thank you that's a ticket to. be really present in the czech republic in the pen that bad the video theft has since gone viral causing a lot of embarrassment for that world world leader but klaus is no stranger to embarrassment on a more serious note he has previously appeared of the glenn beck show as a climate change denier but i'm getting the better of it out here in the pens that was just part of his diplomatic strategy after all that and is right here. coming up america's growing obesity problems may actually stem from the appropriation of agricultural subsidies details on where your money is.

let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and. i think from a readable point well. we never got the book says we're going to keep you safe get ready because their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything

you thought you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. it's. all about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour mother nature

will soon have the legal rights in one part of latin america to get up a similar law here plus your taxes may be responsible for this country's obesity problem to show you how farm subsidies are killing america and we're number one really shouldn't be. because we're not the usa is getting smoked in the global economic reasons that it's silly to. one hotly debated topic in the ongoing budget negotiations that of agricultural subsidies. money that you and i the taxpayers send to mostly giant agricultural corporations to grow or not grow certain crops since nine hundred ninety five our nation has distributed two hundred forty six billion dollars in egg subsidies and

those who receive these subsidies of hired some of the most powerful lobbyists in town keep the money flowing but there's something a little strange about ag subsidies it's time to support crops that make us sick they would have us chart the vast majority of subsidies go to meet gary and grains the things that make americans obese and diabetic and all around unhealthy meanwhile fruits and vegetables receive less than one percent of the subsidies so if one in three americans considered obese diabetes on the rise in cardiovascular diseases and answer the top two leading causes of death in america should we reconsider handing taxpayer dollars on the giant food corporations to make a sicker with more on this elizabeth because senator joins me now she's the director of public and governmental affairs at the physicians committee for responsible medicine elizabeth welcome thank you found great to have you here with us why are some current crop subsidize and others. i think that there might be

a little bit of a lobby behind subsidizing which tones and we can see that it's crops that are being subsidized primarily corn and soy is actually five crops that there isn't going to be crops feeding livestock there with the going to ethanol production and other things but the bulk of them are going to feed and move on high intensity feeding operations. animals then we're feeding these good prices means to teach children and closing with that damage so. tell me if this logic chain works the reason why we're not subsidizing growing fruits and vegetables is because there would just be a straight subsidy of agriculture but instead we're subsidizing growing corn and other products that go to the meat industry basically and so now you've got to. two industries involved in you know of lobbyists and there's a lot of them too in this. in the processed foods. so well actually what are those

industries what what why you know what. why is it that there's no subsidies for carrots are there all these subsidies for for corn that seems like it's just a vegetable but as you said it's really it's really it's all about meat it's only really edible when it's processed by animal feed so it's not the kind of speak on that we would want to put on our plates when we look at the different lobbies that might be behind this we can see the seed engine is most of its genetic modified the people who are producing the chemicals pesticides insecticides and all of those kinds of things there with a lot is that of supporting this kind of subsidy. so it's a really entrenched system but it's not that we would say would suggest that vegetable should be subsidized we should just say that you know the market should be able to meet and they really preeminent people should be growing and pharma should be growing what consumers really need and when we see what u.s.d.a. dietary guidelines suggest diet which is rich in free vegetables whole grains with

a little bit of protein on the side of fat rather than a bulk of heavily saturated patent cholesterol laden meat and dairy products we should really be saying that if there are subsidies they should be going the other way but that's not actually the position that i would take or to say get rid of the subsidies altogether and getting rid of the subsidies altogether would be a loss of billions of dollars to basically it's three large corporations and the majority of which is a number of corporations oversee make processes impact is what we're seeing is a vertical and horizontal integration of the food supply from production through to getting on your plate and i would think that we need to be looking at the breaking up of those monopolies looking at actually trust regulations rather than supporting market dominance that large corporations. three subsidies there is a need for subsidies small farmers are really struggling because these large industries who are the who are receiving the bulk of those subsidies are getting the markets well i remember back in the one nine hundred eighty s.

