tv Going Underground RT May 30, 2020 3:30pm-4:01pm EDT
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thank. you thank you. thank god we've got people that we got bored. bored bored with waiting on the ground all those other officers watched. protesters have also targeted to a news channel cnn's headquarters in atlanta a big crowd gathered outside the building to condemn the channel's coverage of the
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current events there was a high police presence in the area earlier in the day former new orleans mayor marc morial on c.n.n. blames foreign actors and white supremacists for the riots. we need to understand and we need to know what they suggested i saw all because of a report we did our state of black america report with the russians. if you're leading social media when donald trump took to twitter to comment on those accusations saying that the fake news media were blaming russia again let's cross live now to george samueli senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london thank you for joining us on the program george now once supremacists members of organized crime out of state instigators and possibly even for an activist what do you make of these insinuations. well it was entirely to be expected i was wondering how long it would take for the mainstream media to find
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a russian angle just like in corona virus that was a no there was only a little bit of time before they discovered that in some way russia was the name of the coronavirus so now it took only a couple of days to assign blame for the russians now of course there's not the slightest evidence whatsoever for this. but that's to be expected the people who are presenting this whole russia is to blame that event in they still haven't got over 2016 is still replay of the same. trump russia collusion story for which there's been no evidence whatsoever in and on the country all the evidence pointed against it why do you think russia was again being used to skate. well because the american liberal elite is got into the habit of blaming every single thing that they don't
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like that they're on the happy with. russia it started in 2016 with the election campaign of donald trump and then his victory and ever since then whatever come along they blamed on russia i mean it's a it's human nature to blame. everything that you don't like or somebody who you also don't like so much of much of the liberal liberal political establishment in the united states for various reasons doesn't like russia so therefore it blames everything it doesn't like in the world on russia but no evidence does that were forthcoming given that the dire situation in the us right now why are people with think up tensions by creating an external threat more things to worry about. well here's more things to worry about. there were there is some anxiety. as to
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what the ultimate outcome of this will be because traditionally when there are these riots public opinion swing still wards the law and order candid and therefore there is a fear among the c.n.n. and m s n b c common assented that this will reach down to the political advantage of donald trump and i think there is an attempt to earth would want this as a just no no no i mean this isn't violence that's being perpetrated on the streets by black matter or by anti for no no no this is this is about all about russia and we know who russia is really supporting donald trump so therefore to russia putin and donald trump together want to blame for the violence not black lives matter or energy for that people are also protesting next to the c.n.n. headquarters why do you think that c.n.n. is being targeted. oh i think that's just.
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kind of not rocket dumbness. i think that that's just simply they haven't really thought this through. you know i mean a lot of this violence itself is profoundly stupid because what it what do you gain by destroying property what do you gain by burning buildings. there are closed circuit turf cameras everywhere everything is being filmed on smartphones sooner or later probably sooner the jubilee concert all thora this will restore order that's what is that that's human nature that people like water order will be restored and the people who are now writing and burning things down will be prosecuted the stuff that they've looted will be returned. people will go to prison so it's really done an activity that they're gauged in so
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i think this is this thing with c.n.n. is really part and parcel of a profoundly stupid activity how do you feel about how the at the president is handling the situation any particular with his said tweets which say things like if there's looting they'll be shooting. well trump is the snack of expressing himself in a crude way but he's also. expressing a profound truth which is there. cannot go on i mean these are people's properties that being is being looted people's businesses that are being destroyed . sooner or later the public will turn to the also written and they get come back restore order allow us to run our business and really give us our property back and this is what he says when the looting starts the shooting started
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yeah you keep this up and the real story is going to come in and they're going to be pretty brutal about. crushing these looters and these rioters that's how it's always been throughout human history and this is this is no different it's happened in the ninety's sixty's it happened in the 1970 s. and you know it will happen again george sunny will a senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london thank you thank you now donald trump on twitter i have locked horns on friday a tweet by the president about the riots in minnesota was hidden by the social platform and the tweet said transplants the rioters in minneapolis saying the military supports the governor he also warns that if there was loosing there would be shooting twitter ses the post violated its rules about glorifying violence don't court picks up the story. donald trump and twitter are clashing swords it all
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started with the president's tweet about mail in voting his claim that they could lead to fraud was slapped with a fact check labeled by the social media giant and now trumps dishing out some executive punishment what they used to fact check and what they choose to ignore or even promote is nothing more than a political activism group or political activism and it's an appropriate the executive orders targeted at major social media platforms and aims to trim down legal protections that have long let these companies censor content without liability however trump's liberal opposition seems to think the president is giving this debacle way too much attention trump is out there to do the good this morning conference of the treaty we don't yet know how exactly trump's order will make any legal difference but he's clearly sending a message that these social media corporations do not have a monopoly on truth strangely enough an unlikely ally has come forward to support
