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some guys welcome back to break in the set hope you all enjoyed a little bit of r. and r. of the holidays now it's two thousand and thirteen a year that is so far brought us no shortage of stories but before we take a look at the present let's take a look back at two thousand and twelve a year in which the u.s. carried out more drone strikes in afghanistan than it had and all the years in pakistan combined since it launched its covert war eight years ago let me break it down for you the stats which were published in a new report by the u.s. air force show that in two thousand and twelve there were three hundred and thirty three drone strikes in afghanistan alone up from two ninety four in two thousand and eleven and two seventy eight and two thousand and ten yet drone strikes on the up and up and interestingly enough this uptick in targeted attacks is taking place at the same time that the u.s. government says the war is winding down because as long as we see the troops withdrawing the war is over right or wrong because now the occupation of

afghanistan has evolved into an entirely different tactic drone warfare type of warfare that will shatter your sense of security and stability and it's more than enough to create a constant sense of fear and utter hopelessness for the people living in the country for us out of sight. i don't mind so let's cut the bowl of war is an entity that's just developing into a potentially deadly or beast you and i are in a call like it is so let's break the set. you may have missed this little piece of news over the holidays sandwich right in between christmas and the new year i'm talking about the u.s. senate's renewal of the warrantless wiretapping program pioneered by none other than president george w. bush it passed in a seventy three to twenty three vote last friday and now it's on its way to being signed by president obama interest in the enough in the midst of the two thousand

and eight democratic presidential primary an identical version of the bill was heavily disputed abated in the senate in fact obama and others argue that bush's program went too far in violating americans privacy but this time around now the president obama's no longer candidate obama and surprisingly there is no such contention being made but the voices of opposition becoming more and more muddled when it comes to warrantless spying luckily there is one of voice left in the senate presenting a three fresh in the stark contrast and that is the voice of senator ron wyden despite the fact the bill did pass why did his vocal opposition against this bill is incredibly commendable before the vote why didn't put forth an amendment to the bill that would have forced the n.s.a. and cia to reveal just how frequently they collected our communications as part of their efforts to gain intelligence on foreign targets wide and said quote it's not

real oversight when the u.s. congress cannot get a yes or no answer to the question of whether an estimate currently exists as to whether law abiding americans have had their phone calls and e-mails up under the five is a law but that's not all he's also been diligent enough to raise his voice and. russian the existence of a secret spying room an eighteen switching center and recount countless credible whistleblower revelations all of which indicate how the n.s.a. is overstepping its legal boundaries you see senator wyden get something that's so many of his counterparts simply don't get that we have rights and if we don't defend them we'll lose them they'll be taken away right under our noses much like what happened with pfizer so for being the voice of truth in a lame duck congress and for standing up for me you everyone's right to privacy senator wyden and you are the hero of the day so he's the hero who is the villain here's the story of another good guy gone wild that's none other than this fellow

hero corsi father pure kweisi that is a catholic priest residing in italy and while catholic priests certainly aren't immune to controversy this is just another chip off the old block of straight bigotry that has permeated through religious institutions so i know you're all dying to hear what he had to say this through just made waves recently by claiming mind you want to christmas bolton on facebook that women quote provoke the worst instincts and quote should search their consciousness and ask did we bring this on ourselves there's nothing like saying merry christmas to your congregants like a good old fashioned sexist rant but don't worry here i'm out he said quote the fact is that women are increasingly provocative they become arrogant they believe themselves to be self-sufficient and exacerbating the situation yeah don't you love white male privilege telling us women that if anything bad happens to us well we

must have proof who it is going to love people like father corsi that perpetuate the notion that if we dress provocatively then it's an open invitation to get raped we have no one to blame but ourselves right father he added quote children are banded to their own devices homes. are dirty mills are cold are fast food clothes are filthy father corps is easy i'm not sure if you got the memo but this is the twenty first century we're not living in whatever your archaic notion of reality is which means that raising a family is a two way street a shared effort in a world where both men and women work and can be self-sufficient but it must be easy to cast judgment on something that you'll never know firsthand marriage treating a partner with respect and having to work together to raise children so after revealing his blatant massage any father course he has decided to take what he calls a period of rest yes take some time to reflect on the shameful behavior which is

