and the global rebellions that were occurring in two thousand and eleven are continuing now in two thousand and twelve it's a response to these cutbacks in social services in the interest of corporate power instead enormous sums are being pumped into projects that are far from a priority for those who live here here you have an eight million dollar park. that was built. toxic waste stands empty in the nonresidential area billions of dollars are being misplaced you know and into the hands of the corporations of the rich and it is crazy that it's two thousand and twelve and conditions like this in the bronx with countless trucks passing through drugs and prostitution are rampant. judge here obesity walks hand in hand with hunger both signs of poverty i don't

know how many hundreds of flood pantries in the bronx just like this month got you know that food needs to be two hundred people lined up tuesdays and saturdays look the same here for jobless people out on the street in the mainstream media what we see is a lot is is that it's you know it's our individual responsibility and never look at some of the structural reasons behind this poverty while corporations play a major role in america's policy making process people in places like the south bronx are left in the gutter i don't know if it's coming from the senate i don't know if it's the president's i can't say if it's like the chance or the just the district leader just the people i don't know who i can blame directly but i feel like it's a compilation of all of them everyone is just like not doing enough and up to pick us up. several decades ago almost half of the south bronx was largely burnt or abandoned a result of a downward spiral of economic decline middle class flight and skyrocketing crime so

many streets have by now had a facelift just doesn't plastic surgery the exterior look may have somewhat improved but within the forgotten baro of new york remains destroyed is the thirty south bronx new york. and earlier i spoke with u.s. congressional candidate dan o'connor about the growing disparity and poverty and what it means for the state of the u.s. today. because a really important topic here in the u.s. i think everyone is quite aware of it and i think that it's something that is becoming more and more obvious and it's becoming. increasingly worse and i think it tells us that the direction that we've been going in for a long time is a complete failure the us federal government really actively became involved in the redistribution of wealth process about one hundred years ago and throughout that

process we've seen the poverty level get greater the more and more people poverty stricken become greater and the concentration of wealth in this country continues to go into the hands of the few. and the bronchus as on the software part of their forty nine percent of children live below the poverty line in the nation it's one in five i mean why don't we hear much discussion about this from our g.o.p. presidential candidate especially today in the primaries are underway why are we hearing more about this from the. that's a good question and it's certainly something that should be brought up more often that republicans in washington generally say they embrace the system they endorse the system they call it capitalism even though it really isn't it's crony capitalism i'm running for u.s. congress as a democrat here in new york city i'm originally from new york city i can see it firsthand i can see the tremendous amount of poverty that exists in this city and

also you know when you talk about the republicans running for office right now. they've even been asked about this a few times mitt romney doesn't even really want to acknowledge it as a serious problem the democrats we do acknowledge just being a serious problem however a lot of the democrats in washington d.c. continue to think that they can solve the problem i'm running as a democrat i had knowledge that this is a serious problem but i don't think that the politicians can solve it well how can we solve it then how can we reverse this trend that is rising here in the u.s. sure well as i originally mentioned i think more people are becoming aware of this more and more people are out of jobs more and more people are genuinely concerned about the economy right now given the atrocious economic conditions for many many years more and more people are genuinely concerned the internet is

a great source of information in helping to move beyond that the mainstream media debate if you want to talk about things like you know mitt romney's time spent at bain capital which i personally don't care about i am concerned about the the people in this country who are poverty stricken and you know we're in the midst of a revolution in this country it's gradual it's growing and i'm happy to be part of it running for congress here in the in the in new york you just have around the midst of a revolution that's a very strong word there why do you say that and what are the signs that it's happening. well occupy wall street's big i've been engaged in it and i've gone down there myself my district borders on wall street these people are outraged the even the tea party movement you know they criticize the bailouts the trillions of dollars to the large banks and the corporations the occupy wall street people also criticize this and everyone acknowledges that there's

