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the many courts close in the screen. the country the eye. he knew knew who knew . in rta don't snicker and varied also the coast of new york. leland is where many in twenty twelve run stand the test greats including the homeless before and even infants are a fine prison inmates will take out the history of that. and just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not after you. the old saying rings true for the school district sent to parents by keeping biometric data on students. this is a group of her styles a criminal complaint against the german government for assisting
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the nsa more on that coming up. and the rest of the cost until the one time a detention facility the question that the obama administration refuses to answer. the federal court is being asked to dismiss a lawsuit to see if that's true more on this later in the shower. the february third on him in washington dc i love pens and the watching party america. while not too far away from the brakes and dazzling lights of times square in new york city skyline plans with america's darkest secrets. huddersfield on the aisle and is a small patch of land in the eastern most parts of the folks for years i was in use as a mass grave of sorts. ortiz on some future brings us more from the largest taxpayer funded sectarian war all. womb. mm
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mm mm least kept from the you've likely never heard of it despite its long history and science. one of the largest cemetery in the united states with nearly a million burial. almost one million people buried here since the eighteen hundreds the pork home was stillborn children and bodies not claimed by anyone and just over one hundred acres. heck i went a piece of land just off of manhattan. this is as close as we can get to the island in the news camera and this is a dock where fairies ten sporting bodies in meats and occasional visitors. depart from after variety of uses from prison to a psychiatric ward to a hospital. the place and inland by the prison system making the cemetery more reminiscent of the geo where inmates very up to fifteen hundred bodies the year the rails for those the city takes care of take place in mass graves here in leeds did ten feet deep trenches and fifty cents per hour. did all that are buried out there are primarily home with their
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people that are generally forgotten and ignored by society. furry interference was able to get these images they reaching the island in secret on handmade bowl to most striking thing when we first thought when it hit our roads oh four in the morning up was that we all stumbled into an open area we sat down on his plan would realize that the fire was discovered coffee it's controlled by the city's department of correction. the location is difficult to access and visits if any are strictly regulated ahead of a lifestyle. and he's gotten and i have no control over going to a cemetery to visit a former navy commander in the angels' six five day old baby girl died thirty six years ago at twenty three all by herself while the grieving mother was trying to figure out funeral arrangements. she found out that a child already been buried by the city and people are not properly informed. in
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the hospital as to what it means to allow the city could take care of it. ollie was given a death certificate with no indication of where her daughter ended up the search for her child's grade went on for decades she was five days old i had nursed her. it is my dilemma and i wasn't just about to throw our land. i would like to go to walk to my delight it's great. and be able to have some final. closing the king closure has been a struggle so far in league has been able to come to his deed on the island following ied checks after permission from prison system officials. it is more private cemetery he would be very clear on the water you had to allow visits to the actual parade ah because it's a cemetery the specific law that requires access. i does not does not apply. filmmaker author and founder of the heart island project linda hunt works with women like elaine see how the island's be made into a park. it's inappropriate to
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expect a pot plant can turn someone has lost a child have to contact the department of correction and to make arrangements to visit the island and then not to be able to go to an actual grave site. this is mark taylor great detail. lawyer mark taylor works when the grieving mothers pro bono many of them in our work we did not subsequently have children. so they have stillborn children who are buried out on the island. and for them looking back in their life. it's something that's as good as meeting in importance to the access to the crazies is impossible because the graves are not marked loss records last great for storing your own records of their shoddy conditions. corrections has not done a great job of maintaining silence is part of. you know that the new york software does or does
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the bible our prison system after a battle that lasted years. eight mothers including elaine have recently been informed that the will be able to visit specific grave sites still under strict regulations until the island stops being ran by those who've run prisons. this place holding almost one million people will continue to treat those fighting for closure like inmates. people don't throw their families the way. as the sea church in a rt meal now to talk about that story as the stasi a target in an area of study on something thank you so much for joining me now. first it wasn't possible that this mass grave for almost one million people are buried exists is so close to manhattan in young people don't know about it the media now that was really one of the most shocking question for us when no one i started the session so the story is realizing that people have never heard of this they are kind of a few articles here and man bob likes to eat you know the pot like people who lived in new york their entire lives never heard of this place and sell out. i mean
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hopefully until now. so during these burials stopped it noted that it was actually on going as we speak i mean they've been going on for four decades and centuries and this is still the number one place where any bodies that are unclaimed bodies the phone with people bodies of by people whose families can't afford to bury them. waratah bodies of the stillborn adelaide and the bees. this is where automatically in the city takes these bodies to bahrain that. so this is still the number one spot up for these mass of wales taking place for anybody up hoodies in munich city isn't and is on claimed and their families i don't get involved unbelievable internet visits million and are extremely restricted the real journalist someone to go in there. i allowed to go their way into a notepad and a pencil essentially that's all you can take there are no cameras no cellphones no on any kind of but we did see
