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how did we get here? well, the war in iraq went sideways and there were never any wmds. katrina exposed how unprepared we were for natural disasters. and then a great recession cooked up by bankers left the country in a huge hole. and not a single one of these crooks went to jail for it. we re losing faith in our institutions because they keep failing us. and in other cases these institutions are being destroyed on purpose. a new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the police. this started in ferguson. they told us an unarmed black man was killed by a police officer while he had his hands up. remember? the riots over hands up, don t shoot? turns out it was a hoax. then george floyd s death created the defund the police movement that caused the a crime wave. even less, americans trust the medical system. people don t like getting billed by insurance monopolies and we don t like being drugs we don t need by doctors who are compensated by drug co ....
through our tragedies. and while the nation mourns the seven people dead after monday s mass shootings of dozens of parade goers in the highland park illinois, the shooter in that case, though in custody and looking at life in prison, because otherwise unharmed. even after an intense police man hunt following the massacre. two states over, in akron ohio, protesters has stretched into the second week spread by the fatal police shooting of jayland walker last month and driven by the grim body cam footage showing the moment akron police wounded walker. more than 60 times after karen fauci s last month. two tragedies of gun violence. to glaringly different outcomes. and i will talk to akron s congresswoman, in just a moment. about what her constituents have to say about that difference. what they want from the states investigations into walker s death. and two weeks after the reversal of roe v. wade, how is the escalating abortion rights battle impacting her district and ot ....
i am live. a profound and for many painful changes over the last year. i am alive in the spiritual heartland of the taliban where there power still resides. we will have guests in kabul and the united welcome to this special programme the fall of kabul: one year on. 12 months ago the taliban took control of the the capital of afghanistan kabul. the western backed government collapsed and the world watched in disbelief. it came in the weeks leading up to the 15th of august the taliban advanced rapidly across the country, seizing province after province as afghanistan s military collapsed. their victory, the chaotic evacuation of afghans and foreigners the images of desperate afghans clinging to a us military plane taking off from kabul airport was a moment of reckoning for the west. in the next hour we ll look at what was promised by taliban leaders 12 months ago and the state of afghanistan now. first lets look back at these pictures from a year ago which shocke ....
rest of it. despite all the warnings i don t know whether people are taking this as seriously as they ought to. clearly organisations like network rail who are saying don t travel unless you have two on monday and tuesday, we have heard warnings throughout the day on bbc news channel, on the radio, and everywhere else, and from health experts explaining that this is as dangerous and we should take this red dollar as seriously as we do when we get a red alert about high winds or bad weather. i think it is going to be hard for people but we ve never had this temperature in this country. it is dangerous. we don t have the infrastructure to deal with it. you know, rhodes could melt, tarmac can melt, train tracks can buckle. it s going to be pretty difficult but it s only for a couple of days, but people do need to take it seriously. of days, but people do need to take it seriously- it seriously. that s a good point, when we see it seriously. that s a good point, when we ....
began. and where the conservative majority, super majority, frankly, on this court, is taking us. we all know our country has three branches of government. each branch is supposed to restrain the others from exercising too much power their checks and balances. that is actually how all this is supposed to work, but the supreme court is acting as if it has no restraints and as if it is the sole decider with its decision in west virginia versus , which on thursday, limited the epa s ability of regulating emissions that cause climate change. as justice elena kagan s dissent, the court does not know how to address climate change, but the quarter points itself, instead of congress or the expert agency, as a decision-maker on climate policy. i cannot think of many things more frightening. unquote. also can t think of anything more frightening than a rogue supreme court whose ruling has run roughshod over the role of congress, the executive branch, prior to court precedents. ....