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The left is on a search and destroy mission and progressive outlets will give plenty of outrage to announce the new rules when the goal justifies all means so when the day comes that the world feels return to its normal axis i expect well see fewer highly charged encounters making headlines in the mean time the new rules apply if youre directly complicit in spreading hate or pitcher waiting suffering maybe you should consider dining at home now showing a satire piece or nigel for raj where the braggs a tear gets a head shot from the sniper is fine well its a joke after all except imagine a conservative channel joking around killing a leftwing i can for instance but as an undisputable force of good you dont waste your time talking with the enemy trump said that there are bad people on both sides and he was heavily criticized but i think he was absolutely right to left they cry foul when there is any source or negative techniques used against them but when they use the same techniques and actually go further and employ violence to mitigation and harassment on a mass scale a lot of cases using social media. So that they believe that there is just if you call everyone a nazi then no one is a nazi or no one is or isnt is a genuinely legacys force that she makes it more likely for forces like fascists to rise and challenge the left isnt forcing a new order and by the new rules the gloves are off when dealing with dissidents. Thanks to International Aid i think you can get in touch and share your views on all of our stories by following us on social media and were back in 30 minutes with the latest see the. Readings and salyut asians the United States celebrates its 243rd birthday this week on july the 4th and like all busy great u. S. Holidays and the President Donald Trump era. Not even our birthday is without controversy washington d. C. Is buzzing this week up with the Washington Post revealed that according to sources trump is asking for military tanks on the National Mall as proud of the grandiose july 4th event yes it appears that this years planned festivities on the National Mall could be taking a very militaristic turn over the normal red white and blue burgers brocks and beer flag waving fireworks extravaganza normally is Rolling Stone reports that the donald is act actually been receiving regular briefings about it from interior secretary David Bernhardt and that the president has advised on just about every aspect of the event says that x. Which should be gets his wish will indeed beacher tanks or other armed military vehicles stationed around the mall cue the outrage but its not just tanks trump and the gang are also reportedly planning a military fly over including not only the blue angels but air force one as well along with the usual and along with the usual National Mall fireworks displays president trumps planned salute to america will also feature the man himself giving a speech to all of us huddled masses democratic majority leader in the house of representatives stony hoyer and other democrats are naturally calling foul in a letter to the administration they wrote that the events will give an appearance of be televised the partisan Campaign Rally on the mall at public expense frankly thats not what july 4th is about so it does present trouble militarizing our holidays to ramp up national jingoism in an effort to boost his Reelection Campaign lets find some answers and start watching the hawks. Would you. Like. To. See. What they like you know that i got. The police. I. Was the one watching the auxiliary military role in downtown. So youre ready for this july 4th im not going anywhere near a military from the bowl potentially i would rather go to the mall that the oscars are held in. And get an Orange Julius on oscar night than go to the mall and deal with us no absolutely not if this is i mean theres something new about the idea of sort of having these you know military like parades like i get it i get the july i think its strange that it came so quickly like this why wouldnt you do that the 1st year why when youre salute america your 1st scared off as why did you wait until youre getting reelected but i think whats interesting is peoples outrage about that i mean for me on my you know whatever doesnt come out of that i feel because the idea that this is somehow like new with trump i think is interesting and my favorite former pentagon and state Department Spokesman under president obama. Mr kirby actually to he did he ordered military fly overs for his big speech on the 4th now according to the Washington Post trump is pushing for military attack this is who we are we should be better than this and far above this sort of crap. I hate to break it but this is exactly who we are. Welcome to do you see where i like 75 percent of the people Walking Around are being paid in some fashion by a military Industrial Complex how much of our money goes to pay for all of this out how much of our safety goes away to make sure these people get more money for planes that fall out of the sky i mean im sure. We are right it does nothing for me i mean i sort of. I understand democrats side hey youre turning this what should be a National Celebration that could potentially turn into one big Campaign Rally i get that criticism i understand but. I mean im not a fan i dont want to see tanks on the streets here in washington d. C. But at the end of the day. The fact that people are outraged how dare he celebrated military life this is. So the former military guy who didnt know that nato is an anti Russian Organization thank you lets not play this like i dont know the military how scary we celebrate the military. Vehicles constantly in this country in this country i mean weve got fighter jets fly over Football Games all the time. Troll or at the pentagon estimates that just in 2018 we spent 1700000000. 