to be more outspoken more assertive about the fact that people have been tortured people have lost their lives because i've been shocked to know that government over whom we have no influence. i was in a prison i think i could hear the secret eames of those which are being told and i don't know when it's going to be my aunt. rose to prominence after demanding more rights for the shiite minority in the sunni ruled saudi kingdom he was shocked and arrested in 2012 during anti-government protests that erupted as part of the arab spring because. i'm not i. but the charismatic religious leader was known by his followers as a peaceful reformist who opposed violence. saudi arabia executed 47 people today its largest mass executions since 1900 saudi

arabia's government carried out the beheadings are 37 people today the kingdom's largest mass execution since 20161 of the bodies and the severed head were put on public display as a warning. that . this is the largest in fact a mass execution of arabs in saudi history. it's a big folly to rely on so-called international organizations and governments because the saudi government the way it is it is because as american and british support and they go on tours of security the saudi government feels secure and emboldened by the support of. mr vice president the cia has

concluded that the leader of saudi arabia directed the murder of us based journalist. the state department also says the saudi government is responsible for executing nonviolent offenders and for torture president trump is not punished senior saudi these would you yes and i would make it very clear we were going in fact to make him pay the price and make him in fact a pariah that they are ready to do all show he reported yet for you yet. a u.s. president left it after the newly declassified report from the director of national intelligence says saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman approved the operation president's intention as is the intention of this government is to. to recalibrate. with saudi arabia and so what we've done by the actions that we've taken is really not to rupture the relationship or to recalibrate.

no country is the perfect perfect partner without any reservations whatsoever so you know welcome to the real world. recalibrate welcome to the real world a decade and yet so many entrenched attitudes to a lot has changed that's a bulletin from what should check it out of a social media for they were talking about today only break in for the newsroom for this edition covered the rest of the news to have a great wednesday and thanks for watching. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

the government has to determine which zones is it going to insure and which those is it not going to insure and it does that based on the racial makeup of neighborhoods. neighborhoods that had a certain number of black presidents would have literally brad lines drawn around them on the map. and they wouldn't insure mortgages in those areas because they believed that the property is would not hold value the banks were not alone they said. banks take up that same practice they decide they're not going to lend in those areas that meant that all these benefits the potential homeowners were flowing to whites and not. racism into our ownership culture. problem it's just problem is made most of them up and libel wimbledon don't know that we did are probably going to work with them living 2 doors away so we passed a law in 1968 fair housing act it proclaims that fair housing.

is part of the american way of life. is provided discrimination actually affirmatively go out and say how do we do. it so the government betrays. i find as i travel across the country that. we're talking about white americans or people who may be robot and other minority groups like the mexican americans or rest. just like the black americans what everybody wants is an equal chance to have a piece of the action that the federal government has never enforced the fair housing act and that state and local governments do not enforce them. you know you

can have federal policy but it's the local administration of these policies that off the moon people receive discriminatory treatment l.o.l. my name is out on washington on call about him caught in a box 3 a part of am. hello my name is graham wellington and i'm calling about the apartment around on park street vailable. what is really so what does this mean it means the places that were segregated in the thirty's forty's and fifty's they're still racially segregated today because we haven't done anything to undo the racial segregation. of the town today is over 95 percent white very few minority families living there. when fix the damage that was done we just allowed all those inequalities to continue but said from this day forward we can't discriminate sell it and fix it all of these policies and practices these systems.

federal government state government and local government. they converge to sort of create concentrated poverty by the time we reach the fifty's and sixty's so that creates a situation where many urban areas you have like what george clooney would call you know chocolate cities in the little suburbs. this they're called the white house and that's a temporary visit. there's a lot of. these guys that yeah every time i don't have to get. work and. going to get you the review if you. feel. you. can trust him to tell you. there is no clue gram a promise that

a president can be thanked. better the government going to come in. and do this yes . that is. the condition of black veterans and white veterans diverged even though when they returned from the war they were economically similar families. public housing then became a black phenomenon. people who fall into this category. where. it. is. not. any nature. down and people constantly. cities to adequately service neighborhoods that were heavily concentrated with african-americans garbage collection wasn't picked up as frequently the streets weren't repair those well the conditions deteriorated and the urban areas became

slums. y'all would like to rub america's nose in this is say you're going to get it you want to reject that boy but i certainly would i would hate to think that anybody thought i said they were giving up hope what i'm really saying is this society has failed the hope of the people who live us struggle you know that's what i'm really saying they're going to go on struggling anyway whether we fail or succeed. but the same time you have concentration you also have clearance you have how a structure which is destroying black communities i would use oftentimes in urban areas a built did in the middle of black communities so there's a sort of rising anger frustration that sense plays. well once they became so far these look at them and said well we need to do some slum clearance.

