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Program us regulators have voted to end socalled Net Neutrality which now could significantly alter the web experience for millions of people it will allow internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites a breakdown of how it works we access the web through Internet Service providers at the moment companies have to treat all online traffic equally but the Us Federal Communications Commission Says thats preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services and now with Net Neutrality regulations gone i asked piece will be freed to charge a premium to prioritize certain apps and services so mean a car reports while the f. C. C. Is latest decision will repeal obamas regulations that were passed in twenty fifteen and as expected the vote was three to two along party lines with republicans voting in favor of the deregulation order and democrats voting against it but one democratic commissioner who voted against the order made her feelings known and had some very fierce for marks for the committee to see. Very least i dissent from this rash decision to rollback Net Neutrality rules i dissent from the corrupt process that has brought us to this point as a result of todays misguided action our broadband providers will get extraordinary new powers. They will have the power to block websites the power to throttle services and the power to censor online content now our broadband providers will tell you they will never do these things they say just trust us. But know this they have the technical delivery and business incentive to discriminate and manipulate your internet traffic now many are outraged understandably so but with all the backlash this could eventually end up going to court and activists might even Pressure Congress to overturn the vote but this is a partisan issue so would it really have any effect nonetheless these online democracy defenders surely lose hope because they arent exactly without allies thirty nine senators sent a letter to the f. C. C. Expressing their discontent representative Keith Ellison he even spoke at todays protest and they have the resistance on their side representative Maxine Waters steve quite a strong speech earlier this morning but i asked a few protesters about the issue so lets check out what they have to say ok five kids you see what do i know you are you really thats the big problem here its these giant ice p. C. To think that they have they should have all the advantage and all the decisions to make about what should be content on the internet and it should be a public utility and especially in the twenty First Century when you know a lot of communication skills that need to be improved and taught in schools the internet is essential for from your job having a portfolio doing anything you can to get information. Ok in case you see we want you for you to do part of democracy to have equal communication people access to communication not just let the privileged and the super rich have every advantage in a socalled democracy this is going to shut out a lot of Small Businesses small websites and prevents small voices heard and read me from here in the small voice now with all that being said scrapping Net Neutrality could very well affect how we surf the web but is it really the death of the internet like some or say well that of course remains to be seen. Lets discuss this further now with chris. Kates founder of unseen a Company Providing secure Communications Lines the coming on to the program chris. You saw a bit of the reactions that could you give us your insights on to. This relying on Net Neutrality will mean in practice for those old mary uses well lets lets look at what happened before they had these Net Neutrality rules they had no rules and the internet did just fine and then they imposed these rules under president obama and now theyre getting rid of these rules now why did they want to impose these rules well if you look at the people who benefit from having everything equally carried if youre netflix and youre literally consuming one third of the internet bandwidth and you want to be charged the same as some small web site to deliver their content of course it makes sense thats why those are the people who are in favor of that neutrality what they did is they dressed it up and tried to put it in the class warfare the kind of communist things that you hear about from a lot of people you know who are who are in favor of a lot of regulations and what happened is they just swept away today so its actually a very good day for the internet i think yeah i mean the federal Communications Commission thats the regulator that made this decision they say it is controlled by the republicans why is why is scrapping it now so important for the Republican Party and can you explain what they will gain by this. Well i dont look at it politically i dont i dont get politically motivated i just believe in freedom and the problem with that neutrality is its a way for the government to come in and regulate and control the content thats going through the pipes thats that to me is the real issue the for the republicans politically because if you look at how the most Media Companies are set up the Mainstream Media is against donald trump theyre against the republicans and you see them being vilified day in and day out and the only place where the republicans seem to have been the conservative people in the us have much of the say is on. Talk radio and thats just thats that used to be a wasteland until everyone you know gave it up and then the conservatives took it over and fix it up what i think is happening now though is that when people. When the republicans come up for reelection they will have more avenues for their content and for