to protect us from a menu factored threat along with the department of homeland security both of these bloated ineffective agencies have their priorities out of whack you see it's perceived danger of our safety and uniforms above workers' wages and their rules above our rights so let's go break inside. and look like they were about to do that you've never seen anything like that. today is international women's day it's being celebrated by millions of people worldwide to commemorate the progress of human rights as well as to reflect on the obstacles that women still face in many aspects of contemporary society while this is an international holiday it's us roots began over one hundred years ago on march eighth eight hundred fifty seven clothing workers in new york held a demonstration against unreasonable working conditions and unfair wages despite

a crackdown by police against the protesters the demonstration quickly grew into a movement and eventually the creation of the first women's labor union yes and then their struggle alone women have made tremendous strides toward parity with men but we do remain less than equal the recent report from the institute for women's policy research shows that the wage gap between men and women is increasing still citing that on average women are making one hundred sixty three dollars less per week than their male counterparts in the same position suffice it to say women still have a lot way to go we're still letting politicians that don't understand how the female body works to try to define legitimate rape to try to bring up decades old litigation over reproductive rights leaders that define equality as having binders full of women but this attitude amongst our elected representatives wouldn't exist if it were a reflection of a patriarchal culture

a culture that's conducive to inequality and is often manifested into violence one point three million women are raped every year in this country and a quarter of women continue to experience some form of violence against them as long as this trend continues discrimination harassment and objectification cannot be celebrated as a thing of the past on this day look women have come an extraordinarily long way and i'm so proud to honor this day in solidarity with countless strong females worldwide in fact. i'm celebrating our womanhood there is an international protest underway to call to end violence against women and history tells us anything it's that no change happens without a struggle remember your heart is a muscle the size of your fist is let's keep loving let's keep fighting. the likes it where do you ever seen anything like it.

oh. this week one of the world's most influential leaders passed away and course i'm talking about the late venezuelan president hugo chavez although we give a voice to the venezuelan people in a way unlike any president before him during his fourteen years leadership he was a polarizing figure on the world stage was both hailed and smeared and most importantly he was one of the lone voices of opposition to u.s. imperialism and though he wasn't revered by all he was known for trying to change the country from the bottom up and giving the poor a hope for a better tomorrow today in caracas venezuela that hope was celebrated while his death was mourned all taking place and that's the ceremony that was attended by thirty world leaders including who was crashed through and iran's mahmoud. along with two million others so to tell us about his death is being commemorated how his

legacy will be remembered along with the political scene in the post chavez world i'm joined now by our team correspondent lizzie phelan all the way from caracas for us well thank you so much for taking the time lizzie. may i be as a pleasure to be i'm a big fan of the show and happy international women's day yes same to you lizzie i know you've been on the ground since his death and today you were at his funeral talk about the mood is like over there and did you get a sense from the people that he was pretty well reviewed in his leadership. yeah well it's not been his since i wednesday since the first day that his body has been on this day in the military academy here in. us and it's been a very intense process three days later the hour after hour there's been hundreds and thousands of people nonstop streaming into the capital waiting for an opportunity to see the late president hugo chavez for the last time and pay their

respects as literally kilometers and kilometers of queues winding through the streets of iraq as you know they seem to know no end like a. sea of red in the city as people are wearing the red associated with the p.s.u. the chavez's posse and of course the tricolors of the venezuelan flag and pictures of him across the city and you know it's quite. in a way quiet and musing will perhaps a little sadder than that say hey some people in sections of the mainstream media ridicule the fact that millions of people are queuing to just get a glimpse of the president you know these are some kind of brainwashed people oh you know it kind of fits into this narrative that hugo chavez is this dictator was tyrant that brainwashed the venezuelan people you know if we wanted to play that game we created if we wanted to resist you instead people you know we often see in places like the united states or london people queuing for kilometers outside

