russian and chinese influence in the region. this is as president biden has expressed to support of africa for their role in solving global problems. we've known for a long time that after success and prosperity is essential to assuring a better future for all of us. not just for africans, we're still grappling with the deadly pandemic facing down war and instability address in economic challenges with global impact friday, friday, rising food prices, tackling impacts and climate change. we can't solve any of these challenges without african leadership at the table. and i'm not trying to be nice, that's a fact in a bed to compete with africa's other partners, china and russia, the u. s. has already made deal worth $15000000000.00 at the summit. it is also expected that biden will endorse the african union for permanent d 20 membership. china called out washington's efforts to sway africa away from

china and russia, saying to you, i see that continent as a big arena for power games. we're witnessing the purity, expand its footprint in the, on the continent on a daily basis. and that creates problems that will be eventually destabilizing if they're not already. or we see russia continuing to peddle cheap weapons, employing mercenaries across the continent. and so the combination of those activities by those 2 countries, i think that, that bears watching and certainly i think they're influenced again, can be the stabilizer. we hope the u. s. could view china africa cooperation with an open mind. africa is not an arena for big power games, let alone the target of all the tree prussia from any country. all person, washington should respect the world, the african people, and take concrete actions to help africa's development. instead of concentrating its efforts on smearing and attacking of countries,

attorney and law professor andre thomas house and told us that washington should review its priorities when it comes to respecting the choices of africans make. i was just trying to distract from the fact that for the past 8 years, they have actually done nothing in africa that they haven't been present. and they shouldn't complain. the trade with china is now 4 times the amount of the trade with us. this is the continent of poverty. people in many countries are surviving on a, on the equivalent of $1.00 a day. and, and obviously they are trying to, to, to jump out of that situation if they ought to work together with russian companies, use opportunity of trade with russia or with china. well, then obviously that is their sovereign choice. america shouldn't complain about russia being available to those excluded countries like marty a central african republic about them having invited private military companies

from brochure, private jersey companies because the inventor of mercenary activities of cost america, their entire war in iraq and kuwait in libya, has been fought with private military, america really should reflect on its priorities, whether they want to continue to think that this is the dark continent or whether they begin to take a seriously as 54 sovereign nation states that have a voice internationally. those were our top news stories for this. our for more updates had over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble. and gab, thanks for tuning in. see you again next hour. ah, most people,

i know they laid their 8 hour job and go home and relax. i left 3 or 4 more hours to go. so i just keep them close. bank mccloud 1st armed out in a 2nd and the disks and hastening from. want to go home. what's the book about this town? i well, it is foolish. you have to repeat the mailbox she it was that he was amish. ah yeah . i may have listened to some of that one with you. ah, if you didn't have to, maybe work is hard to get by. you could maybe spend more time with your loved ones . why? you still have them margaret. this was my grandpa sister . she ah came off

a horse i in a curve. i found her on a bank and overhears my grand great grandmother and great grandfather. here it's pays full. i really like it up here and hen since my family's buried here. how this feel like i need to come up here and take care of the cemetery. i disliked volunteer and i do thanks for my community in try to make a difference. no one ever dies and says, and i wish i had a better job. they say i wish had more time to spend with my family. i wish i could have explored some of my interests of music or ard, or church, or being a baseball coach. and so i just think we're at a moment where we're going to have machines and artificial intelligence produce

a lot of things much more cheaply than we've ever seen before. we're going to have the potential for abundance. and when we have abundance, what we should do is give people the chance to live out their dreams, whatever they are. and that's the gift of this moment. if we don't turn it into the hunkers, we already spend millions of dollars every year in this country to try to address poverty and economic insecurity. what do we get for that money? we get 50 percent of americans living paycheck to paycheck. 50 percent of americans who have little or no savings in the bank to tie them over if they encounter a serious illness. 50 percent americans don't have that kind of savings to get them over that kind of an immense kamani in the house. here it is. what it is, but i'm happy here much the rocks very much over. i seriously

