calling reason, finding the results in and over a 1000 soldiers dead on both sides of the russia. ukraine conflict. beautiful. all before trying to reduce civilians from nato member countries to join the fight. i'm been swan, this is direct impact. the and thanks for being with us today more on the words about us, senator lindsey graham and just a moment. but 1st we begin with the us presidential race. today, donald trump, the republican candidate, just had a 2 hour chat with you on mosque, on the social platform, x. it did not start off smoothly by the way, the event was delayed by over 40 minutes due to what must said was a cyber attack. but when they finally got going more than a 1000000 listeners tuned in at a time to hear the conversation and that conversation touched on various topics. the former president did not shy away from taking jobs at his democratic competition. what i can tell you is this. if we cannot have a democrat, we cannot have her. she's in confidence. she's as bad as bided in

a different. yeah, she hasn't done an interview since his home. a scam started and, and say what you want. this is a cool. this was a cool of a president of the united states. he didn't want to leave and they said we can do it to night. yeah. oh, we can do it the hard way. trump also railed on the current president's foreign policy moves, while in office, touching on the situation between russia and ukraine. he says, the of doesn't have enough manpower to continue the site, you know, man of his and he was a horrible president, the worst president in history. and one of the reasons it was so bad. first of all, these really attack would have never happened. russia would never have attacked ukraine, and we'd have no inflation. and we wouldn't have had the afghanistan. you take a few of those events away and we have a different world. many more people have been killed in ukraine than you read about . you don't read about how bloody it is and how does that look. just send the 2 armies. your last a half a 1000000 people. if you think about it, rushes guns too. you know,

russian defeated germany with us and they defeated depaul in, you know, they've been around a long time. they're big fighting for you. and ukraine now doesn't have enough men that now using young man and very old men to fight. and it's that we're in a very bad position. a smart president could have stopped that it wouldn't have happened. all right, so let's bring him and have a chat in manila. could that be here? this interview? just another opportunity for trump to appeal to voters, right? but once again, he focused on attacks on us. president biden does the campaign of a messaging problem with when he continues to focus on biting or is that part of the strategy strategy? excuse me, to say this is just the continuation of by the end, if you vote for harris, you know, all of it was a little weird. but then as we know, those who are trump, supporters will support the ex post regardless of what he says. but the twitter or the, the x spaces with you on will be judged based on whether or not you have orange colored

glasses on. now that live call was tuned into by millions of people from around the world. now, some estimates putting that number closer to 20000000 people when you tally up all the different live feeds by youtube, birds and people on rumble. notable people like marjorie taylor green and other members of congress were all listening into to the average joe from all over the country, eagerly awaiting what sort of spectacle might arise from this conversation that's led by you on must also known for his often outrages, antics online so while this talk was all over the place, ranging from trump's positions on anything from the ongoing conflict in ukraine to the domestic economy. so even comparing comma la harris to his own wife, milan, you, those back that be the talk bounced around like a game of pong. and maybe i'm dating myself. there are actually a feature is a feature. it's not a bod band with you on mosque,

citing that he could actually have a conversation with trump, unlike bite, and or harris, which presumably mosque has had the opportunity to do so on many occasions. so it's arguable that the, the trump vance campaign doesn't have a messaging problem. rather, it's that they have so many, and they haven't whittled it down to a narrow focus at this point. however, worth noting, ben is that the new harris campaign has not provided any of their positions on any particular items, their games, their goals, their platform on any major topics plaguing the country, much less the world, nowhere to be found on the campaign website. that's right, nor has she even had any off the cuff interviews with, with the media. so must later went on to tweet that he would like to host harris on a spaces as well that that would actually be, i think, much more interesting than the trouble. and because we don't know any of her positions on virtually anything. and also the fact that she doesn't not only seem

to have a stand on anything, but you'll say day one, i'll start doing this. you're in office now, right? it is she, she's running life. she's the, the upstart candidate. and she's the incumbent is the way she's running right now. it's actually a pretty good strategy. but it's interesting. now i have another question for you. but before i do like a comment, i just want to get your opinion, how much is a terrible interview? i guess was one of the worst interview. something listed to that. you think it's so hard to listen. i love you mama, i think it has a lot of really interesting things i think is an incredibly smart person. yeah. he is a hero. and the interview works all of the whole time. it's so hard to listen to him and try and going back and forth to me. that was the hardest part of listening to 2 and a half hours of, of stuttering and stumbling. well that, but i'll just say this much, i don't think you or i are a threat of ever losing our jobs to equal on mosque nothing. i think he can even sit here to one. so get another job. yeah. fair enough. okay, let me, let me ask you this village. cyber attacked by the way that started off and this