their message to get through it will not be censored as much by these by these mainstream companies if you look at google and facebook they are controlling the access to a lot of content you look at netflix all these different large Silicon Valley companies have controlled the dialogue theyre the ones who are behind this Net Neutrality and this is in effect something from donald trump going against these Big Companies who by the way did everything they could to keep him from being elected now you said chris that is a good day for the internet get leave the Net Neutrality activists that calling this position the death of the internet. Little thoughts on that that phrasing. Well this is this is a typical p. R. Positioning i mean you see it with and teeth you see it with occupy wall street basically these people took their auntie for headscarves off and then went out and probably or some of the probably paid for protesters by george soros for all we know. I i honestly think whenever you hear this kind of chanting people are figuring this out they know that when you see or hear this kind of chanting and everything its highly organized everything people have been bussed in you have a lot of astroturf paid for protestors some may be very genuine people and some are probably very nice people but in general you see this kind of organization there is something behind it ok chris kate is founder of insane a Company Providing Security Communications great to have your expertise on this issue thanks thanks for having me. The president s of russia and the u. S. Have discussed the north Korean Nuclear crisis in a phone conversation thats according to a statement from the kremlin kenned more than half the details. Reports from moscow are indicating that a phone call took place between u. S. President donald trump and russias president Vladimir Putin and that the phone call was initiated at the request of the United States among the issues discussed was the crisis in the Korean Peninsula there was recently an escalation of tensions in the aftermath of north korea testing its highest ever reaching a long range missile at the same time in the southern part of the peninsula provocative military drills were being carried out by the United States in coordination with south Korean Forces we understood that there was a q. And a between russias president Vladimir Putin and the press in which he made clear he answered questions about north korea and about the possibility of the usa and russia working together to resolve the crisis on the Korean Peninsula do you think that cooperation on north korea could warm up u. S. Russia relations. Do you have to admit that you were very interesting people have you noticed that your congressman sentences who were nine suits and shirts who seem to be intelligent people they lump us together with north korea and iran but at the same time they push their president to resolve the Iran Nuclear Deal and the north korean crisis what is wrong with you people. Those who are optimistic about the possibility of the u. S. And russia cooperating to resolve the korean crisis should feel even more optimistic about the phone call. To the russian president s annual korean a from a near in the day not demand putin feel that close to four hours of nonstop questions from the press a correspondent was that. But the things that are particularly stupid out for me this time is that the share of questions that you might want to call challenging for White America about corruption about the silencing of political opponents in russia was perhaps a bit larger this time then previously he was indeed grilled about the lack of competition in russian politics and one question came from perhaps his direct opponent a person who wants to become a president ial candidate in russia in twenty train a subject thats a major issue for those who want to represent that nonsystem opposition they have to offer not a short lived and shrill agenda but a real one why is it so difficult to be an authorization maybe the government is frightened the fact competition by you to the opposition should present a program of positive action thats clear to the public do you want someone with the intentions of a coup to task weve seen this already do you want to list the return im sure that the overwhelming majority of citizens dont want it and will not let it happen. I mentioned corruption previously and in fact that is one of the things the current russian system of the government is often blamed for and yes a few times corruption was brought up a lot over putin said that hes not satisfied with whats going on he was asked specifically about corruption in Law Enforcement agencies the russian president says that people are being charged and there are investigations some people are being put in prison including government officials but he complained that new people come and things dont change but heres what he suggested in this particular sphere so that if you notice the word means two in the judicial well its not a secret but its a tough question and i cant say that im satisfied with how this work is being done one solution i can think of is like we have in the army we have rotation and someone serves for three or five years in one place then they are transferred somewhere else so maybe it makes sense to organize Something Like that in Law Enforcement to then the russian president went back to russia stance which has remained the same for quite a while that is calling on all sides to were framed from hostile actions i think this indeed sums up the highlights of the events for Everything Else you can go to our website and you tube channel other questions and answers by Vladimir Putin are available there. And of course president putin gave answers to some of the major issues and events