closed down its capital and canceled its legislative session rather than face the possibility of an armed protest and death threats against democratic governor gretchen whitmer yes the armed protesters who made headlines back in early may for their want to be red dawn wolverine's style approach to 21st century white right wing activism have brightened the state of michigan's elected officials so

deeply that they decided to stay at home rather than legislate thus preventing every taxpaying resident of the state of michigan a smoothly functioning government in a time of crisis all because they were asked to stay indoors during a pandemic seems the moderate taliban really only cares about their own rights and nobody else's meanwhile way down in the great state of texas there is another protest involving weapons taking place but in this one the protesters are unarmed and are actually calling for safety over selfishness keela lacie of the intercept reports that workers of lockheed martin's plant in fort worth texas have protested the reopening of their facilities saying they were concerned about exposing family members to the virus and that the company wasn't properly cleaning facilities remember it was these merchants of death that we have actually called the defense industry that lobbied the u.s. . to declare of these workers essential employees because can apparently nothing

nothing is more essential to the safety of every us citizen in the time of pandemic than being able to make him supply $2000000000.00 worth of weapons sales to india morocco in the philippines. so today my friends let's use that most powerful of weapons of all our hearts and our minds and let us start watching the hawks. on a city street. like. this joyce. graves see this least systemic deception is so much. welcome what all the watching the entire world when i was a surprise major are we doing today it's a wild day when you see protests once again it seems like every week there's new

protests we talk about them on the show and you know on them but the find out last week that the protests that we talked about in early early may and april were so scary to the michigan legislature that they decided not to go into session last week that's pretty pretty bold and pretty brutal it is it's also one of those things where if you have someone who you know many someone walk up and they all have weapons on them they all have rifles or you know these high capacity weapons and they're just standing there literally to invoke fear that's the only reason you protest with a weapon it makes sense for them to be afraid a lot of these legislators were also getting hate mail they were getting harassed on social media they were getting threatened so there's a lot more to it than that as well and these people have families themselves they're just trying to enforce regulation to protect people i mean that's the idea behind it and to me it's like it always bothered me even when i went back to the bundy's when i saw this many years ago when they did their kind of take over there look i can be totally understanding of your proud of your plight and your protests . but you don't need the gun no one's no one stopping until police are coming and

throwing you down on the ground and arresting you and beating you. mercilessly can't talk about. this and then i can understand like hey we need some protection we need we need people out here to protect the protests but no one's done that to these protesters they showed up at the go with weapons in hand you're absolutely right they're trying to stage this red state versus blue state or it's almost a nother civil war of sorts because there is the impression that they have and they have gotten from president trump in terms of his leadership on this has been you fight back you know he's basically through his tweets armed militia and it was this thing then go out and do these things and he cheers them on when they do it he retreats their comments he retreats the photos of them acting crazy this is something that he sees as a way to victory in november and it doesn't help when you know the name of your approach to the reason that they're going to shut down and. there was was the name of the protest was called judgment day but doesn't rule sound was going to be

peaceful when you use terms like. i also want to talk about there's the firm's workers who were also seen kind of pushing back against the primes industry saying hey look you called us essential boys but at least take the time to give us a safe working environment so we're not getting sick while we continue to make these bombs and i appreciate them sounding the alarm because right now it probably wouldn't consider them the most that work the most essential but since our government does they have to do what they have to do but just like we're fighting in all types of factories and other organizations and you know the wal marts of the world and things like that they should be protected as well they have a right to that level of protection and to expect them to consistently make these weapons that we regularly use and to not have that protection. and about us it does and it's interesting because the boeing they've got their problems the prime contractor for the missile sales to morocco and india as part of this big group there point in st louis or. he had confirmed 15 cases a crow virus 15

