regarding twenty three hundred dollars in unpaid homeowner's association fees the seventy eight year old wife was thrown into a jail cell and her eighty three year old husband to he eventually had to be taken to the hospital after the stress of jail made him start vomiting blood the kicker the reason they didn't show up to court in the first place or address the debt was because the process server had given the notices to the wrong people forty four states allow arrest for unpaid loans or bills and scotty kingley of the northwest justice project was recently in washington state courtroom when he observed the judge signed roughly thirty arrest warrants in about ten minutes all defendants with latino last names setting bail at the alleged amount owed cuny school of law professor alan white explains in effect people are being incarcerated until they pay bail and bail is being used to pay their debts then they're being incarcerated to pay their debts and if you're wondering how the u.s. can get away with violating the united nations international covenant on civil and

political rights it's because while the u.s. signed it congress never ratified it once again even americans without the personal liberty the constitution promises them who always always you see that over and over and over again i think hearing this thing over and over again where well we did but we didn't really ratify or. that's why we can use chemical weapons we don't really use we can use you know see all sorts of figures that are banned in other countries during war but we have to use them because. that to me is this is where their lives is disgusting i'm sorry but but debtors prison is you know it is illegal when the coasters includes as low and we shouldn't be allowing this to happen people have to pay us let them pay their debts but how are they going to pay back their debt of jail i've never understood that logic like once you go to jail you can't we're good job you're not good now devoted right you get paid well you know bottom hour making license plates if you're lucky you. what about school pay off your student loan

debt oh it's going to be if you're a couple of packs of roman at the commissary and maybe one phone call in what's interesting is how many people have actually been yeah you turned over if you had asked well and understand this there's about seventy there's an estimated seventy seven million americans have debt that are in collection are being run by a collection agency sort of out there if you're in collection on anything. we all have in your those are your brothers in arms are here exactly so you like you said a person falls behind on their bills they go into collection the collection agency takes them to court and so what happens is most of the time they don't get the they don't get the notices or like i said they get sent to the wrong people or they're not aware that this is happening and so in the case of the older we couple the notices that were actually given to a forty five year old man and a year old one. you know i want to i want to point out very quickly jennifer turner the a.c.l.u. is principal human rights researcher and author of the report the who did this and she said quote they are never criminally charged in the warm source still civil but

they still lose their liberty they don't have a criminal record but they suffer a lot of the same cause collateral consequences and she's talking about people who go to jail for this kind of thing writing this and people over twenty three hundred dollars and all i mean are suppose you go to something i mean was it the a.c.l.u. phone cases in which threatening letters were sent for debts as low as two dollars two dollars are you going to send some of threatened letter for two dollars in jail so you've got one in three americans has debt managed by a private collection agency crabber a very it's incredible ninety percent of defendants it goes against them i mean criminalizing proverb poverty is wrong it is that it is wrong it's doubly wrong and we will definitely follow that story because it's a big story all right as we go to break clark watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the top edge of coverage of those broken twitter see our poll shows that are coming up we welcome better colley the founder of reaching america into the hawk's nest to discuss his organization's work in solving social divisions and promoting real upper to. if the states have to watch more folks.

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book of suits and you put yellow with some openings for your commitment shows and who pulls through the police said you should be busting them for them so she's two three four well what you could get one that would usually do when they should be see would you do you see chelsea customs post some of the beautiful it will diminish the symbol to be so. the. united states is going to look very deep into mystic prizes chelan strong miracles supremest see the north from the outside walls from russia not from china bugs from the inside all sides are missing what you see now on the ground russia and this cyber bullies easing over russia not to notice is psychological analyst on the bill of times to find somebody outside the united

states will is responsible for do it while the real problem is inside. this is charlie munger is approached economic blow bowls blow bubbles from wells fargo wells fargo. and one buffett. the united states today stands as politically and culturally divided as it ever has in our two century long history whether it be maga hot owners versus hillary voters or even clinton supporters and bernie bros gun owners and urban yuppies living in two entirely separate realities or the racial undertones of the war over police brutality and unconditional support for law enforcement the nation is truly divided

and with every minute we spend watching the mainstream news media it seems like president lincoln's cautionary words of our house divided against itself may be increasingly relevant and prophetic but not everyone in the field of social activism feels that we are irreversibly headed down this bleak road and many in fact are redoubling their efforts efforts one such american as their holly founder of reaching america and a pioneer and minority outreach to combat social divisions and inequality it's an equities and promote opportunity to discuss his work derek joins us today and knox nast there are an absolute pleasure in the store from the from what you do know what is reaching america what does it do exactly sure rich americans more organizations are developed to address complex social issues that are impacting our communities and we're focusing on solutions not based on right or left wing views what makes sense for more united america and thank you for this is a symbol i think. difficult you know. about. your organization bills

