Hello and welcome to crosstalk were all things are considered im peter a little cash remember the phrase to honest people can disagree this concept as essentially been the bedrock of western civilization since the enlightenment its also the origins of the american 1st amendment cancel culture is putting all this in question are we now ruled by the hecklers. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Brad Blankenship in prague he is a freelance journalist as well as a journalist. And in bloomington we have Michael Kernis he is a r. T. Columnist and a comic book writer all right gentlemen crossed up or is an affair. That means you can jump in anytime you want and i was it was good and its going to bradford. You know it will be over the last few weeks watching this whole cancel culture phenomenon and i find it is a completely ludicrous anti intellectual and a historical. Antirational ok im a trained historian and i history is full of tragedies that were supposed to learn from ok not w
A hit and let me bring in mike here i mean we have a history you know critically when we look at an american context of what you shouldnt say offensive language you know im going to load that but now its right language what you should say now that is very different from our cultural tradition here and there but if people are going over the line now basically its mind control you can say this but you cant say that before you shouldnt say certain things that would be obviously universally agreed to be of like. Well and thats thats generally where we sit these days i think that in a lot of ways there is this sort of massive amount of offensive ideas that are not allowed to be spoken there verboten a sense you know you youre not allowed to say certain words youre not allowed to say certain phrases someone so forth. That we didnt even consider controversial 1015 years ago if someone if a celebrity is to say well one good example would be terry crews was to say you know fatherlessness is an
Biontech, seeing a bounce. We know that pfizer is not a hype company its a big conservative company. When it sees things that are not working it is quick to say it. When it sees things that are working it is long to say it in other words, this is not a company that is a brag Guard Company so i am very surprised to see them come out this early. They must feel a level of confidence that is extraordinary versus what they typically do. David, youve known pfizer for very long, you know that pfizer is one of those companies that i guess you would regard as stodgy and certainly not a company that likes to get ahead of itself no. You would have to put it in that category, i think, so it is interesting that this has been shared as meg said and as we know 24 patients, jim, is not a lot. Very positive it would appear at this point i think always important to mention, though, that when we talk about a vaccine we are talking about the need for largescale trials as soon as possible because, of cours
Approaching Dangerous Levels in places like texas, florida and arizona with covid19 cases accelerating at a rapid pace. Health experts warn the country is running out of time to control the virus whitney wild now has the latest from washington. The numbers are shocking the United States recorded more than 50,000 coronavirus cases wednesday. The highest number of new infections tracked in a single day since the pandemic began. Federal Officials Say the spike is due to an increase in cases and not solely an increase in testing there is no question that the more testing you get the more you will uncover, but we do believe this is a real increase in cases because the percent positive a teaser going up 23 states are now pausing or changing plans to reopen economies. Arizona california, north carolina, tennessee and texas all reported new single day record highs wednesday. This is whats frustrating right now is that people arent taking it as a search everybody thinks with false hope that is
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest ray mcgovern in raleigh hes a former cia analyst and president ial briefer and in lansing we have steve gerber he is the host of the earth are joining us now cause and effect that means you can jump in he time you want and i was ok let me go to you 1st here are mikes discussed a lot in my i have composed a lot of questions of mind reduction lets start without a list and it speaks only so i can understand in our viewers going to spend why does the United States remain in afghanistan after the president of the United States running on a campaign a campaign trying to get out of afghanistan were almost 4 years later were still there so why are we still there but if you will obama was going to get out of afghanistan as well remember it was a dumb war. Well look the answer short answer is that they cant. Then i think control. No president s have to do so what we call the National Security state or deep state requires and if you look at a map you