where are all those black people that all those bogey is where they gone one end up rooting out neighborhood bearded a muslim with our unity it takes 10 years to really reach israel they know what to do in a systematic genocide. systematic as well as african american families who are displaced had to move somewhere so those families are given section 8 housing vouchers the idea behind section 8 is fabulous it's exactly what one would hope is that people who are impoverished have an opportunity to move into neighborhoods that are not impoverished unfortunately for black americans it doesn't work that way. a large reason for that is you can still legally discriminate against someone for using a section 8 voucher so landlords and most suburbs would not accept section 8 housing factures and that's perfectly legal. white homeowners deathly afraid of

a black person moving makes them because blackness is associated with lower home values we share your presence in the neighborhood c c c and undermine the value of our own and we're concerned we'd like you to move out before it becomes common knowledge that there's a family in the area. it's nothing personal all we never really is it was tercel but i feel real that we grew up in philadelphia actually originally and we were in an all black neighborhood in my life changed when we moved to south jersey not far from some of the levittown type of neighborhoods and when we came in the police had to come in with us because people were throwing things at our house and terrorizing our house at night. and we moved there because we wanted a place that was integrated and we just wanted to raise our standard of living and

it was the strength of my parents that said this is where we're going to be. do you think moving here will affect the community as a whole. definitely in what way i think that well the property values well i mean to go down if they are allowed to move in here in any numbers do you think their marriage. will affect property values. i don't think. property. and i think you purely i might not happen. well as a result of all these policies we created a segregated system and because we forgot now this entire history of how it happened white families believe that they got where they are simply by their own hard work and determination to succeed in the middle class life. but they don't

understand. is that their parents could have came as an immigrant from a white country and immediately had access to loans and the ability to move into white neighborhoods and black americans whose families had been citizens for generations could not. and so it's not saying that their families didn't work hard but it is saying that their families benefit from a great deal of affirmative action to get where they are getting white americans don't see what it's like to live in these communities. and so because of that they are unable to connect with what it is like to be in these areas that have been deprived of every type of opportunity. now how do these communities get seen to they go for decades in these festering situations. and segregated communities that have been completely abandoned. and suddenly we see them only when they burn something. to lead.

condition that. even limited. to what it is. but a. very. bad lot. if we're to do something about the day the faces no.

it shouldn't be that hard to understand why that becomes kind of the ultimate outcry because it's the only way that these committees become visible to most americans. i don't want to think. we're going to be there i think. where is not on here but you are you're getting we're even. going to get people. who are my little sort of just a platter of middle name and he wants a leader they were on a tour of. 1956

when i came out here to farms i was 5 when i came here in 149 i said from the south bronx that father foresaw the future in that area. and we did very outstanding career with the police department they took him out of the south bronx for the benefit of the community when i 1st became a policeman i was in a riot squad and a riot or any type of demonstration it was in the city i went to it. mostly irish cops on the job then and they were nasty in there tell you to move and you move you've got to stick i mean there was and you didn't you didn't disobey protest when you want. to protest but you see guys. put in holes and always does show they can't put out fires and that's just to businesses but to people. you have a right to protest but you don't have

a right to do that. are you sick and tired of looking hop or yes but nothing you have a good out of when you out to achieve financial freedom it's pretty easy to do if you chose. it's so easy to make money then stay and then claim to be a medium that by age 25. years and i'm going to do many more like this for millions of dollars. 30 days. to. leave you can do it too when you waiting for your math one that is going right over here . now is it time to buy a home now is the time to buy. it at your feet. oh.