when reagan stopped basically enforcing the sherman antitrust act jimmy carter was the last guy to do that. and really after that there was this mergers and acquisition mania that everybody saw on wall street but was actually happening out in pharma i grew up in michigan and a lot of my friends you know grew up on farms and there are no living in the houses on farms that have been in their families for generations but are now owned by con agra or some other big company they got what i took you know. willie nelson was going around doing farming tours and things and saloons and and is this the consequence of these subsidies or is this the consequence of the failure to enforce the sherman act or were all of the what do we do about all of the word all day so i worked for the physicians committee for responsible medicine and we really focused on the nutrition aspect when we look at how much money. the current congress is trying to cut from the budget in the billions we see health care costs in the

trillions of looking at your face it's the epidemic as you mentioned and if we look at heart disease costs a projected twenty thirty costs eight hundred billion here a year hundred billion dollars we cannot afford this and this is these are all preventable diseases type two diabetes obesity heart disease for the most part are all dire related so if we start incentivizing the production of cheap dairy and start to actually allow the market to move in the direction of people being able to pay for fruits and vegetables and having those more accessible to them then move c. prevention rather than people wouldn't be accurate to say the cheap cheap theory actually cheap what is available yeah yeah it's an artificial distortion of the marketplace so they think that the external. he is not mean is being paid for by taxpayers it is and your question about what to do about this and what's caused this subsidies are obviously a policy based no enforcing trust and trust regulation is another part not

enforcing environmental regulations allowing factory system putting in air in the land without force and all of these kinds of things where the government needs to really step up to what it's doing to our food supply and the health of the nation and where you go to have all this for pollution thanks for being part of that awakening thank you and thanks for joining us to. look around the world you'll never see a successful nation with a sick population america's security has a lot to do the food we eat it's time to get our priorities in line and start incentivizing healthy crops and tell major agribusiness corporations to go it alone . bolivia is preparing to make history with a new law that expands rights to nature the law of mother earth as it's called will

stablish a slew of new rights that protect the environment including the right to exist the right to be free of pollution the right not to be genetically modified and the right not to be developed if it harms the ecosystem and this new law citizens would have more power to bring lawsuits against companies that harm the environment to live in vice president alberto garcia defended the laws saying it makes world history is stablished is the new relationship between man and nature the harmony of which must be preserved as a guarantee of its regeneration so with the ongoing nuclear disaster in japan worsening and crude still washing ashore in the gulf of mexico thanks to the b.p. oil spill last year shouldn't was like the one bolivia is pursuing be taken up elsewhere around the world like here in the united states here offer his take on the issues seem oddly president a less government seedcamp welcome back welcome back room good thank you are you the only person on the planet who is who resides outside of nature. but i would

love to see you try to get a constitutional amendment through the united states doing what this ridiculous president you don't think nations should nature should have rights now. because it cheapens our rights and cheapens actual rights each you can for constitutional rights every time you throw the word rights around animal rights you know that's a line and. a gazelle about animal rights going to when it encounters a lion. since one thousand nine hundred we've lost seventy five percent of the time so this country. we're down to deforestation and forest levels are around seventeen percent and i don't want you sitting up i don't i don't want you setting up a we have a loss when. again so for to go green and screw with while the lawyers and the environmental point because i don't like the trial lawyers but anything all the stupid like if they're if they're defending the positive future of our species that's ridiculous big first of all have you forgotten climate gate have you forgotten the so called climate gate was an invention of

a bunch of rightwing hacks raid for by the koch brothers right and it was total lies and it has been disputed it has but it isn't going to be that hasn't refuted it of course if you're disputed repeatedly it hasn't if you did it oh i'm sorry this is a koch brothers paid for it now and you know it's a hostile and russia but russia it was a on the published works you know we won the war on the earth to ruin the planet we're not running the country where the largest met with the we are now we've surpassed termites in the last five years is the largest single chunk of biomass we use more than sixty percent of the net photosynthetic productivity the planet thought it was only five percent one thousand nine hundred what it means is that everyone inside to see what it has every other species on earth has to fight thirty one of who are going to go primitive that is a positive one so that we are seen species losses right now that we haven't seen since the end of the jurassic don't you get it we're in and we're in an extinction no no the only extinction or software that's from the budget deficits that are both obama is proposing this is how you would if you want to assign africa to permanent perpetual badgered poverty that's what you're doing there i've been in africa us in

