to look for common ground. i. i. just as in seattle barricade themselves into a central area of the u.s. city declaring it. president demands law and order while increasing efforts to militarize. matter sentiment is sparking calls for reassessment of the past we take your new tour of the streets of paris to explore the history behind their famous now infamous name. plus the new york times the biggest flaws in the key reporting 2 floors during last year's elections in bolivia that triggered the present.

other very good afternoon this is r.t. internet. protesters chanting black lives matter slogans of seize control and barricaded themselves into 6 blocks of central seattle in the u.s. they're calling the area the capitol hill autonomous and the move came after police had retreated from the neighborhood now hundreds of demonstrators led by the local council have also occupied city hall. i. i. the protesters there are demanding the resignation of the city and for the police to be defunded their main goal is to build a community inside the zone without police both holed up inside city hall playing the community not politicians should be controlling decision making.

the capitol hill autonomous zone or chairs is a self declared commune of black lives matter activists it's the ante for movement also help to set up although there's been no official acknowledgement of its involvement no police cars are allowed into the area reports suggest that some of those inside the zone are actually armed online there's been a mixed response to the coming. in.

as in terms demanded law and order in seattle he also called out those he felt responsible saying that all this happened in a radical left democratic state but the concept of law and order has been on the lips of both republican and democrat presidents for more than 5 decades. law and order perhaps more familiar as the popular t.v. show you running for 3 decades already law and order. but also exactly what's triggered nationwide protests across the united states. that the us. law and order is the 1st responsibility of government don't send people up there that come home and talk tough on law and order and crime and then

go back and vote some other way around us to merely a symbol of law and order a policeman on the campus and that was the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken by the scruff of the neck intro out of the university one. by law and order i mean order for everybody we've got to reestablish respect for law respect for order law and order a concept that's existed since the founding fathers the catch phrase that helped take richard nixon to the white house during mass civil unrest and race riots. around 200 people died back then in clashes martin luther king was assassinated so waving in a new era for society nixon proposed an agenda in which police powers were about to increase in 1968 the green light was given for the use of stop and search and powers have expanded since in new york it became infamous stops dramatically increasing under mayor michael bloomberg in the 2 thousands. but it raised

a key issue racial prejudice during the peak of the program more than half of the people stopped were black but the black community made up just over one quarter of new york's population 1st started new york 7 philadelphia. gallup. first. as new ways to keep order were introduced laws became tougher since 1928 states have adopted some form of what's known as the 3 strike practice it meant lengthy sentences for repeat offenders even life behind bars the policy came in as the war on drugs peaked which raised further questions of racial targeting at the turn of the century more than half of all inmates serving time for drug offenses in state prisons were black 3 years ago it was still around 30 percent despite only being 13 percent of the population as a whole with both police powers and sentencing increased prison numbers skyrocketed

there are more black people than any other racial group behind bars in america something that has not changed under bill clinton george bush or barack obama for every 100000 people in the u.s. sentences for black people a 5 times higher than whites. so law and order it was a response to rioting like the unrest ravaging the united states from coast to coast in 2020 provoked by police actions it happened in los angeles in $92.00 after the beating of rodney king by the authorities it happened after the 2014 shooting of michael brown in ferguson a year later in baltimore with the death of freddie gray. in the last 5 years on record the number of those fatally shot by the police per

1000000 people is higher among blacks than any other ethnicity and now history is repeating itself yet another police related death has provoked unrest and again triggered discussion on black rights so as we look back on what's unfolded since nixon and his slogan in the sixty's donald trump has reassured the nation now saying i am your president have law and order in terms demands for law and order come at a time when police in the us are becoming increasingly militarized many forces now bust the kind of hardware previously only seen in front line combat a broad scale i'm open explains. predator drones are a staple of u.s. foreign policy they have been used in afghanistan pakistan bosnia serbia yemen iraq syria somalia and now minneapolis though the protesters didn't see it it was flying over their heads in order to help federal officials gain situation

awareness and go reports indicate it was on aren't people are angry and afraid the deployment of drones and offices to surveil protests is a gross abuse of authority and it's particularly issuing when they used against americans who are protesting law enforcement brutality it appears that the war on terror has come home the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles built by the u.s. military to withstand i attacks in iraq have been rolling down american streets as well the 1033 program allows the u.s. military to provide local police departments with weapons local police can order weapons like remade launchers automatic rifles and bayonets as well as body armor robots aircraft watercraft and surveillance drones these are defense department products deemed to be excessive old or surplus $7400000000.00 worth of defense department property has been provided to over $8000.00 different law enforcement

agencies by the 1033 program ex new york city mayor michael bloomberg once referred to the new york city police department saying i have my own army and the n.y.p.d. the 7th largest army in the world well with lots of military equipment the n.y.p.d. certainly does seem like an army barack obama rolled back the program after the ferguson protests and national outrage about the militarization of police hold. back. however trump has route 5 the program now many are asking the question why does the department of defense have so much excess gear that it needs to unload anyway the u.s. has been involved in so many words that they become occupations and the military is

