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Swirling around us president Donald Trumps decision to pull u. S. Forces from the turkey syria border and like always the donald took to twitter over the weekend to defend his decision tweeting that according to mark esperanto the u. S. Secretary of defense the ceasefire is holding up very nicely there are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly new areas being resettled with the kurds trump went on to exclaim in the now deleted tweet usa soldiers are not in combat or cease fire zones we have secured the oil bringing soldiers home. But not actually really. You see there is reason that our brand name and she deleted the tweet 1st as many critics rightfully pointed out the u. S. Secretary to punch his last name is not as wiranto its actually a spur and 2nd those u. S. Troops are not coming home from n. B. C. Day b. C. And all the various news outlets in between they are now reporting that the punch secretary mark asked her esper said late saturday that all of the nearly 1000 u. S. Troops pulling out of Northern Syria will now had to western iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State militants so unless we are now counting iraq as our 51st state maybe sorry but no one is coming home mr president a victory day it is not in fact we are far from pulling troops out of the middle east as this map shows our military is entrenched there in 10 Different Countries to the tune of about 60000 troops. My friends under these war hawks are men and women in uniform arent leaving the middle east for a very very long time and that tragedy is why we are watching the hawks. That the. Real thing is. If. You. Like you know that i got. This. World were going to watching the ox i am i robot. Tell. Shock i know you know what i hate you dont hate more than war hawks i mean war hawks who dress themselves as peaceniks and you know like donald trump is right like oh im. Bringing all the soldiers home i swear im bringing the soldiers home but not really. Really in the least as the british soldiers old yeah and i dont think weve got the oil not supposed to say that part out loud in the middle of one of those bones. So as you with one of the things thats really. Interesting its terrifying and unsettling but defense secretary caspar had said he told reporters that he spoke to iraqi leaders about the plan to move about a 1000 american troops from syria to iraq which currently already has 5000 u. S. Soldiers stationed there and the u. S. Is also considering leaving some of those troops behind some troops behind in syria and secure oil fields as yet in the region. They dont want them to fall into the sands of. As mixed a or assad or somebody else somehow i dont now im just its like its not our oil fields its not our area to be and i dont know that theres really i mean this is this is a bit of a cluster it is not a. Bad cluster of people who all have certain agendas and at the center of either the kurds and all of these organizations that are just trying to find a safe place. To start with you know who its syrias loyal its very loyal and you know you know its kind of would be a thing of like so were going to stay behind to secure oil fields that dont belong to or anybody you know ok yeah great when you look at the amount of u. S. Troops you know in the middle eastern area earlier i mean you talk and you have some problem and so theres between 6270000 u. S. Troops throughout the middle east i mean just for an example unlike countries that we know saudi arabia we know you know the big ones but look at this jordan has roughly 20 795000 troops supporting them supposedly the defeat of isis theres 13 of 13000. 00 u. S. Troops and carter and theyre talking about expanding the base there. I have 1000 u. S. Troops in the United Arab Emirates the tiny Little Nation youre near to the strait of hormuz its incredible when you think about the amount of u. S. Military operations going on there the is anybody excited to have was there is there is there any real reason to be there beyond just you know the standard talking and you know the standard oh we need to stop terrorism not really really well i mean i think that is an idea but the truth is that such a large part of the world and it does in some ways because there isnt good Foreign Policy in between nations in that area there needs to be somebody to sort of be the peacemaker i just dont think its us were clearly clearly weve seen it in the end time after time with you know whether its the middle east or china that theres a certain Cultural Divide that were not willing at least our Foreign Policy wonks arent willing to understand or get to understand understand why this is a problem or why we dont get the support or why people are potatoes out as like you know we have to learn more and understand the cultures were going into if we want to actually help them and if you dont have a desire to do that you should probably get out of that and we have to stop with the whole nation building finger of the spread of democracy by the barrel of a gun we dont even have money to take care of our 50 states we dont need 515253 no and lets not for good knowing history and starting to you know the whole thing the whole reason behind Osama Bin Laden is you know quote unquote war against the United States is because of our military presence in saudi arabia which trump just send another you know 1800 some 2000 more troops to saudi arabia in order to supposedly you know stop the threat of iran i mean its absolutely ridiculous where you live when you have all these kind of paper tigers they put in front of just a paper justifications they put it very well this is why we have to be there was why we have to be there whether this is an excuse to be there and to. Pay for a bunch of military equipment that nobody really needs thatll just end up in the hands of people. Well well have to spend more getting more military equipment to go and get it back from people who