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one of those people that they consider a long haul or. joe biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the united states and promises to end the long civil war between republicans and democrats you know whether the rift can be healed. either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or in 10152100 years we will resolve them violently is just a full blown assault on behalf of the democratic party and their alliance with tax social media and tyrants eliminate any way straight any opposition any any
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political dissent that's going to challenge you know the radical left and younger. leaves the white house summit a massive security operation for the inauguration in washington powerful blasts. and a powerful blast rips through a residential building in madrid killing at least 4 people gas leak is suspected spies we hear from eyewitnesses at the scene. we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people they want to think we felt the walls fight breaks and we thought it was in the university and when we went outside there was rubble in the street. from moscow thanks for joining us thoughts on our teams and i don't know hawkins welcome to the program. now joe biden has been. sworn in as the 46th president of
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the united states bring to a close donald trump's 4 years in office in his speech biden called for unity at a historic time of crisis and challenge now ahead of the inauguration 200000 flags were placed on the national mall they represent the crowds kept away from the ceremony due to the pandemic other safety measures that relate to cope with the including the president did 25000 national guard troops in washington to maintain security auntie's john hardy was following the inauguration ceremony. in past inaugurations during i guess you say a normal inauguration there'd be hundreds of thousands if not more people behind me instead there are flags so obviously the coded pandemic we knew this was going to be a much scaled back and smaller and much more subdued affair because of the cove in 1000 pandemic but then add in what happened january 6th and the intense security the red zone through you know around the national mall and around the capitol that massive security perimeter of the 25000 national guard troops but nonetheless
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joseph r. biden giving a speech about a 20 minute speech a message underscoring unity in america perhaps one of the most divisive and divided times in this country's history saying that america our democracy is precious democracy is valuable this is a day about democracy not about the candidate and that despite the events on january 6th democracy has prevailed jennifer lopez saying also lady gaga you know sing the national anthem but you know it is it is obviously this is a much more scaled down affair and just getting here it was very intense you know getting through the city we had to go all the way around the perimeter we had to go through a covert testing site where they made sure that you know we were we were tested as far as those in attendance you know you have cabinet future cabinet officials you have the supreme court justices you have members of congress plus one they're only
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allowed to bring one guest usually members of congress would have a contingent of people that have basically a number of passes they could give out that wasn't the case this year so these are all things that are representative of the day which is you know nonetheless is a sunny sunny beautiful but cold and windy windy day during his inauguration speech show bought him also said america needs to confront want suprema see reference of course to certain trump supporters it all comes amid a climate of holly seans language being used by both democrats and republicans against one another. post by unsworn misspoke to his podcast guests about level of hostility. the use of language is so important as a journalist i know words mean something and we constantly use language to to demonize and dehumanizing people on the other side it's leading us towards very drastic measures am i right about that or my overstating it no you're absolutely right listen the use of language is the most by which we communicate yes
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some of our communication modalities are non-verbal but we are a dialoguing animal and so to the extent that we can assert the meaning of words then we control the narrative and so let me give you an example rape used to mean that you know the reprehensible diabolical crime that it was i mean typically a male who you know asserts the right of a woman to have freedom of choice in terms of who she wishes to mate with but that wasn't enough so now we talk about things like visual rape right so if a man liers at a woman the wrong way well it might be reprehensible maybe you shouldn't do it but it's not a form of sexual assault but by altering the language such that someone who approaches you in a vulgar manner is engaging in linguistic rape someone who stares at you in a leering way is engaging in visual rape you create a new reality so of course language matters and you're exactly right that it's
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dangerous and to call your next door neighbor who is a white male who voted for trump the mystic terrorist is not going to result in good downstream effects and i always tell people there's only 2 options either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or and 10152100 years we will resolve them violently is there something that needs to happen in terms of trying to find some form of unity from now former president trump or about to be former president trying to create a feeling of unity he has talked a lot about defending his supporters and protecting them but at the same time what could he do to say there's got to be a better way to treat these people and to not not as demonizing the but the humanize them. yes so i mean frankly i think the message of this unity. is not coming from trump it's coming from the incoming administration that strongly