00 and heres the key word advertising for the military 1700000000. 00. We spend 750000000000 on the the budget for the planning to in the year 2020 thats what they want to try to spend 750000000000 for the military 2020. More than half of u. S. Discretionary spending in our budgets goes to the u. S. Military but were not a jingoistic society you know we dont were not over here trumpeting the military often thats all we do its absolutely. But whats interesting is. This is what you said earlier this isnt the 1st time this has been pushing for this since but still this year so this is still day parade in france which is a layer of this because if we were in the french revolution trump would be the 1st person drugs from his home and products. Like the idea that that was the thing that really made him excited. Also theres the problem with this whole thing is bringing this was brought up before when he wanted to do a military parade here and try to do what the french said heres the problem our tanks will rip up every street in d. C. And if youve been do you see the streets are bad enough already so unless theyre ripping them up so that they can more easily replace the day after. Im sorry but i think that my ancestors who fought in the revolutionary war helped get us that independence that we are so celebrating this weekend would sort of roll their eyes at the whole thing the idea of trial of tanks rolling down and this sort of weird. Monarchy thats happening over here with you know. The one other thing that kind of upset me about this too is that the whole sanction off the area from the leg of the 1st half of the from like the front of the. Lincoln memorial back about half way down on the. Half way down the reflecting pond is all the payoff for you gave enough some america. A series of plans but unpermitted marches by far right and far left organizations classed clashed both with each other and police this weekend in Portland Oregon leaving at least one journalist 3 Police Officers and over a dozen civilians injured demonstrations were planned by the Patriot Prayer proud boys and men Rights Groups him to which were then counter process protested by a number of and to follow groups while police try to separate the groups to avoid violence it seems according to portland p. D. That the groups in Chapman Square and loosed in park square merged then began marching toward Waterfront Park this is when an unpermitted march was impeding vehicular traffic for a short time it was then that fights and assaults broke out as at least 5 separate regional and national far right and far left groups converged in this convergence and de niro and editor and photojournalist frustrating in online magazine the quill it was attacked by those identifying with the antiphon movement this isnt the 1st time and you know has been harassed or attacked and protesters and literally it is twitter bio that they hate him it isnt even the 1st time that its been caught on camera however it does shine a light on the fact that no matter what actually happened this week and years of media conglomerates turning our Political Landscape into a sporting event has had its consequences. Really observations all this does feel like it all feels like teams it feels like instead of going to the park on saturday and playing bob t. Ball or doing your dart league youre like oh lets go march against nazis so lets go be nazis lets go do this you know look i just dont think they take it very seriously to be honest the thing is to lose its like youre show me these reports you know we look at. All these reports were looking at the video and all but the thing that really jumped out at me too was my own after the initial thing happened and everyone went crazy on twitter talking about it was the amount of dishonesty that came out of it the amount of half truths that got cycled out right media sphere the blogosphere and all that like what were some of the biggest ones that you saw that was really one of the biggest ones i think was this the milkshake harry so you know about him a few weeks ago nigel faraj in the u. K. Had a milkshake thrown on him so that became a big thing became a sort of protest thing about throwing milkshakes you know promo tricks on all the not. So a group had brought them there and giving us these good milkshakes by the way these are big and milkshakes. There were reports that were brought in that were sent in during the protests of the portland t. V. That said that these little liberal protesters connected to and before were handing out milkshakes laced with quick dry cement to throw it. So it turned out thats not true there was no quick dry cement they never found one and the problem with the as that these things were being handed out and people were drinking it was part of a shake back the streets people were drinking the milk shake so if you would put it. There were times that people films people had him thrown in their face with andy no heres the thing this is someone who in a sweater bio says and if i hate. He goes to these and he puts himself in situations where hes filming them and hes in the middle of these things and like i said theres many you get the same reactions whenever he goes there to do at his gig as he shows up they dont like he says hes allowed to be there the whole thing happened but when you look at this i mean i dont see the point of this what does this tell anyone does that suddenly make an. Do andy know who suddenly everything he writes is pointless and oh my gosh who is ever going to follow him again it just it all of it feels so childish and when you watch the video of a bunch of these quote unquote to 5 protesters which