shouldnt have in the 1st place because we left there its the its the frankenstein syndrome we create the problem and then we feed the problem and then we have to talk about how we need to create more problems to stop the problem we were joined created right absolutely ridiculous and never quite works. Because of the Westminster Magistrates Court on monday it was tears cheers and rejection for wiki leaks founder Julian Assange as he appeared before district judge the nasa barrett search for a Case Management hearing on his potential extradition to united stage a song just barrister mark summers pleaded with the court asking for 3 months later the full extradition hearing in order to have time to properly to paris and prepare a songes defense joining us now is our to america correspondent there in france and who has been following this story all day thanks for joining us here guy so theres a lot of angles to this story especially with julius on his lawyer hes accusing actually the United States of attempting to kidnap and harm at the wiki leaks founder saying that there was a man that came into his office that were actually. Barged into his home with hoods on a little crazy but aside actually he lost a bid to delay his perceiving so that his legal team would have more time to prepare his case but the judge says its on justified because its already a very very slow moving case now again with it being unjustified the editor of the now acting out or in chief of wiki leaks says that the ruling is anything but fair take a listen. Julian. This super power has a 10 years to prepare the case and for the last 6 months hes been sitting in the most prison without any access to documents legal documents. Other computers will own words can that be thats easily understood each not old. So as you saw there outside of the courtroom there was a handful of Julian Assange supporters including the former mayor of london who is actually on julius on his side now protesters they were coming as far as france australia all to defend the 48 year old again u. S. Authorities they accused of scamming with the former Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to break a password for a classified government computer publishing leaks detailing the u. S. Secret Drone Program about 2 weeks ago i remember seeing that video of Julian Assange where he was in the embassy and they were actually calling in saying that that you know mark the 7 years of him being there of those arrest back in april weve had you know the likes of Pamela Anderson saying that he is you know kind of not kind of losing his mind but now he has been. But jail for 50 weeks in the u. K. Prison since may after he skipped bail by seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london to avoid extradition to sweden where he was wanted in connection with sex crimes allegations but again this is the extradition case that theyre now not going to give him any time to go or thats incredible so do we know where you know what state is he in i mean like i know weve heard from a lot of people have weve seen i know weve seen some footage is it really bad i mean you look well he looks well i mean they they said that he quote looks healthy and the sense that he shaved his beard that he you know was clean like he showered in everything but when it came down to actually his mental state they said it was very very difficult for him to even recall what his name was when the judge actually asked you know do you know why this is happening he said reportedly not really and that hes unable to think properly he says that he cant get to any of his writings he cant Research Anything he doesnt have a computer so thats kind of where hes at at this point as far as this mental state which is mix of impossible for someone who truly you know can prepare or before himself or his representatives to purge affirm someone of julians mind has degraded their smokes from the incarceration remember you. The u. N. Because there was a form of torture what they were doing to them not only in the Ecuadorian Embassy but now also you know under under you know we have jail today. Is this case go they did there said ok were not giving you the extension to properly form your case of the mercs you know were not giving you a 3 months away what happens next with the extradition right until like the reason that its lawyer was actually calling for a 3 month extension was because he said that there with the evidence in this case it its because it would test the limits of most lawyers and saying that this case is going to set the precedent for other journalists out there who are going to be leakers and you know the United States has had since 20 time to get their case together he hasnt you know its been hard for him to get a computer his lawyer its hard for him to even reach him in prison and this isnt the 1st time weve seen a case like this we have daniel hale going on right now where his home was raided back in 2015 im sorry 5 years ago he was just indicted this year so its kind of like a long stretch that these you know leakers were the government has but as far as whats happening next the u. S. Is seeking to bring Julian Assange to face espionage charges here hes going to have a handful of Court Hearings in november in december but theyre going to have his extradition for a 5 day court ruling period in late february 2020 well lets remember Chelsea Manning is still in jail and therefore. Im not. Simply. Read to going on the stand and repeating things she was already said in relation to this case and as we say its more and more pushing back on anybody who might tell an uncomfortable truth and lets remember the real uncomfortable truth here right now is is the Hillary Clinton passed to emails or knowledge about this means its the embury he embarrassed the wrong people right ron and itll be itll be really interesting to see because i do agree with his lawyer where this is the case thats going to probably see the. Thank you so much for coming on i was opposed to all right as we go to break dont forget to let us know what you think the topics are to be sure to check out watching the hawks podcast which is now available on the spot of music and everywhere you listen to your favorite or not so favorite podcast coming up with unprecedented protests and uprisings taking place around the world long kong to barcelona is a time to cite a time of societal cultural change is upon us with i just sleep camp and National Director of the movement for people to make bread and joins us to discuss before we go chinese ping pong prodigy leak at just 5 years old she is serving up some fire on that table top of our look at that. 