africa i don't think the e.u. could say either one doesn't have to tell you that a lot of the destruction of africa is the result of colonisation and that in the us although it all structural you know i would i would imagine average that's going to have been colonized in freedom is much better off than when they worked so you're saying you say your same b.p. and tepco and all these other companies we should just not regulate them it doesn't matter what they are didn't like or earth one another of us when he said mother earth has no rights no good oh it's not a human being or it's so only humans haven't had any rights only humans have any value of by their definition this guy was talking about yes. i'm astounded and welcome to reality talk about a good issue i think that's really tragic so wrong you know that that you would they want to get a cacio women from the united front to get you are so separate from nature that nature plot is and try to get try to get a constitutional moment for this the united states you need two thirds of the states you won't get them genuinely as well why things are going to welcome reality in america a little you may be right but i you know i don't i can't i can't get why somebody

would make the argument calling cayle suddenly you know i don't know how nuts and what i don't know anybody that voted for him i understand you're a little glib robocall i understand that but out here in reality we get it we understood this is absurd and i'm part of i'm part of the natural world it's or you know we're nature is to be protected from. from from us right now no we're ones our history detection from nature and other climate control do you did i like easy i like you didn't you didn't like for your answer the point about the loss of species that are a little time six extinction no newsweek though at the time right now the normal way to speak science is all the time but we didn't even know existed seaton if you genuinely think you must not only. do you know the hubris involved we can genuinely affect the world especially when you come up with fraudulent scientists like it each day we university in climate gate that was i was there was no no what about it i suppose kim was paid for by the koch brothers and i don't know your russian right

wing what it is appears russia why do we get out of iraq show is here without is my russian i know this is the koch brothers this is you were this who you were had as you want to acknowledge it then you were had one of your fake scientists and you want to know even a why do you keep coming back this year because it is a very it's a bogus global warming ok so because it's totally bogus the warming in the last year this climate happened it did not but yes it's certainly going to die was awesome paid for by the clerk writers are there but it doesn't change the fact that it was a fraud i don't care who promoted it c. doesn't change if i could it was a fraud you're saying that nature doesn't count and i'm saying he doesn't write you don't care what beings i'm so you don't get why it's like this if he says it says and you get it libya it doesn't get rights you know i just i just i just have to say again i'm just i'm going to be out at once but i said fred you want a sense of what you're promoting these kinds of lies first of all first i'm astounded by the no i was genuinely angry they were liars i'm a genuine user and it was a lie and secondly i'm just astounded that you are like. you mentioned hubris that

if you write you would think that we can just crap on the planet that we can use sixty percent of the total we're also getting is or grossly but we're also the greatest country anywhere not in really discussing the planet i mean you really saw something like the human race yes. we're here so we're part of the process ok sitting there weren't you a lump of coal or what it's what i planted you demand i said what art what our planet is going to end up looking like if you're its own mortality that your answers and also to get out of is like an ass and fuel flow but i don't have any but it's good to see that we should say the rights are reserved only for humans and not for nature frankly to me makes no sense we are part of nature we destroyed nature which for selves would give rights to nature being rights to ourselves mother nature speaking to us time circles. and not night. on a chat. not.

after the break how the us is dropping down to the bottom of the economic food chain well it's once weaker counterparts making you are. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think for a moment either one well. we have the government says they're going to keep him safe get ready for the their

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of. yours. and yet oh. yeah design for the good the bad and the insane really i would first up the good rob zero been an ocean county supervisor in wisconsin is officially launched his campaign to unseat republican budget chairman paul ryan in next year's election that's right paul ryan is from was. and his challenger is personal where is launching a web site and saw my grandma dot com it's actually granted well with the site

is in response to ryan's budget plan privatizers medicare as the site says ryan's plan will end medicare as we know it raising premiums and cutting benefits for more than twenty million seniors across the country ryan is wrong and we cannot improve our seems well done. so it seems it sees traffic the bad house republicans as though their budget isn't bad enough they're breaking their own rules to pass it in the majority republicans constantly criticize democrats for not posting legislation online for seventy two hours for lawmakers to read it so now they're on speaker john boehner pledge that all legislation would meet that seventy two hour requirement at process that promise lasted all of two months publicans passed a bill to defund n.p.r. without proper notice and they did it again two weeks later with another bill and tomorrow they're going to bow to the budget bill that was posed to the two am this morning leaving less than thirty six hours for that the. republican party green

