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00:00:00destroying the Soviet Union, why did the peace so many had
00:00:03longed for give way
00:00:04to new protracted
00:00:08of war? when exactly did the post war world take faitful
00:00:14in turn?
00:00:22good evening, it's 8
00:00:23of p.m. on the east coast, I'm Olivia Flynn and here are the stories we're following
00:00:26tonight. first breaking tonight the US senate just passed. a
00:00:30sweeping new sanctions bill targeting Russia will break it all
00:00:33down. Plus, they're not just catching
00:00:37criminals, they're
00:00:37of tracking your every movement. Tonight, why some Americans say flock cameras have
00:00:41gone too far? And finally,
00:00:45Beijing unleashes a new wave of trade retaliation against the United
00:00:49States. Is this the start of much bigger economic war? We'll find
00:00:53out. On this show, we know that you don't need more content, you need
00:00:56context. Anyone can tell you what's happening in the news. Tonight we hope to... help you understand
00:01:00why it's happening, how it's happening, and how
00:01:03of it affects you. This is America
00:01:04now.
00:01:15We start this evening with breaking news out of Washington DC. The US senate has
00:01:19passed yet another round of sanctions on Russia
00:01:22in a vote of 86 to 11. The legislation was the pet project of
00:01:26recently deceased senator and known warhawk linsy Graham of South Carolina.
00:01:30and the legislation would punish countries which buy Russian fossil fuels
00:01:34in an effort to deprive Russia of
00:01:36of revenues. President Trump would now be able to impose tariffs on countries like
00:01:40India or China if they continue to import Russian gas or
00:01:43oil, and the bill must now pass the House of Representatives, which will
00:01:47reconvene after
00:01:48a recess at the end of August.
00:01:52Joining us now to discuss all this, we have former Pentagon
00:01:55of official Michael Maluv. Michael, thank you for being back with us tonight.
00:01:59Sure. so will these sanctions
00:02:02in your estimation pass the house and become
00:02:05effective before the end
00:02:07of the year? the indication is it's going to
00:02:11pass the house and the president said he's going to sign it, and that just
00:02:15gives him the authority, whether he actually implements it or not, it's going
00:02:19to be something else, but but i think it will
00:02:22have tendency to really really backfire, this was meant to be more
00:02:26of a proforma type of. memorial if you
00:02:30will to gram, but I think in reality
00:02:34the the use
00:02:36of the of this legislation if if he signs it will could
00:02:40be could really backfire on the
00:02:42of United States in many ways and do you think these
00:02:46sanctions will
00:02:47of alter the course
00:02:48of the war if it continues? oh not at
00:02:51all, Vladimir Putin
00:02:55is well on his way
00:02:57to taking a... not taking out key,
00:03:01he's he's uh, he's definitely picked up uh the
00:03:04tempo uh considerably in in uh and
00:03:08of hitting military sites and um and he becomes
00:03:12even more enraged every time keive
00:03:15decides to hit the civilian uh
00:03:19of locations such as they just did in uh in Yalta
00:03:22a uh uh in
00:03:24in a beach resort totally
00:03:28civilian no absolutely
00:03:30no um uh
00:03:33of military
00:03:34uh uh objective there whatsoever and I think that Keive
00:03:38is is resorting to uh going out to Survains now as a
00:03:42policy because they know they've lost the
00:03:44of war and do
00:03:46of you a think
00:03:46this is the Congress's way of putting pressure on Donald Trump to
00:03:50continue supplying weapons to Ukraine as opposed to
00:03:53seeking path to peace? there's
00:03:57some element of that sure but uh it all it also
00:04:01is to is, it's also meant to sanction Iran too,
00:04:05and uh, again, these countries have become so
00:04:09uh sanctioned that there's nothing to
00:04:11sanction, the legislation also sanctions
00:04:15Vladimir Putin himself and is and and
00:04:17the and the upper Estalon, but they've also also all been sanctioned,
00:04:21so again the effectiveness of what is being
00:04:24passed
00:04:25of is more proforma, I think
00:04:27of than substantive, and uh... "and if if
00:04:31he wants to put
00:04:33a up of to 100% tariffs on
00:04:37countries
00:04:38a such as India and China as you point out,
00:04:40you know China and all the other countries can reciprocate very very
00:04:43of easily, we we have a multiolar world here now, we don't have a
00:04:47of unipolar world and we're not in full control of things any
00:04:51longer, and these countries have have become sanction
00:04:54proof for the most part because of all the years of
00:04:58weaponization
00:04:59of the dollar and..." and the sanctions that we've that have been imposed on them, and
