the moon the russia is high level economic form and st. petersburg hid to top gear with president putin announcing the country is pushing ahead with infrastructure for a vaccine tourism industry. when you wake up, we'll just covering our own needs. we can also provide foreign citizens with the child to come to russia and get vaccinated here. i would like to off the government to analyze all aspects of this issue. by the end of the month. there is a consensus event that widespread vaccination is the only way to get the world economy back on its sleep with offers its chancellor showing his support was for the v as part of the global rollout, w or the tenant or the doesn't matter where of axiom comes from, from russia, from the us, or from china. every bit of success in the fight against corona virus is

a shared success of the entire world for the good of all people have no economy without energy. the north stream, it to gas pipeline returns to the headlines as russia announces a key section is now complete. and the project should be finished outright by the end of the year. because you're headlines, i will be back with another look in about just under an hour's time, you're watching are to international. we're so glad with i among many shut down sacrifices in 2020 the summer olympic games rescheduled to 2021. but tokyo remains under a coven 19 state of emergency. and at least until june 20 the u. s. department of fate has a level for do not travel warning for japan. athletes are being required to sign

a waiver which states i agree that i partake. so paid in the games at my own risk and own responsibility, including any impact on my participation to and or performance in the games. serious bodily injury or even death raised by the potential exposure to health hazards. such as the transmission of covert 19 and other and factious disease or extreme heat conditions while attending the games with just weeks ago. the associated press is reporting that some 10000 volunteers scheduled to work at the summer olympics, have dropped out games on or off. let's go to r t america, sports h q, and regina ham regina. what's at stake, holland? it is in stay in that we were just thinking, you know, year ago they might actually be canceled. but that's not the case. 630000 tickets

originally were given out when in the before time, this wasn't a question whether we're going to happen or not. well now, as of march of 2021, foreign visitors are not allowed at the game. that doesn't mean the athletes can't be there. of course we wouldn't have them without them, but no foreign guests are allowed to visit. so technically, athletes, families cannot visit. you're not allowed to have any dignitaries that aren't part of the official delegation. so now are wondering also the same time domestics, and they haven't decided yet. that is the june decision. we're in june right now. you're making that decision weeks before these games are supposed to go on. now, the tokyo medical practitioners association, they have that 6000 of them in the capitol of tokyo. they have been putting a petition saying, this is a bad idea. hospitals are capacity or not able to deal with a large scale outbreak, and they haven't vaccinated quite the same way hall on that we have over here. so you're looking at all of these different variables going. all right, where is this a good idea? where is this having the games in

a year where the pandemic more under control than it was last year. but not necessarily. so the games are going to go on the truck you're trying to present see your motto. said, you know, if the athletes don't decide to come, we're not going to have the games, which is pretty self explanatory. now, so far, north korea is the only country saying they're not going to send a delegation. now, when that happened back in april, the ios, he was afraid that would be a domino effect. other countries apply to the game. other countries wouldn't have them happen. well, you know, we're still doing good. no one else on the north. korea said they will come to the games, but there is a genuine concern. there are petitions in japan, 80 percent of the japanese population favor, not having the games and that petition is 400000 signatures on it. the whole nation . people do not want to have it. so yes, it is going to go on as of now become june 20th that same emergency expires. who knows? well, suppose they do pull the plug on the games this year and try to postpone it again another year. a lot of these athletes are going to age out are think they are. and

also at the same time you can't postpone in 2022, beijing schedule. the whole the winter olympics at this point. it's just gonna be a total scratch cancellation. it's not going to happen if they decided to pull the plug, so we're kind of in a holding pattern with 049 days to go to a fingers crossed. speaking with regina ham from r t america sports h q, a regina after a 2020 season of cardboard fans and fate crowd noise. they are once again singing sweet caroline. at a pack fenway park, which i love bought. the game is dear friend, i never liked that change a couple of years ago about the intentional walk, make the pitcher throw 4 times anything could happen. and now there are new rules that they say we're trying out about how many hitters a pitcher must face. how short, how few innings a game can go. how are these changes that they are experimenting with working out?