as developed techniques were operating as an occupying army and they've brought these home they brought the war home after they they buy these things and the military you know uses some of them they become surplus or if they don't buy of them all you know the military orders a certain number and then they back out of buying some of it a lot of the stuff sitting in military warehouses and so they want to get rid of them and basically congress passed a law saying that these things are to be given to police departments so we have the ridiculous situation where small towns are being given em wraps they're totally impractical they don't make any sense they're terribly intimidating. and that's part of the purpose i guess for years americans have been told that the military budget is necessary to keep them safe and protect them from bad actors around the world but it's starting to look like the bad guys these weapons are intended to be

used against our a lot closer to home the very people whose tax dollars pay for them it will happen artsy new york former minnesota governor naughty america host jesse ventura says it's clear the police on becoming more heavily armed. why do cops now look like star wars commandos i mean when they come out and you look at them they don't look like your friend they look like an occupying military today not only that i was driving down minnesota a year or 2 ago and i saw on the freeway this big black vehicle looked like it but long been an hour rack and i pulled alongside him and said mr silver state highway department this state was unbelievable i mean it was it was a combat military machine we need to get that stuff out of our police force as we do i was in the philippines when ferdinand marcos declared martial law i was physically there and there were military on every corner with machine guns let's

not do that. protests not just about confronting racism in modern society but also about links to it in the past in the u.k. stance he's to slavery of being told down and there are calls for famous galleries to be renamed colonial history does run deep across europe in paris for instance around 200 states take the names in the past lives can take says now on the top of those of the most controversial. harris the city of light yet could the shadow of france's past be about to demand that as protesters across the world are demanding that monuments and statues of historical figures with links to the slave trade and colonialism are pulled down how could that play out here well to start with the city would have a lot of renaming to do some 200 ave streets in squares or have

a colonial reference take this one call seems pretty innocuous right minister over the the 14th but you only have to scratch the surface to find out that the man it's named after is accused of drawing up the code nor are now in layman's terms that the legislation that not only defines the conditions of slavery in french colonies but it also restricted the activities of black people who are free and what about this were. named of a distinguished french general but there is little to let you know that he also once was head of her sleeve owning plantation and took part in france's brutal subjugation of algeria better scrub that one off to hold her was as you all are just and a physiologist he's credited for his publications which showed the oxygen could be toxic to some insects and animals now i'm not only is this street name dog to him

but so too are some of the cafes here so he must have been good right though it seems his theories on race were even more toxic than the air that we breathe he wrote school textbooks used until the 1930 s. which claimed that white people were not only superior but also more intelligent than black chinese people perhaps we could just rename this street appalling bird. now this is. one of my favorite streets in paris it is teeming with busy cafes and food shops and it would take you weeks to ease your way through here but then there is this. as you can see it's already been targeted by someone who was less than happy with it being in plain view and then there's the p.s. still has the stones napoleon the bonaparte monuments in paris just like this one

in front of the new are littered with his image he's possibly the most famous and celebrated frenchman in history but the former emperor has a checkered past and no i'm not just talking about the defeat waterloo and xena which are by the way has become a word in front synonymous with the proverbial poop hitting the fan napoleon the bonaparte not only invaded and plundered countries like egypt and syria he also restored slavery in the caribbean a whole 8 years after it to be abolished by france what about raising dams this monument to the little corporal's victories but that's going to be a tough sell changing of the street names or even taking down the monuments may be easier to come couldn't all of recognition but much more difficult is to raise the entire colonial history of a country like france

a history that is we've threw out a city like this in paris instead some argue that we shouldn't change anything and instead educate people about the misdeeds of long praise to raise who also had a long and dark list of transgressions. on t. harris. the old times has admitted there were major flaws in the key report into frauds during last year's believing elections that triggered to bring you details after the break. structure of nature is connected to these things. that's when there's a lesson. we need to be listening or else we're going to repeat this over and over if you can teach destroy the last wild places on earth and we alter these things

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the new york times a surprised many of its readers were the major uta something previously back to a key report in 2 fold during lushes believe in elections it now says that those funny sorting correct was a very report that helped trigger a coup in bolivia toppling the reelected president david right against if it takes a closer look. forget who sions 11 or the italian job this was something else they didn't rob a bank or a casino vault this heist was so much more ambitious they stole an entire election without forging a single vote see if you can figure out who the robbers were as we start from the very beginning of this heist the oas mission expresses its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard to justify change in the trend of the preliminary results known after the polls closed just as vote counting ended the oas the organization of american states which monitors the elections came out and cried

foul allegedly incumbent president evo morales was getting too many votes too fast which was too good to be true that was all the opposition needed to hear. what followed was just shy of a civil war a military coup the incumbent president was forced to resign to flee with his family to mexico and an unelected far right woman white in greek church takes power indigenous bolivians scepter they knew what life is like and minority white rule which is why they elected morale is indigenous himself 3 times in a row but the oas segments the coup by issuing a final report on the election the conclusion is that there was intentional