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a spouses identity politics as a way to organize society identity politics by definition is the opposite of unity because it get allies us into tribes whether it be political tribes whether they be sexual orientation tries were there be skin color tribes it is the opposite of a unifying message or add a moment where there is such rage toward the losing side i don't think we've ever seen this happen before where rather than taking a victory lap rather than celebrating the win we're seeing almost like what you might call a sore winner is that is that how you would describe it. yeah well that the left is definitely projecting right that's what they get are classic projectors i like to say that projection is their game fascism or fascist is their name because that's exactly what they're doing what conservatives are currently experiencing here in america and really all around the world regardless of which you know nationalist or
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populist movement you may be a part of is just a full blown assault on behalf of the democrat party and their alliance with the tech social media and tyrants to eliminate any way start any opposition any any political dissent that's going to challenge you know the radical left agenda and so you're talking about your politics people have a reason to be scared one side is not allowed to speak and it's more than just not speaking is it not it's you don't have the right to speak and we're going to talk in your place in your stead about how you must be deprogrammed you must think differently if you don't change the way you think you should have a job you should be a lot of fly on airplanes you should be allowed to stay in hotels or air b.n. b. this is not a new phenomenon right this has been happening under the eyes and noses of lawmakers here in our country who have just decided to turn a blind eye to it because like you said it's easy for people to say well you know
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these things aren't happening or they can't happen on a bigger scale because you know maybe those people should have just found little quiet or you know maybe they were a bit too controversial but you know when you look at history and at absolute horrors and acts of genocide and atrocities that happen this is the same behavior right that leads to it and this is exactly what happened in 1930 s. germany ok n a now president biden about president biden due to to assure people that hey we're not all in the me here and we don't have to be in a muse we don't have to continue that how does this growing animosity but tween us as chaos we can just come together as americans. that is an excellent question so i think in order to bring calm we have to honestly address what was the cause of so many trump supporters who may not have really been stopped republicans but they were stopped republican support drop them out of the follow what made them so
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excited they will follow everything that transcend it and there's a part of america that feels left behind for whatever reason they feel forgotten and you know that neither the political parties back then and strong into that base in a considerable way so i think to bring unity we need someone to talk to that base that there is talk of how do we deal with trouble supporters and deprogrammed them it's rather disconcerting at the same time it's not surprising when certain media avenues and certain people and even politicians have been convincing americans and other people around the world that donald trump was the 2nd coming of hitler that he was running concentration camps that he was going to genocide people that he's a white supremacist in a racist and all of this stuff and then a quarter of the country supports him 75000000 people voted for him if someone has been programmed to believe that then it's not entirely shocking nor surprising the way people are responding i think it was fairly easy to see it coming as i said at
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the same time it's extremely hypocritical one of the things that most one of the things that a lot of trouble opponents criticize donald trump for is that he is divisive and that he is polarizing and that he harms unity right so for people to say that and then at the same time be talking about you know reprogramming 75000000 americans or d. platforming them or trying to silence them or calling them you know nazis or nazi enablers all these very very you know inflaming terms it's extremely hypocritical because they're doing the exact same thing but actually far worse than what they complain that donald trump or even some of his supporters have been doing and it's weird how people can sort of see that blind spot due to their own political biases. meanwhile biden is already fast that work implementing the new administration's agenda the president signed 17 executive orders reversing some of trump's most controversial
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policies that includes undoing a travel ban on some muslim majority and african nations rejoining the climate change accord on the world health organization who rockwell who's the editor of lew rockwell dot com believes bodies intentions of very clear but i would say it's agenda is undoing what trump did i mean i would say that's the 1st thing on the agenda they have other things they want to raise taxes and although of they're going to undo that to the trump tax cuts so that. this is this is what they're this is what they want to do and i guess they have the support of the certainly they have support of the media the media's being at the moon and cheering all that stuff they have the support of the democratic party and apparently the u.s. military too but my guess is trump supporters are going to dislike everything biden does but. i don't think i don't think he's over shot himself i think he's got all he's surrounded by a huge staff of a lot of the people from the obama administration and so they're used to this sort
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of thing and my guess is they've not overshot they're going to make all these changes during the 1st 100 days. or despite such a promising beginning to host chris hedges doubts the new president will be able to carry out that many changes in the domestic and foreign policies of the united states. biden is a conservative he was picked by obama as a vice president because he essentially voted republican he is not a friend of the green new deal it doesn't support medicare for all universal health care e is a strong supporter of empire a fundamental structure of the american imperial power and corporate power at the heart of the american political system domestically will remain untouched i think that we have to acknowledge that the wide divide now within the american public still 40 or 50000000 trump supporters believe the election was stolen is not going to be addressed or healed in less these people are really integrated into the