itself as spoken to so i can say on african-american outreach that ignores and supersede sort of the traditional left right paradigm that this idea of you're either one or the other user or guns one would think in this day and age that that is a very difficult objective considering how divided our nation is and how do you manage to do this without getting caught up in that partisan. so i am trying to do it is right to make the world order of things is we're not you know we have do outreach events and i kind of thing i tend to stay away from saying the word republican ok that's sometimes can be a dangerous word depending on audience and a lot of times you know when i'm speaking to black audiences you know i don't mention the president either because it is going to get a negative response so i talk about the issues and so we start talking about energy

and energy poverty and energy poverty exists when low income families spent i was a thirty percent of their total income on their electric bill and when that happens it puts people in a very difficult situation having to make tough choices like do i eat today or do i pay the electric bill to get a prescription filled or do i pay my leisure bill and so we start talking and put it in layman's terms like that now people i will wait a minute what can i do to actually lower the cost of my energy bill and so now we start talking about the use of fossil fuels and so i'm very passionate about energy because my first graduate from college moved back home to norfolk virginia and i worked for norfolk southern railroad i was a brakeman ok i mean i got to hook the hoses right up the brakes and everything and so our job the responsibility was too low coal ships transport coal all around the world so i've always asked myself the question if our coal and natural resources are good enough of the countries that why isn't good enough for us right here at

home and addition to that my grandfather was a black coal mine in southwest virginia so when i start talking about for gen i mean if you fossil fuels and energy now it comes across as very genuine and i've been able to i would say humanize fossil fuels and energy but obviously fossil fuels is a divisive issue because it is you know given the fact the i don't think we can change the fact that we're pushing into a new green energy world you know and that eventually fossil fuels are going to kind of go the way of the dinosaurs and came from the president did that on purpose . but you know how did how do we balance that especially when we're talking low income especially we're talking people that you know they're not going to have access to the electric car but at the same time their gas bills super expensive are secure how do they navigate this shift in dynamic that we're in the middle of what we use right now more energy than we ever have in the history of this country and it's because of our mobile devices good point and so when you start put it in layman's terms with it ok most of the time right now in this country we have an

abundance of affordable and reliable energy ok that we can you have if we can get access to it roll back those regulations and make it happen and so and to and so when i start talking to people about going green and of course we all need to reduce our footprint i'm going to green it with that and until we can figure out what's the best way to harness all of this renewables we need to use what we have right and so i will for you know the approach in terms of what's new what's what can reduce our carbon footprint what kind of thing but until we harness the sun and to harness water then we have the use of fossil fuels the god given. right here in north america i've begun we should be there god for the amount of fossil fuels that we have and it's going to be right here as opposed to other countries but we're having brown and black outs right now for us and for how does that connect to racial inequality because at the end of the day i start thinking when i think about how do we bring those costs down for low income people and anyone in any place

white or black you know you're saying we how do we connect that with using what we have bringing down the cost moving into another and what how does your organization help people without a lot of knowledge a lot of education and awareness and so we do a lot of events where we go out and we talk about to talk to people about energy and why it's important to utilize fossil fuels and how it can improve their lives and we talk about the regulations that exist when you start looking at your energy bill so we would do it and we would have a panel discussion where. we talked about energy poverty and so people would actually bring in their electric bills of a thousand dollars and live in an apartment and so now we start talking about reducing those regulations to reduce your energy bill not make sense with people but again no one's been able to give deliver the message has been the message in the messenger which is why i think we've been embraced reaching america that's interesting the center one of the other aspects of do you guys who talk

a lot about energy what are some of the other issues in the u.s. it's really not just a surprise or let's talk about the course is a bipartisan bill right now with senator congressman mark walker from north carolina and the c.b.c. chairman said rick richmond it's louisiana so they have a bipartisan bill that's out right now and so that's something people can unify because bipartisan and so everyone in america would appreciate some type of c.j.r. criminal justice reform and so the president right now he talks about there's going to be an executive order coming down right now where there's going to help some of the returning citizens and so when we even when i debate people on my show my podcast reach america on demand you know people have to agree ok some criminal justice reform over criminalization that's going to help a lot of people we definitely need we were far too much of an overcrowded our society i think i think it's it hurts our standing when we say that we're land of the free and we have people incarcerated right now in the world because you know