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some of the deal in this report which we were able to get to the heart island project but it's really impossible at this age to go to the island in film anything up on the premise is that journalists are allowed to visit for numerous phone calls to the idea of city department of correction which is obviously somewhat complicated and at the ferry service there is not exactly regulate engines job on the bloated and also with the complicated process to go there and even though they are permitted. there is bailey and getting video or photos is really hard. so who'll be allowed to come closer to the gravesite of their children. while it's only twenty and i make it because the first ball as we were out working on restoring realize that a lot of people like me she wrote her story and lena forget things they did not know where it is where their family members children in this particular case are buried and is only by a kind of chance walking by accident that the hurt of the op art island project which will in the hunt runs from you sign our report and from where they were able to
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after fighting for years to get. finally this permission so certainly there many more of people out there who might be wondering where their relatives aren't might be searching the net and this particular cases these these women who've been kind of plowing through four years to get the permission and even though now they will be able to visit the grave sites for salt for some of them they don't know exactly where the graveside of their particular bb can't because it's mass graves with you know thousands of bb's kind of bow buried at mass which is horrifying in itself but also make and you know bring anything they can just see one person with them on no flowers no no nothing so it's really still like visiting a prison very much. as opposed to visiting a grave site sophia was once a minute left but the thing is that ireland would be turned into a square. while i was waiting for this by saying it is in fact likely because there are places like washington square park. even in new york city that we were told were with was also used as something like this i very very long time ago and is now
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obviously a space so people like linda hunt who we interviewed in this game is the story are continuing fighting this thing it's likely but certainly i passed in the system hasn't changed the way this place is run first of all because until we have the department of corrections overseeing this place certainly it's not going to be any place and that in the nearest future the stasi of this story is just shocking and it's something that's so close to so many people in yet so few people actually know about it the reporting thank you so much artsy correspondent on stasi it sure can add from our new york studio. jury selection for the standard brown trial before an anti cancer day forty seven year old i was on claims that he felt threatened when he repeatedly opened fire on a car full of teenagers park next to him back in two thousand. well done don't overdo altercation with three boys who were sitting at current gas station after he told them to turn their music down when the boys refused and continued team now
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initially he pulled out a nine millimeter handgun and fired a number of rounds into the car. two bullets hit seventeen year old jordan davis. he saw davis pull out a shotgun. however no one was ultimately recovered from the crying thing the one with his fiance and rough house which is about two hours of play. he never called the police report the incidents officers and finally tracked him down using his license plate arrested him the next day jordan davis' father wanted to swing his son as an innocent teenager in an interview with our team back in september. one cents the sunny when we when you're angry. for whatever reason you get a good news though with violence with people that i can as i want to know people that know that joy was an innocent bystander you know he was innocent young man that has carried took out his aggression on hand. the worst thing about it is that when i stood in front of my code on in the courtroom. he has no
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remorse whatsoever. he looked at me. and with such disdain there was palpable. now the case of michael son in many ways. caroline had her allowance the george foreman trial in the shooting death of trade one one including age of the boys the color of their skin and the states that the shootings happened and bought are also a number of key difference as jury selection could take a week or more to complete before the trial began as the jury of six men and women and four alternates will likely be sequestered during the two ration of the trial in secluded from the media frenzy that is already beginning to take place something. also in florida as state lawmakers are working on a bill to protect the rights of students. not fun to watch the formula one's ladies they are trying to protect students from biometrics things like fingerprinting my nest and errors scanners the new del later coconuts on the streets from collecting biometric information including the characteristics of fingerprints can designs in
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them always. of course was to inform parents about their rights regarding education records being collected on her son or daughter annually from that school districts from collecting information on students' political affiliation their voting history or their religious affiliation. and finally the proposal would protect the students information from being passed along to the federal government unless it was absolutely required under federal law. so i knew what you're thinking why isn't like this even necessary the econ parents found out last year that their children were having their lines and scanned without their permission. no one's county schools meanwhile were scanning the plans of people in one's room in order to access their accounts for money to pay the most wanted list the county schools list and abstinence for their fingerprints on the list goes on and the odds are good parents in justifying their fears are all in just over reacting. michael walsh was a columnist for pj media and in
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the new york post and was also the author of dead cattle in a thriller trilogy that centers around the nsa he recently wrote an article in your post entitled what the united states of paranoid yet. earlier i spoke with boston at first asked him if he likes these curious were really is overreacting. yes and no i think what we've learned in the last few years a survey of the last year or so. is that as i said in the new york post yesterday just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you i am that we have to be very careful about giving up our privacy to technology that is meant to preemptively prevent crime or problems and it gets really into the issue of whether we can prevent things from happening and we should therefore insulate ourselves should to prevent bad things or whether a certain amount of risk is part of a life now i happen to fall into the latter carrick category but that is a big discussion