granted you father corsi the title of the one of the day. almost two years ago the city of fukushima incurred a devastating meltdown in three of its six nuclear reactors mediately following the disaster the japanese government said they would implement zero nuclear policy at a post fukushima world by twenty four however japan's new prime minister elect is set to unveil a new energy policy that will dismantle the previous plan to eliminate nuclear power in the country now is the pro-business japanese government rushes to get back into its nuclear facilities back in operation the world is just beginning to see the impact of the meltdown and the toll it's taken on human health and on the environment and addition to the detrimental long term radioactive effects in the region a report just released by japan's education ministry shows that children are already

feeling the impact and other ways the findings reveal that kids who live in fukushima are now the most obese in the country because their fear of leaving the house and getting dosed with radiation it's clear that as this disaster continues to unfold hundreds of thousands of lives are still being affected in the process in spite of this ongoing crisis the japanese government is initiating its pursuit of nuclear energy so how much more will it take to stop and reevaluate this deadly technology for the country and for the world at large to talk more about the situation in fukushima and the growing anti-nuclear movement in japan i spoke earlier with a listen to a saki a citizen journalist who's been covering this issue since the earth take earthquake sorry took place i first asked her about the fukushima dead zone and the concerns of those living in the community take a look. at this mission of the big zone now is the day it was supposed to between.

which was a new man as you know and known to give anyone planning to be. called back. to leave. ten kilometers around. and still. means dead now and in no man's land is only ten kilometer and around a twenty kilometer there will be maybe people coming back sounds really crazy. to meeting not there radiation value which is quite you know. it's not very high. comparing to other cities in fukushima that it's quite you know but the factories that. you campgrounds we dangerous right now and it's. implicitly to. people who will leave just next to this. nuclear plant which is we

need damaged. and you've been covering the plight of people living in the area right now what are some major concerns that they have i mean are they concerned with being called back to live right in the proximity of the disaster that's still unfolding. their concern. to tell the truth many of them. don't want to be considered. and. to try to trust in some kind of a way to go and i learned. that it's going to be ok it was no more and you injure. and one that will really will eat all the mothers that. children in india is mother f. ing the weakling crazy with this situation because declawing even. several eastern

china should reason find the reason. many reason that make them implicitly to eventually right now and. this is that situation might never i can tell you that many people are also and should. they do want to live it could be good if the situation is secure which maybe discovery is the story right of course i mean the government never really tells the truth when when they're saying what's dangerous levels are of course it's always under played to prevent that hysteria from happening well as i wanted to talk about the anti-nuclear movement i mean you just heard me talk about how the japanese government's pursuing nuclear technology in light of this and sanity i mean what what else needs to happen what kind of groups are involved in the movement right now and they represent the majority of the japanese people would you say is the government kind of taking pioneering this on theirs by themselves or the people of japan behind the government here and saying all right let's try again. no it's not the measure

and elections lately latest elections in japan have proved that it's quite a very small or may know he i'm afraid but still it's very resistant and i know we t. and i believe that. it will grow and grow and. there is some demonstration every friday the going on you took you mainly. has been going on every friday for like. late june so. he's not going to. say it's going to grow and there is also many new party. i mean people are not supposed to be put in. willing to. present themselves to the next elections that will be going on. in jet then because it proves that. young

people or young japanese that used not to think of the politics in japan are going no is going is changing in their mind and they have received a huge shock in the thing now the only issue is also. to try to turn on the of the government. and any way to change the government because you see that even if only individuals change it will not be enough in this country the government has to change also so some young artists. like. terrell which was an actor be full of nuclear plant crazies and now he's devoting himself to fight and people like these which have never imagined be folded it will be put it dition down now turning. to put to put it