whole things i was trying to listen. and as you probably you were to manila at 8 p . m. eastern. and you couldn't get on this thing. right? you took 40 minutes to get on the right. it was the only heard on the interview before the sit down, the commissioner sent out this kind of veiled threat. the law must saying that the european union will be closely watching for any incitement on the hatred or violence. i mean, listen, the you, this is, this is obviously what they do by their obsession with speech. just kind of another example, i guess, a questionable responses out of europe after the riots in the u. k. last week sparked a deadly knife attack mis information about the suspect field. social media prompted the u. k. government to urge citizens to think before you post. but this idea, i mean i, it's all thought crime. it's like, we don't like you saying certain things and, and, and the standard they put on a lot of us can twitter very different than they have on google or as they have on meta. again, this idea that you're thrown in jail for expressing discontent online and again, everything you heard that, that new think or read them in a lot. it is so questionable because it's all relative, right?

you posted information in images that stirred up feelings and people and, and that's not what crime is also in pick it what it says, it not well then the, the constitution and the 1st amendment is a beautiful thing to have a look. although we saw breasts, it happened over 4 years ago. there's really not much daylight between the terry baton what he's saying and what great britain is saying when it comes to a freedom of speech. so terry baton is the, the commissioner for internal markets. it's his job, they say is to, to shape how people obey a set of rules that the european commission sets out specifically on the dsa. the, the digital services act, which they site as an online safety protocol aimed at curbing this information online. now critics of the dsa, they argue this is nearly a,

a censorship tool with language too broad and, and it would give government wide breath for interpreting so called misinformation or even hate speech. the latter is what we're seeing as a wide net that's being cast across the u. k. basically criminalizing descent from anything that strays from approved government orthodoxy. now baton at the commission is now picking a fight with you on must directly saying that if musk does it in a fact sense or people like the original twitter or did well then the you is just going to go find him 6 percent of excess global revenue, not just that, you know, coming from the you. so much so far has responded by what else been trolling baton on twitter, posting the letter baton, sent him online, vowing not to back down in defense of free speech and worth noting then george

orwell. the iconic author of 1984 was british. so, you know, maybe he was just way way, way ahead of his time. yeah. he said he certainly was by the way you, i'm us controlling him. those are things we love about him about may not be good interviewer, but controls like no one outside the, sorry, the russian forces have gained control over parts of the beloved. the region of incurs following a fail ukrainian often some to advance further into russian hill territory. and just the past couple of days since the escalation of conflict, ukrainian officials report substantial losses with casualties reaching up to 1600 soldiers. regardless of one's perspective, the loss is on both sides of this war or a profound tragedy. there's no question about that. well, no question, unless you're us senator lindsey graham, who traveled to camp on monday and describe the recent developments and those depths as beautiful. what i think about pers rear view to keep it on the

bottom line is ministration. appreciate your support. with these things they need to wait where they can't afford to lose. when it comes to have 6 things, wait, they're near to the present liskey just a few minutes ago. if you reside at $630.00 and you're looking to buy for freedom do, are you? we're going to look throughout nato nations. are willing fighter pilots to retire to come help them until they get their power train. i mean, just absorbing all of that, right? the idea that you're going to get these people in the weapons, he says stuff will more they can't afford to lose. they can't when it is on winnable and then calling on on retired f. 16 pilots across nato nations including the united states to go to ukraine. and to fight against the russians right now.

now it seems like russia is, is still in this position where they're choosing to not advance as aggressively as a could be if they wanted to. they still seem to be doing that. lindsey graham is just, it's just like he's churning people up to go over there and get killed. i mean, ben, if you're calling up retirees, you're likely signaling to 50 plus year old man who have families and lives that have been out of the service for a long time, to up route themselves to go volunteer to effectively die in this war. and as you can see, very bad behind lindsey graham is senator richard blumenthal, a democrats. he nods a long as bram calls for more arms to ukraine, suggesting or i would even say demonstrating that continued war is a bi partisan topic here in washington. it's, it's not a promising outlook for piece i would say, given that, you know, ukraine just got their hands on some f sixteens,

but they don't really have any goose or mavericks to fly in bed. these legacy jets have been used by nato and the us for over 30 years. but these were planes are not going to be provided by washington directly around 60 of them had been promised by belgium, norway, the netherlands in denmark. but it's going to be a slow trickle on delivery. many war skeptics see this simply as sort of appeasement of zalinski and the that the jets won't have real significant impact on battle ground conditions. since russia has air superiority, as well as in general, the man power needed to step up the heat. but then this is also being viewed as the last salvo by joe biden, who, along with lindsey graham back in 2014, we're among the cool cookers in ukraine. so as the sun sets on the bite and administration, he and that era of cohorts are sort of grasping at ways to salvage this decades old