you know, it's, it's all under the guise of like speed up the game because you and i know hollander baseball fans. the game can inherently be a little long, some time, but they're trying out these rules and 2021. some of them have come from the 2020, shortened season if you will. and so there about 5 ones that kind of want to talk about. there's no universal designated hitter, we're going to go back to the fact that the in a l ballparks, you know, the designated here is the only ones going to be there and nationally will at the pictures at which your nationally grow like i am. we love to see it. we're also going to see that the rules implemented in 2 of them from 2020 the doubleheader is down to 70 things again to cut the speed of the game you. we've recently had a couple of rain out here in d. c. you've had to have the 7 in double header. it works. it's not only the favorable here a baseball fan. you want those 9 and the extra innings rolls also. very interesting . you have players that will start on 2nd base. if you go to extra innings and the night hitter in that line up will be at 2nd base. like if you don't like mike trout, you see that? but if it's someone you only did the record with who's doing well,

but not, you know, a powerhouse you're like, oh, i don't know how i feel about that. we also have rosser sizes actually increasing due to cobit 19 and club. they're lying taxi squads, a 5 players that are, you know, a lot of reinforcements in the event of injuries and code 19. and so the game is changing. holland, the game you and i love is changing. but what is interesting is there's one area or it's changing that might be for the better. and that is ball tampering. we've had some issues in the past 2 or 3 months where there have been issues of players bringing in foreign substances, some major baseballs and investigating. they've sent some balls and some gloves to 3rd party labs to test using pine to our other substances to you know, enhance the game if you will. now there have been 2 examples i wanna talk about may 26 years on pyre. joe s he confiscated the had a st. louis cardinals, receiver giovanni illegals. in on the suspicion that it had a foreign substance, the guy kept touching his hat and they're like, who am i feel about that? he was injected, but he wasn't punished either june 1st chicago white sox and out there in a former big picture steve joel,

he observed on broadcast that cleveland early for james car janick appears to be dock during the ball because he had a black substance on get this a red glove, which not the smartest decision arm is not the best idea. so what they're concerned about is that these players are using the substances. you have one where there are the yankees pitcher. he's kept touching his neck, touching his neck. the empire went and touched himself, did one of the reasons like this is a substance we can have your injected. so you're seeing these rules implicated that will be, you know, at their managers meeting they're going to talk about this. now if that happens retroactively back to march or april, they're not going to punish them, but the a will be on a, a watch list if you will. so i will have this list like, hey, maybe you should watch out for trevor bower. he keeps doing some sketchy stuff. i know you are not old enough to have seen gaylord perry play, but you gotta go find a minute tube. that whole ritual. he went through every body. i'm with you in terms of the d. h thing, the late great joe garrick, y'all said that people don't go to the park to watch the manager. think he liked

the d h for the run production. but having grown up in the american league part of the country, i am fascinated by the national league game because i enjoy watching the manager think i enjoy, jo madden pitching the hitting the pitcher in the 8th position. and as our dear departed chum, larry king famously opined baseball is the only sport where the defense controls the ball. and no 2 games are ever the same. that ham t america, sports h q a. thank you for stepping into the big picture. appreciate your time. gun sales have been climbing for decades, typically spiking in election years and after high profile crimes. but listen to this since the pandemic in the long hot summer of 2020 sales have

surged and background checks have often topped a 1000000 a week. it is estimated that about a 5th of those who purchased firearms in the past year, where 1st time gun buyers. tom gresham, host the gun, talk radio show every weekend on stations across the u. s. a. you can get the podcast and he's a gun talk dot com. and tom has some, perhaps surprising advice for 1st time gun buyers. frankly, buying a firearm for self protection is not for everyone. if you're not going to make a commitment to safety and ongoing training, i would encourage you to perhaps reconsider. but for those who want to get a guide, my suggestion is to go get a class 1st and last training. because you don't really know what you need and you don't know what you're going to like until you've had chance to shoot. a lot of ranges will allow you to rip the guns and try them. what i suggest is that you call

