if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like i got so. i mean. i know that i'm still really messed up. and we're all very slow motion leopoldo it's. worse we're going through the white house of a. radio guy and four minutes from me. i want to watch what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told.

look up guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set you know this morning started off really great and i saw this that's right obama time magazine's person of the year this is the first time he also took the title after winning the election in two thousand and eight but as bad as that already sounds the rationale behind it is even worse take a look at what time magazine's richard stengel had to say about why he was chosen. for a democrat to actually win two consecutive terms with over fifty percent of the vote that something we haven't seen since franklin delano roosevelt and he's basically the beneficiary of the offer of a kind of new america a new demographic a new cultural america that he is now the symbol of so let me get this straight simply because obama was re-elected he deserves the person of the year you see this is a giant political charade being pushed by mainstream publication one that's chosen

to revel more in the fact that obama is just a mere symbol he made history as the nation's first black president than to evaluate him on his horrendous human rights record complete disregard of the rule of law continuation of bush administration policies you see by ignoring obama's policies you know in a moral drone. an assassination program authorizing the indefinite detention of american citizens and in our right crusade against a whistleblowers the media simply condones it so rest assured that this new title probably sit right alongside another well deserved one that good old nobel peace prize now if you find this is disturbing as i do let's break the set. was. never seen anything like that. so guys you might have missed you might have missed this last week but

a north carolina judge recently rescinded the death sentences of three convicted murderers on a state policy called the racial justice act of two thousand and nine is a directive that allows for a second evaluation of death row cases if relevant evidence points to racism as a factor in the trial and sentencing a defendant and that's exactly why the lawyers for these three convicted felons were pushing for justice their defense attorneys provided a whole host of new evidence including revealing statistics regarding a number of racially motivated jury selection process is one of these death row inmates tim tillman golf and sorry had one of the most controversial cases in this recession in one thousand nine hundred seven gulf and was convicted of killing a highway patrol trooper and a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop but his lawyers were able to show that the jury selection patterns reveal how prosecutors have been preventing african-americans from participating as jurors which is completely him constitutional take

a look at how the judge explained the ruling. all the way committed heinous crimes they were stretched to death in a process that was focused more on. certain issues that it was of ensuring that the process was player. furthermore an attorney representing the three defendants added that quote the evidence that our capital punishment system is infected by racial bias has become too great to deny and indeed another interesting aspect of the racial bias that can't be denied is what's revealed in a michigan state university study that shows an alleged killer of all white victims is two point six times more likely to get the death penalty so to talk about the issue of capital punishment and the findings from a newly released two thousand and twelve death penalty report i'm joined by richard dieter executive director of the death penalty information center thank you so much for taking the time to come on thank you for having me so you've been working with this issue for a number of years clearly the center you work for it's put out

a report we put out a report every year what are the major findings of this report that the death penalty in the u.s. is dramatically down in terms of the number of states carrying out executions the number of death sentences and the number of executions itself we're finding a shrinking and in isolation of the death penalty in just a few areas of the country why what are the main factors you think attributed to this decline i think the biggest thing that happened was the revelations that mistakes are made in the death penalty case that even innocent people can get the death sentence and may be executed that has made jurors courts legislatures all very cautious about imposing the death penalty and carrying out executions so the whole system has shrunk and is really down to about four states carrying out executions that was about seventy nine percent of our executions for just four of our fifty states this year talk about what states those are that the practice ensures that texas which had the most by far every year and oklahoma arizona and

mississippi so most of them in the south and you know but still many states in the south like georgia alabama virginia no executions at all and many had no death sentence. well that's good to hear what you think the main flaw is of course that you mention a lot of people who have been exonerated what are the main flaws of the capital punishment system in general do you think the biggest problem that people have after the issue of innocence is the unfairness the sense that similar crimes don't get the death penalty and then one out of the blue does get it he gets executed he probably is somebody with mental problems probably didn't have a very good lawyer probably there might have me a race aspects to the way the trial was conducted those aren't always consistent in every case but the sense that overall it's a roll of the dice who gets the death penalty and that randomness is unfair right

indeed and also talk about the states that offer some sort of retribution i know that there's a couple states offer financial retribution for someone who who was exonerated or or released from prison do you know any statistics about what those people are compensated with well a lot of states now have that it's not just for death penalty case here it is because someone just wrongly accused and general there's been so many of the d.n.a. has has led to this is that you know three hundred cases and so most states now have some compensation but often you have to prove that you're actually innocent not simply that your conviction was overturned and that you're freed which is a lot harder thing to do one thing to say clearly there's not enough evidence to prove you guilty and another thing to say absolutely somebody else did it especially twenty years after the crime so although there is these compensation funds it's still very hard to get money from them i'm sure it is and of course after you've been wrongly accused and potentially sitting in jail for some time is

