Pipeline is supposed to provide a major cost benefit to the German Energy market with natural gas being delivered directly without any intermediaries the u. S. Backed by poland baltic nations and ukraine has long been seeking to disrupt the pipeline that will carry russian gas to germany via the baltic sea joining me now to discuss the us coca cola spends juan and former u. K. Member of Parliament George galloway thank you for being with us today ben already the United States has put placed thank sions on this project in fact in december of last year those sanctions forced a Swiss Company to abandon the project what is the u. S. Talking about doing this time. Yes so what the u. S. Is really doing and you know you know im not a fan of sanctions really on any level sorry i disagree with them pretty much in principle but this to me seems to be maybe the worst example of how sanctions are being used you have 2 countries here that have agreed germany and russia to have a natural gas pipelin
And they make the app more secure and isnt user privacy a National Security concern the entire point of this entire witch hunt in the 1st place so what people have to understand is that we chat is one of the very few apps thats available in both china and the u. S. So its not so easy as to be like hey lets just switch over to whatsapp or telegraph like those apps are banned in china so without any chat there will be a total cut off in communication from the mainland not to mention new social Media Communication from the mainland so we always talk about this chinese firewall so this kind of looks like the start of the same thing here in the u. S. Now if we saw the president for banning these communication apps concerns the people will no longer have communication at all whatsoever with either family herb business contacts or right ben meanwhile a separate federal judge gave the trump an illustration until friday 230. 00 eastern to delay an order banning chinese tick tock it looks like t
Will stay out of its funny that you mention my pump who who says that he believes that endangers europe because it would make it dependent on russian gas and then he says would endanger ukraine in his opinion he says in my opinion so opinions here and matter a lot georgia Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is saying that the u. S. Should stop speculating on our stream too and that it should now be a matter of principle for germany to actually go through and complete the project. Well ben is right this is a particularly egregious use of the sanctions weapon against remind you a close ally of the United States germany is not some Banana Republic in Central America germany is an ancient and big power d in the oil ally of the United States and of course the biggest economic power in the European Union by some distance it just goes to show i say in parenthesis how absurd the charge of the Trump Administration is somehow a puppet of the russians this is of course not just short of war ag
And they do it to get food delivered that way you have to give you have to identify yourself in order to pay you cant pay cash and then you have to give your address to and thats more information that i then i want the supermarket to have about me so i go to a supermarket wearing a mask of course and keeping my distance from people and i pay care and then i carry my groceries back and this way. I am not having data about me put in a database because the only data the only personal data that isnt about you that isnt a threat to you is the data that hasnt been collected is a distraction to talk about protection of data in the databases because the real way to protect your privacy is make sure that data isnt collected about what you do or where you go or who you talk with or what you say to them. So were going to be talking all the problem around whether people should be choosing between safety and privacy but let me just. Not a choice privacy is part of safety remember one of the biggest
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss unfair montecito in washington coming up the rate in new unemployment claims may be leveling off but congress and the white house look to be stocked yet again on a stimulus plan to continue to rise across the globe due to the pandemic swine flu and unpredictable weather will tell you what this could mean for those who are already struggling to get enough to eat we have a lot to get to the law that starts. We begin today with jobless claims as u. S. Unemployment fell just slightly for the week ending on october 3rd to a fresh pandemic low the u. S. Labor department reported initial jobless. 840000 worse than expected showing the labor market is still experiencing a slow recovery while the economy is still growing its been a gradual comeback as concerns rise over another wave of layoffs without another federal relief package still some 25500000 americans are collecting some sort of benefits so for more on this and the overal