00:05:03that's why you see the rise of bricks, you're seeing the
00:05:06SCO, the uh Shanghai Cooperation Organization, now
00:05:10becoming much, much larger. and more um
00:05:14influential throughout the world, and when you consider their
00:05:18collective GDP, it's greater than uh the
00:05:20G20, which is
00:05:23astounding, and they and they represent more than half the
00:05:26world population, so we in effect are isolating
00:05:30ourselves by by our actions and and these countries
00:05:34are going to go, steam ahead, they don't care, they
00:05:38can, we can launch all kinds of sanctions, but uh, they
00:05:42can do... the same thing and and deprive us of some
00:05:46very very critical uh mineral rights, for example, rare
00:05:49earths and and and politically it
00:05:53could be very very detrimental if you want to get anything done. well,
00:05:57michael move, that's all the time we have tonight, but thank you for kicking off for 8 p.m. we'll talk to you
00:06:01soon, thank you. my pleasure, thank
00:06:04you. there are cameras watching you
00:06:08drive all across America, you probably don't notice them, you probably never agreed to
00:06:12them. and you don't have to be suspected of a crime for them to photograph your
00:06:16car. they're called flock cameras, automatic license plate readers used by
00:06:20police departments and communities across the country, and right now
00:06:24they are at the center of a growing fight over just how much surveillance Americans
00:06:27are willing to accept in the name of public safety, because these
00:06:31cameras don't just look for a stolen car, they can create searchable
00:06:35record of where cars have been and when, and some recent
00:06:39cases are raising much bigger question: what happens when tech? technology
00:06:43designed to find criminals starts being used to track people who aren't criminals at
00:06:46all. flock safety sells automated license flate recognition
00:06:50cameras that capture information about vehicles traveling past them. the
00:06:54company says its technology helps law enforcement solve crimes, recover
00:06:58stolen vehicles and find missing or endangered people. but unlike a
00:07:01traditional police investigation where officers might begin with suspect
00:07:05and then track that person's movements. flot cameras can collect information about
00:07:09vehicles passing them first, creating a database. that can
00:07:13potentially be searched later, and then that distinction is huling
00:07:17controversy, because critics say we're moving from we have suspect,
00:07:20let's find the car, to we have millions of cars, let's search the
00:07:24database, it's almost like you're creating a suspect, and look at what's
00:07:27happening right now, this week 404 media reported a Wisconsin
00:07:31case involving a man who traveled across state lines to Michigan where
00:07:35recreational marijuana is legal. According to the report, police used flock
00:07:39data showing his vehicle had repeatedly traveled to... while
00:07:43developing the justification to stop and search his
00:07:46car. think about that, it's almost like they're building case about the president
00:07:50critics are worried about here. you legally drive from one state into
00:07:53another, your license plate gets photographed along the way, you legally
00:07:57visit somewhere, you drive home, and now that travel history can
00:08:01potentially become information law enforcement uses to investigate you, and
00:08:05Wisconsin isn't the only case drawing attention. civil liberties
00:08:08advocates have also raised alarms over a Texas investigation.
00:08:13in which flock data was reportedly used to identify and track
00:08:16vehicle connected to woman suspected of obtaining a
00:08:19self-administered abortion and that case became especially
00:08:23controversial because abortion laws can change dramatically the moment you cross a
00:08:27state line, so can marijuana laws, gun laws and potentially a whole list
00:08:31of other activities, and that creates a problem that didn't really
00:08:35exist on this scale before, something can be completely legal where you
00:08:38go while technology creates a permanent trail that follows you home, um
00:08:42and then there's another part of this story that really got attention, listen to how
00:08:46flock CEO, Garret Langley has talked about surveillance and human
00:08:50behavior. If we look at our kids
00:08:54as a proxy, like the level of punishment other and time out for five
00:08:58minutes or an hour does it matter to five-year-old, they they they do something buse
00:09:02they think they going
00:09:02to get away with it, and as soon as they find out that as a parent you you know have all
00:09:06seeing eyes, they stop doing bad things
00:09:09and the the punishment has nothing to do with it and...