decades it's hard to start your life over again once you are indeed released a lot of these people do end up back in in prison you know is there an initiative now you said d.n.a. evidence we've seen a lot of a lot of these people being exonerated we now have. a lot more forensic testing that we can show that these people did indeed commit the crimes that we've said a lot of these things are based on circumstantial evidence is an initiative now to kind of retroactively go back on all the cases of people on the death penalty and revisit them well not not a comprehensive system now you have something like in virginia where they've really cut back on the death penalty they said in cases where there's d.n.a. we're going to look at those because there's new testing and we you know the testing wasn't done in the trials fifteen years not every state is even willing to go that far if you do have a clear proof that you'd be able to marshal it from the beginning you can maybe get a court but there's no system federal or state that's automatically reviewing every

case they believe that the appeals process is sufficient even though it's using sort of the old trial and saying well that seems fair based on the new standards. there are reforms being made in terms of the racial bias and kind of looking at some the systemic problems of why a lot of these people are wrongly accused or just based on purely certain. death and in that case but morality aside i don't think it is and how long we. talk about the costs involved this is a new issue of course states have to balance their budgets and they're finding that the death penalty is a very expensive program part of that is driven by this innocence issue because we have. if they do a better job and have innocent people that means better paid lawyers with more experience if they need a psychiatric expert sure if they needed to investigate the person's background or

d.n.a. tests all of that is adding up to at least three million dollars to get a death sentence and all the expenses of carrying it out if it were a life sentence case it's closer to a million dollars for the total cost so three times as much every time they get the death penalty and that adds up on your hundreds of cases millions of dollars california is. spending about one hundred eighty million dollars a year on the death penalty and as a californian i know it costs ninety thousand dollars per inmate purring here annually more than people just regularly incarcerated i can't help but wonder why do you think that referendum was voted down in california well i think there's a reticence to maybe just hold on to the death penalty for that imagined climb that we might need for they haven't had an execution there in seven years they've got this backlog of seven hundred twenty people on death row each costing. about a year. and that's true around america that there's sort of

a. ambivalence is this sort of. a willingness to hold on to the death penalty although when it comes to executions or even death sentences there are disappearing. beric any way to kill someone there's really no humane way to do that what do you think it is i mean it's kind of this existential question isn't the eye for an eye a thing you know i think people look at the us and rightly see it as having the death penalty but when you look at it in fine fine grain so report did you see is

a country that isn't using the death penalty and that many of the people are willing now to to let it go they don't want to impose it but it's a state by state process here rather than you know i don't expect congress to to help violation or even the supreme court so state by state it is slowly disappearing and at some point the u.s. will join that main stream of human rights around the world right now you know you either have it or you don't so we do have it but i think in reality it's slowly deteriorating and will disappear all hopefully we will follow suit and you're right of course i would be it would be hard for a federal law to completely abolish it but you know i do hope that we can see these states kind of overturn it and really come to that sort of ground breaking point that the rest of the world seems to have already come to terms to thank you so much for coming on breaking it down giving us some insight on the new report richard dieter appreciate your time all right thank you very much thank you. now if you like what you see so far go to our youtube channel youtube dot com slash breaking

the set and scribe check out our facebook page at facebook dot com slash break into that and if you're wondering about what i'm doing when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin if you can break my preaching but stay tuned to hear discussion on the news tragedy and the root causes of these mass shootings at large next.

ily ily. ily. the shooting at an elementary school newton connecticut this past friday killed twenty seven people including twenty children it was a second deadliest shooting in u.s. history and just one of many tragedies in

a laundry list of the mass shootings that have taken place in recent years take for example the thirty two students who died at virginia tech university or the twelve killed and fifty eight injured in a roar colorado it's an occurrence that seemingly becoming cyclical nature in this country and it's certainly a cause for concern thereby warranting a discussion on the underlying problems that go on address in our society so here to talk more about the recent new massacre in the root causes of mass shootings at large i'm joined by ron here colic independent journalist and editor of dispatches from the underclass a log of ranya thanks so much for coming on. and you for having me so i've noticed that you have been on a rampage of stories that you've been totally on top of this writing a lot of amazing stuff on twitter or on your blog ever since this occurred i mean we've seen a surge of these shootings happen just in the last couple years why do you think this is so unique to america. well i think first and foremost it's because we have