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society which the biden ministration has no intention of doing and i think that there will be a particular target will be the left people who call these people out for who they are and they will play the game of the new cold war with russia in a way that the trumpet ministration did not. as biden takes the reins in washington he left to deal with a crisis of trust in the government the poll conducted of that is the image of the council found 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is folding apart a similar proportion said they were still proud to be american were actually in texas and new york. i think there are real divisions and i think that comes around and past the caste system and the south. i mean there's there's a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think that through walk through things that happen at the capitol and yet i mean it's really easy to feel like they're going to be this ball before i would say that we're like i'm a good spot there past a lot of. this country is playing
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a part. you know that and then this is serious thing you know the president there are 400000 individual americans dying from 4 coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have businesses falling for bankruptcy you can't play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. easy easy switch over i think it kind of what the current. president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach the ultra president is kind of childish. and has of course been closely followed by the media all over the world and also 4 years of critical coverage of the trump white house narrative as seen in the media to see change legal and media analyst lawndale gave us his take on the press coverage so far. imagine every cliche everything you've ever heard thrown into
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a hat and just pulled out and read and this dysphonia this almost see it's like a cult like it is incantations up the. stage at the new unity and what did he do within the 1st he went straight to the white house walked again and basically reversed a number of serious executive orders that president trump initially so in the day we were to say we're all coming together for all coming together the 1st thing he does is give me that pen and there you go there's your unity we went through 4 years of donald trump where the like a man not from the moment he even began to utter the words i'm going to run he had every intelligence agency i mean why do you tap it was it just incredible i kid if anybody ever had any doubt as to how bought in sold this
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mainstream media are how they are the the apparatchiks the i guess the agents of the shadow government today was hit i mean it would trump's goodbye was i get down with it but joe biden this hercules in oratory where he said he wants to unite and not divide and then immediately starts talking about you do have to white supremacy oh i'm i'm still visibly shaken as you can see from this i mean the days of building up to the inauguration in washington saw a massive security operation unfold with thousands of soldiers and barricades on the streets and drones in the air or does the f. takes a look at who the operation was directed against. washington is on red alert had locked out no huge crowds new fans there they've even divided the city into color
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coded zunes like baghdad residents could move around in green zones but red zones are restricted and guarded by $25000.00 troops there guarding not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population. all of this of course following what they call the insurrection at capitol hill on january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national god intelligence seemingly anyone with a badge has been moved to prevent trump supporters from trying it again and everyone's a suspect even the troops stationed in washington being screened for right wing
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sympathies by the f.b.i. this is like something out of north korea. we're continually going through the process and taking 2nd 3rd looks at every one of the individuals assigned to the suppression we need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this and. distrust and fear are in the air haggle like a like a poisonous me step 3 way it doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives i guess it's pretty. tense but it doing so they close. pretty much the whole downtown areas to the barricades to check points there's no concrete blocks everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad that it's lived in washington for 20 more than 20 years i've been
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to a lot of inaugurations and i've never seen security like this here or anywhere in america and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country never is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected $1.00 and $3.00 hold this radical view and you were out so kay that's bad but in america where the most guns per capita in the world at really really bad right now there's too much going on in our country when the election. went by and a trumpet ministration if you're scared of a long gun our country was born on long guns the revolutionary war was won and fought with longer we have a country that's getting more deeply polarized because we have 2 political parties that are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the politicians of the parties because something needs to be done these these congo law in the country
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needs to heal right you can't very well run a country with this kind. divide brother against brother neighbor against neighbor and if you listen to democrat press statements that's what they've been trying to do think the events of the past few weeks have proved out just how damaged the soul of america has been and how important is to restore it that work starts on wednesday the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they are who always truthful and in this case it isn't they're preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely turning the 74000000 people who voted for trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that there has to be consequences but history shows this is not reacting not forcing accountability only and all that in those people and those movements i don't know if there's such