arrange, arranged for an instructor, get some one on one time when instructor and say, look, could you bring 3 or 4 guns, or can i rent some guns from you? and then figure out what works for you. unfortunately, typically a lot of women want to get a small gun, something feels good in their hands. but the physics at a dictate that small guns recoil more, they kick a lot, and they're uncomfortable and they're harder to shoot. and they might, may find that something they're just a little bit larger, actually works better for them. if you're heading out for the summer vacation. yes . skip last year. here's an important scam alert from attorney author and bentley university professor steve wiseman, when it comes to your mail, we think of identity theft. and we think of that as being high tech, but it's high tech, low tech and know tech. and what happens is scamarus and identity. there are out there, shutting your mailbox and picking up your mail. and then what happens is they will

use the mail, they get their maybe your credit card statement. maybe it's a check, maybe it's something you're putting into your mailbox to send a wage, and they use that to make you a victim of identity effective scam you. recently there was a guy in virginia, his name is jonathan drew. and he was convicted of male identity theft, he would collect mail, bank statements, credit card statements, w twos, and $700000.00 of checks. he changed those checks, he had them payable to him. he set up the credit card so that they now while we're going to him and he was able to steal the identity and a lot of money from a lot of people. he's facing 32 years in prison when he gets sentenced later this summer. but there's an easy tool to protect you that also can be used against you. and it's a program of the postal service called inform delivery. i have that it's terrific calling. what you do is you sign up for this with the us postal service online. and

they will send you a picture of the outside of the envelope, so everything is going to be delivered to you the next day. so, you know, if a check is coming in, a credit card statement is coming in something that you really want to protect. so it's a great idea that you know to get your mail before the bad guys do. however, bad guys are signing up for this program and to make their job easier. so they see . tomorrow you're getting your credit card statement. oh, this looks like a check that you're getting in the mail and they know to get to that mail, steal it, and make you a victim of identity that. so the key here is just like with the income tax identity theft, you'll be 1st and sign up for that informed delivery. it's free, it's easy, it's helpful. and you keep the bad guys from signing up before you do coming up. if you're getting sticker shock at the supermarket, don't blame the farmer. we'll explain after this quick break. this is the big

picture on our t america. ah . the hero safety for our annual summer solutions where we look at the solution inside of the problems today, we're talking to simon dick's, the bank for the future. he's been around since almost the beginning. he's got a wealth of knowledge. as a korea professional sport is much tougher on some than others. she was a year old by everybody. so why would somebody believe me? i was just a little girl. the price paid to, to, to achieve really was was how to read in the paper this morning. usa

swimming coach, arrested, allegedly had sex with a 12 year old girls. this happens almost every week. we get calls at the office, i get informed about one of my greatest fears is someone's going to start linking all this together. there's going to be a 60 minute documentary about youth coaches in sports like gymnastics swimming. is that documentary? see it on our t? ah, if you're getting sticker shock at the supermarket, dod blame the farmer, every supply chain has been disrupted. and one of the big reasons is help wanted truck drivers with an average age of 55,

the workforce was already thinning out pre pandemic than many drivers. retired and driving school shut down. the american trucking association says there are 60000 openings right now. the weather is always a wild card on the u. s. a great plains and in the south, west corn is expensive everywhere. now, soybeans too, and we are shopping in a global market place, farm exports, or near all time high. china is our number one customer. farmers are spending more on fees and fertilizer and like the trucking industry, they're competing for labor. how all this impacts your shopping. let's ask doug stephan, who host the american family farmer radio show, heard on stations across the usa each weekend and it's a podcast wherever you get yours. and doug was on one of the very 1st shows i did almost 4 years ago. when i 1st came to rti america and back then this truckers

issue was already an issue. and doug came up with the elegant solution to all this when he told us don't eat anything that has to be delivered on a truck. now, admittedly, during the pandemic shut down, delivery has been a convenience. but doug makes the pitch tell us all the reasons why we should buy from farmers markets and directly from growers. i don't think i have to, i think the answer is the question. the question isn't, why the question i guess is how much of the important thing is to understand what the difference is in the food that you're getting from the local farmer and where you getting in the grocery store at the farmers farmers market. that sort of thing . anything local is always, always, always going to be better than whenever you can get from somebody or truck there from california. it may look good or comes up from florida or wherever it comes