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On october 18th and lebanon a 1000000 protesters marched on the president ial palace and declared a revolution this was in response to a failing currency lack of jobs for younger generations an unfair tax is just a name a few of the reasons the lebanese were in the streets however the lebanese arent the only ones from barcelona to chile ecuador to hong kong haiti to london whether its to save the environment or democracy the power of protestors and the air heres a look at just a little bit of the poor protest coverage we here at r. T. Have brought to you from around the world well this is a National Edition and it says massive march of independence for the freedom of the damned and this one says violent groups spread chaos in the center of barcelona barcelona has become the at the center of the Separation Movement and is literally on fire alfre day so what weve seen today is the indigenous communities thousands and thousands of people that came from different parts of ecuador here to the comfortable to protest even though this march and rally has been banned by the Hong Kong Police citing past incidents where marches or go. By the same group have ended with violence people have been out in full force for the better part of the afternoon while hundreds if not to more than a 1000 students of turned out for this protest today im happy i began thanks to the admission process is due to change here in florence. Joining us now to better understand why we protest and how it can make a lot more difference than any election can as the host of the hard hit r. T. America comedy news show reacted to nightly campaign on the National Director of the movement for a Peoples Party thanks for joining us i am protesting this segment lover but i was going to. Put it this is amazing that we have 13 major protests. Probably many more happening around the world you know hit number than from from taxes to school fees all the way up to complete in the president s reform or colonise or what youre seeing in haiti and things like that theyre going to ask you 1st why do you think that we are seeing this much uprising and protest at this time all around the world yeah i think its a combination of primarily 2 factors i think 1st its a global rebellion against austerity policies neoliberal capitalism and the 2nd is you know an inequality which is growing too insane levels with i think its 80 people now i believe its down to 26. 00 people as much as. The bottom half of the world and then the 2nd factor is the internet which has empowered people to connect and mobilize faster than ever before leaders thats what do you think whats changed for something you you know followed activism activism and protests for a very long time i havent seen this kind of thing probably just since the run up to the 2nd iraq war works this global and even though theyre disconnected theyre not really at the end of the barrier goodrick was saying you know many of them are not just connected it is immense inequality and i think hes right there with the internet which was a lot what allowed occupy to become maybe the 1st global production. Wed ever seen quite in that in that way and now were seeing at least in the u. S. But i think in a lot of countries trying to tamp down that ability of protesters to coordinate online. But i think nick you missed the 3rd reason which is Climate Change is wrapped up in a lot of this and i know you dont care about Climate Change. Or talk about it but it is important. Because a lot of a lot of these countries that people are dealing with you know their crops are failing Food Shortages water shortages and those just amplified criticisms that were already there. I was just leaving something through. Me a little bit and say well i think its really interesting that saying the same issues that youre seeing across the world ive seen when i was recently wisconsin talking to farmers same thing yeah there are there this has started to protest madison or washington because they see how bad it is and theyre saying the same problems everyone else that were not paying attention to the climate there were not paying attention to things Like Mental Health were not taking care of our citizens and thats one of the things i think thats makes the u. S. The stance on protests so strange to me and i think to a lot of people especially over the last year or so last couple of years. Extension rebellion as you said was it was this Environmental Activism it was a big thing and that was also Standing Rock but Standing Rock sort of begat a 1000000 bills to stop people from protesting to the a. C. L. U. Here in the u. S. State legislators in at least 2020 states proposed bills and 2017 that would restrict peoples right to protest ultimately about half of those sort of got stuck in. Just that like legislative development hell that they go to but a couple of them one through and theres ones that are still being pushed. How do we make sense of that why do you think also with you why is the u. S. The one. Playing with that you should never see her tails on speech freedom and yet were constantly allowing at how well i it is the our criminal Justice System has been captured by the ruling elite by the oligarchy and they are Standing Rock scared the