Via News. Views. Hughes: A $626 million partial settlement has been reached between 10,000s of Flint residents and the State of Michigan over the deaths of 12 people and illness or permanent disability in many others when official negligence led to the poisoning of water that residents were assured was safe for human use. It was in fact contaminated with poisonous levels of lead. RT America's Trinity Chavez reports. Then attorney Sarah Papantonio shares her expertise. Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. #rof #trofire #theringoffire #progressivenews ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-DR6Cn5Gw

The Republican-controlled state legislature in Wisconsin has voted to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate voter fraud and other irregularities that they already know doesn't exist in their state. This is a byproduct of the Arizona ballot audit, and we can expect more and more states to follow suit any time Republicans get election results that they don't like. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://www.courthousenews.com/wisconsin-governor-blasts-expansion-of-gop-directed-election-audits/ Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A Wisconsin legislative committee voted along party lines this week to approve hundreds of thousands of dollars that's going to go to a former conservative Supreme Court justice in the state of Wisconsin to investigate voter fraud in the state. Even though the state has already conducted a recount at the request of the Trump campaign and even though independent audits have revealed that there was only a couple dozen instances of questionable activity and only two charges filed against people for voter fraud in the state. They've decided, you know what, we like what's happening down there in the state of Arizona. So we're going to copy that here in Wisconsin, even though we have no evidence to back any of this up. We're handpicking this former conservative Supreme Court justice. So we've got our boy who is going to do our bidding, and we're going to give him how much is it? $680,000 to carry this out. And again, this was a Republican controlled committee because Republicans control the state legislature even though they have a Democratic governor. The Democratic governor, Tony Evers, has come out said, he, you know, this is absolutely partisan. It's ridiculous. It's a waste of taxpayer dollars. But unfort ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZN115WbK08

A member of the Proud Boys who was arrested following the January 6th Capitol Riot has suddenly offered more than $900,000 as a bond to secure his release from jail. The Department of Justice wants to know where this money came from, as the defendant had claimed just a few months ago that he was struggling to make ends meet. This isn't all that surprising, considering the fact that conservatives have been donating money to all sorts of questionable individuals in recent years, but answers are still needed. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/ethan-nordean/ Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A member of the proud boys by the name of Ethan, nor Dean was arrested for his participation in the January 6th Capitol riots month or two after his arrest, I believe this was in March. He made the claim according to reports, to family and friends, that he was essentially broke, that he was having trouble making ends meet. He didn't have any more. And so that claim is causing the department of justice to be a little concerned about where Mr. Nardin suddenly came up with more than $900,000 to offer as bond and to not have to go to jail. Hmm. He went from broke a couple months ago to something only, he's got $900,000 that he is offering the court as bond payment. Where'd the money come from. And that's not me asking that question by the way, that is the U S department of justice is seriously concerned and wondering, and wants answers from the court about where the hell this money came from. Now, here's the thing we know where the money came from. We don't know necessarily, I guess, which apparatus through which it was raised, how it was, was given to Mr nor Dean. But we have seen the Republicans for the last year, at least willing to give money to ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orbhuqKMl2g

Most Americans agree that our politicians are too old, with the average age of lawmakers in the Senate being 64 – that’s one year away from retirement age. But new, slightly younger leadership could be on the way after this year’s election. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/19/senate-younger-generation-00147632?cid=apn Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Most Americans agree that our politicians are too old. You think? With the average age of lawmakers in the Senate somewhere being around 64, that's a year away from retirement age. But new, slightly younger leadership could be on the way to change all that. What do you think? You know, I really like this story. Politico put this out, said, hey, we got two almost octogenarian guys running for president here, but hey, don't worry. Old man. Old man versus old man. I mean, that's just the truth. One of 'em is orange. The other one's bumping into walls. I mean, look at these guys. McConnell. Is he alive? You look at the guy, is he really alive? Pelosi, Jesus, she has been shellacked or I don't know what she's done to stay preserved. But the point is, this is it. This is it. And the story says there's younger people coming, but they ain't that young. Exactly. They're in the sixties. And that's young. Right? Right. They're like, hey, don't worry. We've got people in their mid fifties to mid sixties to usher in this younger generation of politicians, which I guess technically it's still better. But at the same time, we need the 30 year olds. We need the 40 year olds. We need the people to represent a majority of the people that went through the same things coming of age that they did. And that's the difference. These are the people who sat in office, except for Trump because he didn't get into 2016. They oversaw the financial disaster of 2007, 2008. They got us into Iraq. They got all of these endless wars. All of these financial problems. All of this deregulation. Climate change. Exactly. They were all in office while these disasters were shaping our lives. And we don't really have voices in there. Have we been unfair or are these, have we doctored these pictures at all? A little bit. A little bit, little bit. Yes, we did. Yeah. The truth is this is who they are. It is. And we're looking at it and we're saying, this is the future. Oh, but don't worry about it, we got some 60 year olds coming too. What about the 30-year-old? What about the 40-year-old or the 50-year-old that says, you know, I got some good ideas? Get outta the way Pelosi. Get outta the way Biden or McConnell, get outta the way. Let us try something new because we sure couldn't screw up as bad as you have. Isn't that kind of the argument here? Exactly. And what's remarkable too is that when you get to those younger generations, there actually is a lot more agreement than you have with some of these folks. You've even got younger conservatives that say, yeah, I'm for all of these traditional conservative things. But I also think climate change is a very big threat and we should do something about it. So there's more common ground with these younger generations than there is with the older ones. What do you think these people have in common with a generation Z or millennial that can't even afford a house? Okay. That the goal, their big goal, God, I hope I can afford a house. Instead, they're living with mom. They're living with mom and pop. What do you think they have in common with that person? Nothing. And so that new blood has got to come in and people have to say, I gotta listen to what this young person, this young woman is saying, this young man is saying. And I guess what we thought is we thought, well, we're gonna revolutionize politics if we just let women in. Well, it did help. But now we need to move to the next stage. We gotta revolutionize politics by letting some young women, some young men, some more people of color in. And let's mix it up a little bit. because these folks, they've created a disaster. They really have. And part of the reason we don't have many. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTvY_p266M