00:09:13"maybe it's unfair
00:09:14to to call adult a five-year-old, but that's generally how our brain works, we operate a booleian
00:09:17equation of like, I get away with this, so I do it, if I don't think I get away with it, I
00:09:21don't do it. Okay, now that is where this becomes
00:09:25bigger than license plates, because there's an enormous difference between using
00:09:28surveillance to catch someone who committed a crime, and using surveillance
00:09:32because the knowledge that you're being watched might change how you
00:09:36behave. One is investigation, and the other starts getting into
00:09:39deterents, and critics would argue so..." control, and the
00:09:43backlash is growing. According to Washington examiners, since the beginning of
00:09:472026, roughly 23 city councils have voted to
00:09:51cancel, reject, deactivate or not renew flock license
00:09:54plate reader programs. Residents and privacy advocates have raised concerns
00:09:58about mass surveillance, fourth amendment protections and information being
00:10:02shared between law enforcement and agencies and another investigation
00:10:06from 404 media added fuel to the fire. The outlet reported
00:10:10obtaining police guidance, instructing. officers, according to the
00:10:14report, officers were advised in certain circumstances not to
00:10:18tell drivers that automatic license plate reader information contributed to the
00:10:21stop, and to avoid explicitly mentioning, the technology
00:10:25on reports in less necessary, so now the
00:10:29controversy isn't only who's being tracked, it's also do people
00:10:33even know how they're being tracked, be because when
00:10:36i went down another rabbit hole, while everyone is
00:10:40talking about the cameras themselves, take a look at who's investing in this
00:10:44industry. one of flock's biggest investors is venture capital firm
00:10:47Anderson Howitz, better known as A16Z. The firm led
00:10:51a major funding round for Flock, but Flock isn't the only surveillance.
00:10:55related technology company Anderson Horitz has backed. They've also
00:10:59invested in a company called Toka and this technology is very
00:11:03different. Toca is an Israeli cyber intelligence company and
00:11:06according to reporting about the company's technology, Toca has developed
00:11:10tools designed to infiltrate internet-connected devices, including
00:11:14security cameras. Reported capabilities have included locating
00:11:18vulnerable cameras, accessing their feeds and manipulating
00:11:21video, and that can reportedly include altering live feeds. and
00:11:25modifying or deleting previous recorded footage. some reporting has
00:11:29also described tools designed to operate without leaving the kinds of
00:11:33obvious digital traces normally associated with unauthorized
00:11:36access. so in other words, in basic English, Flock is
00:11:40building technology capable of helping authorities find and track
00:11:44vehicles. Toca has reportedly developed technology capable of
00:11:48accessing and manipulating cameras and the same major venture
00:11:52capital firm has invested in both companies. now to be very clear here,
00:11:56because this distinction matters. there's no evidence that Toca is hacking flock
00:11:59cameras. there's no evidence that flock footage is being secretly altered by
00:12:03Toca, and sharing investor does not mean these two companies are working
00:12:07together, but the connection is worth understanding because it shows you where
00:12:11surveillance technology itself is going. we're moving into a
00:12:15world where one set of technology can potentially
00:12:19reconstruct where you've traveled, another can identify vehicles
00:12:22automatically, another can access cameras. remotely and another can
00:12:26manipulate what those cameras see. individually, if we look at it
00:12:30that way, each tool may have legitimate law enforcement or national
00:12:33security purpose, but connect enough of those capabilities
00:12:37together, and suddenly the question isn't whether technology can track nearly everything we
00:12:41do. it's who gets access to that power and what rules
00:12:45stop them from abusing it. and that's ultimately why this
00:12:48fight over flock matters. nobody's arguing that police shouldn't be able
00:12:52to find a kidnapped child or locating. stolen vehicle or identify
00:12:56dangerous suspect, it probably be amazing to help those scenarios. Those are
00:13:00exactly the kinds of cases that make this technology incredibly
00:13:03powerful. The debate is about what happens after the cameras are already
00:13:07everywhere. Who can search the database, what qualifies as legitimate
00:13:11search? How long is that information stored? Can another police
