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the. feeds. you want. to. talk about you're watching r t here's a look at the top stories of the week while i'm reporting confirmed as russia's president elect after securing comfortable win in a poll but man i believe tough challenges for the new leader a lie have. your life and ross thousands to russia streets rallying for and against the outcome the opposition movement facing a test for support amid accusations of failed expectations. i think arab league sees either why with a rush on how serious crisis should be and it amended growing calls for foreign
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intervention dearest it could lead to further bloodshed. greece receives a cold shower from ratings agencies after it finally seems that their deal with private investors with moody's declaring the country in default. of next as a special report standing army bets takes a look at how american military bases shape the lives of millions and hundred plus countries where they are based. on. how they get the money to make them who's giving. up. questions somebody like obama but. it just didn't happen. it was designed. and those bases just came along and i
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you know some terrible cancer. when you see how much money is at stake and in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from kadena air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day when have involved thousands of gallons of jet fuel. repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for these bases is that they're continually practicing and training and using the equipment and running the personnel through their paces and and feeding them and and so on and that is an incredibly expensive operation this is what. the president has an hour it was warning against in his farewell address and nine hundred sixty one where he invented the phrase military industrial
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complex meaning hidden power power that was not really under the supervision of congress. and that was often out of control represented private interests rather than the national interests i'm sorry to say that we in america did not pay attention to the warning he gave it gave to us and today it's close to out of control. in the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil to every day more than any other country far more than any other country the u.s. department of defense alone consumes as much petroleum as sweden does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured in day out three hundred sixty five days a year to safeguard that oil the united states must have some capacity to
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protect it and in this country that job has been given to the military. and the military must have bases naval bases air force bases and army bases in the areas where the oil is located or along the supply routes. if you look at the map collectively there is an almost contiguous strain. oh of u.s. military bases from poland to pakistan in this really strategic middle ground between the emerging economic competitors of the united states the european union on one hand and china and japan on the other the us has a formal policy of maintaining military dominance of the persian gulf area it's called
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a carta doctrine if the president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is a vital interests of the united states and to protect that flow will use any means necessary including military force to there and he said we will need military bases in the persian gulf area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with the policy these men west are united in pioneering a new run dear of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arabs. serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. which from this new frontier
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is nothing into the trade of the world oil. one of the material that is making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one of the reasons and the reason for the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control of really major energy resources in the world when the embassy in which one will be inside baghdad is a city sort of no other embassy and story around the world they're not building the embassy. in syria rakim the huge bases around with an intention to leave they're
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building the moon pension to maintain control. since two thousand and three the us has built dozens of military bases in iraq in chief thousand and eight the us and iraqi governments signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven . the agreement also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent bases or a permanent military presence in iraq. obama secretary of defense robert gates though has stated that even after two thousand and eleven he expects to see several tens of thousands of american troops as part of a residual force in iraq. hence many fear that iraq may be used as a launching pad for future wars in the region. mostly in fact bases created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent juggle garcia for example born in the context of the cold pool is still operational and has played
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a crucial role in the iraq war they say to a new. study feasibility study you know the island is not safe for the people to go and they are to return they are but the thing is americans are living they are painted they had to follow they i am and i even had like the island you call it and you could i clearly told you knew all and i mean we can know and showing their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on now i remain and enjoy the same way they are doing. so by many as the navy's best kept secret because of its remote location diego garcia is actually home to about three thousand residents at any given time there's also a unique assortment of quality of life opportunities to take advantage of on diego
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garcia the island's athletic center is open round the clock with a wide range of workout equipment and a full sized gymnasium be sure to spend as much time as possible researching this informative website to help you prepare for what will certainly be a memorable assignment abroad. by hosting u.s. bases countries loose of sovereignty in the. of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thickness of the sofa the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so whole host nations and it can terminate. who can access the united states will have what kind of political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that the countries that have less power or leverage in relationship to the united states have much
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thinner so for us in these cases these countries you'll find that when u.s. soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable they're not and they're not tried under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they're just put out of the country back into the united states were deployed to war zone because as they say boys will be boys and these guys been trained to to be more aggressive and so they were aggressive. a. lot. you like you're like shot up with steroids you know i mean you're working out every day and you've got guns you've got stuff and so when you leave off the base man i
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mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you feeling like you're a tough guy you could take anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort of attitude and getting kind of the wrong end is so might be looking at you the wrong way you know you just not be you know when you know you were soldier you're marines i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local boards and causing problems for the local people but. this does garbage i mean if the. the case then you don't let us off the base you lose from the base there's going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about a local now and girl had been raped by united states military men and i was very
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upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated the okinawan people when i was here as a second as an eighteen year old and eventually some of peace activists got in touch with me and they had a contact here in okinawa and when they found out that i had been stationed here they left the base people here know that there was an exploration who was stationed here who's doing piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so we took lectures so that was one nine hundred ninety six and that's when i came back and as we moved around the island and i saw the bases were still here i just couldn't believe it. it's almost like a cancer here for these people they day since the end of world war two these spaces have been here.