a general electric plant in lynn massachusetts which is a prime contractor for this apology helicopter deal that we've got going most all these weapons are going to other places around the world too it's not even like oh we're making weapons to secure the home front now we're making weapons to sell them around the world. however still the philippines is kind of this plant the general electric plant their workers have held multiple demonstrations including a strike as recently as april 8th and have a standard ever standing petition that simply asked general electric to quote fix appalling safety conditions at the silty and allow workers to manufacture lifesaving ventilators for the whole country rather than our. wow to crazy idea crazy in the like woo way we could make life saving things rather than missiles in a time of crisis where we need lifesaving supplies i mean blow my mind but none of these people showed up to the plants with guns i wonder if they'd have showed up with guns to the gun making plans of suddenly they'd be listening to the irony meter. that would be really interesting to see but ultimately i don't believe and i

magine you agree me i don't think the guns or anything like that you don't need to bring those to protest because to me it changes how the outside world perceives your protest this would absolutely make sense if there was a protests having anything to do with gun rights stress true since it is absolutely not nothing with a me thing is that you know these people are justified this is literally a protest so that they can invoke feet and fear is what they're invoking when you get a legislature shut down thereby denying the rights of every taxpayer as i mentioned earlier in that state michigan to actually have a successfully working government that's not that's not what you protest about what biting for people's rights is about is the take away everyone else's rights just so you can shepherd your own. home schooling has always been somewhat of a lightning rod topic for some reason parents choosing to remove their kids from government run institutions. and provide education at home is thing as apocalyptic

and a force that needs to be stopped what could those kids possibly be doing at home are religious zealots training the next generation of intolerant domestic terrorists are these kids ever going to have social skills obviously these questions and those like them are really offensive what we know is an overwhelming majority of homeschool students are light years ahead of their traditional school peers they excel in reading writing math science and born languages their regular pictures and national spelling bees and other competitions they're also except that the highest levels into the nation's top colleges and universities institutions like harvard university yet the elite college seems to have a bone to pick with homeschooling parents in the 3rd published article in less than a month the harvard visits most recent assault on this form of school choice is titled a warning on homeschooling and it elizabeth bartholet a law school professor and faculty director of the child at the advocacy program at harvard law spews

a lot of nonsense she argues the following homeschooling is unregulated and emphasizes conservative christian values the homeschooling lobby is more powerful than the gun lobby homeschooling can lead to increases in child abuse and neglect essentially homeschooling could in the world as we know it. the issue is there are so many fault lines in her reasoning that we can't even begin to list them all and she's not the only one at harvard with these issues in a harvard is a piece published just last week another author trying to make a connection between home school students and racism because you know learning at home is a recipe for future k.k.k. member. harvard is going all out to assail homeschooling parents ask yourselves why . that is a good question we should be asking ourselves why because to me i don't my person in i don't like you when you go after an entire group of people because of that you might see a few bad cases here and there you know about me is not what you should be doing with homeschooling i mean you know you have 1st hand knowledge of homeschooled

youth i don't think it's that i mean if people are educated enough to teach your kids at home and they follow i can understand like an idea of what can you do we want to maybe regulate this a little bit make sure everyone's getting taught correctly i can understand why attack entire group of people absolutely and i think that there are there are some issues with her lines of attack but in addition to that the comparative analysis she seems to be trying to make to traditional public schools is also problematic because if you're someone who has been educating the public school system or has worked in the public school system you know that there are several fault lines within that system in and of itself from the school to prison pipeline to lack of adequate funding to resource allocation when it comes to the amount of special education students teachers you may need to serve students english as a 2nd language overcrowded classrooms and the list goes on and on and on so there's not a you know a haven of sorts for students even in the traditional public school but we're seeing more and more of these aggressive anti homeschooling articles and pieces come out now because folks are very afraid that during this time of coronavirus

where a lot of students are at home there are going to be some parents who decide to homeschool indefinitely or to do it you know longer beyond the extent of schools being shut down well and if they see their child excel in and they have every and they have the ability to do it i mean that's the biggest thing to me is it's like if you're going to raise questions about home schooling you make sure that the parents actually have the ability to do it not just the mental ability but also the time of day and the hours needed to really be good on school or whatever reason they don't like the public school education system they have every right to do that but we're also talking not talking about a large group of the population that actually does this. absolutely not currently in america 4 percent of our school students are home school and i mean home schooling not what we're seeing right now during kobe 1000 so i think that there's a very there's a very important distinction to make here because homeschooling typically is a parent or a tutor who that parent has higher is working with to work with whoever the kids are in their household specifically this is outside of the public school system in