shopping centers when a new sale is about to begin and they wait for hours and hours until the shop opens and then there's a sometimes a violent sun piece that we could ridicule that and instead say well actually it's quite humbling to see millions of people queuing to get a glimpse of the man who actually for them they say transformed our lives you know he did poverty in venezuela he listed many people out of extreme poverty. special education for the sons and millions of people access to basic health care people from you know seventy eighty year olds who had never seen a doctor in the poorest parts of venezuela or in the barrios so you know it's very easy for some people to sit in that kind of comfortable chairs and pots of the walls and ridicule those huge achievements but they're not so ridiculous as achievements for the millions of impoverished people in venezuela of course and of course you could say that about the millions that were there in d.c. when obama was inaugurated for the first time in the waving the hysterically waving

of the flags and i mean it's just absurd living in this in this city particularly how dare we criticize another culture. for mourning their president when we do the same exact thing here with the political theater going on in this country lizzie rumors that actually surfaced that suggested there was foul play and how he died. can you talk really briefly about what what it is that's pushing the speculation i mean is there any sort of actual investigation been initiated to pursue this. yesterday but first of all i just say this quiet big difference between you know that many people who came out of the celebration of obama and the millions of people who are coming out for days on end i mean this seems to be no end in sight that the government announced yesterday that they're going to keep his body on display for extended period of seven days so that they can literally give every single person who wants to see him a chance and as i said the kids are not and the difference mainly between those colleges the thousands and millions of people who came out for the election of obama and chavez is that even i mean it's not really unusual that millions of

people are coming out now for chavez because they have come out time and time again over the last fourteen years that chavez has been in power i mean every single time that chavez came out to speak in public in public open space millions of people would come to hear him and now it's impossible for leaders like the united states president barack obama or the british prime minister david cameron to come out into an open space in front of millions of people is simply too much of a security threat in contrast hugo chavez who is being called a dictator and a tyrant who is hated supposedly by many people can come out in front of millions of people with absolutely no security threat whatsoever so that should say something quite powerful actually coming to the euro question about the controversy surrounding the death of hugo chavez of course when hugo chavez was diagnosed with count cancer he famously accused that's at the time there were several cases of

latin american presidents who were generally following a kind of progressive sort of politics you know and there's generally been a. a lot of cooperation between progressive left and american presidents since chavez took power in one thousand nine hundred ninety and chavez said you know there was no coincidence that so many latin american leaders at the same time had got he said it was against the laws of all probability and indeed you know it is quite strange of course on the day that chavez sides a couple of hours before vice president at the time now he's being sworn in as president today nicolas maduro to once again accuse the united states of being responsible for the cancer and the death of hugo chavez and you know of course we don't we have no conclusive information about that but if we look into history that has been a very very long history of united states interference in this continent in say

invest in america overthrowing progressive government off the progressive a compliment from the most recent one in hundreds of course this is there's also you know the united states wasn't too disappointed when there was the recent crew in paraguay the one before that was a very late u.s. green light for the coup in honduras and then prior to that there have been successes u.s. but crews in latin america totally absolute going to have the economic. pain absolutely you have the economic hitman and you have the jackals that go in and they don't actually convince these leader to go in line with u.s. policy or western imperialism let's talk more importantly about the broader issue here. lizzie we just have a little bit of time left but i just want to ask you what you're saying about happy just we just i'm sorry. sorry i just wanted to add one more thing of course in two thousand and two that was a failed coup against chavez that was essentially a u.s. spy who chavez was of course kidnapped and taken from the presidential palace and

he was only with tons of the once again millions of people from the barrios from the poorest neighborhoods in venezuela slugs outside the. i made a palace in caracas and demanded his time and of course there was an incident whereby nineteen people were shot by opposition snipers and the mainstream media tried to portray that it was so cool to have as thugs who had opened fire on his own people of course a very infamous documentary since then has exposed that what that was completely fulfilled that the mainstream media distorted the images and that in fact there was opposition snipers who had been responsible for those two things so you know there has been blatant attempts in the past by by the united states to get rid of ties and they have made no bones about the fact that they want to see him go and of course there are many prominent us but it's already lazio we're going to have going out there having it up i know a lot of people are concerned about the future of venezuela and the vulnerability of the country now that chavez is going to stand up to western imperialism unfortunately we don't have time to talk about that thank you so much for coming on