hypocrisy to a new. and the very very ugly crowd on fox so called news was night talking head probably explain why burger myths continue to surround the president they go with. number one he wasn't properly vetted no way and number two since he's been president this gets to come to this point he's adopted some policies that are seriously and radical to american values to your religion i'd like your name one just one policy it's antithetical to american values has been promoted by fraud. on the other hand george w. bush used torture still legal wars for the size of the justice department read the wealth inequality gap collapsed our economy you know seems all of those things are actually pretty ethical for america. so maybe bush wasn't really a bush maybe we should find his birth certificate a donald trump are you listening anyway it's all very fear of.

everything feeling like you're being left behind in the case of the united states is more than a feeling it's a fact our nation is being left behind in the global economy this week the name the leaders of the bric nations that's brazil russia india and china as well as south africa are all meeting in china to find common ground in creating a new global economy one not so dependent on the united states in the us the bric nations are some of the fastest growing economy economy in the world representing forty five percent of all the current economic growth on the planet and nearly one fifth of the entire global trade market these nations also represent a lot of people forty percent of the world's population thinks their place in the

current and most importantly future world economy can't be denied and for too long brazil russia india china now south africa have been so often screwed or ignored by u.s. based organizations like the i.m.f. and the world bank but now they seem more than willing to go it alone on top of that after the wreckage of thirty years of reaganomics they don't think they can depend on the united states' economy to keep the world economy rolling along what they see when they look at the united states the day they see a nation under control by its military industrial complex launching wars across africa in the middle east that are very profitable for trans national defense corporations but leave america both financially and morally bankrupt and losing its credibility around the world for example all of the bric nations disapproved of our military campaign in libya. they see a nation unwilling to take the lead in the global effort to clear curb climate

change a nation that had two consecutive un climate change summit dragged its feet twisted arms behind closed doors and sabotaged any hopes of crafting an effective global climate change treaty an asian who has sold out and bought off politicians are so beholden to giant oil and core coal corporations that they openly deny the truth right in front of their eyes at the world's climate is changing man is doing irreparable harm and something must be done the rest of the world gets it and invest in clean technology regardless of what we're doing they see a nation whose government is so corrupted by millionaire and billionaire campaign donors to real solutions to fix our national debate completely off the table even the i.m.f. issued a warning to us the united states today to find a quote credible strategy and quote to address our nation's debt and response republicans in congress want to make our debt problems even worse by giving bigger

tax breaks to the super rich and offsetting the crossed by cutting pennies out of planned parenthood and n.p.r. in other words the i.m.f. is right we don't have a credible strategy and the briton nations realize that while we're busy invading other nations and burning through a quarter of the world's oil and burying ourselves in debt by a massive giveaways to trans national c.e.o.'s and millionaire and billionaire and campaign donors who spent more than a billion dollars lobbying congress to keep their tax breaks and ways all were busy with all that stuff the rest of the world is simply moving on with their lives were like a family member that despite all of the interventions despite all the warnings and all the maidens still can't kick our addiction to money and politics and because of that we're being left behind our government has been taken over by corporations and billionaires who frankly don't give a damn about our future. and our nation is headed down a road to destitution unless we the people can take back control kick out the

defense contractors interest national see get money out of politics and elect a real statesmen and stateswomen again in america then we all have to come to terms with a troubling new reality the new world powers like brazil russia india and china will lead the way that the twentieth century of american dominance will soon give way to the twenty first century of american irrelevance thought in line here thirty years of reaganomics has not only destroyed america but during that thirty years this vast infrastructure has been built largely by billionaires like the koch brothers his daddy was behind the john birch society to spread lies like there's no such thing as climate change to to encourage the the massive transnational corporations and frankly bankrupting destroy small companies around the world and around the nation and break our comp our country our country it's it is you know

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