thought i was a healthy person ever. i all sudden just feel like someone hit me and my spine with an axe and my blood pressure was 380 over 260. and then they finally came in and decided that i had a order dissection. there's 3 linings to your a order which fees all your body with blood. and mine was ripping apart both by the force of the blood. which means i have my blood pressure down very, very low. because it gets too high, you have a rupture in you just dead where you're at me when you're sick and you're trying to deal with her potentially fatal health issue . there's so much stress, you know, on the financial end of it because you're getting these phone calls every day and, and every attorney, i will call it like

a 101200 bucks just to file bankruptcy. no, i'm thinking, you know, am i so broke? i can't afford to offer bankruptcy, you know, of my cardiovascular specialists there. vanderbilt, he wrote on my medical records, he said, look, this guy does not need to wait for his disability. he needs it now. and i still had to wait 15 months. you know, if it hadn't been for family and some friends, i don't know what i would have done. i really don't because i mean, i had no money and you know, i had, i had eat you can look at someone like you can look at me right now. perhaps and, and maybe think l a perfectly healthy. but you don't know what's going on inside

someone's body in it. we spend another 4 trillion dollars on we spend another trillion dollars on tax cuts. are wealthy people, do you see the effects of wealthy people spending those tax cuts that we give them in salina, or do you think that instead of economic activity always coming from the top and trickling down, that economic activity might actually be kind of thing that bubbles up from the ground right with, if everybody has a decent amount of economic security and has, might spend, then economic activity will spiral upwards and community likes align left in the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home. i just started working together for 27. the reason that i'm here back and so on. i was because i have custody of my 2

granddaughters. they are $11.10 to full time. and i live here and go home, start getting ready for them to get home from school. and of course, we have to have suffer if their homework get their bass and it's bad time and ready to start all over. they've been through a lot to be as small as they are and same things and heard things and that child shouldn't. you know, drugs is really bad thing here in this whole small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has shook man to the ground for you. oh. 6 the smart a i still wanna warn him to have worked hard that he just didn't want to live in a basement a bag. i gave up the best job i ever

had my life when i came back to take care of the girls and it was either that or let them go into states custody. and so i gave it all up, came back out. and i need to know what you have to do, you know, so ah, no, i don't like about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here. and i have to drive 30 or 45 minutes to for the nearest place. it will with basha and nowadays we really would like to say the town come alive again. like

i said, we just need more people that are willing to last in the community. if we give everybody money, you know everybody has something to spend in. they can spend it in, in each other's businesses and that creates an upward spiral of economic activity that can revitalize the small town like selena. and if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly time and go around the board, the costco, yet another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 time you, pasco, and monopoly, again, would be over in about 3 terms. see that $200.00 you get for passing, go and monopoly. that's universal, basic income. they are no matter what it is, unconditional, you know it's come, you're getting it, whether you're when and or you lose and, and if you're losing, it can give you a chance. you can give you hope that maybe just, maybe you could still pull this off in

our representatives in legislatures and congress, they know the investments payoff, right? they know that, for example, 1000000 dollar investment in the fish hatchery, they'll hollow, pays off in multiples of that amount, every year in the tourism that it brings into this community. a lot of people actually try well here, just to fish and buy them, come and do salon. i'll just to fears will say i have to buy groceries here at the bar. vision lies example by gas. you know, they, they stimulate to economy, you know, quite a bit with my, this is why our representatives fight for money in washington to bring back to our communities. because they know that these investments can have multiplier effects that bring in much more than the cost of those program go started out in the river because the doc is a little bit either further down here. oh, offering has got

a girl. oh, oh, did you get infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail brings in business? oh, basic income is like infrastructure spending for families. right. last families to, to, to pay for the infrastructure that they need. whether it's child care or whether it's housing, whether it's food, clothing, or a car that works for medical expenses. these are all infrastructure investments as well in the productive power of our people and our families in our communities. barry mo, came up with money and got yeah, it's harder. again, imagine what she had to go through a hated to put her in a predicament. and i would never have to put her in a predictor again if i can,