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negotiations in the history of the trans-pacific partnership where the t.t.p. currently being negotiated among eleven countries including australia and i chile malaysia new zealand peru's singapore the us and vietnam but now canada and mexico are joining the talks in japan planning to come on board as well not surprisingly people are calling it nafta on steroids i wish i could tell you more about it but even u.s. trade reps are forbidden from seeing the text while there's over six hundred corporate advisors helping draft legislation those virtually zero transparency to the public what a shock to talk about the lighter side of this issue and bring some levity to the most of recent news headlines of during my comedian and political activist leap camp for moments of clarity and who better no point in trying to you know. well you have to do is show which is great too i do i do it's not as nice as this place if

it's been there i don't know how you do that walk and talk thing i can handle that ok i'm ok. so let's talk about the t.v. i mean are you are you surprised at how shady this is lee it's incredibly shady and what makes it so evil boredom boring evil is the best kind because they get away with because i mean if you try to talk to someone about this you get like you get to the pacific part of trans-pacific partnership and they pass out there sooner or later you can't it was really you what we're seeing a global corporate coup because of honey boo that's what's causing it like people can't stay on the channel right trade is for the most boring subject and it really is a corporate i mean we're talking about corporations international conglomerates implementing international courts to essentially override national sovereignty and our trade laws i mean it's just absurd and if they don't get the profits they seek they can then bring it to to an international tribunal of like corporate judges which what's the bet would hat with the bad guys did in star wars look more noble to start. more level evil and i'm sad that i even know this but you know honey boo boo even maine

is for dinners more important and i don't even know why i know that one of those big celebrities is a lovely culture gets in your head and these celebrity culture it's got to make room so it kicks things like p.p.p. out and then you go and matt you lose t.p. and mad so you don't understand anything you just know that i'm the manager that's where you're left. with their economy recently and dow jones hit an all time high of course i mean we're doing so well right now all that means everything's fine everything's great i mean corporate profits rising exponentially twenty times faster than workers incomes i mean doesn't help the corporation help their kids we're all sad we did people who should have been through the boards or whatever people do when they're happy i don't know but i know it's like new york city just announced the homeless numbers apparently the most homeless since the great depression and i don't know if people remember that one that was the one where people to burn prosthetic limbs just firewood because things weren't going so well so the most holistic in decades and yet corporate profit because corporations they

measure their profits by how little they can pay workers so there's such a bad job market right now that they don't have to raise wages they don't have to give people benefits so basically it's like it's like measuring the health of an ant colony by the health of the ant eater standing over and it's like oh well he's doing pretty well so things must be fine but come on a dollar minimum wage that's enough to live i mean especially in new york yeah i saw. a number that if the income of the power of the dollar and stayed the same not just inflation but the income distribution has stayed the same since nine hundred sixty eight that one dollar in like sixteen cents or sixty cent minimum wage would now be twenty one dollars but instead it's eight and i think like we should be common sense like i don't care if you have the worst job if you work full time you should be able to feed and clothe your kids i mean first of all is the right thing to do and secondly with the size of our kids none of us want to see them have posed right if they didn't know anyone for dinner how do you listen to the remote of listeners who have quote none of us know. well the say a ten year old boy says about an up and down so of ok we get together society and

by that boy some pay steves or something. the rand paul thirteen hour talking filibuster you know that you need chocolate the ted cruz rap and i mean i want i got it i love this i think reason to go back to that i want to not just this little vote do we have the votes for a filibuster i want to see them stand there and talk and pee in a bottle whatever it is that's how much of what and the most really the story around this should be the fact that one democrat still does not have one democrat now our government saying they can assassinate american citizens on our soil with no trial or charges and one democrat has the nads to stand up like that's that's mind blowing i mean it's the same with n.d.a. and indefinite detention like this and people think this is only for hardcore terrorists like it says in the bill you could be locked away forever with no trial charges for it for suspected acts of belligerence that's all i know they hold until