a serious problem out there and it's just it's a system that favors the few that favors the corporations the favors the military industrial complex more and more americans are becoming aware of it and while you are running and hoping to address this problem if elected what would you do. i'll be one of the few democrats in washington d.c. that's willing to admit that we're bankrupt and i would be one of the few democrats in d.c. that is willing to admit that the politicians don't have all the solutions to the problems we need to remove a lot of these functions from the hands of the politicians and the bureaucrats and allow people to solve their own problems this the example that we see in the bronx . is an exact perfect example of the failed the failed war against drugs this this is a failed policy that's existed for many decades and it's also a perfect example that the redistribution of wealth that washington d.c. continues to try to solve is essentially an enormous failure. dan

thank you so much for coming on the show that was u.s. congressional candidate dan o'connor. well america prides itself on being a capitalist nation a system that gives everyone a shot at the american dream but is that really what it is today some would argue that it's no longer a government for the people but a government for corporations that's after the controversial passage of citizens united which allows corporations to pump unlimited amounts of money to fund campaigns and speaking of campaigns today as hundreds today hundreds to place it to the polls and the g.o.p. primaries but if you ask columnist for truth take an author chris had is voting doesn't even matter he gave us his take on it or earlier take a listen. there's no way to vote against the interests of goldman sucks. especially when you mention citizens united since two thousand and ten the

corporations can anonymously spend unlimited amounts of money against any candidate who dares to challenge corporate interests and that has the centrally kept. elected politicians completely in line because if they step over that line they're finished and that's why you saw the announcement today that even barack obama who swore that he wouldn't do it has now asking people to contribute to the democratic super pac so that he can compete it's legalized bribery and it's not that like corporate money wasn't involved heavily in determining the outcome of elections before two thousand and ten but this display really was the death blow because. the fear that has gripped politicians now within state houses and within washington is that if they run afoul of the chamber

of commerce which represents the fossil fuel industry and major banks. any major corporation they're finished and it's become an extremely effective form of of control and i know that you are a very strong critic of citizens united that's the ruling that allows corporations . as much money as they want to political campaigns how would you say that this law has impacted the election so far. well. it's made it really impossible to run for office unless you have super pacs behind you we saw we've seen this with for instance newt gingrich the only reason he's still alive as a candidate is because he has this massive infusion of money. you know super pac sun. in every single race determine who gets elected and who doesn't and

and once they get to washington the payoff is that these corporate lobbyists write the legislation and then let the officials who in essence have become corporate employees pass it and this is been an acceleration of the kind of coup d'etat in slow motion the corporate coup d'etat that has gripped america and i don't see any way out because there's no poll on the other side unions are broken popular movements are broken the rise of the occupy movement was met with draconian forms of control including the physical eradication of encampments any kind of a murmur of opposition within the wider societies is ruthlessly. and. certainly within the formal mechanisms of power there is no redress. been saying for some time that the only. mechanisms we have now for resistance are civil disobedience but we've seen how the state has responded to peaceful

nonviolent civil disobedience and that's essentially by trying to erase it from the landscape and you say as we discussed earlier that voting these days it doesn't count and we saw this crackdown on the occupy wall street movement what then can citizens do these days to bring about change. i think civil disobedience i think. you know we have to get out. in the streets because that is the only recourse that we have left and the rise of the occupy movement the ability of the movement to resonate across the american landscape and i think we should be clear that the occupy movement represents the mainstream if you look at the polling but everything occupy was calling for was embraced by sixty plus percent of the american public what. allows chris hedges columnist for truthdig an author of the book death of the liberal class well that does it for now

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disease free because i reckon the europeans to be healthier people from asia they are more diligent about medical checkups. the first reported case of indonesia occurred in bally and. it was back in the one nine hundred eighty seven and the patient was a foreigner who was in ballet at the time and that he barely. knew about that one case involving a foreigner and. my colleagues wanted to find out how deep the problem was. how far ahead each of you spread across. but we tested four hundred blood samples but as one came back as a cherry positive. it was from an indonesian. knees in fact

it was so obviously we wasn't just a tourist problem so. i went to australia. to observe and learn from the aids cases there. even a nine hundred eighty seven they had many cases that had reached the hospitalization stage. and i wondered if we had as many cases the as well would be fine the hospitals here as like you yeah we don't have the same medical facilities in indonesia let alone barely get.