i can help it. but like i says long, it's hard to get work. it's hard to pay. you know, if you got the money, you can't pay, it scares me. death. i'm a ne, a. or if i know of i don't buy it after so long. they're going to come get in, take me away from a family and are you working right now? i'm fine off in our working room. it's hard on me course. notice you guys notice lions and stuff. it's hard on me because i retain fluid and stuff. but i know when i have to give my kids, you know, we tried to go to a doctors office, they wouldn't accept him because he don't have insurance. and then i goes all the way back to the money thing. no money. so because you don't got no money, we don't care about your health. we don't care what's going on with you. we're not going to tell you. good bye. they all turned him down

and he didn't show it to you guys, but when he slid down the hill over there to to catch land in that heard him a got him now lead a $1000.00 and then help you aid. i mean it would god. oh mine. okay. the market magic, what it would, dave? so my family may, my wife would live better. we went, our years much is mounted our valen. nearby obama move into the paper. okay. if you don't me careful. mm mm.

a dish. ah mm mm mm mm. mm. mm mm mm. mm mm mm. mm. mm mm. we have 2 choices. when we design programs for the poor, for people who are struggling, we can say you need to prove to me 1st,

you're worthy of my home and then i'll help you. ready or we can treat people the way we treat our families, our children, our neighbors, and say, we're going to help you 1st because we have faith in you. we believe that you're going to do something good with that help. and that's what it basic it come to us. i just up a couple of different things on the presupposition is that there is a, a belief of inherent good that was in people. there's a common belief and understand that most people are basically good. i believe in that. ah, we say that you ought to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. that's a really classic southern say though, some people don't have bootstraps to pull up. some people don't have hands to call them. some people don't have feet to put them on

to be a person of faith, no matter what was specifically a lot of in is or what try with christianity or other belief system that we try to get there. isn't there ought to be a common written, loving our name for who they are for where they are not for who and where we think they ought to be. that was good enough for jesus. i think it ought to be good enough for us to hey, ah, what's interesting to me talking to people about basic income, especially people that would benefit from it is they're often resistant to the idea . and often the resistance takes the form of, you know, some other people will be lazy, some other people will use it for drugs. some other people will misuse it in some way. some other people choose not to work. don't you think somebody to paypal or

via bill money they wouldn't turn into a dope, a couch, potatoes, work and what we are name. but when i asked people, what would you do? right? no one has ever said to me like, oh, i'll sit on the couch and buy some drugs and some alcohol and be lazy by. look at this way. if i'm growing a garden in my family, what there have a nice garden weight work hard on that. so you're saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road. it didn't work so hard. come in or, and get part of my garden house at rat, for us just kind of resist. this is almost a question of human nature. you know, how do people think about other people beyond their own family or friends? do they trust them or do they not trust them? and i think that's, that's what we kind of have to talk about. and that's where actually pilots are very useful because we have a little bit of an earlier i've actually quite a lot of empirical evidence saying, well, actually most people act like you and your friends in your family. basic and

compounds have been done all over the world, and generally they do not find that people misuse the cache or stopped working when they receive it. in 2019, the myra stockton, california launched an 18 month program where they gave $500.00 a month. no strings attached to a $125.00 residents are made less than the cities annual median income. one of those recipients spent the money on surprise, groceries pay and bills, you know, the same things you and your family would probably spend the money on to ah ah, so we are within the last $30.00 days of the pilot project. in his 1st year with the 20 women and we work with, we have seen them do everything from payoff predatory debt. go back the school, get better and coin that opportunities to like be or more engaged parents to re

establish relationships really does have an opportunity to show up and live their full lives. the then that's the beauty and power care. oh i use the for so maybe things stay and on top of paying the bills in the household things i was having to like take the baby to play so you know they, you know, you can't really just really have the babies. oh, so oh baker, allowing him to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be and watch the but also learned. ah me, i was able to go ahead and now enrolled him in daycare in the and just focus on school as on my sake a semester. he a medical bill and they all coating at the finish that semester. i made the dean's lease. there was very exciting. i got my ged, i graduated in june. i was very excited about that because it was really one of the