design by just trying to throw some old pilots into the cockpit for keep. yeah, it's such a, it's such a bizarre request ask, as you said, the 50 year old retirees to go travel to ukraine and to get into these planes and basically go to your desk. because again, this is not something where russia has been, has been pushing to take more ground. they're not if i don't know what's happening there. but it certainly appears as if russia is, is, is getting time to finally get to a piece agreement. but it all remains to be seen what happens with the election. obviously that's a big part of what this looks like and what it looks like going forward and another chance. thank you so much. all right, we're going to go for a quick break. but when we come back, we're going to dive into these massive protests taking place in serbia. and in the middle of it all you guys do, black rock, of course they are say to will be right back. the no better place to be the village in the sun. this beautiful features is

purely anarchist in the sense that there are no authorities within the city. everyone is their own citizen. half the people are here because then the rest go and the other half here because they loved the place and there's nowhere else they'd rather be than here. but i don't know his ard wonder explain. you just have to experience labs. and by doing that, you have to live here though. dish lay it right here in lagrange. this is one of the dining halls. it was a mess all for 0 soldiers food place, you know, several 100 people have passed through here either under way, somewhere else or provide safe space to abuse women and to elderly people to mentally ill peoples who addicts to children. you know, some cardboard checks. you know, but cardboard shack of real coffee. if we just been sleeping on the dirt. what are the basic rules? isn't sylvia. and if you ground,

they'll find out the water is part of the leg. is it good? polly would post good. isn't the deepest view of us and that in the word part, is it something deeper, more complex might be present? let's stop without cases. let's go out of the see the, the somebody how can it be that um the ship to the middle

east from a country whose top officials constantly complain about shortages of munitions and military equipments is literally locate in the booth but of boston llc or even maybe a little in your system and located along the nominal facility or some of those other slash we, i'm about to the easiest to, to not know. so one of the easiest thing about them of a bubble showed, well, nice day to kind of get used to have gone on now. well, why are weapons from ukraine spreading over the world? to turn this country into a major arms hub, will continue to bolster ukraine's and forces by rushing them occasionally use that they need to defend their country. everyone knows very well that we don't sell but known as pineapples or any kind of children's toys. we sell women's yes, we're also known in the world as items dealers that we must not be ashamed of that the

and welcome back on bins one. this is direct impact. take a look at this video, the 10s of thousands flooding the streets of bell rate on saturday, protesting against a plan to lift him mine in the country. it was one of the largest demonstrations in survey. in recent years, the crowd rallied against the involvement of multinational corporations like real tito and black rock saying that they are exposing the resource rich region where that mine will be located. so joining me now to help break all of this down, i have geo political expert and serbian residents, and the malik now, thanks for being here. thanks for having the best. so we've been reading, there have been over 50 protests across the country since just june. take us through these protests, how large are they obviously, from that video there. it's an incredible number of people turning out. has there been violence and is the government taking the seriously? well, the bill being purchased from saturday night was pretty much the most massive one. i believe the police have estimated sizes and about a 100000 was a lot of people. i've never seen anything

a big and that it easily outmatched the sheer mass of people that gathered last night to a sort of greed, the olympians. coming back, a joke of a jo kitchen to an end the crowd. uh so, and that's usually the biggest demonstration in belgrade. any given year the a purchase elsewhere in serbia have been almost as big for, for their respective regions as they have not been violent. there has not been any sort of violence, there's been attempts by the political opposition to hijack the progress of sort of the 1st them into their service of their objectives. the government so far has a regard to them as with forbearance and annoyance, they haven't moved very aggressively to break them up. they basically just caution people against any sort of violence and said that the re a tend to thing is a done deal. and young people shouldn't be fussing over a. yeah, but last month, the german chancellor, all of the shows was in delray the praise that tentative deal between serbia and

the you for the extraction, the delivery of lithium to the european blog. you know, the, you know, kind of sees this deal as a way to become independent of lithium from china and other regions. the problem is this couldn't be, i guess on one side and economic boone for serbia. but there are enormous environmental concerns and we know that's right, living in mining is not clean in any way. in fact, the lithium that we use for batteries and we use for all this cleaning technology is actually incredibly destructive to the environment in order to extract it. as a not well, from what i've seen analysis wise, real tend to basically intense to dig this enormous open pit process the dirt from it to using. so for a gas it big tractor, lithium and then dump the left over is sort of either in the same pit or off to the side and did not really do any sort of clean up. the company hasn't said they would do otherwise, the government hasn't said they would do otherwise. and one of the biggest problems is that however much high quality dis, lithium,

