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themselves in a tricky situation with of the suspect accused of committing a serious criminal offense twin a complicated d.n.a. d.n.a. test to reveal which one of the brothers is guilty may cost one point three million dollars to carry out the full story on our website. after the break we continue our in-depth look at the occupy wall street movement in the us. please.
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you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. choose your language. make up with. some of the. treatments that use the consensus here to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories but in high life choose the access to your office.
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thank. you that's. why i work for. my father is the way and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of sidonie way district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents the rising workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different the rising is trying to break everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime so maybe the bush people were many walks of life that recognize that we are the not
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percent of the time of record profits of rights it is us to the very same people that are made to look at it and the rich corporations they do not want to benefit acceptable from our point of view there i said it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the bar you say it's about saving a million dollars next year but what do you think that this car negotiation is really about this car negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is cooperation is trying to get what they want that they've been trying to get for the last twenty five years and we cannot let them and that's why occupy wall street smarts and on message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country and we cannot let it so we have built very close ties with the communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the foam workers and boeing responded by supporting us we went to their last rally at the headquarters they marched back in the park with us and some of them slept there
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they're going to be in a tough struggle that's why we're getting this relationship with labor labor scenes is relieved. they are i never expected when i first started contacting unions that the response would be so enthusiastic but the labor movement has been kicked around now for quite a while and they have to fight and they see people fighting and they see their fighting the same enemy and they see the reaching out this movement has shown such an eagerness to reach out to the mainstream of the american public and the unions represent the organized part of that the focus on the one percent and the first time in an american movement i don't even think in the thirty's that the communist party did this in their mass work i don't even think they identify the enemy as the ruling class mr speaker. mr vice president. members of congress distinguished guests and fellow americans last month i went to
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andrews air force base and welcome home some of our last troops to serve in iraq. together we offered a final proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens bought. and several thousand gave their lives we gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the united states safer and more respected around the world. thanks that you two want to get a standing ovation from both democrats and republicans just keep them alive at the bottom line of the military industrial complex which just so happens to have invented itself in every congressional district in the country somebody really believes that the undisputed greatest mayor of violence in the world actually makes
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us safer and more respected i mean come on that kind of attitude is not going to earn anyone any nobel peace prizes or thank you distinguished members of the norwegian nobel committee. citizens of america. and citizens of the world. i receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility george orwell would have had a hard time coming up with this are we really this delusional you see the more honest we are with ourselves about exactly what our foreign policy is the better chance we have to stop some of the truly horrific conditions it visits upon many of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there is.
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far. too many. cities. around. the world. it was not right. that. i started in iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a reason to be there that there's a reason for the million iraqis that go to five thousand troops said that we say we're the greatest country in the world but we go into you know people in their country but we don't stop genocide in africa we don't help people that we can help that would be the greatest country in the world if we can save a million people instead of killing them and if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money tax payers in the united states had need one point four trillion dollars for total war spending in
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iraq and afghanistan since two thousand and one never wondered what one point four trillion dollars would buy well it could be the annual energy costs for every household in america five years but i hear you saying that would not do very much to decrease our dependence on foreign oil there are enough. one point four trillion dollars could convert every home in america to one hundred percent solar energy. over or it could convert every home in america to one hundred percent wind energy knowing times over for groceries for everyone in the country for free for two years or to provide scholarships to every college student in america and award them a fifty five hundred dollar grant seven times over the more turn all volunteer firefighters into full time employees and pay them a full salary for twenty three years or pay the full time salaries of every public
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school teacher for the next six years instead we took one point four trillion dollars pay a small black ops team to hunt track and kill osama bin laden. we even had money left over in the budget to decimate two countries launch are still it is resulting in over one million innocent civilians dead and counting ask yourself how many orphans are going to today clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up willing to fly a plane into the building and how many trillions are we prepared to spend on avenging that. you can do everything go to school and not just go to school but excel in school work really really hard and i graduated and really had the feeling a lot of the time very consciously in my head that. i might as well. you know i mean. was there reason for me to be in debt good evening of all the time bombs in
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the american economy set to explode with dire consequences this is a big one staggering debt from student loans everyone is told a college education is a way to get ahead college tuitions though keep going up so does the borrowing and we just hit an awful milestone our nation's combined student loan debt has now hit . one trillion dollars that averages out to twenty four thousand per student it's now larger than credit card debt in this country and it comes just as an entire generation is just starting out how. to. thank. god.