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trump a leader from the very industry that he's at odds with but i don't think. facebook or forms in general should be arbiters of truth i think that's kind of a dangerous line to get down to in terms of deciding what is what is true and what isn't. and i think political speech is one of the most sensitive parts and in a democracy people should go to see what politicians say at the same time facebook announced it's now verifying the identities of important people in its war on distant from asian what a coincidence a number of democrats have already called zuckerberg out for what they saw as pandering to trump as far as it platforms are concerned they want 2 things from the federal government no regulation and no taxes and so they cater to the trumpet ministration all the time i think that my telco barracks statement was a disgrace suck about this not worried about being bullied by trump. he's more into
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facebook's p.r. operation is falling apart as it's exposed that pop form relies on white supremacists and dissing from a should patent is to be successful they are ignoring them that protecting them the liberals are fighting a 2 front war though both against trump and twitter one of their latest weapons against the platform is a watchdog group called accountable tech it was founded by a former aide to the obama administration and another influential liberal activist they say the organization exists to combat what it considers misinformation accountable to push for social media pet phones to take immediate meaningful and achievable actions to better serve the public and leave up to their founding ideals at least republicans and democrats can agree on mistrusting social media criticisms of platform bias have come from both political parties these people are all democrats it's totally biased toward democrats if i announce tomorrow that i'm
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going to become a nice liberal democrat i would pick up 5 times more problems than the we can people know that the president has no qualms about lying to them but it is a shame to sit with sources of news for millions do the same new elections are on america's doorstep and both parties are competing for the all encompassing control over information that social media provides the sad part is that whoever wins it seems like someone's freedom of speech will be going out the window we discussed the issue with gene allowed in the conservative media personality he claims twitter violates fundamental rights. our basic rights as americans can't be taken and our basic rights are numerated in our bill of rights which includes our 1st amendment right to free speech and so when our 1st amendment right to free speech as a numerated in the bill of rights was trampled by the platform then it is the
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responsibility of our government to step in and sure that and that's what president executive order was doing was stepping in to assure that the american people's rights of free speech was not being trampled and so i believe that's the vein and the spirit in which the executive order was exacted you know the interesting thing is even joe biden agrees even democrats agree in many cases that they believe they've been discriminated against in certain instances on some of these platforms so it's one of these things that's actually kind of a bipartisan issue this isn't really just donald trump that thinks that these platforms are biased there are many other other people on the other side of the aisle that think that these platforms do a disservice beijing is threatening retaliatory measures against the u.s. if washington doesn't stop interfering in chinese internal affairs and comes china is trying to move to impose a new security law on hong kong and
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a bit to quell unrest in the territory business prompted donald trump to revoke the region's special status. china has replaced its promise formula of one country 2 systems with one country one system therefore i am directing my administration to begin the process of eliminating policy exemptions that give hong kong different and special treatment my announcement today will affect the full range of agreements we have with hong kong from our extradition treaty to our export controls on dual use technologies and more with few exceptions while this week protest as was shouting hong kong it's not china we are special while waking up this saturday at the face of this stuff a reality that in the eyes of the us company is not quite as special as it used to be because on friday president trump and now to a series of punitive measures against china including revoking such
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a trade privileges that hong kong has enjoyed for almost 3 decades now very few details were actually given but apparently it's an end to that preferential treatment that has allowed the region to flourish as a business center the moment he takeaways from friday the u.s. will now deny entry to chinese nationals suspected of having ties to the military or about snooping on research being done in an american your prostitute and a found favorite of the trump ministration of course sanctions will be imposed on those chinese and home khan officials that washington believes of those of freedom the united states will also take this is serious steps to sanction p.r.c. and hong kong officials directly or indirectly involved in eroding hong kong's entente to me and so and just if you take a look smothering absolutely smothering hong kong's freedom. our actions
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will be strong our actions will be meaningful now this all comes up to china greenlit. piece of legislation for hong kong and state the national security law and that will ban treason terrorism any behavior that threatens national security beijing's move triggered mass protests this week and culminated in the arrest of around 300 people and states like the ones being lambasted as undermining hong kong's autonomy but while washington claims that it supports and katz about the anti china protests in hong kong these very new matches actually cause precisely the outrage hong kong to suffer the most so they'll no longer be able to travel these a free to the us we use them for tenchi stamp and that and if companies get cold feet and say you know what it's just 2 months us in hong kong at the moment i'm going to move my office elsewhere well but if you had jobs unless the foreign investment meaning that home comes reputation as an international financial hub