manipulation and serious irregularities that make it impossible to validate the results originally issued by the believe you know electoral or thorazine who do you think did it who were the proverbial robbers was it evil morales the hugh. the popular president running for his 4th term and leading by 10 percent of the vote was at the opposition who were so far behind that their only chance was to spoil the election was in a foreign power someone who wanted morale is gone the united states applauds believe in people for demanding freedom and believe in military abiding by its oath to protect not just a single person but believe me as constitution it was none of the the robbers those who stole the election the mosques will carry guns they held clipboards in the skies themselves as election monitors was ingenious who would expect election

monitors to essentially thirds or 5 fraud it's like the police robbing a bank unthinkable but that's what they did remember when they claim that morality got too many votes too fast and it all but had to be frugal turns out didn't have to be fraud they just changed the graphs and played with the data to make it seem that way we revisit the evidence finding that the jump does not exist a secular trend explains that within precinct results and we can predict the post 7 40 pm results almost exactly using data from the previous poll which the organization of american states indorsed this isn't news back in december academics and statistics rang the alarm saying that the oas wasn't being entirely accurate truthful essentially the election monitors were either incompetent by jumping to the wrong conclusions or malicious by manipulating data either way the result was

a military coup and people have been calling for months for an apology in fact it is easier to show with election data which is publicly available that the change in marlice is lead was neither drastic nor hard to explain we call upon the oas to retract its misleading statements about the election which have. contributed to the political conflict and served as one of the most use just a few cations for the military coup so why isn't this a matter of public knowledge why aren't people outraged well that was taken care of by the media which essentially then dusted the robbers traps the media misled millions by jumping the gun and essentially laying it all on morales look at the new york times then burying morality his presidency versus the new york times now a close look at believing election data suggest an initial analysis by the oas that raised questions of vote rigging and helped force and the president was fluent the

oas by the way is to stink champagne a c. they now claim there were so many irregularities that new one could find the truth you're doing a statistical exercise on documents that are falsified the question is not whether the false numbers add up the question is whether the force or not and the it's like the movie inception you know a dream within a dream within a dream except in this case it's apparently election monitoring fraud inside made up statistics inside thick grass and at the end of the day bravo ladies and gentlemen the oas an organization mostly funded by the united states you may be surprised to hear virtually stolen elections sparking a military coup and got rid of a leader that the united states didn't like without falsifying a single vote now that is a heist. professor of latin american studies at the city university of new york

daniel schorr believes that the u.s. media always vilifies nationalist leaders that washington finds difficult to control. the media always does is the media demonizes abilify as it will more alice's the khadafi as they don't you're looking. to fidel castro's god beings and by we they completely vilify these nationalists leaders who they cannot control in every concert headline that this film feed the american people for months and months and months building up towards the coups the invasions the occupations and then once they have a bolivia or a libya. back quote unquote under control and once it's functioning is us near new york only we never hear about their country again and that's the same blueprint that they've used over and over so there's no reason to think that they're going to walk back anything in terms of their misreporting on bolivia

months ago they're going to continue to try to recolonize bolivia with their eyes towards an electoral cool instant temper if necessary. patience thing with us here not international join me for a day said often are. it is right there. where i divide it could be in this house right now. it's hard to get this thing. to a minimum. he could be recruited by itself drugs and make hundreds of dollars. in or so when a person is still throws. and if he don't know how. find the same job this clueless idiot lifestyle is going to fail. they can't

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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 the 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. for years i had treated patients with heroin addiction with high dose methadone which is the appropriate treatment and so i was thinking well i see how well that

works for all these people and they don't tend to overdose on it or have a lot of side effects or have any problems so why wouldn't that be fine for pain patients i do recall individual young man who had a rough go early in life had some problems that all ism was in alcohol recovery a number of back surgeries and i was in the middle of a tapering course switched him over to methadone from his other drug to ease his taper and using misguided conversion tables. 3 days after i converted him i got a call from his wife but a doctor. was flabbergasted it's not safe for people who just have chronic pain to give them opioids because they don't have the years of tolerance built up that people with heroin addiction have to really understand the complexity of being that drug is a reflection of. training this is the published data i said there's something wrong

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a year later got sued in federal court we were all of the medical directors were served in our homes current efforts to stop this overprescribing have been met with much pushback from the pharmaceutical industry they rationalized that the billions of dollars they were making were helping more people than they were hoarding they insisted and still insists today that only those who are diverting and misusing the drugs to get high are responsible for the epidemic and not those who are prescribed the drug produced distributed a follow up video to i got my life back to double down on their claims that oxycontin was a safe non-addictive long term chronic pain relief returning to these patients off to 2 years shows that when pain treatment is successful and stay successful over the last 3 years i've gotten much much stronger it's just absolutely a god thing it's just such a different i've been away away.