most cases what we're seeing right now including $1000.00 is distance learning distance learning is actually a administrators school authorized issued authorized person who is literally posting curriculum online who also has b.t.o. for the students who is passing along coursework grading that coursework the parent is there essential to help them log on but they're not the person who's actually providing that teaching mechanism or home schooling it's the parent or a parent or is that going to have hired to do it you know what do you think is like the most ludicrous attack you've heard so far on the homeschooling for because to me i mean there are some criticisms that i could make of like hey you know and i'm sure that they've figured out ways to kind of keep this cool but the biggest thing to me is like how you have social skills right being in public school being around all those kids it forces you to deal with a lot of social situations that you're going to need later on in life and valuable learning lessons that to me would be the biggest criticism i could go for homeschooling i mean beyond like ok. if you have bad parents will then you're going to get a bad student but that's the same with understanding that you had

a bad teacher going to get a bad students are going to do that kind of across each other oh so i get i come at it from both sides because i have worked in the education sector i was also home school k. to 8 and then went to a regular traditional public high school so what i can say about the social skills is that right now home schooling is very different than it's been you know historically there are different clubs different activities you can be involved in sports leagues and that most home school students are just what people think of a kid sitting in a basement or something just with their parents for hours on end and i were sitting outside and they were in the light of day you know they're actively involved in a lot of sports they're actively involved in a lot of community organiser. and there doing other things as well so i think that that argument kind of falls on it's basically the most interesting one to me though was the one that involves around racism because again these these arguments are led by liberal elites so the idea is that a lot of the folks who are pulling their kids out traditional public schools are doing it to fight and notion a lot of you know more liberal teachings or understanding so they think that they

are empty been jellicoe right wing folks who are now you know indoctrinating their young people into those ideologies as well as racism i'm here to tell you that as somebody who also went to public school there are a lot of races kids who have never been in hold of someone their lives good point good point to bring up art as we're going to break remember that you can also start watching ox on demand through the brand new portable t.v. which is available now on all devices coming up led by us to preserve the home our members of the u.s. congress are now are asking for accountability regarding the pentagon's actions in africa but is that a find out state watching. the

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back 3 since 2007 the united states africa command or more commonly known as africa has been deep in the so-called war on terror operations against al shabaab an al qaeda supposedly al qaeda linked group operating in somalia these war on terror operations of included everything from air strikes to drone strikes and even boots on the ground special forces operations and surprisingly you don't love this according to africa statistics in all of that time only 4 yes only 4 somalis civilians have been killed in all of those operations i yes for is apparently 2007 to today the pentagon yes they would have us believe that in 13 years of war on terror operations just 4 civilians have been killed in somalia as a result of the daily beast reports that the difference between the number of civilian casualties declared by africa compared to those recorded by organizations

like amnesty international and the air wars is so vast it was prompted members of congress to write directly to the american general in charge with somali born u.s. representative ilan omar leading the charge in this letter writing campaign but many feel that simply writing a letter is not nearly enough to reign in africa as dangerous operations in the region one of those as to who is the african team of the black alliance for peace and as a coordinator for baps us out of africa network he joins us now to discuss africa operations in somalia n. his issues with representative omar's response to the pentagon's moves in the region by gifford. thank you for having me 1st just what have ben i mean let's get this out the way 1st what do we know have been the cat the casualty rates from u.s. operations in somalia since 2007 and what has been the a pact of abercrombie's presence in that country in the region. yes.