so many guns in this country something like three hundred million that's almost one gun per person. and we have very few restrictions on research and on who can buy guns and how many guns they can have and it's so easy in this country to get a job have a gun not just one but twenty thirty so obviously that's one reason access to guns is just prevalent so it's somebody that angry and they want to take it out on innocent people they get why now i mean what do you think about do you think that the anything else is up play here like the glorification of violence in the military i mean video games that are so realistic that even army the army uses them to show people and to train them i mean shows like the walking dead where you're blowing zombies help with machine guns i mean every movie posters as these people with semiautomatic rifles i mean do you think that any of this other this quarter of violence that we're bred into in this country does that have anything to do with it or do you think it's just the amount of guns or do you think that's all at play

here. well i think you make a really good point i think it's not just one thing you can blame it on one thing it's a multitude of things that we do have a very violent culture we you know i don't i mean you can only you can just blame it on that though i mean we have we we perpetuate a lot of by we we perpetrate can you provide a lot of violence around the world we do have a military that we send that to places like afghanistan and pakistan and yemen that are killing people all the time innocent people children. and this is almost normal i mean people have generally accepted this as ok and in justified. we do have a very violent culture in this in terms of yes we do glorify violence but there haven't really been any direct link to watching something violent makes you more violent but it does desensitized to violence and makes you i guess work that thing of iowans as what that is is just so i don't think that that may play

a role but i think you know first and foremost i think it's really important to point out that yes this is a complex issue and we can talk about all of these things at once but the first thing we need to do is it address that is gun control we're going to have all these guns in this country and we're going to continue to let anybody that's guns not just legally but the people can get them as well and there's no. we need you to deal with it's not just one thing that you know we really. would really help you know decrease the amount of gun violence that we well i want to i want to play devil's advocate here i want to do i really agree with the desensitisation of society and of course it's hard to look at so many complex issues and point to one thing but i wanted to point out this article that i thought was really interesting it's a town called kennesaw georgia that saw a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating every household to own and

know how to operate a gun they haven't had a fatal shooting in twenty five years apparently how do you respond to something like that. well i don't think that necessarily means that because everybody's armed there hasn't been a shooting like i said it obviously there's other complex issues that go into this . you have to understand that certain areas are more violent because of certain societal factors like poverty. like the drug war makes areas where that's what you have more violence instead you than you do in the suburbs so just because an area might be full of people who are armed doesn't necessarily mean that that's the reason why i mean you have to look at whether. you know whether they're out there you know with the income with the socio economic area you know so obviously there are other things to look at i don't think you can just say that that's the reason i don't i also don't think that there's ever been a time that is i've seen anybody point to where somebody was an unarmed person and was actually able to stop

a mass shooter so i think people also have to consider that your notion that we should start arming teachers in schools so that we can be able to conceal carry into these gun free zones that have a gun free zones that somehow are the reason for violence and shooting that reason to take place but i'd like somebody to point me to has the legal a single time when somebody was able to stop a mass shooter because there is that one guy in the mall shooting that happened not too long ago who claims that he stopped that gunman because he was armed and poor gun i don't really know the full story about that but but i agree i mean arming teachers i mean that's just going one. elana i mean so many mistakes we made putting guns in classrooms of kindergartners i mean where it's just a never ending cycle and i'm mad as i wanted to go over there quickly though into anti psychotic drugs mental health i mean we just learned today that the killer at noon was on a drug called the nap an antipsychotic drug that pretty much has the opposite

effect to some people that creates aggressive behavior i mean it comes up almost all these killers are on some sort of psychotropic medication do you think that we need to be talking about treating mental health the pharmaceutical lobby in this country as one of the only countries in the world that has direct to consumer advertising. like i said i think that we can talk about all of these things at once of course we should be talking about mental health but i do has a team to point to mental illness as the reason for this shooting because we've yet to see whether this particular individual was ever diagnosed with a mental illness he did have asperger's but there's no link between asperger's and being more violent especially in this particular manner so on and terms of the drug he was on i i i did see reports about that although i'm not sure if that was based on hearsay or is somebody actually confirmed this i don't know you might know about that better than i do but you know as there are these there are these anti-psychotics that do have these effects is actually in younger people. causing

