No no this tidal wave of fear is emanating from the marble halls of the Capitol Building and the oval shaped rooms of the white house yes the corridors of power here in washington d. C. Are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the Nations Capital as d. C. Is reports the chief of the National Guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional 1500. 00 National Guardsmen would join the response to protests in d. C. After 1300. 00 were deployed on monday defense secretary mark asper who spent wednesday morning up posing the United States President Donald Trump the chicken hawk in sheeps threats of military reprisals against. U. S. Citizen well he abruptly reversed a decision to order active duty troops home fr
Pepper spray rubber bullets and tear gas on peaceful crowds. In order for nonviolence to work your opponent must have a conscience Stokely Carmichael warned and if your opponent is bereft of a conscience and state violence is an evitable a met with counterviolence tyranny takes the place of reform the danger of widespread sectarian violence in america is now very real. Joining me to discuss the protests that have erupted in over 140 American Cities is glenn ford executive editor of black agenda report so glenn i i would think that you would argue that this has been a Long Time Coming. This isnt the 1st horrific murder of a black man by police. How do you read the site geist of this moment well its been a Long Time Coming but the actual explosion was caused by several factors coming together and not just the system getting more and more raw you know thats not really the way revolutions happen and that there is some kind of smell coming from the system and that turns people that its time
A leader an activist and an officer of the law all of us are truly revealed and in that moment we must begin asking the important questions that our Society Needs answered in the last 2 weeks weve been witness to tear gas pepper spray but tons shields rubber bullets chemical balls piss boots yes even knees again unleashed on us citizen citizens and whats become an all too common sight on the evening new why in the last few days weve seen police in buffalo by only push a 75 year old man down to the ground with such force that you could hear the crack of the mans skull on the concrete before he lay motionless bleeding from the air while they all walked by why. In denver we saw the police after they fire a chemical weapon at a car carrying a pregnant woman when confronted by her boyfriend the police opened fire with a hail of pepper ball shots on him and his pregnant girlfriend and the car why weve seen journalists legal observers and medics all targeted by Law Enforcement people people w
The titanic is making news once again an Expedition Team wants to retrieve the telegraph radio used right before the ship sank to the bottom of the ocean well tell you all about that all right its time to move through news i q. Fed chairman Jerome Powell is testifying before Congress Today on the health of the u. S. Economy in a current and post pandemic america hell be cruising in on the good morning news from the retail sales sector posting the best data they have seen in a while so for more analysis and discussion lets go to ben swan hes an investigative journalist and cohost of boom bust and host of news with Rick Sanchez Rick sanchez gentlemen good to see you both ben i want to go to you 1st have we finally turned a corner since the pandemic hit and also. Whats driving the market. Well we got some very good numbers as you said in terms of the numbers for may end retail kind of coming back about a 17 percent increase in retail sales that was not expected and it shows that obviously
Shouldnt sutra lindiwe. The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy they have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state what the roman philosopher cicero called a commonwealth a raise public up public thing or the property of a people has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a Global Corporate oligarchy we are serfs ruled by obscene lee rich on the potent masters who loot the u. S. Treasury pay little or no taxes and are perverted the judiciary the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of Civil Liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft. The loss of control over our system of rulership the misuse of all Democratic Institutions the electoral process and laws to funnel money upwards into a handful of oligarchy while stripping us of power ominously means that the ruling elites can no longer claim the right to have a monopoly on violence violence employed by police an