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this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's cons. what kind of problems as it saw. or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people. i think people get really angry you know at that this idea that we are policing the world we have a right to put bases anywhere we want we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in in for us bases a fine or the noise is our noise it doesn't bother us as well because they're our bases but for other people it's a real problem. where they know meghan and this is a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the u.s.
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military in okinawa because the accidents are very frequent distributed among. their career and these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mode down. i'm not a lot of. secrecy although if there were. by that what i mean here is a map of the base as you can see it's right in the middle of the city.
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hall. area. of. this elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base a bit here we are inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off and land this opening that's why the aircraft fly solo children and even the helicopters little problem you are sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face.
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fighting the noise is terrible they fly old a lot of nonstop. flight some cry in the middle of the night they go on and get better and some even stops coming to school. we're we're. we're here to save every chance so won't accept any more military bases to be better and it won't accept any more war machines on its land street now therefore
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we say no to all military facilities to get piano to those that come in arms we say go home. in two thousand and seven the u.s. revealed its plans for a new military base in the chain so it's really just a few miles away from the city's historical center. already hosts a u.s. military base because that might have come to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy area designated for the new base is the exhibition airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the center because if it said you have four people it said three of whom are over the age of ninety and the base is a nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise there are no planes landing so anybody are
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complacent because from my point of view is that they were to calm me ok but why because the italian government the rich and the authorities of decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless. people it's like having tourists they don't have tanks they don't have the helicopters they don't cry for airplanes so it's purely ideological and they get the business by bunch of people who don't do anything worthwhile. in april two thousand and eleven he actually is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on the new base is said to be held on october fifth just a few days before the italian supreme court blocks the referendum. despite the court's decision the citizens of the chancellor decide to hold an autonomous
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referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants photo banks . i mean i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud but it's been almost seventy years since the end of the war and we still have occupying troops in our city. despite the clear opposition of the people of the chance of the italian government gives the us the green light to go ahead with a new base. it's not unusual for the normal democratic process to be subverted when it comes to minute basis most cases are in fact covered by secret treaties between the u.s. and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty four us it's the bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian parliament.
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i another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. that's another. part. open the gates move you're breaking the special law on us military bases. what you're going to do it i don't. wonder if you would have been welcomed you know
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why we struggle like this treasure have we're going to come do you understand how we feel free we are because there is even articulate not even if the american and japanese governments have believed us for years is going to be similar to how we ever killed an american i am about what. your various goals are being great planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. and this is what these bases have brought us they have oppressed us for sixty two better years sounded pretty good. we realize you're only doing your job i don't know but ours is a historical g.-d. creator we will pass this legacy on to future generations. now when you go elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention all that is taught you'll be taught that it says that.
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king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace the committed abuses the use of creations of missiles and i was ahem make up that this was a reason to declare independence from britain even to go to war was. was was was was a man as a lecturer was hailed by many in the world as the beginning of a political phase radically different from that of the bush administration and in many ways it has been by the ever growing military budget the escalation of the war in afghanistan and the uncertainties surrounding the fate of the us bases in iraq and the plans for new military bases in
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a number of countries show how hard it is for this or any other president to challenge those policies that benefit the military industrial complex and perpetuate us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose what it best in the country's dwindling resources to strengthen social and democratic institutions or will it continue to fuel this parasitical complex that by definition can only produce new weapons and new wars. hold out your with us that's my land over there i did a stupid imo. so not a til i hope to get it back wanted a hurry because their support that's. been an underground i'd use the lands gold lots of white radish taken away i don't want in us so that i could grow millions of them and not little space more knowledge i can not make you like it i got out of
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okinawa i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace. to. them or might there are new threat that i could take. on if we all stay united in the struggle and i'm confident we can prevail. you cannot i work together or if we don't speak out against the fact of our lands we will never be able to change the world. our date of what it was and i'm of course that you're here. and we have to keep our camp and. that's the only way we can prevail or speak of. existence. and how do you know our path is one of for cisterns not terrorism.
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we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what if it was they are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement their kids can go to school that people go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see because we're developing and continue to grow and there will be a point where a force no longer needed and we look for today. the questions anything else to get everything you need.
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