from. it may look fabulous because they spray it with water and they color it with the you know, the orange is that you and you see pick down in florida. they aren't arch, they are not somebody where the spray gun and the same with most of the apples. you get to come from washington and it's just a whole different ball game. it's all sex and sell. you know that we're town and it's advertising. well, the stuff that we make a living doing in fact, but that doesn't mean that it's helping us to get better food. they look better and they even taste better. but that doesn't mean the better for you. even that time on the truck, they have food that comes off. the truck is nutritionally less than what went on the truck, right. well, if you figure what happens, the value of the, of the food is obviously the composition that comes from the proteins in the nutrients that are in it. but there also is sugar in it and the sugar helps it to keep its flavor over the course of a 3 day trip. let's say california, you're

a boston, it loses about 60 percent of the value because the sugar comes out. i guess the best example might be corn. if you go to the grocery store right now and buy a corn that was grown florida and you can find it all over the place and you appeal, it has kids, you put it in the water, you get maybe a little milk and it's salt. and you taste, then wait a month and taste, the stuff is being grown on your local fun. it's like night and day i come to a different world. has all the nutrients, the sugar is and starches. all the things that are in there are gone for the most part. so what you're eating is like eating paper. it's quite a newspaper. maybe they're reading, the newspaper is not as good as eating it. but that's kind of the equivalency. and when you buy from the farmer, the farmer gets the keep the money. how many cents on the dollar does the farmer

gather from something you buy in a big supermarket? you don't get me started on this chart. i should have brought it to hold up for the camera, the average. if you spend $10.00, how best i was in upstate new york and they picking up college my farm. and i was talking to an average guy who has, he's part of a close to a group in several new york. dairy farmer jersey was fabulous operation. wonderful people. and you know, he was telling me about what he used to get from the what they call the pool in the dairy. the government regulates most of the military. and that's why big outfits that, that have thousands of car farms and the factories have thousands and thousands of cars. so this stuff that comes out of them is nowhere near the quality. and the people who are going to the farms recognize that they know the supermarket, they'll pay more and get less. so you go to the farm. you may pay the same,

but you're getting something that fresh. it's today's milk. and it hasn't been sticker. i'm sorry, i've been stopped by microwaves, lasers, things that save the mill from hurting you, but it doesn't help, you know, depression left no flavor. it's like white water. and that's the story all over the place where you buy milk from his amish. guy, you're getting something that really, really helps your body and after all is met. i know we cuz we like. but we really in terms of our natural instincts, we're eating because we have to keep our body strong, definite quality, quantity, trade off dog. why is milk so expensive now? really isn't. who said it was expensive when you get that. is it not? you know, but you know, i think i told you this was before and you can do my farm. i was selling were on the, on the farm. i mean, i have a dairy in framingham as tuesday, which is outside of boston, and we were showing

a gallon of milk for $12.00. it was rami oak and we are 100 gallons twice a day. and i could sell twice that if i was able to produce it at about a 100, because we were milking and the people would come and stay in line while we were actually watching process. because it comes out of how it goes into the tag. it gets, show the 34 degrees in 4 minutes and then you put it into the bottles, put the cap on it, people take it away, and that's about as fresh as you get. and it's worth $12.00 to the people who understand what the nutritional value of it is. so when you complain about a 4 hour and 69 cent gallon a mill, what you should be complaining about isn't the price of it, but the quality of it because you're buying actually for all the $60.00 united way water. so, you know, i must, you get whole milk, and then maybe you've got some value to it. but if it's been pasteurized neutralized, if you will buy the big processors, and then you're not getting what you would get if you went to