00:13:15department access it? There's all these questions, and can your movements
00:13:19be searched even when you were never suspected of committing
00:13:22a crime? And perhaps the most important one,
00:13:25Do you even know what's happening? Because America has had surveillance cameras for
00:13:29decades. What's changing now isn't necessarily the camera, it's the database
00:13:32behind it. A camera a street corner sees one moment. A network of cameras
00:13:36connected to searchable software can potentially tell story
00:13:40about where you went, when you went there, and when you went
00:13:44next. And once that infrastructure exits, we're not just
00:13:47deciding how it should be used. We're deciding how much power we're
00:13:51comfortable giving whoever has access to it tomorrow because. because the real
00:13:55privacy question may no longer be, are you doing anything wrong? it may
00:13:59be, should the government be able to know everywhere you've been, and
00:14:03when you haven't. joining us now, we have
00:14:06Conor Boyac joining us on the show. he is the president the libertas
00:14:10Institute. Connor, thank you so much for joining us tonight. thanks for having
00:14:14me. so let's talk about flock. for people who have never heard of
00:14:18flock cameras, what exactly are they? what are they collecting,
00:14:21and how is that different from a traditional license plate read?
00:14:26Yeah, so license plate readers have been around for years, observing
00:14:30the, as they're called, the license plates of a cars as they pass by, they're
00:14:34used for traffic control, finding cars that have been stolen and so
00:14:37forth. What flock cameras are are a sort of new
00:14:41evolution beyond those that uh can capture not only the license
00:14:45plate, but also what bumper stickers are there, are there
00:14:49decals, what is the make and model the car, what color is it, and they're
00:14:52attempting to create more of fingerprint. of a car beyond just
00:14:56the license plate, because license plates can be switched out or moved or blurred, and
00:15:00so this is giving law enforcement new capabilities to track people as
00:15:04they're moving throughout town compared to the traditional models
00:15:08the past. more worrisome, they're creating massive
00:15:11databases the movements of American people where law
00:15:14enforcement officers without a warrant can go effectively a fishing expedition
00:15:18to find out any time where has connor ben or where has Olivia been and
00:15:22tracking our movements and our cars that... new power that the government has is
00:15:26what's worrying so many people lately and right off that point I want to talk
00:15:30about like where the line is crossed here because supporters say these cameras
00:15:34help police find stolen cars wanted suspects and missing. people,
00:15:38but at what point does a public safety tool like this one cross the line
00:15:41into mass surveillance? well, there's no question that
00:15:45empowering the law enforcement with surveillance capabilities can help them solve
00:15:49crimes, like we can concede that argument at the outset, living a total surveillance
00:15:53state, yes we would solve more crimes, but obviously there's a
00:15:57trade-off to be had, and the question is to what extent is surveillance
00:16:00appropriate. now, in our estimation, the the conversation
00:16:04has been had, we've already found that balance, and it's the fourth. the founders
00:16:08who drafted that were very concerned with what the british were doing, with what were
00:16:12called ritts of assistance or general warrants where they could empower
00:16:16themselves to go search through your home any time, for no
00:16:19reason, without any oversight, and so when they enacted the fourth amendment they said,
00:16:23look, we want there to be particularity, in other words, we need to
00:16:27individually suspect Olivia of a crime if we're going to invade Olivia's
00:16:31privacy or monitor her whereabouts, rather than a general suspicion of maybe
00:16:35there's crime somewhere out there, we need to individually suspect
00:16:39uh criminal conduct on the part the person whose privacy we are going
00:16:43to invade, we need to have probable cause, in other words, we need to
00:16:46suspect that there and have reason to believe there is a crime being
00:16:49conducted, and most importantly we need to have judicial uh
00:16:53review, we need to have a warrant that a dispassionate judge can
00:16:57review and say is this appropriate, but that's not what's happening with flock, it's a
00:17:01huge database, cops are searching through it without any warrant, without any judicial
00:17:05review and without any particularity, of suspecting anyone of actually