hell out of them as did occupy and so they basically look at those things and they say how do we make sure this never happens again so you know and there are other countries where protesters are routinely beaten arrested and disappeared and all that crap so its not like the horrible things dont happen in other countries but i think we have a unique situation in the level that corporations have taken over our our democracy for the you know if we ever had one and our ruling structures and so it does come down to whether people are willing to get the numbers to fight against these changes the changing of laws i think its something to works like the reason that it stands out so much here is the were the ones who are always thumping our chest saying look at. You know this really rather its the sales motto never is true. You know theres an interesting angle to this layout of the ask you both both as well as that you know theres always calls the protesters or violent and want to cause damage and you know theyre disrupting everything. If you murder the instant access a lot of the jobs i dont as me like cant i wonder weve seen multiple instances now that best occasions were a lot of the violent protesters that you see causing a lot of the damage in protests around the world and here in the states are protesters at all and actually have nothing to do with the movement the representing how do you recognize as legitimate protesters from the protesters who are really you know the outside agitators either theyre just to cause trouble or theyre specifically for the reason to cause trouble how do we tell the difference its been studied pretty extensively actually theres a long scholarship on it and its actually developed a lot in the past decade and that is on the best way to produce rapid change and that. Nonviolent civil disobedience Erica Chenowith is a professor who came out with a report that said that if you can achieve no movement in the 20th century that achieved 3. 5 percent mobilization active mobilization of the citizens failed to achieve its goals and she also found that nonviolent movements were far more successful than others and so often times which you see is governments infiltrating movements in an attempt to provoke movements to violence or small segments of or perhaps breakaways of a movement and you know people not affiliated with the trying to commit that violence to give the whole movement a bad name and to justify state repression. The way we look at violence the way our media tells us to look at oh theyre violent protesters well immense inequality is violence taking people to water would lead is violent stealing their homes or foreclosure and destroying lives is violence so all those things should be called violence instead of just someones a rock through a window or the one of the things i was a member is they like to go back to you know the. Smart and no one ever really talks about the story behind what happened in baltimore which is that the police were violent and hostile to them they literally shoved them into a corner and so they had no other choice that they could even get home you can get their parents they literally had police pushing them into exactly where they were and thats the kind of violence i wish to talk about i mean time and time again in all of these countries and provoking all of these protests another theme underlying them is that governments and corporations are always responsible for the greatest violence and the greatest crimes against the people and when people respond you know i mean the whole concept of war is an organized legalized form of violence by states and yet we separate that from you know someone someone attacking someone else on the street you know individually or a c. V. S. Or. A really important ends it is a as well so you can do going to sling. Because weve all been watching this now do you think that were at the turning point are we going to see dramatic change were going to see these are going to start making a difference are going to see governments actually changing i mean you had 25000 people show up to a rally for british as a massive number of people or really are these protests all around the world friends ever are or are they going to actually accomplish what theyre setting up to do you go there. Saying that question i think i think that they can i think that were empowered with organizing tools that weve never had before and i also think that in terms of the question of you know when is this going to come to the u. S. In the way that weve seen in other places i mean it hasnt puerto rico where you saw it was about a quarter of the entire territory came out against the governor just a few months ago and so i think what what has not happened here is what has happened in these other countries that has provoked massive protests and that is that there has been a build up over many years and many decades in fact of economic pressure exacerbated by Climate Change. And its reached the point where you know its kind of waiting for that last straw that breaks the camels back and when that happens that kind of triggering event that last insult whether it is in santiago chile raising the fair prices of the metro you know in a country of such tremendous inequality already in france you know it was the fuel tax and so i think were missing that trigger i got to go thank you both for coming on im sorry that we couldnt keep this conversation go longer but you know pleasure as always in the green room great work out there both both your respective crews they do so much thanks. Joyful sorrowful glorious and their minister no one not talking about the mysteries of the catholic rosary im talking about the mysteries of the Catholic Church is a rosary thats right that is good news reports that the new click to pray to rosary wearable device is just the thing to get those coveted teens back into praying maybe by gadget tack not caring. 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