riffraff around and i think, you know, this is not unusual now. what a lot of people might not know about terrorist is it really has long had a major problem with homelessness. when i was a kid, the 1st time i went, it was an a to this one gave me, i'm 60 years old. in 1973. i went with my mom and i was time. i remember seeing like these bombs is the big part. you could say basically sleeping on the wall, the retaining wall over the sand river. and they come, my mom said, oh no, there's in french. he said those are the crucial, which basically means, you know, homeless guys, they were all alcoholics and they would sleep up there and i was always kind of amazed that they just didn't just roll over to their, to their dads and fall like 60 feet deep. 5 on to the pavement or depending on the tied it into the water. but, and it must have happened. but you know, the,

whatever it was, this is for people who know paris. this is that area of the san where they have all the book stalls that are like locks up against the said river. i'm how is this is a long been an issue. there's a lot of poverty and paris. paris is a very expensive city. and so there's a housing prices are through the roof, and then there's also a culture of housing authority in france. the. so what i mean you would be amazed probably. i would say it's probably reasonable to assume the fully 40 percent of housing stock in paris is vacant at any given time. so what happens is when you inherit a house or an apartment in france, you know, sell it like, you know, my mom died and i grew up in a house that i grew up in ohio. what's the 1st thing i did? i just took the stuff that i wanted and, and put it on sale. that's the american way, right. not there in france, however, i heritage of little plot of land in brittany. from my grandparents. i kept that

because that's the french way. so just sitting there empty, so all over france, people have like properties. many people have free for homes that they never go to and they just sit empty. there, there are, you know, i know one of my relatives, you literally have the child at home that he grew up in, like frozen, and ever since, like across the street from his house. it's kind of amazing if you want to know, like what the house looked like in the night, the sixty's in france, you just go into his house. you never know, is there ever? it's just there, it's a french right. so the point is that like homelessness is a massive problem there, they don't build any, they really don't build enough new housing. there's not enough public housing. so yeah, i mean there, and they just, obviously you can see what my call would not want those people out there. and what about in the way of public safety against terrorism? do you think he's doing enough? well, i mean, you prefer to have to be concerned about that because i don't know if you remember

this middle, but back to the 1980s. there was a space of terrorist attacks in paris, where the radical islamic groups were angry about french foreign policy in the middle east. and they were bombing, usually trash cans and mailboxes. and in fact, the city of paris for a long time and got rid of all the trash cans. as a result of this, they put out these kind of crappy cardboard boxes so that there's not a bit barely enough room for a bomb. and i guess not enough room for the trash either because of the draft, which is kind of like blow out of there. and it was, it was a fail policy. but yeah, so your person has suffered terrorist attacks. don't forget, as a cartoonist, i'm very cognizant of the charlie of though attack that claim to a dozen or so of my colleagues. and there's, you know, that was that was, i just,

that did that. so it's, and so there's like a lot of, it's an issue parents as a long history like love, like, like england during under the i r 8 period. you know, but francis experience is more recent. it's been pretty safe, pretty safe. over the last 1520 years. but you know, microsoft, he's young, but he's old enough to remember that. speaking of preparations for the olympics, remember back in 1936 when germany host of the games. back then fewer adolf hitler was basically the grand marshal of the games. it was a major p r victory for hitler, seeing the the swastika in, in every paper around the world. berlin was draped in nazi flags. but this year there's one flag that is not going to be allowed to fly despite a number of athletes from this country qualifying to compete. and of course, that's russia. the russian flag will not be flown. the aisle seat has ruled on it.

the athletes can compete, but not under the national flag. this all stems from the ongoing conflict in ukraine. what are your thoughts on this move by the i o. c m is specific to how it's treating russia and the russian athletes. yeah, well you know, i mean people look back at the 9036 example and they say that's an example of, you know, the world should not have rewarded the hitler and knots in the nazis by holding the olympics there. and that's certainly a of you know, there's a, there's a valid argument to be made there. however, i would counter that, it actually encourage pretty relatively better behavior on the part of hitler and the nazis because at least during that period they weren't enforcing the nuremberg laws and they had to keep it down. you know, they weren't speeding up to using the street to prelim while this was going on. if you look at the historical accounts from that period, you know, the whole of the attention of the world was on germany. and they had to like play

nice. i mean, you know, logically, if the world had been, if the world had been that engaged with germany longer, it might have, you know, kept down or maybe even forestall the all it costs. so i think engagement is always the answer. if you're try, if you think that a country is a rogue state, i'm not saying that i think russia is a rogue state for having evaded ukraine. but it's like if you, if you, if in the west believe that the way that you're trying to improve behavior and make people a countries and in other countries like say north korea, we're china or a rock country. you know, rival states antagonistic states. act more like, you know, the answer is more engagement, not less than gauge. man it's, it's less and i don't think the olympic games should ever really be politicized. i mean, and when ever they do you end up with these very strange things, like for example, what do you do about the kurds?