things that he cannot hinder me from, you know, job basically well, good job receiving a $1000.00 a month, even though it is a blessing is not enough to sustain yourself or your family. so individuals took this for what it was an opportunity to get a leg up an opportunity to put in place a plan for themselves and their families. no one quit working. individuals went and got better career opportunities in the they didn't look at the school and it was paid off dead individuals, labor, charbonneau, watson, poles of van bay. it was a mere inside connect them with the keys in 6 months for the baby girls were made ago. mary had a when how about tomorrow. c and i get up there was a fine, oh my god, i have to do something to tear the golden road on row him out. look a he boy, he bow. he crying hard in air roar. you know,

it was exciting. well, you know, because he yeah, he started it, he started the that the rural, all crying. yes. mom actually i was on madness with cancer 1st. and so they also want our relationship close to between the, you know, my mom got the oh, and you know, she needed a lot, or she is mer to stay in a quiet oh, name she here with the b. o. she'll with the key. so now, harby and dal, you know, just to return the favor just to be like, mom, we're for you. just like use your for me all, even though it is a guaranteed income pilot in their other guaranteed income pile is currently being conducted. ours is the only one working with extremely low income families. so families who have various subsidies that they are dependent upon. and even though individuals that had a decrease in benefits, they still say that they are glad that they received the cash. because the cash a lab and opportunity to do whatever they needed, it wasn't a voucher or

a subsidy dedicated to one particular b. or most importantly, where do i go? a family, madeline. katie boley movie. we were able to celebrate a law, the they, we, you know, times before holidays and just count. they are probably actually being able to get together as a family members that have so many names lie and up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job, a home visas administration. i made some great people with bright things. they let me know when i crossed a breeze to come pop to them. so i'm very excited about a, you know, just say people did, you know, and looking out for you jason c, date you're trying to do something, you know, to change a life, a new situation,

standing here waiting, kamani. and we're happy to share with what you think is gonna happen when the program and i believe that we spend a lot of time thinking about what happens when something ins. and to me that's a clear sign of not trusting individuals. if i am going to say that i trust you enough to give you money and know that you are going to do what you and your family need, i have to say that i trust you enough. they have put a plan in place for when is money and so, so i believe that individuals are going to continue to do whatever they need to do to take care of themselves. and, ah, ah, in the end, people want to be productive. they want to have a better tomorrow and they have to day. and if you give people a stable, durable source of income that they can count on,

then most people will invest that money in ways that are best for them. as we live in a moment of change, it's going to happen. driverless cars are going to arrive and artificial intelligence is going to improve progress though in terms of people and whether they're better or worse off. that is optional. this is a moment to lead. this is a moment for debate because the future of our families and our children is really a stag. cashed to me, it's freedom, it, it, it's bringing. it gives you options that without that you do not have a casual, asked them the freedom to actually make the decisions to determine what it is that they need for themselves. you know, right now i'm academic, let's say for some reason academia doesn't work out. and i need to take a couple of years to get some training or to switch careers. or let's say i have a parent that really needs my help. i can instantly fall back on that universal basic income in that pitch. so it's something i really want for, you know,

the disadvantage people in this country, but it's something i also really want for myself. and i think that's how you create really powerful political movements. oh, we have to take this opportunity and see that we do not have a limited time. and so my ask for you all tonight is for you to take this new vision of the economy. this trickle up economy, this human centered economy, this vision and make it yours. i don't know to have picked up on it or not, but right now things are less than ideal for a huge number of people in this country. they blur bay and let go from jobs that are never going to come back rack medical bills are never going to be able to pay, you know, by the way, a global freakin, contagion level, pandemic. hard to feel very good about a drug. now, don't you think you feel a little better if you had slightly more assurance that you and your family we are going to be okay. we really believe in the land of the free lunch act like it was lipp at john economic boot off of people's next let's give everyone

a piece of the get all american pass so that no one has to start from nothing that's freedom at u. b. i think about a with

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