00:17:09committing a crime? well, let's not suspect Olivia of a crime, but on the topic of
00:17:12allegations though, one the most controversial allegations is that officers
00:17:16are being instructed not to mention flock or ALPR use
00:17:20to drivers, and sometimes not even in police reports unless it's necessary, they
00:17:24say, so why is that such serious transparency
00:17:28issue? well, that's an issue because criminal defense
00:17:31attorneys who on behalf their clients want to help challenge these cases may not
00:17:35know where Trump on Chinese company. The new sanctions target
00:17:39multiple American enterprises, restrict robot imports and curb
00:17:43exports of drones and their components. Our corresponding Constantine
00:17:46Rojov has more. The Trade Intech
00:17:50war between China and the United States has heated up
00:17:54sharply over the past few days. China has now unveiled one
00:17:58of its largest packages of retaliatory measures yet.
00:18:02The move drawing the most attention is Beijing's decision to
00:18:06tighten controls on exports of drone-related components
00:18:10and technology to the United States. Here's what the official
00:18:14statement from China's Ministry of Commerce says drone exports
00:18:18to the United States and the export their key components and related
00:18:21technologies listed in the export control list of dual use items the
00:18:25people's republic of China shall be subject to strict case by case
00:18:29review. expedited licensing procedures and other licensing
00:18:32facilitation measures shall not apply. anyone who has ever
00:18:36flown or even the DJI drone knows just
00:18:39how dominant China is in the global commercial drone market,
00:18:43though this isn't an out-ride export ban, it does
00:18:47mean that the Chinese government will now closely
00:18:50scrutinize every drone related shipment
00:18:54bound for the United States. As part the same package,
00:18:58Beijing has also barred Chinese companies from doing
00:19:01business with seven US firms and launched
00:19:05investigation into U.S. security company,
00:19:09Poloalto networks and the products it sells in
00:19:12China. All of that sends a clear political
00:19:16message. If you hit us, we're going to head back. And just
00:19:20few days ago, the United States announced a new round their
00:19:24own trade restrictions on China. Most notably, it
00:19:27banned imports of newly manufactured foreign
00:19:31made humanoid robots and quadroped robots,
00:19:35better known as robot dogs. market dominated
00:19:39by Chinese manufacturers, the US also dramatically
00:19:43expanded its sanctions list adding 43 Chinese
00:19:46companies over allegations of weager force labor
00:19:50and impose new tariffs of 10 to
00:19:5312.5% on imports from 60
00:19:57trading partners including China of course, but the
00:20:01tech and trade fight is only one
00:20:04part the broader tensions that have been... simmering
00:20:08between Beijing and Washington over the past few
00:20:11weeks, law makers in the US congress are now
00:20:14anticipating record 40 billion military aid
00:20:18package for Taiwan. Here's what senior Republican
00:20:22Congressman Michael McColl said during his
00:20:25recent visit to Taipei, a trip that was
00:20:29itself bound to irritate Beijing. Last
00:20:32December, Congress signed off on the largest foreign military sales
00:20:36package in history. at 11 billion US dollars, and
00:20:39we aren't stopping there. I am confident the president will forward soon
00:20:43another package to Congress with additional $14 billion in
00:20:47critical military defense articles. Taiwan also has launched
00:20:51major weeklong military exercises rehearsing a
00:20:55possible conflict with Beijing. One the scenarios
00:20:59involves evacuating the island's leadership in the event of
00:21:02what military planners sometimes call
00:21:05decapitation strike designed to knock out
00:21:09Taiwan's political command. And what a difference few
00:21:13months can make really? I remember covering Donald Trump's visit to
00:21:16Beijing when he and Shijing Ping shook hand. fans uh
00:21:20smiled for the cameras and gave the impression that both sides
00:21:24were trying to cool tensions and work through their
00:21:28differences, not create new ones. the two leaders are expected
00:21:32to meet again at the end of September, but if tensions
00:21:36keep rising at this pace, both Donald Trump and Xi
00:21:40Jin Ping will have lot of fires to put out when
00:21:43they finally sit down face to
00:21:46face. that's America now, I'm Olivia Flynn. For more
00:21:50stories, visit our website at RT.com and join us every night at
00:21:537-8-9 and 10. Thank you for watching and have a good night and
00:21:57remember question
00:21:58everything.