takes a while certainly the people do need to mobilize and mass resistance against the government of course the government's collusion with tepco the nuclear agency there and yet it doesn't seem like things are going to change if we say that the new pm is pursuing this deadly technology of technological insanity i'm glad that the movement is growing there's a strong resistance thank you for being a part of it thank you for sharing your story and thanks for coming on alyssa thomas aka talking star. you're likely to face up are going to you tube channel youtube dot com plus breaking the set looks good to us check our facebook page facebook dot com but if you want to know what i'm doing when i. follow me on twitter abby martin will take a break from my preaching. to hear what's allowing the anti muslim sentiment the american culture thrive and what could be done to change course next.

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i look like one of the church and anything like that. just last month the f.b.i. hate crime report was released for the year two thousand and eleven revealed that the number of hate crimes reported to the police declined slightly compared to the previous year and while this may seem like good news two thousand and ten saw fifty percent increase in hate crimes against muslims want to post nine eleven world this is the one group that has continuously felt the brunt of the ignorance hatred and intolerance in america a dangerous climate of islamophobia which is unsurprisingly perpetuated by the media and government establishment alike and it's not even just muslims it's those who are simply perceived as muslims hindus sikhs essentially anyone with brown skin to take a look at some of the most recent incidents fifty two year old man named randolph

lin was just convicted of lighting a prayer room on fire at the islamic center of greater to leave you to lay low during his arrest he told the police officers f those muslims they would kill us if they got the chance while later len told the judge that he committed the crimes because fox news and conservative talk radio would quote rile them up and convince them that quote most muslims are terrorists. i wonder where you got that idea. meaning dangerous muslims that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo it's a frightening thought islamic terrorist training camps right here in america in our backyard so we've made it through the holidays without a terrorist attack but that doesn't mean we could ever let our guard down because our enemies are precious to them. the hundreds of mosques in america be fronts for terror training. or how about the case of sunanda forty six year old hindu man who was pushed onto a new york city subway track and killed by an oncoming train the perpetrator now

identified as eric and mendez said quote i pushed a muslim off the train tracks because i hate them ever since two thousand and one when they put down the twin towers i've been beating them up. now these are just two cases but there are countless others and look i'm not saying that fox news is the culprit islamophobia is being pushed through every strata of american culture through news media entertainment and politics so to talk about this trend and what can be done to change course i'm joined by madeira. legal counsel of the council on american islamic relations or care thank you so much for coming on to here thank you for having me so you're a legal counsel for a very large muslim organization the f.b.i. you we just heard the kind of the stats released this report saying that he crimes have gone down but really i mean when it comes to the muslim community it seems like they're escalating could you comment on kind of the strand absolutely well we

noticed a very large spike starting in around july of last year and it continued until september and now we're seeing this recent uptick for example the gentleman that was pushed into the new york subway and the. gentleman that just pled guilty to burning a mosque in toledo ohio so it's just been continuing get a can just amazing pace since around july of last year what's really strange it seems and obviously i am wrong but logically it would seem to me that. the more time passes from a traumatic event like nine eleven you would think that more people would become tolerant of the propaganda would start to stop working on them the fear would would be curbed obviously this isn't a case where they are we seeing this continue what right yeah you would think that but you know care has been around since one thousand nine hundred four and we've been doing the same thing we've been trying to educate people about muslims and trying to educate them about islam but recently to be. there are people who are

professionals whose main job is to say and do negative things about and against muslims these people have been now giving wider stages. have been given more time on the air on news media for example. fox news as the gentleman stated before is now been featuring many more some folks and they ever have in the past and we believe that the media has a direct correlation to the things that are happening in real life pamela geller is whole campaigns is. really getting vicious showing the twin towers exploding and the subway is just unbelievable i mean you just mentioned the media we just heard these outrageous clips from fox news of course that's the extreme side of it there's a lot more covert propaganda as well create islamophobia but i mean really should

