Youre watching R T International coming to you straight from the russian capital 247 welcome to the program this hour. Moscow says that it fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that russian Opposition Leader and expand on it was poisoned by a nerve agent a spokesperson Dmitri Peskov also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor havent discussed the issue on wednesday berlin announced it had found traces of never choke on the volley meanwhile the president of belarus has claimed that the countrys Security Forces have intercepted a call which cast doubt on berlins poisoning allegations. We have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds its all a full sophistication. Didnt take place. They have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. The kremlin says it has no details on the claims as of yet and they have not been verified the german chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke about the c
To get there we are going to bring up the filings of irwins. Youve heard of this one right. He says imagine i have a box that is sealed in some radioactive source like the ukrainian we stopped before. They can detect when the source permits up particle. When it does, it will open a box. Gas will come out of the box. It is cyanide in the cat dies. As his daughter once said i think i. Dot my dad just didnt like cats. I see no reason to kill a cat. I think im gonna undo the decades of cat killing the has been a favorite pastime. When you havent yet opened the box. He invented his equation. At the time he didnt have this interpretation of the equation that you got the proper ability of something. I wish i have nothing to do with this. He did not return the nobel prize the wave function of the detectives is in the superposition. And having open and have a knot. His results in conclusion from this surely you dont believe that thats what really happened that thats what his own equation says.
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Values. At this time let me introduce the participants of the asked discussion today entitled theed battlegrounds of perception, courtneying threats to free and open societies. Ion heresy ali is a refrp fellow at the Hoover Institution. Served as a had minister of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006. While in parliament she focused on furthering the integration of nonwestern immigrants into Dutch Society and on defending the rights of muslim women. Larry diamond sat senior fellow at the hoover stumts and the institute for international studies. For more than six years he directed fsi center on Democracy Development and the rule of law. Where he now leads the program on arab reform and dpkz and the Global Digital policy incubator. H. R. Mckaufrt is a senior flow at the hoover stiegs 26th assistant to the president for the National Security affairs and served as a commissioned officer in the United States army for 34 years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in june of 2018. The m
peter boghossian, welcome to hardtalk. i think we have to begin with that word woke . it is so widely used now. i am mindful that its origins in the united states were amongst the black community who insisted, demanded that people should wake up, get woke to injustice. now, that s a positive. you invest the word with a great deal of negativity why? it s not that i invest the word with a great deal of negativity. it s that it s become a catchword. we can use other words. helen pluckrose from the author of cynical theories called it. a british writer and academic. exactly, exactly. ..called it critical socialjustice, people maajid nawaz, also from here, has called it regressive leftism, wesley yang calls it the successor ideology. so it s an ideology that goes by different names, but it basically means the same thing. there s a suite of conclusions around which it cohers. so, for example, the author ibram x kendi, says that any disparity in outcome is due to a system.