they prove their might she might well have to be belligerent cantankerous and telling us little doilies and gets us the only other thing i have and even brennan's response to him was saying oh no only in times of combat when we kill americans and on u.s. soil you're like what the hell are you defined as combat right that we define as combatant anything i mean it absolutely absurd i really want to get this right has been this war that is going on forever right the war on terror the war on emotions that were attacked and it's a tears an emotional well you know we do with it and when is that going to end when people going to stop being scared and never leave that's why you exist and i were trying to shed some light and so would you like to have over at the end is in effect we can't comedian political activist moen of clarity web series everyone check it out thanks. do you know that there is a plastic i'm sorry a plant strong enough to replace plastic oil and building materials that the same

plant has been cultivated for industrial purposes for over twelve thousand years it's been classified as a schedule one controlled substance drug by the us government nope not marijuana. recently kentucky agriculture minister commissioner james corner has requested a legal review of the steps necessary for him regulation the federal ban is lifted on growing the crop that's right kentucky could soon be reviving an industry that only a century ago was considered to be the most important cash crop and vital to the strains of the u.s. economy so let's backtrack a little bit and talk about what actually is a human existence has been used as an important source of fuel clothing shelter and even food for people all over the world in this country and widely cultivated since america's first settlers arrived in the early sixteen hundreds and in fact even our founding fathers acknowledge hems enormous benefits george washington john adams

and thomas jefferson all grew in him on their private farms and jefferson was even quoted once as saying hemp is one of the greatest important substances of our nation the declaration of independence itself was even drafted on paper derived from ham so what happened how did one of the most versatile and adaptable species of crops in the world also become one of the most politically polarizing agricultural resources on the early twentieth century the plant became labeled a threat to so dangerous that it should be wiped out it wasn't dangerous to anyone or anything except the industries that it could phase out of existence so what did the establishment do to ensure their allegiance to the very industries they serve well they did what they do best they lied and smeared hemp to a propaganda campaign that associated the plant with marijuana and in one thousand thirty seven the marijuana tacks. act redefined hemp as in our katic which required farmers to obtain a special tax stamp to grow the crop by nine hundred seventy the controlled

substances act made growing the crop without a d.n.a. issue to permit strictly illegal because the government crackdown on the crop has a negative association and at this point you still might be confused because of years of being brainwashed to think that hemp is exactly the same as marijuana or that its close association with it must classify it as a drug but this couldn't be farther from the truth just check out the congressional research service report on hemp that states quote although marijuana is also a variety of cannabis it is genetically distinct from industrial hemp and it is further distinguished by its use and chemical makeup so hemp is genetically distinct from the drug marijuana in fact if you smoke an entire garbage bag full of have you wouldn't get high yet the plant remains illegal under us federal law like i said before not because it's a danger to people but because it's a danger to corporations and the early twentieth century have competed heavily with

the cotton and paper industry because paper made from trees had to compete against environmentally friendly hemp products the paper industry was at risk to suffer so william hurst of new york state congressman and one of the biggest newspaper publishers in america launched a campaign against hemp uses publication to smear the public's perception of the crop which at the same time was threatening a successful paper company in fact this very campaign is where the term yellow journalism derived from but this was in the one nine hundred twenty s. how is the propaganda still working today. because the threat have poses isn't limited to paper reviving the industry could potentially devastate the profits of huge corporations that manufacture lumber fossil fuels steel alcohol and even food among many other things including this one nine hundred forty one henry ford even built a car made almost entirely from hemp the frame of the car was twelve times lighter

than steel and ten times stronger not only that but the car was powered by hempseed or will drive it up to explain the threat that this technology would post a giant oil companies process have also creates one of the strongest fibers we know of providing all natural materials to build homes ships. and practically indestructible clothing furthermore hempseed oil can be made into lotions and skin creams the practical applications for this plan are limitless and the reason remains the legal is simple it's just one giant push to preserve the profits of corporations a poison our planet destroy our forests and bankrupt the world and this all could change of recent efforts in kentucky are any indication and if moves by a few key members in the u.s. senate succeed could soon be removed from the government's list of schedule one controlled substances industry could very well be revived back to being america's

number one cash crop and that's one step closer to succeeding against a model of profit green and control that sadly defines this country today. wealthy british style. expert on the right let's go to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our.

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