we can't be pessimistic ok but i'm afraid if people don't change their attitude it's just a closed mind it. and don't acknowledge the situation in mali. the disease will continue to spread like we've said in the media but then we could witness an aids anomaly in the next five to eight years of the ban but a study. they never left here they are they asking when they get married stuff like that. it kind of serious to see their parents but it's not like

a promise like ok so parents have to be here. but for me. and i understand because it's the young man's man the man in the good book. there were no. that's good. and that. and it has respect because. it. meant a plan about your future. that is again by their profile and yet i must say i don't think i'm only many japanese women i slept well there was one who i felt truly loved me i get the girl i love churchill we asked me to go to japan with. the other now out of town so yeah

. but. really really looking at. morning holding my country on the beach. yeah. yeah i was but i want to know both of you and the country are. inutile yeah it was. too much money everything. i read of. course. went.

from there. and deadly and then she said she'd find me a job at a restaurant here because i ended up working at a restaurant in a ship. for six months i thought i was undergoing unpaid training like that yeah. the system in japan is different from here. soon as you start work that's not the show you begin to get a salary. and i didn't know that. i asked the manager

he said they had been paying my salary to my wife since i started working there what about the. ice up i was shocked. at how come my so called wife didn't tell me they're buying my salary and. she said i gave you a lot of money every time i was in bali a lot of back then she took a stack of receipts. every cent she spent on me and i was a record of it in there. and in total. i still owed her. some i was so stressed during that time yeah i guess i did but i realized she had brought me to japan to work so she wouldn't have to any more stepped up without telling her i am going to bed i took up

a part time job at another place. where i met another japanese girl the other day possible she was ten years older than me and said to me thought someone i told her my whole story and she really fell for me in the fire and we made a promise to step in here but cut a long story short i returned to bali. bali and once i go back i called my first wife and said seven tomoko i'm in bali now the local by scott has a dodgy was over least dumb that i was back here but she couldn't do anything that's managed by he will get it at the shop. and get back the messiah in the media. about two weeks later a roomie came to palliate to get me see how to meet my second wife her name is

a room and. make was like i was on my honeymoon in bollywood with the second boy i don't need the i can put. in bad. sales but we stayed in the valley and for about a month before returning to japan which i gather is i learned in india. i think for them they see they do see that buoyant. maybe a nice a strain of french girl boy or american girl to tend to their country they could be set for life but it doesn't always work that way because the culture is different these guys because of the rural background think that if they go with a white woman they will go in an airplane and they will be in another aisle another place and they can travel but they don't realize that you have to pay for everything that suddenly the whole dream bursts this suddenly realize they can't do

what they're doing here in bali. look the main thing is that there is love and if there is love it doesn't matter where we are so whether i have to adjust to the food or to the cold climate is irrelevant as long as she's there i will like the place if i marry her it won't be because she's red shore or whatever it will be for love if that were america i come here i would never take him to sweden because that would never work if that that's what it was for here. but if you marry. you know if you do get married. because i think i could do it but i don't think you could you think you would crash . the lake. was like i can see life here because i've been here already.

if i will be here because some friends here. one of them used to cleaning about the. years of war and the light sources to choose so there's a bombshell since the civil war. broke out so when it was time to come it. my wife's second wife had never lived in about spain about get that i doubt she can even live in value. thereby and i had never lived in japan that she and i were from really different cultures. it was a four year course but i left after a year that i was i didn't want to study anymore every day every day was stressful if you do not just for your appearance. but for me to me.

when i was always stressed about school. and i missed indonesia. i don't like her for. now becoming the argos i want to know in there. but of living in europe i mean. i want. and here like one hundred days relax i don't have to do really saying i'm not working but now it's like i haven't seen us for a one year so. i mean i will be ok if there is something i mean there

because you never know what i was doing to see other people with you know. i can what you can see other people with. you. know. where. it's like kind of an open place. i don't really know was a room in the lead in. outing newcomer come to the big big.