we be blaming the media or do we ultimately blame ourselves for being intolerant lacking empathy i mean yes that is exactly right that all play that's exactly right we can't blame the media we can only blame the people at the other end of the media the people who are absorbing the message because the message is going to be there they're in the it's a vocal minority who make these negative statements and have these negative opinions about muslims and yes they've been getting more air time and pamela geller has subway as calling muslim savages all throughout the new york subways but it's up to the american people to look at them and to think and not to let the media control what they think and what they do so it's up to the american people to actually go out and try to find out the truth and try to find out information and not just sit on their living room couch is and absorb the things that they are being fed by fox news and by other conservative media outlets. but it's also like a city for every it's so virt as well we have fox but there's also

a lot of sophisticated propaganda kind of entering the subconscious of even the more intellectual like the liberal base like lectures like homeland i don't know if you're aware of the show it's like it brings you to the edge saying the cia's. you know yes we're evil for doing drone strikes but then alternately muslims are are you know they're all terrorists hiding from you are just like this take away message from that show what damage does this kind of course i mean it's just all different elements of perpetuating this myth the damage is obviously deadly you know there is a ramification and people die for people from americans absorbing these negative messages and so what we have to do as americans and sit back and say well this society should not allow for any minority group to be persecuted a society is successful when every single member of the society has rights and has protections we cannot live in a community that says love your neighbor a less your neighbor is

a muslim so we need americans to say every single person every minority every member of a protected class of a small group of people who may be maligned by the media might be maligned by their neighbor whoever we need people to say no that's not correct these things that you're saying are not correct we cannot. give a negative aspect and negative characteristics to an entire group of people just based on something that we hear in the media and this is kind of the ghetto the very difficult thing to ask as americans to sometimes step away from the things that they're being taught and to to take a second look but i think it can be done i think it's very possible it's the fear of the known and i think a lot of people don't branch out of their comfort zones how much of this demonization do you think is manufactured in the sense that here we are in perpetual war with a lot of these countries across the muslim world i mean the establishment needs to create an enemy for they need to be humanized there's racism and herenton every war

in order for a war to be perpetuated i mean how much is this is manufactured by the establishment to create create this enemy image a lot of it a lot of it is as you just mentioned that there needs to. the a war there needs to be a perpetual war and someone is profiting from this war and it's not you and me and other members of the american society as a whole there's a small group of people who are profiting from this and for them they need to continue with this stereotype and these negative images so that the american people will buy into this and say yes congress give more money to the military so that they can continue. expanding the military budget by having drone strikes or allowing the president to have a kill list or all these things that americans know about and they're just kind of complacent about cuz they've been taught that well we need this we need this to protect our country to protect our values from the other who are muslims who really

sums are being portrayed as the better the other which has been demonized dehumanised of course easier to accept that reality and just to wrap it up i mean we're in two thousand and thirteen how do we reverse this trend how do we stop this i mean should we just brace ourselves for years of this as these wars continue you know. like i said i mentioned care has been doing this since the one nine hundred ninety four when trying to educate people about muslims and about islam we have ten thousand and two opinion makers and policy leaders to try to educate them about islam and we have made information available in public libraries about muslims and islam and studies have shown that if people know a muslim their opinions tend to become more favorable about muslims and islam than we realize a lot of people don't know muslims because we're less than one percent of the population so in order to have

a public positive opinion you might not be able to actually know a muslim or meet a muslim person but just go out and educate yourself and read about the faith and about the people and i think that's a good place to start thank you. so much for going on for your time and in. your very legal counsel care for sure that. you see in order for war to function the oppressed must be an enemy in the eyes of the oppressors for the senate to be maintained the media and the government must work together to sustain it this human ization and demonization of an entire race and religion is what i call the islamophobia machine a machine whose gears of racism will continue to grind as long as these wars continue to be fought so you and i need to put our bodies on the gears to stop it.

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