Smooth drive into work this friday temperatures right now in the 40s and 50s not a bad way to be starting off the day. Id say definitely get that light jacket sweater ready to go and youre going to keep it on a little bit longer today because even though were keeping the sunshine around youre going to see a lot earlier we are going to see temperatures hanging out in the 50s right along the coast with 60s elsewhere in the bay, one of our cooler ones of the week, but yet you still have that sunshine and a nice afternoon to look for to robin. All right, thank you john lets check in on the drive now were taking a peek at 80 into San Francisco, a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza where traffic is a wide open and delay free across the upper deck through downtown San Francisco. And no big problems here making your way off to the fremont street exit summer off to a fantastic start with no big hot spot for checking in on traffic tracker were taking a peek one on one the trip from brisbane
Hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on Peter Lavelle it is a long held tradition on cross talk to take stock of the year that is about to pass we have a look at what moved us what changed us and what gave us concern for us 2019 the good the bad and the ugly. Crosstalk in the year that was im joined by my guest robert bridge hes an r. V. Website writer we also have Dimitri Bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in nicosia we cross alex crystal for oh hes a director and writer for the duran dot com originally crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate all right let me go 1st to alex. Nicosia you know alex so much happened this year it seems like the the time lines get shorter and shorter and the pace continues at a greater speed here but if im taking stock here it seems to me the disconnect between the liberal liberal media in the liberal elites with everybody el
The debates, will this steady barrage hurt the Bloomberg Campaign . We have new sound of him belittling the nations farmers as quote, not needing a lot of gray matter to do their jobs. Plus even more damaging leaks about Michael Bloombergs negative comments about women and stopandfrisk and even president obama. The Bloomberg Team blames the Trump Campaign, changing headline from what Michael Bloomberg has said. Will that work . Joe biden really going after Bernie Sanders big time saying quote it is not enough for bernie to disassociate himself. Bernie has to quote, disown his supporters quote, misogynistic attacks on nevadas biggest labor unions. This is happening just ahead of the nevada caucus. He is saying bernie quote has accountability here. We have that big fight breaking out. Plus a top democrat warning, a top democrat is not sure democrats have a candidate who can beat President Trump. As the president potentially faces a new problem. Will it hit the u. S. Economy . Could it ca
So would i think about this book i see it is really having three major parts. After started you introduce the situation now, you do a really good job icing i think of talking about your stories about how workers struggle, really they themselves let the middle class from this country to a great extent by organizing and by striking and bargaining, for a lot of adversity in my demanding policy changes. And then you go through a lot of the hard times what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in. Where companies and starting with the president of the United States, really attacked or theres a lot in their unions. And then you tell a lot of hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing in unions and other forms. And make some policy recommendations. One of the things i had to say is a lot of folks like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations but i hope we really get into that because you really
Anyway right lets wish the industry pioneers well in wherever the volution takes them in the new year. In a prank that will produce the activists and Technology Expert says that one social media start regulating come and some views online freedom of speech is in danger. Its more difficult here the moment the facebook accepts that it is a publisher and it has a responsibility to moderate or block on full color tent or any sort of inaccurate content it runs or up against concerns about freedom of speech no where this is more obvious than in political comment faces a real no win situation it was twitter is done it bans political advertising then he gets attacked by both the left and the right for restricting freedom of speech if however as facebook itself has done it allows political advertising then he gets attacked by all sides for failing to crack down on misinformation and attempts to manipulate election and theres also the challenge of when you draw the line between what is political