the opposite of what they're supposed to be right which is to make a person more restive. again i think there's no link between it there's no direct link between mental illness and by lens there are certain your mental illnesses that you know people who are violent may be more likely to commit violent acts but again i just think that we should be really really careful when we do talk about mental illness in these cases because there are a lot of people who have mental illnesses who are violent i mean. you know statistics show that people with mental illness are actually more likely to be victims of violence than to the perpetrators but i can see you need to be talking about mental health if it turns out this person was on some anti-psychotic that you know there are that that does call these adverse effects of course well but i think that the conversation that we're only having when there's a mass shooter of course of course and unfortunately we're out of time i encourage everyone to go to your blog dispatches from the underclass you pose some really

amazing questions just about you know would we be paying as much attention to this event if there were minority children or just a lot of cool things go to our blog check out everyone and they get on her crown run your color temperature your time thanks for having me. i talk a lot about over warfare on the show bombings assassinations torture what i don't talk about enough is covert warfare and u.s. military has been engaging in some experiments of mind control for decades that will blow your mind and who are the guinea pigs well us of course the start of the testing of psycho chemical agents used on americans during the cold war much of them were conducted at edgewood arsenal now these tests consisted of drugging volunteer soldiers with over two hundred fifty chemical and biological agents and for the most part the test subjects had no idea what they were being exposed to and these were nasty poisons like sarin an extremely toxic and deadly chemical that

inhibits the nervous system and vieques a neurotoxin that's regarded as one of the most dangerous chemicals ever made keep in mind these are the same chemical weapons that the u.s. military went after saddam hussein for allegedly chemicals that the u.s. is drawing a red line over with assad's regime in syria oh the irony well here's an old army video showing the test subjects reacting to the drugs. preclude there are a neurological effects such as a text. or calms you know sometimes there's the compulsion to laugh without the feeling of amusement. this particular program was suspended in one thousand nine hundred eighty five but because all the test subjects were sworn to secrecy we'll never know the long term effects of what this program did to these people but this little american history lesson is far from over it goes much deeper and much darker now aside from playing with toxic

chemicals the u.s. government. using psychedelic drugs of course they're illegal for us to choose to consume on our own accord but is apparently perfectly fine for the government to randomly drug americans with hallucinogens completely against their will starting in the one nine hundred fifty s. during the cold war the cia launched an extensive decades long research program focused on l.s.d. called m.k. ultra their goal finding the perfect truth serum to use against the soviets and perfecting the technique of mind control now according to a line taken from an inner departmental memo from congress the program proposed the question can we control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation. wow even more appalling than these elements of psychological warfare is knowing that the precursor to the m.k. ultra program was a mother program called operation paperclip which was an active recruitment of

former nazi scientists into burgeoning u.s. research programs i know it just keeps getting crazier doesn't it well hang tight. how do you have brought all of the m.k. ultra mind controlled testing program the cia launched a smaller operation called midnight climax consider the cia's raunchy pet project but this one didn't involve volunteers under the control of the deprived minds of george white and sidney galiot these scientific experiments began on unwitting american civilians golly it established safe houses in new york city in san francisco using drug addicted probably. the tooth to lure in human guinea pigs were unknowingly dosed with potent amounts of l.s.d. gottlieb and crew then observe their behavior through two way mirrors and rooms fitted with surveillance equipment sick but it wasn't just prostitutes or gottlieb's sordid mission the cia gave psychedelics to hundreds of unsuspecting americans used as nothing more than guinea pigs for their maniacal pursuits many of

which were mental patients prisoners and drug addicts and in one extreme circumstance and mental patient in kentucky was dosed continuously with l.s.d. for one hundred seventy four days straight but the cia was also dosing each other as well as military officers resulting in many subjects going mad in one instance an agent committed suicide can you imagine mad men style cia goons tripping balls on l.s.d. the cia pioneered the l.s.d. revolution before hippies even existed and all these crazy experiments continued until nine hundred sixty four with the resignation of cia director allen dulles. and eventually expose m.k. ultra and operation midnight climax with some declassified documents but it was all for none because the experiments were deemed useless they never found a truth serum and they still can't control our minds yet but they sure as hell did ruin hundreds if not thousands of lives in the process and we now know about all of

these documents today and. thank you to the bumbling of our bureaucratic government releasing some of the documents that were saved but the takeaway to this blast in the past that nazi scientists were given carte blanche to help administer unknowing americans of mind altering drugs and they were never held accountable knowing the lengths the cia will go to control society and knowing that they were capable of doing these horrific things sixty years ago you have to wonder what are they capable of today and what are they doing today. the world. finds technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered.

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