it's cost to everything that's in a position where we have had jobs going overseas and all this stuff and really it all is connected and i think that's what's interesting activists often forget those connections they get so caught up in a message or keeping that hash tag going and staying on that message how can activists fine tune with their doing i mean you fine tune to come up here and say like coal is great and not have me like right. or is it good that's going to big it's like here we're having a conversation what is it activists can do to to find. message in a way that we can have is killing it make it personal it's about human it's a good thing is all i'm trying to improve people's lives even when you talk about you know education ok i'm of the believe that school choice is the way to go and when you look at some of the school systems particularly in our area and we call prince george's county they're ok they just went through this whole found with with a change of test grades and pushing kids along that this should have been promoted

well that's that's an example what's going on a lot of public school systems across this country and so even in prince george's county you have a lot of parents who send their kids already to private schools for high school because the high schools are just they're not up to par so any time you send your child to a school outside of your district you're for school choice. and so a lot of people offer school choice and support it but don't really know that everest and i think you think my father worked for a public school and he sent me to a private hell i thought he was not advisable was in there and got so interested in how we can find those connections to people that it's not always one one way but i know and i think i think it's also important i think you understand this is that is that in this country because we have so many different political ideologies and somebody different cultural backgrounds and everything like that that we really should be focused more on finding the best set of ideas rather than just one or the other. you know because i think that when you can have a balance between you know like you say like coal and green well then you're

helping the least offset the dangers of both you know and when you talk about schools like you know i don't necessarily want to see a completely you know kind of capitalized privatized school system i think you need a combination of both so you know but we have to reform the existing school system and we have to make sure that the capital as school system doesn't turn into like the university problem we're becomes all about the money and then suddenly are people going to the dead just to send their kids to grade school you know it's like you know i don't see that i don't know as i do the right and i really i think it's good that you can sit up here and we could have these conversations i think that's what that's what would happen i think reaching america is good for that i'm glad that you're out there doing that and here and i'm glad you come up here and and have this conversation absolutely i'll be glad to come back i want to very quickly what what's the next step got about thirty seconds or so what do you guys focused on that right now we're we're going to go out we have tour dates lined up right now we go out and again we speak to individuals about our different issues and we're going to kick it off here in march on cincinnati ohio the carolinas coming up and

then texas and we're going to be talking about all of our issues including energy criminal justice reform occupational license to reform free speech free speech is and i don't raise in a lot of what they had in iraq who really did it. take their lives for us yeah there are clearly always a pleasure thank you thank you you thank. the northern and southern lights also known as the over a borealis and a stratus respectively are created by high energy radiation and solar particles slamming into the earth's magnetic bubble this we know but scientists have not known why some. pulsate until now the team at nasa time history of events and macro scale interactions during sub storms mission know missed the most in cooperation with the japanese iris spacecraft have shined the light on the mystery turns out the pulsating over as are created when plasma in the magnetized cone shape bubble that surrounds the planet is just stirred by electrons from space it makes it pulse

and flicker in shades of green blue purple and red and even better the research suggests that flickering auras could be happening on jupiter and saturn as well it seems that the forces that hold us together push us apart and protect us from the dark of space are the lights that inspire us to dream of magic in a dark night sky beautiful words beautiful words and interesting show interesting conflicts about the it's. always good to do this show over there thank you everybody for watching and that is our show today we remember one thing in this world we are not told we are above the love with swords or you will i love you i robot and on top of a lot of people watching those hawks another great very night out there.

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un's most powerful body for another crisis talks on syria's rebel held eastern. russia q says the international community of double standards also ahead in the program. begging we don't do it don't do it don't do it and we did the right thing . that reinforces his commitment to move the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem and in fact names the date doubts the spike condemnation from. russian lawmakers consider tougher penalties for child sex abuse. from an orphanage it's.

twenty four hour news live from moscow you're into r t international my names you know. your company our top story the next round of discussions on the situation. in syria's eastern ghouta up the un security council is expected to get underway a little later today friday member states are to consider a resolution almost ceasefire in the region along with amendments that russia has put forward the first day of talks all moscow under muskets slammed by other security council members the systematic targeting of civilians and sheer disregard for human life the tax against health care and hospitals constitute war crimes the regime wants to keep bombing and gassing these four hundred thousand people and the assad regime is counting on russia to make sure the security council is unable to stop their suffering. there is