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a job as a political exorcist but they need to do something to fix the republican party to get this demon as out there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports that's the crowd that you are in a new ones trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying them to florida not so much as the good luck to biden too offended themselves good riddance they say what next merica hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to think that it'll be better off for the inauguration. but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move passions run high
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in america today and i think every precaution has to be taken to ensure that a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day or trying to disrupt the united nation of joe biden but the the imagery of 25 a nation governed. by a government that is not recognized legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the americans so you know this is it's going to be a very difficult 4 years for the united states i don't know if we're ever going to be able to recover from this the partisan political divide is so deep and so wide joe biden is not the politician to bridge it he is one of the reasons why this divide exists so is donald trump and there's there's not joe biden will speak of unity he will speak of healing but the fact of the matter is he has now the trust
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of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity. powerful explosion in central madrid as the stroll in a residential building and by the catholics shot at least 4 people have been killed and 11 injured eyewitnesses gave us their accounts of what happened. we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people when we arrived smoke was coming out of the building had collapsed there was a pile of rubble on the ground that could have crushed people they say it was a gas leak i have no idea let's hope everything is ok i think only we felt the walls vibrating we thought it was in the university and when we went outside there was rubble in the street one of our colleagues went out to rescue a person who was injured police began to arrive and evacuate the area they closed off the street so we could no longer see what was going on we only knew that there were many injured. it seems to have been
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a gas explosion the city fire department is still working in the building inspecting the damage you can see it at the top 4 stories are destroyed firefighters are also going through the surrounding buildings checking whether they are safe. madrid's said the best the last appears to have been caused by a gas leak earlier we spoke with a local journalist. on the scene. we know little about the explosion we know that it might have been a gas leak they say that they were doing some repairs seen side of the field in during the blast we know that there are some scientists police specialized units of the police here trying to find out exactly how this blast happened around 3 india after noon today we see some flames a devote an hour of the building still and we know that the 'd 5 stories of the building the top of the building have seriously damaged there's
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a care home with 55 elderly people nearby these bilin and also a school the yard of the school was absolutely food of rubble after the explosion and fortunately not any of the populace of the school and also the residents of this care home were injured the police has also sent some conine brigade some rescue dogs to find out if they might have stills be somebody inside of the building or could be trapped in the remains of the building after these huge blast the building belonged to the church. it was the residence of some priest and church workers unfortunately it looks like it could have been even worse the explosion could be felt and heard from several kilometers from the spot the neighbors started recalled in with the phone right
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away with the flames and a lot of dust coming out of this building they were really worried about you know the situation especially for example the parents of those populous some of these nearby school and also the relatives of the you know the elderly that live in these care. home finally when we found out that it was you know these buildings were not affected and in westchester and more reduced damage neighbors aside to to be more. calm but but definitely they were really really really worried and some of them they are still not able to go back to the buildings because it's not safe because that structure has been seriously damaged and that firefighters are now assessing what they're going to do with the building there's a still some flames and to add to bottom so this situation continues to be quite
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unstable and we don't know exactly how it is going to play yard what is going to happen with the religion and when the neighbors will be able to go back to their homes. what's in the hawks examines the challenges of climate change in 21 and more that's coming up next at a time when i return and often i want to bring you the latest world news update so once again that. one else seems wrong. but i'll. just don't call. me i'll get to shape out just a couple active. and engaged equals betrayed. when somebody find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground.
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so we lose this interview. so she's going to memphis and. you may see. him on those he just came up with a ticket did you hear that. kentucky is a very international community. he used to leave it to. you this is a good thing is this. you believe. there's a position at the least in the business for their nuclear cooperation is everything because he was deluded with this 152 with the of the. head with
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effect of the bank but they decided not to fake it it's like. we'll make it to you that. greetings and salutation this week here in the united states of america our congressional house of representatives voted for the impeachment of our very own brand name in chief the one and only us president donald trump they do this as the streets of washington d.c. are now closed off from the national guard stands in front of all of our government buildings and on our street corners with rifles in hand. i guess this is what the
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