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going on right now. somewhat dangerous and the brightness and or iphone real drove me to realistically pounds culture of convenience wanting technology to do everything for us instead of using ideas for instance or carrying money. guess that this is exactly what's happening. what we've discovered is that the technology is wonderful our phones or computers that every new app that comes out but every time we adopted we give up a little bit of privacy so that on facebook for example your costly posting your whereabouts are putting stuff up on interest you or your posting photographs and imperfect world. the government would be watching us but that an imperfect world. especially post nine eleven the government is watching us so it becomes a political and moral question how much do we want to give up in order to protect ourselves that's the issue and as you
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mentioned that's a fact of life. for more information is being collected about his stance. parents can do to protect their children from technology. barring taking pictures of theirs that children not putting on facebook. well it's really not because we're moving again since nine eleven we are moving toward society in which we have essentially of bed and an internal id card much as you did for example in the soviet union a country which i spent quite a bit of time in the eighties before the collapse of the soviet union. oh we haven't moved to the internal passports yet but that may well be coming as well. the fact is that the government will take everything that is offered to it and we have to be careful about how much we voluntarily give up. and as a political issue course becomes how much surveillance are we prepared to accept in order to be protected from oftentimes illusory threats where threats that are largely in
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our imagination and feeders and i think as a question that congress is still struggling to insert a lovely similar topic europe's largest group of hackers the chaos computer club the international league for human rights. the final complaint against german chancellor angela merkel in germany intelligence committee for cooperating with the nsa surveillance activities. the complaint read what they accuse the us and british and german secret agents their supervisors the german minister of interior as follows the german chancellor of the illegal prohibited conduct act to intelligence activities on in endless activities of my relation of the primacy to work with the right to privacy any obstruction of justice in office. so and that's what they are complaining again interestingly this comes as chancellor angela merkel was sharply criticized in us for spying on the activity of mine again she was helping the nsa in the sadr cement community that fine line on arsenal. the only difference
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is. she is closely working with the nsa. well that's good point. let's just put it this way. there watching everything and whether they say they are they're not they are. whether the law says they can or they can't they do. so this is just the world we live in now of takeover up vast amounts of data. they checked them in a day that um you know all the phone call she made me who you calling all that stuff. registering as giant computers and these intelligence services of the western countries are very closely allied with each other and it's a great deal of information sharing. now whether this is prevented further attacks on the scale of nine eleven. there's really no way to know the government says yes it as private individuals save not based in anything we know the government says trust us and we say can we trust you so we are really falling into the net and in between these two stools of advanced
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technology here. and our own eagerness to embrace technology to tell the world what we're doing everyone wants to be a movie star of the stairs. but that comes with a price that we have to be aware of what the press is going to be and whether or not it is the author of voluntarily rendering that information putting it out for anyone to see whether it's the day lying in the nsa in all things and i know that dogs got into one bigger landed in the interim and that is creating these profiles digitally on us. i was a columnist at the new york post and pj media. thank you so much. we've been spending a lot of time lines in the sky is lately. listen drones in its fight against terrorism has sparked debates protecting our troops is worth the risk of civilian see as wide as our teens and irritated reports it's going to get her hands out of the clients. this upsets the reins us military is bringing its unmanned vehicles closer to the ground
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the driver was indeed calls the most likely think about global economy has put its stamp on the revolutionary technology index expected to act both as your car your dentist or chauffeur. even though google has the most notable driver list car is certainly not the only driver in this vehicle on the market defense industry heavyweight monkey mind is just crap testing on a slightly bigger driver was caught on tape looks a little something like this. yes snacks and military trucks and demonstrations earlier this month in fort hood texas the u s army and lockheed martin show off their new system that allows army convoys to operate independently in for an urban environments using something called a time in its mobility ok system for the aid and eight as the vehicles came down to pedestrians as well as navigate on coming traffic road intersections and stalled vehicles. his advances and is all a result of an eleven million dollar
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contracts between army and lockheed martin. when the defense contractor is developing low cost centers they can be attached to existing on the machinery without a driver the talks will be able to enter for an eerie as in combat zones. now having to worry about the danger of risking american soldiers' lives however it does not appear in the vehicles can still be me and an anti isa truck would alert the soldiers have any safety threats. i'm the driver would have the ability to stop. john stuart take full control of the vehicle. ba and eight s system removes the military closer to its goal of capitalizing on economists were fair. last month that the army aviation symposium an officer announced that the army was looking to slim down its personnel numbers and adopt more mold knots over the coming years the officer was suggesting that the army moved to incorporate the robot mule anna thomas vehicle they can transport supplies and having loads for soldiers. but as