heres my thing about that i never trust a Grassroots Political Organization or any kind of movement that comes out of nowhere and most everybody involved with that is wearing a mask because ive read and ive done my research on the cia doing that in the fiftys and sixtys and seventys to everyone from you know black power movements to students organizations and the fact that youre out there doing that and purposely saying i am going to cause problems makes me believe more than nothing more than anything else that these people out there are there to cause a problem to make a political point. Because they may be part of Something Else and im mad thats right everyone the proud boy and whatever are meant to all of it theres something not right about any of these organizations extremism versus extremism isnt going to solve any problems at the end of the day i think you made a great point tablets like you know throwing milkshakes and throwing all this stuff on this on this writer and king about like you said thats not going to change his views thats not going to change that was really you know and the one thing that gets me that if im sorry we talked about earlier you made a great point to me earlier that i have to commend you for is i dont see them out in the soup lines given out soup to the homeless i dont see and make in peoples lives a better deal as hamburgers did the black panthers at the only time i see and depose when theyre dressed in black causing a ruckus at a protest now they did do some good things you know theyve done some good things like protecting people during a protest the got heated but i dont see them doing in thing outside of that all i see is just extremism met with extremism and people fighting each other in the streets one really have to try to figure it out doesnt going to solve this worlds problems im sorry all right as we go to break cork watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics weve covered a place called you tube or twitter and be sure to check out watching the box the podcast album spotify apple music and everywhere listen to your podcast and of course of course do not forget to see our poll shows about dot com coming up we delve into the world of the corporate with the hijacking of Grassroots Movements with author and journalist through the day to those who are watching. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy one sunday shouldnt let it be an arms race on sunday school very Dramatic Development the only and. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to see. Him talk. Much emotion the sounds of combs that she used in the wrong way carry carried potential like any any psychoactive substances. But used in the right way they seem to have quite a. Profound sort of piece of potential and of course you could say strikes on the one of. The United States of america was built on a Grassroots Movement of watchers what started as a small grassroots set of demonstrations against over taxation grew into a Boston Tea Party and then evolved into a full on revolution and eventually saw the birth of a brand new country but Grassroots Movements for change the United States didnt and in 776 from the fight for unions and womens rights we attain hundreds to the Civil Rights Movement in the ninetys fiftys and sixtys to the 21st century is occupy wall street black lives matter Grassroots Movements are in interwoven fabric of u. S. Political history one could argue that they are one of the purest forms of political expression but what happens when a Grassroots Movement is coopted by the very power it seeks to change or even worse started by those very powers in order to influence Public Opinion in favor of a corrupt government or corporation well thats called astroturfing and it is one of the many themes journalist photographer and author jason business explores and his new book fake politics how corporate government groups create and maintain a monopoly on truth and he joins us today now from new york city to take us down the rabbit hole a fake politics thank you for joining us jason. Thanks for having me yes jason i think just so people get my view of what this is what what is astroturfing when you see it in politics and can you give our audience sort of a real world example of the scene used in our political system. Will typically rather than simply throwing money at a campaign or doing a lot of the things that wealthy people do to influence politics that they would like to see come to fruition this reset up of a much Deeper Network of advocacy it could be think tanks that are often cited in studies that are conveniently towards one goal thats on the more common things. The examples range from a single issue big tobacco trying to delay regulation to bigger sustain campaigns like the Koch Brothers pretty much holding back climate legislation for going on 2 decades one thing you mentioned major corporations have also used this sort of astroturf and to push their agenda you brought up the idea of tobacco corporations but how does that work in a in a corporate world and and who are besides a big tobacco who are some of the biggest offenders. Big tobacco definitely is very good at what they do. Gas Companies Walmart had instance in the book its basically i mean you got to keep my never breaking the law but its greatly dishonest it can be through p. R. Companies it can be through blogs but its easier now than ever because the internet has democratized information. And thats whats so interesting is that its so simple i think people get is that there their own idea is that you think kind of what grew up in your own head largo are kind of support this right really like this it could be something thats completely influenced by these kind of behind the scenes operators and youre suddenly now