is it's right under some amazing both natural beauty and prime agriculture, a land and a prime. agricultural land is one of those things. it's a very short supply. yeah, and that is a, that's a global problem, right. it's not just a serbian issue globally having strong agricultural and, but serbia, in terms of history here, you know, in terms of european countries, it's still maintains very strong ties with russia and with china. it's kind of a rogue within europe in that regard. right now serve you as president is about to approve of massive deal to deliver that lithium though to the e. u. a. so is that part of the concern here is in regards to kind of the geo politics of it or does the average serbian person not really care about that? that part, they're more concerned about agriculture, food environment, as well. the fact that germany is sort of the point country of the you on this project is incredibly troubling. because the germans have a history of invading serbia twice in the 20th century. and also at the end of this entry, you is part of nato's armada in 1999 and breaking up you was la via in the 90

ninety's. and so having charlotte's come here and say, oh we thank you for giving us the ro resources that we need. also, there will be environmental consequences, but not for us. uh, it did not go well it, it went over like the proverbial lead balloon in the serbian public. and i think that's one of the reasons, a 100000 people to the streets of belgrade on saturday. you know, it's interesting that you said that because i think at the core of what's happening here, the players who are most involved in this have no real ties to serbia, right. other than the serbian government given permission here. but as you said on the point person for this is germany on the east side. and then you have companies like black rock who are involved in this. and, and when you have those kinds of multinational corporations that are coming in and they're taking advantage you have outside for, and governments that are taking advantage. what are the people to think other than the fact that they're, they're being hoodwinked through all of this? right. they mean here we do think that they're being colonized and they hear,

she might theoretically be easier if the colonizer was somebody from a friendly country. but considering that the was done nothing with black, male, and abuse serbia for the past 25 years. it's a, it's a tough pill to swallow that for sure. you know, we talked about that kind of the legitimate concerns of protesters, but those of us working in alternative media all too familiar and i know you are to now with the color revolution playbook. are there bad actors using in these protests who were kind of seeking to overturn the current serbian government? is there an effort right now to get one that's totally aligned with western europe and one that's more aligned with the united states? do you think that's happening? well, the pro western opposition tried their hand at general elections and failed miserably . earlier this year you'd be basically got, wiped out and, and got very few seats in the parliament as well as local governments. they blamed the election fraud, which was never proven. and uh, is there active its keep coming up in these groups. keep turning up in these

protests like a bad penny trying to divert the crowds, energy, and sort of bill channel it to their own pet causes. they don't really care about lithium, just like they didn't care last year about kids getting shot up in schools they, they just use a whichever cause they embrace on a daily basis to help them all over turn to government. and this, in this instance, the russians actually send to build regular official warnings with their intelligence saying they would be on there. are people trying to use this as a screen for a color revolution. and i would like to remind your viewers that serbia was actually the place where the 1st modern colored revolution took place back in october 2000. that that was the us test of the playbook for winning other people's elections as wondering as was described it. and then the later use the same template then implemented in georgia and then in ukraine twice and other places. so serbians are very,

very sensitive to any sort of mention of color evolution because they've been through this once and they don't want to go through that again. yeah, you know, we started this interview and you, you said at a certain point, a president of the country, the government is essentially saying to these protesters, you can protest, you can be mad. this is a done deal. is that the reality of it, or is there any opportunity, do you think any chance that this deal does go away, if enough people stand against it, or is it pretty much guaranteed this is going to happen? dyslexia might honestly, i'm a little bit baffled by the fact that the serbian government, which is very p r savvy, is sort of fumbling this really badly and not selling it to the people aside from, you know, saying shut up in, in, enjoy us being a german lithium colony, in effect. so i, part of me thinks that the, one of the strategies might be to sort of see how big these protests get and then tell the germans into you, look, you know,

the people are on the edge of revolting here. we can go ahead and proceed with this, but you know, you never know. i mean, we have tend to, is that supposed to start doing anything for another 2 or 3 years? and there, that's steps of attorney be politically in europe these days. it is an infinity, so you, so there, there you're saying there's a chance that sounds like there is a chance that if these protests are big enough and then it gives enough political coverage of the regime, they're able to push back against you because it seems like right now they don't have a lot of room to do that. will be use sort of holding serbia hostage because we're surrounded by nato members. we're surrounded on almost entirely by you members. and if they decide to impose some sort of economic blockade, even though it will hurt them immensely, it would certainly cause some hardship here. serbia has managed to be sort of of oasis of free trade between the you when the on one side and like russian and china on the other using that's neutral status and this politics of non interference and ukraine conflict. but if brussels decides to be suicidal as they have been

regarding energy from russia, for example. um then, you know, there will be definitely tough times that for everybody. definitely. so, and as you said, you know, it's a very difficult place right now to be neutral, politically, in any part of the world, especially in eastern europe. right now. it's a very difficult place surrounded by nato. the us, the western europe pushing very hard for all kinds of regime change all over the world. so an interesting, interesting conversation malik, thank you so much for your time and your insight on this. thanks for having me. absolutely. well, that is our show for today. we want to remind you that we're here every day, keeping an eye on the stories that have a direct impact. so you next time the, [000:00:00;00]

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