good for mom. if you could for. seriously try to be a little less crazy. he has a. regional plan from the university of minnesota. please give that. thank you. thank you. a little bit about our organization strong towns our ization is now evolved into a national movement of people trying to reconfigure their communities to be more financially sound. post world war 2 america the financing mechanisms of it

act very much like a ponzi scheme you had this immediate sugar high with this. long term liability kind of hanging out there in the future and the last generation the one that's going to pick up the bill. we prayed on our fellow americans just so we could keep the growth going and nobody stopped to consider the impact that this was going to have on real people and real families. finding foreclosures. i just saw that. the united states was a real estate so i was determined. it was so much fun when we were making money company had season tickets to the lakers right behind.

leonardo dicaprio literally right in front of us and when he used to date. 15 years old right in front of hair is hanging over the back of her seat. that. he starts playing with. anyway. but. there's a new product that started to flood the market 125 percent. and when i 1st started seeing i said this is a recipe for disaster. or with too many bills too many monthly payments. to 120 percent of the value or less your mortgage they went after the payment. they did they get a $50000.00. that.

wasn't a home improvement it was a signature long and you could do whatever you want i just thought it was an exceedingly irresponsible. loan product. i took advantage of me. taking taking someone come on. making. a set of eyes no no. the lenders got greedy and they figured ok we exhausted the $125.00 potential pool. let's go make it super easy to get purchase money now if you were to ask me with a perfect credential zydeco. i honestly couldn't tell you may i help you sir i. need a quick answer on a new home loan. stated income stated employment stated stated stated which means whatever the borrower says is factual is recently is a 1997 you had a full 20 percent down and he had to struggle to save that kind of money if asked

for 5 years and a busboy from a local coffee shop can buy the same house for nothing you have to verify your credit so the credit we don't have it if we can't pay cash we do without. what you say i could read the entire american economy i mean where would this country be able to know more than we could pay back. in order for the house of cards to stay standing it has to get bigger so the guy that's in the 3 better one and a half bath house he's got to move up to the floor better to bath house. to house a car just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and it's just all on fake valuations. yeah at that point the home did absolutely become a vehicle for excess home prices rising from the case shiller index i look at it on

there and i say yes this looks good it's much better than expected you look at the number and say. nobody knows where home prices are going to do. people are increasingly speculative when they buy a house a major concern is how much can i sell this to someone else at the other end it can be called the greater fool theory maybe i'm a fool the buys that's a big house but i'm going to. to an even greater fool. there were people who thought 50 or 100 years ago that home prices should decline with. the reason is they wear out. don't expect to gain the expected to lose value that was a common view in the past. we have come as a society to place

a tremendous amount of value on the home itself. and the bigger the home the better . it's interesting because living in the houses were meant to evolve and change as families evolved and changed over time. the idea was that this home would be liveable all your life you could have one bedroom or 3 bedrooms depending on what your needs were at the time and this area was an extension of the living room or it could be closed off and become a bed already so close in here. as you can. be enclosed here. you might enter. hall. so i have a. better hallway know where all the entrances are to the better ones so

it could be a one bedroom or 3 bedroom right now we create that one bedroom here and there really are one bedroom that could be partitioned with a rolling wall so it will become 2 bedrooms. there was an extension of the dynamic coming out of post-war idea of what the house provided wasn't really about the upscaling or the supersizing of the house can so that relationship between the growth. of the physical house was still somehow in balance subsequently people began to make the scale shift where the houses became just warraich. i'm in love with this. hope in a fight because. i don't think it is.

a 5000 square feet on one staircase i'm going to visit that staircase. and healing is very attractive. to see that. it's really more suited for grandma she doesn't really want to have a deep. think it means 12 foot ceilings on a mcmansion they're going the way that. people want to buy what they need and they don't want any extra and this has so much square footage of wasted space. they might get away with one more sale but in the years to come it's going to be tougher and tougher. on.

there's just tremendous economic dependence on this idea that we can keep. lots and that they have to keep marching across the landscape because it's a huge part of the economy depends on being. don't take. yes so our property line is just basically the white picket fence all the way around. back up to there. so we're going to. much. so this. industry of easy quick money for property did not end at the retail borrower. the developers were exposed to these funds. so these companies were going in and buying

up swaths of land from these farmers at ridiculous prices just given them enough money for their great grandchildren to retire and it was just so hard to say no. and that's where you see all of the citrus farms in the inland empire god. in of course the cities were lovely because the tax base is on real property with a house on it is far higher than farming. the cities are seeing their tax base quintuple literally overnight. and the developments stops.

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