that is essentially the colonization of africa by the u.s. in a positive and scramble for africa which is pretty certain limits to what the european power is very close. in 800 so. i guess air war is an endless international reported were the since 2007 in. there been any between 71 and in the united states was there were numbers and then in a senior national said there's been 21 civilians killed since 2018 so and that's only what they've been able to track there could have been many more what we've seen is african likes to paint civilians as enemy combatants not those numbers are way understated. we would find the. there. on the continent is really just too similar state

and more. free flow of natural resources because of our it's a work it's that they're sitting on. a little church is a country like somalia. and. many others and she's become this base that is all over the continent so we see it is imperative that there is a massive. move africa. for the u.s. to be. we. couldn't accept that there are only before casualties since 2007 is not really how the u.s. operates right amidships have absolutely and representative omar along with adam schiff and 5 other house democrats sent a letter to africa general stephen townsend that basically demands the african clarify how it investigates civilian casualty allegations and according to the daily beast reminds africa that providing clarity about the reasons for

discrepancies and defining who the military considers a combatant is required by recent legislation and while this seems like a good oversight on their part many including yourself are pointing out some underlying problems with this attempt at africa accountability what are those problems. so that's a good question that we still need. as an attorney to jeremiah's after. and. it is some sort of. better accountability in. the u.s. africa command is tantamount to asking. is to be present only talking men in congress. and we don't we don't see that as the right approach and all we think that the older gentleman to. it's the u.s.

in africa. and yet it really just paints africa as active benevolent organization once it's clearly not. so i think that that's you know is we have to work towards the dismantling. of the demilitarization the african continent. and that should be the i couldn't agree more it's really interesting how we just kind of accept nowadays that like the u.s. military is just going to be involved no matter what corner of the world we're am i wouldn't say it's kind of sad to see that that's just ok but you know one of the interesting things you point out in this in a recent article that you wrote about on this issue is that al-shabaab certainly not you know been a joyous submission to the region united states and its military operations or of actually done more damage than the terrorist group how has the u.s. contributed to the issues that are affecting somalia today through afrikaans

actions. to good question. especially al-shabaab is the current you would see stabilization. they. were formed in $1007.00 and. their. presence on a somalia in europe a constant in any. of. us. essentially joining the u.s. . war on. a really mean in the government made it harder for them to. power and do a fine against forces like al shabaab and. a lot of the radical east radical and radicalized in their own place and. interest people who joined their

organization was driven by our just us in the region. so we really see. u.s. presence in the region and. i don't think we need their attention or us force that is our. work in. using. natural resources and promoting u.s. interests in the settled excuse that like well hey if there's a danger and if there's a threat there than you need us to be there if there's no danger and threat well then you know everyone looks wrong as well why are you still here us you know i think that's a really great point that you bring up where there are and i want to say you know thank you very much for the good work that you're doing and getting these messages out there and really looking at this kind of the geopolitics taking place in africa

from a place of peace as opposed to and solidarity and trying to lift african nations up as opposed to what can we get out of it we don't see enough of that today thank you so much for joining us today to. any parent of. a stay at home orders are being lifted in cities across america and the child administration places the woes of big business over the importance of saving lives the common 1000 threat is ever present and the populations at the highest risk are the ones often with the most need america's homeless could never shelter in place how can you stay at home when you don't have one but thankfully for many good samaritans care a lot more about them than our government a georgia based nonprofit love beyond walls has been setting up dozens of handwashing stations in areas visited most frequently by the homeless parents lester the founder and a former homeless youth launched that love think. in campaign to support people in the deepest poverty during the pandemic lepping on walls has been able to scale up

their operation beyond atlanta and are now in cities like birmingham boston columbus new orleans baltimore and new york. now see that bad to me does more to benefit the right individual rights of a community than people showing up on the doors on the capitol steps with guns and absolutely building things for people to watch and stay credit we should been doing that long before the virus ever got here and it's great you know a guy didn't used to be homeless we aren't seeing it from cities and state leaders though somebody had to do it that's really tragic didn't it but i mean that's really what really hurts me a little bit is that wow so no one wants to step up on the state or legislature side to say hey let's take care of almost people it's that you got to get. well good for this man very good for this man are the body that is our show for you today remember in this world we are told that we are loved to tell you all i love you i robot and i. keep on watching all those hawks out there and have

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a complete. thought. live from the world headquarters of the r.t. america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez to all of you who are watching us from all over the world on this very special day whether you're doing it on regular t.v. or on the portable television app we are so glad that you are there the mayor of a major american city today is saying that it should not be a death sentence in america to be black those are his words that's a remarkable statement from an american political leader and it comes on the heels of 4 police officers being fired.