00:23:33Starting the US Israel war in Iran was easy, ending this war
00:23:37seems almost impossible. America's overwhelming military
00:23:41power has proven to be indecisive as Iran holds
00:23:44significant high cards. Eventually the global economy will
00:23:48force Trump's hand.
00:23:57Towards the end the 18th century, wave of decolonizations caused the
00:24:01colonizers to focus their attention on Africa, a period marked by the brutal
00:24:05legacy of European imperialism and the systematic
00:24:08exploitation of African peoples and resources. Many of our
00:24:12nations remain caught in the grip of
00:24:16new-colonial systems. Africans must be the law.
00:24:20their own land, the masters their own
00:24:23resources.
00:24:24It is time to leave Africa and other developing countries alone.
00:24:28The west needs to stop with the foreign interference. They
00:24:32know that divided Africa is a weak
00:24:36Africa. Let us challenge the poisonous tongs that
00:24:39seek to divide us and build bridges of
00:24:43understanding instead. Today
00:24:45that opportunity lies in cooperation with nations across the global
00:24:49south. and with allies like
00:24:51Russia,
00:25:11after the end of World War II, Great Britain decided to make up
00:25:15for its losses with the merciless exploitation of its
00:25:18colonies, the... wondering the occupied territories hit
00:25:22Malaya, devastated as result of decades long fighting,
00:25:26extremely hard. tension grew, and in
00:25:291948 the colonial administration was forced to
00:25:33declare a state of emergency. in response, patriots
00:25:37united into the Malaian people's liberation army and began
00:25:41a gorilla war. london decided to suppress
00:25:44resistance, torture and mass deportations,
00:25:48executions of civilians and brain of chemicals, scalping and
00:25:52cutting off heads. These were the barbaric methods the British
00:25:55use trying to keep Malayya within their empire. The
00:25:59massacre in the village of Batong Kali committed. by the Scots
00:26:03guards against the unarmed peazants caused a particular
00:26:06stir. the entire male population became
00:26:09victims. trying to suppress the gorilla movement, the
00:26:13occupiers relocated 500 thousand people to concentration
00:26:17camps. the ferocious cruelty bore its fruit. the
00:26:20patriots were scattered. however, the British
00:26:24experienced the strength the Malay resistance to the full
00:26:27extent. the British army losses in Malaia were the largest
00:26:31since the end of world war. two: in 1957, the
00:26:35British Empire was forced to recognize Malayan
00:26:38independence. The resilience the Malay people put an
00:26:41end to the history of British colonialism in Southeast
00:26:45Asia.
00:27:03Welcome, I'm John Kiriaku and this is the deep state. Here
00:27:07on the deep state we go deep into stories that the mainstream media
00:27:11doesn't want you to know. The deep state imprisoned me once upon a
00:27:15time. Well, now we're going after the deep
00:27:18state. I want to bring on now Tim Gordon. Tim
00:27:22is a popular catholic youtuber and he hosts the show rules for
00:27:26retrogrades. He's also the author of a whole bunch of
00:27:29books. How has your legal? shaped your
00:27:33view of well, american constitutional
00:27:37order, american society, even our political system
00:27:40today. yeah, i went to the place where
00:27:44i could study the most constitutional law, i was working a
00:27:48phd a pontifical school in Rome, my first
00:27:52daughter was born there with many brain surgeries
00:27:56needed, so we we came home and i put aside the phd for the time
00:27:59and i was like, guess i'll need to do something kind of related to...