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i. was. getting your go anybody who predicted that. every thousand you would have. people out of the streets in new york city. because something is we journalists on t.v. i hear. oh it just. has so many bright. young people. on a global stage with affordable education. and it is a challenge just because they're using that whole student loan debt credit card
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debt when congress raises the loan limits schools respond to those increased long limits by raising tuition because they think that students can afford to pay more because they're actually allowed more money nobody really has the option to expect to get comfortable jobs. not go to college we don't have an unskilled workforce anymore we are for the workforce that we have right now it's socially irresponsible not to go to school because the entire workforce is predicated on higher education i think our education system hasn't caught up to our economy and that's one of the problems and that that's where this problem is coming and that's why people are speaking up that's why that why i'm here there are no bankruptcy protections for any student loans this is the only one and all of us history that you can't ever default on you can ever just charge this with a car see the idea of do you debtors union is based on a labor union model and what they did effectively when our economy was very different when there was so-called unskilled labor day negotiated with the
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factories for better working conditions so that they could go back to work just that same way you do you debtors union could renegotiate a better contractor arrangement with our lenders so that we can repay our loans it's employing an autonomous strategy of refusal so you were fused to do something you're saying no to something in favor of making things better. how do. you. break the code you know it's really about to leave and the sooner we come to know the we'll just all these effects are so massive whether it's b.p.
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. oil. the tar sands i think of the size of florida this from an alberta i was really interested in the tar sands protests this summer because to see thousand plus people getting arrested like that willfully is pretty amazing fred a mess. all of you. is tar sands oil is not have to go in order to get tarzan go out you have to destroy it and so i think that you know fine stop the pipeline but what happens after that you know another standoff with big oil i think so i think so i don't think it's the environment's going to magically go itself because we stop the pipeline and the thing about the pipeline and one reason that makes it so urgent is that that nasa scientist james taylor said broke with warrior actually a few decades back or whatever says the piper i mean it will be game over. game
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get all their narrative that there's. a good host i'm not aware of a host of student criticism world but those of the dynamo and we want people to be able to do so. it's going to take time. but we can't force we're not going to be good. because we see a better world. we have a vision. you know this organization of the so interested in the american dream. creatively i i i. i. i. i i oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh. oh ok it's time to put in a bit you know i don't really know so i don't miss it at the end you know the show
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you all this stuff. as you see you and problems and they talk about you know how badly that person has done and what they're going to do if they don't change their behavior and for us we deal with folks who have a serious addiction to corporate money was now when cheney said them to get off it on their own if you don't get any smoking a crack open my door was i am crack rock i mean they're easily addictive somebody who was cool six years ago snuck up on a crack rock that's not on the occupy movement has become a conduit to venue for talking about this corruption and so folks that move to amend that are really in my mind. setting the bar for the critique that corporations are not persons but he's broken his speech constitutional rights are for people over eight hundred fifty six and dred scott the same supreme court
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so that people are property dred scott affirm slavery in two thousand and ten on the supreme court said property is people write those decisions i don't see. was was was thought for some time don't try to tell. you how how. do the was a coalition because individuals are getting the issues coming together with a secular purpose. to where they come to you know and then like to make it clear cut i just heard that they do not have been hearing about. how how. money is not political speech. thank
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you. tootin how he's coming tempos doctrines must be abolished he cannot overturn the functionality and still out the individual to step out of the money and how. have. you all. these days he was not satisfied that ha it was all biased democracy must love city look around at the power monopolies have you noticed people are like this double our society chase we get treated like let's use the excuse that someone's