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it's injected seen and a final major moment in friday's speech was that the us movie severing all ties with the world health organization perhaps not a surprise considering that donald trump has consistently accused the w.h.o. of being involved in a massive cover up with china regarding the creative arts pandemic chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the world health organization and pressured the world health organization to mislead the world when the virus was 1st discovered by chinese authorities critics say these are all just political games trump is trying to generate new headlines and detract from his mishandling of the pandemic that has claimed over one 100000 american lives after all let's not forget 2020 is election year donald trump wants to look decisive and strong as we inch closer to november 3rd. and ponced 7 shown us that trump supporters really think
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rally around him when there's an enemy whether that's crooked hillary or c.p. joe biden so having a tough stance on china might well help him in the polls and yet at the same time he didn't want to do anything so tough for you with drawing from the u.s. trade deal that would kinda america's economic recovery and potentially jeopardize his reelection chances now whatever the reasoning this is going to be met with huge anger in beijing with many expect to call us retaliation but so that is not predicting that china will crack down on this one i don't think they will succeed in using any means to threaten the hong kong government because we believe what we are doing is right. we've got the latest downtown in the rocky relationship between these 2 nations here pretty long training tool box the main game when it comes to codes at 19 and now home coleman is apparently in the middle i might well end up
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with an actual damage in this rivalry between u.s. and china i spoke to joseph gregory mahoney a professor of politics at the east china university has no surprise spy trumps decision. as part of a long standing trend where some never misses an opportunity to hit china and in fact you know although this is being. framed as the end of hong kong the talk was already being treated as part of china by the trump administration was already suffering and in many respects some of the trade work so this is really not that big of a development. it's a dramatic statement but it was expected i think at this point we really ought to understand that anything that hurts china her tongue kong and anything that hurts hong kong 1st china hong kong position over time has always been in large measure even when it was part of the u.k. with its closeness and ability to work with china even even during the
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mao years but unfortunately china has been picked on our t.v. hong kong has been victimized many times over by that there are real problems that have driven local anger but the 2nd term been exploited by outside forces people who are opposed to the taiwan unification trying to ministration who wants to use this is a pressure point on china one fortunately all of this is going to hurt hong kong. meanwhile as the u.s. struggles with social unrest in the world's was covert 19 situation is once booming oil shell industry is also in trouble to big names in the field have already filed for bankruptcy over the past 2 months with over a dozen more reportedly preparing to do so in the near future as you can see the share prices of multiple u.s. oil drillers quoted in the new york stock exchange have been on a steep downward trajectory of late a preexisting lack of confidence on the part of investors is now being compounded by a major slump in oil consumption caused by the pandemic and it's not only the us or
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oil industry this bearing the brunt as many other sectors are also under pressure due to the lockdown measures this is led to a dramatic spike in the number of job of the americans over the past 2 months with the number of those filing for unemployment benefits reaching levels unheard of since the great depression earlier i spoke to our tease max kaiser who's a former stockbroker and co-founder of the hollywood stock exchange for the shell industries existential threats for the reasons we've talked about before the industry is too highly leveraged and the industry the shale industry was never ever going to see a profit the amount of cash that goes in was always going to be more than the amount of cash you could get out it's been cash flow negative from the beginning it's basically an industry supported by the junk bond market and the junk bond market is supported by the federal reserve in money printing and lies to most from various sources put the number of americans employed directly or indirectly in the
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shell industry at over 10000000 and all these people going to end up on the dole to . right unemployment in america is doing higher and not just the sick shale industry but it's across the board almost every industry is getting impacted by the revelation by the market suddenly that america's got too much debt you know american the american economy for the past 2025 years says been pumped up with artificially cheap rates money printing and faulty or fake accounting even a big bank like bank of america recently put out a report citing the federal reserve bank in washington d.c. as engaging in market fakery they're like they're accusing the head of faking markets faking prices the fed is buying junk bonds they actually bought a security that has the ticker symbol j and k. it stands for junk bond and they they're buying these by the billions hundreds of
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billions and trillions of dollars so the way i kind of describe this nicky is that this is part 2 of the 2008 financial crisis so in 2008 the global financial crisis hit and instead of reforming the system so that we wouldn't have a repeat of all that the american policymakers did was give central banks and wall street banks a bigger line of credit to do the exact same thing but much bigger and of course the results quite predictable are a much worse crisis and the administration to its credit may have to raise unemployment benefits but be a package when be extended posture life 31st now is it realistically possible to when so within the coming 2 months that most of those who have lost their jobs will find new ones. now but here's where here's the remarkable thing that is that when these benefits that have been pumped into america's working class hit