at twenty seventeen including allegations of collusion with donald trump and the team from the winter olympics. How would you explain to americans the sheer number of contacts between the trump can be and your government. It was all made up by the people in opposition to trump in order to illegitimacy to his work i can on a. I find it strange it was made to almost appear like they had no knowledge this would damage the countrys domestic politics and deplete the ability of the elected head of state means that they do not respect the voters who cast their ballots in trumps favor trumps victory is entirely by inable through a fair number of well known social and Political Trends and had nothing to do with russia so yes there was a deliberate kind of attempt to blame russia rather than to engage in any kind of internal reflection or discussion about what actually happened in the election and why it was that clinton didnt win and its still going on. You are to make. My colleagues and i have said that its obvious that the scandal was inflated to fit russias domestic political calendar and no matter what anyone says just know thats the case but at the same time we should blame ourselves we gave a reason for these accusations they have indeed been cases of doping now there have been such cases in other countries but theyre not surrounded by this politicized uproar so theres no doubt that there is a political motivation behind it it does seem that russia has been singled out that you know theres a lot of doping going on across and then pick sports and cross sports in general but it does seem that you know this word state sponsored has been used in relation to russia to justify a ban on the whole team and on the russian flag and as today president putin said you know we bear a share of the guilt. And i think thats quite interesting because it creates a different impression its much less defensive and its in a way its. It creates a better impression i think than saying no no no were totally without any plan. Despite being essentially defeated in syria the minute situation remains tense its been revealed that russian and american jets in syria have been involved in yet another Close Encounter daniel reports the incident took place in Eastern Syria near the town of diem which is in the province of de resort on the Euphrates River it involved at least two russian jets and at least one american jet now what the Russian Ministry of defense is saying that two su twenty five. Escorting a humanitarian convoy to the western side of the Euphrates River the controlled by the Syrian Government backed up by the Russian Air Force when they were approached by a f. Twenty two american Stealth Fighter now the Russian Military spokesman said this fighter fired flares and used the rest of. Us to imitate a dogfight how boring the mission of the su twenty five at this point the russians say the su thirty five one of russias most advanced fighter jets to approach the f. Twenty two at which point the american plane swiftly left the area now what the americans are saying is quite different they say that they deployed two twenty two fighter jets to actually ward off the two russian jets who they say had crossed the euphrates line into the deep confliction though thats a zone established by the u. S. Military and the Russian Military who its worth noting of course are in syria without and with the Syrian Governments consent to avoid any such incident so they say it was the russians that were at fault for an incident they say last about forty minutes and put their own forces at risk. Now its worth noting that the u. S. And russian leaders have to have open channels of communication between themselves to stop such incidents happening concerned. Is that as the fire as against all is still against other jod its groups has not arrived in syria this is for these powers these act as these air forces into closer and closer proximity both sides of accuse each other of crossing the confliction lines of flying dangerously off saber rattling on the ground and the fear is that this could eventually lead perhaps to a more serious incident clashes continuing in the west bank the contested status of jerusalem story animal after this break. Its all the politicians who make people afraid that we have better relations with russia better relations with the United States only to enforce the law super on nationalism in brussels and the European Union that is the real reason and that is something i dont subscribe to. What politicians do. They put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Some want to press. You to going to press this is what the four three of the four people that im interested in the waters in the how. This should. Welcome back over a dozen palestinians have been injured in another round of clashes in the west bank as Israeli Police used tear gas against crowds throwing stones overnight on wednesday Israeli Forces say they also intercepted two rockets fired from gaza this week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the hamas is limited organization and it seen thousands of people in gaza which they control celebrating israel closed its checkpoints in the region for an indefinite period of time since last week when donald trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel violence between israeli authorities and Palestinian Protesters has been occurring daily the leaders of muslim nations are calling on the International Community to recognize East Jerusalem as the palestinian capital the organization of islamic cooperation met in response to the u. S. President heavily criticized move to recognize the ancient city as israels capital Donald Trumps decision on jerusalem led to unexpected consequences as well for example in the israeli city of nazareth