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gotta lose this somewhat for race to the wind as it's not going to be all that they don't build on the backs of all morris brothers were all forgotten the phrase we're all taught by our mothers half of the people out there today still have the pale cluelessly well the harry is the most easily all of those drugs do they call his characters props like it'd be so much better if we just remembered the corporations palace creation it. will be somebody who was really good because it is at least the people who caused this was because i. believe people. come. to our people are realizing it very least that the way our economic system
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currently runs he's not democrat it's not beneficial to the past which are. people and kill we have some kind of economic democracy where in the past majority of people in their communities and in their workplaces have more decisions over what these corporations do if we want to have corporations and all then political democracy is a sham and then you look at the military budget. the military budget used to spend as much as the whole world somebody at a time when our infrastructure is literally a deep level grade for the american society of civil engineers we get a deed in there this is written is the future of our economy our infrastructure is going to work and so if you face of those two issues which are you know just war going on here the one percent in the military industrial complex suddenly your solutions to all the issues really there is money going to exist in the new resisting the economy you know certainly there's money to reform and whom we see
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energy so you can turn roads into solar power that's not possible we think that's why we put our money ran on it it was frightening. it was writing. it was this was our target like. you. are you here by the way. we are right. here. and. they say that the occupy movements major victory to date is that we have changed the conversation that people are now debating issues such as wealth inequality at this point i think we can all agree there is no debate there is inequity when it
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comes to wealth period full stop. and it is growing and the super rich are not super rich because of some force of nature like summer morphing into fall or heat or always going to be told they are super rich as a result of their active participation in or their willingness to be accessories to you criminally rig the homicidal force of a system what the occupy movement has done and why people armed with nothing more than an idea are being suppressed often violently is to acknowledge that most only issues are connected to the war activists who are through healthcare reform advocates or housing or labor rights advocates will face the reform advocates you name it are now all shining a light on the root cause of inequity you see our foreign policy does in fact limit our options when it comes to health care reform a shareholder capitalism one that demands growth every quarter is directly contributing to the assault on collective bargaining issues the american dream
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itself the way it is understood by many as a mistress rags to riches anyone could be a millionaire greed is good grab the most toys before you die eco's should be euthanized for the greater good and the birth of a new american dream based on equity sustainability and the general welfare of the people should be brought into being and by people i mean people not corporations i was out here during the day before inauguration. it was a martin luther king day and two thousand people total strangers were out of each other on the streets were having conversations across class and race lines and all the sudden we felt oh. well some of us knew better than you can there's no messiah going to get elected by this system and deliver open change we can believe it so how will the occupy movement that has wisely stayed away from promoting political parties or individual politicians navigate the minefield of the
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potentially co-opting force that is the presidential. election cycle now this year is just going to be nuts we've never seen this much money spent on a political process in the history of the world. and this comes at a time for a movement that is determinately to. this mad influx of money and politics so it's going to be a really scary contrast and the challenge of this movement is to create a counter narrative is to show that the justice of its cause is more interesting than anything these candidates can put on television i mentioned at the beginning that this movie is an invitation for you to join the arc but there are no membership dues no papers to sign all that is required is the willingness to see the world as it is and decide that you are going to be part of the solution occupy less of an organization and more of an organism
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a living breathing multi and force that refuses to find a mishna will be pushed into a corner of this organism is still a baby and the narrative that will be telling in the years to come is yours to write. what you wrote turn it in if you don't talk to somebody just to get the feeds you need to get the image something dr judy still elusive to keep it until the. book. comes out thankfully in the senate better myself so when they say why occupy what will your answers the first time in decades people will really be discussing does the world have to be this like and how can we bring a better world and i think this historical lesson the kids who would like to read
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