you know, do curtis athletes, you know, they have, they live in a defacto independence zone. what about people from the transmission area? what about people, you know, athletes from taiwan, they get to, they do get to the sort of how the time to use national tv, but i think they call it like taipei or something like that. right. and um, but it's like so there's, it really shouldn't be up to them to determine that there is an absurdity when you're talking about not only of a country like russia, that not only is a massive country, the biggest on her graphically, incredibly important culturally and politically but i feel like we're just not gonna let russia like a, let's just say that you totally think the invasion of ukraine is the worst thing in the world. well, it's certainly no worse than the us invasion of iraq. okay. and like the, and the point the us didn't get kicked out of the olympics. right. so it's like, there's russians being treated very, very poorly. and you're also talking about russia,

a major olympian olympic powerhouse for decades, because they've always like, you know, i'm like here, you know, if you ever watch, i tanya read about i talking about tanya harding. but in russia, if you're like a professional athlete who covers mental system to make sure you don't have to do anything else, but just concentrate on, on practice and becoming a great athletes here. it's like something you do on the side while you're working like friendlies or something. so. so it's like, definitely, yeah, i was like so you know what, take russia out of the olympics. it's absurd. i mean it's basically a little bit slip small. i don't think it curts rush, i nearly as much as it hurts the olympics. yeah, good point on taiwan and you're absolutely right for all of america is more is the conflicts um funding of hostilities all around the world for us has never been banned from the games. our flag has always been flown at these games. yes. all right, so there's recent outcry from

a number of athletes international organizations and the like from around the world about is really athletes competing in this year's games because of the ongoing on slot and gaza. israel's flag though will fly in paris if athletes will represent their country officially. so 2 things here is this have progress. they are bias from the i o c and it's treatment of israel as compared to russia. and given that the is really asked, we can represent their country, but the russian athletes, cat, can you really separate the athlete from their home countries or is this all just semantics to me? absolutely. it's hypocrisy and it's favoritism, right? i mean, if you don't look, what is the allocation here? you're both. uh, so russia is engaged in a military occupation operation,

a ukraine, that many countries, and many people around the world of pose. israel is engaged in a military operation in gaza. that many people around the world opposed. it's a very similar thing and, but they're being treated radically differently. if you look on in the interest of b, i o, c might be inconsistent on consistent. i think russia should be able to participate, but we don't know what the personal opinions are of russian athletes for all we know. they're all against the special military occupation. you crate. these are all for it. they what is certain that none of them had any decision making power into this at all, right? they're not in the russian parliament. they're not, you don't work in the kremlin throughout please. and same thing with israel, the, these really athletes. we don't know how they personally feel about the, about the operation going on. and again, some austin gaza for all we know they might all be totally militantly opposed to it

. and i don't care. and if, therefore, it, that's okay too, because again, they're not the ones dropping bombs on the people of casa, it's like no, actually, it should not be held personally responsible for the actions of their government anymore. then middle a, you are traveling overseas. now as tourist should be held accountable for the actions of the united states government. the government does nursing and we citizens do our thing and it's, it's absurd to hold individuals responsible for the actions of a government, but they're not a part of coming up next. and i conic author once call the olympics war minus the guns. but with the increased politicize ation of sports will be olympics fate in the history. we'll discuss it when we return with political cartoonist. ted rall said, type m o will be right back. the

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the welcome back to the ammo. i'm in miller chan, my buddy ted rall, political cartoons as an officer is back with us. so it had more broadly across the world of sports over the decades. it seems we're increasingly seeing this sort of overlap of sports and politics. i mean, i'm take the 1968 mexico games, black american runners, you know, raising their fist and a show of solidarity for equal rights after winning gold and bronze metals respectively. or nowadays at n b a games we see black lives matter plan to painted on the, on the courts and nfl star call and cabinet famously taking a need are in the national anthem. and now the olympics for building one countries representation due to war, but not another country, which i think we could put squarely in the camp of politics. it should there be a separation of powers here, so to speak. i mean like a,