authorities canceled Christmas Markets and festivities now south is considered to be the childhood home of jesus christ and of vital importance to christians local media have been quoting the citys man who says americas decision has taken away the joy of the celebration and Donald Trumps ruling on jerusalem affected his reputation globally too as nicky aaron explains. How much time do you think donald trump spent considering his move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel a decision which doesnt directly affect anyone apart from the u. S. And its ally but has tremors across the world in ways that washington perhaps didnt see coming the u. S. Loses its starring role in the middle east Peace Process in one swoop the president wait farewell to any hope that the United States can broker a diplomatic solution in the holy land from now on america is unwarranted in the Peace Process. From now on american mediation between israel and palestine is out of the question this process is over. The United States has chosen to lose its competency as mediator and disqualifies itself from play in a peaceful process the turkish president Takes Center Stage in the regional resistance to both the us and israel an extraordinary all muslim nations summit is hosted in istanbul by president who wasted no time in calling trumps decision no and void and branding israel a state of terror. Are you back in this country israel. Patient terrorism is that what you are defending even more violence and a possible third intifada from nine hundred eighty seven to ninety one and two thousand to two thousand and five the region saw two deadly palestinian uprisings against the Israeli Occupation known as the intifada us now we could be on the verge of a third slaughter in the name of allah firstly how mass is called on the Palestinian People to face the Israeli Occupation and adopt the blessid into fodder against that and the hateful and racist recognition of jerusalem into america river. Says its decision the Palestinian People were involved in a continuous battle and into fodder against the Israeli Occupation and we are calling for it to be escalated in the west bank occupied jerusalem and the garza strip against the occupation. A little over a week since trump announced his decision the tide has turned to us and the army a potential Natural Disaster no one was ready for. In a move to raise the International Pressure on iran the Us Ambassador to the u. N. Has shifted attention from terrans nuclear deal to its political Missile Program nikki haley produced pieces of a short range weapon during a presentation claiming that it was made in iran and fired by who the rebels in yemen saudi arabia we have said multiple times that this is not just about the Nuclear Program this is about Everything Else theyre doing because iran believes that they have been given a pass this evidence demonstrates a pattern of behavior in which iran sos conflict and extremism in direct violation of u. N. Security Council Resolutions this is from the last two or tax that we saw coming from yemen and so this is very recent this is not all these just happen and so that is the reason why we have the concern the nuclear deal is not something that were focused on now is focusing on the threat that iran is posing as we know it to argue is the evidence being presented by halleys fabricated us along with saudi arabia accuse iran of supplying weapons to yemens with the rebels however the u. N. Which has studied missile debris from the region couldnt confirm that they have rejuvenated from iran terror has reached repeatedly denied arming the hookey saying that such accusations are irresponsible and destructive nikki haley accused iran of violating Un Resolution two two three one it bans to iran from acquiring Ballistic Missiles capable of delivering Nuclear Weapons former cia officer ray mcgovern told us the u. S. I. Q. Stations against iran are groundless. This is the time to beat the drums against iran and the best thing they can find some missile parts the israelis and the saudis are out to put all kinds of pressure on iran for reasons well if theyre going to theyre going to accuse iran of fostering terrorism like no one else in the world when you look at the situation in yemen where the u. S. Supported saudi to tax have indiscriminately killed so many civilians as opposed to this one one rocket that was set and sent by the guccis into saudi arabia. To lend wherever it might if it was near an airport that was a piece of luck for them. If you do divert the conversation and you show a missile port well you have achieved a propaganda gain of some sort the western allies im not impressed. Last time round up of the news for now why dont you find us on social meter on facebook website about something dot com you will be back on the top of the hour with the top stories. Backstabbers financial survival guide. Housing bubble. 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B. O. The number of americans behind on their student loan payments jumped to four point six million in the Third Quarter of the year a figure thats doubled from four years ago and those in default meaning they havent made a payment any year grew by two hundred seventy four thousand during that same period according to the Education Department at this point the student debt balance in the u. S. Has sort of two one point three trillion dollars even with programs that help borrowers reduce their monthly bill or halt payments during tough times like being unemployed it also comes at a time when the u. S. Economy is considered to be doing rather well but as borrowers age and their default start impacting their ability to get a mortgage or other loans it could pose a big threat to the economy. Consumers across the nation are outraged