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we've learned in recent months ago with barbie on take a look at this animation from sandia national laboratories. this is the future of the automated rounds a single on me and he'll call back and fly swim driving even jump thirty feet into the air. ms is being developed right now the government contractor says it hopes the device will one day carry out missions usually reserved for special operation forces. so come on a needed socks two mules to drones on and anna thomas systems are no longer a technology of the future. at least not for the us military which is certainly moving to prepare for war and a robotic each. in washington and guarantee that our team while the obama administration is refusing to disclose exactly how much the dominant spells spent to build a part of section of the section of guantanamo bay next to house detainees. we herald reporter carol rosenberg has been reporting on demo since the open back in two thousand till she flew
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on the freedom of information act request back in two thousand million for documents related to the cost of camp sunday. nokia seven hundred detainees likely check muhammad who was the so called mastermind of september a lot and in those attacks on the world trade center and pentagon. this trial is expected any day now but officials say they found only one document when it's bad for your class. doj brief news release document because it contains the details of the internal deliberations this was the names of people warfare and is therefore subject to privacy. so i was and i'm still in the other day saying officials didn't search hard enough for more finals. not when it ran a filing the justice department asked a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit brought on by rosenberg saying quote there is no requirement that an agency search and re record some stuff going on to say that the issue ten years on is not whether there might exist any other documents possibly responsive to
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the request but rather whether the search for those documents was and what made this a candidate. learning has disclosed construction costs for all other portions of guantanamo bay. the number is refusing to disclose the amounts spent on town center but also the kind that people from the government eventually came to undertake the work. this dna filing comes an interesting time for the guantanamo bay detention facility. the southern command which designs of debt now is asking for forty nine million dollars to replace the facility. the agency claims that didn't was built in properly and suffering from serious structural defects including a cracked foundation. the number of detainees have been transferred out of the camp to come they can to countries like sudan and saudi over npr meanwhile during last tuesday's it stated the union address president obama reiterated his commitment to close the camp from the solids and clear the southern command will see any of that money at all
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either way the chances are that we won't move. the brand of justice is asking defense lawyers across the country to help them track down inmates course open for nonviolent drug charges and who might have been prosecuted to firstly an unexpected move on thursday deputy attorney general james cole asked lawyers to help these men and women apply for the sea nonviolent drug offenders one in prisons across the country and are a major contributing factor to overpopulation. the justice department also pointed to the wind is starting to embrace as when it comes to convictions why america is far more likely to abuse cocaine. the black community was more likely to use. which brings on more harsh minimum sentencing can see is what next. disparity between crack and cocaine sentencing is one hundred to one that was until two thousand and that congress want to fix that disparity meaning thousands of people are still locked up
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and everything new york events calls the clouds there are more low level nonviolent drug offenders who remain in prison and who would like me can proceed to substantially lower sentence if convicted of precisely the same offences today. this is not fair and it harms our criminal justice system. this comes just a month after president obama commuted the sentences of eight federal inmates who were prosecuted for drug violations. congress is now considering a bill that would make the two thousand ten sentencing guidelines natural and dad opening the door for some twelve thousand clinton aides to receive reduced sentences. still this latest doj move might just mean the beginning of the end of the war on drugs declared by president nixon back in nineteen seventy one on arrival we are t minus four days until the twenty fourteen olympic games that begin in associate watch our hearts he is already in the air for the games to be a chance. here's what i wanted to cover. and. the club on
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plus i like the dust and the art facility is at work and family and i were completed just in time for the events as well as some of the paralympic events taking place. here's our teens to bomb not say. the honey isn't a sign that read this with the paralympics will hold the iss sled hockey swan events. now the workings of the pink hockey teams will also be played with my cf in and this week and this is
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the seven thousand mountain of presents each set of the match. don't be surprised when it comes time to die. in eighteen means the wine scene the only currency that nonsense with students of winning. the olympic gold medal. he is somewhat the spokesman said. it's going to be. ps you can use that's just the week i was on pcp the team. the system since the introduction of the sport he has the most of you who think and think well it's something that the russian fleet and then there's the blairite minister
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to a new tune was more of these guys manage to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society and we are not people would disagree with him with unlimited these men and women who can sit fifteen minutes he was assigned as they did his family. the monthly. btn on all real. for now love for the stories we covered the youtube dot com flash art in there. and i went fine arts conference usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter. in the swirl of penzance the right back here at eight pm eastern. i inhaled. yours. cheetahs
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the us. meanwhile continues line it's easy to carry forth and catherine plan she can tell tale investors around the world are watching the us and that worried by what they see the concern about the impact of weak manufacturing data and which has caused a slump on wall street and also hit other my kids. now they see the slide could have far reaching effects on the global economy the dow jones industrial average lost more than two percent on monday closing at fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy

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