a separation of sports being sports made the best athlete when and you know, just leave paula checked out the door or should be olympics be used as a stage to promote a cause or send a message. i don't know that like when in the individuals who, you know, for example, the example at the neck of the black athletes and mexico city and 1968. i don't know if that is wrong or right or wrong was right or wrong. but certainly it's going to happen when people feel are passionate about an issue. some of them are going to want to use their public form in order to express it. and it's just going to happen. uh, you know, i know, call and cabinet. i got a lot of for you know what he for taking the knee, which i thought was a very minor and very respectful and polite gesture. i thought it was extremely tempered, and i was surprised that step sports fans were conservative in particular,

were so angry about it. but i do think that, you know, when you talking about the broader issue of the nation state being that's participating in a, let's say, an unpopular war or a war that's unpopular in certain quarters. should they all be omitted. i mean, look right now, um sudan and south sudan are engaged in a military conflict. i haven't seen any discussion about band a one or both from participating at all. i mean, there are border skirmishes all the time, all around the world. those are more and, you know, or if we're going to start saying that like, everyone, every country that's involved in like, you know, military tensions, or, or war is not going to be allowed to attend the olympic games pretty soon. there's not going to be any one there except like fun to watch it. well, what happens if some athletes refused to play against israel in solidarity with gaza? oh, i think it's wrong. um,

i think i've looked at the thing is that the spirit of international competition is about bringing people together from different countries in different cultures. and, you know, the, the athletes have a lot more in common because they all do it. they all have the same love and this, and they all practice the same sports. they compete together. they have a lot more in common than they have just separate. and, you know, let me, i think learning politics interfere is really wrong. i would like to see a palestinian team meet and hang out with their is really counterparts. that would be really nice to see. i, you know, it's just like to show that some people, even if the prime minister of israel can't be mature. and that's like an adult. maybe honestly it's kit. so, you know, it's, it's, it's, i don't even that. i mean, you know, that's, we live in a world where i don't know, like, for example, the united nations, when it becomes, uh, you know, there's favoritism, there. they say, okay, well, you know, we like this, we don't like that. it's a key. you know,

the whole point is we need 4 more 4 where people can get together and work things out. and it's just, it's, and it's not a free fire zone. it's a peaceful place for people can talk and get to know each other. i mean, kind of like the, you know, i hate the fact that like the international space station that's gotten politicized . that's adult and everybody. and if you talk to either cause minutes or so after not they will all say that like they really value their time working with their russian and or american counterparts. and they got to consider them to be lifelong friends. so, you know, they're all scientists, they all work together. i mean, it's, that's, that's the way it should be. the people are people, you know, i mean, people have the same everywhere. we just need to like, you know, get to know each other. i mean, honestly, you know, right now things are at such a fever pitch, where the israelis are terrified of the policy and safety policies want to kill

them. all know they don't, they just, they, they, they, and it's like, then you will be able to live side by side one day in a democratic state, justice. and you know how i know that because i knew white south africans before. our hype was over, and they were terrified that when it was that when a part and i went away, the blacks were going to come and kill them all. and that didn't happen. they all live together in peace side by side. i've heard one scholar on this topic called sports a secular religion. now that said the olympic games in particular, definitely. while up nationalism and national pride, george orwell famously said this about the games quote. at the international level, sports is frankly mimic warfare would be significant thing is not the behavior of the players, but the attitude of the spectators and behind the spectators of the nations who worked themselves into furies over these absurd contest. and seriously believe at

any rate for short periods that running, jumping and kicking a ball ar, test of national virtue, it is a war minus the shooting. a final thoughts on that had given all the atrocities going on right now will be olympics, serve as a unifier or further divide the world? well with all due respect to george orwell, which is a considerable amount of respect. and i'm saying this as someone who, even as we speak, is working on reissuing my parody of our wells, 19841130. i think you know, we can stand more wars minus the shooting. i think it's a, it's not a bad thing at all. i'm reminded of something i read about ancient history, the syrians and the types in the middle east. what it, what in, what is today modern day, syria and lebanon. they kind of got tired of picking each other spots in battle. so they finally got to

a point where they kind of agreed to sort of game out though. so whenever they had any kind of conflict where they were going to have a war, the 2 armies would meet in a, in a, in the side of battle. but then instead of fighting, they would have analysts count up all the weapons and all the men. and then they say, all right, we have types would have won this battle, alright? accordingly, this city will be seated, will be seated to the hittites from the, from the syrians. shake hands, everyone goes, how so they so they that way, you sell it and it without any budget, he had tightened the assyrians were much finer than we are. a ted rall, political cartoonist, author, and radio show host. thank you so much for your insight buddy. it was my pleasure. thank you so much more sorry, before we go, this time a little news to share. this is the final episode of modus operandi. the show is some setting after

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