a small local dairy. it pasteurized the mill or sells it rob, when they pasteurized it, they use it that it's about maybe 100 gallons. they heated as slow burn and they just get it to a temperature where it'll burn, where it will kill bacteria, and then the rest of it isn't affected by anything other than the value of who comes out of the cal. we've been reading about feed prices going off or you caught in a pinch. is a more expensive to feed your girls lately? no, i don't. i just tried your i passed your most are my cause i have maybe 90 the pastor . so i, i've got about 40 some i have for is that i'm reading at the time and i pass you many the see cost out for people who have a rationing bar and that don't let the cows out that he's because in i was in another farm the other day it has robotic yorkers. it's rude,

it's 1st time i've ever seen them work. it's a beautiful place, a calendar fabulous, and the milk is coming out of these cows is 2nd to none. they use a robot, they keep things clean with a robot. and they're working is done with a robot cow's milk themselves basically when they want to, they eat when they want. do they have a mixture of grammar? he and i were talking about how and getting off a grain because they are so expensive and be really good for their who's not good for the cows. they alarm germany as so you better. if you've got organic gas, i guess, organic grass and feed them, the car is going to give you what they're absorbing. it's they are what they eat. and so under the circumstances, what is expensive though, to sort of get back to that is the fact that the stuff has to be delivered to people that costs money. i was working. i'll take another example i'm, i'm working

a truck at my farm right now. the guys are to go to an auction and the i'm going to the auction house is about a 140 miles from here. they charging me $1500.00 to move 5 pieces of equipment about 180 miles. and the last time i had a truckload moved, it was $950.00. and i said to the truck, you know, i mean, i know what's going on. he said, everybody is now the americans who were driving trucks, who are of age at home collecting the government has made it so easy. and that's the same thing. you are learning to help on the fire. you can't get help because everybody's in their own. easier to make you make about the same amount of money sitting there. i mean, how silly, what kind of thinking goes into this sort of process where you give people money. granted, i know a lot of people, even during the pan damage, but right now you can't go now. a street in washington, providence,

boston framingham, and nazi, wow, why? it's everywhere. no matter what the business law. yeah. this was a lifeline. you know, during the pandemic, but i fear that it's making us lazy. now. the help wanted sign is everywhere. i'm trying to get my car in for service. they said they got to technicians left. hey, we're out of time. stephane, the american family farmer radio show and podcast, and the d. j. v show weekday mornings on a couple of 100 radio stations. thank you. once again for stepping into the big picture and thank you for watching the big picture. if you're watching live, we'll be back next week. same time. if you want to set your d v r, it's direct tv channel 3 to one on the dish dish where 280, the youtube live stream you tube dot com slash r t. america. and all of our shows are archived. youtube dot com slash the big picture r t. if you haven't yet, you're really should download our portable tv app. it's free and google play or the

app store or at portable dot tv r r t. america cast of thousands is there and it's all free. i'm hollan cook question more. ah, the what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk

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biometrics guys are this is the kaiser report here and stay here, but for our annual summer solutions when we look at the solutions and some of the problems today were talking to simon dixon, the bank for the future. he's been around since almost the beginning. he's got a wealth of knowledge, stacy, we want to talk to you about the solution for diamond hands as if called in bitcoin . the last episode of summer solutions maximum i discussed, bitcoin fixes everything, essentially, especially with a monetary system, the banking system, central bank, all that sort of stuff. but once you have your bitcoin having a diamond hands holding onto it, not having spanish and you know, panic selling during this correction. and this could be the 1st question for many people new to the big point space. so the 50 percent crash is as normal as if something to be expected. what should people do?

have a, discuss how the strategy, the solution to spend a chance to panic, selling to form owing in the 1st thing to appreciate is that because i've been in a 12 year bull market since inception, and there's been lots of crashes and corrections and all sorts of things in between, but the longer the trend is 12 year bull market. so once you appreciate that, but people joined at different phases. and then every phase people always come in when they need to this with a fear that they bought the top. they were the last idiot the bought the top. everybody is getting out and that they bought it this enough fear really owns the person that hasn't really developed the diamond hands. yes. so really it's a game of both psychology and strategies. so i could share with you, well, the strategy we've adopted in order to get through all these bull marcus, but unless you get the psychology right, you just won't be able to implement. and the psychology is that when we're in the bull market, you know, you're,

you're in between thinking and big point thinking is about understand.