A role or legal obligation and role responsibility plays a major role on sesame street and the mr rogers neighborhood it doesnt appear to exist at all here in washington d. C. Because fresh up the news of one of the worst contractions of the economy in u. S. History with millions upon millions upon millions of folks facing joblessness the victims of potential sickness or even death thanks to a Global Pandemic the United States congress the senate in particular has decided to take a 3 day weekend no im not making it up yes Chucky Schumer Mitch Mcconnell an arrest and decided to take friday the 31st of july off despite the fact that the covert 19 emergency 600. 00 weekly federal Unemployment Benefits expires and you guessed it friday the 31st of july all but guaranteeing that tens of millions of americans will see. Their incomes drop by 50 to 75 percent with another rent payment due in just 24 hours so while Mitch Mcconnell is resting his corporate job on a mint julep in his old kentucky
Platforms you are watching us on and we will either wrap them into the discussion or save them for the qanda at the end of the event. I want everyone to know that before we get started. As i said, this of course could not be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last month we have seen nationwide unrest and protests not only here in america but internationally. And weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd staff is through a racial lens. In fact all encounters between the police and black suspects increasingly are viewed in this way. It assumes the behavior, typical Police Behavior towards black suspects and it assumes george floyd is a sort of black every man in america thats what happened to him happened to black people all the time, that essentially they leave everyday worried about having a violent encounter with
This is the us the one business show you cant afford to miss something. In washington coming up a former Morgan Stanley chairman says the u. S. Dollar will almost certainly crash thanks to Government Debt and right now more than ever and as we look at our church reopen well tell you just how much money is that stake and what both pandemic hollywood may look like have a packed show for you today so lets go and dive right in. Big news for one of the Fastest Growing messaging companies in the world as russia has now officially lifted the ban on the private messaging Service Telegram russian Officials Say the ban was lifted after the company showed willingness to help with counterterrorism efforts telegram is a messaging company with over 400000000 active monthly users and it had been banned in russia. 20 teen Communications Watchdog common a odd source said in a statement ross codd the war is dropping its demands to restrict access to Telegram Messenger in agreement with russias general P
Conversation. With the death of george floyd in Police Custody last month we have seen protest that only here in america but internationally and we have seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through a racial lens. In fact all encounters are increasingly viewed this way it is a narrative of behavior typical misbehavior and what happens to black people all the time people in the house each day worried about having a violent encounter. The media has run with a narrative which faces very little pushback or skepticism. And leaves us with the biggest problem facing black America Today at is at the root of social inequality in america. In the middle of a National Conversation and then easier to prosecute and armed radicals of a major city in seattle. And they have the mayors blessing. The commentators who not only make excuses for the writing and looting but also to a large extent so what is going on here . And t
Monthly active users which is more than double what it was just about 2 years ago now is this ban a simple or simple just to losing a fight. It was a losing fight from the start really it was very similar to chinas restrictions when it came to blocking certain sites i just facebook this ban was also pretty ineffective as vendors point out russian continue to find ways to use telegram and over the course of this 2 year ban telegram actually increased its user base in russia from 10. 00 to 30000000. 00 users and it wasnt just because russian users were that tech savvy to be able to find ways to proxy in and around it telegram was actually also quite smart about it and use a technique called domain fronting in order to get around the block for the 2 years now this method essentially host a service on another companys system such as google and amazon and effectively hides the traffic sources so as a result walk telegraph and turn to look use google and amazon holsteins there is it so it lo