a massive psychosis in the mainstream media which is spread in the same room as day after day it doesn't help to understand the situation at school they put forward the idea that their only hospitals in eastern guta which the syrian army are fighting against. takes a look at want we can expect from this second round of talks. well at this point russia is putting forward amendments to the proposed resolution that would call for a thirty day cease fire now the talk on everyone's mind is eastern ghouta now this is a suburb of damascus located to the east of the syrian capital and at this point there is a lot of fighting going on in that city and there's been a lot of reports in the press about civilian casualties and ongoing suffering and we've gotten a response from russia insisting that the situation in ghouta is quite complex we have terrorists there they're essentially using civilians as human shields

furthermore that area eastern ghouta is being essentially used as an area from which to shell damascus and to attack damascus so a lot more complicated than the western leaders are making it out to be. and information war is now spreading in all spheres of life and western pontin's amount over reacting to all the better emotions found amount within the u.n. security council will be trying to adopt a resolution establishing a ceasefire for thirty days but where are the going to use the jihadist show in populated areas there are no such going to use that's going to make this resolution effective we propose a framework which would make this more realistic now the leaders of france and germany have coauthored a letter directed at russia urging them to vote for this resolution for a thirty day cease fire russia has been very critical of this resolution so at this point it's not exactly clear what's going to happen in the security council chamber

but many folks are anticipating a rather intense meeting. keeping abreast of all developments from new york meantime more than three hundred civilians have been killed in syria since the earth strikes intensify that's according to the u.n. the organization secretary general has described the situation there is hell on earth the assad government for its part says it's trying to bring an end to rebel shelling attacks that have been killing civilians in damascus rock as the of looks now at who the fighters controlling the embattled enclave of eastern actually are. east ghouta nis not a nice place to live in surrounded as it is and the sea a constant war zone within and without.

islam the army of islam holds most of east ghouta as the name may imply these guys crusading for democracy and when they aren't busy killing each other they share power with nuestra while kiat in syria and the number of smaller groups . these are ruthless people in a cage civilians literally put woman and the elderly in metal cages and hoisted them onto roofs where they left them and literal human shield made of civilians to protect themselves their fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from outside then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves.

these infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al-qaeda remember what the u.s. led coalition dedes to isis in mosul. what are they leveled. and then ty's city thousands of civilians dead yet they say there's no choice the terrorists were sponsible by using human shields a sad fact of war two billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation do you agree that some of the the high

level of i think ridiculous standard that we had previously is now created this behavior by ice is that they now realize that they take human shields are going to avoid being struck and that actually this is adding to the problem congressman i do believe they understand our sensitivity to civilian casualties and they're exploiting that and i do agree that as we move into these urban environments it is going become more and more difficult to apply extraordinary high standards for the things we're doing although we will try for some reason this time around they seem to be avoiding any mention of who it is that controls east ghouta all but the same job when these limits blindly shelled damascus every day and slaughter more and more civilians well that's war when the syrian army responds suddenly it's an atrocity remarkable isn't it how the rules change entirely depending on who's calling the shots john white's author and political commentator sees them more

western powers refused to treat militants in kuta us terrorists the longer the civilians there will suffer. regime change propaganda has entered the realms of the fantastic queered in groups such as nusra front and jash islam which is the dominant faction in eastern guta these groups which adhere to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no being depicted those rebels as partisans of second world war repute who are by the syrian army me the script soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious was a city in society there are no being p.t. there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative will continue city of comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of civilians which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued

attempt to undermine the attempts of the sitting government and its allies particular russia to liberate the country. today for a russian of pleats at the winter olympics a second after it has tested positive for a substance according to the russian bobsled federation now adays is said to have tested positive for a performance enhancing heart drug a previous boss after the games come back negative circuit and her partner finished twelfth in the box their competition on thursday curler alexander crucial netsky and his partner were stripped of their bronze medals after he was found to have taken a drug used to treat diabetes surfers. well earlier friday the olympic athletes from russia squad won their first gold medal at the games on the other silver two teenage skaters taking the top spots on the podium in the women's single figure skating event fifteen year old alina edging out her teammates close friend made

vienna in the final standings to take tops boston after their points from the short and free skate programs were combined the two actually tied in their free skate a rare occurrence but as i did have a push to head in her short program on whedon's they create is a good tip as in the big debut we spoke to a father just moments after she got her out of the pickle. but if i was watching the skating performances out of the corner of my eye when alina appeared on the ice rink i stopped watching i didn't watch a skating live only recordings of performances i watched alina's performance later and then just because i still couldn't believe it only began to sink in when i saw the results. rush's ice hockey team is going for gold after beating the czech republic three zero in the semifinals it will be the red machine's first appearance in the final in twenty years the decider will take place this sunday with away our op against surprise finalist germany who sought.