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the bank accounts it suddenly was determined and this is borne out by the statistics that american incomes have gone up dramatically recently based on this injection of funds from the government that shows conclusively that before these subsidies checks that were sent down to americans being unemployed that americans by and large are living on subsistence wages america is a nation of subsistence wages and you know the subsistence wages are just one step above slave wages you know i joke that all this money printing requires a lot more dollars and dollars are made of cotton so america to feed the money printers may return to an agricultural cotton producing country you know get down there pick some cotton so that the central bank interest money printer go burrow. hundreds of frenchmen takes him to the streets of paris on thursday that angry
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about low salaries and hospital staff shortages. the doctors the nurses marched while drinking they held up plaque can't stand now things are working conditions which they say bad already developing got worse during the pandemic the government is going has agreed to engage in talks with the sector and medics want to make sure their grievances are heard. this crisis situation was badly managed to sedate it has been a shortage of mosques and i grew up wholly jell work with expired mosques and the large public hospital in paris we're not. sure if we had had enough resuscitation bats we wouldn't have been obliged to transform the recovery rooms in an emergency the operating theatres with voluntary staff who didn't have the qualifications we wouldn't have improvised the resources station
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nurse overnight well there would have been fewer deaths they have these deaths on their conscience 2. i'm not going to destroy the things that we were already protesting before corbett and it is important to continue after it is over because it exposed certain things this new health plan that was announced last monday didn't convince us at all we haven't seen anything concrete yet we will not be convinced to get medals and promises we are expecting something strong. christophe a spokesperson for the french association of emergency doctors elaborates on why there is so much discontent in the sector. we are extremely unhappy with the way the government is responding to our demands when it comes to saving the automotive industry the government is willing to announce concrete figures at the moment we have only vague promises without any numbers when we ask about salary increases the amount of funding should be specified but there are no concrete proposals for the government yet despite the fact that for
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a year now we've been demanding very simple things we are asking for additional stuff later the number we need as well as a net pay rise of $300.00 euros for all our health care system is in bad shape and we are well aware of it however the prime minister himself says that the controversial my health 2022 law is a good law that today the task is not to change it but to speed up its implementation speeding up its implementation means closing down it transforming $300.00 local hospitals there will be no eternity or surgical boards in these hospitals this is not a tool that we want. senior police figures in the u.k. says become a nylon impossible to enforce the country's lockdown that's off the prime minister's top aide kept his job despite flouting the rules the west midlands police and crime commissioner says they using dominic cummings as actions as an excuse. officers on the ground are reporting things like if each ok for cummings
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it's ok for us to if the rules are flexible and the people seem to have interpreted them who are part of government that is almost impossible then for police officers to be able to carry out the job effectively dominic cummings one of the architects of the u.k.'s lockdown sparked an outcry after driving hundreds of miles with his wife and child with a suspected case of coded 19 prime minister barak's johnson has vehemently defended his chief advisor who tried to explain his actions at a special press conference in downing street rose garden with anger still high over the incident johnson has resisted calls from m.p.'s for an inquiry i've commented on it i think you know my my views i really don't propose to add to it and quite frankly i don't want certain right now an inquiry into that matter is a very good use or should working flat out or. well m.p.'s both within the
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conservative party and from the opposition are still calling for cummings's head to roll wealth london as what they think. it seems that the government is not really doing anything for us especially for the people who are actually in the book but never situation right and for someone to set the rules and then break them like how is that even possible do they think it's not that serious anymore i'm not sure what's changed or what is it because they think it's not the people in the way just to be safe. you shouldn't be doing it to show example or she sort of course you go for the stuff that's pretty much my take but if it's not for the prosecution it's on it feels like it's basically saying go ahead be outside do whatever you like just take care of yourself and benefit the economy rather than the people. who are just undermines public trust in the system and people are going to by the rules of consequences i think the message comport truthfully persuade the front. if you
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don't want them to come to my mind for my proffer it. happens you almost want to sort of. do something because it's a very cold think response but i think that some people start. well back in a minute with the latest. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us
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in the depths. or a made in the shallowness. violent confrontations with the police and buildings toll stands looting across the us as americans vent their rage for a full day over the death in police custody of george feel it. does not look to focus if they don't want to get the stuff and they're not going to be any priest we don't hold your partner accountable this is it this is. someone trying to find an executive order intended he says to protect freedom of speech online as twitter phlox one of his tweets is misleading and hides another glorifying violence.
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